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ANGLING, SHOOTING, THE eee Practica, Natura History, _ Fisucutrore Yacutine AND CANOEING, See ee © a Mes “AND THE ~ INCULCATION Mal MEN AND WOMEN OF A HEALTHY INTEREST | IN OUTDOOR RECREATION AND STUDY. VOLUME LX. JANUARY,: 1903—]J UNE, 1903. _ PUBLISHED ‘BY THE FOREST™AND STREAM PUBLISHING COMPANY, NEW YORK = se: = : t - 1Qo ’ i so K FOREST AND STREAM ' @ | ¥ i rp | ee { = - x i { INDEX---VOLUME LX. | 1 | EDITORIAL. Page. 3 Page. Pag: <3 Page. | Webber, Col. Samuel............ aA eres ery ak: rye-461 |" Rovaleituntige 42.41 eset. Ae ARE dare .204 | My Next Door Neighbor......... see an ee Bree ie Adirondack Preserves...... RBA Sattcee ete ataner 161, 181 | White Calf ...... Gotta watts na ne otee cect Mies rate ROLE SamiOn eimai he cee eae Si vnesi¢siosies vee ceslnceoo | eV atOralyehastony mbtals cweuuessis 2 eesti sea es ee 40 Asidersony "GEO, Ses ven ts ecuseaee ches as Mearceeniee aol | Whitehead; u@harles “Bist ss cectesmenea cer cnnee eee 241 | Shasta Mountain ’Coons...........+ sestececscess 20 | New York Zoological Society................ 65, 3 Aypalachianwlatke Nec stm aeee see ABO y Roe, 161 | Wildfowl Vanishing....... se eeeees Raabe seeoee Sa eSiberia, “Acrosssre sen setae elon nee eee 41, 480 | North Siberian Mammals...............-.... 28 Arkansas Non-Resident Law.............. goecne 361 | Winter Day. ...... Sree eee SARA Beary oe ee 21. | Snow Shoes ........+. weiss ee aise eee TAA WBLCLS) Tocectatstesstereueiyiisrste stares ei afeaia ae Risaties eee ee 22 _ Blaisdell, W. O....... 5 stoned sal esate Spee 381 | Yancey, Gen. ...... i aleleeaboely e hnrsteean ia eterna 381 | Sporting Reminiscences ............ secoeeeeeeeed03 | Philadelphia Zoological Society................. 44 Bloodhound Episode ........ aisiatelotors lots coe eere 479 | Yellowstone Park ,........... tee anteelare PAC EAM Satlostey @SRITES EL AAS linemen sata ne oeueass ..++-480 | Protective Coloring.......... Sobre core As 35, 105, 18 BATS) NY tay oN itecavena tan esrd eg ok catene eet 261 Trouty Trailing the Summer........sss0s.e00+8 600) || pythons: andeBittalo: 1. aaa. anene tenn eae 24 Galayeras eSequoIaSA oc. s./dinapaneneh maar menee 841 True Game Stories..........006 puEAe Naan Been 62) | OMe eI eNO MOTs ss huesen sictasetaten mi scelal fap acer 20 Canadian Game Preserves........ A ae Bato S Ab: 141 THE SPORTSMAN ‘TOURIST Vermont, Tramp Through...... PPE 7 a 993) | Queer Pets, 9. ..4...4: Pee Oe eS SS 26 Cayiart 458s R «32. Evan iho. kca eu eee 61 F Wessel. al clatidt sate iten haere Leas Ceeaiticak eee Soa | Cue bite cAI eri Ga tials te Se ev eet tee aie ar Zi Citizen and ‘Sportsman sc. ¢see J ate 401 | Embarrassment of Literary Riches............. 2APAtiinals pbracks eamd dnailin phon my hanes vores MUSA] TSthtba CES ecu nokanane ocaberce nowt Heleletaysteicieiaie aietteed 30e acksont WA Eee Semen Snow. , meer eee 28] | Fire Fiend in Maine...... 1 Sane lag aise ie cats nk ATE 48" | Antelopes” Power to Scent. .,-.<.-.arse--- 444, 464 | Story of a Bird Lover...... Sands nsc caso » 28H Héatirentian. (Giigloorseen amen ees eee ne alae ARE TP OE 5. Atescaeites caottanidecnsan aaasc nets 501 | Batrachians and Reptiles.......... 345, 384, 425, 502 | Tail of the Wolf............... Seances 20o SOD meee deeraslative- 326 Lucky Day ....... eee Vaio Naceoye eta snes ees oe 2267 MVE rinse SEACGHISCH Sys 3e retetercir ts ahi be neti alate nine nt os 287 Massachusetts Commission ....-3.......s52+-++- 1 Massachusetts Sale Law...... lethot var atsagis 42180 Montana Fish and Game..... weectee Sontag 127 Moose Hunt in Maine........+.000 poatings An neerAn) WMG GSES Vines Eros, Pema see wetasites 2 lita tie tree arene save 66 “Moose Transaction ............... Prpsavey idetan ter th 485 Morning with Old Squaws....-.....cecseeeer eee 185 My -First Hunting Trip......3......;. rein ints 326 INET O Tia Lear Metens wae teenies Secine See cision macs Pe Bae pee 8 Nebraska Fields and Streams.....i.......000- .. 047 Nebraska Game Country ...icccecssessiceeeeess 406 PNepiaskamanie Paelds. sees ys asegekens ris cis oe 227 New Brunswick Guides’ Association..........++ 89 Wewtoundland Caribou sisi... csscvesesseaeses 209 New Hampshire Fish and Game...........2.. . 107 New Ilampshire Game Laws...... ee verte nts 52 New York Commission Report...........0--s0- 109 ANEW SNAG G KR AMS ASTI E WETS nee sutras os erctsieny 4 wnesieie ne one 7 Foy EOL Lees CA DAICMERI ney atari setts ore ects ce! sat 31 North Dakota Game.....c.scsseceeesveeeeees non 18 EN Oivete eS COLIAG Grae fs nna dn cies creme ass Laie eS tien oioiee 228 Ontario Fish and Game..........:. sevens el6T OGRE DAYS) sewing sre omias es tei teas ciswless sede toes esas 6 Pheasants;-“Introduced..... Runrenia gee aurs sented 210) Pheasants in Ohio ........0005 FE GRO nani Reed Pictures no Artist Can Paint........ Meneare sone eA Platform Plank in the Vield..........s...+...+-- 484 Plumbtey, Honest [RON Rigen ac ae RR Emp ke pee 228: President in_the Paklcn a hretun 95 cere clits te 346 PUREE Sound Ducking: .......s<-s«: ioe ease se 29 MO Hicraleme ripcri cl vevevet yr eyeteters ote loin terslptrorstars ves iile mieten tee or Vie 226 Redheads near New, York. i... -.5-ct.stepe sce see 6 Reminiscences ...... AeAntey Shen tue ince febeintciatalala 267 TRG TRS SPT The BEF ACE CPOCE RAPS AOE OR BER DARD O-A AS OE » 427 Saskatchewan and Rocky Mountains...,.......- 405 Secret Service Wns s<.ns0s6 perersesnesscannt pei) Siberian Fur Industry...... eileen etree Se SG 386 Stiteny: sslevelicy rutetch sane rtenaciia dace sudan reap ere es DPOLESMAD SHO OO Wie nanceacsnee cs Fsnu eds 0g He RHEE 186 Sportsmen I have Kmowmn..........icevacsncescs 245 Siibabryspe Mee Capoyb tes Beers leer cide tee 208, 245, 287 Speeyed Astrea of CRG aastbone ete bein beaecrepese 407 Wake the Boy, Alonessiscscwesecssiearacsbobeis 483 Bh eines rari MGs ie cra cteleve in anemia ect ptewiye sia eae 129 Sitios oan ee eal ands meat a ee lace aie neteetemcetel: 87 slwo. Nights! and acDayi. cicwsevenseraterrtatadan 88 MUnciniineb ives Grins s yay shot kbate eae Cy ote scr oke 5a VME en Gintama wade neopets eit lelatehele cnsaletet tlede ste talte s/eos 89 Wier, Day suckin n phase ence cise ce sina dete ete 227 White Flag in Coos..... Se bhehhe:n nor poce bor be hbep 86 Wild Fowl Breeding in New York..............246 Wisconsin Deer Woods......... ate ee etwas sale cases 48 Woodcock Reminiscences .......+0008 ae eale’s 327 Page. Adages, Mistaken..... Bs Es eae nec AaP Adirondack Notes ..... So gacnanendnt Hone ibs 808, 350 Albicore Fishing ...... sae aaa eUTIOe Peay oinial altes 55 Angling Souvenir ..... BRR Ac Aerio tt et 1382 Aquariuml......ece0> LouLteatineea ae! veeeeceess 2408, 448 ass sey SINGCOLG penasa a 6 oe talk ae helices sates i oestete 12 Sete tsdeiihn 6 EON DHbrt ede ach: 131 Chickamauga Pishing Club............22.+s.-..3 270 Ciscos in Lake Ontario..... i ES SAO OAL GAGE 55 Colorings of Fish..........esenerees ae aaeRebeneies 331 Debsconeag Club Dinner.......:0.ccsseeseeseees 214 “Delaware River BATU IATI OE dae mga a erangesi glare srelaaseisey 249 Delaware River Canoe and Camp Life. ? I. The Poles Are Cut....scccssceeeeeeee es «369 SiN The Black ‘Bass. Bishing 22.0 .vs..00.2-s0 290 Ill, A Day and Night in Camp............ 309 Via elotehts and = Blindnessess-sicereeas sees aieis 330 Vv. TAS INGtUTrEIS: Satire bye ie ieeeice ses cee 388 Wile ‘ihes Oainpo Wine ag, otek kee ed ans acted 369 WAU Usatrrnsther UWEUSS Aas Sennen prsnocoteoo 386 VIII. The Camper’s Sky and Clouds........- 409 TEXe WN asitors Soa eee oobbhehadsoHhar eet dene 428 x. MITNASTOLIS Mee He elie Atese sc nscecietoseteae e eleteledsie ste 446 XI. Stalking Whippoorwills .............5+ 466 XII. The Two Harps.............:. peceeae ASD XTII. On the Hills at the Water Gap.......504 SU) nL ABR 1411. soso ceaces eset atvtasehtaiassagsctehs sassiosetsattofeialclecste fs 92 Deyil Fish in New Jersey........ Qnthor ieee Oth 310 Devil Fish in North Carolina............+.-+05 431 Farming, Trapping and Wooderait........ eels weet LG ira Ta anateres e ke Base er, feleiplassyatetstesctntatel alg aba hes 212 Fishing Memories .....2..csecesecsacecees geen 467 Fishing Rights Case...... Taek: SE gall 6 PS ines Tose ane AK Es same cad ecimee retest ss s00 447 ishing Rods; Care of estes, asses hese Whe nas Loe Fishing Story. from the Pension Records,..... 113 Bish Kalled by Lightning,.......2..-:<.....6 +. 488 TENSE WSiKOR ANTOle Be ggoe oreo cer eomore ei e TS eure Sh Fly-Casting at New York....... 32, 151, 191, 212, 232, 247 tl vareba Stet: am po iI 2 Sictaleietetatsaigietesesy-steersaimeremertsieters ak 269 Grand Wakes treatise. seen bomstet pests wailerastess 310 Iiferanss bs Vaan neers orien eerie Gon bo eae 271 Jottings of a Fly-Fisher........,.......- Sob tn bo8 247 Lake Whitney Memories...........+.ee+eees 353, 387 Maine Fishing ........ Shoo R ber enenere re eroe 2al0 MictvasEtrs ltr os) Atri pen oon sere oe pros Enero ire pene os 367 Massachusetts Association Dinner.............. 232 Massachusetts Commission .........5+e-eeeeeees 249 Massachusetts Fish Stocking.,.................5 192, Massachusetts Legislation ....... me 59 Oo: .. A4T Muscalonge, Big...........2 Heh ieee Se Dora? 151. Muscalonge, Greenwood Lake.............. 488, 507 Webraskas Spills Days sebeticeec ehhh rer enpeents 368 Nepigon Trout........: BA Ae HL cee OCCA 370 INTE Wye TOT ATES. rie stele e cice bi eeat cles eheatlniaenek = le 410 New Found Lake Fishing......,............008- 350 Wewtonndiland Atrelino) Vhs. aussqeedes sss sstass 505 New Work Comimission.....1.....¢-)-+-- secs 73 (Chasis IDES nec cdedbpopbbroahhhanbore cand ecd 387 Oyster Scare in England.............: See AD Paddle Wheels for Ditches..........0.ese0+000+0214 Perch Cooking .......... dricicoos, coset Gee nee 412 Pickerel, Mr. Spaeth’s........ Serarstens datctal mn Sete, A 506 Leteynoyeer(e. Uhikfebbeter aka b ce arie ES oe doncouncaEese 392 Rainbow Trout vs. Black Bass....,........- Reeeai Reminiscences of an Octogenarian...... 32, 90, 111, 170, 190 Rensselaer County Glufi: ea yeuk eeack Aes ees Salmon Culture in “America........ 113, 150, 189, 230, 248, 268, 292, 351, 371, 388, 412 Sedbeaa~ nVleZ Sep. o tenre ponerse ee sehr y 214 Salmon, Fifteen Hours With..........s.ssess0ss 486 SPN oy eT. TRERNUCE Seti aH singe 54 Salmon Hatching on the Pacific Coast......... 33 Salmon in the Nepissiguitt...............0.+00-- 33 Salami vere SCOLeS. snes sae ateae teens 73 San Hranciscosstiped iBass Glitbio.....c.s.5-05s 271 Santas Gataliniawes. coe dassecscaguse acy natins ieee oul Sea Trout......33, 55, 71, 231, 291, 310, 381, 352, 431 Sea Trout on the Escuminac....:...2.0.0s202005 112 Shad and Striped Bass on Pacific Coast........ 291 Shark Catching Near New York................ 12 Suanvnte IEfeehorets™ geet Chon anGeH ohne honaddericres fee 54 Siamer Gardner lees casaecenees a: ejlessdaice ns 92 SOUtH Gree WALES casa deileleittdote eels ielelnn fklelel= = o> 132 HOUSING) mOILONEEE S Sukh branes a= ohne sare ela kis Artal s 173 Sea GISLeeS AMI ALEE sea LemOLe- chet et eke ses reckienicce ect 173 earn ormecited nati san bets rele neisme-nkaens deh st 3 SACD OME ACIKI ES begs oink wants time et eee ees OS 372 Tarpon Tag ......,... Ripeeinbstetater acetal scar Sort heohe cogs 331 iesSt Maurice Cli irccteee wes cee my ei nae i AMAONEES, aWesy aL ret) (0¥6 the hr che Anise abr oin Aa aeaer hoor ,-..b06 Poge. Trout, Bellegrade Lake..... spe vee enesenseseretes 4it Trout; wrilliaht pyetpees sss Seibert st Setictatce 329 Trout in Northwestern Waters....... Rs Serato Trout Mortality in the Adirondacks. abet +. 006 Trout Season Opening........... gh irol ate Hal eoate, seit. eas 330 Trout Stream, Two Days on.......-..--- Posse 352 “Tuna Tournament ..i..s..¢sscseecserses Pekyees F407 DAV EEE, “sae ratine cceeits tee ees were re rite Gtitaciseu 189 Watseesday isis eel epee peor, ao ONHOROUL tapes ho Wild Trout That I Have Met........, a tr et 407 YACHTING, PNPENEEEE Geonang poe’ a ae SR Oley ote ae a ee *18 American Pewer Boat Ass’n...........- 2.4198, 217 Auxiliary Knockabouts, vata are Peninetaniit ar LO Auxiliary Schooner, Shoal: Draft...............+ *316 Aairalbeney NCL Aa si Sse Sooboad ric nS AOAC ORB E #34 BOG REVI Sta: ne 0 How to Build a Launch from Plans,......... 274 Lloyds Register of American Yachts........ 1484 Round the Horn Before the Mast............ 153 Small Yacht Construction and Rigging...... 137 Boston Letter....15, 34, 58, 74, 94, 133, 153, 177, 216, 256, 276, 316, 338, 354, 375, 433 Canada’s Cup, Denfense of. 21.....s5.cs.055e+>- 94 Canada’s Cup Detendér...........020eesceeeneens 509 Canada’s Cup Races, Conditions Governing...473 Centerboard, Origin Of...,.....:..-:2000- 57, 75, 184 @enterboard Sloop, lit... cos es rascs ree oti *154 Ghanticleer, “SChoonefin. ...5sscecss aserpeccaes *38 Charity Cruise, Prize Story........s..0.e0re-s-s *312 Giicdeo.Vachtin can cennear eager de be tee eee cians 74 Competition for Cruising YVachtSmen,.......000. 489 Constitution ........ ti pene eoe creo, pedeg ces 482 Coupe de France and Italian Cup Matches... .433 Cruising Competition, Prize Winners...... 151, 217 Cruising Yawl, 35ft............... Wd JB ba #295 Coa ebharyee EIS PAST ths ede sane pen uEilmce tOddeaoe *176 Cruising Launch, 50ft.............. Se UA PUE re Ma *157 (Chacuicsaeey Wenvalle CUbGRs oh oaa bie akaadcd cope eon oosod *235 Delight, Cruise of, Prize Story..............--5 *373 English Letter..........-. 59, 116, 257, 273, 393, 455 + Figureheads and Quarterboards................ #152 Goodenough, Cruise of.......... 1. 454, *472, #491 IG OSIETH HS CHO OME saipienenitastels s'ais.s ehiele eases pisawhee *14 Houseboat Idler ..,...-. Sotdareecie tetocn S Keer Pte Houseboat, d0ft. ........ area eee COT ee ee *396 Houseboating on Lake Worth.................. *155 Ice Yachting on North Shrewsbury............ 36 Redler we Atixthtary = 'SCHOOMeR woes. cee calee less nee #254 In an 18-Footer, Some Short Cruises and a ACOTI PELE OTM En ae ee a trees Sele ettidtephy divers se Meare #413 HiT Tar eS CHOOSE Aenea elcine anes eet Hemeteere eine *37 Irondequoit, Canada’s Cup Challenger Noid due 473 Knockabout, 15ft. ........cccceececedueceeeeeeees #354 Kmockaboute elite ie taskts af denen setae tina trees eral *O7 STOCKED OLE APL TUMAS oa eat ce cise ut tame ofiijee ee * O74 Iicteesoettye (CaAKe Anco AR AA Anais sheu eu ce tenes *178 AbAtonas SS ChOOUEr) Levee mein as oe nate oe ee *715 Manhasset Bay Cup, Challenge for........ 237, 513 Manhasset Bay Challenge Cup, Conditions GOVELNIN pen cet pei ape einai hee aee. 296 Minar Cutteipeen anes nae aes cae tsa cates iteclen oot *393 Model Yachting in California.......2.:0000000+0200 Motor Launch Racesiissiicccscseisaevcse ses oe edll New York Y. C. Measurement Rule....:....... 18 Pelligrina, Cutter ........ Sanne tN tea tetos *394 Rambler, Cruise of, Prize Story........ 271, #293 Rating Rules ............ pectettstereuiete Pe smetienant *16 Hteliane Capes mina ae ipeees 257, 311, *332, *373, 392 Rhyme of the Vasty Deep.......cccsccceeceeeuee 197 Rosamond, Yawl .......... Hae ae gel Sains es edak oes *15 Satin pe Ouse bDOAtses pases we eer te meinen sities *O07 Seawanhaka Challenge Cup, Conditions Gev- SHUI een this gfe na Nees aed eatstig were Paves 215° Seawanhaka Cup Trial Races..........,.....-005 508 Shamrock IIT. ..... 207, 293, *297, 322, *334, 392, 489, 508 MS PeEduelequnene Biibeceee oc becetilellaise ences bores *153 Strathcona, Canada’s Cup Defender............. 473 Spinetelilresyay URNrSod ayab elfen yepape eee ceric ome eerie 7 *134 Tainui, Cruise of, Prize Story............. BBE Ways Hires Ssbavicme Griises wi tatnreges we celine. sie <2 *136 Siigonvas (ko as ropes BA ane seecnr ner renees #94, *113 Yale-Corinthian Y. C.’s New House............ 295 CLuss AND RACES. IAGIAATETCE wap erncens oon aes + $2 tants cles baw 6 453, 470, 490, 511 Be AE hee =< ENOCH IOSI ODER AA MeO ler § 512 IROSTONG Oy: s aisar sida he Pes Oe hence ne ere: 512 Intvoyoliehiele ECE RSEl. oc. Sch UcPnoetonononon beret 490, 511 CORB ERS Ee panmncptneny fb Mt MERA BD BO Eee & Beret te ER ee 117 (Golithyia ea. oe streamate as 217, 276, 311, 455, 491, 512 Coltitabralof News Monks) aia. eces ced veers ees 511 (GOHASS CL ap lester’ ioe vielvicy Gisele ees eeate ee 513 Corinthian, Marbletiead: ss.4eseiieree. tee ehoase. 512 | Conia soi ataunonceen ssc chine ereiae oe ne 474, 510 ASTEL IN eRe ee trace rest tras cs ese teier irae meted 512 Poga “East Gloucester .....+- Reels ete cits atecraere Ae 3 4 ‘HMarléme veesscee epht Bae eskiecdet er eanLer Bt oan 1030 458 ‘Indian Harbor f...000. fcc eecceeeeseeesces e+ «455, 510 Jamaica Bay-...;.. Fn ae ee ieee ORL £4 « Keystone peeked Wie ete ereder a clare be eceenee AGO Knickerbocker ..... Adare rap sa vaelenieeceraee eee Ys Toarehmont -.c.vicesscaeens 5 DAI eR ee te: 490, 510 JAB nner OS GD CO eeener eas. Ao ycnos ae tos evee Dba Marine and Field.............. - AB Snb obEtigtgee 491. MOTs Sanat vides dss aeteelen 5 > sls pelebe dea es SaeE ec bpcee 4 Nena VO Kea Gieieyat alts siereaics. 9 ca 29 eet 155, 432, 452, 490 New Rochelle: sraiichiaeranss sons acm woos 434, 510 Orient Heights 5...2i.i..000000- Tee saaunene 456 Quindy.gee ye sets Aira tpt OU Ce Seen 57: oe 513 Royal Canadian ....... aaa % Pes bas. oe SRR TS 258 Seawanhaka-Corinthian ~..........0...555 75, 4V3, BL South) Boston! s.yasmercr t= SOR dati h ee arte 455 SOMPMCET (Mette hae weaeats coe cateesei tne vista rth yey Sar 98 VWrotlstompesnit ene nanan tealeetenfened trian e te *,.. 455, 51%, “Steam Yacuts. AcheC Emaar SAUD ed JA fbr Pa be eye 1 too, JOG AAR ins as ooaacacanaAanntens oneueoes #296 NS See ees seit hitet inte setts mee ecm OU Ganeee tele #153 MOT OAL MA tates ys ean Maem sate 0 QTL BaTOGSe tee nea A al abn nC Sa oly oie sina gactate ite staf #279 ES Sn fe pare nanncohabocuce ese 566 GOCreH noo ks6 258, . CANOEING, ey Ome A COMMIBELCES tre, coed atatrtatie rt cela p sie 174 A. C. A. Constitution, Amendments to.........138 A. C: A. Division Meets.:..-..........+5 te se00 000 IAG Gime Pinan Ces Aenane fe et take wlan sien cts 192, 215 A, C. A. Lifé Members........... Ne Nea tee eres 297 Gn omit Clil pe petsakees gras stats Sarees BPH f Canoe’ Crtiise, New York to Sag Harbor.......*456 Canoe Special Cruising Class........ Se 1G Canoe’ Tilting at’ Sportsmen’s SHOW. so .cs5 *21E Mosquito, Cruise Of......-..0csssesc0000 ooo A74, 198_ INES VAL Mk hau © Aaa he Ratatat serrated tutte eke atey ia ae 316 Prizes for Canoeists......... rgogdede $5 SER re 138 Red SD ravonr (i dp a aeletaisiisaieees posovos2a00, 456, 492 Veery, Canoe Yawl.,.... Sire bose tet Sec are oC ete TRAPSHOOTING. Advice Trapshooters we.........5......5 Shop oeann 279 Atlentowy oErap. ab ver.s + apisissosaes ace cettnee 200 180 Altoona Rod and Gun Club...........5......5 o ATE “mes Guin Glib. iv seceesesm tata: onesie “escent Arkansas State Sportman’s Association...,.... 166 Baldwinsville Gun Club...sc.... sees esses cieen 289 Baltimore Shooting Association. ..318, 360, 397, 437, 470 Barnelsy ses ulatity bie un ease ee en ate ewe Birch Brook Gun Club....0..../.......04. 200, 497 Blanks, vA pplicatiow 2) lcesaene ve gaskdt oats viele 2219 Boineees pine Swans me cette cose sell 158, 19% Isderarse Kea h Cyyran (CUMS Se sane bnaee BE ce adheahan -& Boston Gun Club........ 120, 140, 179, 200, 239, 280, 320, 359, 400, 440, 460, 40 da BL MCs TE cee ge yonsopnoreenioresaoaeden 239 Bound Brook Gun Club...................005 20, 40 135 Gia) |) See ease anSRAHt CRE Pin dGone ede Bislele cietac 468 Brooklyn Gun Club....39, 99, 119, 188, 160, 240, 279, 318, 336, 379, 400, 419, 436 Brownsville Rod and Gun Ctub......... Kquckidod 400 Brown’s Mills, Trap Oe adden panos de Brunswick. Gun) ‘Clubvticeses case uses «2-99, 517 Buffalo Audubom Gun Club............ 420, 458, 495 BitralosHsti Gia Clit bee catee egpiaeeeiine: Rey? Ui! Carlstadt, Gin Clube... ceuscdeenes scenic 20, 40 CET At ea Co Udder thetic reba enh eters coven eaedT6 .Catchpole Gun Club.,............ Be cine aioe sess Ov Ghesapeakcaueac, ciate he kiiieeenss 316, 399, 43%, 460 Chicago Gun Club..............0- 120, 398, 408, wx. Cincinnati Gun Club....19, 40, 60, 100, 120, 139, 180, 218, 240, 279, 299, 336, 379, 440, 460, H& City Park Gun Club............... asta stile eens arated Cleatviews* Gumi “Clary a te... akc ton ese pe sais var ate Colorado: Springs, VETApS. oyscecases sss ox phaetlerercta 4 Condit.s Max een ole eae naa ads daceicslas 186 (Cove MOnsbet LOI ee EP ean 240, 320, 378, 419, 49% RountnereC OleAy Mra.me tenes c caddie meet rant a erat Crescent Athletic Club...19, 39, 60, 99, 119, 138, 160, 198, 219, 240, 279 Cripple Creek Gun Club..... Sb ed ne Cee 60 IDSA, ThA ha seempnnnneanoG5600006 6 dcnceemrodee 120 Dickey Bird Gun Club........-....... ..39, 397, 4387 Dover Sportsmen’s Association....336, 378, 399, 458 (DYGESG KS RSS OMB YS ARC E EP ERR Roc cisgyqscdnd tor ane tea ae 437 Emerald Gun Club........ 99, 199, 240, 259, 358, 478 INGE PTISE. (yo. c\palecles as crane odeatmarees One] e, AD8 Entries Grand American Handicap............:800 ictem Ging lito. aa eee weeny see 99, 239, 318, 418 Fairview Gun Club..............- osoeeaaynye rations 4g Firearms, Manufacture of.......,.. Ht sans: 420 ; : . ' &: | EO WE, i? : 4 | . INDEX. | al — ~ += : ; Ss da oe ae Nn GT ee 2 aT . “rina Baw ech —— met L vee eihsta uuyvia 3 ; = — 7 Rhee. =: ’ so cacy soe BO 0a Pare. Mire f ) _ Page. | - ar at Yin, PLA Ms Page. % t= ) _ Blorists Gun Club............6. 39, 240, 260, 398, 420 | Franke-Clayton .2.000N otis eens vesveee 8081 Raleigh Gun Club... de. Bete: 260} Interstate at Dubois..........,.... Borest City Gun Club.......-..... Se ey ree Freeport-Port Washington ..................-.219 | Rambling Notes .............. vos actart sis faa ' Interstate at Warm Springs....... devas, Branklin Gun Club, .318, 240, 358, 380, 397, 418,- General Wayne-Bristol .......... Baty aa tan 288 | Reading Trap ........ 20, 80, 189, 219, 920, 379, 516 | Interstate at Williamsport.....,.,.+s-ceern++ 469) pisces tengo = Plead Witz ties: ya aceenesenys pee aeme rasan ui tonal RORME STON. ck, fea ya. eee 308; diz. 49); wing 4“ FOwa. State. «21: ds. a, oer erie tas ee Rulton G. C.....160, 259, 299, 358,,360, 438, 476, 516] | Heflich-Piercy ......cceececpecesseeseeseseeeres 318 | Richmond Gun Club.........0c000000. 318, 418, 458] Jewell .....ccccsecsceceeeneye ssf Sues es 219) Sollatin Gun Glib.ckereeineen gaan 476, 493 Indiana. Ghampionship ¢.:.:.5-45.04.e064 fe ae 4, 58 | Riverside Shooting Association....40, 200, 300, Ukaiisas (States ssumies Anca a oer : Be Bee, Sein 360 Garheld (Gan Cluipeteesen en eceesaecke we 300, 495 Kansas City-Stock Yards ............ eae e. 140 359, 478 Lexington State or. 88, dell sagt Government Proof House...........00.seeeeeees ATGal Vic Gayebiid dasete ae eee eels nee eer enn 220 | Rochester R. and G. C....... 397, 419, 497, 498, 516 | Limited Gin Clibyian aioe ae 298 | Eireensboro’ Git BGIMiie ots laste cases secre e 30g) Mancolamrecpontarse: take sany mere Sarid 2A0H ROCK atid’ gckh Auer, dee 2cn), SN eee’ 159, 259 Louisiana T. Tui g.cis 2secreg eRe Blaverhill Gin Glia... teidsnestcssapeed pics 20 NMEGTIEVOIO GIy. waren tt sie nae ee eR Tn a ne 219 | Rocky Mount Gun Club................2..0+00-- 138 Luverne HAY Ca’ BP Po es ya beans oe SOT Hell Gate Gun Club...... 80, 119, 199, 279, 380, 460 | Muller-Miller .....scseseseeeeeteesesseseneeee 219 | Schenectady Gun Club.............. 20, 40, 260, 358 | McKeesport ......ccssccvecesssseeeeeteegeen BMT Highland Gun Club.................2.5. 19, 279, 360 Maunsbn Reed mecatnthae yet hres ol arth, Rone 20 | Scranton R. and G. C......... ANOS SO0 nO ATO eer ste meV Oxite ee areerere tes fetal i eee eee 398 PAiliside Mime old nt sss. coketbet «cca 397 ' New Jersey Championship...........0cs0ee0es 198 | Sentiment, Anti Pigeon.......,...0:cesceeseeees Tf Milton 00. sceesseerenensessecnenepeebunerepanes ATT Hudson ...... 80, 180, 259, 299, 340, 358, 418, 460, 516 Gliniey< Clay. sity eee Ale raS, flues aaa 459) eoheepshead® (ay 5c. sess cee mn same Teen ene eee 436 Missouri State Shoot.......cccceeesesees 319, 336 | pS EET” TE ged ate RA pa RS 55 oS ae SoS S Sass LASHLEY Omaha-All-Nebraska ............-eeeceseessees 180 |} South Dakota Shooting Association............ 419 MESSeGeyand! E's PAC 0. 0s eet, ee es 259 DRI ATION EG et 1s ae acd Pa ad ee Ree 436 BPapesSancerssBilen) kos\seniece re. tak neha couse 60 | Southside Gun CIE, Hata an ee M. OV: TS: and G: Ps Als 4 hagas a een eeeca Mnratible Asi Clb 2.26.02 len sera cent eee 458 Pattenburg-Independence ...........ceceeceeee 436 | pringheld: Gtne Club saaecsceeeey eee eee eno 4359 Neébraska State: Shoot... .)) 22. ache oeneee 379 Entercellegiate ..... Sates Fe aiciele wncoiritin alate 9 afeeatasuad 379 Hitsstield=Daltons qacmtawtant ne iinecer yaieey secce ATpa| ote oBazile sGirmG lab arch: se jar ee aera 336 New= London; at,s1..-.8----spcule oe 516 Ynterstate Association .........:cc.ceeeeeeee 120, 140 RG aC BUD GRA ae Sn yd A Oe 1B pi isih Tehbhoysrte (Cyemey (Cihetdy so genmancle ye acrldueeticneds 336 INGi¥5 OT ea tS 4. ice nieve dr telah tele ee 198 Mriterstate,- Ware weil lows. .teuger ec uelta tas sane 379 Sander-Meckels-Packard ...........cecceceesee SUB hist Ose (Cnbiee (Okbioy taihaiidoobeesson Sie abbboanoutoaas 100 New York State Shoot.179, 180, 198, 219, 399, 496 Interstate Park Trap............ APES Er Fi 80, 239 WiestCGnwaye it rrineen Asan: abs ton eS ee 1bSseot. Ieotis. Sirap yep tenses 39, 79, 159, 239 Northtmaberland | 23a: 2-5 (e eda eee na 493 © Myedians: MMPEISE asec care uc oces soekce cede: eiEREe 336 WihitinTonesHHsheral. . , 8 sinicicta: ie. 20 ccna ee 437 | Thornburg Rod and Gun Club.................. 495 Ohio Trapshooters’ League settee eee eee eee cent 494 | BEE Want ASU REI ao Maes ate de aan ee eee 299 York County Championship.................0- 236) |) Liconderoga, (Gur ECltipiss. sears, sseeeer eee 2184, - Oklahomat 2.00 ya wets eee 420 tates eShootink «Clube. tees et eke eee Poealee Nebraska ohootsecs pe scene. Geter meee oii aee BOT, | MEO Deka Giitins Olt bane yest dae teeny faeetrene tees 460 Oledn sGun i CliuDine jesse ere nee eens + «B59 Jackson Park G. C..40, 60, 80, 119, 138, 199, 239, 279 Neponset Gun Club.........cceccccecececeecesess 517 | Trenton Shooting Association.............. 239, 418 | Paducah ...... sees eee scence eneeteet eee eed BOD | Jearnette Gun Club................ 20; 480; 2340; dite Newark, ctvap) et tosi sug sae eens AQeSd sess s| SLrO pines Mmentz. 9 norm ine eee eee ne tae 359 Ratty-Burnhas. Sian ne eee eee 9, Wiamesas i Gtfy wed taper eine en cee ee {8022204783 A Newton witran = Bans: 35 eee eea ees ia 259 | TOURNAMENTS: . Penn: States ooccte capes eee 336, 438 | Wamsas and Missouri Traps........2....sese0es 260 New York: Athletic Club.........cccccceesceeece HGe': | SAbineee mace alce 00 Vine Oo Ore, aa ng aR oppit (Pert fe. iusyhte aed nat Re ee 320 | Mentucky Gin MOMb Oe ate... ec ct hisass 495 p oNewebicland “Gia sClubeeatmccsssseaseenicn ae 299 raohennaverroie (Catooe (Oibloy seine arene teghstionaueaca- 7 459 UAC MeMME AeA Mee Connor swords nc wags 790 Beystone Shooting League. .59, 99, 158, 159, 198, New York County G. C...... 100, 188, 198, 219, 259 TK ATISASS OLALGs SOO taue se aoe ance ater Pete eee 300 Poughkeepsie: -.4..4.)5.55.454.57 eee nate eee 475 | "220, 239, 259, 279, 300, 358, 979, 398, 419] New York German.........cccceecseeeeeees Se, HSe. |. SHE nara AL Ut) as cen ee ee 498yf “BRandall. = .13,.714, 24122 ;02: one a 339° Bakewood Trap PAM a, Mate: nc NS we male AGO-l New. wblavens Gime 2,6 tans. Seeker Caan henes 318 353 bibs AR yt Anian waar ante Roe ie rer a4 140 Richmond’ os deni sone 2 rete eer 397 - Bansingburg DERG? cae Mp cee ects oe ee Pate Nepon Seta tGiit |Glitp./. thin tester n nies en ete a 419 BonesteelG tne Cliubesee eee seen meter arene 459 Rockwell ..05.4..0ses8e55. soos eee pees nee 400 Heominster Gun Ctttb..........0..cceececeeeeees 358 | Nishoyne Gun Club........... 80, 210, 358, 380, 495 ISO IKe3 0b (Er bhi COM oriadistin onal iiss abedaem 899 Hewies IDRIS Eo tee eceoe seat sada doddcucsdr +. 496 7 FOE Onna CRC, EO UP er Oty ANS 358 | Noupareil Gun Club........... 39, 99, 189, 220, 386| Brownsville ................ Ne ee PE RES Ea 478 Schuylkill County League.................. + 417 Mo wis wile crs Pac 6) oso 5,.ccisoties sath eny he eee 497) Norfolk” Gin Chitbe <0 osc saseeeseeenee ss ceeas 379 | BuddaBiurimistens a: seach tanto eer 478 SHIEVEp Ott fetees suerse see ae aa ae ane ern «+ B14 Bowell Rod and Gun Club..............eeeeeee 458 | North Adams Gun Club................0.0. 336, 378 Co oFEMABISCEAY Rx Abromaitis mene ene 120 Soo (Gun Club; .caueee seeker aoe eee 4 ADT | Miarene 1G une Cte Soted seo os ck Seaton Ava North: Branch: “Gun eC@lrbe.n. sae ean 119s Corner Rodeand iGunssGlup-ceee eet eee eee 458 Seuth Dakota :State=. ts... m1 sa-me Seeee 497 Mary landeGun, iGtabesc: stent) cc, eet eee 358 | North River G. C...20, 40, 80, 119, 138, 158, 199, - Grawfordsyille! -2eeneian essen tee eae aobett, 418 | Sunny South Handicap................-.se0s. 160 Mictmplis: Gaur Chee os. onerar~cgeaseesashe 397, /AT5 219, 289, 299, 318, 340, 358, 380, 397, 418, 436, Dallas! (0 iets MeL. ben Fe ee fagyp Texas “So SS AY 3.4 here eee ae ..280 |B Metropolitan Gun’ Club......2.....c0ec0eee- =. +200 She 460, 476, 495 | Danville Rifle and Gun Club...............02- 60H) Wabash "9 oi sss2reercamentecyone, Waaeeert ema 140 Bittivde Gun: Clubs. saws ke ee 358, 380 Nerth ‘Side Gun Chis. ne... seh. 119;-989\ 980, 3198 =Dayenports Steiee ite ate ele ere 219 |. Wapsie ..,.... sabia ge RES sb A tet eae Dhiiwatikee “Ttap 5.5. -.oectsscuxt nae saeedn ueeae Arp) andtid Wray e. Ackles see eatien -

(| [fJAN. 31, 1903. misfortune has brought the man and squirrel a little nearer together. Chickadees that can Count Four, The chickadee is my favorite bird, At the present time the flock of chikadees that come to my cabin tor food will number not far from forty individuals. Many of this number are old friends that have become tame enough to eat from my hand. When the cabin door is open they fly in and out perfectly fearless. Several years ago the late Frank Balls, in one of his visits to my cabin, was told by me that the chicka- dees could count four. Mr. Balls replied: “I confess to being quite a crank on birds, but I can hardly grant my pets a knowledge of mathematics; where do you get your proof?” I threw some hemp seed into the door yard and called the chickadees down, While the chickadee is fond of hemp seed, it is a fact that he cannot crack the seed in his bill. He has not the cone bill of the finch family, so must take a seed to a small twig, hold it between his toes and beat off the hull. Young chicka- dees take one seed from the door yard, but the old ones take as many as four. These old birds are in- telligent enough to save their wings by crowding four trips into one. One old bird picked up four seeds and flew to a pine limb directly over Mr. Balls’ head. It placed three seeds in the rough bark of the limb and hopped to a small twig and proceeded to pound the hull off the fourth seed. I quietly pushed one of the three seeds off the limb. When the bird had disposed of the two seeds in sight it searched for the missing seed. Not finding it in the bark, the bird dropped to the ground and soon recovered it. Aiter witnessing this performance several times, Mr. Balls admitted that the chickadee knows some mathe- matics and can count four any way. I have observed this thing for eighteen years, and it proves to me that my pets possess intelligence far be- yond the knowledge of the general public. For several winters one of my chickadees has formed the habit of rapping on the window when he wishes to come into the cabin for food. After rapping he will fly to the door, for he knows that I will let him in. Other chickadees imitate this one, so far as perching on the window sill, and bobbing their heads, but they do not tap on the glass, so I do not let them in when they fly to the door. In many ways the chickadee has changed his mode of life during the eighteen years that he has inhabited my door-yard. This is especially evident in the de- parture in nest building. Some of the birds make a nest wholly of cotton batting, which I supply. The fact is, these birds are partly domesticated, and let me say this: I could remove a number of them to Boston Common, feed them for awhile, and they would remain to become permanent residents. They breed rapidly. and other parks could be stocked from this colony. But the English sparrow stands in the way. It is a burning shame that we should have imported this quarrelsome nuisance when we possessed a native bird in every way fitted for park life. The chickadee nests in dead trees, woodpecker fash- ion, Ninety per cent. of the nests are in small paper birch trees. The birds take turns in doing the work. A neat round hole is pecked through the tough bark, then the rotten wood is removed to a depth of about ten inches. Moss is placed in the bottom and on this squirrel’s or rabbit’s fur. The eggs are white, with numerous specks, and number from five to nine. They look so pretty and cosey nestled in soft fur set off by bright green moss that one is reminded of jewels in a case. Ti these birds are ever introduced into parks, the nests could be cheap affairs. A tube about one foot in length would answer. The New York Zoological Society. Tue report of the executive committee of the New York Zoological Society is too long to publish in full, but some of the more important events of the year 1902, which has shown the most satisfactory progress since the Society’s establishment, should be mentioned. : The transfer to the Society of the New York Aquarium is an event of great municipal importance and a gratifying evidence of the confidence felt in the Society by the city authorities. As noted in Forest AND STREAM, the transfer took place last October, and the Society has been fortunate enough to secure Mr. Chas. H. Townsend as director of the Aquarium. The city provides a maintenance fund of not less than $45,000, and the Society has chosen an ad- visory committee to act with the director. | ' The enormous attendance at the Aquarium, averaging about 5,000 visitors daily during the year, makes the proper conduct of this institution a matter of the greatest importance, both from a popular and a scientific point of view. The completion of the lion house has been already alluded to, and the antelope house will probably be fin- ished during the spring of 1903. Even before it is stocked with antelope, this house can be used, for the Society is already very short of room for its tropical animals. _ Plans have been completed for a bird house, and bids are being advertised for. This will be located on the northwest corner of Baird Court, and will afford cage room for a great number of specimens. It will be pro- vided with several flying cages, both within and without. The growth of the Society’s collections has been so rapid that the maintenance fund provided by the city has hitherto usually fallen short. It is hoped that future provision may be on a more liberal scale, in order that the Society, which already bears the expense of providing collections and housing them, should not also be forced to pay considerable annual sums for their main- tenance, The franchises of the patk produced last year about ¢7,000, the proceeds of which are devoted to the increase of the collections. Yet with each new building the cost of increasing the collections becomes greater, and the Society must look to its general fund to meet this added cost, This fund depends on the annual subscriptions of new members, and strong efforts should be made to in- crease this membership, which now is only a little over 1,200. It ought to be three times as great. As usual, the gifts to the Society have been very gener- ous. A member presented a magnificent antique Halian fountain, which is now being erected, and a great number of rare and expensive mammals has been given by other members. _ Allusion is made to the useful work done by the Society in representing to Congress, to the authorities of New- foundland and to the Canadian Minister of the Interior, the importance of taking steps to preserve certain species of animals that are threatened with extinction. Through the efforts of Hon. Jno. F. Lacey, assisted by Dr. C. Hart Merriam, a game law was provided for Alaska which seems to have been working well. Wise action to protect the caribou has been taken by the Newfoundland authori- ties, while the Minister of the Interior in Canada has set on foot measures for the protection of the wood buftalo and the musk ox. As a whole, the report of the executive committee shows very gratifying and good work done by the Society during the year. This work is purely a labor of love, and it is earnestly hoped that the public may show their ap- preciation of this effort by lending their support to the gentlemen who are so efficiently carrying out the wise plans of the Society. A larger membership is greatly needed, and those who are interested in the subject should apply to Madison Grant, secretary, 11 Wall street, New York, for blanks for application to the Society. Our Wood Inhabiters in Winter. _ To THOSE who love to be among our woods, who de- light in penetrating the dim, mysterious vistas which stretch away among the grand old forest trees, the charms which meet him on every side in the balmy days of summer, are innumerable and of the most varied character. The songs of many birds, the fragrant aroma from the incense-breathing foliage, the bright and fragrant flowers which dwell only in those secluded retreats, the many-colored butterflies which fly across his path; all these are enjoyable in a high degree; they are some- thing which to the lover of nature surpass all other sources of pleasure. But though they.are in those haleyon days so thor- oughly enjoyable, they do not entirely eclipse the de- lights which a visit to those scenes in winter affords. It is true that most of the sounds of nature are hushed in a great degree, but there are almost num- berless phenomena to engross the attention and to al- ford recreation and study to those who delight in wit- nessing the wonderful happenings around him. A ramble in the woods in winter brings with it a peculiar degree of enthusiasm that is not found at any other season. Our blood courses rapidly through our veins as we drink deep draughts of the glorious air, and as we crunch through the crusted snow our respi- vation is full, our eyes brighten and we feel as if we want to sing and even shout. The oxygen of the winter woods is working all these wonders. It is exhilarating, almost intoxicating. As we pass through the old fields and pasture and the outlying thickets, and enter the forest growth, the first greeting we receive is from two or three bristling little birds, the chickadees or blackeap titmice which; climbing about among the small branches and twigs of the trees, hover about us with an air of half inquiry © and half sociability that they voice in their peculiar tinkling notes, “Chick-a-dee-dee,’ which are charac- teristic of the species. These hardy little feathered mites remain with us in the Middle and New England States throughout the year, being migratory in but a very small degree. While this species is properly a wood bird, it often visits the orchards and farm gardens, and so sociable is its nature it is frequently seen among the ivy and other vines which climb about the porches of the farm- houses, busily engaged in its search for the larve and eggs of insects upon which it chiefly subsists. It also hunts among the gray, lichen-clad shingles of the house itself for the torpid insects and their larve, and the spiders which hibernate among the weather-beaten boards; and in such places the hardy little bird finds sometimes an abundance of food that one would hardly imagine could be there. Sociability is not the only good trait in this charm- ing little bird’s character, for it is gifted with a sym- pathetic nature that is rarely excelled by any of the other birds, Often have I in my forest rambles imitated the cry of a bird in distress for the purpose of ascertaining what species were within hearing distance from me; this cry, if it can be called such, is made by loudly kissing the back of the hand, the sound produced be- ing exactly like the cry of a young bird or some small matured species in fright or pain. Although there may, perhaps, be no birds visible be- fore the cry is sounded, as soon as it breaks the still- ness of the forest, birds fly out from hidden places in astonishing numbers and variety, the thrushes, vireos, Maryland yellowthroat and other species of sylvians gather around the intruder scolding vehemently at my presence and at the pain I am apparently giving some feathered victim, and among these the chickadee is, if within hearing distance, the first to fly to the rescue and the most solicitous of ali concerning the pain and peril in which one of its mates, perchance, is placed. I have carried on this deception to such a length that some of the more belligerent species have actually attacked me, flying at my face and evidently determined to punish me for molesting one of their neighbors. The chickadees hovered around me sometimes so closely that I could almost touch them, and their every tone and movement expressed the keenest anxiety and solicitude. And this sympathetic feeling, as shown by the chickadees, is not confined to the nesting or breed- ing season, but is manifested at all periods of the year, as I have repeatedly proved. On one occasion, as I was enjoying a winter ramble in the woods, I sat down in a sheltered, sunny spot for a short rest and smoke, and as I was preparing my pipe, I absent-mindedly whistled the air of one or two songs, and finally took up the melody of “Stride la Vampa” in “Il Trayatore.” It is not exactly in a minor key, but as I whistled it I remember that it sounded very plaintive. I had whistled but a few measures when I heard the notes of a pair of chicka- dees in the thicket near by, and the birds quickly drew near me, chattering and uttering a peculiar note of commiseration that was unmistakable. I continued the whistling in a lower tone and drifted into a melody that was in a distinctly minor+key, when the birds he- came more and more anxious, and one drew hearer and at length alighted on the toe of my boot, and looking up into my face, said as plainly as bird could speak it and full of sympathy, “What is the matter, you poor thing? Are you in pain? I wish I could help you.” For a few minutes I kept the birds almost in a delirium of anxiety, and then ceasing to whistle and making a quick movement of my feet, I startled them, and they soon flew away. The blackcap titmouse, subsisting as it does on a variety of food, is rarely put on “short commons,” while it chiefly depends on the eggs, larve and imagos of various~ insects; it often visits the farm-yard and claims a share of the food that is thrown to the poultry. Gentry says that if the woodhouse door is carelessly left open the chickadee will gratify its curiosity by entering, and, if anything edible is to be found, it is not too bashful to appropriate it, “even the bacon strip which is used to grease the saw and which is a noticeable feature in every woodhouse, disappears be- fore its keen appetite,” : I have often been visited by these sociable little birds when tenting on a salmon stream, and they lost no time in gleaning among the fish bones and other débris from the table that was strewn upon the ground, The chickadee is the impersonation of restlessness; it is ever on the move, and as has been truly said, it combines in a remarkable manner “the twofold char- acter of an expert creeper and skillful flycatcher moy- ing circuitously up the trunk and along the horizontal branches freely suspending itself in an inverted manner by the aid of its claws with the nimbleness and grace- fulness of the brown creeper.’ It moves from one tree to another quickly in foraging and generally tray- els in pairs, male and female. If the birds become separated, the male utters its anxious call notes, which quickly bring his mate to his side. Another of the common wood inhabiters met with in the winter is the red squirrel or chickaree. This little animal has a wide geographical range, being common throughout the Middle and Eastern States and in the Canadian provinces, wherever the pine and spruce occur, and in most of the Western States east of the Mississippi River it is also abundant. Its natural home is among the evergreens, the cones of which, particularly those of the black spruce, form . its principal article of food. It readily adapts itself to other localities, however, and often takes up its resi- dence in the neighborhood of the farm, where it makes frequent forays to the corn fields and the grain house. Unlike most of our other squirrels, the chickaree collects an ample supply of food for winter use, con- sisting of nuts, corn and other grains if they are to be obtained, acorns and seeds, and as it is active through- out the entire season, this stock of provender is freely drawn upon. This food is deposited in hollow trees, under logs and rocks, and is occasionally cached in the ground. The ever alert boy often finds these hidden hoards of nuts, and as a matter of course, has no scruples against appropriating them for his own use. In winter the peculiar tracks of this little animal are seen everywhere in the snow, and they almost invaria- bly lead to a hoard of provender or to a pile of spruce cones that the squirrel had detached from the tree for food. The chickaree, while it sometimes seems to tolerate the presenece of man in the neighborhood of its re- tired home in the forest, as a rule objects very strenu- ously to his coming there. I have often, in one of my winter rambles, drawn near one of these little animals, and sitting upon a tree stump or boulder, watched its movements: for a brief time it remained quiet, watching me evidently with curiosity and await- ing my next move. If I remained perfectly quiet the squirrel came out openly and scrutinized me*closely, and then doubtless, in disapproval of my tout ensemble, it set up the vilest tirade of abuse against me that a squirrel could utter: jerking its tail up and down and spasmodically moving its body in nervous irritation, every note and every motion indicated that it held me in utter con- tempt, abhorrence and derision. I doubt if there is another animal that can scold as venomously as can one of these chickarees; but all the time it is scold- ing it keeps its weather eye open, and is otherwise fully on the alert, and if a hand or foot is moved, away scampers the ‘squirrel, realizing, perhaps, that it de- serves a condign punishment for the abuse it had showered upon me. In addition to the variety of food that I have named, the red squirrel eats the eggs and young of birds, and deyours grasshoppers and such other insects as it can capture. I have often had specimens in captivity and have experimentally thrown to them grasshoppers and grubs, and these were quickly eaten. On one occasion, as I was quietly following a trout brook through a swamp, I heard a fluttering in the thicket, a sound as if some kind of struggle was in progress, and on investigating the cause of the dis- turbance, discovered that a chickaree had a young woodcock in its mouth, which it was endeavoring to bear away despite the protests, wing blows and other demonstrations from the mother bird. _ By good fortune I succeeded in knocking the ma- rauder over with a well-aimed stone, and found that the chick was dead, and the head was bitten through and partly eaten. T am aware that in the oninion of some observers this squirrel is not a flesh eater, but I have proved the contrary on many occasions. Repeatedly have I Jan. 31, 1903.] had these animals come into my tent when I have been on a fishing outing, and irrepressible and expert thieves they always proved to be. Biscuit was a favorrite article of plunder to them, and the size of the piece they could carry off astom- ished nie. Cooked fish was also readily taken, and if galt vork or bacon was left where they could get it they invariably confiscated it. That they will destroy young birds I have proved more than once. My father had, at one time, a pair of breeding canaries hanging in a room froni a window casing, and néar their cage was another in which a red squirrel was kept as a pet. It had become so thor- oughly domesticated and tame that during half the time its cage door was left open and the squirrel “had the run of the room.” In the canaries’ nest were four young birds about three weeks old. Callow little things they were, of course, and their size was small. One night a canary chick disappeared and not a trace of it could be found, and on the next night there was another little one taken, and that, too, utterly disap- peared, That the squirrel should be the guilty depre- dator was never for a moment imagined, and the blame was laid to mice and rats. But on the morning of the next day the squirrel was found in the canaries’ cage, he Having succeeded in lifting the door from the out- side and entering. Both of the parent birds were dead, their heads having been bitten inte and their brains eaten. ' Here was proof positive that the chickaree was the aggressor: He had found no difficulty in entering the ‘cage, but the door on the inner side shut down on a metal flange, which prevented the rapacious little ami-~ mal from escaping. Epwarp A. SAMUELS. [TO BE CONTINUED. | Wild Pigeons. Editor Forest and Stream: : Mr, Hough’s notes of the wild pigeon in the cur- rent number interested me so much that [ read and re- read them again. < This explanation, or opinion, rather, of the cause ol their disappearance, seems to’ me to be hardly the true one, though. We know why the buffalo have disap- peared; we have killed them off. But in the pigeons case that can hardly be so, for before they finally dis- appeared it was not unusual to see flocks of them that: would number at least a yuarter of a million. I have seen a single flock that had at least that many in it, and this one was only one of half a dozen that passed over our part of the country in a single season, - A year or two before our buffalo finally disappeared I happened to be in the Menger Hotel in San Antonio, Texas. This was the principal hotel there then, and there were present at the time a number of tourists from the North and several cattlemen. The conver- sation drifted around to the buffalo, and why they were getting to be so scarce, I and the Texans agreed as to what was the cause of it: the white skin-hunters «who were killing them off in season and out of season Without any regard to age or sex. : A gentleman here, one of those tourists, whom I ‘afterwards learned was a college professor in the North, after he had listened to me condemning the “hunters, said to me, “Let me tell you something. Your buffalo would disappear about as fast as they are now wdoing if you never fired a shot at them; they have run their course, and are now about to disappear, just as dhase prehistoric animals whose bones we find irom lime to time have disappeared.” ; ; 1 knew but little about those animals in comparison “4. what he did, but we all knew that the surface ot “our globe has changed greatly since these animals were yon it; that might account for their disappearance; but iit was not changing now, and the buffalo had the same food and a large part of the same range now that they Thad always thad. I could not indorse his opimion in regard to the buffalo, but if he was correct in that, might not the same cause explain the disappeatance of tthe pigeon? : ; When I was a boy the wild pigeon was so common im our part of the country, western Pennsylvania, as mot to attract any more attention than a flock of ducks or geese would when they flew actoss the country. The last large flock of them that I ever saw was 1n 1854. There were more or less of them there the two following years, but I was not there then. I had gone west to fight Indians, just as our boys do yet, or try to do. The police generally stop them in this side of the Indian’s country now, but after I had got to the West I formed a,truce with the Indians, and we both went to hunting buffalo.. When I returned two years after this the pigeons were all gone. These pigeons, when on the march, would fly in a solid column, sometimes only a narrow one, then again I have seen one all of a quarter of a mile wide and just high enough to clear the tree tops. Then if they were passing across a wide open space they would drop down nearer the ground, but still would keep up their column intact. When hunting them I always tried to get into an open spot, as far as possible from high timber; then getting under them, fire into them as they passed over my head. If there was no gun there but mine, my firing at them did not seem to disturb them much; they would sometimes fly a little higher after passing my gun, but those behind would not rise, and they would not rise ahead of me high enough to be out of gun shot. IT used a single muzzleloader with shot, if I had it; if not, then small slugs did as well or better; I found that with them I could get more birds than I could using shot. I did the shooting while two small boys, sho were too young yet to use a gun, retrieved them for me. One of these boys would often get nearly as many birds with a long pole that he had just for that pur- pose. Then he would work away behind me, where the birds would be flying low enough tor him to teach them. The most of his would only be~stunned when they fell, but the other boy was there to finish them, The birds that we got were never wasted, no matter how many we had; if we did not use them FOREST AND STREAM. all, others did. I have heard of their being fed to hogs, no farmer in our part of the country would do it. They were not in the habit of feeding any- thing to hogs that would bring mioney, and these birds would if they were hauled from 5 to 20 miles to thé nearest large town, and they would be taken there if enough of them could be got together to watrant it; in fact; the last. considerable number of them that I ever saw were in a farnier’s wagon; he had hauled theni up from Lawrence County to Alle- gheny City, he must have had half a ton of them. I have seen these pigeon roosts alter the birds had left them; the trees then would look as if they had been struck by a hurricane, limbs being broken off iH every direction where the birds had overloaded them, I never shot them on the roost; they were not protected there, but I could get as many of them as I wanted in the day time. Now, if there were any of them here to shoot I could not shoot them within a mile of the roost, the penalty for doing it is $50. CABIA BLANCO. Is “Protective Coloring’? a Myth? “*ProrectiveE coloring’ is one of the doctrines of the modern naturalist, and there can be no denying that eges, furs and feathers, not to mention forms, 11 some of the lower creatures, often harmonize with, or imitate their surroundings wonderfully, but is this harmonization protective? Eggs laid in holes in trees and burrows in the earth are nearly invariably white, though in one case they are black, or nearly so; but eggs laid in full view of the sky are also often white, as those of many water fowl, sea birds, etc. Now, eges hid away require protection as much as those laid on open ground, but stoats, weasels, squirrels, rats, snakes, etc., know as well as you and I that hol- low trees, burrows and so on are the nesting places of hundreds of birds, and habitually enter such holes in search of their eggs. Where does the protective doctrine come in here? Again, variegated and colored eggs are usually laid in more or less bulky nests. Do you think a weasel or snake cannot see such nests in bushes and trees as well as you? Or that he is not quite as well aware as you what such nests are likely to contain? Yet, again, the eggs of eagles and some other birds of prey are beautifully mottled, and others which build in precisely similar spots, precisely similar nests, lay pure white eggs; as some vultures. Does not the yulture require as much protection from nature as the eagle? And with regard to the coloring of birds’ plumage and the skins of animals, is it not ridicuolus to talk of such animals as tigers, jagtiars and pumas requiring protection? In this case I shall probably be told that the protective coloring is to en- able them to approach their prey; but that will not do. For I know that such beasts of prey never ap- proach their victims except under cover of jungle, etc., and that the first intimation the latter receives of the vicinity of their destroyer is the fatal roar and rush with which he breaks cover. Besides, birds especially, which agree in habits and haunts, must necessarily re- quire the same amount and kind of protection, at least, so it seems to me; but they certainly do not get it. Two or three species of bell bird are dull colored songsters, easily hid, but at least one species is pure white, one of the most conspicuous colors in nature. And I could cite hundreds of parallel cases. The con- clusion to which I come is that the doctrine of pro- tective coloring is based on erroneous grounds. WNa- ture’s idea is to create a pleasing and curious variety to gratify the eye of man, nothing more; and in that opinion J am confirmed by the knowledge I have that neither coloration nor mimicry (the resemblance which certain animals, and particularly certain insects, have to other animals or inert objects), serves the purpose which naturalists have supposed it was intended to serye. For all these creatures which are “protected” by color or mimicry, furnish a full quota of the prey. of ravenous animals. Then, again, birds of the ostrich kind all lay their eggs on the bare ground, and mostly in very exposed positions where it is impossible for them to escape the eye of any chance passerby; yet some ostriches lay pure white eggs and others dark rifle-green ones. Why? No reason but a purely specu- lative one can be given. It may be urged that the African ostrich hides her eggs in the sand. I only know that she does not always do so. At all events, American and Australian ostriches do not hide their eggs, but rather seem to wilfully expose them.” So writes Mr. Paul Fountain (a noted British tray- eler) in his new and most interesting work entitled “The Great Mountains and Forests of South Amer- ica.” I thought it well worth while to make an extract of his words and send them to Forest anp STREAM. What have your many naturalist readers to say about them? My own opinion (offered with all modesty and without any claim to expert knowledge) is, that Mr. Fountain is probably wrong. No doubt he has made out a very strong case, but it seems to me he has not gone deep enough or far enough. Now, it need hardly be said, there is the very best of reasons for protective coloring, which is implied by the phrase itself. Granting this, we may ask, How does the process develop? In the first place, then, it is a well- known fact that all birds and animals haye an incli- nation or fondness for a certain environment (partly for material and partly for spiritual reasons). Fre- quenting this habitually they, through the operations of sympathy, superadded to the desire for safety, would come to assume the tones of the environment; so, likewise, their eggs: not all the tones, of course, but selected ones. (This process, it should be remembered, is by no means ended.) We see the bear and ptarmigan of the polar regions are white like the snow, while their congeners of the Rocky Mountains are brown, like the rocks. This may be stated to be the general rule, but like nearly all general rules there are many exceptions to it. And yet there may not be so many after all. For, sup- pose, we see a black or a white bird amid a mass of greenery; perhaps if we used our eyes we should dis- cover something matching their color not very far off 85 atid which would be instantly fled to should a hawk appear. But that there are exceptions there appears to be no doubt. How, then, are we to account for these exceptions? Well, perhaps, through an uncer- tain disposition and lack of sympathy. Nature cer- tainly works from within, and when there ig a strong sympathy or desire she responds in unison. I am reminded here of Mr. Fountain’s conclusion that “Na- ture’s idea is to create a pleasing and citious variety to gratify the eye of man.” This doctritie micht have gained credence nay, did gain it, and universally al- most—in ante-Darwin days, but in these—well, [ am afraid it might excite a smile in certain qiiarters at least. The eye of man, indeed! Nature doesn’t cate a fig for the eye of man. Man, to be sure, in his sub- lime egotism, has dubbed himself the lord of nature but he really has no more control over nature than the cat in his kitchen. He can kill and destroy. it is true, but can he create a single thing barring his own species? But he has the sense of beauty | “some one objects, Me has, and it is well for him if he cultivates it, but let him not imagine for a moment that when the birds bedeck themselves with say feathers and certain plants with gay flowers that they do so to please him. They do so to please themselves, if you ASS and nobody else. When there were no men here in America but howling, benighted sayages, the birds and flowers were as bright and lovely as they are to-day. And Mr. Fountain himself has noted that in the most desolate regions of Brazil he observed the most beautiful orchids and hummingbirds he ever Saw. ; Yet all nature is one, in a sense, though working 1 diverse Ways tO some mysterious end. Oh the mystery of it all, and the futility of trying to expound a certain doctrine on even one single phase of it, such as the coloration of birds and animals. But of one thing we may be sure and that is, that all is governed according to law. No hair or feather changes its hue except in obedience to some compelling principle. Properly, there is no such thing as chance in nature. eI PrANncis Moonan, Michigan Mule Deez, SION was made some weeks ago in Forest AND STREAM of the report that black tail jumping deer were occasionally killed in Michigan, and the report while not conhremd by specimens, is interesting. oe We know that in northwestern Minnesota there ‘is a form of the mule deer of the northern plains which under the name Cariacus nacrotis var. virgulius was described in Forest anp Stream of May 27, 1899 by Mr Chas. Hallock. Just what relation this dark form of mule deer has to the typical mule deer of the plains is not known As Dr. C. Hart Merriam points out to us, the type of the plains mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus Rafinesque) came from the Sioux River of South Dakota, but specimens from this region have not been compared with those from the forests of northern Minnesota, and it is therefore un- certain whether the very dark Minnesota form is the same as the typical mule deer from Sioux River. If it is pe the same, Mr, Hallock’s Subspecies would be a good _ It is a Jong way from northwestern Minnesota to Mich- igan, and it will certainly be very interesting if it should be found that the form of mule deer occurs in Michigan. Nothing definite can be known on a point of this kind until specimens are had from the region in question. i Hibernation of Snakes. , Morcantown, W. VA.—Ediior Forest and Stream: A discovery has been made here, which, while it may not be new fo naturalists,, was a very great Surprise to me, as it no doubt would be to “oth- ers. On the sixth day of this month, while James Kinsley and D. W. Breakiron were quarrying stone near here, they came upon six snakes in their winter quarters all coiled up together, and they proved to be two copper- -heads about thirty inches in length, two blackheads about five feet long and two inches’ long. ee wae cers aael alive when found, as they were M Out Of reach of frost, but soon became nimumbed wi the cold when brought out. aisle . nage were aes by a son of Mr. Kinsley and put away im a haymow, and will be brought out in the sprine their actions studied. _ ey eae It may be known that different speci i i : f peciés of snakes hiber- iate together, but to me it is entirely new. ‘ EMERSON CARNEY, house snakes about thirty-six Those Mississippi Squirrels, 2e Aucustine, Fla,, Jan, 24.—Editor Forest and Stream: Mr. Hough comes out in Support of his friend the late Col. Bobo, but he doesn’t throw a flood of light on the matter in dispute. Col. Bobo was a great bear hunter and knew the animal from nose to tail, and I don’t. There- fore, if Col. Bobo had stated that he had seen bears in countless thousands swimming the Mississippi and had rowed among them in a boat, picking them up by the tail and throwing them in a basket, I wouldn’t have dared to doubt it; but when it comes to squirrels I’m at home and will stand by my guns. If those amphibious little animals had been killed before being thrown in the bags and baskets I would never have expressed a doubt in they were not, or such an important item would not have been overlooked by Col. Bobo. I -infer that Mr. Hough has never seen stich a migration. Yet he says "Indeed 1! did occur and as described.” Now, hearsay evidence is not accepted in a court of law, and I eall for proof. : Dinymus. This Deer Goes to Church, Foropora, a handsome fawn owned h e chi (oa JRL ISL Bridgman, a wealthy resident of Teen fcllowed Mr. Bridgman and his family to church the other night. The deer succeeded in getting into the reshitne and was about to pass up a side aisle when the sexton ejected it from the building. The fawi waited ant id the church until the service was over and then ae Hed home with the family, ene ed 86 FOREST AND STREAM. Game Bag and Gun. —_-@ —— Proprietora of shooting resorts will find it profitable to advertise them in Forxgst Anup STREgau. The “White Flag” in Coos. Ir seems queer to find the compatriots of Molly Stark in 1778 carefully looking after the pelts of deer, when their own skins seemed much more in danger of being peppered. The preamble of a New Hamp- shire law, passed in November, 1778, discloses a bit of history of the actual conditions. It reads thus: “Whereas, the killing of deer at unseasonable times of the year hath been found very much to the prejudice of this State; great numbers thereof having been hunted and destroyed in deep snows, when they are very poor and big with young, the flesh and skins of very little value, and the increase thereof greatly hin- dered.” Therefore they created a close season, between Dec. 31 and Aug. 1, and fixed a very substantial penalty for violation of the law, fifteen pounds, making at the same time the possession of venison, “newly killed,” proof of the crime. As early as 1740 there were laws in this colony for the protection and preservation of deer. This law of 1778 seems to have existed but a short time, and a hundred years after the deer had ceased to be thought of as numerous enough in the greater part of the State to be hunted successfully. A recent article in the Forrest AND STREAM spoke of .good hunting in Coos County, and we thought it a proper time to apply a practical test. We had been there a dozen years ago, and knew that then it was not “up to” the “Maine Woods.” For ten successive years | have tried still-hunting on the snow in the good old State of Maine in early December, and have be- come a great lover of that locality. Last November rumors of small-pox near the hunting territory made us shudder with pictures of unvaccinated deer scatter- ing contagion through the woods. Surely it would never do to go there. The greatest authority, your paper, has recently de- clared that uncounted carcasses are exposed in lumber camps there, with no vigilant warden to record the manner or cause of their death. And so our party of three, on the 25th of last No- vember, took a morning train in a border city of the Granite State for far-off Colebrook in Coos. One of the party, John, had hunted tame deer in the Sports- man’s Show, and to him we looked for surprises. One tipped the scales at three hundred, and to him we looked for a couple of “old big ones.” Errol was our objective point and George C. Demeritt our host. We arrived at Colebrook early in the evening and tound George C. at the station with assurance that early in the morning we could start to make the nine- teen miles through Dixville Notch to his home, Every- thing was working according to our schedule. The morning of Noy. 26 came out of her chamber sour, cloudy and raw. We had no snow at home to bring with us, and we looked to Coos to celebrate with a storm, because it was her reputation that was at stake. Eight o’clock found us covering the ten miles to The Balsams at Dixville Notch. There we restored our circulation by walking over the “pitch” and down the long incline of a very excellent road. No man can easily keep his eyes off the rugged, inspiring scen- ery of that famous gap, with its threatening wall of tall peaks sharply serrated against the sky. A bitter wind through the Notch threw squalls of snow in our faces, but so long as there was snow on the wing we were reconciled and cheerful. The last nine miles were soon over, and best of all the air was getting so thick with white flakes that we were beginning to wonder if we had missed it in leaving our snowshoes at home. After all they are of little use when actually hunting, _ however comfortable for getting from point to point in deep snow. We sat by the open fire that evening telling stories and discussing the morrow, and every now and then sent a watchman out to hold the “storm-blast”’ by the power of his “skinny hand” or “glittering eye.” Thus, we held a tight grip on our fortunes until bed time, when we felt secure with full five inches of the best snow. That was not quite enough to smother the noisy bed of frozen leaves, but it was a mighty prom- ising foundation upon which to build hopes for Thanks- giving Day. We were off for the woods early in the morning with our guides, hunting three and a half miles to the log camps, where we were to make our home for the trip. Qur host followed with the supplies on a buckboard. We scattered to the right and left of the road, and in the middle of the afternoon met at the camps and compared notes of what we had seen. Only one of the party had burnt any powder and no one had drawn blood. As usual, the sum of the first day’s work was infor- mation upon which to act on the morrow. Our x-quantity, John, had found powder would go off, and so would the flicker of a “white flag.” We had a generous increase of appetite at the evening meal and discovered that the buckboard had anticipated this. We had packed a big box of extras, and at the head of the table sat McGregor, for five days dispensing turkey, chicken, sausage, hogshead cheese, cranberries, jelly, olives, mince and apple turnovers, popcorn and what not. He was a very square-jawed fellow, deep and ceapacious. There he presided and accepted our re- spects and humble petitions until exhausted, not a spoonful was left to line his internals. It was hard to come down to spring beds, matresses and sheets, when for years we had been tickled with coarse blankets and medicated with fir boughs. We endured the change with some kicking, there being no alternative. We had a camp all to ourselves, a great hardship because we could not watch the preparation of eur meals and gather the fragrance from venison stews, that celestial incense that makes camp life a little foretaste of better things than conventional mortals shall ever enjoy. But now, what about hunting? When you have spent a day in getting the “lay of the land” and have found where the animals are roatning and feeding, you cannot get into camp the second night and sit at the table on a ticket of flimsy excuses. Something in the shape of a liver must come in on a forked stick, We were off bright and early and each on his mettle. Our road into the camps was flanked on the west by a long ridge of hills, broken by a few gaps and valleys, and way back of the hills was low ground, swampy in places and stretching four miles or more to the Swift Diamond. On the east of the road it was about evenly divided into ridges and swamps; the ridges good hunt- ing, the swamps a useless temptation, a waste of elf- fort. A large buck led one of us over the heights to the west. He played the usual trick of watching while we climbed the hill, and when we reached the crest we could see where he had made his bow and gone jumping for the flat country of swamps. We did not expect to catch him with a shot when we saw where he was going, but we have often found a jumper lead- ing to the territory where deet were feeding. This experience was again repeated. Just a little down the slope we struck a logging road, and, going very slowly but a little way, on our left, all at once we saw a buck watching the hill from which we had come, stand- ing in the midst of a clump of small trees. This was not the one we had jumped. The eyes of deer seem slow to catch glimpses at the side. Carefully our .45-70 came to shoulder, and the next instant we saw a floundering brown patch under the trees. It was a safe shot through the back over the fore shoulders, and a good test of the operation of the new “high velocity” special cartridges for this rifle. We were satisfied with the result: a six-prong buck, young, and as fat as the best “stall-fed.”’ One of his prongs was broken off short; but never mind, we had got tired of using the taxidermist; we had had our sport, and it was only ten o'clock in the morning. Up over the crest, the guide, sweating and puffing, dragged him, and down the hill he went tobogganing against the trees. In an hour we had him hanging up in a lumber camp at the foot of Beaver Pond, and then the guide, Bert, and I consulted the mince turnovers and sausages to see what course we had best take for the rest of the day. It took us a half hour to get the oracle into good deciding condition, and then a “bluff” of a hunt to keep our legs in shape for the next day seemed to be the wisest answer. Such we madeit, and at night we came in proud with a red liver un a forked stick. This gave us undisputed seats at the evening table; but we were not alone in our glory. Our heavy com- rade reported a spike-horn hanging upon a stump by the road, and John brought back a lost guide, after making him climb a tree for bearings, a matter of great consolation to us. Days of deer hunting are very much the same in Maine and Coos. All of us had settled the question of the abundance of game. The difficulties in the way of getting a successful shot were just the same as in other sections; the nature of the ground was practically the same and the deer were equally wild and wary. There seemed to be more large bucks and less does proportionately than we had met with in Maine. We would have had better sport and equal success had we stuck to our log camps, but one of our guides de- clared that over at Millsfield Pond the “woods were full of ’em,” and as John had been creasing too many trees, and shooting at too many flickering tails to make him perfectly happy, we packed our duffle after five days and hunted our way out to the house of our host, while he came in with the buckboard. There was another good reason for the change. The large man and his guide had got on to the fresh track of a cub bear, ‘They found where he had caught and eaten a “Whiskey Jack” that day, and it was not clear that his appetite would not change to a desire for the human. To be out of his den in such cold weather looked very desperate, and we had nothing but .45-7o pop-guns for protection, We couldn’t send for Roosevelt, and to depend on a little black dog, wont to curl up under the stove, was plainly foolhardy, And so we went where “the woods were full of ’em.” How do you suppose we came out? Just as all un- easy fools do. We wasted two days in discovery, and made but one happy find, and that was John’s, namely, that the back sight of his rifle would stay anywhere his stray thumb or a stick would push it. Thus he had been shooting everywhere for seven days, missing nothing so certainly as the deer upon which he turned his weapon. Lots of chances gone into the land of waste! A clean miss with a short range and a deadly chance disturbed him the second day at Millsfield. When he came home that night he set about unearth- ing some explanation that would secure our forgive- ness. The use of the target disclosed the trouble, and so the guide fitted him out with a little .38-40 carbine for the morrow. Every fisherman knows the impor- tance of testing a leader when angling for landlocked salmon or large trout. No doubt it is equally wise to watch the sights of a rifle, making sure that they are firmly wedged into their sockets and closely centered on the barrel. It saves lots of vain repining and long waiting for the next year in which to redeem one’s self. Our unknown quantity, John, had now but two days in which to do the whole work of the trip. He had shown exceptional staying powers, and one day had been manipulating a forked hazel stick. There might be a ragged edge of surprise right upon us. When the northeast wind opened her door Friday morning she had a wide apron full of snow and she shook it with wild and rugged will, All day long that door stood open, and that apron was still scattering snow when the shades of night came down. A drive of two miles brought us to Errol Hill, where we were to scatter in various directions. The first fresh track fell to John before we had separated, and ten minutes later we heard his little carbine beating a rapid tattoo. It was a cheering signal to us that had waited so long for the untried. —— IEJAN. 3f, 1903. We were in a position to be reached by any fright- ened deer, and as none came by us, our confidence was strong that the shots had counted, After a long day’s fruitless hunt over against Umbagog, with snow falling so. fast that old and new tracks in half an hour were undistinguishable, we pulled our weary legs back over the hill to where we had separated in the morn- ing, and there found our comrades just getting ready to drag to the road an eight-point buck, the fruit of the early shots we heard. Now, of course, a man who comes to the front with a desperate rush will be expected to take breath and not go tearing ahead the next moment. We tried to convince John that he had scored a bullseye and need not count on doing it twice in succession, He did not believe in the mathematics of chance, nor would he be kept down by Dame Fortune to one bullseye. Next day we divided up the territory nearer our home quarters, and the victor of Friday took the swamp and low ridges north and east of Aker’s Pond. At half past nine he was on a fresh track, one that he followed steadily for four hours, expecting every mo- ment to sight his game. At half past one Mr. Buck was holding up a set of eight prong antlers against the branches of a small spruce, all unsuspicious that any friend had been so long trying to overtake and salute him. The introduction was informal, short, and Sweet; a heartier greeting could not be conceived. The rest of us at four o’clock were toasting and re- freshing ourselves by the open fireside and talking about another set of antlers that had a spread of twenty-one inches, and could not be dragged in till the morrow. We did not know what had happened over beyond the swamp, and as the moments passed the mirth and cheer began to desert us and give way to uncanny speculations as to where the other boys were, for it was growing very dark and the day had been bitterly cold. With the mercury but a little above zero, the snow a foot deep, it was no night to bunk in the woods without ax and “grub.” Would they resort to some abandoned logging camp, or would they find none, and, stirring to keep from freezing, get deeper and deeper into trouble? Everyone had a suggestion and nobody any helpful project except to fire a signal. No answering shot! The mercury of our thoughts was sinking little by little. But someone announced that the moon was up and doing pretty well for its size. What should we do with the supper, all hot for the table? We could not think of sitting down at once, it would taste so much better to have our full company. It seemed like sacrilege to be eating, with the glory of the preceding day lost in the swamp. But in the midst of all this tangle of conjecture and anxiety, we heard the stamping off of snow on the porch, and rushing to the door we fairly yanked the boys into the house, where we broomed the snow off and put them through the catechism. They “‘hadn’t been lost” and “they hadn’t fallen into Aker’s Pond.’ They had been running a road through the woods, and hanging back, just to scare us and let us find out how well we liked them. When we found out what the young man had done, we expressed fervent thanks that he had not discovered the trouble with his rifle the first of the trip, for if he had he would have been ready to go home the third day. That would have used us all up, for if there is anything we can’t stand, it is less than a ten days’ trip. But supper was ready, and how it tasted after stich a happy return. There was an old-fashioned chicken pie, baked in a dish as big as a milk pan. It was done to the finest brown, with upper and lower crust. There were all sorts of the best things to go with it, and when we arose from the table we rejoiced that the old county of Coos is rich enough to “spread”? with two — Thanksgiving dinners. And now the long-looked-for hunt is over, and we must wait for another Thanksgiving time, following the sport in our minds meanwhile, and outwitting many a wary listener on the ridges, chewing his cud with eyes on the back track. If the State of Maine passes a hunter’s license law and it disturbs the feelings of those who “want the earth” at the other fellows expense, here in Coos is a fine chance to keep up the sport under the most promising conditions. Dan Hote. 3 Maine Game. Editor Forest and Stream: Some of those who write of Maine game and a great part of those who read their articles have a very im- perfect knowledge of our laws and the conditions of our game. Two-recent writers state that unless the laws allowing one moose, one caribou and three deer to be killed by one person are repealed our game will soon be extinct. Now, as to caribou, we have had none for several years, sides this, there has been an all-year close time on then1. As to deer, it is years since any one was allowed to kill over two. A writer in a Boston paper tells us= that we only have 100,000 deer in the State; that this year 20,000 were killed, and that at this rate they will last only a few years. Allowing his statements to be correct (and they are not), we should now have 80,000 left. As deer are usually born in pairs, one of each sex, it is fair to call one-half of these does—each doe has two fawns. Now allowing a loss of one-half for barren does and fawns which died before maturity, and we should have an increase of 40,000 a year for the first year. I should like to know how long it would take for a race to become extinct, which increases 40,000 in a year and only loses 20,000. : I have had, perhaps, as fair a chance to estimate as most men, and I believe that 10,000 is a plenty large enough estimate of all killed in this State, and as to the 100,000, I think we have twice that. Our commis- sioners have tried to ascertain the number killed by having the guides report the number killed by parties they guided. They make out some 6,000. Doubtless they intend to be earnest; but as often only two men will have three guides, and larger parties four to si They were not killed off, but migrated. Be- JAN. 31, 1003.7 | FOREST AND STREAM. 87 it is evident that the same deer get reported from two to six times, and the results of these figures are of no value, The only reliable figures are those given by the railroads, which are something oyer 5,000. This covers all carried out of the State by visiting sports- men, and includes all their guides had shot for them, and certainly this is half of them, and hundreds bought by them, and all those taken by residents of our cities and towns near railroad stations. To double. these figures will, I think, account for all illegally shot or those which die from wounds, This last, I think, will be fully one-fourth as many as those secured. Men lately in from some of the grounds which were hunted as hard as any, report deer as very plenty, and can see no decrease. I believe our deer are more likely to suffer from lack of food than any other cause. Many people have an idea that they can kill bears by coming to Maine. In August and September, when the skins are worthless, a few are killed on blueberry grounds and near streams, and a man might possibly stand one chance in one hundred to get a shot; but in the open season for deer and moose the chances are not one in one thousand to shoot a bear. I think I have handled at the lowest 5,000 bear skins. In buying some 200 a year I have rarely bought over two or three well-formed old bear which were shot out of a den. Our bears are nearly all trapped. We have a good many bears, but the bears reported to be shot by ladies or carried home by sportsmen, were mostly in traps when shot, and I have known of old: skins being shot and carried home as trophies. We hear a great deal about the abundance of small game in Maine, Close around cities and towns we have a very few ducks, plenty of rabbits and some ruffed grouse. I have no acquaintance with the region west of the Kennebecs, but know most. of the country east and clear up to the north corner monument, and can say that we have extremely little small game. I have traveled the woods over fifty years and have neyer seen a gray squirrel away from the settlements. I have many times been out from four to eight weeks - and never seen a single rabbit, unless | was near some burned land grown up to poplars. As to ducks, ex- cept sheldrake, we have very few except on the sea- shore. If a party should shoot a dozen ducks in a month they would do better than the majority do. Ruffed grouse are usually very scarce in the deep woods. What few are seen they can usually kill, but if a man can average killing one a day when away from settlements he will do better than I ever did, and I have spent years in our woods. I can usually start more grouse in a day near here than in a week in the woods. I can find more grouse near Portsmouth, N. H., Andover or North Hampton, Mass., than I can in any place in Maine I ever saw. If a man comes to Maine after moose and has a gwuide who understands his business, he stands a fair chance. If he wants deer and knows anything about hunting he can get his quoto. If he thinks he can shoot a bear out of a trap, he will be likely to go home empty handed if he hunts ten years. If he expects to get small game he had better hunt close home, as it is not here. M. Harpy. Trenton, N. J., Jan. 19—Hditor Forest and Stream: I read with much surprise an article by Mr. George A. Pete, in which he deals out his criticisms of Maine, her wardens, her laws, etc., with a most generous hand. He says: “The wardens are a miserable set of lazy hotel leungers,” I have lived in Maine a number of months of the past years, very much longer than Mr. Pete, according to his story, and have had special facilities for knowing the game wardens and their work, and 1 am glad to be ablé at this time to say that they are conscientious, ener- getic, hard working officials, who deserve the highest commendation for the impartiality and vigor with which they enforce the law. Whenever it becomes necessary tu stop at a hotel, the visit is always of the briefest, unless there remains very good reason for prolonging it. Wiuin- ter and summer alike their time is spent in endless cross- ing, to and iro, over the sections where the game and fish need their protection. Many of them seldom even drive, but strike into the deep forests afoot for very great dis- tances. I have no doubt that some of the farmers or lumber- men do kill an occasional deer illegally. For this the game wardens are not responsible. It would be abso- lutely impossible for any man to capture a poacher of this description without first having some information to work on, and then one would have to camp on his trail for weeks perhaps without getting the necessary evi- dence to secure a conviction. In spite of this, however, a Surprising number of cleyer captures are made. As to this bugbear of lumber camps being supplied with illegal yenison, it is the veriest rot. There have been cases, but they are invariably found out and punished. The logging crews are nearly all known personally to the wardens, and if a camp has one or more characters in it who would be likely to shoot game out of season, that camp would pretty certainly get its full share of close surveillance. The bosses themselves have more to lose than to gain by allowing illegal venison to be served, for past experience has taught them that the warden is apt to turn up at any time. Mr, Pete says that in one camp of thirty men 278 deer had been served in a single season. Before believing this one otight to And out how many days these men spent in the woods, the approximate amount of this meat a man could eat in a day, and also how many of the crew did absolutely nothing but hunt deer in season and out. By the time he figtired out these items he will have come to the conclusion that Mr. Pete is one of the most gullible of mortals. At any rate he is greatly to be censured for not giving his information, if he really possessed any to the authorities. Perhaps, in the open season, venison was constantly served, but one must not forget that these men were entitled to sixty deer. d I would like to know how Mr. Pete found out that the wardens seldom visited the lumbering camps “because they did not like the accommodations.” Did any warden ever tell him so? As for the number of arrests of lum- bermen for illegal shooting, the information can be had for the asking. Mr. Pete really believes that “no lumberman has ever been arrested” he must have gone very deep into the woods, and, I fear, has not come ott yet. Maine game is increasing all the time, and it is greatly owing to the indefatigable zeal of the wardens that this is so. They are greatly responsible for the good time Mr. Pete has there or he wouldn’t go, would he? He does go, does he not? Ouiver KEMP. Thanksgiving Mallards. HartForp, Mich, Jan. 20—Editor Forest and Stream: Reading in a recent number of the Forest AND STREAM of Uncle Eph’s desperate struggle to get a turkey for Thanksgiving, reminds me of a struggle which my youngest son Ned and I had in getting a brace of mal- lard ducks for a Thanksgiving dinner. The boy and I wanted a chicken for Thanksgiving, but the madam in- sisted that nothing but a brace of mallards would fill the bill. “Well,” I said, “if Ned will paddle the canoe down the Paw Paw River, Vl endeavor to get a pair.” So bright and early the day before Thanksgiving we started down the river, Ned in the stern with the paddle, I well forward with the trusty Parker, ready for immediate use. We had gone down several bends and were rounding a sharp point where tall willows grew to the very water’s edge, when there sprang from the water three lusty mal- lards. Quick as thought the gun was brought to bear below the tops of the willows, between myself and the ducks, The result was a shower of small twigs and limbs, and we saw the much coveted birds with their long necks headed down stream. The boy censured me for not wait- ing until they had got further away, but I protested that it would have been no better had I waited, and that it was on account of the willows that the shot had not been successful. Ned says, “Never mind, the ducks have set- tled below the railroad bridge, and I can soon put the canoe down there,” and so we continued down the rapid river which makes a natural flow of about three miles an hour, and were soon down to the bridge, but as luck would have it, the crafty mallards had chosen a wide, straight place in the river in which to light. As we swung around the point in plain view, they, with their leng necks and keen eyes, were at least 60 yards away. “Change your shot,’ said Ned. “Take out the 6’s and put in some BB’s.”? While I was changing my shot, the wary ducks took flight, and away they went down the stream again. “Shall we follow them?” “Yes,” said Ned, “it’s ducks or no Thanksgiving.” So away we went. The Paw Paw River is the crookedest thing on earth, in some places making a detour of a mile to get eighty rods on its general course. He said, “’ll paddle until we get one more shot, as they seem to be the only ducks on the river; and if you don’t get them we'll have to come down to chicken and be thankful in proportion.” So away we went, I helping the boy with another paddle the first mile or two. Finally coming to a place where we thought they were likely to light, Ned says: “Pa, lay down your paddle and take up your gun, They are liable to spring out of these crooked places anywhere.” So I got ready for instant action. The boy was getting tired of the long paddle and said: “If we don’t find them down this side of the big bayou, we'll give it up as a bad job.” That was but a short distance ahead, and we had got in sight of where we were going to stop, and I said: “We'll have to give it up,” when just then, directly ahead of us 4o or 50 yards, the three mallards we had sought for swam out into the river. They were well away, but I yet had the BB’s in as before mentioned, and the boy said, “Give it to them, pa. It’s your only chance.” I instantly pulled the right barrel, and three beautiful mallards lay dead on the water, Ned said: “I’m thankful now, and if the madam isn’t thankiul we can’t help it.” SULLIVAN Cook. Looking Backward. Do you remember that day on your last ducking trip? The soft sky, blue and cloudless, the wide expanse of water, dead, flat, oily; the scattered beds of wild fowl, the crackling cackle of the brant, the honking of geese, and the ever-present soul-rasping ‘south, south, southerly?” How you fretted for wind—how you prayed for wind—how it was just your luck, and then—lightiy from over your shoulder a soft wind touches your cheek. The dead expanse is broken in a million little pimples, all sound is hushed save the tinkle, tinkle of the little wavelets as they ripple over the wings ‘of your battery, while stronger and stronger blows the brave south wind. Ah! there they come! How flat you try to make your- self, how your heart sort of lumps up big and thick, how tight you hold the gun. Closer, closer—there they are! Now! No, you don’t shoot} there are no ducks, you were just thinking of that other day long ago. The silken rustle of hurrying wings was only the morning paper falling from your hand. Or perhaps the sky was dark and stormy, with swift driving clouds blotting out the sun. How muddy and thick the waves look; how hard they strike the battery; how the water goes foaming and boiling over the deck, as if it would cover you. You feel sort of timid out there all alone in the angry waters; you raise up often and look to see how far the sloop is away, atid then you think of the captain’s last words: “Fix yourself comfortable, there is no danger.” You take courage and look again to see if he and his little boat are near. Then you have your hands full. My! how they fly. How often the gun cracked you cannot remember. You were shooting, yes; you know that—shooting lots. If you only had that chance over you know you could beat it; you would wait longer on that big bunch; you would raise a little quicker on that side bunch. you iell ‘you know it now, Do you? I see them all, the young and enthusiastic on their first trip, so anxious to know and to try; those who have been before and have plans and theories worked out in the long hours since the last trip; then the old and seasoned who know it all and don’t care. Yet I find, way down in some corner of the heart, is that desire to kill, that strictly human desire to get that which 1s hard to obtain, No indifference, no coolness, no long years of reasoning will hide it; sooner or later on every trip their own words or actions will convict them. IT guess the readers of Forest AND Stream know that | break out this way every now and then and will forgive me for straying away from plain business. But you see, Mr. Editor, for the last two weeks we have had freezes, and drifting ice, and all sorts of things to spoil our shoot- ing, So 1 just concluded to write and make a lot of others feel bad and wish they were shooting. “Misery loves company.” There are a good number of fowl in the bay now, and by the first or second week in February all danger of drifting ice and cold weather will be over, so we should have fine, clear shooting from that time on, This last fall’s work has not been up to the standard; the ichg spell of warm weather kept the fowl north, so that they drifted here very slowly, and as they keep working down all the time, they did not congregate here in quan- lities to make many extra days. The going back will be different, as they crowd in here to wait the time of their final northern flight. We have plenty of feed on the shoals and a good warden on the Virginia side. More geese have been killed this season than for many years ast. At the close of the season I have never seen so many quail in the county. A party here on the last day of the season, January 15, flushed over twenty coveys of large strong birds; the day before, at no time over half a mile from the house, they flushed seven coveys over one very old, inferior dog. O, D. Foutks. Srocxton, Md., Jan. 20. Duck Shooting by Night. Watertown, N. Y., Jan. 11.—Hditor Forest and Stream: It is a long time since I have seen any news in Forest anp Stream from Jefferson county, the home of Commissioner Middleton, and the one coun- ty in the State where the spring shooting of wildfowl is prohibited, I have little to say in regard to wildfowl, except that they nested here in larger numbers than in toot, and that we had more birds here on opening day than ever before. Our shooting on black duck, mallard, teal and woodcock, however, was a disappointment last fall, as most of us from the vastly increased number of these birds expected a corresponding increase, in the size of our bags. As a matter of fact, I do nof believe that there were one-quarter of the number of these fowl killed in this county in 1902 that were in toot. One of the best feeding spots in the county, for these birds is Black River Bay, which contains hundreds of acres of wild rice. This bay is connected with Watertown by trolley and is hunted every day during the open season. In roor nearly everyone who hunted the bay brought back a fair bag of mallards and blacks, killed in a legitimate sportsman- like manner by jumping them from the rice in daylight, the law permitting shooting from sunrise to sunset only. This law, which prohibited night shooting, was not satis- factory to some of the shooters, who objected to having so many ducks flying around within easy range an hour before dark, and as one prominent sportsman (who has dene more shooting and less work to secure the law which gave us this good shooting than any other man in the county) expressed it, “knocking their hats off,” and by industriously circulating a misstatement (to put it mildly) as to the manner in which this law was secured, aroused stich an opposition to it that we modified the law in I902, making the shooting hours from daylight to one-half hour after sunset. I have always believed that the quickest way to spoil the shooting on a good duck marsh was to permit night shooting, and the results on this bay have convinced myself and and I believe the other shooters (not excepting the above mentioned gentleman) that I am right. Although on August 31 the marsh was alive with ducks, variously estimated at from four to ten to one more than in 1901, when daylight came on September I a small army of sportsmen, who had been shoving into the rice from all directions since three o’clock, were. there, and the birds had learned lesson No. 1 (get out before daylight). During the day a few attempted to return, but the long-distance shooters who are always conspicuous on opening day performed their duty well. As the hour of sunset drew nigh the night shooters pushed into the quill weeds and flaz beds and made ready for the slaugh- ter. Did he slay? Not many. For the long-range shootets were still there, and the birds learned lesson No. 2 (come in after dark). The black duck learns easily; one or two lessons are all that are necessary, and the difference between these educated birds of 1902 and the non-edticated ones of toot has set a lot of the boys to thinking hard. J had always supposed until last fall that persistent night shooting would drive them to other parts, but it does not. I have a shanty on the shore of this bay and spent many nights there last fall. I find that the number of ducks visiting the rice beds increased in num- bers as the season advanced until they seemed to number thousands. IT have heard large flocks of black duck quacking and lighting in the water as late as 11 o'clock, when it was so dark that I could not see my hand before my face. Directly in front of my shack is the most extensive rice bed in the bay, and it was a favorite rendezvous for the birds. And although it was visited nightly by hundreds of black: duck, I never put up a duck after daylight or found a feather floating on the water, and the oily con- dition of the water showed plainly that the birds had been feeding during the night. This night feeding habit has always been the main ar- eument of the night shooter that the proper time to shoot these ducks was in the late evening or shortly after dark. That the shooting at these birds as they come to roost or feed in the evening should after one or two lessons cause them to come after dark is not at all surprising, but that it should also keep them from coming in the day time is not so easy to understand. But that it does so has been proven by our experience on this bay the past two years. Tn t901 when no shooting was allowed after sunset, good shooting was had in the morning, and ducks were coming in continually through the day; and our shooting im- proved as the season adyanced. In 1902, when night shooting was permitted, few if any ducks were found in the morning, and still fewer came in during the day. Our shooting gtew poorer each week, until finally about all the ducks that were killed by daylight were cripples knocked down in the night. The small number of ducks killed on this bay and the constantly increasing number of ducks which fed in this bay nights proves conclusively that as a measure for the protection of ducks far cir southern shooters the law permitting night shooting is « 88 eee decided success, but as a reward for the self-denial of Our sportsmen in stopping spring shooting and permitting these ducks to nest and breed here it is a dismal failure. It begins to look as if there would be something doing at Albany this winter, I see that our old-time friend (?) Deputy Comptroller Gilman has found a better (?) job, and if I read the Governor’s message right, he is willing to listen to us this year. If we fail to let him know what we want (as many of us did last year), it won’t be his fault 1f we are disappointed. We want the good old Forest Anp SrTreAm plank, “Stop the sale of game.” The spring shooting of wild- fowl prohibited. A uniform open and close season on all upland game from September 16 to November 30. That special protectors shall have the same powers of search as regular protectors. That the hours for shooting wild- fowl shall be from daylight to sunset. If the sportsmen of this State will make the same effort that they did last year we shall win. As regards special or local laws, the conditions are not alike in all counties. In many counties, by reason of a denser population, game is becoming very scarce, and any law which shortens the open season or closes it entirely should receive the support of all true sportsmen. W. H. Taccetr. Two Nights and a Day. I wATcHED the coals in the open grate fire grow gray, heard the lamp sputter its remonstrance over a long ses- sion, laid aside a cold pipe, and still lingered—even drew nearer to: the declining warmth, reluctant, indeed, to leave even for bed, the place of all places on earth where we can live the yesterdays of the past “and dream those dreams again” in retrospective contentment. As the lamp died out the lesser light in the grate as- sumed a grander proportion, and left me in the glow of a Florida sunset, calling back to memory dear the active and attractive day so soon ended of my recent stay where the magnolias grow—“way down upon the Suwanee River.” In this afterglow I see Creighton and his ten-bore em- barrassment, Judge Hopkins, in his strenuous life; Mr. Simmons nursing his temper and cold; Mr. Hazen meas- ‘uring his muscles and zeal; Mr. Poeschke fishing from sun till sun; Mr. Molton trolling from the bridge; Mr. Smith loving his gun; Mr. McGregor and his bull-baiting sweater; Mr. Valentine teaching Sport to sing; Jesse Daniels, my ebony companion afield, and many others grouped in the same picture. And who is this in the cen- ter, whose light blue eyes seem to look you through and through, whose quick tread resembles the youth in love, whose erect carriage denotes an undiminshed vigor, and whose hearty laugh is music to hear, “whose money never runs out?” It’s the Colonel. South Carolina, Georgia and Florida all know him, and so should the rest of the world could I introduce him. Coal is high and even scarce, but it’s not wasted, dear Colonel, when writing of two nights and a day with you. Then, too, it is at least an illogical excuse for another pipe. From the first moment I met the Colonel I determined to share nearly anything I had with him, and I began that day by asking him to share my portmanteau, thus reducing our baggage. It was at two P. M. that he appeared at my door with a U. S. weather report in one hand and canvas clothes and shoes in the other. The Colonel’s white hair was not smoothed down to a de- gree of neatness to denote a really tranquil spirit within, and I asked him the cause. He replied by saying: “Look at that darned weather report for Northern Florida,” Sure enough, prophesy had its hand on the spigot, and nothing but rain was in sight. However, I told the Colonel that we had a high priced, high minded, high principled weather prophet in New York who didn’t know it all, and I guessed they were all alike, honest and scientific, but often mistaken. So we would go. “All right,” said the Colonel. “A hunting trip only begins ~ with the packing and only lets up when your wife puts away your clothes after you get back.” An hour Jater our dogs had been sandwiched between trunks and I was listening to the life-history of Harry Stillwell Edwards told by one of his friends; and I was outlining to the Colonel the story of the forgetful lawyer for his use, when next his friends should hear his clarion tones and see the tears run from his blue eyes. We reached Live Oak at 7:30. At the hotel the manager told us he could give us a nice big room with two beds in it. “Just the thing,” said the Colonel. “That will give me a chance to practice my new story before a critical audience that won’t dare throw things at me.” In this room we found an open erate fireplace and beside it a pile of pine wood; and I started to ring for a boy to build the fire. “Not much,” says the Colonel, “here is one of the rare pleasures of life that one can’t find in his own home, that of starting a light wood fire and then watch it, smell it, feel it burn. Oh, that odor! don’t it melt your heart?” At 5:30 next morning Jumbo Green by name caine in and the Colonel set him building the fire; however, ‘the effect was soon manifest. The Colonel did a breakdown en deshabille; with him the sere period of life will only occur when his name is carved on marble. I found the Colonel at the breakfast table with an orange in one hand and that blessed weather report in the other, while the waiter was hanging out the window gazing at the heavens making his report, which seemed more favorable than the more gifted guesser could promise us. Mr. Allen, our guide for the day, awaited us with a good pair of horses and a top spring wagon on the road. . Mr. A. was a wise one. His aim was to find birds, and this he did, about seven miles out of town in a country that all looked alike to me. The horses were stopped and the dogs turned loose; not at all a dangerous expedient, for they only wandered away about a hundred yards and looked around wondering what we were going to do. It was then that I heard for the first time that this pair of dogs were owned by a white man of fine reputation and broken by a negro. As the Colonel put it, “What good sense they started with in life is soon knocked out of them, and they absorb a nature foreign to their native gifts and become shiftless.” So the only thing for us to do was to heat it and lead them on. Solicitous always for the comfort of others, the Colonel asked me if I_was in condition for a day’s tramp. I re- FOREST AND STREAM. minded him of my Pike County days with two guides and assured him I was toujours prét. It was but a short time before we had those poor misguided dogs straight- ened out in the rear of a covéy of quail which we flushed and both sampled, and while for miles in every direc- tion that woods, of what had been a woods, was alike, we could not mark those birds down; but while trying to find them, we covering the same amount of territory as the dogs, we found another covey. Again in looking for singles we fell across another bunch, which, when they lit, surrounded another bevy, and we warmed our guns. With each flight poot Alto, a liver-colored pointer, would follow to mark them down, while little flee-bitten Winnie would satisfy her chewed up ambition retrieving. On one occasion, while carrying in a dead bird, she Stopped and pointed another. We had both seen this done before, and so have many others, but, as the Colonel says, “Think what that bitch might have been. I wouid have just as soon expected to see a braying jackass win the Brooklyn Handicap as see that sight. Dear little Winnie, you have retained some of your native instinets; haven't your” . iy 4 At noon we (we and the dogs) had séattered fully a dozen big bevies in a tadius of not more than two hundred acres and had’ bagged thirty odd birds, and had a pair of dogs that seemed tired before we started and that were tired in dead eartiest now. Again the Colonel warms his hands over the burning HUGO AND STEVE, AND THE COVER WE HUNTED IN. pine; does a cake-walk beside a fallen tree; sings snatches from forgotten operas; introduces a new step of a recent dance, and settles down to drink in the aroma from the boiling coffee pot and says: Ah, this sunshine of ours! I'm sure ’twill never set; For as it shone so Jong ago, It’s blazing on us yet. And then he burned his weather report. At sundown we laid brave Winnie in a blanket and put her in the carriage, while friend Allen put Alto in a straight-jacket beside him on the front seat. We sang in the gloaming ‘Home, Sweet Home,” as we entered the town, our voices wete the only part of us that wasn’t tired and satisfied to rest. Immediately after dinner we went fo our room and had a fire built, in front of which the Colonel settled down with our basket of birds before him. One at a time he lifted them tenderly out, pulled away the rumpled feathers, straightened their pretty necks and graceful legs and laid them side by side on the car- pet, fondling and petting them, and after a silence re- marked, and that, too, with a sweet reverence: “Little fellows, you have given us great pleasute, taxing, aS you have, our skill and zeal. I would that you could know that in death you are beloved and cared for; groomed in your feathered beauty, laid by carefully and with affec- tion; in this care and in this love only am I better than the hawk.” Dear Colonel, in your age of wisdom and feeling you dc on more occasions than this, but particularly on this occasion, show that nature I will always try to copy. - I think it is better to carry one’s game in a basket. I will never string them again. The logs were still burning when slumber made us as oblivious as our little friends outside the window, and my claim of sleeplessness will never be believed by the Colonel, as he informed me the next morning “That the noise from my bed had caused him to dream that he was at sea in a fog.” I was naturally delighted, assuring him that for once in my life I could prove an alibi. Of these two nights and a day in Florida, in justice to my friend, I must claim that the best hours and the most profitable ones were not spent afield. The accompanying picture shows Hugo and Steve, two excellent dogs the Colonel and I shot over when here ten days previous to this visit, owned by Mr. McGregor, of Live Oak. Alto and Winnie will, however, outlive this pair in memory dear. T. E. Barren, ELIZABETH, Jan, 22, Fish and Game in Florida, In my freshly groomed recollection of “Two Nights and a Day,’ I have undoubtedly exposed a sentiment of regret in leaving Florida so soon. Yet where duty is I must; so there is but one thing left for me to do, and that is seek others to take my place in that congenial clime and then tell us all about it. Many others have gone before and thoroughly covered [Jan. 31, 1903. the ground in their gamy research, yet an. overmastering modesty or a secret too sweet to tell has confined their history to the limited space of their own firesides, and the sportsmen’s world can gain no wisdom ftom their ex- periences, } To the touring spoftsman I am inélined to believe that no othef one section of Florida contains more “first night” attractions than the Land of Manatee. Its geo- graphical position insures comfort at all seasons, it is easy of access, and as convenient to Tampa and Tampa Bay. Sarasota Bay presents to the angler about every variety of fish known to these southern waters, while the mainland will entertain the hunter during our gener- ation and a large remnant of another to come. The re- cently published pamphlets by Morton M. Casseday, and issued by Mr. C. B. Ryan, of the Sea Board Air Line are so accurate as to conditions in this section that i cannot do better than fefer to them, and they éan be had for the asking. 2. fis j _Thosé who have taken it, tell me that for a nionth of life with nature and a féw chosen companions, where the new acquaintances daily are gamé in variety and fish of different tribes, one should take the trip béginning at Kissimmee by small steamer south through Lake and River Kissimmee into Lake Okeechobee; thence west through the canal into Lake Hie-po-che, Banner Lake, Lake Flint and Caloosahatchee River to Fort Myers. These trips are arranged for many times during the win- ter months, and are never regretted by those fortunate enough to make them. Fort Myers and Punta Gorda are favorite tarpon fish- ing grounds; the silver skyrockets are often taken here late in the season, and are seen at play nearly every month in the year, but seem to have their seasons for striking. In crossing the State of Florida one ¢an find quail shooting neat most any station on either the Atlantic Coast Line or Seaboard Air Line; and in many instances can find in addition to quail wild turkeys and deer. This is particulatly true of Sanford, Orlando, Deland, Ocala, Palatka, Fort White, Tallahassee, Livé Oak, Lake City and intermediate towns, and in those places mentioned one will find pleasant hotel accommodations, a list of which will be found in the Forest ANp StrEAm office. There has been much said by the nefvous ones about snakes in Florida, and the danger the sportsman assumes in hunting there. I personally know a brave man who loves the woods and valleys only next to his wife and children, who could not, under any circumstances, be in- duced to hunt there for féart of the rattler, the moccasin, and other varmints of theit sort. He succeeded in “chill- ing” me into buying a pair of aluminum-lined leggings. My purchase, However, was not completed without em- harrassment. Mr. Justus Von Lengetke assured nie that he “thought any man extremely foolish to miss the rare yet possible opportunity of drinking a quatt bottle of whisky all at once.” I really think his ridicule about fits the case, and that we can all hunt in Florida an come home sober, provided we don’t yield to the more tangible temptations. I hunted with a man who has tramped the State in quest of game for twenty years, and during that time has killed just four rattlers. I know a man in Massa- chusetts and another one in Pennsylvania who can beat that record silly. Upon entering or leaving Florida nature and the rail- roads have decreed that one must pass through Jackson- ville, which in itself proves a far-seeing providence. Here one can see snakes and alligators at close range with im- punity. M. I. Cohen, on West Bay street, has a number as seen before and after death. Just across the street are the offices of the Atlantic Coast Line, presided over by Mr. Frank Boyleston, a sportsman in fact and on purpose; his trim launch is nearby on the St. John’s River, and he does like to run it when his duties will permit. Then go up to the Duval and call on the Colonel and keep on multiplying your regrets until you are sorry you came because tt makes you so sad to leave. For a time only, farewell Florida. With all your charms, rods and gun must give way to mitts and gum shoes. Only in reminiscence are you with me now, yet you are a teal yesterday of yesterdays. T. E. Batren. New York, Jan. 24, Boone and Crockett Club Meeting. THE annual meeting of the Boone and Crockett Club was held at the Metropolitan Club in Washing- ton on Saturday last. ' The meeting was called to order by President Wads- worth at 7 o’clock. The report of the treasurer showed the finances to be in a flourishing condition. Of the reports of various standing committees, that of the Big Game Protection Committee was one of the most interesting, The chairman, Madison Grant, reported that the new Alaska game law, passed last year largely through the efforts of the Hon. Jno. F. Lacey, of Towa, was working very well. He read a letter from Andrew J. Stone, the well-known Arctic explorer, stat- ing that the customs and other United States officials were endeayoring to enforce the law and that the ex- portation of heads and hides had almost entirely ceased. Mr. Stone, however, observed that certain mining com- panies, notably one located in Unga Island, were regu- larly killing caribou for meat, because it was a cheaper food than beef, and that great numbers of these ani- mals were being destroyed. An amendment to the constitution was adopted. The election of officers for the ensuing year resulted as follows: ; President, Major W. Austin Wadsworth; Vice-Presi- dents, Chas. F, Deering, W. B. Devereux, Howard Melville Hanna, William D. Pickett, and Archibald Rogers; Secretary, Madison Grant; Treasurer, C. Grant La Farge; two members of the executive committee to serve for three years, Alden Sampson and Owen Wister. At the close of the business meeting dinner was served, At each plate lay a beautifully modeled little plaster cast of a weathered buffalo bull’s skull, mel- ancholy reminders of what once was but is no more. The souvenirs are the work of Mr. A. Phimister Proc- tor, the sculptor, a member of the club. Many oi the diners were puzzled by one dish served to them. It — el JAN. 31, 1903.] ees ~ eee proved to be a fat and juicy miouitaiti lidi; seit on from Wyoming by Thomas Elwood Hofer. | ; Aimong those who sat down were Major Austin Wads- worth, Senator Burton, of Kansas; Maj. Jno, Pitcher, Superintendent Yellowstone National Park; Col. Geo, S. Anderson, for many years superintendent of the Na- tional Park; Hon. Jno. F. Lacey, of Iowa; Admiral Willard H. Brownson. Mr. Owen Wister, Dr. Lewis R. Morris, Mi. Robert Hill Prentice, Mr, Whitehouse, Dr. A. Donaldson Simith, Mr. Arnold Hague, Mr. W. J: Boardman, Mr. D. M, Barritigér, Mr. Geo. Bhiestesti, Mr. Winthrop Chavler, Mr, Paul J. Dashiell, Mr. Geo. Bird Grinnell, Mr. Madison Grait, Mr. Geo. H. Ly- ina, Mr. Henry May, Mr. R. A. T. Peiirose, Jr., Mr. A. P. Proctor, Dr. Jno. Rogers, Jr. Dr. J. L. Seward, Mer. Philip Schuyler; Mt. Heiiry L. Stitison, Mr. M. G. Seckendorff, Mr. Aldeti Sanipsoti, Cal. Walter_5S. Schuyler, Dr. C. Hart Merriani, Prof, Heiiry S. Os- born, Col. Cecil Clay and Mr. Gifford Pitichot., An interesting address was made by Mr. A. A, Ati- derson, of New York, supervisor of thé Teton Forest Reserve, who told of the reorganization of the forestry foree of the reserve and the work done in the short time since he had taken office. He spoke of the rav- ages of the sheep atid of the forest fires, and of the difficulties met with iti his work, but also of the im- proved local seitiment for Same atid forest protéction among the péople of Jackson's Hole arid vicinity. ~ Maj. Jno. Pitcher, the Supérintendent of the Park, told of the conditions there, éspecially im wititer, of the starting of the new buffalo herd, which consists of i8 é6ws and 2 bulls, the last from the Goodnight herd of Texas, while the cows are from the Allard herd of western Montana, There aré thus two distinct strains of blood ard hopés are entértaitied of securiiig a third strain. Maj. Pitcher also spoke in warmi tériis of the changed sentiment among the population adja- cent to the Park in regard to game protection. These people now feel a distinct pride and interest in the reservation and its prosperity, and will do anything in their power to assist the superintendent in his work. Maj. Pitcher spoke with absolute coifidence of the ability of the Park authorities to protect the game while it was in the Park, but alluded to the stall area of the winter tange within the reservation atid to the territory controlled by Mr. Anderson, as that espe- cially needing protection. Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn, the eminent paleon- tologist, spoke next. He alluded to the millions of years that it had taken nature to deyelop from much more generalized animals the big game which we know to-day on the North American Continent, and yet here was civilization armed with its improved rifles undoing—by the extermination of these animals—in a century the work that had been going on for uncounted ages, Prof. Osborn was followed by Mr. Gifford Pinchot, who has just returned from an examination of the Philippine Islands. He spoke encouragingly of the change of feeling itt regard t6 game and forest pro- tection that had recently taken place. During much of our nation’s history the forests had been regarded as the enemy of civilization and of progress. Now the view taken is a different one. We must keep on work- ing hard for a few years loiger, and there is great hope that a proper system of laws and means for car- rying them out, will be set on foot and so firmly estab- lished that they will endure. Senator Burton, of Kansas, made an interesting and somewhat humorous address, alluding to the fact that, as chairman of the forestry committee olf the Senate, he had that morning fayorably reported Senate Bill 6689, which the club strongly advocates, and express- ing his hope that it might pass the House, as well also as the hill for the Appalachian Park. Hon, Jno. F. Lacey, of Iowa, made a ringing speech alluding to the various bills that he had introduced with the purpose of preserving natural objects in this country, whether living or inorganic. It was a splen- did and eloquent effort. In response to certain qttestions Maj. Pitcher gave further information about the Yellowstone Park, and the abundance and tameness of the game there in win- ter, and later Col. Geo. S. Anderson, that sturdy friend of the Park and gallant soldier, who has made for himself so superb a record in the Philippines, told something of the time when he was stiperintendent of the Park, and of the difficulties that he met and over- came. He paid a splendid tribute to the late William Hallett Phillips, whose untiring devotion to the Park is still fresh in the minds of those who knew him best. Other speakers made interesting remarks. The meeting is, by many of those present, regarded as one ol! the most interesting that the club ever held. A War Cry. Edilor Forest and Stream: There isn’t a man in this State handling a gun or a fish-rod who does not know that the game laws of the State are inadequate, contradictory, and in some par- tictlars absurd. Why don’t you get up some enthusiasm, have a general round-up of eyils to be corrected, and picking out a small jyiuimber for treatment, enlist the united efforts of all sportsmen for their passage? No firing into the “brown,” however. We must pick our marks. Two or three sound, well-considered measures solidified into law are worth any amount of random, disjointed discussion and grumbling over exist- ing conditions. Forest Awp STREAM is the best mediuin for the con- solidation of interests. T think you represent the best thinking, believing and acting body of sporismen. You do not attempt to boost your circulation by form- ing a more or less tseful protective league, making Forest AND StreAmM the club mouthpiece and organiza- tion resister, nor do you Jampoon mantfacturers and dealers whom you cannot induce to advertise with you, though for the matter of that, [ believe your advertising columns will show all standard goods. ~ Mighty good reading you have, too. FOREST AND STREAM. With the exception of my own stuff, I think I enjoy readitig the stories signed Cabia Blanco more than One evidetit policy of your paper I admire. It is the inténtioii to throttle anything that looks like a long-winded discussioi ovet some never-to-be-satisfac- torily-answered problem, as, “How does the Woodcock Produce its Whistle?” or, “Setter vs. Pointer,” and so on. There are a number of old fossils that corruscate in your columns occasionally, to whom a never-ending dis- cussion would mean the indefinite prolonging of their lives, so great would be their interest and so determined their purpose. You undoubtedly have the unexpressed thanks of hun- dreds of tervyous readers for sidetracking these old smoothibores, To come back to oti mititton, however. If I were the Forest AND StrEAM (and Rop anp GuN thrown in), ’'d publish something every week during the sitting of the Legislature tending to awaken and miain- taifi interest in the game protection problem and publish iwiée as muéh dutitig the close season for Legislatures, when Séndtors and Assemblymen are hibernating and candidates are awakening. There must be some power ii concerted action, and you are the medium for developing and transmitting. Porr Ricumonp, N, Y. War-Cry, [And tiow that the subject of zoological classification is before the house, will War-Cry kindly tell us where to plate an old “fossil” that “eorruseates,” of a “smoothbore” that ean be “sidetracked?”’| Washington’s New Game Law. SrAtite, Wash—The sportsmen of Eastern and West- étti Washitigton are in harmony regarding the new came law which will be presented to the State Legisla- ture in the neat future. It is hoped that there will be no amendments, becausé past @xpeftienees in this direction have proved that the result was a general upsetting of conditions rather than a settling of important questions. There are few hunters who will object to the payment of a dollar gun license. All they desire is that the frioney derived from this source be applied properly to the protection of game, The old objection to the license that it was necessary to take out a license in every county has been avoided by a provision that one license covers the entire State. Changing the date of open season on grouse, quail and ducks from August 15 to September 1 is a good move. Last fall the young grouse were very strong on August 15. but ag a rule they are too weak during the middle of August to have a fair show with the expert wing shot. It is only fair to give them a little chance: Tt seems almost useless to protect Mongolian pheasants until 1908, because these beautiful birds have been ex- terminated, so far as I can learn, on Whidby Island and in the White River Valley. The last time I was hunting in the vicinity of Oak Harbor on-Whidby Island there were very few Mongolians, and I have been told that this fall witnessed ihe extinction of those remaining. Harry Pauley, who is well informed on conditions in the White River Valley, told me recently that the little band of Mongolians that had been protected by the resi- dents of the valley in hopes that they would multiply and eventually afford good sport, had been wiped out of exist- ence by an unknown hunter from either Tacoma or Seattle. Elk will be protected until 1908 if the law passes. There are none too many of these magnificent creatures in the Olympic Mountains now, and while it is extremely doubtful if a protective law will keep the Indians on the west side of the motntains from killing, it may be that the destruction of the bands which work up into the Hub or Second Divide country and the First Divide section, will be materially decreased. JFrom what I have -heard and known personally about the hunters at the head of Hood Canal and around Lake Cushman they have always shown good judgement in killing elk. As they have ob- served the law, generally speaking, they will probably object to the cutting off of their favorite sport. Portus BAXTER. A Crippled Doe. MASSACHUSETTS papers pttblished the other day a re- port of deer suffering from the foot and mouth disease which it was feared they might communicate to domestic stock, Commissioner Collins, in reply to an inquiry on the subject, writes as follows, showing that the whole pee came from the peculiar actions of a crippled oe: Boston, Mass., Jan. 19.—There was really little or nothing in the story that deer in Dracut or vicinity were suffering from foot and month disease. J think it was the day before Christmas that Commissioner Wentworth, of New Hampshire, who chanced to be in Lowell on other business, telephoned me that the people along the northern border of this State, where the deer moye across the boundary line between Massachusetts and New Hampshire, claimed there were one or two lame deer which it was feared had the hoof and mouth disease. In the condition of public feeling at that time, it was con- sidered wise to settle the question, if practicable. Authority was therefore given Mr. Wentworth to kill any deer found on this side of the State line which appeared to be in a condition that might cause people to believe it was afflicted with the dreaded hoof and mouth disease. Mr. Wentworth acted promptly. On December 25 he wrote me as follows: “T went to Tyngsboro to-day and made inquiries and looked the section over where they claim the diseased deer were seen. They all agree there-is one deer, a doe, that is lame in one hind foot. One woman said she saw deer there often; that last Sunday they saw two deer, a buck and a doe. The doe was lame in one hind leg. They looked it over carefully with an opera glass. One of the toes seemed to stick up into the air; the leg was swollen and quite black. They thought it a gunshot wound. I did not find these deer, but did see a very large buck and within easy rifle shot of it. I started it and the first few jumps it made was from 12 to 15 feet long, If 89 I ever saw a well deer that was one, and if signs count for anything, there are a number there. I don’t believe in this sick deer yarn. But as this section is within a mile of the New Hampshire line, I am anxious to know the truth of it.” . The accuracy of this conclusion, so far as hoof and mouth disease is concerned, was demonstrated next day, January 26, when the lame doe—a large one—was shot. hss on that date, Mr. Wentworth reported as fol-~ ows: “T have cleared up the foot and mouth disease in Mas- sachusetts that they thought was among the deer. There came a good tracking snow last night,so I went to Tyngs- boro this morning. Started a buck and doe. The doe did not go all right. I started her up three times. Shot her then. I could have shot her either time. The trouble was she had been shot, breaking the hind leg, so that every time she stepped the [ankle] bone went into the gtound. * * * [| got Dr. Eaton there and he pro- nounced the deer all right, except for the wound.” . Mr. Wentworth sent me the broken leg, which was broken just above the fetlock, and the bare bone was pushed through the skin. A fistula was formed below the fracture. The leg was turned over to the State Bureau of Ani- mal Industry, as the gentlemen of the bureau thought it a rather interesting specimen. New Brunswick Guides’ Assoctation, Editor Forest and Stream: : The annual meeting of the New Brunswick Guides’ Association was at the Barker House, Fredericton, January 13. In the absence of President Sanson, Henry Braithwaite occupied the chair. There was quite a number of the prominent guides present. Officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Geo. E. Arm- strong; Vice-President, Arthur Pringle; Secretary- Treasurer, A. R. Slipp. Membership Committee: Henry Braithwaite, Adam Moore and David Pringle. Execu- tive Committee: H. Braithwaite, W. H. Allen, Charlie Cremins and the officers. Some time was spent in discussing the game law, and ali present seemed to be of the opinion that it would stand some amending. The meeting fayored increasing the resi- dent hunting license from $2 to $5 and haying the big game season open on September 1 instead of September 15, as now. As a means of keeping out non-resident guides the association thinks that an amendment should be made to the game law, making it compulsory for the holder of a non-resident license to employ none but resident guides. The association does not favor increasing the non-resi- dent license fee at the present time. The guides all spoke of the game season just closed on December 31 as the most prosperous they had ever ex- perienced, and they considered the outlook for the future ts be exceedingly bright. During the evening the guides were treated to a liberal supply of friut by G. T. Whelp- ley, the well-known grocer, and adopted a resolution thanking him for his kindness. It was unanimously decided to hold the next annual meeting at Perth, with a view of encouraging more of the Tobique guides to become members. There will be seven of the association guides at the New York Sportsmen’s Show. They expect to leave Fredericton February 21. G. E. A. Canadian Camp-Fire Club. THe Canadian Camp-Fire Club will give a dinner to sportsmen in Madison Square Garden, N. Y., on Febru- ary 20. The Canadian Camp-Fire Club is a very strong organ- ization and is composed of some of the best known sports- men and writers in the United States and Canada. Its President is Dr. G. Lenox Curtis, of West Fifty-eighth street, New York, Forest Reserve Game Reserves. Senate Bill 6689, introduced by Senator Perkins, of California, reads as follows: A bill for the protection of wild animals, birds and fish in the forest reserves of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the Presi- dent of the United States is hereby authorized to designate such areas in the public fcrest reserves as should, in his opinion, be set aside for the protection of wild animals, birds and fish, and be recognized as a breeding place therefor. Sec. 2. That when such areas have been designated as pro- vided for in Sec. 1 of this act, hunting, trapping, killing or cap- ture of wild animals, birds and fish upon the lands and within the waters of the United States within the limits of said areas shall be unlawful, except under such regulations as may be prescribed, from time to time, by the Secretary of the Interior; and any per- son violating such regulations shall be deemed guilty of a mis- demeanor, and shall, upon conviction in any United States court of competent jurisdiction, be fined in a sum not exceeding $1,000, or be imprisoned fcr a period not exceeding one year, or shall suffer both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. Sec. 3. That it is the purpose of this act to protect from tres- pass the public lands of the United States and the wild animals, birds and fish, which may be thereon, and not to interfere with the operation of the local game laws as affecting private, State or Territorial lands. At the annual meeting of the New York Zoological Society last week the following indorsement of the bill was adopted as an expression of the sentiment of the Society: Whereas, The greater part of the big game, especially wapiti or elk, remaining in the United States is now gathered in and around the Yellowstone National Park; and Whereas, The number of wapiti or elk and other game animals is rapidly decreasing owing to the killing for elk tusks and for meat; be it Resolved, That the Board of Managers of the New York Zoolog- ical Society respectfully urge upon Congress the enactment of Senate Bill No. 6689, introduced by Senator Perkins, of Cali- fornia, empowering the President of the United States to desig- nate such areas in the public forest reserve as should, in his opinion, be set aside for the protection of wild animals, birds and fish. And be it further Resolyed, That the Board of Managers of the New York Zoolog- ical Society respectfully request the President, in the event of the passage of Senate Bill 6689, to set aside the Teton Forest Reserve, or such part thereof as may be advisable for a game reserve, and to establish therein the same principles of absolute protection of animal life as are now in force in the Yellowstone National Park. And be it further Resolyed, That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to the President of the United States, and to the proper officials ix Congress, and in the States of Wyoming. , 4 ; 90 Sea and River Sishing. = Proprietors of fishing resorts will find it profitable to advertise them in Forest AND STREAM, _ Reminiscences of an Octogenarian. Part V1. BY THE OLD ANGLER. (Continued from page 83.) “Sorrow is knowledge; they who know the most Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, The tree of Knowledge is not that of Life,” —Byron. 5 a “Ah! little did thy Minnie think, That day she cradled thee, What lands thou shouldest travel round Or what death thou shouldst dee!” —The Ettrick Shepherd. WE live in a wonderful age, and though in the last half century science has made gigantic strides, the Octogenarian is much impressed by the profound wis- dom of the didactic Dutchman, Hans Breitman, im- mortalized by Charles G. Leland: “So much longer as we lif, so much by Gott more we don’t know!” Mes- sieurs les Savants have so coniused us about trout and char—Salmo and Salvelinus—that the angler of to-day loses half his potential pleasure in beating his brains to discover what he is carrying in his creel. Gay, in his fine poem on Eaton College, wisely says: “Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise,’ and has not Pryor told us in his letter to Charles Mon- tague: “From ignorance our comfort flows; the only wretched are the wise.” In our young and salad days when we were innocent of any knowledge of the banal and the murderous microbe, how jocund did we indulge our youthful appetites for all the good things that bountiful Nature has spread in generous profusion around us. We swallowed with infinite gusto the succulent oyster without a fear of the deadly diseases secreted within its shells. We gayly ordered our redolent roasts, our fragrant fries and our sustenta- tious stews in happy ignorance of murdering millions of mighty microbes that accompanied them all to our capacious and confiding stomachs! The appetizing clam and the sustentatious chowder were enjoyed with- out a suspicion of the malignant microbes that entered into their composition! We boast of the triumphs of science and the diffusion of knowledge in these our days; we get the most gorgeous colors from coal oil, and extract the most powerful perfumes from rancid butter and ancient fish oils! But are we any happier? Does it add to our pleasure to know, as we swallow the luscious strawberry that so delighted good old Dr. Boteler, that we have sent to our stomachs some millions of microbes, any one of which, if it has luck and gets in its work, can “play hell” with our whole system? When we add to the delicious berry a gener- ous modicum of rich cream—which even by itself is so pleasant to the palate and so soothing to the stomach —and make a combination fit for the gods of high Olympus, does it add to our happiness to learn that to the baneful bacillus of the berry we have added the mighty microbe of the milk? When science shows us how fearfully and wonderfully we are made—as the Savant observed as he examined a flea under the microscope—are we any happier in the-knowledge that we ourselves are the home and abiding-place of micro- scopic microbes? Is it gratifying or even amusing to know, as Dean Swift reminds us: “That naturalists observe a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey, And these have smaller still to bite "em, And so proceed ad infinitum.” If we are to believe Pasteur and his disciples, that all the diseases which beset us from the cradle to the grave are but the work of microbes, which are con- scientiously carrying out the work for which they were created; if it is true that all our physical ailments are caused by microbes; if cancer and catarrh, cholera and consumption have each its appropriate bacillus, may we not logically infer that murder and madness microbes are prowling about and striving to disturb and distort our normal cerebration? If so, may there not be a microbe whose presence and action in the brain has made Messieurs les Savants mad as March hares about Chars and Salvelinus, vomers and fin- rays, operculi and gill-covers? In all seriousness, is not Salmo Salar_at once the enigma and the reproach of Scientists? Questions dis- cussed by Socrates are unsettled yet, and the salmon, exciting more curiosity than any other denizen of the water, has been more than any other, the object of visionary theories, narrow empiricism, stiff assertions, easy credulity and obstinate unbeliefs. The fish can be but obscurely and occasionally observed during one- half of the year; during the other half it is not only invisible as to its. habits, but it is quite unknown as to its habitat. After the salmon has left our rivers we are ignorant, not only of what it is doing but of where it has gone. Science is perplexed, but sciolism plunges in with a few half truths gathered from a merely local experience. The nonsense that has been published about salmon and trout under the name of Natural History is appalling in amount, variety and utter worthlessness. In questions regarding the natural his- tory of the salmon, people who have seen most are 1n- clined to say least, and those who have thought most are most at a loss what to think. Not so the Savanis! Those of them who never saw a salmon alive, either in salt or fresh water—those whose only knowledge of them has been acquired by blinking through the Jens of a microscope at vomers, fin-rays and gill-coy- ers, speak er cathedra in such strident tones as make us of the hot pollot wonder at our dense ignorance while lost in admiration of their vast erudition. They tell us of a sea trout which they dub Salmo trutia marina —the White Sea Trout—which, according to their own showing, in no way differs in internal structure nor in FOREST AND STREAM. outward appearance from fontinalis, but has a different habitat and entirely different habits, They tell us that it 18 an anadromous fish whose home is the sea; but which comes in vast schools to feed along the shores; that they ascend fresh water rivers not to deposit their own spawn, but to eat the ova of Salmo Salar, and they lead us to infer that they spawn in salt water, which, it is well known, kills the ova of all other varieties of the salmon family. The Savants tell us that this unique species abounds in the Gulf of St. Lawrence from the head of Bay Chaleur to the Straits of Belleisle; but, strange to say, is found in no other part of the world. So widespread is the delusion about sea trout that every writer on fish or fishing discourses of what he don’t know, and tells about a fish he has never seen. ; What little is known about the salmon may be told in very few words; for this little we are not at all indebted to the Savants. All their theories have been proven false and all their generalizations erroneous, because all are founded on erroneous or insufficient data. For the little real knowledge we possess we are indebted principally to intelligent and observant anglers and fish culturists. From them we know that Salmo Salar performs its re- productive functions only in fresh water. We know that females deposit their eggs between October and Decem- ber; but we are utterly ignorant what proportion of these are fertilized by milt from the males, or what propor- tion of these fertilized eggs are hatched. We know that the newly-hatched fry are about an inch in length, with the bulk of the original egg attached to the umbilicus; in four months they are about two and a half inches, The year-old salmon is from four and a half to five inches, and the two-year-olds about seven inches long. How many smolts reach the sea as the result of the de- posit of a thousand eggs, we do not know. Of the travels of the smolt in the sea we are entirely ignorant; but we know that they are never caught in the estuaries of their native rivers, and here our knowledge ends. After all the experiments made in the hatcheries of Europe and America, we are yet uncertain when smolts return as grilse or when grilse return as salmon. We are not quite certain’ that all return to their native water, as many marked fish have been taken in other rivers. Some marked kelts have gone down to sea from Scottish rivers In spring and returned to breed in autumn; while other facts point very strongly to’ the conclusion that the great majority are not yearly, but biennial breeders. Where salmon go when in the sea we do not know. We are also ignorant what that food is which so stimulates their growth and furnishes the fat which makes it such nour- ishing and palatable food for us. _ While giving us little or no assistance in acquiring this limited information, the Savants now step in, get their sealpels at work and, blinking through their microscopes over the stomach of a salmon forty-eight hours from the sea, they tell us with an air of profound wisdom that the salmon eats no food during its stay in fresh water; though during that stay both eight hours from the sea, they tell us with an air of profound wisdom that the salmon eats no food during its stay in fresh water; though during that stay both male and female perform functions that, in all other creatures, call for well-nourished bodies, while its near cousin—which they erroneously call a sea trout—is a most voracious feeder, whether in brackish or fresh water. The Savants tell us, with grave faces of firm faith in their superficial studies, that from June until November, say six months of every year—half of its whole life—it maintains an unbroken fast! That one of the most highly-organized, strong, active and vora- cious of its whole class of fishes, should stand alone among animals as passing half its life without food, is asking of anglers rather more than we are prepared to concede. For himself, the Old Angler simply says, “Credat Judeas Apella, non ego,’ and for this reason, that he has frequently found in the stomachs of salmon which have been weeks from salt water, small particles of stone and large grains of sand, such as form the agelutinated coverings of the chrysalides of several insect species. From this fact it seems more probable that such larve and other quickly-digestible matter forms food suitable to its changed habitat, than that it does not eat at all. In its struggles for freedom when hooked, it is more than probable that the contents of its stomach are voided. All fishermen will recall how often they find their worm or other bait threaded some two feet up the line, showing that trout have the power of ejecting with considerable force. Is it not more than probable that salmon have the same power? Leaving all these speculations to the Savants, who part their names at the side and their hair in the mid- dle, the Old Angler will state some facts which are too well known to be successfully denied. He has caught in the spring, at the breaking up of the ice in April, kelts that beyond doubt spent the winter in fresh water. These fish were much emaciated; the heads of the males were so deformed that they bore no resem- blance to the head of a salmon fresh from the sea. They were most voracious, and greedily took any kind of bait—a piece of fat pork being best. The tributaries of the St. John every spring furnish specimens of these kelts, which from choice or necessity, have wintered in fresh water. The salmon bred in River Philip, Cum- berland County, Nova Scotia, winter in its waters in considerable numbers. Before the Dominion Fisheries Act of 1868 was in force, fishermen went regularly to the head of tide as soon as the ice broke up, for the express purpose of catching these kelts with rod and line. They would:greedily seize anything that attracted their attention, and sometimes as many as six and eight were caught in a single tide. The last the writer saw were caught in the month of April by a party of three, two from Boston and one from St. John, at whose instance the Boston men were induced to take the journey by boat to St. John and by rail to River Philip. To the credit of the Boston anglers be it said, that a single tide sufficed them. They caught, among them, over a dozen black, dirty, famished fish, which, as a curiosity, they brought to their hotel—the Dufferin—when it was under the management of that genial host, Geo. W. Swett, whose subsequent manage- ment of the Windsor in Montreal made him known to hundreds of readers of Forest anD STREAM. Here are facts which demand explanation from Messieurs les Savants, or they must revise their hastily formed . the Miramichi. I[JAN. 31, 19035. 7 opinion about the Salmo Salar not taking food in fresh: water. The salmon of St. John River and those of' River Philip ascend these rivers the last of May and’ all through June and July. Kelts are taken, as stated! above, in the months of April and May. Now Mes-: sieurs, with the long string of letters after your names, do you seriously believe that a fish organized as Salmo Salar has lived ten months without food? Of course, you have a perfect right to hold any opinions you choose, provided you can give a reason for holding them; but the Old Angler must question your right to state, as a fact, that salmon do not feed in fresh water, simply because some of you have failed to find undi- gested food in the stomachs of the very few you have examined. Go to, Messieurs! Bring more common sense and less Science to your work. Study the live . fish in his summer habitat of rushing rapids and placid pools. Fight him with a rod and line for a couple of hours, and when you have landed him, ask yourselves if he could put up such a fight on an empty stomach? Vomers and fin-rays may amuse you, but they will add little to your practical knowledge of the fish they came from, and less to the information of the ot hoddoi! Has your science yet discovered the use of the “hook bill” on the male salmon? Do you know whether he ever gets rid of it after it has once de- veloped? Do you know why grilse never have this hook, or why they are so scarce in the Restigouche and Cascapedia, and so plentiful in Nepissiguit and Miramichi? Do you know whether the Pacific salmom ever survive the performance of reproductive func= tions, or what is the cause of their dying in such pro~ digious numbers after having performed them? Do you know whether the male parr or smolt can im= pregnate the ova of the full grown salmon, as some: well-known writers contend they can and do? Do: you know whether, in America, the female grilse has ever been found with fully developed ova, as they are said to be often so found in Scotch and Irish rivers? In short, Messieurs, do you really know anything at all about either trout or salmon, except the “yvomers,” “gill-covers” and “fin-rays?’ Until you can clear up- these mysteries and a dozen others connected with live salmon and trout that any angler can ask you, would it not be as well to apply the soft pedal to your scientific “yawp” and dogmatize in a lower key? Meantime, the Old Angler will state some facts in his own practical experience. As an angler before he was a fishery officer, he never caught a grilse or saw one caught in Nepissiguit or Miramichi without open- ing it and examining it carefully in search of milt or ova. The males always had lobes of milt more or less _ developed; but never did he find sign of an ovum in any. Careful inquiry for many years among Indians and canoe-men corroborated by his own experience. Billy Bateman, whom the writer especially engaged in this search (he was for many years employed all summer as canoe-man for the anglers who fished the Nepissi- euit, and had special facilities for pursuing it), entirely failed to find ova in a grilse. All he could find was a tradition on the river that Jack Buchet’s grandfather once “speared a grilt with the pea in it.” In after years, when his official duties brought the writer in close contact with the managers of the several hatch- ing houses, he instructed them to pay special attention to this matter, and if they found a grilse with developed ova, to wire immediately and keep the fish alive until it could be examined. In fifteen years’ experience but one manager, Isaac Sheasgreen, who still man- ages the Miramichi House, reported that he had a grilse with ova. My intention was to have the eggs of this fish placed on marked trays and their develop- ment carefully watched. On arriving at the hatching house next day, Mr. Sheasgreen went to a large tank in which the fish had been placed, but could not find it. In one end of this tank was a pile of zine trays, which during the night had fallen over, but to facili- tate his search the water was run off. Under this confused mass of trays, to my extreme regret, the fish was found quite dead. I examined it carefully; the ova were well developed, as large as those of a full- grown salmon, though the fish weighed but five pounds —and looked healthy. This grilse was shorter and thicker than usual, but in all other outward respects was a normal female. After considering the facts, and knowing little about vomers and gill-covers, the Old Angler considered it more probable that the fish was a dwarfed salmon—one that, from some cause, had not developed normally. In this opinion Mr. Sheasgreem agreed, as it was the first time in his experience that he had ever seen “a grilt with the pea in it.” Leaving all these questions with Messieurs les Savants, and a number of others when they can answer these— the Old Angler will take his readers with him and a friend to -Price’s Bend, on Southwest Miramichi, where he caught his first grilse. In those -days—62 years ago—it was an outing both tedious and expen- sive to go to Burnt Hill, spend a week on the river and return to St. John. The only mode of travel was by stage to Fredericton, 79 miles, and then 40 miles to At that time Boiestown was a thriv- ing lumbering center, with several stores, where all necessary supplies could be procured, Here we hired” our canoe-men, to whom we agreed to pay a dollar a day and feed them. From motives of economy we tried the experiment of hiring only one canoe and two men to serve us both; but we soon discovered that too economical a disposition should form no part of an ambitious angler’s outfit, and that when he cannot afford to go-a-fishing en bon prince, he had better stay _ at home. In those days the Old Angler was much in the position of a gentleman he met many years after when he was wandering over the burnt district of Chicago, a week after the great fire of 1871. This gentleman was his obliging guide, and pointed out all the remarkable features of this wonderful city, which, in the writer’s childhood, consisted of a few hunters’ huts on the shores of Lake Michigan. Stand- ing on risin’ ground in the unburnt part of the town, which in its elaborate architecture and asphalted pave- ments bore évery appearance of an old city, he made a sweep of his arm toward the-lake and said, “I could have bought all that once for a pair of boots.” “Why in the name of common sense did you not?’ “Oh! I hadnt the boots in those days!” Dollars in those days JAN, 31, 1903.] were none too plentiful with the two ambitious fisher- men who were making their first plunge as salmon anglers, and it was a matter of necessity that art ef- fort should be made to combine sport with economy— a combination that usually ends in reduced sport and increased cost. We started in a single canoe, poled by two men; we seated in the middle, the stores, in two boxes, re- posed at the feet of the canoe-men, one in the bow, the other in the stern. When we reached Price’s Bend, a few miles above Boiestown, we made the discovery that, beyond a certain point, economy would not com- bine with sport, and after a consultation on ways and means, we concluded that “in for a penny, in for a pound,” was a saying peculiarly applicable to our case. We sent the men back to Boiestown for another canoe and two more hands, while we made our first essay in the fine pool at the bend, which was then and is still, famots for the number of grilse which make it their haunt. While waiting, let me describe the canoes which were then and are now the vehicle best adapted for traversing the upper waters of the Miramichi. The birch-bark canoes of the Indians require too much care in their handling among rocks, rapids and shal- lows and consequent loss of time to suit anglers. The dugout is made from a single pine log; the length as great as the log will allow, generally from 20 to 25 feet; the depth fitteen to elghteen inches; the gunwale is not more than two inches thick; the sides gradually increasing in thickness toward the bot- tom,- where they are about three, and the bottom itself is usually left three and a half to four inches thick, which allows of occasional planing when the wood be- comes rough from contact with recks and shallows. This shell is strengthened by small knees placed at intervals along ‘the inside and bottom. ‘To those un- accustomed to them, they seem the must frail and un- safe shells that could be contrived; but in reality they are very strong, more steady than a birch, and admir- ably adapted for the rough and rapid waters in whicl they are employed. They are propelled by poles in- stead of paddles, and the skill with which they are managed by those who almost live in them, is really wonderful. To the dweller on the banks of the upper Miramichi, his canoe is both horse and wagon. Cap- able of carrying a large load when properly stowed, it is his usual mode of transport, and is to the white set- tler what the birch is to the Indian, with these ad- vantages: the log canoe is steadier in the water, and from its greater strength is better adapted for pass- ing over the rough bed of the stream and shooting among sunken rocks that lie hidden in dangerous tapids.- When the writer was last at Burnt Hill, in 1885, good canoes were getting very scarce on the river, and suitable trees to make them growing scarcer every year. Pirougues, made from two smaller logs, each furnishing half, joined by dovetails across the middle of the bottom, and flat-bottom boats called skiffs, were fast taking the place of-the old single canoe. With the log canoe will be lost one of the fine arts of frontier life. Already the art is confined to a few of the oldest inhabitants, and these do not equal their fathers in producing canoes of graceful lines. and easy propulsion. As a curious coincidence, Abe Munn and Tom Hunter were again my men in a canoe of their own making, elderly men, but still among the best on the river. Alas! the companion of my first visit with Abe and Tom and most all oi those who were the companions and canoe-men of many subsequent visits, have paid the debt of Nature and the Octogenarian, while awaiting his call, oft in mem- Ory reviews the pleasures of past days and the faithful services of his old guides. While waiting at the Bend for the canoes we had each caught our first grilse and ungrateful dogs that we were, had grown impatient ta reach the Clearwater pools, in which salmon are sure to be found all sum- mer. At length they arrived; dividing the luggage, each had a canoe and two men at his disposal, all of whom knew the river petfectly and every pool where a salmon rested; they started for Clearwater at their best speed. Our men were all young and among the best on the river, Each was equally good in bow or stern. The former must possess a good knowledge of the Tiver, the several rapids with their hidden rocks; he must be guick, skillful with the pole and sure-footed; the latter must haye thews and sinews of iron; strength to force the canoe over water too shallow to float her entirely, and dexterity to second the quickest motion of the bow-pole, who sees the hidden danger and intimates its presence by the motion of his pole, Our men took as much pride in their canoes as city swells take in their horses, and plumed themselves as much on their management as the latter do on their driving. The post of honor is always in advance; it is comparatively easy to follow in the wake of a good leader—and each of our crews strove for the honor, al- though it involved more trouble and labor. We ar- tived at Clearwater rather late for evening fishing; but while the men were pitching tent and getting fir boughs for our beds, we had reached the height of our ambition and the fulfilment of many a dream; we were casting our flies over a pool which never fails’ to hold salmon from June till September. We soon had each a fish on the line; but truth compels the confession that we lost both and our flies as well. Next morning we were early at work. We had not then learned what subsequent experience taught us—that salmon will rise as well between nine and eleven o'clock as they will between seven and nine. After several more losses of flies and leaders, which is pretty sure to be the footing the noyice must pay—we each succeeded in eatching our first salmon, and congratulated each other on the gratification of many youthful longings and the realization of many day-dreams. No matter how cool and skilful the angler may be when casting for trout and bringing them to creel with scarcely a loss or an accident, he will get furried and netyous when . for the first time salmon rise to his fy. Accustomed to strike as the trout shows, he instinctively does the same when he sees the swirl of the salmon. Generally he strikes too quickly and always too hard. The con- sequence of the first error is that he does net hook his fish; of the second that he loses fly or leader. No other instruction can be given in these cases except ‘FOREST AND STREAM. the oft-repeated “don’t do it!” A good many years after, the Old Angler was fishing the same pools at Clearwater in company with that “all white’ man, ex- cellent actor and enthusiastic angler, the late J. W. Lanergan, whose too early death many hundred read- ers of FoREST AND STREAM learned with sincere regret. He had gone through all the lower grades with gad, twine and worm on the brooks of Massachusetts and Vermont. He had taken double-first with rod and reel on the lakes and streams near St, John; he had graduated with honors among the landlocked salmon (ouananiche) of the St. Croix lakes; and now he was - up in exams. for his M. A. diploma among the Salmo Salar of the North Shore of New Brunswick, He stumbled just where we all do and must if we would penetrate the arcanum of angling, He found it very difficult to avoid striking too forcibly, and the writer, standing behind him, took hold of his rod and gave the indescribable turn of the wrist which tightens the line without jerking it. “Can't you do it so, Jim?” “Tf I could, do you. think I'd be throwing away my flies and leaders here?” In camp, after dinner, he related an anecdote of the great actor, Edwin Forrest, somewhat as follows: “When I was quite a novice on the stage I had a small part in a scene with Forrest which always ‘brought down the house’ at his splendid acting when he played Spartacus. At rehearsal I made a sad mull of my lines, which aroused all his irritable humor. Con- trary to his usual habit, which was not amiable at re- hearsals, he placed me in position and speaking the lines said, “Can’t you do it so? ‘If I could, I’d not be wasting time here at ten dollars a week! Mr. F. appreciated the subtle compliment of this reply, and was always kind to me afterward.” Dear old Jim! He lived to kill many a salmon on Nepissiguit and Mirami- chi, and some years after hooked, played and gaffed a salmon “all his lone” from Governor's Rock, below the mouth of Burnt Hill Brook—a feat never done be- fore and but seldom since. But to return to older memories of Clearwater when the Old Angler himself ‘was passing his novitiate, Fish were plentiful in thé river; we were the only anglers that had been on the stream for several years, so we had good Inck and fine sport. We stayed two days at Clearwater and had several fine fish in the smokehouse. Just here let mie mention that Clear- water is a very considerable stream, which takes its rise in a large lake fed by several brooks. At its mouth, along its course and in the lake, are fine trout, running from one to three pounds. These are the sea trout which, a month earlier, were in the tideway and at Indiantown. We moved up to the pools at Rocky Brook which Abe assured us had not yet been disturbed by spearers. Here we had fine practice, and before leaving for Burnt Hill—the goal of all anglers who visit the river—sent a dozen salmon to swell the contents of our smokehouse at Clearwater. Between Rocky Brook and Burnt Hill are Three-Mile rapids, where the stream is so swift that continuous and pro- longed efforts of the canoe-men are necessary to ascend them. Very often poles are broken or lost, when others must be seized at once. There are generally spare poles made before entering this rapid, the whole pas- sage of which is exciting both to men and passengers. The country bordering this part of the river is hilly, the banks are steep and the scenery wild and impres- sive. The hills were then well wooded; but the lum- berer has since culled every trunk that could be made into a merchantable deal. We did not reach Burnt Hill until the shades of evening were falling and we missed the afternoon fishing. But the evening was soit and balmy; the moon would soon rise and add its beauty to the sylvan scene. The murmurs of the stream mingled with the louder music of the river rushing on its downward course among the rocks and boulders which make the pools at Burnt Hill a favor- ite resort for salmon. We sat around the door of the camp, smoking and anticipating great sport for the re- maining two days we had to spend on the river. While thus engaged my companion called attention to the ris- ing moon which, seemingly, had just become visible above the trees some distance up stream. A single look assured me that our fishing was done for that season, The rising moon proved to be a “grille’’ with flaming pine knots in the bow of a canoe on its first spearing trip down the river. We asked the men to spare the pools at Burnt Hill, as those below would give them all the fish their canoe could carry. They wanted ten dollars, which, unfortunately, we were not then in a position to give them, as our expenses home would exhaust our finances. “We hadn't the boots in those days.” All that night the best pools on the Tiver were gone over several times and in the morn- ing the spearers left with their canoe half full of the largest salmon in the river, As it was useless to fish the pools for a week at least, we followed them down tiver with sad hearts at the sport we had lost. The only halt we made was at Falls Brook, an insignificant stream in summer. About half a mile from its mouth it pitches over a perpendicular ledge of considerable height, making a very beautiful miniature fall. Ages ago it must have been a large and deep stream; at the fall was a circular basin 100 yards in diameter, with almost perpendicular sides of crtimbling rock. While we were examining this relic of a past age, two of our men climbed the cliff and by means of levers launched over the edge a fallen tree lodged on the brink, In its fall it brought with it large masses of rock, which came thundering dewn, giving us a faint idea of what an ayalanche in the Rockies might mean. At Clear- water we took aboard a dozen smoked fish, the car- riage of which, by stage, cost more than they were worth before we reached St. John—everyone our friends received cost us at least five dollars. To-day the sport is even more costly, for the whole river is monopolized by lessees of the Proyincal Government, and its best pools are held by wealthy Americans, whe, the writer was informed this summer, charge five dollars per day for the privilege of fishing a single pool. The facilities for reaching the rivers now con- trast strongly with the difficulties of former days. Leav- ing St. John by a morning train, the tourist can now step off at Boiestown and in the evening camp on the rivet, ot he can leave St. John in the morning, step off at Matapedia station, camp on the Restigouche the same night, or go on to New Richmond and the Grand Cascapedia. But unless he is the fortunate possessor of “the boots,” he cannot fish a single pool in the Proyitices, Among the various and ingenious arrangements and combinations by means of which the millionatres have always been masters, they have made an “angling trust,’ and none but those who possess “the boots” can now aspire to angle for salmon. The Restigouche and its club house is not the only example of the mil- lionaire’s idea of sport. They have grabbed the Cas- capedia, the Bonaventure and all the salmon streams about Gaspé, and have introduced on these fine rivers the same dilettantism in fishing, that some of them dis- play in art. Before the Old Angler, as he pens these lines, is an édition de luxe of a small book describing two visits to the Grand Cascapedia. One of the full- page illustrations depicts an angler (?) seated in an armchair beside a salmon pool, one leg crossed over the other, a cigar in his niouth and an Indian standing behind his chair with a birch bough, brushing the flies away from the luxuriotis sybarite! The line is . fast to a fish, and the text thus describes the situation: * * * “Sitting down as coolly and unflurried as if he were casting tp the interest on a long note [he is a banker] instead of fighting a hard battle (?) with a forty-five pound salmon.’ Of course he lost the fish, and the author moralizes thus: “I had always admired the serenity with which my friend had borne the crosses of life; but on this occasion his serenity touched the verge of the sublime! Happy man, who can thus lose a fifty-pound salmon without imtermitting a single puff of his cigar!” Ho! ye of the Old Guard. See how the jeunesse doré have improved on your atti- quated ways! The Old Angler used to be somewhat vain of his skill with rod and line, acquired by many years’ hard practice on the Miramichi, the Nepissiguit, the Restigouche and the Cascapedia; but— “Chapeau bas! Chapeau bas!! Honnetir 4 Marquis de Carrabas!!” he humbly doffs his hat to the millionaire who, on his first visit to a salmon river (so says the text) tackles forty-five pound salmon seated in an armchair with his legs crossed and a cigar in his mouth! But perhaps it is presumptuous to suppose that the hoi polloi, with only a limited supply of “the boots,” could in any way compete in skill with multimillionaires! However that may be, the Old Angler confesses that he never in his best days killed a salmon with a cigar in his mouth; and he may add that he never attempted the feat! Nor could be, in his palmiest days, though fairly skilful with rod and line, capture “sixteen large trout (from half a pound to three pounds) in thirty minutes, with an eight-ounce rod, without a landing net.” If he could do it and indulged in this kind of slaughter, which he is glad he cannot, he would certainly lack the “gall” to proclaim himself an angler. But he still retains the old-fashioned opinion of Dame Berners and Father Izaak that ne Angling is not aJone to fish, Nor sport mere kil. ing game. Were the mere killing of fish the sole object of the angler’s outing, all whom the writer has ever met would have to yield the palm to the habitan he saw at tide-head on Cascapedia. He had a long sapling fir pole, twenty yards of mackerel twine for line, at the end of which was a bunch of domestic mallard feath- ers tied with black thread on a mackerel hook, whose shank was wound with red yarn. He scorned reels and leaders; but he could slash out the full length of his line with considerable skill; when he hooked a fish, which he did at almost every slash of his line for a _ time, he hauled it into his canoe with as little cere- mony as he jigged makerel in the midst of a school, at which he was an adept. But Messiewrs les Million- nates are waiting. Not content with their wheat and corn trusts and corners; steel and iron trusts; sugar and oil trusts; cotton and wool trusts; tobacco and cigar trusts; hard and soft coal trusts, that raise the price of all the necessaries of life, the millionaires have now made a “corner” in salmon fishing and raised the price of its luxuries! On the principle that “might makes right,’ this may be all correct; but it grates harshly on the Octogenarian, who, in behalf of his brother anglers whose stock of ‘“‘boots” ig limited, would submit the question, whether they are not, in fairness, entitled to a reasonable share of those pleas- ures which Nature provides for all her votaries with- out money and without price? We have before us a problem which affects not alone our pleasures but our very existence, should the million- aires so manipulate the “Coal Trust” that great masses of their fellow creatures must perish of cold. Perhaps the Octogenarian’s mind has not kept pace with the rapid progress of these latter days; but to his plain “horse-sense” it seems clear that there must be some linch-pin loose in our much-praised Car of Progress. Progress! when the rich are becoming richer and the poor poorer with every revolution of its wheels. Whether our “Progress of Civilization,” taken in some of its aspects, is a blessing or a Curse 1s an open question. While we must believe that Progress is the Order of the Universe established by the Infinite, we cannot shut our eyes to the fact that to the masses it has brought a curse rather than a blessing; that only the favored few reap its rich rewards, while the great majority of mankind are no better off, if, in- deed,. they are not worse off than ever they were before. The Car of Progress seems to be rolling over the heads of the millions instead of under their feet, crushing into the dust those it should bear into heaven. Capital is the chiid of Labor, but the creattire has become lord of its creator. On every hand we are beset by problems which must be solved; but by far the most important—the o»e which may be said to embrace all the others—and to which the Octogenarian respectfully calls the grave attention of Messieurs les Milhonnaires, is simply this: “How can the masses Secure a more equitable division of the wealth that labor produces, and assure to every able-bodied man will- ing to work an opportunity to earn an honest living?” The working classes are, thanks to our free-school sys- tem and the spread of knowledge, fast coming to under- 92 FOREST*»AND STREAM. [Jan. 3, 1903. Stand the great truth that lies at the foundation of all systems of Political Economy, viz: “Every cent collected by any method by any department of government comes out of the purse of labor, the only source of wealth. They are beginning to understand that the capital of the millionaire came from labor, and that, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the laborer and not the millionaire produced it all. They are beginning to see, more clearly than ever before, that accumulation is not production, and they are asking each other by what right one man possesses a hundred million dollars while thousands of his . tellow citizens are starving for want of employment? And yet, one of the popular preachers of the day, whose discourses form a feature in the orthodox press, is te- ported to have preached from his pulpit: “The laborer should be content in that sphere where God has placed him. But for the Bryans, the Debses, the Gompers and the Mitchells he would be docile enough.” If this is true, it is only necessary to “remove” the labor-leaders as fast as they appear and all will be well. These platitudes from the plutocrats’ pulpits will not serve their intended — purpose much longer. Among the solid chunks of prac- tical wisdom that great and good man, Abraham Lincoln, left to his fellow citizens is this one: “You can fool some of the people all the time, all the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” The masses have been fooled all the time. “Strikes” hitherto have only strengthened the faith of the mil- lionaires in their own shibboleth—“Labor cannot coerce Capital,” and the mest intelligent labor leaders have srieved over the sad truth that labor has furnished the weapons that have ever beaten it into subjection. Like Byron’s eagle stretched along the plain— “Keen are their pangs, but keener far to feel Their own hard labor formed the fatal steel.” When Tennyson wrote “Knowledge comes, but Wis- dem Jingers,” he must have seen in the distance such economic idiots as this popular preacher. Never before in the history of civilization has such an object-lesson been presented to thoughtful minds as is furnished by the “coal strike’ now in course of settlement. Never be- fcre has the world seen 3,000,000 intelligent operatives, thoroughly organized under men who can spare a hatful ef brains to the millionaires, demand from those whom ° their labor has enriched a more equitable remuneration for that labor. With so large a contingent hovering on the verge of want, and the farmers sympathizing openly with the strikers, who defy the laws, wreck property and sacrifice human life in their blind rage, would it not be well for the millionaires to reconsider matters and ask themselves if they have the power to lay the monster which, like Frankenstein, they have called into existence? Labor being the Atias that supports the social world, would it not be wise for Messieurs les Millionnaires to inquire from time to time how he gets on with his job— especially when they hear him complaining very audibiy that his burden is getting too grievous to be borne, and he manifests a growing disposition to turn his pack into a foot-ball and play a game which may jeopardize not only the lives of the millionaires, but even the continuance of our representative institutions. This game has _ been played before and the millionaires and noblesse came out second best. We all know how that moral thunder- storm cleared the social atmosphere and how much better off have the hoz polloi of France been ever since. When this social storm of thunder and lightning breaks over the United States and England the millionaires will be the worst sufferers and will curse their own stupidity that made them blind to the signs of the times. Vv. [TO BE CONTINUED. ] Devil Fishing. Evyeryropy caunot go bobbing for whales, nor can many of us enjoy swordfishing, but there is always good sport hunting big game in the Gulf Coast waters of Florida for these who go prepared for it. The man who wants lis game in ton chunks should seek the manta, or devilfish, in Lemon Bay, San Carlos Bay, Charlotte Harbor, or Tampa Bay. The further south they are sought, the earlier they will be found. The devilfish (Manta birostris) is a thoroughly harm- less big skate, except when he happens to bunt a light boat by accident, or while struggling on a harpoon line. Speci- mens thirty feet in width have been killed, and the aver- age width across the flippers is probably twenty feet. It is doubtful if a devilish has ever been weighed, and the ordinary guesses at their weight are valueless. A ton is a fair estimate for a devilfish seventeen feet in width. The length and breadth, of these fish is about the same when the whip-like tail and the flippers at each side of the wide, toothless mouth are included in the measurement. ‘The open mouth laterally measures one-sixth of the whol¢ width of the fish. The fleshy flippers at each side of this gaping orifice are used for fanning food into the maw of the fish. Its food is evidently minute crustacea, and it feeds much as the whalebone whales do, by screening the water through fine interstices. On the under side of the devilfish are four pairs of gill openings, fitted interiorly with a most elaborate system of filtering screens, which appear as if woven with wire in long, narrow meshes, like those of a locomotive spark arrester, though much finer. Beyond its bat-like wings the manta has no means of locomotion. It has one steering fin close to the root of its apparently useless tail. In depth the devilfish is about one-ninth of its extreme width. Devilfish are usually seen in pairs in early spring. They swim side by side, careening so as to show alter- rately above water a foot or more of one of their wings. When in the bays, or close along shore in the Gulf, they are easily seen from a distance because they seem to be constantly playing on the surface, occasionally flashing their shining backs in the sunlight, and once m a great while leaping entirely out of water, In the shallow bays they follow the channels closely and are never known to yenture upon the oyster bars or reefs except when wounded by the harpoon and trying blindly to escape to sea. On rare occasions schools of six or eight devilfish have been observed in summer circling and somersaulting in deep, clear water. about the first week in March and their numbers increase as the weather grows warmer. April and May are the best months for devilfishing, and one of the best places They appear in San Carlos Bay’ t+ start out from is Punta Rasa on San Carlos Bay at the mouth of the Caloosahatchie River. This is gfeat tat- pon ground, too, and one of the best places on the Gulf Coast for channel bass, jackfish, spotted weakfish, bluefish; Spanish mackerel, sheepshead and other spéciés. The outfit for devilfishing should ¢otiprisé a stiff sea _ boat capable of caitying fouf pérsons comfortably. A cat rig is preferable, and it Should be of light draft and broad of beam, In the equipment should be at least a thousand yards of three-eighth-inch manila line, divided into two coils. Two harpoons, preferably of the lily-iron type, should be provided, together with two lances, a hatchet and a double shotgun or heavy repeating rifle A large, sharp and strong gaff is an accessory which may be found useful at any time, and there should always be a powerful marine glass at hand. So much fot the characteristics of the misnamed, creature and the tools needed to circumvent him. Now for the story of how a - ——— } ON EXHIBITION, one was taken by a thorough enthusiast who went to great lengths to equip himself for the sport and has fol- ~ lowed it for a number of years at odd times. E. H. Tomlinson, of St. Petersburg, Fla., built himself a catamaran 35 feet in length and 15 feet beam. It was rigged with jib and mainsail and a dandy mizzensail. ‘The howsprit is a short, stout stick and upon its outer end is a pulpit made of iron pipe, waist-high. Amidships is a flush cockpit with coamings 30 inches high. This forms the walls of a tent at night, or when at anchor in rainy weather, and the main boom forms the ridge pole of the tent. The hulls are flat-bottomed and the craft is extremely stiff in any weather. There is ample room around the fence-like coaming for a footway and roomy decks fore and aft. ‘The cockpit contains a refrigerator, —) are) UNDER SIDE SHOWING GILL OPENINGS. a stove and the water cask, besides a folding table and half a dozen camp chairs. When several anglers had reported sighting devilfish last March, Mr. Tomlinson had his catamaran high and dry upon the shell beach at Punta Rasa between George Shultz’s hotel and the cattle wharf. He sent to St. Petersburg for two of his favorite cadets, quiet, husky boys of 17 and 19 and brothers. They came down within two days and the catamaran was quickly gotten into commis- sion after the spiders, centipedes, ants and other insects had been evicted with sulphur fumes. Then the boat was cavipped and one fine morning in the last week of March we sailed away, over the bay toward Sanibel Island. A light breeze was blowing from the southeast and the water was so smooth that there was no difficulty in seeing the little bunches of scaups floating upon the surface all around us. We were all watching for devilfish with our eves almost popping out of our heads. A big shark fin cutting the water 200 yards away raised a false alarm before we had cruised more than a couple of miles, and we all began to think we were going to draw a blank when one of the bright-eyed boys quietly remarked: “T think I see two sea-bats over toward Estero. Please !et me have the glass.” ; ‘ Putting the powerful marine glasses to his eyes he studied the water for fully half a minute and then said: “Yes, there’s a pair of them just come out of Matanzas . Pass and they’re heading this way up the chaniiel. They’re just to the tiorth of red buoy No. 2.” Mt. Tomlinson took thé glasses and saw the two fish at a glance. Just then one of them showed his shining back in the sunlight, and although it was jet black it shone like a mirror and instantly revealed the location of the game to the naked eves of all on board. We had to leat up to head off the two fish, which were lazily swim- ming up the bay. Not a word was spoken as the boat and fish drew together on each port tack. Mr, Tomlinson was forward arranging his harpoons and lines and one of the boys was tending sheet while the other steered. When we came within a hiindied feet of the big fish we couid plainly see their bat-like forms in the limpid water, and doubtless they saw us, too, but they showed no fear and did not change their course. The owner of the catamatan was.in the pulpit now with his lily iron poised. The steersman had his eye upon the larger of the two frsh amd was cutting close into the wind to bring it under the bow- sprit. I believe we all held our breaths until Mr. Toni- linson launched the iron with such power that it passel clear through the devilfish and locked its piyoted trigger on the bellyside. There was a wild flurry when the fish felt the iron, but it did not make any more commotion than its mate, which was untouched. Both lashed the water into foam and the uninjured fish sprang clear out of water, curling its body in the air and diving head fore- most with its wings curled upward. The harpooned fish was meanwhile taking out line and going seaward like a torpedo boat, coming out of water every few seconds and making a foaming wake like that of a sternwheel steamer. He was getting lots of rope, but Mr. Tomlinson was preparing to snub him while he was going in the saine general direction as the boat and the sails were drawing. The line was passed around a cleat with a single throw and one turn and there was only a slight shock when the line drew taut, but this restraint was enough to make the big fellow redouble his efforts to escape and he towed the big, awkward raft of a cata- maran so fast that the sails flapped idly. The boys quickly lowered all canvas and stowed it away. Mr. Tomlinson took another turn of the line around the cleat and hold- ing the free end in his hand stood watching the struggling fish. On it went, past the Point Ybel and out into the open Gulf. There was nothing for us to do but wait until it tired out. Several times it sounded and sulked for a rest, coming to the surface again slightly refreshed. The hours went by and the fish changed its course abruptly several times, once heading straight back for nearly three miles toward Sanibel Light. The wind freshened and the spray broke over the catamaran continually. Several times all hands manned the line and succeeded in getting iti a portion of it by pulling the boat toward the fish, fastening all we gained. After four hours of fighting, winning and losing by turns, we had the devilfish close under the bow and as it turned over to dive, Mr. Tom- lnson sent another iron through it from belly to back. The two harpoons crossed each other, so closely were they driven together. The second iron took all the fight out of the fish, and it flapped its wings idly as the line was wavled taut and belayed. Now the sails were hoisted and we started for Punta Rasa with a stiff wind on the starboard quarter. It was slow work towing the ponder ous fish, but we wanted it for an autopsy. ‘The sun went down as we entered the bay and we had nearly four miles to tow the quarry against the tide, but the catamaran buckled down to the task and we reached the hotel wharf at 8:30 that night. The devilfish was beached and secured by tying the harpoon lines to stout posts. In the morning 4 mast and tackle blocks were rigged to the side of the wharf and the fish was hoisted clear of the water and six ce seven cameras were repeatedly snapped at it. While it was hanging up, one of the negroes let himself down into the mouth of the fish and stood there concealed to his hips. The autopsy was then made and the intricate sys- tem of screens was the most interesting feature of it. It was an unpleasant task, owing to the overpowering odor exuded by the monster even when freshly killed. After the “innatds” of the creature had been explored, it was placed aboard the catamaran again and dumped over- board in the channel to float away on the ebb. HARRIMAC, Death of Gardrer M. Skinner. We regret to learn of the death of Gardner M. Skin- ner at his home in Clayton, N. Y. Mr. Skinner was maker of the spoon baits bearing his name, which have been used by thousands of fishermen in all parts of the country. Born in Gananoque, Ont., and a resident of Clayton, he was all his life a dweller on the St. Law- rence, and was enthusiastic in his appreciation and praise of the Thousand Island region. His interest in fishing was intense. In every movement to foster and enlarge the resources of the Thousand Island waters he was ever found foremost. Tt was largely through his instrumentality that the Canadian fishing authorities made the prevailing concessions to Ameri- can anglers crossing over into British waters for bass fishing; and the American and Canadian cooperative laws for the protectien of fish were in large measure due to his intelligent and persevering efforts. To him also we are indebted for the part he took in per- suading the Legislature to set apart public camping gzound reservations among the St. Lawrence River islands. Thus in many ways, quietly and without self- secking or any plea for public recognition—for he was one of the most modest of men—Mr, Skinner served in his day and generation, and is held in grateful mem- ory by those who knew him. The Forest AND STREAM is the recognized medium of entertain- ment, instruction and information between American sportsmen, The editors invite communications on the subjects to which its pages are devoted. Anonymous communications will not be re= garded. While it is intended to give wide latitude in discussion of current topics, the editors are not responsible for the views of correspondents. Subscriptions may begin at any time. Terms: For single copies, $4 per year, $2 for six months. For club rates and full bee particulars respecting subscriptions, see prospectus on page iii, JAN. 31, 1903,] The English “Oyster Scare.” To the Forést, Fish and Gante Commtission: GeNTLeEmEN—The death of the Dean of Winchester from typhoid fever, in England, has ¢voked widespread sympathy throughout the United Kingdom and in the United States, and the unfortunate circumstances attend- ing his last illness have engendered a sensational state of public alarm, which is alluded to in the English press as “The Oyster Scare.” ; The assertion is made that the typhoid bacilli were, in this case, conveyed by oysters eaten at a Lord Mayor's banquet given in London, and in consequence the Eng- lish oyster trade has been well nigh prostrated. It should be noted that the oysters used at the banquet in question were not American oysters, but were taken, it 18 stated, from beds located in the south of England, and it is charged that over some of these beds “an outfall of sewage has been permitted to flow.” Whether oysters ate ever the medium of distribution of typhoid germs is of coutse a question fot medical men to determine. It is claimed by some authorities that the connection between typhoid and the oyster has néver been scientifically established. Out chief duty and interest, however, is to thoroughly inform ourselves and the pub- lic concerning the purity of the sources of the oyster sup- ply of our domestic and export markets, . On the third instant I received from the Forest, Fish and Game Commission a letter requesting that some guarantee of the wholesome character of the Blue Point and East River oysters be sent to the commission for the information of the Governor of New York State, that the Governor might communicate with the Secretary of State at Washington in order that the representatives of the United States Government abroad might have the proper assurances of the freedom of New York oysters from contamination. Upon the same day I forwarded to the commission certificates as follows: This will certify that the oysters known in the trade as “East Rivers” are taken from beds situated in Long Island Sound, an important arm of the sea extending for 120 miles between the south coast of the State of Connecticut and Long Island, in the State of New York, its greatest width being about twenty miles, narrowing to about two miles at its western extremity; averaging about twelve miles wide. These beds are remote from any pos- sible contamination by sewage or otherwise, many of them being at_a depth of sixty feet under pure sea water. Dated New York, Jan. 3, 1903. B. Frank Woop, State Superintendent of Shell Fisheries. This will certify that the oysters known in the trade as “Blue Points” ate taken from beds located in Great South Bay, a great expanse of salt water lying along the south shore of Long Island in New York State, and with its extensions, known as Moriches Bay and Shinnecock Bay, having a total length of about sixty miles. These bays are from two to six miles wide, and separated froin the Atlantic Ocean by narrow strips. of sand beach, through which are many inlets, allowing the ocean tides to regularly ebb and flow. The oyster beds are at an average distance of about two miles from shore. The south shore of Long Island is sparsely setiled, and there is no possibility of sewage or other contamina- tion. Dated New York, Jan. 3, 1903. B. Frank Woop, State Superintendent of Shell Iisheries. 1 immediately requested Mr. Jolin E. Overton, one of the State oyster protectors, to interview some of our leading physicians, particularly those residing near our oyster grounds, upon the subject, that I might have their views. The letters which follow speak for themselves. New York State Department of Health, Daniel Lewis, M.l)., Commissioner. Albany, Jan. 10, 1903. Mr. B. Frank Wood, Superintendent of Shell Fisheries, 1 Madison avenue, City; My Dear Sir—Since I have been connected with the State De- partment of Health, first, as president, and recently, as commis- sioner in charge of the department, no case of typhoid fever has been reported to the department in which the cause of the disease was atiribuied to the eating of oysters. ‘ In my private practice, where J have seen many cases, and in patients who habitually used oysters as an article of diet, I have neyer met a case in which I had the slightest stispicion that the infection had been communicated through diseased oysters. The legitimate inference, from my experience as a health officer, as well as in private practice, is that the infection of oysters by typhoid germs is practically unknown in this city and State. And ‘it is my opinion that there is no danger of contracting typhoid from the free use of the oyster as a food. Any suggestion to the contrary is a mere speculation, unsubstantiated and unworthy of serious consideration. Very truly yours, Daniet Lewis, Commissioner. From the neighborhood of the Blue Point beds come the following letters: : Patchogue, N. Y¥., Jan. 8, 1903. This is to say that I haye been in active practice among the residents and oystermen along the shores of Great South Bay dur- ing the past seyenteen years. Oysters constitute the principal meat diet during the season-of many of these people, and they are as free from contagious diseases as any people upon the earth. The oysters taken from the bay are absolutely pure and free from any germs of disease. W. 5. Bennett, M.D. In regard to the possible contamination of Great South Bay oyslers with typhoid germs I write to say that I have never known of a case of typhoid fever which seemed to be caused by eating oysters from Great South Bay. ArtHuR H. Terry, M.D. I wish to add my testimony to show how groundless is the English fear of typhoid fever coming from Blue Point oysters. Tn the first place, the south side of Long Island is exceptionally free from typhoid fever and all other infectious diseases. This can be verified by the State Health Board. Secondly, the infection of oysters from typhoid cases is almost impossible. for almost no sewers at all empty into the bay, and the few that do so, are from single and detached houses. Thirdly, we folks all eat oysters in all forms, and I am sure that no more typhoid is found during the oyster season than at other times during the year. As to this point, | am emphatic. ‘ . Trusting that the prejudice against the product of which we are the most proud may soon be removed, I am, yours truly, FRANK Overton, M.D. Health Officer of Patchogue Village. From the north shore of Long Island, along which are cultivated the East River oysters, we have the certificates of James E. Gildersleeve, M.D., a practitioner for fifty years; J. A. Dildine, M.D., practicing ten years, and D. F. Many, M.D., who has practiced for fifteen years, who unite in saying that they have never known of a case of typhoid fever which could be traced to eating oysters. Wm. E. Sylvester, M.D., who is in the service of the Siate, and connected with the shellfish office, writes: Hon B. Frank Wood, 1 Madison avenue, City: _ My Dear Sir—Relative to the contamination of oysters, I will say that, after a long and extensive experience among people where jt was an important article of diet, I have never seen a case of typhoid fever resulting therefrom, From a personal knowledge of the oyster industry about New York. I am satisfied that no oysters obtainable are freer from objectionable influences than these. 7 Yours, very truly, Wu. E. Syivester, M.D, =- es ® : <= , FOREST AND STREAM. “Tn. 1896 a very careful examination was made in Eng- land by Professors Herdman and Boyce, of University College, who were furnished with oysters from almost every bed in the United Kingdom, on the Continent, and also in America, Nota single case was found in which there was anything in the oysters injurious to health. One of their tests was to inject typhoid germs into oys- ters which were then placed_in salt water. The germs gradually disappeared, and in the course of a few days the oysters were clear of them. As a more severe test, oysters were placed at the mouth of a drain which con- nected with a dwelling in which at the time were typhoid fever patients, and the oysters were afterward found to be free from the slightest infection.” Clear sea water is a well-known purifier, and it seems to have been demonstrated that in it disease germs can- not long exist. A considerable portion of the supply of good and wholesome food for our immense urban population, and much. for export, is taken from the clear sea water sur- rounding Long Island and from Raritan Bay at Staten Island, and any suspicion concerning its purity is with- out reason or foundation. New York, Jan. 10, 1903. B, Frank Woop, State Superintendent of Shellfisheries. Che Zennel. Mr ow Fixtures. Feb, 1114.—New York.—Twenty-seventh annual show of the Westminster Kennel Club. James Mortimer, Supt. Ireh. 18-21.—Newark, N. J-—Show of New Jersey Kennel Asso- ciation. C. G. Hopton, Sec’y. reine 20-21,—Denver, Colo.—Bench show of Colorado Kennel ub, Feb. 25-26.—Boston, Mass.—New England Kennel Club’s nine- teenth annual show. W. B. Emery, Sec’y. Match 4-7.—Pittsburg, Pa—Show of Duquesne Kennel Club, of Western Pennsylvania. March 10-13.—Rochester, N. Y.—Show. of Rochester Kennel Club, March 12-14.—Coshoecton, O.—Show of Coshocton Kennel Club. March 17-20.—Uhrichsville, O.—Show of Twin City Kennel Club. March 25-28.—Chicago.—_Show of Chicago Kennel Club. March 30-31.—St. Louis.—Show of St. Louis Collie Club. March 31-April 3.—Buffalo, N. Y.—Show of Buffalo Kennel Club. eet 1-4—New Orleans, La—Show of Southwestern Kennel ‘Club. April 1-4.—Victoria, B. C.—Show of Victoria Kennel Club. ci §-11.—Atlantic City, N. J.—Show of Atlantic City Kennel ub. May 29-50. Hempstead, L. I.—Open air show of Ladies’ Kennel Association of America. Nov. 3-6—New York.—Annual show of Ladies’ Kennel Assecia- tion of America. National Beagle Club of America. National Beagle Club of America, Camden, N. J.— The regular quarterly meeting of this club will be held on Wednesday, Feb, 11, at 8:30 P. M., in the calé at the southwest corner of Madison Avenue and 27th Street, New York City, at which time any and all business will be transacted which shall be brought belore the meeting. By order of the president. Dated Jan. 22, 1903. Cuas. R. Stevenson, Secretary. Points and Flushes. The annual meeting of the American Fox Terrier Club will be held at Madison Square Garden, on Feb. II, iminediately after the fox terriers are judged. A meeting of the executive committee will follow imme- diately after the club meeting. Aachting. ——©——_ Southern Y. C, New Orteans, La., Jan. 18—Editor Forest and Stream: The Southern Y. C., of New Orleans, La., has adopted a new racing measurement rule which may be interesting to yachtsmen in other sections of the country. The formula being 85 per cent. of the square root of the sail area (as measured by the Seawanhaka Y. C. rule) equals the racing rating measurement; or, VS AX 85= Rating. The club has used the old Seawanhaka rule for years and it has gone very slow about making a change, pre- ferring to wait and watch results in the North and to proht, if possible, thereby, the state of affairs here per- mitting this, as its fleet of racers had not been modernized to any great extent. Now that the leading clubs have made their changes in measurement rules none seem to fit the requirements in this part of the yachting world. Any rule requiring displacement calculations or girth measure- ments, while very wel: im their way, were considered too complicated, or at least not practical along this coast. As the tendency of the times would seem to show thai measurement rules were getting more and more com- plicated, the latest introduced requiring that a vessel be hauled out to be measured for rating, and that the idea was to penalize a certain form of freak that probably never would have been introduced had it not been created to cheat a measurement rule, in this case the waterline part of the rule, the question arises, Why measure and tax the hull at all? Forty or fifty years ago the Southern Y. C. used a rule that called for measuring the length on deck only, and the result was that yachts were encouraged that were monstrosities, longer an the waterline than on deck, with “ram” bows and sterns much the same shape, the cele- brated “Stingaree” being a well-remembered example. In later days in taxing the waterline another form of freak is encouraged with the “overhangs” in the air and with a different set of reverse curves at the waterline. Why now adopt a rule with some other hull measurements just to penalize this latter style of boat and perhaps, as was the result in both cases mentioned, encourage as bad freaks along some other lines? When the waterline rule was evolved it was thought to be a perfect one, but in the light of Present practices it is 93 clear that it might have been better had 1. w. 1. never beei taxed as it was—that it should not be discouraged at all. It 1s clear that we must have a new rule for measure- ment that does not place a premium on waterline, and a displacement rule is out of the question when we consider the fleet we are dealing with and the conditions under which we race. Therefore it is evident that there is nothing left of the hull to measure that we see can give promise of better things. So we will answer the fore- going question and not measure it at all. It is not even iecessary to measure it for classification, and hence mat- ters are more than ever simplified and that bugaboo of whether to measure with crew on board or not is escaped.’ But account must be taken of the size of some element of a craft for the sake of classification and rating for time allowance, the latter only until all building is up to class limits, as the allowance rule should encourage. As the sails can’t be “freaked,” “scowed,” nor inflicted with overhangs to cheat the system of measurement, they will be used alone for measurement. ‘The present simple rule for ascertaining the sail area will be used and as before the square root of the area will be taken. The result on the average yacht would be a figure considerably larger than that obtained by getting the racing length by the Seawanhaka method, so 85 per cent. of the square root of the sail area will be taken, which will reduce the figure down to somewhere between the boat’s waterline and the racing length as found by. the old formula, thereby affording a better indication vf the yacht’s size in the figure of the rating. These ideas were advanced by the writer and they meet with the approval of the members of the club, the regatta committee taking the initiative and indorsing the rule, and after being duly considered and discussed it was unanimously adopted. ‘There was no intention to place a tax on sail, but that a certain proportion of it should serve as a limit.for the various class sizes. To this end itt was desired that the time allowance should be in favor of the larger boat and building to class limits would be encouraged by every means. The Herreshoff time allow— ance tables were considered too complicated, and after much figuring on the boats in the fleet and their past per- formances and not forgetting those that might be built, an arbitrary limit of five seconds per foot difference per mile of course was suggested by Measurer Holmes Har- rison, of the club, and adopted. Later, if found desirable, this figure of 5 seconds can be altered to suit different classes; as, for instance, if it is found that the proportion should be smaller for the larger and larger for the smaller classes, as is indicated in the Herreshoff allow- ance tables. Without being proven in practice, five seconds seems to be a reasonably good proportion for the classes we have to deal with. Simplification was the desideratum desired in both the rating rule formula and the time allowance method, and if they prove reasonably adequate matters will be made easier for the regatta committee and the measurer, and owners will be enabled to more readily know the stand- ing of their yachts, one to another. There is nothing in the measurement rule to put a check on the scow, that not being necessary nor desired, as they are relegated to classes hy themselves, where no restriction is placed on design. ‘The scow classes will be encouraged equally with the model classes and trust placed in the survival of the fittest. It is believed that with this arrangement there will be few cabin scows and that the open boats of this style will run, as at present, to small sizes, say under 25 feet measurement, where they give excellent sport. In connection with the preceding rules quoted it will be interesting to know what are the classes and what comprises the cabin yacht rule of the Southern Y, C., so both are herewith appended: FROM THE RACING RULES SOUTHERN Y, C.—CLASSIFICATION SEASON OF 1903, BASED ON RACING RATING. Model Yachts. Class A—Schooners. Class B—Cabin sloops 3oft. and over. Class C—Cabin sloops under 3oft. Class D—Open sloops. Class E—Cat boats. Class F—Motor and steam launches. Special Classes of Different Types.—Including freaks, scows, skiffs, and other racing machines. The allotment of a yacht to either the Model or Special Classes shall be decided by the Regatta Committee. A Model boat may, however, sail in one of the Special Classes if she so desires. Class G—Cahin sloops. Class H.—Open sloops. Class I—Cat boats. Crews—There shall be no restriction, except that the helmsman must be an amateur. Course—To be ten miles; over an equilateral triangle of five miles, twice around. Definition of a Cabin Yacht—A cabin yacht must be a seaworthy type of cruising ot racing yacht, substantialiy constructed, with ballast on keel or fixed below the floor, if any is carried, with either a flush deck or with eabin trunk on deck. A cabin yacht mist not carry shifting ballast. j The only exceptions to the following limitations shall be yachts oyer 2o0ft. racing length that have sailed as -caebin yachts in a regular Southern Y. C. race prior to April 3, 1902, provided the cabin is the same as before used, and if the sides and front of it are not closed in se she must carry curtains and have same strapped own. 1. The top, sides and ends of cabin trunk must be per- manently constructed and closed in with wood, with proper windows or port lights and regulation entrance. Cabins must not be less than 7ft. long on top and have a width of floor space not less than~ one-fourth the greatest beam of yacht. 2. The cockpit floor shall be above the waterline, with scuppers draining outward. The top of sill of cabin en- trance door must be not less than Sin. above the cockpit floor line. 3. The minimum size of cabin interior must be such as will accommodate two berths 6ft. 6in. long by rft. 6in. wide, which must be in place. The height of the cabin house in the clear, from the floor line to the under side of cabin top beams, over full area of cabin required, must be not less than 3it. 6in. for yachts under 30ft, rating, and 94 not less than 4ft. 6in. for yachts of goft. rating and over. 4. The measurements required in these limitations must be made by the official measurer of the club, and they must form part of the regular rating measurement certifi- cate to be filed with all entries. L. D. SampseELL, Secretary S. Y. C. The Defense of the Canada’s Cup. Toronto, Jan. 24.—Unless future developments change - matterz materially, the Royal Canadian Y. C. will have no choice in the selection of a Canada’s cup defender, The match for this great international trophy is due to be sailed off Toronto Island August 9, 10 and 11, 1903, al- though the Rochester Y. C., the challengers, would like an earlier date. When Invader brought back the cup from Chicago in 1901, enthusiasm ran high in Toronto, and half a dozen syndicates were talked of for the build- ing of defenders for the next match, but for some teason or other the only defender now definitely in view is one which is being built for Mr. Norman Macrae, of Toronto. Her consttuction has not progressed very far as yet, be- cause her frames, which ate being furnished by her Eng- lish designer, have not yet arrived in Toronto. There is talk of a syndicate to build a second defender, and in the interests of yachting it is to be hoped that there will at least be enough defenders for the holding of trial races. As the contestants are 4o-footers under the new regulations they are an absolutely new class, and while there ate plenty of boats of approximately the same size, there are none built to conform to the latest rules. For instance, the original Canada and Merrythought, Vreda, Aggie and Zelma are all of about the same size as the new boats, and these yachts and the larger flyer, Gloria, may be utilized in races to tune up the Toronto defender; but it would be much more satisfactory for the Royal Canadian Y. C. to be able to choose their defender from a number of new 4o-footers. If no other defender is built the craft with which Mr. Macrae has come for- ward will have to be utilized, as she will be the only yacht in the R. C. Y. C. fleet which wit] conform exactly to the requirements of the new rules. ; The Macrae defender for the Canada’s cup promises to be a fine ship, whether she successfully defends the cup or not. She is no racing machine. Her owner wanted a smart pleasure craft, somewhat larger than his present yacht, the Watson cutter, Vivia, and was easily per- suaded, since the cup needed a defender, to give an order for a yacht of the competing class—the new 4o-footers. Since so much depended upon the new boat, the best of designers and builders known to Toronto men were chosen—A. E. Payne, of Southampton, England, for the lines, and Capt. James Andrews, of Oakville, for the construction. A. E. Payne designed the fastest all-around sailing craft Toronto has ever seen—Gloria, the famous winner of the Coupe de France, and Beaver, the defender of the Canada’s cup in 1899. Beaver lost then, but she did not get her weather. Capt. Andrews, on the other hand, has built every Canadian craft that has ever had a look-in, as far as the Canada’s cup is concerned. _ Payne has turned out an able looking craft in the Macrae defender, She is roomy but not bulky, according to het lines. Her profile greatly resembles that of Beaver. The curve of her stem is a little less abrupt, and her counter isvcarried out a little further aft; her midships section shows a somewhat easier bilge than Beaver’s, and more body; in short, there is less fin and more boat. This is probably the outcome of the new restrictions, and whatever the effect on speed, more headroom in cup chal- lengers and cup defenders is to be encouraged. The new craft will be within a few inches of 6oft. over all—probably 5oft. 6in. will be her length from stemhead to taffrail, and on the waterline she will just come within the limit of the 4oft. Under the new regulations the yachts are classified according to length on the waterline, hence the new 40-footers will be pretty big yachts for fresh water craft. The new boat will be of 13ft. beam on deck, and a little less at the waterline. Her draft is quite moderate for her other proportions, being just Sit These dimensions are very close approximates to the actual ones, the publication of the latter being held in abeyance for a little while yet, a matter of fairness to the owner of the defender. ’ It is interesting to compare the new, craft with the Watson-designed cutter Vivia, with which the Messrs. Macrae have been associated for years, WVivia has long been known, under the old measurements, as a “40- footer,” but the new craft is 8ft. longer on the waterline and toft. longer on deck, and has 18in. more beam. Her section shows more curve than Vivia’s, and she draws tsin. less. Her sail area is greater by a thousand square feet, so that the new regulations appear to have produced a bigger boat with more driving power and less draft, and the “long legged” craft are becoming less and less desirable on Lake Ontario. The famous Gloria, for in- stance, was brought to Toronto for Mr. H. C. McLeod two years after her Mediterranean victory ; and while a magnificent craft in many respects, she has the somewhat doubtful honor of having grounded in every harbor on Lake Ontario that she has entered—and she only draws ten feet. Whether statistics bear it out or not, every ald sailorman will tell you that there is less water in Lake Ontario harbors than there used to be, in spite of all the dredging. £73 The coming contest will witness a return to the club topsail regime that prevailed when Canada first won the cup. We have had jib-and-mainsail defenders and chal- lengers ever since, but the Macrae craft will have a full cutter rig, and it is expected that the other contestants will follow suit. Twentyrsix hundred square feet of can- vas is a lot to handle in two pieces, so the jib-and-main- sail will probably be replaced by the cutter rig in all the 4o-footers. The Macrae boat has a shipshape sail plan, her horn being of generous length and not stubbed off in modern fashion, Her biggest clubtopsail is not very Jarge, and the mainsail will furnish most of the driving power, Her mainmast is 33ft. from deck to hounds, and her topmast is 2o0ft.,-so that she has pretty good hoist for, 4oft. of waterline. The mainboom is long, but not ab- normally so—47ft—and the gaff is 28ft. None of her three headsails are abnormal in size. The sail plan is pleasing, and, like everything else in the boat, has noth- FOREST AND STREAM.) == ing freakish about it. the 2,600 limit, Commodore Amilius Jarvis, of the Royal Canadiam ¥. C., he who first brought home the Canada’s cup, and Its total area is a few feet under who has sailed for it in every contest, will probably be at © the helm in the latest defender. His health has been giving his friends some anxiety, but a winter in the brac- ing atmosphere of Muskoka 1s working beneficent won- ders with him and his return to yachting activity is. Icoked forward ‘to, Of course there are many other good’ sailors in the Royal Canadian Y. C., and such skippers as. J. Wilton Morse or H. C. McLeod, of Toronto, or Capt.. J. E. Fearnside, of Hamilton, would be able to handle the: defender well if Mr. Geo. E. Macrae did not care to take. the responsibility or could not afford the time. Mr. G. E. Macrae is a well-known racing sailor, and they relate: oi him how, in the last Canada’s cup races, he saved! Cadillac from losing her. mainboom when she jibed all standing at the second turn. Mr. Macrae was the Can- adian scrutineer, but the sailor outweighed the patriot, according to the story, and he threw the turns of the lee backstay runner off just quick enough to save the Ameri- can from losing her mainboom or possibly being dis- masted. Mr. Norman Macrae, who is the sole owner of the Macrae defender, is less of a racing sailor, but has been associated with his brother in the cutter Vivia, and is well known to Lake Ontario yachtsmen. CHARLES H, SNIDER. Boston Letter. Boston, Jan. 24—The annual meeting of the Bostom Y. C., to be held at Parker’s on Wednesday evening: next, will be a most important one, not only to the: Boston Club, but also to the Hull-Massachusetts Y. C..,. and all yachtsmen of the East as well. At this meet— ing action will be taken upon the question of whether or not the Boston Y. C. and the Hull-Massachusettsi Y. C. may be amalgamated. This subject has been un- der consideration by prominent members of both clubs: throughout the past year, but the time for decisive: action has not been considered ripe until now. The: matter came up before the Hull-Massachusetts Y. C. at its annual meeting, but was Jaid over, and in regard to that meeting I must correct an error made in a. recent letter on the election of officers of that club. It seems that the matter of election of officers was laid over, on account of the possibilities of amalgamation, although the officers had been nominated as announced. There is no doubt that the amalgamation of these: two clubs will be of great benefit. The Boston Y. C.. is the oldest in New England, and has among its mem- bership the names of yachtsmen who were first identi- fied with the development of the sport in the East. The Hull-Massachusetts Y. C. is a very active one, its activity having been more marked within the past few years. If they join forces the new club will start with a membership of over 700, and will have a good equip- ment in the way of stations. There will be five of these in all, located at Boston, City Point, Dorchester, Hull and Marblehead. Having these stations under the management of one club will be of immense advantage: to cruising yachtsmen. There is no doubt that the membership in the new club would increase rapidly from the time of amalgamation, and, with such a large prospective membership, it would be a very easy matter to establish stations at different points along the coast, as the demands of the cruising yachtsmen might require. Thus it would become one of the strongest: yachting organizations in the country. The nominating committee of the Boston Y. C. has presented the following names for election at the an- nual meeting, although it is likely that the nominations will be laid over, as in the Hull-Massachusetts Y. C., until action upon amalgamation has been determined: Commodore, B. P. Cheney; Vice Commodore, Walter Burgess; Rear Commodore, Elmer F. Smith; Secre- tary, A. C. Fernald; Treasurer, William H. Bangs; Measurers, W. Starling Burgess and Jefferson Borden; Trustees, Commodore (ex-officio) and W. C, Lewis; Regatta Committee, Walter burgess, Bertram D. Ams- den, Charles A. French, Charles G. Browne and Sum- ner H. Foster; Membership Committee, Commodore and Secretary (ex-officio), Walter C. Lewis, Edmund H. Tarbell, William D, Turner, Charles E. Lauriat, Jr., and Everett Paine; House Committee, T. Wolcott Powers, William D, Turner, Willard B. Jackson, Her- ‘bert W. Wesson and Charles G. Browne. Hollis Burgess has sold the 21-footer Recruit, owned by Mr. F, B. Rice, of Quincy, to Wagener Bros., of Penn Yan, N. Y.; 22ft. waterline yawl Edith, owned by Mr. F. H. Green, of Wollaston, to Mr. H. W. Hand, ot New York; a2rit. raceabout Shawsheen, owned by Mr. George Atkinson, Jr., to Vice Commodore Walter Burgess, of the Boston Y. C.; 18ft. knockabout Shrimp, owned by Vice Commodore Burgess, to George Atkin- son, Jr., and 25-footer Kalama III., owned by Mr- David Rice, to Mr. H. N. Richards, of Boston. Small Bros. have an order for a 21-footer for the defense of the Lipton Cup from a syndicate of mem- bers of the Columbia Y..C. of Chicago. They have also an order for a cruising 21ft. waterline yawl for F, W. King, of Olneyville, R. I. They have sold a t7fit. waterline knockabout to Mr. F. H. Cheetham, of the South Boston Y. C., and the 26ft- Cape cat, Alma, owned by Mr. S. H. Eldridge, to Mr. R. J. Pond, Mr. E. A. Boardman has gone ahead with the plans of a Seawanhaka challenger, and is now quite sure that the boat will be built. He will own her with an- other Boston yachtsman, whose name has been with- held. Mr. Boardman has an order for a 22-footer. He has sold his 18ft knockabout Sioux to Mr, P. W. Clement, who will sail her on Lake Champlain. The Winthrop Y- C. has elected the following offi- cers: Commodore, William D. Allen; Vice Commo- dore, John J. Nicholson; Secretary, Charles G. Bird; Treasurer, Edgar H. Whitney; Measurer, Albert 5S. Richards; Directors, James R. Hodder, William LI. Kelley, Joseph L. Rankin and Charles A. Rouillard; House Committee, Albert S. Richards, Charles G. Bird and William E. Watkins; Regatta Committee, Frank H. Byrne, Charles O. Whitney, Charles W. Gray, John P, Feehan and Charles F. Chipman; Membership Com- ‘ [Tax 1, 1003. ‘mittee, Albert Partridge, Joseph J. Devereux, Daniel J. Langlands, Frank H. Byrne, Charles H. Kelley, Frank Hl. Beckler, Albert M. Crowe, Frank H. Mason ‘and Charles H. Sawyer. At the Marblehead Yacht Yard, the 4rft. auxiliary yawl designed by W. H. Stearns, is in frame. Work has been started on a 25ft. speed launch. R. K. Long- fellow’s cutter, Wyvern, is being altered. The cruising 25-footer, which has been designed by Crowninshield for Levi C. Wade, will be built at this yard, Work has slowed up somewhat on the Seawanhaka cup challenger that is being built from designs by Bur- ess and Packard, at Manchester. There is no great hurry at present for the boat, and there is no doubt ‘that she will be ready when wanted. The plans for the second boat for the Higginson-Boardman syndicate have not yet been finished, and it may be some time now before she is started. These two and the boat de- ‘signed by E. A. Boardman are the only candidates for whallenger that have been heard from up to date. Joun B. KtLreen. Thames Houseboats. BY C. E. THOMAS, In the event of no earlier writer having worked off ithe ancient wheeze, I may perhaps be pardoned the sug- gestion that the original houseboater was inspired to ‘build his craft by the description in Holy Writ of the Ark, the name, by the way, of one of the earliest of English craft of this character, and still used. Certain it is that the skipper of this most ancient of houseboats ‘could not have been an American, or he would have rigged her up with power of some description, He is ‘more likely to have been an Englishman, for the present ‘day English hotiseboat is still practically a barge with a few rooms built thereon, and there has been no develop- ‘ment in the direction of fitting with a motor or sails: In fact, the most notable exception, a species of com- bined houseboat and launch, once owned by Colonel Fitz- Georg son of the Duke of Cambridge, was quite an early craft, The reason for this apparent slackness in the country which introduced the pleasure houseboat is that on the Thames, the houseboat river par excellence, the condi- ‘tions of life and traffic regulations only admit the possi- bility of what is practically a stationary floating home, ‘and not one te be moved every few days or so. Different conditions prevail, say, on the Broads, the fine waterways of Norfolk and Suffolk, where the pleasure ~wherry, a development of the ordinary craft of commerce ‘on these waters, with its one huge sail, is, perhaps, more in keeping with the American idea of a houseboat. But tthe wherry does not represent the English idea, for which ‘one must visit the “silvery Thames” in the height of the summer season, notably during Henley Regatta week, ‘when numerous fine craft form an attractive background ‘to this grand aquatic picture. The early history of the Thames houseboat is not very easy to trace, but there is little doubt that the inception of the idea came from Oxford. At any rate the first of these craft seen there was of very remote date. ‘Originally it was a barge, used, before the days of rail- ‘ways, as a “fly-boat” for carrying purposes between Lon- don and Oxford, when the river was indeed the Thames Highway, the barge, with its team of eight horses, making a pretty quick journey. When this craft had served its time of usefulness for traffic purposes, a house was built on it, and it was devoted to boat-letting purposes by Messrs. Davis and King, the predecessors of Messts, Salter Bros., the promoters of the Oxford to Kingston launch service, which is so popular with American visi- ters to this side, Mr, Davis and Mr. King lived in alter- nate years on board their roomy craft (she is 107 feet long and 17 feet 9 inches broad, and the largest in Ox- ferd, for it is still in existence), The barge was an old boat when taken over by Messrs. Salter in 1858, but re- mains in use for boat-letting purposes, and is known as ‘Salter’s green barge,” forming a landmark in boat race’ practice. It has been in its present position for between 60 and 70 years; for a few years no one has lived on beard, but for 40 out of the last 44 years Messrs. Salter’s manager has resided on her, Other craft responsible for the introduction of house- boats, too, were the stately old city barges, belonging to the various London companies. Many of these, on their retirement, were taken to Oxford, the first probably between 1850 and 1860, and were used by College boat clubs as quarters; they have all disappeared now, but the Oriel College barge of to-day was designed on the lines of one of the old city barges, and most of the modern craft have retained much of their ancient ap- pearance. 7 Many well known architects and artists have designed these graceful and handsome college barges, among them Mr, J. G. Jackson, R. A,; Mr. J. O, Scott, Mr. A. Water- house, R. A., and Mr. H. Wilkinson Moore. The last named, an Oxford gentleman, has designed several of the more modern barges, most of which have been built by Messrs. Salter, and by the courtesy of the designer and builder I am able to give the design and photographs of the Keble College barge, built in 1809, and one of the handsomest of the Oxford College boats. The dimen- sions, etc., are given in the plan, and the photographs show the graceful and old-world appearance of one of the most striking craft on the long line of college barges at Oxford. The last of the city barges to be used for pleasure put- poses was the Maria Wood, which ceased her excursions only a few years ago.. She was towed by horses to Hampton Court, and was always filled with frock-coated, white waistcoated and tall-hatted magnates, most inap- propriately attired for a river trip, who, with their woman-kind, threaded the mazy waltz on a hot summer's afternoon, to the amusement of what Mr. Rudyard Kip- ling would probably describe as the “fanneled fools” in sculling boats. Her departure seems to remove one of the last links with the old-time life on the Thames, and many tivermen have heard with regret that the ancient craft is now doing duty as a floating dock. Doubtless the early pleasure houseboater seized on a ready-made hull on. which to construct his floating resi- ‘dence, and as the Thames Conservancy regulations as to ‘places for mooring, etc., were not so numerous in bygone Jas. 31, 190) ‘é FOREST AND Se O65 days, he built a small craft which could be moved with- out much difficulty, and many of these little boats are still to be seen. The accommodation was limited, but Bohemianism and the concomitant delights of roughing it were the features of river life before Fashion stamped the Thames as her own, and much quiet enjoyment was’ obtained from these small boats. But Fashion alters all things, and it has changed the Thames. The old-fashioned hostelry has become the modern hotel, the “neat-handed Phyllis” has made way for the imported dress-suited ‘waiter, and mine host’s charges have increased accordingly. Old World villages are being eimgloped in streets of modern villas, while ineligible riparian land is being built over, providing the conditions wittily described by the late Edmund Yates, the river being at the bottom of your lawn in the sum- mer, and your lawn at the bottom of the river in the winter. Launches and small craft of all kinds have in- creased amazingly to meet Society’s detnands, and so the Houseboats have increased in numbers and to their present stately proportions. [To BE CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK.] YACHTING NEWS NOTES. The Wilson Yacht Building Company, Ferry Bar, Bal- timore, are to build from their own designs for Mr. George C. Thomas, of Philadelphia, an auxiliary cruising schooner. She will be r1oft. over all, ooft. waterline, 24 ft, breadth and 6ft. 6in. draft. mRe Messrs. Herreshoff and Wells are working up plans of a speed launch for Mr. C. Oliver Iselin, The boat will be 37{t. over all, 32ft. waterline, 6ft. 2in. breadth, and zit. draft. The power will be furnished by a Howard motor, and it is expected that the boat will develop a speed of twelve or thirteen miles. eee The Whitestone Hollow Spar and Boat Company will begin work at their new plant at Whitestone, L. I., with a couple of orders for high speed launches. Both the boats will be 7oft. in length. One is for Mr. George R. Bidwell, of New York, and the other for Mr. J. Charles Davis. The ats will be narrow, their°greatest breadth being only 8&1. The power is furnished by a new make of kerosene motor, The entire machinery will weigh only 1,800 pounds, but the engines will develop great power, The builders guarantee a speed of 25 miles an hour, or a continuous run of 118 miles in five hours; Ac- cording to the contract, the boats must have made their speed trials before May 15, and be ready for delivery to their owners on that day. 2 ee ® The Marine Construction and Dry Dock Company, Mariner’s Harbor, S. L., are building a cruising launch for Mr. Alexander Stem from designs made by Messrs. Colven & Bickman. She is 61ft. over all; 55ft. waterline, oft. 6in. breadth and 3ft. gin. draft. The boat has con- siderable cabin accommodation, and she will be driven by a 45 horse-power engine. mE The two big auxiliaries building by the Townsend & Downey Shipbuilding Company, Shooters’ Island S,. I., are under way: Both are 12o0ft. on the waterline. One is for Mr. J. M. Masury and was designed by Messrs. aA. Cary Smith and Barbey, while the other is for Mr. Wilson Marshall and was designed by Messrs. Gardner & Cox. RRR Sir Thomas Lipton has offered another perpetual chal- lenge cup, all the boats belonging to Pacific Coast clubs being eligible to participate. The races are to be sailed at San Diego, Cal., under the auspices of the Corinthian Yen eRe The annual meeting of the Marine and Field Club was held at the club house on Gravesend Bay,, Tuesday evening, January 13, and the following officers were : elected: President, Edmund H. Driggs; Vice-President, THAMES HOUSE-BOAT KELPIE. (See plan.) Edward C. Platt; Secretary, Charles Martin Camp; Treasurer, J. Edward Way. The directors are Daniel E. Woodhull, class of 1904; John Mason Knox, Wadsworth Baylor, Willard F, Spalding, Palmer H. Jadwin and Alexander Chandler. RRR The Capital Y. C., of Washington, has elected the fol- lowing officers: Com., George Bright; Vice-Com., C. C. Wilkison; Record.-Sec’y, John E. Taylor; Cor,-Sec’y, E. P. Nussbaum; Treas., D. H. Fowler; Meas., W. W. Grier; Assist.-Meas., O. A. Danzenbaker; Governors, W, A. Frankland, L. H. Dyer and G. D. Fischer. RRR The Brown University Y. C. have elected the following officers: Com., Colgate Hoyt, Jr.; WVice-Com., R. G. Ostby ;- Sec.-Treas., C. S, Allen. em 2 ® The following have been nominted to serve the Atlantic Y. C. during the coming year. The annual meeting will be held on February 9, when the ticket will be voted on: Com., Robert E. Tod, schooner Thistle; Vice-Com., Ed- win Gould, steamer Alleen; Rear-Com., J. H. Flagler, auxiliary brigantine Allita; Sec’y, Louis F. Jackson: Treas, Charles T. Pierce; Meas., George Hill. Regatta Committee: Henry J. Gielow, Charles E. Schuyler, Prederick Vilmar. Membership Committee: William E. Sperling, George D .Provost, T. Alfred Vernon. Library Committee: S. L. Blood, Walter H. Nelson, Franklin D, L. Prentiss. Entertainment Committee: Edwin Hollis Low, Clarence H. Eagle, William A. Barstow. Trustees = J. Rogers Maxwell, Frederick T. Adams, Alfred W. Booth, J. Fred Ackerman, Spencer Swain, Robert P. Doremus. Nominating Committee—Spencer Swain, Ben- jamin M. Whitlock, Henry J. Robert, Charles J. McDer- mott, S. Edward Vernon, Walter Nelson. mR RK The trustees of the New Rochelle Y. €. have made the following nominations for officers and committees. The annual meeting will be held on February 7, at the club house at New Rochelle: Com., Henry Doscher; Vice- b. hei THAMES HOUSE-BOAT IBIS, AND TENDER. FOREST AND STREAM. es ig I THAMES HOUSE-BOAT MAVIS. he Photo by Marsh Bros., Henley, (JAN. 3t, to03, r= a Lok) (ee A Py II DA DIDIKN Ne BAI IIIA DIA RAIN it POA a SN ae {si j I z COO pe ‘, aS ' | | —s i <1 —————7 oo SF | i Bedroom Bedroom Bedroom Bedroom f i 5 ASa ma | | pes ee ee Saloon nat a, A A ad | I ee — 6 Passage x Dassage Kitchen. — es “aon | 1 Mbit Bedroom bedroom Smoking Room — | ee = ree Oo i eee a 7 ee ; =. =) OUTBOARD PROFILE AND PLAN Com., E. R. Dick; Rear-Com., J. P. Donovan; Sec’y, W. FE. Moore; Treas., John A. Van Zelm; Meas., F. R. Far- tington. Members of the Board of Trustees: W. A. Ctadelman, C, P. Pierson and W. N. Bavier. Members of the Regatta Committee: O. H. Chellborg, J. D. Spark- man, L. D. Huntington, Jr, D. W. Thomas and Stanley M. Seaman. Members of the Law Committee: John F. Lambden and F. H. Seacord. are The Moriches Y, C. held a meeting recently and adopted the changes in the rules adopted by a conference of the Associated Clubs of the South Side of Long Island, and suggested to the different organizations ; also passed favorably on the schedule of dates agreed upon by the conference and added two innovations in the way of re- gattas in these waters, namely a “Novice Race,’ open to catboats owned or chartered in East and Center Moriches (to be sailed by an amateur, not necessarily a club mem- ber) that has not won a prize in a regular club regatta. All the crack boats being debarred, this race is given to encourage a race between boats that ustially: have ‘little -- i chance in the regular club race OF THAMES HOUSE-BOAT KELPIE, SHOWING CENTER ‘SALOON ARRANGEMENT. ‘Boats entering this re- eatta must be under 2tft. racing length. Another new proposition for 1903 season isvan “Open Ladies’ Race,” epen to boats: owned or chartered’anywhere on the south side of Long Island; helmswoman‘dnd créwsto be ladies, ane man allowed on the sheet rope. This is only man to be allowed aboard. This race is open to catboats under ett. racing length. Prizes of silver have been_donated for these races by Commodore Dr. Wm. Carr; Secretary Harry Growtage and Governors John McAleenan and W. B, Growtage. ‘It is thought that these races will add: JAN. 31, 1003.) A FAVORITE HOUSE-BOAT REACH——_JUST ABOVE HENLEY BRIDGE. - . . ee 2 .. Photo by Marsh Bros., Henley. 2 gQ a ee ee Pe ee ae aa TELL GN eB be ate 6 NAR ALN, —— = = ———s Servants Bedroom bedroom Bedroom bedroom Kitchen Saloon Passage ————— === OUTBOARD PROFILE AND PLAN OF A TYPICAL THAMES HOUSE-BOAT, SHOWING FORWARD SALOON ARRANGEMENT. : interest to the yachting in these waters and help a great deal to promote the sport. The principal change in the rules is that which governs the racing length or change to the -Meastirement rule, which adds one quarter the overhang forward and ait to the waterline length. The schedule as it now stands will be as follows: Saturday, July 11—Regular club regatta. Saturday, August 8—Novice race. Saturday, August 15—Special members’ race. Wednesday, August 19—Ladies’ regatta. Wednesday, August 26—McAleenan cup race, Monday (Labor Day), Sept. 7 mR EF At the annual meeting of the Buffalo Y. C. the fol- lowing officers were elected: H. N. Vedder, Commodore; G. W. Maytham, Vice Commodore; N. O. Tiffany, Secretary and Treasurer; F. D. Wood, Measurer; Dr. E. P. Hussey, Fleet Sur- geon; W. F. White, G. D. Hayes, S. C. Ryan and L. F. Kendall, Directors; Walter Hayes and R. A. Henssler, Regatta Committee. Annual open regatta. Canoving. ————)—_—— CANOEING NEWS NOTES. To the Members of the American Canoe Association: Mr. H. Lansing Quick, of Yonkers, N. Y., is Acting Secretary-Treasurer until further notice, in the place of Mr, Louis Simpson, deceased, ep om: American Canoe Association. Yonkers, N. Y., Jan. 23.—Editor Forest and Stream: As you already know, Mr. Louis Simpson, Secretary- Treasurer of the American Canoe Association, died on December 11, 1902; I am taking charge of Secretaty- Treasurer affairs pending the election of his successor. In looking over the correspondence of the office, J fail to find any record of his notifying you of the action of the executive committee at the November meeting, i which the Forest AND STREAM was named as an official crgan of the Association, and trust that such action will be agreeable to you. ; I will notify the yice-commodore and pursers of each division to send to you such canoeing notices and news items as they may get during the year. H. Lanstne Quick, Acting Secretary-Treasurer. Canoeing at the Sportsmen’s Show. An event of interest to all canoeists will be the canoe tilting matches to be held on the artificial lake at the Sportsmen’s Show in Madison Square Garden, New York City, February 21 to March 7, inclusive. oP The prize list is a most liberal one and consists of: Two Abercrombie & Fitch $40 paddling canoes and four gold medals donated by the Sportsmen’s Association. Two pneumatic canoe cushions donated by the Pneu- matic Mattress and Cushion Company. Two brass canoe lights donated by C. B. Durkee & Co. One double and two single blade paddles donated by New York Boat and Oar Company. Two aluminum folding lanterns with leather cases donated by C. H, Stonebridge. One Bristol steel rod with agate and German silver trimmings donated by Horton Manufacturing Company. One safety ax No, 1, one canoe knife No. 2, one Handy Compass No. 2 donated by Marble Safety Ax Company. Aside from the sport, which can be practiced under ideal conditions at the garden, the prizes, which are par- ticularly adapted to canoeists’ needs will make this series of contests one long to be remembered by the canoeing fraternity. Applications for entry blanks, rules of the contests, etc., should be mailed to E. T. Keyser, P. O. Box 654, New York City. Rifle Bange and Gallery. ——o—_—— Manhattan Rifle and Revolver Association. New Yor«k, Jan. 11.—The Manhattan Rifle and Re- volver Association, of this city, has recently obtained new quarters, and these have been opened within a iew weeks to the members. For a long time the As- sociation’s headquarters and range were on Lenox avenue, near 127th street, but changes in the building and the increase in membership made remoyal to larger quarters imperative. A large basement at 2628 Broad- way, just below West tooth street, was leased, and this has been fitted up for a club room and range. Although the new quarters are not entirely finished to the satis- faction of the club, they are in such shape that shooting is carried on every Thursday night, which is the regular weekly shooting night, and judging from the increased attendance at the few shoots that have been held in the new range, the club is in a fair way to become one of, if not the largest, organizations of its kind in Man- hattan. The arrangement of the range is as follows: On entering the basement from Broadway, one finds him- self in a large room, at the opposite end of which are the revolver and pistol firing stands, eight in number, while on either hand, by ascending a couple of steps to a closed platform, one finds two rifle ranges, each sep- arated from the other by a narrow partition. By this arrangement the four rifle ranges are raised above the revolver ranges, and separated from them by partitions and walls. Not only is the space for shooters enlarged, within the limits of the basement, but the full length of the basement is obtained for rifle shooting, making these ranges 75 feet in length, while those for revolver practice are the regulation length of 20 yards. Thus the riflemen shoot over the heads of the devotees to re- volver shooting, and the 5 yards or more of space saved by this means is given up to tables and chairs for the convenience of members while they are not shooting, and for the comfort of visitors. Each shooting stand for the revolver men is provided with a door some 7 feet high by 2 in width; a shelf for arms and ammunition, a towel, and a large wheel with a handle, which is connected with and controls the “trolley” carrying the paper target to and from the bulkheads in the rear of the basement. It is hardly necessary to explain the working of this “trolley” sys-: tem of handling targets for the benefit of shooters in general, but for those who have not shot in ranges where this system is used, it should be said that each range is provided with a set of wires, extending over- head from shooting stand to bulkhead, and on these wires an iron clamp or hanger is suspended and so arranged that through the wheel, pulleys and cords the hanger bearing the target may be sent down to the bulkhead to be shot at, and returned when a score is finished, all by a few turns of the controlling wheel, which is made fast to the partition beside the shooter. As these “trolleys” alone handle the targets, and there is seldom need of any person entering the range itself, the danger of accidents is to very large extent elimi- nated. Another precaution is taken in the strict rule which forbids the loading of any weapon except in the actual preparation for shooting, and only then when the arm is pointed toward the target. ; Entering one of the four rifle ranges, one finds it boxed in completely to a point beyond the revolver shooting stands, so that these, too, are safety ranges, FOREST AND STREAM. Each one has its bicycle wheel and handle, and, as the targets must be propelled a distance of 25 yards instead of 20, as in the revolver ranges, some of the wheels ‘are geared up and act as multiplying reels do in taking up line for the fisherman. In this manner the energy of the rifleman is saved for shooting. _ The basement has good stone walls, but every target is provided with a large steel plate, which stops and fiattens the bullets, so that they drop harmlessly to the floor. Every plate is made fast to its backing at a slight angle from the vertical, so that when a bullet glances with any force, its direction must be downward into bins placed to catch it. Only one of the revolver ranges is less than the regulation length of 20 yards, and this one is for the use of beginners, or those who wish to try small pocket revolvers with plain sights, which would hardly do good work at 60 feet; and for testing squib charges in the revolvers. The targets are lighted with gas jets, but the club’s lighting arrange- ments are not as yet complete, as in a short time the best lights and reflectors known will be installed. Only nitro powder ammunition is used by the revolver shoot- ers as a rule, and even when a number of men are shooting large caliber revolvers, the ranges are never unpleasantly filled with smoke. Steam heat renders the place comfortable in winter, while in warm weather —for the members shoot on their indoor ranges throughout the summer—the large doors at the en- trance may be left open. The initiation fee and the dues of this club are very reasonable, while the hand of welcome is held out to all persons who are fond of practice with either the .22- caliber rifle, the revolver or the pistol. The club is young, and yet it has made some satisfactory records in matches with other clubs. It also holds shoots every Saturday afternoon in Armbruster’s Park at Green- ville, N. J., at 50 yards with reyolvers and pistols, and at 200 yards with rifles. Cincinnati Rifle Association, Cincrnnatr, O.,—At the regular meeting of this Association on Jan, 18 the following scores were made. Mr. Hasenzahl was out again after a six weeks’ illness, and shot in his usual good form. Mr. Payne was high man with 90. Conditions, 200yds., offhand, Standard target: itpagets By Qate cee 90 88 84 84 84 Gindele ............ 85 83 82 80 78 Hasenzahl ........ 89 89 89 86 88 Hoffman .......... 82 81 77 73 73 Niestler ..c.0c. eee. 88 85 83 88 82 Trounstine .,...... 81 79 74 73 68 Tole Weead seer ee ee ce 88 81 80 78 74 LOT oni guitars «08 77 TI 76 T4 Roberts .......5++. 87 85 83 84.83 Jonscher .......... 78 74 72 69 69 Niel. weubee eile 86 79 78 74 74 Freitag ............74 73 71 70 67 Strickmeier ....... 85 84 838 8279 Drube ..........005 73 65 G2... .. Honor target: Payne 25, Hasenzahl 30, Nestler 27, Lux 26, Roberts 25, Odell 23, Gindele 29, Hoffman 19, Trounstine 26, Hofer 16, Jonscher 18, Freitag 21, Drube 20. Grapshooting. Fixtures. If you want yout shoot to be ansounced here seni 2 notice like the following: —Ss ae! Feb. 3-4.—Savannah, Ga.—Forest City Gun Club's invitation shoot at live birds. . Feb. 10-14.—Detroit, Mich—Open tournament under the auspices of the Tri-State Automobile and Sporting Goods Association. Targets and live birds, John Parker, manager; S. G. Lewis, Secretary-Treasurer. = Feb. 12.—Rutherford, N. J—All-day target shoot of the Boiling Springs Gun Club on Lincoln’s Birthday. C. B. Axford, Sec'y. Feb. 18,—Allentown, Pa.—Two days’ target tournament at Duck Farm Hotel. Alfred Griesemer, Prop. hs Feb. 20-21.—New Orleans, La.—First_tournament of ithe Missis- sippi Valley Trapshooters’ and Game Protective Association; Car- nival Week, under auspices of the City Park Gun Club; $500 added, Percy S. Benedict, Sec’y. F Feb. 23.—Ossining, N. Y.—Ossining Gun Club’s Washington’s Birthday shoot. C. G. Blandford, Capt. , Feb, 23.—Lynn, Mass.—Holiday shoot of the Birch Brook Gun Club. April 7-10.—St. Joseph, Mo.—Tournament of the Missouri State Game and Fish Protective Association. F. B. Cunningham, Sec- retary- Manager. ; Se April 1417.—Kansas City, Mo.—The Interstate Association’s fourth Grand American Handicap at targets, at Blue River Shoot- ing Park. One thousand dollars added to the purses. Elmer E. Shaner, Secretary-Manager, 111 Fourth avenue, Pittsburg, Pa. _ April 20—Springfield, Mass.—Spring tournament of the Spring- field Gun Club. C. L. Kites, See’y. ; ; May —.—Lincoln, Neb.—Nebraska State Sportsmen’s Associa- tion’s twenty-seventh annual tournament, under the auspices of the Lincoln Gun Club, T. E. Mockett, Sec’y. May 6-7,—Lafayette, Ind.—Lafayette Gun Club’s tournament. May 9-10,—Chicago, Ill.—Spring tournament of the Grand Cres- cent Gun Club. Ae, May 12-15,—Interstate Park, L. I.—The Interstate Association’s fifth Grand American Handicap at targets; $1,000 added to the urses. Elmer E. Shaner, Secretary-Manager, 111 Fourth avenue, ‘ittsburg, Pa. . . P i May 19-22.—Wissinoming, Philadelphia.—Thirteenth annual tour- nament of the Pennsylvania State Sportsmen’s Assogjation, under auspices of the Florists’ Gun Club of Philadelphia. V. V. Dorp, “May 91-22.—Kenton, O.—Shoot of the Kenton Gun Club. A. G. Merri , Sec’y-Treas. . May 27-29.—Fort Wayne, Ind.—Three-day live-bird and_ target tournament of the Corner Rod and Gun Club. John Y. Linker, y: eel A May 27-29.—Williamsport, Pa.—The Interstate Association’s tour- ea ie under the auspices of the West Branch Rod and Gun Club. H. A. Dimick, Sec’y. May 29-30.—Union City, Ind.—Spring tournament of the Parent . rove Gun Club. ‘ aise 30.—Detroit, Mich.—Winchester Gun Club’s Decoration Day third annual tournament; all day. Rose system and average rizes, Sliding handicap, 16, 18 and 20yds., D. A. Hitchcock, *y-Treas. Fane —.—Schenectady, N. Y.—New York State shoot, under auspices of the Schenectady Gun Club. cue June 3-4,—Boston, Mass.—The Interstate Association’s tour- nament, under the auspices of the Boston Shooting Association. O. R. Dickey, Sec’y. ’ June 3-5.—Parkersburg, W. Va.—Sixth annual tournament of the West Virginia Sportsmen’s Association, under auspices of Ohio Valley Shooting Association. _ ; June 45.—Greenville, O.—Spring tournament of the Greenville Gun Club. ‘ ; une 91.—Sioux City, Ia.—Ninth annual amateur tournament of the Soo Gun Clyb. B, F. Duncan, ec’y. June 9-11.—Cineinnati, O.—Seventeenth annual target tourna- ment of the Ohio Trapshooters’ Drak ue: Chas. T. Dreihs, Sec’y. June 1619.—Warm Springs, Ga.—The Interstate Association’s tournament, under the auspices of the Meriwether Gun (Club. Chas. L. Davis, See , June 16-18—New London, Ta,—Seventh annual midsymmer tar- get tournament of the New London Gun Club. A July 30-Aug. 1—Viroqua, Wis.—The Interstate Association’s tournament, under the auspices of the Viroqua Rod and Gun Club. dr. R. W. Baldwin, Sec’y. - > Aug. 19-20,—Ottawa, Ill—The Interstate Association’s tourna- ment, under the auspices of the Rainmakers’ Gun Club. Paul A. Selembier, Sec’y. _ other events wil Jar. 3t, 1003. DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. The programme of the first grand sportsman’s handicap and shooting tournament at live birds and targets, to be held at De- troit, Mich., Feb. 10 to 14, under the auspices of the Tri-State Automobile and Sporting Goods Association, is now ready for distribution. Competition is open to the world. Added money $500 in cash. The managers are Messrs, John Parker, J. L. Head and A, D. Caldwell, all thoroughly experienced and competent gentlemen, The programme is as follows: First day, targets, eight events; six at 20, $10 added; two at 25 targets, $15 added, entrance $2 and $2.50. Second day, eight events at 20 targets, entrance $2; $10 added. On each of these days shooting com- mences at 9:30, and $10 cash is added for best average each day. Third day, commencing at 9 o’clock, live birds: Event. 1, 6 birds, $6, 30, 25, 20, 15 and 10 per cent., high guns. Event 2, 9 birds, $9, 22, 18, 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 5 and 4 per cent., high guns. After these, the main event, the Gilman & Barnes international live-bird trophy, 15 birds, $15, $50 added, high guns, three moneys for every ten entries. Fourth day, commencing at 9 o’clock, the sportsman’s grand handicap trophy is next in order. Conditions, 25 live birds, $25; $200 added, high guns; three moneys for every ten entries, Entries must be made on application blanks, a copy of which is sent with each programme. Fifth day, commencin at 10 o’clock, the grand sportsman’s handicap will be finished, and ties on the trophy shot off miss-and-out. Handicaps in live- bird events, 26 to 32yds.; on targets, 16 to 2lyds. rand average money, $50. Grounds open for practice Feb. 9. Ship shells, etc., to J. A. Marks, 93 Woodward avenue, Detroit. Three sets of live traps, and three sets of target traps. Handicap committee, W. W. McQueen, C. W. Phellis, Emil Werk, E. J. Cady and H. D. Bates. Apply to Seneca G. Lewis, corresponding secretary, P. O, Box 5, Detroit, Mich., for catalogue and other information, ® The Interstate Association will hold a meeting in the near future, probably on Feb. 4, for the purpose of readjusting the official staff of that body, as a consequence of Capt. J. A. H. Dressel’s resignation, which he sent to the I. A. several days ago, The severance of Capt. Dressel from active participation in trap- shooting interésts has caused profound regret among all classes of trapshooters. Could Capt. Dressel have heard even a fraction of the regrets expressed at his withdrawal, and the spontaneous expressions of personal esteem and friendship, he would discover that he held a host of warm friendships which were entirely apart from mereenary considerations. * Mr. Paul R. Litzke, of Little Roek, Ark., under date of Jan. 23, writes us as follows: “We are arranging to hold an open contest for the live-bird championship of the State and the Peters Car- tridge Co, trophy, emblematic thereof, on Feb. 18. The condi- tions of the events are 25 live birds per man, 30yds. rise, entrance simply price of birds, though an optional sweep will be run in con- nection therewith. Owing to the fact that it is customary to de- cide these cyents in one day, we are forced to restrict the entries to residents of the State, and those who desire to participate must make their entries by Feb. 10, and this must be accompanied by a forfeit of $5, which can be sent to Paul R, Litzke, Little Rock, Ark., secretary of the Arkansas State Sportsmen’s Association.” " The large circle of friends of Dr. Wm. Wynn, who is eminently distinguished both as one of Brooklyn’s best citizens, and one of America’s best trap shots, will rejoice om learning that he is con- valescing steadily from his recent attack of typhoid pneumonia, which at one time was exceedingly serious. So soon as his con- dition will warrant the effort, he will go to Florida to recuperate, where the air is soit and sweet, where flowers bloom perennially, and where the game birds and the game fishes dwell with the latch string always hanging on the outside. May good health quickly return to him, and his charming companionship be saved for many, many years more to his friends. : Mr. J. 5. S. Remsen, best known to trapshooters as one of the most skillful trapshooters of the Crescent Athletic Club, is con- yalescing from a severe attack which was very close to developing pneumonia. He was a visitor in the gun colony this week, and while feeling well, was still somewhat pale and drawn. He con- templated a southern trip to Palm Beach, Florida, stopping off en route to participate in the live-bird competition of the Forest Cit Gun Sete eR sfeck, Feb. 3 and 4; but now, while he will take the trip to Florida, participation ig the great shoot afore- mentioned is impossible, ; 7 The Birch Brook Gun Ciub, Lynn, Mass,, have arranged for a shoot to celebrate Washington’s Birthday, on Feb. 23, There are twelve events on the programme, alternately 15 and 10, a total of 150, Events 5, 6 and 7 will constitute a prize event; prizes, $6, $2.50 and $1 in pola. Handicaps in prize event, 16 to 2lyds. All be shot from the regular distance, No entrance fee. Targets, 14% cents, Lunch free. Loaded shells obtainable on the grounds. Shooting commences at 9 o’clock, Committee: Messrs. J. C. Hamley, J. Walter Hay, C. F. Lambert and Frank Hilliard. x Capt. J. A. H. Dressel, successfully eminent in the ammunition trade, in trapshooting competition, and peerless in the realm of good fellowship, resigned his office with the U. M. C. Co. early last week. His show interests have grown so great, and are becoming so profitable that he at present contemplates devoting his whole attention to them, their scope covering both New York and Chicago. While the show interests are distinct gainers by the change, trapshooters and trapshooting are correspondingly distinct losers. We heartily wish Capt. Dressel every success. x Old Cyclone is dead. He died a few days ago. He was famous in connection with trapshooting. competition in America, and as he died of old age, it is proof that trapshooting is conducive to longevity. He was well known to trapshooters far and near. He was better known as “Old Cy,” the old pointer-retriever of Wat- son’s Park, Burnside Crossing, Ill. He retrieved birds in some of the most important events, matches and tournaments, that ever were shot, R The corresponding secretary, Mr. A. A. Schoverling, informs us that the next shoot of the Fulton Gun Club, Brooklyn, N. Y., will be held on Lincoln’s Birthday, Feb. 12. Prizes will be offered for competition. Lunch will be served free. Shooting commences at 10 o’clock. Take Kings County L from Brooklyn Bridge to Crescent street station, of Broadway L trom Twenty-third and Forty-second street ferries, to Crescent street station. ¥, The shoot of the Ossining, N. Y., Gun Club, on Jan, 24, was a distinct success. In the “guns down’ event, the prize was won by Hans with a clean score of 25. The next trophy event, 10 pairs, all contestants at scratch, was won by the energetic captain of the club, Mr. C. G. Blandford. The consolation cup, a handi- cap contest, was won by Mr. A. Bedell. The next cup shoot will be held on Lincoln’s Birthday, Feb. 12. &® Mr, Elmer E. Shaner, secretary-manager of the I. A., writes us under date of Jan. 24 as follows: “The Interstate Association has erfected arrangements to give tournaments at Williamsport, Pa., May 27. 28 and 29, under the auspices of the West Branch Rod and Gun Club, and at Boston, Mass., June 3 and 4, under the auspices of the Boston Shooting Association.” ® Mr. Harold Money is due in New York this week. For some weeks past he has been visiting in England, taking a needed vaca- tion, and at the same time resting his injured eye, which, for- tunately, is fully recovering from the effects of the gunshot wound which was accidentally inflicted while shooting ruffed grouse last season. ® Mr. C. B. Axford, secretary, writes us as follows: “The Boiling Springs Fishing and Gun Club, of Rutherford, N, iy will hold an all-day target shoot on Lincoln’s Birthday, Feb. 12, 1908. Ali shooters are welcome, and especially local gunners are requested to be here on that day, Handicap events. Lunch on grounds,” Jan. 31, 1903.] FOREST *AND STREAM, 99 Secretary €. L.. Kites informs us that the fixing of the Spring- field, Mass., Shooting Club’s tournament on April 19 was an error, and that the date of that tournament has been changed to April 20. o -Mr. Edward Banks left New York on Friday of last week, Sonthward bound to Richmond, Wa., in which historical city he will spend a week visiting his brother, who is engaged in business in that city. * ‘The fourth contest for the January cup of the Crescent Athletic Club was won at Bay Ridge, L, I., on Saturday of last week by Mr. L, ©. Hopkins, who scored a full 50 under the conditions of the contests. x _The' Soo Gun Club, of Sioux City, Ia., through its secretary, ©. W Duncan, announces that its ninth annual amateur tournament will be held on June 9, 10 and 11. & The Oceanic Rod and Gun Club annotinces that a regular con- test at targets will be held on Feb. 1, at Rockaway Park, L. I. Targets, 14% cents. . 5 The Fudersld Gun Club, of New York, will hold its last shoot of this season on Feb. 17. BERNARD WATERS. ON LONG ISLAND. Crescent Athletic Club, Bay Ridge, L. J., Jan. 17.—Mr. W. W. Marshall scored’ a win on the January cup at the shoot of the Crescent A. C. to-day. In the shoot for the special scratch trophy, Harry M. Brigham and F. T. Bedford, Jr., scored 87. In the shoot-off, decided in the January cup contest, Brigham won, The scores: January cup, 50 targets, handicap: Hdep. Brk. Tot’l Hdep. Brk, Tot’. Total, W. W. Marshall......,.<5+s< ya SY Re ipa alam G25 50 Ins GeHopiinstccs... He fileses 0 20 25 5 19 24 49 AW Palmer........ te fee 4 22 25 4 20 24 49 H M Brigham............ On 245 ae 0 24 24 48 Wreibpalsy hat sia sees seed + 3 20 23 3 PAL 24 47 REPS CATR pean sha ve Nite 19 21 2 24 25 46 FB Stephenson..<..sccs.c.. 1 24 25 ee) 21 46 TDP ARS YES caetateasddecgen 22 23 i 20 21 44 is" Shepard ye ean ten Sette, ee yeas fig “Rie SAY 43 G) Bennett. . 352.25 esr eb 20 25 5 13 18 43 Dr O’Brien Boy dose vl! 5b 1b 20 41 Edward Banks.....,. 0 20 20 0 21 21 Ay ADR liativieassersesce eUe 20) 20) Oe al ral 41 HB Vanderveer........555 3 18 21 3 16 19 40 Fifteen targets, handicap: Bedford (1) 15, Marshall (8) 15, Pool (2) 15; Banks (0) 14, Keyes (1) 14, Hopkins (8) 13, Brigham (0) 12, Bennett () 12, Shepard (4) 11, Money (0) 10. Shoot-off, 15 targets: Marshall (8) 15, Pool (2) 12, Bedford (1) 12: Crescent Gun Club, Bay Ridge, L. L, Jan. 24.—-Mr. L. C. Hopkins won in the fourth contest for the January cup at the shoot of the Crescent Athletic Club to-day. The scores: : January cup, 50 targets per man, handicap allowance: Hdep. Brk, Tot’l. Hdcp. Brk, Tot]. Total. L C Hopkins........ retary) EL eels: be R200 5 50 Wr eStakers Canine aes Beli Bees 5 20° 625 47 Dr G E Pool...... cy allt aie Ai) ES 42 W W Marshall... fh salis 978 fi aks Al 44 A’ W. Palmer....-.. pet ay 6 4 21 25 41 Dr HL O’Brieh........- ee salty 822 Dee De ES 40 IDUR, leeabiopth Ween Bore ere Be alien 18: Ze eS: 39 Trophy, 15 targets per man, handicap allowance: Hdep, Brk. Total. Hdcp, Brk, Total, Dr HL O’Brien..8 It 14 T W Stake..,,,,..3 Ry 1 R I Wigham..... 3 ii i144 ##=43#H C Chapman....4 ie wil! Dr G E Pool...... is Shiba ak; W W_Marshall....3 6 9 AW Palmer....... PA“T bk) 681 F T Bedford, Jr...1 8 4) H B Wanderyeer..2 10 £12 Shoot-off, same conditions, next event: Hdcp. Brk. Total. R I Wigham...... 3 ie 10 Trophy shoot, 15 targets: Hdep. Brk. Total. Hdep. Brk, Total. DriOzBreneeenpe nll le Hdep. Brk. Total. 9s 12 H€ Chapman:...4 10 14 #T W Stake..... cee Dr LO’ Biien..2 it 14 j.F T Bedford) Jr 10° 1 W W Marshall....8 11 14 =jQL C Hopkins..... 3 Ree wh Ti B Vanderveer..2 12 14 R I Wigham...... a Ti. 20 A W Palmer..... Tor et WS Shoot-off, same conditions: Hdep. Brk. Total. WVanderveer .......2 12 14 Chapman .........4 fy aul Trophy shoot, 15 targets: GuUBrichieeessdde i. u Marshall ..00.2... 3 6 9 Hdep. Brk. Total. Hdep. Bri. Total. A W Palmer.,..... 2 13 46 FE T Bedford, Jr. .2 mel I! R I Wigham...... ee tl ed: H B Vanderveer, .2 9 i a Vinessitlcbe eo ee ae Boe Ur 13 W W Marshall....3 7 10 Match, 26 targets, scratch: A. W. Palmer 20, R. I. Wigham 17, F. T. Bedford, Jr., 11. ‘Brooklyn Gun Club. Brooklyn, L, J., Jan. 24—There was an unusual gathering of shooters at John Wrighi’s Saturday matinee to-day. There were some newcomers, whose advent at the traps hereabouts is a de- cided gain. These were Mr. Nash, recently of Indianapolis, now of New York; Mr. McGraw, of New York, who was shooting a strange gun, which, fitting badly, punished him severely and impaired his shooting, Mr. T. Elmer Batten had a new sun, which fitted him admirably, and although he had not shot at the traps in years save recently once or twice, he was smashing his targets m good time, centering them well, and holding his own well with the regulars. The weather was cloudy and uncom- fortably raw and cold, a stiff wind blew most of the time, and there was a dark, wintry light, which presaged a downfall of snow. The making of good scores was exceedingly difficult under the weather conditions and numb fingers. Mr. W. Hopkins, of Aque- duct, was the leading contestant of the meeting. He broke an even 90 out of 100 targets. The scores follow: Events: Ne GO. ne es Ol Targets 10:10 15 15 25 15 25 10 16 15 Waters ~....ceues isecacecececccrd (it gihpet) Gbpakh Gey oy Eb. ay WAG" Oo ieechssetccssseteas cues te ON seen eeie il a sk aes AMES se reelesieiss bietemuaeris fine pda (eRe te Lie oye wil oe be Welles rsienen init NEA Ase ee mb yt ath a al ak bane Gapip WiGnt We saastaceetot sn .ch ee es) nl a et er ISGTARR tal ys 29449 Aye eee La et Cie Tm oe eR Te 1conye) a7 bea eee Vein etre 2 ge ee, Ya Se a) fa Ah Hae -UE Gre CCE ELLA ar ede eel eerie TARO OR Oe rg DicGrawe ruven! sreee ke laeae gett LRA ROE. “Shake lets ora Hitch cocks Saageuleedes Pie atee mh spk SR kt yee A Band ens es tyyatdddaagdceee eves cick ae ee Tela, clit me hs MiGHimati / iesdecaae>asdee- see © 3 3 oS 1d 3 ian Newton --..... sie weins bast eae Saeed oaelge iba an, oS Sked See ere asananiebecsett ht foot 8 0. eaten Wolshifs@n evict hicei ks savesesae ry ee TT ae 4 OM Gaps hl See i, eee Wiitotite| yee, es eee ee EO, tore Jee Ace fe Nonpareil Gun Club, Curtcaco, Ill.—Following are the scores of the Nonpareil Gun Club, made at Watson’s Park, Burnside Crossing: WD Stannard. ... 2.0.10. -.s5-5es- 1001111111110011111010111—19 ——- 240011111.091.110111111111 23 43, R Kuss ...... pepe n eee e seen ees ee LEUTIIIIIIIIII11111111110—24 1101011 0101111171101. 0000—146—40 S Young :........ Sirhecerei terrier ec 1000100111,001111000100110—12 1004011119111 0111111112132 Practice: Kuss shot at 65 and broke 47; Stannard shot at 45 and broke 35; Young shot at 16 and broke 13, ' JoHN Watson, Hdep. Brk. Total. . vi 10 Ossining Gun Club. Ossininc, N. Y., Jan. 24.—I am Reape pen ere ta scores of our most successful cup shoot, held Jan. 24, Fifteen was a good turn- out for a bleak January day, If the weather had been warm probably twenty-five members would have put in an appearance. The first event was for a handsome silver berry dish. Some of the boys have been itching for an event to be shot “guns down,” so this first event was made guns down. This term was inter- preted somewhat differently by the shooters, Some held gun below elbow, notably A. Rohr; some below armpit till the bird appeared, while others called “pull,” and in the slight interval between the word and bird put their guns to shoulders, which was different only in a very small degree from ordinary clay bird form. Howeyer, as no particular position was designated, it was a case of “everything goes.” If at any time in the future prizes are offered for “guns down” position, very close refereeing will be necessary. Hans showed up very strong in this event; with his handicap allowance of 4 misses as breaks he got a clean Score, which gave him_a lead of 4 birds over the next highest, 21 made by Barlow and Coleman: Brk. Hdep. Total. Brk. Hdep. Total. BUBearsasepstsees 17 3 20 J Barlow........ 17 4 21 D Brandreth... 17 3 20 W Coleman..... 18 a 21 R Kromer, Jr., 14 1 15 A Rohr. ....55.. 4 10 14 J Carpenter..... 17 a 20 CC Blandford,,,. 17 0 17 lar Se Bie warlaaead. 4 25 The next cup was at 10 pairs, all scratch, This was won by C. G, Blandford with a score of 17 out of 20, with Coleman and Clark but one bird each behind, Pee es ee frau A tie inet rriieeets 10 10 11 10 10 10 10 10 11 10—12 Di (Brandreth cc le a eeaaes seuaee LL 10 00 10 11 10 11 11 10 00—12 Re Kromiery Jiri. caesass ww eaetre tt 10 10 11 10 11 11 00 11 10 11—14 PPT airise” oe Seige oracle girs Wn es he hea ee 10 11 10 00 10 10 10 11 10 11-12 RE AILOW Ue nn Reh a aes eens 10 10 10 11 11 10 10 11 11 10—14 WMS Lemiain g nee Oy | siete es satiaiciicine 5 11 11 00 10 10 11 11 «11 «11: 11—16 (GUmtGe Aattcnanab yep cel Je pen Gnsnas sao .».» 1011 11 11 11:11:10 11:11: 10—17 \idel eh Dain idl eA ee huh: ei etingee ease 11 10 11 11 10 10 10 00 11 00—12 WL Glan eae neo e ee ee ee ee 10 14 11:10 12:11 10 10 11 1116 AS Bedell saree eee frees 11 11 10 11:10 11:10 10 11 10—15 The third cup was, from an entrance standpoint, the most popu- lar, ‘The handicaps were well placed, as the scores well testify. Clark and Barlow were the high men, with possible scores, Clark, who had the say by right of lowest handicap as to how the tie should be decided, generously allowed Barlow the choice, who chose to shoot under original conditions. Clark won out on the next eyent by one bird. Brk, Eidee Totaly Brk. Hdcp. Total. D Brandreth... 21 4 *C Blandford... 24 0 24 R Kromer, Jr.. 16 1 17 W Highland q 23 J Carpenter.... 18 3 21 W-.Clark ....... 3 25 LA SIZES ogcosnore 14 3 17 W Fisher 5 24 J Barlow ...... 21 4 25 E Ball 1 20 W Coleman ... 21 3 24 J Foley ...... ve 23 AS Rohri 9 12 21 «=A Bedell ....... 20 1 yal * Shot along. While on account of approaching darkness it was deemed ad- visable by most of the shooters to Agchiagale the shooting for the handsome consolation cup offered by the president of the club, Col. Franklin Brandreth, some thought it should have been shot for. There were six left eligible to shoot for it, and the handicaps were changed according to the scores made in the previous events of the day. Coleman, who had missed final action on all three of the other cups, won out, and all were glad of it. 4 The last event was for a 12-pound striped bass fresh from the Hudson, presented by Thanny Tuttle, distance handicaps 16 to 18yds. Bedell won with a straight score of 10, while Barlow and Fisher divided the money, The next cup shoot will be held on Lincoln’s Birthday, Feb. 12. Two cups will be shot for; one a handicap, and one scratch; both to be won three times to own. Broke. Hdcp. Total. Yards. Broke. w eG IU Brafidreth ey. s-cesenancoeg ree. 5 6 Re ksionrer, Jr... Rhee ton ben mae 19 4 23 WW 6 RACAL DETILGIMN tina: occa tainseevousas 18 4 22 17 8 Uso Rea tiooHeccosHeSnt brmredcannal ly 4 20 16 9 Wi Goleman ew etswecesasaetedte ce 20 4 24 17 6 WeriClarks SEee i Paes +-.-18 3 21 17 6 J Poléy® 2osessandas Fes aa tte teed 8 23 16 5 ines A Aono reriniai 5 50 500 Kcr 35 16 & SVMS Liexomsl areal stetetetars tre sletalaiaie resect ielehte A 16 § A Bedell ...t....... Riatelsiettrelaslecsieisiente - ; 18 10 Cc. G. B. Poughkeepsie Gun Club. PouGHKEEBSIE, N. Y., Jan. 24.—The regular weekly shoot of this club to-day brought out eight men, all regulars except Mr. Smith, who is a new member, this being his first attempt at trapshooting. Under most unfavorable conditions of the weather—it, being ex- tremely cold—with a strong north wind blowing directly into the faces of the shooters, sending a chill through the whole body that seemed to freeze the very blood in one’s veins, these eight en- thusiasts—in this case, cold enthusiasts—shot off three 25-bird events. Event No. 2 was for a box of fine Havanas, donated by Mr. A. J. Du Bois, the popular secretary of the club. Mr. W. A. Adriance, notwithstanding the unfavorable weather conditions, secred 24 in this event. He didn’t carry off the prize, however— not he! He just passed those cigars around among the boys, did for a while there were “cigars to burn” around the old club cuse. The next and last event was a four-man team event, Missers vs. Hitters. The Hitters ‘‘made a hit,’ and the Missers missed it by two points; therefore had to pay for the other fellows’ fun, But revenge is sweet. Next week let the Hitters beware, the Missers have it in for them. The Missers may become Hitters, and the Hitters, Missers. The scores: Events: ah PB Events: 1 2 Targets: 25 25 25 Targets 26 25 25 PLATA GEL sine sa ce os ne spre, ei DTAVET ne embeded dey 13 19 16 Wieticnealin seenyes acne 221613 Dw Bois ........... sore» 15 16 19 DHetlcetmesatanaesesesa nts 141918 Winans ......,-.e0erss ». 16 1419 Condit elses. apace ueen TOOR200 USmithy We. ese ius pat 7 810 SNANIWEH, Keystone Shooting Leagte, PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan, 17.—There was a fairly good attendance at the weekly shoot of the Keystone Shooting League to-day. The birds were a good lot. Hobbs killed straight in the club handicap, 26 to 30yds., 10 birds. The scores: Delaney, 26....,... 00*1201120— 5 McCoy, 29........-. 2*22222222— 9 J) Morris, 27. -yecs0: 0120112222— 8 Virdin, 28.. - -1012100222— 7 Hobbs, 28.......+...2222222222 10 Harrison, 28.. -222121*112— 9 Jackson mec ereraces 2200022022— 6 Morris, Jr, 27...... 1110202002— 6 Van Loon killed straight in the officers’ trophy event, 15 birds, handicap rise: Delaney, 28... .220121021221222 18 Virdin, 28.....222211111012200—12 J_Morris, 27. ..221220202212121 13 Harrison, 28,..211022*01112012—11 Hobbs, 28..... *22222222122221—14 Wayne, 28.,...221222120212999 14 Jackson, 28. ...022202221012102—14 Wan Loon, 28.221222291199192 15 McCoy, 29,,...222121222212220—14 Miss-and-out event, $1 entrance: JaAGKSAYs fihihicieese ree ces 222—3 McCoy ..ccoseescee moiteygee 210—2 Vain Gon vrrescecrnes eae s222—oy (Wayne sites. le cecoeae eve vtlO—2 VEOET ISU aes sess weenntiatud 120—2 Delaney ......-.-cc-0e ovee L00—1L Winchester Gun Club, Detroit, Mich.—The second shoot of the year, Jan. 24, was shot under rigorous conditions, and further handicapping than the weather was hardly necessary. Guthard outshot Class A in the club event, and also led in the trophy handicap. Following are the scores, the seventh being the handicap, and the last the club event: Events: Diet, Oy Se (Sige Gets a8 Targets: 10 10 10 15 15 165 25 25 Brodie ....., CIOs pelon py s.E. Sate rtya4944 8 3 3:10 8 .. 14 17 Guthard ......... RRELROM EE onee ese edad SES gE ak ibe ee Qolsiia. Seebesereueds nee testeeverssoses co op & 145 °8 11 46 15 Hatchcgoke Gadi pcnanare ee Boe ey AUS 6 Fier speed 6 2219 Barthel .......... eveesviettaras Poche a kemece meat Bs tee ai ie eitit Hlavitz™ sede tan Ganda see eee caraaresctamea He 89 he ep Sees Hawthory seseessspeeeryedoesseareryees 2% 39 oe GB ve D ae 72 tee Chicago—Milwaukee. . Mitwavuker, Wis., Jan. 17.—The Nonpareil Gun Club, of Chi- cago, and the South Side Gun Club, of Milwaukee, met in friendly rivalry to-day, the competition being an eleven-man team match, 10 birds per man. The Nonpareil won by a score of 101 to 89. There was a large attendance of spectators, many of whom were friends of the shooters. From beginning to end, the meeting was a pleasing success, Four straight scores were made, one by Mr. C. P. Shumway, of the South Side team, and three by Nonpareils, namely, Messrs. Lord, G. Roll and ©. Von Lengerke. . The Nonpareil team was composed of some of the most reliable shooters about Chicago, and it was expected that they wovild per- form well to a certainty. At the close of the shoot Mr. Rutledge, in a neat speech, told the members of the Chicago team how glad the South Side Gun Club was to meet them socially, but that there was a tinge of regret connected with their professional acquaint- ance. The visitors were asked to come again, and promised to do so. The local team will probably shoot a return engagement in Chicago in the near futtire. It was a Ward day to shoot at live birds. The only'thing favor- able was the light. It was in this respect perfect. The wind was strong and in the wrong direction, and it was so cold that before a man had shot his 10 birds, he was often numb with the cold, which interfered with his shooting. The team shoot had results as follows: South Side Gun Club Team. Nonpareil Gun: Club Team. Biisiiewaekearases 01*1272212— 7 Willard .....0, 1210222212— 9 Rutledge .......0222222222 — 9 WaT LO te s aera 10 4 -400 iiss a Ge ae 7 oy ate 7 55 20 363 PARTEROTD «lel viawdesacsmcte oad 12.4 3 = 0 55 34 608 PUITIRERAGTLS cstaeiinls elo nial nee mee 101610 .. .. 1611 90 63 700 INDSTSAS mea vst este cceoe Dee 1014131013.... 90 60 666 Itai | See See eee ee ee eset) 40 23 576 Robbins Ay 20 10 500 P Brown 12.9 35 21 600 Hull : ae 20 8 400 C Scane 12 15 12 800 Gooch 6 15 6 400 Jan. 14, Second Day. There was a moderate wind and good light and fair weather. The scores: Events 123 406 678 9 Shot Targets 10 20 15 20 20 15 20 20 15 at. Broke. Av. LOPE AERP AR rig T1H1016151314180 155 119 - 167 (is) ites ie a ES See 517141118111617138 155 121 -780 H T.Westbrook...... 616101216 8 811 7 155 94 -606 BY (Ss Merathith 22505 --- 10141514 2010181614 165 131 «845 Mitchell ...... --. 10 14.14 14 17 1117 19 10 155 48=-« 126 812 Raspberry ... ey ad he RRS ES So! 25 14 560 R C Root., 81810141413 8138 6 155 99 -638 J Gln? Wile sesses.: Gree 10 tase. ee 65 46 - 706 Huy Sh 613 8141513151210 155 106 -683 OWwIS tal chae enero Be tee fees, Ane ee en 30 13 433 SHinMOT Sel cl sei b EE 81513161513 1414.. 140 =—6108 TT PS ET Pa es 5 71510 201513151913 155 127 819 cMackon <¢....+..s-» 1016141718 517 16 12 155: 125 -806 UD PIDEST gece octets ei oat > a 10 i ea Fb 65 47 723 Ge Ei Swatr'. ..acdeesis Blcs hee Lhves Gs bawae 10 8 800 1 False ce BSS Ae A De, 9I7ZIZIZIWHIGW 165 125 506 Simmer hoses one TOES Ae meg ae |e 8 65 49 - 153 F Westbrook ........ 61811181712151910 155 126 812 Cn ees Sr Se erties ee pilose 30 22 733 Patel t ee ees BOO ee ee ke ee 25 16 604 Hisher Ley...) eae 6 Pee fees Sie} 2 10 6 600 Ee Sasa. ieeess a ee Ae PP ae 30 25 833 Browatp aga. eae te eeren LS Sa 55 41 -745 ICL rr AAR Ate ep 4 LhRs aU yee a5 55 25 454 Mh Mller coe Se certs 15) .4, 4», 18. 0 34 ,. 11 90 69 - 166 ase gy ies See boo ae eae ees ae 20 8 400 a) Miilberis 50, dbss cake es TiS are ce cg eee 55 40 127 SESISHETS 3 uieitd fees rE ea, Let eel wes 20 11 .550 ard ta a SPR a ee et es THOSE eee 55 39 - 709 Greenwood ,........++ « Senet hens eee ee 20 8 -400 Main arty menaced actin wes 14, ret treat 40 30 . 750 Wilson sic5, 2 senza 54 i’; bat Baby 60 42 700 PHAN pS nog se heeeaset sel oe Th) tele es 40 30 - 750 TykSEOGS: S205 dees ot DARIO G eee ae ye, 52 3 55 41 . 745 Eeytsch Seasiacty VRRP E HS 6, a ae 12 40 23 575 PPeheTAT: oie oo «ne oe » Pees ess BAe 15 4 -266 a Pel Gio) ee a He 1 Pee ae. hae Tn 15 7 -466 ONT SOTR Bele tis acetal i eee ek A, Be Aaa 20 9 450 RC AUNGRET ONT ecCcveicch tag geet ait ule 1 Ris a8 20 Ti 350 CUAL gig ae. Te AR | sae OT a Se PO 12 15 12 800 H H Cull 17 11 35 28 800 TB) ET Bey te ayo Be RE Ba a A ee ee 14 9 35 23 657 Jan. 15, Third Day. The weather was fair, wind moderate and light good, The com- petition was at targets and live birds, The target scores follow: Events: 12238 £5 6 7 8 9 “Shot Targets: 10 20 15 20 20 15 20 20 15 at. Broke. Av. F Westbrook.......... 6 17 12 1418 11 19 16 10 155 123 198 AB Tehsl ic gee Pee et oat yn 916101416 ..16.. 11 120 92 . 766 H T Westbrook...... aL Sel Net Peers Bie ts Es 45 24 553 Fidward sin. tsp ea.btes0.s Ep a Oe 10 4 400 McMackon | ,.,,.4:.-- 9 17 11 15 17 12 15 15 10 155 121 780 bel eh yie 2 he Saye 7 18 12 16 16 11 18 16 140 114 $14 Wk) ear tes vi ciara se Gp aes sehte tus Sopa te 25 14 560 ile Ween: c ctenpistolg on etain'p veep Any Tease Tas) ee alll 25 17 .680 Toll iets VR Goya rts 5 15 12 12 17 12 18 16 138 155 115 «T4L IMatoirelle ss bse e¢ecc srs): 8 7121414121316 6 155 102 .658 Pad ese we cit socere ye 618 92012131517 7 155 17 - 754 Grifigepees. shots sha hess reese ea brie reba ty apa 155 132 850 Waynes Birsenes tet detec Rl: SIL ree 45 29 644 IT PLOTS gear yaeatiele tialaziyl etd Ay teh Dispute Pes Gea er 115 88 . 164 A) OMESTO WIL oG ag oe maven ies Bg ae LB ete dy Lar 5D 43 «781 atari. as dy sett Be Bf a: Na Lea Fen 80 52 650 AMAIEO) Se. wpacias paylines Eee reise Fe cee 20 15 750 PU rishi wale we dete e alee ho 1 9 or 35 24 680 IM SUG ere sn aisle ir er 0 15 750 (Cieny jrcitetete Wane Mee eer hy Po Poe rae py Kiley oaks > 95 68 115 PASIASIS eerste gde daaies tae hee Shee es 15 Bi] «200 Burgess ..0--+--s4s- sagairnle 121417 .. 16 14 95 73 7168 SITINAOISE Sate ook 4 bate ten eed 14 .. 20 14 100 Re wWARE cer cea oats sae ee 6. 20 6 300 Brown skdkaaasee tas 35) te) 2 eer ee eee de 20 12 -600 Gysbcave® ee scr tea eth aas ae AGi sear: 20 16 =. . 800 MOMTEM tt Greeti saeeer, teins) oie weer 10 RRA RE 20 14 -700 le oa Ra Sapa pete Oct eee | Ii 12 35 23 647 The summary of the live-bird scores are appended. No. 1 had $200 guaranteed. No. 2 was the Grand Canadian Handicap, $000 guaranteed. No. 3 and No. 4 had $100 guaranteed in each. No, 5 was a $5 sweepstake. Events: A 2 Ores Shot Birds: 10 20 10 10 10 at. Killed. Vie MDS Es Pe orion le tse meee) 50 35 at a Peds anaoecaoes Gia shy thie wit 60 48 TDi ata pe eee enn Oe Syd4 Bans a8 50 38 Mitchell ........,--+ EH Be hee 8 18 8 8 10 60 52 WR WUESE DOD )ee noose ta'eiete stains OC 7H 205 ae 50 44 Needieril Mego nes ae tiarascl a eae tse att 7 1k: Se ska, 60 48 Garntelon 7.2.25. -s-e- of Pn) [Oa be 9 0S Ui Gn ex 40 33 eiPei bentiy cic eee Renee ees Demers 2 B ae i gh 4 ne eo H T Westbrook...,.......-.. Rice Gieil Fey saanseeeso Wiacietee erie 1018: [0 spe ee 60 51 EL S Swale ..ccscscecsecssscsoee 8 .. 6 De 20 14 Greenwood .....--.-- eee eae ae oye] 30 20 Shannon .......« Bey dyn ey Mie AM ee 30 18 Armstrong Re ess aeeacitais te Ge MOBS: ter 60 a J. Crooks TATE p Eee. GMT BA, 40 26 GOCH ME EEPPLEr Tain algithtabtih shia ice Oe plone WE Gy ot 50 31 WPL Lease As aanece ee See te Say lt Ss) 60 46 Ge Sirotidl sche sees RW canta OP Fe 50 39 AMD Bateses ore nasin cries 10 18 8 9 8 60 53 Je tTOUG Ureaicynsdy ice ciaetyas a oe eS 60 49 eel p tule + iO ctr rence icine pee Boo Sie 6g 60 51 PSirOeire eres tree se cramer. 316 38 7 Y 60 49 C10) SS a Ir ec cee Ref ne LR bay site 1) oe 20 13 VWisldper Chane pe eed on pe up okie Gy) 50 42 MWoOKSinOM (ster seatpeatsotncees Ol Re eee 3d, 10 6 Bletehen, < Sirs. Piscean seek eae CUR sry we Nh ee 60 52 M J Miller LOL SS eT Gs 60 52 Ch 8 44345508845 Janda Ingres eS eZ, 10 8 EP Peet eee etree cece te Dy poe loae. 7 40 26 HOD DINGSs ot aga pesseteeiees 10 16 8 40 34 GP Scane ss ee 9 13 ii 40 29 P Brown 8 16 8 40 32 Phillips .... Due, ao ee 0 50 38 W Stroud . or. vos 10 9 Reardon -... BocwGl ele | Geers 60 49 EIEN: tid Sater est ee ee ee ee 10 8 Peterkin fojstnteere ens Litas, 20 -69 “Te 40 28 BANS 5. ides eo bork aedae ee eee fe Vee ens 20 17 ISGBROSS Minn wcecdcwne «cigar Ueteteres 17 a 20 17 ye Ces) PPeC Eo heilasieticd te ienistinen « 14 10 9 40 33 TAPTIEV = 4 Anaahat avert oils iene « Mek ed 20 13 McColl 24 Sale usshenake teria sla oie G32 40 33 PY MGM Gr etree ct pa ee tae sintrne nals sh (= gee 20 17 GEN SWaliiterawurtat aadeee ose cms (ie Ae 10 6 Bday, een here caer cee | Peres 10 5 THES AE eee aides: ee ess 10 6 FRUTER Seg oe See eke are eter te eminle ek 10 6 MeMackonl 232. shoe tows aen te 10 8 6 40 28 Gull Pee aren ee tes fate SO oat 10 9 Wilk) oF Ae es dike ct ide cee ee te . 8 6 20 14 Hall RE AMAR SRR Se vom * Pe anh. ta eereeetO 10 10 E! Paso Tournament. Ex Paso, Tex.—The El Paso Gun Club’s first tournament was a success. Besides those residing in the State, there were shooters from Arizona, New Mexico, Nebraska, California, Kansas, Da- kota, Louisiana, and Colorado. There were other attractions, a carnival being in full blast across the line, in Mexico, Shooting commenced at 9 and ended at 1 o’clock P. M. Mr. D. Curran, of Ennis, Tex., won the Schmelzer cup, for which he shot off a tie with Mr. J. A. Jackson, of Austin, Tex., at 20 targets, He scored 19 to Jackson’s 18. The scores: First Day, Jan. 33, Events: 123 4 6 Events 28s AS Targets: 10 15 10 20 25 T’l Targets 10 15 10 20 25 T’l Texas Field.... 10 14 10 20 24—78 614 8 18 2167 Fanning . 10 14 10 19 25—78 . 91010 16 22—67 Adams .....-.. 10 14 10 19 24—77 913 8 15 2267 REM hi lateas tee 8 15 10 19 25—77 . 714 818 1966 Townsend .... 915 10 19 22—75 . 813 9 15 21—66 Weatherhead... 10 14 10 17 23—74 812 918 18—65 Heikes ........ 10 18 8 18 25—74 -» 913 819 19—65 Faurote ~.....- 915 8 16 25-73 1010 717 21—65 McVeagh ..... 8 13 10 19 28—73 612 7 19 21—65 Timberlake 911 9 18 26—72 . 1011 715 2i—64 Morrill ....... 9 11 10 18 24—72 812 717 20—64 O’Brien ......-+ 912 917 25—72 713 618 19—63 TawlGrih seca == 715 9 20 21—72 712 8 15 2i—63 Anderson ..... 9 14 10 18 21—72 911 618 18—62 Garrali se wese. 913 10 18 22—72 711 8 15 18—59 Aitken ........ 8 13 10 19 21-71 6 9 717 18—57 Vaughan .....- 814 817 2471 6 9 815 1755 Hughes ....... 913 916 24—71 511 3 15 18—52 Sievers ......-. 814 917 22—70 513 712 15—52 Lone Jack..... 714 918 22—70 610 718 14-50 RAN ere toeeee 14 7 18 24—70 61.2 Doe Atchison ...... 10 18 818 20-69 Shelton ....... 6 9 15 18 ELAN eee sateen 812 915 24-68 Orndorff ...... 1s 2ess Titty 37 Sosteeies 812 9 16 23—68 Fanning and Guessaz were high average with 78 ont of 80. Second Day, Jan 14, Events: 123465 ¥ Events: i SL ie Targets: 101510 2025 T’1® Targets: - 1015 10 2025 T’l O’Brien ....... 1012 8 2025-75 Townsend .... 513 9161962 Faurote ....+.+ 9 15 1018 23—75 McCormack .. 912 817 15—61 Heer ...ec-es. 10 18 10 16 24—78 Aitken ........ 911 8 16 17—61 Jackson .....+- 10 14 10 19 20-73 F Robinson... 813 8 12 1961 1eNES! tee ses 1012 917 25—78 Bulwer ........ 1013 9 17 12-61 Adams ...:..:- 814 917 24—72 Lone Jack .... 6 9 817 20—60 Heikes ......-. 913 818 24-72 F Woodward... 711 719 16—60 Anderson ....- 913 918 2271 Brown ........ 814 8 13 17-60 Gilson) <. so. es 713 918 28—70 Ives ........... 810 916 14-57 Fanning ....- . 818 818 238—70 Critzer ........ 711 815 15—56 Timberlake ... 814 917 21-69 McVeagh ..... 613 4 14 1956 Taylor 20255. 814 8152368 Purcell ........ 614 9.13 12—54 Miller ........ 8 15 10 18 21-67 Duncan ....... 9 8 612 20—53 Hillisom Seas 618 810 21—67 Worden ....... 713 412 17—53 Morrill © 2aes. 912 915 2166 Hitt .......... 811 915 10—53 Curhatie, ceo eae 8141017 17—66 Rand ...... --. 714 615 9-51 Atchison .....- 614 9152165 Blanchard .... 5 8 8 14 1449 Sievers ....0.+ 813 616 22—65 Adamson ..... 410 9 11 14 48 Vaughan ...... 912 9161965 E Woodward.. 810 8 9 17—42 Texas Field... 1011 7171964 Stevenson .... 8101011 241 Weatherhead.. 813 812 283—64 Dearth ........ 611 2 6 833 Dominie ...... 9 7 817 22—68 Chilton ........ .. 10 918 8 AG) lease cs 912 8161868 R Weatherhead 713 8.... Hare Sie eile cr 5 14 816 19—62 Schroeder ..... 813 812.. The weather was cold, with snow falling. » Third Day, Jan, 15, Events q.-2. 8) 4 ab Events: 1°28 ab Targets 10 15 10 20 25 T’1 ‘Targets: 10 15 10 20 25 T’l Gurran, .i35550° 10 15 10 20 24-79 Texas Field... 915 8 16 21—69 Heikes ........ 1015 9 2024-78 Dominie ...... 8 14 10 14 2369 Wautote: -2..cs 10 14 9 20 25—78 McVeagh ..... 6 13 10 16 23—68 Ellison ....-.. 915 919 23—75 Chilton ....... 1013 8 16 21—68 Vaughan ..... 10 15 10 18 283—76 Millér ......... 711 9 20 20—€7 SIRVAGSS AAs APane 9 15 10 19 28376 Morrill ....... 913 8 14 22-66 O’Brien ....-.- 915 917 25—75 L Woodward.. 1011 716 22—66 Townsend .. 9151016 25—75 Purcell ....... 815 6 12 23—64 Jackson ....... 1012 919 2474 Adamson ..... 712 817 20—64 Aitken .. 918 918 25—74 Gilson ........ 915 6 16 18—64 Adams ........ 9151017 23—74 Ives ........... 6 7 $19 23-63 Fanning ...... 10 13 10 16 25—74 Carroll ........ 714 9 14 1862 Hughes ......-. 1015 717 25—74 Blanchard 7 13 10 10 21—61 B EF Woodward 10 13 10 19 22—74 Worden ...... 618 9 13 1960 Atchison ...... 7131019 24-73 Critzer ........ 6 9 914 22-60 Lone Jack..... 915 1016 22—72 Shelton + 8 8 6 16 21—58 Timberlake ... 9 1510 14 2472 Omdorff . 8 9 817 16—58 Weatherhead... 815 519 25—72 Rand ..... 7 $1015 15—55 McCormack..., 1013 915 2471 Duncan 7 8 812 13—48 Schroeder .... 10151018 18—71 Dearth 5 8 8 12 13-46 Fleeiwcacaaneet 9 1410 15 22—70 Robinson . 812 912.. Latte ees: reten 1011 917 23—70 Brown ........ #12 815 3. Sievers ......- 918 916 23—70 Owsley ...... eo tt 58 ree Anderson 918 917 21-69 Weatherhead... .. 9..... For the three days, Mr. F. M. Faurote was high average with a score of 226 out of 240; Heikes second with. 224; C. B. Adams third with 228; J. S. Fanning fourth with 222. | Gineinnatt ‘Gua Clon: Cincinnati, O., Jan. 17—A new series of cash prize contests commenced on the. 17th inst. The conditions are changed mate- rially from the contests just finished. There are now two classes, where heretoforesthere was one. Each class has a purse of $100 divided into five, prizes, $30, $25, $20, $15. $10. All contestants re- main in the class in which they start. These changes have been made for the sole’ benefit of the less skillful] members, who, it is hoped, will show their appreciation by taking am active part in these contests. | ' d Scores. of first contest of €. G. C. cash prize series follows: R, Trimble (21) 48, Block (7) 41, Corry (16) 41. Faran (16) 41, Rarker (17) 41, Leever (17) 41, Ahlers (20) 39, Randall (18) 39, Verges (18) 39, Falk (16) 38, Parker (17) 38, Dreihs (16) 87. J. B. (18) 37, Coleman (18) 36, Roll (17) 86, Medico (16) 36, Herman (16) 86, Manyard (17) 34, Farmer (16) 29, Ackley (15) 29. Sam Leever, of the Pittsburg Baseball Club, shoots with us now and then, and as will be seen by the scores, can handle a gun as wel] as a baseball, He is always 4 weloome visitor, =~ ‘St. Joe Gun Club. _St. JoszpH, Mo.—Following are the scores of an afternoon prac- tice and medal shoot held Jan. 18th, on the St. Joseph, Mo., Gun Club grounds. The weather was raw, and not conducive to good work, but the boys kept firing away until the sun disappeared in the timber line beyond the Missouri. ; This club will have the honor of opening the Western circuit the first week in April, and presenting the introductory to the Grand American Handicap at targets, which follows at Kansas City a week later, and it will prove itself well worthy of the trust when the time comes. This club has been recently incorporated under the laws of Missouri, and is headed by a corps of efficient young officers who will come pretty near setting the pace in trapshooting in this section during the year, The new officers are: G. Con- ser, President; Louis Moine, Vice-President; F. M. Brinson, Sec- retary-Treasurer; F, B, Cunningham, Manager; J. H. Felt, Cap- tain; E. G. Walker, Albert Toole and J. H. Felt, Directors. Scores on the above occasion were as follows: Events: 123 465 67 8 #£4Shot Targets 15 10 15 10 15 10 25 20 at. Broke. TRIER aint eta eeerretee secnes UD) Sold Sele eet 168 SoGum Oe Conser potent edecwcbace MU! POLL beck werk me on OE 62 Ubie(oiee oe eee ennanes er ee 1478 710 819.. 100 12 Stiarte™ NN inaiae eek: Seeee - © & 9 GIS TIS... +100 61 RODERtE tyne ee RUMER DT EEe ee poe Op bar adit ee eee 50 23 Cunningham ,...... is soeee 2 712 914 8 22 1 120 100 Ghandle rae iemmamaeen fetta ters 9 1b 10 Ge ee he ee 15 4) Wrallkeit ia.sederasaeet teens ree oh, GLO TI SAS = 00 61 Loderhos® ...isbeeteses cones eee 1 YOR ee Ag TREN) 75 86 Worbiee ter peneccessessceees de 8 91010 TA 120 IBTUSOR: sean eceesee APanhascoe pe Wea Wipad ile fe) Be 50 39 IRTCHEEL ees de nulecuiciidccdec ome iee 8 9 9 411 71518 120 81 Maurphy: Tete teem ese eteneeeee « - 9 918101614 100 val ISCICGL Ivan yn et eente ie tleieaeee At SS Ae ae 8 ees UL 25 KiILLMoRE. New York County Gun Club. New Yorx, Jan. 21.—Find scores herewith of the New York County Gun Club, shot on the first day of the week. The scores will show the difficulty of good shooting in the high wind. 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Thermometer 30 degrees. L. H. ScuortTEMErER, Pres. N. Y. C. G. C. PUBLISHERS’ DEPARTMENT. What is the Money Value of a Human Life? A Society in_Boston, Mass., Organized and Officiated by Prominent Doctors, Divines, Editors, and Business Men to Save Human Life. THE commercial yalue of the African slave was $300 to $3,000, according to his intelligence and mechanical skill. It is said that every able-bodied man is worth $1,000 to the community in which he lives, but sometimes thousands and thousands of dollars are paid to save the life of a man, woman or child. Recently we had an instance in which Americans raised more than $50,000 to save the life of Miss Ellen Stone, who was held by the Turks for a Transom. The society in Boston, Mass., known as the American Invalid Aid Society, started under the direction of such men as the Rey. Edward Everett Hale, the eminent divine and author, J. Warren Achorn, the prominent New England doctor, Mr. Souther, ex-* Congressman for Massachusetts; Mr. E. H. Clements, the editor- in-chief of the Boston Transcript; Mr. Upham, of the Youth’s Companion; Walter Pearce, of the great commercial house of the Pearces, was organized a few years since, to save the lives of invalids, especially those who are not financially able to secure the best medical advice and attention. This society has done a great deal of good in the line they started out to do, and they are not only saving lives of people, but after the life is saved, they work to find some occupation where_the party can work, so as to keep well. In the sandhills of North Carolina at Pineblufft, the well-known winter health and pleasure resort, they have re- cently built little houses, and erected a large building, fitting it with power, and give the use of the building and power free of charge to mechanics who ought to stay South on account of wife or child’s health, but who cannot stay unless they have something to do so as to earn enough to support their family, ‘ - This society has saved the lives of enough people, if we value them even at $1,000, for the sum tetal to amount to several hun- dred thousand dollars, and any one wanting to help a worthy or- ganization that is laboring to relieve the afflicted and save the lives of people will do well to correspond with Mrs. E. W. Waite, Secretary, 707 Tremont Building, Boston, Mass. The officials all serve without compensation. The Medical Board, which is com- posed of prominent Boston and New England doctors, give their services in examinations and treatments of cases free of charge. Florida. TWO WEEKS’ TOUR ViA PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. The first Pennsylvania Railroad tour of the season to Jackson- ville, allowing two weeks in Florida, will leave New York, Phila- delphia, Baltimore, and Washington by special train on Feb. 3 Excursion tickets, including railway transportation, Pullman ac- commodations (one berth), and meals en route in both directions while traveling on the special train, will be sold at the followin rates: New York, $50; Philadelphia, Harrisburg, Baltimore, an Washington, $48; Pittsburg, $53, and at proportionate rates from other points. 4 , Sie For tickets, itineraries, and other information apply to ticket agents, or to Geo. W. Boyd, Assistant General Passenger Agent, Broad Street Station, Philadelphia. Camping on Broadway. In the midst of toil and struggle of lower Broadway it is not generally known, but should be, that just one flight up from the street at 314 one can go into camp as effectually as in the sungics of Florida or the woods of Maine. Here can be seen the wall tent in operation, fully furnished inside with slgep ine. bags. A_ picture forms a background of forest and stream. In tront is the log fire, with boilers suspended for cooking; the hindquarters of a deer ready for the knife; the pack, saddle and hdtness; the canoe and eyery improved device known to man to m e life in camp comfortable; and all so arranged that it is only by gazing west-_ ward that one is reminded that he is on the verge of civilization and not indeed in the woods. Abercrombie & Fitch have spared no pains in making this very interesting camp in the heart o this busy thoroughfare. Spratts Patent (American), Limited, Newark, N. J., have a list of the mammoth institutions which depend on them for their food supplies. From, it we present, as an item of exce tional ‘ interest, that Spratts Patent has made a contract with the . egler Polar expedition for a large quantity of dog cakes, and “It will be remembered that the Baldwin-Ziegler expedition took about | 100 tons of Spratts dog cakes in hermetically sealed tins. Under date of Jan. 24 the Cleveland Chamberlin’ Cartridge and Target Company, Cleveland, O., writes us as follows: We wish you would mention that we are putting out a zg number of single triggers, and that they are meeting with the approval of all who have obtained them.” Furey OS ofa t ott FOREST AND STREAM. A WeEEKLY Journa or THE Rop anp Gun. Cofyricut, 1903, ay Foresr anp Srream Pustisuine Co, Turns, He A YEAR. 10 Crs. a Copy. ; Six Monrus, $2. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1908. { VOL, LX.—No. 6, No. 846 Broapway, NEw York. The Forest anp Stream is the recognized medium of entertain- fhent, instruction and information between American sportsmen. The editors invite conimunications on the subjects to which its Pages ate devoted. Anonymous communications will not be re- garded. ‘Whilé it is intended to give wide latitude in disctission 6f eutfent topics, the editors ate not See for the views of éortespotidents: Subsctiptions may begiti at dny tire. Tefms: For single cépies; $4 per year, $4 for six months. For elub tates and full partictilars tespecting sisbsctiptions, see prospectus on page itl. AN INDIAN CHIEF. WHITE CALF, CHIEF OF THE BLACKFEET, DIED AT WASHING- TON, JAN. 29, 1903. For sixty years as boy, young man and fierce warrior he had roamed the prairie, freé as the other wild crea- tures who traversed it, and happy in his freedom. He had been but a little fellow when the white men first came into the country to trade, but he was old enough to have béen present, atid was well enough thought of in the tribe, at the signing of Gov. Steven’s treaty with the Prairie People in 1855, to affix his matk —as The Feather—to that paper. As yet the coming of the white man meant little to him and to his people. It furnished them a market for their robes and furs, for which they received in exchange guns and ammunition, which made them more than ever terrible to their ene- mies. The whole broad prairie was still theirs to camp on and to hunt over. Their lodges were pitched along the streams from the Red Deer River on the north to the Elk River on the south, and their war journeys ex- tended soutli to the countfy of the Mexicans. More than twenty years ago happened the greatest misfortune that ever came to his tribe. The buffalo dis- appeared and never'returned. From this time forth they were forced to depend on the food given them by the white men, and, in order to receive that food, they were obliged to stay in one place, to confine themselves to that little corner of ground, their reservation. Long before this he had become the chief of his tribe— the father of his people. Already he was putting their welfare before his own, was thinking first of them and of himself last. ‘For it was the duty of a chief to look out for the well- being of his people; to care for the widows and orphans; to make peace between those who quarrel; to give his whole heart and his whole mind to the work of helping his people to be happy. Such were the duties that the old lime chief studied to perform. And since on his example and his precept so much depended, he must be a man who was brave in war, generous in disposition, liberal in tem- per, deliberate in making up his mind, and of good judg- ment. Such men gave themselves to their work with heart and soul, and strove for the welfare of those in their charge with an earnestness and a devotion that perhaps is not equalled by any other rulers of men. And this devotion to his fellows was not without its in- fluence on the man himself; after a time the spirit of good will which animated him began to shine forth in his countenance, so that at length, and as they grew old, such chiefs came to have the beneficent and kindly ex- pression that we may sometimes see on the countenance of an elderly minister of God whose life has been one long loving sacrifice of self to his Maker and to his fellow men. And if the face was benevolent and kindly, not less sweet and gentle was the spirit that animated the man. Simple, honest, generous, tender hearted, and yet withal on occasion merry and jolly. Such men, once known, commanded universal respect and admiration. They were like the conventional notion of Indians in nothing save in the color of the skin. They were true friends, delightful companions, wise counsellors—men whose conduct toward their fellow men we all might profitably imitate. We do not commonly attribute a spirit of altruism to Indians, but it was seen in these old time chiefs. Such a chief was White Calf, long chief of the Blackfeet. Tn his day he had been! a famous warrior, and in the battle which took place in 1867, when the great chief Many Horses was killed, White Calf with two others had rushed into a great crowd of the enemy—the Crows and Gros Ventres—who were trying to kill Wolf Calf, even then an old man, and, scattermg them like smoke before the wind, had pulled the old man out of the crush and brought him safely off, It was not long after this that he put aside the war path forever, and since then had confined himself to working for the good of his people by the arts of peace. No sacrifice was too great for him to make, if he thought that by it the tribe might be helped; yet he possessed a sturdy independence that bullying and intimidation could not move—even that threats of soldiers and the guard house could not shake. When he was sure that he was right he could not be stirred. Yet if reasotis were advanced which appealed to his judgment, no man was quicker to acknowledge error. Though nearly 80 years old, the chief was not bowed with the weight of time nor were his natural forces eteatly abated. He was still erect and walked with a briskness and an elasticity rare for one of his years. Yet in a degree he felt that his powers were failing, and he sometimes avoided the decision of important questions on the ground that he was getting old and his mind was no longet good. A little more than two weeks ago he stood in the presence of the Chief Magistrate of the nation, who shook him warmly by the hand and talked to him and the others of his people present. A few days later, just as they were about to leave Washington for their distant prairie home, the old chief caught cold, pneumonia set in, and just be- fore midnight on the 20th of January, he peacefully passed away. He was a man who was great in the breadth of his judgment, and in the readiness with which he recognized the changes which he and his people were now obliged to face and adapted himself to these changes; but greatest of all, in the devotion that he feit for his tribe, and in the way in which he sacrificed him- self for their welfare. Buffalo hunter, warrior, savage ruler and diplomat; then learner, instructor, persuader and encourager in new ways; he was always the father of the people. Just as for many years. he had been constantly serving them, so now, at the end of his long -chieftainship, he gave tp his life in the successful effort {o protect them from a great calamity. SNAP SHOTS. NortH CAROLINA is. considering the imposition of a license fee upon the non-resident shooter. The scheme has its origin with the Audubon Society, and the ptirpose ic to provide funds for the employment of game wardens. Public opinion in North Carolina is reported to he warmly in support of the proposition. This is not to be wondered at, for it means the protection of game for resident and visitor alike, but altogether at the expense of the visitor. That is a scheme mttch in favor nowadays. The non-resident tax idea has taken hold upon the New York Forest, Fish and Game Commission. In the current report is a recommendation to tax the non-resident $50 unless he happen to be a member of an incorporated club. This proposal is contained in the same report which esti- mates that “millions of dollars are annually spent because of the attractions of the woods and waters for health and pleasure seekers and sportsmen.” A non-resident hunting license fee of $50 would be just the thing if the purpose were to confine Adirondack hunting to the ultra-wealthy who can afford to pay an added $50 for their sport without feeling it; but the excessive fee would, of course, be prohibitory as to the average man. New York can well afford to continue to extend, as now, a warm welcome to the sportsmen of the country at large to visit the Adiron- dacks to hunt and fish and enjoy the woods and the -~ waters and the mountains. If for these outdoor privileges the State is to tax one, let it tax all, not the non-resident deer hunter only for hunting deer, but the non-resident argler for taking trout, the non-resident hotel guest and cottager and the camper~ It takes money to propagate fish, why should not the non-resident pay for his fish? Tt takes money to pay for protecting the forests, why not make the non-resident pay for his enjoyment of them? & The system formerly in operation in this State govern- ing the possession of game in close season was one of ab- selute prohibition. By the terms of the law a dealer who had a stock of game on hand at the end of the open season for selling was given the alternative of selling it, sending it out of the State for cold storage, or storing it elandestinely in the city. Some dealers shipped their surplus to Boston or across the river to New Jersey: same kept it in New York cold storage vaults, as witness from killing big _As there are numerous citizens of Wyoming who for ‘their subsistence depend latgely upon what they can ‘make out of the non-resident sportsmen for whom they the Arctic Freezer Company seizure now before the courts. Last year a new system was provided by amend- ment of the law, whereby dealers were permitted to retain in storage whatever game they had on hand at the close of the season, and to keep it in bond, duly inspected and sealed by the authorities. This change was favored by the Forest, Fish and Game Commission, and when the law went into effect at the close of the season, Chief Protector Pond and his assistants visited New York and bonded the game. An. amendment to repeal this provision and to restore the old system has been introduced by Assembly- man Wainright. od The theory upon which the bonding system was advo- cated was that its operation would remove from reputable game dealers the hardship of destroying a valuable stock, and would give them an opportunity to retain their sur- plus game, dealing honestly with the State and being secured in their property rights. It was further assumed that by reason of the bonding the dishonest dealer would be prevented from disposing of his stock illicitly in the close season. The theory upon which the system was op- posed, and we opposed it, was that the enlarged oppor- tunity to store game would encourage the overstocking of the market, and would in consequence stimulate the killing for market. If a dealer could sell or keep his game, he would be very apt to buy more lavishly and acquire a larger stock than if he were given only the open season for selling it and must then destroy or dis- pcse of what he had on hand. The actual operation of the law should have demonstrated which of these theories was the right one. td A newspaper published in Cody, Wyo., comes to hand with a suggestion that every non-resident of the State should be prohibited, under penalty of a tremendous fine, game within the borders of Wyoming. serve as outfitters, packers and guides, it is clear that the Cody editor will not find public sentiment and unanimous hoop-la in support of his medizval proposition. A person who proposes seriously to keep non-resident hunters out of Wyoming shows his ignorance of the commercial value of big game on the hoof. In the wilderness where cash is scarce and barter is the rule, the money brought in and expended by the non-resident for pack horses and saddle horses and provisions and guides and cooks and acces- sories is sometimes about all the actual cash the recipients receive from one year’s end to the other. The money is extremely acceptable to the men in the mountains. The next proposition to come from the logical Cody editor will be for a law prohibiting outsiders from buying cattle and horses in Wyoming. 2 WE referred last week to the preposterous bill of Assemblyman Coutant, at Albany, to tax the non-resident _ of a county $25 for the privilege of shooting in any one town in the county. Mr. Coutant has been a laughing stock for the newspapers throughout the State, with the single exception of the Kingston Freeman, which takes Mr. Coutant in dead earnest, and hails the bill as a ' measure of lofty statesmanship. The Freeman editor has for many years been waging against the sportsmen of New York a campaign which, we feel confident, would produce the greatest consternation among them if they should ever happen to find out about it. From this day henceforth let it not be said that we have failed in our duty of warning them against the ferocious Kingston man. ® SoMETHING of what money value the protection of game in this country represents is hinted in a remark quoted on another page from the London Spectator, that the deer killed in New York last year amounted to a num- ber which “at the ordinary tate reckoned per stag in Scot- land (£40) would represent a sporting outlay of £160,000.” In other words, the man who killed deer in the public lands of the North Woods enjoys a privilege for which the Scotch deer hunter would pay $200; and the total cost of the deer so reckoned for a year would amount to $845,000. These figures are fallacious, for no stich value attaches to game in this country, Neverthe- less it costs many a sttccessful deer hunter more than $200 to get his venison, 102 FOREST AND STREAM. [FrEs. 7, 1903. Che Sportsman Tourist. a Notes from Central America.—V. Mosquito Coast of Honduras—The Bay Islands. Mucu has been written concerning the Mosquito Coast of Nicaragua, and the lagoons between Cape Gracias 4 Dios and the Bluefields River, have been presented to the world through the pages of English history as well as through other channels. But the Republic of Honduras also has a Mosquito Coast and remarkable lagoons—notably those of La _ Criba, Brewer, and Caratasca—included between Cape Cam- eron and the Nicaragua border, in the department of Mosquitia, Honduras. La. Criba Lagoon.receives the waters of Rio Negro and opens to the sea at the town of Black River, just east of Tocamacho and Port Burchard. This lagoon is very picturesque—containing numerous islands and having a background of high mountains to the south the song and bite of countless mosquitoes, for sand flies, gnats and even deer flies, for the difficulty of ob- taining proper food, for the indolence and avarice of the natives, for the prevalence of malaria, ete., the locality might, for a time, at least, appear quite en- chanting. Here in the lagoon region is the home of cassava and mishla—the former the chief food of both Caribs and Mosquito Indians, the latter the great drink of the Mosquito Indians and Sambos. Cassava, bananas, and fish, with occasional fresh pork, constitute the daily diet of the people of the lagoon region. Mishla, also from the cassava, is a vile beverage of most disgust- ing manufacture. Washed and grated cassava is chewed by the women and spat into a wooden tub or small canoe, water is added and the mixture allowed. to ferment in the sun—the ptyalin of the saliva con- verting the starch of the cassava into unstable sugar which, rapidly fermenting, produces a mildly alcoholic, though none the less intoxicating, beverage. bananas and other fruit are sometimes added to the mixture. A “mishla lay-out’ generally calls together the na- tives of the entire village, who drink and dance to HAREOR OF COXEN HOLE, ISLAND OF ROATAN, HONDURAS. and west. It is the outlet for much produce from the interior, natives bringing down the river rubber, sarsa- parilla, hides, etc., which are shipped by schooner to the United States. The bar at the mouth of the lagoon is navigable for craft drawing from four to five feet of water, while a good channel runs through the lagoon to the river—which latter is navigable for miles. Brewer’s Lagoon, which receives the waters of Toomtoon Creek—an offshoot from the Patuca River— and numerous smaller streams—is larger and deeper than La Criba Lagoon, but has no deep-water connec- tion with the interior. Two very picturesque rocky islands—at present occupied by an American—rise pre- cipitously from the stretch of waters. This lagoon alf- fords an excellent harbor, but the bar at its mouth is not safe for vessels haying a draft of over six feet. Like the other lagoons of this region, alligators, croco- diles, ducks, sharks, etc., here abound, while quantities of wild pigeons are found along the shores of both lagoons and rivers, and jack snipe inhabit the marshes. Any doubt that might have formerly been entertained by the writer as to the existence of crocodiles in this region was dispelled a few weeks ago by his killing, in a small lagoon between Brewer’s Lagoon and the Patuca River, a true crocodile seven and a half feet long. These saurians are very numerous in these lagoons. } Between Brewer’s Lagoon and the Wanks River we find Honduras’ largest lagoon—viz., Caratasca Lagoon —a beautiful body of water about thirty-five miles long, five miles wide and having a practically navi- gable bar and good inside channel, but receiving from , the interior the waters of no large river. On either side of this elegant lake is low, flat land, populated by Mosquito Indians, while behind it—to the south- ward—rise the high peaks of the Colon mountains—in and abont which are said to live Toacos Indians, but concerning which but little is known, for the country for nearly a hundred miles to the south and south- west of Caratasca Lagoon remains practically unex- plored, and is usually marked on the map of the coun- try “desconocido.” That this region is rich in mineral is shown by the gold found in the streams that flow from the foot hills of the mountains into both Cara- tasca Lagoon and the Wanks River, but the region is difficult of access, wild and rugged, far from law and order, and its inhabitants certainly not more than semi- civilized, and said to be decidedly treacherous. Per- sonally, the writer has as yet visited only the outskirts of this region—that is, the Colon mountains—but fond- ly hopes to explore them thoroughly in the near future. Deer are plentiful in the mountains, as also jaguars, tigers and wild bears. Monkeys and snakes—large and small—are common along the rivers. The scenery, viewed from a pitpan, as one passes up or down the rivers, is grand. The curving, flowing stream; the dense and yaried foliage of the forest; the towering mountains—sometimes far in the distance, at others rising almost from the banks of the stream; the chat- tering of monkeys, parrots and macaws; the call of the toucan; the flight of wild fowl and birds of bright plumage—all attract eye or ear, and were it not for music furnished by revellers, who beat with wrists and hands on drums resembling barrels with the wooden heads replaced by a single head of tightly stretched hide. The orgie continues sometimes for days, according to the amount of mishla on hand. It is said that young girls chew the cassava in the preparation of mishla for the chiefs, but the writer has seen almost toothless old women occupied with the preparation of the beverage. Leaving the Mosquito Coast, the writer sailed from the mouth of the Patuca River to Truxillo, making the trip in an open i8-foot sailboat in two days and one night. Obviously, the wind was fair. From Truxillo Aging ~ If the harbor of Utilla, owing to the absence of mountains on the island, is less picturesque than Coxen Hole, Roatan, the town of Utilla certainly appeals to the weary mariner as affording a snug retreat for the individual as well as a harbor for his ship, since a more genial and hospitable community would be hard to find. It was our fortune to be in Utilla on Christmas Day— ~ for the wind continued to blow from the north, and it was evident that the beach at La Ceiba was still washed by heavy breakers that rendered impossible the launching of lighters and the landing of cargo. Christmas afternoon an invitation to visit the home of one of the merchants of the town, who are nearly all either English or American—was brought us by Mr. Morgan himself, and so, late in the afternoon, Colonel Don Abelardo -Varela, commander of the Tatumbla, Lieutenant Hernandez and the writer went ashore and were greeted, not only by the family of Mr. Morgan, but by most of the foreign residents of the town. The ladies played the piano and sang for us in both Eng- lish and Spanish, and Commander Varela and Lieu- tenant Hernandez, who are both expert guitarists, added their quota to the entertainment. About eight o’clock invitations to attend the ball that had already been arranged for the evening, were extended and ac- cepted, and after dancing and feasting until—well, un- til Christmas had certainly passed—we returned on board, and the next morning sailed to La Ceiba, and Friday morning were in Puerto Cortés. Throughout Honduras Utilla has the truly merited reputation of possessing hospitable foreign residents and many “maidens fair.” Dr. J. Hopart EGBERT. Puerro Corres, Honduras, C. A., Dec. 31, The Charm of Furs. Wer wonder what the root of the attraction of furs really is. As an article of wear by primitive man, liking for these would seem a semi-savage taste, liable to dis- appear with the development of civilization. Yet the modern man, while regarding the “raw” furs worn by the Indian as an evidence of barbarism, displays the same skins, dyed and shorn of their long hairs, as a mark of the highest cultivation. Moreover, the ancients liked furs just as much as the fur-loving Russians and Americans do. And in the older civilizations of the Far East love of them has so endured that the furriers in their treat- ment of them can now fully claim almost to have im- proved upon nature. A rich Chinese official may follow the custom of his country and eschew jewelry. But in summer he will wear silks that can stand alone, and in winter fur robes which in tint, lustre and thickness excel those of Western kings. So tenacious an admiration must have some basis in human nature, and it would be interesting to know just what it is. In the case of the choice furs it may be that the liking partakes of that which many people haye for gold and precious stones—the attraction of concentrated value. They represent so much accumulated wealth, and are treasured as standing for the many things they would buy. Yet this is only a partial explanation. For the wearers of the rarer furs are, after all, comparatively few, and to the majority of mankind furs of any kind have a charm of their own quite apart from their value, though not from excellence of manufacture. Besides, the love of gold and gems more nearly approaches to lust than that of furs; though, were the latter not perishable, and so could be hoarded, the attraction might be much the same. Many men like to feel gold, are so drawn by its glitter and color that they like to see and handle it as they do nothing else. Their admiration is for the metal itself, not for its value, or what it will buy. ALONG THE SHORE OF UTILLA, ISLAND OF UTILLA, HONDURAS. passage for Puerto Cortés was obtained on the Hon- duranian gtinboat Tatumbla. We left Truxillo Dec. 2t and would have arrived in Puerto Cortés before Christmas, had not a norther set in, which prevented the Tatumbla from being able to land cargo on the open beach at La Ceiba, and determined her putting in at Utilla—one of the bay islands of Honduras—for at the town of Utilla, on the southern side of the island, is a small harbor affording excellent protection from winds from north and northwest. Coxen Hole, at the Island of Roatan—to the east of Utilla—is also a good harbor during “northers,” and is very picturesque—having an outer and inner basin and a background of rather high mountains, As for the attraction of gems, did not the late Shah of Persia love to plunge his arms up to the elbows im precious stones, a pleasure in which his wealth and pas- sion for collecting enabled him to indulge? He liked the feel of them against his bare skin, found his dull im- agination stirred by their colors and glitter, and his love of regs gratified by this unique hand-bath of sparkling jewels. The attraction of furs must, however, be of another sort. For while the handling of them is a physical pleasure, there is no lust for furs as furs as there is for gold, Again, the love for gold, though accentuated by the knowledge of the security against discomfort and poverty it gives, can he trained out of men, as witness Fes. 7, 1903.] bank tellers. But men who have spent their lives in the fur trade still find an endless and indefinable charm in furs themselves. Doubtless the fact that they have been used since man first turned hunter, and so have become fixed in the popular mind as an object of desire, may ac- count in part for this admiration. But there is some- thing else, and that something is in part the yanity of the sexes, the Jove of ostentation, and desire to relieve the monotony of the human scenery. f f It is the fashion, of course, to credit the love of dis- play entirely to women. The assertion, therefore, that the basis of the liking for furs is woman’s love of ornament in costume will find ready acceptance among men. True, the latter are always ready to march about in the uni- forms and regalias of this or that order, behind a brass band, indifferent to dust and the hot sun and the jeers of the street gamin. But men have always sacrificed them- selves to a sense of duty; and the cynical people who at- tribute this willingness to.contribute something of bright- ness and cheer to a dull and colorless world to a mascu- line love of display fail to understand our ciyiliza- tion. Nevertheless, that women do love furs as an ornament in dress will be admitted. Beauty is to them more essen- tial to successful getting on in the world than it is to men, Any article of apparel or adornment that tends by colors and contrast to enhance it, is, therefore, always admired. And as the color and lustre and richness of furs breaks the sombreness and monotony of ordinary costume and sets off beauty as nothing else does, the taste for them has taken deep root in feminine nature, No doubt their warmth has much to do with this liking. In the choice furs, such as sealskin and ‘sea otter, the under fur is so close that small particles of air are held between the hairs, and this air is warmed by the heat of the body, while the fur itself acts as a non-conductor to the cold. The body of the wearer is thus inclosed in a miniature warm-air chamber, And though the coarse furs do not possess this quality, they still are warm enough to resist medium and even low temperatures. It may be questioned, however, whether if the beauty of furs were lacking, they would, as a mere protection from cold, attract womankind as they now do. As a matter of fact, much the same protection may be had from the lining furs, such as muskrat, squirrel, etc., or from fur clipped from the skin and woven into the cloth. One of the warmest garments possible is the sheepskin coat of the Russian peasant, woven with the wool inside, But though men wear furs manufactured in this fashion, women do not; and it is probable that men wear them only because of their diminished cost, and because in their work furs worn outside would speedily be destroyed. One charm of furs for the gentler sex is therefore that they eratify the taste for ornament and ostentation; though that men are exempt from this attraction there is no reason to believe. True, there is among the masses a prejudice against their use by men, as there is against the wearing of much jewelry, and for the same reason. But the rich and the cultivated wear them as far as custom will justify; and were prejudice removed, the leisure elass would no doubt use them largely, As it is, men buy furs for women to wear; and though they may do so from desire to please their wives and daughters, they do so also to please their own eyes, to see attractive and beautiful things. The prejudice of the masses may debar men from any large use of furs as savoring of vulgar ostentation. But the workingman buys his wife or sweetheart the prettiest fur he can afford, and likes to feast his eyes upon it; and so long as he does that the taste for furs as ornament will not die out any more than the liking for beauty in woman or for gems as flowers made eternal. But the real basis of the charm of furs is, we believe, scmething more than warmth, or concentrated value, or beauty as ornament, or the ease with which they lend themselves to ostentation. It is the gratification of the innate love of luxury. For, like jewels, furs belong in the higest class of luxuries, those at once artistic and sumptuous, The mere feel of furs is a physical pleasure greater than that given by contact with the finest grade of velvet, while their tints and colors, the alternations of reflection and light, make them a never-ending delight to the eye. The very warmth they contribute to the body has an exhilaration that nothing else can give. Even when lying on a chair, or hanging from the wall, they have a softness and richness and sumptuousness that in- vite repose while stimulating perception and appreciation of luxurious living. The mere ownership of a dyed muskrat skin gives its poor possessor the feeling of shar- ing the sumptuousness of the world with the rich and cultured. Doubtless few persons have ever analyzed these sensations, but they are real, nevertheless; and, indeed, the more the attraction of furs is considered, the greater the wonder that love for them is not deeper than it is. A good deal of this charm depends, of course, on the excellence of manufacture. For there are comparatively few furs the beauty of which is not enhanced by the fur- rier’s craft. Singularly enough, it is to China, not to the industrial West, that we look for the perfection of this art. Northwestern Manchuria and the western plateaus of the empire, are veritable reservoirs of furs, and Pekin is the great center of the fur trade of the Eastern world, The cold climate of these remote regions seems specially suited to the development of fur, which attains there a peculiar fineness and thickness. Even the hair and wool grown on these high plateaus take on many of the quali- ties of fur. The Manchurian dogs, for example, develop a real under fur in winter, and are bred in great numbers for their coats. The Manchurian cat skins have a higher value than those of the Bavarian Alps, while lamb skins, after treatment by the Chinese furriers, are almost as beautiful and sumptuous as the rarer furs. Despite the great yield of furs throughout the empire, the export trade in them has, however, been very small, only the lighter and less valuable kinds finding their way abroad. The choicer and finer furs are reserved for the domestic market, which among a people fond of personal luxury and substituting sumptuousness of costume for other adornment, is very large. Inevitably with such a demand the processes of manufacture have tndergone great development, and with their infinite painstaking and disregard of time, the Chinese furriers have, save in the dyeing of special skins, become past masters in their art. In fact, should the furriers of Pekin and Moukdeer ever FOREST AND STREAM. release their finished stacks fot export, Europe and America will gain a new luxury comparable to that of Chinese silks and Japanese satsuma pottery, For these men, if they do not in their delicate processes improve upon nature, do produce dressed furs which in tint, lustre and richness are unrivalled in the Western world. Some years ago the London Spectator, in commenting on Li Hung Chang’s furs, described several of the mas- terpieces of the Pekin furriers’ art owned by that states- man, and exhibited in London. It appears that the great . Viceroy derived a part of his vast revenue from a tribute of furs from Northern Manchuria; that he maintained in Pekin large warehouses filled with the rarer furs; and that his punishment for the substitution by his agents of inferior for good skins were so terrible that no choice furs were diverted from his stores. Possessed of this supply of rare skins, the Pekin furriers had, of course, ample resource for the exercise of their highest skill. And in a robe made to imitate a sable skin enlarged to the size of a beaver skin, they seem to have reached the perfection of their art. The task they set themselves was not only to repro- duce nature on a greatly magnified scale, but to improve upon nattire by making the fur lie the same way, instead ot following the bends of the body. To accomplish this, they cut small pieces from the best part of sable skins, on which the fur was of the same length, tint and thick- ness. These pieces were so minute that when sewed to- gether three or four of them made only a square inch of skin, And the patches were, in turn, so sewed as to give no indication of joining, and to impart to the front of the robe a uniform and unbroken appearance. The beauty and sumptuousness of a robe thus made can readily be imagined, even by those not keenly alive to the attraction of furs. But not content, the furriers added ornamentation as unique as it was admirable in effect. They inserted in the robe the skin of the fore paw and shoulder of the sable, which, when sewed down on the uniform fur, formed, owing to the difference in their lie and texture, an ornament like the “eye” seen in a pea- cock’s tail. The robe thus presented the appearance of al enormous sable skin ornamented with peacock’s eyes in sable damask; a creation which, it is safe to say, cast in the shade any personal luxury devised by the purveyors te Solomon. No doubt the Chinese furriers chose the sable not alone because of its color and richness, but because of the uni- tormity of fur; though a second robe, rivaling in effect the first, was made of skins of the red fox, of the differ- ing shades of red amber, with eyes formed of the bright black foot of the animal. In the fur of the sable both long hairs and the under fur are exactly uniform in size and texture, so that the skin has+the appearance of even- ness imparted by manufacture as well as the usual quali- ties of a taw fur. Naturally this superiority augments its value, the demand for the choicer Russian sables being se great that a bunch of ten of them, unfinished, easily commands $2,500. The fur of the sea otter, an animal now nearly extinct, has much of the same qualities as the sable, is, if anything, more beautiful, and owing to its rarity, brings a much higher price. Another fur, now scarcer even than the sea otter, is that of the Antartic seal, the most lustrous and thickest of all the seal fur. As London is the center of the fur trade of Europe and America, it should be possible through the records af the great January and March sales of Sir Charles Lamp- son and the Hudson’s Bay Company, to secure fairly ac- curate knowledge of the rate at which the rarer furs are decreasing, Through these sales are distributed the major part of the vast annual catch of furs on the Western continent, Siberia and Australia. How large this catch is may be judged from the statement that, a few years ago, in four days’ sales, lasting six hours each day, more than three million fur skins were disposed of. While apparently the rise in price of the better class of furs al these sales in recent years has been due in part to the demands of fashion, yet in the main it may be attributed te diminished supply, caused by the extermination of the animals bearing them. According to the Spectator’s esti- mate, based on the evidence of these sales, the seal, sea otter, silver and blue fox and beayer are the fur-bearing animals earliest destined to extinction. That this loss can be replaced is, of course, impossible, though the opening of China to outer trade would give to Europe and America a stock of the rarer furs which night last for some time. Failing this, the prospect is that, in the apparent impossibility of producing a substi- ‘tute for fine furs, or breeding the animals bearing them in numbers sufficient to keep up supply, mankind will have to fall back upon the lighter and poorer furs, and the hair and wool producing animals. Lamb skin, in the hands of skillful furriers, can be made almost as beautiful as the choicer furs; hare skin can be so manufactured as to resemble sealskin, and. of a good many of the smaller fur-bearing animals we are insured a fairly per- manent supply. Prices will increase, doubtless, but as concentrated property that will only augment the charm of furs, which, as a gratification at once of the admira- tion for ornament and the love of luxury, will no more die out than the liking for flowers and sunsets, No doubt time will modify a good many of our ideas, but it will not change the desire of men to see things beautiful in them- selves and especially to see their wives and daughters made attractive by the additional grace which rich cos- tume imparts. -H. M. Rosrnson. The American Dipper and Trout. Morcantown, W. Va,—Editor Forest and Stream: S. E. Loud, of the Centennial Fish Hatchery, of Wyo- ming, says that the bird known as the American Dip- per, a description and illustration of which is given in Bulletin No, 55, “The Birds of Wyoming,” by Profes- sor W. C. Knight, of the University of Wyoming, is one that is very destructive to young trout, trout fry or the eggs of trout; having seen one of these birds eat a half dozen small trout at one meal, diving under the water in the fish ponds and staying until it secures its prey. The bird is about the size of a robin, is a dark blue slate color, has a short tail and small wings. It is found along the mountains and small streams. He urges sportsmen to kill it on sight. EMERSON CARNEY, 08 rr Sporting Reminiscences. _ New York, Jan. 27.—Editor Forest and Stream: There 1s One superiority which no one will dispute with you: that is the superiority of age. And although that pre- eminence is not one of unalloyed advantage, it has the quality of enabling its possessor to remember more and further back than those who were born after him. Youth, after all, is a sort of disreputable appurtenance which every one gets over as fast as he can and is sure in the end to dispose of. Look at the condition of the unhappy young men of the present day, who try to call themselves sports- men. Sport! Clay pigeons. For the mawkish modern ~ sentiment of combined newspaper nonsense and pro- tection of animal hypocrisy will not even allow them the feeble sport of killing live pigeons with a gun and demands that they shall wring their necks mercifully without giving them even a chance for their lives. There is a certain exercise of skill, and that exercise of skill is precisely the pleasure of shooting which the silly people who have never enjoyed it attribute to love of slaughter and common brutality, and in so far there is sport in both these occupations, but the feeblest sort of sport it is. I remember when it was a common thing for me to go out in the glorious brown autumn when the air was becoming crisp and the leaves had turned to brown, and driving up Third avenue half way to the Harlem River, hitch my horse to the fence alongside the road, which was then a country dirt road, and going into the adjoining fields, kill a fair day’s bag, say fifteen quail, two or three rabbits and a woodcock or two. And then I would get back into my buggy, and be home to a home dinner and good company at the usual hour. There was good woodcock and English snipe shoot- ing in Central Park long after it was laid out, and Mr. Alfred W. Craven, for years park commissioner and a devoted sportsman, used to invite me frequently to shoot with him along its water courses and muddy branches before it got into its modern elegance and development. Then, again, we would drive out to Ja- maica, and shoot on the meadows or kill rail, as many as forty in a day, on One Mile Creek, just beyond the village. In Jersey was most glorious shooting almost at our doors. The Big and Little Pieces, the Troy Meadows and a dozen other spots which I knew well then, but of which the very names have escaped my memory now, gave us the grandest shooting without exception in the world at snipe and woodcock, the kings of game birds. On one August day four of us bagged sixty woodcock that had come out into the flooded open meadow, and on another occasion, during two weeks, four of us averaged seventy-five a day-in the big swamps of Jersey, a little further away. - The farmers, too, were glad to see us, and often went with us and allowed us to shoot on the first day of July a-few days before the law was up, as they then legally had the right to do. Further back still, when I was a very little boy, I used to see men fishing on the bridge from the Battery to Castle Garden, good fishermen, too, with the finest of reels, rods and tackle, and catch- ing striped bass and weakfish in abundance of more than fair size. And what-a grand lot of sportsmen-they were, that old guard, who never killed a bird unfairly and who trained their dogs, till there was hardly a more beauti- ful sight than to see a couple of them on a point, and perhaps one or two more backing. Frank Forester, Wiliam Henry Herbert, not a first-rate shot and a disagreeable man with his rude English manners, but a splendid writer, who has never had an equal in sporting matters. General Dix, who tised to shoot bay snipe in his old days with Colonel Post at a special hole in the pond in the meadow east of Quogue, which they had purchased for the purpose and where they built a cover which enabled them to read when the birds were not flying. And Colonel Post himself, of whom the old darkey guide who accompanied them used to say, “The Colonel am a werry destructive man, a werry destructive man in a flock of snipe.” Judge John K. Hackett, the most perfect shot, whether with gun or pistol, who lived in my time. Haywood Gib- bons, who lived at Madison, where the famous racer Fashion was bred by his father, and who may be liy- ing still, for he went South during the Rebellion and - I have not seen him since. Peter Vredenburgh, of Eatontown, N. J., with whom I have killed a half bushel basket of fall woodeock in a few days’ shooting, and who was himself killed while fighting for his coun- try in the Civil War. Charlie Banks, a splendid shot and good fellow who is still with us; Charles E. White- head, another like him; George Penniman, the man who discovered Currituck by rowing on an exploring expedition the entire length of the sounds of the North Carolina coast till he reached that paradise of duck shooters, where he has killed ina single day and to his own gun, a hundred and fifty of the best ducks that fly. Judge Gildersleeve, a young man to be in this category perhaps, who partly won his way to the bench through his preemimence with the rifle. William C. Barret, who, if he did get into financial trouble in his later days, was “a good fellow” all through; and cast the fly beautifully. My intimate old friend, Charles Carow, the father of the lady of the White House, who cast the fly simply to perfection, and with whom I have fished many and many a day on the waters of old Long Island and elsewhere as well. Charles Hutchin- son, Mayor of Utica, a capital fly-fisherman, Cassius Darling, who accompanied me on many a trip into the forests of Canada to kill the glorious salmon. Judge Beebe, of Beebe, Dean & Donohue, the well- known lawyers, who, for a bet once dragged a light wagon from Vails, near Smithtown, to the railway station, five miles distant. Barret and he were there fishing, and when they were going home the wagon was brought out and leit before the door, while there was some delay in hitching up the horse. Barret was uneasy, and said they would be late, when Beebe re- sponded, “I could drag that wagon myself there in time for the train.” rE “T bet you $50 you could not,” retorted Barret, 104 “Done,” replied Judge Beebe, and without more ado he hitched himself in the shafts and off he started. Barret took another wagon and followed. Beebe won the bet, getting to the station just as the train was in sight. And with that story I will stop, not that I need to stop, for the list was a long one and the times we had were good. One dinner, perhaps, I shall tell about, however. A lady living at Madison, mother of one of the gentle- men whose name I have mentioned, ironically re- marked one evening when we were making great prepa- rations for the morrow’s expedition, that she would have cooked all the woodcock we would shoot and give us all the champagne we could drink besides. We returned next evening with forty-two birds, and to this day I can see the lady’s face when we produced them. She did not quite cook them all, and the din- ner was a little late, but we had all that even a young man with a hunter’s appetite could enjoy, and the chainpagne was frappéed to perfection. In conclusion let me say, in the words of another good sportsman, General Davies, “Remember no man ever caught a trout in a dirty place.” Rosert B, ROOSEVELT. Jatuyal Zistory. ——_—-——_ Yellowstone Park Game. Editor Forest and Stream: Four more buffalo cows have been added to the herd in the Park, purchased from Howard Eaton. They are from the Allard herd. They are quite contented with their companions from the same herd. Hay is fed to them every day, but they go out in the pasture to pick up a little range grass. There is a number of mule deer and a few white tail deer in the same in- closure. JI took a ride the 8th down Gardiner River, and on to MacMinn’s Bench (a shoulder of Mt. Everts). From the time we left Ft. Yellowstone until we re- turned we (Major Pitcher and I) were not out of sight of game for a moment. In fact, deer were in -sight when we mounted our horses. We saw on the Bench back from the cliffs at Eagle Nest, about 150 antelope (I counted that number), There were in one band over 200 elk, and lower down, on Turkey Pen No. 1, we saw | a band of 32 mountain sheep. Elk, antelope and mule deer were all around the place, where the sheep were, and scattered all over the side of the mountain toward the town of Gardiner. Elk, antelope and deer were on top as far as we could see. With field glasses we could see heads and backs of animals, their bodies hid by the turn of the hill. Across Gardiner River (to the west), at the springs above Ice Lake, there was one band of 118 elk. At Ice Lake I could see elk lying down along the shore, elk in the quaking asp groves, elk feeding and one drinking at an open place in the ice on the lake. Elk and deer were lying down and feeding on the ridges above the lake (to the north). Gate was in sight in every direction. We could see bands of antelope on the flats close to the town of Gardiner. Returning, we saw 19 mule deer in what is known as the Company Garden (soldiers’ garden). While we were looking at them others came down the hill and joined them, first three, then two, then three; then others were coming from the aspen groves and willow patches. It was now almost sunset; we did not stop longer, but started home. Across Gardiner River (we were now on the west side) were three very large bull elk close to the river, several others were up the river on the lower slopes of Mt. Everts. Mule deer were all along the road home, and at no time were we out of sight of some of the larger game. Monday evening, or, rather, an_hour before sun- down, Howard Eaton and Major Pitcher started for a walk and to call on Buffalo Jones and to see the buffalo. They had their cameras. J was too lazy to go along, but not too lazy to stand on the veranda and watch them photographing a bunch of deer in front of the quarters. The deer paid very little atten- tion to them or any one else. Three wood teams were on the road to the northwest; along the walks were several people, one lady with a baby carriage and a soldier scout horseback. The deer, nine of them, were surrounded on all sides by people. They were feeding on upland hay Major Pitcher had placed there for them. At first they used to pay very little attention to the hay, now they come to it every afternoon, and at most any time of the night some of them can be seen out there. : I had been curious to see the effect of the firing of the sundown or evening gun on them. So when I. heard the bugle sound I watched them. Two soldiers came from guard house to the flag staff, two others went to the gun, the deer were between the two parties. The sentry and others of the guard were in front of the house. The two men at the flag staff were less than 100 feet away. The bugle sounded, the gun was fired and the flag commenced to lower at the report of the:gun; the deer raised their heads, but did not stop eating. They paid more attention to the men with the flag. After all the men returned to. the euard house, parties of ladies and officers were still in front of the quarters calling to each other and making re- marks about the deer. Sometimes one or two will pretend to be wild. One the other evening grabbed a mouthful of hay, and the loose hay hanging down to below its breast streamed back as it bounded away with the peculiar jumps and then trot. I called to it, “Oh, you wild fat rascal, come back with that hay.’ Another deer started up, bounded off about 100 feet, turned, bounded back past the other deer, trotted around a bit as though it was warming itself by a little exercise. The one with the bunch of hay in its mouth stood eating it 200 feet suddenly it whirled and went bounding toward the others, moving its head with a backward and for- watd movement at-every jump. I called it “putting nn style.” I talk “baby talk” to them, as our friend away; FOREST-AND STREAM, Col. Pickett calls it. Call them “Villins,’ fat rascals and wild things, and tell them they will starye to death if they don't keep away from that hay; but they pay no attention to my talk until I cry like a young deer or a coyote, then their heads are up, for a while they are all attention, their ears ott like small wings, but soon with a toss of their heads they are eating again, saying “it’s nobody but that old, foolish Billy Hofer trying to make us think he can frighten ws.” They all seem to know that no one wants to hurt them, Back of the commissioner’s house is a favorite place for about 20 deer; these may be seen most any time. Along the road toward Golden Gate may be seen from 20 to 50 deer any time; these are most all bucks. One has a peculiar growth from each horn, a branch for- ward toward its nose, making it look a little bit like a caribou. I call him the caribou deer. Several shots have been taken at him with a camera. I hope some of the shots were true and that we will have his picture Monday evening. We were out that way, and the doc- tor shot both deer and elk with his faithful 4x5. One fine buck was about so feet from the road; a wood team had just passed; we stopped to let the doctor have a shot. I called, but the deer would pay no attention to us until I gave him the coyote cry, then he looked up for a second, long enough for a shot, but went to pawing snow and eating; his actions seemed to say, “T wonder what's the matter with that crowd? Won- der if they think I’m going to pay any attention to them!” Indifference would be a good name for his pic- ture. Howard Eaton, of Medora, went out on McMinn’s Bench with Major Pitcher, Lieut. Cullen and Scout McBride. Howard says he saw and counted 600 elk, 400 antelope, 30 mountain sheep, and did not try to count the mule deer, but saw many, over 100, Mr. Eaton counted these animals not estimated. All this game was within less than three miles of the town of Gardiner, Montana, and at that only those animals on the east side of Gardiner River and in the Park. There are people who doubt these statements and who even say, “I don’t believe it.’ They make me think of the gentleman whom I met at the Grand Cafion Hotel along toward ’89. I was telling a friend of mine about the buffalo in the Park. This gentleman “chipped in” and said “he did not believe there was any buffalo in the Park.” I looked at him a moment, and then said I was not worth much, but would put my outfit up against $500 that I would show him buffalo within less than ten miles of the lower Geyser Basin. But he would not go out, said he could not ride horseback. I wonder if he expected to see all the game in the Park along the wagon roads? Why! of all the game to be seen here now; around Gardiner, Ft. Yellowstone and other parts of the Park, animals by the hundreds and thousands, hardly one can be seen by the time the tourist season opens. People who make the tour of the Park along the usual traveled routes see very little of the game range of the country, while in the timber they can see but a few feet each side of the road, and usually see only one side at that. Even in the open country they see very little of it, and while there is game to be seen in the open country in summer, it is not usually where wagons travel. How very little of a country one does see closely enough to distinguish an animal if it were in sight, very few people realize, and yet they talk of seeing a greater part of the Park when they have traveled some of its wagon roads, and say there is no game in it because they did not see it. Once I was taking a party through before the days of wagon roads; we had seen considerable game, and were traveling along the shore of Yellowstone Lake. One of the gentlemen of the party said he did not believe there were any trout in the lake because he could not see them. A gale was blowing at the time; the lake was rough and the season was late October, I told him I would try to catch some trout that night, but it commenced to snow and snowed all night and all next day. I did not attempt to take trout and he did not see any. I told him I could not help what he be- lieved, but the trout were there just the same. So it is with the game. I don’t care much what people be- lieve or disbelieve. The game is here just the same. I would like to have some of my friends come out here and see it, not that I think they doubt my word, but because it, is such a glorious sight—four and five thou- sand elk and other animals, to- say nothing of ducks and other water fowl. I have been from Florida to Alaska, from the Atlantic to the Pacific; I have been on the plains in the buffalo days when they could be seen by the thousands; I have seen antelope by the thousands and other animals in great number, but never . was where I could see so many different animals and in such number at one time and all so tame, as can now be seen in the Yellowstone National Park. As I write I can see from the window eight does and one large buck mule deer feeding on the hay in front of the quarters. This in the bright sunshine at 3:10 P. M. Jan. 12 Howard Eaton went with a party from the post to Specimen Divide. Between Ft. Yellowstone and Yancey’s he counted 749 elk, 21 mule deer and 1 coyote along the trail, Just before reaching Yancey’s they ran into a large band of elk. It was getting late, and as the elk were in timber as well as the open coun- try, they could not get a careful count, but made out the band to consist of not less than 4oo. On the 13th, from Yancey’s to half-way to Soda Butte, they counted 1,120 elk, 2 mule deer, 1 white tail, 5 coyotes; this along the road; 800 elk were estimated in small bands on hills in sight, but too far to count. Now this trip was made in fine weather; the elk were back from the road on the higher feeding grounds. By leaving the road they could have seen a great many more or had the snow been deeper. Howard is satisfied there are a few elk left. The wild mallard ducks are getting tame, too; they feed in large flocks on refuse close to Ft. Yellowstone, and can be seen in the road picking up oats scattered from the loads freighted from the railroad. There duck are the only ones that can be called tame; several other kinds are wild yet, and they will fly when teams pass closely. Sebel C, J. Jones got a fine lion in his trap the other day, (Pen. 4 1003, ‘ making two Idlled this winter, to date. This is not killing them fast eriongh, A party of eastern people have at last seen some of the game. They came up here Monday, the toth, and returned next day to Livingston; they were en rotite to the Pacific coast. They were well satisfied with what they saw during their short visit. We are very much disappointed because Mr. Grin- nell did not come out. All the Boone and Crockett Club should visit the Park once in winter. Fly Animal Tracks and Trailing. IT REMEMBER as if it were but yesterday, the first trip that I took into the real wilderness. It was in the overflow lands of eastern Arkansas, a region of cane- brakes, cypress sloughs, tupelo brakes and vast stretches of flat-woods in which sassafras grew four feet thick and persimmons rose slim and straight as masts to a height of ninety feet or more. It was indeed a new country to me, a Northern man by birth and breeding, and everything puzzled me, I remember how surprised I was to find that fish poles, on their native soil, have leaves, And I remember, when we first saw a cypress swamp, with the great “knees” protruding, how one of my companions from the North exclaimed: “Well, some fellow must have had a dickens of a lot to do to come here and sharpen all those stumps!” But the tracks of animals puzzled me most of all. The guide would say, “Here went a doe, here a bie buck followed her, here he jumped over this log,’ and so on; and he always wound up with a “Can’t you see?” No, I could not see. My eyes were sharp enough over the rifle sights, but they could see nothing to show what animals had passed, or what they were doing at the time. It took me a week to distinguish with confi- pare a deer’s track from that left by a razor-back Hog. i I thought at that time that if some competent person should publish accurate illustrations of the feet and tracks of our principal wild animals, together with oth- ers, showing how they differed from tracks left by cattle, hogs, and dogs, it would go far toward initiating a novice into the mysteries of tracks and trailing. And it would, That such a thing is practicable has recently been proven in Germany. In the latter part of 1901 there was published by J. Neumann, in the little town of Neudamm, in Prussia, a book that does for European sportsmen what I wish somebody would do for Ameri- cans. It is entitled ‘““Fahrten und Spurenkunde,” which, freely translated, means The Art of Tracking and Trailing. The text is by Eugene Teuwsen and the illustrations by Carl Schulze. There are 163 capital wood cuts, mostly life-size, showing with more than photographic exactness the tracks left by European game. The drawings are from nature, and are so faithful that, by their aid and a little study of the text, a small boy should be able to tell, on moist earth or snow, what animal had made a given track, and at what pace it was traveling. The descriptive matter and illustrations fill 132 octavo pages. The book re- ‘tails at 6 marks ($1.50). As an example of the author’s method in teaching the art of trailing, we may cite his treatment of the red deer’s tracks. He first gives descriptions and life- size drawings of the under side of the hind feet of the mature male red deer, fallow deer, wild boar and roe- buck. As the drawings stand side by side, on opposite pages, one can take in at a glance the essential differ- ences between the feet of these four beasts. Following are illustrations showing the slight difference between the track of an old and feeble red deer and that of a sturdy buck fallow deer; also the resemblance in size between the foot prints of a red deer fawn in July and that of a doe fallow deer. Drawings are also given showing the marked difference between the feet of red deer stags and hinds, The author then discusses the length and breadth of tracks of stags, hinds and fawns; their length and width of pace; the extent to which they “toe-out” in walking; the impression of the dewclaws; the “balling” of tracks in snow or mud; the over- reaching of the hind foot in walking; the signs left on moist leaves, etc.; the marks made by the antlers on bushes and trees; the indications of different paces in walking, running and jumping; and many other nice points in reading a deer’s movements. The chapter concludes with a dissertation on the droppings of deer of different ages and at different seasons. The various sub-headings are accompanied by 30 illustrations, con- scientiously drawn from nature by an artist thoroughly familiar with his subject. In like manner, though at less length, the book de- scribes and illustrates the tracks of the moose, fallow deer, roebuck, chamois, wild boar, hare, rabbit, squir- rel, bear, wolf, dog (for comparison), fox, wildcat, badger, otter, woods and stone martins, polecat, vari- ous weasels, and, among fowls, those of the caper- caillie, black-cock, hazel grouse, moor-hen, quail, pheas- ant, curlew, bustard, crane, stork, heron, swan, wild goose, wild duck and rook. The text is hard to read, owing to the multitude of words unfamiliar to an average reader: for the German language of sport is so technical as to require a glos- saty of its own. This book shows us what can be accomplished by type, and especially by well-executed drawings, toward prepating a novice for the practical study of this most difficult branch of wildcraft. A book alone cannot make a good trailer of anyone, but it can teach him what to look for, and can save him many a blunder. It shortens the curriculum. This is all that the best - of manuals can do—but it is a great deal. Cannot some one give us a similar book on the tracks of American game animals? It would be inter- esting, not to hunters only, but to everyone who loves outdoor life. Horace KeEpHart. 2 Sr, Lours All communications intended for Forest AND Stream should always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., New York, and not to any individual connected with the paper, Fes. 7, 1903.1 Is “Protective Coloring’? a Myth? New York, Jan. 27.—Editoy Forest and Stream: Most naturalists, | take it, will agree with the comments tnade 1 nyour issue of Jan. 31 by Mr, Francis Moonan on Mr. Paul Fountain’s views on protective coloration, ‘or, to speak more fully, with regard to the adaptation ‘of form and color for purposes of concealment. Moonan, however, does not call attention to the fact that Mr, Fountain distinctly contradicts himself on a number of occasions. Speaking of the ant bears and Sloth he states pp. 124-5 that they “look, even when you are close to them, so much lke a bundle of the dried herbage that they often escape the eye of the hunter, and would be sure to do that of the novice.” Further on, speaking of the ant bear and its habit of turning its large, bushy tail up over its back, he says that it does this “in such a manner that when the animal is squatting on the ground it is completely hid under it, and looks like a tuft of dead grass.” Still further along, he says of the two-toed and three- toed sloths that they “so much resemble a bunch of dead dried-up twigs in the trees that they are not easily discovered except by experienced eyes.” All this, of course, agrees very ill with his earlier statement that coloration is no protection whatever to the human eye; and that the practiced hunter is never deceived by it unless as the result of his own careless- ness. NATURALIST. Potato Bugs and Quail. Mrirorp, Conn., Jan. 26.—Editor Forest and Stream: In Prof. Attwater’s published investigations regarding the usefulness of our bird fauna to the husbandman, he states that he found tor potato bugs in the body (stomach) of a single quail, This raised the question in my mind as to the possibility of quail being pois- oned by the paris green solution that is universally used in New England and elsewhere, to clear our potato fields of these beetles. The fact that we have had more quail in the season just past than ever be- fore and almost no potato bugs during the siimmer, and consequently very little “paris greening,’’ may or may not be a case of cause and effect. . Has this theory ever been advanced, and is the potato bug a favorite with the quail—a bonne bouche? Dr. Morton GRINNELL. [This suggestion has been made before, but we know of no observations to show that quail are ever al- fected by the poison which is used against the beetles. ] The Wild Pigeon. A CORRESPONDENT sends us a press clipping dated Denison, Tex., Jan. 23, and relating that “Dr, A. T. Canova and Mr. Marklin passed through here to-day en route to Chicago. They have spent the past two years in the district of Valladolid, Yucatan, Dr. Can- ‘ova thinks he has cleared up the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the wild pigeons from the United ‘States. He saw thousands in Yucatan, and within the past year they have appeared in portions of Mexico. "The doctor predicts that they will again appear in the United States as numerous as ever.” But the pigeons Dr. Canova found in Yucatan are not the wild pigeons of this country, and consequently their existence does not clear up the mystery of the disappearance of our species. Gane Bag and Gan. ———)— Proprietora of shooting resorts will find it profitable to advertise them in Forrst AND STREAM. A Boy and Some Crows. Editor Forest and Stream: A correspondent in a late number of Forest AND STREAM thinks that the crows should have some men- tion in its pages, and so do I. The crows were the first birds I ever shot, though I would not kill one of them now, nor let them be killed if I could prevent it. When a small boy in Pennsylvania I spent most of my summers on a farm of my uncle's that was part of it in two counties; it was right on the line, his house being in Allegheny County and his barn in Butler County. This country, though it was only a few miles out from Allegheny City, was a backwoods then in 1845, the houses being often several miles apart. My uncle’s house stood half a mile from the main road, and a lane led up to it; one side of the lane had heavy timber on it all the way up, while a large corn field occupied the opposite side. . A colony of crows, there must have been nearly, if not all, of a hundred of them, had their roost out in this timber, and every morning soon after sunrise they would fly down to the cornfield and stay in it nearly all day. : P Farmers thought then, as most of them still think, that the crows only damaged them and were oi no benefit to them. I was too young then to think, but when hunting these crows I almost always found them on the ground between the rows of corn; they were after insects, not corn, then, though they did attack the corn once in a while. The ears were only just forming then. Later they might do more damage. My uncle had scarecrows all through the fields, but they did not scare many crows; I do not believe we haye a bird that can see any further through a lad- der than a crow can, or can put this and that together more quickly than he can, I had one of these crows for a pet for a year and learned something about them; these crows had no doubt found all about these scare- crows long since. : Some of these scarecrows were long poles planted in the ground with a clap board, a rude oak shingle, hung to the top of the pole by a rope. In theory this board was supposed to swing with the wind and scare a eroaw clear out of the country. In practice it did nothing of the kind. My uncle had several old sits of clothes stuffed with straw and planted on poles; I shot 4 crow that was perched on a hat on one of these bogus men; it had not scared that crow. One of my cousins had made me a bow of stout hickory and a number of arrows; some of them he had tipped with sharp horseshoe nails to kill birds with, he said; I killed the crows with them. I began to practice first on a tree and kept at it until I could hit the tree 30 feet away, then began on my aunt’s chickens; and now my uncle called my atten- tion to the crows, telling me that he would pay me one cent each for every crow I killed and brought to the barn, where he could count them. I don’t suppose he expected me to kill many of them, but before IT had part of these crows killed and the rest driven off for good I had him nearly bankrupt. A cent then looked almost as large to a farmer as a dollar does now. The old copper cent that we had then was as large as a half dollar is, and these farmers made most of their payments in trade; if they could get money enough to pay their taxes they were satis- fied, I began on the crows while they were seated on the top rail of the fence before they went to work in the field each morning. They seemed to be holding a ° kind of meeting here; they may have been calling the roll; they made noise enough, anyhow. At first they paid no attention to me; I have since thought that they may have taken me to be a little girl. I looked like one, I thought; I was dressed much like one, we had no knee pants for boys then, and the most of us could not get long trousers before we were six years old; I was that age now, but still had the skirt on, it would now be called a kilt suit, a short heavy skirt and a jacket. I began by crawling along close to the fence, then when near enough to a crow I would send an arrow into him. These arrows of mine would not kall them very often, but the crow would drop, then I caught and finished him. I got six in all the first day, and. was paid for them in silver, a Mexican “fip’; they were current then, four of them making 25 cents. Part of these I got off the fence, the rest I got by following them through the corn and sneaking up on them; but after a day or two I could get no more off that fence; they had me marked now, and as soon as I would show myself a crow would call out caw— “there he comes,” I reckon; then they would get out of that. Next I lay in the weeds behind the fence and got a few; then they quit calling the roll here on the fence and went straight from the timber to the field. IL kept alter them every day except Sunday for just two weeks; and finally, on going out to meet them one morning, not a crow catne; they had emigrated, and they did not return that summer. There was one thing I got while hunting them that pleased me, I had always wanted to get out of this petticoat, as I called it. I got out of it now, my aunt made me a pair of trousers so that I could get through the corn easier; I never had to wear the skirt again. I have forgotten exactly how many crows 1 got in all, I think about 30 though. A few days before they left me for good, I shot one, and on going to pick him up he got up and bit me, I had only stunned Iim. I kept him alive, and taking him home, my cousin clipped one of his wings to prevent him from flying, then I got a flour barrel, and laying it on its side put him in it and fed him all the corn he could eat, he seemed to be contented here. He had the rtin of the yard, and was not here a week before he was in the house and all over it; there was not a hole or corner that he could not get mto. There was nothing that ‘crow could carry off that he did not try to steal; I have known him to haye my aunt’s scissors, her thimbles, sewing thread and half a dozen teaspoons, all in his barrel at one time; I found my cousin’s finger rings, all her hair pins and a pair of ribbon garters, all in his barrel one day; she had not missed them yet. I once saw him try to carry off a large brass candle stick, Any thing that was bright was what he seemed to want. I took him with me to town when I went home and kept him there all winter, then brought him out to the farm again the next summer. These crows that J had hunted last summer or oth- ers—l think they were my old friends though, they seemed to know me—were here again; I got after them again, but did not have to go after them often; they leit, and took my crow with them. I had let his wing feathers grow; I did not think he would leave me now, but he did. Late that fall he came back alone and stayed in the barn all winter; he would let them feed him, but never would let himself be caught now. I think had I been there I could have caught him. He left in the spring and never came back. My cousin had another pet for me this year, a young raccoon, that he found one cold morning in April hali frozen on the barn floor. He brought him to the house and thawed him out, then kept him ior me. I had him for two years, and while I had him [I was the only one he would let handle him without biting them, I could carry him around in my arms, he never offered to hurt me. I forgot to leave him water one night and he slipped his collar and left. While I had the crow there was a lady living across the street from me who had a parrot that her brother, who was a sailor, had sent her, and I think that her brother, if it was he who had taught the parrot Eng- lish, must have been a mate and a profane one, too. This parrot seemed to have. mastered about all the cuss words in our language, but he knew nothing else. I tried to teach him some of our boys’ slang, as “go choke yourself” and “soak your head,” but I would get in return, “Go to Hades you lubber.” I found out that the parrot hated the sight of my crow. That suited me. I would carry the crow over to the parrot’s cage, then hold him here, while the parrot ran the whole string of cussing, all he knew. He had a string of oaths that he would repeat, and as soon as he had got to the end he would begin at the begmning again; he never got his remarks mixed; he would always address me and the crow as d—d lubbers, that is why I think a mate had taught him. The lady would stand his conversation for a while, then run the crow and me off with her broom. Capra Branco. ’ out the appropriation. California Jottings. SAw Francisco, Jan. 20—The California Game and Bish Commission has won its case against John F. Corriea, the commission merchant, who has been a persistent violator of the game laws himself and the instigator and beneficiary of countless violations of the law on the part of others. Police Judge Mogan ren- dered his long delayed decision, found Corriea guilty and imposed a fine of $40. Corriea has signified his intention of appealing. The case was a mast important one by reason of the principle involved, and also be- cause the otfendet was not a mere market-hunter, but a man of substance, employing numerous agents and hunters, not alone in this State, but throughout the Pacific coast. In view of the magnitude of his trans- actions, the fine imposed appears insignificant, but the commissioners are content. Their aim has been for months to secure the conviction of some prominent commission merchant under what is known ag “the possession clause” of the act, and this they have now accomplished, The clause in question reads as fol- lows: “Evety person who, during any one calendar day takes, kills, or destroys, or has in his possession more than twenty-five quail, partridge, Stipe, curlew, or ibis, or more than filty doves, or more than fifty ducks, or more than twenty rail, is guilty of a misde- meanor.” Mr, Corriea was caught with just twenty- six quail in his possession, which had been shipped to him by the deputy game warden at Oroville, and he is the first commission merchant to be convicted under this particular section of the Act. It will be readily seen that if the higher court sustain the con- struction which has been placed upon the Act by the police court and the commission enforces the: law in the future as rigorously as it has done in the past, the sale of game in California will practically cease. for te carry on‘the business with a stock of an odd dozen or two of assorted game birds would never pay. A Record Wildcat, The largest wildcat that has been killed in the neighborhood of San Francisco for the last ‘ten years, was secured by Dr. W. F, Jones, of San Rafael, while shooting quail on the Lucas Ranch, about three miles from that city. Like all the wildcats in the vicinity, this one was of the lynx species with tufted ears, whiskers and a ruff about the neck. He was extremely fat, and his pelt was in fine condition. He measured, unskinned, and without stretching either the truth or tls cat, irom the end of his nose to the tip of the bone of his tail, thirty-eight inches. I haye read of them in the newspapers measuring five feet and upward, but this one was five inches longer than any wildcat out of fifty odd that I have seen. Ducks and Quail, The season for ducks and quail closes on Feb. 1 in this State, and in some of the counties the quail sea= son closed on the 15th inst. Sportsmen are unani- mously agreed that valley quail this year have been scarcer than ever before in the history of the State, and the duck shooting has been nothing like as good as it was last year. Prevailing climatic conditions furnish a satisfactory explanation of the dearth of ducks, There have been no high winds or severe storms this winter, and foggy days and a more or less unceasing drizzle are anything but favorable for the sport. As to the valley quail, each year it is becoming more evi- dent that something must be done to prevent the whole- sale trapping of these birds by Portuguese and Italian- Swiss ranchers, who own or lease nearly all the dairy and other agricultural properties within easy reach of Sau Francisco. This year, while shooting quail, I have personally smashed 15 quail-traps on as many ranches; but as it is only the work of 10 minutes to construct a new one out of an old fruit-box, it is ques- tionable whether any particular good is done by smash- ing them. What is needed is a liberal appropriation for the fish and game commission and a rigorous en- forcement of the law, and this last cannot be had with- Unless this is done, within a few years, open quail shooting in the neighborhood of San Francisco will be a thing of the past. Lintiting the bag to 25 birds, as under the present law, can ac- complish very little toward preservation, because it is impossible for even the most expert shot to bag 25 birds in a day in this neighborhood. My best bag this season Over unpreserved ground, was 14 birds, and the best bag of the best shot of my acquaintance over similar ground was 19 quail. Even in the preserves there were few days when anybody got the limit. As for ducks, I do not know to my own knowledge of a single instance when 50 birds were bagged in a dav by any one sportsman, although I heard of three such cases, and upon investigation found that in no instance had the shooter reached the limit, although they had come close to it, The San Francisco commission mer- chants are responsible for the wholesale trapping of quail by ranchers, as almost all birds so trapped are shipped to the city and sold in direct violation of the law. Very few are sold locally. Game Commission Items, Deputy Game Warden L. N. Kercheval ran down to Bakersfield the other day and stepped into the Louvre for luncheon. He had heard that they were selling quail there, and although they did not appear upon . the menu, the only game entry being “squabs,” he asked for quail, got quail, ate one of them, pocketed the other and paid the 50 cent check, “Who is running this restaurant?” he inquired of the cashier. “Mr. D. M, Sillis manager. You will find him right over there, sir,” Deputy Kercheval arrested Mr. Sill, who evinced ne surprise, but prepared to accompany him. “Surely you knew it was against the law to sell quail?” queried Kercheval. “Certainly I did. I have been in the hotel business thirty years and have to serve what my cus- tomers call for. I have been expecting to be arrested every day. I shall plead guilty and pay whatever fine the justice may assess me”; and Sill was as good as his word; paid the $25 fine, shook hands with Kercheval 106 FOREST AND STREAM. [Fre.-7, 1903. and went back to his restaurant. L. Byer, a local mer- chant of Santa Margarita; who was acting as a ship- ping agent for San Francisco commission firms, was also fined $25 last week. The eight men who were ar- rested in the mountains of Tehama County, red-handed, and were charged with slaughtering deer out of season, were all acquitted by an intelligent jury of their peers alter a two days’ trial at Red Bluff, Shasta County. Game protection does not appear to be popular in the northern counties. MARIN. The Adirondack Deer. From the forthcoming report of the New York Forest, Fish and Game Commission, In response to a continued and growing demand for information about the larger animals of the Adirondack region, the Commission has followed its usual course in collecting various facts and statistics relating to the fauna of the woods. Great care has been exercised to have the facts and figures given represent accurately the condi- tions as they exist, and it is believed that the camper, the sportsman, and even the resident of the Adirondack coun- ties will find something of interest and value in what fol- lows. The proof that the herds of deer are steadily in- creasing will of itself give much satisfaction, and the success that has attended the effort to restore moose to the woods will undoubtedly prove gratifying to the many citizens interested in the movement. The introduction ci elk is at best an experiment, but it has thus far proved to be successful, and the people of the State are indebted to a public-spirited citizen for generous donations of these valuable animals. Many letters received by the Commission attest the pleasure which the vast army of visitors to the Adirondack region has experienced and is yet to experience from the introduction in this terri- tory of the animals mentioned. The Adirondack Deer. One of the very best evidences of the value of protec- tion is furnished by the marked in¢rease in the number of deer secured by hunters in the Adirondack region an- nually. In spite of all predictions to the contrary, the herds of deer have steadily grown; and although the army of hunters is continually increasing, as shown by the heavy travel to the woods during the hunting season, the inroads made yearly have not appreciably diminished the number of these animals within the State’s forest domain. In response to the continued demand of those interested in this subject, the Commission has collected, with the aid of the American and National Express Com- panies, a record of the shipments made during the hunt- ing season of 1902. These figures, and those of the two preceding years, are as follows: Careasses. Saddles. Heads. Miers Cen pe Aer pte | seeasee ols O20 89 95 EMEC SE Se PO ee red pt era 1,062 108 121 Oe a uae heen 6 pee Ste cend nett eee ods 1,354 113 193 From the increase in the number of carcasses shipped it will be seen that, in round numbers, about thirty per cent, more deer were secured by hunters in the Adiron- dacks during the season of 1902 than during the previous year. By following the generally accepted rule, that four deer are killed in the woods for every one shipped out by rail,* the great increase in the returns secured by sports- men as a result of protecting these animals will readily be seen. The interesting statistics furnished by Supt. John L. Van Valkenburgh, of the American Express Company, and Supt. T. L. Smith, of the National Express Com- pany, who vouch for the accuracy of the figures given, are as follows: Season of 1902—Shipments of Deet from Points in the Adirondack Region, Mohawk and Malone Railroad. Carcasses. Saddles. Heads. Raeiraetne sees ental eerie ts Settlers fe Pid 2 ak Hetted i iGyo qe say pe aibeeoec soe aque 45 Brandreths OW vb i Cebstco) Cc UP eee er nities nieie pe een 16 Clear! Witter re nice mabe 5 slats wlsinstetelete AAA Y 20 Bas les Haidaesd 06 as 6Oe her een icin nial 14 Floodwood ..c.scene Fe Feeaesd ; 193 31 43 Recapitulation. Mohawk and Malone Railroad ......... 618 46 74 New York and Ottawa Railroad....... 82 1 19 Utica and Black River Railroad....... SPAR 18 10 Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg R. R., 50 2 5 Fonda, Johnstown & Gloversville R.R. 113 13 20 Little Falls and Dolgeville Railroad... 9 53 7 N. Y. Central & Hudson River R, R.. 5 2 oh Rutland: Wailroade. i. - seek steeds wee 7 23 22 Delaware and Hudson Railroad....... . a3 ol 43 Total shipments......:.sse.00+e ssi 1,354 113 193 From the weight of the carcasses recorded in the ship- ping bills of the express companies, it will be readily seen that the Adirondack deer, when properly protected, will develop a size and weight fully equal to or surpassing that of the species in any other locality in North Amer- ica. The following are some of the shipments reported which seem worth noting: *Dressed __ Live Railroad Station. Consigned to. Weight. Weight. Big Moose—C. P. Floyd, Remsen, N. Y...+..+++++ + 203 254 Eagle Bay—J. Larsehn, New York city............- 200 250 Hinckley—J. L. Roberts, New York City........... 225 281 Lake Clear Jct.—J. Mulholland, Saranac Lake, N.Y. 206 257 Benson Mines—C.Simmons; Ogdensburg, N. Y.... 200 250. Benson Mines—H. Miller, Jr., Harrisville, N. Y... 202 252 Boonville—W. A. Brown, Utica, N. Y.....ssscneeee 225 281 Carthage—D. Mosher, Watertown, N. Y.........4- . 200 250 Castorland—Harry Waugh, Fulton, N. Y.........+. 209 261 Glenfield—Geo. Bacon, Herkimer, N, Y......-+++.55 208 260 Lowville—L. Freis, New York city......-.+..2..0005 200 250 Lowville—A. G. Lewis, Buffalo, N. Y.......-----.-5 205 256 Lyons Falls—H. L. Smallinger, Utica, N.Y .. 200 250 Newton Falls—D, Gayne, Watertown, N. Y... Prospect—Geo, Windheim, Utica, N.Y. Johnstown—J. Stewart, Albany, N. Y... AB Northville—J. Reeifer, New York city....... +. 20D 294 Northville— C. C. Weimer, Albany, N. Y.... Fit Northville—H. M. Bowler, Amsterdam, N. Y......- Northville—R. Christian, Amsterdam, N. Y........- 210 262 Northville—J. Osborne, Johnstown, N. Y........... 215 269 Dolgeville—Ralph Graham, New York city...-....+ 204 255 Winthrop—F. I*. Stevens, Ogdensburg, N. Y...... 200 250 Otter Lake—W. E. Champayn, Corning, N. Y..... 226 282 Tupper Lake—A. W. Lasher, Canajoharie, N. Y... 250 313 Port Henry—J. E. McGue, Rouse’s Point, N. Y... 204 255 Stony Creek—G. A. Lawton, Hadley, N. ¥........: 220 275 North Creek—Mrs. Chas. Smith, Glens Falls, N. Y. 219 2713 Riverside—F, Pallarand, Saratoga, N. Y........... . 240 300 By adding one-fourth to the dressed weight, the live weight of the animal may be determined with reasonable accuracy. Under the appropriation of $5,000 made for the pur- pose of restoring moose to the Adirondacks, the Commis- sion will, by the time this report reaches the public, have procured and liberated in the forest a dozen. of these ani- mals. It is expected that as many more will be secured in the near future. The restrictions on the shipment of moose from other States and from Canada have made it extremely difficult to procure these animals, and car- lead lots are practically an impossibility. Stringent laws exist in Canada and elsewhere against the shipment of live moose at any season, Those which have been secured and placed in the Adirondacks have done well, and Protector J. Edward Ball, who has had charge of the work of liberating the animals, reports that they are now in excellent condition. The moose were set at lib- erty near Uncas Station and have yarded for the winter in two places—one just south of Raquette Lake and the other about three miles east of Big Moose Lake. The re- port of the protector says: “The moose are doing well, and there seems to be no reason why they should not in- crease in the Adirondacks. They have plenty of food, and will do well if let alone.” He further says: “The residents of the Adirondacks ‘are taking great interest in the work of restocking the woods with moose, and, with the railroad employes, render all possible assistance in handling the animals.” One of the moose liberated last summer was shot by unknown campers in the vicinity. of Eighth Lake, and the department 1s now investigating the matter. The work already done toward procuring moose, under the appropriation furnished, has greatly en- couraged all those interested in the effort to secure the return of this magnificent animal to the Adirondack region. fe addition to the 22 elk placed in the Adirondack forest a year ago, which were the gift of Hon. William %* As weighed and billed by the agent of the express company. C, Whitney, 40 others have been shipped by him from his private preserve at Lenox, Mass. This generous gift will be thotoughly appreciated by all lovers of the Adiron- dack.forests, and entitles Mr. Whitney to the thanks of the people of the State. The elk were donated from Mr. Whitney’s October Mountain estate, and were shipped to Long Lake West. Five other elk were given during the year by the Binghamton Park Commission to Mr. Wil- liam Dart, of Darts Camp, near Big Moose Lake. They will be cared for d&ring the winter by the Brown’s Tract Guide Association and liberated in the spring, Mr. Harry V. Radford, who is an enthusiastic supporter of the plan to restock the Adirondacks with elk and moose, recently paid a visit to the woods for the purpose of esti- mating the number of elk now there. His figures show that there are upwards of 80, which include those liber- ated and those born in the forest. Both the elk and the moose are greatly admired by visitors to the Adiron- dacks, of which there are thousands every summer, and it is believed that these animals will thrive and become an important feature of the northern wilderness. _ The same forces which united to secure the restock- ing of the woods with elk and moose are now interested in an effort to protect the Adirondack black bear. Re- ports from all sections of the forest indicate that this is a move in the right direction, and that, with suitable protection, the bear will soon multiply to such an extent as to become again an important factor in the game of the region, No estimate has been made of the number of these animals in the Adirondacks, but there is no doubt that unless proper protection is given, the black eae in danger of becoming extinct in northern New ork, Experience as a Teacher. Editor Forest and Stream: During fifty-five years of shooting my experience has been varied, much of it pleasant and some bitter. Up to five years ago I was never injured with a gun nor injured anybody. At that time several of us were hunting rabbits in the woods, and one of the_party exclaimed, “There goes a rabbit.” I looked quickly, and saw a rabbit scooting for all it was worth right past me, 15 feet distant. At the same instant he fired, and I received a number of the No. 7 shot deep in my thigh. He stood but 4 or 5 rods from me, If any of my readers have ever felt the sensation which I ex- perienced, I have no need to describe it to them, as they will ever remember it. It seems that a portion of the charge struck the side of a tree and glanced off the slippery surface under the bark and came — straight for me, when the shot found both easy and warm lodgment. The shot cause me no inconvenience whatever, and I will carry them to my grave none the worse for them, but I do not care to repeat the experience, and I suggest that we had all better be just a little more care- ful, perhaps, when we are shooting among the trees. Some three months ago a friend and I were shooting quail in Connecticut. We were in adjacent fields some 60 or 7o rods apart, with a stone fence between us. He fired at a bird and dropped it, and at the same time I felt a stinging sensation in my left eye. It was found that a piece of a No. 9 shot had passed through the eyelid and lodged on the white of the eye. A stray shot must have struck the wall and deflected. Eight weeks of torture caused me to visit the Williamsburgh Hospital, where Drs. Butler and Cameron made a thorough examination of the suffering member, and advised its removal, especially if I wished to retain the other (my shooting eye) in good condition. Well, I . did, of course, and the following day I climbed upon the operating table (the same one, by the way, where a darling daughter had laid three months before, and is now hearty and well), and performed the operation, which was a splendid success. They have given me. another eye, which (although it cannot see) would astonish you—it is so perfect and life like. Glass eyes usually stare, because the removal has been clumsily done. If any of my brother sportsmen ever have the misfortune which came to me, let them write me and I will direct them to the best doctors in the country, and they will thank me as long as they live. Four weeks since I parted with that dear old eye which had done me good service for sixty-seven years, and now I am about ready to shoulder my little Baker hammerless again and make acquaintance with the ducks, as of old. A Happy New Year to editor and brother sportsmen, one and all. Uncite DAN. Oaxient Point, N. Y, Call Ducks. Maptison, N. J., Jan. 25.—Editor Forest and Stream: I belong to one of the best clubs on the Virginia beach, the Princess Anne, and we use live decoys, geese, ducks and swan. Our ducks are bred as near mallard and black as possible, but some member of a nearby club recently sent down a stand of what he said were call ducks. Will you kindly give me your opinion as to their worth as decoys for mallard, black, sprigs, widgeon, etc. Also, where I could procure some eggs to hatch under hens or ducks? I have suitable water—a good pond covering nearly two acres—in which I have had some English swans for three years. If these call ducks are not the “proper caper’ for decoys, can you rec- ommend any other variety suitable for our use in Vir- ginia? I write simply as a member of the club afore- said, with personal interest only. M. T. [Call ducks are a strain of small domestic ducks said to be imported from Holland, but no doubt common _ enough in this country.’ Often they are white, but usually resemble in color the mallard, from which they are no doubt descended.. The name is given them on account of their noisiness, for they quack and gabble more than most ducks. Weé have seen them call to all sorts of birds flying by, and, of course, this practice is very useful to the gunner who is using them as de- coys. They would be useful as decoys for all the spe- cies mentioned. We do not know where these ducks or their eggs may be procured, and shall be glad if any of our readers can tell us.] 2 ’ Fen. 7, 1903] New Hampshire Fish and Game. In their report for the year ending Dec. 1, 1902, the New Hampshire Commissioners of Fish and Game say: From reports recetved from all sections of the State, we think we can safely say the fishing and hunt- ing in New Hampshire has hot been better in the last twenty years than in the past two seasons, The brook trout fishing has been especially fine. Partridge, woodcock and quail have been very plenty. It has not been uncommon for two hunters, in the last two seasons, to bring in a string of from ten to fitteen-birds as the result of a day’s hunt. Ten years ago the snaring was common in many parts of New Hampshire; to-day we seldom hear of a snare being set, although this fall we had the pleasure of breaking up one of the worst gangs of snarers in New Hampshire. One of the gang is serving a jail Sentence, and the others are under suspended jail sen- tences during good behavior. These parties were send- ing their game to New York, where they were getting as high as $1.25 each for partridge, It is a fact beyond question that the law prohibiting ithe sale of game is doing much to help your commis- ‘sioners to enforce the laws. By stopping the sale of ‘partridge, and the practice of snaring, by regulating the length of the open season, and with New Hamp- shire’sS increasing area of sprout land and forest, this noblest of game birds (which has no peer in the coun- try) will be spared indefinitely. As a rule we are opposed to changing the fish and game laws, but we are of the opinion that it would be far better to have the open season commence Oct. I on all kinds of game, rather than on Sept. 15, as it does at the present time. On Sept. 15 many oi the par- tridge are not full grown, and some of the bevies of quail no larger than sparrows. Last winter the snow came so early that the par- tridge were driven to budding in Noyember and De- cember. They are then slaughtered by parties who drive round the wood-roads between sunset and dark, killing the birds from forest trees where they can do no possible harm. If a law could be passed to prevent this killing of partridge while budding (we would say make the open season October, November and December), we would then haye full grown birds that are able to take care of themselves, and when secured, of some account. Three years ago we liberated fiity dozen quail. They were turned. loose from the southern border, and as far north as Lake Winnipesaukee. It is impossible to reckon upon these birds living through some of our Severe winters, but the last two winters haye been remarkably favorable, and during the last fall excellent quail shooting has been had in many parts of New Hampshire. We believe that for the amount of money expended in purchasing quail, no better results have been ob- tained from the same sum of money. We would ad- vise that a sum be appropriated annually to stock our covers with quail. The woodcock is virtually protected only from the time when it reaches tis in the spring until Sept. 15. Our hunters commence killing them then, and con- tiniie until they start on their migration south, They are killed all the way on their flight south, and after they arrive there, all through the winter in many of the southern States. With the existing state of af- fairs, it is a question how long we will have this noble game bird with us. We think no one can question that your commis- Sioners are doing all in their power to enforce the fish and game laws of New Hampshire. We should have fish and game detectives—three at least—who should be paid a living salary, to work with your commis- sioners. Massachusetts is paying to-day more for the support of her fish and game wardens than New Hampshire is expending ior its commission and all work of its com- mission. We receive many favors and kind words from the press all over the State—from the Manchester Union especially. We take the liberty to copy irom its edi- torial columns of Oct. 13, 1902, the following: THE GAME LAWS. The Fish and Game Commissioners are doing what they can for the enforcement of the game laws, and should receive the support and assistance of all good citizens. It is impracticable to frame any set of laws that will suit every one in all particulars. It is probable, however, that the present laws for the protection of game Come as near meeting the approval of the majority of the citizens of the State as is possible. At all events, they are laws, and should be enforced. It is obvious to every one who thinks at all, that unless New Hampshire people are willing to witness the utter extinction of many species once abundant, there must be protection, and the laws designed for such protection must be wigidly enforced. Effective firearms were neyer so cheap as now, and the extension of electric roads has made it easy for any one to take a considerable journey into the country and return the same day. f course, one citizen has the same right as another, but it is obyious that without rigidly enforced laws there would scon be no game, and what is worse, there would be a great diminution of insect-eating birds, for many men and boys, when out with guns, feel little or no compunction at trying their skill on any living thing they see. It is necessary, therefore, if game and even song and insect-eating birds are to be preseryed, that there should first be an intelligent public sentiment for their preservation, and next, that every law-abiding citizen should assist the Fish and Game Commissioners and their representa- tives in every possible way. It is not a pleasant duty to make complaints, but it is a duty nevertheless. By the advice of the present Governor and council, we have been able to perfect the station at Cole- brook, so that to-day we think we can ‘safely say that this station has not a superior in New England as a State hatchery. From this station we shall largely supply the State with fingerling and yearling brook trout. Two mil- hon eggs can be handled at this station. With a station similar to this located at Laconia, or somewhere in that section, where we can grow our lake trout and salmon to fingerlings or yearlings before they are planted, we can stock our lakes with far better success than we are having at the present time. Although the lake trout fishing is excellent, and the salmon fishing is improving, especially in Lake Winni- piseogee, yet we question if your commission will ever be able to stock these waters sufficiently well to allow FOREST AND STREAM. patties the privilege they have at the present time of killing these fish for the market. As a commission we are thoroughly opposed to the sale of lake trout, brook trout, and salmon. Never in the history of New Hampshire have so many summer homes been built near our Jakes and ponds as in the last two years, and many of the owners are attracted here by the fishing in the waters near where they build. For this reason, if for no other, it is our duty to do all we can to keep these waters well stocked. At the present time most of our ponds are stocked with bass and pickerel. As we do not propagate these fish, the only way to keep up the supply is by regulating the open season. The bass and pickerel are able to care for themselves, and will increase if given a fair chance, but where a pond is covered with lines, as is done in ice-fishing for pick- erel, the pickerel have got to go, tor if they are all caught in the winter, they are not there to be caught in the summer. We think all ice-fishing should be stopped, except on the large lakes. The deer in New Hampshire ate rapidly increasing, sO mtich so that it is frequently suggested to us that an open season be made all over the State, allowing one buck deer to a person. We often have complaints of damage done, by deer. We have investigated fre- quently, and have as yet been unable to find where any Serious damage has been done. But if the State ex- pects to protect her deer, she should pay for damage done by them. With the abandoned farms all over New Hampshire, and its rapidly increasing area of sprout land, southern New Hampshire would be an ideal deer country if it were not for the worthless dogs Qvith just enough hound in their make-up to make them sheep and deer dogs) which are allowed to run at Jarge all through the close season, eating the eggs of all game birds, running down and kitting the young of all kinds of our four-footed game, from the deer down to the rabbit. Many farmers in our State find it impossible to keep sheep to-day, owing to these worthless dogs. There should be some way to suppress this nuisance. _ During the last two years we have lost by resigna- tion and death two members of our boatd of commis- stoners, Mr. F, Hughes resigned on account of the Increase of his business. He was a first-class commissioner, and is honored and respected by all who know him. In the death of Judge Shurtleff, New Hampshire lost one of the best fish and game commissioners that ever setryed her. With his knowledge of law (in fact, many of our most important fish and game laws on our sta- tute books to-day were framed by him) and his ex- tended knowledge of the forests and streams of our State, especially of northern New Hampshire, and with his vast acquaintance in every part of the State, he was an ideal man for a commissioner of fish and game. He was not only thoroughly acquainted with the differ- ent varieties of fish which our waters contain, but knew every animal and bird that inhabits our forests. He Was an expert with the rifle and the shotgun, and we have yet to see his superior with the rod. He was a lovable, whole-souled man. NATHANIEL WENTWORTH,,. CHARLES B, CLARKE, MERRILL SHURTLEFF, Fish and Game Commissioners. CHICAGO AND THE WEST, The Quail Question in Texas, SAN Antonio, Tex., Jan. 24.—It has long been the custom in the North, and, indeed the South, also, to believe that after all the rest of the world was ex~- hausted, there would still be Texas. For years the men of the Lone Star State, accustomed to a world of vast spaces and vast resources, have regarded it as certain that Texas would always furnish abundance for all, whether in lines of agriculture, industry or sport. It has so long been the custom to see millions of acres unoceupied, millions of cattle almost unowned, millions of birds apparently coming from sources in- exhaustible, that it has hardly occurred to the average man that there might perhaps be a limit even to the vast natural wealth of Texas. The old doctrine of this immense territory of the Southwest was that there was enough for all. If a thousand cattle died on the range it mattered little, and caused no concern, There were more cattle. Land was too cheap to be worth the holding. Men bought it at five cents an acre. There was enough for all. Northern shooters came down here and butchered the Texan game birds. It mattered little, There was enough for all. Within the last few years the inevitable change has begun ta, manifest itself. Cattle are worth money in Texas now, and they are cared for. Horses bring fifty or sixty dollars, where formerly they could be had for three or four dollars each, Land is steadily going up all over the State. Population is pouring in, recog- nizing the value of this enormous and little understood kingdom of the far Southwest. With these changes come those of personal interest to sportsmen. One now hears that ducks are not so abundant on the coast. He is asked to wait till the birds begin to go northward, or to come a little earlier in the fall next time, as the birds go southward. There are special days ior shooting at the local marshes, excuses, expla- nations, reasons why the shooting is not just as good as it formerly was. One is told that the quail mi- grated, that the food is not quite right this season, ete. Indeed, most wonderful of all, one hears talk among these big hearted Texan shooters that, whereas, in the past they have thought there was enough for all manner of Northern shooters, now it may be better to be not quite so [ree with sweeping invitations and sweeping practices upon the part of those invited and arrived. There are murmurs that this is to be a good year for trapshooting in Texas, because the field shoot- ing 1s going to be s6 poor. In short, there are at hand, one must admit with sorrow, the unmistakable signs that this grand empire of Texas, almost the last of the open and free realm of America, is at the door 6f change, that she is preparing t@ repeat the history 107 of all the American West. Texas is learning to-day that there was not, after all, enough for all. And now comes a very interesting juncture of af- fairs, wherein the sportsman is not the prime mover, yet wherein he is much interested and may be much affected in spite of himself. The germ and the gist of it all is a certain little- modern insect pest known as the boll weevil, which seriously jeopardizes the wel- fare of the cotton planters pretty much all over the State. We have the potato beetle and the chinch bug in the North, and the boll weevil in the South. Also, in both sections, we have the great North American member of the Legislature. Hitherto in Texas the legislator has been of about average density and dullness in matters of gare laws, not caring much for the game birds, and not believing that the supply could ever be exhausted. The game laws of Texas are not well made and not well en- forced, this being part of the old fallacy of enough for all, so dear to have, so hard to relinquish in the American mind. But this very ignorance on the part of Texas legislators in game laws and in natural his- tory—an ignorance fully shared by their brethren in the North—presents to-day a strange phenomenon which may amount to protection even more sweeping than sportsmen would care to see enforced. Jn brief, the Legislature of Texas, assured that the quail is a bird, and that birds eat boll weevils, is fairly upon the point of passing a law prohibiting the shooting of quail for a term of ten years. And in the opinion of many well- posted men of this State, they will-just about pass it, too, Exit then the Northern market shooter, the Northern real sportsman and the Northern pseudo sportsman, not to mention the local sportsmen of Texas. Enter the day of trapshooting at targets, of useless field dogs, of a great many other things allied thereto. It does not seem to have occurred to the minds of the legislators of Texas that perhaps the quail does not eat very many, if indeed, any boll weevils. Per- haps the truth is that they do not. If you open the crop of a quail, as we have done lately, even in fields where they are burning the cotton stalks to destroy the weeyil, you will not find anything distinguishable except the small black seeds of weeds upon which they feed. The quail will eat grain as large as corn, and wheat it dearly loves. It is a grain-feeder by all means, though occasionally it eats insects. It will make its living in Texas, even in case of a general prevalence of the boll weevils, in precisely that way which seems easiest to it. Hence, in all likelihood, it will continue to eat grains and seeds for the most part, even though the weevil disports itself most alluringly. This is the wrong time of year to test the weevil-eat- ing quality of the quail, but no one seems to have tested it at any season of the year. Hence the sports- men may perhaps have a snap judgment taken upon them by their Legislature. There is no use becoming unduly concerned over this matter before it is matter of fact, and not of sup- position, but just supposing this law should be passed, what would be the-result? Naturally, at first a great deal of violation of the law, combined with a great deal of outcry regarding it, possibly followed later by re- peal of the law. Incidentally, however, there would come also the first of that agitation which must fore- run any American recognition of the value of the wild game. We may come to believe in Texas, after a while, that the quail is a good thing to have; that it ought not to be exterminated, that there are not quail enough for all. That will be the beginning of the foundation of an intelligent game code in Texas, and an intelligent en- forcing of the laws. It will, in short, be education. Now, if education shall come in Texas, even largely, sweepingly, wastefully, after the vast Texas fashion, shall we indeed feel constrained to sit down and weep over this freak of the Legislature in regard to the quail and the cotton weevil? For one, though I love this State more each time I see it, I should, for one, be willing to put up my gtin and not shoot at all for the term of years which might be designated, provided that thereby a great many others might be taught what I think I have, from he nature of an almost life-long em- ployment, learned to know, namely that in America there is no longer enough for all. It is humiliating, it is distasteful, but it is true. One can have small patience with men not big enough *. see that it is true. Habits of Texas Quail, As to Bob White in Texas, he is still in evidence, albeit in lessening numbers. The other day, in the neighborhood of a ranch located some miles down the lovely yalley of the San Antonio River, a little party of us put up several bevies in the course of a morning walk across country, with no canine company except a young and unbroken dog. Our party was made up of Col. O. C. Guessaz, of this city, Mr. R. O. Heikes, of the U. M. C. missionary forces, Mr. R. N. Stites, of Chicago, and myself. The four guns, with no appre- ciable effort, picked up a couple of dozen quail, not to mention nine brace of fat doves in the period of a couple of hours or so. Then we went home again. It was a very lovely day, the air soft and warm, and I fancy nobody felt very murderous. The bevies were all full and the birds well-grown and more than able to take care of themselves. We all thought we distin- guished a distinct change in the habits of the quail in this part of the world. The Texas birds were al- ways greater runners than the Northern Bob Whites, but this time they seemed almost more like blue quail - than Bob Whites. The first bevy we put up ran across a forty-acre cotton field at a rate which fairly kept us on the trot, and which quite prevented any dog work at all. We kept on following after, seeing them all the time ahead, and hoping they would scatter and lie. They did drop out, one at a time, as they crossed the field, until at last, when we reached thick grass at the farther edge, we put up only half a dozen, though there were fully four times that number which started across the field. eenare enough is Bob White; wherever you put im. 108 In the North he takes to the trees, where you cannot see him, and the dog cannot smell him. Here in Texas the trees are short and bare, so he has not that refuge. Much persecuted, he learns a new wrinkle, and instead of lying in grass tufts for the dog to find him, he takes to his heels over the hard ground, which carries the scent but illy at best, and so puzzles both dog and man over his sadden and mysterious disap- pearance. It takes a specialized dog to handle Bob White here. As to the bird itself, it is not exactly like our Northern bird, not so heavy and plump, nor so red and russet in color. The shade of the general body color is ashy or gray, to match this gray soil. The constant running makes the bird thinner and much tougher to eat than the Northern bird. The flight is much the same, though not so strong here as in the North, the bird being an easier mark in the open here than in the woods or thickets of the North in the late autumn days. An Amiable Teaderfoot, I have mentioned one member of our party, Mr. Stites, of Chicago. That gentleman is a partner in Rector’s well-known restaurant, which methinks almost anyone in New York or Chicago is apt to know; and by this token Mr. Stites ought to know a good bird or the like on sight by this time. Perhaps he has dined too well, too often, and not so wisely as too much, for of Jate his doctor has told him that he must get out of dors or become a has-been. Partly on my own advice he stopped off here at San Antonio on his way to California, and we took him with us on our little ranch trip. In the opinion of all he proved a most amiable tenderfoot. He had never shot at a quail in his life, yet he began to stop them very nicely, to our joint delight, so that he did his part of the bag very easily. Then we took him over to the Mitchell’s Lake Club Reserve after ducks. It was a clear, bright, warm day, and it was certain there would be no flight unless we could stir up the birds, so we had resort to boats. These craft, by reason of the shallow and weedy waters, are not built like warships, but are easily capsizable. When we came to round up in the evening I met Mr. Stites and observed that he appeared damp, but sup- posed that he had been perspiring. JI told him that my boat had Jeaked so much that it had gotten half full of water, so that I was afraid to shoot out of it lest I should go overboard. “Why, are you afraid of that?’ said he. not a bit.” “Did you get in?’ I asked him. “Twice,’ was his reply, with a happy smile. “I don’t mind it. I like it!’ He had indeed upset his boat twice, and one time his gun was lnder water fifteen minutes before he could recover it. He pointed out with great pride that the gun and shells would “go off just as good as ever,” and, indeed, he seemed none the worse for his adven- ture. Happily, the water was not above shoulder depth. That night, by request, Mr. Stites did a turn at broil- ing quail for the gang, attired for the time, thanks to his late bath in the lake, in a long ulster, which came down about his heels. I don’t know what some of the swell patrons of Rector’s would have thought had they seen the urbane manager acting as cook at a Texas ranch house, but I am here to testify that his cookery was voted excellent. We named him Rosa then, and he had no trouble holding his job as chef. In fact, I never saw anybody get a job easier than he did that one. Nor did I ever see a cook eat much more freely of his own cooking. “That doctor has been stringing me for six years,” said Mr. Stites. ‘There ain’t any- thing the matter with me at all!” “T ain't, Comfort in the Wilderness, T have a friend up North who runs a pine woods hotel for anglers, and it is his boast that he makes his patrons comfortable in the wilderness. He has his hotel provided with hot and cold water, nice hair mattresses and all that sort of thing, and it is his claim, perhaps well founded, that he has the best equipped wilderness hotel in the West. He asks me to come up and see him, but I have always told him I would rather go anywhere else in the whole wild world. I can get hot and cold water and hair matresses at home, and have good society there, too. As to the wildernesss, it is no place for the softenments of civi- lization. I don’t think Big Adam Moore and I missed any hot water or hair matresses up in New Brunswick. Neither do I think we missed that sort of allurements at the ranch in the Santone Valley the other day. When I start my own wilderness resort I am going to have a tin washpan on top of a stump back of the cabin, and if that is not good enough washing facilities for any patron of the place, the quicker he can get out the healthier it is going to be for him. The dragging of city life, or would-be city life, into the real wilder- ness is one of the things which make me continually regret that there is a legal close season on some sorts of human beings. The old. nigger man was right. Said he, “It ain't fitten.’ If I could run the world for a while it would be a most excellent good world. Still, I suppose there will always be an element who want hot and cold water and hair matresses and fresh beef in their “wilderness.” Big Country. This is a glorious region, this Texas country. We traveled a day and a night west from New Orleans to get to old Santone, and to get to El Paso we would have to travel a day and a night more, all on Texas soil. It is hours’ run between towns, days’ run between cities. It is all big, open, free, magnificent, good for people who have been feeling that much has been de- pending upon their personal attention to the affairs of the world. The keyed-up nervousness of the North falls away like a garment here, To-morrow is good as to-day; indeed, better. We have been going down to the salt water for a sail now, for nearly a week. We are going to-morrow. Excellent institution, this to-morrow! This sunlight is full of to-morrow. Tame Deer. My friend, Col. Guessaz, has:a tame deer, a young FOREST AND STREAM, buck, which he caught last summer on his ranch, and the little creature is as good an example of absolute fearlessness as one ever saw. It plays with the dogs and chickens, fraternizes with all human beings, and when it feels disposed walks into the house and prowls about quite as one of the family. Apples, bread, cake, sugar, or almost anything else seems to it proper food for the Cervide, and one day it stalked into the cup- board and ate a pie, full proof, if any were needed, of the universal beneficence of the peculiar American insti- tution, pie, Horse and Dog. We should not to-day be grieving so much were the brotherhood between all animals so distinct as that ex- isting at my friend’s household. A dog commonly loves a horse, and a horse a dog, but the Texas horse is different from all other horses. The other day, while we were unhooking the team down at the ranch, Col. Guessaz’ old pointer, Waif, another member of the family, and loved very dearly, passed close by one of the horses, and the latter, with no reason in the world save that of malice, kicked her savagely, breaking two or three ribs and wellnigh killing her on the spot. - That was four days ago, and even yet we are not sure that Waif will get over it, though she can now eat and drink and sleep lying down. It was pitiful to see her stand with drooping head all day and all night long, unable to lie down by reason of the broken ribs. Nature is especially kind to dogs, and heals their ills with great rapidity, so that we hope that, even in spite of her twelve years of age, Waif will live to point an- other quail or so before her race is run. Ducks, They say the duck season is not a good one, for that most of the flight goes on down to Mexico. This may be in part true, though no doubt there are a few birds to be found on the coast even yet. We are waiting word from Kemp’s place, at Rockport, and may stop there for a day or so, but the truth is no one seems to care for shooting ducks at this time of the year. The best time to see wildfowl in Texas is nearly the same time that we have our best shooting in the North, October or November. So far as the neighborhood of this city is concerned, the shooting will be better in February, when the northbound migration begins. I suppose it would be spring shooting then to shoot ducks here. I doubt if any of our little party will do any duck shooting. Quite a number of shooters left town to-day for Mitchell’s Lake, but we were too tired to go along. The birds are as tired as their pursuers these warm days, and will not fly unless chased up by numbers of shooters. The End Not Yet, The end is not yet in prohibitive legislation, Word comes to-day that the Legislature proposes to stop the shooting of all sorts and species of birds, tame pig- eons included, for a term of some years. There is report also that the great ammunition companies of the North are telegraphing local agents in Texas to have the bills killed at any cost. There is also rumor that the “any cost” side of it all has been carefully con- sidered by certain of the framers of some of these numerous bills at Austin. There is such a thing as a bill going a little way and then not being heard of again. In any case, the enire shooting population of the State, not to mention very many firms who sell large amounts of goods in the State, is very much exercised over the matter. E. Houeu. 126 Hartrorp Buiiptns, Chicago. Game Parks and Other Things. Editor Forest and Stream: We Americans used to think the common people of England were trampled down to the condition of slaves by the lordly landed aristocracy, but what are we Americans coming to in these days of selfish million- aires? “The public be d d,” is apparently their motto, and they seem to delight in depriving others of everything in the way of recreation. The people of North Hemp- stead prove that they have too much self-respect and common sense to place themselves in the position of serfs for the paltry sum of $50,000, knowing that if the New York man could get control of the lake no man would dare to catch a fish, or sail a boat, or even take a bath in its waters. They are wise in holding it, for as the millionaires improve their suburban property their own will be increased in value greatly. From the rapid progress the millionaires are mak- ing in getting control of land, it will soon be difficult to step outside the public road without committing trespass. One of my friends has just returned from a visit to an Eastern man who has brought down the wrath of the whole community on his head by inclosing a deer park of several thousand acres. He has to be always on his guard, but some of his enemies say they are bound to “git him’ some day. Now, rather than live such a life I'd go a thousand miles for my deer and elk. If men were not so selfish they would not be so liable to make enemies, but some of the trust clubs buy up from one to half a dozen lakes in the Adiron- dacks simply to control them and keep others out. Some of these men pretend to be Christians. They say their prayers and attend to all the surface matters of religion, but they trample on the Golden Rule and read the warning of their Lord and Master in this way —Tt is easier for a needle to go through the eye of a camel than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven.” Then, to insure their future safety, they try to pull the wool over the eyes of their Divine leader by giving a mere pittance now and then from their vast hoards of wealth to some church or college, while the poor are left to starve and freeze, and during all these terrible times of suffering not a single one of the crew of millionaires has lifted a finger to re- lieve it. The Hon. Abram S. Hewitt said, “There need Ll [Fes. 7, 1903. be no suffering among the poor if the rich would do their duty, but they go on praying and let the Lord take care of the poor.” DipyMus. Sr. AuGustinge, Fla, Winter Hare Shooting in Germany. trrone the London Field. WHATEVER changes have come over the manners and customs of Germans, it still remains true that a Teuton 1s seen at his best out shooting. Sport is practiced on sporting lines in the Fatherland, despite the number of parvenu “shooters” who have entered the field within recent years, and for those who have leisure and in- clination to devote to it, there are opportunties in Germany for the use of the gun which can hardly be found with such comparative facility anywhere else in Europe. Red deer, fallow deer, roebuck, capercaillie, blackcock, pheasants, wild boar, partridges, wild duck, bustards, woodcock, snipe, wild geese, quail, hares and rabbits are plentiful, and almost every species of game here enumerated may be obtained within easy access of the capital of the empire, the greater number in its immediate vicinity; while there is also good chamois shooting in the Bavarian Mountains. The laws and customs of venery are perhaps most strictly observed in North Germany, ie., Pomerania, East | and West Prussia, and Silesia, where the land is chiefly in the hands of large landed proprietors, who are themselves good sportsmen, the knowledge and passion for the craft having been handed down to them from generation to generation. In Central and South Germany things are done on a laxer scale, as the shootings are almost all in the hands of tenants, who hold leases for periods of about six years—in Wurtemberg, indeed, for three years only. These ten- ants, in the ordinary run of things, attach more weight’ to obtaining good bags during the period of their ten- ancy than to the preservation of a good stock of game. Moreover, as the shootings are generally put up to public auction, it is open to persons of every class and rank to acquire them. Unfortunately, not only men of intelligence and taste and good manners who have acquired a fortune as manufacturers or in other branches of business thus get the command of the mar- ket, but tradesmen, such as butchers and confectioners and publicans, circus owners and innkeepers participate therein. To be the proprietor of a shoot has long sitice come to be accepted in Germany as the right of riches. The individual it question miay know nothing about sport, and, indeed, have no love for it; but he has the opportunity thereby of invititig a number of guests and of entertaining them luxuriously. For this reason the price of conveniently situated shootitigs has considerably increased of late years. Such, at least, is the constant complaint of German sportsmen; but, like all generalization, it must be taken cum grano salis. There is a priori no reason why rich men as a class should not derive as keen pleasure from shooting game and should not be as good sportsmen as men of mod- erate means or as those who have to work hard for their living. It is well to give weight to this argu- ment, for it cannot be denied that in general, if wealth be directed to the preservation of game, sport must inevitably gain very considerably therefrom. Among wealthy. manufacturers and merchants there are as good shots and sportsmen to be found as among those feudal families who claim to have by birth the sole privilege to kill game. Most certainly you can count on the fingers of one hand the number of real sports- men among the crowned heads and scions of ruling sovereign families in Germany, The late King Albert of Saxony was among the number, but Kaiser William is not what one would call a “lover of sport,’ nor was his father, nor his grandfather before him. On the other hand, many of the highest nobility of Ger- many and of the large landowners are strict preservers of game, and are second to none as sportsmen. The royalties have their big battues, and their parties for the most part consist of shooters only, clad in forester’s green. The Kaiser is an excellent shot, but he does not care for sport as such. He shoots hares with an 18-bore gun specially made for him, and seldom misses. It has been noted that he never makes his hares turn a somersault like other good shots; they always fall flat on the ground. While the sovereign princes of Germany, with the aid of the gentlemen of their courts, are slaughtering the required annual number of big game—deer and wild boar—their subjects are occupied with hare driving. These drives take place for the most part in the months of October, November and December. Hare shooting opens in September and closes in January, but it is very rightly considered to be unsportsmanlike to hold a drive so early as September, and it is generally un- wise to shoot hare too long in January. In September the mother hare generally still carries milk, and the disposition to breed commences very early in the year, quite irrespective of the temperature out of doors. It is a thousand pities that the close time is not pushed on to Oct. 1. The close times for game vary accord- ing to the different States, and, funnily enough, some of them make a difference between forest hares and field hares. It thus happens that in the beginning of the season you can shoot a hare out in the stubble, but not in the adjoining forest. Red tape legislators never see what is as plain as a haystack to ordinary people! Of course, it constantly happens that a forest hare comes out on to the stubble or the meadow to feed when it is no longer close time for the field hare. What is one to do? Perhaps the sportsman has not seen him issue from the shade of the trees, and yet the quarry is a forest hare* right enough, although en voyage. In Germany hares are generally shot in circular drives in November and December, and, provided there ‘are none of your careless shots about, there need be no fear of danger. Unfortunately, these are not to be blotted out from the face of the earth, so that guns and beaters occasionally get a sprinkling of shot either direct in the legs or body or some grains in the face that have ricochetted from the ground. There are the circular drives in the open, and the so-called Stand- Fen. 7, 1903.) Treiben in the forests. In the latter the guns assume a fixed position in or outside the forest, and the beaters drive toward them. In the former a big sort of circle is made by the guns and beaters taking up ground to the tight and Jeft in a circular direction from the start- ing point, and, when the circle is joined, advancing toward the center, When they have approached to within a certain distan¢e from one another a horn is blown, whereupon the guns remain standing and the beaters advance. From this moment no hare may be shot within the circle. Where there are plenty of hares this circular driving is yery amusing sport, either in November, when the weather is generally pretty open, or in December, when there ought to be snow on the ground and some degrees of frost in the air. In the dark December mornings shortly before Christmas, it is a treat to be a member of a party about to enjoy a day’s hare shooting. The proper way is for all the guns to arrive at the country house or the village inn the night before, so as to start out in the field not later than eight: o’clock in the morning, but, of course, it often happens that people with town occupations cannot get away till the morning of the shoot, in which case they must leaye by an early train for the rendezyous. Many Germans turn out in cos- tumes that are fearfully and wonderfully made, so _that at the railway station they look in the early dawn more like brigands than sportsmen, The Magdeburg district is well stocked with hares, while in the march of Brandenburg, where the land is light and sandy, there are relatively fewer, Inthe Pala- tinate, on the banks of the Rhine, the shooting is let out on lease by the peasant holders, and very often the bag consists of from 600 to 1,000 hares in a day, and even more. I can record one of 1,600 with thirty guns. The peasant holder in the Palatinate and Hesse is a born sportsman, and a good man of business to boot, not like those skin-flint and slim chaps in Bran- denburg and other northern Prussian provinces. He clearly comprehends that the commune can get more rent for the shooting if there are plenty of hares, and he feels real pride when he hears that the sportsmen have had a good day over his lands. ‘We should be ashamed,” they say, “if we were no longer in a position to feed a few hares.”’ One must not forget, however, that these men are well-to-do yeomen, who would pass in the north as country gentlemen and lords of manors. In the neighborhood of the German capital—say, a distance of an hour or two by rail—there is plenty of fun to be had in good company out hare driving, and here, too, the greater part of the shooting is in the hands of the communes and let on lease. With some twenty guns and about eighty to a hundred beaters the bag may, perhaps, not exceed a couple of hundred head, but you often get an exciting cannonade at rabbits aS a piece de résistance. Shooting from a cowntry house in Pomerania is entertaining, and if chance should lead one to West Prussia, where one gets among a Polish population, a foreigner may carry away with him recollections of sport and customs that he will not easily forget. Here is a specimen. Some six country wagons start off with the men and women beaters—it is not at all uncommon for women to join the gathering with big baskets strapped on their backs. Then follow the conveyances with the guns and a long, big wagon for the game. Some of them are drawn by four horses, and the coachmen are first-rate drivers. The forests are taken,.and the bag consists of foxes, pheasants, woodcock and hares. Foxes are shot in Germany; it is only possible in very few dis- tricts to hunt them with hounds, and a Teuton sports- man is yery proud if he can account for a fox, which is as good in his eyes as half a dozen hares in his bag. Among the women beaters will often be found very smart-looking girls, graceful as Polish women general- ly are, wearing stout wooden sabots and rough gray woolen stockings, but with pretty red kid gloves on their hands. The men are fond of sport, and in former times the foresters had a good deal of trouble with'the laboring population, for no sooner -had a young fel- low saved enough money for the purpose than he showed himself even more ready to purchase a gun for the nefarious practice of poaching than to furnish a house for 4 bride. In Germany it is hardly feasible to shoot hares, ex- cept by driving them. The country is open, as there are no hedges. In the early part of the season, that is to say, when one is out partridge shooting, it would be possible to kill as many hares almost as one saw; but, as said above, it is too early to shoot hates then. In the winter time—in November and December—it is not easy to get at them behind a dog or by beatmg them up singly. The tendency is to have large patties of guns for the circular drives. No doubt a good old steady shot does not like this. He naturally prefers a small and select company of sportsmen upon whom he can rely; but, after all, no strict rule can be laid down. The number of guns must in any case be regu- lated by the nature, the size, and lay of the “shoot,” December is the real season for hare shooting in Ger- many. ‘Those who are in the swim receive then more invitations for hare drives than an ordinary society dame obtains in the course of a London season, A friend of mine at the begining of this last December had to issue sixty invitations for his annual drive be- fore he could get together even eighteen guns, and this was over a very pleasant terrain, where we had good walking and a very fair bag. Some people insist that circular driving injures the stock of hares. This is one of those general statements that are not quite accurate. It depends upon circum- stances. Other kinds of driving can, for the same rea- sons, be deleterious to the stock. By careful obserya- tion, it is possible to watch how the stock is and to omit the drive for one year. One often hears that the right remedy against the falling off of the stock is to shoot only the buck hares and to let the does alone. This sounds very well, but few who tallx like this know the difference. A story is told of one of these wise- acres who was loudly giving advice of this kind. He shouted out, “buck,” “doe,” as the hares got up, and then shot them both to prove his theory, This done, he could not even tell the difference. FOREST AND STREAM. Circular driving is dangerous if the guns are imex- perienced or careless. One only has to collect the ac- counts of accidents among sportsmen in the course of a year to see how important it is to be strictly prudent as to the way to carry and handle a gun. German in- surance companies have taken note of this, and send round to every known sportsman an appeal to insure his life against accidents with the gun. One generally hears at the commencement of the day an appeal to the assembled company at a circular drive to be care- ful to observe certain well-known rules. Some people go so far as to inflict money fines for any breach of these rules. In such cases, a gun leaving his place without unloading has to pay 55.; if he fires into the circle after the horn has been blown he must pay Ios., etc. By the new German Civil Code the responsibility incurred both by a person wounding or killing a per- son out shooting and by his host is very great. In ordinary cases the man who inflicts the wound pays, but in the event of his being impecunious his host is responsible, A hare in Germany is one of the most useful of four- footed animals. Take his scut, which the Germans call Blume (flower). It is very much in demand in the country, especially among the beaters, who put it 1n their stockings, in order that their feet may be warmer. Here, as elsewhere, the skin is used by hatters. This year a hare skin fetches 6d., being specially high in price. A hare’s liver when fried is a great delicacy, and a dish called Hasenpfeffer, is made out of the lower ribs, the head, the runners (claws), the heart and lungs, while the entrails are given to the dog. Roast hare comes on to table larded, without its head and lying quite flat in the dish, and is served with cream sauce. The price of a hare about Christmas time was from as. od. to 4s. Among the country people roast hare is the traditional New Year’s dish. Those who have done anything special for the preservation of the game generally get a present of a hare after a drive about the middle of the month, which is allowed to hang till New Year's Day. Even in the case of a hare German sportsmen are very particular as to the terms they use. His eyes are called “optics or seers” (Seher); his ears, “spoons” (Loffel); his legs, “runners” (Laufe); his scut, “flower” (Blume); his hide, “Balg.” The nickname of a hare is “Tampe”; he is mixed up also with the ancient lore of the land. Cotton or linen, if dipped in the blood of a hare shot on the first Friday in March, is said to have healing powers, a tradition still believed in_ by many foresters. melon Ess Taking Aim. THE communication of Mr. Wm. Wade, of Oakmont, Pa., published in Forest AND STREAM of January 17, con- tains a subject of more than passing interest. quiry contained in it is far reaching. To reply properly, one needs to go thoroughly into an analysis of the shoot- ing art. All the essentials of it are involved in a reply to that query. . , The matter of aiming a shotgun or rifle at a moving ob- ject is not analogous to the use of the bow and arrow at all, other than in a few remote general principles. The matter is peculiarly mystified by a reference to a boy throwing a stone without taking aim, or revolver shoot- ing from the pocket, or gun shooting from the hip, or in hitting balls thrown in the air. ' Let us dispose of these matters first before consider- ing the matter of taking aim. _The boy attains skill in throwing a stone in the same manner that a writer attains skill in using a pen and ink—by practice. The hand acquires a certain subordinate intelligence of its own which in the medical or psychological world is called re- flex action. The same labored and awkward first attempts of the student in penmanship embarrass the first attempts of the student in the art of shooting. The right hand of most men, by constant practice, to which may be added the predisposition imposed by inheritance, is the master hand. Let any right-handed man attempt to throw a stone with his left hand, or to write a line, or in fact attempt anything with it which requires manual dexterity, and the result will be puerile and ridiculous in nine cases out of ten. In short, the left hand, holding and guiding the gun barrel, is the hand which has nearly all the responsi- bilities in assisting the eye in taking aim. From its utter inefficiency it cannot respond with any degree of accuracy in the first attempts at shooting, hence the first attempts of the shooter are not devoted so much to the art of shooting as to the development of manual dexterity in a vreak and awkward limb. The shooter in nearly all cases is unconscious of the real reason of his poor success. Shooting a revolver from the pocket is generally done at close quarters, and requires only an ordinary sense of direction, just as one standing close to a barn door could kick it to a certainty at every trial. Shooting from the hip is another misleading compari- son, for the reason that a very open gun is always used in game shooting, and the distances are in most instances yery short. Shooting objects in the air is largely a repe- titton of the same shot over and over again to infinity. There is the same flight, the same speed, etc., so that it in time becoines almost a muscular act. There are so many abstruse problems involved in game or trap shooting that the ordinary shooter doesn’t know what causes his ill success. He cannot see the load of shot as the boy can see the stone, or the archer the arrow, so he is ever groping in the dark. The gun does not become a part of the body, in a shoot- ing sense, as stated by one of your correspondents. The body swings right and left, up and down, and to a certain degree may act as if they were a whole, but there is al- ways a large field of accommodation in which the hands and eye take part independent of the movement of the body. The gun and body may move in unison till the miizzle covers the target or moving body, then, if the muzzle does not point right there is an instantaneous readjustment in which the eye, hands and shoulders all take an intelligent part. This is illustrated in a way by the use of the eyes. The head turns on the neck and the eyes turn on their sockets, thus, while they are a part of the body, they haye powers of accommodation inde- pendent of it. The in- ~ 109 Now, in shooting at moying objects, there is no arbi- trary rule which governs how to shoot right, left, up, down and straight-away. The shooter may take some shots it: which gun and body move as a whole, while other shots ate made with a rapid readjustment with the hands and eye. Neither is shooting at a moving object a me- chanical act, A shooter may go quickly after a flying bird and discover that his gun is out of proper alignment. He glances along the barrel, readjusts it instantly and cor- rectly, and points it anew. It is all done so quickly and delicately that an ordinary onlooker would not discover that anything went wrong at all. The gun, by habit, is placed to the shoulder, cheek and hands in the same posi- tion every time, by the skilled shooter, and he becomes habituated to certain fixed points of contact with it. Let any one of these get out of adjustment and he feels it in- stantly. Thus the sense of touch in time becomes quite as much of a factor as the sense of sight. The shooter knows where the muzzle of the gun is pointing whichever way it may be swinging, both from a subconsciousness, from the sense of sight, and a consciousness from the sense of touch. Some men never become skillful shots at moving objects because they never develop the left hand to any degree of skillfulness, or because they never develop either hand to any degree of skillfulness, because they have defective eyesight, or because they never can work hands, shoulder, eyes and body in proper combina- tion and co-ordination. EXPERTE CREDO. Report of the New York Commis- sion. From advance sheets of the report of the New York Forest, Fish and Game Commission to the Legislature. THE Commission in presenting its final report as at present constituted has the pleasant satisfaction of know- ing that its work has had the commendation of the public, and that the value of what has been done for the protec- tion of fish and game and the reforestation of denuded woodlands in the Adirondack and Catskill regions has been recognized both at home and abroad. Standards of comparison are not as well established as -yet in otir own cotntry as they are in other parts of the civilized world for such matters, and an occasional criti- cism is consequently to be expected either from the unin- formed or the unthinking. But it is certain that, dollar for dollar, the State of New York is getting more for its expenditure for the business which the Commission has had in charge than any other locality at present known. The work of the forestry department has developed in value to the extent that its success is frequently com- mended and its documents are considered very desirable for public distribution. Advice on important qtiestions is sought from our Department of Fisheries by the ex- perts of other countries, and the game laws of this State are frequently used as models by other lawmakers. The sagacious editor of the London Spectator, in re- viewing a recent repott of this Commission, after paying a high tribute to the wisdom shown by the State of New York in providing adequately for the preservation of its forests and the increase of its fish and game supply, says: Omitting moneys spent on purchasing land and maintaining forests the total cost of fish Propagation, fish and game protection, the shell fish department and taking deer to the forests, with some items for printing was about £30,000. The fish cost a little over £11,000, the game keeping generally £10,000 and the shell fish (a remunerative item) £2,000. Im return for this the public had free fishing of every kind over a vast territory, and killed deer to an amount which, at the ordinary rate reckoned per stag in Scotland (£40), would represent a sporting rental in this country of £169,000! In the same line of testimony is the following quotation from a scientific monograph produced in our own State by an expert of well established reputation. In a recent Bulletin on “The Clam and Scallop Industries,” issued by the State Museum, Dr. J. L. Kellogg says: Every one is familiar with the extensive and remarkably succeéss- ful work of the United States and the various State Fish Commis- sions in the propagation of marine and fresh-water market fish. In many cases the continued supply is probably directly and entirely due to the artificial hatching and judicious distribution of the young fish. These institutions have made it very clear that public moneys could not be better expended for the benefit of all classes of people than in their support. * * * Jf the fact were only recognized that this extinction of forms really is occurring, these Commissions and similar institutions would receive much greater support in the form of legislative appropriations. * * * It is money most profitably invested for rich and poor alike. Such testimony and approval of the work that is being done could be continued at length, but the facts are for the most part known to your honorable body and to the well informed taxpayers of the State at large. The value of the Adirondacks as a wealth producing element in the State is properly shown in one of the appended reports, and the figures given indicate that millions of dollars are annually spent because of the attractions of the woods and waters for health and pleasure seekers and sportsmen. To preserve and bitild up the forests has been the constant care of the Commission, and many members of the Legis- lature can testify from actual knowledge as to what has been done toward providing trees to fill out the denuded places. The ntirseries for producing the young trees are well established, and will increase steadily in value as the work advances. In time the State will be able to provide from them not only all the trees necessary for use in the forests, but alsa for beautifying roadsides and the streets of our cities, as well as for renewing the old and neglected woodlots of our farms. Attention is also called with pride to the work done in protecting the forests from fire. The State now has a most excellent organization for this purpose, and the re- sult is readily seen from the fact that our forests have practically escaped damage from this source. Reports from other States do not show such immunity. The statements in detail in the reports of the Superintendent of Forests, the Chief Protector and the Superintendent of Shellfisheries, which follow, are well worth the attention of every sportsman and every taxpayer as well. Therein will be found ample evidence that the money appropriated for the propagation of fish and the protection of game has been well expended, and that the result secured has merited the fayorable comment already quoted. Com- munications received from time to time bear winess to the fact that line fishing in the waters of the State was never better, while the returns from the net fishermen prove that a far greater variety of cheap food fish of the 110 FOREST AND STREAM. best quality is easily procurable on account of the con- stant care exercised by the State in stocking its waters. The increase in the number of deer taken is also worth noting, as an evidence of the wisdom of existing laws. So also is the suggestion which experience has shown to be necessary for the preservation of certain fisheries by stopping fishing through the ice. Protective action would also seem to be necessary to keep the black bear from extermination. The Commission in conclusion takes pleasure in calling attention to the success which has thus far attended the work of restoring moose to the Adirondacks, and to the valuable additions made to the herds of elk during the past year. The following recommendations are presented for your consideration: That the number of expert foresters be increased to four, and theit compensation be made such as to retain them in the service of the State. That the John Brown house be repaired so as to pre- serve this historic structure. That spring shooting of wildfowl and birds of all kinds be prohibited. That the shooting of black bear in the Adirondack region be prohibited for a period of five years. That a license fee of $50 be imposed on non-resident hunters excepting members of organized clubs in the Adirondacks, who shall present certificates of member- ship, and Adirondack land owners. ‘That provision be made for the licensing of guides. By THE COMMISSION. Joun D. Wuisu, Assistant Secretary. . Massachusetts Association. Hearing on Deer Law. Boston, Jan. 31.—Editor Forest and Stream; The first hearing given by the Committee on Fisheries and Game was on Tuesday, January 26, the House Chairman, Mr. Moody Kimball, of Newburyport, presiding. Heman 5. Fay, Esq., as counsel for the Central Committee, pre- sented Mr. Henry A. Estabrook, of Fitchburg, the chair- man of the executive committee, as the first witness. Mr. Estabrook spoke of the good results of the five years’ close time, as shown by the frequency with which deer have been seen in many parts of the State where, until recently, there have been none. But a few days ago, he said, three had been seen together within the limits of the city of Fitchburg. He had heard of deer being seen in several neighboring towns, and was desirous of seeing the experiment which was begun in 1898 con- tinued for five years more. His testimony was cor- reborated by Representative Knight, of Townsend, who, however, said some of the small farmers of his section, who. were excellent shots, as a rule, would be very likely to protect their crops from injury by deer. On the whole, he approved the passage of the bill. Dr. James B. Paige, member of the House from Am- herst, spoke strongly in support of the re-enactment of the law continuing the close time for five years more, Others gave similar testimony. President James R. Reed, of the State Association, favored the measure and gave very interesting informa- tion on the history of legislation in Massachusetts affect- ing the killing of deer. He stated that up to about 1882 there was a law apply- ing to the whole State prohibiting killing at any time ex- cept for a few days in the month of November, Mr. John M. Forbes, one of the greatest philanthropists of the State, and the owner of the Island of Naushon, at his own expense stocked the island with deer, which be- came very numerous, and he invited friends to join'in an annual hunt, usually in October. His attention was called to the fact that the deer on the island could not be con- sidered as “tame” deer, and therefore killing them at any time except the few open days in November was not per- missible, and as there were at that time no deer except those on Naushon in any county of the State, with the exception of Barnstable and Plymouth, the law was changed and made to apply to those*two counties only. The credit of initiating the movement in 1898 which re- sulted in securing the present law is due to Mr. W. H. Fowle, of Woburn, who induced a member of the Legisla- ture to present the petition for the passage of the bill. A letter from Commissioner Wentworth of New Hamp- shire, stating that he had caused several deer to be liber- ated in southern New Hampshire, and that one had been shot just across the line in Massachusetts, also that unless this State would protect them the Commissioners of New Hampshire would not release any more in the southern portion of the State, had a potent influence in securing the passage of the bill. In the course of the hearing on Tuesday, one member of the committee remarked that he had heard some com- plaint of injury to crops by deer in his section of the State, but when the chairman called for remonstrants, no one appeared. Favorable consideration by the commit- tee seems more than probable. What the House and Senate will do about it remains to be seen. A request for payment of damages done by deer has been made by a lady in Newton. It is doubtful whether such a request will receive serious consideration by the Legislature. Fartners in Vermont tried to get up a scare some years ago; in Maine they are doing it this winter. The hearing on the re-enactment of the anti-sale law affecting partridges and woodcock, which your readers know expires this year, has not been appointed, but as no uiew business can be admitted in the Legislature without > four-fifths vote and therefore all bills are supposed to be in already, the committee will no doubt fix the date of the hearing on the bird law very soon, and all who believe in the continuance of the present law should make a sacri- fice, if necessary, in order to be present and support the bill before the committee. At the last meeting of the State Association, there was an informal discussion of the hunter’s license in Maine. Several prominent members, men accustomed to visit the State once or twice a year, denounced the plan as an “im- position.” All expressed the opinion that it is uncalled for. The question of having an annual dinner was referred to the Board of Management with full powers. The board met on Thursday evening and the following members were appointed to arrange for the dinner, the general — expression of opinion being in favor of having it at the Algonquin Club. Committee: President J. R. Reed, Ben- jamin C. Clark, Nathaniel LeRoy, C. W. Dimick, Heber Bishop, Maurice H. Richardson, Robert S. Gray, Thomas H. Hall, H. S. Dodd and the secretary. The time will be decided later on, Henry H. Kimpatt, Secretary. A Secret Service Fund. Editor Forest and Stream: _ I read with much interest Mr. J. R. Fanning’s article in January 17 number, and quite agree with him as to the uselessness of a protector who attempts to do busi- ness in his own locality where he is well acquainted and his every movement konwn to the law breaker. Not only that, they form friendships, and one does not like to soak a friend. Then, too, I have known of instances where they have lost their position by hitting some person with a strong political pull. I have noticed that if a stranger violates the law, he is pretty apt to go before a justice, and it usually costs him something. A gentleman from New York City parted with fifty dollars Jast spring for a few minutes’ sport shooting ducks in Jefferson. I believe that with a very little effort the protector who off- ciated in the ceremony could have landed a few of our own people for the same offense. Our game protectors are paid the munificent salary of $500 per year and $450 for expenses. Out of this allow- ance comes their necessary railroad fare, livery, hotel bills, boats and boatmen, and incidental expenses. This is one of the principal reasons why Mr. Fanning has seen so few protectors in his vicinity. It has been sug- gested that the expense account be increased to $1,000. This would mean an increased expenditure of $27,500 for ihe 50 protectors and would probably not be allowed. If an appropriation of $10,000 or $15,000 could be sectired, to be placed at the disposal of the commissioner or chief protector as a secret service fund, he could then select his best men to investigate complaints, and with the aid of the local protectors secure a much better enforcement of the law. I believe that with this small appropriation the efficiency of the department could be more than doubled. We have had three prosecutions for violations of the game laws in this county in 1902—the gentleman from New York, two parties in Carthage who are described as respectable and worthy citizens, whose names are with- held as a matter of courtesy, and who parted with $25.75 and $50.85, respectively, and a young farmer of Tylerville, who paid $35 for the privilege of shooting two gray squirrels the day before the opening. When respectab‘e and worthy citizens and farmers can be prosecuted, con- victed and made to settle for a violation of the game law in any county, it shows that there is a mighty good sseunien: in that county. for the enforcement of these aws. The fact that the penalty account for violations of the game laws for 1902 was $20,000, an increase of $8,000 over 1901, doesn’t show any great incapacity or lack of attention to business on the part of Commissioner Mid- dleton or our State protectors. If the sportsmen who really want the game laws enforced would send their plans and specifications, names of violators, dates, nature of complaint, etc., to the department at Albany, instead of to the local protector, I am certain they would obtain better results. And I believe that if we could secure the secret service fund, the way of the transgressor would be hard. W. H. TALcett, Watertown, N. Y., Jan. 31, Currituck Ducks. Currituck Sounp, N. C., Jan. 26.—Editor Forest and Stream: At this moment there are more canvasbacks in the northern half of Currituck Sound than we have had here in fifteen or twenty years; and they are in splendid condition, owing to a very large crop of wild celery in this end-of the sound. They are very shy and seem to know a stand of decoys every time, unless it is raining or snowing. They seem to prefer to asso- ciate with blue peters and swans. I think the natives who hunt for market will manufacture (blue peter) de- coys on a-large scale next fall. Forty-six canvasbacks have been the largest bag made recently, but 1 expect to hear of at least 100 to one gun some day this week if it proves stormy. T am much afraid our ruddy ducks will become ex- tinct in five years. They are exceedingly scarce now and have so little protection I see no hope for them. I think there must be some mistake about the great slaughter and waste of blue peters in Back Bay, Va. Norfolk, Va., which is not over twenty-five miles away, stands ready to pay 10 to 12% cents each for all that can be shipped there, and the natives of Princess Anne County have known it for fifteen years, and not being overburdened with the coin of the realm, I_ hardly think they allowed such waste as reported. Besides the blue peter is a fine bird, when properly cooked. There is only one way to do this, i.e, skin like a rabbit as soon after being killed as possible, dress and wash clean, hang up for one day or night, dip in dry flour and fry brown, make a nice bowl of brown gravy and tell your guests it is fried canvasback, Nine chances out of ten he’ll say he never ate finer ducks anywhere. We are to have some changes in our game laws this’ season, but I cannot tell just what they will be this time. Will report later. All other ducks seem quite as abundant as last season, except broadbills and mallards; they are both rather scarce. More ANON. Evenly Matched. Macon, Ga., Jan. 20.—We have had a good many quail in our section this winter. I have hunted but very little. I had one very good hunt with a friend in December. We found a good many birds and bagged seventy-one. We shot together all day with only one bird more to his bag than to mine. Honmes Jonson. Boy and Cat. Crarion, Pa., Jan. 20—I inclose a photo of one of the largest wildcats shot around here this season. _It was shot on the river hill within half a mile of our city by a young lad of this place, who deserves great credit for the bravery he showed in the conflict. Although these animals are not usually considered dangerous, they put up a savage fight when wounded. The lad was hunting rabbits, accompanied by two hounds, when the cat was treed after a short run, At the boy’s first shot the cat came to the ground badly wounded and immediately put the dogs to flight, and then turned on the boy. It took three more shots from A CLARION COUNTY CAT, his 12-gauge with No. 6 shot to give the finish. The animal has been mounted in very skillful manner and makes a fine trophy and ornament. I think the lad did very well considering his age. Although Clarion County is not to be compared with some of the won- derful game fields we read about in Forest AND STREAM, it is about as good as any place I know of in Pennsylvania. Birds were scarcer the past season than usual, but rabbits, foxes and ’coons furnished considerable sport to their patrons. A few of our local sportsmen were lucky enough to get deer, and several bears have been reported in- the neighborhood, Several men, while hunting bear, got shots at them, but have not been lucky. SAMUEL J. SLOAN. A New Hampshire Game Preserve. Inctosep I send a clipping taken from the Concord, N. H., Daily Patriot, of Jan. 26: Lancaster, Jan. 26—\W.-H. Griffith was here a few days ago and disposed of the entire property of the Groton Lumber Com- pany, located in the town of Groton. The property sold consisted of 5,400 acres of timber land, on which is located the famous Darling pond, which it is said furnishes the best trout fishing in America. The price paid was $30,000. Mr. Wright has pur- chased an additional 3,000 acres adjoining, and it is announced that he will form a company to convert both tracts into one large game preserve, The land is admirably fitted for such a purpose. The original spruce has nearly all been cut off, and the dense undergrowth that is springing up will give the best of feed and cover for deer and other animals. As soon as the few remaining trees are removed, which will be done this season, it will be given up entirely to the preservation of game. Mr. Wright is con- templating building a club house in spring, and by the time the trout season opens there will probably be commodious quarters for those who visit the lake for the purpose of fishing. The entire property is also very desirable on account of the growth of young _ timber, which would be ready to cut in a few years, In many parts of New Hampshire there are miles of wild land from which the timber has been cut. When the spruce has been taken and the succeeding growth is hard wood, the land is of little value. Practically about all it is good for is to harbor game. For some years, at about every session of our Legislature, there has been more or less discussion as to preserving the forests of the White Mountain region. The cutting of them goes on just the same. A few years sitice, while on a hunting trip, I met one of our largest lumber oper- ators. He said, “I own something over 120,000 acres of timber land.’ The only thing which seemed to trouble him was that he would not live long enough to cut it. an As for the Darling Pond mentioned in the clipping, LT never heard of it before, and I have been on a num- ber of fishing trips to that region. ‘he last annual report of our Fish and Game Commissioner gives a long list of the ponds and lakes in the State and does not mention the above pond. C. M. Stark. Hunting Quotations. Tere is no more fascinating sport than the legitimate hunt for quotations. We use the qualifying word deliberately. There are varieties of this occupation that are in mo sense sport. The hunt which has a commercial taint cannot be in- cluded. Mere utility is not a proper object in the pursuit. The man who goes page by page, line by line, through an author with no higher purpose than the attainment of verbal accutacy in quotation may be a wholly reputable member of society, a faithful husband, and a kind parent, but he is not a sportsman of letters, and he can never hope to feel the thrill which the perfectly practiced hunt for quotations can convey to a soul attuned to its de- lights. oh the first place the quotation must be given a chance of escape. That is a fundamental condition of the game. Index traps and even the ingenious contrivances of Fes. 7, 1903.] FOREST AND STREAM. 111 mnemonics cannot be approved, though the latter are often so deceptive in their apparent utility that they are not to be condemned unqualifiedly. The hunter who adopts the mercenary and commonplace plan of Aesop’s husbandman and “leaves no stone unturned” is likely to be rewarded with a certain banal success, but obviously he loses the real joy of the chase. To secure that, the hunter must be a little in doubt as to the exact quotation he is after and very much in doubt as to where or how it is to be found. It is only on these conditions that he will be tempted to wander wide and deviously, sometimes it? promising paths and on elusive trails, but more often under wayward impulses that have little or nothing to do with the particular passage he had in view in starting. It is in these unexpected and practically aimless divaga- tions that the finest opportunities of the chase present themselves, and the hunter who is obedient to their charms gets much more than he dared to expect. His eye may not light on what he “went otit for to see,” but it will light on many a bewitching glimpse of -beauty, many a surprised and surprising source of pure pleasure, so that he may return from his quest baffled but fortunate. As for the game he sought and did not get, that remains the incentive-for further hunting, the excuse for further wandering.—New York Times’ Saturday Review. lowa Game, Humepotnt, lowa, Jan. 17.—Editor Forest and Stream: The past hunting season in Iowa has been a remark- able one from many points, and now that it is closed it is not out of place to give a review of the season. It opened Sept. r on ducks and prairie chickens, The latter bird was scarce in Iowa this year; it is practi- cally extinct, The northern section of the State al- torded the only’ shooting to be had, and that was very poor. The duck hunting was great. Old hunters must ‘look back many years before they find a year equaling if in abundance. Every country slough was filled to overflowing, and large numbers of ducks bred here dur- ing the summer. The quail were scarce this year. The winter has not been yery hard on them so far, and they will-probably winter all right In Iowa last year there was a strong example of wet weather, influencing the supply of quail. Had it not been for the continued rainy season in the summer, there would have been good hunting here last year, but the little quail were nearly all drowned out. ; I see that the plea on no spring shooting is getting stronger among thinking sportsmen, Towa has no law in prohibiting it as yet, although the Legislature next winter may be induced to pass a law. ; Rabbits are quite plentiful in this region this winter, and I have been having some good sport with them. Frank Jaqua, of this town, and two other hunting com- panions, killed twenty-five of them in about an hour one afternoon, and what surprised me most, Mr. Jaqua tells me that they shot four fat mallards. They found them in some spring holes along the Des Moines River a few miles north of here. I inclose a photo of my hunting partner, Lou Shockley, placing out the decoys on a country slough not far from here. We had some good shooting at teal on this pond several times. B The Massachusetts Commission. Tue Pittsfield Evening Journal of January 30 says: The members of the Pittsfield Rod and Gun Club claim that they have been misrepresented in statements issued to the press regarding the movement towards haying the Western part of the State represented on the State Fish and Game Commission, No Jess eminent authority on fish and game than Forest AWD STREAM has been either maliciously or inten- tionally misinformed of the intent and purposes of the Pittsfield Rod and Gun Club. The editor of Forest anp Stream holds with certain North Adams papers that the Pittsfield Rod and Gun Club is to turn down and out the present commission. This is absolutely untrue. One of the leading members of the Pittsfield Rod and Gun Club said this afternoon that there was not a sport3- man of the club that had anything against any member of the Fish and Game Commission, It is stated that the Iccal club recognizes the intelligent and successful work of Commissioner Collins, and that the local club likes his methods. What the club does want is a representa- tive on the commission from the western part of the State. That is what it is working for. The members of the commission are: Chairman, Joseph W. Collins, Boston; Edward A. Brackett, Win- chester; Jno. A. Delano, Marion; all living within the vicinity of Boston. “The commission has no representa- tive for the central and western part of the State, and in western Massachusetts, with its fine forests and streams, there 1s as mtich if not more need of a commissioner than in any other part of the State. The Pittsfield Rod and Gun Club has no grievance against any game warden; it 1s not working against any- one. and is not playing any political or “long” game in theiy efforts for representation on the commission, All they ask for is just representation, It Wears Well. CrentRAL Faris, R. I., Jan, 22, 1903.—I have taken the Forest AND STRYAM most of the time for over twenty-five years ane like it just as well as ever. ; Gro. T. EArte, 7 VEMERERERE AREER RARE RRR im & we Et 3 ST cH ~ 4 x Take inventory of the good things in this issue of Forest AND STREAM. Recall what a fund was given last week. Count on what is to come next week. Was there ever in all the world a more abundant weekly store of sportsmen’s reading? RARAAURKARKE SAAR BARBER E4BBRARR AAAS Sp et = “ 1 ; QR R es pt Sea and River Hishing. eneeen anaemia Proprietors of fishing resorts will find it profitable to advertise them in Forrst anp STREAM. — Reminiscences of an Octogenarian. Part VII, BY THE OLD ANGLER. (Continued from page 92) Wuen the Old Angler first fished the Cascapedia, none of the rivers flowing into either side of the Bay Chaleur was leased; all were free to every angler whose love of sport induced him to take the long and unpleasant jour- ney necessary to reach them. The only steamer on the route made but one trip a week from Shediac to Dal- housie. The roads to New Richmond were so rough that it was more convenient to hire a boat at Dalhousie and make the trip by water, which occupies but a few hours in ordinary weather. Take it all in all the Casca- pedia is perhaps the best angling river in Ametica, if not in the world. The fish run from 20 to 48 pounds—oftener 30 than 20. They are not so numerous as they were 45 years ago, when the Old Angler first cast his line in ifs transparent waters; but they are still plentiful enough to give the angler all the fishing he wants for a week or two. The scenery is beautiful and magnificent, offering a new picture at every turn of the stream, which runs through a mountainous country with a current from four to five miles an hour, according to the state of the water. The rapids are numerous; many of them difficult, some dan- gerous to ascend, and almost as dangerous, though much less difficult, to run. Indian Falls is the most broken, rapid and dangerous place on the river; but 80 great 15 the skill of the Indian canoe-men that accidents rarely happen. The pools are numerous, and from July till September all are generally well stocked with fish. Be- tween tide-head and the forks there are 50 miles of the finest salmon waters in America. Most of this distance the river runs through deep gorges with high and steep mountains on each side, generally wooded to the water’s edge. At the forks, or junction of the two large streams which form the main river, are several pools always full of fish, which do not tise so freely to the fly as they did lower down the river. But the surroundings are the ideal of the angler who can enjoy the beauties of nature as well as the pleasures of fishing. Good angling will al- ways raise some of the numerous salmon lying in these pools. Unlike the lazy fish of the Restigouche, the sal- mon of the Cascapedia rise gallantly to the fly and gen- erally take it on the surface. Their great size, surprising strength and persistent pluck, added to the strength of the current and the force of the rapids, all combine to make angling in this river the very finest sport that rod and line can afford: In no other has the Octogenarian ever fished where there is such scope for scientific work with fly, rod and gaff. The Old Angler has never seen a Cas- capedia fish on a fin de siécle split bamboo rod. No doubt in competent hands—such as those wonderful artists who fish from armchairs with crossed legs and glowing cigars —they would give a good account of themselves; but, for himself, the Old Angler would much prefer a longer, heavier and stronger rod, with but one splice and no fer- rules. The rod with which he fished on his first visit was made by Bob Tannahill, whose boyhood was spent on the Tweed, where the fish are as heavy as those in Casca- pedia. It was 16 feet long, in two pieces; the first 8 feet was well seasoned ash, saturated with raw linseed oil; the second consisted of four feet of greenheart and four of lancewood; the extreme tip was exactly three- sixteenths of an inch in diameter, and these two joints of 8 feet each were joined by a long scarf carefully aad closely wound with strong waxed thread. With the rcel two feet from the butt, the rod was nicely balance: sprang evenly from butt to tip, and cast So feet of line with an easy swing; a slight extra effort sent the fly 90 feet straight ahead in any desired direction. With this old-time, plain-looking and cheap rod, which cost jtist five dollars, the Octogenarian had such angling that the mere memory of it sends a thrill through his old rerves. Ay de Mie! These were pleasant days, and not all the pleasure of angling was in catching fish! Just here the Old Angler would say to those who are desirous of cast- ing a /ong line, that they will succeed as soon as they have learned to make the middle of the rod do the work in- stead of the tip. Those who have seen and wondered at a Tweed angler send out a side line in a succession of wayes, will try in vain to imitate him as long as the tip of the rod is made the center of force. Of course, the mil- licnaire of the Restigouche has little need of skill in casting his line; as long as he can keep his fly under water and imitate the jigging of the small boy with his worm, the fish will hook themselyes without any more assistance. Skill in such fishing is quite unnecessary—it would only be wasted if used. Those of the jeunesse dere who fish from armchairs and are ambitious to combine fighting a forty-five pound salmon with the dolce far niente of kid gloves and glowing cigars, have nothing to learn from any angler, old or young. Hat in hand the Octogenarian sits at their feet, lost in astonishment, as well at their “complacent serenity” as at their peculiar ideas of sport. Though we had good sport at the forks, the desire to fish new waters and to enjoy new scenes—a feeling al yays Sirong in your true angler—tempted us to visit the fails about ten miles up Salmon River, the largest of the two branches whose junction with the main river makes “the forks.” These falls are impassable to fish, and the memory of the falls pools on Nepissiguit stimulated the desire to visit the highest point that Cascapedia salmon can reach in their native stream. True, our guides told us fearful stories of the difficulties of ascending the stream; strong currents, foaming rapids with jagged rocks, and generally “a hard road to travel,” rather dulled ihe edge of our desire; but, truth to tell, the scant supply of “boots” was the strongest argument, and so we con- cluded to make all speed down stream and intercept the steamer die at New Richmond the following afternoon. Our course down the river was the most pleasurable trip the Old Angler has ever taken in a canoe. We rari all the tapids safely, and in eight short hours retraced the course it had taken two and a half days of hard poling to astend. The descent of this fine river, running, as it does, through scenery that cannot be surpassed, was worth the éxpense even without the finest sport that angling affords its votaries. Although in ‘after years the writer made several visits to this king of salmon rivers, when “boots” were easier, limited time and the fine fishing afforded by the lower pools left no inducement to go as high as the forks and so the falls’ pools are yet a terra incognita to the Old Angler. As inany more pairs of the “almighty boots” are now required to get access to this aristocratic river and its “blue-blooded” denizens than sufficed 40 years ago, the hoi pollol of the brotherhood cannot aspire to wet their plebizn lines in its sacred waters. But the Nepissiguit and the North and Southwest Mira- michi, with their smallet fish and their more subdued scenery, are yet within their reach and will have to satisfy ainbitious longings. But they ¢an console themselves with the knowledge that either of these rivets and some of their many tributaries will give them angling of a much higher class than the millionaire can find in all the waters of the Restigouche, : * * e OK of 2k * The most incorrect and unfounded statements have been made of the vast increase of salimon in all the rivers that have been monopolized by the millionaires. The only foundation for these silly statements is the alleged annual increase of the anglers’ catch. After every net has been removed from the river above Campbellton, and all spearing prevented in its upper waters. it would be strange indeed if more fish did not get into the Resti- gouche, The same must be said of the Nepissiguit and the Miramichi. Nets are no longer set above tideway and the fish these formerly caught are now added to the anglers’ stock; but still there is to denying the fact that the number of salmon is tapidly diminishing in all the rivets of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. In the writer’s early manhood a couple of spearing raids on any of these rivers would, in a few nights, take more salmon than all the anglers on eithet of theni aggregate in the whole season from June to September, to say nothing of the still greater number formerly taken in the nets set in all of them above tidewater, This alleged increase is at- tributed to artificial culture and the millions of fry dis- tributed from the hatching-houses at Gaspé, Restigouche and Miramichi, and the wildest hones aze indulged by American anglers that fish-culture will, ere long, re-stock all the rivers of the Statés. Some 34 years have elapsed since Seth Green in the States and Samuel Wilmot in Canada commenced the artificial culture of salmon and trout eggs, the former to re-stock the streams of New York and New England, the latter to re-stock those flow- ing into Lake Ontario. The writer has never heard nor rezd of a single adult salmon taken from any rivet re- stocked by Mr. Green. He has read, however, that it costs about two dollars for every pound of trout taken from streams in which they were not indigenous. Mr. Wilmot himself told us the result of his costly operz- tions. In his Report for the year 1881 is the following; “IT cannot disguise from myself that the time is gone by forever for the growth of salmon and speckled trout in the frontier streams of Ontario, But this fact could not have been evolved from intuition, I reached the conclusion through observation and experiment; through depositing fry in certain ponds and waters, and ascertaining that they languished and died there, though forty years ago these same streams and waters swarmed with the same fish and sustained life in the highest,degree. The change is, therefore, in the waters; and that change is dre to the clearing of the forest off the: land in the neighborhood of these streams and their feeders, and the consequent redtiction of water volume by reason of the increased evaporation and - defilement by the surcharge with vegetable matter, field filth and other foul matter.” Mr. Wilmot has been dead some years: if the total failure of his hobby and his hopes did not hasten his end, it must have added much to the gloom and lassi- tude of his last days. Poor Wilmot! Fortunately he can- not know how complete this failure was, nor how uni- formly it has gone on in the Maritime Provinces as well as in Ontario. After eight years’ costly experimenting in a new hatching house, and the planting of over 6,000,- ooo fry in the rivers of P. E. Island, the result was total failure; the hatching-house was abandoned and has since rotted down. In 1874, the year the first hatching houses were built in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, the whole catch of salmon in the former Province, as given in the Blue Book of the Department, was 3,214,182 pounds. In 1901, the last year for which the figures are given, the catch was only 1,235,350 pounds, a decrease of nearly two million pounds, In Nova Scotia the catch in 1874 was 1,758,818 pounds; in 1901 it was 557,802 pounds, a de- crease of nearly a million and a quarter. In P. E. Island salmon are no longer quoted as part of the annual yield of its fisheries. And yet the work goes on under an imported Professor who combines in his own person, as we gather from his platitudinous verbiage, the offices of Scientific expert, Superintendent of fish culture, Commissioner of fisheries and General Inspector of all the fisheries in the Dominion of Canada. Under the direction of a professor who has to perform duties so multitttdinous we can scarcely look for much improvement, when Mr. Wilmot’s whole time was fully occupied in the management and’ supervision of fish-culture alone, with the above result. Our rivers, like our forests, must submit to the law of Nature. As civilization and cultivztion extend, the “Ikin- dred of the wild” must recede. Our legislators and sportsmen must recognize the undemiable truth that the past wasteful destruction of fin, fur and feather must cease and that true protection must take its place. No coubt the game laws of Europe are hard on the masses for the sole benefit of the classes, and yet we are forced to admit that without the game laws of Britain there would be neither fin, fur nor feather in England, Scotland or Ireland. Let us hope that a more enlightened public epinion is being created and that the masses as well as the classes will see the wisdom of preserving and per- petuating, as far as that can be done, the wild denizens of ahe forest and stream. V; 112 FOREST>»AND STREAM. {Fes. 7, 1903. The Veteran’s Pool. F.Ly-Fisuine for trout is undoubtedly the most sports- manlike and enjoyable way in which to lure the gamy fish from his native haunts, but when the conditions pre- vent the casting of a fly or when it is late in the season, other pleasant modes of fishing may be employed. Sometimes on a stream, especially one flowing through woods or forest, the overhanging trees, thick bushes and undergrowth along the banks make it impossible to cast a fly, and if the angler would be successful he must adopt a stout bait rod. Near our camp in the North Woods flows a large and beautiful trout stream. Rising on a small woodland lake it passes windingly through the forest, gradually broaden- ing out, and finally joining the Beaver River some miles from its headwaters. For the first mile or so the water goes tumbling and leaping over moss-covered rocks and logs, here and there sinking into a shallow, pebbly basin. Relow these series of miniature cascades are found the trout pools, although sometimes they are separated by falls and swift water. At times the stream on iis course passes into a bright open beaver meadow, flowing quietly through the tall yellow grass and alder bushes and finally wanders back to the shadowy, fragrant woods. In the depths of the amber-colored water the trout lie lazily moving their broad tails and hungrily waiting for the fisherman to drop his bait. One bright, clear morning toward the end of August, the “Veteran,” always the leader and instigator of the fishing and shooting expeditions, proposed to Freddie and me that we should go over to the stream that morning and try the fishing. Did we want to go? Of course we did. The assent was only too readily given and the pros- pect hailed with delight. The “Veteran” informed us of a very good hole he knew of where the trout were especially plentiful. This pool was easily accessible if a person knew how to reach it, but very inaccessible to those who did not know the way. In fact, the “Veteran” was about the only one who knew the best route, and so we decided to try our Juck in this pool. We now gathered the fishing tackle together, which consisted of a couple of light bait-rods, hooks, lines, sinkers, etc., and then proceeded to fill the bait can liber- ally with large, fat earth worms. These, together with a bottle of “fly pizen” carried by the “Veteran,” formed our outfit for the expedition, and about half past mine ‘in the morning we were ready to start. The morning was an ideal one. Huge, flakey white clouds floated against the azure blue sky, and the woods as we drove through them were filled with pleasant sights and sounds, while the pure, sweet air that filled our ‘nos- trils was like a strong, healthful tonic. Having driven about one and a half miles from camp we reached a large clearing in the forest, and here the wagon left us. The “Veteran” now took the lead and siruck off on an old, rough carry. The walk through the woods was as enjoyable as the drive over, if not more so. The sunlight streaming in fell on the rugged trunks of the forest trees, turning the eray bark to a golden brown, and here and there a quiver - ing ray enveloped a bunch of delicate ferns in a sparkling inisty haze. Bluejays uttered their sharp, wild cry above our heads, and we now and then caught the warble of a red-eyed vireo, that faithful summer songster. We kept ta this carry for half a mile or more, and then the “Veteran” turned to the left on another worn path, and after walking a few minutes we came suddenly on a wide, deep brook. The old corduroy bridge had been swept away, probably by spring freshets, and only a shaky log remained on which to cross. The “Veteran” went first and passed over safely to the opposite side. I fol- lowed and hopped across frog fashion, for the log was as slippery as glass and the dark, cold waters beneath looked far from inviting. Reaching the other side I stood up beside the “Veteran” on the remnant of the bridge, when, without warning, crash! he went through the rot- ten logs, only saving himself from going in by gripping a small bush. In the scramble and excitement which fol- lewed, the bottle of “fly pizen” fell in the brook. At first we were much dismayed over the loss, but fortunately for us we were not aimoyed by any “punkies” or mosquitoes that morning. Freddie crossed the treacherous log in sufety and we continued our way, leaving the path and shortly after climbed a beautiful ridge covered with tall jine and spruce trees. The view as_we looked out be- tween the smaoth massive trunks of the trees was ex- quisite. A yista of rolling wood-clad hills, here and there broken by a clump of huge stately pines, and far to the nor:heast a faint blue Jine of mountains. We stood for scme time enjoying the beauty of the scene, and then descended the ridge. At the bottom there was a level stretch of marshy ground and when we had traversed this we suddenly caught the murmur of the stream. In an- mher minute we stood among the alder bushes border- ing its banks and gazed with eager eyes into the dark, cool depths of the coveted pool. “Well, here we are,” ssid the “Veteran.” “Now bait up and go to work. Two fishing in a hole like this is enough at one time, and I have done a good deal of this fishing, whereas you two have not.” And lighting a cigarette he seated himself under a tamarack where he could watch the proceed’ngs while Freddie and I baited our hooks with feverish haste cn the bank. Taking our places some feet apart, and standing well back in the alder bushes, we began operations by care- fully letting the bait drop slowly into the water. No sooner had mine become well submerged than I felt a sharp tug on the line, and, giving a terrific jerk, out came the hook, bait gone, but no trout. A shout at this moment from Freddie attracted my attention, and I looked over in time to see him swing a nice fish from the pool. The fun now became fast and furious. No sooner would the bait disappear than a lusty trout seized ii hungrily. Our fingers became thumbs as we struggled to fasten the wriggling worms to the hooks, for each and every time the wily fish would snap it off. Once a strong, sudden jerk nearly took the rod froi my hands, and I struck sharply, but failed to hook the fish. Baiting up as quickly as the excitement and condi- tions would allow, I threw in again and was rewarded by feeling the tug, repeated, this time with success. A wide swirl, followed by two or three desperate rushes, and with a shout of triumph I succeeded in swinging out a fine. pound trout. How his red and gold sides flashed and gleamed as he lay flopping in the grass! It was a pity he could not have fought longer, but splashing and noise in a small pool intimidates and frightens the other fish, and thus spoils the fishing for some time after. Highly elated over the catch, [I baited up quickly and dropped in again. Gradually the lure sank into the dark water, and before it had reached the bottom there was 4 slight twitch on the line. Breathlessly I waited for it to be repeated. Another shake, this time stronger, the line was pulled suddenly taut, and the fish was hooked. Away he went, plunging and rushing, here and there, but in a few minutes shared the fate of his comrade. He weighed three-quarters of a pound and the two made a very pretty brace of fish. Hearing another shout from my fellow fisherman, ac- companied by a splash and a laugh from the “Veteran,” I perceived Freddie in the act of crawling out of the bushes on the bank. With a wild effort he regained his feet and clambered to a place of safety. In trying to throw the bait under the bank on the opposite side he had taken a step too near the edge and had fallen in. Fortunately only one leg received a ducking, which did nos antcetes with the fishing, only catising a good augh. j Once in swinging a fish from the pool I saw that the trout had become uncontrollable, and was coming straight for my head, and failing to duck in time, he caught me a sounding smack on the side of my face, which turned the laugh on me. More beauties kept on coming, and all under size were of course thrown back. Finally the Veteran,” who had been packing the creel with trout, called out: “This basket is chuck full, and not another fish will go in, so I guess you had better quit fishing.” In a few minutes we were ready to start, but before leaving threw the remainder of the worms into the pool, and then, shouldering our traps, we bade a reluctant farewell to this lovely spot. On climbing the pine knoll we had another glimpse of the beautiful view. A gentle breeze stirred softly among the tree tops, and the sweet, clear note of a white- throated sparrow reached our ears from the swamp below. Flunging down the hillside we soon came to the stream with its treacherous log. Crossing over this time with- cut any mishap, we continued our way and in less time than it takes to tell were at the wagon. We reached camp after a brisk, pleasant drive, dirty, hungry, but happy. Counting the fish we found we had thirty-three, the largest weighing a pound, and the othérs varying from eight to fourteen ounces. In the evening, when we were gathered around the ccmfortable old stove in the sitting room discussing the adventures of the day, Freddie and I came to the conclu- sion that the “Veteran’s” pool had proved a grand suc- cess, and neither of us would ever forget the pleasures of the trip, CAMILLA, The Sza Trout of the Escuminac. Editor Forest and Stream: For the last three years I have enjoyed the privilege of fishing the above-named river in the Province of Quebec, and the discussion which has arisen between Mr. Venning and Mr. Hallock relative to the proper classification of the sea trout, has suggested to me that perhaps a few items from my experiences might be interesting to some of your readers. The Escuminac is a beautiful, clear, cold stream emptying into the Bay Chaleur from the north, and about forty miles from Matapedia, and like the Nou- velle, is essentially a trout river. If the season be a normal one we expect the first run of trout about July 1, and the second run ten days later. An abundance of spring rains delays their ad- vent into the river some seasons until the last of July, but the majority of first runs will be during the first week of the month. While on the river the first two seasons we made our headquarters with Dan Brown and family, near the mouth of the river. “Uncle Dan” as he is called, was for a number of years guar- dian of the river, and aside from being an exemplary, God-fearing citizen, he is a born angler and a beautiful easter. To Uncle Dan (may his shadow never lessen) I am indebted for much interesting tradition concern- ing what the angling was in the river years ago, and of the coming and going of the trout. From the mouth of the river up to the falls is about twenty miles (it depending not a little of whom you may inquire), and that is as far fp as we ever fish. Above the falls the water seems to be just as plentiful, but no trails have ever been swamped, and the angling ends on that stream with the trails. Now, to me it seems a very curious fact that the pools and reaches of the lower five or six miles of the river never contain any large trout, but such is the case. There are grand pools, an abundance of shelter under banks and alders, but never a trout could I get to rise. And I have wondered much thereat. But in the very lowest waters, that which was affected by each incoming tide, I have seen countless thou- sands of fingerling trout. We see fry all the way up the river, but in no such numbers as the fingerlings in the tidal waters. Two hundred miles above its mouth the river is crossed by the Bay Chaleurs railway. As I have always had a yearning to see these trout on their journey to the nuptial pools, I have stood on the bridge hour after hour and watched for some member of the ascending hosts, but not one did I ever see. “I wonder why.” Do these fish enter the river at night and move steadily on until daylight, or a given point is reached? It seems very strange that not one could be seen. As there was no fishing on the lower waters, and stopping near the mouth necessitated a great deal of travel, a year ago this winter a nice commodious camp was built sixteen miles up, which locates us right in center of the fishing and—the black flies. These have been known to annoy some people. During the early fishing the trout remain in the pools, but when the water begins to yield to the effect of the sun they seek the shelter of the banks and the overhanging bushes, and then to get your fly where the concealed fish can see it requires skill, patience and profanity. Alas! oftentimes much of the latter. But they are there, great spotted beauties and as plenty as angler can wish. When you fasten to a four pound fish, after digging him out from under the alders, he is very liable to exhibit a frantic desire to return to cover, and the angler who is content to wield a 4-ounce rod crowds big wads of experience into five or ten minutes, if he saves his fish. But it is worth all the disappointment if he brings one in three to net. Before we started on our first trip to the river, I wrote to Uncle Dan and asked his advice about the proper flies, rods, ete. His reply was to the effect that all the flies we needed were two varieties, viz., the “thunder-and-lightning” and the “mouse-lure.” I failed to find either one of these patterns at any one of the Boston tackle houses, so we concluded to-chance the first trip with different varieties of salmon flies, and a good assortment of Rangeley Lakes bugs. You ean judge of our chagrin and mortification when we realized that the Escuminac trout would rise just as quickly to a Japanese umbrella, as they would to any fly in our possession. Here was a dilemma. I sent to Mr. Baillie in St. Johns. He did not have them. Then we sent to Campbellton, and a dealer there telegraphed to Quebec, and we got the much desired thunder and lightning, and trout. I see it frequently stated that the sea trout will rise to “any old thing.’ J guess the Escuminac trout are a bit particular. For size our fish averaged good. We seldom net one under two pounds in weight, and I have taken three fish successively which aggregated over sixteen pounds. I have netted a fresh run trout whose silvery sides would rival a salmon’s, spots just faintly showing, the median line alone pronounced. And late in the season I have taken them robed in colors that would make a rainbow look like a pneumatic tire. In conclusion, I wish to add that it is my humble,’ unscientific opinion that these fish ascend the river to deposit their spawn and observe the various functions of reproduction, J. W. B. Trolling for Bass. CincInNATI, O., Jan. 19.—Editor Forest and Stream: Dr. Henshall, in his “Book of the Black Bass,” makes the assertion that he formed the acquaintance of one fish in the Miami River, near Cincinnati, but I am afraid it would tax the good doctor’s skill to the full- est extent to strike up a flirtation with that grand game fish in that stream at present. The Little and Big Miamis and the Whitewater rivers are within eagy ac- cess of this city, but the fishing, so far as the black bass is concerned, is nil. These streams appear to be splendidly adapted for the bass, but seiners and dyna- miters have wrought his tndoing, and he is not found. But there are several stocked ponds in this neigh- borhood that yielded some fine fish the past season, and proved a boon to those fishermen of this vicinity who had no opportunity of visiting more favorable localities. There were quite a goodly number of four and five-pound bass captured, and one caught and weighed in my presence tipped the beam of a gro- cer’s scales at seven pounds and six ounces. As sev- eral of your correspondents, who have visited the most propitious angling regions, seem to consider a bass of four or five pounds a leviathan, it appears as though the humbler brethren of the angle of this neighborhood might go further and fare worse. Most of the larger fish were captured with surface casting trolls, and as I believe I was one of the first in this vicinity to use a lure of that description in ang- ling for bass, I feel myself in a measure responsible for their introduction. It was to draw out some ex- pressions of opinion as to the merits of surface cast- ing trolls from a sportsmanlike point of view that this was written. While I am merely an enthusiastic neophyte in the art of angling, it may not be regarded as presumptu- ous in me to state what I regard as the meritorious features of these lures, which are as follows: Effec- tiveness, as on comparison with other baits they pro- duce better results, both as to size and number of fish taken. (Flies are excepted in this statement, as I have never had the good fortune to witness the per- formance of an expert in that branch of the art.) They are more humane than live bait, and this, to me, ap- pears to be a good and sufficient reason for their in- dorsement, as I never could and probably never will, be able to impale a live minnow or frog on a hook without feelings of compassion for its suffering, as evidenced in agonized writhings, which some of my philosophical friends assure me are merely the manifestations of re- flex action, but I am not persuaded of the truth of this. They are not pot-fishing devices, as it requires plenty of perseverance and more skill in casting them than the average pot-fisher possesses to produce good re- sults. Indeed, I have never seen a poor bait caster accomplish anything at all with them. These features, together with the fact that they are economical and do away with the trouble of procuring and preserving live bait in good condition, in my opinion, place them before any other form of lure, except the artificial fly, in the use of which it is my ambition to acquire dex- terity in the coming season. The chief objection to these trolls is the multiplicity of hooks they contain, usually two and sometimes three triples, but from their size and conformity this cannot well be avoided, and leave them with adequate hook presentment. It was with the hope that this species of lure would receive what its merits or demerits deserve from some of your correspondents who are versed in the ethics of the art that this was written, and I pause for reply. W. F. Crucar. All communications intended for Forest AnD Stream should always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., New York, and not to any individual connected with the paper. - Fer. 7, 1903.]) A Fish Story from the Pension Records. Wasuincton, D. C., Jan. 28.—One would think that about the last place to look for a fish story would be among the Revolutionary pension cases, many of which - have not been disturbed for fifty years and which, upon being opened now, give forth clouds of dust, literally the dust of ages. ‘ No general pension law for the benefit of Revolution-. ary soldiers was passed until 1818, so that from the deaths of comrades and the imperfection or absence of records, proof of service was difficult, hence appli- cants were required to give names of officers of low or high rank, describe the country through which they passed and relate incidents of their various campaigns as minutely as possible. | dated May 23, 1833, he stated that he served in a rennsylvania regiment during the years 1776-77-78, and that Lieut.-Col, Russell, while crossing the North River, had both thighs broken by a sturgeon leaping 7 into the boat, in consequence of which he—the colonel, not the fish—died. That seems rather a robust yarn, but as there was . | no motive ‘for exaggeration, it may be accepted as truth, or what the soldier thought to be truth. i he fish was not stated. The weight of the fis TEA Rion Artificial Culture of Salmon in America. Lonpon, Jan. 17,—Editor Forest and Stream: you or any of your readers give me atithentic informa- tion as to where it has been proved that the salmon has been successfully introduced into and has stocked rivers in the United States in which it has been prac- i r actually extinct. j Be a Site in the Jan. 10 issue of your delight- ful paper, says that the hatching of Pacific salmon in the various U. S. Fish Commission hatcheries. has imed gigantic proportions. ae have See Tle cntod that the results were also gigantic and of immense value, but certain scientific gentlemen in this country deny that it can be proved that artificial culture of salmon has been a success anywhere, as-fat as the stocking rivers with fish is— concerned. They say there is: gigantic success in col- lecting ova, hatching out fry and planting by the mil- lion, and that is about all there is to it, and they have used their influence to prevent the use of. public funds for salmon stocking purposes in this country. It would be a great help to advocates of fishculture all over the world if you could publish unquestionable proof of the benefit derived from the artificial cultiva— tion of salmon iff America. R. B. Marston, Editor Fishing Gazette, London, Eng. Che Fennel. Sie Fixtures. Feb. 11-14—New York.—Twenty-seventh annual show of the i 1 Club. James Mortimer, Supt. ; yee saa ae N. ee of New Jersey Kennel Asso- iation. C. G. Hopton, Sec’y. ‘ eb poe ees : Cols =neuen show of Colorado Kennel ig teenth annual show. W. B. Emery, Sec’y. March 4-7.—Pittsburg, Pa.—Show of Duquesne Kennel Club, of - lyania. : WMtuok Ae neste N. ¥.—Show of Rochester Kennel Club. March 12-14.—Coshocton, O—Show of Coshocton Kennel Club. March 17-2).—Uhrichsville. O.—Show of Twin City Kennel Club. | h 25-28.—Chicago,_Show of Chicago Kennel Club. Moe 30-31.—St. Teenie Show of St. Louis Collie: Club. March 31-April 3—Buffalo, N. Y.—Show of Buffalo Kennel Club. April 1-4-—New Orleans, La.—Show of Southwestern: Kennel _ oer 4-4.—Victoria, B. C.—Show of Victoria Kennel Club. April 8-1.—Atlantic City, N. Cy 99-80.—Hempstead, L. I—Open air show. of Ladies’ Kennel Association of America. d A Dog by Express. Liano, Tex., Jan. 25.—As Mr. Hough has told a dog story, I would like to relate a similar one. While mes- senger for the Express Company fifteen years ago I took on at a small station a genuine “nigger hound valued at $50. He was a vicious fellow, and I did not try to cultivate a close acquaintance. We traveled all right for 100 miles or so, when all at once the dog came tearing out of the crate. I did not try to stop him, but just let him go. When we stopped at a water tank I did not try to close the door, but let him “hit the trail,” In fact, I helped him all that I could by throwing coal at him (by the way, I was on top of the highest pile of trunks in the car), this being all that I could pick up to defend myself with except my Colt .45, and I knew better than to shoot the dog. I was drawing only $60 per month then, and when that dog left the car I saw $50 of it pinned to his tail, Well we pulled out, and I was ina “peck o’ trouble.’ I could not afford to pay $50 for a dog, and worse still, losing my job, was out of all reason. We had still to run one hour and filty minutes, and J had that time to think it over. So'by the time we reached S I had made tip my mind to make a report of the whole matter and pay for the dog. Of course, I was blue. When we stopped the agent came to the car, and when he saw me he said, “Great Scot! Kid, what have you been crying about?’ Did you bet’ rattled?” I said “No, sir!’ At that moment a negro boy came along with an exact counterpart, except the biting qualities, of the Jost dog, and I said, “Say, Bill, you want to sell that dog?” “Yas, boss.” That made me feel good. np Well, I bought his dog for 50 cents and put him in the crate; and until this day that dog-man is selling full blood “blood hounds” from that 50 cent dog—or his get. I have visited his kennels and have heard him blow about his fine dog that he paid $50 for at —, and I smiled and drifted. OLp ExpressMan, In the claim of Job Phillips, Could Reb. 23-26.—Boston, Mass.—New England Kennel Glub’s nine- — J.—Show of Atlantic City Kennel — ‘FOREST AND STREAM. Old Dog Ponto. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Jan. 27—Editor Forest and Stream: I take the liberty to send you:a scrap clipped ' from the Springfield Republican, suggested by a kins- man of mine pertaining to the age, habits, traiming and native characteristics of an old worn-out English setter belonging to me. His worth as a first-class dog in the field could not have been excelled by any dog of lis breed. Perhaps you may think it not out of place in your highly valued paper as a tribute to dogs, the valued companions to all sportsmen that are not so selfish as to deny to the brtite creation a just recognition of worth. Henry R. Merrirr. With Things at Sevens, a With things at sevens, or out of joint, 4 And stale-worn runs the craze for gait; q *Tis blest relief in fields to jaunt, Up fill the hours with moments sane. f call my dog, Forespent—he’s old, His years show record in his face; But not for me his love is cold, Ay ; Nor lost his lineaments of grace. From Nature heart he purposed came; Her pleasure mold—she made him true; No blemish marks he bears of shame, eae 4 | } No evil done his dog life through. © In field or run, or marsh, or wood, ai He’s played his part, to flag nor fail, o How well his work he understood, ? His count may show of grouse or quail. i 7 Staunch, kind, and true, by nature wise, j= Presuming not, nor gross, nor vain, > ‘A world of goodness in him Hes— His life filled out without a stain, And is revealed, when fram my hands He takes some dainty that he loves, A will to bide’ but those commands His instinct prompts, or, well approves. His work is done. But I can see, When by the winter fire he dreams, _His native traits by sleep set free, To match the best in huntsmen’s themes. I love him much, as he loves me; We're joined in all, as dearest friend; His wants now few, the simple fee, Bed, food and drink, fill out the end. He comes to me; he seems to know © That I have wrestled some with years; Has he a soul? TI trust ’tis so, So well the fact his love declares. Aye, love like his can neyer die; Immortal ’tis—To live! To live! From earth to heaven, it reaches high, } Death thralls it not, nor wound can give, CHRISTOPHER C. MeERRIT.. SPrINGFIELD, Jan. 21.- = Westminster Kennel. Club Entries. of the Westminster Kennel Club are as follows: 2,346. Irish Setter Club. * Curcaco, Feb. 2—The annual meeting of The: Irish Setter Club of America will be held at the Madison Square Garden on Friday, February. 13, at four*o’clock, P.M. Geo. H. THomson, Secretary. Hachting. ——_—©—___ Work is being rushed on the new boat building for the cup defense by the Herreshoffs at Bristol, and it is now believed that she will be ready for launching by the mid- The frames are all set up and the work dle of April. of plating has commenced. Some of the interior bracings and trusses are already in place, and as all the material is on hand there will be no delay on that score. The steel mast is nearly finished, it being constructed very much as Constitution’s was, and the topmast will house inside. Little authentic news can be learned about the new boat’s design, as the greatest secrecy is: being ex- ercised in every branch of the yacht’s construction. The steamer Diamond State has been purchased by Mr. August Belmont, and she will be used as a tender to Constitution. The vessel, which has been used as a Passenger and freight boat between Philadelphia and Wilmington, will be entirely refitted to meet her ‘new requirements, She will be in charge of Captain James Price, who has been in command of Scout, Mr Bel- mont's steam yacht. Diamond State was-built at Marine City, Mich., in 1894. She is r7oft. long, 25ft.. breadth and toft. draft. Her engines are of 2,600 horse-power, and she has a speed of 22 knots. \ The number of entries of each of the different breeds,- and the total of all the entries for the forthcoming show Blood- hounds 17, mastiffs 8, St. Bernards’ 71, Great Danes 93, Newfoundlands 3, deerhounds 9, Russian wolfhounds 47,- greyhounds 21, foxhounds 11, pointers 1190, English setters to4, Irish setters 39, Gordon settérs 17, Griffons 6, re- trievers 6, Chesapeake Bay dogs 4, sporting spaniels 183, collies 165, old English sheep dogs 61, Dalmatians 8,. poodles 63, bulldogs 177, French bulldogs 82, bullterriers 107, Airedale terriers 53, Boston terriers 177, chow chows 3, Basset hounds 11, beagles 87, dachshunds 509, foxter- riers 143, Irish terriers 65, Scottish terriers 48, Welsh ter- - _ tiers 25, black and tan terriers 23, whippets 11, Skye ter-— riers 6, Bedlington terriers 8, schipperkes 7, Yorkshire terriers 17, Maltese terriers 6, toy terriers 9, pugs 28, Pomeratiians 30, toy spaniels 102, miscellaneous 7. Total,- 118 The steamer Sunbeam has been chartered by Mr. C. Oliver Iselin and she will be used as a tender to the new cup defender now building at Bristol. Sunbeam was built at Essex, Mass., in tooo and since that time has been in the fruit trade plying between’ Boston and. the West Indies. She is r32ft. 6in. long, 3o0ft, breadth and Toft. 8in, depth. She has a speed of about 12 knots. Thames Houseboats. As the Thames became more thickly populated, it was necessary to increase the regtilations for public con- venience and fot health, and consequently the rules re- garding houseboats are now very strict. The Con- setvancy issue a long list of places where these craft may not moor, on account of interference with the traffic or with private rights, and sanitary regulations to pre- vent pollution of the river have been much more stringent in recent years, not even a lavatory basin being permitted to drain into the Thames. So it comes that houseboats are forced into certain districts, chiefly where there is opportunity for obtaining a plot of land, and these inclostires are ofte made picturesque little gardens, This grouping together gives a most charming appearance to certain’ reaches, those, for éxample, at Molesey, Staines, Datchet, Bourne End and Henley, and there is not a great deal of movement during the season, except about Henley time, when many craft are taken up or down to the famous regatta town by their attendant launches or by tug, while some other regattas will attract a few houseboats from their accustomed moorings to the respective cotrtses, Several Thames boat builders have made quite a repu- tation for houseboats, one of the chief being James Taylor, of Chertsey, and: to* Mr. W. Bates, the manager of the firm, I am’ indebted’ for the accompanying plans. This builder is taken particularly as he introduced a distinct novelty a few years since in the center-saloon houseboat, and the plans show clearly the difference in design of the two types. Little description is necessary, as the dimensions and interior arrangements of two typi- cal English boats are shown clearly on the plans. These craft are perfectly representative of Thames houseboats of the larger class, and are the most useful description to purchase; as they are readily sold and easily let: It is better to’ purchase what one may describe as “self-con- tained boats,” with kitchen, etc, on board, and then, if cooking operations are objected to, a small craft may be: obtained for culinary purposes, and for the accommo- dation’ of seryants. Boats at permanent moorings, how- ever, when there is land available}. often have a kitchen and’ domestic offices in their garden plot. For those who dc not require such large craf{ as those mentioned above, there are numerous small craft to’ be obtained, say from about 35 feet long. upwards, with saloon, three bed rooms, etc, ; With regard to the number and sizes of houseboats on the Thames I cannot do better than quote from one of the registration lists of the Conservancy, who for inhabited craft charge an amount of £5 for a boat of 30 feet in length and £2 for each six inches over 30 feet. Boats not used are exempt from payment, and those used as dress- ing places or storerooms are only charged one guinea each per annum. A list I have before me is the first issued last season, and contains the names of 125 pleasure boats. The fol- lowing are those of 50 feet and over: Athens 55ft, Annie Laurie 63ft., Aida 7oit., Albatross 5oft., Arcady 53ft., British’ Queen’ 74ft, Bohemian Girl soft, Banshee s5oft., Bedouin Goft., Balaclava 7rit., Cigarette 119ft., Cecil 75ft., Cardinal 65ft., City of Lon- don, 69ft., Chez Nous 65ft., Czarina s5oft., Caprice soft., Dabchick 65ft.,. Dunottar 8oft., Empress 66ft., Eileen 67ft., Prog soft, Folly 78ft; Fair Maid of Perth: r1oft.,- Glow- worm O8ft., Guinevere 63ft., Gloriana 1o03ft., Golden But- terfly soft., Golden Grasshopper 8oft., Genesta ‘6sft., Geisha 71ft., Hirondelle 6o0ft., Happy Thought 6oft., H. M. S. Pinafore 65ft., Ibis 113ft, Idler 53%t.,- Kittiwake gsit., Kelpie 63ft., Kingfisher 74ft., Kopperty soft, Kismet goft., Kelpie 66it., Lazyland 55ft., La Reine 6oft., Lelia 5oft., Lotos soft., Lotus 5oit., Minnehaha 65ft., Mirabelle soft., Madcap soft, Maid of Kent 6oft., Miranda 7oft., Nepoo soft:, Nautilus. 7oft.,-Nightingale 111ft.,.Rouge ct Noir 50it., Red Rover 85ft., River Home’ s2ft., Rippledene 5oft., River God soft. Swan 61ft:, Siesta orft.,- Stella 7iit.. Sunbeam 88it., Syrinx 76ft.,- Summerholme 74 ft., Thistle ooft., Venezia 66%t., Venice 68ft., Yahnehune soft, _In some cases the extra’ size includes tenders. A further list contains about 40 names of rowing and swim- ming club barges, and what are really floating boat- houses, the Oxford College barges, of course, figuring largely. ye As au instance of the popularity of houseboats on the Thames, it may be stated that the registration fees add well over £900 to the Conservancy funds each year. In the special list of places where houseboats may not inoor, the Henley Regatta course is included, but this restriction is waived during the regatta week, when posi- tions are allotted to subscribers to the funds, chiefly according to their liberality in this direction. Owing to cerfain unnecessary regulations regarding sub-letting, Henley houséboats* were considerably reduced in number for a season or two, but last year there was again a good muster, and several of the accompanying photographs were taken during the regatta, when every effort is made by artistic decoration, floral and otherwise, to make these charming craft more than ordinarily beautiful, and Hen- ley week on a well-appointed houseboat may he; safely recommended as an excellent method for disposing of superfluous dollars. A good boat will fetch £150 for the week, subscription to the regatta fund means an extra £20 for a good place, and there are no limits’to hos- pitality*for those who mean to do the thing well. At ordinary times a good boat will fetch’ £10 a week, so that altogether there are worse investments’ than a houseboat on the Thames; in fact, it™has always been a surprise to me that some company has not worked a small ecrner in them. A boat of, say, 60 feet long with good accommodation will cost to build from £400 to £coo and furniture, small craft, ete., could be obtained “for another £100. On such a craft one would be very 10- forttimate not to clear £100 for several years, and then there would be an asset worth £400. There are generally plenty of boats on the English FOREST>AND STREAM stereohla. THAMES HOUSE-BOAT SALOON. Photo by Marsh Bros., Henley. c2 RG: A THAMES HOUSE-BOAT SALOON. Photo by Marsh Bros, Her? | ep. 7, 1903.) | | FOREST. AND STREAM. | 118 a — KEBLE ©OILEGE BOAT CIUB EW BARGE Moo Sk we SRS Fe ES Rn ea A ee Et St BROADSIPE = i re Inv NM A\\\ h : * THE NEW BARGE OF THE KEBLE COLLEGE BOAT CLUB, ' A THAMES HOUSE-BOAT SALOON. erat) - : i Photo by Marsh Bros., Henley. . : : market, for in coiipatatively few cases daés the house- boat ¢taze last for Jong. A man will buy one, and be en- thusiastic over river life for a yeat ot two, bit he will then, perhaps, want to sell, for naturally theré is, under Thames conditions, some monotony about Houseboat ex- istence. Fortunately there are always othets to take his place, and so as each season comes round, one sees the same fine display of floating homes on the Thames, and, 10 gain a thorough acquaintance with river life afloat in this country, I can strongly recommend the American visitor to spend a month or two on an English house- boat. He will not encounter many startling adventures, perhans, but if he has a soul for the beauties of nature, he cannot but be stirred by the quiet glories of Thames scenery, enjoyed in all its phases by the lucky occupant of a houseboat. moored in some charming reach of the river. And if he has a mind for sport, the months of July and August will give him all he can desire in the many and yaried contests typical of the regattas of the season. We English are sometimes taunted with the en- ihusiasm we display for “Our River,” as the artist-author, Mr. G. D. Leslie, styled it in his charming book, but those who have lived on its banks or afloat on the bosom of the stream, can stand all this and are ready with Milton to say “Thamesis meus ante omnes.” English Letter. Horr springs eternal in Sir Thomas Lipton’s breast. He has just been reported as having said that the new Shamrock will embody three if not four improvements over previous challengers, and that he has safe grounds for anticipating victory in the next struggle. Now, this all depends upon the magnitude of the “three or four improvements,’ and whether Herreshoff has not made five or six of equal importance. We all hope for the new vessel’s success (and many of us expect it), but it is not a question of arithmetic. Of all challengers, Sir Thomas is undoubtedly the most optimistic, and that is a very charming feature in his disposition. The new yacht will be launched in April, and will, as soon as possible, be put through her paces with Sham- rock I., first on the Clyde and then in the south of Eng- land. The races between the two will be on strictly busi- ness lines, proper courses being laid out, and guns fired in the usual way. Also there will be money prizes which will reward the exertions of the victorious crews. The Council of the Yacht Racing Association has adopted the resolutions of the owners in the handicap classes, almost entirely. The chief alteration made is to classify the boats by the old Thames tonnage rule. Each boat, however, will be measured for length and sail area, and on these the allowances of a strange or new boat will be based until she shows form. The main point, however, is the recognition by the Association of handi- cap racing and the appointment of an official handicapper. If one man only and not a committee is selected to ar- range the handicaps, it is pretty safe to guess that he will be Mr. Andrew Thomson. For many years he has been in great request among clubs giving handicap races, and probably no man has acquired so much information on the subject. A handicapper better qualified for the ofhce could not be found. The originators of the new Solent one-design class have recognized the size and style of boat originally chosen by them. Mr. Mylne will design the fleet, but the dimensions are considerably enlarged, so that the yachts will be roomy and comfortable little cruisers. It is said that the type will also be more “wholesome.” In size the new boats will be of about 42ft, Y. R. A. rating, This will remove all danger of their destroying the 3oft. open class, but I am afraid the 36-footers will still suffer an eclipse. If only the managers of the class could be brought to see the virtues of a short maximum handicap combined with a rigid rule for building, the loss of the 36-footers would not be felt, for a far better class would take their place. Meantime comes news of two more one-design classes in addition to the host of others that are sapping all in- terest in racing among the small fry over here. Both of these are from Mr. Mylne’s design also. One is for a Clyde club and the other for Dublin Bay. One-design classes seem to have caught on in Ireland more than anywhere else. te Mr. A. L. Barber’s new turbine steam yacht was launched on the 14th inst, by Messrs. Ramage & Fergu- son. She is to be called Lorena. Her dimensions are: L. O. A., 300ft.; L. W. L., 253ft., and beam, 33ft. 3in., the tonnage (Y. M.) working out at about 1,650. She has three independent compound steam turbines. and two condensers. There are one high pressure and two low, with the latter of which the reversing turbines are con- nected. There are two propellers on each of the outer shafts, and one on the middle one, all five being of man- ganese bronze. There are four cylindrical tubular. boilers containing 8,500 square feet of heating surface, and about 2290 square feet of grate area. The power expected is. about 3,200 horse-power with the turbines working at - 530 revolutions for the middle shaft and 750. for the outer shafts. Above the main deck there is a promenade deck extending the whole length of the vessel to within 2oft. of the stern, and on,this is a deck house rooft. long by 14ft. wide. On the main deck there is a range of deck houses nearly r7oft. long with alley-ways on each side 5ft. broad; soft. of this erection. 1s taken up by the owner’s- state- room, boudoir and toilet room. At the after end are a library, :stateroom and toilet room. “The question of the advantage of turbines ovér reciprocating, engines has been clearly decided in vessels, of -high speed, but whether this type of machinery will be. found well adapted to or- dinary yachts has not yet been, demonstrated. Lorena’s performances, will be regarded with very keen interest, and if the result is- satisfactory it will have an immediate effect on future steam yacht building. The result of the Emerald’s. trials a¥e said to have been good, but, no. de- tails have been pyblished. American motormakers will be wise if they direct their attention to. engities of many small, cylinders as. opposed to those of one or two large cylinders for export to this country. The 2-cycle type in large cylinders is not popu- lar, and makers of similar powers in three small cylinders are doing good business. But, as I have often said, there is a great demand for 4-cycle engines. Good machines of FOREST;:AND STREAM, KEBLE COLLEGE BARGE AT OXFORD, fs, 7, 19034 FOKEST AND STREAM, d7 = ONE OF THE NEW SEAWANHAKA 15-FOOTERS., Photo by Ackerman & Dutcher, Nyack. this type, running at a moderate speed, will be saleable here. French engines of this type are now being adver- tised in our papers—4-cycle engines with about 750 revo- lutions per minute. For marine work this is much more satisfactory than the fast-running car engines, the use of which has hitherto given the 2-cycle type an excellent chance of attaining popularity. E. H. HAMILTON. Chicago Y. C. Editor Forest and Stream: The following schedule of events has been adopted by the Chicago Y. C. for the season of 1903: Saturday, May 30—Cruise to Indiana Harbor. 7:30 P. M. This will be an impromptu race only. Saturday, June 6—Free for all handicap race over club’s long course. Start for limit boat, 1 P, M. | Saturday, June 13—Races for one-design yachts-and for ciub knockahbouts. Saturday, June 20—Handicap race around cribs and then to Indian Harbor. Start for limit boat at r P, M. Saturday, June 27—Races for one-desien yachts and for club kriockabouts. Saturday, July 4—Race for Pfister cup, over club’s short course, to A. M. Free for all handicap race over club’s long course. Start for limit boat, 1 P. M. Saturday, July rt1—Races for one-design yachts and for club knockabouts. Saturday, July 18—Class races for the Warrington and Lillienfeld cups. Saturday, July 25—Class races, all classes. 2:10 and 2:20 P. M. Saturday, August 1—Races for one-design yachts. and for club knockabotts. Wednesday, August 5—Start at 9 A. M. for Milwaukee. Impromptu races. Friday, August 7, and Saturday, August 8—Races at Milwaukee under auspices of Milwaukee Y. C. Sunday, August 9—Start from Milwaukee on cruise to northern ports. Rendezyous at Charlevoix. Cruising race from Charlevoix to Harbor Springs. Cruise to end at Harbor Spring. Instructions and sailing directions to be given from day to day by the commodore. ~ Saturdays, August I5, 22, 29, and September 5—Races for oné-design yachts and for club knockabouts. Tuesday, September 1, Labor Day—Special and im- prompt races. Saturday, September 1t2—Handicap cruising race to Kenosha. Start tor limit boat at 8 A. M. Saturday, September 19—Races for one-design and for club knockabouts. Saturday, September 26—Free for all handicap race oyer club’s long course. Start for limit boat at 1 P. M. Saturdays, October 3, to and 17—Races for one-design yachts and for club knockabouts. Last season we first tried, and, as far as we know, were the first club to successfully try, the handicap races. Our members are by a large majority in favor of these races, consequently you will notice on this schedule that most cf the events will be handicap affairs. We start the boats on their time allowance according to an arbitrary handi- cap made up by a competent committee, and the first boat in wins. This handicap is made in the same manner as handicaps in other sports, that is, the boats are equal- ized as close as human judgment can do so, according to the actual performances and merits of the different yachts. We have found by experience that we can better equalize the fleet in this manner than we can or eyer could accord- ing to a theoretical rule or set of rules, And of course the more nearly the boats are equalized the better the Start Start 2; Allan; Fleet Captain, H. Breene; sport. We recognize that when boats are being built for 2 given race, such as the international races, then the arbitrary restrictions in the measurements of the boats, or some good rule of time allowance according to racing lengths, is not only necessary, but are good. But when the builders’ contest has bee nsettled, then we believe’ we should provide races in which the best sailors rather than the best boats should win, and races in which the best sailors shall exert themselyes to do their best in order that they may win, Epcar S, BELDEN, ~ Chairman Regatta Committee, Curtcaco, IIL, Jan. 31.. . Origin of the Centerboard. Boston, Jan. 27—Editor Forest and Stream: . Refer- ring to a recent article in your columns in regard to the invention of the centerboard, I] may say that some- thing over thirty years ago a friend in this city lent me a book published in England in 1800 or 1801, which gaye the lines and description of a boat built in Boston in 1774, by Captain John Schank, of the British Navy; the boat had a centerboard, or rather, a sliding keel, as it moved up and down in the well ‘bodily. Later on he built in England a vessel with three slid- ing keels, which made a sticcessful voyage to New South Wales. ; I am unable to give the name of the book, as it was burnt in the great fire of 1872, but I have frequently seen allusions to it, and doubtless some of your readers know it. 15h (Bd f YACHT CLUB NOTES. At the annual meeting of the Penataquit Corinthian Y. C. the following officers were elected: Com., J. Adolph Mollenhauer; Rear-Com., Willard L. Candee; Sec’y, Joseph E. Owens; Treas., Richard A. Bachia; Meas., Moss K. P. Fuller; Fleet Captain, J. Campbell Smith; Fleet Surgeon, William A. Hulse, M.D. Regatta Committee: Harry M. Brewster, chairman; George A. Ellis, Jr.; Robert W. Haff, Regis H. Post and Bryce Met- calf. Board of Governors: John R. Suydam, J. Camp- bell Smith, Edward C. Blum, W. A. Tucker, George W. Burchell, Rawson Underhill, Allan Pinkerton and Wil-- liam A. Hulse, M.D. HAR The Knickerbocker Y. €, held its annual meeting at the Hotel Manhattan a short time ago and elected the fol- Icwing officers: Com., James N. Norris; Vice-Com., J. B. Palmer, M.D.; Rear-Com., W. B. Beam; Treas., G. H. Cooper; Sec’y, J. O. Sinkinson; Meas., W. C. Leiber; Fleet Surgeon, G. D. Hamlin, M.D, Board of Directors: F. E, Barnes, G, E. Allen, T. Wilson, C. W, Schlesinger, H. Stephenson, R. Sands and F. H. Stillman. me FE The annual meeting of the Bergen Beach Y. C. was held at the club house at Bergen Beach on February 1, and the following officers were elected: Com., George E. Fitz- maurice; Vice-Com., E. Bohm; Treas., E. A. Chapman; Finan. Sec’y, A. Miller; Sec’y, C. A. Gregory; Meas., Z. Fleet Surgeon, Dr. Emerson. Board of Trustees: John Sutter, Sr.; Z. Allan, H. Breen and A, A. H. Frohne. All communications intended for Forrest ann Stream should always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., New York, and not to any individual connected with the paper. YACHTING NEWS NOTES. The Gteenpott Basin and Construction Company, Gteenport, L. f., Has recently closed corittacts for two steam suction dredges for the United States Govern- ment. They will be 200ft. long over all, 4oft. breadth, 23ft. depth, and will have a capacity of 1,400 tons. They will be driven by compound vertical engines of 1,000 horse-power, and each vessel will have two Scotch boilers. In addition to this Government work, this firm is doing considerable yacht building. Nearing: completion is a cruising yawl for Dr. B. H. Wells, of New York City. She is arft. 2in. over all, 27ft. 6in. waterline, roft. breadth and sft. 6in. draft. On the keel there will be about 7,000 pounds of lead, The boat was designed by Mr. Theodore Brigham. There is also building a 33ft. open launch for Dr. H. W. Greene, of Springfield, Mass., for use on the Connecticut River. She will be equipped with a 5 horse-power Toqtet engine. Two smaller launches to be used for fishing boats are also well under way. Hatiled otit in the yard and lying in the basin are a number of well known yachts. A new railway of 1,600 (ons capacity is being put down and will be ready early in the spring. Vessels drawing 22ft. can then be hauled out. mR ER Messrs. John Twigg & Sons, of San Francisco, are building a large gasoline launch for Mr. Fred Cole, of San Mateo. The yacht will be known as the Idlewild, and will be used on Lake Vahoe. She is Goft. over all, Toft, breadth and 5ft. 6in. deep, and 4ft. 6in. draft. The power will be furnished by a 65 horse-power engine, and she will be lighted by electricity. mR eR Captain Charles W. Foster, of New Haven, Conn., is building a soft. launch which is to cross the Atlantic next summer. The boat, which will be known as Eric the Red, will be equipped with a 50 horse-power Craig gasoline engine. RRe Mr. Davis B. Smith, of Gloucester, Mass., is having Mr. Arthur D. Story, of Essex, Mass., build for him a 65ft. auxiliary cruise schooner. en Mr. Frank Bowne Jones has made the following sales: Leda, owned by Mr. Harry L.: Maxwell, to Mr. Stephen Tl. Mason; Surprise, owned by Mr. Charles R. Smith, to Mr. L. D. Martens, and Volsung, owned by Mr. C. Ab- bott Gardner, to Mr. W. Albert Swasey. mR ER Mr. Vaughan D. Bacon, of Barnstable, Mass., has re- cently completed plans of a cruising yawl for Mr. T. W. Hobron, Commodore of the Hawatian Y. C. The new boat will take the place of Gladys, Mr. Hobron’s present boat, which was also designed by Mr. Bacon, She is 50ft. over all, 35ft. waterline, 12ft. 8in. breadth, and 7ft. draft. She will be built at San Francisco and will be sailed out to Honolulu. Rye Word has been received to the effect that the center- board auxiliary schooner La Barbera, owned by Dr. Everett M. Culver, dragged her anchors and went ashore at Jupiter Inlet, Fla., on Thursday night, January 20. The yacht was on her way to Miami, where the owner and some guests were to join her. The yacht is said to be a total loss. She was built by the Gas Engine and Power Company and Charles L. Seabury Company, Mor- ris Heights, in 1901. She is 68ft. waterline, 75ft. over all, 15ft. 6in. breadth and 3ft. oin. in draft. Canoging. ——-}—— The Special Cruising Class Canoe. Danie. B. Goopsett, a well-known member of the American Canoe Association; has gotten out plans for a new type of racing craft known as the special cruising class canoe. Provisions for this boat were made at the last annual A. C. A. meeting, and the craft to be built from the designs of Mr. Goodsell are the first to be brought forth in the United States. The ertising class has been in use by English sports- men for some time. Twelve of the boats are owned by members of the Royal Canoe Club of London, England, and have provided interesting sport. Linton Hope was one of the first canoeists to become interested in the type and has always been its staunch supporter. The sport of our cousins across the water is watched with eagle eye by devotees in this country. The cruising class appeared to offer so many possibilities that its recognition by the association governing the sport here came as a matter of course. New York Canoe Club members are to be the first to build into the new class. Besides Mr, Goodsell, the de- signer, F. C. Moore and Herbert Turtle will own boats of the new type. Their success is awaited by every canoeist in the land. The positive announcen.ent that scme one is really building under the new regulations is expected to give impetus to a number of others in differ- ent parts of the country. The boats are to be put together by W._F. Stevens, of Bath, Maine, known as the most expert builder of racing canoes in America. They are expected, when completed,. to cost a bit under $125. To the sportsman used to the old style of racing canoe the cruiser offers many interesting innovations. The first great difference noted by the eye of the initiated will be the absence of the sliding seat and a jib and main sail rig, This cuts out the acrobatic features of sport with the old style canoe and brings fun with the new class within the powers of all. The hull is straight sided with rounded bottom and deck. An underbody rudder is used instead of the old style hung to the stern post. The boats can be rowed or paddled, although distinctly built for racing purposes. A 118 FOREST AND STREAM. dad + 7 | tthe. », i963. | LINES ora CRUISING GLASS CANOE AS PIR AG.A. REGULATIONS oy D.B.Goodsell NY C.c. Oct 28, 1902 Werght Zinc, 9+ 65ibe SPECIAL CRUISING CLASS CANOE——LINES AND CONSTRUCTION PLAN. leg-o’-mutton mainsail and small jib are used, the latter being rigged to boom out and act as spinnaker. The new boats are to be 17 feet over all and 42 inches at the greatest beam. The sail plan calls for 135 square feet.of canvas figured according to the English rule. The restrictions of the present racing canoe provided for a boat 16 feet over all, 30 inches beam, carrying 112 square feet of sail. The cruisers are to be painted on the outside,-except the top strake, which will be varnished. Each boat will be fitted with water-tight compartments, making it non- sinkable. The straight features of the sides and the cock- pit arrangement will make it impossible to fill the craft, even though the sail be lying flat in the water. A zinc dagger centerboard of the Linton Hope type, weighing 65 pounds, will be used. A feature of the boat is three feet clear cockpit space aft of the centerboard trunk. She will draw 5 inches. With the board down the draft will be 3 feet. The hull will weigh 200 pounds. The total displacement with crew of one aboard will be near 510 pounds. Hollow spars will be used. Boats building for New York Canoe Club members will be raced at the annual A. C. A. meet which occurs this year at Sugar Island, the new Association property at the Thousand Islands. A, C. A. Membership.. The following gentlemen have been elected members -of the A. C. A.: R. D. Mansfield, West Medford, Mass. ; Lewis K. Conant, Medfield, Mass.; Geo. M. Henderson, Newton, Mass.; W. H. W. Bicknell, Winchester, Mass. ; Wm. J. Hyde, Arlington, Mass.; Chester H. Morse, Taunton, Mass.; Jackson Palmer, Lowell, Mass.; Harrie A. Wheeler, 28 Oliver street, Boston, Mass.; Geo. S. Hudson, Winchester, Mass.; Guy B. Garland, 76 Porter street, Somerville, Mass.; Wm. H. Bolewin, Woburn, Mass.; Raleigh B. Adams, 2 Gleason street, Dorchester, Mass.; Frank T. Viles, 5 Warren avenue, Hyde Park, Mass.; J. B. Booth, Manchester, Mass.; Charles E. Guild, Milford, Mass.; Wm. S. Harding, care S. S. Pierce Co., Goston, Mass.; C. G. Johnson, Winchester, Mass.; Her- man A. Harding, Chatham, Mass.; F. P. Lewis, Woburn, Mass. Rifle Bange and Gallery. aa Cincinnati Rifle Association. Cincinnati, O.—At the regular meeting of the Cincinnati Rifle Association on Feb. 1 the following scores were made. Conditions 200yds., offhand, Standard target. Light very poor: Gindelet fe... ses ROROSERHeCoRMlt SLMISCM cree nate ateterer noe 77 77 76 738 72 Hasenzabl 3...7.- 87. 85:80 82°80, Hloter seen. seule 77 71 71 69 69 Odell ea etnasaeser QTSRSI SZ Sec Ole ME Lith Sm os ster eretetes 77 75 74 71 69 Niestlem) fee rn. ee 84.84 82.79 75 Jonscher ......... 73 72 72 69 68 Roberts epee ees 84 82 82 8180 Freitag ........... 73 67 65 61 61 jeeioore oh ARs 83 82 82 81 80 R Uckotter ...... 70 65 64 61 55 JnWoisechiy FeAnagae PTT. (aot itdle IDSA poets best Wis eRe Oe Tromnstine’; ites. 78 73 69 69 68 Honor target: Gindele 28, Hasenzahl 25, Odel 26, Nestler 24, Roberts 25, Payne 20, Hoffman 22, Trounstine 18, Lux 24, Hofer 20, Bruns 21, Jonscher 18, Freitag 22. ° [ Sail Plan AC.A. REGULATIONS DB Goodsell GRUISING GLASS CANOE CN | SPECIAL CRUISING CLASS CANOE—SAIL PLAN, Grayshaoting. ———o-- Fixtures. If you want your shoot to be announced here send a notice like the following: eco Feb. 7.—Paterson, N. J.—Jackson Park Gun Club’s live-bird shoot; open to all. G. A. Hopper, Sec’y. Feb: 10-14.—Detroit, Mich.—Open tournament under the auspices of the Tri-State Automobile and Sporting Goods_ Association. Targets and live birds. John Parker, manager; S. G. Lewis, Secretary- Treasurer. Feb. 12.—Paterson, N. J.—Jackson Park Gun Club’s live-bird shoot; open to all. G, A. Hopper, Sec’y. Feb. 12.—Rutherford, N. J.—All-day target shoot of the Boiling ~ Springs Gun Club on Lincoln’s Birthday. C. B. Axford, Sec’y. Feb. 18.—Allentown, Pa.—Two days’ target tournament at Duck Farm Hotel. Alfred Griesemer, Prop. Feb. 20.—South Bethlehem, Pa.—Live-bird shoot of the Lehigh Rod and Gun Club, of The Bethlehems. D. S. Daudt, Manager. Feb. 20-21.—New Orleans, La.—First tournament of the Missis- sippi Valley Trapshooters’ and Game Protective Association; Car- nival Week, under auspices of the City Park Gun Club; $500 added. Percy S. Benedict, Sec’y. 2 Feb. 23.—Paterson, N. J.—Washington’s Birthday shoot of the Jackson Park Gun Club; first of three-man team series of con- tests, 45 birds per team. Garry A. Hopper, Sec’y. Feb. 23.—Ossining, N. Y.—Ossining Gun Club’s Washington’s Birthday shoot. C. G. Blandford, Capt. j ees 53.—Lynn, Mass.—Holiday shoot of the Birch Brook Gun ub. April 1-3.—Grand Island, Neb.—Consolidated tournament of the Buftalo Bill Gun Club, of North Platte, and the Grand Island Gun Club; two days targets, one day live birds. Managers, Geo. L. Carter, North Platte, and Gus Sievers, Grand Island. April 7-10.—St. Joseph, Mo.—Tournament of the Missouri State Game and Fish Protective Association. F. B. Cunningham, Sec- retary-Manager. pat April 14-17.—Kansas City, Mo,—The Interstate Association’s fourth Grand American Handicap at targets, at Blue River Shoot- ing Park. One thousand dollars added to the purses. Elmer E. Shaner, Secretary-Manager, 111 Fourth avenue, Pittsburg, Pa. _ April 20.—Springfield, Mass.—Spring tournament of the Spring- field Gun Club. C. L. Kites, Sec’y. April 28-May 1.—Lincoln, Neb.—Nebraska State Sportsmen’s As- sociation’s twenty-seventh annual tournament, under the auspices of the Lincoln Gun Club. F. E. Mockett, Sec’y. May 6-7.—Lafayette, Ind.—Lafayette Gun Club’s tournament. May 9-10.—Chicago, Ill.—Spring tournament of the Grand Cres- cent Gun Club. ' A. ; May 12-15.—Interstate Park, L. I.—The Interstate Association’s fifth Grand American Handicap at targets; $1,000 added to the purses. Elmer E. Shaner, Secretary-Manager, 111 Fourth avenue, Pittsburg, Pa. . ’ " ; ‘ May 19-22.—Wissinoming, Philadelphia.—Thirteenth annual tour- nament of the Pennsylvania State Sportsmen’s Association, under auspices of the Florists’ Gun Club of Philadelphia. V. V. Dorp, Sec’y. May 21-22.—Kenton, O.—Shoot of the Kenton Gun Club. A. G. Merriman, Sec’y-Treas. ; ; May 27-29—Fort Wayne, Ind.—Three-day live-bird and_ target - tournament of the Corner Rod and Gun Club. John V. Linker, Sec’y. May 97-29.—Williamsport, Pa.—The Interstate Association’s tour- nament, under the auspices of the West Branch Rod and Gun Club. H. A. Dimick, Sec’y. 5 May 29-30.—Union City, Ind.—Spring tournament of the Parent Grove Gun Club. May 30.—Detroit, Day third annual tournament; all Mich.—Winchester Gun Club’s Decoration day. Rose system and average prizes. Sliding handicap, 16, 18 and 20yds., D. A. Hitchcock, Sec’y-Treas. 3 : June —.—Schenectady, N. Y.—New York State shoot, under auspices of the Schenectady Gun Club. prt June 3-4.—Boston, Mass.—The Interstate Association’s _ tour- nament, under the auspices of the Boston Shooting Association. O. R. Dickey, Sec’y. ‘ June 3-5.—Parkersburg, W. Va—Sixth annual tournament of the West Virginia Sportsmen’s Association, under auspices of Ohio Valley Shooting Association. — ; June 4-5.—Greenville, O.—Spring tournament of the Greenville Gun Club. ; : June 9-11.—Sioux City, Ia—Ninth annual amateur tournament of the Soo Gun Club. B. F. Duncan, Sec’y. DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. The Lehigh Rod and Gun Club, of The Bethlehems, of which Mr. D. S. Daudt is the manager, will hold a 15-bird race, handi- cap, at their grounds at Rittersville Park, on Feb. 20, “Twelve entries or under, three moneys; over twelve entries, four moneys. Shoot will start at 1 P. M. sharp; $10 entrance, birds included. Tom Morfey, of Dover, N. J., and D. 5. Daudt, of South Beth- Jehem, will shoot a match of 100 birds per man in the morning, ~ starting at 9:30 A. M, sharp, All are invited,” Fes. 7, 1903.) FOREST*AND STREAM, 119 OE EEE Mr. Tom Donley, St. Thomas, Ont., annotinces that he will hold a big pigeon shoot about April 1. A summary of his programme is as follows: One hundred live birds, $100 entrance, 31,000 in gold and sterling silver trophy to the winner; balance of money divided on Interstate Association plan; handicap rise, 28 to 32yds.; fiity entries or no race, Entrance must be accompanied by $10 deposit, which is forfeited except in case of illness or the necessary number do not enter. Mr. Donly has some interesting literature on the subject, which he will send to applicants. & The Carteret Gun Club, through its secretary, Mr. Walter H. Mead, has been actiye in distributing literature, two booklets, which presents the matter of trapshooting from the trapshooters’ viewpoint. One booklet is entitled “The Rights of Sportsmen In- volved in the Shooting of Pigeons from Traps.” The other is entitled “Voters in New Jersey Who Petition the Legislature in Favor of Pigeon Shooting.” It contains thirty pages of names, and at the conclusion is the following: ‘“The names of two thon- sand additional petitioners will follow the foregoing list,” A copy of each booklet was sent by the Carteret Club to each member of the Legislature. ~ Elsewhere in our trap columns Mr. Wm. Dutcher, of Paterson, presents information concerning an interesting series of team shoots at live birds to be given by the Jackson Gun Club, the first of which will take place on Feb. 23. Prizes, $100, $50 and $25, respectively first, second and third. Three men to a team, 15 birds to a man. The club will also hold live-bird shoots on Feb. 7 and 12. a The managers, Messrs. Geo. L. Carter, of North Platte, Neb., and Gus Sievers, of Grand Island, Neb., announce a consolidated tournament of the Buffalo Bill and Grand Island Clubs, at Grand Island, April 1, 2 and 3, two days at targets, one at live birds. At this shoot a team of ten men from the State and ten from Omaha, South Omaha and Council Blufis will shoot a match, 50 targets per man. » Messrs. L. West and L. C. Wright, both of Dover, N. J., shot a match at 50 live birds, for $50 a side, on Bunn’s grounds, Singac, N. J., on Jan. 29. The scores were: West 42, Wright 36. Mr. West is only about seventeen years old. He shot a few matches previously, and is a consistently good performer for one so young in years. ® There was an excellent contest at Philadelphia on Jan. 29, be- tween Mr. Howard Ridge, of the Keystone Shooting League, and Mr. F. Miller, of the Point Breeze Gun Club. The conditions of the match were 100 live birds, $100 a side, loser to pay for birds, 30yds. rise, American Association rules. The scores were: Ridge 93, Miller 91. John S. Wright, manager of the Brooklyn Gun Club announces a shoot for Feb. 12, commencing at 1:30 sharp. The programme has five events, two of which are at 10 targets, 50 cents; one at 15 targets, 75 cents, and two prize shoots at 25 targets each, $1 entrance. All ties are to be shot off at half the original allowance. R Mr. Elmer E. Shaner, secretary-manager of the Interstate Asso- ciation, arrived in New York on Monday of this week to attend the Interstate Association meeting fixed to be held on Feb. 4, and to arrange some of the preliminaries for the G. A. H. at targets to be held at Interstate Park. R Mr. I. E. Mockett, secretary of the Nebraska State Sportsmen’s _ Association, writes us that the State shoot of that_ organization will be held at Lincoln, 6n April 28, 29 and 30, and May 1, * Mr. Paul R. Litzke, under date of Jan. 29, writes us that the live-bird shoot fixed to take place on Ireb. 18, has been postponed to some day in April not yet definitely fixed upon. * Mr. John Burnham won the championship of Dallas and Guthrie counties at the C. E. Black tournament, held at Adel, Ia, on Jan. 27, with a straight score of 25 targets. BERNARD WATERS. Plans of the S. R. and G. Club. Scranton, Pa., Jan. 30.—Members of the Scranton Rod and Gun Club met in Mr. C. H. Von Storch’s office Jast evening and out- lined a series of shoots, prizes, etc., which goes to show that trap- shooting is not a forgotten sport in this city. The club comprises De members, and will begin on its new schedule of shoots Apri Apropos of developing the shooters, various inducements are offered to the members. To the members who break 80 per cent. of 100 consecutive clay targets at any regular shoot will be given his targets at half price during the season ending Oct. 3, 1903. Further, the club offers its members $50 in cash prizes for meritorious shooting. The prizes will be distributed as follows: One prize each of $10, $8, $6, $4; two of $5, and twelve of $1. These matches will be shot during the season on the following conditions: Ten targets each, entrance 10 cents, targets extra. Intentions must be declared and entrance paid before shooting; re-entries unlimited. The ten highest scores of the season will ccunt for prizes, Ties will be decided at 25 targets per each con- testant. Secretary J. D. Mason was instructed to correspond with neigh- boring clubs, with the view of arranging for some club shoots during the season. A committee was also appointed to arrange conditions for the Peters Cartridge Co. trophy match. The members are enthusias- tic over the prospects for this year. J. D. Mason, Sec’y-Treas. 7 Poughkeepsie Gun Club. PouGuKeersi£, Jan. 381.—To-day’s shoot was not productive of high scores. Notwithstanding that the scores are low, the boys were nearly all shooting in good form. This seems like a rather inconsistent statement, doesn’t it? Nevertheless, it is a fact: This is how it goes. Eight men met at the club house to have a little practice shoot. Not a few of these eight men felt as if they could “smash ’em all,” but oh, how disappointed were they. They began shooting, they were careful, they were using the best of judgment, they thought; but still the bluerocks—yes, rocks—would not break. Some ot the targets were hit so hard that they were knocked several feet out of their regular course, but stili they would not break. Upon investigation it was found that the targets were frozen so hard that it was impossible to break them after getting any distance from the trap. The scores: Eyents: 2S) oe oe Targets: 25 26 25 25 Shot at, Broke. ALORS, Sh souec com inooase geben to 1g 20 20 19 100 17 Traver ...-.. a cactraobete bake 14 16 18 16 100 65 ANGERS GTI ee eetive see tees we Pcsinneetaan V na bate 9 15 19 17 100 60 WICKED ee cssatoneteskbetrs esse Ao tPA Ge aby uy 100 49 Glayimatkin oes seeeewerus rapeveretectes as, leas 15 47 AWA RGs ARS ANE Pe ere Coe G uae cae id Searls siiyg 33 b5) 13 51 TSB OLS, Wintes foes ede eee ears 12 20: 18 75 50 SURSU Ce aerate eine Raat two = 3¢) GB GR 7d 35 SNANIWEH. Postponement, WNewrort, Ark., Jan. 29.—Kindly state in the next issue of Forest AND SrrReEAM that the live-bird shoot for the Peters Car- tridge Co. trophy, announced to occur at Little Rock, Feb. 18, has been postponed until some time in April, date to be set later. The reason for this is that we deem it advisable not to attempt to hold a liye-bird shoot in the Capital City while the Legislature is im session, as we learn that there is some hostility against it on the part of some of the members. Paut R. LitzKe._ Recently at Atlantic City, N. J., a gun club was formed with an influential membership, some of whom are County Clerk Lewis P. Scott, Louis Kuehnle, City Solicitor Harry Wootton, Robert T, Dunlop, James B. Reilly and City Clerk Irelan. The club hou;e is located at Linwood, on the mainland. She? et IN NEW JERSEY. Jackson Park Gun Club.’ Paterson, N. J., Jan. 31.—The board of directors of the Jackson Park Gun Club, of Paterson, N . have decided to run off a series of team shoots to be held on their grounds at’ Jackson Park, near Paterson, N. J.. The first of the series will take place on Washington’s Birthday, Feb. 23. Each team is to consist of three men from any regularly organized and incorporated gun club of the United States. The members must be certifed as regular members for at least three months previous to Feb. 1. The Jackson Park Club will guarantee $175; the first prize to the first team, $100; second team, $60; third team, $25. Hach man of the teams to shoot at 15 birds, or 45 birds to a team. ‘Ties, if any, to be shot off to decide the three places. , The traps will be ready at 10 A. M. or earlier, if necessary. There will be open sweeps. The birds will be the best that money can buy. Retrieving will be done with dogs. Everything for the comfort of the shooters and gtiests will be well looked after. Other information will be furnished by Capt. Charles F. Lenone, or Secretary Garry A. Hopper, 30 Main street, Paterson, N. J. The Jackson Club also will hold shoots on Feb, 7 and 12, open to all; live birds. Traps ready at 12 o'clock, Refreshments on ground. Plenty of shells on hand Herewith are scores of match and sweeps shot on Jan. 29, and also scores of sweeps shot on Jan. 51 at Bunn’s grounds, Singac, N. J. There should have been another match to-day, but Wright, of Dover, failed to show up. VEST nalaleiacormesslatets 102120021.12222012210222022210222112222220122122222 49 Wirisht” s.. ese es 20210021220222112222002012220112010221022*02102222—36 Nine-bird sweep: Capt Money.......... 201222222—8 Fleishman ....-.--... 022202112—7 Wiorean Wy. vey ess lelvte 0201212127 G A Hopper......... 002122220—6 Wheeden 2 Sane An paagoG 222202202 —7, Powers ......0sieseee 001212001—5 Avila aul kein) 7B Seer 3: pappaaene—9 Glover .s..ssesseeeses 202122222—8 Blliott’ /).),...2...-.- 2221021229 Van Horn........-...- 22002: At Bunn's shooting grounds, Singac, N. J., Jan. 31, for a match, Wright, of Doyer, failed to appear. 7-bird sweeps were shot as follows: Johnson, 30 Morgan, 28 Barry, 28 Klotze, 28 Roberts, 26 2202221—6 2111122—7 122100*—4 1000142—3 2202111—6 2200212—5 2121221—7 01 2112—b5 1120%2—4 0222111—4 - Rickey, 25 0202022—4 10110*1—4 MUTOXtIp SOM, EMIS spacey etme se \sis le elec 2201121—6 0112202—5 ABH SwAE aS Oe er ee eB es eh Sos tretatatg P23 0212221—6 01*1002—3 Wu. DutTcHER, North Side Gan Club, Herewith you will find scores of a newly organized gun club known as the North Side Rod and Gun Club, of Paterson, N. J. The members are all hard-working men, employed in the different factories around the city, and are banded together for mutual pléasure, which they gain through these Saturday afternoon holli- day and regular holiday shoots. They journey to these grounds at Haledon, N. J., and have their medal shoot, concerning which they are yery enthusiastic. ‘there are thirty-three members at present. They have a shooting house, three traps, and have had a handsome group picture taken, which I will try to send later. 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(oe oen aerate ee ered baveaey 26 ft 2001001002— 4 TERUG SRE Googe d Ubigu be urs en eearersreen 28 "/ 211111111—10 TD) MDGS ee pseu bers Sr iis sres aPeresseer 7 1102112222— 9 (Ch WAN GEDA heen or SUL PLEO ie tiring 28 644 1121111111—10 Ie Wiresal AO eA aeoot BOO EEEE awk: 28 te 1112021121— 9 BSS hanna DO DEDDOOCE DOU ane 26 5 0021122102— 7 *(Guest. North River Gun Club. Edgewater, N. J., Jan. 31.—Ilollowing are the scores made at the shoot of the North River Gun Club to-day: Events Dg POM oe ua gore SOW Aine aS Targets 10 10 10 15 15 10 10 10 Dae Most, GAARA SAS GO SSG 440 0 OAL orn 5 TPES 9S) Gy °9) Keller, Jr 8 6° 6 '4 9 4&4 4 7 Vosselman BE PP Ae TC ty mre ty PR TEEITER irctels aitieaetctebolbils OE TT 6 Pie hey ae: Newkirk so sy UR DS Bt ae ne ee (OGG nied (oh pe Ae hee ate aa el ICR Cea St Venda ia! 94 “9210 Gillerlain A ss UT eh gia eit EM Morrison 4 i et 1, hp 2ce 89 NVAS Te te eeisliels ore ones Heke A {oat Ve (oe Jf US CHE CT weepetinape clase a tabe ists tecks wrtach devs, Clabes esiees a dk ee CCL ORT 6G Handicap event for cup kindly donated by Mr. C. Bittner, 25 targets: ShckiOemeet sees veretr ae re tas aces 1011101111011101101001110—18+- 8—25 ae Wikiitkcupeo wekeramccee caesar ae 0110010001000000000011000— 6--L0O—16 Glover WUlaaLest + deren ees ae y+ 100991170191.0111101101111—20-+ 0—20 IRGGtheTr se takhbiw heroes oe cade: 0010110111011110101111110—17-- 5—22 aalilce, [Rr eee hn She nea ee nC PEE or ee 10111101910001011.00001101—14- _§—22 WROS GLI aTy Meera sictalslalals\elals!

Sea eer ee mraey eek weenne en 7it, IO in Breadth— TOSSHLSROENED PUG rts tacos Megat ter ieee arr Toit | tee Whee I ane ne Ae ee E smenctie Se oft. 6 in Drait— & XSEGEITI GH ces Fey Viee Beier care tear geenace. sit. 6 in | Freeboard— BOE WA Os quate tetneten eens? Ste tera 3it. S8t4in. The boat is substantially put together, being framed with white oak and planked with cedar. ‘he ballast is all outside of the keel. The cockpit is 8ft. long and is watertight. Two deck beams extend across the after end of the cabin house, and give the boat extra transverse strength. There is 6ft. headroom under the cabin house, which is 14ft. long. The companionway leads to a steerage, which is entirely shut off from the main cabin; on either side are berths 6ft. long. The main cabin is Serre eRe ee Ce an, 7 a | / nearly 8ft. long and is fitted with the usual transois, lockers and sideboards, Forward on the starboard side is the toilet room with patent closet and folding lavatory, and opposite on the port side is the galley. In the forecastle there is ample room for a man should the owner wish to carry one. Model Yachting in California. (CALIFORNIA, with its beautiful climate, bays, lakes and rivers, affords the boat loving population great sport. San Francisco Bay and the artificial lakes of San Fran- cisco are a central attraction for many yacht clubs. One unique club, called the San Francisco Model Y. C., gives great pleasure not only to its members but to hun- dreds of interested spectators. This club has been in ex- istence only six months, but in this short time the city has donated $22,000 for the construction of a new lake for the use of this club. On Sundays and holidays the banks of Stow Lake, a lake in Golden Gate Park, are crowded with people eager to see the racing of the models. The club has 148 members, 50 of whom have models; some of the models are very valuable, considering the work put upon them; they value.from $10 up to $350. The yachts are in two classes; yachts with a 28in. to- a 38in. waterline are in the small class, while yachts from a 38in. to a 54in. waterline are in the large class. Among the boats of the large class are the Imp, Flirt, Austril, Kingfisher, Annie, Hobo, etc. The Imp, owned and built by Commodore London, is very fast, having taken many races and having done great credit to its owner. The Flirt and Hobo, designed, built and owned by the Collier Bros., are excellent pieces of work- manship, especially the Flirt. Her dimensions are 62in. over all, 18in. beam, 4oin. waterline, 2!%in. draft. She is built of one-sixteenth inch planks of sugar pine, with a double skin. Over 2,000 brass screws were used in build- ing her; she weighs only 9 pounds and carries a 14 pound bulb on an aluminum fin; there are 3,000 square inches in her mainsail and jib. She is the model of the Chal- lenger, designed by Mr. B. B. Crowninshield, a very fast boat belonging to the California Y. C. The Annie, Hobo and Lark are built on the scow plan, and also prove to be very fast. Rockners Annie, a beautiful little craft, carried.off the blue pennant, while the Hobo came in second. Rudders are not used. The sails are made so that they balance each other, in the respect that the jib keeps the mainsail from bringing the boat into the ‘wind, conse- quently the boats attain high speed. _ In racing, the yachts’ are started 15 seconds apart; they tack up a narrow neck of the lake, a man on each side turns the boat with a pole as she nears the land and starts her on the next tack. - Most of the yachts are sloop rig, but some of them certy a club topsail and a flying jib. The lake is very rocky along the banks, and it is hard work towing the boats back with poles. Commander Gerung has, however, solved the problem by simply at- taching a spinnaker and turns his boat loose, and she simply scoots. CHESTER CHAPMAN. San Feanc'sco, Cal , March 4. , YACHT CLUB NOTES. ~ The Newark Y. C. held its annual meeting on Thurs- day evening, March’s, and the following officers were elected: Com., Jean R.. Tack; Vice-Com., Thomas J. Roche; Sec., William Berger; Fin. Sec., Edward Hin- pedane: Treas., John F. Sherman. 3 Hen eR At the annual meeting of the New Haven Y. C., the following: officers were elected: Com., Edward F. Cole; Vice-Com., Ennis N. Searles; Rear Com., James B. Smith; Sec. and Treas., Frank W. Guion; Meas., Clifford W. Rawson; Trustees, Joseph D. Sargent and Charles S. ‘Hamilton; Regatta Committee, Henry F. Parmelee, Phelps Montgomery and Hayes Q. Trow- bridge. Ree The following officers were elected at a recent meet- ing of the Passaic River Y. C: Com., George L. Staats; Vice-Com., A. W. Krinich; Fleet Captain, -Charles E. Hall; Sec., E. Keppler; Fin. Sec., W. K. ‘Wilkins; Treas., F. Weslow; Trustees, T. Chamberlain, W. H. Byrne, C. C. Capern and Jacob Ruff. RR eR On April 15 the Yale-Corinthian Y. C. will go for- mally into commission. The following Saturday the first series of races will begin. The Graduate Cup series will be held April 18 and 25, May 2 and 9, and the Officers’ Cup series on May 23 and 30, June 6 and 13. Every Wednesday there will be_a special race. All races start at 3 P» M., except on Decoration Day, when the start will be made at 10 A. M. The fleet will cruise to the Thimble Islands on May 16. Ree - At a meeting of the Harvard Y. C. the following were elected officers: Com, L. Davis; Vice-Com., F. G. Macomber, Jr.; Rear’ Com., R. H. Gardiner, Jr.; Sec. and Treas., R. Winsor, Jr. : . en R / Com. R. S. Bridgman, of the San Francisco Y. C., has appointed G. T. S., White, Dr. T. L. Hill and John J. Marshall, Jr., delegates to the Pacific Interclub Yacht Association for the coming year. W. L. Spen- icer, George E, Smith-and G. B. Lavensaler have been appointed members of the Regatta. Committee. Two steam-yachts were launched at Morris Heights last week. On Wednesday, March 11, Corinthia, the boat built for Mr. J. Adolph Mollenhauer, was put overboard. Corinthia is goft. over all, 77ft. waterline, 16ft. breadth and 4ft. gin. draft. She is schooner rigged, and has twin screws. Mr. S. H. Vandergriit’s new steamer Cherokee, was launched on Saturday, March 14. Cherokee is somewhat larger than Corin- thia, being 115ft. over all, g5ft. waterline, 15ft, breadth and sft. 5in. draft. [Marci 2t, 1963. CRUISING YAWL—CONSTRUCTION PLAN DESIGNED BY THEODORE W. BRIGHAM FOR B. H. WELLS, 1903. “Maxon 2t, toon Untess the unexpected happens, Shatnrock III., Sir Thomas Lipton’s new challenger for the America’s Cup, will be launched from the yard of Denny Broth- ers, Dumbarton, Scotland, on Tuesday, March 17. This date was selected, owing to the fact that it-is St. Pat- rick’s Day. The stories that have been sent to this side. ever since the boat’s keel was cast have been wild and conflicting, and while there is no question that the new boat will be more extreme in every way than the previous boats, little is really known about her design.’ She is more lightly built than the second Shamrock, and she is plated with nickel steel instead of bronze, the material used in the old boat. The sails and steel spars are all ready, and the boat can be rigged soon after she is launched. In all proba- bility she will have had a trial under sail before the month is over. ' Constitution was launched from the yard of the Thames Towboat Company, at New london, on March 2, and was towed to Bristol the day following. On her arrival there the work of overhauling her was begun. The hull is in splendid condition, and she will have a new suit of sails that were made by the Herreshoffs. Captain Urias Rhodes is in charge, and a few of the men who will serve under him are now at work on the boat. ~ BM | x ro i A XI a) ai Yi | Columbia is at Hawkins’ yard, City Island, and Cap- tain Leon Miller and some of the crew will begin the work of fitting her out on March 23. She will be put overboard early in April and will then be taken to Bristol, where some minor work will be done and her new sails bent. Mr. E. D. Morgan will again be in charge of the boat. x] L The work of plating the new boat being built by the Herreshoffs for the defense of the America’s Cup, \ is practically completed, and the interior bracing is ; now being put in place. The aluminum deck plating is being laid, and in a few days this work will be fin-- ished. ‘The steel spars are about ready, and there will be no delay in so far as spars and rigging are con- cerned. The mast can be stepped and the boat rigged as soon as she is put overboard. No date has been set for the launching, but it is thought that the work will be all done by the middle of April at the latest, and that the boat will be launched about that time. As yet no name has been decided upon, although Republic, Defiance and Hope have been considered. The new boat will be more of a scow than either Columbia or Constitution, and will sail on an inclined waterline at least 1oft. longer than did Constitution. Her ends are much longer and the draft slightly less than Constitution’s. The sail area will be in the vicin- ity of 15,000 sq. ft. With Captain Charlie Barr in charge, there is hardly a doubt that she will demon- strate her superiority on all points of sailing over the two older boats. [Py Sz i rc | Challenge for the Manhasset Bay Cup. THE Indian Harbor Y. C. challenged on March to for the Manhasset Bay Challenge Cup on behalf of Mr. Henry L. Maxwell. Mr. Maxwell has just bought back the 30-footer, Virginia II., ex-Oiseau, and this boat will be named by the club as the challenger. The races will probably be sailed between June 29 and July 3, and will be the best two out of three matches. The courses will be to windward and return and over an equilateral triangle, sailed on alternate days. This is the first challenge that the Manhasset Bay Y. C. has received for the cup. | pas { | rz ! FRANK BowNeE JONEs, Chairman Regatta Committee, I, H. Y. C. YACHTING NEWS NOTES. For advertising relating to this department see pages ii and iii. Dd ———] CRUISING YAWL——DESIGNED BY THEODORE W. BRIGHAM FOR B. H. WELLS, 1903. Tarantula, the turbine yacht that was built for the late Col. Henry McCalmont, has been sold to Mr. f William K. Vanderbilt through the agency of Messrs. Tams, Lemoine & Crane. Tarantula was désigned by Messrs. Cox & King, and built by Messrs. Yarrow & Co., in 1902. She is 152{t. 6in. long, 15ft. qin. é breadth and Sift. 4in. depth. \ Ree At the Crosby shops, Osterville, Mass., there is building a cruising yawl from designs by Mr. H. Manly Crosby. The boat is for Mr. J. D. McKee, and will be known as Cruiser III. She is 60ft. over all, 4oft. waterline, 14ft. 6in. breadth and sft. 6in. draft. ReR i - Mr. F. M. Smith has sold his steam yacht Hanoli to h Mr. John N. Robins. The yacht’s name will be changed to Seminole. 1 RRR Sir Thomas Lipton has ordered from the Whitestone Hollow Spar-and Boat Co. a 35ft. launch. The boat will be fitted with a 30 horse-power kerosene motor and will have a speed of sixteen miles. This firm is also making spars for the club topsail to be used on Sir Thomas Lipton’s new cup challenger Shamrock III, me RR Mr. Clinton H. Crane, of the firm of Messrs. Tams, Lemoine & Crane, is having a 21ft. raceabout built from his own designs at Wood’s yard, City Island. Sh 2 eR eR | : Psy Mr. F, C. Haven’s launch that is being built by the x a Electric Launch Co., Bayonne, N. J., will be named La Mascotte. Bee Mr. Isaac Stern has sold Virginia II., through the agency of Messrs. Gardner & Cox, to. Mr. Henry L. Maxwell. RRR _ The Lozier Motor Co., Plattsburg, N. Y., is build- ing for Mr. J. N. Johnston a 25ft. launch for use in 238 ” Virginia waters. She will be fitted with a 5 horse- power engine. This firm is also building a goft. launch for Mr. A, G. Paine, Jr, ene Mr. Malcom MacNaught, who has been in the em- ploy of the Herreshoff Mig. Co. for ten years past, has gone into business for himself and has started a boat building plant at Bristol, R. I. Mr. MacNaught is now building eight one-design boats from designs by Messrs. Burgess & Packard, a knockabout for Dr. Edward C. Briggs, of Boston, and a number of gasolene launches. mane eE At the Newport shipyard there are building three 15-footers from designs by Mr. William H. Hand, Jr. The boats will be 25ft. over all, r5ft. waterline, 6ft. vin. breadth and 3ft. gin. draft. There will be 850 pounds of lead outside, and they will carry 316 sq. ft. of sail. Canoeing. ——@—— Prizes for Canoeists. In order to encourage canoeists and small boat sailors, who do their knocking about on inland waters, to keep a record of their trips and experiences, the publishers of Forest AND STREAM offer cash prizes for the best ac- counts of cruises taken during the season of 1903. As few restrictions as possible will be imposed, and those given are made only with the view of securing some uni- formity among the competitors’ stories, so that the judges will be able to make a fair award. The prizes will be as follows: First, $50.00. Second, $25.00. Third, $15.00. Fourth and Fifth, $10.00 each. Sixth to Eighth, $5.00 each. I. The cruise must be actually taken between May 1 and November I, 1903. Il. The cruise must be made on the (fresh water) in- land streams and lakes of the United States or Canada. III. The canoe or boat in which the cruise is made must not. be more than 18ft. long over all. IV. An accurate log of the trip must be kept and all incidents and information that would be of value to other canoeists covering the same route should be carefully recorded. : ‘ V.A description of the boat in which the cruise is made should preface the story, and a list of outfit and supplies. VI. Photographs of the boat and of the country passed - through, not smaller than 4x5, should, if possible, accom- pany each story, and they will be considered in making the awards. VII. Stories should contain not less than five thousand words, written on one side of the paper only. VIII. An outline chart of the trip drawn on white paper in black ink (no coloring pigment to be used) should also be sent in. IX. Competitors should avoid the use of slang or in- correct nautical expressions in their stories, as it will count against them in awarding the’ prizes. Each manuscript to which a prize is awarded shall be- come the property of the Forest and Stream Publishing Company. All manuscript should reach the office of the Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 346 Broad- way, New York, N. Y., on or before December 1, 1903. Of Interest to A. C. A. Members. Editor Forest and Stream: We are very anxious to get some good photographs of canoeing scenes, of last year’s general meet, or of the division meets, for publication in the 1903 year book, If you will kindly ask, through your paper, that any member having good views will kindly send same to me | will be greatly obliged. I would also like to have any member who has no- ticed errors in 1902 book in their names, number, ad- dress, canoe, or club, to notify me direct, and I will see that it is corrected this year. H. Lansinc QUICK, Acting Secretary-Treasurer. Yonkers, N. Y , March 14 Rifle Range and Gallery. —— Indoor Championships. New York, March 16.—Inclosed herewith are the scores made in the indoor championship matches of the U. S. R A. The matches were conducted in New York, Chicago, Boston and Springfield: Revolver: W H Luckett, New York.......+. . 44 49 45 41 46 42 42 42 41 45437 A Dietz, Jr., New York.. .. 41 45 44 38 45 40 44 46 47 44434 A Smith, Springfield.... . 45 44 45 36 46 41 42 36 48 44427 R H Sayre, New York........ .. 40 40 48 45 37 39 42 43 42 40—416 A P Proctor, New York..........+ 88 41 46 39 43 44 43 42 40 40—415 T Humphrey, Boston........... . 36 41 34 44 38 47 45 40 44 45414 E Petty, New York.........+ .. 47 42 35 87 39 40 44 45 39 40—408 A L A Himmelwright, New York. 46 38 41 35 33 89 36 41 89 35-383 R S Hale, Boston........-.- aes 33 36 33 w Pistol: T Anderton, Boston...... panes .. 47 45 47 50 44 48 47 46 47 44460 A Dietz, New York.......: sesree 43 48 47 46 49 45 42 47 47 43—456 H Sayre, New York...:..-.+++++ 43 49 45 45 42 45 46 48 43 40—446 ‘A TL. A Himmelwright, New York. 45 44 42 45 46 43 42 47 42 42—438 - T Humphrey, Boston......-..+.. 43 47 44 44 89 48 41 39 47 39—431 i E Patridge, Boston..ccecsssseree BS 46 45 46 43 46 42 41 48 42—431 W A Smith, Springfield.. 42 45 44 43-420 E L Harpham, Chicago. 44 39 43 43428 RS Hale, Boston... 88 44 88 41—417 WATMOLY, -Bostotiines vest onan ees 43 42 44 44414 MMELWRIGHT, Grapshooting. ———©—_—_- Fixtures, If you want yout shoot to be announced here send a notice like the following: March 19.—Carlstadt, N. J._John S. Wright's all-day shoot. March 16-21.—Houston, Tex., Gun Club’s all week shoot; $500 added money. 5S. J. Smith, Sec’y, March 28-26.—Brenham, Texas.—Twenty-sixth annual State shoot, under auspices of the Texas Sportsmen’s Association. April 1-3.—Grand Island, Neb.—Consolidated tournament of the Buffalo Bill Gun Club, of North Platte, and the Grand Island Gun Club; two days targets, one day live birds. Managers, Geo. L. Carter, North Platte, and Gus Sievers, Grand Island. ape 2-8.—Des Moines, lai—Hopkins-Sears Company’s tourna- ment. April 7-10.—St. Joseph, Mo.—Tournament of the Missouri State Game and Fish Protective Association. F. B. Cunningham, Sec- retary-Manager. _ *April 8.—Allegheny, Pa.—North Side Gun Club. L. B. Flem- ing, Sec’y. j Aug: 1215.—Toronto, Can.—Annual tournament of the Dominion Trapshooting and Game Protective Association. A. W. Throop, Sec-y-Treas. April _1417—Kansas City, Mo.—The Interstate Association's fourth Grand American Handicap at targets, at Blue River Shoot- ing Park. One thousand dollars added to the purses. Elmer E. Shaner, Secretary-Manager, 111 Fourth avenue, ittsburg, Pa. April 18.—Glen Rock, Pa.—Open shoot for live-bird champion- ship of York county, Pa., and all-day shoot of Glen Rock Gun Club. Allen M. Seitz, Sec’y. April 20.—Springfield, Mass.—Spring tournament of the Spring- field Gun Club. | Kites, Sec’y. April 20.—Patriots’ Day shoot of the Haverhill, Mass., Gun Club, S. G. Miller, Sec’y. April 21-22.—Olean, N. Y., Gun Club’s fourth annual tourna- ment. B. D. Nobles, Sec’y. April 21-23.—Concordia, Kans.—Kansas State Sportsman’s Asso- ciation’s State shoot, under auspices of Concordia Blue Ribbon Gun Club; $300 added. F. W. Olney, Sec’y. *April 22-23—Pittsburg, Pa.—Herron Hill Gun Club. Harry Vandergrift, Sec’y. April 28-May 1,—Lincoln, Neb.—Nebraska State Sportsmen’s As- sociation’s twenty-seventh annual tournament, under the auspices of the Lincoln Gun Club. F. E. Mockett, Sec’y. April 29.—Wellington, Mass.—Boston Gun Club’s annual team shoot. H. C. Kirkwood, Sec’y, 28 Elm street, Boston. Shey 5-6.—Irwin, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. John Withers, ec’y. May 6-7.—Unicn City, Ind.—Parent Gun Club’s tournament. May 6-7.—Lafayette, Ind.—Lafayette Gun Club’s tournament. ~ May 6-7.—Titusville, Pa., Gun Club’s annual tournament, T. L. Andrews,: Sec’y. **May, second week.—Vicksburg, Miss., Gun Club’s tourna- ment. May 7-8.—Wilmington, Del.—Wawasett Gun Club’s target tour- nament, May 9-10.—Chicago, Ill.—Spring tournament of the Grand Cres- cent Gun Club. ; May 13-14.—Crawfordsyille, Ind., Gun Club’s tournament. May 19-22.—Wissinoming, Philadelphia.—Thirteenth annual tour- nament of the Pennsylvania State Sportsmen’s Association, under ope ea of the Florists’ Gun Club of Philadelphia, V. V. Dorp, ec y. - May 21-22,—Kenton, O.—Shoot of the Kenton Gun Club. A. G. Merriman, Sec’y-Treas. May 24-26.—San Francisco, Cal., Trapshooting Association’s three days’ bluerock handicap tournament. Open to all; $1,500 added. Cc. C. Nauman, manager. May 26-27.—Dubuque, Ia, Gun Club’s fourth annual amateur target tournament. A. F. Heeb, Sec’y. *May 26-27.—Brownsville, Pa.—Brownsville Gun Club tourna- ment. W. T. Doherty, Sec’y. May 27-28.—Williamsport, Pa.—The Interstate Association’s tour- nament, under the auspices of the West Branch Rod and Gun Club. H. A. Dimick, Sec’y. May 27-29.—Fort Wayne, Ind.—Two-day bluerock tournament of the Corner Rod and Gun Club; $100 added. John V. Linker, ec’y. May 29-30.—Union City, Ind.—Spring tournament of the Parent Grove Gun Club. May 30.—Altoona, Pa., Rod and Gun Club’s tournament. G. G. Zeth, Sec’y. ; ' May 30.—Tournament of the East Harrisburg, Pa., Shooting Association. May 30—Newport, R. I., second annual tournament of the Aquidneck Gun Club. J. S. Coggeshall, Sec’y. é May 30.—Detroit, Mich.—Winchester Gun Club’s Decoration Day third annual tournament; all day. Rose system and average rizes. Sliding handicap, 16, 18 and 20yds., D. A. Hitchcock, ec’y-Treas. Rs f June 2-5.—Baltimore, Md.—Third annual Baltimore Count: three days targets; one day live birds; $500 in purses an Hawkins and Malone, Managers. he June 3-4,—Boston, Mass.—The Interstate Association’s tour- nament, under the auspices of the Boston Shooting Association. O. R. Dickey, Sec’y. 5 June 3-5.—Parkersburg, W. Va.—Sixth annual tournament of the West Virginia Sportsmen’s Association, under auspices of Ohio Valley Shooting Association. / June 45.—Greenville, O.—Spring tournament of the Greenville Gun Club. . **June, second week.—Memphis, Tenn., Gun Club’s tournament. une 7-8.—Ligonier, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament, une 9-11.—Sioux City, Ia—Ninth annual amateur tournament of the Soo Gun Club. B June 9-11,—Cincinnati, O.—Seventeenth annual target tourna- ment of the Ohio Trapshooters’ League. Chas. T. Dreihs, Borat *June 10-11.—Ruffsdale, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. R. 5. Deniker, Sec’y. 1 Ave June 16-19.—Warm Springs, Ga.—The Interstate Association’s tournament, under the auspices of the Meriwether Gun Club. Chas. L. Davis. Sec’y. i June 16-18.—New London, Ta.—Seventh annual midsummer tar- get tournament of the New London Gun Club. *June 24-25.—New Castle, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. James Atkinson, Sec’y. *yuly 4-8,.—Ligonier, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. J. O’H. Denny. Sec’y. y. July 8-9.—Huntsville, Ala.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- ment, under the auspices of the Huntsville Gun Club. E. Matthews, Sec’y. ‘ **July, second week.—Shreveport, La.—Cadds Gun Club’s tour- nament. *July 21-22.—Beaver Falls, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. W. R. Keefer, Sec’y. F } we July 30-Aug. 1.—Viroqua, Wis.—The Interstate Association’s tournament, under the auspices of the Viroqua Rod and Gun Club. Dr. R. W.. Baldwin, Sec’y. a Aug. 19-20.—Ottawa, Ill._—The Interstate Association’s tourna- ment, under the auspices of the Rainmakers’ Gun Club: Paul A. Selember, Sec’y. *Aug. 19-20,—Millvale, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. Wm. Buss- ler, Sec’y. , *Sept. 1-2.—Irwin Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. John Withero, Sec’y. Sept. 2.3—Akron, O.—The Interstate Association’s tournament, under the auspices of the Akron Gun Club, G. E. Wagoner, Sec’y. ‘Sept. 93-24,—Ruffsdale, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. R. 5S. Deniker, Sec’y. ‘ Sept, 23-24.—Ruffsdale, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. *Oct. 6-7.—Allegheny, Pa.—North Side Gun Club’s tournament. L. B. Fleming, Sec’y. *Oct. 20-21—Ligonier, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. J. O’H. Denny, Sec’y. shoot; prizes. F. Duncan, Sec’y. *Member of Western Pennsylvania Trapshooters’ League. Chas. G. Grubb, Sec’y, 507 Wood street, Pittsburg. i **Members of Mississippi valley Trapshooters’ and Game Pro- tective Association. J. y. Bradfield, Sec’y, Vicksburg, Miss. “Club is fixed to take place. The programme of the consolidated tournament of the two clubs, the Buffalo Bill, of North Platte, and the Grand telah Club, is now ready for distribution. April 1 and 2, the ten regular events are alike each day, namely alternately 15 and 20 tar- gets, $1.50 and $2 entrance, $5 and $7.50 added. An extra event the first day is for the Dickey Bird trophy, held by Geo. W. Waddington, Beatrice. The extra event for the second day is the team race, all Nebraska against Omaha. Manufacturers’ agents are barred from the division of the moneys. In 15-target events, four moneys; 20 target events, five moneys. Shooters who score 91 to 92 per cent. will be charged $1 per day extra; 92 to 93 per cent., $2; 93 or more per cent., $3; these moneys to be divided between those who score less than 89 per cent. and who shoot through the programme, ‘The managers are Messrs. Geo. L. Carter and G. Sievers. td The latest advices concerning the condition of Mr. Harold Money were very favorable, he having safely passed the crisis of his pneumonia attack on the 12th inst. He was removed to St. Joseph’s Hospital, Kansas City, Mo., on March 7, from the Hotel Baltimore, and also was well looked after specially by his many Kansas City friends. His father and mother, Captain and Mrs. A. W. Money, arrived in Kansas City early last week to care for him, and Mr. Irby Bennett made a like trip from Memphis. The warm friendship felt for him was strongly in evidence at 318 Broadway by the anxious inquiries and heartfelt good wishes for his recovery, expressed by the numerous friends who have called there every day since his illness became known ~ to them. May good health return to him speedily. td Mr. W. W. Marshall and Dr. H. O’Brien tied on a full score of 50 for the Crescent Athletic Club March cup, in the second contest for it, at Bay Ridge, L. I, last Saturday. Saturday of this week will be a day of special interest in Crescent Athletic Club shooting circles, for on it the long expected match between a home team and a team of the Boston Athletic Association Gun dt A committee of the Crescents will meet the visiting team at the Manhattan end of the Bridge, journey thence by parlor car to the country house, lunch, shoot, then hie to the city house for dinner, The secretary, Mr. S. G. Miller, writes us as follows: “The Haverhill, Mass., Gun Club will open_the shooting season of 1908 with their ‘seventh annual Patriots’ Day tournament, Monday, April 20. To all our old friends we would say, come and see us, and we will do our best to please you; and to all lovers of the scatter gun, come and see what we can do to make it pleasant for you. We will have a targit in the air all the time, and a good part of the time several more. In the prize event shooters will be handicapped on results of the first 100 targets shot at. Distance 16 to 22yds.” ha The Hillside Gun Club and the S. S. White Gun Club had a team contest at Gorgas Station, Pa., on Saturday of last week, twelve men on a side, 25 targets per man, with the following results: S. S. White Team—Wilkins 23, Harber 22, Robinson 22, Dr. Cotting 19, Gee 19, Denham 18, Hinkson 18, C. C. Byer 17, Kendall 17, Stahl 17, Witherden 16, Lodge 6; total 214. Hill- side Team—Larson 20, Gillin 21, R. Bisbing 18, C. W. Haywood 18, Meehan 17, Hammell 16, Laurent 16, C. C. Byer 16, J. B. Haywood 14, M. Bisbing 14, Cail 10, Thurman 6; total 186. td The Patriots’ Day shoot of the Haverhill, Mass., Gun Club has fourteen events, at 10, 15 and 20 targets, entrance $1.15, $1.25 and $1.30; a total of 190 targets, with a total entrance of $17. Events 9, 10 and 11, 20, 20 and 15 targets respectively, constitute a prize handicap at 55 targets, the prizes of which to high guns are: First, $5; second, $3; third, $2. Targets included at 14% cents. Sweepstakes optional. Lunch served free. Loaded shells may be obtained on the grounds. The secretary-manager, Mr. Elmer E, Shaner, writes us that “changes have taken place at Interstate Park which render it im- possible for the Interstate Association to hold the fifth Grand American Handicap at targets there. As other grounds in the Fast are not available, the stockholders of the Association, at a special meeting held on the 13th inst., decided to cancel this tournament, which was scheduled for May 12 to 15.” Mr. C. C. Nauman, the manager, under date of March 7, writes us as follows: ‘‘Kindly announce in your sporting columns that the San Francisco, Cal., Trapshooting Association will hold a three days’ bluerock handicap tournament at their grounds, at Ingleside, San Francisco, Cal., on May 24, 25 and 26; $1,500 in cash will be added to events. Open to all.” : On April 18, at Glen Rock, Pa., an open shoot for the live- bird championship trophy of York County, Pa., is fixed to take place. The conditions are 20 live birds, $4 entrance, optional sweep, $5; handicaps 25 to 30yds. Entries close on April 10; $2 forfeit. Other live bird and target events will be on the all- day programme. Shooting for the trophy commences at 9:30 A, M. Mr. Allen M. Seitz is the secretary. e ; Mr. Charles Billings, at one time president of the Emerald Gun Club, of New York, had completed arrangements to leave New York last week for his winter home in Florida, where he will remain till permanently pleasant spring weather has come in the North. He has taken up yachting as a sport, than which nothing is both more wholesome and enjoyable. ¥ In a match at Point Breeze, Pa., on Wednesday of last week, between Messrs. H. McIntire, of Oxford, Pa., and W. Cloverdale, of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, at 25 birds, McIntire won by a score of 22 to 19. A second event, $50 a side, 50 birds, was shot between Messrs. Cowan and F. Muller. Cowan won with a score of 46 to 42 ® Mr. Arthur Gambell, the energetic superintendent of the Cin- cinnati, O., Gun-Club, after readjusting his bones, has struck a true crackerjack gait at the traps, March 11, in a contest at 100 targets with D. Gross, he scored 95 to 93. On March 12, in a three-cornered 100 target match, he defeated Messrs. Gross and Ahlers. . The Baltimore Shooting Association’s team defeated the Key- stone League’s team at Baltimore, Md., on Monday of this week by a score of 193 to 176. There were nine men on a side, and each man shot at 25 live birds. This decides the series of con- tests between Baltimore and Philadelphia in favor of the former. R Col. A. G. Courtney, of Syracuse, N. Y., is on the list of invalids these days, being confined within doors during a slow convalescence. We heartily wish him a speedy recovery. With the pleasant spring weather which is now due, or should be due in the near future, good health should come then at the latest. Ud The series of matches between teams of the Mineola Gun Club and the Freeport Gun Club was definitely decided on March 14, Mineola winning two out of three, the last by a score of 84 to 79. There were five men on a side, 25 targets per man. The final contest took place on the grounds of the Mineola club. x The Colt Gun Club’s first medal shoot of the season was held on March 14, on the club grounds, Hartford, Conn. Messrs. Her- man and Hubbell tied on 22, and in a toss for it, Herman won. The club holds its shoots every other week, with a tournament on holidays. “ At Long Branch, N. J., March 13, a return match between teams of the Highland and Long Branch Gun Clubs was shot; ten men on a side, 10 targets per man, Highland won by a score of 79 to 72. The Long Branch club won the first contest. td The Dominion Trapshooting and Game Protective Association, through its secretary-treasurer, Mr. A. W. Throop, has fixed upon Aug. 12 to 16 for the Association’s annual tournament, Rhah will be held at Toronto. - Marce 21, 1903.] ' FOREST+AND STREAM. 239 The first live-bird contest of two between W. Widman and J. R. Farlee took place at Trenton, N. J., on Wednesday of last week. Widman won by a score of 46 to 44. Each shot at 50 birds. The second race was fixed to take place at Yardville, N. J., on Wedues- day of this week, “4 The Interecounty cup shoot will take place at Ossining on Satur- day of this week. Rockland, Orange, Dutchess and Westchester counties are the limitations of club eligibility as to domicile. The teams will be seven-man, . The Boston Gun Club’s annual team shoot will be held at Well- ington, Mass., April 29. Any information in relation to this shoot will be cheerfully given by Mr. H. C. Kirkwood, 23 Klm street, Boston, Mass. ¥ At Palm Beach, Fla., March 9, on the grounds of the Florida Gun Club, Mr. John W. Gates and Mr. E. A. Mulliken, of Bos- t-r tied “for the Greenleaf and Crosbey cup on a score of 19 out of 20. In a match at 100 bluerocks per man, $25, at Dexter Park, Brooklyn, March 14, Mr. George Lebohner, of Brooklyn defeated Mr. Chas. R. Nelson, of Union Course, by a score of 91 to 90. * The energetic secretary-manager of the Interstate Association, Mr. Elmer E. Shaner, returned to Pittsburg on Friday night of last week, after a three-days’ stay in New York. ts Messrs. Fred Miller and James Cowan shot a match at 100 live hires af Point Breeze race track, Pennsylyania, on Monday of this week. Miller won by a score of 79 to 73. The secretary, Mr. G. G. Zeth, informs us that the Altoona, Pa., Rod and Gun Club will hold a shoot on May 320. ; a The next shoot of the Jackson Park Gun Club, of Paterson, N. . is fixed to tal Jace on March 28. eT a BERNARD WATERS, Randall Tournament, Ranpartz, Ja., March 11.—The one-day tournament of the Ran- dall Gun Club had eighteen entries. The programme had four- teen events, and called for 200 targets, beside a special évent at 5) targets for the Hamilton and Story county championship medal and a purse of $10. Dr. R. N. De La, of Jewell, won the medal, defeating John Peterson by a score of 40 to 34. The weather was cloudy and cold. John Frees was high for the day, and C. B, Adams a close second. Events 123 45 6 7 8 91001 12 13 14 Targets 10 15 15 20 10 10 15 15 20 10 15 15 20 10- Broke. Ay. J Frees........ 9111218 8 71417419 8141415 9 172 860 C B Adams....10 14111910 8131016 9 11 12 17 10 170 «890 G E Wallace.. 10121814 9 91231316 8141218 8 169 845 Dr Proctor.... 6181215 9 81412817 7101417 7 162 -810 W S Hoon.... 6121314 8 8121017 7181217 10 159 -195 J Peterson,... 9131216 9 911 713 7181219 9 169 195 W B Linell... 6111316 8 8 9101410131817 9 157 - 783 Dr W De La. 6 6 913 8 8101214 7101519 7 145 .725 H Steege...... 9127116 9 410 816 8 8IL12 9 142 .T10 i) Melntire.(f S40PADIs 7 6 9 8 1as bis 1 ts 9 189 ~095 E QO Shoen 710 716 6 7412:12430 9 6G 1116 9 138 -690 J. Malard...... LOM PAI a ROMO IE RS eG ce “50 mar (Umnhtoyal 6 Oke oeE 71118 9° 6 613 18 a Oe 0 Spencer ....... 61110 7 5 G.. TELA eae cee, Buckwaldter... .. .... 6.. 810 7 bt 1359 ? E C Peterson. 5 91213 6 3.. wie as ; Weta Canisonee oo Sal0" O° Gar . : = oe Abrahamson,. 61110.... 6 HAWKEYE. Ossining Gun Club. Osstnine, N, Y., March 14——There was considerable fun at the regular Saturday afternoon shoot of the Ossining Gun Club to-day after the shoot for the handicap and scratch cups, in which Wash- burn got a win for the first, and Blandford for the second. Several matches were shot, Washburn coming out ahead, : In these last events all were using inferior loads, which fact brings out Washburn’s score as a fine exhibition. Washburn, Clark and Fisher tied for the handicap cup and Washburn won on the third shoot-off. . Event No. 4 is the scratch cup event; misses as breaks de- noted BY figures after the names, which apply in events Nos. 6, 6 and 7. "The Intercounty cup shoot will take place next Saturday at Ossining; seven-man teams, teams from any club in Rockland, Orange, Dutchess and Westchester counties are invited to com- pete. All shooters are invited to shoot along. Everts: ; Seer ene ds) 16 ete eS Soe, LO _ Targets: 10 10 10 26025 25 25 2h 2h 25 his Weis hidsttrird, vats crete a leleir a LVOVITI01011.1.011911111 101111111 —27 Williarrisyu Ml Gra anaa onal tal ets ied 1919.11101.01.1.01911111111111110—26 SMe Omri e te assets teow cometein se 1111100110111, 0111011111111 35, KOSS WENINE LG oY Sno. Mente italpterne ae 111110911111011010101111111101—24 Wiech Mahiy BLA eoees pacanesahbdosrehta 101111011111001111110101111111—24 EIPATD pel ee preee a aetiesae eoeratel stetetal tip esom ee eaane 1111.001.011.0010011.17 111111101122 Dat yye idan tee cinien ek eis ety aerate 1491110011.01101.011101111 011101 —22 LRAT alee CORN Hriariietarn ef mera 111111110111101111111010101000—22 Denison 18" 44220 0,sass4a ses ee ve 1010110 (11.01011101110111011011—21, WiSiCheryal OWntheees inet tn eee ren 111110110101000001011110101110—19 Interstate Association Meeting, A SPECIAL meeting of the stockholders of the Interstate Asso- ciation was held in the offices of the Laflin & Rand Powder Co., 99 Cedar street, New York city, on Friday, March 18, at 2:15 ey In the absence of both President Bennett and Vice- President Bruff, Mr. Eugene Dupont occupied the chair. The roll call showed the following members present, represented either in person or by proxy: Tatham & Brothers, Chas. Tatham: Le Roy Shot and Lead Works, O. D. Delano; Laflin & Rand Powder Co., A. W. Higgins; American BE. C. and Schultze Gun- powder Co,, Ltd., Edward Banks; Union Metallic Cartridge Co., Theo. Moore; E. I.’ Dupont de Nemours & Co., Eugene Dupont; Peters Cartridge Co., by proxy, A. W. Higgins; Hazard Powder Co., by proxy, Eugene Dupont; Remington Arms Co., by proxy, Theo. Moore. W. R. Hobart, of the American Field, and M. R. Herrington, of Shooting and Fishing, honorary members of the Association, were also present, as was Elmer E. Shaner, secretary-manager of the Association. The secretary read the call for the meeting, signed by the president, which stated that the call was issued for the purpose of considering matters in connection with the holding of the fifth Grand American Handicap at targets at Interstate Park. In view of the numerous changes which have taken place at Interstate Park, both in the grounds and in the Management, it was a question as to whether the Association would be able to hold the event there. Manager Shaner stated that he had in- spected the grounds very carefully, and in his opinion the G. A, H. could not be held there in the same up-to-date manner as heretofore. The matter was discussed at considerable length, and on motion made and duly seconded it was decided to cancel’ the tournament. Poughkeepsie Gun Club, Poucuxerrste, N. Y., March 14,—The regular weekly shoot of the Poughkeepsie Gun Club to-day was attended by eight regu- lars, one of whom, Mr. Marshall, holds the record for rapid progress in trapshooting. Two weeks ago this gentleman made his first attempt to smash bluerocks, when, after the shoot was over, he found it easier to count the breaks than the misses. To-day, however, it was easier to count the misses, which in his last string amounted to but four. Twenty-one is a nice score to make, for one having had as little experience as Mr. Marshall. - The warm spring sunshine, and total absence of wind made the day an ideal one for shooting, and but for the crankiness of the trap, which persisted in breaking at least half a dozen targets be- fore delivering a good one, good,scores would have been the order of the day. Notwithstanding, however, some good scores were made. On Saturday, the 21st, this club will send a seven- man team to Ossining to shoot in the Intercounty cup match. To-day’s scores follow: Events: Weert a =! Shot Targets: 25) 2b. 2b 25 at. Broke Marshall ... 5 LT Leila eel 100 62 Traver ... It 23 20 75 54 Per kitigoicscsae sles ponoiue teen at 20 21, 75 62 TOTPABOISE ps ite ph teehee ere tees 14 18 20 19 100 71 TENT Ee a eee Ret Ls Ee See eee ani Este 50 3 VWiinaristesbacsetsa es hamet op pee enter 16 16 19 ve) 51 Brie Ree eer hed tht ot Pane Soe EGE oe aaealzy ees 50 35 rstaouuele teeter Peach rn eT A EH: is “Ff 50 20 SNANIWER, Baldwinsville Shotgun and Rifle Club, BALpwinsvILLE, N. Y., March 12.—The Baldwinsville Shotgun and Rifle Club held its seventh annual tournament to-day. Shoot- ing commenced at 9:30. The scores follow: Events: 123 45 6 7 8 9 101112131415 Total Targets: 10 15 10 15 20 10 15 10 15 10 15 2010 15 10 Broke. IMO OE). H55qan acc, Ji@y hall aliye Ue bes le/o10 ere ait ake ee ON a a ial Harvin 3.1.... 1» O14 GIT 718 812 91117 711 b 158 Wheeler ...,..,. 713 711 9 8181010 GIL17 S14 6 150 LOEah? | oacieupeees 810 61112 89 511 7ISAS SALI 147 Meagher ........ 8 9 61015 810 713 81215 7138 5 146 DY AMG yag ec cee alse 614 71212 911 612 512138 511 9 148 Merriman ....... 811 81413 810 711 9 812 711 6 133 Cote: Tay ee ee 8 9 71014 911 712 7 811 610 7 136 Montgomery .... 410 31211 610 79 G@ 914 8 7... 116 SLAVES Leaks se eke PAS 2e9M “9 4s 4 Gs 61> 4 Gt 3 97 Chapman .. Hicoetin athe ae LO= Ley TiS TOs, -Ba12- G9 81 ieabiette” S34 Fe ae rrrsmpaes 4 ee Oy Sena. ck 4a) inn eal ome 68 IBMB AMER NS recertearee pte am eee, sastahamen vate oe ety Ling Gal 4eee Oe roe 48 Mall Geeta s lain Aeshna es WE cE tay hy Byles NT Tie lie 4g Tele eens tkbe enraee nen owe uh O21 QeeOmnGiy pmrdee st 32 Ernshaw PS Oe et ee RSA 2 13 Gahy pete etn, LASS Orcas ean Mine nck me (yp 8 Siar ull 4 Baltimore—Keys tone, Bartimort, Md,, March 16.—The deciding shoot of the series between the Baltimore Shooting Association and Keystone Shoot- ing League teams, as to the superiority of Baltimore over Phila- delphia at the traps, was settled to-day in favor of Baltimore by a score of 193 to 176. Hach man, nine on a side, shot at 25 live birds. The competition was in pairs, one man of ‘each team shooting a man to man race. Only two of Philadelphia’s men came out victors. Mr. I. Budd was the only contestant who killed straight. Baltimore had 17 to the good at the close of the race, thus the net winning of the local team was raised to 10 birds for the four shoots, which decided the championship. The scores: Baltimore—McAlistoer 22, Storr 20, Coe 24, Burroughs 21, Malone 22, Dupont 22, Gifford 16, Gorman 23, Waters 23; total 193. Keystone—Rothaker 18, Yan Loon 17, E. Johnson 22, Coffin 18, a letneen 19, Hobbs 18, Dr. Darby 22, Hallowell 17, Budd 25; to 4 240 FOREST AND STREAM. “| [Marce 21, 1963. Omaha Trap. ‘Omana, Neb., March 16.—For years Omaha has been one of the shooting eenters of the United States, and ten years ago it was noted for the frequency of its big trap events. Then there was a season of several years’ inactivity; but after this rest the pastime broke out with more vigor than ever, and to-day there is probably’ no city or State in the country that compares with Omaha and Nebraska for the number and importance of its trap tournaments. There are now no less than six or eight regularly organized clubs, in the city, and over half a hundred in the State; and bigger erowds assemble at the weekly shoots and more targets ate atomized atd more pigeons killed than there used to be in a month, For this condition of things much credit is due to the Omaha Gun Club, one of the oldest shooting organizations in the eountry, and to the State Sportsman’s Association, The Omaha club was organized nearly forty years ago, and originally it was styled the Omaha Sportsman’s Club. That was in the good old days. when Yank Hathaway, Gen. George Crook John Petty, G. H. Collins, George A, Hoagland, Byron Keed, Judges B. E. B. Ken- nedy, and George B, Lake, Dr. Peabody, John Withnell, Howard Kennedy, Dick Withnell, Henry Homan, Al. Patrick, Major Sackett, W. H. 5.. Hughes, Goodley Brucker, William Preston and John J, Hardin and scores of others, now difficult to recall, were the active members. The club had a large general member- ship, composed of the most prominent professional and business men—as it is to-day—and as they were all practical and en- thusiastic followers of the field, it took but precious little induce- ment even at that early date to interest them in friendly com- petitions at, the trap. In those days trap tournaments were new, and the regular weekly shoot was attended by the full member- ship, while the spectators who assembled to witness the sport ran up into the hundreds, while to-day the lookers-on are chiefly com- posed of the shooters themselves. In the old days the rivalry between the contestants was always at fever heat, and the average scors made then, with black powder, soit shot and hammer guns, incredible as it may seem, were up to those of the present day. Along in the °70s, I have seen Frank Parmelee—who, by the way, has just moved to Rockport, Tex., where he will engage in the poultry business, and who since his boyhood has occupied a premier position among the crackerjack trap shots of the world— and John Petty, Hal Penrose, J. J. Hardin, Billy Townsend, Billy Brewer, H. B. Kennedy, Charlie Williams, Johnny Thomp- son, Goodley Brucker, Taylor Sprigg, Dick Metz, D. T. Stubbs, Clark Ellis and a dozen others run their scores up well into the 90s in every 100 live-bird or artificial target shoot in which they took part. In the 25-target shoots, which were the regular weekly club shoots, Parmelee, Petty, Hardin, Penrose, Williams and one or two others mote often emerged from the fray with straights than they did with broken records. It is extremely pleasing to note that to-day there seems to be more than a full restoration of the activity of the days of he old lang syne. The preservation of the old Omaha club in the perfect vigor of its youth, the splendid organization of the Dickey Bird Gun Club; the Taylor & Williams Yellowstone Gun_ Club; the Prairie Gun Club; the South Omaha and Council Bluffs gun clubs, and the Rifle Club, are all robust organizations, and very much alive, and putting forth extra efforts this spring to make Omaha a shooting center second to none in the country. Their initial shoots this spring, despite the generally inauspicious: weather, indicate that this much-desired end is to be surely at- tained, and that this health-promoting and life-prolonging diver- fisement is to take rank with the most popular pastimes of the day. The Omaha club at present has a roster of seventy members, with J. P. Smead, President; W. P. McFarlane, Vice-President; W. 1D. Townsend, Secretary, and Goodley Brucker, Treasurer. They shoot every Saturday afternoon. The Dickey Bird Gun Club is a younger and large body, with George Nicholson, Pres- ident; Walter F. Kinnear, Vice-President, and George Toozer, Secretary and Treasurer. The Yellowstone Gun Club has a limit of thirty members, and Fred Hoye is President. The South Omaha Gun Club at its last census had sixty members, and the Council Bluffs Gun Club about the same number. The Omaha Rifle Club, with fifty members, was recently organized, with Dr. J. C. Whinnery, President; Joe Barton, Vice-President, and Fred Carter, Secretary and Treasurer. The Omaha Mallard and Mer- ganser clubs are principally duck shooting organizations, although they pay considerable attention to the trap. Omaha also has a game and fish protective association, with H, S. McDonald, President, and Council Bluffs has just organized a similar body, with E. C. Brown President, and a membership of over three hundred. Their one aim is to break up the illegal fishing that has been practiced on most all Iowa waters. from time immemorial, and they are preparing for the building of a modern club house at Lake Manawa, formerly famous for its black bass. On the Trans-Mississippi trapshooting tournaments’ spring card there are many good things, beginning with the joint shoot of the North Platte, Buffalo Bill and Grand Island gun clubs, which will be held at Grand Island April 1, 2 and 3, the first two days to be devoted to targets, ten events each day, and the last to the third shoot between the All-Nebraska and Omaha, South Omaha and Council Bluffs ten-man teams, 100 live-bird race. The two teams have already met twice, the rural shots skinning their metropol- itan rivals both times; the first in October last by a margin of 5 birds, and the second last month by a margin of 4. Both shoots were held on the Omaha Gun Club grounds. The teams are: Omaha, South Omaha and Council Bluffis—W. D. Townsend, cap- tain; Tom Grant, Dick Kimball, Fred Montmorency, G. 4 Loomis, Charlie Lewis, Billy Brewer, Dorsey Burgess, Fred Good- tich and Ed Blafer; All-State—George L. Carter, captain; Dan Bray, Syracuse; C. D. Linderman; Weeping Water—G, A. Schroeder, Columbus; State Game Warden George B. Simpkins, Lincoln; Gus Seivers; Grand Island—Frank Baird, Herman; Ww H. Ilian, Albion; Fanner Burke, Elgin, and Martin Diefenderfer, Wood River. Then follows the Geneva, Neb., Gun Club’s meet, March 25 and 26; the St. Joe, Mo., Gun Club shoot, April 7 to 10; the Grand American Handicap, Kansas City, April 14, 15, 16 ana 17: the Nebraska State Sportsman's annual, Lincoln, April 29, 30, 31 and May 1; the Kansas State shoot, Concordia, Kans., May 1. 2 and 3: the Iowa State shoot, Osceola, May 19, 20 and 21; the Sioux City Gun Club shoot, June 9, 10 and 11. Sanpy GRISWOLD. ON LONG ISLAND. ene 5 vane Ht Crescent Athletic Club. Bay Ridge, L. I., March 14.—There were nineteen contestants jn the second contest for the March cup, and of these Mr. W. W. Marshall and Dr. H. O’Brien tied on a full score. Saturday of this week is the day fixed upon for the team contest between the Creseents and the Boston Athletic Association Gun Club, for a trophy purchased jointly by the two organizations, The members of the visiting team are considered to be Messrs. Cc. M. Howell, W. L. Hill, George E. Clark, R. W. Dennison, D. W. Edwards, Dr. S. A. Ellis, T. F. Baxter, Daniel Hallett and J. H. Daggett. The weather was pleasant and a large programme was shot, in which there were numerous ties. The scores follow: Cup shoot, 50 targets: G Stephenson.........++ is ite US ees Sera tees: 20 22 2 &£28. (25 47 F B Stephenson.. ie 2 24 2 23 2b 49 F T Bedford, Jr...... 40% 24 =25 2 20 22 47 W W Marshall..-.-.---...< 20 2b B- 20 25 50 D C Benitett....--.cr+e<-- 407 “1b 4 21 25 40 H B Vanderveer....++..++- 17 21 4 21 25 46 TB et Lott sinensis ce ak Se 2 2265 46 G W Hagedorn.......+++. 20. 28 - 8 19 22 45 W J McConville.........5: 18 22 4 19 238 45 FL C Werlemann.......+.++ 19 25 oe gee Pen 48 Dr O'Brien ..55..0000s0cee 20 2b 5 20 2b 50 G W Meeker........+--++6 20 25 5 dg 23 48 Ty De Medd... .5500. wget es lt 18 AD AT. i] tT. M Palmer.....cs.ecsse-: 20 22 rh GE | opal 43 L C Hopkins,.....:.s.+++ 20 24 ae lt Fa 45 Tir ASeyesigi sce eer pes ncgenes 13 «Oo Pp FASE 36 A B Rhett.....-ce00-dsenee nly eb es ye eel 42 AW. Palmer... scesscndeere a 24 ie PN AP 47 Handicap shoot, 15 targets; G. G. Stephenson, Jr. (1) 15, Fish (1) 14, ¥F. Pa. Stephenson (1) 15, Bedford () 14, Marshall (9) 14, Bennett (2) 10, Vandervecr (2) 14, Lott @) 18, Hagedorn (2) 14, McConville (2) 15, L, M. Palmer (1) 12, Eos (2) 15, Dr. Keyes (1) 10, McDermott (8) 15, A. W. Palmer (2) 18, Werleman (4) 9, Dr. O’Brien (2) 15, Meeker (8) 15, Rhett @) 10. Shoot-off, 15 targets: G. G. Stephenson (1) 11, F. B. Stephenson (1) 15, APG S @) 13, a eoncet Ore aan (2) 15, Mc- Dermott (3) 15, O’Brien , Meeker ] Saeed 15 targets: F, B. Stephenson (1) 15, McDermott (@) 14, O’Brien (8) 13, Hopkins (2) 11. - Team match, 15 targets: G, Stephenson 10, Fish 15, Marshall 7, Vanderveer 11, Hagedorn 12, L. M. Palmer 18, Hegemat 14, A. W. Paliner O’Brien 13, Voothies 9, Cha man. 9; Tok ke Bl i F. Stephenson 14, Bedford 13, Bennett 12, Lott 12, MeCoriville 10, Hopkins 18, MeDermott 9, Raynor 10, Wetrleman 6, Meeker 12, Mead 9, Keyes 18; total 133. G. Stephenson (1) 14, ‘Trophy shoot, handicap, 16 targets: G, 7 Fish (1) 14, F. B. Stephetison (1) 15, Bedford (1) 14, Marshall (8) 15, Vanderveer (2) 15, Bennett (2) 16, Lott (@) 16, Hagedorn (2) 9, McConville (2) 15, L. M. Palmer (1) 14, Hopkitis (2) 16, Hege- man (2) 13, McDermott (8) 11, A. W. Palmer 0) 14, Blake (6) 42, Sykes (2) 18, Werleman (2) 18, O’Btien (8) 12, Meeker (8) 9. Shoot-off, 15 targets: F. B, Stephenson (1) 15, Matshall 8 14, Vanderveer (2) 14, Benriett (2) 10, Lott (2) 18, M¢eComville (2) 16, Hopkins (2) 15, EF. B. Stephenson (1) 16, McConville (2) Shoot-off, 15 targets: 12, Hopkins (2) 10, Han icap, 15 targets: Dr. Keyes (1) 15, Hopkins (2) 12, O’Brien (3) 15, Werleman (4) 11, Sykes (2) 16, Chapman (4) 14, Marshall re ve ani 9, A. W. Palmer (1) 13, Lott (2) 16, Bedford () 2, Bis ! Shoot-off, 15 targets: Dr. Keyes (1) 11, O’Brien (8) 18, Sykes (2) 11, Lott @) 16. CS eas: % Brooklyn Gun Club, Brooklyn, L. I., March 14.—The shoot of the Brooklyn Gun Club last Saturday, was well attended, The weather was pleasant. 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AB Tiley (ON en Pree oe imp bestaes | (salty Oa pet. id Wh Sead kp oss (ia meua) eacenes Mariiboronpin a iiss... te saeene 2B poe A ww oben eae AE eas BOR IEE escrito cake eee s ah ee aes Ce a «eee ees Witthber vane ee ead Oot sade diate Ui. 2 ee eeD Seb etal nesuaes CSET nate ete 1p ata oes =e Gwe es A Ae Ge oe ye ei Cheeseborough ......seeeeee oe (Oa Sede BS Ces Saket Newt se tas spied dees vote See he eer P Greene: ciel ts etek ASN es, ee ee : Mineola—Freeport. Mineola, L. I., March 14.—The third and last contest of teams from the Mineola A. C. and the Freeport Gun Club took place on the grounds of the former to-day. skill of Mineola, the scores being: Mineola 84, Freeport 79. There were five men to a team, 25 targets per man. With this win Mineola won two out of the three contests. The scores: Mineola Team EB Gildersleevyer ss cece es ccsssseecesses 1111111110101111101011101—20 WE reriotis (rien ly bene ceria nna seams ed 1010101000111010111111011—16 WV in Se AIILELTI Nis pr recsa it Sete ele rele cel ters,cus fetara pare 0100011110011111111110010—16 GeEPoush tones seats ierecetdsalal aaa es 0000111111001110111101001—15 Re SCUBA Cte tatats b patoPmeineaeiels Mole ietars’ ae] ote 0110100011010111111110111—17—84 Freeport Team. OEE ANSIERSS 5 Wgpec saan oreo ss 545 119011119111111110111111—24 MIS TEC esstesbastin elisa ate Gnivisterm sete cia 000100000101.0001011100000— 7 Gods SPT AICS iets) aletn dt 3 2itiauererste Misys 2 eaten 11010011101011.01011110001—15 Grate uteanaresiiics davies eisinisiereasdicteetele 1110111101001000111111111—18 (Se AHEM merely elare esyansrarei ote, ecayets © aise ierstal star 00111.00111010111101111000—15—79 Ten targets: Greiff 5, W. Simonson 7, T. Ryder 9, €. Sprague 8, P. Murphy 4, F. C. Willis 9, G. Houghton 2, E. Schmidt 7, M. Scally 8, F. Gildersleeve 10, W. Seaman 8. Ten targets: Simonson 5, Ryder 9, Sprague 8, Murphy 3, Willis 9, Houghton 5, Schmidt 7, Scalley 6, Gildersleeve 7, Sea- man 6. Emerald Gun Club. New York, March 10.—Herewith please find the record for the past year, March, 1902, to March, 1903, of the Emerald Gun Club. The annual meeting was held on Thursday at 8 P. M. at the house of Dr. C. V. Hudson. The club was organized twenty-two years ago this month, and is now entering the twenty- third year of its existence. It has been an active organization at all times during this period, shooting from eight to twelve times a year. Nothing but live birds have beén used, and many prizes have been contested for. Its team has won’ the team champion- ship at targets and the last Dean Richmond trophy contest, shot for at live bitds in the State of New York, at the meeting of the N. Y. S. A. P. F. and G. The club donates from its treasury more cash for prizes each year than any other club in this vicinity, and the handicapping is on the point and rise basis, thus allowing a B or class man to win the highest point average. This is the fourth year Schortemeier has won the average’ prize, and his coming yéar’s handicap is 33yds. The club will shoot at Smith Brothers’ grounds, Newark, which are’ being enlarged the coming year. 7 The following officers were elected: Patrick J. May, President; L. H. Schortemeier, First Vice-President; Henry C._Koegel, Second Vice-President; Thomas Short, Recording and Financial Secretary, and the old reliable John H, Moore as Treasurer, a position he has held for many years, The balance in the treasury is satisfactory, and the usual amount of cash was voted for prizes the coming year. The yalue of cash prizes and merchandise the past few years averaged some” $200. The cash prizes are given on condition that the member purchases a memento or souvenir or something pertaining to the sport. The shooting day is the third Tuesday of the month, ex- cepting the months*of July and December; and any shooter in the vicinity is welcome to participate, but of course is not eligible to prizes. . The first shoot of the year took place appropriately on March 17. Record of Emerald Gun Club of New York at live birds, sea- son March i, 1902 to March 1, 1908; average to count in eight or more shoots, winners can select only one prize, point average: —Handicap— j I : Yards. Points. Shotat. Killed. Points: Avge J Fischer. ......- 28 6 100 78 18 -780 W Corbett....... 25 5 100 64 14 640 L Schortemeier..32 7 90 78 15 867 F Hausman...... 25 6 100 69 12 .690 Dr Hudson....-. 28 ib 100 79 ane 790 J H Moore....... 28 6% 100 74 i . 740 ‘A Schoverling...30 7 80 64 10 800 1 ap ui = 7 Marcs 28, 1003, people catitiot be convinced that such a thing really takes place every yeat. The axis deer buck sheds his in January, and the new horns iti the velvet are already nearly six inches long. The mule deer come next, and the two big elk lost theirs only a short time ago. The horn is absorbed at the base, and finally drops or is knocked off, exactly like a small boy’s “loose teeth.” It is amusing to see the care with which, after losing one horn, a buck lies down, always with the re- maining antler underneath, as if afraid that the weight would twist his neck if he did not. All things considered, the biggest baby among all the wild animals at the Zoo is an infant that is not an mammal at all, but a reptile, one of the herd of testudo, of giant tortoises, natives of the Galapagos Islands. With his three companions, he forms one of the few relics we have left to us of the lite of the Plocene age; these tortoises are the sole survivors of the prehistoric reptiles. The young testudo is the smallest in the herd; he weighs only 66 pounds, His age is not positively known, but it is variously estimated that he must have seen from. eighty to one hundred years. That seems rather old for a baby, but he is a child in arms com- pared with one of his relatives, a Testudo vicina, who carries on her broad back (it is 4 feet 3 inches by 4 feet 7 inches) the weight of something over four cen- turies, and who tips the scale at 325 pounds. There will be more babies in the park presently, but of course that is always a delicate subject to talk about until they actually arrive. Squirrel Migrations. Ovip, N. Y., March 18—Editor Forest and Stream: In regard to the discussion recently running anent squir- rels, my father, whose statements about matters of this sort may not be questioned, assures me that he saw a squirrel migration nearly seventy years ago in Ohio, He wishes me to correct the statement made by at least one disputant that squirrels: in swimming keep their tails. under water. In the migration referred to vast numbers of gray and black squirrels were crossing the Cuyahoga River, which at that place was about one hundred yards wide. The animals were thick in the tree tops along the bank, often clinging to the branches overhanging the stream, as if contemplating the trip. When the men and boys, undoubtedly with sacks, approached the trees, no more hesitation was shown, but with mighty leap and outstretched limbs the squirrel would sail far out, striking flat, and then, with tail upraised, would strike bravely out for the farther shore. hg Thus is the Sander’s Reader of boyhood days vindi- cated. It is not to be doubted that the squirrels would mount a piece of bark and, as the tail of this animal is ustially hoisted, sail easily over. Away with the doubters of those splendid stories in old Sander’s! We never get in life such thrills and keen hair-raising enjoyment as imagination gave on the initial-carved seat in the back TOW. Nor do we doubt that, in swimming wider rivers than the Cuyahoga, the tail is under water. ‘The squirrel gen- erally knows what he ought to do. That flaunting un- dulatory, propeller, rail-fence motion of the tail well known to hunters, would easily assist the crossing. There- fcre. Col. Bobo, Didymus and Sander’s are all correct. E. D. B. E. Brrce. Alexander Wilson relates in his American Ornithology, in the chapter on the white-headed or bald eagle: “In one of those partial migrations of tree squirrels that sometimes take place in our western forests, many thou- sands of them were drowned in attempting to cross the Ohio; and at a certain place, not far from Wheeling, a prodigious number of their dead bodies were floated to the shore by an eddy. Here the vultures assembled in great force, and had regaled themselves for some time, when a bald eagle made his appearance, and took sole possession of the premises, keeping the whole flock of vul- tures at their proper distance for several days. . . In hard times, when food happens to be scarce, should he acci- dentally meet with one of these who has its craw crammed with catrion, he attacks it fiercely in the air; the cowardly yulture instantly disgorges, and the delicious contents are snatched tp by the eagle before they reach the ground.” Pythons and Buffalo. Editor Forest and Stream: ‘ The present might be termed the “age of fiction” in popular natural history as well as in general litera- ture, citing as evidence thereof more than one recent publication, offering to readers uneritical in zoology life histories and fantasies in animal psychology, abso- lutely without existence except in the sense of the late Prof. Clifford’s “ejects.” -These have been fully dealt with by Mr. John Burroughs, in the March Atlantic, and need no further attention at present. But the case is different when preposterous non- sense gravely stated in a pseudo-scientific manner as facts of observation, is given the cachet of publication in standard journals. These should be spoken of with- out delay in good round terms. FOREST AND STREAM of this week, page 232, contains a quotation from remarks recently made before a num- ber of intelligent gentlemen, at a dinner in Boston, by R. L. Garner, learned in Simian phonetics, to the ef- fect that in certain portions of Africa, unspecified, but yisited by him, the pythons prey upon buffalo. Now, let it be said at once, that as far as is known— unless it be to Mr. Garner—Africa contains but three species of python, two of which are of small size and perhaps never exceed six or seven feet in length. The other, P. secbe, is one of the larger species, but is not known to the tnemotional tape line of a length greater than about twenty-five i€et as a very unusual extreme. A large Belgian hare, or a chicken of such a breed as the Dorking, about meets the ordinary capacity of a twenty-foot python at one swallow, and the addition of four er five feet to the snake’s length might increase its gape enough to take in an animal of twice that size, though I doubt it. So eyen if Mr. Garner's buffaloes be limited to the newly born calf, even of the relatively small species of the West Coast, the absurdity of the FOREST AND STREAM, statement appears to be clear enough without further discussion. . It would be interesting, however, to know if Mr. Garner got this tale from some loquacious’ gorilla. But a more tragic occurrence, seemingly, of human authority 1s with dramatic skill reseryed to the last: fk « ok after one of my hunting men had been swal- lowed by a python it gave me a creepy feeling. * * *’ Quite true; so it should! But Mr. Garner owes it to ethnology to mention just where in the dark continent this tragedy occurred, for there, at least, there be dwarfs beside whom the little men of the Semliki forest are as Slants, ARTHUR ERwin Brown. Zoorocican Garpens, Philadelphia, March 19. — Gane Bag and Gun. ————_—-—_——_ Proprietors of shooting resorts will find it profitable to advertise them in Forest AND STREAM, Some Sportsmen I Have Known. Editor Forest and Stream: . I have been greatly interested in the reminiscences of that good sportsman, R. B. Roosevelt, recently published in Forrst AND STREAM, and wish that I might add some- thing to them. I did not migrate from the rock ribbed hills of dear old Madison county—thé home of the bushy tails, or the clover meadows beneath where congregated the whistling woodchuck—until the tocsin of disagreement with our southern sportsmen came to our ears, Not until 1861 did I become a resident of New York City. A few years later I drifted to Jersey City, and perhaps a few reminis- cences of those times and mention of some of the old sportsmen of those days—i, e., the latter part of the 60’s and early 7o’s—might be interesting to your readers, I always want to add my quota to your great paper. On becoming domiciled on Jersey City Heights, I early made the acquaintance of a Mr. Lattimer, of, I think, 78 Murray street, New York City, a near neighbor who had a good dog—though not as good as mine, he often said. Two or three times a week the rising sun would find us together on the Hackensack meadows. We invariably found a couple of woodcock at a pond hole. forenenst where now is the old watch Further down toward the meadows was another hole, and we would scoop in a catiple mote. There, on the border of the meadow near the railroad track, we were almost sure to find another couple. In a couple of hours we have bagged from eight to a dozen of these nice game birds and been home on the heights before or shortly after 8 A. M. Sometimes we made a day or half a day of it, and good bags were the result, for there were birds there then on the Hackensack meadows. In our peregrinations we often came across other ' sportsmen—some celebrated in the annals of shooting lore. There was Uncle Billy Hutshes, “Old Reliable No. 1.” Big, rollicking Sam Castle, of Newark; Richard Dyne— our Dick—three of the most reliable and successful brush shots in the three States of New York, Pennsyl- vania and New Jersey. We will except none, for we have tramped up the mountain side and shot with them, and Canadensis and the Pocono Mountains will bear testimony to their accuracy and reliability in securing that wariest of the game birds of the world—the ruffed grouse. Then there was Bill Siegler, “Old Reliable No. 2,” of Mont- clair; Al Heritage, “Old South Paw,” by which name he is known wherever sportsmen congregate from Maine to California. He shoots left-handed and straddles wide when he shoots. Then comes old Oscar Sanford, a veteran of the fifties, I was going to say. A good shot, but more celebrated as a dog trainér for more wealthy sportsmen. He had a half way house and kennels on the Newark turnpike—“‘Old Mosquito Tavern,” it was called, and sometimes he had as high as from forty to sixty dogs in training, maty of exceeding fine strain and pedigree. But old Oscar essayed to cross the railroad once too often and was killed, I think in the early seventies, nearly opposite the watch factory. Another dog trainer and sportsman was Miles Johnson, lower down the State. He must be still alive, but I opine he has laid aside his breechloader; but he can give the youngster good points yet. Jack and Bill Taylor knew the Hackensack meadows well. Not a foot of them that they have not trod, and with good results. Gen. Heber Breintnall, of Newark, every inch a soldier and equally a gentleman sports- man, is now very deservedly a high cockalorum in the militia of the State. C. M. Hedden, and Doctor Pindell lived in Newark, but if they wanted snipe they had to come to the Hackensack meadows for them in those days, and they generally got their share. In later days came John Henry Outwater, a good trap and field shot and good fellow, and the Von Lengerkes, Justus, Herman and Oswald or Oscar, great snipers all of them. Dr. P. W. Levering, of Jersey City Heights, the noblest Roman of them all. Ah! the many sunny hours and some dark days, for that matter, we have trod the brakes or climbed the rugged hillside with the genial Doctor. He is one of those mortals that is good to all and don’t know how to think, less say a word to or of anybody. We are indebted to him for many happy hours in the field and elsewhere. Of the well known shots of these days, Uncle Billy Hughes, one of the most reliable shots, a genial, square man in all walks of life, and beloved by all that know him; Oscar Sanford, Jack Taylor, the pigeon shot,. Dr, Pindel and Thomas Harrison, ex-Mayor of old Hudson City, not such a brilliant shot, but a thoroughly good all around sportsman, have all gone to the great meadows beyond. 1 In the Jatter part of the sixties we used to get some good woodcock shooting down Jamaica way. It was there that one October day Lattimer and I got nineteen fine fall birds, and we were feeling pretty well over our bag when, about 4 P, M., we stopped at a farm house for a drink of water. The farmer now accosted us: “Heerd you firing down in my swamps. What ye shoot?” With somé complacency I pulled out one of our birds. “Huh!” said he, “blind snipe, eh? Why, my man killed hull lot factory. | 248 o them ‘ere last night, Bete they be, back of the well curb; has ’em laid out; going to take ’em to railroad con- ductors—gets 20 cents apiece fot ’em!” And as sire as you live, there, laid out smoothly on theit backs, were twenty-four plump birds, How did he get them? “There comes John,” as a colored man came up the lane driving the cows, I hailed lim: “John, did you kill theser” “Yas, sir.” “What with?” He stepped to the barn door and, reaching around, brought out a gun. An old musket of about 20 or not to exceed 24-inch barrel and inch nozzle. “How did you shoot them with this instrument?” “Stood up in the middle ob de road, © sah, and shot ’em as they flewed over one side or t’other,” There was a full moon, and this darkey would drop ~ these birds in the middle of the road with his scatter un, It struck us, as woodcock were worth from $1 to $2 or $2.50 a pair in the market, that the conductor was having a good thing of it. : It was early in the seventies when Major Beckwith, a gallant ex-soldier and a boyhood companion, and I, in pursuit of pastures new, stumbled on Recorder Hackett’s great game corner that he had kept so carefully from all save'a chosen few—Canoe place and Ponquogue on Shin- tiecock Bay, Here we found what we wanted—geese, red- heads and blackheads. The natives called them broad- bill. With that chief of baymen, Bill Lane, we got seven black brant the first day. I had killed the white brant, or Mexican goose, out West, but not half as good a bird, either to shoot or for the table. We fastened on Lane, and many trips we made over that Long Island. road. _ One day we shot out of a battery, and Lane and his son Charlie gathered in 87 broadbill shot by Jacobstaff after 2 P, M.. Many days of good goose shooting we had. Lane had a flock of 35 trained wild geese, and a gander, “Old Pomp,” who knew as much or more than a dog, would see birds flying long before we could and set up his honking and. seemed to take ecstatic delight in drawing down his fellow bipeds to. destruction. : With Captain Ruben Johnson, a Mr, Munday, and twe others whose names | do not recall, we bagged in three - Gays’ shooting 41 geese. Those were great days on Tiana Bay and vicinity; but have they not been told and retold in the chronicles of Forrst AND STREAM? I have not been down there in years, but I am told that there is some broadbill shooting in the season yet and that bay snipe at the right time 1s almost as good as ever: Lane has long ago retired and is living (as last I heard) resting on the laurels he has won as the best shot, the most honest and reliable of all bay- men on the coast, That was a capital article of R. B. Roosevelt's, and you wont get any to beat or even equal it. He must have had lots of good, solid, genuine fun, and how well he tells it. I would like to meet him, I saw him once across the table when he presided over a meeting of sportsmen many years ago, but I have read his works with great interest, “The Game Birds of the North,” etc, He knows what he is talking about, and says it well. But I am getting garrulous. JACOBSTAFF, V) a Spring Duck Shooting. Editor Forest and Stream: I will esteem it a great favor if you will allow me the Space to make a few comments on the subject of the Brown bill, to prohibit the spring shooting of wildfowl in this State. The bill seems to have been hurriedly drawn, and while it may be just what is needed to benefit the duck shooting in the upper part of the State, il ae not fit the conditions prevailing in Long Island waters. The Great South Bay, of Long Island, covers more than one-half the duck shooting waters of the State; broadbills, a smaller proportion of redheads, with some sea ducks, being the fowl represented. The ducks arrive every fall between Oct. 1 and 1s. The law of several years ago, and before, allowed the shooting of wildiowl from batteries on and after Oct. I; but it was found that this date was too early, as the ducks were hever im the bay in large enough numbers to warrant the use of a battery, and the few that did arrive were broken up and driven off the flats by gunning parties from New York and elsewhere. These Parties, fre- quently having made their arrangements with their ~ battery men the previous season, and anxious to get the first chance at the ducks, insisted on going out, and would not take the advice of their gunners and de- fer their visit until later in the season. The battery men, recognizing the fact that something should be done to preserve the shooting, succeeded, through Mr. Regis H. Post, our representative for Suffolk county, in getting the opening of the season for battery shooting fixed at Oct. 20. The result has been the finest duck shooting we have had in years. Now the Brown bill proposes to make the opening of the season Sept. 15, which is three weeks before the arrival of the ducks, which would practically put ws back on our old basis, and of course with the same unsatisfactory results, Broadbills have, if anything, increased in numbers in the bay. Redheads are scarcer, the result, as you know, of excessive shooting in Southern waters, as they have never been killed in any large numbers in the South Bay. Another thing I wish to call attention to is the fact that a portion of the South Bay, eighteen miles Jong by its full width, is owned and controlled, one-half by the town of Brookhaven, one-half by the Smith heirs. Most of the best gunning ground is embraced within this section of the bay. A license to shoot in Brookhaven waters costs $20; a license fo shoot in waters controlled by the Smith heirs, $15. Total cost. to battery gunners, $35. over by Christmas. This winter it closed about, Dec, 17, and Was not clear of ice again until the last of Feb- ruary. This year, up to Jan. I, we had about twenty- six days on which a battery could, be used. Some seasons there might be a few more days, but very seldom. * Now, I doubt if that number of days’ shooting would make it Pay any battery gunner to take out even one license. I refer to the battery gunners who make — a business of taking parties ont, If they give up, a splendid piece of duck shooting country will be closed Every year the bay is frozen he 246 FOREST AND STREAM. [Marcy 28, 105%: ——————— to a great many sportsmen who enjoy their outings on the South Bay, and the grounds will fall into the hands of clubs formed from residents of this locality. I recognize the fact that ducks as a whole are getting scarcer each year, but broadbills are increasing, if anything, and as this is the duck which furnishes the shooting in the Great South Bay, the gunners of that section do not see why they should suffer with another part of the State, whose marsh duck shooting is on the decline. Why not leave Long Island waters out, and pass the bill for the rest of the State, where the need of it is felt, Gy OR. sBuRDy. Bayport, L. I. CHICAGO AND THE WEST. High Water. Curicaco, Ill., March 20—The floods which have pre- vailed for more than two weeks all over the Middle West and the South have turned the Father of Waters into a tremendous’ stretch of open sea running almost across this country from north to south. This means that in all likelihood the north-bound Mississippi flight this spring will be unusually heavy, although that does not neces- sarily imply that the duck shooting will be especially good, for the prevalence of the high water has left a good deal of roosting and feeding grounds for the wildfowl in a great many different places. At Tolleston Club at the latter part of last week and first of this week some very good bags were made. Mr. Charles S. Dennis got 18 birds one afternoon without any difficulty, Mr. Hempstead Washburne 9, and other members of Tolleston Club had fair success. Mr. W. L. Wells and Mr. Hollis Field, both of the Chicago Tribune, who went up last week into the Fox Lake country, met very wet, foggy and unpleasant weather and not so many birds as they had hoped. It is not an uncommon thing for visitors to Fox Lake to come back ~ with explanations why they did not do much shooting. The hotel keepers of that neck of the woods are prolific in explanations. Now the flight has passed, or again it is not yet up, and again the conditions are not yet right, etc, Along the Kankakee River better sport has been had. A good many pintails and mallards have been killed. We should hear much more of this were it not for the Indiana license, which it seems is still a stumbling block for our Chicago shooters. It is hardly to be expected that a gentleman who borrows the license of a friend or goes into Indiana without a license will make public the doings of his shooting trip. There is no doubt, however, that at Water Valley and at other points above and below, the shooting has been noteworthy within the last six days. Mr. Thomas W. Blodgett, of advertising circles here, asks for news regarding New Boston, which is one of his favorite shooting places. I have no returns yet from that point, but it is well known that the water is well up all over the pin oak flats of the Mississippi Valley bottoms near there. If the mallards are not working too exten- sively on the corn fields, they should be in on the oak flats, and in that case the shooter ought to have some sport there during the next week, The President in the West. To-day Billy Hofer, of the Yellowstone Park, Seattle, Alaska, and elsewhere, dawned in Chicago without any previous warning. Billy is on his way with a couple of mountain lions, some deer, etc., for the Cleveland Sports- men’s Show, where he expects to remain for a week or so. Early in April he will start back for his quarters at Gardiner, Montana, where he will have business of an interesting nature. It is known that President Roosevelt is to visit the Yellowstone Park early in his coming Western trip, and it goes almost without saying that Billy Hofer will be his guide and companion during his stay at the Park, which will begin about April 8. The likelihood is that at that time the snow will have left the flats and valleys at the level of the Mammoth Hot Springs, but in the upper mountains there will probably be six or ten feet of it, so that travel, except on snowshoes, would in all likelihood be difficult. Forestry in Indiana. The State of Indiana is awaking to the necessity of ap- plying the principles of forestry for the preservation of her rapidly disappearing timber. Under the supervision of W. H. Freeman, State Forester, there will be planted during the coming year nearly a half million trees. The State Legislature of Indiana has made an appropriation for the purchase of a State reservation of 2,000 acres, which will be planted with hardwood timber. An act of the Legislature provides that not to exceed one-eighth of the total area of the land owned shall be appraised for taxation at $1 an acre if it is set aside as a permanent forest reservation. Indiana’s modest beginning with the principles of forestry is at least a step in the right direc- tion, and a step in which all the Western States will eventually have to follow her. Marked Advance in Illinois Game Legislation, To-day I had opportunity for full and very interesting conversation with Representative J. B. Castle, of De Kalb county, who has been prominent in the present Legisla- ture in many matters, including those of fish and game laws. From Mr. Castle’s advice it seems very clear that matters were never in better shape at Springfield than they are to-day in regard to the protection of our fish and game. The old fight between the lower and upper por- tions of the State was never closer to compromise than it is to-day. The general opinion of the legislators in re- gard to the supply of fish and game is greater to-day than it ever was before. What is very much to the point, Mr. Castle is of the firm belief that we are going to have this spring the best and most practical game law ever put upon the statutes of the State of Illinois. NP Reference has already been made to this bill, which is more generally known as the Montgomery bill, It is House bill 604. This bill has been fought through the committee and sub-committee, and has now reached its third reading in the House. Between fifteen and twenty distinct and different amendments were offered to the bill, put only two or three of these were adopted, so that the measure now stands practically as it was conceived by the men who first introduced it, It is beyond the stage where it can be amended in the House, and has reached its first reading in the Senate, where in all likelihood it will pass without further amendment. In the opinion of Mr. Cas- tle, who, with Dr. Wheeler, of Sangamon county, made the fight for this bill on the floor of the House, the pass- age of the measure is practically safe. Therefore it may be considered in the way of advance information if we take up some of the features of the bill. The more salient features of the bill as it now stands amended will be the adoption of the Forest AnD STREAM plank of “Stop the Sale of Game.” Heretofore we have always permitted the sale of ducks in this State, and it was generally agreed that we would always have to per- mit this sale, If this bill shall pass, as in all likelihood it will, we shall stand before the world as a State not per- mitting the sale of any of our game. Mr. Castle told me personally that there was consider- able feeling expressed in the committee meetings over the recent tremendous slaughters and sale of game along the Illinois River. The butchery of the Powers boys and their friends who shot on their private marshes on the Illinois River was brought up, and great indignation was expressed over the fact that these so-called gentlemen sportsmen should shoot for the market (to the extent of 837 ducks killed and sold in one day). The indignation against this outrage appeared so general that it was re- solve1 to stop altogether the selling of ducks in this State. Another consideration moving thereto was the evidence. introduced of the sale of 26,000 ducks by one firm of game dealers from Beardstown. Ill., last fall, Per- haps we should not crow before we get out of the woods, and South Water Street is not yet heard from, but it is believed that we have whipped out this sort of es in the State of Illinois, let us hope fer once aiid for all. Another prominent thing in this new bill is the estab- lishment of a four years’ close season on prairie chickens. ‘This close season of several years once before proved the salvation of our Illinois grouse, and the general opinion is that the time has come for its application the second ime. It wall unquestionably in large measure restore the prairie chicken crop of this State. Yet another interesting feature, and one in which Mr. Castle takes especial pride, is the limiting of the bag of ducks in any one day to 50. This is rebuke sufficient to club shooters and others who have been in the habit of making unlimited and unsportsmanlike bags of ducks on those occasions when the flight happened to be just right. Mr. Castle himself told me that he thought that if the limit could be put down to 25 birds a day, it would in some measupre offset the loss of the “no sale” clause, should the latter eventually be defeated, which is unlikely. He also said that for very many years he has himself made it a practice to limit his own bag to 25 ducks and to 12 prairie chickens. The latter number of birds is the limit which he and his friends have always estab- lished to take home with them at the end of a prairie chicken shoot. He has felt always the same way in re- gard to smaller game birds, such as quail. It seemed to him that the sportsmen ought not always to seek to reach the limit even of the legal specifications. It is much to be regretted that there are not more such sportsmen in this country. An interesting feature of this bill is the fact that no part of a wild bird, excepting a game bird, may be had in possession (with the exception of the English sparrow, crow, crow blackbird or chicken hawk). This will stop the use of native [linois song birds for millinery pur- poses. One amendment offered to the bill is the same as sug- gested in these columns Jast week. The resident gun license is to be collected of all, “Provided, however, that the owner or owners of farm lands, their children or tenants, shall have the right to hunt and kill game on the farm lands of which he or they shall be bona fide owner or tenants during the season when it. is lawful to kill game, without procuring such resident license.’ This gets over the difficulty of the farmer’s boy. This latter clause is, in a way, widened to almost a loophole quality, being an amendment to Section 32, which extends the free hunting privileges to a person hunting on the lands of any person “by invitation of such land owner,” Under this new measure Illinois will stand committed to the principles of paid wardens and, deputies. The non- resident license will be raised to $15, and it is thought that between $6,000 and $10,000 will be raised in this way, this sum to be largely swelled by the resident license. State Warden Lovejoy believes there are 25,000 shooters in this State who will take out licenses. I hardly share in this optimistic belief, although the number of shooters may be something like that total. There will be, however, without doubt, a great deal of money paid into the treasury of the State by resident shooters should this biil become a law. The fund raised in this manner will be a considerable one. The old system of paying wardens by giving them half of the fines will be done away with and the fines will go direct to the school fund in the township in which the offense is committed. The license system has spread very rapidly in the West, and is apt to spread quite rapidly pretty much all over the country, it seeming to be chosen as the popular panacea at this time. There is no doubt that practically it raises a large fund. The State of Wisconsin during the past year is thought to have used the snug sum of $70,000, what with its license collections and the State appropriation. That much money intelligently applied and free from politics could do a great deal toward bettering the supply of fish and game in any State. ‘There are, therefore, some pronounced changes in our legislative ideas in this part of the world as compared to the ideas of ten or twelve years back, In very many ways it will be seen that the State of Illinois, so long reprehensibly backward in the matters of game protection, is at last slowly coming to the front. If we shall be able to keep in the Legislature such sportsmen as Mr. Castle, Dr. Wheeler and others of those who stood by the guns in this fight, we may hope for still better results in the future. It is most gratifying to believe that the representatives from the lower agricultural part of this State have felt so willing to meet the upper part of the State more than half way. In reality there ought to be two game districts in this State, for the interests of the sportsmen of lower Illinois cannot be considered identical with those of the upper part of the State. A glance at the map will show the truth of this, Representative Montgomery, of Madison county, was chairman of the committee to which this bill was referred, and there worked with him some twenty other representa- tives on the committee, these being chosen from all over the State, so that each section had its fair showing. E. Hoven. Hartrorp Burtpine, Chicago, Ill. Wildfowl Breeding in New York. Watertown, N, Y., March 8—Editor Forest and Stream: For two years we haye had no spring shooting of wildfowl in Jefferson county, N. Y, This county is thickly populated, has very little waste land, and during the summer thousands of visitors from other States and countries seek rest and pleasure within our borders. The St. Lawrence River, with its thousand islands, Alexandria Bay, Clayton, Cape Vincent, Sacketts Harbor, Henderson, Chaumont, Redwood, Theresa and the islands in Lake Ontario are famous throughout the world as the anglers’ paradise for black bass and muscallonge. On the shores . and islands are thousands of summer homes; the waters are thickly dotted each day with boats of all descriptions. That wildfowl will stay and nest amid such surroundings may seem incredible to the sportsman who has only seen the birds during the hunting season, when no. Jaw. restrains the murderous instinct of man. It is surprising how quickly they lose all fear of human beings when un- molested, becoming almost as tame as domesticated fowl. The large number which have nested here have enabled us to learn some things about their habits which I be- lieve are not generally known. One is that they often nest some distance from the shore, nests of the black duck ~ having been found two and one-half miles from the near- est body of water. covers the eggs during the day and the drake at night; Some people believe that the duck~ but direct evidence is wanting as to this, and it is opposed io the belief of the naturalists. In 1901 large numbers of fowl were seen in our open waters during the day, and as none were seen flying over the land, many thought that they were not nesting. Last year they began nesting early in April, as young wood duck were seen the first week in May. Reports show that a much larger number nested in 1902 than in 19or. Capt. Henry S. Johnston, of Clayton, reports that large numbers of mallard, black duck and teal nested along the river. Joseph Northrup (State protector), Alexandria Bay, reports the same as to his vicinity; Dr. Glen Coe, of Theresa, reports that large numbers of these birds bred on the lakes and creeks near Redwood and Theresa. Dan Arnold, of Perch Lake, Frank Jerome, of Lafargeville, George E. Bull, of Ellisburg, report the same. Linn Strat- ton, of Point Peninsular, in addition to these species, re- ports broadbills, redheads, whistlers and sheldrake. George Lloyd, of Pillar Point, also reports broadbills nesting. George Maitland, of same place, broadbills and whistlers. I have also received large numbers of verbal reports from responsible parties which show that other species as well as those mentioned have nested here, A large number of ducks have stayed here all winter, as there has been much open water. We have very little trouble to enforce the‘ law, as all are now anxious to have the birds nest in their vicinity. A trip into this county any time in the next five months would surprise some of those people who still think that wildfowl fly up the coast to Canada, The duéks are coming in from the south to-day, and unless we have severe cold to drive them back, will be safe until next fall, at least. Why the sportsmen of the other counties still permit the market-shooters and hoodlums to kill and drive these mated birds from their waters is a mystery to me. Sonie time these same people will be kicking themselves for be- ing such blamed fools. Drive them along boys! Send them up to Jefferson! Next fall we’ll have ducks while you are waiting. If you should see a drake or a flock of them next month out in open water, don’t let them stay there, for it’s a stire sign that the duck is on a nest some- where. It’s hard work to break an ege-sucker or teach an old dog new tricks, but the time is coming when they will get wise. DH! PAriErn,. = P. S.—At the hearing at Albany, March 5, one of the Long Islanders testified that the birds killed in the spring were mostly drakes. If these birds were killed in April, I believe that the ducks were already nesting, as the drakes are always in the open water during the daytime - W. and the ducks on the nest, ry Information Wanted of the Dismal Swamp. Edttor Forest and Stream: May I ask through the columns of your paper for in- formation concerning the Dismal Swamp of Virginia, and the opportunities it offers for a vacation outing. Various articles I have read heretofore have given me a general idea of the canal and Lake Drummond, but they have been indefinite as to what one could do in them. Are there good camping grounds? Are there many water- ways to be explored with boat or canoe, or is it mostly impenetrable swamp? What game is there and what fish? Is it a good place for a man who would rather get a variety of game in limited amount rather than a whole lot of one kind; a good place for a lover of canoe, light shot- gun and small bore rifle, for a “woods loafer.” I have always wanted to go there, and still want to if it is pos- sible, but don’t want to throw away a season; there are too few leit for that. If someone who knows will kindly tell, it will be considered a favor. STEWART, Long Island Ducks and Geese, East Quocuer, Long Island, N. Y., March 23.—Dr. L. Hosford Abel and friends shot 22 wild geese Saturday, March 21. A large flight of wild geese, coming from ' southern waters, passed over Long Island last week. Cap- tain E. A. Jackson and rig with New York sportsmen shot thitty-four last week; also a number _of black ducks, ~ Quite a number of broadbills are in the Shinnecock Bay, but are very wild. ; E, A. Jackson, Maren 28, 1903.] Spting in Quebec. MOontTreAL, Qtiebec, March 10,—Editor Forest and — Robins and blackbirds were reported to have STANSTEAD, Stream: been seen here yesterday the r&th. Game and Fish Bills at Albany. Special Correspondence of Forest AnD STREAM. AuBANY, March 21,—¥ish and game bills continue to be pro- gressed rapidly through both houses of the Megislature. The Senate and Assembly committees at present ate reporting out a very considerable proportion of the measures intrusted to their care. But few public hearings on pending bills have heen held, however, ‘ _ No great surprise was caused by the action of the Senate in reconsidering its adverse action on Senator Elon R, Brown's spring shooting bill, and passing it without amendment. Some powerful influences are back of it, and despite the sirong oppo- sition directed against the measure from yatious quarters, its sponsors expect to get it through the Assembly with votes to spare. The status of fish and game bills ‘before the Legislature, other than those still reposing in committee, is as follows: The Senate has passed _the following bills: Senator Armstrong’s, P. No. 344, relating to the close season for quail. , . Senaint Armstrone’s, P. No. 351, relative to spearing fish in Seneca Lake. : ‘ +l Senator Brackett’s, P. No. 604, relative to catching perch in Saratoga Lake and Lake Lonely. ’ , Assemblyman Bridgeman’s, P. No. 526, relative to spearing fish in creeks in Otsego and Orleans counties, ‘ j Assemblyman Doughty’s, P. No. 693, relative to the taking of pheasants. ; , Assemblyman Fowler’s, P, No. 545, for the protection of fish in Chautauqua Lake. ‘ ' Assemblyman McNair’s, P. No. 620, in relation to the close season for squirrels. . Assemblyman Denison’s, P. No. 728, relative to the closé season for wild deer. é f Senator Armstrong’s, P. No. 692. relative to the destruction of illegal devices, , , Senator Goodsell’s, P. No. 693, relative to fishing through the ice with tip-ups in Orange and Rockland counties. The Senate has recommitted Senator Allds’ bill, P. No. 683, relative to wild birds. j | : The Senate reconsidered its vote defeating Senator Brown’s spring shooting bill, P. No. 648, and passed it, 28—14. . ’ The Senate advanced the following bills to third reading this week: Senator Armstrong’s, P. No. 482, in relation to grouse and woodcock, 4 Senator Armstrong’s, P. No. 350, relative to the powers of game protectors. Senator Armstrong’s, P. No. 699, relative to the close season for grouse in the counties of Ulster, Sullivan and Greene, Senator Armstrong’s, P. No. 697, relative to the sale of venison. Senator Townsend’s bill, P, No. 698, relative to deer, was amended in general orders in the Senate, upon his motion, so as to provide that no person shall take more than one deer in an open season. ( The Assembly this week transacted the following business: 1 Assemblyman Whitney’s bill, P: No. 1243, relative to taking perch in Saratoga Lake and Lake Lonely, passed the Assembly. The Assembly adyanced these bills to third reading: Assemblyman Hubbs’, P. No. 1304, relative to the transporta- tion of fish. , . : Assemblyman Nichols’, P, No. 813, relative to taking wood- cock, Senator W. L. Brown's, P. No. 488, in relation to fires to clear ands. The Assembly committees on fisheries and game reported favor- ably the following bills: : . Assemblyman Robinson’s, P, No. 1370, relative to fishing in Hemlock Lake. . , Assemblyman Moran’s, P. No. 1324, relative to fishing for non- game fish in Cayuga Lake Assemblyman Steyens’, private parks. , Assemblyman Cowan's, P. No. 1299, relative to the close season for mink, skunk, muskrat and foxes in Delaware county. Senator Townsend’s, P. No, 392, relative to the protection of black bears, Senator Bailey’s, P. No. 621, relating to the powers of super- visors in Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties. Sea and River Hishing. ————o-—-— Proprietors of fishing resorts will find it profitable to advertise them in Forest AnD STREAM. "PR. No. 1826, relative to laying out Jottings of a Fly-Fisher.—II. THE season of 900 was a particularly good one, and the average size of the fish taken was really remarkable. However, the long drouth of that year, lasting from June until late in the fall, was very disastrous, many of the tributary brooks. dried up entirely, and great numbers ot small fish were destroyed, In the large streams the big fish had a hard time of it. The extreme low water laid bare their retreats and they were poached in every conceivable manner, shot, snared, speared, etc. The year roor began well; we had much, tain and the spring wasa late one. The fishing was not as good as the previous season, but better than was expected. The hot week early in July put a stop to fishing, but for a short time great numbers of fish collected at the mouths of cold brooks. In several cases I heard that advantage of this was taken to destroy the large fish by dynamiting or otherwise. I know of one or two conyictions, but the penalty imposed was not in proportion to the offense committed. For instance, the fine was $50 in one instance, when hundreds of fish were killed and served to summer boarders. I am an admirer of the rainbow trout (irideus), and believe this fish to be nearer the true salmon in its quali- ties than any other trout we have. I cannot understand the low opinion of this fine trout I have heard expressed by many persons. It rises freely at the fly, leaps from the water again and again, and rushes desperately down stream. This last peculiarity makes it in large waters one of the most difficult fish to land I know of. Rain- bows like to lie in streamy water several "feet in depth. and if there are heavy rapids belaw you are pretty sure to have to follow one of any size to the end of them. am stire that this fish would be a great success in the lower waters of our large trout streams, such as the Beaverkill, Neversink, etc., as it can thrive in much warmer water than any other trout. It isa great favorite in Germany, and has been sttccessfully introduced into some of the rivers in New Zealand. In the former coun- try it is considered commercially, but in the latter js spoken of as exhibiting all the sport-giving qualities I have mentioned, rising at the fly, leaping from the water, etc. Six pounds is a weight often reached, while in Ger- many specimens of over thirteen pounds are recorded. In this country 1 have read of one being taken in a = FOREST AND Si REAM. lake (I think in British Columbia) weighing twenty- three and a half pounds. A gentleman in Denver, Col., holds the record there, with a rainbow of twelve and one- Quarter pounds, taken with artificial fly. The fishing in rivers in that State has been greatly injured by the newer methods of refining ore, the refuse from the cyanide process killing the fish. With modern fishculture there is no reason why we should not have good sport in all our old well known streams, frequent restocking with iry, or if possible yearlings, making up for any drain upon them, at least by fair fishing. If a stream is heavily fished a fair proportion of the trout will soon become sufficiently educated to save them from the wiles of most anglers, efough to leave inany breeding fish after the season for angling is past. I fear, however, that in a few years very little water will be free to the public. More farms are “posted” every year, and miles of the best waters are leased from the owners, or a strip of land on both banks is purchased by clubs or individuals, some- times for a trifling sum in cash. It is claimed that waters stocked by the State cannot be closed, but this probably has no more foundation than the statement made years ago that the public could not be excluded from any flow- ing water that had been used for logging. I for one would feel like a poacher if fishing posted water without a permit, Personally I care little for fishing strictly pre- served water, or for fishing anywhere where trout are so numerous and easily taken that they are undervalued. In 1885 Tim Pond, in Maine, was so crowded with small trout of one-fourth to three-fourths of a pound that anyone could take them, and my anticipated pleasure was almost annihilated on arriving by finding that the camp keeper had been obliged to bury 75 pounds that morning. To take large fish when they are shy is the acme of sport. A day now and then on preserved waters crowded with fish eager for your flies is a pleasant novelty, but for real sport give us free water where the trout ate critical, hard to please, and highly valued when caught. Fish are not necessarily scarce in such a stream, they may be ntimerous and even large, but have learned through much temptation to take good care of their precious skins. I know of one preserve that is managed on very gener- Gus principles. Bait-fishing is strictly prohibited, but anv fly-fisherman asking permission for a day on the water is never refused. The fishing has greatly improved since this club controlled the water, though few fish have been turned in. The stoppage of bait-fishing in the space of a year or two increased the number and raised the aver- age size of the fish. Small trout will take a worm all day long, and nearly every day, and few recover after having a good sized bait hook in their throats. Bait-fish- ing for trout may be made a scientific and enjoyable amusement, but we have only a few fish that will rise to the artificial fly, while there are many good game fish for which bait-fishing is. the only practical and satisfac- tory method. I know of several most expert bait-fishers who have made this sacrifice for the benefit of the brother- hood of anglers at large. One of these gentlemen is really a marvel. He can cast a long line with wonderful accuracy, never breaking his worm, and dropping it like a feather almost in the exact spot he wishes. The sacri- fice in his case is really very great, but has been perse- vered in for several years. The enormous increase in the number of anglers in recent years has made it necessary that all true sports- men should consider the interests of others as well as their own. On a good sized stream one may fish after several fly-fishers without much diminution of sport. I have waited half an hour after nine had passed and then had a very fair day. One or two worm fishers can spoil the sport of many, and this is so generally recognized _ that in fishing with bait-fishing friends they have in- variably asked me to precede them, saying that they lost nothing by following me, but that I would fishing after them. I wish that attention could be attracted to the introduc- tion of the European grayling into some of our streams. They are said’to drop down into the lower portion of trout Streams, and as rainbow trout do the same, we might have fine fishing from, say, the first of August until very cold weather, where now there is nothing except wind fish and suckers. Grayling and rainbows ate both spring spawners, and are in highest condition in the fall of the year. My impression is that only the large rainbow trout spawn, as I have never seen any signs of it in the month of May except in fish over a pound in weight. Fish of fifteen inches and over were often thin, and the vent was conspicuous, while those of smaller size were in first rate condition, plump and hard, and as silvery as possible. The mouth of the rainbow would seem to indi- cate that it is not a cannibal, but a large female in the New York Aquarium was very savage. She injured her companion, and when I saw her had been placed in the tank with the salmon. She was of a restless, shrewish tion have frequently called my attention to the similarity in the coloring of certain birds and insects, It has been * 247 called mimicry in nature, and it may be of great service in Imitating some of the flies which form the favorite food of the trout. An insect diet has proved to be the most nourishing, and quickly brings the fish into condi- tion. I have read somewhere that the experiment was tried of feeding the trout in three small pools at a fish hatchery with flies, larye, maggots, etc., and with worms and minnows. Thomas Tod Stoddard was the authority for this experiment, I believe. The trout fed on the first developed mutch more rapidly than the other two. Min- nows came next and worms last, It is said that worms scour the trout, having a laxative effect, but I know nothing about fishculture except through a few visits to hatcheries years ago when methods were comparatively primitive. Flies without wings are often very killing, and some that I have tried with a soft feather twisted in front of the cock’s hackle have done good work. I got the idea first from a fly that was sent to me from England. The stems of these soft feathers are often very stiff and hard to manage, but the long fibres are not particularly ob- jectionable, as in practice the flies hook just as well as those dressed with small cock’s hackles. They are not preity, but give an impression of life in the water. If. anglers generally would take a little more interest in the construction of their flies they could assist the fly tyer materially by making practical suggestions that would lead to decided improvements in many of the flies in — se. The common practice of naming flies after persons has become something like a nuisance. The fly lists are growing, growing, and much unnecessary duplication of colors is the result. A list of lake and sea trout flies came to me recently in which the names indicate the materials of which the flies are made and the colors in the hody. “Mallard and yellow,” “Mallard and. green,” “Mallard and gold,” etc, This may answer pretty well for fancy flies, and if we ever have a good natural history of the flies born of the water, the difficulty might be ob- viated. Imitations of the flies described would probably have to be tied in more than one shade of color—say light and dark yellow duns, and so on—and the fancy flies could be named after the materials composing them. These are only tentative suggestions, and are probably without practical value. Lists will continue to expand, as few anglers are indifferent to the compliment of having a killing fly named for them. Anglers are patient, hopeful people. All the fatigues and misfortunes of the pursuit are forgotten, or form subjects for jokes or amusing reminiscences. We re- member our first trout and nearly all of our big fish until the last day of our lives. The man who caught his first trout with a fly may be congratulated. I took mine with a worm scented with asafcetida. The old man who introduced me to Bonny Brook was a real old-time fish hawk, such as may be found in many fishing neighbor- hoods, He believed devoutly that the ill smelling stuff referred to had a powerful attraction for all fish, and kept his worms stored in an old stocking with a big lump of this drug, or whatever it is, in the middle. The foot of a sock held the worms for a day’s fishing, with a smaller quantity of asafoetida in that. Poor old Docky: he passed to the land of ever-flawing waters many years ago. When a friend goes fishing I always send after him a wish not that he may fill his basket, but that he may take a really big fish, and this, thanks to the liberality of the State of New York, is not a very improbable event. Trout have been taken with the artificial fly within a short dis- tance of New York City weighing five pounds or more, and we know that in many of our large streams, and even 11 some that are quite small, larger fish are known to dwell. Two years ago, in August, when the river was very low, I saw a male trout in the Beaverkill that I am confident was 28 to 30 inches in length. As I got within ten feet of this fish on two occasions there is no reason to doubt that I judged correctly. This fish inhabited a hole in what was usually a large pool, and had his home under a flat rock only just large enough to conceal him. He went under diagonally and had some difficulty in getting his latter end tucked away out of sight. His coloring was very bright for a big fish, the head very large, with great powerful jaws, and to see him open them a little, as he did once or twice, made thrills run down my back. That fish 1s right there now, as such fish haunt the same pool for many years, and I will describe the place to any good fly-fisher. ' Another large fish was in plain sight from the public road on almost any day you looked for him, Some people put the weight of this trout at seven pounds, but I be- lieve this estimate to be excessive. It was truly a brown trout—in fact, almost black—and a large company of other trout—natives, browns and a few. rainbows—was collected in the same pool to enjoy the water flowing in from an ice-cold brook. When the water fell very low these fish would be literally plastered against the stones, as most of the cool water flowed under the rocks and gravel into the main stream, THEODORE GorDoN, The Latest tn Fishing Tackle. From Van Bugg’s Latest Tackle Catalogue. No. 132. Kippered herring fly rod; three-piece, with extra tip. Scales attached. Price, $20, Smoked halibut bait rod; nickel trimmed, cork tips. Cheap. Price, $16. Planked shad rod; oak handle, straw or cork tips. Ex- cellent rod for club house purposes. Price, $42.50. Combination steamed finnan haddie and sardine fly tod. Another great club house rod. Price, $16.32. Baked bluefish rod; cane wound handle, spiral handle, Sumatra wrapper. Price, $27.35—Chicago Tribune. Fly-Casting at New York. Mr.. Mitton H. SmitH sends us the following as the official score of the single-handed bait-casting Saturday afternoon, March 7, Class X: Ree Gey Teesuidid:) i. erles Society. turns her back toward the nest. If, after all, she will not stay in the nest, he drives her roughly away and brings another female. Some fifteen to thirty minutes before the female is ready to enter the nest and spawn, her excitement is made evident by a change of color. Ordinarily she ap- pears to be of a* uniform dark olive or brown above, changing to a light green below. The only markings readily seen are four stripes on each cheek; but in reality the sides of the fish are mottled with still darker spots om the dark olive background. The spots are arranged so as to form irregular, vertical bands, like those on the perch, but these are not usually visible. Now, as the excitement of the female increases, the background becomes paler and finally changes to a light green or yellowish hue, so that the spots and bands stand out in strong relief. The whole surface of the fish becomes thus strongly mottled. This fs a visible sign that the female will soon spawn. The male undergoes a similar but less pronounced change of color. Soon after this the female enters the nest and the male continues to circle about her, glide beneath her, and to bite her gently on the head and sides. At times he seizes her vent in his mouth and shakes it. When this has con- tinued for a time, spawning takes place. The two fish turn so as to lie partly on their sides with their vents to- sether and undergo a convulsive fluttering movement lasting three to five seconds. During this time the eggs and milt are extruded. The circling movements ate then resumed, to be interritpted after a few seconds by spawn- ing. This alternate circling and spawning. continue for about ten minutes. The male then drives the female away, biting her and showing great ferocity. She does not retin aie, we sae ee. ; rand! The male, and the male only, now continues to guard the nest, fanning sediment. from the eggs and repelling enemies, At 66. degrees F. the eggs hatch in five days and the young: fish swarm up from the bottom in twelve to thirteen days from the time of hatching. Henshall, in* his “More’ About’ the’ Black Bass,’ pub- lished in 1898,. quotes, with approval, Arnold’s cbserva- tions to the effect that the nests are built and then euarded by the female. The “Manual of Tish Culture,” published in 1897 by,the United States Fish Commission, speaks of the nests as being built by the mated fish, some- times working together, sometimes separately. , These seem to be the latest published observations, and are not at all in accord with my-observations in Michigan. Shortly after the young small-mouthed bass rise from _the nest they scatter out over a space four or fiye rods across—not in a definite school with.all_the fish moving together, but as a loose swarm, moving independently or in small groups. This makes it impossible to seine the young fry, as upon the approach of the seine, instead of keeping together, they at once scatter and escape the seine. Jhe fry may be at the surface or on the bottom in weeds or clear water, and are attended by the male until they are 1% inches long. The swarm. then gradually disperses and the young fry, which were previously black, take on the color of the old fish. : The breeding habits of the large-mouthed black bass are similar to those of the small-mouthed, but differ in some respects, which are of importance in pond culture. 1. The nests of the large-mouthed are not made on gravel, but by preference on the roots of water plants. — These are cleaned of mud over a circular area, and on them the eggs are laid. As the eggs of the large-mouthed bass are smaller and more adhesive than those of the - small-mouthed, they are apt, when laid on gravel, to be- come lodged between the stones and to stick together in masses, and are then likely to be smothered. When laid : on fibrous roots of water plants this! does not occur. 2. The young large-mouthed bass remain together in a compact school very much smaller than that of the small- mouthed, and the fry usually move all inthe same direc- tion. This makes it easy to seine the large-mouthed fry when wanted. ; : 4 Culture of Black Bass, Ponds and Stock Fish—After some experimenting all our ponds, both for stock fish and fry, are built on the model of a natural pond. There is a central deeper por- . tion-cr kettle about six feet deep, and around the shore a shallow area where the water is about two feet deep. The: bottom _is the tatural sand, and water plants are allowed to grow up in the ponds. _All ponds are supplied with brook water, and silt from this furnishes a. rich soil for the aquatic plants. The water of these ponds con- - tains. Daphnia; Basmina, Corix,and other small aquatic forms in great numbers. "These furnish food for the bass fry. The ponds run in size from 120 feet by 190 feet to too feet by 100 fect. At first we were unable to feed the stock fish on liver, but after a time we found that by cutting the liver into strips about the size and shape of a large angleworm and by throwing the strips into the water with the motion that cone uses in skipping stones, they wriggle like a worm in sinking and are then readily taken. ‘The liver must be fresh. If bass are fed on Hver alone, they do not come out of winter quarters in good condition. Of eleven nests made by bass thus fed. only three produced try. Although eggs were laid in all, they seemed to lack vitality, owing to the poor condition of the parent fish, and in eight of the nests the eggs died. ' fs In-order to bring the fish through the winter in good condition, it is necessary to begin feeding minnows in September and to continue this until the-fish go into winter quarters. The bass eat minnows until they go into winter quarters, after which they take no food until spring. The minnows are left in the ponds over winter, so that the bass, when they come out of*winter quarters; find a plentiful supply, which lasts them until the spawn- ing-season. At this time the minnows are seined from the pond, as their presence interferes with the spawning. Before this, however, some of the minnows have spawned, and their fry later serve the young bass as food. Bass fed in this way come out of winter quarters in fine con- dition, and their eggs are found to be hardy. Artificial Fertilization——During the first two or three seasons of our work numerous attempts were made at artificial, fertilization, but only twice with success, On oné occasion the female was seined from the nest after she had begun to spawn, She could then be readily stripped. The male was cut open and the eggs were fer- 250 FOREST AND STREAM. [Marcr 28, 1003. tilized with the crushed testes. About 75 per cent. of the egas hatched on a wire tray in running water, the eggs being fanned clean every day with a feather. In the second case the fish were seined while spawning, and it was found that in the case of one female, pressure on the abdomen caused a reddish papilla to protrude from the vent. This had the appearance of a membrane closing the vent. It was pinched off, and the female was then stripped readily and the eggs fertilized and hatched. Pond Culture—Having abandoned artificial fertiliza- tion, our attention was turned to pond culture, and this we have carried on for about six years. Our earlier ponds not furnishing natural spawning grounds, we constructed alongside each of the large ponds six smaller ponds for use as Spawning ponds, each about sixteen by twenty-four feet, sixteen inches deep, with gravel bottom, and con- nected to the central pond by a four-foot channel. The fish entered these and spawned. In one cage we had eight nests in a single pond of this sort. Where. so many nests were made, usually but one or two of them came to any good, the others being destroyed by the fighting of the males. Ordinarily but one or two nests were built in each spawning pond. The male first to enter and begin the construction of a nest generally regarded the whole pond as his property, and held it against those these frames were four inches high, while on the other sides they were sixteen inches high. They were set where there would be about two feet of water when the pond was filled, and so placed that the corner formed by the junction of the two lower sides pointed to the center of the pond, while the opposite corner, formed by the higher sides, pointed toward shore. The frames were set directly on the bottom, not in excavations, and each was filled with gravel containing sand suitable for nest-building. A board was laid diagonally across the two higher sides and a heavy stone laid on this to keep the frame in place. The two higher sides form a shield on two sides of the nest, while the board across the top affords shade. The frames were set in two rows about the pond, parallel to the shore line. The rows were about six feet apart, and the nests in each row about twenty -five feet apart, alternating with those in the other row. There was thus about one nest to each 100 square feet of suitable bottom, or in each area of ten by ten feet. When the bass were on the nests no one was able to see any other and the fighting from this cause was practically eliminated. The number of rows of nests may be increased to three or four, or more where the area of shallow water is wide enough.- The bass selected these nests in preference to any other FRY RETAINER, TO BE PLACED AROUND BED JUST BEFORE THE FRY RISE. BASS BED, TO BE PLACED ON POND IN EARLY SPRING AND FILLED WITH GRAVEL. BLACK BASS POND, SHOWING FRY RETAINERS IN USE—BED FRAMES REMOVED, chat tried to enter after him. On one occasion the male thus holding the pond was attacked by ten or twenty other males at one time, and after a long struggle was killed and his nest destroyed. The attempt to use small spawning ponds was then abandoned, and all the ponds were made of good size and with a central kettle and shallow shore area, as already described. The problem now was to prevent the fighting of the male fish and the consequent destruction of nest and eggs. I finally hit upon remedies for what seemed to be the two chief causes of this fighting. I had noticed that in the natural water the nests of the small-mouthed bass were frequently built against a stone or log, so as to be shielded on one side. When so built the nests might be quite close together, as near as four feet, and the fish did not fight, because they did not see one another when on the nest. On the other hand, if a bass nest was built where it was not shielded, the bass on that nest would prevent any other bass from building within twenty-five or thirty feet of him. It occurred to me to try to con- struct artificial nests, and shield them so that the fish on the nests could not see one another, placing the nests so near together as to fully utilize the pond area. In the spring, before the spawning season opened, the ponds were drawn down so as to expose the shallow ter- race along the shore. The terrace was then cleaned to a depth of about two inches of sediment and vegetation which had accumulated since the previous summer. Rectangular nest frames of inch board were made two feet square and without bottoms. On two adjacent sides spawning ground. They cleaned up the gravel and be- haved in the nests in every particular as they would on natural spawning grounds. ‘The first time we tried these shielded nests not a single bass made a nest outside of them, though there was plenty of good gravel bottom available for this purpose. As to the second cause of fighting: In 1900, when these nests were first tried, from 475 stock fish we obtairied 315,000 fry and 750 fingerlings. In the season of 1891 the output was very much Jess, and there was considerable fighting among the fish. This remained unexplained till the ponds were drawn down after the spawning season, when it appeared that although the fish had been sorted, the number of male fish was considerably in excess of the number of females, and these excess males, banding to- gether, went about breaking up the nests of their more fortunate brothers. It is now the practice when setting the nests to seine out the stock fish and sort them, putting about forty males to sixty females, thus removing the second source of fighting. During the present season from 493 adult fish we had produced 430,000 fry up to May 26, and we believe that we cun do as well every year. Up to the present year there have been two sources of loss incident to the water supply. The supply is a spring-fed brook, which runs over an open country before it teaches us. The water in this brook becomes quite warm on a hot, sunny day and cools off at night. The temperature thus falls at night sometimes as much as 13 degrees F, and becomes as low as 46 degrees F, This —— is disastrous, since when the temperature gets below 50 degrees F. the adult fish desert the nests and the eggs or young fry are killed by the sediment. By watching the temperature of the water and, when it approaches 50 degrees F., shutting off the supply until the water warms up, this difficulty is obviated. Since the ponds are well stocked with water plants the fish do not suffer from lack of oxygen when the water is shut off. Indeed, if the water did not leak out of the ponds, I doubt if it would be necessary to introduce any running water into them during the breeding season. The second difficulty with the water supply is from sediment brought down by the brook after heavy rains. This sometimes accumulates over the nests so thick as to smother the eggs and drive away the parent fish. By shutting. off the water supply whenever the water is muci roiled this trouble is avoided. The water supply, however, must be kept fairly con- stant. If the level lowers more than about six inches, the fish leave their nests and the eggs die. For the purpose of maintaining a constant water level it would probably be best to have the ponds made with clay bottoms. The diffi- culties arising from roily water of variable temperature are, however, local, and would probably not be usually encountered. Handling the Fry After They Rise from the Nest.— The small-mouthed fry have the habit of scattering into a large swarm when they leave the nest, and it is conse- quently difficult to seine them when wanted. It is there- fore desirable, just before the fry rise from the bottom, to set over each nest a cylindrical screen of cheese-cloth supported on a frame of band iron, first removing the wooden nest frame. The screen keeps the fry together. They thrive and grow within it and may be left there until one desires to ship them. The old fish stays outside and watches the screen. When this supply is gone, other crustacea may be taken from the pond with a tow net and placed inside the screen. The fry are removed from these screens directly to the shipping cans, as wanted. Raising the Fingerlings—The water in one of the ponds is lowered, the old fish seined out of the kettle and transferred to another pond; the pond is then refilled, and the: fry, now about one-half to three-fourths of an inche long, are put in. The water in the pond is thick with Daphnia and other crustacea, and these do not get out when the water is drawn off. The fry feed on them and the supply is usually sufficient; but if it gives out a fresh supply may be gathered from another pond and placed in the nursery pond. As the young bass grow they eat not only the Daphnia but young Corixa, and doubtless other aquatic animals. In 1901, fry one-half to three-fourths inch long were introduced into the nursery pond on July 12; on August 5 they were seined out and shipped, and were then two or three inches long. They had had none but the natural food. In three months these fish, under the same condi- tions, are four to six inches long. I have spoken so far of the small-mouthed bass, and it remains to say something of the large-mouthed, with which my experience is more limited. It is less necessary to resort to pond culture with them since, owing to the habit of the iry of keeping in a close swarm, they may be readily seined from their natural waters shortly after they have left the nests. In cultivating them in ponds I use the shielded nests already described, but make the bottom of some fiber, preferably Spanish moss bedded in cement, as has been suggested by Mr. Stranahan. This imitates the natural nest bottom and gives better results in our locality than the gravel nest. I do not place screens about the nests, since the young fry are so small that it is difficult to hold them with a screen, and since they may be readily taken with a seine when wanted, I allow the large-mouthed fry to leave the nests with the parent fish and seine them when wanted. Finally, I will sum up what seem to me to be important points in pond culture of small-mouthed black bass, the ponds being constructed, as is usual, on the model of a natural pond with a central kettle and shallow shore region, well grown up with water plants, and supplied with lake or brook water: 1. Fish should be so fed (with minnows) as to be in good condition in the spring. They should be sorted into the ponds in the spring in about the proportion of four males to six females. 3. Shielded nests should be used, arranged as already de- scribed—about one to each 100 square feet of shallow water. 4, The gravel in the nests should be carefully selected; it should contain sand and plenty of small stones. Water on the nesting grounds should be kept constantly at a level between 18 inches and 2 feet. 6. The water temperature should be kept constantly between 66 and 75 degrees F. (in our locality). 7. Roily water should be, as far as possible, kept out of the ponds ee the spawning season. F Fish should not be disturbed until the eggs are hatched. 9. The nests of the small-mouthed bass should be screened just before the fry rise from the bottom. The water should contain an abundance of natural food for the fry. The processes described are perhaps susceptible of im- provements, viz: 1. Special nursery ponds might be provided for rearing finger- lings. It is perhaps desirable to have the nest frames shielded on three sides instead of two sides, and made with a bottom; then when the fry rise from the nest, close the fourth side of the nest frame, by sliding a screen into it. In this way it would not be necessary to remoye the nest frame and put a screen over it, but the frame could be ‘left in place and the open side closed with a screefi. 3. If the ponds were made with clay bottoms, the water sup- ply could be entirely shut off during the breeding season, if necessary. CHICAGO AND THE WEST. Home Manufacture. It is rather a dangerous microbe, this of the home. manufacture of one’s sporting gear. As a _ business proposition it is pretty safe to say that a man who makes a business of rod building can put up a better rod than the amateur who perhaps makes a couple of dozen rods in his life. This fact, however, does not in the least deter the amateur rod maker. I have seen some very beautiful specimens of rod making done by my friends. As to buy- ing a rod built by a professional, the genuine red hot amateur would die first. ' ‘ : Again in the matter of tying flies. The fly-tying bacil- lus caught me a year or so ago, and I am still in its grip. j . nearly all their own flies. Marcr 28, 1903.7 ‘FOREST AND STREAM. 251 My stock of feathers, of colored silks, of-tinsels, crewels, wools, furs and the like is continually increasing. There is a certain drawer in a certain table of mine which looks like a nightmare, so inextricably confused therein are the different materials for fabricating artificial flies. For a long time I thought I should never learn to tie an arti- ficial fly, but this morning I put up a silver-doctor which, if I do say it myself, is a peach. I am much encouraged, and if all goes well I may, during the season, perhaps be able to turn out a few dozen more flies. I number in my acquaintance several gentlemen who tie It is getting now to a question of rivalry between some of us as to which can put up the best specimen, Two or three of these friends are as well equipped in material for fly-tying as the average factory which turns out these goods, It runs into a pretty penny, too, what with golden pheasants at $12, Japanese jays, Indian crows, blue chatterers, red macaw, and Providence alone knows how many other high priced luxuries of the sort. When it comes to giving six bits for one inch of a feather and laying down a $5 bill for a bitd skin tiot lenger than your forefinger, it may be seen that it takes some nerve to go into the business of artificial fly making. Yet a man who is content with a modest beginning can steal enough duck feathers in the market places to give him quite a start. The silks and tinsels do not amotnt to very much, It is the Jock-Scots and silver-doctors that prove the undoing of the man who manufactures his flies at home. A Home-Made Fly-Book. Speaking of this sort of thing reminds me that to-day my friend, Mr. John D. McLeod, of Milwaukee, dropped into the office. He brought with him, on purpose to show to me, a brand new fly-book of his own manufacture, This is the best thing of the sort I have ever seen, and the dealer who can get the patent will be in luck, The fly-book itself is made of good calf leather, and has leaves to hold about sixteen dozen flies. The leaves of the book are altogether different from any I have ever seen. They are made of celluloid bound with leather. An ingenious arrangement of rubber bands serves to hold firm the ends of the snells. A little metal clip of Mm McLeod’s own devising holds the hook flat and firm to the leaves of the book, Most peculiar of all in this home-made fly-book !s the arrangement of metal clips at the back. At will Mr. McLeod can take out all the leaves of his fly-book and spread them out in a long string on the table if he so desires, leaving the leather cover of the book, with its pockets for leaders, etc., separate and distinct from the leaves holding the flies. Folded up, the celluloid leaves can be put back firmly in place in an instant. The whole affair makes the best fly-book I have yet seen. All the work on it was done by Mr. McLeod, whom I class as the most inventive and most effective amateur workman in angling gear I have ever known. When he wants a new sort of pliers to cut off a hook, or a new rod spear, or a new reel seat, or anything of that kind, he simply sits down and makes it. He can wind his own rods, mend his own broken ferrules and all that sort of thing like a pro- fessional, though, strange to say, he has never yet learned to tie his own artificial flies. Mr. Graham H. Harris and myself take pity on Mr, McLeod and will this spring finish stocking up all the leaves of his home-made fly-book with our own home-made flies. It is agreed between us that as quick as the trout get their tails thawed out this spring we are to go up and meet Mr. McLeod and Mr. au and try some of these new-fangled things on the ine. Spring in the Country, Spring in the city may be diagnosed in any one of several different ways. One sign of approaching spring is the removal of the cleats of the railway platforms. Another is the appearance of the small boy playing mar- bles in the streets. Yet another, and perhaps the most certain of all signs, is the appearance of the old woman who seJls bunches of sassafras. There are different ways of telling when spring comes in the city. Spring in the country is a different thing. Presently the snow will have melted away from the blacker surfaces of the plowed fields, and will lie only in the drifts in the fence corners or under the hedge rows. There will be a subtle change in the feeling of the air. Now and again thunder will be heard, and presently rains will dissolve all the little snow remaining and set the empty ditches trickling along the roadways. vent of spring with more joy than the city dweller, for to him winter has been somethingeof a long imprisonment. Now he goes out and stretches his arms and turns his face up to the sky. He feels this stbtle change in the moving airs, As he looks out over his field, he sees the soft green robe of the winter wheat rolling away in easy curves. Down in the uncut cornfields the cattle which have “roughed it through” the winter crackle around in the broken stalks, finding here and there a blade of dried maize still clinging. The cattle are rough of coat and thin of flank, but they, too, feel the coming of the spring, One might almost think that the faces of the dumb beasts shaw the touch of a greater hope. The farmer moyes about his barnyards and pasture lots and cornfields. lane fence. “Cope! Cope! Cope!” he calls; and the horses, young and old, understand him and come up, ex- pecting a bit of feed, perhaps a pinch of salt, or something else delectable in the horse menu, The farmer calls out to the cattle, “Co-boss! Co-boss! Co-boss!”+ This is the language correct for cattle, and is alone understood by them. The ragged yearlings and the gaunt “threes” and “fours” strugele Gut from the broken stalks to see what good fortune may have in store for them, now that spring has come. The farmer calls to the sheep in the pasture, “Co-Nan! Co-Nan! Co-Nannie!” This is the language of the sheep, not meet for any other animal. The sheep understand it. Here and there appears a weak and wabbling little lamb, tumbling along on ungainly legs, among the woolly flock which crowd up to the gates, bleating in hopes of some- thing special on this morning of approaching spring. The farmer wanders toward the barnyard, “Poo-ee! Poo-ee! Poo-ee! Pig-pig-pig!” he calls: and with grunt ing and squealing response, the swine come filing out from under the barn and from their warm nests around the foot of the straw stack. Even the pigs, big and little; ex- pect some greater kindness of fortune, now that spring has come. The farmer hails the ad- - He calls up the horses to the bars of the The farmer may not be much of a poet, yet never was a farmer who did not feel a change of heart upon this advent of the springtime. He hears, even though he does not realize it, the song of the bluebird and the throaty, choking melody of the robin. Now and again he casts an eye toward the upper blue as he hears coming down the honk of the north-bound wild geese. He notes the mal- lards sweeping around gracefully over the center of his cornfield, looking for a stray kernel of shattered corn as feed in this season not yet grown fruitful. The farmer will note presently, even though unconsciously, the swell- ing of the little green buds along the willows and maples and the cottonwoods. He will note the oak and the elm beginning to grow green again; will see the soft leaves of the alders along the streams putting out long films cf green. Presently, too, even though he himself may not be a fisherman, he will note the splashes here and there along the fringe of bushes at the creek side. His son, if he be observant, as all farmers’ boys should be, will know that when the young leaves of the oak tree are as big as a squirrel’s ear it is time te go fishing for black bass. It is time to go fishing, or will be now very soon. The farmer's wife also comes to the door, her hands under her apron; and she, too, looks about and feels the change in the ait, and notices the green things, and hears the singing things. She will not be sorry, the farmer’s wife, when the time for fishing shall haye come. To her it means the arrival from that far-off and mysterious City of two of three, four or five, or more, of her regular spting yisitors—men strangely moved to come hundreds of miles for the pursuit of small and insignificant fishes. Why they come, the farmer’s wife can never understand. Why they take such interest in the doings of yellow- legeed chickens she cannot undetstand. Why butter and milk and eggs and trout Should seem so much matters of desire is entirely outside her comprehension. She only knows that her gentlemen will come again this spring, because they have written her to that effect. When the wagon goes over to the railway for them, the farmer’s wife will go to the window fifty times in the afternoon, waiting to see it return with its new passengers upon the seats, passengers who’ are more eager than herself; who wave hands and hats to her as they drive up into the yard. phim . To city dwellers and country dwellers the coming of spring 1s a great and joyous thing, the sweetest of all the year. Presently spring will be here for this current year. I wish it may be a very pleasant one for all, whether . dwellers of city or of country. - Why? I remember once seeing in a New York magazine, purporting to cater’ to the interests of sportsmen, a statement which caused me to blush with shame for my fellow man. The article in question was written by a sportsman of the unmistakable city type. He was making a trip out into the country, perhaps an infre- quent thing for him to do, In the course of his travels he saw a farmer in the field. Most Americans would be content to call a farmer a farmer. This young man thought best to refer to the farmer as a “yokel.’ He had no doubt seen the word thus descriptively applied to some members of the lower classes in England. Perhaps he saw the word in the dictionary. Perhaps he felt himself a bit of an aristocrat in using this par- ticular appellation. It was many years ago that I saw this, but to this day I do not forget it. There was such al air of superiority about the article that I felt myself blush even to-day when J bring the thing to mind. When an American gets too good for America, and when a city man gets too good for the American peo- ‘ple, I blush for him, and it is not altogether so much a biush of pity as it is of anger. Just why a man who lives in the city ought to think himself in any wise superior to one who lives in the country, is something I could never understand. Yet I know there are certain persons who live in the city and who call themselves sportsmen, who rather feel that they are conferring a favor upon a rural commun- ity when they honor it with their presence. I am very sure that, were the country dwellers of this land to go into the city and take the liberties with the private property of a city dweller, which certain objection- able members of the latter class time and again take with the property of farmers, there would be immediate resentment shown, and not without cause. As a matter. of fact, when we city shooters or fishers go out into the country and begin to wander across the fields and along the streams, we are simply taking for granted the courtesy and tolerance of the men who own the land over which we pass. The farmer of America is, for the most, by instinct, a gentleman. He has the American sentiment in his soul which makes for free- dom and equality. He does not want to be stingy or selfish. He does not want to shut any man, city man or country man, out of the enjoyment of such pleas- ures as his place can offer. At the same time all these privileges are his own by right, part, and not necessity, which moves him to permit the crossing of his fields and the trampling of his meadows. The city man has no right of his own on the lands of this “yokel,” as the caddish correspondent above quoted had it in his story. Just why a man who owns broad acres and who is independent and sure of a liv- ing should not be just as good as some little sprig from. the city, who, perhaps, makes $10 or $20 a week, and fails to make both ends meet at the end of the year, is something which I myself could never understand. This unconscious arrogation of superiority. on the part of the city man is something wrong. It is not that feeling of fellowship which ought to exist between man and man, It feebly attempts to set up those class distinc- tions which ought not to exist in this country or any other. Moreover, it makes toward the destruction of sport. The city man who is a man at heart, who can carry his own end of the log anywhere in life, is pretty sure to meet a good reception wherever he goes in the country. In any case, he is apt to get more than his just deserts. Not as a method of getting ‘sport, but simply for the right of the thing and simply for the perpetual rebuke of any such persons as may write of “yokels” in America, I bespeak the meeting of city man and country man upon the simple plane of man- hood, as man to man, with the dwelling place left out, Tt is tolerance on his. We all have to work hefe in this world, and our time: is short enough at best. It was a great saying, that of Bertie the Lamb, who described his fellow men at the club, “Every fellow at the club,” said Bertie;, “thinks he is a devil of a fellow.” But he isn’t.” In- deed, none of us is a devil of a fellow. We are all just folks. E, Houca. Hartrorp Buripine, Chicago, Ill. Foreign Fish and Fishery Notes. Russian Fish Poison, THe St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences has offered three prizes, the first of five thousand, the second of fifteen. hundred, and the third of one thousand rubles for the most meritorious essays upon the so-called Russian fish poison, resulting from badly cured or iff kept fish. With the mass of the Russian people cured fish ts a food staple and much sickness, oftentimes mortal, results from indiscriminate indulgence. Contestants may submit their essays in Russian, Latin, French, English or German to the Minister of Agriculture, St. Petersburg, Russia, untih October I, 1903. A Fish Transportation, A company has been formed in Luzerne, Switzerland\. for the long distance transportation of living fish in patented oxygenated receptacles. At the recent Interna- tional Fishery Exhibition at -Vienna, a consignment of living trout leaving Salzburg September 2 arrived in 13%: hours, the entire lot being delivered in excellent condition, thereby securing the company the award of a medal. In- voices of living fish are now regularly shipped from the Swiss lakes to various German cities, and similar ship- - ments of salt water fish are safely and expeditiously effected from Venice. he receptacles. are described as being formed of wood and tin and in shape like a milk can. Within the outer-package is a steel cylinder, stup- plied with an automatic contrivance that furnishes the vitalizing oxygen in due quantity. After filling the outer partition with water, the fish are placed therein, the oxy- gen cylinder opened, the receptacle closed and sealed, whereupon it is teady for shipment. The company charges twenty-four dollars a year for the use of the re- ceptacles, in addition to a fee for refilling the cylinder with gas:' A late Luzerne paper, after commenting upon the yexation, annoyance and loss that has hitherto at- tended the efforts of Swiss hotel keepers to supply their guests with fish in perfect condition, expresses its antici- pation that the invention will revolutionize the fish trade, but such possibility, in American eyes, will appear very remote. Fish Preserving. A Berlin, Germany, process for keeping fish is -thus described: The fish, when caught, is opened, its interior strewn with sugar, and then laid aside for several days, so that the sugar may fully permeate the tissues. It is alleged that fish so treated may be kept a considerable time, and that if subjected to such process before being smoked or salted, the flavor is materially improved. This ex- pedient may possibly commend itself to some of our sum- mer anglers, for on a blazing hot day a resort to the saccharine treatment might enable them to deposit their catch in the larder with a reasonable assurance of its sweetness. A. H. Gouraun. San Francisco Fly-Casting Club. Medal Contests—Series 1903. Saturday, Contest No.. 2. Held at Stow Lake, March 14. Wind S. W. Weather fair. Judges, Kierulff and Reed; Referee, F. J. Lane; Clerk, Brotherton. Event Event Event No.1, No, 2, 0, 4, Distance, Accuracy, ———Event No, 8———. | Lure Feet. Percent. Acc.% Del.% Net% Casting $ aR athte ees w 95 88.4 O23 83.4 88 86.8 W. E. Brooks 95 83.4 86.4 80 83.2 a T. W. Brotherton 116 88.4 86.8 83. 85 97.1 PRRs Gato 90.8 90.4 88.4 89.4 96.2 G, C. Edwards... 93 85.4 94.8 86.8 90.8 88.1 oz adellem voor 80 82.8 98.8 91 91.10 89.7 C. R. Kenniff 100 84.4 88.8 92.6 90.7 98.6 T. C. NKierulff... 82 82.4 90.8 82.6 86.7 83 G We. Lane..t.. 79 7a 86.8 $1.8 84.2 - Dr hey) Wanet.S. 76 70 73.4 71.8 oe E. A. Mocker... 101 67.8 93.4. 81.8 87.6 83.7 peels weed ance iol 87.8 91.4 93.4 92,4 Ee C. G. Young.... 96 88.8 94 91.8 . 92.40 97.5 Medal Contests—Series 1903. Sunday, Contest No. 2. Held at Stow Lake. Wind S. W. Weather fair. Judges, Mansfield and Kierulff; Referee, Brooks; Clerk, Brother- ton. 5 ; ; C. G. Young.. 94 89 93.8 87.6 90.7 89.7 He Eieeeitcerltces 100 90 92.4 80.10 86.7 vs F. M. Haight... 86 87.8 82.4 75.10 79.1 f. T. W. Brotherton 117 87.4 92.8 88.4 90.6 95.7 Je, (Bs AKennifivi, .. 92.4 93 89.2 91.1 88.9 Ga WElry.close se aes 9 92.4 oe My o we fal leaagh Aee 82 92 82.6 87.3 91.7 Dr W Brooks... 103 89 86.8 85 85.10 oe. A, M. Blade-...: 84 91.8 88.8 74,2 81.5 - j. Hanon it. 79.8 « or AP ‘a C. R. Kenniff... 102 92 92.4 86.8 89.6 97.6 Ga Wim atest sansa: 78.8 86 76.8 81.4 ee, H, G. Golcher,.. 120 83 87.4 89.2 88.8 mt W OD Mansfeld. ... 93.4 94.4 89.2 91.9 97 T. C. Kierulff... 88 92.4 91.8 82.6 87-1 90.2 Dr. F. J. Lane.. 88 82.8 82.4 78.4 80.4 rs: An Idea for Fishermen. Dutch fishermen have made some remarkable catches by means of a very simple expedient. They put a number of liye worms and insects into a_bottle partly filled with water, which is then securely corked. The bottle is dropped into the water, and the fisherman sinks his line alongside. It appears that the wriggling contents of the bottle so fempt the fish that they fall easy victims to the baited hooks.—Exchange. BRRRRREERERREEREREE EE ERERRRREKER ERENT Take inventory of the good things in this issue of Forest AND Stream. Recall what a fund was given last week. Count on what is to come nest. week. Was there ever in all the world a more abundant weekly store of sportsmen’s reading? 252 FOREST*-AND STREAM. [Marcr 28, 1003. The Fennel. Fixtutes. March 25-28.—Chicago.—Show of Chicago Kennel Club. March 30-31.—St. Louis.—Show of St. Louis Collie Club. March 31-April 3.—Buffalo, N. Y.—Show of Buffalo Kennel Club. April 1-4—New Orleans, La.—Show of Southwestern Kennel lub, : April 1-4.—Victoria, B. C.—Show of Victoria Kennel Club. Seah 8-11.—Atlantic City, N. J._-Show of Atlantic City Kennel ub. May 29-30.—Hempstead, L. I.—Open air show of Ladies’ Kennel Association of America. Nov. 3-6.—New York.—Annual show of Latlies’ Kennel Associa- tion of America. ‘ Canine Elegies and Epitaphs. XXXV.—Souter Johnny’s Death. From the Jacksonport, Mo., ‘‘Cash Book,” May, 1882. At his home in Jackson, on Saturday, May 13, 1882, of poison, deal by some unknown person, died Souter John, a dog. In his death, a young Rodman Irish setter of the finest blood and fairest promise has been taken off. It would have been hard to find any- where a dog to match Souter John before the gun. His sight, his nose and his hearing were perfection; his action superb, and his endurance wonderful. For these qualities, together with his obedience and sagacity, his beauty of form and graceful move- ment, his master, Mr. Thomas McFarland, prized him as a jewel, and besides, he was admired and caressed by every sports- man who knew him. Souter John was whelped at Edgar, Neb., May 22, 1880, and was brought to Jackson when seven months old. He leaves behind him his brother, Tam O’Shanter, and his aged father, Shidy, to mourn his untimely death. . Come doggies all, baith old an’ nimble, Wha hunt the paitrick in the bramble, ~ Or cottontail, ‘ An’ ilka puppy quit his gambol, To weep an’ wail. Yo Let ilka tail now drag the ground, An’ ilka doggie stand around gy! Where Johnny’s dead, An’ howl an’ how! wi’ mournful sound Aboon his head. F ig All ye wha like the fields to scour Wi’ gun an’ dog for mony an hour In chill October, When frosts hae nipp’d the weed an’ flower, Come an’ look sober. For John, the prince of every setter, Lies stiff an’ cold down in the gutter, To hunt na mair; Than him na kennel kept a better Onywhere. Ah, Tam, your brother Souter John, Maybe you think’s a-hunting gone Just for to-day; But, Tam, the trail puir Johnny’s on Leads far away. Vile wretch wha dealt the poison! Surely He canna go to hell too early; For him sae mean Old Hornie’s fires are blazing clearly, An’ pretty keen. Ye Fates wha fill the hazy breezes Wi’ foul contagion an’ diseases To pester man, An’ ilka ake an’ cramp that squeezes, Do all ye can, ‘ To mix all your ills in hellish jumble, An’ mak’ a curse an’ Jet it tumble ‘ Upon his pate. Lord, hear this prayer, sincere an’ humble, An’ grant it straight. Donald. Mr. Grorcr BATTEN’s orange and white setter, Donald, died at Duncannon, Barnwell, S. C., February 23. He was nearly ten years old, and for nine years had been his mas- ier’s constant companion. He died on one of these annual visits to South Carolina. nts ; He was a knightly gentleman among his kind, with all . the inherited virtues of the blue blood that coursed through his veins, and not a mongrel meanness had dark- ened any moment of his life. Brave, yet gentle, honest and true as sunshine, faithful and unselfish, nursing no rancor and unforgetting every kindness of word or caress, one might imagine that some human soul had been given him, that by the penance of such service as he could give seme sin—some wrong of cruel meastre—might be bleached and expiated. , To the master he was better far than chattel—a friend in more than the word implies in human uses. He could, it seemed, read the varying moods that vexed or pleased the busy brain of his captain of industry, and his silent sympathy or glad rejoicing manifested a love that knew no weakening, but that grew with greater swiftness than his years heaped up its evidences. _To the little ones of ihe master’s family he was a guardian above and beyond any temptation of bribery, with never a whisper of fear nor a thought of cowardice, and a teacher, too, of perfect self-sacrifice and patient and loving service; and childish eyes were dim and wet with tears when they were told that Donald would never again walk or play with them. It was his destiny to have a home close to the heart of a throbbing, busy metropolis, but how gladly when the autumn days brought the time of his annual outing would he speed from the cramped quarters of city to the broad fields of the sunny South, and give free play to his won- drous knowledge of the craft of bird life. No “phantom covey ever eluded the almost supernatural instinct which guided him aright; whether it was beneath some deserted cabin, as once he proved the reality of the wily birds to the chagrin of his baffled comrades, or among the brown leaves of some friendly tree. There was a very riot of happiness in his heart and soft brown eyes when. the master, following him afield, had brought to earth the swift-Aying quail, and refreshed his quivering nostrils with a whiff of its fresh fragrance. ; ‘ And death was very good to come to him there amidst the scenes of his happy hunting days, in his ripe old age. Rosin. On the sward at “Duncannon,” in the comfort and warmth of the noonday sunshine, with the whistle of the quail echoing from the far-off fields, he passed into the dreamless sleep. And as the night shades fell he was laid te rest upon a bed of rustling leaves; boughs of evergreen strewn above, and the kindly soil heaped upon the worn out faithful friend. _ There, at the base of a mighty holly tree, brave with its coronal of scarlet berries and unfading leaves, Donald rests in his long Christmas slumber. And not soon will that touching scene be forgotten by the mourners there: the master, who shall never again hear him “Bay deep- mouth'd welcome” home; the fair and gracious mistress of “Duncannon ;” the sable sextons, or the writer. And thither shall the writer make many pilgrimages with Byron, the grandson of that peerless grandsire; the one to pay honor to the memory of a loving friend; the other (let us hope) to draw such inspiration from the scene as will make him, at home and afield a worthy scion of the grand “old man.” P. M. BuckIncHAM. BarnwWeE tt, S. C, The Dog and the Law. A BRIEF review of how the dog has been regarded by the law in the State of Massachusetts may perhaps be of interest with the reader, as well as contain sugges- tions of profit with him. And the first distinction under the statutes of this State worthy of note is that. drawn between the owner and the keeper of a dog. It has been decided on more occasions than one that the keeper, and not the owner, of a dog is liable for neglect to keep him properly collared, licensed and re- strained, provided the keeper and owner are not one and the same person. The justice and fairness of such a ruling is apparent at the first glance. How shall the owner of a dog which he has entrusted to the charge of another, know that he is being properly cared for? The law excuses him from this responsibility, as well as assists him in holding one commissioned with the care of his animal responsible for this attention. . As to the license itself, some interesting decisions have been handed down by the court. One is to the effect that if one purchases an unlicensed dog-after the 30th _of April in any year, the limit of the time allowed for taking out a-license, he is not liable to any penalty for neglecting to have him licensed and numbered until the same day and month in the following year. Doubtless the same would hold good as to puppies born after the re- quired date of licensing. Another decision worthy of note is as to the nature of the license. The court on this occasion said that “A license to keep a yellow and white dog named Dime will not authorize the keeping of a black Newfoundland dog named Nigg,’ the difficulty being that the description is an essential part of the license, so that it would be- come void in case one dog dies and another is purchased in its place, the license being not to keep a dog, but a cer- tain dog, numbered and described. . When a dog may be regarded as “being at large,” and not under the control of its owner, is a question which has received much attention in our courts. One ruling is to the effect that he is still at large if he be loose and following the person who has charge of him, through the streets of a town, at such a distance that he cannot exercise control over him which will prevent his doing mischief. owner’s land, has been held to be not at large, and a con- stable or other person who pursues him while on the land and shoots him is liable for the damage he thus causes. As a general thing the owner of a dog is liable for the injury which he may inflict to one’s person or prop- erty, but not if he venture wilfully within his reach, knowing him to be savage, or madden or tease him. Grown people are supposed to exercise more caution in these matters than children. The court has said, “The owner of a dog which has inflicted an injury on a child cannot exempt himself from the liability imposed by statute because it appears that the child did not act with the discretion and judgment of a person of mature years, but he is liable if the child was bitten while using such care as is usual with children of its age.” In order to recover damages from the owner of a dog it is not necessary to prove that he was aware of the vicious character of the animal, or that the dog was accustomed to bite, or had been known to bite on former occasions. One of the cases decided bearing upon the liability of the owner of a dog for injuries done to property must surely prove of interest with every owner of a dog. It is, in substance, that when two or more dogs together, belonging to different persons, inflict injury upon the property of another, each owner can be held responsible only for the wrong done by his own dog, and cannot be held accountable for that of any of the others. This case dates back to the year 1838. Some dogs had been worrying and killing sheep, and the owner of them brought suit against the owner of one of the dogs for the full amount of the damage. But the court held that it was only justice that “he should be held liable for the damage done by his dog alone, and not by the dog of another.” Tn still another case it was decided that if a dog owned in this State strays into another State, and there bites a person, its keeper cannot be held liable for the injury. This seems almost without just reason at first thought, but with further consideration the line of reasoning be- comes evident, The plaintiff brought suit, relying on the law of Massachusetts for his justification, but the law of the place where a wrong is committed determines its penalty, and as the accident happened in New Hampshire, and no evidence was offered as to what the law of this State was as to injuries inflicted by stray dogs, the action could not be maintained. A case of much more recent decision. contains a warn- ing which every owner of a dog should take well to heart. It afarms that if a statute exists requiring dogs to be equipped with a collar, even though licensed, a dog cannot be allowed to roam about without-a collar, and an officer who finds one thus is justified in shooting it, even though he knows at the time that it is licensed. This, perhaps, may seem harsh at first, but it is simply fulfilling the requirement of law, ; ne er ee eee — A dog at play with its owner’s son, upon the | Many have made the mistake of imagining that they have a perfect right to appropriate as their own a dog that is not licensed and that is found at large, but such is not the case, and its actual owner can recover it, or its market value, if it cannot be produced, in an action at aw. _In a general way it may be said that as a whole the dog license laws are beneficial to the owners of these animals, since they recognize and protect their rights in them.— — A. K. C. Gazette. Bachting. The Cruise of Tainui. BY L, E, MARSH, TORONTO. Winner of First Prize in “Forest and Stream” Cruising Competition, Another day’s drift! At noon we passed Thirty Mile Point Light, and at 5.30 we were two miles off Oak Orchard. At dark we made the piers and tied up. Oak Orchard piers, like Olcott piers, extend straight out into the lake from a creek. There is good shelter from everything except a blow from the north. We found the place as flat as dishwater, and after a couple of hours’ strolling and stumbling about in the darkness—the village boasts of two hotels, three houses and a candy shop, where you can buy shoelaces and fishing tackle—we serenaded the sad sea waves with a few popular songs, and the combined music of a clario- net, a mouth organ, a dinner bell and a fish horn, and then turned in. In the mornine—Wednesday, July 30—half the crew spent an hour trying to locate bread and eggs and were soundly rated by the Skipper when they got back because in, their absence a breeze had sprung up which he was not able to take advantage of. After a hasty breakfast we started. But'a mile out the breeze hauled dead ahead and dropped light. After bucking about for an hour we quit the game and headed back for the harbor. With the wind aft we jogged along at a neat clip. The breeze freshened just as we reached the piers and we headed down shore again. Again we doddled along all day, with the wind light, off shore, and so far ahead that the crew had to lie to leeward, and an instant’s inattention at the helm set all her duds a-shaking. At noon Canadian, of Hamilton, a 35-footer; Naomi, of the same port, a 30-foot yawl; Vesta, of Toronto, a 25-footer, and Merrythought and Vreda, two of the first-class cutters of the Toronto fleet, passed us running free. At 4.30 P. M. the entire crew deserted the ship. She was two miles off shore and only 18 miles from Oak. Orchard. We rowed to terra firma and spent a couple of hours roaming around. A collection of raspberry bushes, a cherry tree and an old yacht occupied us, and a few impromptu races straightened our cramped limbs. Away in the offing lay our little craft as silent and im- movable as “a painted ship upon a painted ocean.” In the gathering dusk she looked as big as a coal schooner. When we returned to the craft, for lack of something else to do, we turned to and scrubbed her down from water-line to cabin top. Another night’s drift! At midnight we had passed Braddock’s Point Light, which was only six miles away at dusk. At 3 o’clock the Skipper roused me out. He pointed out a light over the bows. “That’s the Genesee Light,” he said. I steered for that light. I sang and whistled and held her bow for the twinkling point. A little squall came down, and the light which had been dodging me assiduously the last hour, seemed to tower above the mast head, and the black shore streak appeared on both sides of the craft. T rubbed my eyes but there was the light and there was the shore. ; “Hey, Bill,’ I roared, “what in thunder is this?” Skipper Bill bumped his head hard a couple of times before he reached the cabin hatch. He poked his head over the cabin top, gazed a second, and then fell all over himself, and me too, in an eager dive for the stick. ‘Base those sheets,” he shouted, and he yanked the tiller hard up, and we hustled for the open sea again. When well off shore we sighted Charlotte lights, still six miles ahead. The light I had been steering for was an arc light on a stimmer resott hotel piazza, and I would have landed ihe craft and her sleeping crew up against the hotel regis- ter had the Skipper not tumbled up when he did. ~The Genesee lights disappeared in the gray light of the dawn and still we drifted. At ten o’clock we were ~ in Charlotte harbor. After a lively afternoon and even- ing in Charlotte a very tired crew sought their bunks in a rainstorm. In the morning—Friday, Aug. I—we paid a visit to the new clubhouse of the Rochester Yacht Club, and at eleven o'clock, in spite of a theatening sky, we stood out on a compass course, due north, for Presque Isle Bay, across the lake. Just outside the harbor a neat little rain squall came down to bid us bon voyage. Just to be sociable we tied in a couple of tucks, but the wind shifted {from abeam to a point or two aft and soon the Skipper was shouting for more canvas. He got it, and soon the shore line disappeared, Out in midlake we passed drift- ing logs and limbs—evidences of a storm on the Canadian shore—and during the afternoon the wind gradually hauled ahead. First it came from the northwest. There. was fio sleeping below to-day. We hung out upon the weather rail while the little hooker chased along, her lee covering board awash, and a big white bone in her tceth. I tell you we enjoyed that day’s work, following, as it did, a week of miserable drifting. In early evening we were plunging along in a good lump of a sea and the wind shifted a bit more north, For awhile we laid a course a couple of points east of north. Then the wind came out of the northeast, and we went about and laid our true course again. It looked dirty, but we lugged all our canvas. One by one the lights along the Pri Edward shore appeared—Scotch Bonnet, Weller’s Bay— and Presque Isle cluster right ahead. At ten o’clock the wind shifted off shore and commenced to “fan out.” We Prince Marc# 28, 1903.] took a stretch to the west, but as the wind kept heading us off the Skipper held on that stretch and at 3.30 A, M. we made Cobourg. At eight o’clock the next day—Saturday, Aug. 2—we set out on another drift, and there was much profanity. At nine o’clock the wind came off the lake and over the quarter. hours’ excellent sailing, we were off Presque Isle and had dowsed the foresail so that we might take the nar- row torttious channel in comfort. We went down the channel as if we were tied to a runaway engine, gybed around the light in the center of the bay and headed down the Murray canal. Running with only the mainsail and jib the rocky banks of the canal raced by us at a metry clip. It was a glorious sail. We simply sat and grinned at each other and enjoyed the fun. The man at the first bridge saw us coming, and gaye us a clear passage in ampie time. At the next bridge we had to round up in the narrow channel, about 50 feet in width, and pay tolls. Fifty yatds away the Skipper sent a man forward with a line. Another man was stationed on the jib sheets, while a third took the main sheet. A slip or a hitch, at the critical moment, meant the loss of a spar or a dam- aged bow. When the schooner’s horn almost touched the bridge pier in the center of the channel, down went the lielm. The main sheet was roused in smartly, and the jib was started. Around she came, in a little better than her own length, and laid up against the booms on the canal bank as if men on shore had handled her with bow and stern lines. The Skipper hustled ashore to pay up, for we were holding the watch upon the trip through the canal. Three minutes later we were away again, and had the foresail on her. Wing and wing we swept along. Below the next bridge a big paddle wheel steamer hove in view. A two foot wall of water kept pace with her up the canal, The captain of the steamer never offered to slacken speed. On she came, churning up the water in the narrow channel. To pass her was a ticklish proposi- tion. She altered her helm a trifle and we swept by, our foreboom gazing the stones on the bank to starboard, and our mainboom just clearing the steamer’s guard rail. Bang! and we plunged into the first roll. The masts whipped threateningly and the crew hustled for the jumper stays. Down they came before the craft had time to ram more than a couple of the short rollers. She fairly leaped the broken water. As she rose on the big ones, the half gale behind peaked her booms up and fairly lifted her across the intervening hollow, and smashed her into the next one. We had a couple oi minutes of this lively work and then we struck our even gait again. : The Bay of Quinte! + We made the trip through the canal, 614 miles, in 45 minutes, including the three-minute delay at the tool office. That’s going some. At least it was a fast stunt for a pot-bellied little 25-footer loaded with dunnage. Out into the bay we shot, gybed over our mainsail, and set her on her course for Trenton, three miles away. The Bay of Quinte is noted for its squalls—short and sharp. We were introduced to the Bay of Quinte brand right on the threshold. Just as we gybed over a squall hit us and the sheets as*they shot across the deck caught Cul- ham around the neck. They tightened up with a mighty jerk and sawed Charlie’s throat. His lamentations were quite audible above the whistling wind and clashing waters. The squalls kept us hyking out, all the way in, and the Skipper was about to order in the foresail, when he sighted a dozen boats and a dock crowded with people. The Trenton fleet—a nondescript collection of deep draughts, scows, catboats, skiffs and other craft—was hard at it out in the bay, cracking on every stitch and hustling for the finishing buoy just off the dock end. “Hump! We can’t shorten down with that bunch out there carrying everything,” said the Skipper, and we left the foresail on her, We were running a bit freer than they were and reached the buoy first’ Wesrounded up just for luck, and then bore away, and hustled into the dock, like a projectile from a gun, We came in so fast that those on the end of the dock crowded in alarm, but the Skipper jammed the helm down at the proper in- stant, and we rounded up without accident. She threat- ened to head reach too far, but Clark swinging a loop like a westerner lassoed a post and snubbed her up. It was just 3.30. An hour later almost to a minute we were away again with a snug meal tucked under our waist bands. We were bound for Belleville, 12 miles down the bay. The bay is narrow. In some places it is two or three miles broad, while in others it narrows down to a quarter or half a mile. Sometimes you are sailing dowa a narrow reach between two high banks, and again the wind comes at you from over a flat'country. In the Bay of Quinte keep your weather eye a-lifting, and your sheets ready to let go on the instant, for the squalls are quick and hard, and they come over the hills without warning. One minute you are doddling along with slack sheets, and the next instant your sheets are taut as bow- strings, and a couple of tucks looks about the proper thing. But to come back to the Belleville trip. We chased down the bay at an eight-knot clip and at six oclock were sounding our horns for the Belleville swing bridge. Inside the bridge the channel buoys made a long detour into the harbor docks. The Skipper was in a hurry. We cut the buoys. C-r-r-r—swish! The centerboard rose up and smote the cabin roof, and the booms, still well off, swddenly a . . peaked up into the air as we checked against a gravel shoal. The Skipper gybed all his canvas and stood out from the shoal. No damage was done so we hoisted all the board and held away on the short course again. “We'll see if we can find another shoal,” cried the Skipper as we bowled along. -We did not locate any more shoals, and I, for one, was not sorry, for it was a mystery to me what kept her sticks in when we struck. ’ We hit hard enough to have cleared her at the decks. - We tied up alongside of a beautiful water front park, made snug the ship, and toddled uptown to find a bar- ber. The knight of the razor and comb rubbed his eyes when the sunburned, tousle-headed, bristly-faced collec- tion of mariners stormed his shop, At Belleville we saw the first of 2 new brand of sailing It freshened rapidly and at noon, after three | FOREST AND STREAM. ee which is popular with the Bay of Quinte amateur sailors. They are little skiffs or punts, square-sided and flat- bottomed. They had a sheer on them which made thein Icok like a combination of rocking chair- and English’ punt. They were sloop rigged. The great peculiarity about these mosquitoes was the steering gear. A seven foot oar, with a curved stock, was pivoted in a rowlock on the counter. When the steersman wanted to put about, he reached over to leeward with his blade and threw his weight upon the handle. The boat came about ‘without any more ado. In light airs the steering oar is decidedly handy. A pull puts the boat about no matter what her headway, There was no such thing as getting in irons with such a steering gear. We left Belleville in the gray dawn of Sunday morning—Aug. 3. It was four o’clock when the shrill creaking of halyard blocks woke drowsy Clark. At 5.30 we were at Massassauga Park, feur miles east. Just as we pulled into the dock Clark, who had been trolling, yanked ott a black bass, the first fish caught on the trip. Immediately all was excitement. “A fish fry! A fish fry!” shouted Clark, and in spite of a drizzling rain we improvised fishing rods, and with grasshoppers for bait fished for bass. Inside of half an hour we had a dozen or fifteen and Chef Culham soon had an appetizing panful awaiting us. Even a down- pour failed to spoil our breakfast on the unprotected deck. We donned our oilskins and fed as well as if we had our-knees under a millionaire’s mahogany. After the rain the wind. It came down hard. Just off the park we passed Vedette of Toronto bound west. The trip to Deseronto was a delightful one. The sun came out and the wind blew fresh over the quarter. Half way down a big sloop challenged us, but after half an hour’s sailing the hooker showed her heels to the stranger and we gave him our war cry, “Tainui, Tainui, T-a-i-n-u-i! Rah! Rah!” and proceeded. Outside Deseronto we swung into Forester’s Island and found plenty of water close to the shore. After a trip over this pretty little island and an inspection of the wigwam of Oronhyatekha, the Indian head of this big order, we set sail for the great lumber town of Dese- ronto. It blew a gale down Picton Reach, and we were glad to hustle for shelter with a dowsed foresail. Lumber, lumber, everywhere, describes Deseronto. The entire water front is a 20-foot rampart of lumber and the piles extend a quarter of a mile inland. Dese- tonto, a few years ago, was swept by a conflagration, which originated in the lumber district, and now ex- traordiary precautions are taken against fire. Smoking is not allowed in the lumber district at all. Clark and Culham discovered this fact early. Arm in arm they stepped on the dock, each with a lighted pipe. “No smoking here, young fellow,’ growled. a burly chap on the dock. “Why?” The gruff individual vouchsafed no reply, but swung his hand towards the lumber pile. Clark and Culham finished their smoke upon the boat. It blew dirty all day and rain squalls added variety to the weather. The bay was covered with whitecaps and it was blowing decidedly fresh when a skiff cap- sized. The Skipper put off to the rescue in our dinghy, and after a heavy pull, and a race with a tug, reached the overturned craft and rescued the crew. Rescued and rescuer came back on the tug. A cleated main sheet -caused the upset. The rain came on and the skiff’s crew made the main sheet fast and huddled under an umbrella. The wind came up suddenly and she turned turtle before the mainsheet could be started. ‘That's the tale of a ducking. Deseronto was our eastern turning point. It proved a dull town, but a fresh wind dead ahead which sprang up after the rain kept us tied up there all day. At midnight it still blew ahead, and we wete in a quandary, until we discovered that a tug would depart at 2 A. M. for Trenton with a tow of timber. Now Bay of Quinte timber tows are a quarter of a mile long. Cau- tious inquiry soon located the tow for us, and after bid- ding the tug’s crew, with whom we had been fraternizing, an ostentatious good-bye we set sail. But we weren't going to buck up the Bay of Quinte in the darkness. Not much. The second stretch took us beyond the prying eyes of the tug’s crew and put the Tainui, nose on, to the tail-piece of that timber tow. We made no bones about the matter, but set our anchor flukes into the binding chain of the last pair of timbers, lowered our canvas, dowsed our lights, and waited for the starting of the tue. A shift in the wind drifted the tow out into the bay into the path of the tug en route to take up her position at the head of the tow and threatened to betray our intention. We pulled the end of the tow back with the dinghy and to prevent a recurrence of the episode, made fast to the dock with a line in such a manner that we could cast off from the boat the instant the tug started. The best laid schemes “aft gang agley.” asleep and when the tug started she snapped our stern line. Before we had gone far the gurgle of the water woke Commeftord, and he broke the good news that we were off for Trenton. . We shook hands, laughed gleefully at the success of our trick and snuggled down into our blankets. At daybreak when Culham crawled out on deck he found that we had only gone a few miles. An accident had delayed the tug. In the dawn the tug captain dis- coyered that he was towing more than he bargained for. He surveyed the Tainui a moment in-the hazy morning light and then apparently undecided summoned the mate. Still we hung on. About seven o’clock the tug captain lost his temper at our persistency and suddenly ran his tow into a bank, uncoupled, and came down at us under a full head of steam. “Here he comes,” shouted Culham and we tumbled on deck in, our night gowns and hustled to get the duds on Tainui. We cast adrift in a moment and the canvas went aloft so fast that the Skipper’s hair fairly stood on end, in apprehension of the safety of the gaffs. The wind was blowing fresh over the quarter, and we were off up the channel before the tug was half way down the tow. Fortunately the tow was between the tug and the ‘schooner. The tug rounded the end of the tow and gave We all fell. 263 chase. For a few moments we were on Anxious street. The tug was coming fast, but our little craft, with a bone in her teeth, was footing some, too. The tug failed to gain a foot and after a quarter mile chase abandoned the pursuit and turned tail. We dipped our ensign in mock salute, roared our war cry and then sang, “We don’t care if you never come back.” ‘ i We were back in our berth beside the park in Belleville at nine o’clock that morning. Fishing in the Moira River and a band concert in the park kept us occupied all day and during the evening. ° Tn the morning—Aug. 5—the bay was as smooth as a mill pond, so Clark and [ had another round out of the’ bass in the Moira while Culham and Commeford woed Morpheus. At nine o’clock a breeze sprang up and we set sail. We bucked across the bay to the bridge. We almost lost our foremast owing to the failure of the: bridge man to open the bridge promptly. Outside the bridge the wind hauled a point and we were able to make up the channel by close pinching. The: wind kept freshening and we were glad enough to drop our hooks behind Niger Island, three miles from Trenton. We found the island in possession of a regiment of cranes. Clark and I still had the fishing fever. We could not find any bait so we attached a piece of Clark’s red hat to our hooks and tackled the bass again. All things ‘looked alike to the bass, and we hauled out three-quarter pound “rockers” as fast as we could throw out our hooks. The Skipper and Culham tried the fishing game, but the denizens of the deep had become wary at the depletion of their numbers, and these enthusiastic anglers wisely kept the measure of their success a secret. The Skipper got even with us in Trenton that even- ing, however, for he landed a four-pounder off the piers there. Clark and I got up early in the morning to break the Skipper’s record, but couldn’t catch anything heavier than a pound and a half. At 10 o’clock on Wednesday—Aug. 6—we left for the Murray canal, The wind was down the channel and we tied up at Twelve O’clock Point, a little summer resort. We remained there all day and found the place brim full ot life. In the evening the cottagers gave a concert and dance for us and afforded us generally such a good time that our visit to Twelve O’clock Point will always hold a prominent position in our memory. Next morning—Thursday, August 7—the wind was still ahead, but we started. We bucked her up the chan- nel for two miles but we arrived at the conclusion that we were wotking harder shifting canvas than we woud be towing her up the canal. We got out a 60-foot line, and with a piece of rail as a yoke, Culham, Clark and [ played tow mules at first. We galloped up the path with the hooker and had the Skipper timing our progress be- tween the snubbing posts which were a couple of hun- dred yards apart. At each sticceeding post we tried to break the record for the last one. A mile or so of this took the gimp out of us slaves on the rope and we settled down to a dogged plod. The wind had increased to a gale and the hooker towed as heavy as a coal schooner. We were dead tired, when Clark’s fertile brain evolved a scheme of relief. He shouted for a line. The Skipper passed one ashore and he deftly lassoed a Mooley cow grazing on the bank and hitched her to the tow. She was inclined to balk a bit, but a generous application of rope’s end set her off on a slow trot. Twice she tried to break away from the path and threatened to haul the’ craft out on the bank, but the trio on shore wouldn't stand for any stich dereliction of duty and kept the bovine strictly to her task. The Mooley, under a good deal of persuasion, towed us to the canal mouth and we set out to buck up to Brighton, three miles away.. We reefed down and started. In the first stretch, while trying to pinch by the pier end our dinghy fouled the abutments and the painter snapped. We hadtochase the little boat down the canal and had a pretty time beating out again. The channel outside in Presque Isle Bay was almost as natrow as the canal and accidents came thick and fast. The second leg ott we carried away ~ the first block on the mainboom and had to anchor and lash it on again. On the very next leg the second block went adrift. Again we anchored and made repairs. When we got under way.again we ran into a mud bank and had to start our sheets to get off. Then the stops on the foot of the mainsail started to give. One by one they went, and when we ran into Brighton piers our mainsail was a first-class imitation of an English lose-footed sail. Tt blew hard all day and we stayed at the dock until evening. When we ran across the bay to Brighton Beach, a sleepy little summer resort near- Presque, Isle Light, we ran into a tiny bit of a bay near an old wreck. The water was deep close to shore and we tied up with our horn overhanging the sand. The next day—Friday, Aug. 8—we started out bright and early and with a head wind bucked, up the lake 20 miles. The wind had been’ increasing all morning and shortly past noon, aiter reefing down for heavy weather, we discovered that we were making no progress in the heavy sea and ran into Lakeport, which was just under our lee. We were anxious to get home and remained awake all night awaiting a shift in the wind. The shift neyer cane, In the morning—Aueust 9—there was a light wind off shore, and a heavy roll from the southwest on the lake. We started, but our progress was tantilizingly slow. We did not reach Cobourg, 10 miles away, until three o’clock. We picked up our mail and drifted to Port Hope, six miles away, arriving there at eisht o’clock. With the wind out of the northeast and moderate, we bade good-bye to Port Hope at midnight. Twelve miles up shore the wind shifted ta the southeast, blew hard and a heavy sea picked up quickly. We were looking for Darlington Harbor, 25 miles west of Port Hope. Four miles east of Newcastle Harbor the wind increased to 30 miles an hour, atid we took in her foresail and main- sail and with the jib behind the mast hustled for the shelter of Newcastle. We made Newcastle at 3.30 A. M, Inside we found a couple of big trade schooners whose skippers had also discovered that a sheltering pier was more to their taste than the gale-swept lake. On Sunday morning at nine o'clock we put the tucks in all our can- vas and ran down to Darlington, five miles away, with the wind over the port beam. It was raining. It blew 254 FOREST >AND~ STREAM. pS at a im SS 24; Pari SS =| ys ine Z a ——F Y [Marcr 28, 1903. a ee a AUXILIARY SCHOONER IDLER—-SAIL PLAN——DESIGNED BY TAMS, LEMOINE & CRANE, 1901. fresh all day, but despite the threatening aspect of the westerly sky, we left for Whitby at six o’clock in the evening. Whitby was fourteen miles west, and we cov- ered the distance in two hours. At Whitby we almost inscribed “Finis” on Tainui’s log book. When the sun went down the night darkened rapidly. At eight o’clock when we squared away to enter the harbor it was as dark as pitch. We had the light ahead lowever and so drove in in front of the wind and sea. Soon the light hovered over us. Opposite the lighthouse we took in our foresail. We. passed the beacon and ran * down the west side of the lighthouse pier at a merry clip. The roar of breakers ahead and the outline of a breakwater at right angles to our course warned the Skipper that something was wrong. Just as Commeford jammed down the helm the centerboard struck in the sand and in a flash all dawned upon him. The rest of us were as innocent as babes. We had never been in Whitby Harbor before. Whitby light is the only lighthouse on the Canadian shore which is situated on the west pier. In the excitement, during the storm, that vital fact had slipped the Skipper’s memory, and as usual, he had tried to make the harbor leaving the light to starboard. But to get back to the ship. We were on a lee shore with a heavy sea and it looked as if Tainui was doomed to destruction. Commeford’s first impulse was to drive her on with a full sheet, but in an instant his nerve came back and he decided not to give up the ship without a struggle. We closed down our main sheet and beat out for the open. Tainui rolled in the backwash and broken water and time after time seemed to be right on shore for good. Then we started to gain. Inch by inch we pinched off and finally we struggled back to the pier end and made the harbor. It was a thankful crew which turned in that night on the little schooner. We got but little sleep. The westerly storm broke and kicked up such a nasty chop in the harbor that we had to climb out, tow her off a lee pier and anchor her out. The storm continued all day Monday—Aug. rt1—and we hugged the harbor. At four o’clock it showed. signs of dropping and, close reefed, we tackled the game again. With the wind ahead, we threshed her upshore until we were off Frenchman’s Bay, where our troubles com- menced afresh. At dusk while pounding into the seas the main peak halyard block carried away. We lowered the mainsail but could not make any progress to weather under the canvas forward. We tried to hoist away the reefed mainsail, using the throat halyard tackle for the peak, but in the excitement and heavy roll the halyard was lost overboard. We dowsed all canvas, while the Skipper took a new rope, shinned the mast and after considerable difficulty rove it through the jumper stay eye. This was made fast to the main gaff and the sail was hoisted. Being reefed, the sail set in fair style and we bucked into Frenchman’s Bay. We remained ‘in the Bay all night, and in the morning after tinkering up our running gear set sail for Toronto. The wind was baffling, but at one o’clock that afternoon the little schooner was bobbing up and down at her home mooring again. Idler—Auxiliary Schooner. THE auxiliary schooner Idler was designed by Messrs. Tams, Lemoine & Crane for Mr. Henry T. Sloane, and built by the George Lawley & Son Corp., South Boston, in 1901. She is a fine vessel of composite construction, and has proven to be an admirable cruising yacht. Her owner has used her steadily for the past two summers and she has given satisfaction in every particular. From Idler’s outward appearance it would never be known that she has auxiliary power, and the designers were careful to turn out a boat that would handle well and be moderately fast when under sail alone. . Her dimensions follow: Length— Oversall: og. talent Anes Ris. ies 117it. Ale apVVes elite ptt, Beare Bele, Damien er amie cae Ssit. Overhang— Bouwanternte vase Pere iret. tena 14ft. 2in AGEE Vaan’. e-a8 sgiiperegs he ere gah eile eit 2 oa 17it. 1oin Breadth— IDe casted ba MO et rebel cect hare seers 22it. 6in Toe Wate scoped ia eel ead a ees Chee Roles 2iit. 4in Draft— detod Nev galceare ey eee MCA eee ee nrec ee Ah cantare 13ft. 6in Freeboard—to top of rail— TOE Wit fd apeeeg- All Jo ti, eae gees ees Pee ee oft. 8in. TLeastes J: Sete otic: As eet hoe bate eee oft. ACTEM before My ats (Bale past Papas te Sy tae Fit. Below the main saloon really divides the accommo- dations of the yacht into two parts. The part forward of the saloon being given over to. the machinery, gal- ley, pantry, officers’ and crew’s quarters, while aft of the main cabin are the cabins for the owner and his guests. A transverse bulkhead separate the two parts, and in consequence the after part of the ‘vessel is free from all noise and odor. The companionway leads to the chart room, which is 5ft. oin. long and fitted with a lounge, table and drawers for charts and lockers for instruments, etc. A passage leads forward from the chart room to the main cabin. On the port side of the passage is a bath room 6ft. 6in. long and fitted with a tub, washstand and patent closet. On the starboard side of the passage is the linen locker and a door to the owner’s stateroom, which is 8ft. 6in. long. In front, on the wide berth, is a transom, which can also be made into a berth. At the foot of the berth is a hanging closet. There is also a bureau and a set basin in this room. A passage runs aft from the chart room to the after - cabin. On the port side is a small stateroom 6ft. long, while on the starboard side is a large stateroom 8ft. 6in. long. Both these rooms have wide berths, tran- soms, bureaus, wardrobes-and washstands. The large stateroom aft or ladies’ cabin, runs the full width of the boat and is 8ft. 3in. long. There is a wide berth on each side with a transom in front. On the port side aft is a wardrobe, and corresponding on the star- board side is a chiffonier and locker. A bureau is placed against the forward bulkhead. In the after bulk- head there is a door which leads to a toilet room, where there is a set wash basin and patent closet. The main saloon, which is amidships, extends the full width of the yacht, and is r2ft. 6in. long. A wide sofa runs along either side, and behind there are book cases and lockers for china and silver. Two tables, a buffet and fireplace, complete the furniture in the saloon, All the cabins and bathrooms as well as the main saloon have port holes which give light and ven- tilation in addition to that afforded by the skylights overhead, : Just forward of the main cabin is the machinery space, 12ft. long and 7it. wide. The machinery weighs eight tons, which is about five per cent. of the yacht’s displacement. There is a 2-cylinder engine 614in, and 13in.-10in. and an Almy water tube boiler. Her speed under nower alone is about eight knots. Idler is lighted throughout by electricity. On the starboard side of the machinery space is a stateroom for the en- gineer and his assistant. Just forward of this state- room is a coal bunker. On the port side of the machin- ery space is a passageway. At the after end of this is) the pantry 6ft. 5in. long. Next forward is a toilet room. Then comes another coal bunker. The passage opens at the forward end into the officers’ mess room, on the port side of which is a stateroom for the stew- ard and his assistant. On the starboard side of the mess room are the sailing master’s cabin and the offi- cers’ toilet room. The galley, which is-7ft. 6in. long, is forward of the mess room, and on the starboard side of the galley is a stateroom for the cook and the mate. A’ transverse bulkhead separates the galley from the forecastle, where there is accommodation for eight men. The rail waterways, skylights and companionways afte of teak, Four boats are carried on davits: a launch, a dinghy, a gig and a cutter. The Atlantic Y. C. has withdrawn from the Y. R. A. of Gravesend Bay. There has been no disagreement, but the members of the Atlantic Y. C. felt they were losing their identity by belonging to the association, . and that it would be better to withdraw... The Brooklyn Y. C., the Marine and Field C., and the New York C. C. now constitute tthe Y. R. A. of G. B., and their | racing dates will be arranged so as not to conflict with . those of the Atlantic Y. C, = ‘ | | Mince 28, 1003 FOREST AND STREAM. 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It was necessary to draw up a new constitution which would be consistent with the demand of the increased membership of the club and the acquiring of more property, and also to comply with the terms of amalgamation. One of the most im- portant measures adopted by the club was a new set of cclors. Under the terms of amalgamation it was agreed that the colors of the club should be the colors of the Jull-Massachusetts Y. C. On account of the design of the old Hull flag being so complicated, the majority of the members of the Boston Y. C. were not particularly anxious to keep these colors, and it may also be said that many members who had been members of the Hull- ‘Massachusetts Y. C. were not overfond of the design. Purely as a matter of sentiment, however, it was under- -stood prior to the meeting that there were many of the ‘members of the Hull Club who thought that the colors ‘should be accepted as agreed. The committee on consti- ‘tution, in arranging its report, also took into considera- ‘tion the subject of colors, and had a design prepared. When the committee reported and the flag was shown, all opposition had vanished, and the colors were accepted with enthusiasm. While there might have been a certain amount of moral obligation to accept the old colors under the terms of agreement, it can certainly be said that the new colors show the best yacht club pennant that has been designed for many years. The design is very simple, and at the same time it is different entirely from the staid order of club flags. It is of the usual pennant shape and the distinguishing cross follows the design of the New York Y. C. flag, but the arrangement of colors is quite different. There is a white field, the horizontal bar of the cross being blue and the vertical bar red. The red bar goes across the blue one, and, in its cen- ter, is the five-pointed star. It is a very ingenious and simple arrangement of the national colors and a flag has been produced that can probably be distinguished at a greater distance than any other yacht club flag i the country. The following officers and committees were elected: Com., B. P. Cheney; Vice-Com., E. P. Boyn- ton; Rear-Com., Walter Burgess; Sec’y-Treas., William Avery Carey; Executice Committee for two years, E. P. Boggs, C. A. French, Charles Hayden and W. H. Bangs; Executive Committee for one year, D. E. Smith, H. W. Wesson, J. W. Dutton and E. F. Smith; Membership Committee for two years, W. C. Lewis, A. C. Fernald, C, H. Cross, 2d, and A. P. Hawes; Membership Commit- tee for one year, G. E. Lauriat, Jr.; Hollis Burgess and iF. H. Jeffrey; Regatta Committee for two years, Louis IM. Clark, C. G. Browne, Sumner H. Foster_and Foster ‘Hooper; Regatta Committee for one year, C. C.- Clapp, Cc. W. Cole and B. D. Amsden. — At the annual meeting of the Yacht Racing Associa- tion of Massachusetts; held at the town house of the Bos- ton Y. C. last Thursday evening, it was voted that. after September 12 all classifications and measurement rules shall be void and of no effect. ‘This means that next year there will be a new rating rule to apply to any or all of the present classes, with the possible exception of those classes that are governed by rules of their own associa- tions. It is the classes that come under the head of cabin yachts that are aimed at in this measure, although there is no doubt that something could be done with the classes that at present have no- other restriction than waterline length, that would make them more popular than they have been for sometime. Extremes that were resorted to in the 2rft. class last year and the extremes noted in yachts now building for the restricted 25ft. class are responsible for the action. With practically no limit on the over all lengths of the boats, there is not going to be any strong tendency for yachtsmen to build, when in another year their boats would not have any show i i) fy Garbowrd Mate 1418 105. ow tJ tap y Ona Machinery space; single To flaty deck Wi vu oF cesiog, Uiagle Tee — tingle sabove sower ie Siringar elsewhere frames, £7) POMMEA NO Ase ZEKE LIS ppre Spaced if ¢ € Sreme Oren ; oven Bovnwens. y — Diagonal Hewates. 7stads on frames ah Leguired _ Cimanned, b'A 284 BIDS. 1gp-.of #ivors under boiler ~—— N235 85 0 AUXILIARY SCHOONER. — —— MIDSHIP SECTION New (St, 1500. Scale, y2"-1 0° _ Garbear! sane 2/2 Jéitow Are & CRANE, 1901, against much larger boats on the same waterline. A temporary class has been formed for the purpose of over- coming some of the evils of the 21ft. class for the com- ing year, so that the owners of 21-footers of somewhere near normal dimensions may race together. This new class is to be known as Class R. It conforms to the limitations of Class S, with the further limitation that the square root of the sail area shall not exceed 145 per cent. of the cube root of the displacement. The new 25-footers, with their extreme over all lengths, will be given a chance to prove whether or not they come up to the interpreta- tion of a safe, seaworthy boat. If the yachts should prove all that is desired, it may be voted at the fall meet- ing to re-establish the class. There does not seem to be any confidence among the owners of boats that have been built this winter, however, that this will be done. The new 22{t. class was adopted unanimously, the motion to adopt being made by Mr. Louis M. Clark, who strongly opposed the adoption of this class at the fall meeting last year. There are eight of these boats now building and their owners expect plenty of sport during the coming season. It was voted that no entry of a yacht shall be accepted until she has been officially measured and a certificate of measurement filed with the Secretary. It has also been decided in the case of an appeal being made from the decision of any board of judges to the executive committee of the Association, the appeal shall be accom- panied by the sum of $5, to be returned to the appellant should he prevail, and otherwise to be turned into the Association’s treasury. Mr. Hollis Burgess has sold the crack Y. R. A. 25- footer, owned by Mr. Lawrence F. Percival, to Dr. Augs- burg, of Riga, Russia. It is expected that she will be entered in the. Kiel regattas. She will be shipped on the - she will continue fitting out. ‘[Marcer 28, todd. deck of one of the Scandinaviah-American line steamers. Sally VI. is easily the handsomiest 25-footer that was ever tufned out in Massachusetts Bay. She was designed by Mr. Fred D. Lawley, and built by the Lawley corpora- tion last season. She is 43ft. tm. over all, 24ft. 8in. water- line, Toft. oi. beam and 6ft. trin. draft. She has the essential features of the centerboard type in her hull and also has the extreme draft of the keel boat. She is double planked, the outer planking being of Spanish cedar. This is finished bright above the waterline and bronze below. Her cabin trunk, which is well crowned, is formed of three-ply strips, covered with canvas. She is a very fast craft in all-round weather conditions, and should give a very good account of herself on the other side. Mr. Lawley has been working on the lines of a 25-footer, and it is not improbable that she will be built for Mr. Per- cival to take the place of Sally VI. ; Mr, Frank N. Tandy has sold the naphtha cabin yacht Sinner, owned by Mr. Thomas H. Webb, of Peoria, IIL, to Mr. Johnson. Sinner is 42ft. over all and is a fast, comfortable cruising launch. Mr. Webb is coming to Boston about April to to look up a hunting launch. He is a member of the Columbia Y, C., of Chicago, and of the Corinthian Y. C. of Marblehead. It was he who in- troduced the Y. R. A. of M. 2rft. class to Chicago, and he has donated a handsome challenge cup for the boats of the class to race for. Messrs. Burgess and Packard have received an order for another Seawanhaka challenger. The new boat is for Mr. Frederick Tudor, of Boston. They are now at work on the-lines. The first challenger for the Higgin- son-Boardman Syndicate has been finished, but the lines of the second boat for the same syndicate have not yet been completed. White, of Manchester, has finished the Malcolmson 18- footer, designed by Mr. E. A. Boardman, The 18-footer for. Mr. Reginald Boardman and the 21-footer for Mr. T. S. Watson, by the same designer, have been laid down. The cruising 22-footer designed by Mr. Boardman for Mr. C. W. Whittier, will be built by Lawley. .The schooner Felstedquin, designed by Mr. Arthur Binney for Major L. S. Bent, of the Annisquam Y. C., was launched at Lawley’s last Friday. In her place a 7sft. steam yacht, designed by Mr. Binney, will be built. Tn Lawley’s east shop the 2t-footer for Mr. L. H. Spald- ing and the 25-footer for Mr. J. Swift, Jr., both designed by Mr. Fred Lawley, have been finished. The 40-rater designed by Messrs. Burgess and Packard for Col. R. H. Morgan, and the 43-tater designed by Mr. B. B. Crownin- shield for Mr. Trenor L. Park, have been planked. The keel of the 64-rating schooner for Mr: John M, Richmond has been set up. In the west shop the boiler and engine are being installed in the steam yacht designed by Mr. A. S. Cheseborough for Mr. Charles Fletcher, and the deck of the steam yacht by the same designer for Mr. C. G. Emery is about half laid. The 45it. launch designed by Mr. Fred Lawley for Mr. F. F. Dreer is planked and the deck laid. The new launch for the Boston Y. C. has been finished and run out of the shop. * Mr. B. B. Crowninshield has sold the 35-footer Kiowa, owned by Mr. G. S. Payson, of Chicago, to Mr. C. L. Eaton, of Boston; the 25-footer Kalista for Messrs. Reade Bros., of Fall River, to Dr. F. H. Davenport, and the Y. R. A. 25-footer Chewink II, owned by Mr. F. G. Macomber, Jr., to Mr. Chubb, of New York, / The steam yacht Pantooset, owned by Ex-Commodore A. S. Bigelow, of the Eastern Y. C., will leave Boston for a European cruise on or about May 1. Her first objective point will be Southampton, by way of Fayal. She will put into Fayal for coal and, after reaching Southampton, She will then proceed to Cuxhayen, Germany, where Mr. Bigelow and party will join her. From there she will proceed through the Kiel Canal, up the coast of Norway, to North Cape, in The Land of the Midnight Sun. Returning from this point they will go up the Baltic as far as St. Petersburg. The Pantooset will then return to Cuxhaven, where Mr. Bige- low and his party will leave her. The yacht will then preceed to Boston. The Pantooset will be commanded by AUXILIARY SCHOONER IDLER. Designed by Tams, Lemoine & Crane. Photo by N. L, Stebbins, Boston. a. Ne F Marce 28, too3.] Capt, A. C. Corkum, her sailing mastet, under whose Girection she was built. ’ The meeting of the Yacht Racing Association of Massd- chusetts will be held at the town house of the Boston ¥. ©, Rowes Wharf, Thursday evening. Several amend- nients to the constitution and by-laws have been proposed, most of which were atmotnced in last week’s letter. In addition to those spoken of it will be proposed that the number of yachts enrolled in a club that will make it eligible for membership will be twenty instead of ten, and that the said yachts shall be more than 15ft. waterline in- stead of r2ft. In regard to representation it will be pro- posed that each club may have one delegate for each 300 members or fraction thereof. It is proposed also to raise the enfry fee of the Association for the season’s races from $1 to $2. é ' At Lawley’s the soft. schooner designed by Binney for Major L, H, Bent, the 21-footer designed by Fred Lawley for Mr. L, H. Spalding, and the 25-footer by the same designer for Mr. John Switt, are practically finished. The 40-rater designed by Messrs. Burgess and Packard for Col. R. H. Morgan, and the 43-rater designed by Mr, B. B. Crowninshield for Mr. Trenor L, Park, are partly planked. The 36-rater designed by Mr. B. B. Crownin- shield for Mr. W. B. Rogers has been hauled out of the shop. Jn the west shop the joiner work is well along on the steam yacht designed by Mr. A, S. Chesborough for Mr: Charles Fletcher, and the deck plating is being put on the steam yacht by the same designer for Mr. C. G. Emery. The 45ft. launch designed by Mr. F. D. Lawley for Mr. W. F. Dreer is planked and the deck laid. The wooden keel for the 64-rater schooner designed by Mr. F. D. Lawley for Mr. John Richmond is being turned out. At the Hanley Construction Company the 27it. yawl de- signed by Mr. Dodge for Mr. Bird, of New York, is about finished. Work has been started on the 28ft. yawl designed by Mr. Isaac B. Mills for Mr. B. D. Amsden and on the 18-footer designed by-Messrs. Burgess and Packard for Mr. R. J. Randolph, Jr. A number of yachts are fitting out in the basin. The defender of the Lipton cup, last year won by La Rita, the lines of which have been turned out by Messrs. Small Bros., will probably be built in the east under the direction of the designers. She is quite a powerful craft ot the centerboard type, and will carry o47it. of sail. A -28it, yawl by these designers for a Boston yachtsman, will be built by Meek, of North Weymouth, and the cruising yaw! designed for Mr. W. Mosely Swaim, of Philadelphia, will be built at Philadelphia. - Stuart, of Wollaston, has under construction two launches for members of the Boston Y. C, One of these will be 5oft. and the other 45it. The fourteenth annual dinner of the Dorchester Y. C. will be held at Hendrie Hall, Dorchester, Saturday even- ing, April 11. Congressman W. S. McNary, Hon. Fred S. Gore, Representative Callender, Commodore F. L. Cod- man and Mr. Lewis M. Clark will speak, MacConnell & Co. have sold the 36ft. yawl Virginia, owned by Messrs. R, L. and H. I. Sewall, to Mr. C. H. Sherburne, of Boston, They have also sold the 25ft. yawl Hermes and the 30-footer Nokomis to eastern yachts- meni. MacConnell Bros. knockabout have sold the 25ft. . Ninita, owned by- Mr. Samuel Fergtison, to Mr, E. R. Hastings, of Boston. They have also sold the 36ft. speed launch Mercury to Mr. Charles Laidlaw, Jr., of Long Branch, and the cabin knockabout Raduga to Mi. Richard H, Swartwout, of New York. Joun B. KiILLEEen, English Letter. THE announcement that the new Shamrock will be launched on the 17th (St. Patrick’s Day), has amply ful- filled the expectation that every opportunity will be taken for tuning the vessel up prior to her departure for the States, Of course, sundry reports haye been ctirrent in the press as to her design, but not a single authentic item of news has transpired. Ji any deduction can be taken from the various reports current, it would seem that the new vessel will have an easier bilge than the first Sham- rock, and may therefore heel a little more easily to a light air. Some journals predict that the yacht will show some very startling innovations below water, but that will not be known until the launch. Similar statements are ¢lirrent as to the new defender. These cup racers haye certainly grown yery large in the matter of sail, but it appears to me surprising that they are not very much larger. Of course the difficulty of keeping the huge sail spread properly set is very great, but it is not insuperable where money is no object. The yachts hardly yet repre- sent what would be the ultimate outcome of a pure water- line measurement, and that appears to me to be the craft that is wanted. Our coming racing season does not promise very well. There will be no regular large class, and though a new 65-footer is building at Fairlie, that class can hardly be of much interest, as her only competitor will be Tully, not built for this rule. owner has not even yet been divulged. The 52-footer, Magdalen, has been sold by Baron de Forest to Italy. She did not race last year, although put in commission, The only new boat for this class is one designed by Alfred Mylne for Mr. W. Leuchars. It will be interesting to note how she sails with last year’s Fife crack. No 36- footers are building, and few boats for the smaller classes. The new “South Coast” one-design class has undergone yet another change. It was originally intended that the boats should be about the 36-footer size, and should cost from £600 to £800. Now it has been decided to make them larger, and they will cost £1,200. They are 38it. on L.W.L,, irft. beam, 57ft. over all, and will be about 42- rating. Eight are said to be ordered, and it is stated that ’ there is an intention to limit the class to that number. If that is so, one must be glad, because it will interfere the less with open racing, but it may be found that clubs will not be over ready to supply prizes for a self-organized and exclusive class of this nature. There was for a time some prejudice against the Clyde 20-ton one-design class because it was self-organized, but it has always been open to everyone who cared to build for it. The Solent Classes ¥. R. A. has decided not to admit this new class into its list of classes, and it is therefore dependent on the spontaneous generosity of individual clubs. The handicap owners haye failed, after all, to induce The name of the new 65-footer’s © FOREST >AND STREAM, AZTEC Designed by Gardner & Cox and owned by A. C, Burrage. the Y. R. A, to countenance handicap racing, even to the extent of appointing official handicappers. At the general meeting of the Association their scheme was rejected by 33 votes to 23, and the Council’s own alternative was en- tirely unsupported. The truth is that no matter how well such regulations might work at the Thames and south coast regattas, they would break down at the Clyde and Irish meetings, which must take such boats as may come along, and classify them to suit each occasion. There is a brilliant opportunity now open to your power yachtsmen to teach Europe a lesson. We have been read- ing marvelous reports of the performances of some of your newest steam and motor boats, and the opportunity of seeing them would be hailed with delight. I will not conceal from you that in this country there is an tin- worthy suspicion that the miles grow short towards the setting sun, and that some of your fliers might fail to maintain their highest records in a race over here, Well, there is an easy way of settling this little doubt, for Mr. Alfred Harmsworth has presented an International launch cup to the Automobile Club, and the first races will be held in Cork harbor about the middle of July. The class will be for launches of 4oft. over all, and there is no restriction as to power or dimensions. The cup will be- come a hotly contested trophy, and many visitors are ex- pected from the Continent to compete for it, The Auto- mobile Club will hold the races under the rules of the Marine Motor Association, which will present three souvenirs to the three best boats. You can send steam, petroleum or electric Jaunches, but you will have to send fast boats, for, short as the time is, I hear of quite a fleet being built. Each country may send three representatives, but these must be entirely constructed in the country that they represent. Needless to say they are nof required to come to this country on their own bottoms. It will be very interesting to note the types produced for~ these races. England holds the Gordon Bennett car cup, and will.make a bold bid to defend the Harmsworth trophy, too. I know that the donor and the Automobile Club will be deeply gratified if some boats from the States are sent over, E. H. HAMILton. The Steam Yacht Aztec. Aztre was designed by Messrs. Gardner & Cox for Mr. Henry C. Pierce, and built by Mr. Lewis Nixon at Elizabethport, N. J. Before the vessel was com- pleted she was purchased by Mr. A. C. Burrage, of Boston. Aztec is 263ft. over all, 216ft. waterline, 3rft. breadth and raft. draft. Sir Tuomas Lipton’s new challenger for the America’s Cup, Shamrock IIJ., was launched on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, at Denny Brothers’ yards, Dumbarton, Scotland. The weather was anything but pleasant in the early morning, but as the day wore on it brightened up, stopped raining and the wind went down. Shortly after one o'clock Sir Thomas Lipton and his guests appeared on the platform that was erected under the bows of the © new boat. The Countess of Shaftesbury named the yacht. As she broke a bottle of wine over the yacht’s bows the boat began to move slowly down the ways, and the Countess said: . “I christen you Shamrock IIT, May Gad bless you and may you bring back the Cup.” Shamrock IIT. slipped easily into the water, and the launching was entirely stccessiul, being accomplished without a hiteh. Owing to the shallowness of the water off the yard, it was necessary to launch the yacht in pontoons, and canyas was hung over the sides for ward and ait which, to an extent, concealed the over- hangs. As the yacht took the water the band played “The Dear Little Shamrock,” and the Countess of Shaftes- bury and Sir Thomas Lipton were heartily cheered. Atter the launching the yacht was towed to Greenock. While the actual dimensions of Shamrock III. ate not forthcoming, all the reports agree that the new vessel is a finely turned boat, more of a yacht and less of a machine than was expected. She is said to be about 14oit. long over all and nearly goft. an the water- line. Her breadth is just over 22ft., while her draft is practically 1oft. It was expected that the designer, Mr. William Fife, would take more over all length in the new boat, but the reduction of breadth some 18 or 20in. over Shamrock II., came as a surprise. The freeboard is higher than was expected, and the sheer quite straight. Shamrock III. should be a wonderfully good light weather boat, as her fine lines and easy form ought to be easily driven by a moderate sail plan. The wetted Photo by N. LL. Stebbins, Boston. surface and lateral plan have been greatly cut away, and the boat ought to be quick in stays, and unless very well balanced may prove wild on her helm in a sea way- Fife boats are, however, invariably well bal- anced, and we may rest assured that the designer has ale special attention to this feature in the new Sham- rock. The boat’s lighter construction enables her to carry more ballast in proportion to displacement than did either Shamrock I. or II, She-is framed and plated with nickel steel. The deck is of aluminum, covered with a material which gives a good foothold. The metal deck fittings are of steel galvanized, while the cleats are of wood. As was stated in these columns some months ago, the boat will be steered with a wheel. The mast, which was stepped the second day after the launching, is of steel, about zr7oft. in length, The mast and topmast are all in one, and the spar is of less diameter than the one Shamrock II. carried. The same can be said of the boom (which is 1o02ft, long) and the gaff. These spars are also of steel. The bow- sprit is of pine and solid. Her sail area will not be much greater than was Columbia’s, and she will have only a moderate amount of canvas in the lower sails, but will swing a large club topsail. By so doing she can get a very advan- tageous measurement. ‘This distribution of sail has several things to recommend it. In light weather she has a big sail well up in the air, and yet she can be put under very comfortable sail spread for bad weather by taking in the topsail. The workmanship on the boat is of the very highest order throughout, and the hull is exceptionally smooth. The entire hull is painted white, and this is relieved by a green stripe at the waterline and the rail. It is conceded by everyone who has seen the boat that she is by far the handsomest and most carefully designed boat ever turned out to challenge for the Cup, and whether she wins or loses she is a remark- ably fine vessel and reflects great credit on her de- signer. j THE new boat building at Bristol for the defense of the America’s Cup, is to be named Reliance. The name is an improvement over any of the others sug- gested, and has the proper ring to it. There is some- thing about the name that conveys great confidence to all those interested in the success of the American boat in her coming races against the new Shamrock, Good progress is being made on Reliance, and the hull is almost entirely plated, although there is still a good deal of riveting yet to be done. The work of covering the lead keel with bronze plates has been leit till the last, but it is expected that these will be in place ina few days. The steel boom is nearly finished, and the workmen have started to bend the plates for the steel gaff. Reliance will be put overboard about the middle of April. YACHT CLUB NOTES. The Williamsburgh Y. C. has arranged the following fixtures for the coming season: May 3, opening day; May 30, annual spring regatta; July 3-6, annual cruise; July 19, at Plum Beach; Aug. 16, ladies’ day; Sept. 7, Labor Day cruise; Sept. 27, open fall regatta; Oct. 25, club goes out of commission. mR R Seventeen clubs were represented at the meeting of — the American Power Boat Association, held at the Columbia Y. C., foot of West Eighty-sixth Street, New York City. The racing rules submitted by Mr. Henry J. Gielow were discussed and adopted after making several changes. The formula for rating electric mo- tors was changed from 950 watts to 750 watts to equal one horse-power, In rating gasoline explosive en- gines, the constant divisor for two cycle engines, was changed from 600 to 900. Thé election of officers was postponed until the next meeting, which will be held on April 20, RRR The second general meeting of the New York Y. & will be held at the club house on Thursday, March 26. RR E Com. Tilford, of the Indian Harbor Y. C., has ap- pointed Mr. L. D. Armstrong Fleet Captain, Dr. Leander P. Jones Fleet Surgeon, and the Rey. M. Geo,” Thompson Fleet Chaplain, a 258 _ ‘Com. Arthur Curtiss James, 6f the Stawaiihaka- ‘Corinthian Y. C., has appointed Robert W. Gibson ‘Signal Officer. BRen The board of trustees of the Atlantic Y. C. has ap- \pointed the house committee, which is as follows: Louis F. Jackson, Chairman; William A. Barstow and T. S. Negus. Ree _ The Royal Canadian Y. C. has prepared the follow- ing racing schedule for 1003: May 25—106it. skiff class and r12ft. dinghy class. May 30—25ft. class and raft. dinghy class. June 6—First class, Murray Cup, and 2oft. class. June 13—30ft. class and 12ft. dinghy class. June 20—16ft. skiff class. + June 27—25ft. class and raft. dinghy. class... , June 30—L. S. S.-A. Regatta and cake walk up race - at Oakville. © — . July 1—Queen’s.cup race at Toronto, over 4oft. class, and L. S. S. A. regatta at Oakville. —. : July 4—30ft: class and taft. dinghy class, July 11.—First class. Lorne cup and 2oft. class. July 18—16ft. skiff class L. Y. R. A. July 25—14ft. dinghy class L. ¥. R. A. Aug. 1—2o0ft. class. nae “Aug. 8—Canada’s Cup race and following days. Ang. I5—3oft. class, and raft. dinghy class. = ‘Aug. 22—25ft. class and raft. dinghy class. : /Aug. 29—20!t. class and 16ft. skiff class. ‘Sept. 5.—First class cruising race. ‘Sept. 12—Prince of Wales Cup race. Additional races for 16-footers will be held on the first and third Wednesdays of each month, from June 3 to Sept. 2, inclusive, starting at 5:15 P. M. There will be a limit of one hour for these races. The club cups atid challenge flag will be awarded to the yachts making the best average during the season, zas follows: R. C. Y. C. challenge flag, to first class; {Lansdowne Cup, to 3oft. class; Cosgrove Cup, to 25ft. vclass; McGaw Cup, to 2oft. class; Gooderham Cup, to a6ft. class; Harman Cup, to r4ft. dinghy class; Barber Cup, to r2ft. dinghy class. YACHTING NEWS NOTES. For advertising. relating to this department see pages ii and iii. fOn Saturday afternoon, March 21, the schooner Cru- sader IJ. was launched from Mr. Robert Jacob’s yard, (City Island. She was built from designs made by Mr. Henry C. Winteringham for Mr. Seymour L. Husted. Crusader II. is built of wood and will be used primarily for cruising. She is 97{t. over all, 68ft. waterline, 2oft. breadth and oft. draft. me R The steam yacht Niagara I[V., that was built at ‘Morris Heights for Mr.-Howard Gould, was launched on March 19. She is 1rrit. over all, to4it. waterline, w2fit. breadth and aft. 2in. draft. Her contract calls for a speed of 23 miles. mee R Alice, the steam yacht built by the Marine Construc- tion and Dry Dock Company, of Mariner’s Harbor, S. LL. for Mr. F. D. Underwood, was launched on March 21. She is 116ft. over all, 96ft. waterline and tit. breadth. RRR The launch building at Samuel Ayer’s yard, Nyack, from designs by Messrs, Gardner & Cox, for Mr. John Hanan, is tr4ft. over all, 1o3ft. 8in. waterline, 15ft. gin. breadth and sit. draft. nner Mr. William E. Cox has had a steam yacht built from designs by Messrs. Cox & King. She is to be known -as. Wakiva. The following description is from the Yachting World: (On Monday afternoon, March 2, Ramage & Fer- guson, Limited, launched from their yard at Leith a finely modeled steam yacht, which has been built to the order of an American gentleman from the designs of Cox & King, Suffolk Street, Pall Mall, London. The yacht is about 455 tons Y. M., the principal di- mensions being 165ft. b. p. by 25ft. 6in. molded depth, and is fitted with triple expansion engines having cylin- ders rsin., 24in. and goin. diameter by 24in, stroke, steam being supplied from a large boiler working at 180 pounds pressure. ' a The yacht is very handsomely fitted, having dining- room and drawing-room on main deck, with a long shade deck above, on which are boats, charthouses, etc., while on the lower deck fore and aft of the machin- ery space are a number of state rooms and a social hall. The vessel is fitted with steam windlass; steam steering gear, electric light installation, hot water heat- ing and all the most modern appliances usual on high- class yachts. On leaving the ways the yacht was named Wakiva. ene R The famous old yacht Boadicea, which for years was the largest sailing yacht, being no less than 378 tons, has come to an untimely end, and her master is ‘in jail, convicted of casting her away. Known as the ‘Ariadne, the Boadicea was lost off the coast of New ‘Zealand. } The English ®ourt of Appeal upheld a judge’s order directing evidence on commission to be taken in New ‘Zealand with the object of throwing fresh light, if possible, on the loss of the schooner. It turns out wthat she was bought for 2,000 guineas and insured for s£20,000. The captain, Mumford, confessed to having received £400 to cast her away, but on a trial this statement was asserted to be an invention, and T. C. KKerry, the owner of the Ariadne, was acquitted. On jhis own confession, however, Mumford was sent to prison. Mr. Kerry is now sting the underwriters for tthe insurance money.—Mail and Express. RR Ee Mr. Edmund Randolph has sold his steam yacht Scud to Mr. Samuel Untermyer. Bifle Range and Gallery. ——p-—_—_ Cincinnati Rifle Association. CincinNAtt, O.—At the regular meeting of this Association on Merch 15 the following scores were shot. Conditions, 200yds., offhand, Standard target. Wind, tricky: Nestler ........... 90 84 82 82 81 Roberts .......,- s 82 70 TC TT T4 Gindele seeeees 89-88 88.87 81 Jonscher .......... 81 79 77 74 73 Paiyires 5 Se bts ent tee 89 86 85 85 80 Trounstine ....... 78 77 72 70 68 (i elas ae dean item , 8482 80 76 74 Freitag ........... 78 73 73 71 69 Hoffman ..... .».- 83'80 78 75 68 Bruns ........ vom 1G, (oslo. oak Lis oasis 82 78 76 73 71 Honor target: Nestler 20, Gindele 29, Payne 25, Hofer 26, Hoffman 25, Lux 21, Roberts 22, Jonscher 20, Trounstine 16, Freitag 18. : : ~ Grapshoating. —~_ Fixtures, If you want your shoot to be announced here send a notice Itke the following: March 23-26.—Brenham, Texas.—Twenty-sixth annual State shoot, under auspices of the Texas Sportsmen’s Association. April 1-3.—Grand Island, Neb.—Consolidated tournament of the Buffalo Bill Gun Club, of North Platte, and the Grand Island Gun_ Club; two days targets, one day live birds. Managers, Geo. L. Carter, North Platte, and Gus Sievers, Grand Island. April 2-3.—Des Moines, la.—Hopkins-Sears Company’s tourna: ment. April 2-3.—Indianapolies, Ind.—Two days’ tournament of the Limited Gun Club. ' April 7-11.—St. Joseph, Mo.—Missouri State Game and Fish Protective Association’s twenty-sixth annual tournament and convention, under auspices of Metropolitan Gun Club: F. B. Cunningham, Secretary-Manager, gone Se eehaay Pa,—North Side Gun Club. L. B. Flem- ing, Sec’y. April 10.—North Hudson Driving Park, N. J.—Second annual individual Eastern championship at-live birds; 20 birds, $10, birds ineluded. : April 10.—New Haven, Conn., Gun Club’s all-day tournament. John E. Bassett, Sec’y. : Aug. 12-15.—Toronto, Can.—Annual tournament of the Dominion Trapshooting and Game Protective Association. A. W. Throop, Sec-y-Treas. : ; : April i417.—Kansas City, Mo.—The Interstate Association’s fourth Grand American Handicap at targets, at Blue River Shoot- ing Park. One thousand dollars added to the purses. Elmer EF. Shaner, Secretary-Manager, 111 Fourth avenue, Pittsburg, Pa. May 16.—East Walpole, Mass,—All-day shoot of the Neponset Gun Club. - Edgar Bills, Sec’y. April 18.—Glen Rock, Pa.—Opeén shoot for live-bird champion- ship of York county, Pa., and all-day shoot of Glen Rock Gun Club. Allen M,. Seitz, Sec’y. f April 20.—Springfield, Mass.—Spring tournament of the Spring- field Gun Club. C. L. Kités, Sec’y. April 20.—Patriots’ Day shoot of the Haverhill, Mass., Gun Club. S. G. Miller, Sec’y. April 21-22.—Olean,~ N. Y., Gum,Club’s fourth annual tourna- ment. _B. D. Nobles, Sec’y. : April 21-23.—Concordia, Kans.—Kansas State Sportsman’s Asso- ciation’s State shoot, under auspices of Concordia Blue Ribbon Gun Club: $200 added. F. W. Olney, Sec’y. *April 22-23.—Pittsburg, Pa.—Herron Hill Gun Club. Vandererift, Sec’y. April 28-May 1.—Lincoln} Neb.—Nebraska State Sportsmen’s As- sociation’s twenty-seventh annual tournament, under the auspices of the Lincoln Gun Club. F. E, Mockett, Sec’y. April 29.—Wellington, Mass.—Boston Gun Club’s annual team shoot. H. C. Kirkwood, Sec’y, 23 Elm street, Boston. May 46.—Tournament of the Mississippi Valley Trapshooters’ and Game Protective Association, under auspices of Vicksburg, Miss., Gun Club. *May 5-6.—Irwin, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. John Withers, Sec’y. é May 6-7.—Union City, Ind.—Parent Gun Club’s tournament. May 6-7.—Lafayette, Ind.—Lafayette Gun Club’s tournament. May 6-7.—Titusville, Pa,, Gun Club’s annual tournament. T. L. Andrews, Sec’y. May 7-8.—Wilmington, Del.—Wawasett Gun Club’s target tour- nament. May 9-10.—Chicago, Ill.—Spring tournament of the Grand Cres- cent Gun Club, : . May 13-14.—Crawferdsville, Ind., Gun Club’s tournament. May 13-14—Dubois, Pa.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- ment, under the auspices of the Dubois Rod and Gun Club. U. S. N. Crouse, Sec’y. , ; May 19-22.—Wissinoming, Philadelphia._Thirteenth annual tour- nament of the Pennsylvania State Sportsmen’s Association, under auspices of the Florists’ Gun Club of Philadelphia. V. V. Dorp, Sec’y, May -21-22.—Kenton, O.—Shoot of the Kenton Gun Club. A. G. Merriman, Sec’y-Treas. ‘ ; May .24-26.—San Francisco, Cal., Trapshooting Association’s three days’ bluerock handicap tournament. Open to all; $1,500 added. 3 Nauman, manager. May 26-27.—Dubuque, Ta., Gun Club’s fourth annual amateur target tournament. A. F, Heeb, Sec’y. _ *May 26-27.—Brownsville, Pa.—Brownsyille Gun Club tourna- ment. W. T. Doherty, Sec’y. May 87-28.—\Williamsport, Pa.—The Interstate Association’s tournament, under the auspices of the West Branch Rod and Gun Club. H. A. Dimick, Sec’y. May 27-29.—Fort Wayne, Ind.—Two-day bluerock tournament of Harry the Corner Rod and Gun Club; $100 added. John Y. Linker, " ec’y. : Mon 29-30.—Union City, Ind.—Spring tournament of the Parent Grove Gun Club. Magee aes Pa., Rod and Gun Club’s tournament. G. G. Zeth, Sec’y. May al etourhament of the East Harrisburg, Pa., Shooting Association. ; May 30.—Newport, R. I.—Second annual tournament of the Aquidneck Gun Club. J. S. Coggeshall, Sec’y. May 30.—Detroit, Day third annual tournament; all day. Rose system and average prizes. Sliding handicap, 16, 18 and 20yds. D. A. Hitchcock, Sec’y-Treas. ; ; June 2-5.—Baltimore, Md.—Third annual Baltimore County shoot; three days targets; one day live birds; $500 in purses and prizes. Hawkins and Malone, ‘Managers. A June 3-4.—Boston, Mass.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- ment, under the auspices of the Boston Shooting - Association. O. R. Dickey, Sec’y. : June 3-5,—Parkersburg, W. Va.—Sixth annual tournament of the West Virginia Sportsmen’s Association, under auspices of Ohio Valley Shooting Association. — June Ue gD ie O.—Spring: tournament of the Greenville Gun Club. *#June, second week.—Memphis, Tenn., Gun Club’s tournament, June 7-8.—Ligonier, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. June 8-12.—Ossining, N. Y.—New York State shoot, under the auspices of the Ossining Gun Club. June 9-11.—Sioux City, Ia.—Ninth annual amateur tournament of the Soo Gun Club. -B. F, Duncan, Sec’y. June 9-11.—Cincinnati, O.—Seventeenth annual target tourna- ment of the Ohio Trapshooters’ League. Chas. T. Dreihs, Sec’y. *June 10-11.—Ruffsdale, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. S: Deniker, Sec’y. F ‘ i ae June 16-19.—Warm Springs, Ga.—The Interstate Association’s tournament, under the auspices of the Meriwether Gun Club. Chas. L. Davis, Sec’y. June 16-18.—New London, Ta.—Seventh annual midsummer tar- get tournament of the New London Gun Club. *June 24-25.—New Castle, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. James Atkinson, Sec’y. ; 1 jJ. O'H. + *July 7-8.—Ligonier, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. Denny, Sec’y. Mich.—Winchester Gun Club’s Decoration — July 8-9.—Huntsville, Ala—The Interstate Association’s tourna ment, under the auspices of the Huntsville Gun Club. E. R. Matthews, Sec’y. © "y **July, second week.—Shreveport, La.—Cadds Gun Club’s tour- nament, ; “July 21-22.—Beaver Falls, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. W. R. Keefer, Sec’y. ; ; July 380-Aug. 1.—Viroqua, Wis.—The Interstate Association’s tournament, under the auspices of the Viroqua Rod and Gun Club. Dr. R. -W. Baldwin, See’y. ; Aug, 19-20.—Ottawa, Ill.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- ment, under the auspices of the Rainmakers’ Gun Club. Paul A. Selember, Seéc’y. ; aoe 13-20.—Millvale, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. Wm. Buss- er, Sec’y. aeeke 1-2,—Irwin, Pa,, Gun Club’s tournament, John Withero, ec’y. ; Sept. 2-3—Akron, O.—The Interstate Association’s tournament, yaks the auspices of the Akron Gun Club. G. E. Wagoner, eC’y. *Sept. 23-24.—Ruffsdale, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. R. S. Deniker, Sec’y. Oct. 6-7—Allegheny, Pa.—North Side Gun Club’s tournament. L. B. Fleming, See’y. ; . Oct, 20-21,—Ligonier, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. Te eOste Denny, Sec’y. Die *Member_ of Western Pennsylvania Trapshooters’ League. Chas. G. Grubb, Sec’y, 507 Wood street, Pittsburg. **Members of Mississippi Valley Trapshooters’ and Game Pro- tectiye Association. J. J0 Bradfield, Sec’y,, Vicksburg, Miss. DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. Keen interest was manifested in the contest between teams of the Crescent Athletic Club and Boston Athleétic Association, at Bay Ridge, L. I., last Saturday; There was a large number- of visitors present 1o witness the match, At the commencement of it the visitors quickly took a strong lead, but the Crescent team soon thereafter made a stead gain to the end, and won by the large margin of 645 to 599. Each team had eight men and each man shot at 100 targets. The return match will be shot om April 4 at Boston, on B. A. A. grounds. e Mr. I. B, Cunningham, secretary-manager, writes us that the twenty-sixth annual tournament of the Missouri State Game andi Fish Protective Association, to be held at St. Joseph, Mo... April 7 to Il, inclusive, will offer a rare week of sport, as welll as a splendid opportunity for practice to the shooters who con- template attending the Grand American Handicap at Kansas City the following week. There will be three days at targets and | two days at live birds, under the same rules and conditions as will hold at Kansas City. ‘ R In Passaic, N. J., the Union Gun Club was formed on March 19, with officers as follows: President, Colin R, Wise, of Passaic; Vice-President, F. V. Carlough; Secretary, C, Axford, of Rutherford; Treasurer, Louis Lane. A Committee on By-Laws was appointed. The new club will shoot on the Boilin Springs ° Gun Club grounds, Rutherford, on the first and third Saturdays of each month. Targets for members, 1 cent; for others, 2 cents. ® The second annual individual Eastern live-bird championship will be shot at the North Hudson Driving Park, N. J., on April 10. The conditions are 10 live birds, $10 entrance, birds included; handicaps 26 to 33yds.; class shooting, four moneys; a cup to the winner; two sets of traps. ‘This event last year was held at Interstate Park, and was won by Mr. H. H. Stevens, of New Brunswick, N. J. td Mr. W. Fred Quimby has resigned his position with the West- ern Cartridge Company and accepted his old position as general. sales agent of the American E, C. and Schultze Gunpowder Co.,. with Mr, Carl Von Lengerke as his assistant. Mr. Von Lengerke- last week was confined to his home, due to illness, but was con-- valescing nicely, according to last reports. i bd At Palm Beach, Fla,, on Thursday; of last week, at the shoot. of the Florida Gun Club, Mrs. Albert W. Goodrich, of Chicago, won-the cup presented by Mrs. Frederick Edey, of New York, with 16 out of 25 targets. - Miss Andrews, of Lakewood, was second. Miss Grace Ellis, of New York, was third. ¥ In the contest for the Intercounty cup between teams of the Ossining and Poughkeepsie gun clubs, at Ossining, March 21, ~ Ossining won by the somewhat italic score of 150 to 131. Mr. G. Hubbell won the handicap cup, his third win, and the final for absolute ownership. R Mr. Louis Williams, Jr., of Nashville, Tenn., was a visitor in New York last week, and the fore part of this week. He in- cidentally journeyed to New Haven on a visit to the Winchester Repeating Arms Co., which he represents in Alabama. ad Mr. Bert B. Adams writes us as follows: “The Limited Guin Club, of Indianapolis, Ind,, will hold a two days’ tournament at targets on April 2 and 8. The programmes are now in the hands of the printers, and will be mailed when completed.” bd Mr, Elmer E. Shaner, secretary-manager, informs us that the Interstate Association has made arrangements to give a tourna- | ment at Dubois, Pa., on May 13 and 14, under the auspices of th Dubois Rod and Gun Club. a Tre 4 Mr, O. R. Dickey, of Boston, was a visitor in New York on Saturday of last week. He was identified with the members of the Boston Athletic Association, which shot so valiantly with the Crescent Athletic Club. 4 Friday, April 10, the New Haven Gun Club will hold an all- day tournament; targets 14% cents each; $30 added. Luncheon served to shooters gratis. Mr. John E. Bassett is the secretary. * Mr. A. G. Wing won the Story championship medal at Ames, Iowa, March 18, with a score of 24 out of a possible 25. There were nine other contestants for it. ; The renowned brpE POURS Mr, J. A. R. Elliott, arrived in New York last week. duration in this effete hamlet. 7 The annual meeting of the Missouri State Game and Fish Pro- - ) tective Association for 1903 will be held at St. Joseph, Ma., . Tuesday evening, April 7. hy Early last week Mr. Frank E. Butler left New York bound for - Ohio to attend the funeral of his brother, a sad mission indeed. ~ tJ There will be an all-day shoot on the grounds of the Neponset ~~ Gun Chib, East Walpole, Mass., May 16. od The next shoot of the Fulton Gun Club, of Brooklyn, L, I,,. , will be held on April 5, The next shoot of the Hudson Gun Club, of Jersey City, will be: held on April 5. ¥ d i Mr. John E. York last week, Bernarp WaTERs, {Marcu 28, 1903. le contemplates a visit of about ten days” — Avery, of Atlanta, Ga, was a visitor in New- Marc# 28, 1903.] FOREST*AND STREAM. 289 ON LONG ISLAND, New York County Gun Club. Rockaway Park, L. I., March 10.—The shoot of the New York County Gun Club was favored with delightful weather. There Was a variable wind, northeast to southeast. Mr. Bissing won the special prize in the 25-target race. Quite a number of yisitors, several of whom were ladies, witnessed the competition. Mr. Staples was high average with .832. Schortemeier was second with .830. Mr. Scott third with .730 per cent. 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Fe 7 MANHATTA. _ Crescent—BEoston. Bay Ridge, L. 1., March 21.—_The event of dominant interest on the grounds of the Crescent Athletic Club to-day was the team shoot between the home club and the Boston Athletic Asso- ciation. Indeed, the eyent far exceeded the confines of club in- terest, for in New York and yicinity the mempers of the other clubs, the shooters in general, were keenly interested in the result of it. 7 ; It was purely an amateur match. From start to finish it was conducted with the most punctilious courtesy by hosts and guests. Even little incidental matters, which so delicately inti- mate friendly good will, and which are so many times overlooked, were carefully observed by the Crescent committee. The flag of the Boston club flew over the flag of the Crescents, over the house. On the green, between the firing points and the traps at No. 1 set, was the legend in mammoth letters “Welcome B. A. A’ A parlor car, specially engaged, conyeyed the visitors from the Bridge to the grounds. 45 The contest was skillfully managed. It was expeditious and -smooth in its action. The targets were above average as to the difficulty of shooting them. The light was yery bad in the first part of the race, owing to a heavily clouded sky, and some rain- fall. The weather conditions were much better in the latter part of the race. ' The conditions were cight men on a team, 100 targets per man, for a $100 cup, for which each club pays one-half. ; The Werleman prize was won by Mr. E. H, Lott. The prize, a silver loying cup, offered by the Crescent Athletic Club for high gun of the visitors was won by Dr. S. A. Ellis. The scores: Team shoot, 100 targets: Crescent A. C. D V B Hegeman........- o:piaisianers lsfaletptstelstel ete 17 19 19 20—75 To peiile AES hanisten Ul Fare witca wots erence esc rreae e+ 18 16 Is 18—iU IE De Bedtordy isp eyes ba een gee tnt note 19 18 19 22—78 AN Se rise meat bebet eet, ree hs lesa Sit cron are 18 19 22 23—82 F B Stephenson...... ec att dectinerernso preks 18 20 19 20—77 LI AD Ht Core nn OPEL E Betis ste alne aisdcse nee say a0 8 24 25 21 19—89 IG (amen hensOie ep ree acid eles hele) eben he ar 22 23 20 20—85 TEIN Brians ee Pec wwe ve leew elm cen nln aad win 24 24 20 21—89—645 Boston A. A. Siecle di ines Me WeBaxtenn eases: a nee eee steam ate ‘ D W Bieauds RA se ho seece ae) Py aceot » 19 22 16 17—74 Wre S.A Blligm clos se tee peaemwaaes Veh oLee ke 22 22-22 21—87 UaeVieERowellewseg en op velista arte desmosomes 20 zl 17 20-78 R W Dennison........... ETS SAN S054 22.17 19 238—81 Masih aletteyrer acne tee coco te cate ng ano 22 16 13 14—64 GRE TRSID oe etre ete ratetaleforattvareialny uatntelats SO NAAR Ce .» 22 18 138 17—T70 ES rasa tele ciete mene are tele Hielntetclatetoie viata: maha, .--- 20 21 19 16—76—599 Shoot-off for Werleman prize, 256 targets: E. H. Lott 20, H. M. Brigham 20. ; ‘Shoot-off, same conditions: E. H. Lott 22, H. M. Brigham an, Handicap, 15 targets: L. M. Palmer, Jr., @) 14, T..W. Stake (2) 14, H. M. Brigham (0) 12, H, B. Stephenson (0) 11, H. B. Van- derveer (2) 9. Scone 10 targets, handicap: L. M. Palmer, Jr. (0) 8, T. W. Stake (1) 8 ees same conditions: T. W. Stake @) 7, L. M. Palmer, . (0) 6, Tate targets: Baxter 14, Ellis 12, Dennison 12, Gleason 11, Pal 9, Hill 9, f } Fifteen targets: Brigham 12, Ellis 12, Baxter 11, Dennison 10, Brigham 4, Ellis 3. Gleason 10, Hill 7. Fulton Gun Club, Shoot-off, miss-and-out: Brooklyn, N. Y., March 23—The day was a poor one for the making of good scores. The next shoot will be held on April 5. All welcome. J ; The club handicap, 25 targets, was won by Mr. Keiser, with a total of 21. The scores were: Schorty 19, Merten (4) 19, Smith (4) 17, Schneider (3) 20, Hearne (4) 19, Clifton 16, Mayser (6) 16, Wood (7).17, Keiser (4) 21, Moore (1) 11. Sweepstakes were as iollows: : Events: iL YA BE Le Gy YY Events: J BO ae ay ‘Targets: 15 15 10 16 15 15 10 15 30 15 15 Schorty ..... 11 13 GL Bade Seay tA 85 Merten ..... 8 Dt oes aye OE IO Sprebks sy 1 3 PRI Foy. Schneider ... 7 A COL) ro) eae see Gorgan ,,.,. 6 Ree iF Hearne ...., 10 ratte tare eo mol. Nokes pore ee Clifton .,.... 13 ee SUM ee eee SNYDER, Sec’y. IN NEW JERSEY. le thar | ' ms John Wright’s Shoot. Carlstadt, N. J., March 19.—A pleasant day and large attendance made John Wright's live-bird shoot a success. No. 1 was at 7 birds, $5 entrance, 60 and 40 per cent., class shooting, as follows: H C Koegel, 30....... 22*2*2*#—4 E B Smith, 26......... 22111127 H C Patterson, 26.,,.0112212—5 No. 2 was at 10 birds, $7 entrance, 50, 80 and 20 per cent., class shooting: : H C Koegel, 30.....222221022— 9 EF Muldoon, 29... ,.221222*01+— 7 E B Smith, 28.,... 0112021222— § H M Heflich, 30...021*022112—7 E Banks, 30.,,,...-2021221212— 9 G H Piercy, 30....12222*111*— 8 H C Patterson, 26..2110202122— 8 5S Glover, 31........ 222222*222— 9 HS Welles, 30..... 2220222222 9 W H Sanders, 27. .22210122*1— 8 A Schoverling, 29. .*222722242—7 E A Meckel, 27..,..2122201121— 9 J Martin, 29........ 222212222210 No. 3 was at 15 birds, $10 entrance, Rose system, ratios 8, 5, 5 and 2, There were twenty entries: Aer skccerelys a0: \rusancicmoc cee ere e een Tue 222122212202222 14 Heaaky “Smit, -oSeeeade sda. deena pare frsras lnenyove irs 200*02222002220— 8 Biz Baris, Sneek tale cri cadens sateen oe *02111211121001—11 END EELEHI Che oe ee LAO cetr neh ieee cies . 020012202222222 11 WES Biercys astra tne pb onee -2290*221*2011 2911. J Martin; 29.....,.... Da Ana aie dod Sal i . .202201202222122 12 WA A Schoverling, 29.............. heath pica cee ee 022202222209222 19 PAS seedlea ry Suh oe eel alesc)-tai snl aaa er ee 999920022222202 19 MY kre Sanders sey secre hansereveeeee econ eenee «+++,» .010021000001021— 6 Tia Ase Mechel Mavn ett deesscse iige Nesapumrletinihhtd 22101110*21*102—10 PT Bape ta eet toe ans aa eek BHR ..« . .10122202022*202—10 Dr © D’ Brooks, 28)............05 Ae ene ee ae 2011321210*0122—11 S Glover, 31..... ane es naa B HB poo Ae BBB EDERAL aan 202102122221220—12 H C Patterson, 26..........sceeeeeccerepeere eevee ss Q21OLIINNNIZ#*#2— 9 F Gerbeholini, BS. a eeeaceegeeensersseryzeterrys1 op gada* oll al2—12 ID Ena tee Pentre oo 2212297—7 the Barbierige Quest) ive teskaietaes bere NS: eee. 23212222000022*—10 WW, CHieHOAGNESriiucnoracselicsehuresu tes Mes eC 222112200*20222—11 iB SMirldootr, 20 meee eo guaeneuee pew antes uaatakts eae ss 022121122222220—13 Deb Gaviris-weseandsdateee Cpaete ten ches heh hia cae , . .222102221210222 13 AUP ROI SATITAT gaan aenerteeuruiey y reed Nhe seftetele 100120101102120— 9 Miss-and-out, $2: Heflich ...... Aa. eee Hatilese (8) sent ivisesgetersl 122210 Koevell Tae epee tee nen aret Doeedete eke Gailletae asia baci 22212111 ARCS ER EASA TAR ARABS 0 engi Sy gbtuiepechondo shat 22221* LPITUNC Aa Seer auc 10 Up teriyary. sjsoss sae ee TOS 2O TO, hens: osscee. naa 8 9 Brewer ....ees Cen aldo te ve USe]IEV. Posie crea 18 .. OSBitien Ayclas. 11 10 12 20 18 James HucHeEs, Sec’y. Emerald Gun Club, The Emerald Gun Club, of New York, held its initial shoot for 1903 at Smith Brothers’ grounds, at Newark, on the most appropriate day, March 17. Our most popular new president, Mr, Patrick May, with a bit of the genuine trefoil] in his hat, super- intended the arrangements, and Mr. Patrick Lovett was official scorer. Our oldest charter member, Dr. G. V. Hudson, being now but a high private in the rear rank at his own request, broke out_a few times, but was promptly sat on by one of the officers. He has been so long in harness as an officer of the club that he is well nigh irrepressible, and it requires stern discipline to bring him down to his proper present level; but, seriously, he is the club’s most energetic member, and the Emerald Gun Club is his creed. The birds to-day were fast, as is usual on these grounds, as the wind, which was from the east for the past few days, changed COL, A. G, COURTNEY. to a fairly strong westerly wind about the time the shooting began. Henry Koegel made a straight score, cutting down some good ones. Our treasurer, John Moore, came out with his white yachting hat, ornamented beautifully with green ribbons in honor of the day; but after missing the first and second birds, turned the hat inside out and scored six of the next eight, all one-barrel kills; he probably was shooting baking powder in the second. Hudson, 28........ 12220*1211— 8 J Fischer, 28........2112210022— 8 Ralls deel i abe ns 0212222101— 8 FL, Colquitt, 30...... 0002221222— 7 Koégel, 30....-.-0. 221221212210 W Catton, 28....... 0221222021— 8 DCNOLLys socks. seeeve 2212022222 9 WVan Valkenberg, 28.0202202212—7 A Schoverling, 30..2222202222— 9 P May, 28.......... 2020220222— 7 be Stiort, 2heetas hort 0201210022— 6 EF Hansman, 28..... 0201210022— 6 Voehringer, 28...... 2210000200— 4 W Hassenger, 30...1212201001— 7 W_ Corbett, 25....., 1022002212— 7 *Cody ..........-... 0010000w J Moore, 28........ 0011110011— 6 *Koch .............. 0202020w M Reierson, 28..... 1121210012— 8 *C A Arthur....:... 00211w * Guests. 201 PEARL StreET, New York. MANHATTIA. Trap at Newton. Newton, N. J.,, March 17.—A shoot was held here to-day, with scores as follows: Events: Te eo ey Demeloe de eS Targets: 10, 15 10 15 10: 15 10° 15 CMP edalacls nto 91 12) SS) 145 SSR 4 WO chee Ae ebay ta rae teen esleelnis SP atte taal 7 ashe a2 E Cahrs 8 15 9 14 9 18 9 15 H Cahrs ie abe Be Bhk ae tn abl Morford ie DUR STE SO, 2ONeI2" 1 10 SUS ere nonecton kde Lue 8 13 Io 14 9 13 8 18 McManus 4 8 ie SDR, OSderreds pee klee Ne ee. wicerccines afoidel son of 14 79) Ti (81 310, 12 Bite rer st Aca valet oa Bateonecicis eta Sl eta. 94) 10" v4. ef a) at 10 Woodward) fecesee rnc. te RHACECCHCEE DE ae 410 9 tl 7 1 9 18 ants aes as eet Te aA oe SREB UF Dee AAG ae, ee SEL Giserlaticeetieis tpt teeecerseer pate etalon ate ele eee See Oat SOS IGlOsG: 57 NecC isk yee se Mt oo $2 yshonsa ees estrone sates Meer tsed. Ife SO MrT) 1a. Wells .... eee eed 8 1 8 10 Backester rea ees ee by 9 Mortain due tthe &: to sr a IRCCLS UE «sence eet alalte eee ta 4 10 Rese oes ler ae eards a 5G 5 6 11 ne, Ar ee 26 fe 8 10 Brickner ees Keystone Shooting League. Hotmerssurc Juncrion, Pa., March 21.—I. Budd, of Pember- ton, killed all the birds he shot at, 25 straight. Geikler was a close competitor, killing 24 out of the 25. Budd’s 16 was the top score in the officers’ trophy event, with Geikler second with 14. The scores: Club handicap, 10 birds, handicap rise: Harrison 10, Darby 9, Landis 9, Fitzgerald 7. Officers’ trophy, 15 birds, handicap rise: Darby 138, Fitzgerald 12, Harrison 10. Budd 10, Geikler 10, Budd 15, Geikler 14, Rocklard Military Academy. Nyack, N. Y., March 21—In the preliminary matches at the Rese Military Academy traps to-day the winners were as fol- ows: First match, 10 targets: Won by French, 10 straight. Second match, 10 targets: Lander broke 9. Third match, 10 targets: Creighton and Moeller 9 each. The 25-bird handicap match resulted as follows: Creighton 22, Chapman 18, Lander 19, Lydecker 19, Moeller 20, French 22, Gilson 25, Ee 22. fas e next shot will be held gn the home grounds, April ate Pom She a8 me grounds, April 4 Col, A. G, Courtaey, AFTER a long illness, Col. A. G. Courtney died at his home in Syracuse, N. Y., on March 17, His death was caused by Bright’s disease, which later became complicated with dropsy, For many years he had traveled in the United States and Canada as a gun salesman and demonstrator. In that capacity he was eminently efficient. He was for many years, from 1884 to about 1899, with the Lefeyer Arms Co. Severing his business relations with that company, he accepted a positicn with the Remington Arms Co. He was phenomenally successful as a salesman. Fle was of powerful physique, though of late years the burden of flesh which he carried impaired his figure as to any sugges- tion of athletic power. He possessed much native wit, and was famous for his readiness at repartee. There were mo quips or quirks, however suddenly sprung, to which he could not respond promptly and keenly. He was born in London, England, on Jan. 22, 1840, and there- fore was in his sixty-fourth year. While English by birth, he was an American by education, for while he was but little more than an infant in age, his father, who was a locksmith and gun-maker, settled in Syracuse, whence in 1849 he went to California to seek gold, amassed sufficient for the needs of a litetime, and was lost with all hands when the ill-fated Mayflower foundered in 1855. According to the best information obtainable, Col. Courtney's serious business life began when, at ten years of age, he engaged as a grocery clerk, and his success may be inferred from the offer tendered to him by his employer in 1861; that is, a half in- terest in the store, and the securing of an army substitute for him at a high figure, $1,000. The spirit of the soldier was upon him,. however, for he declined, enlisted, and went to the war, and he was where the fights were thickest and oftenest. He was in sev- enteen battles; South Mountain, Antietam, Chancellorsville, first and second Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Bull Run, ete., passing through the numerous hardships and perils unscathed. He was ad- vanced to the rank of Major. He came to New York in 1803, where he remained about three years, thence went to Rouse- ville, Pa., in the oil region, where he ran a hotel and livery stable, and amassed a large fortune. Next he ran a hotel and opera house in Waverly, New York, about three years, till 1872 Next, after a brief stay in Virginia City, Nev., he went to San Francisco, where he engaged in mining stock deals, and after a stay, of six years had amassed another fortune. Next, after a shert stay in Syracuse, he engaged in business in Montreal 4nd lost a great deal of money. | In 1879 he opened an elegantly fitted café in Syracuse. identified with shooting from his childhood. In the early stages of glass ball shooting he won many prizes. His best score was 98 out of 100. He won the diamond medal of the Onondaga Club five times, tieing for it with a then famous shot, Geo. C. Luther, The tie was shot off on 10 birds, and it required 80 birds to settle the tie, Col. Courtney winning by 4 birds in the last 10, At the G. A. H., Interstate Park, L. I., 1900, he killed all his birds in the eyents of the first two days, and was one of the con- testants who killed 25 in the G, A, H. and shot in the final for the cup; he lost his fifth bird dead out. Years ago he was famous as an unconquered amateur boxer, a powerful athlete and a cour- aze which no danger would daunt. He was a thirty-second degree lason. He was WESTERN TRAP. Cuicaco.—The Darrow bill, House, No. 617, prohibiting the shooting of live pigeons at the trap or the owning of pigeons for such purposes, has gone to the Committee on Fish and Game. Mr. Castle, the same gentleman who was so efficient in the work on House Bill 604, states that he is opposed to the Darrow bill, and will make all efforts within his power to prevent its passage. Hoveu, Nonpareil Gon Club, Cuicaco, Ill., March 21—Regular club shoot, 50 targets each at Watson’s Park: Roll 40, Willard 39, Barto 31, Amberg 36. Sweepstakes: sly oa! Events: 12S Targets 151510 ‘Targets: 15 15 10 BattON einitisectwceney ys SEL ALO ROM Ma taeestentese eee 14 15 10 NV itU Lead i aeetstatts seins aioe LoeLO She Am beri lise. bees alee 15 9 J. Watson. Poughkeepsie Gun Club, PoucHKeepsiz, N. Y., March 19.—Because of our match with Ossining for the Intercounty cup being scheduled for Saturday, March 21, Capt. Traver called the boys out to-day for regular weekly practice. There was such a general feeling among those present that Thursday should be the day for regular weekly shoots, instead of Saturday, that it is probable that that day will be given preference. By holding these mid-week shoots it is hoped to have the effect of bringing out more shooters, as many of our members are business men, who find it almost impossible to attend the Saturday shoots. Several members, too, who are members of the Golf Club, would no doubt attend the shoots on Thursday, but who could not attend conveniently on Saturday, and as these gentlemen rank among our best shots their attend- ance is of no little importance to the club. Capt. Traver is going on a six weeks’ trip through the West, and will attend the Consolidated tournament of the Buffalo Bill and Grand Island gun clubs, at Grand Island, Neb., April 8, To-day’s scores follow: Events 123 45 6 7 Shot Targets 25 25 25 25 25 2515 at. Broke, Jie ERS SS eyo oar ey eee 22 22 22 20 20 .. .. 125 106 Taide Yicchy ee resobecceancenpunde 19 241617 .. 1... 100 76 *Du Bois.. S19 ste Tae liatpues ene 118 79 Winans ., 18.18 1618 21 .. .. 125 91 PS LOo Guth elselecltee tae tess «ates Pi doe cde diye ee eee 75 56 Hadden ~...,...- A SECA ete ot ADEN EL see 50 31 Wikis ili eases oe SE ASR EER eee ae 20 16 16 12 90 64 ILC yd eeige die cane Cans Rent eet ote ft netgear. es 40 10 * Du Bois drops out of event 5 after eighteenth round. _ March 21.—That “there is many a slip “twixt the cup and the lip” has again proved too true. Further information can prob- ably be found in this same paper. SNANIWEH. Winchester Gun Club, Derroit, Mich.—Without attempting any explanation of the poor attendance, the scores of the regular shoot, March 21, are herewith placed on record. The handicaps are for the fifth (trophy) event only: Events: 2 3 123 45 Targets 10 10 15 15 25 25 Targets: 10 10 15 15 25 of Bates, 20...,,., 9 614151423 fegoett, 16....... .. . 19 16 Reidy) el Seana 4 811101116 McAdam, 16.... 5 1 5 41213 Hitchcock, 16.. 812 ,,..1919 Brown ......... Tay abyss kth fe ane arene 6 9.. 1818 = M., Ss. G, and F, P, A. _The programme of the Missouri State Game and Fish Protec- tive Association’s twenty-sixth annual tournament, to be given under the auspices of the Metropolitan Gun Club, St. Joseph Mo., April 7-11, can be obtained of the secretary, Mr. F. B. Cun- ningham, to whom, care Brown Transfer and Storage Co., guns and ammunition, express prepaid, may be forwarded. Targets 2 cents. Live birds 25 cents. Mr. Fred Whitney will have charge of the cashier’s office. Handicaps, 16 to 22yds, Two sets ‘of traps, Sergeant system. Handicaps, liye birds, 26 to 82yds. dicap Re pany Saeco C. W. Budd, H. M. Mermod, J. W. Bramhall and Chris. Gottlieb. Mone ivisi 35, 30, 20 and 15 per cent. There are twelve Ninieeesie ae each of the days, April 7, 8 and 9; 15 and 20 targets, entrance $1.50 and $2; added money $10 and $12. On the fourth day there are three eyents: Event A, State Association team medal, 15 birds per man, 60 to team; entrance $20, birds extra. Event B State amateur wing shot championship, 25 birds, entrance $12 50: 30yds. rise. Event C, Interstate championship cup, open to the world, 25 birds, entrance $12.50. Fifth day, Event D 2) birds entrance $20, handicaps 27 to 33yds. : hi Han- Davis, Alex. D. All communications intended for Forest ayp Stream should always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., New York, and aot to any individual connected with the paper, 260 FOREST-AND STREAM. [Marc 28, 1903. Ossining Gun Club. Osstninc, N. ¥., March 21.—Victory again perched on the banner of. the Ossining Gun Club to-day when the Poughkeepsie Gun Club sent down its valiant team of seyen to try and win back the Intercounty cup, which they had, it seemed to us at the time, over long. The out-of-town boys were up against a stiff game, for it is hard work to beat this club on its own grounds, True, they won down here before, but then Buckley made 23 out of 25, and this time only made 11; but a straight by him this time would not have changed the result. This makes two wits for Ossining and one for Poughkeepsia. The up-river boys are entitled to try again at any time they may elect. The handicap cup was shot for to-day. G. Hubbell and A. Rohr. each had two wins for it, meeding but one more to win it for good... Hubbell did the trick, breaking 21 out of 25, with a handicap of 6 misses as breaks. J. M, Terwilliger did the scoring, and he was O. K. at the game. Over 1,500 targets were thrown in two and one-half hours. Ossining Gun Club, TL WashDuUrin. 5). cece sos annvseers seven W111 1111011101111 —25 C Blandtord sen sees en sey anche = 14119141111011111111111011—23 WY SCIAT Ke) 5 22s asain +» 1101101011111011011111111—22 A “Bedell ysis. i nieve ce tessape sts 1001111111111110111111100—21 BE Bisse Aap. See wne scien c= hs era le 1101011.111110011111111011—20 W Coleman: fc.0 uy deisp eee bee e-em 1110111110101011111111011—20 BS SGT = Pave sa Se sepia obeys es eke maint 1110100114110111110111110—19—150 Poughkeepsie Gun Club. Te “Paldiarks Vee eel. eect cistee sen wee sass 1491111010111111111111011—22 PeoPerkins eee. eesinpa sss 11111011.00721111111011.011—21 sive LTA GT Upbericee noc dlee see mmncees Aut 111111.0111010111110111101—20 A Vata citrate & a csteaeep arigitcle etre ies eit) 1011100111111.001110111111—19 A Duboise 101.1110011111101110010111—19 Webrings: Ssh sines 11111.0141.0011110111011101—19 F Buckley 0000111001011011100100001—11 131 Other events: Events: cL. Ae SSP Pa 6b. PNT Targets: 10 10 10 20 120 25 26 Pe BIA Gr ctid tus oecp eee au re HPAHIAINN Tot: (eS Mi a fh. fl Winans. BESS! i ay Fe Db atSe ek ee ee ie ge ais wl ngs Sie x abi Ge 39 Of Bie eS 0. pe cbse of ncwcyvtvistelnten nis phe besa 7. ab) CS Porn HH Perkins... ..5 Be 2910 1.99 see I Tallman ...... So. 9 LD +4 WAeDTAVET. 5 cees eae clilonltddlds cubes Oc 8: Wits So Spee 0ae4 “H Marshall 6-6 st ob eT AT XY Washburn 9 Ou 8: 8 o> Ceoepd end. € Blandford : LOT AO ieee ae 1)! Brandreth, eeae aly cece obi can weidaeys GES 2 ee CE SOEs REET ies Syn er die aa ode bate eee es Cae ape tiemtuseiaye BLU ogi ple ee PENA MA CC HeTINEATA Neca tiie eet lntete sie miele nemo shel 9°S 6: 818 Nee atic he eee EU cuphc tase oe pomiemotnn PTS OE AS SB eel ce Cena NS SA Porte nace nfl bitlere aL ae ee ee, Nie HeSherie. Meee Glick nem e 5 & nine on osu seer ee: (RR Esq) thr Sipe aegniccers Span se rts JO) toc Se Gens TE et ee ot eee att /citetle a temeee erate 2 9 TE ae TPE DET en ee atta tte eee wap eb pens ahr fe os A Rohr, 138 Re Eew Ee gk. ates G Edgers ... a Gare Bay er ey p= Fates woe ata invclninte gh etereiapererere aie 2 te eas Figures after the names denote misses as breaks, which apply in event- No. 6 only. * denotes shot along. Tallman got high average, .92 per cent; Blandford, 91 per cent. een Ames Toutnament. Ames, Ia., March 18—The one-day tournament of the Ames Gun Club was well attended. The programme had eight 15 and four 20 target events. No money was added, but four high average prizes were given to high men. W. B. Linell, of El- dera, won first. He averaged -935. C. B. Adams, of Rockwell, won second; John Frees third, and H. Watson fourth. The shooting was from one set of traps, Sergeant system; tar- gets fhrown about 50yds. ; ; There were ien entries for the Stony County Championship medal. A. G. Wing broke 24 out of a possible 25 and won the medal without a tie. Dr. Proctor, the holder, got 22. _ Henry Steege, of Waterloo, and W. B. Linell, of Eldera, then shot a #5-target match for a purse of $10, Linell winning with 25 straight. Events: 123 £5 67 & Sa0d1 Targets: 15 15 20 15 15 2015 15 201515 20 Total. Av. Freese... cease 1413 2014181714151713814 20 184 .920 H Adams... ... 131419 13 1119'91016111319 167 835 F A Johnson....... 111119101218 11 918131015 157 . 785 E C Peterson....... IRB PB Ee P cer os ee ee ses Anan C B Adams......... 15 13 20151419 141517131318 186 -930 C M Proctor........ 1231218 81115 11 12.16 12 14 18 160 -800 SACLE Like ars, sicvontod wane 13 13 19 14 12 20 14 12 19 141417 181 -905 J) Peterson, Fosse as 141419 138 1216 141418141219 179 895 H Watson........9. 14 14 19 12 14 18 13 14.17 15 15 18 183 915 AE, Sriithe2s.ccke. 14 13.18 141218 131318151419 181 -905 J E Maitland....... 12 11 16 13 1018 121218141419 169 845 E G Wallace........ 11 13 17141219 15 1418181320 1% 895 Wy aBrobimel orias 16 131913 12191515191413 20 187 -935 EL, Steeeearwe = oe eve 13 13 2013 1418 151015151318 177 885 H.R Patterson...... LAP a IO ERs gta cles H. 3h A © Wing... SS p chictres oi kde sie kei ain min wees MalbOtiteg. aks stem Oe PG Ake ee eee £2 40 a ats ] Buckwalt.......... -- Ieee els TAS Weel as GHG GIDHEES I coo calves Pane: Popahiaaeiaes Hetaeje= Daisy eds J A Johnson.....-5- ++ -- + «: Sees peee hepa rE ats es Story County Championship medal, $1 entrance: PG WEE pee ete eipe aple bale ergs eco + ena 910919911. 011 24 WAL WV) Rab OEts 2s ieee as ee pte et bee evo se 4011101100000110000110111—13 TEP TREO WIE so ou ono ale) otorestcem breyten e vb ec piniozess 0111111114111.011.10111011—21 G M Proctor... te. .c | DOSE aL dade cees otheivjesectasnttie ds wi ais 1011010011111010011111111—18 A, G. Wing won medal. Special at 25 targets, for a purse of $10: FL Stee ge... cece ce wee ee ee sewer e eee es 11414441111101111111011011—22 4p en De ol D Pa Ries rt horiekl ace sors 4191111111911 11— 25 HAWKEYE. Monte Carlo Incident. Tur following excerpt, a part of a review of the trapshooting situation as it concerns cruelty and honesty, is taken from the Country Gentleman, London, England, of March 7, and is pre- sented for what it may be worth in respect to foreign trap- shooting: . ' , “Possibly the betting element is not so. pronounced in America in connection with pigeon shooting as it 1s in our gun clubs; hut such actions as that decided only on Saturday last by Mr. Justice Channell in the King’s Bench Division throw a strong side-light on the amount of money wagered by pigeon shooters at Monte Carlo, as well as adding one more story—true or false, we need not here inquire—to the many tales that have been told con- cerning the tricks resorted to by dishonest gamblers. In that case Mr. k. S. Siever, of Toddington Park, Bedfordshire, the well-known tace horse owner, was sued by M. G, Besnard, 4 Paris bookmaker, for £2,000, said to have been won by him from Mr. Siever in an hour. Mr. Siever declined to pay, on the ground that he believed he had been swindled, stating that he, had ascertained that the shooter, a well-known competitor, whom hie had been induced to bet on killing his bird, had had charges of powder in his cartridges, but no shot, Whether this statement be true or false, such tricks are not unknown in pigeon shooting, there being so many opportunities of practicing them in one form or another upon unwary sportsmen. It is not long since a bank- ruptcy examination elicited the fact that, a young shooter had been cheated out of thousands by his cartridges having been fraudu- lently filled up with sand instead of shot, with the result of course that when money in large amounts was wagered he always missed his bird. Mr. Siever won his case, having declined to pay be- cause he was smart enough to have observed, or believed he observed, that the shooter he was putting his money on fired tlivee yards under the pigeon, and that the second barrel fired at the bird Gvhich must have been somewhat of an ‘owl’), when it had settled a few yards from the firing point, showed no mark upon the mat below where it rested. It seems strange that the sheoter, if he knew there was no shot whatever in his gun should have thought it necessary to aim three yards below his bird in order to avoid killing it by so doing. He must surely have been making assurance doubly sure. Be that as it may, there seems -little question that much money is sometimes wot by fraudulent means in pigeon shooting contests,” - In the same journal, a cotrespotident, Verax, touches upon the subject as follows: “The evidence given by Mr. Siever in the actiot heatd before Mr. Justice Channell on Saturday last is a striking commentary on the practices apparently prevalent in pigeon shooting at the traps. f his statement can be corroborated by independent evidence there can be no doubt that an ingenious attempt was made to switidle him out of some thousands of pourids at the Monte Carlo Gun Club a year ago. The attempt did not suc: ceed, it would appear, because Mr. Siever, as it happened was smart enough to detect the trickery, though he may probably have been enabled to do so only by the accident that the pigeon fire at was a tame one, and alighted close to the shooter, who in the ordinary course of things could not have failed to kill it with his second barrel. The circumstances showed that the trap- ping at all eyents at Monte Carlo was honest, for it would have been very easy for dishonest trappers to have sent out a fast- flying, strong, wild bird that would have been very difficult to hit even by good shooting, and very easy to miss by the reverse, without attracting attention or remark, But if Mr. Siever’s view be correct as to what really happened, not only the shooter, but also his loader, must have been in the secret in conjunction with the bookmaker, who plunged on what would have been a certainty for him if he had only been paid the amount of his bet. “The case certainly shows. the many opportunities afforded shady sharpies for picking up considerable sums of money dis- honestly behind the live-pigeon traps, and the publication of Mr. Siever’s evidence, so long as it stands uncontradicted on oath, must go far to throw greater discredit than ever upon the so- called sport. It has always been assumed that the proceedings at Monte Carlo were beyond suspicion of chicanery; and if such practices as have just been referred to are possible there, can we believe that they are unheard of at other competitions, where the rules are not quite so Strictly observed, and where therefore there are greater openings for fraudulent trickery by which sharp- ers profit and honest men lose their money? Kansas and Missouri Traps. _ Tue growth of interest in trapshooting heretofore mentioned in this correspondence, as pertaining to the Mississippi and Missouri valleys, is becoming steadily more apparent as the sea- son advances. One evidence of this is the fact that estimates of attendance at the Grand American Handicap are rising steadily as the date approaches. It is pretty well assured that the States of Kansas and Nebraska alone will furnish over fifty entries. At Kansas City on the 15th inst., B. F. Cunningham won the Missouri. State championship from Harry Tipton in a match at 25 live birds. The contest was'a nice one, being a tie from the fourth to the thirty-fifth round in the miss-and-out. Walter Howe won the Troisdorf target championship at Kansas City on a score of 44 out of 50. : On the 17th the Carthage-Joplin, Mo., Gun Club defeated the Weir-Scammon, Kans., Gun Club in an intercity ten-man team contest. It was the second win for the Missourians, but by so close a margin that nothing was left to spare and it is under- stood that the series is to be continued. In a short sweepstake programme on the same date, H. Pierce was. high gun without a tie. Dave Elliott and Holmes tied for second. The tournament was held on the grounds of the Weir City club, whose members nicely entertained the visitors. The scores: } : : Missouri State Championship: ‘ Gunning han ai, isp eeeh ea sete 2220202222221 2229942 9292912922222222 33 ERIPtOM Me Nie ok ere ene 11#210121222122222%2929111121122222%—32 Troisdorf medal, 50 targets: Coe 32, Norton 38, Cockrill 34, Hickman 39, Scott 30, Cunningham 37, Rickmers 36, Greninger 38, Kirby 41, Home 44, Campbell 38, Elliott 35. The following was shot at Weir City, Kans., March 17: Carthage-Joplin Team. ° Srdwayy sabe. eo ALII11191911011.00001101.011 1. 110001 1111 TT 19—49 Wolper” fives scr 111100011110100101101111010111111101101110111100N1.—36 J. BP Legrertveae 100994194.09119119111111111101111.010 1111011111 40 Dawson ......... 101191111111111111.00111.0091.1.111.001 1011.01.11 01141. Dayne Se shee 1111011011111 001 011101411101111111011111100—40 Geo Leggett... 2.01111101110011111111001011111110111111111011111111_40 Dr Gintry ...... 1111110000111.0019.191011111111111 0111101111111 —41. SOT pe apie 011111111 00101110101411110111111111110011101111111—40 Fup batde ayer 11011010100111.00100011.011.0001000111111110101110111—30 Aj Pixon sh5255 - 11111.01101100111111110011111.0110110111100111111111—9 392 Weir-Scammon Team, Mackie ..,,-.-.. 419101979119.1111011011101111111101111111111111191 45 McDonald :...... 111011.01010110110100111010010111001001011101011111—30 SGA TILOIL, ote Hele a 11.0019191100191991911111191919111111111100111110111—48 Whrattotl ae.ste ook ee 101011111110111.011110111111110011.00011.001001101101—34 EN GUITEGS- ue teess clas 01111111.001111.00199111.0011119111.00111111111 01711 11—40 TEE ETE EGE: eect vys 41911119009111011911911.011119 1.010111 01.1 —-45 GL IPIGTUCaacss ala vot 11101100191111111111 011.010011111.001111111010011111—38 Mawson ......... 10019911111111111110111110011111101101001111010011—39 aviketaves St Spee. 0110100111011010111.001011111111.0011101.011101110101—33 VETS Le vere oe sens 1111100110111111011111101101111111110011111111.011 41. 390 Sweepstakes: Events: RZ oe eae Oe Bi Events: 1 253° 4556 7 Targets 10 10 15 10 20 15 25 Targets:. 101015 10 20 15 25 Wave gerne 7 § 1410 2012 21 McDonald... 7 610 8 12 10 20 Scranton 7 §12 816 925 Holmes...... 91012 8 18 14 21 Sidway ..... 10 910 619 9.. Haines ...... if le eed imery cen. ie Folger ..... 6 OLA A. SAT Sor 2.8. We a ee as H. Pierce 10 912101815 20 Conway pete eee a Gabe Murphy 81012 8141119 Diron ... oes LORS ns ee Graham ..... & 8 9 8.2 10 Layne S04 is Mawson ...., 9 6 9°.. Morton ..... r Sess a. G- Pierce .... 9 4.. 8 9 Gentry : pe aie J Leggett..... 9 818 7... .. Martin’ Sieese. ae oD yd cabeahetrhe ws Riehl. ee... Bae relb 1 SMe omalds Ps adil cemen apes ai Bt kcer o. ata telate 510 513.19 Z Leggett... .. PERE sly bles SEY oe fete are he hoe + IBEW Topol RA Viet: an ae Mackie ..... 8 712 71418 20 M. V. T. S. and G. P. A. A CORRESPONDENT sent us the following clipping, which will be of special interest to Southern shooters: Secretary J. J. Bradfield, of the Mississippi Valley Trapshooters’ and Game Protective Association, states that an additional prize is to be competed for during the 1903 tournaments. © The prize, Mr. Bradfield states, is an $80 guny winner to have choice of any gun on the market. ~ It is donated by the Peters Cartridge Company, of Cincinnati, O., through their able and popular representative, Mr. Maurice Kaufman. The first chance to compete for this handsome prize, together with the numerous other trophies now in competition, will be at the tenth tourna- ment of the Association, to be held at Vicksburg, Miss., by the Vicksburg Gun Club during May, which promises to be particu- larly interesting: ; Any further information will be cheerfully furnished by the secretary of the Association, Mr. J. J. Bradfield, Vicksburg, Miss. Nothing has done the shooters so much good of late as to see the face and figure of their accomplished and hard-working sec- retary out among them again, and all are hoping that Brad will get a look in for that $80 gun. ’ The members of the Vicksburg Gun Club are going to have their shooting grounds in fine shape this spring, and expect the | usual number of crack shots, professional and amateur, at the target during the May tournament. Raleigh Gun Club. Raneten, N. C., March 17.—Although our regular shooting season does not begin until the middle of April, we will have an occasional shoot between now and that time. We had the pleas- ure of entertaining Mr. J. A. R. Elliott to-day, and were well paid by the good shooting he gave us, as well as the large at- tendance given us by representative business men. and ladies of our city. Mr. Elliott’s manner and shooting endeared him to our members, and we will always be glad to have him visit us when convenient to do so. is longest run was 81 straight. Mr .J. I. Johnson, president of our club, and a good shot for an amateur, was a close second with 92 out of a possible 100. Mr. Arthur, another member, shot well, breaking 48 out of the last 50. : Our magautrap was in perfect working order, Out of 800 tar- gets I don’t think there was over a dozen bad ones thrown out. — This is a great help to the shooter. The weather was ah ideal spring day, not too warm, with no witid stirring; in fact, there was no excuse a shooter could at- tribute his missing a target to. We appreciate the visits from all guh and powder houses and hope to have quite a number with tis ere the season closes. The following scores were made, shoot- ine at 100 targets: Eliott 97, Johnson 92, Tennessee 86, Arthur Shooting at 50: Parker 41, Ellington 41, Gowan 40, Gray 30, Walters 20, Shooting at 25: Riggan 13. R. T. Gowan, Sec’y. Schenectady Gun Club. ScuEnectapy, N. Y.—The following scores were made on the home grounds of the Schenectady Gun Club this afternoon, and as the weather conditions were anything but pleasant, the scores are remarkably high. A strong wind from the southwest was preva- lent-during most of the afternoon, with rain squalls that made it hard to see the targets, especially the low ones, when not against the sky background, Borden, H reent, Levengston an Warnick were high guns, averaging 96, 95, 93 and 92 per cent. respectively, Borden missing only 4 out of 100, and ending with a_ brilliant run of 53 straight. Mr. Leyengston also made a run of 50 straight during the afternoon. Messrs. Greene, Levengston and Warnick stood at 18yds., and Borden at 16yds. The occasion was the spring tournament of the members of the Schenectady Gun Club, with rather novel conditions of shooting _ at 100 targets in four 25-target events, the highest four scores of 25 each to count on four different Saturdays out of the seven Saturdays from March 14 to April 25, inclusive, for prizes. The following is the full score of the afternoon’s shoot: Events: eR eR et Targets: 25 25 25 25 25 #£Broke. Av. ey Borden: assesses sewers sos 235028. 2p 2b. 1) 96 -960 EL) ByiGrediercer cess reer eens . 24 24 24 23 24 119 952 HM Levengston, Jr.......-.- 25 25 21 22 .. 93 930 eels \Warticha.o.e. ese cqhecee 24 22 24 20 24 114 «920 AVIQUCETINIES Utica teste hae meee CE AB tet ole ebe, 45 -900 AM CAGE GLGET betas paet aeration oe JO oye Peele ole 44 880 V Wallbure .....cssecesseseeee a1 23 20 1) A: 64 “853 JROMSAGAMSE wrersetereteaeetoned 20 21 19 19 24 103 824 W 06 Ghristophien: . 22... ate-sas TP ep fe Te ae 19 «160 (RET per kinseee crea seen enn IDET EE See 56 «746 S Ferguson ....... Le ere nies APPR) 74 740 SPIN OD CEES FEU Rates ceresteieiowiaity wit ae AG 20. 53 706 : V. WALLBURG, Capt. Florists’ Gun Club. WissitnomMinc, Pa., March 21.—The six events made a total of 100 targets. Mr. N. R. Nevergold scored 89 per cent.; W. K. Park was second with 87 per cent.: =: Events: 12 8 4 6.6 £Events: Toes 4°56 Targets 15 15 20 15 15 20 Targets 15 15 20 15 15 20 Coleman ....... 14 TRS A, os. eo ear ars ce LO SiG co nae Nevergold ..... 13 13 19 141317. Johnson ...... + 9121815 816 Mrs Park....... 13-1217 9 916- Webster .....0. SLO OT ake. Weinman ...... 12 8 39. 5 805. jeR Pharomcere 6510 47. RAT Kas ephaswin oseriste 12 1418141316 Ridge ...,.........- 138 910.. Haywood ...... 4012 T4210 ee WGEOLee jeeeenass ooo es 13 46 ]1 .. Huttenlock .... 11:13 13 12 1516 Landis ........... ere sh ie ee Westcott ....... 10:14.12 10... Answers ta Correspondents. | : No notice taken of anonymous communications, Settler, New York.—l. What are the prospects of procuring a grant of land in the State of California under the Homestead Laws? 2. The counties in which the grants are available? 3. Where intending settlers should make application? 4. Is land dear in California? Ans. 1. Any citizen of the United States may take up public land to the amount of 160 acres under the Home- stead Act. 2. Counties in which there is still unoccupied public land. 8. The nearest local land office. 4, Improved land is dear. Un- improved land on which water cannot be brought is worthless. We suggest your writing to the General Land Office, at Wash- ington, D. C. - PUBLISHERS’ DEPARTMENT. Three-Day Tour to Washington, UNDER THE PERSONALLY-CONDUCTED SYSTRM OF THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD, THE next Pennsylvania Railroad Personally-Conducted Tour to Washington leaves Monday, April 6. Rate, covering railroad transportation for the round trip, hotel accommodations, and transfer of passenger and baggage, station to hotel in Washington, $14.50 from New York, $18 from Trenton, $11.50 from Philadelphia, and proportionate rates from other points. ‘These rates cover accommodations for two days at the Arlington, Normandie, Riggs, Ebbitt, Shoreham, Cochran, Gordon, Barton, or Hamilton hotels. For accommodations at Regent, Metropolitan, National, or Colonial hotels, $2.50 less. Special side trip to Mount Vernon. All tickets good for ten days, with special hotel rates after ex- piration of hotel coupons. 5 : For itineraries and full information apply vo ticket agents; Tourist Agent, 263 Fifth avenue, New York; 4 Court street Brook- lyn; 789 Broad street, Newark, N. J.; or address Geo. W. Boyd, Assistant General Passenger Agent, Broad Street Station, Phil- adelphia.—Adv. How many tears have been shed, and how much unprintable language used over shooting and fishing footwear, can never be known. What is known is this, that nothing contributes so much to the comfort of angler or hunter as good, easy, durable shoes or boots. Messrs. Witchell Sons & Co., of Detroit, Mich., manufacturers of high class sporting footwear, confine their efforts to this one line, and may be presumed to have succeeded, as specialists usually succeed. Elk skin waterproof boots are one of their specialties. Their goods are adapted for men and women alike. Dealers have their product, or if not, the manufacturers themselves may be consulted by letter. The Labrador Company, who control the great Mingan Seign- iory and advertise the salmon rivers within its borders, have just issued an attractive and fully illustrated pamphlet, describing a large number of these rivers, and generally the attractions of the region. ‘These north shore’ streams for the most part can be reached only by steamers making trips twice a month from Quebec. The country is almost untouched, and affords excellent opportunities for fishing and shooting. A map of the region is found in the pamphlet, which will be sent free to all applicants, Pretty much everything to be desired by the fresh or salt water angler is to be found in the catalogue issued by Charles Plath & Sons, of 62 Fulton street, New York city. Not only does this firm supply to the consumer rods, reels, hooks, flies, leaders, camping goods, rubber clothing and other necessary. articles, but it furnishes to the manufacturer supplies for making reds and tying flies. Anglers who desire to renew their stock should supply themselves with the Messrs, Plath’s catalogue. The J. Stevens Arms and Tool Co., of Chicopee Falls, Mass., - having acquired the telescope business of the Cataract Tool and Optical Co., of Buffalo, N. Y., are now prepared to fit telescopes to rifles. These telescopes are adapted not only to arms of their own manufacture, but also to many other rifles made by ad- vertisers in the Forest AND STREAM. Persons who have shot telescope rifles understand how great an addition to the shooter’s comfort the telescope is. ——————— | et Launch and Motor Co., of Saugatuck, Conn., man- ae ae thich os and motors, the last designed and built to meet— the growing demands for a high grade motor, with every feature ience has shown to be desirable. How well the com- SA SEaceis in this is shown by the few testimonials printed at the end of their attractive booklet, which will be sent on application. FOREST AND STREAM. A WEEKLY Journat or THE Rop anp Gun. Corvricut, 1908, av Forest anp Srream Pustisume Co. Terms, $4.4 Year. 10 Crs. a Copy. { Six Monras, $2. Che Forest and Stream’s Platform Plank. “The sale of game should be prohibited at all seasons.” NAILS DRIVEN IN 1903.—No. I. NEW MEXICO, Acr oF MaArce 7, 1903.—Sec. 6. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, agent or employe, or any association or corpo- ration, to buy or sell, or to expose or offer for sale, any species of trout or game food fish taken from the public streams or waters of this Territory, or any game known as elk, deer, antelope, or mountain sheep, at any time during the year. WILLIAM N. BYERS. It was a singularly well rounded life which was brought to a close when William N. Byers passed away, at his home in Denver, on Wednesday of last week, March 25. His age was seventy-two years. Mr. Byers was one of the conspicuous figures in the history of Colorado, a chief actor in the development of the State. He was a type of the western pioneer whose daring~*enterprise, foresight and indomitable courage subdued the wilderness and established States, Born in Ohio in 1831, of Scotch descent, he went in 1851 to Iowa and began surveying in the service of the Government. In the prosecution of this worl: he went as far west as Oregon and Washington and to California; and when the territories of Nebraska and Kansas were opened for settlement, he went to Omaha and ran the section and township lines of eastern Nebraska. In 1859, when the motto “Pike’s Peak or Bust” was the watchword of so many adventurous spirits, Mr. Byers set-out for the Rockies with a printing press and newspaper outht, which were carried by pack mules; and on April 17, 1850, reached ‘Kettle Creek, the site of Den- yer, and on April 27 issued the first number of the Rocky Mountain News, ihe pioneer paper of the proposed State of Jefferson, afterward Colorado. Although in after years Mr. Byers held many offices of honor and trust, it is be- lieved that in nothing else did he take so much pride as the record he made for the News and for himself in its cenduct, and in the recognition popularly accorded him as the founder of Colorado journalism. Thus active and influential in the early days of Denver, Mr. Byers was all through his life until its closing years a man of large affairs, and was identified with many of the important financial enterprises which have made the crude Kettle Creek of 1859 the Denver of to-day, with its 170,000 in- habitants. . Mr. Byers was from the first publication of Forest AND STREAM a contributor to its columns, and older readers will recall the delightful descriptions that came from his pen of fishing excursions and camps in the Rockies. He -was an authority on the West, and his writings had pecu- liar charm because of the intimate knowledge they showed of the scenes and the subjects concerning which he wrote. His angling papers were surcharged with the freshness of the mountains; they reflected the breadth of ‘spirit which characterized the man. Always appreciative of the value of the fish and the game, and recognizing the duty of securing their conservation, Mr. Byers was one of the earliest advocates in the Rocky Mountains of game and fish protection, and the subject was one in which his in- terest was never lost. One of the last things which he wrote for the Forest AND STREAM was a plea for the rescue of the Lost Park herd of buffalo, Colorado’s relic of that fated game of which in his youth the surveyor of the territories had seen the herds of tens of thousands. A SIGN IN THE HEAVENS. To THe dwellers in great cities, most of the charming transitional stages between the going of the winter and the coming of the springtime are unknown happenings. To them the shy and slow budding of the dainty leaflets; the gradual changes of earth from shades of dull brown to the refreshing shades of vivid green; the swarming of testless, musical bird-life where a short time since there was only silent void, are to city dwellers perforce the phenomena of things unseen and therefore practically un- known. They miss the glories so lavishly in evidence to the country dweller—the magic of the mellow sunshine, which coaxes forth bud and blossom, and life and color where before were only the sere and the dormant; Sights to please the eye and gladden the heart. To the city dweller winter seems to end in an abrupt sort of way, and spring seems to come with equal abrupt- ness, Bricks and mortar walls do not show the season’s NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 19038. changes as do fields and forests. ‘To them all seasons are nearly alike. But betimes some isolated natural happening may herald to the one in city streets the arrival of spring and reyivification. On Monday of this week several flocks of geese passed over New York city, high up in space to- ward the sky, steadily winging their way northward to commence the season’s domestic labors. And, while they could be distinctly seen, but few people in New York saw them, for there the pedestrian must needs look up quite perpendicularly to behold much sky, and when seen it is sky broken and irregular in every direction accordingly as the lofty and numerous sky-scrapers interfere with the sight. The northward migration of the geese denotes that spring’s impulses are upon them, but their lessening num- bers tell also that the season is here when the shooting of wildfowl should be prohibited by law and frowned upon by public opinion. The entire stock of wildfowl is insufficient to reproduce to a degree equal to their destruc- tion. Even if tmmolested in the springtime, stringent restr i= tions on shooting wildfowl would still need to be en- forced in the fall; for the agencies of destruction have multiplied so generally everywhere that, if unrestricted in their exercise, the utter extermination of the wildfowl would be quickly compassed. Indeed, the thinly scattered flocks of geese flying warily northward are now in meagre contrast with the numerous flocks of years ago. For this great decrease in the numbers of the wildfowl the perni- cious practice of spring shooting far exceeds all other kinds of destructiveness. The springtime, in the animal and vegetable world, is nature’s chosen time for reproduction, not for destruc- tion. Let the birds pass unmolested to their breeding giounds, In the fall there will be more and better birds to test the sportsman’s skill and craft, and there will be more birds in future years for the sportsmen and their posterity. WHEN DO THE WILD DUCKS MATE? THE question as to the time of mating of the migrating wildfowl that are with us in winter is one that has been hotly debated by the advocates and the opponents of spring shooting. Almost every man has an opinion’ on the subject based on what he has seen of the actions of the birds, but these opinions are drawn from inference and not from absolute evidence. Definite knowledge on the matter is wanting. On one hand we know—or think we ehowesthat wild geese mate for life and are strictly monogamous. This conclusion is drawn from birds kept in captivity, for it is a fact that a mated male has no interest in any female except his mate, and indeed will severely beat and drive "away any female which approaches his mate when she is nesting. Nothing of this kind is known about the ducks, but it is seen that in late winter and all through the spring ducks frequently travel in pairs, male and female. If one of these birds is killed by the gunner the other is likely to make a long round and to come back to the place where its companion fell. As against this another group of gunners declare that birds sometimes do this in the fall. That might very well be if the wild ducks mate for life as the wild geese do. Many gunners on the southern broad waters, where so many of our wildfowl pass the winter, aver that the wild ducks mate in Febru- ary. Abe Kleinman, a veteran market gunner of Illinois and Indiana, declares that the bluebills, or broadbills, are mated in March. Dr. T. S. Palmer, of the U. S. Biological Survey, who is interested in the question of when the birds mate, wrote us recently as to the Chesapeake Bay region, say- ing: “I saw personally (March 26) several pairs of black- heads which had undoubtedly mated, and Mr. Walter Jackson, a man of more than ordinary intelligence, who has been shipping ducks from Havre de Grace for years, tells me that there is no doubt that many of the ducks are paired off before they go north. He assured me that he» had found partially developed eggs in ducks killed ii! spring on the Susquehanna flat.” While positive evidence as to when the Bigs mate can be had with but great difficulty, there certainly must be a very distinct preponderance of opinion amcng gunners on ene side or the other of this question, and it would be in- ‘teresting to receive from men of experience statements of their beliefs concerning it, and their reasons for them. _land by horseback to Cheyenne. -moose and elks for three days.” { VOL. LX.—No. 14, No, 846 Broapway, New York. It is but a few years since it was denied with great positiveness that wild ducks bred in New York State, but when the question was asked in the columns of Forest AND STREAM whether they did or did not breed, there was positive and prompt response from a number of men who showed that beyond question they did breed in that State. Later the results which followed the prohibition of spring shooting in Jefferson county have shown that if unmo- ested in. spring, the ducks will remain and breed in New York in very considerable numbers. In all the Northern States they would do the same thing were they protected. There is a lot of rubbish and* “rot” published about President Roosevelt as a sportsman. Something near the limit has been reached by the Philadelphia Record, which prints a column dispatch from a Salt Lake City lunatic descriptive of a herd of 10,000 moose in Jackson’s Hole, “which the President may charge on horseback and kill them with pistol or knife as he desires.” There are also in the perfervid imagination of this writer 20,000 elk in the Hole, and all this game “belongs to the most danger- ous generation of elks and moose that ever roamed the western country.” The President will be in the West in April, winch is popularly regarded by sportsmen as close time, but such a small matter as the game law does not stand in the way of tits yellow journal programme. The plan, we are told, is “to give President Roosevelt , chance at the scrappiest herds of elks and moose in ihe world. The scheme is to take him into the Jackson Hole country when he leaves the train at Laramie to ride over- [t is proposed to have the game laws waived in Rooseyelt’s honor and hunt these When this sort of truck is ladled out by the column, one stands in amaze at the character of the readers who are assumed to be such ‘idiots as to pay for the privilege of having the stuff -served up to-them as “special to the Record,” : & At this season of the year in the North the robin is ‘welcomed as one of the harbingers of spring, on its return to take up housekeeping in the orchard or the dooryard; and as one of the familiar birds of the Northern home it is cherished and protected by sentiment and by law. In these latitudes the robin is not a game bird. - In’ the South, where no such sentiment prevails, the bird is estéemed chiefly as a table delicacy.. This is. illustrated anew. in the act of incorporation of the North Carolina Audubon Society. This is a body organized to protect bird life; the act nevertheless expressly excepts the robin, and provides that the robin and the meadow lark “shall be considered: game birds.’ The bobolink, another: bird which in the North is regarded and protected, is in North Carolina, under the name of rice bird, classed as vermin, along with hawks and crows and blackbirds, which may be killed without limit. Thus in matters small as -well as large the sentiments which goyern our likes and dislikes are largely influenced by latitude and longitude. ¥ Governor Odell has declared himself unalterably cpposed to any appropriation by the Legislature for the purchase of Adirondack lands until it shall have been de- termined definitely what amount will be required ulti- mately for a comprehensive and final scheme:of a forest preserve. It is highly desirable that such a definite plan should be adopted in order that its attainment may be provided for. But wtnder existing conditions a policy which stands in the way of any land acquisition whatever is unwise. To defer purchases until the adoption of the plans would mean under existing conditions putting it off till doomsday. This is the reverse of economical, for the reason that the value of Adirondack lands is steadily ap- preciating, and purchases in the future cannot be made so cheaply as they could be made now. Moreover, tracts of forest land are undergoing denudation ‘which’ should be ‘acquired by the State and preserved in their natural con- dition. The people of New York approve the Adirondack forest preserve principle; and Governor Odell would give “ more substantial proof of his statesmanship in the mat- ter if, instead of making this demand for a definite pre- serve plan his excuse for preventing action on the mattey, he should—if still insisting on the necessity of the plan— take some actiott toward securing it. Let a commission ‘be appointed in time for report to the next session, and for action then on the report. = 262 FOREST AND STREAM. [Aprit 4, 1003. Che Sportsman Tonvist. —— ih} Rastus’ Boom. Ow the east bank of the Columbia River, twenty-eight miles north of Wenatchee, Washington, is a cluster ot three buildings, two of which are occupied. This is the town of Orando. The stages which run between We- natchee, Bridgeport and Waterville, meet there at noon, and after dinner continue on their way. From the windows of these houses all one sees is a broad expanse of sand dunes, sage brush and cactus; the sage brtiish grows on mounds, the wind having eaten away the sand until the roots are exposed, After a long, hot ride from Waterville, the last two miles of which the horses were compelled to walk on account of the deep sand, the road house was reached and we prepared for dinner. A pile of sand several feet high was banked against one end of the building, and all that marked the wagon road was the track of the vehicle that had just passed. I had occasion to remain in this God-forsaken place nearly a week, during which sand storms were of almost daily occurrence, and when at their height one could not see a quarter of a mile in any direction. All doors and windows were closed and pieces of carpet were placed against the sills and jams to prevent sand from drifting into the building. After the storm had subsided, Rastus, the proprietor of the road house, swept off the porch and shoveled a path from the steps to the road. One day I ventured to ask my landlady—who was postmistress also, and a jolly little woman, who made her house and stage passengers as comfortable as cir- cumstances would permit—why she had left the East to live in a country so forlorn? She looked out of the window, and waving her hand over the waste of sand and sage brush with a sarcastic laugh, exclaimed, “Boom! boom! Real estate! Real _estate! You see, ’Ras—that’s my husband—got it into his head that fortunes could be made out here in real estate, so he and another fellow scraped up enough money to come out. He had been gone several weeks, when one day I got a telegram by the way of We- natchee, saying, “Sell everything and come on at once.” While I was getting things ready a letter arrived which related his prospects in the most glowing terms. He and his partner had taken up a couple of sections of land, which in a short time would realize a fortune for them both. The Orando Valley was one of the most fertile spots on the Columbia River; it could be irri- gated at little expense from a stream draining the high- lands from the east, and when water was once secured fertile crops could be raised. As soon as the boom was started, the railroad would be built from Wenatchee into the ‘Okonogan country,’ and then the line at Coulee City would be continued west to the Columbia River, making Orando the junction of the two roads, Our fortunes would then be made, and we would re- tura East and take life easy for the remainder of our days. ‘Sell everything at once and leave on the next train,’ the letter continued; ‘as soon as you know what train you are coming on, wire me, and I will meet you at Wenatchee with my hack. Orando is only thirty miles from the station. It is a great country; it 1s a great country! I am sure you will like it as soon as you have become accustomed to it. Of course, it will seem a little strange at first, but you will soon get used to it. Fruits grow without any attention, and the largest crops I ever saw.’ “My heart bounded with joy. There was no doubt that we would soon be rich, *Ras always was a good business man, and I had no doubt of his putting this scheme through successfully. Why, just think! He had only been out there a few weeks, and had saved enough money to buy a hack. I could not but wonder what he was going to do with a hack. Probably he intended to run it between the station and hotels when the boom began, and was trying to make it do for general use until then. “T had it put in the town paper that ’Ras had struck it rich in the Orando Valley, and that on a certain day his wife would sell the household belongings, including a cow, and then leave for the West, where they would make their home. The things were auctioned off, and I couldn’t help crying when I saw pa’s mahogany chair knocked down to Jane Ostrander for one dollar thirty- five, and then she kicked because one of the rockers was a little loose. : *T sold everything but a few carpets and the bed- ding, which I sent West by freight. “The day before I left, Jane Ostrander came over. She had been West, and said she had come to bid me good-by and tell me what kind of a country I was going to. The remarks she made about the chair still rang in my ears, and I told her she needn’t have both- ered herself, for I would soon find out for myself; then I shut the door in her face just as she laughed and said, ‘That’s no josh, neither.’ And I have found that she was right. : “Well, finally I got started, and wired ’Ras that I was on the way. I made the acquaintance of several women who were going West too. I read-’Ras’ letter to them daily, and told them of our plans. They were very much interested, and congratulated me on our great luck. They were anxious to see ’Ras; so I promised to bring him up and introduce him as soon as we reached Wenatchee. At last the long looked-for hour arrived, and as we neared the station, I gathered up my duds and gazed out of the window. Our coach passed a lean, lank form, with a broad-brimmed hat lopped over his eyes, faded blue overalls, no coat and a brown flannel shirt, with sleeves so long they had to be turned up several inches. It was Ras! I knew him at once, though he hadn’t shaved in weeks. After all I had told my friends, I hadn’t the face to bring him up and introduce him in those duds. So I jumped off the car, and dodging behind the station, peeped around the corner. I saw my traveling companions standing on the car steps waiting for me to appear with my bet- ter half; he in the meantime was walking up and down the platform looking into the car windows. I looked for the hack to put my things in, but did not see it. ‘Gracious!’ thought I, ‘is the hack broken, or was there so much business that "Ras could not spare it?’ “When the train moved out, I did likewise, and to say that ’Ras was surprised would not express it. As we walked around the station, I asked him why he had come to meet me in stich old clothes? He said he was working on the building up to the time he hitched up and didn’t have time to change them. He took my things.and began loading them im a platform spring wagon, when I ventured to ask him what had become of the hack. ““Hack! Hack! out here!’ “*What! that old thing with rattling spokes, lop- sided and wired together! Is that what you call a hack? Is that the thing you intend to drive me thirty miles in? Why, ’Ras, it will fall apart before we get started if you don’t hurry up.’ “And the horses! I wish you could have seen them; they were not much larger than jack-rabbits, and when we got out of town the sand was so deep they could not go off a walk. “Tt was well along in the afternoon, and “Ras said we would come to a nice camping place about eight miles out, and there pass the night. He wanted to know if I had anything eatable; said he had been too busy to put up any lunch. Fortunately, I had the re- mains of a large basket of lunch I had put up nearly a week before. *Ras pitched into it as though he hadn't had a thing to eat ina month. The sun was scorching hot, and the soot and dirt of my long journey, and dust the horses kicked up, made me long to reach the ‘sood camping’ place, where I could lie in the shade and drink’a cool draught of Washington spring water. “We chatted for about four hours; ’'Ras was wrapped up in the real estate scheme, and could talk of nothing but the boom and the time we would be rich. At last he halted the horses at a dirty old mud hole and be- gan to unhitch. There was not a tree as large as a broom stick in sight, and the sand was so hot you could scarcely hold your hand on it. I asked him what he was going to do? ‘Camp for the night,’ he replied. A lump rose in my throat, and I thought of the dear old home I had almost given away. “So far I had seen nothing but sand, cactus and sage brush, and once in a while a lizard or jack rabbit which scampered away as we came along. I sat down on the blanket and thought. ’Ras unhitched the horses and turned them loose. I asked him if they would not run away, but he said no, they were used to hunting their living, and he could find them any time. When night came he spread the blankets on the sand and we turned in. I tried. to sleep, but only thrashed about till morning. As soon as it was daylight “Ras got up and started after the horses. He told me to put the things into the wagon, and by that time he would be back. After I had finished I lay on a blanket and fell asleep, when suddenly I was awakened, and there on the blanket was a nasty old lizard. I screamed and climbed into the wagon. About 10 o’clock a freighter came along and*said he had passed my husband, who wanted him to say to me that the horses had started for home. That was encouraging. Surely there must be something better in store for me, or the horses would never be so anxious to reach there. He advised me to spread a blanket under ‘the hack’ out of the sun and make myself as comfortable as I could until “Ras returned, =. “Be you the woman that sold out in the East to come here to live?’ he inquired, “ *T am the woman,’ I replied. “He looked at me a minute, grinned and shook his head, then backed his horses that they might get a better start, and as he cracked his whip and went on he turned his head and shouted back, ‘If I had a sum- mer resort in hell I wouldn’t trade for,the whole Orando Valley!’ Up jumped lump number two into my throat. “About noon ’Ras came back, and after harnessing up we started on. All afternoon we plodded along, and about 9 in the evening drove up to a small frame building. “ “Here we are,’ says Ras, “But where is Orando?’ says I. “*Vou’'ll see in the morning.’ “He shouted a couple of times, a light appeared in the house and his partner came out. I knew Fred ‘Billings well, and right glad 1 was to see some one from home again. The horses turned loose, ’Ras came ‘in and began on the railroad, irrigation and other boom schemes; but I noticed that Fred didn’t have much to say. I believe he had begun to see that the thing was a fizzle. Spreading our blankets on the floor up stairs we went to sleep. “The next morning I was up bright and early and looking out of the window saw nothing but sand and sage brush. There wasn’t a spear of grass in sight, not even a green weed. Down the valley a couple of miles I saw two more ranches, but no other buildings. “Ras, get up,’ says I. “We must be off. I am anxious to see our new home.’ “See your new home?’ says he. ‘Why, this is it! “But where is the town? Where is Orando?’ “Why, darn it, I tell you this is it! You're right * orm bd = “What! these three buildings and those sand banks are what we are going to get rich off? ce "Ves ? “That was the ‘straw that broke the camel’s back.’ _I broke down and cried. “ ‘Now, look here,’.says.’Ras, ‘there-ain’t no use in blubbering and making a fool of yourself; you're here now, and you’ve got to stay here. You'll be all right in a few days. You're new in the country and don’t understand it. Why, you just wait till the railroad comes through, and we get water on the land and you'll see a different place than this’ “We have been here six years, and the place hasn’t changed a bit. The stream, which was to furnish the water to irrigate, dries up at the time it is most wanted, and there is never more than enough for the two - ranches below, that came in first and hold the water right. We have to carry our drinking water from the river. The railroad company has the nightmare oc- Why, this is what they call a hack — she said. a par with his knowledge of the law. casionally and talks of extending the road west of Coulee City. Fruit does grow in abundance—where water is had in sufficient quantities to irrigate—but we are so far from the railroad that it wouldn’t pay to haul it to Wenatchee and then freight it to the coast, which is the nearest market. 3 “So here we sit waiting for the boom, and living on what few yegetables we are able to raise, and what liftle money the post office, stage drivers and pass- engers leave us. This is all we have, and if we wanted to leaye to-morrow we haven’t enough money to pay car fare to Spokane Falls, The only thing we are rich i is land and experience,” and she chuckled. *Ras appeared just then. “I say we are rich in land and experiences, isn’t that so, *Ras?” and she chuckled again. “Ras glared at her a second, then grabbed the broom and started out to wrestle with the sand again. “Ras doesn’t like to have me mention our wealth,” J. ALDEN JoRING. ““ The ew West of the Pecos.” Editor Forest and Stream: Capt. Flynn, in the current number, March 28, thinks that I may have met Judge Bean in my time. I knew him well, having first met him years before we had any Southern Pacific Railroad. The only mode of travel then in all that country was by stage or ox-team over the California Overland, or Eagle Pass road, as that part of it between San Antonio and El Paso was gen- erally called. This part of Texas then had not been divided into counties yet; it was all young territory, a territory large enough in extent to form a State; we have States that are no larger. | The Judge at the time of his death must have been all of eighty years of age. When I last saw him, nine- teen years ago this spring, he looked to be over sixty. The Captain’s estimate of the Judge’s legal knowl- edge comes pretty near being correct. What His Honor did not know about the law would fill quite a large book; but he did know the class of men he had to deal with, administered the law as he understood iit, and kept some kind of order there, when another man who might have forgotten more law in a day than the Judge ever knew would have made a failure of it and sooner or later would have lost his life. I have at- tended more than one of his trials, but always as a spectator. I took good care not to offer him any advice. Had another justice been trying these cases I would have wanted to appear as the prisoner’s counsel, ‘but not before Judge Bean; if I had he would have fined me for contempt in less than ten minutes, or about the time I would object to one of his peculiar rulings. The Judge’s knowledge of old Mexico was abowt on I don’t believe he was ever further south in it than across the tree zone, a strip of fifty miles just south of the line. I questioned him at one time about Sonora, I had not seen it then, but got a full description of it from him. Afterward, when I did get a chance to travel through a part of it I found ont that he knew about as much about it as I know about the moon, The United States and Mexico came near going to war, in 1867, I think it was. The trouble was about a salt deposit that citizens of both countries claimed, though the salt was on our side of the line. He settled that affair, or at least claimed to have done it. Our troop was in camp for a few days one summer on the Pecos River, near Vanderbeer’s Springs, and I was sent down to the railroad with the mail. A train stood in front of the station as I came in sight of it, but the train was going west, and I did not try to get down in time to-meet it; I did not want that train. It started to pull out just as I rode down to the track, and as it did so a young man rushed out of the store and climbed into a chair car. Going into the store, 1 found the Judge all alone for a wonder, and he was mad clear through. Had I seen that fellow that ran out of this just now? Yes, I had, and asked who he was. He was a drummer from New York or some- where up there, and had put in the ten minutes that the train had been held here in trying to sell the Judge a bill of goods and had failed. “What do you. suppose that fellow told me?” the Judge asked. : “He probably told you that this country here was not fit for a white man to die in, much less live in; but you must remember that those people from the States only see this country from a car window, and don’t know that we have plenty of a better country north of this.” “No, that was not what he told me. He said that I knew no more about the law than a dog knows about his father.” He never came nearer to the truth in his life, if he is a drummer, I thought, but took good*care not to tell the judge what I thought. “A plain case of contempt, your Honor. You fined him, of course?” I thought I saw some free beer now. “No, he did not give me time; he was out of that door and into the car before I had time to turn around.” “He knew enough of the law to get out of your “jurisdiction in.a hurry, did he not? I wish I had got here a few minutes sooner, then that remark would have cost him half a dozen beers. Watch for him ‘when he returns.” “He won’t' come this way; he will go home from *Frisco.” “He had better if he knows your Honor as well as we do.” The beer came out now, and it was on the Judge. d | I have heard any number of stories about the Judge. One of them that is as likely to be true as not was his trial of a cowboy for murder. Two cowboys had fotight a duel on horseback, and one had been shot, but not killed. The Judge got hold of the shooter and proceeded to try him, then sentenced him to be hung. “But the man is not dead yet,” the cowboy told him. “Well, he will be by the time we get ready to hang you,” the Judge returned. ~ Someone called the Judge’s attention to the fact that APRIL 4, 1003.) - - yD ames he did not have jurisdiction in capital cases. The Judge knew very well that he did not, but that could be easily remedied. He proceeded to try the man again, this time for assault and battery, and fined him five dollars. The Judge may have used his office to line his pockets; no doubt he did; but he was not the only one who has done sa. CABIA BLANCO. A Maine Woods Walk in Sixty-One BY MANLY HARDY. In Three Parts—Part II, The next morning proved bright and fair, as had every one for a week past, and we all started to go to the home camp at the inlet of Allegash. Instead of retracing our steps we went across country, an estimated distance of fifteen miles. Although my ankle was painful, I enjoyed the first part of the way, as it was through grand old woods, mostly of hardwood, among which were many giant white birches covered with shaggy bark. We lighted many of these as we passed and the flames would 20 roaring and crackling to the ends of the farthest limbs, the rolls of flaming bark falling hissing down, to be quenched on the snow. . We had gone perhaps five or six miles, and were going lengthwise of a valley by the side of a ridge of hard- wood, when our dogs suddenly threw up their noses and started off at right angles, going across the ridge and down the other side. It proved afterwards that with the air perfectly calm these dogs had smelled a moose which was on the other side of the ridge more than a quarter of a mile away. We soon came to the end of the ridge where another yalley joined the one we were following, and we could hear the dogs barking up this valley. As all parties had agreed not to kill another moose for the spring, Phil- brook and I wished to keep on our way, but Farrar and Billings wanted to go up and see the moose. They promised not to kill him, but wished to see how large an one the dogs had got, Philbrook and I sat down on a pack one of them had been carrying and waited. After a while we heard two pistol shots, We waited a long time, and as the barking still continued, we were a good deal puzzled, as, if the moose were dead, the dogs would stop barking, and, if he were not dead, why did they not fire again, Getting tired oi waiting, we went up to see what the trouble was. We found an immense bull, one of the largest I ever saw, standing close by the side of a large spruce. Quite a space around him was trodden solidly, On coming up J eyed my rifle, when Farrar asked what I was going to do, “Shoot the moose,” said I. “You wouldn’t shoot a dead moose, would you?” asked qe, On my replying that he did not look very dead, Farrar replied that he had two bullets right in the life nearly half an hour before. Farrar then proposed that if I would cover him with my rifle, he would creep up behind the spruce near which the moose stood and knock him down with his ax. Farrar missed his blow, and the moose plunged almost on top of him. I placed a bullet behind his ear, when, quick as a cat, he wheeled after me. Billings, on the other side, shot behind the other ear, and he left me and turned on Billings. We then retreated to a respectful distance to reload, as the moose would go ‘no further than the snow was trodden. These maneuyers were fepeated four times in the course of which he received from me four bullets behind ihe ear in a space not bigger than one’s thumb, two from Billings behind the ear and one in the neck. After each charge he would return to his old standing place be- hind the spruce, where he would grunt and slap his lip at_ us, throwing the blood which ran from the wounds behind his ears down upon his bell all over the snow. But he showed no sign of being troubled by our shooting. Finally I was detailed to go in front of him and shoot him in the curl of the hair. This was a difficult perform- ance, as the snow was well trodden in front of him and he was sure to plunge at me when the rifle cracked. Beside this, he kept his head continually moving, and one had to hit the size of a dime for the shot to prove fatal, I approached as near as I dared and fired twice, cach time haying to sprint to get out of his way, as I was within about twenty feet. At last Farrar crept up behind the tree and succeeded in knocking him down. It was then found that one of my bullets struck exactly on a level with the curl of the hair about one inch from it, the other about an inch above the first. Into one of the bullet holes I could, and did, put my little finger its length; the other merely broke through the skull, and JI took it out welded together with pieces of bone. This moose had received eleven bullets in all—two directly back of the shoulder, one through the neck, four behind one ear, two behind the other and two in the forehead. ‘The bullets were small, being about sixty of round ball to the pound, but mine were fired with heavy charges of powder. = In this battle with the moose I do not think that anyone engaged was in the least excited; in fact, had anyone been, firing as we were obliged to and running about on snowshoes as we did, we should have been in great danger, both from the moose and each other. The snow was four feet deep or more, and all in the vicinity of the moose had been wallowed and plowed into pit-holes two or three feet deep with sharp, hard ridges between, malk- ing the footing very uncertain. Yet not a man stumbled or tripped in the whole fight. All that was said was in low tones, and no one showed the least excitement either during or after the encounter. In fact, if all had not been perfectly cool, we should have been in more danger from each other’s bullets than from the moose, although we al] knew that if anyone fell his chances of coming out alive were small. The dogs, it may said, took no part in the fight; one, which was gun-shy, not coming back till after the moose was skinned. This moose was not at all startled when found by the dogs. and made no attempt to escape. He had trodden a yard of at least half an acre, so that it was very dangerous for the dogs to approach him in front, and he seemed willing to fight the whole world, Commonly POREST AND STREAM. there is no danger in shooting. moose in the snow, -as, whether hunted with or without dogs, they almost. in- variably try to escape, and as soon as they are out'of the yard, if they can be overtaken at all, they can be shot at short range without risk. .While a savage old bull like this might be shot with safety from a distance, to knock one down with a hatchet is ‘a different proposition, This moose showed unusual tenacity of life, but out of a number of instances I will give one which I have known of similar fighting endurance. A. P. Willard and Henry Clapp, of Browsville, while running a sable line under the side of Big Spencer Mountain, close to Moose- head, came upon an old bull which showed fight. Having with them a dotible-harreled smoothbore they fired all the bullets they had, some five or six, which ran twelve to the pound, at short range. As they used a muzzleloader it was some time before the last was fired, They’ had with them several charges of shot and also an iron tobacco bex, and when their bullets were gone they built a fire, poured the shot in the tobacco box and holding the cover in a split stick melted it down. Then they made a notch in a hardwood tree which they had felled for the pur- pese, and ran the lead into a long mass; this they cut in two and pounded into slugs fit to be fired. Both these they fired into the moose, going close to him. After a while, as the moose lay down, Willard lashed his sheath knife to a pole with his handkerchief and, creeping up at the back of the moose, crouched and tried to spear him, steadying the pole over a cradle-knoll. The knife struck a rib and broke, and the moose sprang up so quickly as almost to come on to Willard, As each had a hatchet, they next tried to kill him by felling trees upon him, but when a tree was about to fall he would avoid it by step- ping out of range. Finally they had him entirely fenced in. Then they tried to kill him by throwng their hatchets. One ax struck his nose, cutting it half off, but the battle ended by his getting possession of both axes and having apparently as much life and fight in him as when they began. As they had no other weapons and it was near night, they withdrew to the camp, On going out next morning with a fresh supply of ammunition, they found him dead. As both these men knew where to hit a moose and could place bullets just as they chose, they were so near, any one of these shots, under ordinary circum- stances, ought to have killed the moose in a few minutes; but I believe that an enraged moose will bear a half dezen to a dozen wounds, any one of which would ‘have killed him immediately if he had been still-hunted. We had intended to get through to camp before dinner and had nothing cooked with us. As it was near noon when we had finished skinning the moose, we concluded to dine where we were. So we built a fire on skids to prevent it sinking into the snow, making it close by the flayed carcass of the moose. We placed our snowshoes between the moose and the fire, in order to have some- thing to stand on, and, hauling the skin up over. the moose, had seats equal to a spring sofas Each one cut a piece of meat to suit himself, and roasted it on a atick, and each one also roasted one of the marrow bones. The eight marrow bones of a moose, as I know by actual ex- periment, will yield three- pints of marrow, which, when salted, is fully equal to butter. It used to be said that old John Benwit, of the Penobscot tribe, could eat the con- tents of all eight marrow bones at a sitting. If so he must haye had a stronger stomach than all four of us, as we found it difficult to finish one apiece. But we made a good meal, although we had not even salt to go with the meat, and had nothing to drink. I had had all the moose-killing I cared for, and though it is over forty years I have never tried to kill a moose since. While I believe it is fully as honorable for a man who needs money to kill.a moose for the hide as it is for one who does not need money to go into the woods and kill one only for the head and horns, still I think it is mean business for any man to waste the carcass of so large an animal merely to say that he has killed a moose, I have always made it a point of honor never to kill any- thing merely for the sake of killing, and would never kill a deer when I should be able to use but a single quarter, even though I was in need of meat. After dinner we folded the hide so that it could be dragged by one of the party and continued our journey. In a short time we struck the Allegash stream and. fol- lowed it on the ice to the home camp, a distance of nearly eight miles, taking a mink out of a trap on the way. It was now April, and spring was coming on with a tush. In places where projecting points increased the flew of the current, the stream had already begun to open. We reached the home camp and as the next day was Sunday and we intended to rest we laid in a good supply oi wood. Sunday we did some extra cooking, for here we had a baker and could have soft bread. Also it fell to my lot to cook some moose noses, of which we hada good sup- ply. The moose nose and the beaver’s tail are considered the two great delicacies of the woods. As few now know how to prepare them, 1t may not be amiss to record the way the hunters did it. No amount of scalding will re- move the hair from a moose nose, and the Indian method ~ was to singe them on the coals and then to scrape them. But this always gives them a burnt taste, so I have al- ways preferred to skin them. This is most easily done by splitting the nose through the septum and pinning one half firmly down with a fork, so that it will not slip about while working on it. Atfterward the nose is boiled several hours till it becomes tender. Beaver’s tails are usually roasted on a stick before skinning, or sometimes made into a soup with rice. Philbrook and Billings had begun their hunt in Septem- ber, spending the first five-or six weeks in building camps, spotting lines and making traps. In the time they had been out they had taken about one hundred sable, twenty lynx, nine otter and about as many fisher, and quite a large number of mink and beaver, and had shot about forty moose, In 1859 I had hunted with Philbrook, hav- ing our home camp at the head of Caucomgomoc and our lines of traps extending over six different townships. One line which started from about six miles out on Baker Leake Carry and went northwest ended within less than half a mile of where we found Philbrook encamped. On this hunt before the last of November we took four bears, four fisher, three lynx, two otter, seven beaver, fifty sable, thirty-five mink and seventy-five muskrats. Although moose were so plenty, we saw the tracks of only four and only one live one, a bull which came to the sound of chopping and kept Philbrook prisoner in his 268 camp for more than an hour, walking back and forth in front of the fité like a sentinel and grunting. Philbrook and Billings told me of two cutious ex- periences they had had with otter that winter, They showed me the skin of one shot fairly through the body back of the shoulders, He was shot by Billings at a hun- dred and twenty-five paces (twenty-three rods) he said, and after being shot dived into his hole and went under the ice. Philbrook and Billings cut ice and- worked fish- ing for him with hooks on long poles nearly half a day, and after haying given up one of them said he would make a last hook for luck. This time he was fortunate enough to fasten to the otter. On another occasion Phil- brook, when out exploring, was sfiowshoeing up the bed of a stream. On turning a point he saw an otter lying on the ice directly facing him, As it was useless to try to get nearer, he-fired at him with his ten-inch pistol from where he stood. The otter did not move, and he sup- posed he had shot him dead. On going up and seeing his eyes look lively, he struck the otter on the head with his belt hatchet. When he skinned it he failed to find a trace of. any wound. Monday morning we were up bright and early, Phil- brook to go back to his camp, Farrar to go across Cham- berlain to Eagle and Haymock (the Iumberman’s corrup- tion of Pongocquahamock), which lies on the right hand branch of Smith Brook, emptying into Eagle Lake, while Billings and myself started for the foot of Caucomgomoc Luke, where he was going to get supplies from a lumber camp, On the way down Billings showed me where he had shot a doe caribou a short time before. This, as far as I can learn, was the third caribou killed in Maine after they began to return, and although a cow she had horns nearly two feet long. To show the tenacity of life of a caribou, after being shot through fairly behind the shoulder, she wheeled and ran the other way. Billings then gave her a second: bullet behind the other shoulder. When he was quite near to her she jumped up and started to run, and he peas her with a shot through the neck from his pistol. : Near to the place where we left the lake was an eagle’s nest on a; large pine and two adult eagles, one standing on the nest and the other close by it. This is the earliest I-have ever known eagles to be so far inland. -Going out we took a different route from the one I had come in by in order to strike the foot of Caucomgomoc, which we reached after a walk of about eighteen miles. As Billings-was an extra good man on snowshoes, it was gets painful for me to keep up with him with my swollen ankle, The crew of the lumber camp were hauling spruce almost entirely. Two years before not a spruce tree had been cut anywhere on Caucomgomoc waters, the lumber- ing being confined entirely to pine. In 1857 I did not see a single spruce cut around Caribou or any of its tribu- taries, but-in 61 most of the camps were largely cutting spruce. If the pine was almost exhausted before ’61, one can judge how long the spruce will last with so much greater demands upon it. After dinner I parted company with Billings to take my lonely journey to the head of Chesuncook, some twelve miles distant, which I must reach before dark or lie out. I-had to follow the road. The April sun had in many places almost turned the road up edgewise, the side to- ward the sun being more than a foot the lower. On snow= shoes one could not travel and without them it was very fatiguing, as one slumped half way to the knees at every step. I was carrying my snowshoes slung on my rifle, when, on turning a bend in the road, I saw a large lynx standing with his hind feet in the sled track and his fore feet up on the snow. Although I worked very carefully to remove the snowshoes from my rifle, he heard them rat- tle a little and sprang into the woods before I could fire. When I came out on Caucomgomoc Bog the road was so soft that it was almost impossible to travel in it, so I put on snowshoes and started across the bog—to me an unknown country—for the West Branch, but I made-a good strike and came out a little below the piers in the Chesuncook flowage, which all who have been down the West Branch will remember. Crossing the West Branch I made a straight strike through the dead timber killed by flowage for Pete Walker’s (now the Chesuncook House), and arrived there a little after sunset, having traveled thirty miles in bad walking with an ankle swollen out of all shape. When I was coming in rumors of expected trouble with the South had reached the woods, and at every shanty was the chief topic of discussion, a great many Saying that they were going to enlist if there was any fighting, When I reached Chesuncook I found the ex- cifement was still greater, and the usual talk about lum- ber and horses had given place to talk about the ex- pected war. At Chesuncook I met my old friend, Charles Locke, head man of the great farm situated on Chamber- lain Lake, fourteen miles distant. He reported that the Fairbanks brothers, Frank and George, had killed eighty- two moose north of Katahdin, between Telos and the Sowadnehunk Mountains. I may say here that both the Fairbanks brothers enlisted in the Seventh Maine within a week of getting out of the woods. Joe McClaren and Frank Capino both went to war and neither returned. Farrar also enlisted. Billings enlisted and rose to be first lieutenant, was badly wounded at Fair Oaks, and, I believe, went back again after his recovery. Philbrook could not be accepted on account of a disabled foot. I know no class of men who furnished a larger proportion cf their number than our hunters. The year of ’6r has been called the year of the greatest slaughter of moose ever known, and has often been held up as an instance of wholesale butchery. I took great pains to ascertain the number of moose killed that year, and had good facilities for doing so, and by my estimate the number was under rather than over four hundred though about half of this number were killed by four sets of partners. This present year of 1002, according to the report of the Game Commissioners, sportsmen have killed (including 109 killed illegally), a total of 461. J feel very certain that less of the meat was saved this year than in 1861. So we see that the number killed by sportsmen merely for heads and horns is greater this year than that killed by the hide hunters in the year of what is called the greatest killing ever known. In all my trip in, 61 I did not see or hear of a single moose having been killed by any lumberman, I will also add that in 264 FOREST +«AND STREAM, (APatt 4, 1903, fifty years of mingling with Maine lumbermen I have but twice eaten of venison in a lumber camp, and never hed any treason to believe the stoties so often told it the pzpers of the slaughter of game by them. While no doubt they do kill some in legal season, this they have as much right to do as the visiting sportsmen. As all the teams were reported to have passed out, I had no choice but to continue my journey from Chesun-~- ceok on foot. While bathing my ankle m cold water in the stable, Mr. Walker came in and saw it and said he would rather board me for a week for nothing than have me walk on such a foot. But I had only Hobson's choice, so I started at about seven in the morning, and about noon reached Joe Morris’s, eleven miles distant. At Joe Morris’s I saw an individual dressed in white overalls and three red shirts so ragged that his skin showed through them, who announced that he was old Oliver Graffum of Oldtown, and nobody else and that he was going to drive for Hen Soper; he had got five dollars to get drunk on and he was going to do it. He had been trying to ride a yearling in the door-yard, and having been thrown, his tangled mass of hair was full of chips and sticks. On being told when he applied for another drink that he had had enough and could have no more, he held on to the counter and began to recite: “We read in the fable, The mouse he was able By gnawing continual The lion to free. So at the frst trial We'll take no denial— So Nalium give us another drink.” On being again refused, he steadied himself with a chair on each side and in a soft musical voice repeated: “\Wisdom's ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. Because I have called and ye have not harkened, and stretched forth my hand and no man re- garded, therefore I will laugh at your calamity and mock when your fear cometh.” He had got thus far when, fetching a sudden lurch, he and his two chairs landed in one corner of the room, bringing his scripture recitation to a close. It was getting to be two in the afternoon, and as no tete team had arrived, I resumed my painful journey for ihe Grant Farm, ten miles away, having first exchanged my moose shanks for the boots which I had left at Morris’s on the way up. On trying to put them on I found my ankle so swollen that it was with great diffi- culty that it could be done. When I tried to walk I had mostly to put my left foot forward and draw the other up to it. I soon began to realize just how a bear must feel when traveling with a trap on his foot and drawing a clog after him. -It was near stinset and I had got but about five miles, having’ made only about a mile an hour, when I was agreeably surprised by being overtaken by one of the last, if not actually the last, team of the season. This was a load of spreads and cooking tools belonging to Spalding and Oaks of Oldtown. The driver, a_ young man about seventeen years old, was Charlie Walker, son of the proprietor of a hotel at Greenville. He very willingly took me on, and we were not long in reaching the Grant Farm. Here all was changed from what it was when I was going in. In the short time since I passed all the scores of teams and hundreds of men in the vicinity had gone out of the woods, and the only guest besides ourselves was a sick man who had been left be- hind and whom we took with us on the team in the morning. The next moning the sloshy roads had frozen, a hard crust had formed, and we started early. As there was no possibility of getting out by the way of Katahdin Iron Works, where my overcoat was, I accepted Mr. Walker’s offer to take me out to Greenville by way of Lily Bay. ‘While at this season in the vicinity of Bangor par- tridges were drumming, here, as the snow covered all the logs, the old males were amusing themselves by strut- ting atound with spread tails, dragging their wings and admiring themselves. In the early part of the forenoon we saw two in different places thus employed, and I cut the heads off from both with my rifle without leaving the sled. The neck-ruffs of both had bright green meallic lustre different from the dead color at other seasons. To show the scarcity of small game in Maine, I will say that, with the exception of some Canada jays and crossbills, I saw nothing but five ruffed grouse and ene Canada grouse on the whole trip, and I did not see the track of a deer nor hear of one having been seen by anybody. +t heard no case of a caribou having been seen but that shot by Billings. At that date there were posi- tively no deer north of Katahdin. The deer have come into that country of late years. It was a lovely April morning, and as we had a light load we made good progress till it began to thaw. At Lily Bay we stopped for a few minutes at the Lily Bay sHanty kept by Deacon Ford. Here we were told that gétting on the ice at that time of the day would be rather risky. -We soon came to a cove where the road led directly across a landing of logs which were now floating in about two feet of water. Over these the horses had te struggle and flounder, the logs rolling up under them at every step; but finally we got out on solid ice. We had not gone far before I saw black mud on the ice ahead and told Walker that we would better turn to one side, as I thought a team had been through the ice there. Seeing that he was determined to keep the road, I jumped off, taking my rifle and belongings, and the sick man followed my example. We were hardly otf before both horses went through, followed by the sled, enly the hinder end of which remained upon the ice. There was a skid lying close by, which had doubtless been used by the team which had been in before us. Seizing this, | ran it through the hind starts of the sled, ihus preventing it going in entirely. Walker, with the help of the sick man, who proved to be a good man with horses, unbuckled the harness, thus freeing the horses from the sled, which, being released, stood almost perpendicu- lar: when drawn out the end of the pole was covered with black mud. A rein was put around the neck of one horse and he was choked, to float him out. ‘The same was successfully tried with his mate. Having noticed a tackle aiid fall on the landing of logs: we had passed over, I went back and got it, and, reaving it through the hind Starts of the sled and attaching the horses, the sled was soon pulled out on the ice, with streams of water running from the spreads and cooking tools. As the sled had side-boards and the load was covered with canvas lashed on there was nothing lost. Proceeding on our way we soon came to the narrow passage between Sugar Island and a point of the main land. Here was quite a space of open water on each side of the road, approaching the road in the shape of a V until the two points were not over forty yards apart. All the possibility of passing depended upon the bridge ef snow which had been building up all winter as a road- bed being solid enough to hold, 1 went out only a few steps on each side and trying the ice with an ax found it was all porous, and I could easily cut through it with a few clips. In the morning when frozen this would be safe enough, but at this time of day it was risky. We all got off the sled, and, by walking the team, managed to cross without accident. It was now the ninth of April. Out on the lake the ice was still solid and would probably be safe for ten or fifteen days longer. We reached Greenville at about two o’clock. Only two days before I had passed through country where the - snow was five feet deep. Here at Greenville there was cnly eight to ten inches of sloshy snow. I stopped at the hotel over night, and took an open stage next day for Newport. The driver, William Blethen, was kind enough to provide me with an overcoat. I will say that only a few months afterwards Mr. Blethen was driving stage for Ben Halliday on the Overland. The snow which gradually lessened soon failed entirely, and we hauled into Dexter on bare ground, where we shifted to wheels to get to Newport. Reaching Bangor by rail I found boys playing ball in the streets and the steamer from Boston just arriving on her first trip. “Vellowstone’ Kelly. Very many of our readers will remember Capt. Luther Sage Kelly, known to the older generation of western men as Yellowstone Kelly, trapper, hunter and scout, for a dozen years or thereabouts, during the later wars on the northern plains. In campaigns under Gen. Miles and other military commanders, Capt. Kelly took a prominent part in the fighting with the Sioux and Cheyennes in Montana, and he has contributed to Forest AND STREAM many stirring tales of adventure in the wars between 1870 and 1880, Capt. Kelly enlisted in the Spanish war, and became a captain in one of the volunteer regiments. When this was mustered out, a commission was given him in another regiment, and he went with his command to the Philip- pine Islands. After a term of service there his regiment was again mustered out, but Capt. Kelly’s administration of the district of which he had been in charge had been so successful that he was shortly afterward appointed Provincial Treasurer of the town of Surigao in the island of Mindanao. In the papers of March 25, last, appeared dispatches telling of the capture of this town by bandits, and explain- ing what happened there. The extracts which we give from these dispatches show that Capt. Kelly is still a fighter, and possesses the determination which of old made him so well known and so highly thought of on the western plains. A Washington dispatch to the New York Sun, under date of March 24, reports: A cable dispatch was received at the War Department this afternoon from Gov. Taft an- nouncing that Surigao, the capital of Surigao Province in the island of Mindanao, which was captured by ladrones on Sunday, has been relieved. The following is Goy. Taft’s dispatch : “Affair at Surigao turns out to be escape of ten prisoners, sentenced to long terms for ladronism, who, with sixty or eighty of their fellows, returned to Surigao and succeeded in surprising and rushing the constabulary barracks, obtaining constabulary arms and ammunition, killing Constabulary Inspector Clark, and thus taking command of the town. Nine Americans, including two women, retreated to the Provincial building, where, under the direction of Luther S. Kelly, Provincial Treasurer, formerly Captain of Volunteers, and still earlier an Indian scout known as ‘Yellowstone Kelly,’ they barricaded the building against the attacking party. “The Americans were armed with only a few shotguns and were short of ammunition, but maintained their de- fense against the ladrones, refusing to yield to an ulti- matum, demanding the guns, the reply of Kelly being that they would not give up a single gun and would kill on sight any ladrone within range. Assistant Chief Taylor arrived at Surigao with a constabulary force about eigh- teen hours after the attack. On his approach the ladrones disappeared and columns are now following them. “Surigao is in extreme northeast Mindanao; is so far removed that I have concluded to call upon George W. Davis to put the military in command with the hope that by a large force the ladrones and their guns may be cap- tured and they may be prosecuted for murder and ladronism. “So far as advised Capt. Clark is the only American killed. The cable from Surigao landed near the Provin- cial building in which the Americans took refuge and they were thus able to communicate with the military com- mander at Iligan and with constabulary headquarters at Cebu. Two constabulary inspectors were absent from Surigao in Cebu, where they were passing their examina- tions for promotion, Surigao had been regarded as a quiet province since the capture and sentence of the ladrones, but their escape led to the difficulty.” ‘Moon Signs for Anglers. SpoKANE, Washington, March 19—Editor Forest and Siream: Would you please inform a reader as to sign— or signs—of the moon supposed to be or regarded by successful fishermen as being the best or most favor- able time to go fishing. Some amateurs, like myself, say when the sign is in the knee, or Capricornus; others say in the head, or Aries. Others again say the sign of the neck, or Taurus. From my own experience I do not regard this latter sign as favorable. _ MED. Slatural History. How to Get Skunks. THe short essay prittted below is an extract from a pri- vate letter received by our Philadelphia correspondent, “Ocean,” from a very successful amateur trapper in Ver- mont, The writer is evidently a man of good nerve. He says: You want to know how I kill skunks without getting scented. I put on an old suit, so if I do get a little dose it won't hurt anything. I have an old duck coat with big peckets on the inside which I have used for a trapping coat for a number of years. . The skunk seldom goes out in the daytime, but as soon as it gets dark he begins to prowl. They live mostly on crickets and grasshoppers, and in the fall they are very fat. Often I have found it an inch thick on the back in skinning them. If pains are taken in skinning not to touch it with the hands, this oil, when tried out like lard, is the best thing for a cold or croup I know of—used ex- ternally, of course. As the skunk lives in woodchuck holes in the meadows and pastures, I can always tell where to-find them, for they make little holes in the dirt with the nose which look very much as if someone had poked the ground with acane. Wherever the skunk makes one of these holes, he gets a cricket, which in the fall, as the ground gets cald, burrow under the grass roots. The fox digs for crickets, too, but as he digs with his paws the hole is somewhat different in shape. A moonlight night with the wind in the south I have found the best to hunt them. I generally carry a Jantern, so that I can skin them at once and save lugging them around. I cut a stick from a sapling about the size of a broomhandle and about six feet long. Armed with this I take the warpath through the fields, keeping a sharp lookout for any black spots that seem to move. The skunk is generally busy looking for grub, and as soon as I spy him, I run right at him. You have to be quick, not because the skunk will run, for they can’t run very fast, but the sudden approach scares them so they will face you with hair bristling on end, just as a hen will when you try to catch one of her young. This is the time to strike, and one good blow on the head generally does for them, but woe to the hunter who foozles this first blow, as the golfer says. When I first tried trapping, I used to set my traps in woodchuck holes, and as a skunk will explore every one of these holes, I tised to get quite a lot. Since then I have found a better way. When I find a likely place to set, I dig a hole at the foot of a stump or stone, about as big as your hand, back under the roots about six inches. I stick a piece of any kind of meat or a rotten egg—any- thing that smells rank—into the hole; then set the trap and stake it, covering it with a sprinkling of fresh dirt. The first skunk that comes along will walk into the trap, and he will scent the place so that no more bait is needed te draw them. In this way I have got six or seven in one place. In killing a skunk in a trap you must not run up to. them as you do hunting them. Go up to him carefully, and as long as you do not make any quick motion you are all right. Raise the club carefully and slowly and then strike as quick as you can. é Well, I have told all I know about the skunk industry. Some time I will tell you how we trap for foxes—ground trapping. Almost anyone can learn to catch them in water, but it takes a smart chap to catch them in the ground. The Wood Rat. In the natural history coming under my observation I have not seen anything concerning the wood rat, It may be that the rodent is too common to attract special atten- tion, but I am inclined to believe that, if he is widely dis- tributed, he is rarely observed. In Northern California, both in the foothills and higher up in the mountains, those who observe closely may often see the residences of the wood rat, though the animal itself is not often conspicuous. The nests I have seen have usually been in thickets of chaparrel or greasewood where the bushes were dead and dry. In such places the wood rat obtains plenty of ma- terial for the construction of its nest. It gathers twigs from a foot to three in Ieneth and from the size of a pencil in diameter, to an inch or more. These, together with small pieces of bark and a few leaves will be found heaped from the ground up well into the branches of some thick climp of bushes. If there is a log convenient the rat will often make use of it for one side of his house. The twigs are often heaped to the height of three — or four feet from the ground, usually resembling a pile of driftwood with the exception that the pile is seldom found near overflowed ground. i About two years ago I became interested in a pair of wood rats that seized upon and possessed themselves of my wood house for a habitation. The house is thirty feet long and one end of it used for a work bench, repair shop and tool house. The other end is used mainly for storing dry kindling wood and small stove wood. aie rats moved in when I was away for a period, and the pair faund a good supply of dry pine sticks a foot to sixteen inches in length split from inch boards. These were of various widths from one to five inches, and there were a number of heavy sticks of scantling in a corner. With ‘notable industry the rats had piled the small sticks into a fairly regular pyramid, using the heavy pieces they could not move for foundation and frame, adapting their architecture to the conditions of the location with re- markable ingenuity. Their architecture fitted in with the landscape in the woodhouse so well that it was some time before I noticed that the kindling wood was methodically placed. As wet weather came and the kindling was needed, I frequently took an armtful into the house, without realizing that I was taking gargoyles and cornices from a private. resi- dence. In removing the sticks I often pulled down a quantity of the pile in selecting. After doing this for some days I Avett 4, 603°] began to notice that each morning the pyramid was re- formed, the scattered sticks collected and placed methodically, smaller and smaller, but each morning all the scattered sticks, except some that became wedged and fastened in the larger and heavier wood, would be found replaced upon the apex of the diminishing pile. When the wood had been about half removed I began to get occasional glimpses of the rats. When I removed sticks they dodged in and out of the pile, as though they would defend their castle to the extent of their power, : F The wood was never entirely removed, and that which remained was kept in a fairly shaped pyramid until it was not more than three feet in diameter. The rats, of which I had never seen more than two, became so tame that they would remain in sight on the sills near their house within an arm’s length of me at times. Later in the season the mistress of the pyramid appeared upon one of the sills in a very domestic ptfedicament. She was sprawled at full length while progeny to the number of two were intently engaged in the instinctive business of infantile acquisition. After this I frequently fed her upon bits of bread and grain. I now began to miss some of my portable property. Files, small chisels, nails, measuring sticks, patterns, pieces of leather and such articles would disappear from my work-bench. These from time to time I would find mixed in with the sticks in the building material used by the rats. Since, 1 am informed, this is one of the traits of the animal. They are so excessively industrious that they annex almost anything they can carry or drag away, with very indifferent ideas of property rights or owner- ship. They are partial to bright and glittering things, stich as bits of glass, tin and metal. They would doubt- less acquire and hoard money with almost trust-like perspicuity and acumen if they were not so much addicted to twigs and kindling wood. eye ne That they would soon practice civilized propensities there is little doubt, if they lived in more centralized communities. A neighbor, who resided in this region for about forty years, was handicapped in his endeavors to get along by a peculiar inability to keep his family sup- plied with small articles, such as tableware, thimbles, scissors, corkscrews, jackknives, hairpins, collar buttons, and small coins. ; After a quarter of a century he had occasion to take up a ground floor in his house. Under it he found the nest oi wood rats, and that nest was a wonder. If the collec- tion of trinkets it contained had not been so tarnished with corrosion and rust he might have set up in business with a variety store of no mean proportions. Thousands of the small articles of every day use, for which he had paid his money, searched and worried for and about when they had disappeared, he found hoarded up by the wood rats, many of the things having lain between the ground and the floor under his feet for two or three de- cades. The articles were evidently considered more orna- mental than serviceable by the rats, for they were used mainly for the decoration of the pyramid of sticks and bones, their domicile. RANSACKER. SyuastA Mountains, Cal., March. Some Queer Pets. AN obscure naturalist is C. F. Miller, of Main street, East Orange. His interest runs to the class reptilia, and within eighteen months he has taken up photography as an adjunct to his studies, and has made some extraor- dinary successes in getting portraits of his restless pets indoors and out. Mr. Miller is a newsdealer, whose busi- hess gives him little time afield, but he his not so chained to business that he 1s unable to make his escape to the Watchung mountains back of Orange at intervals, and he makes good use of his infrequent opportunities. Nothing seems to escape his eyes nor too insignificant to engross jis attention. The opening of a bud, the emergence of a dragon fly from the larva, the ight between a wasp and a spider, and a thousand other incidents of the life of lower creatures are objects of study for him; but his favorite theme scems to be collecting queer pets and studying them at home. Mr. Miller is an enthusiast upon the subject of snakes, and inyariably has at least a dozen of the harm- less kinds comfortably quartered in cages in one room of his house, beside keeping up a fine fresh water aquarium and little domiciles for toads, frogs and turtles. He has COMMON TREE TOAD. (Hyla versicolor.) photographed all of his peculiar pets, and it is easy for the amateur photographer to understand what an amount cf patience and impatience enters into the task of catching two toads talking or gazing lovingly into each other's eyes. Just as the exposure is made one of the toads blinks azid the other starts a game of leap frog. Then a plate is spoiled and another must be made ready. There is no use of cuss words, for the toads do not understand rough language any better than they do soft words. Mr. Miller has had his troubles between the shutter and the back- ground.when trying to reduce a plump toad to the flat surface of a sensitized plate, and the difficulty was dupli- _ cated when he essayed to picture the two toads. Another As the wood was tsed the pyramid grew FOREST AND STREAM, of his pets the common ttee toad (Hyla versicolor), was a better sitter, and never batted an eye when the exposure was made. His pose was just natural, though the’ ap- proach of a fly might have made a lightning change in it. His tree toad has been in captivity for a little more than a year, and has the freedom of the room, with a little tank to retire into when dry. It is interesting to see him spring from the window sill and stick to the glass pane as he nails a fly with his glutinous tongue. When his THE LOVERS. owner’s hand is extended, he will release his hold and drop upon it, or will jump from the table or shelf upon Mr, Miller’s shoulder or hand when called. Another pet less tractable is a young snapping turtle four inches long, which is suspicious of all efforts toward PINE SNAKE, (Pityophis melanoleucus.) Ocean County, N. J. Length 62 inches. domestication, Kindness is wasted upon this creature, but he has made a fairly good subject for the camera. The snapping turtle has but one friend in Mr. Miller’s collection, and this one is a watersnake thirty inches in length, which is as tame as a kitten, and seems fond of being caressed by Mr. MiHer or his children. The latest addition to the collection is a pine snake (Pityophis melanoleucus) five feet two inches in length, and fresh from the pine lands of Ocean county. This reptile is one COMMON WATER SNAKE, (Tropidonotus sipedon.) of the most docile of our harmless serpents, and easily adapts itself to domestic life. Mr. Miller’s specimen is a beauty, and it is so tame that his eighteen-months’-old baby “Bubs” plays with it whenever he can and cries for it when it is refused him. Mr. Miller has made several most successful photographs of this snake in conjunction with the baby, and in the hands of his eight-year-old daughter, Fanny. One of his best pictures of this reptile is shown here. It was taken indoors with an exposure of slightly over one second, and the result is remarkable, because the snake was almost constantly gliding over the branch, and was caught in a lucky interval. The picture was taken upon the fourth day after the pine snake was captured, and it was then so tame that it had no fear of man, and seemed pleased to be handled. HARRIMAC. “This, I suppose,” said the visitor, “is the gun your great-grandiather carried through the Revolution.” “Most assuredly not,” haughtily replied Cadleigh Rich. “That was his gun, but his man carried it for him, of course.’’—Philadelphia Press. All communications intended for Forest anp Stream should always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., New York, and not to any individual connected with the paper. - with good effect; another will 4 7 T Birds’ {Nests. THE pleasures of the country boy may lack the excite- ment of those of the city boy, but they are none the less real, and indeed, in the long run, lave a decided ad- vantage, for they enrich and enlarge the mind in a way' the other pleasures never do, This comes from being in contact with nature, which, after all, is the great teacher. Among the pleasures of the country boy that of bird- nesting is certainly one of the greatest. 1 shall not stop to inquire whether his conduct while engaged it: this pur- suit is always strictly humane or ethical; but 1 may say’ this much, that it will contrast favorably with the conduct of certain persons who have reached years of discretion, Let a healthy boy loose among the fields and woods on a fine day in May or June, and what a picture of activity and happiness he presents! How he rushes hither and thither with sparkling eyes and glowing cheeks—now chasing a butterfly and again stalking a bee—now rolling ~ down a hillside and again basking in the sun; now, like Narcissus, gazing in the brook, and again, like Echo, mak- ing the woods and dells resound. But for the most part he is bent upon one thing, and that is the quest of that object of irresistible fascination to the boyish mind— the bird’s nest. It is wonderful to think of the risks a boy will run and the discomfort and pain he will patiently endure for the pleasure of even gazing upon a little arrangement of moss or fibres and hair or feathers. What trees he will climb—what rugged heights he will scale—what dense thorny thickets he will penetrate—what treacherous marshes he will wade through! But he never comes to grief, or hardly ever. And when he grows up he looks back on those early adventures with a peculiar fondness, and the bird’s nest, though divested of its fascination, still remains for him an object of interest. To the hosts of such boys, both young and old, a book which has lately been published will be especially welcome. It is entitled, “Birds’ Nests” (Fred, A, Stokes & Co,, New York). The author, Mr. Chas, Dixon, is an English ornithologist and a very learned one it may be said. The arrangement of his work is taxonomic or classified. First we have a chapter on “Nestless Birds and Annexers;” then one on the “Crudest Nest Forms;” then one on “Open Nests ;” then one on “Domed or Roofed Nests,” and finally one on “Pendulous Nests,” Does a bird build merely for utilitarian purposes, or, in other words, merely to provide a safe procreant cradle, without any regard to beauty? Our author says yes. But this is, at least, open to question. — r : Now, there is no doubt that the zsthetie sense is highly developed among birds, as witness their songs ‘and plumage (which latter, of course, is but an expression of the inward sense). There is equally no doubt that the desire for the safety of their young would overcome this if necessary. But is it quite necessary? Is it not possi- ble for a bird to build a nest which shall be safe as far as possible and at the satne time more or less beautiful? Certainly the care with which many birds’ nests are made would seem to warrant an affirmative answer to this question, In regard to whether birds act purely from in- stinct or reason in building their nests, Mr. Dixon is most interesting. He flouts the instinct theory, and I believe quite justly. To maintain his position he cites the case of two chaffinches, a male and female, which, while. quite young, were carried to New Zealand and there en- larged. Now the chaffinch (Fringilla calebs) builds one of the most careful and beautiful nests of those known to the ornithologist. Did the birds enlarged in New Zealand emulate the family art? Not a bit of it, What they built - was a monstrosity, more like the cradle of a hang-nest than the beautiful little lichen-covered cup peculiar to the British Isles. Birds are educated just like other living things—educated to hunt for food—educated to sing, and. educated to build after a certain manner. Of course the mental bias of species is there, but that is a very different thing from pure instinct, as popularly understood. Perhaps there is no question so interesting to the ornithologist as that regarding the parasitic habit of cer- tain birds. Why does the cuckoo in England or the.cow- bird in America lay its eggs in another bird’s nest?- The ~ habit is certainly very old, so it cannot be said that the modern fashionable disinclination to be burdened with the care of a family has anything to do with it. And yet this may be the very reason, and the cuckoo and cowbird may have set the fashion for society. However, for a full dis- cussion of the matter, I must refer the reader to Mr. Dixon’s pages. * After disposing of these introductory matters, our author sets about to describe in detail some thousands of nests. I am sure that the descriptions of as many build- ings, even the most ornate or singular, would not be half $0 interesting, nor, indeed, one-twentieth part. It is all very well to have a building before one to gaze on, but, as a general rule, architectural descriptions ate a bore. How different with the simple litile bird’s nest! For hours we read of how a few twigs, or a handful of dried roots and grasses, or a bunch of moss, with some hair or feathers or wool are variously arranged, and do not tire. Why is this? Perhaps it is because what is simple and | natural has an abiding charm for the human mind. Mr. Dixon makes it clear, of course, that the dominant idea in the construction of a nest is generally conceal- ment and always protection to the future nestlings. In harmony with this idea, one bird will lay its eggs among the pebbles on a beach (from which they can hardly be distinguished) ; another will bore a hole in the sand; another will drill its way into a tree; another (like the chaffinch, before mentioned), will build a nest in a tree which, to the casual eye, looks no more than an exctes- cence on the bark; another will take up its abode in the neighborhood of a wasp’s nest, so that in case of a visit from its enemies the hornets may be stirred up, doubtless suspend its nest from a. slim branch overhanging a stream, where no snake or. monkey will dare venture; another will actually build a | floating nest, and so on. It is noted by Mr. Dixon in this connection that no species or variety is slavishly wedded to one unvarying type of nest, but modifies it to . suit circumstances or environment. And this fact goes to sustain the theory of reason as against that of in- stinct. 266 FOREST-AND STREAM. {APRIL 4, 1903. sn _As examples of curious nests the following may be cited: The spectacled petrel (a species that breeds in the Kerguelen Islands), burrows into a hillside eight or ten feet, always under a cascade; the Nicobar moundbird builds a nest of dry leaves, sticks, etc., from three to eight feet high and from twelve to sixty feet in circum- ference; the little bittern (Botaurus minutus) moors its nest to reeds growing in the water and the nest may be said to float; the flamingoes breed on vast mud flats where the waters rise and fall, and the nests constructed are admirably adapted to this environment, being conical pillars of mud with a shallow cavity at the top fer the eggs; the nest of the giant coot, found in Chile, is com- posed of materials enough to fill a horse cart. As the cther extreme of this, there is the nest of the ruby-throat hummingbird, which is not more than one-half the size ef an ordinary walnut shell. The Indian tailorbird sews a large leaf together in the shape of a funnel, then knots its thread (which it has woven itself) to keep it from slipping out and builds its nest in the funnel; the hammer- head (Scopus umbretta), indigenous to Africa, although but the size of a raven, builds a nest six feet in diameter, which is dome-shaped and roofed over; the red oven- bird (Funarius rufus), as its name indicates, builds a nest like an oven divided into two chambers, and begins build- ing months before the nest is required for incubation, in order, doubtless, that all may be properly seasoned. Finally, as a sort of climax, I may mention the nest of the Indian weaverbird, which weaves a rope of consider- able length and suspends therefrom a globular chamber to which is attached a woven tube to serve as an entrance, Wonderful, truly, is the art of the bird! It is to be regretted, perhaps, that Mr. Dixon has not invested his descriptions with a little more of the senti- ment inseparable from nest-building, as thereby they would be more likely to make a lasting impression on the mind; but his object, as he modestly states, was. merely to write an introduction to the science of caliology, However, his work is well more than that. It is, in fact, for all who are not professed ornithologists a sufficiently comprehensive treatise on a fascinating subject, replete with learning and common sense. Francis Moonan. Shrikes East and West. OAKLAND, Cal., March 20,—Editor Forest and Stream: In your issue of March 14, I was much interested in Ed- ward A Samuels’ article on the great northern shrike, or butcher bird. It is by far the best thing about the merci- less little tyrant that I have ever read, and I consider it a valuable addition to our store of bird lore, There was one thing, however, that puzzled me exceedingly, and made me think that perhaps I had been all these years mistaken in the identity of the bird, and that is where he speaks of it as having a hooked bill. When I was a boy in New England, I used to see them —or at least a bird that was called the butcher bird— every winter; not many, but now and then one, and I never lost an opportunity to destroy them. In habits and appearance Mr. Samuels has described the bird ex- actly as I knew him there except the bill, which, as nearly as I can remember, was very nearly straight, the upper mandible, perhaps, slightly turned or rounded over and about the same length as that of a catbird or robin. I never remember seeing the bird there except during ihe winter season, but I see them here around San Fran- cisco Bay at all seasons, looking just the same and with the same habits, but nowhere very plenty and almost always alone. And now, Mr. Editor, what I would be pleased to know is whether the bird I refer to is really the great shrike, or have I confounded it with some to me unknown bird with a hooked bill. Forkep DEER. [Our correspondent’s butcher bird was no doubt the great northern shrike. His difficulty lies in the definition of the word hooked. The bill of the shrike is, as he says, straight or nearly so—not bent down and rounded over like that of an owl or a parrot—but at the end it is strongly bent down to a hook, behind which, in the cut- ting edge of the bill on each side, is a little -tooth-like projection, which reminds us somewhat of the tooth in the bill of the true falcons. The bird seen by Forked Deer on the west coast is not the same as the New England species, but is somewhat like it.] The Birds of Wyoming. Buttetin No. 55 of the University of Wyoming Agri- cultural Department consists of an interesting list of the birds of the State, by Wilbur C. Knight. In this first list of birds for the State in general ever published, Mr. Knight has given a most excellent annotated record, covering 288 species. The paper is excellently illustrated, and ought to be n the hands of every man whois inter- ested in western birds. Although making frequent reference to earlier local lists, this one is based chiefly on a collection of skins made with the assistance of Chas. W. Gilmore, and the observations of the author. Mr. Knight, although a geologist, has devoted some time to the study of birds, but was led to make this list chiefly by the constant in- quiries made at the University of Wyoming for literature on the birds of the State. In getting together his inter- esting material he had the assistance of a number of local cbservers, as well as of Mr. Robert Ridgway, Dr. C. Hart Merriam, and Dr. A. K. Fisher, all of Washington. Mr. Frank Bond, of Cheyenne, furnished a large num- ber of pleasing illustrations for the work. After a brief note on the study of birds, Mr. Knight quotes the article on “Birds in Their Relation to Agri- culture,’ by Prof. Laurence Bruner, of the University of Nebraska, and then passes on to enumerate the species, on many of which he gives very full notes. An addendum of three species omitted from their proper places, a hypothetical list of about a dozen, and the Wyoming law for the protection of birds passed at the session of ‘IgoI, complete the paper. An interesting note on the magpie deserves men- tion, for while there is a general impression that magpies may learn to talk, very little that is definite is known on the subject. Magpies’ nests are easily found, and it is a common practice to capture young birds and rear them in cages, where they at once become very tame and readily learn to talk. Mr. Knight says: “They usually learn to repeat all of their words and phrases by ‘the time they are a year old. I have not found anyone who has paid special attention to teaching them te talk; but believe that one could, by spending a reason- able amount of time, teach them many times as much as they generally know. In three instances I have collected data as to what the magpies say, with the following results : “No. 1.—Owner, Mrs. J. Rhone; bird’s name, Mike; words or phrases repeated: Sic-em; hello; good-by; here, Major; hello, Major; hello, Mag; get out of these; come in; what do you say? stick of wood, Eliza. This bird also laughs. “No. II. Owner, Mrs. Dr. Coburn; bird’s name, Topsy; words or phrases repeated: Topsy; hello; good-by; quit; Topsy-opsy; pshaw; pshawie; Oh, Topsy! Pretty Topsy; Ah, there! This bird chatters, but the words are not distinguishable. It whistles, laughs and coughs. When quite young there was a lady neighbor of Mrs. Coburn’s who had a very bad consumptive’s cough. The magpie soon learned to imitate the cough, and practiced it ever since. Age of birds, 12 years. “No. I1I].—Owner of bird, Mrs. Hertzog; name, Jack; age of bird, 15 years; words or phrases repeated: Hello; good morning; good-by; Pretty Polly; what’s the matter with the bird—he’s a dreadful nice bird; rats! what’s the matter with the bird—precious bird; Maggie; good-by, love; get there; come in; Oh, Clara! Nettie; what. This bird laughs, sneezes and coughs.” Mr. Knight has given us a useful volume on Wyom- ing birds, creditable alike to himself, the university and tate. “Thereby Hangs a Tale.” I HAVE never seen a squirrel migration. That, of course, emphasizes my-youngness. The nearest to it was the sud- den apeparance in my boyhood—let me see, I was perhaps ten, which would make it 1870—of a marvelous number of reds and chipmunks which set all the older gun-bearing lads wild that fall, Squirrel-eating was out of fashion then in Oxford county, Maine, but that did not affect their value in target practice; and I counted thirty-two chipmunks astraddle of a three-cornered rail one after- noon, result of said practice. Next year there were hard- ly any. “Practice” accounted for some. Malpractice we'd account it now. But to our story. Last fall my nimrod friend Frank and I were on one of our holiday trips a-canoe up the Charles. It was a twenty-five mile paddle, by the way, that day, up and back. So he said, with map before him. I sized it up as fiity. But to resume. As we jogged silently along, suddenly some small ani- mal leaped out of the low bush several rods ahead and be- gan to swim across the little river. “A gray squirrel!” 1 judged by the floating wave of the following tail that streamed astern in the air like an ostrich feather as he jumped. The splash awoke us both. “Hit ’er up, Frank!” I said, and Frank “hit.” When he gets excited, he’s worth three of me at the paddle, and the way we surged up river was a caution. True, we hadn’t lost any squir- rels, nor did we have any practical use for any. Jt was jvst the old hunting instinct to chase the retreating. From the bow I got a good look of the swimmer, who made good time, submerged to the ears. But his tail simply floated along astern, purely for ornament. We both reached the shallows about together, and as the little fel- low drew out of the water and cantered slowly along the winding road of a muskrat trail through the sedges to higher ground, we noted that he did not appear to have a drop of water about him, He seemed to have left it be- hind him like a duck. Whereat we concluded that navi- gation was one of his strong points. There was no compulsion about the matter. He merely had business on the other side of the river and went about it. A more or less perilous passage, it is true. A hawk overhead might have made things interesting. A big pickerel below, or a turtle—and we canoed over one swimming below us that looked as big as a washtub!— would have given him no warning of submerged fate. But that is all in the woodland day’s work. Besides, he was young, as his size betokened. So, perhaps, “he didn’t know it was loaded.” Ive heard of such in my time, seems if. JP Snowshoeing a Horse. Morcantown, W. Va.—Editor Forest and Stream: The rather novel feat of “snowshoeing” a horse in to one of the mines on Cow Creek in Carbon county, Wyoming, was accomplished recently. A piece of machinery had been taken to the mine, which required a horse to operate. There had been no road kept open to the mine during the winter, and it was fully a mile from the mine to the nearest point to which a horse could be taken, so they de- cided to move the horse on planks. Two platforms three feet in width and somewhat longer than the horse were built, and the horse was led from one to the other, the back one being moved up in front as soon as the horse had walked on to the next one, and so on until he was landed at the mine. The horse was gentle and the wor was accomplished without much difficulty. EMERSON CARNEY. The Ducks and the Tornado. Water Lity, N. C.—Editor Forest and Stream: I see by your issue of March 21 my tornado duck tragedy has found one “Thomas.” I am sorry I had to slander his western tornado, as he seems “touchy” on that point. But this wind came from the west, and perhaps the only reason it did not kill all the ducks in Currituck Sound was that it only touched the extreme north end; and while it seems to have killed almost everything in its path, for- tunately it was a narrow one. These ducks were killed due east from Mundens Point, Virginia, said village being almost totally destroyed; and the destruction of all those ducks as described was the truth pure and simple. I did not see nor eat the ducks, as our western friend has guessed, but as to the truthfulness of the article I refer Mr. McCandless to Capt. William O’Neal, Life Saving Station No. 5; Capt. Otto Halstead, station No. 4; Capt. McCorbell, station No. 6. These are all men of unques- tioned veracity, and not old hunters like the writer. How the ducks were killed will always be a mystery. Few men would believe it possible for the waves of the ocean to drown swan, as stated by the editor of Forest AND STREAM, but his statements were absolutely true and can be verified by Capt. Walter Parker, Station No. 8, Cor- rolla, N. C., or E. L. Smith, Water Lily, N. C., who saw three get drowned, or so badly used up that he caught two of them. The editor’s description of how it occurred is a good one, and cannot be improyed on by me. We would like some legislation preventing these “western tornadoes” from crossing the Blue Ridge Moun- tains, but our representative was a modest man, raised in the East, and did not feel that he had the ability. I hope this letter will convinee Mr. McCandless that there is at least a semblance of truth in the account of the duck tragedy; I assure him that our ducks can swim, and fly, too, and if he doubts that also let him come to Currituck and spend a week with me and I'll prove it to him, More ANON. Early Swallows. ' Mitrorp, Conn., March 24.—Editor Forest and Stream: On Monday, March 23, I was somewhat astonished to see a little whisp of white-bellied swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) in the air flying north, and at first thought that I must have been mistaken. in the species, for usually these birds do not make their appearance here much be- fore the middle of April—say from the toth to the 15th. However, a little later I saw several other small groups passing over, and identified them beyond a peradventure. According to my experience, this date of arrival is un- exampled for southern Connecticut, and, on looking the matter up, | am confirmed in this conclusion by other observers. Dr. C. Hart Merriam, in his admirable “Birds of Connecticut,’ p. 30, gives the date of earliest observa- tion of the arrival of this species as April 7, and men- tioned April 13 as a more usual date. Thus, so far as I am able to learn, the white-bellied swallows—always the earliest of the swallows to arrive—have this year made their appearance about fifteen days in advance of the early records of previous years. Spring is surprisingly early with us in other respects; and unless something unlooked for happens, all the opera- tions of nature will be in advance of their usual time. Morton GRINNELL. Egging in the Yorkshire Cliffs, A RECENT issue—Part I—of the Transactions of the Scientific and Field Naturalists’ Club of Hull, England, contains an interesting account of egging in the York- shire Cliffs, by Mr. E. W. Wade. From time immemorial these cliffs have been resorted to by sea fowl to lay their eggs and rear their young, but of late years the birds were so constantly pursued by gunners as to be almost exterminated. They have now begun to increase in numbers since the Birds’ Protection Act gives them an opportunity to breed. Of the species found there, the greater number are guillemots, but there are some auks and kittiwakes, though now these last exist only by hundreds where formerly they were found by thousands, All this cliff climbing in Yorkshire is effected by means of ropes, and the author speaks of it as a most delightful and exhilarating form of gymnastics. The eggs collected amount to from 300 to 400 per day, and about 130,000 are taken during the season. The eggs are sold for about a shilling a dozen, and specimens with unusual markings bring much higher prices, running up to $1.75 or more. It is said that notwithstanding this enormous drain on them, the birds show some annual increase. Game Bag and Gun. — Proprietors of shooting resorts will find it profitable to advertise them in Forrest anp STREAM. nN s a s Shooting in China. SHancuHat, China, February, 1903—EHditor Forest and Siream: The recollections of a pioneer, when well told, are always interesting and generally instructive. Some time ago I found one of the early settlers from the West with his mind in a communicative and sportive mood, and as I had just returned from a shooting trip 1 was enter- tained by what he said about shooting in China. If I could put into this paper the information he gave me, with the same spirit and feeling, the readers of the Forest AND STREAM would be also entertained; but you are welcome to do as you please with what I do write, interspersed with some reflections of my own. When Shanghai was first made an open port, the ground on which the commercial metropolis of Asia has been built, was partly covered with water, and the remain- der was a mud flat utilized mostly by native fishermen. Standing at a favorable point and looking down the Whangpoo River my friend informed me that he had seen at one look as many as a hundred American skippers anchored, all in line and each floating the American flag from its masthead, and loading with tea and other Chinese products for American ports. This was before the coming of the steamships, which have practically driven from the sea the white-winged messengers, whose canvas seemed to rejoice with the sunlit clouds, and abolished that school in which was trained the skillful seaman who manned the ship in the days of our early naval triumphs. ‘ With the steamships also came the breechloading guns, and soon after the smokeless powder, and with such rapid means of conveyance and such destructive agents, many of the pleasures of the sea and the field have disappeared, The Skipper has sailed to her final anchorage, and the Joe Manton muzzleloading gun has been placed carefully in its case, to be taken out only when one wishes to see the perfection of the gunmaker’s skill. There was an abundance of game about Shanghai in those days, and one need not haye gone outside of 3 TAprm. 4, 1903.] FOREST AND Si REAM. Hy 267 radius of five miles of the city to enjoy the keenest sport and return with a bag well filled in quantity and variety. That finest of all game birds, the pheasant, were plentiful, and the ponds were full of geese and ducks; and the bamboo partridge, the quail and snipe were incidental shooting. The deer was within range of the average shot, and when I listened, as the successful hunting expedi- tions were recounted and the “big bag” made, it was easy to account for the present scarcity of game where it was a few years ago so abundant. I could not appreciate the emphatic assertion that “there were true sportsmen in those days,” for, to me, the killing of a hundred or two hundred pheasants a day by one shooter simply because pheasants were plentiful, was not true sportsmanship, But since the advent of Western ciyilization into China an unending warfare has been waged against the animals and fowls of the empire, and now one has to travel far into the interior before making a respectable bag, even after several days’ shooting. The game which formerly was abundant around the open ports has been shot or frightened away by the almost ceaseless fusillade to be heard during the shooting season. And the same agencies are busily exterminating the game of the forests and plains of happier America; and it is to be hoped that President Roosevelt will succeed in ex- citing a public sentiment to the enactment of proper laws to protect game against the expeditions of shooters who shoot for money only; even in China the necessity for prohibitory measures has been recognized to the extent of prohibiting the further exportation of pheasant skins to Paris and other centers of fashion, although at the risk of incurring the dissatisfaction of the fair ones. To reach the interior of China, the shooter boards a houseboat and is towed near the shooting grounds. There are regular lines of steam launches running from Shanghai to many of the chief commercial towns of the interior, and with these towns as the objective points, there is no difficulty in reaching any desirable point further inland, as the country is so intersected with creeks and canals that travel by light draft or flat bottom boats is gteatly conyvenienced and expedited. The houseboat is indispensable for comfortable recrea- tion in inland China. The dimensions and fittings are according to the taste of the owner. Generally the boat is about fifty feet long, with an extreme breadth of about eleven feet and a half, and measuring over seven feet from top of house to under side keel plank, thus giving the occupant full room to stand erect. There are two or more sleeping bunks, according to the space desired, with ccok house, bath and toilet room; main cabin, dog kennel atid other necessary rooms. ‘The boat is also fitted with mast and sail, and usually has a crew of six. The captain is known as the Loadah, who remains in charge of the houseboat during the year at a salary of about twelve Mexican dollars per month, while the working crew are coolies hired when needed at about thirty Mexican cents per day, Unless the wind is fair for sailing the house- boat is propelled, when separated from the launch, by means of sculling oar, by the Chinese called Yulohing. With such a boat as above generally indicated, the shooter can spend ten or fifteen days in comfort at any point he may be able to reach in the interior of China, and during the shooting season there is no danger of malaria, though it is a safe precaution to take at least one dose of quinine a day. On arriving at the place selected for shooting, the houseboat is made fast to some tree on the banks of the canal or creek, and, if an old sportsman who knows the country, there need be no delay in the start; but, for a sportsman who is unacquainted with his surroundings, it is prudent to take his latitude and fix well in his mind the location of his boat before making a start. It sometimes happens that the inexperienced, in his excitement and re- sentment, caused by a cock pheasant which has, with the most apparent unconcern, escaped the contents of both barrels of the gun, forgets every point of the compass and finds it difficult to retrace his steps before overtaken by night. And one is frequently led far astray by the sport to find a suitable crossing place over the creeks and wide ditches which often confront him in every direc- tion. But the natives are not unfriendly. There is little if any danger from them. When one preserves his temper and keeps himself well in hand it is seldom that he is wantonly insulted by the natives. I have frequently spent more than a week in the interior of China, more than a hundred miles from any open port, and never experienced any evidence of an unfriendly intention. In fact, the farther I have been from an open port the more friendly have I found the natives, and the more happy and con- tented in the cultivation of their little farms; and so much happiness and contentment naturally presents the question, why disturb it with new theories and new in- ventions? The Chinese are not altogether and always responsible for that feeling of resentment which has mani- tested itself with the torch and rifle as exponents. Some of the aggressions against them wotld have stirred the Saxon race to every known resource of warfare. Nearly every Shanghai sportsman has his dog, and it is an open question as to “what is the best kind of dog for general shooting purposes in China?’ Each sportsman has his preference, and each is partial to the qualities of his own dog; and on this subject the opinion of my friend is worth stating in his own words. “What seemed to be required for shooting throughout the season is a strong, well broken, but, perhaps, not too highly bred pointer; one that will take the water, face the thick covers, and possibly retrieve; and there are such dogs in Shanghai. The coats of some setters lie very flat, and they are the next best dogs to pointers; but the long-haired varieties, though good and useful in their way, had better not be taken up country until they can work the cover with impunity to themselves. A sentimental objection to pointers is that they are not so companion- able as the other breeds, which is true to a certain extent; but it must be remembered that when a pointer is on business he means business, and that is exactly what he is wanted for. In choosing a pointer, always try to get one with sloping shoulders, long, airy neck, a deep but not broad chest, and a loin arched, very wide, strong and muscular. Some useful pointers: occasionally arrive at Shanghai from Germany, For the most part they are well educated and good at retrieving, but they run big and heavy. and are too much given to ‘pottering,’ A last word may be said in favor of the pointer: he can be worked from the begitining to the end of the shooting season; whereas it is little less than cruelty to take a spaniel or a setter out before December.” :It would seem from the foregoing opinion of an old and experienced shooter in China that the pointer is the best dog for shooting purposes in this part of the world. Since the invention of the breechloader and smokeless powder nearly every sportsman here is equipped with such a weapon and such ammunition. Most of the double- barrel breechloaders are of English or American make. At the shooting clubs—there are two at Shanghai—lI see the Parker and the Remington, and the Winchester guns, and I have heard no complaint of the shooting qualities of either. The only objection against the American-made guns 1s that they are too heavy and wanting somewhat in syinmetry, an objection that could easily be removed by the gunmaker. But the guns I have seen of the American make are generally of the fifty dollar grade, and these naturally do not “show up well” by the side of an Eng- lish gun costing thirty or forty pounds at the factory. There are two or three Parker guns of high grade which have given great satisfaction to the owners, and I have heard no complaint as to the shooting quality of any gun of American make, and would suggest that more attention be given to the building of a lighter twelve-bore gun and of more symmetry. All the sporting guns, as a rule, are of the twelve-bore gauge and of the standard length. My own gun is a twelve-bore, with barrels thirty-two inches long, and made for me several years ago by W. W. Greener, of Birmingham, England. It is built of the Greener’s wrought steel, and weighs only six pounds and a half, and, like all of the Greener guns, is of beautiful symmetry, long range and accurate. But the native sportsman has no such a gun as I have referred to, though his bag, after a day’s shooting, is often as full as that of his Western competitor who uses the most improved breechloader. His gun is the ordinary matchlock or gingae, except if rare instances, when he has been able to buy an old-fashioned flint lock musket which has been changed into a percussion musket. The barrel is of iron and about five feet long, with a bore of about one-third of an inch; the iron is thickest at the breech and tapers gradually towards the muzzle. The bore at the breech is about the size of a half dollar coin, while at the muzzle it is about that of a five cent piece, and thus it seems that this narrowing of the bore, to give a greater velocity to the charge, anticipated more than a thousand years the choke bore gun which is the pride of modern gunmakers. The ammunition which the native sportsman takes into the field is as primitive as his gun. Where modern chemicals are not used the powder has undergone no ma- terial improvement since it was first known in China long before known in Europe; and the claim to have first dis- covered gunpowder is made by the Chinese with much positive evidence in its favor. Within the last decade there haye been several powder mills built in China, and both black and smokeless powder are manufactured, but the grade is not the best. The native sportsmen I have met in the field mostly use a very inferior grade of black powder and iron shot, many of the shot are very irregu- lar in every respect, and are the result of choppings from wire and nails, with no regard to regularity of size or shape. But the Chinaman pours his powder into his gun, rams it down with an iron rod until packed at the bottom, and then pours in the iron shot without any wad on the powder and with a thin wad of leaf or paper over the shot, and it is astonishing how successful the native sportsman is with such a gun thus loaded, The only American brand of smokeless powder I have seen in use here was manufactured by Laflin & Rand. Recently an American gave me a few cartridges loaded with the Laflin & Rand Infallible powder, which I found satisfactory. The opinion of sportsmen is rather favor- able to Schultze powder for this climate, though Ballistite, E. C. and other brands are in general use, So far my preference is for the E. C. brand, which I have always found ta give complete satisfaction; but one of the gun clubs is now using Ballistite and the other Schultze. The smokeless powder manufactured from chemical com- pounds, the least susceptible to climatic influence, will ultimately be the preferred powder in China, For the large bore fowling gun Schultze is being used in prefer- ence to black powder. China is still the “happy hunting ground,” but when the railroads now in contemplation are completed, the sportsmen will have easier and quicker access to the far interior, and then here, as in some other parts of the world, one will have to be content with shooting half- tamed fowls and animals. T. R. Jernican. ‘Those “Reminiscences.” Orient Pornt, Long Island, N. Y—Editor Forest and Stream: “Old Angier’ has given me much pleasure while reading his reminiscences, for which I wish to thank him. In speaking of retrievers he mentions a cross between a Scotch collie bitch and an Irish water spaniel as the best retriever he ever saw. The best retriever I ever saw was a full blooded Scotch collie. He took sick two months ago and died with his head lying on my arm, the dear, loving fellow. At low tide I used to wade in and anchor the decoys, but I never had to wade in to bring them out again. I never had occasion to use a boat at all when shooting from the land so long as Tony was around, He loved my gun almost as well as I, and would carry it in the case half a mile for me. He would carry the ducks and put them in the wagon quicker than any boy. I could leave my gloves and pocketbook at the Sound where I had been lying for ducks, one-half mile away, and he would go back and never fail to bring them. He had a nose like a fox, yet he was no good for quail. This seemed beyond him. I would be glad to know if cthers have had such ati experience with full blooded collies. Tony did not love the water by any means, but simply went into it because he was told to do so, whether it was for ducks made of wood or those which had been killed. He picked up a half bushel of potatoes one day and gave them to his master who was seated on a sulky hay rake. If some dogs do not have reason, I think I know of human beings who are really beneath them— having neither reason nor instinct, “ “Old Angler” speaks of “shooting from the hip” (by faith, as it were), and not by sighting along the barrel. I think if the law required all the field shooting to be done from the hip the birds would have all the protection they needed. I think I might possibly hit a flock of barns shooting from the hip, but not a single quail. Now, a few words about game protection. At present there is no limit in this State as to how many ducks or quail may be killed by a person in one day. In this vicinity it is and has been for years an uncommon thing for one person to kill more than to ducks a day. I have been shooting over fifty years, and during the time I have never killed more than ten ducks in one day, and never more than 96 in any one season, which was in rgor. I do not think there is any good reason why any man should be allowed to kill more than twenty ducks in one day or more than ten quail. Nearly all the ducks near Orient Point are what we may call trash ducks—such as coots, old squaws and meregansers, with a few black ducks, I have never killed a mallard, canvasback or redhead; not because I was sorry for them, but because I never had the opportunity. I am very certain of one thing, which is that not more than one out of ten ducks which visit this section in fall and spring gets killed. Of course, the more they are hunted the less likely they are to stay with us, and the more likely they are to yisit when there is less noise. Uncie Dan, A. Lucky Day. We had started down the wood road from our home camp on Black Brook about the middle of the afternoon, and in an hour or two had settled upon a smooth space in a birch grove, dropped our blankets, swamped out the undergrowth and roots, made a bed of boughs on each side of the fire-place, and cut some birch poles and a couple of green logs for night wood. Our camp was handy to the calling place on the pond, and far enough hack to let us have a fite; in fact it met with all the re- quirements. The afternoon was windy and the tree tops were reeling about in a drunken revel. It had rained every day for a week; but only a shower, so that the marshy barrens beyond camp were comparatively dry. “Travel” is the word that Old Tom always used for this kind of hunting. It is heart-breaking work to tramp over these mossy barrens. One hardly gets out of a mud hole before tripping on a stout root or a wiry vine, But we coasted safely along the edge of the “plain,” as Tom called it, stooped behind the bushes and little fir trees whenever a new vista opened before us. There was a maze of little parks and barrens, each in its own setting of dark trees that stood about like a frame. Sometimes it was a single line of spruces; again it was a forest of miniature evergreens or even a ridge covered with hard- woods, with the game trails as connecting links. It was quite a little pull down to the pond, a shallow mud- bottomed basin much frequented by ducks and caribou. It would have been better judgment for us to have re- tired to our beds till morning, for one cannot call up a moose in a wind storm, or in fact in any wind at all. But do we not all remember that sometimes we have made 2 wonderful catch of trout of a hot summer afternoon when all the signs were unfavorable? So we sat quietly under a bush on the boggy outlet and tooted away in a vain endeavor to tickle the ear and fancy of some lovelorn moose. Old Tom was an artist on this long pipe of silver and gold. He gave his call in a series of three close together, then after an interval of fifteen minutes, three more. With ears cocked for the slightest sounds I watched the clouds and. the tree tops and the waves on our muddy little ocean, wondering how soon the rain would begin, and shivering at the damp prospect. Such waiting is cold work, and the fear of a coming storm ter- rible so far from shelter. When it comes it is nothing, but the first drops are worse than a flood. So we sat and waited. If one has that charming habit of whittling, there are few times that it cannot be turned to advantage. My knife was open, and I was soon at work on a miniature paddle, then a salmon spear, and finally a rifle, but for a Lilliptitian, and so the day drew near its close. The sun opened up a great golden window in the gray clouds and we forgot otir possible moose in gazing at the conttast of flaming heavens and sombre pines. Above a glowing undulating sky, glorious in color, below a pond that might well picture desolation and solitude, with long-fingered tamaracks and spruces that would make a fine grewsome setting for a murder scene, But the corpse continued to remain absent; so finally, with the returning gray pall of cloud, we turned our backs on Lake Despair and made for our blankets and the sheltering birches we called home. _ We had some little difficulty in finding the camp and our spring, but the eye of Old Tom was not long at fault. A few rods through the dark woods on the dimmest of trails and we were there. A match changed the aspect of affairs; our fire was soon going, and where all had been but a varied kind of blackness, it was now bright and cheerful. A fire is like a family for company. It is usually bright and cheerful, although, like the other, it has its moods, Our little kettle was soon boiling, our broth made, our bread toasting on a stick, our steak broiling over the clean hardwood logs, and ourselves beaming with the comfort of warmth and food. This birch grove was not all white-barked trees; there were rough-coated yellow birches and a few giant spruces and hemlocks that somehow had escaped the devastation of the lumberman. As the night shut in its dark walls about us close enough to make our home cosy, the stars came out overhead and shone down through the trees, and for a little time the wind ceased. It was delightful to lie on the balsam boughs close to that good brown mother earth. The heat of the fire and the hiss and glow of the coals and the neighborhood of the great trees and the odor of the balsam all contrived to bring their spell over me, and the next thing I knew was that there were only a few coals where that big fire had been and the wind was just roar- ing oyerhead in the branches, Here and there through the roof of green one could see that the stars were blotted out by the clouds. For some time I lay and wished for more fire, and finally got out of my sleeping bag and put the wood on myself, After a minuie or two it roared fiercely enough and I drowsed and went to sleep again. There was a decided change next time I woke. Everything was a soft gray, wet and chilly. Through the branches a fine rain was falling, on¢ of the kind that he- 268 > FOREST AND STREAM. [APRIL 4, 1903. gins a storm and filtered through the leaves upon what was left of our fire. Already we were late for our ap- pcintment, so 1 woke Tom and we made a kettle of beef tea with a few capsules I had in my pocket. Then we were off in the mist. What a mist for the complexion! - Just the thing for Miss Moose, but one could not see to shoot five rods. Finally we worked down to the pond and tooted away, but nothing answered us. One must not get discouraged, though, and so back we went into the woods to cross over a little chain of barrens and try for caribou. Mind you, I'd not had a chance to try this new tifle of mine, a 7mm. Mauser, on anything, and I'd ’ thetght I had worked hard enough to get a good chance. Over a hard sandy ridge we worked under the princess pines where the ground was level as a floor and you could see to shoot 20 rods. Then down on the other side into the marshes. There were plenty of tracks there, and paths running from one opening to another, and along these we traveled. Suddenly, framed in the trees, I saw a white and gtay animal intently watching us. He had a meek large eyed expression, but it didn’t fool me for all that. I grabbed Tom and pointed out the watcher. We dropped to our knees and I crept up to the line of trees through the water and mud of the marsh. Rising I found an opening for the rifle barrel, and there, in the middle of the litile barren, were three caribou. JI saw one had horns; it was lying down, and, aiming at the shoulder, I fired. There was a little spasmodic movement of the fect and that was all. “You've missed him,’ said Tom, in ereat excitement. “Shoot quick when he runs,” and he pulled me by the sleeve over to an opening through which he was watching the barren. “No,” said I, “I got him. Let me go.” “You missed him,” said he. “You must shoot quick,” and as he spoke a caribou rose from where he was lying on the ground and sort of shook himself. Number three stood stupidly watching us. I fired and missed clean. Then fired again as quickly as I could re- peat and down he went with a little bullet in his shoulder. As we walked out the little one that has been nearest us ran away, as if for the woods, and then circling around returned and lay down beside where the other two were * dying, and when we got within fifty feet got up and ran off. There the two lay quite near together—too near for any such error as I had made—but number one had never struggled at all, and so it really seemed as if I might have - some reasonable doubt. Such is luck in the woods. For ten days I had “traveled” through the timber and over begs and had seen only one gray covered back glide through the shadows far ahead of me on an old logging road, while here it seemed the game was only too anxious te be killed. It was really too much of a good thing, but the Just for blood was so strong that on our way back to ‘ camp I murdered in cold blood an ancient hedge hog that looked for all the world like a small bear. I climbed the legs where he lay and looked the shattered thing over, and my moralizing was hardly flattering to myself. How- ever, one should not moralize too much on a hunting trip. I did not altogether approve of the tendency, and so, after a day to pack and salt down our hides, we left our comfortable cabin on Black Brook and returned to the lands of high collars and beefsteak. Gro, F. DomIntck, Jr. Game Parks Again. Editor Forest and Stream: Ir was my intention not to add another word to what I’ve said, but as my kind supporter, Mr. Spears, has given me a sly dig under the fifth rib, I feel as if bound to fire another shot, even at the risk of wasting powder. I have already made it clear that I am not likely to be placed in the ranks of “boot lickers” to the rich, though T am ready to admit with Mr. Avis that millionaires are of service to the country in many ways; but Mr. Avis _must consider that I make no war upon their virtues, but upon their vices and shortcomings. Among their other failings must I repeat the charge that during the terrible past winter—on the “widow’s mite’ principle—they did absolutely nothing. Mr. Spears has attended to the rest. Now, Mr. Spears, I don’t know whether your closing hint about “religion” was intended for my especial benefit or not, but if it was I must defend myself by saying that I was only attacking the inconsistency and hypocrisy of pretenders. I consider them fair game, and if they are they come within the pale of legitimate FOREST AND STREAM material. The Great Reformer did not hesitate to open his batteries on the rich who failed in their . duties, on every fair occasion, and I think it safe, and the duty, of everyone to follow in his lead whenever good can come of it. With thanks to Mr. Spears for his ingenious and kind assistance, I am his humble servant, : DipyMus. St. Aucustine, March 15. editor Forest and Stream: Ir a hog could reason objectively, and could talk from his own point of view, what a sizzling outpouring of erieyances he conld direct continuously at all man- kind, now and during many generations fo come. First of all, man has assumed an inconsistent attitude toward the hog, for, copying hog nature and appropri- ating it as his own, man scoffs at it as the extreme of eross selfishness. ‘ ~ Man points the finger of scorn at the hog in all altruistic problems wherein a cheap example is needed. Te has used the hog in this unkind and unjust manner from time immemorial. How thoughtless! how unjust! Instead of scorn, man owes the hog a double debt of gratitude. First, for copying hog nature without giving in return any credit, and second, for the attempt to cast a stigma on the hog when man himself far outhogs the hog in selfishness. Now, reduced to its simple elements, hog nature is larcely a matter of getting something for nothing. Let a hog invade an apple orchard or potato field, and he ptoceeds to enjoy himself as sole proprietor. Let him further have’possession for a while unmolested, and he considers that he has a common law right of which he cannot be justly divested by any power on earth, Ts not that human in its idea? * In associating with other hogs, the hog shoulders ‘ and crowds and roots and squeals to a degree almost human in its persistency, though less refined in its action. L These thoughts came to me as I read the masterful arguments of Messrs.. Didymus and Sears, who de- nounce the millionaire for his hoggish nature in root- ing in a pasture which they maintain should be free for all to root in, with the difference, however, that the millionaire pays full value for rooting as an individual, while the big herd holds that it should root free. Once get the right line of reasoning concerning the hog, and it will make clear many things which now seem hope- lessly inconsistent and inexplicable. The real differ- ences are in degree only; that is to say, there are big hogs and little hogs, and often the little hog grows into a big hog, whereupon he is just as big a hog as any other big hog. Cuas. Day. CHICAGO AND THE WEST, Plenty of Ducks, | Curcaco, Ill., March 26.—The high waters still con- tinue in the Middle West, and the flight of ducks is greater this spring than has been known for many years. It is thought that most of the north-bound migration will come up the Mississippi Valley this spring. Naturally much of this flight divides at the fork of the Mississippi and Illinois rivers, and it sub- divides at the fork of the Desplaines and Kankakee, which empties into the Illinois. Within the past week the bulk of the shooting has been along the Kankakee River. This ancient waterway is naturally the path to the southern end of Lake Michigan. Hence the Kan- kakee flight has to some extent gotten into Lake Michi- gan, which means good shooting in the Tolleston and other marshes close to the big water. One might say that Tolleston has had as good sport as any club in the vicinity; although, of course, one cannot fully measure the possibility of that sport, since the members shoot under the Indiana law, which has a limit of 24 birds to the day. In spite of the good success which has attended the shooters along the Kankakee River, more especially at English Lake, where the sport has been exceptionally good, it is believed that the best big bag of the week was made at New Boston by a Chicago shooter by the name of Miller, and his party. These shooters sent in during the week a bag of 97 ducks, of which 70 odd were mallards, with a few pintails and bluebills. It would seem that they must have caught the flight right at New Boston, and when that is the case there is no better shooting in any portion of the Middle West. This is the best news I have heard from New Boston, which was last week offered as a good tip. At Fox Lake the sport has been more patchy and unreliable. Mr. W. L. Wells, who went up the first of the week, got only four bluebills. He met the big snowstorm which came on Monday, and says that his was the only bag reported in the entire Fox Lake coun- try. Since then I have heard of one bag of 27 ducks made there, but this may possibly, have been done on Tuesday, after the storm. It is almost certain that the heavy storm of last Monday set the flight back to the southward. Now it 1s pleasant again, and the birds ought to be in on Tolle- ston, Swan Lake, Hennepin, also on English Lake, and other Kankakee clubs, and on Fox Lake. The likeli- hood is that the heavy storm drove the birds away from the open water into the smaller sheltered lakes, of which lower Wisconsin is so full. The D.fferest Flights of Ducks, Our old friend Abe Kleinman, who knows more about ducks in a: minute than most of us will forget in a year, says that it is now nearly time for the last flight of the bluebills. Abe says that the first flight of blue- bills on their progress north-bound, is made up largely of the paired ducks, those which are going north to get on to the breeding grounds as soon as _ possible. “Tf you look at the ducks which come in now,” he said, “vou will find that two-thirds or four-fifths of them are males. They go in bunches and flocks and not in pairs. These are either the old bachelors, those which have not succeeded in getting mates, or those which have lost their mates in the southern shooting, at points. below here. These last migrators are in no hurry to get on north and will furnish the later shooting in this part of the country. You watch the bags made from now on and see if there is not a very large per cent. of male birds. You will see the same thing if you take a glass and examine the flocks out in Lake Michigan, off the city. Nearly all of them are males.” ‘ I know of no reason to doubt the observation of this well-posted and much-experienced duck shooter, Snipe are In. The first jacksnipe, of which I have knowledge, this spring were reported four days ago along the Calumet country. The cold snap of this week will stop the north-bound movement of these birds in all likelihood, but will not send them very far to the south. Abe Kleinman tells me that when the jacksnipe has once gotten up into the north he is very much disinclined to go back south again, his locomotive apparatus seem- ing to be not so powerful as that of the ducks and geese. In case of a sudden freeze-up, such as we had here a few days ago, the jacksnipe does not take a spin of a thousand miles or so to the south, but makes the best out of his surroundings as he finds them. According to Abe, the jacks, in such conditions, hunt out some running ditch, or creek, or slough, along the banks, of which the ground remains unfrozen and where they poke along and make some sort of a living until the arrival of better days. ; : known six or eight jacksnipe to be killed at a single shot along such a ditch, where they were located by the chance hunter. . } } A; We will hardly have very good sport at jacksnipe this spring, owing to the extreme abundance of water all over the country. There will be more than enough feeding grounds for the numbers of snipe which are apt to pass this way. The devoted hunters who go to the Fox Lake country, are expecting now to meet same snipe along the bogs almost any day. Abe says that he has . The ducks continue to come in, and the main flight has now probably reached this latitude. At Tolleston day before yesterday, Mr. J. V. Clarke easily made his limit of 24 ducks, and Mr. Hempstead Washburn, who also shot at Tolleston, killed 18 birds. Most of these were mallards, with a few pintails and an occasional bluebill. “Mr. Lou Clarke, of this city, is recently back from Thomasville, Ga., where he had pleasant weather and all the shooting he cared for at doves and quail. E, Houeu. Harrrorp Buripine, Chicago, Ill. Legislation at Albany. The Senate passed on March 30 Mr. Armstrong’s bill forbidding the sale of grouse and woodcock. The measure was amended so that possession of this game shall not be presumptive evidence cf violation by any person who has given a bond to the Game Com- missioner of the State. Avpany, March 28.—Governor Odell has signed the following bills amending the fish and game laws: Assemblyman Bridgeman's, to allow the spearing of fish in the creeks of Otsego and Orleans counties. Assembly Doughty’s, providing that there shall be no open season for Mongolian ring-necked or English pheasants, except in Suffolk county, prior to 1905, and that they shall not be taken or possessed in Suffolk county from Jan, 1 to Oct, 31, both inclusive. Assemblyman McNair’s, making the close season for squirrel from Dec. 1 to Sept. 15, both inclusive. Assemblyman Fowler’s, providing for the protection of fish in Chautauqua Lake. The Senate has passed Senator Armstrong’s bill, making the close season for grouse in the counties of Ulster, Sullivan and Greene from Dec. 1 to Sept. 30, both inclusive, and in Orange county from Dec. 1 to Oct. 15, both inclusive. ‘lhe Senate Committee on Fisheries and Game has reported the following bills: Senator Malby’s, relative to fishing in Black Lake, St. Lawrence county. Assemblyman Cowan’s, prohibiting the taking of trout and game in the counties of Delaware, Ulster and Schoharie for the purpose of selling the same. Senator Warneck’s, providing that there shall be no open season for grouse and woodcock in the counties of Schoharie, Mont- gomery and Otsego, prior to 1906. Senator Raines’, relative to the taking of fish through the ice in Canandaigua Lake. Assemblyman C. W. Smith’s, relative to wild birds. Assemblyman Bedell’s, relative to the close season for trout in Orange county. This bill was afterward advanced to third read- ng. The Assembly Committee on Fisheries and Game has reported the following bills: Assemblyman C. W. Smith’s, relating to penalties. Assemblyman Burnett’s, relative to taking fish through the ice in Canandaigua Lake. Senator Armstrong’s, devices. The Assembly has recommitted the bill of Senator Townsend’s, on second reading, for the protection of wild black bear, to- gether with a number of amendments proposed to it, exempting from its operations a number of counties. The Assembly has advanced to third reading the following bills: Assemblyman Cowan’s, making the close season for muskrat, skunk and foxes in Delaware county from May 1 to Oct. 31, both inclusive. aecemblyanep Stevens’, relative to the laying out of private parks. Senator Bailey’s, relative to the powers of supervisors in the counties of Queens, Nassau and Suffolk, The Assembly has passed the following bills: ; Assemblyman Hubbs’, relative to the transportation of fish. Assemblyman Robinson’s relative to fishing in Hemlock Lake. Assemblyman Reynolds’, making the close season for grouse, woodcock and quail in Rensselaer county from Dec. 1 to Sept. 80, both inclusive. Sea and River Sishing. ———¢—_ Salmon Culture in America. Editor Forest and Stream: In your issue of 21st inst., Mr. Babcock, Fisheries Com- missioner, has supplied what Mr. Livingston Stone, in his letter to R. B. Marston, of the London Fishing Gazette, perhaps inadvertently omitted, viz.: some statis- tics on which alone a sound opinion can be formed. From these, it would appear that, so far as the Sacramento River in California is concerned, Artificial Culture has been fairly successful. In a river where the present conditions are such as Mr. Babcock describes, artificial culture may, for a long time, prevent the species from dying out entirely; but with a full knowledge of what Salmon Culture, pursued on a large scale and at enormous expense for 30 years, has done in Canada and the Eastern States, I cannot but en- tertain strong doubts that, in rivers where “the establish- ment of manufactories, the diversion of waters for irri- gation, extensive mining and agricultural methods during the past ten years have almost entirely destroyed the natural spawning grounds of the Salmon,” artificial cul- tuire can keep alive a profitable business. Even if it could do this, I doubt the wisdom of devoting taxes wrung from the people to stimulate artificially a business from which only a few wealthy proprietors derive any im- mediate profit. As to the Columbia and other rivers further North, Mr. Babcock, following my old friend Livingstone Stone, is very chary about statistics; but, like him, deals liberally in opinions and assertions unwarranted by figures. The ample quotations made from Mr, Stone; from that careful observer of Pacific Salmon, Mr. Charles Hallock; from the Report of the Commission sitting in British Columbia in 1892, and from letters received during the present year, given in your last issue, will enable Mr. Marston to judge how much good Artificial Culture can do in rivers where the fish are now so numerous that they destroy them- selves by overcrowding. J The writer is strongly of opinion that if those who are making fortunes by their canneries and freezers really believe they derive any practical benefit from Artificial Salmon Culture, they should support the hatcheries them- selves, and that the State Governments of California, Oregon and Washington, and the Government of Canada should no longer tax the people for the special benefit of a few wealthy companies who derive all the direct profit. Should this and my last letter meet the eyes of the scientific gentlemen in England who are opposing Mr. Marston’s well-meant but ignorant efforts to increase the Salmon catch in England, Scotland and Ireland by grants of public money for Artificial Culture, they will not. fail to see, in Mr. Babcock’s confidently expressed opinions, additional grounds for their belief that so far Salmon Culture in Europe and America has produced oodles of ova and figures of fry, but very few adult Salmon. a ie '¢ Tue Ov ANGLER, relative to the destruction of illegal APRIL 4, 1903.] Canoel and Camp Life Along the Delaware River. Snaps With a Pocket Camera, and Fly Casts with Tamarack Poles. I,—The Poles are Cut and “ Cured.”—The Swamp. The aged fisherman leaves his reel, And his rods of split-bamboo, To enter a swamp, and cut and peel A tamarack pole, so he may feel The thrill of memory’s joy, When barefoot and freckled, with much ado, He searched that swamp all through and through, A wild, free fisher boy; And with an old jackknife cut the pole, By the winding path that leads To the pond, and the haunted “waste-weir hole” Where he caught the “punkin seeds!” “THAT's the first fishhook I ever owned. Didn't catch but one fish with it—a sucker over a foot long! Then it was honorably retired and cherished! Almost sixty years ago, and I’m fishin’ yet! But those boy days were the best! JI had more fun ketchin’ that sucker than I had getting that twenty-pound salmon you gaffed for me last summer at Southwest Brook! ” (In Newfoundland.) My old comrade had taken the tiny hook from an envelope in a lit- tle compartment of his “tackle trunk” —a dulled, rusty, “Limerick” hook, size ten; and all that long vista of ~ threescore years only made his recol- lection the more vivid. ~“TLost the very first hook on a snag in Jacobs Creek, out in Michigan,” he added. “Even before that I had fished with bent pins in the ‘deep hole’ where we ‘went in swimmin’.’ That hole was about ten feet long, where the brook curyed below a bank at least six feet high; in those days I thought it a tremendous proof of courage to slide down its blue clay— made wet and slippery—and splash right into the center of the muddy pool—about eighteen inches deep. Oh, how dirty and happy we boys would get there! I loved that creek quite as well as I afterwards did the Delaware River and its herring—for, as you know, there were no black bass in the Delaware until in Octo- ber, 1870, when a lot of small ones were put in it at Easton, just below Lehigh Dam.” He stroked his long, white beard with his left hand, and with his right reached for a bulldog briarwood pipe. He smoked the strongest Perique tobacco; as its fumes filled the “fsh- ing den” I opened a window facing Prospect Park, in Brooklyn, where troops of scarlet leaves were scurry- ing and tossing in the wind-gusts of an Indian summer afternoon. “T know a larch-swamp in the hill. back from Hancock up there on the Delaware, where the tamafacks grow just tight for fishpoles.” ¢ I waited for his foreseen suggestion of a trip. “lve been thinkin’ I’d go up there, cut and peel an’ dry some poles, and, next sttmmer, take a run down the Delaware, and fish jest the same way as when I was a hoy, You're a decent sort of a fly-fisher—know how to sit in a boat, and not talk. How’d you like to join me— go up there and help cut ’em, and fish with ’em a spell next summer? An’ I’m goin’ to take my pocket camera an’ catch a lot of pictures, too.” The prospect was tempting. Memories of my own joys as an urchin, happy on Bean Creek with a tamarack pole and a can of earth-worms, crowded upon me. There was a long silence. “Agreed |” L “All right: next Saturday by the Erie morning train for Hancock, to cut, trim and skin our poles! Bring an old jack-knife not worth over a quarter, and dull. No use tryin’ to be a boy again unless we use the same old knives. Wish we could go to-morrow, for I seem to smell the tamarack gum now. Remember how we used to use the points of our knife-blades to pick the balsam off the bark, and the hardened pink gum from around the knots?” : A week later two gray-headed men wete plunging through the tangle of a larch-swainp between two ranges of high hills a few miles from Deposit, New York, while a liveryman, who acted as driver, waited by a highway fence and wondered “whether the two ald lunatics would git lost in there, an’ have to be hunted up?” The best times are those which come unexpectedly. That hunt for fishpoles was royal! “See that mire-holer” snorted my friend. “That's the place where I et my first wild turnip. Whew! How my mouth did blaze about two minutes after I bit into it! There are lots of groundnuts here, as we called them in those days, but their tops are dead, and we could-not find them. Remember that small, white, divided flower on their little tops in the spring, and by which we ‘told’ them, and the bulbous roots, about half as big as a marble, and how we would gather a pocketful and give them to the little girls up at the log schoolhouse?” “Ves. And back there is a knoll where I used to come and eat my dinner with you; and the rocks with the very same patches of mosses. Wonder how they stay so fresh and green? Right beside this tree I found an orchid in 1858—used to call *em ‘lady slippers’ then. And yonder is the shard in the woods where we gathered wild lilies for the school-teacher.” A long, critical search! The slim, straight tamaracks, thin, like canes in a brake, were there by thousands, ten and fifteen feet high. Bitter-sweet, ivy, coleswort, loose- strife, harebell and ferns, mint, wintergreen and cresses, glider, faurel, rhododendron, hawkweed and life-everlast- FOREST AND STREAM. * ing were also there by the acre—abundant, peaceful, feel- ing the first stroke of the frost, but wild, sturdy, auda- cious, lush, untamable—a hundred forest odors from them mingling with the balsam smell from the larches! Mouldering logs, upturned and _ fire-scarred roots, shadows, and the wind-borne leaves from the maples on the far hillsides finding us even where the pools of water | were thick with dun “cattails,” whose “fuzz” was carried away on every gust—all in a tangle of dreamy Indian summer fragrance! Six “poles” were cut, the jack-knives being used with the blade downward on their bases as we bent them over, so they would cut easy. A long, hard pull with them through the swamp and its obstructions, the highway not being reached until we had seen a couple of partridges “get up” and leave our company! Then, each with a big “cud” of tamarack gum and three poles, back we went to Deposit, the green tops of the poles trailing behind our wagon, and an evening’s work in the livery barn—a dozen idlers and boys standing about and watching us round the butts, trim away the branches and peel off the bark, leaving the poles white, slippery, straight and heavy. “Goin’ ter cast flies fur fish with them sawlogs?” queries a native. “VYes—with lines tied fast to their tips, and two feet longer than the poles, so as to allow for the wind. The current will take the flies to the full length of pole and INDIAN SUMMER ON THE DELAWARE, line. We'll lose over half the bass we hook, but we shall have more than we can use, and will return some to the water.” The green poles were placed on cross-boards nailed to the rafters in a peak of the barn, whose owner vouched for their safety while they seasoned and grew dry, light and springy. “Blamed ef it jest don’t make me feel young again!” drawled our host. “Say, can’t ye take a feller with ye «a while when ye come up next summer? Jest one after- noon? J know where there’s a good campin’ place by a spring about two mile below.” And he pointed to a hill far down the noble Delaware, whose rapids were talking to the forest that comes close to the shore on the other side—the whole, seen in the afterglow of sunset, forming an exquisite picture! - He wrote to us six weeks later at Christmas-time: “Am sendin’ ye a box of holly by express. Had the six tamarack poles down from the barn-peak yestiddy. Every one straight an’ light, and supple’s whalebone! I kep turnin’ “em while they was dryin’, so they’d be straight. Remember, I want ter go with yer the fust day! That spring below town is right by ther mouth uv a trout brook, an’ V'll have my wife go down an’ have supper all ready fur us when we kum in from bass fishin’ !” L. F. Brown. Jottings of a Fly-Fisher.—IIL T wap one great day in June, 1901, and the sport was especially welcome, coming after a disappointment. Start- ing after midday, I reached the stream I was about to ~ fish late in the afternoon with rain falling in torrents. I put on my waders during a lull, and found the water not only very high, but so much discolored that fishing was out of the question, at least with any prospect of suc- cess. There was no train to return that evening, or I would certainly have gone home, The rain ceased early mi the evening, but I went disconsolately to bed and dropped off to sleep with the roar of the swollen stream sounding in my ears. The next day was Saturday, and when I went to breaktast, 1 was told that the water had cleared considerably. I soon found this to be the case; it was clear enough for fly, thotigh still very high. The sky was overcast and it remained cloudy all day, constantly threatening rain; in fact, I believe that a few drops did fall from time to time. F : Under these circumstances I was not long in getting tnder way. For some time I could do nothing. I could not reach the casts | knew, so as to fish them properly. At last I was encouraged by capturing a small trout of about a quarter of a pound. Proceeding downward I came to a place where the stream was greatly expanded oyer a wide rocky bed. Far out in the middle, near several large stones under water, was a kind of pool of 262 fairly deep water, yet with a heavy current through it, while directly below was a large and dangerous rapid. We knew the place aboye the rapid of old as the haunt of large trout. With great difficulty I succeeded in wading out far enotigh to fish this place properly, by casting a long line, although the water was within an inch or so of the tops of my stockings. I was fishing with only one fly, a kind of nondescript, tied by myself, with a light yellow body of wool on a No. to hook. At about the third cast, when the line was well extended and the fly over the lower end of the hole or depression, and just where the water probably began to shallow a trifle, | de- tected a very modest rise. I struck, and instantly an im- mense fish leaped from the water. The leap was diago- nally across, not directly away from me, and really the trout appeared a perfect monster in this position, the cutve of its broad back and wide spotted side, with the splendid propeller, a tail that to my excited eyes appeared as big as a palm-leaf fan, the fish cleared the water by many inches, and a desperate rush for liberty followed. I thought just then that I could not move (1 changed my mind afterward), and had only thirty yards of line on my reel. Before I could curb this charge, only three or four turns were left me on the spool (you must re- member that I had hooked the fish at the end of a long cast) 3; in fact, I don’t think that I really stopped the trout at all; he turned of his own will when he struck shallow water. I put on all the pull I dared, under which the fish gradually dropped back into the deepest part of the pool. J had recovered many yards of line when suddenly the trout rose to- ward the surface, a great swirl ap- peared, and then my reel screamed = again. Before I could say Jack Rob- © inson or even John, the fish liad rushed down the ‘stream and was in the heavy swift water at the head of the rapid. Nothing could stop him then; any attempt to butt him would have torn out the small hook, or caused a break’ in my fine cast. The line was quickly exhausted and I fol- lowed in water which for some yards was up to my waist. No thought of getting my wading stockings full then. The coarse rocks were cruel and the footing exceedingly bad, but I stumbled on, my legs like towers of Jead. I was about winded, when the fish took it into his head to stop in the rapid, probably behind some stone, but it appeared to be right in the middle of the rushing current. The check was but momentary, but it’ enabled me to get opposite the fish, and as he checked his wild career once more before reaching the shal- lows at the bottom, I managed better and felt that I had my good fellow in hand. J think that we were both pretty well played out by this time, and after many short rushes I stranded the fish where there was so little water that he fell over on his side. On getting him in hand I was greatly disappointed to find that in- stead of a five-pounder, he was two pounds less. ; Had this fish been lost, say in run- ning the rapid, he would have been remembered as that four or five pound trout that got away. Nevertheless he was a noble trout and made a great fight. The water was cold and the fish very active that day. It is not the rule for brown trout to leap, but many of those caught did so more than once. I took a two pound trout that did not, but most of the fish were of large size. The basket consisted of twenty-four trout; twenty of these I carried home next day, and they nearly filled the big creel, capable of containing twenty pounds of fish: This was a wonderful day’s sport; in some respects the best of my life. The large stream, high cold water, unusual average size and activity of the fish, combined with the depression and disappointment of the day before, all seemed to enhance the sport and make of this a record day indeed. In a petty brook such fishing is not possible, as even if you take a large fish he has not room to show his powers atid is apt.to sulk. The heavy water and peculiar place in which the largest fish was hooked made the sport rather like salmon fishing in miniature. We forget most of the disagreeable or unpleasant inci- cents attending our sport, but we never forget the big fish we have lost. When a boy of thirteen years I saved ~ all my pocket money for a considerable period to purchase a fly rod; it was too good a rod for a boy without ex- perience and was soon broken. JI remember the sad affair PES as a large fish played an important part in the event. : At the end of a thicket on Bonny Brook (this, by the way, was a favorite breeding place for a single pair of woodcock), was quite a deep pool, with hollow grassy - banks, forming a fine retreat for trout. A common snake fence divided the thicket from a meadow, and by standing on one of the lower rails I could cast my worm in the pool. I did so on this occasion and the swift current - carried the bait under the hollow bank; I was not con- scious of a bite, but on trying to withdraw the line found it was held fast. Forgetting my delicate tackle, a vigor- ous pull was given, the rod bent double and a large trout was drawn to the surface. Becoming wildly excited, I endeavored to haul the fish out on the narrow margia between the fence and the pool, the trout was actually drawn half out of the water, when the rod broke in two places, the trout disappeared and befure I could gain con- trol of the line, freed himself from the hook, 1 conld have lifted up my voice and wept; my feelings can hardly be realized. My legs were weak, and a sensation of utter goneness and woe possessed me. To break my beantiful new tod was a frightful misfortune, but to lose that trout was calamity indeed. I had never seen such a trout: it was at least twelve inches long and may have weighed three-quarters of a pound. The big friend who accom- panied me soon came up; he was older than I, and for some years I could not forgive him his efforts to make a _ 270 FOREST AND STREAM. [Apri 4, 1903: joke of my loss, and to tease me about it. In my ex- cited grief I had foolishly appealed to him for sympathy. hs on woes of childhood and youth are not always short- ived. Trout were numerous in all cold brooks in those days, but even in the large streams a pound specimen was a large fish, I remember seeing but one two-pound trout during my boyhood; this seems rather remarkable, as I was familiar with some of the big limestone streams in Pennsylvania. They were deep and rich in food for trout; a peculiar moss which was common in them was filled with larve, snails, shrimps, etc. Many flies ap- peared on the water and the evening rise of trout was something to be remembered. Very little fishing was done after the early part of the season, which began then on “All Fool’s Day.” According to my recollection the trout were in good condition, and on one opening day I made a basket of 38 good fish during a snow storm; the temperature could not have been low, as the snow melted as fast as it fell. Glancing over a book called “Sixty-three Years’ Angling” recently, reminded me_of a fine old salmon fisher, now gone to his rest, as the views of the author and my friend agreed and in some respects were uncom- mon. They believed that the salmon takes the fly in anger, because he is tantalized and annoyed by it. The author of the work goes so far as to say that the pattern of fly used for salmon is not of the slightest consequence. “Why the salmon takes the fly’ has been the subject of much discussion and argument for many years, and all that we can do is to form our own opinions from such reliable evidence as we have before us. After learning from books how to tie trout flies, | became ambitious and devoted much of my leisure to the more complicated insects, or rather lures, used for salmon. It is very difficult to obtain the requisite materials in this country, but those necessary to tie a few of the standard patterns were imported, and after working for three hours on a single Jock-Scot, I succeeded in turning out quite a pretty fly. In an account of the fishing season in the river Eden, in North Britain, a new fly was men- tioned as having proved very killing that year, one salmon of 494% pounds and another of 43 pounds having been taken with it. The formula of the fly was given and I copied it. It proved to be a very harmonious creation of blue and silver, orange and black, golden pheasant top- pings, etc., and I gave one or two to each of my salmon- fishing friends. One of these gentlemen was on the Resti- gouche in June of that year fishing the club waters on the invitation of a friend. On a bright, hot day many rods were at work, but the fish were not inclined to rise, and none were taken until one of the guides, an Indian, I think, in looking over my friend’s stock of flies, noticed the Eden fly I had given him. He attached it to the leader and casting over the same water five large salmon were risen and hooked. The best fish weighed thirty-eight pounds. Were those salmon made angry by the Eden fly and not by the Jock-Scots, silver-doctors, Durham-rangers, black-doses and_ other flies presented to them? My friend was the only one among many who had any sport on that day. By the way, the form of the Pennell hook, a plain tapered shank with gut loop (not an eyed hook), was disliked by all the guides at that time. The hook was rather slender, and Mr. Pennell has since brought out a much heavier hook, with a returned eye for salmon flies. Later in the season another friend, of no experience whatever, was given a few days on private water some distance up the same river. He had very little tackle and scarcely any flies, except a few I had given him, These flies had been tied before my materials arrived, and could hardly be called salmon flies at all. Among them was a thing on a No. 1% Pennell hook resembling a coachman trout fly, if anything. It was tied. with two stiff white wings, made of whole feathers, up- right on the hook, peacock herl body, yellow butt, golden pheasant tail, silver tag, and a very full long brown hackle. After two days without sport the Indian guide put this strange salmon fly in action in the evening. It was cast straight out, and, as my friend said, sat on the river like a sail boat, with its wings cocked up. As it floated down, a salmon of 1414 pounds rose quietly and tried to absorb it. The big wings and general stiffness of the fly were against him, however, and it was only after three separate and distinct efforts that he got it. My friend, never having fished with a fly in his life, became wildly excited, struck very hard and broke his, or rather the owner’s rod, for it was borrowed. In spite of this the fish was landed with the assistance of the guide in two hours and a half. With the same fly two more salmon were taken. This I consider a very interesting case, as it is one of the few recorded instances where a salmon has risen at and taken a dry fly floating on the water; and the natural inference is that it was taken as a fly or moth, certainly not in anger. It is unfortunate that so few fishermen keep a record of their sport, with the attending circumstances, as much interesting and often valuable information is lost forever. Experience is the great teacher, and if that of many could be brought together, we would know far more than we do of many things bearing upon our art. The man who keeps everything he learns locked up in his own breast will know far less than he who compares notes with his fellows. My reason for writing these random notes and recollections is that they may remind other men of their interesting experiences, and perhaps induce them to write also. There are a great many amateur fly tyers in this coun- try, but they have no medium of communication. In the course of years one learns of many wrinkles—in addi- tion to those printed on his face—new materials are dis- covered, and if he is a fair observer he picks up a little practical information about entomology. ; I am surprised that more ladies do not take an interest in fly-fishing. It is well within their powers, and those accustomed to exercise soon become enthusiastic. Eight years ago a young lady was my fishing companion quite frequently, and although we had to tramp four or five miles to reach the best part of the river, she never became too tired to enjoy the sport. She wore a Tam O'Shanter, sweater, short jacket and skirts, with stout shoes and leggings and waded, as I did, without waterproofs, which are only a nuisance in warm weather. The constant ex- ercise prevents one from taking cold, care being taken not to lie about long enough at lunch time to become chilled, though there is little chance of that when the summer sun 1s high in the heavens. This girl soon learned to cast a fly quite well, in spite of the fact that her rod was a poor one (a split bamboo nine feet in length and weighing four and a half ounces is just the thing for a lady). She saw portions of a most beautiful trout stream never before visited by a woman, and had many interesting experiences. An involuntary bath was the only misfortune she experienced, and she did not suffer from that. No one man or woman who has once taken an interest in fly-fishing ever becomes indif- ferent to it, A fresh source of pleasure in life has been gained and one that will continue to afford enjoyment until the end of the longest life. The inhabitants of New York and vicinity are greatly favored in their opportunities for sport. Good salt water fishing is near at hand and owing to the excellent facili- ties for travel a man can leave the city by the Newspaper train at four o’clock on any spring morning, spend a long day on good water a hundred miles away, and return in time for a late supper the same night. Of course, it is better and more agreeable to spend a night in the coun- try, but it is not really necessary. Business is so absorbing that many ardent fishermen can only steal a day now and then, in the early part of the season, while fishing is at its best. The clubs on Long Island are largely patronized, but are beyond the means of the majority. Also a desire is felt to visit wild unpreserved waters, to get among the mountains and the evergreens. The angling fever is a very real disease, and can only be cured by the application of cold water and fresh untainted air. I know a man eighty years of age who used to visit the Restigouche every year as soon as the ice was out. He often descended from his car at Metapedia to find himself in a snow bank, but his ardor was never chilled. On one trip he traveled many hundred miles, spent one day in a wet boat, caught one 25-pound salmon and a bad attack of influenza and was shipped home in spite of himself. He was quite as eager the next spring. I am one of those who believe that all the vagaries of trout that seem so incomprehensible are capable of a rational explanation. For one thing, the eyesight of round-eyed creatures is not as good as that of almond- eyed human beings in some respects, although better in others. They are deficient in the sense of form, keen to detect motion and shades of color. A deer will not notice you if you are absolutely still, but the slightest motion sends him off at once. Trout are the same, only more so, if anything, A shadow alarms them greatly, and the position of the sun has much to do with our success, or the lack of it. If the rays of light are reflected from the water in a certain way, you can stand within easy casting distance of a school of shy trout in even the shallowest water ; they cannot see you, nor can you see them. Prove this the next time you have an opportunity. Trout take a fly when it is all chewed up sometimes. Tt does not look like anything to us, but to them it may be the exact color of a fly that 1s or has been hatching out, and they take it as larve or nymph just emerging from its case. I have, when not able to make a really good imitation of a fly upon which the trout were feeding, contented myself with a body of the right color and a few turns of almost any feathers of the right shade. This will kill better than a well formed fly of the wrong color, though greater accuracy is desirable. THEODORE GORDON. Chickamauga Fishing Club. Twenty-six Chattanooga citizens are the exclusive owners of fishing privileges in the lake which runs for two and a half miles from Crawfish Springs to West Chickamauga Creek. The club has existed for a number of years, but it is now probably at its best, having a larger membership and better facilities than ever before for enjoying the sport. The membership list is full, and there is quite a waiting list anxious to take up any vacancy that may occur, but it is not likely that the number of active members will be materially increased soon. The immense volume of water pouring out of Crawfish Spring makes a small river, furnishing about one-third of the water in South Chickamauga Creek. At the mouth of the spring stream is a strong dam, which creates a lake two miles and a half long, as picturesque as any water course in the South. The clear, blue depths are fairly alive with game fish. There is scarcely any current in the lake, and if one were floating down, without the aid of wind or paddle, it would require twelve hours to make the distance. This is an advantage, of course, making the rowing in any direction easy and delightful. Each season during the past few years the Government fish car has left game minnows in this lake, and it is stocked now with a number of varieties which afford all kinds of sport for the members of the club. Among the best varieties are the black bass, the rainbow trout, the crappie and the bream. These respond readily to live bait, trolling spoon and fly. In addition there are sun perch, white perch and even the despised blue and yellow cat- fish, but the “cats” are seldom caught, although it is said that they are about as fine dish as any coming from the pure waters of the spring lake. Already this season the Government has put into the lake one thousand black bass and 700 crappies. It is estimated that the members of the club catch one fish to eight which are put into the lake. This can be easily figured out, as each fisherman, at the close of his day’s sport, makes a report of the number and kind of fish he caught. These reports are turned over to the secretary, who incorporates the aggregate figures for each member in his annual report. The largest fish last year weighed about six and one- half pounds. It was a black bass. The largest so far this year was four and one-fourth pounds, also of the black bass variety. The club has just eompleted a new club house at a cost of $600, and will build a boathouse at once. The club house is near the old Crawfish Springs hotel, and is a convenient, neat cottage, capable of accommodating any number of the members. There are lockers for each mem- ber, a spacious club room, kitchen and dining room, and sleeping apartments provided with cots for those wlio wish to spend the night there. It is understood that quite a number of the members contemplate spending their vacations this summer in that way, sleeping in the club house and fishing early in the morning and late in the evening, which will not interfere with their daily work in the city. The lake, club house, minnows, boats, etc, are all Icoked after by R. N. Phipps, the game keeper, who is employed by the club at a salary. Mr. Phipps not only knows the places where the fish can be found, but he knows how to entice and land the big fellows as well as any member of the club, this fact no doubt proving a great convenience to many an unlucky fisherman in time of need. “Admiral” Phipps keeps thousands of minnows all the time, ready for the members of the club when- ever they want them, the club paying for the minnows from one cent to one and a half cents each, according to the size, which must be from three and a half to six inches in length. Many of the minnows are brought con- siderable distance, tisually by express. The ultra-exclusiveness of the Chickamauga Fishing Club is seen from the fact that no permits are issued to anyone to fish on the preserves of the club, which include all the running streams on the Lee estate. Each member of the club is entitled to invite ten visitors in twelve months, and the expenses incurred by the visit must be charged to the member who invited him. This gives promise of becoming a formidable rival to the best fishing grounds in the South, and the present club, having a lease of the fishing privileges until 1gto, can afford to anticipate a long period of enjoyment in the pastime. Being so near Chattanooga, and on the line of the Central of Georgia railroad, the grounds are al- ready proving a veritable health resort and a sure cure for “that tired feeling’ that takes possession of all men at some time. Members of the club have fished all the winter with sticcess, and they find that the weather makes no difference, as far as the fish are concerned. There is some talk of adding the hunting feature to the province of the club, in which event the hunting privileges will be secured on a large tract of adjacent land, which will be stocked and preserved.—Chattanooga News, Foreign Fishing Notes. The Rhine Salmon. Accorpine to a late report the salmon caught in the tiver Rhine numbered 27,477 in 1900, 31,811 in 1901, and 37,303 in 1902; the improvement not being remarkable in view of the fact that the average catch between 1871 and TGOO was 54,630. The report recommends, in order to in- sure a continuance of the improvement, that the follow- ing of disregarded recommendations be adopted and stringently enforced. First, the fishery to be absolutely prohibited from September I to January 1. Second, to maintain a weekly close time from Saturday to Sunday evening. Third, a daily suspension of six hours from g P. M. to 3 A. M., to be enforced in all portions of the fiver beyond its tidal flow. Fourth, no salmon spawn or fry to be disturbed or taken save by authorized fish culturists. Fifth, more liberal stocking of the stream with fry. Sixth, strict regulations against fouling waters to be rigidly enforced. Much of the decline is attributed to improvements in river navigation and to the multiplica- ticn of industrial establishments upon its banks. The stream is doubtless of far greater value as an artery of trade than as a fish nursery, and inasmuch as its develop- ment in the one direction is seemingly incompatible with that in the other, the salmon will probably have to go. Tt is doubtful, in view of American experience, whether a more liberal stocking of the river with fry would accom- plish the result hoped for. Norway’s Fish Industry. Norway’s export of fish in ro01 was $13,100,000, or nearly six dollars per head of the total population. Al- most one-third of the country’s entire export was of fish and fish products, and this, her leading industry, has become such largely by reason of its furtherance by Government aid exerted with the most praiseworthy intel- ligence and discretion. Among the more notable exports are fish meal, fish tongues and fish stomachs. Of fish roe there was exported 96,000 pounds and 656,c00 pounds of fish glue. Norway now makes a very fine table oil from herrings, and employs it in her fish canning industry as an accept- able substitute for the more expensive Italian olive oil. Among new fish preparations offered are boneless warm smoked herrings, cold smoked turbots, fish sausages, and codfish ingeniously dried without heat in three or four days, whereby, it is asserted, that the fishy taste of the product is abated and the color, general appearance and taste of the fresh fish closely approximated. Toward this particular line of experiment the Government contributed ove five hundred dollars. Much progress has also been accomplished in the economical production and refining of the coarser fish oits, An ingenious apparatus has been devised by which it is claimed the proportion of oil in a specimen of fish can be ascertained with ease and cer- tainty in a few minutes, and thus the proper and most economical disposition of a catch of herring, or other fish, can be readily determined, Japanese Fishery Schools, Among the many wonderful events of the last century there was none more startling than the entry of Japan, almost fully armed and panoplied, into the circle of civilized nations. With an equipment in most respects equal, and in some superior to her sister peoples, she will soon occupy the competitive arena thoroughly prepared to struggle for her share of the world’s markets. Her fore- sight, energy and industry have, in no line of effort, been so marked as in the development of her fisheries. As early as 1882 the fisheries of the empire underwent asso- ciated direction, and it became the concern of the leading men of the then infant industry to further its expansion by a system of enlightened instruction. In 1888 the Min- ister of Agriculture established the first school at Tokio, and to-day there are in the empire the following: One school of instruction in marine and freshwater products, sustained without Government aid; twenty-five experi- ment stations under State subvention; three fishery Apri 4, 1903.1 “FOREST AND STREAM. 271 schools also assisted by the State; twenty-one subsidized schools for the fullest instruction in all that appertains to the preparation or to the gathering of the varied harvests of the waters. In the principal of these institu- tions the students undergo a three years’ course of in- struction; the first year in fishculture, sea and river fish- ing, ichthyology, botany, chemistry, physics, drawing, for- eign languages, etc. The second year they study the mechanical arts, boat building, navigation, tin working, fishery jurisprudence; the third year being largely practi- cal instruction, the Government furnishing a number of fishing vessels, each comfortably accommodating twenty- four students, beside the crew, the fishermen and the teaching staff. Among the facilities of instruction are colored representations, in the highest style of art, of ninety-six fishes, in most instances life-size, also a text- book for fishermen, fully and clearly illustrated. Norway, Germany and Holland have likewise schools of fishery instruction, but not upon Japan’s impressive scale. The steadily increasing development of Japan’s fisheries challenges our interest, for her enterprise extends to for- eign waters. In troor she had 1,700 vessels and 8,000 men upon the Korean coast, and 125 vessels and 4,400 men upon the Sayhalien and Siberian-coasts. Ere debarred by restrictive legislation, Japanese fishing boats operated largely upon the Skeena and Fraser rivers in western Canada, and also in Australian waters, the alert, quick- witted, knowledge-seeking little Oriental apparently find- ing everywhere a field of profitable activity. In 1899 Japan had 400,000 fishing craft in service that directly or indirectly gave employment to 3,338,000 per- sons, or about a twelfth of the population. The total value of the product was 70,761,846 yen, against but 44,527,045 yen in 1895. Until very recently Japanese ex- ports to Europe and America were substantially limited to fish oil and pearl shells; but to-day her salt and smoked fish haye found a lodgment in European markets with an assurance of a future extensive sale. At the great Rus- sian International Fishery Exposition of last year Japan’s exhibit excited exceptional interest; her display, among various other marine products, including sea weeds fur- nishing glazing or stiffening materials for textile and other fabrics, specimens of pearl shells, worked and un- worked, salted salmon roe, canned oysters and mussels, cels in oil, also sardines, fish puddings, codliver oil of ex- ceptionally fine quality, etc. Japan is no longer like a girl at. her first ball, waiting anxiously to be noticed; the throng thickens about her, ard she is to be reckoned with. A. H. Gouraup, Fish and Fishing. Death of L. Z. Joncas, One by one they are slipping away—the friends and companions of our early outing and fishing days, and while it is probably true that the mortality among those whose names are household words to the readers of Forrest AND STREAM, has not increased in recent years, it does seem to me that the obituary notices of prominent anglers have been growing unusually fre- quent of late, and the intervals which separate them briefer than ever before. The news that Louis Zephirin Joncas, of Quebec, is dead, will doubtless come as somewhat of a shock to many of the readers of this journal, though his more intimate friends have long been aware of the fact that his health was most pre- carious, and that he was liable at any moment to be carried off by one of the attacks of partial heart failure, to which he had long been subject. Two or three times within the last few years I have been with him away from home when some of these attacks were so severe that his physicians would not answer for his recovery, and it was thought wise to send for a priest to administer the last rites of his church. One of these incidents occured in New York, during the prog- ress of the first Sportsmen’s Show in Madison Square Garden, at which he represented the Provincial Gov- ernment of Quebec. His recovery upon that occasion was undoubtedly due to the unremitting care and at- tention to his case given by our mutual friend and brother sportsman, Dr. Lewis Rutherfurd Morris. Upon another occasion poor Joncas successfully fought off death in a camp on a salmon river, whence his friend, Jos. X. Lavoie, and the writer sent two In- dians down the rapids of the river at midnight to bring up a doctor from the village at its mouth. For some years past Mr. Joncas occupied the posi- tion of Superintendent of Fish and Game under the Government of Quebec, and nobody was better quali- fied for the office, or could have discharged its duties with a larger measure of intelligence or with greater zeal, devotion and assiduity. Prior to his appoint- ment to that office, he sat for many years in the Do- minion Parliament as M. P. for his native county of Gaspé, where his family had long been interested in the fishery industry. It was because of his intimate acquaintance with this industry that he was selected by the Canadian Government in 1883, one of the com- missioners to represent the Dominion at the Interna- tional Fisheries Exhibition held in London, England, and in this capacity he won golden opinions, both from the British and Canadian press. Among his most valued treasures were a pair of beautiful autograph photographs of King Edward VII.-and Queen Alex- andra, which the then Prince of Wales gaye him on the occasion of the exhibition. His paper on “The Fisheries of Canada” was declared by the London Daily Telegraph to have been the most valuable of those read at the congress in connection with the ex- hibition. It will be remembered that at the Chicago World’s Fair, Mr. Joncas was appointed chairman of the jury upon awards in connection with the depart- ment of fishery exhibits. L, Z. Joncas was one of the most efficient anglers with whom it has been my good luck to fish. Tall in stature and of fine athletic build, it was a sight to de- light the eye to see him engaged in a fight with a salmon. He was not the man to prolong the battle. He had killed so many salmon in his time, having fished upon almost every Canadian salmon stream, that it mattered little to him whether or not he killed his fish. If he did so, it was because it was well hooked and his tackle in good order. The latter, he used of finest quality, but knew its strength to a nicety, and put it to the fullest test, When he killed a fish he did it in less time than almost anybody else would have done, and if it was lightly hooked it had every opportunity of escape. } An authority upon everything connected with the sports of forest and stream, Mr, Joncas was good enough to join me in the joint authorship of “The Sportsman’s Companion in the Province of Quebec,” and hundreds of American hunters and fishermen who come here for their favorite sport will gladly testify to the many civilities received at his hands. He had much to do with the establishment of the North American Fish and Game Protective Association, and was its secretary-treasurer until ill-health compelled him to resign the office. ms Loyal to his government, loyal to the minister at the head of his department, loyal to his duties and loyal to his friends, L. Z. Joncas will be sincerely mourned by those who knew him best. E. T. D. CHAMBERS. San Francisco Striped Bass Club. SAw Franetsco, March 19.—Editor Forest and Stream: Inclosed is the score of casting contest held by the San Francisco Striped Bass Club on the 15th. The long dis- tance casting condilions were: : Sinker, 24% ounces, distance only to count, best cast of fiye. For accuracy: 1!4-ounce sinker, dropped 3 feet from peint of rod, five casts at each buoy placed 50, 75, 100, 125 and 150 feet, m lane 30 feet wide, sinker striking within one foot of buoy to count Ioo per cent., each foot away to ceunt T per cent. from this. Distance and acctiracy coritest (174 ounce) in a lane 30 feet wide, five casts totaled together. Long distance, 2%4-otnce sinker, first prize a medal. Accuracy and light sinker (134 ounces) added together; secand prize, a trophy. The judges were Dr. Geo. Gunn, W. A. L. Miller, J. S. Turner, W. S. Turner. Long Distance, Accuracy, Distance, Total Feet Per Cent, Feet, er Cent F. E. Daverkosen........ 169 87.84 120.4 104.12 Ey aya hie a eee yeti 206 82,2 114.6 98.4 EPP Sms litt ettcle pee meicniens 168 88.84 50.2 69.52 C.-H> Kewelly e22).222e- 125 50.4 69.6 60 INE SE iVitericlat, seis sleeiclal esters 125 62.72 47 54.86 Geor iWaltétses 03.0 a! 100 71.4 35 53.2 Sree Vell ot ois Bye 174 66.64 37 51.82 J. Lynch takes prize for long distance, 2Y%4-ounce sinker, with 206 feet. FP. E. Dayerkosen takes prize for accuracy and distance, light sinker (114-ounce), with 104.12. per cent. C. H. KEeweEtt. New Hampshire Early Fishing. NewrFrounp Lake, Bristol, N. H., March 30.—The fish- ing season for landlocked salmon and lake trout will open ten days earlier this year, as the ice will undoubtedly be out of the lake by April 5. It is anticipated the fishing will be the best known for some time, as the 30,000 young fingerlings put in these waters four years ago will be heard from, and the restrictions put on ice fishing have greatly benefited the spring fishing. Fish and Game Commissioners Nathaniel B. Went- worth and Chas. B. Clark, of Concord, a few days ago’ arrested one Henry G. Gove, of Orange, for the illegal killing of two deer in that town, which is closed to deer hunting at all times. Gove was arraigned before Chas. W. Fling, of Bristol, a fine of $100 and three months in jail were imposed for each deer, making $200 and six months in jail, which ought to act as a deterrent to those who hanker for venison out of season. Our Legislature las been amending the laws; we note one which again prohibits the selling of lake trout; that will have the ten- dency to restrict the operations of the market fisherman, who had again been in active evidence the past nye years. ile = -- — Close Calf for Fishers. TS Franz MAncott and his wife went fishing yesterday afternoon, opposite Locust Point, off City Island, and almost lost their lives. After fishing some hours from a skiff, they started to pull in the anchor, upset the boat, and were tumbled into the water. Both were heavily clothed, and neither could swim, but they had presence of mind to grasp the sides of the skiff. They shouted for help, but as the wind blew from the main land and they were nearly a mile from shore, they were not heard. After being in the water nearly forty-five minutes, Man- golt managed to fire a revolver, which he had in a water- proof case, and the noise of the shots attracted the atten- tion of Capt. Nathan C. Bell, of City Island, who was get- ting oysters about a half mile away. He rowed to them and arrived just in the nick of time, as Mrs. Mangolt, numbed by the cold water, was losing her hold on the boat.—New York Evening Post, March 27. Che Kennel. —— SS Fixtures. March 25-28.—Chicago.—Show of Chicago Kennel Club. March 30-31.—St. Lonis.—Show of St. Louis Collie Club. March 31-April 3—Buflalo, N. Y.—Show of Buffalo Kennel Club. April 14—Victoria, B. C.—Show of Victoria Kennel Club. Fes $-11.—Atlantic City, N. J—Show of Atlantic City Kennel lub. April 8-11.—Seattle, Wash., Kennel Club’s show. April 1417—Sharon, Pa., Kennel Cliib’s show. April 22-25—Baltimore, Md., S. P. C. A. show. -~May 19-21.—Mentreal, Can., Canine Association’s show. May 29-30.—Hempstead, L. I—Open air show of Ladies’ Kennel Association of America. Oct. 6-9.—Danbury, Conn:, Agriculiural Society’s show- Noy. 3-6.—New York—Annual show of Ladies’? Kennel Associa- tion of America. “Dogs, Their Ailments and How to Treat Them,” by Polk Miller, is the title of a 50-page book on dog diseases which will he sent to applicants by the Polk Miller Drug Company, Richmond, Va. Three cents in stamps, to cover postage, should accompany application, A pedigree blank is inclosed with each book, ; Hachting. dally De | Cruise of the Rambler. Winner of Second Prize in “Forest and Stream” Cruising Competition, BY WILLARD B. COOK, DENVER, COL, In the far northwestern corner of the United States is situated a body of water comparatively unknown to the yachtsmen of the country at large, and yet not only is it without a peer, but it is not even approached in natural advantages by any other body of water with which I am familiar, either by experience or observa- tion. In this connection I speak not only of Puget Sound proper, but include the adjacent waters of the Straits of Juan de Fuca, the San Juan Archipelago and the Gulf of Georgm. It has been my good fortune and pleasure to spend four summers cruising almost continually in those waters, with which, I think, I can claim a fairly close acquaintance. If the editor of the Forest anp STREAM would al- low me to string into one narrative all the exciting events that have occurred during these four summers, I could promise you a more interesting yarn; but as one of the conditions imposed is that the cruises of 1902 only are eligible, I must jettison all old cargo and overhaul and put into ship shape only such stores (of experiences) as we have taken aboard during the past summer. First. The-Ship. The Rambler is a keel cruising schooner of 15 tons register, 43{t. on deck, 38it. on the waterline, 14ft. 6in. beam, and sft. 3in. draft. She was built a good many years ago in San Francisco before scantling restrictions were a known quantity, and when it was fashionable to put as much material and strength into a boat as would now be considered sufficient for two. I think her designer decided what cabin accom- RAMBLER. modations he required, and then inclosed this cabin in the smallest hull possible. She has a main cabin that will seat about ten comfortably, with a berth on each side back of the transoms. Two geod-sized state- rooms with a double berth in each, a toilet room, a galley, and a forecastle with two folding pipe berths for the crew. So much for the internal economy. Now we will take a look aloft. She has pole masts with all her canvas in the lower sails except a small jib top- sail and a maintopmast staysail. Her boats consist of a very light 8ft. skiff carried in davits, and a 16ft. Lozier motor yacht tender towed astern. Second. The Ship’s Company. This consisted of the owner (who is trying to write this log), his wife (better known as the Mate), the Lawyer and his Ar- tist_wife as guests, and the crew, consisting of Chris,, A. B. and Jim, the boy of all work. We started from Eagle Harbor (8 miles from Seat- tle) on the 17th of July, bound for Victoria, and a cruise through the San Juan Islands. What is called the true wind in these waters is the ocean wind, which blows into the Strait of Juan de Fuca and then dividing, follows the channel of Puget Sound to the south, and Haro and Rosaria Straits to the north. Winds from other directions are more or less fluky and not to be depended on, The violent storms (which are almost unknown in the summer time) are southeasters. The northwestern coast is entirely free from the thunderstorms and sudden squalls so common and destructive on the Atlantic coast. Skirting a rocky ledge projecting straight out from shore on the north side of the Eagle Harbor entrance, we passed through a bed of kelp. As this form of marine vegetable life is of great importance to the inland navigator in those waters, I cannot do better than quote the Century Dictioneary definition: “Large seaweeds of the Pacific coast of North and South America. Its tough, slender stems are said to grow sometimes more than 600 feet long. Ascending from submarine rocks, it reveals their presence to sailors and it forms an extensive tangled mass which serves 272 on exposed coasts as a natural breakwater.” The British Columbia Pilot describes it as one of the greatest aids to the safe navigation of their waters, as it almost invariably marks the presence of all sub- merged rocks. Practically, the only dangers menacing the sailor in those waters are subnrerged rocks or rocky patches, as sand shoals are unknown, and the water generally of great depth, averaging from 50 to 150 fathoms in most places. This great depth of water is frequently a serious difficulty in finding a satisfactory anchorage. One instance was related to me of a large yawl that attempted to anchor in a small bay on the east shore of Vancouver Island. Not taking the pre- caution of sounding, they let go their heavy anchor with so fathoms of chain. It ran out to the bitter end and “no bottom.” But as this is supposed to be the cruise of the Rambler and not a technical treatise on the flora and topography of Puget Sound, we will: hie back to the yacht, which was just clearing the harbor entrance. For the benefit of the Lawyer and the Artist, Chris laid hold of some of the big floating bulbous kelp heads and finally succeeded in hauling aboard one en- tire plant, its roots firmly interlaced around a rock about the size of a cobble stone. The long stem anchoring the floating bulb to the rock is usually from Yin. to Yin. in diameter in the lower portion, and able to bear a weight of perhaps Ioo pounds with- out breaking. Sometimes small boats make fast to a bunch of kelp at night instead of dropping anchor. After getting a couple of miles on our course, we found a soft spot in the breeze, and lay utterly be- calmed for about an hour. Feeling drowsy, all hands but Chris at the wheel, took a nap, while the yacht drifted aimlessly with the tide. There was a gentle breeze on all sides of us, but none where we were. big three-masted schooner with an immense deck- load of lumber, gradually approached, her lofty sails getting the benefit of a breeze that we could not. She was on the starboard tack and headed straight for us. The man at the wheel aft could not see us for- ward of his mizzen mast on account of the deck load of lumber. Lookout forward was apparently asleep. We were pointing in a direction which would have been our port tack if we had been able to derive any benefit from the breeze, which was sending them along. We were absolutely without even steerage way. It was necessary to act quickly. I hailed, “Schooner ahoy! Keep off or you will run us down. We haven't steerage way.” The “old man” came stumbling for- ward over the deckload of lumber, fairly black with rage, and shouted back, “I have the right of way, you are on the port tack. You will get into trouble if you don’t learn the rules of the road.” “We know you have the right of way, but we are helpless. without steerage way.” Slowly the big schooner fell off a couple of points, and passed under our stern with a volley of imprecations. Soon after we caught a little air and drew away with gradually increasing speed. To our inexpressible joy the lumber schooner was soon becalmed in the very same place from which we had just escaped, and remained there for fully two hours, by which time we were five miles to windward. Probably by that time her captain was able to appre- ciate our former predicament. | As night approached, the question arose whether we should run into Apple Tree Cove ana anchor for the night or sail all night. ‘“O, let’s go into the cove. That’s the kind of an oyster I am!” said the Lawyer. We did and lost nothing by it, for the wind went down with the sun before we reached the cove, and it was necessary to order forward the tender and tow the last half mile to a suitable anchorage. It is on such occa- sions that the power tender proves itself almost in- dispensable, and thanks to its timely assistance, we have spent many a comfortable night at anchor, when, otherwise, we should have been compelled to sail or drift all night in a flat calm. RAMBLER AND POWER TENDER IN EAGLE HARBOR, INSERT PICTURE Rambler and Powertender. Coming on deck the next morning, our first view was of our friend, the lumber schooner, just off the mouth of the cove. She had been sailing all night, and in the calm had made almost no progress, while, thanks to a short tow from our launch, we had spent a snug night at anchor. We hoisted sail and got under way at once, but the wind was very light. The west- ern and northern portions of the cove consist of tide flats, which go bare at low tide. Standing in too close on the north shore we lost our breeze and grounded gently. We immediately ran an anchor out astern and manned the windlass; but all in vain. The tide was falling fast, and we were aground almost the length of the keel, Realizing that we were bound to stay there until next tide, I ordered the sails lowered, furled the mainsail and hauled the main boom broad off on the port side. Taking up the anchor astern, the FORESTe*AND STREAM. Pore Angeles Séaze of YYash ingvor Cruise ‘ 7 i Cypress Sr ia 7 / A : © is) “Ne op ‘N g = > oe . Vy) Rawbler O Anchorages ae Light houses lower block of the main throat halyard was unhooked from the gaff, made fast to the inboard end of the. and the anchor run out on the starboard beam. We then swayed on the throat halyard until the Rambler sat upright on an even keel. in the course of an hour the water had fallen a couple of feet, and the weight of the boom to port had apparently dragged the anchor a few feet, and given the yacht a slight list to port. The throat halyard was block-a-block, so that no more slack could be taken in on the hawser. Think- ine to relieve the strain on the hawser, I ordered the forward guy on the main boom slacked a bit to allow the boom to swing alt. Alas, the guy was slacked too much. The weight and tension of 30 fathoms of hawser on tke starboard side pulled her over, and with a rush she keeled over on her statboard bilge in two feet of water. hawser, RAMBLER AGROUND. The tide was siearly ebb by this time, so we all went crabbing. Chris waded in his rubber boots, while the Artist, the Mate and I took the dinghy. The gym- nastics permissible in an 8ft. flat-bottomed boat over- loaded with three people, are decidedly limited, and I cannot consistently recommend such a craft for crab- bing; but we managed to get a good supply without getting more than moderately wet ourselves. By 1r A. M. the Rambler was afloat again, and we stood out of the cove, picking up a true north wind outside, which made our cruise a dead beat to Port Townsend against a strong flood tide. The lumber schooner had worked the ebb tide for all it was worth, and was now to miles to windward. We nassed her about 4 P. M., although we had lost 15 hours at anchor and aground in Apple Tree Cove. Truly the old hooker was as slow as her skipper’s com- prehension, We had a strong wind and a smooth sea all the afternoon, and at 9 P. M. reached our favorite anchor- age, near the Government dock—in the lee of Point Wilson. In my opinion this is the best small-boat an- chorage near Port Townsend. It is protected by a high bluff from the prevailing winds (here westerly), and 1s a good point of departure when bound out into the straits. Alongside the eastern side of this Gov- ernment dock is the best place that { know for beach- ing a yacht for a coat of copper paint. A hard, clean sand bottom of just the right slope, convenient piles for making fast and about Taft. range of tide. The next morning (Saturday) we laid the Rambler alongside the dock, and leaving Chris and Jim to give her bottom a coat of yacht-green copper paint, and the Artist to do some water color skecching under the cockpit awning, I took the Mate and the Lawyer in the launch to the town of Port Townsend, two miles away, to get the mail, stores and ice. Back again at noon, we found the crew had just finished their job ahead of the tide, and the Artist had achieved a fine picture of the Point Wilson Lighthouse, also a splitting head- ache, due to the blinding light on the water. We had buoyed our mooring in the morning before towing in alongisde the dock, and as soon as the yacht floated we towed out and picked it up again. ; That night it blew so hard about 9 o’clock that we let go the spare anchor to prevent any possibility of dragging. We wished to make Victoria next day, so I turned out with the crew at 3:30 A. M. to take advantage of the ebb tide past Point Wilson. Right here I wish to say that with a flood tide and a westerly wind any sail- ing craft will make just as much progress at anchor in Port Townsend Bay as in bucking the tide with a head wind. The tide runs here as much as six knots ~ an hour at times, and frequently causes dangerous tide rips outside of Point Wilson. The lighthouse keeper told me he had seen these tide rips make a clean breach over the forward deck of one of the Japanese liners, which had a freeboard forward of fully 2sit. These tide rips, although in deep water, very fre- quently have much the appearance of seas breaking on a bar at the mouth of a harbor, except that they are shorter, steeper and seem to break in all directions. When running strong they will swamp any small open craft instantly. They are extremely erratic in their movements and appearance, sometimes entirely absent in calm weather and sometimes heavy, Usually they WHihesr r+ ‘Aprm 4, 1903.) FOREST AND STREAM. 273 Seem the worst with wind and tide in opposite direc- - tions, although I have seen them entirely absent under these very conditions. Sometimes a tide rip half a mile or a mile wide and two or three times as long, will form off Point Wilson and then travel rapidly off toward Smith Island at the rate of to or 15 miles an hour, perhaps overtaking some craft in its path, toss- ing it wildly in its grasp for awhile, then relinquishing it and soon leaving it far behind. Sometimes these rips will present the appearance of a maelstrom with gigantic eddies and whirlpools in which all sorts of debris and even large boats will spin around and around at a speed that will make one dizzy. At such times the sea is seldom breaking, and even a small open craft would be safe if carefully handled. The Government Tide Tables state that the tides of the North Pacific coast are the most complex in the world. Tt is this uncertainty of the tide rips which has given the passage from Port Townsend to Victoria a dan- gerous reputation among the local yachtsmen, Per- sonally, I have crossed the straits more than a dozen times in all kinds of weather, and I never saw the rips dangerous but twice, and one of these occasions was on this very Sunday morning. i By the time we made sail, the wind had almost died away, so all hands had breakfast before leaving Port Townsend Bay. We passed Point Wilson about 6 A. M., practically drifting with the tide. We could see a big tide rip breaking badly a mile or so out, and right in the middle of it a halibut fishing schooner of twice our size pitching and rolling, with her sails slatting and booms banging back and forth, We made preparations accordingly, taking the dinghy from the davits and lashing it inverted on the forward part of the cabin house. Ports were closed and hatches made snug. We already had the tender rigged with a painter 2ooft. long, and Jed forward with several turns around the windlass, The Artist was not feeling well that morning, and had remained in bed in her stateroom. The long Pacific swell was now much in evidence, and in 15 minutes more we drifted into the first rip. There was enough wind to make perhaps a mile an hour if the water had been smooth, but in that seeth- ing and tumbling expanse of breakers the Rambler plunged and jumped so that every particle of wind was shaken out of the slatting sails, and steerage way could not be kept even with a course that would bring the wind abeam. One instant her bowsprit would appar- ently be pointing well toward the zenith and half a min- ute later it would be buried in some huge wave that would break as far as the mast, and then come swirl- ing aft bulwark-high on both sides of the house, only to pour out over the rail aft as her bow would rise to another. The tender required almost constant attention, Hav- ing no headway, we could not keep away from her by even the length’ of a short painter, and she was con- tinually trying to ram us on the side or nestle under the counter, where she would unquestionably have been badly smashed if not swamped entirely. It re- quired the constant attention of Jim with the awning pole to keep her clear. All the sails were slattinge furiously, and as the booms swung from side to side about five times a minute, the banging of the lower sheet blocks on the travelers was incessant and nerve-racking. at, Presently a weak knocking was heard on the inside of the closed companion doors. which being opened, disclosed the agonized features of the Artist in an ad- vanced stage of mal-de-mer. Imagine what she had endured trying to dress in her stateroom with the yacht plunging like a bucking horse. The Rambler carries very little ballast, and most of that above the keel and well winged out, so her motion is entirely free from sudden jerks, and as easy as anything could be in a sea-way. Her very buoyancy, however, makes her very active and on top of every sea instead of driving through it. Not to prolong the reader’s agony, it may be stated briefly that we passed in succession through three or four of these tide rips with comparatively smooth areas between them, and by 7 A. M. were through the last. The breeze strengthened steadily, and we soon had all we needed with all sail set. It was the true ocean breeze following the same direction as the Strait of Juan de Fuca, which enabled us, after one leg on the starboard tack, to lay our course for Victoria har- bor on the port tack. We tore along at racing speed, every sail bulging with the force of the wind and the sheets like bars of iron. The tender towing astern was now fairly tearing throtgh the water, and throw- ing a bow wave, which would occasionally rise higher than her guiwale, and then the top of it would be caught up by the wind and blown away to leeward, a shower of sparkling spray in the brilliant sunshine. But for the parathne duck cover stretched over a ridge pole and laced under the gunwale, the tender would have filled a dozen times, The cover was sometimes almost hidden by the wash of the seas over it, but no water was taken inside. By 11 o'clock qttite a sea was running, but the wind was steady, and we carried on until the lee deck was full of water, level with the bulwark and the staysail wet ten feet up the stay. Then we started the main sheet and jib topsail sheet a trifle, and went by Brotchy Ledge, at the mouth of Victoria Outer Harbor, at almost steamer speed. The yacht anchorage is in the inner harbor, called James Bay. Jt is reached through a rather narrow winding channel about a mile long, but very easily negotiated, as the preyailing wind in the narrowest portion is almost invariably abeam. James Bay (in which we anchored about noon) is an ideal harbor. Completely landlocked, its environ- ment is enchanting. On one side is situated the beau- tiful British Columbia House ef Parliament, On an- other side is the Government building, containing the postofice and custom house. The Victoria Y. C. has a -neat club house on the shore close to the Govern- ment building, and right here I wish to say that the Victoria yachtsmen are as fine a set of sportsmen as ever gripped a tiller or “tailed on” to a main sheet, and they are most hospitable, making the visiting ul 1 yachtsmen welcoime in a manner that I have never seen equaled in other ports. | Victoria is a delightful spot to spend a week. It has a good park, fine drives, many beautiful houses and an air of reslfulness quite in contrast with the cities on this side of the border. The British Goy- ernment maintains an important naval station at Esqui- mault, only three or four miles distant, and several warships are always on the station, and their sailors much in evidence on the Victoria streets. Also their brother of the land service, Tommy Atkins, in all the glory of his scarlet uniform and pill-box cap. The most beautiful feattire of Victoria is the gorge. This is a narrow arm of the sea which extends for five miles inland from James Bay, and the wooded banks RAMBLER IN VICTORIA. of which are lined with the residences of Victoria’s wealth and aristocracy, A trip up the gorge in launch, row boat, or canoe is one long to be remembered. We spent five delightful days in Victoria and left with re- gret. A gentle breeze in James Bay proved deceptive, as a glassy calm covered the straits outside. We hugged Brotchy Ledge Buoy for about an hour. (This hugging of buoys is no sailor’s delight, although, as a iriend once remarked, “The nun buoys aren't. so bad!”) Then the tender was ordered out ahead to tow, and we were soon leaving the ledge behind at the rate of three knots an hour, while the steady puff- puff of the launch away out ahead was so conducive to somnolence that eyen the man at the wheel had to assume painful poses in order to keep awake. There is one advantage possessed by the power tender over auxiliary power in the same hull—perfect absence of vibration and noise. At the end of an hour Chris, in the tender, changed places with Jim at the wheel, and on we went. During the second hour of towing, and when off Trial Island, the true west wind came along and, calling in the tender, sails were trimmed, and we entered Haro Strait. The wind was light and our progress slow. Late in the afternoon it became evi- dent that we should not be able to make our intended destination (Reid Harbor) before the turn of the tide. I therefore determined to make Roche Harbor by go- ing through the Mosquito Passage, a narrow and tortuous passage a mile long. With a large scale chart of the harbor and passage and the assistance of the tender, I had no fear of mishap. We carried all sail, and at the mouth of the passage the tender could hardly keep ahead, but getting further in, the wind became fitful and the tender was of great assistance, although I am inclined to think we could have made it in half an hour longer under sail alone, The only danger is Pole Islet in midstream, at the inner end of the passage, which must be left to port in entering, while a strong flood tide might draw a craft on to the reef extending from the islet to the west bank. Once in, Roche Harbor is a perfect protection from any winds. Pearl Island ites in the mouth of the har- bor, on the north, making two channels on that side. The next morning we towed out through the channel, east of Pearl Island, bound north. We found a breeze outside coming from the northeast, but a strong ebb tide running west between San Juan and Spieden Islands, A submerged reef runs out from the northwest point of San Juan Island and terminates in a small rocky islet called Morse Island. The tide runs over this reef like a river. Almost before we knew it we were rushing down upon it in spite of the good breeze, which was enabling us to point due north. We tacked not a moment too soon, and as our new course was east, it was just in the teeth of the tidal current, and we stood almost still. The tide was stronger than the -wind, but we managed to work outside of Morse Isl- and, past which we went stern first. It was a narrow escape. If we had been drawn through the passage between Morse and San Juan islands, we should al- most certainly haye been wrecked on the teef. Also, it we had leit Roche Harbor by the channel west of Pearl Island, our utmost efforts could not have pre- vented us from being’ drawn into this same passage. On account of having entrances on both the north and the south sides, the tide ebbs and flows through Roche Harbor, and at certain stages of the tides these en- trances (all narrow) cannot be negotiated safely by sailing craft unless favored with a free wind. Reid Harbor, in Stuart Island, only three miles north of Roche Harbor, has none of these objections. It is eastly entered and cleared at any stage of the tide, and failing a wind, any small yacht can be towed in ot rowed in with a pair of sweeps. But more of Reid Harbor when we get to it. [TO BE CONTINUED. | Mr. Stanley H. Seaman has made the following sales through his agency: The pole mast sloop Athla, owned by Mr. James A. Keenan. of Washington, to Mr. J. H. Clontier, of Chicoitimi, Quebec; the aux- iliary yawl Coon, owned by Mr. Wm. H. Langley, of New York, to Mr, Robert Galloway, of Memphis, Tenn,; the sloop Bonnie Bairn, owned by Mr. Herbert L. Stone, to Mr. Morton H. Smith, of New York City. SHAMROCK III. was to have had a trial under sail on Saturday, March 28, but as a fierce gale prevailed throughout the day, she did not leave her moorings. Shamrock III, is now lying in Gourock Bay alongside of Shamrock I, The new boat’s mast is considerably higher than that of the old boat, and it is believed her tig will be as large as that of Shamrock II. An in- novation in the shape of a wire main sheet will be used on the third Shamrock. She will have quite an amount of American material in her make up. Her steering gear was turned out by an American firm. Some of her hollow wooden spars as well as her blocks were made on this side. The latest reports say the new boat’s overhangs are long and well balanc€d, and her sheer straight. The freeboard is less than that of Shamrock L, but more than the second Shamrock’s. It is said that she is 138ft. long over all, with a breadth of 22 or a3ft. at the waterline, and a draft of 1oft. The hull of the boat has all the refinement of the second Shamrock with all the power of the first one, and it is just here that Mr. Fife’s triumph in this model will lie. The London Field gives the following description of the third Shamrock: The design of Shamrock, as we indicated some time ago, is much nearer the present British type of racing yacht than that of any recent challenger. The lines, while not so fine and rounded as those of Shamrock Il., are still beautifully ctiryed, and there is a distinct impression of speed which was absent from the Wat- son boat. It is in the formation of the hull that the most marked change is seen. The boat is deeper sided, very easy at the bilge, and has a full underbody down to within 8it. or so of the bulb, which is shorter than in either of the other two Shamrocks, carries rather more lead, and has a drop of about 2ft. to the heel, while the draft will not exceed toft. 6in, She is said to have been built close up to the ooft. limit, and her over all length is about 138ft. In the matter of entrance, Fife has greatly improved on the flat spoon bow of Shamrock II., the stem of the new challenger having a sharp edge for 6ft. or 8ft., and then flowing into a full, graceful underside, and the counter being one of the handsomest the designer has drawn. The sheer is very slight, the only notice- able rise beginning at a few feet from stem to taffrail. The beain is calculated at 22{t. 6in., and the greatest breadth is found at 2sit. or so aft of the mast. The bowsprit is an unusually large spar of solid wood, and indicates the probability of an extensive fore triangle. Main boom, pole mast (rather longer than that of Shamrock IT.), and gaff are of tubular steel, and the smaller spars, with the exception of the bowsprit, of hollow wood. The sail plan has been variously stated as likely to be greater and smaller than that of the former Shamrocks, but the evidence of things is in the direction of a moderate increase. For purposes of extra strength, the bobstay has been drawn through the stem of the boat and screwed down to the keelson. Reliance, the new boat building at Bristol, will prob- ably be launched on April 11, the day before Easter Sunday. There is still considerable work to be done on the boat, and it is barely possible that she will not be finished in time to be put overboard on that day. English Letter. SHAMROCK IIT. was launched on Tuesday last, 17th inst., the event passing off without a hitch. In the morning the weather was very bad, heavy rain falling, accompanied by a high wind. However, just - before the time of the Jaunch arrived the sky cleared and the yacht passed into the water in brilliant sunshine. As usual at Dumbarton, this long-legged craft was launched on pontoons, the water being too shallow for her. It is customary on these occasions to be- come raptureus on the subject of a new vessel’s ap- pearance, but in Shamrock’s case there is solid ground for high praise. She is of an extremely refined model, and ought to look particularly well when fully rigged. It is said that her draft is lighter than usual—ioft.— but the lead is in the form of a pronounced bulb, so that its center of gravity is probably as low as in her predecessors. The yacht was launched with her bow- sprit in place, and, to judge from this huge spar, her sail spread will be very considerably greater than any single-stick vessel has had. All over, the yacht is very fair and round. She has an easy bilge, and this gives her quarters and counter a much lighter appearance than that of the first Shamrock. The floor turns into the fin with an easy curve also, and the stem is not so much cut away down there as to give an abrupt ending to the lower waterlines. Her forward overhang does. not appear to be at all extravagant, and, as at the stern, the sections there are fairly rounded, forming an entrance somewhat like that of Khama. For the first time in the history of cutter racing, the tiller has been discarded, and a wheel fitted. I have no doubt that this will be found a great advantage. Immediately alter the yessel was floated she was towed over to Greenock and put into dock. The next day her mast was stepped, and the work of fitting out is proceeding with the utmost speed. She will probably have had her first spin before the end of this month. One thing is very certain, viz., that if she intends to part with any of her spars she will have every oportunity of doing so before she leaves the Clyde. The early spring with us 1s always squally, and the Clyde estuary is one of the squalliest yachting places I know. Therefore, dur- ing the next races you may rely on it that no matter what the weather may be like, our boat will not break down. The appearance of the new challenger seems to have pleased everyone who has seen her, and unless Herreshoff has made a very large stride she bids fair to prove a regular teaser. Alike from her moderate draft, her great sail-spread and her fair round body, I should say that she will show up best in weather that will just give a finish within the time limit. The con- dition of the water will not be of much moment to her. There 1s an impression here that Sir Thomas Lipton is not taking the yacht out early enough, and that her trials in American waters are more important than O74 | | FOREST°AND STREAM. tare, 4 ia ~ those that have been arranged over here. On the ; other hand, the weather likely to be met with on the § passage out will be more settled in the latter part of a é 2 | | | June, and, although the American trials may be of great value to Shamrock’s skipper and crew, it is just possible that they may also have some value for those of Reliance. Talking of International races, that for the Automo- bile Club’s Harmsworth launch cup, will be held in the second week of July. I hear that a French boat is being built to compete, and several are building here to defend it. The power of the French craft is ah OAK VAR ANAMep IZ CAAVAS en One. SECTION at *9 RS ie | cHoeK —*———— aa yerceame SAN oa = ss ("Kia ereenin huaS! Spmypsefaratthie Ch rather greater than that of the British. The difficulty 4 x 4 with these boats is to keep them from being top- £22 a8 heavy. I think there is no marine engine made that eB 3 A ll —— is suitable for this purpose, and that the first result of F 4 eam f : the gift of the cup will be a change in the design of gu 4 nN : a engines for racing boats, so as to enable them to stow zn if low down. is Our 52{t. class will be recruited this year with a new boat, for which an order has been placed by Mr. W. B. Paget (owner of the fine yawl Namara) with Messrs. Camper and Nicholson, of Gosport. The design will be by Mr. Charles Nicholson, who may be trusted to _turn out a smart boat. He was the designer of that grand vessel Brynhilde. E. H. Hamitton. SEcTION ar #h- Design for an 18ft. Knockabout. THERE appear in this issue the nlans of a knock- about that was designed by Mr. Fred D. Lawley to fit the r8ft. knockabout class of the Massachusetts Yacht Racing Association. The boat is being built by Mr. W. J. Edwards, at City Point, under Mr. Law- ley’s supervision for Mr. L. B. Goodspeed, of Bos- ton. Mr. Goodspeed will race the boat in all the re- gattas held at Hull and Duxbury during the coming summer. The design shows a nicely turned little boat of mod- erate displacement, long overhangs and low freeboard. Her bulk is well distributed, and she should prove a smart craft with a good turn of speed. s. Her dimensions follow: = a Length— Ran (ave alt ett OAL ale 8. soft. 8 in. a" a TAM ods Sree Soy aed Ae r7it. 64in. f\ \ Overhang HOE WAE 3: Os Teka t ee eR eee 6ft. rAin. | | HALLIARD LEADER Dac Xie - Ht alae I. 26 ad iB SA® 16 COASTRUCTION PLAN Designee or P-D-Lawies K = Hanging KNEE PATO sat Vas OES. MR A ee vit. Breadth— Scare j=l" re Esctretie: 0. pes eer Seen eee 2it. 8 in. VAT HOR covotuae Omeuter a IAL wl teres 48 it. Mo rabbet 2s) fiide eke a Sak SPS MiLia) e2e100 Freeboard— WO Py ae ie ae Sayer crac aets oot coe oe 2ft. 34in. A et tees wallow hiplcs keer melee rit. 74in. AsCaASTS TGs cnt oe eh ett tig apes etek fe Ift. 534in. Sail area— VATITSAT tet ett en cls Mecsis ee eketele feat wee 360 sq. ft. NDS = Dore ee eee See Ge oe eae ie epg 90 sq. it. lo DESIGNED BY FRED D. LAWLEY FOR L. B. GOODSPEED, 1992. AMOTAL oF Se stctyaeetc Abin setae cee ots 450 sq. ft. Disnlacement. . ahs t tae aie Seek epee 4,110 lbs. The boat’s construction is simple yet strong, and she will stand a good bit of hard racing without show- ing any weakness. The cabin house is 6ft. 6in. long and quite low, but still there is enough room under it to afford protection to two or three men. The cockpit is watertight and is 6ft. oin. long. The sail plan is well over the boat itself, as the jib sets on the stem head and the boom projects but little over the stern; in consequence she should be very easily handled. i ee ae + ae) HALLIARD CLEARY Leap Keer D fou Postpiow of Bets. AND Tep op LEAD — Tie SHEeEY Cleat gee _ Vig SS CB: CLear VPPER PANEL ——-——_-—-\—& To Be StaTreD - = Rounder PuATe gcurren —— How to Build a Launch from Plans. “How to Build a Launch from Plans,” is the title of a new book, written by Charles G. Davis for the benefit of power yachtsmen, who wish to build their own boats, or who wish to know whether or not they are being built in a proper and workmanlike manner. The great and widespread interest now being taken in the building and running of power boats has cre- zted a demand for a really good work on the subject, and in writing his book Mr. Davis has covered the matter in a thorough and lucid way. The book, which contains some one hundred and sixty pages, and is handsomely bound in red buckram, is divided into three parts: Part one deals with the subject of displacement; part two covers the building of the boat, and part three treats of the gas engine. The articles in the various chapters tell what is good construction, what is faulty and why; explains the principles of stability and displacement, and hun- dreds of other points the amateur should know, but very seldom does. Beginning with an explanation of the plans, the mak- ing of the molds, setting up the keel, framing and planking are described; and so on, step by step, to the end, where many useful hints are given for the care and running of gas engines. Beside the nine folding drawings, there are eight full-page plates and some forty other smaller diagrams, all of these being specially made for the book by the author. These drawings clearly show the various ways in which the work is accomplished. A photograph of the completed boat forms the frontispiece. Mr. Davis is a competent authority in this field, and the book will be found a complete and reliable manual for amateur or experienced builder. Prevailing characteris- tics are lucidity of statement and explicitness of instruc- tion. Forest and Stream Publishing Co. Price, $1.50. EIGHTEEN-FOOT KNOCKABOUT—CONSTRUCTION PLAN nd ROAR Clear. ; 72 ie ne ENON SECTION ar *iz. The speed launch designed by Mr. Charles D. Mower for his own use, is being built by the Milton Point Shipyard, Rye, N. Y. The. boat will be equipped with a Buffalo gasolene motor. She will be named Express. The name was selected, as it contains seven letters and ends in double §, == SPINTARER Cocar wre ae “aed. wee tee beeen ©, re 275 DEC 3: pene 53° 53/2 ‘F-D- Lawler aaa ScaAce Isl" ALLOKED GIRNTH ar P- QO" sw. Lin Bro" wine RO oat SH ow Lin EIGHTEEN-FOOT KNOCKABOUT——DESIGNED BY FRED D. LAWLEY FOR L. B. GOODSPEED, 1902. 3 Is Z-1- Boston Letter. Boston, March 30.—One of the pleasing features of the New York Y. C.’s annual cruise this season, to Eastern yachtsmen, at least, will be the presence of the Eastern Y. C. fleet. The presence of the New York Y. C. fleet at Marblehead last season, as the guest of the Eastern Y. C., was one of the features of the season; in fact, it was the feature of many sea- sons. The members of the Eastern Y. C. would un- doubtedly have desired that the New York fleet should again visit Marblehead this season on its annual cruise. On account of the great amount of racing between the go-footers, however, it was realized by both clubs that this would be next to impossible. So, when the New York Y. C. returned the compliment by inviting the Eastern Y. C. fleet to join the cruise at New London, the invitation was promptly accepted. Arrangements have. been made by the Regatta Committee of the Eastern Y. C., so that until the two fleets meet at New London, they will each be cruising in the opposite di- rection. The Eastern Y. C. fleet will leave Marblehead Wednesday, July 15, and, making racing squadron runs from port to port, will arrive at New London Saturday or Sunday. The two fleets will then proceed in com- pany during the remainder of the New York Y. C. cruise. July 25, the day following the disbandment of the cruising’ fleet, the Eastern Y. C. will give a race off Newport, open to yachts of the New York and Eastern Y. Cs. The first few warm days of spring have made the yachtsmen uneasy, and yesterday there were numbers of them about the different yards. Covers were taken off, and, if nothing more was done, they were given a thorough airing in preparation of the heavier work of fitting out. Although the racing season will not ac- tually commence in Massachusetts Bay before the usual time, Memorial Day, it is expected that the yachts will be in the water much earlier than usual. Preparations for early races of the 90-footers have un- doubtedly aroused more interest among the owners of the smaller craft. Many of the yachts will be ready by April 19, Patriot’s Day, and a number of impromptu scraps will be held at different places. Down in Dux- bury Bay, there will be a race on that day between some of. the 18-footers that have been built during the winter and a few of last season’s boats. More 18- footers have been built for Massachusetts yachtsmen during the past winter than any other type of sailing yachts. It is almost impossible to tell the exact num- ber of new ones at present, as they have been built all along the coast. There will be more of these boats ready on April 19, however, than in any other class, and it is more than likely that scraps between them will be seen in other places besides Duxbury Bay. The Boston Y. C. has already commenced prepara- tions for a busy season. At the South Boston and Dor- chester stations, the floats have been put out and everything is ready for those who launch their boats early. The three delegates of the club to the Yacht Racing Association of Massachusetts, are Mr. Louis M. Clark, Rear Com. Walter Burgess and Mr. Foster Hooper. Mr. Louis M. Clark has been appointed chairman of the Regatta Committee, and Mr. Foster Hooper, secretary. ¥. The House Committee of the. South Boston Y. C. has arranged the following list of entertainments for the early part of the coming season: Thursday, April 2, smoker, music and athletic events; Tuesday evening, April 14, fancy dress masquerade; April 19, Patriot’s Day, open house, refreshments in the Dutch room; Thursday evening, May 7, hop; Thursday evening, May 28, Beach Comber’s party; Memorial Day, May 30, opening of the racing season, refreshments in the ke room, open house; Wednesday, June 17, open louse. Sally VI., the crack 25-footer, owned last season by Mr. Lawrence F. Percival, having been sold to Dr. Augsburg, a Russian yachtsman, Mr. Percival has or- dered from Mr. Fred D. Lawley another 25-footer, Sally VII., to take her place. The new boat will be of the keel type, and will be the only one of this type so far in sight. It is understood, however, that Mr. B. S. Smith, who owned Seboomook last season, will have a keel 25-footer designed and built by Mr. Archie Fenton, of Gloucester. It is said that there was some sort of an agreement between Mr. Percival and Mr. Smith by which one would build a new 25-footer, pro- viding the other should build. Preparations for a busy season are being made at the Dorchester Y. C. The clubhouse is being thor- oughly renovated, and-is expected to be ready for oc- cupancy by May 1. The formal opening will be held shortly after that time. All arrangements have been completed for the annual dinner, to be held April 11. Mr. Charles E. Lauriat, Jr., and Mr. Foster Hooper, of the Boston Y. C., have purchased the 18-footer Gertrude, formerly owned by Mr. H. E. Lynch. She is to be painted black, and her name will be changed te the Crow. Many of the big yachts have started to fit out in Lawley’s basin, and it is expected that nearly all of. them will get away early. There is a bunch of three fine cruisers now being rigged at the wharf. One of these is the Goft. auxiliary schooner designed by Mr. Arthur Binney for Mr. C. H. H. Clark, of Philadel- phia; another is the soft. auxiliary schooner by the same designer, for Major L. S. Bent, of the Annisquam Y. C., and the third is the soft. auxiliary yawl, de- signed by Mr. F. D. Lawley, for Mrs. Gibson, of New York and Bar Harbor. In the east shop the 57f{t. twin screw naphtha yacht, designed by Mr. Arthur Binney, is in frame. The soft. schooner for Mr. John- M. Richmond, is partly planked. The decks are being laid on the 4o-rater for Col. R. H. Morgan, and the 43-rater for Mr. Trenor L. Park. In the west shop the boiler and engine have been installed in the steam yacht for Mr. Charles Fletcher, and the boiler is be- ing put together for the steam yacht for Mr. C. G. Emery. Mr. Fred D. Lawley is designing a 22-footer for Mr. H. H. Walker. The 45ft. naphtha launch Beth, owned by Mr. H, F. 276 Ae are AA2 VG =—"SAIL PLAN:- Dtagqrico or : cael ae tN ad eh ee : Scat yey Bec: i. 108 - ‘9 % 5 ° re x u Ps) A 3 £ \ ‘ \ La — he —~ \ I 4 aa . Pes mo | \ af ~~ i ~ \ ae i | A z z a a a.m — —f CT ceca va ; ee toa ie gers EIGHTEEN-FOOT KNOCKABOUT——_SAIL PLAN——_DESIGNED BY FRED D, LAWLEY FOR L. B. GOODSPEED, 1902. Wilson, of Ballardvale, Mass., has been sold to Mr. Henry T. Smith, of Providence: ce better boat. There is also a deal on foot for a 2I- footer to participate in this year’s Lipton races, from a roomy launch for this purpose, and it is hoped that before the season really opens such an arrangement The racing cat Kolea, owned by Mr. Joshua Crane, a design by Mr. C Mower. Jr., has been sold to Mr. George Hewlett, of New} Milwaukee will send down two contestants for the NiaHor. 20: York. ih .Cup—the Pilot, a Massachusetts Bay 21-footer, re- Shawsheen, a 21ft. knockabout, owned by Rear Com. Walter Burgess, of the Boston Y. C., has been sold to Mr. D. A. Sargent, athletic director at Harvard University. Joun B. KILLEen. Columbia Y. C., Chicago. TuInGs nautical are looking up out this way. ay \ jf 1 \ ; There | is a disposition to gather with other yachtsmen and , talk about doing things. While the clubhouse is not yet formally opened or the restaurant really in service, there are meetings of the boys Saturday evenings and Sundays, and little dinners served by special arrange- ments with the steward. The second monthly dinner, on the evening of March 21, was attended by nearly twice as many as the first one, and the attendance at the first was a surprise to all but the most sanguine of the dinner promoters. The menu was excellent, and the spirit of good com- radeship and hearty welcome to new members was thoroughly delightful. On March 28 occurred an informal smoker, which still further emphasized the fact that this is going to be a banner season for the Columbia Club. From every direction came reports of progress on new boats building, and there are half a dozen sheds in various parts of the city which shelter partially com- pleted hulls. Their amateur owners and builders are hustling now so that they may be in the water and tuned up for the Decoration Day races. The 21ft. cabin class is the special pet and pride of the club, and competition for the trophy offered by Sir Thomas J. Lipton in this class and held by_the club as a perpetual challenge cup, is to be fierce. Bids have been accepted by the club members for two boats in this class. One to be built in the last under direc- ticn of Messrs. Small Bros., of Boston, to be called Tittle Shamrock, is a syndicate boat. The other, the Tantalizer, will be built at Fort Wayne, Ind., by the Keogh Boat & Motor Co., on the order of Com. J. F. McGuire. She will be of the same design and icently purchased by Mr. R. B. Brown, and a new boat jnow building by Mr. Otto F. Schamell. Mr. Schamell’s ‘boat will be a beauty and an ideal 21-footer. She will . be 35ft. rin. over all, 7ft. 5in. in forward overhang | tand 7ft. 6in. in aft. L. W. L. beam oft. toin. Will ‘carry 1,540 pounds of lead ballast on fin. She will jhave hollow spars, and her sail area will be 808 sq. ft. Her cedar planking will be finished natural wood, var- ‘nished and highly polished. La Rita will hold the Cup another year if the expectations of her owner, Mr. George R. Peare, are realized. He is having a new hollow spar made by H. Pigeon & Sons, of Boston, and has ordered a new suit of racing canvas from Wil- son .& Silsby. This will measure 844 sq. ft.—some- what larger than last year. The success of the 2rft. class has inspired members of the club to project two other special classes—one of 18-footers for knockabout sailing in home waters, and the other of 25-footers as a cruising class, that will afford comfortable quarters for four or five people, but that will not be costly to construct or maintain. Although nothing definite has been planned as to the restrictions, the idea that seems to meet favor is the adoption of the best features of the asft. class of the Y. R. U. Probably the other clubs on Lake Michigan will be asked to participate in the adoption of the rules so as to insure the interclub interest that is always a winning factor in such work. Already there is prom- ise of a suitable perpetual challenge cup, and a cham- pionship cup for each season’s winner will also be pro- vided. “By action of the club at the March business meet- ing, the membership dues will hereafter be sixteen dol- lars instead of twelve dollars per year. No change was made in the initiation fee of ten dollars. One of the members, recently returned from_the South, reported a nlace in the collection of the Southern Y. C. for a Columbia burgee, and an exchange was immediately voted. One of the needs of the club that the members are discussing is that of a club launch or fleet tender. So much time is lost in calling in a dinghy and row- ing back and forth with guests, that the yacht owners Monaloa. Monatoa was designed by Mr. Arthur Binney and built by the George Lawley & Son, Corp., in 1901. She is built of wood and is 8sft. over all, 81ft. water- line, 11ft. breadth and aft. gin. draft. Monaloa is owned by Mr. Chauncy B. Borland, of Boston, Pantooset. THE steam yacht Pantooset was built at the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Me., in 1902, from designs made by Mr. W. J. J. Young. She is built of steel and is 21rft. over all, 175ft. waterline, 27ft. 3in. breadth and 13ft. draft. Pantooset is owned by Mr. A. S. Bigelow, Com- modore of the Eastern Y. C. YACHT CLUB NOTES. The second general meeting of the: New York Y. C. was held at the club house, West Forty-fourth street, New York City, on Thursday evening, March 26. The amendments that were proposed at the February meet- ing were passed. Among the amendments was the one giving the commodore power to appoint the meas- urer and fleet captain. Mr. Charles D. Mower will be appointed measurer and Dr. J. M. Woodbury fleet surgeon. The Regatta Committee announced that the steamer Richmond had been chartered for the use of members and their guests for May 21 and 22, on which occa- sions the Reliance, Constitution and Columbia will meet over the Glen Cove course; the Cepheus, for the annual regatta, June 11; the Gay Head, for the Astor cups, Newport, July 23, and the Monmouth, for the America’s Cup races, The club directed the committee to place the facili- ties of the Gay Head and the Monmouth at the dis- posal. of the members of the Eastern Y. C. upon the saine terms as for its own members. ‘The Eastern Y. C. accented the invitation of the New York Y. C. to join the fleet on the annual cruise. The: German Emperor: sent Com. Bourne a cable- can be made. B, 2D , | for the express purpose of pitting the Western builders M _ the. wn against the Eastern, to see which will turn out the , would gladly contribute toward keeping 1n commission grain, in which he expressed his satisfaction at being elected an honorary member of the club. The. fol- lowing were elected members: Lieut. E. T. Fitzgerald, U. S. N.; Samuel Heilner, Benjamin F. Keith, David H. Lyon, Charles A. Towne, Bexley Hocombe, George K. Kirkham, Dr. Henry F. Owsley, L. G. Schroeder, William D. Hoxie, Ensign Charles E. Courtney, U. S. N.; Dr. Edmund Le Roy Dow, Joseph J. O. Dono- hue, F. Gilbert Hindsdale, Ensign W. S. Case, U. S. N.; Midshipman Caspar Goodrich, U. S. N.; William R, Wilcox, Robert Olynohant, William B. Simonds, Stephen Baker, Jr., William R. Coe, Dr. Ambrose L. Ranney, Edward Field Goltra, C. H. Simonds, Henry P. Hall, Walter Hauxhurst, William W. Montgomery, Henry Richmond Taylor, Moses Taylor, George W. Elbeins, Lewis Cass Ledyard, Jr., Elliott Johnson, Harold P. Brown, Henry R. Sutphen, John Mulligan, Edward E. Roberts and J, Donald Cameron. eR RR The initiation fee of the Brooklyn Y. C, has been The trustees have appointed suspended until June tf. FOREST -AND_ STREAM, Sound, was Held at the Aretia, West Thirty-first Street, New York City, on March 3o. The officers for the coming year were elected: President, Thomas H. Macdonald, Bridgeport Y. C. Secretary, Charles P. Tower, Riverside Y. C. Treasurer, Edward M. MacLellan, Manhasset Bay ME HEF Executive Committee—Charles T. Pierce, Riverside Y. C,; Frank Bowne Jones, Indian Harbor Y. C.; Clinton H. Crane, Seawanhaka Y. C., and Robert C. Mitchell, Sachem’s Head Y. C. A number of amendments to the racing rules were considered and discussed. The amendment to adopt the rule of measurement of the New York Y. C. was lost, as was the amendment to change the associa- tion’s present measurement rule. The motion “To amend the first paragraph of Sec- tion 3, Rule Il., by substituting the following in place of the amendment adopted at the November meeting, was passed ; “Tn pole-masted yachts which carry the upper halyard block on a pennant, the upper point of measurement MONALOA. Designed by Arthur Binney. Owned by Chauncey B. Borland. Photo by N. L. Stebbins, Boston. the following committees: House Committee, John E. Demund, J. A. Voorhees and William A. Maxwell: Reception Committee, Sydney Grant, Edward Salt and E. H. Avery; Finance Committee, Cornelius Fergue- son, C. H. Humphreys and John E. Haviland. The board of governors received bids for an ex- tension of the present quarters at Bensonhurst to be 35 by 7oft. This is to be used for dining and enter- tainment purposes, It is proposed to give entertain- ments every two weeks during the season of 1903. Ree The Regatta Committee of the Larchmont Y. C. is composed of Charles P. Tower, Chairman: Frank Hardy and H. C. Perrin. Com. Adams has appointed Gen. Thomas L. Watson Fleet Captain and Dr, Will- jam E, Bullard Fleet Surgeon. eRe The certificate of incorporation of the Bensonhurst Y. C. has been approved of. The incorporators of the new club are: George Ashton Kay, William R. Sains- bury, George D. Eggert, George Waters, James C. Nicholson, Clarence H. Clayton, Arthur R. Wells, Charles H. Parsons, Arthur C. Bellows and Richard W. Rummell. The quarters of the Bensonhurst Y. C. will be at the new basin, in process of construction, just below Ulmer Park. The pennant of the club has alternate red and white vertical stripes, beginning at the hoist and ending with a red triangle at the outer point of the pennant. In all there are four red and three white stripes. The club’s membership will be restricted to 150. RRR The Bergen Point (N. J.) Y. C. was incorporated a few days ago. The trustees are: Alfred W. Booth, Newton H. Day, Lucius F. Donohue, William R. Wilde, Thomas J. Parker, Middleton S. Borland, Henry A. Wheeler, William W, Gerrett and James D. Boyd. The club will have a station on Newark Bay, and they will build a clubhouse there. mR ER The Larchmont Y. C. has laid out the following schedule for the coming season: Saturday, June 13.—Spring Regatta. Wednesday, June 17.,—Races for Reliance, Consti- tution and Columbia- Saturday, July 4—Annual Regatta. Saturday, July 4, to Saturday, July 11.—Race week. Monday, Sept. 7.—Fall Regatta. Saturday, Sept. 19—Schooner Cup race. RRR The Gravesend Bay Y. R. A, is now made up of four clubs, Brooklyn Y. C., New York C. C., Marine and Field C. and the Bensonhurst Y. C. The boats will race under the rules of the Y. R. A. of Long Island Sound, and the clubs have laid out the following racing schedule: June 6, Marine and Field Club; June 20, Brooklyn Y. C.; June 27, New York C. C.; July 11, Bensonhurst Y. C.; July 25, Marine and F. C.; Aug. 1, Brooklyn Y, C.; Sept. 5, New York C. C.: Sept. 19, Bensonhurst Y. C. RRP A general meeting of the Y, R. A., of Long Island shall be the point at which the pennant is fastened to the mast.” The following additions were made to Rule XV: 4.—The signal to indicate the end of the starting line on board the race committee’s boat shall be a white burgee. 5.—The race committee’s flag shall be rectangular, of blue, with a foul anchor and the letters “R. C.” in white. : The following racing schedule was adopted: May 23, New Rochelle Y. C. special. May 30, Harlem Y. C. annual, Indian Harbor Y. C. special, Bridgeport Y. C. special. 277 a ig a specials and fall, Sept. 19, Manhasset Bay Y. C. fall. Sept. 26, Riverside Y. C. fall. YACHTING NEWS NOTES. For advertising relating to this department see pages ii and iii. The steam yacht Niagara, owned by Mr. Howard Gould, arrived in New York on March 24, after a fourteen weeks’ cruise in the Mediterranean, a Messrs. R. Wallins’ Sons, of Bensonhurst, are build- ing an I8it. catboat from designs by Mr. William H. Hand, Jr., for Mr. George Reiners, of Brooklyn. The boat will be raced on Gravesend Bay. mR ER Eugenia, steam yacht, has been sold by Mr. John B. Herreshoff, of Bristol, R. I., to Mr. T. W. Wheeler, of New York City. RRR The Metropolitan Boat and Launch Co., Astoria, L. I., has built nine boats for the Red Bank Y. C. one design class. They are owned by the following mem- bers of that club: Thomas Byrnes, Andrew Freed- man, Jacob Siegel, John G, Gillig, Andrew B. Murray, Whitney Kernochan, Otto Wagner, Adolph Hupfel and Conrad Stein, mR Ee Mr. Harrison B. Moore has chartered his steam yacht Zara, through the agency of Messrs Gardner & Cox, to Mr. Henry S. Shipley. RRR At Byles’ yard, City Island, there is building a cruising auxiliary yawl from designs by Mr. Charles D. Mower for Mr. William P. Trench. The boat will be named Yabwoc. She is 32{t. over all, 24ft. water- line, oft. 6in. breadth and 3ft. 3in. draft. She will carry 640 sq. ft. of sail, and will have 2,400 nounds of ballast on the keel, The power will be furnished by a 5 horse-power Lozier motor. mee The Marine Construction and Dry Dock Company, Mariner's Harbor, S. L., are building a 56ft. auxiliary for Mr. A. A. Blow, of London. The yacht will be fitted with a 20 horse-power gasolene engine. She will be used by her owner on Chesapeake Bay, «Rifle Range and Gallery. ——e—— The Palma International Rifle Match. Unber date of March 18 the State Department has received from the British Embassy, Washington, copy of a circular invitation from the secretary of the National Rifle Association, embodying the conditions under which the forthcoming competition for the pata international rifle trophy will be held at Bisley on July 11, The general conditions for the match are: 1, Teams.—Each team shall consist of eight men. Members of the various teams participating must be native born citizens and residents of the countries they respectively represent, except in the case of teams representing a provincial territory of a gov- ernment, in which case a residence in the province will be suffi- cient, provided the member is a native born subject of the parent country. 2. Rifles—The national military arm of the country the team represents. ; PANTOOSET. Designed by W- J. J. Young. Owned by A. S. Bigelow. June 6, Knickerbocker Y. C. annual. June 20, New Rochelle Y. C. annual. June 25, 26 and 27, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Y. C. specials and annual. June 29, 30 and July 1 and 2, Manhasset Bay Cup races. July 3, American Y. C. annual. July 4, Hartford Y. C. annual. July 11, Norwalk Y. C. special. July 18, Riverside Y. C, annual; Corinthian Y. C., of Stamtord, special. July 25, Hartford Y. C. special, Hempstead Harbor Y. C. annual, Bridgeport Y. C. annual. Aug. 1, Manhasset Bay Y. C. special. Aug. 6, 7, and 8, Indian Harbor Y. C. specials and annual. Aug. 8, Shelter Island Y. C. annual. Aug. 15, Horse Shoe Harbor Y. C. annual, Hunting- ton Y. C. annual, Hartford Y. C. special. Aug. 29, Huguenot Y¥. C. annual. Sept. 5, Indian Harbor Y. C. fall regatta. Sept. 7, Norwalk Y. C. annual, Sachem’s Head Y. C. annual, Sept. 10, 11 and 12, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Y. C. Photo by N. L. Stebbins, Boston. es Bem eres RHE hundred, nine hundred and one thousand yards. 4, Size of Target.—Rectangular, 12 by 6 feet. Dimensions: Bullseye, circular, 36in, diameter; inner, circular, 54in. diameter; magpie, square, 72in.; outer, remainder of target. 5. Number of Shots.—Fifteen at each distance by each com- petitor. 6, Position —Any, without artificial rest. 7, Entrance Fee.—Per team, £3 5s, ($15.81). The circular adds: “The council of the National Rifle Association hope that as many nationalities as possible will take part in the match, and they cordially invite the United States to send a team. Long- range accommodation at Bisley will be placed at the disposal of the competing teams before the. match for practice, and all ar- rangements for their convenience and comfort will be forwarded. The secretary of the National Rifle Association (Bisley Camp, Brookwood, Surrey) will be glad to answer any inquiries and to give any further information in his power.” The $2,500 appropriated by Congress for the purchase of a tr and other prizes, will be placed by the Secretary of War rene hands of a committee to be composed of two Army officers and nineteen officers of the National Guard of several States. Col Hall will be chairman of the committee. : The Iroquois Rifle Club, of Pittsbur ill hol April Hoe ; £, Wi 2 d a tournament on Scores of a Beginner. RirLe scores by Howard Anderson at Stewartstown, Pa., since Feb, 21, are as follows, shot in all kinds of weather, winds and lights, and were shot with the team on‘the day sét for shooting; ‘in. German ring target, shot from muzzle rest; 200yds. This includes all targets shot since Feb. 21, 30 shots at a heat each day: Feb, 21. 2 23 23 24 24 23 23—937 22 23 23 28 23 23 25 24 25 25596 21 24 24 25 24 24 22 23 24 93-994 Feb. 26. 25 238 24 22 24 28 23 24 95 25998 24 25. 24 28 23 23 928 21 25 93994 23 24 22 22 21 22 22 28 93 99 995 March 3. ao 24, 93° 25 4b 28° 83: Be. bh gay 24 21 23. 25. 22 2b 28 24 23 D4 994 23 24 23 23 24 24 25 24 92 99 995 March 6. 24 25 23 24 25 23 25 24 24 94 941 23 28 23 22. 24. 24 94 92 94 94 999 24 24 25 28 23 25 24 94 92 94 999 March 14. 23 23 24 24 23 28 93 24 21 94-999 24 24 25 23 23 24 24 93 34 94 998 24 24.20 21 24 23 25 88 23 94-997 These scores are not hard to beat by an old rifleman, but I think them good for a beginner. J. W. ANDERSON. A competition at Sea Girt, N. J., during the first week in Sep- tember, to be participated in by the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and National Guard is contemplated. It is said that thirty States will be represented. The subject of sending a team to England to participate in a match there will also be considered. Crapshoating. ————_—_. Fixtures. If you want your shoot to be announced hete send a notice like tte following: April 1-3—Grand Island, Neb.—Consolidated tournament of the Buffalo Bill Gun Club, of North Platte, and the Grand Island Gun Club; two days targets, one day live birds. Managers, Geo. L. Carter, North Platte, and Gus Sievers, Grand Island. April 2-3—Des Moines, Ia.—Hopkins-Sears Company’s tourna- ment. April 2-3.—Indianapolies, Ind——Two days’ tournament of the Limited Gun Club. April 7-8.—Peru, Ind., Gun Club’s seventh annual tournament. Frank Dunbar, Sec’y. April 7-11.—St. Joseph, Mo.—Missouri State Game and Fish Protective Association’s twenty-sixth annual tournament and convention, under auspices of Metropolitan Gun Club. F. B. Cunningham, Secretary-Manager. *April 8.—Allegheny, Pa.—North Side Gun Club, L. B. Flem- ing, Sec’y. April 10.—North Hudson Driving Park, N. J.—Second annual individual Eastern championship at live birds; 20 birds, $10, birds included, April 10.—New Haven, Conn., Gun Club’s all-day tournament. John E. Bassett, Sec’y. Aug. 12-15.—Toronto, Can.—Annual tournament of the Dominion Trapshooting and Game Protective Association. A. W. Throop, Sec-y-Treas. April i417—Kansas City, Mo.—The Interstate Association’s fourth Grand American Handicap at targets, at Blue River Shoot- ing Park. One thousand dollars added to the purses. Elmer E. Shaner, Secretary-Manager, 111 Fourth avenue, Pittsburg, Pa. April 16.—Kent, O.—Portage County Gun Club’s tri-county shoot. W. L. Lyman, Sec’y. April 18.—Glen Rock, Pa.—Open shoot for live-bird champion- ship of York county, Pa., and all-day shoot of Glen Rock Gun Club. Allen M. Seitz, Sec’y. April 20.—Springfield, Mass.—Spring tournament of the Spring- field Gun Club. C. L. Kites, Sec’y. April 20.—Patriots’ Day shoot of the Haverhill, Mass., Gun Club. 5. G. Miller, Sec’y. April 21-22.—Olean, N. Y., Gun Club’s fourth annual tourna- ment. B. D. Nobles, Sec’y. ‘ April 21-22.—Attica, Ind., Gun Club’s tournament. C. B. Lamme, Sec’y. April 21-23.—Concordia, Kans.—Kansas State Sportsman’s Asso- ciation’s State shoot, under auspices of Concordia Blue Ribbon Gun Club; $800 added. F. W. Olney, Sec’y. April 22.—Rushylvania, O., Gun Club’s shoot. April 22-23.—Troy, Q., Gun Club’s tournament. *April 22-23.—Pittsburg, Pa.—Herron Hill Gun Club. Vanderegrift, Sec’y. April 28-30.—Paducah, Ky., Gun Club’s tournament. April 28-May 1.—Lincoln, Neb.—Nebraska State Sportsmen’s As- sociation’s twenty-seventh annual tournament, under the auspices of the Lincoln Gun Club. F. E. Mockett, Sec’y. April 29.—Wellington, Mass.—Boston Gun Club’s annual team shoot. H. C. Kirkwood, Sec’y, 28 Elm street, Boston. May 1-2.—Annual spring shoot of the Glen Rock, Pa., Gun Club. Allen M. Seitz, Sec’y. May 46.—Tournament of the Mississippi Valley Trapshooters’ and Game Protective Association, under auspices of Vicksburg, Miss., Gun Club. é *May 5-6.—Irwin, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. John Withers, Sec’y. May 6-7.—Union City, Ind.—Parent Gun Club’s tournament. May 6-7.—Lafayette, Ind.—Lafayette Gun Club’s tournament. May 6-7.—Titusville, Pa., Gun Club’s annual tournament. T. L. Andrews, Sec’y. May 7-8.—Wilmington, Del.—Wawasett Gun Club’s target tour- nament. May 9-10.—Chicago, Ill_—Spring tournament of the Grand Cres- cent Gun Club. fy. fn. May 12-15.—Pekin, Ill.—Illinois State Sportsmen’s Association tournament, May 13-14.—Crawferdsyille, Ind., Gun Club’s tournament. May 13-14——Dubois, Pa.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- ment, under the auspices of the Dubois Rod and Gun Club. U. S. N. Crouse, Sec’y. ; May 14-16.-—E] Reno, Okl.—Oklahoma Territory Sportsmen’s Association’s fourth annual tournament. May 16.—East Walpole, Mass.—All-day shoot of the Neponset Gun Club. Edgar Bills, Sec’y. May 18.—Marion, Ind., Gun Club’s tournament. wd May 19-21.—Osceola, Ila—Iowa State Sportsmen’s Association’s twenty-sixth annual tournament. J . May 19-22,Wissinoming, Philadelphia.—Thirteenth annual tour- nament of the Pennsylvania State Sportsmen’s Association, under auspices of the Florists’ Gun Club of Philadelphia. V. V. Dorp, Sec’y. Moy 21-22.—New Paris, O., Gun Club’s tournament. May 21-22.Kenton, O., Gun Club’s tournament, May 21-22.—Kenton, O.—Shoot of the Kenton Gun Club. A. G. Merriman, Sec’y-Treas. ; AR, May 24-26.—San Francisco, Cal., Trapshooting Association’s three days’ bluerock handicap tournament. Open to all; $1,500 added. Cc. C. Nauman, manager. " May 26-27.—Dubuque,. Ia., Gun Club’s fourth annual amateur target tournament. A. F. Heeb, Sec’y. | *May 26-27.—Brownsville, Pa.—Brownsville Gun Club tourna- ment. W. T. Doherty, Sec’y. he May 27-28.—Williamsport, Pa—The Interstate Association’s tournament, under the auspices of the West Branch Rod and Gun Club. H. A. Dimick, Sec’y. May 27-29.—Fort Wayne, Ind.—Two-day bluerock tournament of the Corner Rod and Gun Club; $100 added. John V. Linker, cy. aoe 29-30.—Union City, Ind.—Spring tournament of the Parent Grove Gun Club. ‘ Biey Gale akoons, Pa., Rod and Gun Club’s tournament. G, G. Zeth, Sec’y. M F oA tay ape oumiament of the East Harrisburg, Pa., Shooting Association. ; ; May 30.—Newport, R. I.—Second annual tournament of the Aquidneck Gun Club. J. 5S. Coggeshall, Sec’y. f May 30.—Detroit, Mich.—Winchester Gun Club’s Decoration Day third annual tournament; all day. Rose system and average Harry FOREST AND STREAM. rizes, Sliding ren lieae, 16, 18 and ooyds, Dd. A, Hitchcock, ec’y-Treas. ; : ra i ' June 25.—Baltimore, Md.—Third annual Baltimore County shoot; three days targets; one day live birds; $500 in purses and prizes. Hawkins and Malone, Managers, June 3-4.—Boston, Mass.—The Interstate’ Association’s tourna- ment, under the auspices of the Boston Shooting Association, O. R. Dickey, Sec’y. \ June 3-5.—Parkersburg, W. Va.—Sixth annual tournament of the West Virginia Sportsmen’s Association, under auspices of Ohio Valley Shooting Association, ; June 4-5.—Greenville, O.—Spring tournament of the Greenville Gun Club. **June, second week.—Memphis, Tenn., Gun Club’s tournament, June 7-8.—Ligonier, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. June 8-12:—Ossining, N. Y.—New York State shoot, under the auspices of the Ossining Gun Club. June 910.—Lafayette, Ind—Indiana State shoot, under auspices of Lafayette Gun: Club. June 9-11.—Sioux City, Ia.—Ninth annual amateur tournament of the Soo Gun Club. B: F. Duncan, Sec’y. June 9-11.—Cincinnati, O.—Seventeenth annual target tourna- ment of the Ohio Trapshooters’ League. Chas. T. Dreihs, Sec’y. *June 10-11—Ruftsdale, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. R, S&S. Deniker, Sec’y. June 16-19.—Warm Springs, Ga.—The Interstate Association’s tournament, under the auspices of the Meriwether Gun Club. Chas. L. Davis, Sec’y. : : June 16-18.—New London, Ia.—Seyenth annual midsummer tar- get tournament of the New London Gun Club. June 24-25,—Rutherford, N. J.—Interstate Association tourna- ment under the auspices of tho Union Gun Club. *June 24-26.—New Castle, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. James Atkinson, Sec’y. *July 7-8.—Ligonier, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. J. O’H. Denny, Sec’y. July 8-9.—Huntsville, Ala.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- ment, under the auspices of the Huntsville Gun Club. E. R. Matthews, Sec’y. **July, second week.—Shreveport, La.—Cadds Gun Club’s tour- nament. *July 21-22.—Beayer Falls, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. W. R. Wis.—The Interstate Association’s Keefer, Sec’y. July 30-Aug. 1.—Viroqua, tournament, under the auspices of the Viroqua Rod and Gun Club. Dr. R. W. Baldwin, Sec’y. Aug. 19-20.—Ottawa, Ill—The Interstate Association’s tourna- ment, under the auspices of the Rainmakers’ Gun Club. Paul A. Selember, Sec’y. *Aug. 19-20.—Millvale, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. ler, Sec’y. Sie 1-2.—Irwin, Pa,, Gun Club’s tournament. ec’y. Sept. 2-3.—Akron, O.—The Interstate Association’s tournament, ae the auspices of the Akron Gun Club. G. E. Wagoner, ec’y. *Sept. 23-24—Ruffsdale, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament, R. S. Deniker, Sec’y. Oct. 6-7.—Allegheny, Pa.—North Side Gun Club’s tournament. L. B. Fleming, Sec’y. Wm. Buss- John Withero, Oct. 20-21—Ligonier, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. J. O’H. Denny, Sec’y. ] *Member of Western Pennsylvania Trapshooters’ League. Chas. G. Grubb, Sec’y, 507 Wood street, Pittsburg. **Members of Mississippi Valley Trapshooters’ and Game Pro- tective Association. J. JQ Bradfield, Sec’y, Vicksburg, Miss. DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. Club secretaries are invited to send their scores for publication in these columns, also any news notes they may care to have published. Mail all such matter to Forest and Siream Publishing Company, 346 Broadway, New York. Forest AND STREAM goes to press on TUES- DAY OF EACH WEEK. The programme of the Olean, N. Y., Gun Club’s fourth annual tournament, April 21 and 22, is now ready for distribution, and can be obtained on application to the secretary, Mr. B. D. Nobles, to whom guns and shells may be shipped. The competition is open to all. A distance handicap will be enforced. Targets will be thrown from a magautrap. There are twelve events each day, at 10, 15, 20 and 25 targets, entrance respectively $1, $1.50, $2 and $3. High averages, $10, $7, and $3 to lower average. Jose system will govern ‘division of moneys. Shooting “commences at 9:30, Handicap committee: Messrs. F. D. Kelsey, L. VY. Byer and B. D. Nobles. i Ld Much dissatisfaction was expressed last year by many of the G. A. H. trapshooters who patronized the Midland Hotel at Kansas City, over the exorbitant rates charged. In some in- stances they were over double the regular rates for rooms. Mr. . J. Dean, the manager, writes us on this subject as follows: “While it is not our purpose to criticise what may have hap- pened last year, we wish to assure you and all others who attend the handicap this year that they receive the most courteous treatment and the best accommodations that it is possible for us to afford,’’ The Midland changed its management Sept. 5, 1902. The programme of the Peru, Ind., Gun Club’s seventh annual tournament, promoted and managed by Messrs. J. L. Head and Frank Dunbar, fixed to be held on April 7 and 8, has $25 average money and twelve events each day. Each event is at 15 targets, $1.50 entrance. Shooting commences at 9:30. Ship shells, etc., to Mr. Frank Dunbar. Targets 2 cents. To two high guns and three low guns $5 each. Purses divided 35, 30, 20 and 15 per cent, Every shooter handicaps himself after the event of the first day. ® At Central City, Ia., on March 26, Mr. W. B. Linell won high average at the Wapsie Valley Gun Club’s tournament with 88 per cent., shooting through the programme, a total of 200 targets. He also won the Wapsie Valley Gun Club’s gold medal, competition for which was_open to the State of Iowa, scoring 25 targets straight. The Linn county cup, open only to residents of Linn county, was won by F. Brookman, with a score of 21 targets out 25. of td Mr. Gus Greiff, 318 Broadway, New York, informs us that a strong interest is manifested in the individual Eastern live-bird championship, to be held on April 10, at the North Hudson Driving Park, New Jersey. The conditions are 10 live birds, $10 entrance, birds included. A preliminary event, to commence at 11:80 o’clock, has been added, the conditions of which are 10 birds, $5 eritrance, one money; tiés to be shot off miss-and-out. The Glen Rock, Pa., Gun Club, will hold its annual spring shoot on May 1 and 2. Competition is open to all. Shooting commences at 9:30 each day. There are totals of 200 targets each day, with a total entrance of $16 on the first day, $14 on the second day. All events handicaps, 14 to 22yds. Each day $5 respectively to high and low guns. Mr. Allen M, Seitz is the secretary, to whom guns and shells may be shipped. * Mr. E. D. Fulford, elsewhere in ot trap columns, presents some sound views on the trapshooting situation as it refers to live birds, the harmful significance given by the public to target shooting under live bird mames, and the best manner of caring for live birds in confinement, trapping them for competition and marketing them, all of which is worthy of hearty approval and general adoption. " Mr. J. S.-S. Remsen, president of the Brooklyn Gun Club, also a member of the Carteret Gun Club and the Crescent Athletic Club, returned recently from his Southern sojourn, part of which was in Florida. It is possible that he may be one of the Crescent team members which joins issue with a team of the Boston Athletic Association this week. At the tournament of the Jewell, Ia., Gun Club, held last week, Dr. De La, the holder, and Dr, C. M. Proctor, challenger, contested for the Hamilton and Stony county medal. Dr, De La arrangements to leave New retained possession of the medal by a score of 42 to 40 out of a possible 50 targets. Mr. H, Watson won high average. He broke 925 per cent, Ff ® At the shoot of the Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Gun Club, on Sat- urday of last week, Mr. Frank [. Fenn scored the first win on Marshall cup, in the first competition for it, breaking 22 out of 25. which, with 38 allowance, made a straight score. The cup must be won six times before becoming personal property. The shoot at Smith Brothers’ grounds, Newark, N. J., April 16, starts 10 o’clock A. M. sharp. The main event is a handicap at 2) birds, $10 entrance, birds included, two moneys for each ten entries, high guns. About twenty-five shooters haye already signified their intention to participate in this contest. R Officers elected recently by the Fitchburg, Mass., Rifle and — Gun Club are as follows: President, James B. Austin; Vice- President, Dr. Russell Bingham; Secretary E. B. Gilson; Treas- urer, C. F. Lamb, Directors: I, O. Converse, M. A, Cutler, E. A. Kirkpatrick, H, A. Estabrook and S$. W. Putnam, ? ® ‘Teams of the Princeton Gun Club and the De Lancy School of Philadelphia, five men on a side, contested on the grounds south of the Princeton campus, March 25. Each contestant shot at 30 targets. There was a tie on 108, which was shot off at 5 targets, De Lancy winning by a score of 22 to 18. : Latest advices in New York concerning the condition of Mr. Harold Money, who has been suffering from a severe attack of typhoid pleuro-pneumonia, were that his convalescence is slow. The high fever persists stubbornly, and does not yield to treat- ment; yet he is improving on the whole. The Bristol Shooting Club and the General Wayne Gun Club shot a match at Bristol, Pa., on March 25, ten men to a team, 10 live birds per man. General Wayne Club scored 76 to 64. Each club has scored a win, and the third match will be shot April 15 on the Wayne club grounds. Mr. J. A. R. Elliott, the famous trapshooting champion, made York for Kansas City on Thursday or Friday of this week. He will participate in the competition of the Grand American Handicap at targets. : z= Mr, C. G. Blandford, of the Ossining, N. Y., Gun Club, writes encouragingly of the forthcoming New York State shoot. He maintains that some valuable prizes have already been received and many more are pledged. R® Secretary-manager Elmer E. Suaner writes us that “the Inter- state Association has made arrangements to give a tournament at Rutherford, N. J., on June 24 and 25 under the auspices of the Union Gun Club.” The Crescent Athletic Club’s last shoot of the spring season took place on Saturday of last week, The team match with the Boston, Mass., Athletic Association Gun Club was fixed to take place on April 4. Mr, Arthur Gambell, superintendent of the Cincinnati, O., Gun Club, has met with an unfortunate accident. He recently wrenched his knee severely by a fall, and will be laid up a couple of weeks in consequence, R Mr. Elmer It. Shaner, the secretary-manager of the Interstate Association, informs us that after April 1 his address will be 219 Coltart Square, Pittsburg, Pa, +d Mr, Frank Lawrence, eminent as a salesman of ammunition, was a visitor in New York this week. BERNARD WATERS. Poughkeepsie Gun Club, PouGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., March 28,—The weather conditions to- — day were anything but fayorable to trapshooting. A strong north wind, bordering on a gale, blowing directly into the trap house, had the effect of raising the targets so high that at times it would haye been difficult to reach them with a high power Gov- ernment cannon, much less a shotgun. The principal event to-day was event No. 3, for the Marshall cup, which was put up for competition for the first time to-day. This is a handsome trophy, and must be won six times before ownership is established. It is to be shot for weekly, and is a handicap event. Our system of handicapping is as follows: 80 per cent. or better, scratch; for every 5 per cent. lower than 80, one miss is allowed as a break. Average is taken from each man’s last two performances, and handicap given accordingly. In future teams to represent the club will be made up of those having the best general average. Captain Traver was the only scratch man to-day. Mr. Frank I, Fenn carried off the cup by breaking 22, which with his 3 misses allowed as breaks, gave him a clean score of 25. Mr, Fenn’s shooting to-day was excellent, censidering the weather conditions. Scores below: Events: 1. ela te Ee DEO ee Targets: 25 15 25 25 10 10 10 DMO vete, ein cheats ate ep reeenply = area 18> es 16— CG Pee i pVV AV isirs lal epee eee ten inteen teeta Gasca NER Be B WALSH Ul Ane OA Spm Or sms nano 54 arn 15. 91S ES eee Goer SWE MS Ena ach ele B hel asm AA AA AR SN ana SAAB AAS A LINE EN TS aeaie vo) inde wiiie d Be Breyer DL yy A Ae BAA Rela nA sci 15 PLO” J. eteeetate Be Ui he istrast ao in AK SA RASA AAA BARR ASAARARARR SAE CC eis ee BA oe it ioly Sd Kcrerttoing LIA NA Me AAARARAAAAR AB AN OP ARA oT 20 ae CSOSA G *Briggs shot but 20 rounds in event No. 1. i The figures after the names are the handicaps in No. 3. 5 SNANIWEH. General Wayne—Bristol. Bristor, Pa,, March 25.—The second shoot of a series arranged between the General Wayne Gun Club, of Torresdale, Pa,, and the Bristol Shooting Club was pulled off here to-day. The visitors were winners by the score of 76 to 64. A large and enthusiastic crowd of friends were on hand, and every good kill and stop won rounds of applause from both sides. J d 7 Betson, for Wayne, and Nevergold, for Bristol, killed straight, Closely followed by Schwartz, of Wayne, and Van Artsdalen, with 9 each. As each club has won one match of the two shot, the deciding one, by reason of toss, will be shot on Wayne’s club grounds on April 15, and it is expected a large turnout of friends of both clubs will be on hand. The grounds can be directly reached by trolley from Holmesburg Junction, or by change of cars at Frank- ford to those of the Torresdale line. ; Schwartz .......-..5 2222212021— 9 Hall .......-s0eaeeee 1121012220— 8 Nevergold .......... 222222222210 Francis ..........-+ 1102110020— 6 ISOMELID Werelevate stata atta 2100000111— 5 Atkinson ...........2202212011— 8 Goleman ies yes. sea 2102010000— 6 Simons ....... ++.++2102000102— 5 Waerckel (55 sulsss4 2122010222 8 Vandegrift .......,0122222002— 7 Worthington ....... 2122001112— § Van Artsdalen ,.... 2022222292 9 Campbell %32....548 1001110110— 6 Betson ............. 2111122212 10 Wilkinson ........-0200021000— 3 Moore .......++2655 2202220222— & TO tiChe lines o.<0ss.ns9 0021211120— 7 McGrath ........... 2021112210— 8 Mtetwa pett Cler tara 2200200122— 6 Bruden ............0220020022— 6 R. Snyper, Official Scorer. Wingohocking Gun Club, PurrapetputaA, March 26.—The monthy shoot of the Wingo- hocking Gun Club took place to-day on the club grounds. Per- fect weather conditions prevailed, and the birds were the best and strongest in the history of the club. The attendance was small, owing to the shoot between the club and North Wales last week. The five men who faced the traps were well repaid for their presence, as it was a question of getting your bird right at the traps. Campbell was high gun, dropping but 1 of his 14 birds, using his second barrel but four times. Scores: Greenwood ....0212220221 —8 Foster ..........0011001012 —5 Campbell ......1211021112121113 MHothersall ~....1100210221011— 9 Bradhurst .....0001121000 —4 : f 4 Wm. Depa, Sec’y. ‘Apri 4, 1903,] FOREST*+AND STREAM. 279 Advice to Live Bird Trapshooters. Utica, N. ¥.—Probably no one in this country suffered more (financially or otherwise) than the writer on account of the law passed prohibiting live birds to be used as targets. There were Seyeral things that brought this about, not connected directly with pigeon shooting. In the first place, we were made to suffer ‘for the acts of careless riflemen, ‘Lhe opposition showed where a turkey had been hit over fifteen times, and was still being shot at as it stood on its feet. To score it must be killed or shot down. ‘They also showed where pigeons were released wet Strings tied on them; and if they were missed they were pulled back and shot at again, and so on until they were killed. : The bluerock shooting has been interpreted by the public generally to mean pigeon shooting. Here in Utica I cannot find sixty men who shoot in the trap and field together, We will say sixty for argument sake. A city of sixty thousand inhabitants —one shooter in every thousand. This isa fair ayerage all over the United States. - , , As a New York paper put it, a mother left her home in, Long Island fo yisit her sick daughter, with a little basket of pigeons to be released according to the daughter's condition. On her arrival, the mother bird is released with a loving note for home. It stops at Interstate Park to pick up a few kernels of corn, and is brutally slaughtered by so-called sportsmen, not only killing the mother bird, but killing her young, beside stopping the loving message, etc. Now, nine hundred and ninety-nine people believe that this is a fact, while the one kfiows it is a falsehood. “Thousands of bluerocks slaughtered by the heartless sports- man.’ How many brother sportsmen haye seen that in the daily press and laughed at its foolishness? Still, nine hundred and ninety-nine out of every thousand people that read this believe it where the one man who knows that it is false. , We should settle on a name that leaves no doubt, eyen in a child’s mind. To my mind the name of clay bird is the proper name; and if for trade’s sake the manufacturer wants his trade name, let him call it bluerock clay bird, or the blackbird clay bird, or the flying target clay bird, or the dickey clay bird, or the coast pigeon clay bird, or the redbird clay bird; and if club Secretaries would use the name clay bird there would be no more misunderstanding. E . . ' Tt ig an absoltite fact that the slaughtering of the dickey birds, the slaughtering of the bluerocks and the slaughtering of the poor blackbirds had a great deal to do with defeating pigeon shooting in New York. : A F For the benefit of those who shoot pigeons in States where it is legal, the following directions should be followed, if you wish to continue pigeon shooting: ’ ; The pigeons should be kept in coops as Jarge as possible, with large flyways. Absolute cleanliness is the important point. Have plenty of fresh water, gravel, pounded clam shells mixed with rock salt; corn, cracked wheat, barley, buckwheat, rye, mixed, all they can clean up twice a day. ’ Catch them the night before the shoot and put them in clean, roomy coops, with chaff or cut straw to keep them cléan. Catch- ing them in daylight destroys many a good bird by wrenching their wings in the struggle to get away, Put them in the traps clean, warm and dry. f The birds should be gathered instanly; grounds should be picketed and wounded birds killed. The dead out of bounds ‘should never be reported, as it shows bad shooting and a linger- ow ing death, } ; Pigeons must never have food or water in their cropsto fly well, When killed, they should be put in a barrel of ice water, then picked, iced, tied in bunches of six and marketed. The above bleaches them and makes them look plump and fat, and command a good price, . ' From a humane standpoint, trap and retrieye from pit where possible with boys or dogs, keeping the wounded birds out, of sight in their death struggles; and if there is any neck wringing or dogs biting wounded birds, keép it where spectators and shooters cannot see it. ‘ You might say my hind sight is better than my foresight; but I foresaw this years ago, as my retrieying pits and traps will prove; and if the management of Interstate Park had adopted my plan of putting three retrieving pits near boundary it would have taken a big club out of the opposition’s hands. E. D. FuLrorp. Houston Tournament. Houston, Texas.-The tournament of the Houston Gun Club was held March 17 to 19. On each of the first two days there were ten 20-target events, $2 entrance, $20 added. On the third day there were five 20-target events, $2 entrance, $20 added; one at 50 targets, $5 entrance, for a loving cup, and one at 25 targets, $2.50 entrance, for Schmelzer cup. : Mr. Bert Everts was squad hustler. Mr. P, H, Rider was cashier, Mr. Maurice Kauimann was manager- On the first day Messrs. R. O. Heikes, of Dayton, O., and Mr. J. E. Russell, of Dallas, respectively professional and ,ama- teur, tied on 92 per cent., 184 targets out of a possible 200. Mr. Frank Faurote was professional high gun for the three days. Mx. R. O. Heikes was second. Mr. Bryan Heard, of Houston, won the gold medal donated by the Peters Cartridge Company for amateur high average for the three days, and he also won the Houston Gun Club $100 silver levying cup with a score of 49 out of 50. The Schmelzer silyer trophy was won by Mr. J. A. Jackson, of Austin. He tied on 24 targets out of 25, with Mr. Otto Sens, of Houston, and in the shoot-off the scores were 24 to 23 Mr. Bryan Heard took out a party of shooters on his yacht Stella. The totals follow: First Day. Second Day. Third Day. Total Shot — Shot hot Shot Total at. Broke. at. Broke. at. Broke, at. Broke. Heikes .......0.. 200 184 200 188 (i abn Eye Gee Hensler $.2.).2.! 200 17s 6 200 Ss o175)Sss17bS sd SCS Ss«#BOD Haurote .....-..- 200 3179 «8200 195 175 158 575 630 CET MR tse) eect 20d 6148200156) 125 9 525 400 Kaufman.) eae. 200 «86156 6©=— 120 94 *s, 320 250 [De Bacty et ease 200 5 06 200: ats 100 69 500° 326 PGW crocs ree 150 107 #200 106 150 76 500 289 Sherman .~.---,. 200 d4t 200 51 fps 400 292 POTENT im aisle aay 125 77 8160) «6147 80 62 385 286 MATOS Sys eins mene 200 164 140 89 ten te 340 244 Hlieand OP eee wat 200 i838 200 1% Wb 57 575 515 Atchison ....,..4 2005 (li 200) «69169 «vb be ye) «6496 IDG Jacksons lanes 200 «165 8 200 166 100 81 86600 0=— 412 Cleveland ....... 200° d4l 200 145 126 Gyae Wise AYE) Moesser -.eceeeee 200 470 200 188 175 149 575 502 McCormick ..... 200 «154 «86200 Ss 150) «= 175 ssa 5THtit«éiAQ Bering .s..erers 2u0 «1660200 169) 17518954 Gtiessa7 ry eerenr 200 «#140 =6160 93 6 360 233 A Jackson..... 200 dS 200 152 175 258 575 498 Wee rt 32 oni 200 473 200 165 175 150 575 488 Saunders .,....,. 200 Jit 200 178 100 82 500 431 ES: adee tees +200 D744 200 169 175 155 575 498 Ingraham ..-..,, 200 259 180 34 a8 - 280 298 on ehivesyaes ae ras PAID aly ee NEO a ir as =i 380 ©6829 B Woodard,..... 200 137 80 69 : was 280 202 L, Woodard.,;.;.200 168 200 155 ~~ mk 400 = 318 Light oys+s, oeeeeecl0: “6G. 200) h8 s LE 400 319 1 DSTbEES vel Freee 200 160 200 i6T +t 400 321 Dantels ” ncetstee 120 91 80 65 he 200 156 Averitt seeec (gers: 200 145 40 26 $23 240 86171 Black? une 200 «61540 = 100 72 me 300 8 ©=—-226 TyS0t. J¢¢2tesieye 200 150 100 89 , Rt 300 §©=. 289 Bancroft ......-.. 80 66 200 121 oe 280 187 OfSee eres habe ont 100 68 aoe 100 68 WAGE see Sn ees ? my 1750 149) 175)s«149 G B Huchings..... pate tee ThOe G98 ho" ~ a9 Huchings, Jr..... Ai ie a 100 83 100 83 TOW Ae te te enoe ee ne 80 54 80 54 cars eanier: tamer ene oie — er 80 56 80 56 IRRIGSEIIE Lee). cst 200 185 200 457 475 142 575 ds4 S. J. Smarty, Sec’y. Keystone Shooting League, HoumesnurG Junction, March 28.—Mr. I. Budd was again the star performer at the shoot of the Keystone Shooting League to-day. He killed 24 out of 25 in the two events, 10 and i5 birds TEP the aiub dun’ 10 bird n the club handicap at irds, Budd, Geikl d i Straight. Fitzgerald, Harrison, Harvey and Powers en cea Budd, Fitzgerald, Harrison and Morris were high with 14 out an “hi aap pee meeey, as Scores: ub handicap, 10 birds: Budd 10, Geikler 10, Felix 1 itz- gerald 9, Harrison 9, Powers 9, Harvey 9, Morris, Sr, 8 Mee see Francis o ae Ke ’ cers trophy irds: Budd 14, Fitzgerald 14 i Morris 14, Geikler 12, Powers 12, Harvey Si Ie pha oon ON LONG ISLAND. Crescent Athletic Clob. Bay Ridge, L, IL, March 28,—The final shoot of the Crescent Athletic Club season was held here on the club grounds to-day and was well ‘attended. Mr. A. R, Fish scored a win on the March cup. The scores: March cup, 50 targets, handicap allowances added; Hadcp. Brk. Tot’l, Hdep. Brk. Tot’l, Total. ee 25 y 21 (23 48 A R Fish,.,.. oerthncrts 23 2 : Ib ©. Hopkins 2c jesees sis 4 18 22 4 20 24 4G W W Marshall......,..- ee er ie eph.5 5 20 26 43 EY OM Briehamisrisses i icees De al RAIL QO ez" 822 48 ine tien @alsavenm. peek. oe Sp pal, SRK) ib fb 20 40 er Vie wRalinety sae asl elles wh Wk wAdL 2 17 19 40 G G Stephenson, Jr....... 2 J 20 2 18 20 AQ TF 2B Stephenson...,...,.. ab ait aly the eth 74% 39 1D Fee 1 Ae ens BARE BAG a 7 19 2 15 17 36 H G Werleman.........., 8 6 14 8 12 20 34 Trophy, 15 targets, handicap allowances added: O’Brien (8) 15, Keyes (1) 15, Kryn (2) 14, Brigham (0) 13, Palmer (1) 13, Lott (2) 13, Marshall (8) 12, McConville (2) 12, G. G, Stephenson @) 12, F. B. Stephenson (0) 12, Fish (1) 12, Hopkins (2) 11, McDer- mott (8) 10, Kennett (2) 10, Vanderveer (2) 10, Bedford (1) 3, Shoot-off, same conditions: O’Brien (3) 14, Keyes (1) 12. Trophy, 25 targets, handicap allowances added: Hopkins (4) 21, Keyes (2) 21, McDermott (5) 21, L. Palmer (3) 20, Bennett (4) 20, Hegeman (3) 19, Blake (10) 19, Kryn (8) 19, Fish (2) 19, A. W, Palmer (8) 18, Stake (4) 18, Chapman (8) 17, Brigham (0) 1%, Werleman (8) 16, Raynor (6) 15, O’Brien (5) 19. , Shoot-off, same conditions: McDermott (5) 16, Hopkins (4) 16. Shoot-off, same conditions: McDermott (6) 28, Hopkins (4) 18. Trophy, 15 targets, handicap allowances added: Chapman (4) 15, Marshall (8) 15, Blake (2) 14, Bedford (1) 14, Brigham (0) 14, Lott (2) 14, O’Brien (8) 14, Hopkins (2) 138, Werleman (4) 18, Fish (1) 18, Kryn (2) 11, McDermott (3) 11, Stake (2) 11, Hegeman (2) 10, Raynor (8) 10, Blake (6) 10, Vandeveer (2) 7. ryt Shoot-off, same conditions: Marshall (8) 11, Chapman (4) 7. Brooklyn Gun Club, Brooklyn, L. I, March 28.—Mr. John S. Wright’s class of post-graduates was fourteen strong at his shoot to-day. Some yery excellent scores were made, and some were otherwise, as will be noted herewith: Eyents: ele Se 24S GS Ge e7IS Ol 0 © ot Targets 10 10 15 10 15 10 15 10 25 10 20 Ee OS onompnsoegodnane Woettih Abas OTe ED atl) fle gee ei ie oth) EO St Cewyinereeretiieue ues ASS OR1SS a" Se Ze Gey melon ses. Hitchcock” SSA (Sif BP ye Hf EE li} Fe ChIBY “Sua fansupea ‘shes Gr beetle a ah pecs Lao Qe Ne wi fe; Cheesbrough .isssssieees- 1h -S5 STi Ea: eh. LR ek SS Wirral ebiiay ys oetebnt reset 3 coe wanes 4 sSe ob Td SG 9 ut Rercene (earn ieaer sree res 5S im Le ccm) cle teu me ee Ds INGWEOTION Rice cemmer ee ereeee neers Bake LS Grae le 1G” cer Rte ilar aS TUNG eVOOETSF A seq as Cope cr coc et yh ye Ne eons a at ae SOMITCTC Cree een ene ite 9 10 15 9 4 16 *,/ 21 “4 WWellitt 1 OLChe iden. eerece sre os.) SA ay By. «12 PATICETSON Mc ee canteen Be BAS Lone ee eae POMEL le 10 (GriEHUh Seen es chore re cce eeale oe OO ES Oe Re -22 16 Oi (idolohehs “yy omnes re Nips Sir Bis 11 fae! IN NEW JERSEY. Hell Gate Gun Club, Carlstadt, N. J., March 24.—The Hell Gate Gun Club held its March shoot to-day on Outwater’s grounds. The birds were fast for the first squad of nine men, after which they were fair. The wind was strong east to southeast, which made the birds strong drivers, slightly quartering to the left. Messrs. Schlicht, Trostel, Kreeb and Deady used excellent judgment on good birds. The visitors were Moore and Cody, of the, Emeralds; Matzen, of Boiling Springs, and Packard, of the Jeannettes. Mr. L. C. Schortemeier acted as schuetzenmeister ahd stopped approxi- mately 50 birds after they had been missed, and were far out of bounds, and added them to the meat pile for division among the contestants. Mr, Outwater’s dogs worked well. The conditions were 10 birds, point and rise handicaps. The scores: F Trostel, 28....... 1012112111— 9 P Woelful, 28...... 2202201112— 8 A Belden, 28....... 1000201222— 6 J Schlicht, 28...... 1012121022— 8 Dro Davis; 28. 2222. 0*01202100— 4 *R L Packard, 28..0010021200— 4 Col. J H Voss, 30.1112220*11— 8 P Albert, 28........ 1201222012— 8 L. H. Schorty, 30.2221222222 10 P Cresci, 28........2112111000— 7 L Stelzle, 28.,.... -2111200011— 7 E Doeinck, 28...... 212222122210 i Klenk, 28........ 1020102022— 6 H Forster, 28....... 111211121110 { F Dennis, 26,...1002022121— 7 L T Muench, 30...2020011122— 7 A Siebel, 26........ 0120100200— 4 W W Balch, 26....1001212000— 5 C Steffens, 28.......2112111111 10 *J Cody, 28......., 0102100002— 4 Bo Garmisy 282.0. un 212*012002— 6 J H Doherty, 26...1101010120— 6 J. Kreeb, 26.......- 2110122111— 9 E Lang, 28......... 1000**2121— 5 *J H Moore, 28..... 1010111202 7 G Breit, 28........: 0201100000— 3 R Baudendistle, 28.1210102020— 6 D J Deady, 28..... 0212222212— 9 G@ Weber, 28........ 1101021201I— 7,"C M Metz, 28..... *222212122 — 9 E A Meckel, 28... .021120*100— 5a *Guests. MANHATTA, Jackson Park Gun Club,” Paterson, N. J., March 28.—To-day the Jackson Park Gun Club held a shoot at live birds on their grounds, and what should have been a well attended shoot had to be content with the counter attraction at Bunn’s, and which had been advertised for to-day. Mr. G. A. Hopper, our secretary, being tied down to business, which is at its height just now, could not find time to mail cards “{ our shoot, and only five men put in an appearance, and as we had two visitors, Koegle, from Newark, and Mr. H. S. Sidway, of Pittsfield, Mass., we started in for a good afternoon’s sport; but we hadn’t got going very far before there were signs of a storm coming down on us, and everybody began to move about. Those who drove up from the city were soon off, and there were some fine trotting scenes on the road for a few minutes. Before long there were signs of the storm disappearing in another direc- tion, and things after a few minutes’ delay were started going again under much more favorable conditions. The birds were a corking good lot after the storm, and many fine shots were made. Morgan shot in good form, and scored 29 out of 32. Powers, the popular boy coming to the front very lively, was centering his birds in good shape and holding his own. : Mr. Sidway appeared to have a bad streak after starting the 12- bird event, losing 8 in succession, one just over the wire; but otherwise shooting in good form. _ Koegle shot only in one event, misjudged his second bird, and it got away without the loss of a feather. He went away when the storm came up. It transpired that the storm was the means of bringing the shoot to a halt, as all the shells were gone to Paterson at least. Mr. G. W. Hopper in mistake put those be- longing to Morgan and Powers in his carriage and took them back to town, thinking there were plenty at the club. We were back earlier than usual, The club has a fine lot of birds on hand for to-day’s shoot, and owing to the mnon-appearance of the shooters and the counter attractions we will hold another shoot next Saturday, April 4, when we expect a large crowd. There will be a fine deer’s head shot for on that occasion. No, 1 was at 5 birds; No. 2, 12 birds; No. 3, 10 birds, $4; No. 4, 10 birds, $4. The scores: o. 1. No. 2. No. 3. FROM ELS soe hs tad tee el ee 122*2 4 222222210122 11 2222202112— 9 G W Hopper, 28.-...... 22212—5 210122002011 8 .......... Sidwiays Dist iete til 22212—5 200*12122022— 8 220202999% 7 Wart Lonny 28 yauealiiiee 211%0—3 12022102*220— 8 2212122011— 9 Kaerley 20 enyraienjedsqes. sale at ibaabiben she SPREE a Benone, 28h eonuhenaeyeeel 628, 11110001010i— 7 1002101211— 7 hora Gi seceeene vycne eee 222229122002—10 2022222122 9 No, 4: Powers, 28..... «-»-0111120202— 7 Morgan, 29........ 112221191110 Wan Horn, 28)..... 1*11212012— 8 Lenone, 30......... 0010110121— ¢ Wm, DutcHer, Jewell Tournament. Jewett, fa,, Mareh 25.—The annual spring tournament of the Jewell Gun Club had a fair attendance. The programme had fourteen events, No money was added, but was given for averages, divided in four equal moneys. The shooting was from one set of traps, Sergeant system, In the afternoon a special match fer the Hamilton and Stony county championship medal was shot between Dr. De La, holder, and Dr. oh M, Proctor, challenger. Dr. De La retains the medal by a score of 42 to Dr. Proctor’s 40. ; Harry Watson won high average; W. B. Linell second; John Peterson third, and Dr, De La fourth. , i The weather was warm and pleasant, with but little wind. Fred C. Whitney run the office, and C. W, Budd did the scormg: Tvents: ly eh ased: bt Gt, 8, Oe ie- 112 13 14 Targets: 10 15 15 10 15 15 201015151015 15 20 Broke. Av. W Huon. sere 81s qd27005 13 8 5 1818 9 14 1219 174 .870 ty CES ry enna ys $1311 9111218 912 1510 1415 15 172 860 GM Proctor... 81413 8 91416 71010 915 719 159 795 H Watson,... 91315 8131419 91515 91471517 185 925 C B Adams... 71211 910141610 81210151319 166 2830 Dr De La..... 10 12101013 1417 6 141210 14 15 18 175 875 Reiciandess 06 69-108 60 den ea Wee Seen Ree ee eile Peterson.... §15 17410121319 8 13 12 10 14 12 19 179 89% W BP Linell... 8131410151816 91315 7141519 81 905 C W Neff..... Si0 13 “S121418 71242 9 91219 Les 316 i&% A Johnson. S139 S13 1014 Til iu 209 eo qE9 rey PAS LUGE, sip ct ase. plea Viecareal eet wien rel Ube fel OMmr ba ere Pr: oa Ed Rowe ..... 101414 G13 1518 812 9 9181118 170 5 LUMO e ree eS BM Aa CRIS Bo ne ce MESS, mee stee R T Carver oe TAS Tag ne ee LL G3 IRIS = AcsAbraharmsotie es Lielee.s slate ne phe sO ue e! not cellu) me HEMI ME CLE SOI peer eased te caiad create fatepes dees -O ol pclae F A Johnson Hetieehee eee peel. (limasenlics ele Lup lesan tayore Special, for Hamilton and Stony county medal, 40 single targets: Dio Sh MEirofs dara ee sera doce ee ares pa 11.00011119011112201110101—20 0111.101911.1111011.01.01111—20—40 IBi2 Ab! PE yp anteaeeecnne Ae Diei pale ae te 0011091.0911.111110111 011121 7010191 011911111911111110—91—43, HAWKEYE. Wapsie Valley Gun Club, Crenrrat City, La., March 26.—The Wapsie Valley Gun Club tournament had a light attendance to-day, owing to so many tctrnaments of late. The programme called for 200 targtes, be- sice two special events for a medal and cup. F. Brookman won ihe county medal. W. B, Linell won high ayerage and the cham- pionship gold medal open to the State. His average was 88 per eve ty the twelve events, and he made a straight score for the medal: Events: Ld od, A eb Ge 7 8) 9 1071112, Targets: 15 15 20 15 15 20 15 15 20 15 15 20 Broke. Av. OWN Ford.......- «»» 12.14 12 10 15 15 14 13.16 14 13 19 167 830 WB Linelli........ 13 11 18 12.1419 121318151218 176 880 G Kinighies rere. 12410 15 13d7 1211 Fis gAgqas - 143 -T18 J Brookman ..,... , 121419 1211 15 8 11 17 12°12 18 161 +805 A Hf Cleveland,..,.. 9131611 91410101212 1415 145 ~125 M Hamblin,..,..... 81213 11 1117 9111212 11 17 142 720, R Risher ¢...2..20.55 Pease ter be aeere) ee mei aay urec Meta Linn County cup, 25 targets, open only to residents of Linn county: OPIN Hotd ei iieaupeseetiiess ye aa shee pea 1141.01.01 0911111011171110—20 STITT At Peers itr atsB ake Liane teeta he 1.001100111111110110111100—17 Clevelatid! faire ahease an een te rekon ee? 101110010111 0111101171110—18 WiSt eri ire ccngunr adie fzednanleeeeeceun ea 111011000110111 011111111119 NOMBLOOKMIAriseee ena oc oes REALL aetee 1001110101110011111110111—18 OSB rookriaste ovaaace da elte o celaey een ks 1011111111111110011101111—21, Plamblin co.cc ee eee eee eee eee ee ee ee eee oL010101001000111I11111111118 Wapsie Valley Gun Club gold medal, 25 targets, open to State of Towa: forme Orecebsonreiete teers + eee imtthet.! 11101911111101.01111111110—21, AWW iat ME scat Aer ee epee ties asta beat peieea ekg 1100101199191 25 Uspewbedoh® oy Grae eemet sr pea gear Deane ed) ete | 1111911109941111111010—28 Glevelatid) eer ere oo ScARoOObOrtS: 1111031101111019111101101—20 MeBrookiian Wiwes oe vssqdesercen ccpeneey 411.0911191911110111111 0112.2 : HAWKEYE. Ossining Gun Club, Osstntnc, N. ¥., March 28,—The main event at the regular Saturday afternoon shoot of the Ossining Gun Club to-day was for the scratch cup, at 25 birds, which has been shot for at dif- ferent Saturday matinees since the first of the year; At the line- up to-day Blandford had two wins to his credit, Washburn one and Ball one. Blandford managed to break 24 out of 25 with a borrowed gun and took the cup home. Handicap events are more popular, as there are generally a few who by consistent practice are in trim to capture all the prizes that are offered for scratch competition. P. B. brought up another box of ‘‘Perfectos,’’ which soon dis- appeared, as good cigars generally do. The first thunder shower of the season sent the shooters back under cover at the 22yd. line in events 7 and 8 Some valuable prizes haye already been received for the State shoot here in June, and many more pledged. Success for our enterprise is plainly written: Events: 2) oe 5 Bae hs Rees Targets: , 10 10 10 10 10 25 10 10 GBidndiged reese ered aateidcein. foe he ee ae Cee Realy, IT T Washburn....... Dae DEDOOUCOos ey ire ain) a BS sy J) Britin 4255. BO ME FOO EOROEC Scr wt le ae ye Ste Ged: Be Ball etrsetetterba cn aatenrce eons (ing climate SS) ey te ay ML ATISEe dataaeeeeRiar orcas: eine Die Fs) ae Dytati te wertoeees oe ES aHAnShedoot 294 Fe Thee Pe erte Wad a Moya dal tianlian Be ee ie Blea see are IS ENERO) He tere mt Aen steers ers is 8 nee eergneces €. G: B, Cincinnati Gun Club, Cincinnati, March 21.—The eighteenth contest ror the Troisdorf medals had scores as appended: Coleman (19) 43, “Medico (16) 43, *Randall (16) 48, R. Trimble (21) 42, Mille, a6) 42, Falk (8) 40, Capt. (18) 40, Block (8) 88, Maynard (9) 38, Ackley (14y 87, Faran (18) 36, Barker (18) 35, McB. (6) 35, Herman (14) 35, Nye (16) 35, Jack (14) 84, Rike (21) 34, Corry (16) 33, Colonel (4) 20. *Handicaps 18 and 20, but shot at 16yds. | The distance proved too much for Ed Rike, whu comes down to shoot with us every Saturday. Ed broke 49 out of 50 at i6yds, immediately after the medal race. L Gambell is laid up in bed again, having severely wrenched his injured knee by another fall, but will be out in a couple of weeks again. @ Highland Gun Club. Gorcas Sratron, Pa., March 28,—The Highland Gun Club’s regular monthly club shoot had seventeen entries in the first event and twelve in the second. Davis was the high gun in the medal shoot, Myers in the trophy event. The scores follow: Club medal event: Davis 20, Dunlevy 18, Hamil 18, Hinkson 18, Gee 17, McMichael 17, Harper 16, Wentz 15, Crooks 15, Cantrell 15, Myers 14, Dedier 18, Heite 13, Brewster 13, Denham 12, Snyder 11, Courtney 10. } ; Club trophy event: Myers 19, Dedier 18, McMichael 15, Court- ney 15, Dunlevy 15, Aimen 15, Wentz 15, Cantre il : Harper 12, Denham 12, Crooks 9, SES Haig SALES oo Ear eles Head— Witz. Art Peru, Ind., on March 17, Mr, J. 1. Head and M Witz shot a match for the Indiana liye bird ake epteaeitad ean at 50 birds and $100. The weather was pleasant. A large at- tendance of visitors showed that there was keen interest in the race. The scores: ely ethoad. eee 2922222999999029(1020222299%2292909%99999029080900__, NE Wateesiieeiat 21821 2019912029822992971 9240295 901 2201 LaosoLepTK ae Under date of March 28, the Brooklyn Eagle publishe lowing: “Kansas City, Mo.—American wine ois aes aes much interest in the Grand American Handicap at flyine targets, to be held there April 1417, under the auspices of the Interstate Association, Expert marksmen from tearly every State are ar- ranging to attend, and it is expected there will be from 500 to 800 entries to contest in the main eyent, to which the Association has added $1,000 and several yaluable trophies. As pigeon shoot- ing has been abolished in several States, and the New York target and pigeon handicaps haye been canceled, the Grand Ss Handicap here will be the one national event of the year.” There seems to be much exaggerated hopefulness concerning the great mumber of entries to the G. A. L. Probably 200 or less will be nesret the number than is the foregoing, 280 Texas State Sportsmen’s Association. BRENHAM, Texas, March 27,—The twenty-ninth annual tourna- ment of the Texas State Sportsmen's Association, March 23 to 27, inclusive, closed in a rain Thursday evening, the first three and a halt days being very pretty weather, barring the high wind that ruined the scores at live birds on the first nats The shoot was under the management of Mr. Alf. Gardiner, pro- prietor of the Sunny South Shooting Park, with Mr. Fred Martin as office man, and was successfully pulled. off without a kick. Two sets of expert traps were used, and in addition to the pro- gramme which consisted of 26 live birds, the first day and 666 targets for the other three days, divided as follows: Second day, 240; third day, 226, and fourth day, 201, Only fourteen men shot the entite programme, but a large num- ber shot most of the events, and quite a nuthber dropped in for a few events, making in all about thirty-five shootérs that shot part of the programme. Following ate the scores for each day, with a suhiniing tp of the number killed by those who shot the programme for high average: Monday, First Day, March 23, Five live birds, $3 entrance, four moneys, high guns: acksor, 5 ooe Ou. Ua. see 22010—3. Atchison .........00s oe, 922022—-£ NAGOS) FOS cae rk totes 20221—4. Pucker) ......c4eeeeees 40 DDQ*Q—4 Heard. ., esste Treats ea. y2201*—3--Ghaudet ..s6.sc.eeeesens .21221—5 Cleveland ....... Seva the we LLU MQTA LCT ges asus arellatnla ete 112 FLCIRES eke e sicd wns 5 P212*—4 Roberts. ..iiessccseacees 212*2—4 RAEN SICL Maat none ateteane oF **22*-=-2 McCormick ..... 22222—B6 J Bray St ssee hhc cus 222*2--4 Texas Field... 2220*—4 Mariner eos sien telat 2*22*-3 Faurote ... 22242 —4 Moore’ pesky cane cs 22202—4 Kaufmann ....... . .*0202—2 PPIGEL OMA s ew hd Ass sepanea—— Wade ici aleeidedscterl 1. 22222—5 The second eyent was at 26 live bitds, $16 entrance, for the it- dividual championship of Texas and the $450 diamond medal formerly held by M. E, Atchison, of Giddings: LGM Mere esas oy aa Ielgts wikis olka is ssaiaisin step ciese » . -2222*0*2201022022221 14 BMARCIIE Ms ves eae MR RoW Ns oN cake at + 0120*202220010120210—11 1K: 30 OL Ree oe Se a aa » ,.2212222222220*211222 18 Cleveland '........ - .02#21221022120022012—14 PURSES aan ete Fo spate Pe seh ee ame esis tied edie 22222222022**2222*12 17 EL GHGIES Meniett: tots devin ete peek eee eas veh bielsuil 2211*202211**20*1110—13 MSP Ta iccetan et eee tase ey ies smeuun Teal 2002022222202*02*200—11 USSTKT lea oat meet teh Caylee ad eun hated anes 2220222*2022*2222222 16 Vii ey ioe ero SMe aA Acted bik f yrk tn Ae . .20220202002200202000— 9 MARGE | aioe bent an bek net ae Sees dents Uae 2220*2202222*2222022—_15 Sree Be peed tea 8 PSH SE poe pay ee 22200222222002022*22—14 Oe oe SR SRE a ee ie een 022222222242**21 #222 15 Ree see Fs ataiaarv's aurick ard Sabra tds hea weir PEEL ORE 00102120000221111110—12 NSEANET Doe geared e Foe de eve re cataetaeaa eet ean 2022222221**01202200—13 PRGDELTS le. tems awa hie ewes ww pemae eh sciti ey *202221.2122221112000—16' IMC MOnRICle Vain. Pan cis wes Woh edunt ey cok + 202002222022*2221*22 14 Werds Pield: err tmn ta cvcuuearie ie seaticn eek +» »L*02222111222221221* 17 BABTOTE tees Fr The event of the day was the Schmelzer trophy event, at 60 blue- rocks. Editor Geo. Tucker was the winner on a score of 49. Mr. F. M. Faurote, of Dallas, was a close second with 48, Com. Bryan Heard, of Houston, third, with 47; R. O. Heikes, of Day- ton, O., fourth, with 45 It was unexpected for an amateur to win, especially Tucker, as ke had been shooting in poor form, and the crowd went wild _ when they saw that he had’ won, and on a good score. The crowd threw him on the roof of the club house and called for a speech, and “‘let’s all take something,” was the response. Col. O. C. Guessaz was called home by wire Wednesday, much to the regret of the shooters. In the diamond event of 60 birds, shot Wednesday, F. M. Faurote, of Dallas, and J. A. Jackson, of Austin, tied on 47, In the shoot-off at 25 birds, Jackson lost his ninth bird, running 24 out of 25. Faurote killed 25 straight, winning the State championship diamond medal, which he already held. Wilcox and Wade won first money, Graher and Kennard won second, and Heard and Moeser won third. Wednesday, Third | Day, March 25, There was a meeting of the State Sportsmen’s Association, held at the parlor of the Central Hotel, Wednesday evening. In the absence of the president, Secretary Geo. Tucker called the meeting to order and asked Mr. J. B. Kennard to preside. Com. Bryan Heard; of Houston, was nominated and wunani- mously elected President; Mr. Camille Pilot, of Houston, Vice- President; Geo. Tucker, of Brenham, was re-elected Secretary. A resolution was adopted that the Association hold its next annual tournament at Houston, time to be selected by the officers and a month’s notice be given. There was a resolution adopted that the Association extend to the North Texas League and the West Texas League a cordial invitation to meet us next year, and participate in the shoot. Indian Territory and Oklahoma was added to this invitation. A committee of three was authorized by resolution unanimously adopted to draft a constitution and by-laws and present them for approval at the next annual meeting of the Association. The president, Com. Bryan Heard, who had already assumed the chair, appointed on that committee Geo.. Tucker, of Brenham; W. S. Cleveland, of Houston, and V. C. Dargan, of Dallas. A resolution offered by Mr. F. M. Faurote was adopted, that the secretary have control of all the printing for the Association, including circulars, programme, etc. There being no further business the Association adjourned. Shot SUOSt Uaviccwe ss s veleiis Huesler AUT ALe™ os eee ecu as ath Ws IR EO xa ree atceun sl. J B Wyrick Le FEE Oi ye Moore Kaufmann = Chaudet ao 5 ote cen act ne Stevens Atchison Campbell Gardiner Graber MVE OES Or UiGia lk nue a steaw Tucker McCormick Cleveland Jackson) os denaee Spicer MGSH wcedatedaqne esse Thutsday, Fourth Day, March 26, The programme for Thursday consisted of twelve events, ag- gregating 190 birds, beside the medal event, which did not count for high ayerage as in other medal events. Mr. F. M. Faurote and VY. C, Dargan were the holder of the medal from last year, but Mr. Dargan not being present Mr. Faurote could not com- _ pete for it this year, as there was no other member of his gun elub present. The scores, each contestant shooting at 190 targets, follow: Heikes 176, Faurote 161, Wilcox 167, Heard 157, Kauf- mann 159, Wade 164, Atchison 165. Gardiner 134, Moeser 161, Hensler 172, Jackson 158. Kyser 159, W. S. Wvrick 167, J. B. Wyrick 163, Moore 162, Chandet 164, Stevens 147, Campbell 168, Cleveland and McCormick withdrew. In the team medal championship event, Heard and Moeser, of Houston, and the Wyrick brothers of McKinney, tied on a score of 42, and in the shoot-off Heard and Moeser won, Gardiner and Ticker, of Brenham, were third. The Hunter Arms Compafiy’s gold badge was wort by Mr. R. O. Heikes, of Dayton, O., on high average. To those who shot through the entire programme there were five high average moneys to compete for—$30, 25, $20, $15, and $10. Mr. R. O. Heikes, of Dayton, O., won first high average with a score of 664 out of 691. Mr. F. M. Fautote won second high average with a score of 637. Mr, Albert Wilcox, of San Angelo, FOREST - AND STREAM. won third high average with a score of 636. Mr. M. E. Hensler, of Battle Creek, Mich., won fourth high average with a score of 620. Mr. M. E. Atehison, of Giddings, won fifth high: average with a score of 619. Jackson 618, Heard 612, Chaudet 611, Moore 599, Kaufmann 597, MeCormick 548, Wade 584 and Gardiner 519. Mr. R. O, Heikes left to-day for San Antonio, and from there will go to St. Joseph, Mo., as will Mr. Hensler. Mr. Heikes has been a frequent visitor here, and adds to his number of friends at each yisit, arid deservedly so, for he is a “good fellow” in the strongest ittterpretation of that populat term with the shooters. ‘ Mr, Chas. B. Spicer was here and added to his already. large list of friends in this section of the State. Mt. F. M. Faurote, who successfully deferided the State medal, breaking 25 straight in the shoot-off with Jackson, was shootirig well, and away ahead for high average uritil the last day, when he had a bad hour, atid dropped in third place. Com. Bryan Heard, of Hotiston, the new president of the Asso- Siatioh, is vety populat with the shootets and is fast developing into a ctack, as evidenced by the ttophits won at Houston last week atid hefe this week. With him at the head of the manage- ment, the next State shoot protiists to be the biggest and best ever held. Messrs. Cleveland ahd Moeset, two other membets of the Hots- ton Gun Club, are fine shots arid true sportsmen, and populat with the shooters. Col. O. C. Guessaz, editor of the Texas Field, was hete the first two days of the shoot, but was called to his home in San An- tonio by wire. Je is one of the liveliest attetidants at a shoot in this section, and yery populat with the shooters, and universal regret was expressed at his having to be ealled home. Mr. L. F, Chaudet, of New Orleans, was a new man to most of the Texas shooters, but was heartily welcomed, and all will be glad to_see him with tis again. Mr. Mattice Kaufmant, of New Orleans, is one of the jolliest and most agteeable atteridatits at a shoot. He was changing guns in every evetit, staridirig oti otie foot 4 poftiot of the time, and morikeyifig around gerierally, but he killed 597 out of the pro- gramine, and tied the medal wirirers in the live-bitd event, though not eligible to witt, as he is not a fesident of the State. Capt. A. W. Du Bray, of Cincinnati, O., with a 12-gauge hat- mef atid a 20-gaiige hamimerfless, mixed up his shootitig so that ne seotes did flot pai out well, bit everybody admifed his pair of guiis. Matiager Alf. Gatdiriet was generously complimented on the way the shoot was conducted, but especially on the “busy” pigeons he selected for the fitst day, it beirig the universal opin- ion that no harder birds could be obtained. There was a strong north wind blowing across the traps, hence the low scores, Mr, Gardiner was so busy with the management that he did not make as good a showing as he would otherwise, but would have won the team medal if his partner had not ‘laid down’? on him. He was changing guns occasionally, hut is having a new Reming- ton built, aie will make it warm for some of the shooters when’ it affives. , Mr. J. M, MeCortnick, of San Antonio, shot through the pro- gramme, but was itt bad fotm., He is very fond of the game, and is a stayet, whether he hits the money of not, and is one of the Most populat of the Associatioti. Mr. M. E. Atchison, of Giddings, former holder of the State medal, shot a good gait through the programme, only four men beating him. And he is always to be counted on coming close to the top. The writer, Geo. Tucker, who is always a liberal contributor, won the Schmelzer trophy on a score of 49 out of 50, Mr. F. M, Faurote having 48. He was in the last squad and the whole gang pulling for him, however, and a city policeman behind him to keep any one from taking the cup away from him or anybody bothering him. He missed his forty-fifth bird, and being an ama- teur the crowd thought he was gone, but he scratched out with 49, and the crowd got him away from the policeman, put him on the roof of the club house, where he was called on for a speech, which we will give in full. It was, “‘Let’s all take something.’’ Messrs. W. S. and J. B. Wyrick and Mr. Stevens, of McKinney, attended and shot most of the programme, making a good show- ing. The next shoot here will be the Sunny South handicap in Janu- ary. next, and Manager Gardiner is trying hard to make this the sporting event of the South. Ad Gro. TucKER. Boston Gun Club Boston, Mass., March 25.—The usual Wednesday shoot of the Boston Gun Club was held on their grounds at Wellington to- day, and a large number of enthusiasts were present to do honor to the occasion. With such a crowd of trap devotees present it seemed as though every one was there, but after another look there were quite a few absent faces, most notable being Leroy’s, but being under the weather, he has made a wise decision not to sheot until he regains his old health, which we all sincerely hopé will not be far oft The ptize match had a new leader this week, Bill, of Harvard doing the honors, though one target. to rear were Rule and Spencer with 24, the former now waiting the chance to eclipse his former record on these grounds of 45. We think it will be hard work, but then Rule says it has been done, so we cannot dispute it. Other scores follow: i Events: 1238 45 6 7 8 9 1011 Targets: 10 10 5p 15 15 15 10 15 10 15 15 Av. 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Becker 14, €. Tiddes 15, M. Breen 24, C. Lewis 17, N. Boogertman 8, J. Hulmes 10, E. Breen 10, W. Greer 2. Second everit: D. Gibson 14, W. Trers 17, N. Graham 5, Mathews 21, C. Strait 8, W. Swift 13, J. Doty 21. Answers ta Correspondents, ——S-—— No notice taken of anonymous communications. J. B. H., St. Louis—The muscalonge (Esox nobilior), the pike (Esox Iucius), and the pickerel (Esox reticulatus) all belong to’ the Esocide or pike family.. The muscalonge is the largest and may be readily distinguished from the pike by these two character- istics: The lower half of the cheek of the muscalonge is scale- less, and the anterior half of its lower jaw is toothless. In the pike the cheek is entirely covered with scales, and the lower jaw is filled with teeth. The three fishes are colored as follows: Mus- calonge, greenish or brownish gray, with circular brown spots darker than the body color. Pike, dark green or gray, with ob- long light spots, sometimes white. Pickerel, green or brown, covered with a network of dark lines. PUBLISHERS’ DEPARTMENT. Reduced Rates to New Orleans. VIA PENNBYLVANtA RAILROAD, ACCOUNT MEETING NATIONAL MANU~ FACTURERS’ ASSOCIATION, On account of the meeting of the National Manufacturers’ As- sociation at New Orleans, April 15 to 17, the Pennsylvania Rail- road Company will sell excursion tickets to New Orleans and return, April 11, 12 and 138, good going on date of sale, and good returning to reach original starting point not later than April 19, from all points on its lines at reduced rates. By depositing ticket with Joint Agent at New Orleans between April 12 and 19, and payment of fee of fifty cents, an extension of return limit may be obtained to reach starting point not later than April 30. Messrs. Dame, Stoddard & Co., of 374 Washington street, Boston, Mass., send us their catalogue of fishing tackle and sporting goods. The 290 pages contain illustrated listings of every article of the fisherman’s equipment, all the necessities and some luxuries; and the portion of the catalogue devoted to pocket knives contains a mnutiber of extremely entertaining personal sketches of certain Texas worthies, after whom the several knives are named. As Bowie achieyed enduring fame by giving his name to the Bowie knife, a like remembrance, let us hope, may be that of Tom Padgitt, General Tom Green, Sam Jones and others, after whom Thos. H. Chubb has named some of the very attractive knives here shown. The catalogue will be sent on receipt of 15 cents, which will be credited on the first pur- chase of a dollar or more. In their large and handsome catalogue of nearly 100 pages, Messrs. J. B. Hunter & Co., of 60 Summer street, Boston, Mass., offer a great variety of attractive articles for the equipment of the spertsman or outdoor man. Beginning with rods, reels, hooks, lines, flies, and, fishing tackle generally, they run through the gamut of goods contributing to the success or comfort of those who take their pleasure out of doors. Among these are clothing, arms, ammunition, cutlery, cameras, and their supplies, golf utensils, and a variety of other things. The catalogue will be sent free on application. Edward Smith & Co., the well-known manufacturers of fine spar yarnish, have issued a valuable little pamphlet called the “Vachtsman’s Vest Pocket Manual.” The little book contains a great fund of valuable information. In addition to the collection of club burgees, which are printed in color, there is also a list of American sail and steam ‘yachts of oyer 50 feet in length. The book will be sent free on application to the Edward Smith Co., 45 Broadway, New York city, or 59 Market street, Chicago. ’ Messrs. Harrington & Richardson, of Worcester, Mass., have leg been known as manufacturers of firearms, with revolvers as a specialty. Their new catalogue, No. 6, beside being beautifully illustrated in most artistic fashion, gives a deal of information about their arms, and thus is worth reading for itself alone. The Harrington revolver -is adapted for the uses of people in all sorts of situations. Their -descriptive catalogue will be sent free ‘to applicants. -- -To anglers in-and about New York, as well as to many others scattered over a wider territory, J. F. Marsters, of- Brooklyn, N. Y., is a familiar name. His business has been long estab- lished, and a great many anglers have come to depend on him for their fishing tackle of all sorts. Mr. Marsters offers a list of all the fishing tackle to a man who will send him stamps. The Dixie minnow, manufactured by E. T, Dukes, of Quitman, Ga., is said to be the only artificial minnow now in existence which represents the real fish swimming upright. A X should prove an attractive lure, and since indestructible, it can be used indefinitely It is for sale by all dealers. At the Houston, Texas tournament, March 17-19, Mr. Frank iienees of Dallas, shooting Winchester factory loaded shells and a Winchestet repeating shotgun, broke 520 out of 575 targets, and thereby won high average. . }. L. Head, of Peru, Ind., wor the Indiana live-bird cham- ie with a_score of out ‘of 50. He used U. M. C. Arrow shells, Mr. S. D. Boris scoted 43 out of 50, vv He shot U. M. €: At the Texas State shoot, held at Brenham, March 23 to 26, Mr. R. O. Heikes won high average. lozded shells and a Remington gun. As such, it — FOREST AND STREAM. A Weerty | CopyriGHT, 1908, BY Forest AND SrrzAM PUBLISHING Co. Terms, $4 A Year. 10.Crs. a Copy, t Six Monrus, $2. 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That object is not to preserve the forests because they are beautiful, though that is good in itself; nor because they are refuges for the wild creatures of the wilder- ness, though, that, too, is good in itself; but the primary object of our forest policy, as of the land policy of the United States, js the making of prosperous homes. It is part of the traditional policy of home making of our country. Every other consideration comes as secondary. The whole effort of the Government in dealing- with the forests must be directed to this end, keeping in view the fact that it is not only necessary to start the homes as prosperous, but to keep them so. That is why the forests have got to be kept. You can start a prosperous home by destroying the forests, but you cannot keep it prosperous that way.—President Roosevelt. —SSS————— SS TIME TO GO. As tHe fancy of the young man is supposed in spring- time lightly to turn to thoughts of love, so does the mind of the enthusiastic angler delight at this season to dwell upon prospective fishing trips and anticipated sport with the. denizens of river, lake and brook. These are the days when one angler meeting another is pretty sure to propound the query: “Well, are you ready to go a-fishing?” or “Have you looked over your fishing tackle?” Or perhaps he will simply make the sententious remark: “The fish ought to bite pretty well to-day.” The reply is sure to be cheery and, if time permits, a pro- tracted exchange of angling experiences in the past is likely to follow. Unquestionably there is a strong band of sympathy existing between true anglers, a fact which may be primarily due to the understanding that both are enthusiasts in the same field, but which is nevertheless greatly strengthened and emphasized by an accompanying feeling of good fellowship. Americans have always manifested a strong inclination for fishing, and even the aborigines were successful fisher- men. It is said that when the Pilgrims went to King James for their charter they told him that they desired to go to the new world to worship God and catch fish. In view of these facts it is not to be wondered at, per- haps, that the amusement is a very popular one at the present day and that it seems to be gaining in favor from year to year. The assertion has been made that the secret of the infatuation of this amusement to most or many anglers is to be found in the close and quiet communion and sympathy with nature which is essential to the pur- suit of the spoil of the water, and no doubt this is: true. The tourist views only the outside of the country through which he hurriedly passes, but the angler is brought very close to the flower, bird and insect life of the fields and woods, and unconsciously becomes familiar with many of the secrets of nature which remain hidden from the aver- age man. That a person is benefited by such close con- tact. with nature cannot be disputed; for, as Washington lriving says: “There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a gentleness of spirit and a pure sincerety of mind.” It matters little whether the angler be an enthusiast on brook trout or one who prefers to entice the gamy black bass, the savage pickerel or the lordly muskallonge, the advent of spring and the thought that the fishing season is near at hand are sure to enliven him and cause the blood to course more rapidly through his veins. Among expert fishermen angling is commonly spoken of as an art, and those who have had the most ex- perience in handling the rod are the most firm in the be- lief that it deserves thus to be designated. Certainly it requires fully as much time, attention and patience to be- come thoroughly proficient in angling as it does to acquire a fair knowledge of almost any one ef the fine arts. Furthermore, when a man does become an expert angler he has the pleasing consciousness. that he is posseased of richly earned knowledge, which it is HOt given fo every- one to possess, and the ability to catch fish where others would fail, and in this respect, at least, he is as truly an NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1908. artist as he who applies colors to canvas or evokes music from a stringed instrument. Izaak Walton says: “Doubt not, therefore, sir, but that angling is an art, and an art worth your learning. The question is rather, whether you be capable of learning it, for angling is somewhat like poetry, men are born so; [ mean with the inclination to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice, but he that hopes to be a sood angler must not only bring an inquiring, searching, observing wit, but he must bring a large measure “of hope and patience, and a love and propensity to the art itself; but having once sot and practiced it, then doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a re- ward to itself.” COLONEL GEO. S. ANDERSON. THosk who are interested in the Yellowstone National Patk will remember that. for seven years Capt. Geo. Se Anderson, of the Sixth Cavalry, was the Superintendent of that reservation. During this long term of service he did work there far better than had ever been done before, bringing up the management of the Park to .a very high state of efficiency. For the first few years of his service he was heavily handicapped by the inefficiency of Congress, which neglected to pass any law governing the Park, but when this omission had been remedied, he made hig name a terror to the evildoers who had long swarmed about the reservation and striven at every opportunity to prey upon it. After Capt. Anderson’s long suiperintendency of the Park, which extended over about twice the term of any previous Superintendent’s career there, the Spanish war broke out, and he was ordered into the field, and served in Cuba. Later, as Colonel of a regiment of volunteers, he served in the Philippine Islands for a term of years, and with his regiment ‘performed extraordinary services in pacifying the district which he commanded. It is re- « lated that his regiment, recruited largely from the moun- ~ taineers of Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri, was a body of giants—men so large that the ordinary clothing. issued by the War Department to its troops could not be worn by them without various cuttings and slashings to give room within the clothing for their huge frames. It is said that their energy, strength and endurance were as great as their size, so that they chased the Filipinos over the mountains at such a rate that the natives actually became tired out and surrendered, and that if it ever came to a battle the small natives who were not killed in the fight afterward died of fright on recognizing the size of the. men to’ whom they had been opposed. All these, however, may be travelers’ tales told to us merely to excite the” wonder of stay-at-home bodies. At-all events, Colonel Anderson and the regiment he commanded did their work and did it well- It is but a few months since Col. Anderson’s regiment was mustered out and returned to the United States. He is now stationed in Washington at the new War College. The soldierly qualities—his gallantry, his good judg- ment and his superb capacity for handling men—which enabled Col. Anderson to perform such splendid service in his profession have been recognized by the War De- partment and have earned him deserved promotion. Cap- tain about the time of the breaking out of the Spanish war, he has won in a few years the ranks of Major and Lieutenant-Colonel, and has now received his promotion as Colonel in the Regular Army. Tue death of Major General William H. Jackson. of Belle Meade, Tenn., deprives the Boone -and Crockett Club of one of its most valued members, and the United States of a soldier who once performed an act which, beyond question, is unique. General Jackson is believed to have been the only man. who, single-handed, ever attacked and killed a grizzly bear with a sabre. iii The occurrence, as we have heard him relate it, was as follows: About fifty years ago General Jackson, then a young lieutenant attached to a regiment of Dragoons, was fravelitig with a detachment cf his regiment on the plains. A grizzly bear was startled and began to ftin away, Lieut. jackson at once ap- plied to his cotmmanding officer for permission to at~- tack the beast, and after some hesitation his request was granted. The young officer was riding 4 Kentucky ournaL or THE Rop anp Gun. ~~ : { VOL. LX.—No, 15, No. 846 Broapway, New Yorre. thoroughbred of great speed and coutfage, which was blind of its right eye. The horse readily overtook the animal, and riding close to it on his horse’s blind side, Lieut. Jackson leaned over and struck its neck a terrible blow with his sabre, and then rode on. Turning, he again charged the bear, which was flow as eager to get hold of him as before it had been to get away. The rider again rode to the left of the bear, and as it rose to meet him struck it on the head with such force that the sabre cut so deep into the bone that it could not ‘be released. The bear struck and cut the horse, but did not hold him, and Lieut. Jackson, making a circle, saw the bear fall dead before it had gone many steps from the spot. Such strength, courage and readiness had these men of earlier days. Gen. Jackson was a typical soldier and Southern gen- tleman of a type that is now fast passing away, ® ey In the death of Mr. Joseph Park last week, New York has lost one of its most eminent and worthy citizens, and one who perhaps had a larger acquaint- ance among old New Yorkers than almost any one who can be named. Mr. Park had lived in New York for more than seventy years, and for neatly sixty-years had conducted the successful business, the name of which is so familiar to all New Yorkers. He was prominent in many large business affairs, was on ex- tensive landowner at his home in Rye, N. Y., where he conducted a model farm, in which he ‘took the great- est interest, waS prominent in charitable matters, and was in all respects a good man and a citizen cf the best type. To the poor Mr. Park gave freely, not money alone, but that ready sympathy and advice which so often is far more helpful than money. His kindly presence will be sadly missed by them. c ® ; Pror. L. D. SHARP, of the Boston University, pteach- ing in the First Methodist Church of that city, the other Sunday, declared that no woman who wears a sea gull or a song bird in her hat can ever get to Heaven. Rev. John Brown, of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, in Wabash, Ind., preached the same doctrine, warning his woman hearers that “no woman who wears plumes on her hat can ever hope to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.” Wherettpon four women ot the congrega- tion, right then and there, took the feathers from their hats and threw them into the stove. The bird protec- tion committee of the Audubon Society would do well to enlist the services of Mr. Brown as a spellbinder for the cause. R Worp comes from Goshen, N. Y., of the death of Harrison W. Nanny, whose pen name of Wawayanda twenty years ago was familiar to readers of FOREsT ‘np STREAM. Mr. Nanny was a well-known lawyer}; for several terms he was the president of Goshen, and in the beautiful parks which the village owes to him he has left an enduring memorial of his public services. His age was fifty-eight. Mr. Nanny was all his life an enthusiastic angler and student of nature. It was his fortune to live in that charming region of Orange County which was made famous by Frank Forester; and lured by its attractions, he spent many happy days jn camp. He knew the Warwick Woodlands better than Herbert had known them, and wrote of them, some of us used to think, with much more sympathy and appealing sentiment. He was a man of wide read- ing, a student of local history; his were scholarly tastes and a cultured mind. It is to such a one that angling has most to give, and to him the camp by the lake and the river means plain living and high thinking. ® , Maine has adopted the long talked of non-resident license system. The fee is $15; and the licensee has the privilege of exporting on cottpon one moose and two deer. The proceeds are to go to protecting game, paying dam- ages done to crops by deer, and raising the salaries of +he commissioners. We print elsewhere from a special correspondent the full text of the law, and a statement of the reasons which have prompted its enactment. : R Massachusetts has extended as a permanent law the statute forbidding the sale of ruffed grouse and quail. Never wag the wisdom of the non-sale system more con- vincingly demonstrated than it has been in Massachusetts, and no ether course for the future was to be leoked for 282 Che Sportsman Canrist, —— A Perilous Ride,—I. A Story of Indian Days. Tr was the reth day of February, 1877—a cold raw day: The snow was almost all gone from the valley, ex- cept in spots and drifts. It was the most cheerless season ef the year, ‘and what little business there was in Boze- man was at a standstill. We were over 500 miles froma railroad ; the mail was carried in coaches and by pack ani- mals; the principal husiness came from the Indian trade, and furnishing supplies by the United States Govern- ment to the various tribes then in Montana. Indians, with the white hunters and trappers and gold prospectors, who were roaming over the country in every direction, were the only inhabitants of eastern Montana at this time. The war with the Sioux and other Indian tribes was al its height. Fort Ellis, three miles from Bozeman, was garrisoned with both cavalry and infantry. At the mouth of Tongue River, General Miles, with a large force, was in camp at what was called the- Tongue River Cantonment. Com- munications between Gen. Brisbin at Fort Ellis and Gen. Miles were carried by scouts, both white and red, as the Crow Indians were sometimes employed. At this particu- lar time the Indians were so bad and numerous between Brisbin and Miles, a distance of nearly 400 miles, that it was difficult to find anyone to carry dispatches, $300 being effered for the long and perilous trip. I found myself this cold, raw, cheerless day in Boze- man, possessed of mule, a saddle pony, a fine 13-pound old reliable Sharps rifle, a fine gold watch, and a pack outfit. Except for these articles I was completely “busted.” I had never been to Tongue River, or down the Yellowstone for more than 150 miles, but had a good idea of the country, having traded with the Crow Indians several years before at the Crow Indian Agency, eight miles beyond where the town of Livingston now stands. My wite had died about a year before. I had lost my business and sent my little daughter, four years old, back to the States to my parents, and was ready for anything out of the ordinary. I was born and raised in the mountains of Kentucky, and was, as the saying goes, a born mountaineer. Two of my aunts had married grandsons of old Daniel: Boone of Kentucky. I got the western fever when quite young, after meeting Kit Carson and Col. A. G. Boone in Wash- ington city in 1866 with a delegation of Indians, and would have gone back with them but for my father, who was at that time a member of Congtess from Kentucky, and would not consent to my doing so: I returned to Kentucky, married, and the following year found me on the road to the headwaters of the Yellowstone, which place I reached in September, 1869, as trader for the Crow Indians, which position I held for quite a time, leaving my wife and baby in Bozeman, at that time a small frontier town. Under present circumstances I was ripe and ready for anything in the Indian and hunting line, and volunteered to carry the dispatch from Brisbin to Miles. I pawned my watch for $100, as I did not care to take it on the trip, and with the money got a fine Winchester rifle, with plenty of ammunition for both my guns, all the clothing and bedding I needed, had my animals sharp shod, taking an extra set of shoes and a shoeing outfit iw with me; secured a fine field glass at Ft. Ellis from Capt. , Ball, placed my dispatch in a money belt wrapped in oil cloth, my tobacco, pipe and matches in my canteéenas, and was ready for the “Cantonment.” I left Bozeman about 8 o’clock on the morning of the wath of February, passed through Rocky Canyon and ever the divide to Trail Creek, arriving, late in the eveui- ing, at the lower end of Trail Creek on the Yellowstone’ Bottom at the cabin of-an old hunter, a friend of mine,. by the name of Trout. You may rest assured that I was more than welcome, and after my pony and mule were cared for, I was soon at a veritable feast of ccld boiled ells, a hot corn dodger, a large raw onion, and a good quart cup of No. 1 coffee that can only be made from the fine soft waters of the Rocky Mountain streams. more could a Kentucky mountain man wish for? I -enjoyed the meal only as a hingry man can, and after listening to the hunting and trapping adventures of my friend until quite late, we rolled up in our blankets and were soon in the land of dreams. Early next morning, after a fine breakfast of broiled antelope and some mountain flap-jacks and good coffee, { was in the saddle again, reaching the Yellowstone about noon. I traveled until near sundown, when I-unexpected- lv came to a dugout in the bank of the river, where Dave Roberts was trapping and poisoning wolves. Here I re- mained all night, and received the same hearty welcome of the night before. I cut a few small cottonwood trees for feed for my mule and pony; the bark of the young cottonwood being equal, if not superior, to hay and oats. I. did-not leave my friend until about 4 o’clock in the evening of the next day,.as I had quite a long stretch of country to pass over with no timber or snow and wished to make that ride-during the night. I was now in the Indian country, and had to keep a good lookout, and as much as possible shun patches of snow—to hide my tzail— and sleep during the day, as the Indians seldom move at night. Of course I was in some danger of running on a camp of sleeping Indians, unless my mule should give the alarm. I depended on this, for if thereever was an ani- mal that hated and feared an Indian it was that mule. She could smell one, with the wind, a good mile, and haif that distance against the wind; so I had very little fear of being surprised. _ I traveled about 25 or 30 miles before daylight, made camp deep in the timber near the bank of the river. I tied my mule and pony in a thick patch of willows; with my butcher-knife shaved some young cottonwood trees for them, ate a cold snack of elk and bread, rolled up im my -blankets and was soon asleep, depending entirely on my mule for warning of any danger that might come. I awoke late in the afternoon, feeling much refreshed and -wanting a cup of coffee very much, but I was afraid to mezke a fire in daylight, as the smoke could be seen so far. it last | remembered having seen a piece of candle in my What: FOREST AND STREAM, canteenas, I fished it out and then, for the first time in my life, began to make a cup of coffee over the flame of a candle. It was a long, tedious job, but in time I was re- warded by seeing the water hot, and pretty soon I had as ice a cup of coffee as one could wish under the circum- stances. About 7 o’clock in the evening my mule began to give unmistakable signs of Indians. She kept her ears pricked, iooking down the river. Tf saw that the animals were securely tied, and crept slowly down the river hank to the lower end of the timber. By this time it was quite dark, but I could see quite a distance on the prairie. IL distinetly heard Indians singing and coming nearer—straight to- ward me. I waited a moment to be sure they were com- ing my way, and heard them striké the ice of the river about 200 yards below the point where I was iying. [ crept down the river bank a little further and in the twi- light could see them crossing on the ice—about twenty Indians and 150 or more horses. I soon made up my mind what was up. It was a small war party of Sioux on a horse-stealing expedition against the Crows. I waited until all had crossed and passed out of hearing; -and knowing that the Crows would be after them at day- light, I concluded to put as much distance between us as possible before that time. The Crows were on friendiy terms with the whites, but I did not care to run. across them so far away from the settlements. I traveled all night and having made thirty or more niles before daylight, I camped in the thick timber, again shaving more cottonwood barl for the animals and fast- ing myself. I slept until noon, and being very hungry I determined to make a quick fire, get everything ready, make coffee and bread, fry some meat and move along, as there was plenty of timber on both sides of the river, I got ready plenty of shavings and some nice dry wood, mixed a little flour in the small sack I had—salt and yeast powders having been mixed before starting—secured a ary cottonwood stick, got it good and hot, rolled my cough into a long snake-like piece, wrapped it around the het stick and set it up before the fire, which I now started, with my meat and coffee all on at the same time. It burned nicely, and there was scarcely any smoke, as the twigs were so dry. I soon had a fine meal, which I _tound afterward could be had on meat alone when the appetite is there, It was now about two o'clock, with every sign of a storm coming on—cold and raw, with stray flakes of snow beginning to fall, I made another start, following the river bank as much as I could. By 6 o’clock it was snowing fast and every- thing promised a good fall. About thirty tniles further would take me to where two men named Moore—“Old Pike” as he was generally called—and Zed Daniels, who, I had heard, were trapping beaver, had a dugout about ten feet from the river. By keeping close to the river [ could not miss it, and J determined to make the camp before sleeping again, as the now fast falling snow would cover my trail almost as fast as made. Just at dark I made camp at the mouth of a dry coulee that ran into the river, thickly surrounded by cottonwood and willows, the willows on the banks above meeting and forming a com- piete roof, preventing the snow from entering at all. It was dry as a powder house and sheltered from the wind. im fact, after my mule and pony were securely tied in the upper end of the coulee, about twenty feet from the mouth, and the saddles and pack outfit taken off, it was as com- fortable a camp as anyone could wish, and would have been a regular paradise for one of my temperament in times of peace. I really felt as if I could remain in this beautiful, quiet place for a whole month. Anyone might be within six feet of me and never discover my hiding place. I took my little hunting hatchet and cut the ice near the mouth of the coulee, and after long chopping was re- warded by getting through the ice and seeing the water creeping up in my spring. It was a treat. I watered my mule and pony, cut them plenty of bark, made a good fire, which could not be seen any more than if it had been in a house, and cooked and ate tntil I could eat no more. I felt so comfortable after eating as I sat there smoking and thinking of the loved ones down in old Kentucky, that, before I knew it, I was almost asleep. I jumped to my feet, re-filled my pipe, saddled my mule and pony, and with many regrets mounted and rode out of my cozy quarters to face the storm that was now raging in earnest. I must make the camp before daylight and leave no trail behind me. As good luck would have it, I could follow an old game trail near the river that answered every. purpose ofa road. I kept up a steady trot until I thought T must surely be in the neighborhood of the camp*I was looking for, and began to go a little more slowly for fear 1 might pass it, for it was quite dark. J had the rope avcund the horn of my saddle leading my mule, when, jor soine reason she suddenly stopped and would not move an inch. I loosened my gun and began to look around as well as possible in the darkness. The next instant the most unearthly sound I ever heard in all my life broke the awful stillness. I fell from my saddie as if struck by lightning, and it was a good moment before I could , realize what had happened. My mule had simply stopped and brayed like a jackass. It seemed to meas if it could be heard for five miles. She had scented the horses be- longing to Moore and Daniels, and knowing they were not Indians, had given vent to her joy with that awful seund. After looking around a few minutes I discovered sparks of fire seemingly coming out of the ground, and knew it was the dugout. I gave a long, low whistle and was soon answered. “Old Pike’ Moore, a famous beaver irapper of the Yellowstone, came out and called: “Who’s there?” I answered, “Coon Tail.” “By the jumping Moses, Billy, come in; ain’t you near froze? How do you do? What are you doing down here? All alone? Well, by jiminy, you can just thank this storm for your being here in place of your hair be- ing at some Indian war dance, for before this snow they were getting thicker than mosquitos, and that is all that saved you. They are lying in camp such weather as this. Got any cartridges? Yes; what kind?” “Sharps .45-90's and Winchester.” “Bully,” says Pike. “We were running low.” “Well, I've got about a thousand,” I said, and Pike was happy. : : By this time the mule and pony were unsaddled and tied in a sheltered spot covered by willows, and witi plenty of cottonwood to eat, Never in my life did a dug- [APRIL 11, 1903. out look so good and feel so comfortable and safe. Tt was only one log high, but they were inimense cotton- woods; at least three feet in diameter, with as large a one m1 center on top, the room being dug out like 2 cellar, with port holes all around between the ground and the log. Three men were here—Moore, Daniels, and a mati named Lowery. The fowr of us, well armed and pro- visioned in. this dugout, could have stood off the whole Sioux tribe—at least that is the way we felt, anc the way you feel is the way you are. I was tired, hungry and sleepy, and after a good warm breakfast and a good smoke, I turned in for a good day’s sleep. 7% did not wake until late in the evening, feeling entirely rested, but the storm still raging and the snow quite deep. I had Jeff no tracks behind, consequently felt quite safe and concluded to stop here until the storm was over, keeping a good look out that no one passed me with another dis- patch. As long as I was in the lead, I was ail right, and the boys had plenty of grub. I spent the time helping the: boys skin beaver, which they were catching fast. The storm over, the sun came out warm and the snow was fast disappearing. I would soon be on the move again. One evening, after I had been in camp ahout a week, I concluded to take a little stroll alone. The timber belt at this place was quite large, on the north side of the river being over a mile wide and several miles long, with a good game trail about the middle. I took the trail, car- trying my.Winchester and three belts of cartridges, one over each shoulder and one around the waist.. With my vlasses, hunting knife and pipe I was rigged to perfec- tion. I must have gone about two miles from camp when I emerged from the upper end of the timber belt, and was just in the act of stepping out of the brush when I dis- covered eight Indians coming straight for the point where T was standing, and only about too yards off, all on the dead run. I knew they had not seen me as yet, and auicker than telling it, I was off, back down the trail [ had come, as fast as my legs could carry me. I had not gone very far when, stopping a moment, I heard them coming. As there were only eight and they had not seen me, I did not feel so badly scared, but had very little time io think, There was a large cottonwood tree standing near the trail and another fallen one that had lodged just in front of it and was thickly surrounded by willows. In a tiement I was under one and behind the other, and had no sooner got there than swish, swish, swish, I could liear their leggins rubbing against the willows until eight had passed. I could not tell whether they were Sioux or Crews, as they passed so quickly and I was so completely lidden that I could not see. After they haa passed, I got out and followed as fast as possible. I had not gone far when I concluded I had better fire my gun three times in quick sticcession, being the signal that Indians were coming. I was then about a mile from camp, and the boys, hearing my shots, would be on the Icokout and would give me some signal pretty soon. I waited for a time and hearing nothing left the trail and made for the viver, which I reached in a few minutes and. under the Lanks made my way toward camp. When I heard a shrill whistle I answered, and Daniels shouted that all was right. When I reached camp there were the eight In- dians; they were Craws and all old friends of mine; were en a horse-stealing trip against the Sioux. They re- inained two or three days making medicine. The snow now being nearly all gone, I concluded to move on. Lowery had made up his mind to go on to the antonment, so I would now have company the remain- cer of the way. We were now in the most dangerous portion of the indian country. On Pryor Creek, about twenty miles jurther down the river, were two men trapping, or sup- posed to be, but just where on the creek we did not know, but we hoped to strike them. We bade Moore and Daniels good-by, and with some bread, a little salt, coffee and tobacco, started for the Can- tonment on the sixth day of March. As we had plenty of timber, we concluded to travel during the day for the present, and at night when we got out of timber. In the «fiternoon it clouded up, got colder and had the appear- ance of another storm, and pretty soon the snow began to fall and by seven o’clock, when we reached the mouth of Pryor Creek, the snow was falling fast and already «bout two inches deep. We went up the creek probably a mile and not seeing any signs of Hubble znd Cox, we concluded to camp. We had just got our horses snugly cached in the head of a quaking asp hollow, when we were startled by a whole volley of rifle shots, at least fifty having been fired, and apparently about half a mile above us. Pretty scon bang, bang, went two rifles. In a few minutes an- cther roll of rifles, followed by the bang, bang of the two rifles again. It told the tale as plainly as if we could see it, the Indians had attacked the camp of Cox and aubble. We must get there and yet there quick. Almost before we could move came another roll of rifles followed by the bang of one lone gun. There! one of the boys is killed. A few minutes more, and while we were on our way to the rescue, came another roll of rifles, followed by no response. We stopped, heard the Indians yelling, and we knew the battle was over. We retraced our steps, as it was now getting quite dark and snowing so fast you could only see a few feet. We concluded to wait until morning and then go up the creek and find the camp and bodies of the two men, who we were satisfied were killed. We left the horses and took our bedding near the bank of the creek, making our bed on the snow. The hank was quite steep down to ice, and would make a fine place to fight from, in case we had to. In the most lonely place one could well imagine among some rose brier bushes, we made our bed and crawled in, with our clethes on and cartridge belts and rifles by our sides and with a wagon sheet over us. We were soon covered by a white quilt of snow, and to find us one would have been obliged to walk right on top of us. It was some time before I went tu-sleep. As I lay there I was thinking of an old, old man named Jackson, whom I had known in Nentucky when a boy only six or seven years old, and how I en- joyed to hear him tell, as I sat upon his knee, tales of the early settling of Kentucky, and give accounts of Indians and hunting which I then supposed was way back in old times and gone never to be again; and here I was, iwenty-five years afterward, in more of an Indian countiy and among worse Indians and better armed than either he » Apr tr, 1003.) sks. = 1 a an eg SE, or his father had ever see, and at this very moment was hiding and liable to be attacked at daylight. With such thoughts I went to sleep, and did not awake until near daylight. As soon as it began to get light I peeped from under the cover of snow. Looking across the creck I saw a fresh trail of some kind, not more than ten feet from the bank on the other side from where we lay. We got up, crossed over, and there we saw the unmistakable trail ot old Lew Hubble, easily recognized by the long strides he was famous for making when traveling. Another tale was told: Cox was killed, the camp destroyed, horses stolen and Hubble escaped on foot—for he never would liave left his companion alive. There was now no use ier us to visit the battle ground, Undorhtedly the In- dians were still lurking around, would discover Hubble’s trail and following it, would find ours. Hubble was probably miles away, and the sooner we left the better; sc, with all haste we saddled up and in less time than it takes to tell it we were off down the river, without any breakfast, It was still cloudy but not snowing. We traveled all forenoon without seeing anything except buf- falo. In the afternoon the snow began to fall again in fine feathery flakes. My neck was very tired from turning and looking in so many different directions. My mule was pulling back, the rope being tied around the horn of my saddle under my gun sling, and in reaching back to pull her along I looked back and about half a mile away saw about forty or more Indian ponies coming on the dead run. I could see no Indians, but I well knew that each pony carried one. As my lead rope had got wet from the snow, I could not untie it. I jerked out my hunting knife, hallooed “Indians!” cut the rope, let the mule go, and struck out. with all speed to cross the river on the ice at the head of a long canyon about one-fourth of a mile ahead. We had now left the timber on the side of the river we were on, and must cross in a hurry. As soon as we commenced our run, the Indians knew they were dis- covered, so straightened up on their ponies and began their wolf-like yelling, which scared the mule almost to death, She ran so fast she got in the lead, and was bouncing around like a jack rabbit. We were now almost -at the crossing, when, to my horror, I saw on the other side about the same number of Indians on the run, and mutking for the same crossing, and every one of them yelling with all his might. What should we do? There Was no time to think. Should we kill our horses and fight from behind them? Nothing else to do. The tim- ber was behind and Indians between it and us, and In- dians in front. We were now at the crossing, the mule in the lead, and -hearing the Indians in front as well as behind she started straight down the canyon or the ice, and almost before we knew what we were doing, we were right behind the mule, sharp shod and going like the wind, The ice was as clear as glass and hard as flint. We turned in our saddles, saw the Indians all on the ice and slipping in every direction. They couldn’t make the riffle ! is ‘We gave them a few shots and turned a crook in the canyon—which, by the way, was several hundred feet high and several miles to go around—and were out of - sight and out of present danger, and safe. Thanks to the mule, I felt as if I could kiss her, bless her! About three- fourths of a mile down the canyon, immediately at the lower end, was the island just above old Fort Pease. The island was about one mile long and perhaps half a mile wide at the widest place and well timbered, with plenty of grass in beautiful meadow-like spots, surrounded by a heavy growth of cottonwood. When we reached the island we felt, for the time, perfectly safe, knowing full well that no Indian was going to approach an island where white men were known to be in hiding. However, we made a cold camp, and after getting plenty of bark for our horses went to sleep. Coon Tat. Vessel Island. RareicH, N. C—There are many strange things in North Carolina, but surely one of the strangest of them all is a vessel which in forty years has changed from a three-masted schooner to an island of exquisite loveliness, its masts being trees and its rigging vines. During the Civil War there lived in Tyrrell county S. S. Simmons, a tich planter, well known by memory to the present old inhabitants of the quaint town of Columbia, the county seat. Tyrrell is half land and half water at any time, but when the wind is from the northeast and the water is blown in upon it from the great sounds which form its boundary, but little land is left uncovered. It is threaded Ly streams, most of them currentless. During the mid- dle period of the Civil War Federal sailors were con- tinually scouting in these waters. Practically the only means of travel and transportation was then, and is now, by boat. The old planter had numbers of boats and ves- sels of various descriptions. A short arm or prong of the Secuppernong River was the only place of safety for his craft, and up this he drew them. The point is what is known as the head of navigation, and beyond it the boats, which only drew one and a half to two feet of water, were taken to safety and could be gotten off again. One three-masted schooner, the Wylie Burgess, which he used in the lumber trade and which was occasionally on filibustering expeditions, was chased by a party of Federal ‘sailors up the Scuppernong River. Dusk came on, and the schooner turned into the arm or prong referred to, which is narrow, and the opening to which is almost concealed by dense cypress swamps on either side, with a tangle of vines of all kinds and other vegetation, this be- ing aided by the immense quantity of tillandsia or gray- beard moss which draped every tree and made a veritable pertiere to the entrance to this quiet lagoon. The wind was strong astern and the fleeing schooner, when some distance up this haven of safety, went hard and fast aground, but was also effectually hidden from the enemy. But the vessel was immovable and could not be dug out, and so was stripped and left there, merely the hull, the masts and the rigging being left. Lee’s sur- render ahd the end of the war came, and when quiet reigned the planter was called upon to remove this ob- struction, but he could do nothing. His money, his slaves, his food, all were gone, and nothing was left but broad acres of land and water, U The records show to-day that eaaliiesssnes were : : + FOREST AND STREAM. + instituted against Mr. Simmons to force him to remove the obstructing vessel, but even an order of coutt could not make him do the impossible. So to this day, forty years since she grotinded there, the old schooner still rests in the quiet lagoon. It is now a trie island, retain- ~ ing its boat shape, its gunwales broadly outlined by bands of greenest moss atid grass, its masts trees growing vigorously, and laced together by cabled vines of grape and bamboo, which make it a mass of greenery summer and winter alike. The whole outline is distinet, and standing on the bridge which now spans the lagoon or prong, quite near the island-vessel, it requires no effort of the imagination to see that nature has here wrought a miracle indeed. The skétches which accompany this arti- cle, and which were made on the spot by Mr. L. T, Yar- borough, lately a member of the State survey party en- gaged in the survey of the swamp lands, show this strange dense cypress growth. A Scubbernong River B The Frang or Lagoon C The Vessel-Island D Bridge E Koad freak very clearly, both from a distance and near at hand. Inquiries were made by the engineers which developed the facts given in the story above. State Senator Spruill, from the district embracing Tyr- rell county, verifies the story in all particulars, and says he has seen the vessel-island a thousand times. It is shown as the county’s greatest curiosity. Mr. Yar- borough and Senator Spruill have been on the island. The cypress-stained water of the lagoon looks nearly as black as ink, and this deepens the effect. The hatches Ieok like large sunken graves. Frep A, OLps, ATramp through Primeval Vermont OPEN a map of Vermont and glance at the strip of country lying between the Passumpsic and the Connecticut rivers and extending northward to the Canadian line. Itis a district quite flat, according to the map, and checked off into townships with here and there, at intervals timidly wide, the name of a pond or stream, No network of black lines representing roads vexes the eye, while names with such a far away sound as “Cow Mountain” and “Moose River” add to your conviction that here, extending into the midst of civilization, is a veritable arm of the wilder- ness, It is a land of untamed forest, health-giving air, pure water, absolute silence, of every quality, in fine, that gives to one the sense of living close to nature. The grosser attractions, too, of fish and game will prove suffi- cient to satisfy the saner taste which is beginning slowly but surely to penetrate our ideals of sport. The easiest way to enter this miniature wilderness is to go by rail to some point on its eastern margin along the upper Connecticut and then follow one of the moun- tain streams which pour their cold waters into the river. The country becomes more and more elevated as one goes westward until it rises at last into a line of high hills and mountains whose western slopes fall steeply toward the Passumpsic. These heights at once confront you if you enter from the west and the trails are far more difficult; but the distance to the heart of the wilderness is less and the transition from civilization is more abrupt. We chose the western route. Half an hour’s walk from the little village of East Haven took us fairly into the woods. The first few miles of the trail had been almost totally obliterated by that untidiest of earth’s children, the lumberman, who had piled upon it all the debris of his misnamed clearings. But we struggled on by the aid of the compass, crossed the divide separating the valleys of the Passumpsic and the Connecticut, and toward evening entered a little clear- ing, where stood our first hostelry in the wilderness, a bark lean-to. Everywhere in this region we found these forest inns, well located-with a view to the best hunting and fishing, and, in lieu of rent, kept in some sort of repair by the few guests that visit them each year. They are built of birch and hemlock bark and accommodate comfortably four or five sleepers. The one before us fronted on a brook whose water seemed as brown as coffee. In the rear rose the unbroken forest of spruce, fir and hemlock, interspersed with deciduous trees, most numerous among which were the white and yellow birch and the sugar maples. The first hours in camp are busy ones. The packs are laid aside. The lean-to, which looks a bit pervious to Tain, is patched by those of the party who rank as “skilled Iebor,” while the others hew birch logs enough to last out the night and gather hemlock twigs for the bed. These and numerous other tasks must be performed before the camp is habitable. And yet there is always time for some- one to test the brook, as if to assure us that the trout are really there. But it is when the first woodland meal has been eaten and the primitive dinner service put away that the time ‘steaming campfire, and the songs with 283 comes which one loves best im camp. “With your pipe lighted you sit or recline at full length upon the blanket above the springy boughs, watch the crackling birch logs and the oily blaze of the bark, and feel perfectly content. It is a sensation as old as humanity. You get a taste of it by your own fireside at home, but to feel its full power you must reproduce the conditions of primitive man, shape a rude shelter in the lonely forest, hew the wood and build the fire with your own hands. Then and then only shall you know it to. the full. Nor is that after time without if8 peculiar pleasure when, having rolled your- self in your blanket, feet to the fire in Indian fashion, and having slept off your first weariness, you awake to find the fire burning low and casting ruddy gleams over your sleeping comrades, while outside in the forest all is silent save for the purl of the brook and the ghostly cry of some night bird. Then suddenly there comes over you the ‘The Vessel-Island — overpowering mystery of the woods; the steepling trees, the moonlit clouds, the flowing air of -night—everything about you seems overfull of a meaning. you cannot fathom. You only know that it is good to live. The brown brook, brown only because of its bed, for the water when dipped into a glass'was of colorless purity, was to be our almost constant companion until we reached the Connecticut. It is well to be sure of your traveling companions, and so it was decided that two of us who were strangers to the brook should spend the first day in forming a more intimate acquaintance, while the other two followed the trail to inspect our next camp. A day’s ramble along an unfamiliar trout stream in the virgin forest! Can anything appeal more deeply to the heart of the forest lover who has been shut away from such things for a year? The dewy bushes still breathe forth the coolness of the night, the brook flashes past, leading you on through sunlight and shadow to surprises ever new—now a series of foaming cascades, where you clamber with care down the face of boulders slippery from the spray, now beneath the branches of some ancient cedar whose gnarled majesty you must pause fora moment to survey. And constantly you are lured onward by the angler’s instinct that bids: you test the contents of just one more pool; and that is why fishermen are always late home. We were still on the upper waters of the stream and the trout did not in any case exceed a half pound in weight, but they were numerous and hungry, and as we climbed back through the ravine to camp we were quite satisfied. Some philosopher has re- marked that “It is not all of fishing to fish,” but if you are a true disciple of old Izaak, it is no less true that there 18 no real fishing without some fish. The preserice of so many trout in that ravine added just the little touch that rendered our day perfect, Unknown Pond! How the very name suggests the wil- derness undefiled! To this’ little mountain tarn, one of many which le at different points along the stream, separated from it by a few miles of forest, we moved on the third day. But trials were in store for us first. | If you have ever experienced a series of violent thunder- storms in the woods you will be able to appreciate our lot for the next thirty-six hours. About two o’clock in the morning we were aroused by the roll of thunder, and soon came the heavy downpour of«rain. The lean-to was tight, however; and we remained dry, but it was a cold and cheerless’ breakfast that we snatched between the showers, The brook became in a few hours a raging torrent, sweeping away two of our precious cakes of soap, which were two feet above the water when we left them on the preceding evening. All day and far into the night a succession of storms swept over that forest. Some passed around us and some did not, but never for more than a few minutes at a time was the sound of thunder absent from our | ears. By good luck the trail to the pond was com- paratively free from brush, which in rainy weather is wetter than a shower bath, and the distance was but: six miles, so that by dodging between the showers we arrived in fairly dry condition. Our activity at Unknown Pond was restricted to the interior of the lean-to. Fortunately for us this | ‘was a matvel of good workmanship and shed the heavy rain perfectly, but outside everything was afloat. The whole landscape was blurred with rain. But he is no true lover of nature who cannot bear with her when she frowns, and as I think of that snug lean-to, the I which we en- livened the night, I would not have had it otherwise. Of all our camps, the last and the best was that at “the forks.” In a cozy clearing, between the two main branches of the stream, stood a little wooden shanty about eight feet by ten, containing a small stove. After 284 FOREST +-AND STREAM. {Apein tr, 1003. Le nrc SSS ss css Seen an open lean-to this seemed luxurious. It had been erected by hunters who visit that region in the fall for deer,.and its walls were decorated with legends in charcoal certilying.to their success. The only ten- ant when we arrived was a lively red squirrel, whom we interrupted as he was feasting upon a bit of sult pork left. by a recent fishing party. He objected noisily to our,occupancy and scuttled back and forth across the roof and up and down the sides of the cabin at all hours, once. or twice ruffling the hair of one of our party who happened to be obstructing his favorite pathway, the door post. : At the forks we occupied a strategic position. Be- low us ran the main stream, wide, free from overhang- ing branches, an ideal place to cast a fly. Above we had a choice. of the two large branches by tollowing either of which we could reach still other trtbutaries smaller, but all swarming with trout.’ There were miles of alternating rapid and pool, and all of these localities were within easy tramping distance of the camp, which could always be reached by following the stream. Even the inexperienced camper can scarcely lose his way when running water is his guide. Thus, whether we wished a day’s trip or a few hours of cast- ing, our tastes were alike gratified. I may not dwell on all the details of those happy days, but no account of our pilgrimage would be com- plete without some mention of the birds, whose pres- ence and song contributed so much to our enjoyment. How much one misses in the woods from lack of a little knowledge of ornithology! Our party included no ex- pert, and so we saw and heard many birds which we were unable to identify. With the commoner birds, however, we were well acquainted. The woodpeckers, especially the flicker, were frequently seen; the junco titted about our camps; we saw many cedar birds, and the thin, clear note of the white-throated sparrow was ever in the air. One day we came upon a saw-whet owl blinking beside the trail in a leafless bush... He had evidently staid out too late (or too early) and mistaken his roost. But the bird that gave us most delight, the bird whose song seems to me to embody the very essence of those northern woods, is the hermit thrush. At any hour of the day this inimitable songster could be heard, but it was while the silent twilight was set- tling upon the woods that he made his supreme effort, a veritable vesper hymn. I shall never forget on one particular evening, as we were hurrying campward alter a hard day in a tangled swamp, how every cop- pice seemed to give forth a melody. Nature herself seemed speaking to us. Of four-footed inhabitants of the woods, we saw but few—squirrels, of course, a mink, a rabbit or two, and one of the party was vouchsafed one of the privi- leges of nature, the sight of a deer in the wilderness. Indeed, it is surprising that others were not seen, for the sand ‘bars along the stream were close trodden with delicate hoof-marks, and the angler makes little noise as he practices the gentle art. Bears came not near us, although on previous expeditions to this region one of our party had several times been with- in hearing of them. How; much the hungry pilgrim to the woods will eat is a question that will probably never be answered for lack’ of materials. We, at least, could not answer it. At the start our packs seemed composed of little else than provisions, but four days of hard tramping and harder eating had made fearful inroads. We were unscientific enough to carry bread, and all the good loayes which -had been literally the staff of life to us were gone. The coffee and tea had followed suit and the rest of our stock was exceedingly low. Trout we had always-with us, but even trout, when ungarnished, pall upon the palate. An expedition sent out to the farms along the Connecticut failed to postpone long the inevitable. Bread was the chief object of this expedition, but’ we were told that “the men were a-hayin’ and the bread was all et up.” Two good housewives: were, however, persuaded to bake for us some five dozen biscuit. We secured, in addition, some trifles, such aS eggs, potatoes, ginger bread, maple sugar and some “drawin’s” of tea, but in three days starvation once more stared us in the face. And so, perforce, we bade good-by to the forks. An easy tramp of eight miles over a good trail brought us out into a lofty pasture, from which we gained a splendid view of the narrow river valley and the mountains of New Hampshire. Noon found us lunching bounti- fully at a farm house, and by mid-afternoon we were bowling along the Maine Central toward the humdrum haunts of civilization, far from that Mecca of the tired brainworker, the wilderness. A. W. wu “Bad Men.” Editon Forest and Stream: The sketches. published recently in Forest AND STREAM, having some of the southwestern gun and knife fighters as subjects, were specially interesting. I regretfully note, however, that on the part of the writers there is a ten- dency to treat those tough fighters from a heroic point of view. In Forest awp StrREAM of March 28, Capt. Flynn introduces King Fisher to your readers, and, as per the card adverted to’ in the article. one would fancy that King Fisher was an honorable officer of the law who took rather a defiant method of discovering himself to Judge Bean, the law west of the Pecos, and that such was a mere incident of his law-abiding career. As a-matter of fact, King Fisher was one of the greatest criminals with which the State of Texas ever had to “deal... He also was the leader of a gang of the worst criminals that ever preyed upon society. Its mem- bers were numerous, and were desperadoes of the most desperate type. Murder to them was a pastime. Like most of the criminals of that time and place, Fisher lived a nomadic life-in the wilderness, though having places of refuge) when hard pressed, which were selected because of their natural properties as a fortress, or the friendli- ness of the surrounding settlers, or both. I never saw King Fisher myself, but I have listened to descriptions of him by men who had seen him, and they described him as a short, stockily-built man, with a face so hard of expression that a city suit of clothes could not soften, and manners so assured that no judge west of the Fecos or anywhere else in that region, would mistake him for a tenderfoot. If I remember correctly, King Fisher and his band were so formidable that the available power of the State of Texas was unsuccessful in coping with them. In the immense region of forest and desert within the boundaries ot Texas, there were innumerable natural hiding places for men who were thoroughly schooled in the lore of the woodsman and the plainsman, There were other bands here and there throughout the State, equally desperate but of lesser fame. Some of the good citizens who followed regular vocations, and who were dignified by having permanent places of domi- cile, had none too great a reverence for the law or the rights of others, so he was not without spies and sym- pathizers. But there was a gradually progressive movement to- ward law and order; lawless gangs were captured, dis- persed or exterminated. King Fisher saw that the be- ginning of the end had come, so he bargained with the Texan authorities for immunity from the legal punish- ment which he had many hundred times earned, in return aiding the authorities to bring his fellow ruffians to jus- tice. He fulfilled his part of the compact faithfully, and, there beimg a constant use for a man of his peculiar talents in rogue catching, he was advanced to the office of deputy sheriff, or some such law officer. That he should be mistaken for a tenderfoot by any citizen of Texas is preposterous. That he should invite all the loungers to drink the Judge’s whisky and then lay down a dollar on the bar is equally preposterous. {nh those days a dollar would buy only one or two drinks in that section, and in any event King Fisher was not the kind of man who cared much to settle the damages caused by his lawless shooting. But King Fisher was not specially notable as an excep- tional instance. He was one-of hundreds, and only came more conspicuously to the surface because of his talent for leadership, fighting ability and great criminal record. There were hundreds of others. Another desperado was Ben Thompson, who could assume the character of a tenderfoot to perfection. He had a penchant for neat gloves and natty dress. I hap- pened to be in Houston, Texas, soon after he and King Fisher were killed together in San Antonio, and talked of him with a number of people who knew him well. That he was a nervy desperado there is no doubt. He was cunning to a degree, for in his wanton encounters, of which he had many, he so manipulated circumstances that he could make a good legal plea of self-defense. He would let the opposition reach for his or their guns first; then, being very quick on the trigger, and being able to shoot accurately with a gun in each hand, he had his man or men dead in a few moments. He rather sought encounters, and seemed to crave killing for the sake of killing. He carried his pistols in a specially prepared vest. They were large 44’s, and the handles were within easy grasp on his chest. whip them out much more quickly than a man could take one from his hip pocket. I was told that, once tipon a time,.he entered the bar of one of Houston’s best hotels. He was arrayed in fine city clothes, not forgetting kid gloves. There were three cr four men present to whom the advent of a tenderfoot was like unto a wave of happiness. They tempestuously invited the tenderfoot to drink; he coyly declined. He was looking for trouble. Then came the conventional ultimatum of the lawless hosts, the big revolver pointed tenderfoot-ward which was supposed to persuade any tenderfoot to drink, be he ever so reluctant. Immediately then Thompson pulled out his big revolvers, fired rapidly with each hand, and had the whole company dead before one could say scat. It was said of him that he would take journeys betimes near the Rio Grande, and when he returned he would have his bridle reins decorated from end to end with “ereasers’”’ ears, tacked on evenly and artistically. No doubt bad whisky was the inspiring cause of many of the evil deeds of these men. The two worthies, Ben Thompson and King Fisher, while on a spree in the early 80’s conceived the plan of going to San Antonio and settling some old grievances with the proprietor of a “theatre” in that city. They must have been much below their average in degree of cun- ning, for to their enemy they telegraphed their coming and its purpose. It was a case then of forewarned fore- armed. The two worthies arrived according to schedule, and at the first display of hostility they were shot down by men stationed in advantageous places within the theatre for that particular purpose. Even then Ben Thompson shot one of the assistants in the thigh as he knocked down Thompson’s pistol, and the wound caused death a few days afterward. The two desperadoes were both dead soon after they were shot. Thus passed away two of the greatest Texan “bad men” of modern times. _ Strange to relate there were many law-abiding, peace- ful citizens who admired the two desperadoes, and they had many good friends where, in the proper order of things, they should have had only enemies. Some few good deeds accredited to them seem to have been of sufficient weight, in-the opinion of a few admirers, to more than counterbalance their infinite deeds of evil. And yet their good deeds, if there were any, if performed by a man who had no setting of crime wherewith to make violent contrast, would have passed unnoticed because they were commonplace or devoid of the spectacular. The general feeling, however, was one of relief, and that, if two Texans must have gone into the eternal dark- néss, no two could have been better spared. Those were the days when the reign of the “bad man” was drawing to a close. The reputation was once much desired by a certain class of men, but there came a time when a man with a bad reputation was watched and marked by the better class of men. He was considered a common enemy and on the first overt act he found the hand of every honest man against him, which meant weatu, Those were lawless times, even from a Texan standpoint, but it must not be overlooked that the per- sonal code of settling difficulties is much more liberally From that position he could interpreted even to-day in that State than it is in the Northern States. In my opinion it is a mistake to glorify the “bad man.” ‘The few acts of desperate courage or chivalry are no true iidex to the real characters of those men, They were predatory rather than productive. In a way, they had nothing worth living for, unless we admit that the life of the wolf is worth the living. As a class, they were dense- ly ignorant, lawless, dissipated, and in money matters of the robber and murderer class. Of course, there are ex ceptions, but these remarks apply to the general run of the class of bad men. Probably none of the lot are more famous than is Jim Bowie. He had personal encounters innumerable, went through them all victorious though not always unharmed, and died bravely in the Alamo. Yet withal his apparently patriotic death, he was as great a ruffiian as ever escaped the gallows. He craved brawling and blood for its owa sake. As a citizen of Louisiana, he was an habitual loafe; - and ne’er-do-well, was in constant brawls and fends, and, being cunning and wonderfully expert in the use of the knife—one of a well-known pattern which he devised bears his name—he was marvelously successful. It is said of him that he was ambidextrous; that he could shift his knife from one hand to the other with lightning dexterity, which, combined with superior physical supple-_ ness and agility, made him a most alarming and danger- ous foeman. When he left Louisiana for Texas there was a feeling there that he left his country for his country’s good, and that Texas was welcome to his person and his talents. That he never got hanged or imprisoned for life was one of the peculiar happenings in the formative stages of a country’s development of which the West and Southwest a few years ago furnished many illustrious examples. But in any event, I think it unfair to parade the bad man as a hero unless it is mentioned also that he was a criminal, if such he was, and there is no doubt whatever that the men under special consideration were criminals of the deepest dye. CuHas. Day, Experiences of Amateur Sportsmen. An Interesting ‘Tale Spiced with Sarcasm—How ‘Two Wives Knew More than Two Husbands who were Short ou Kuowledge. THe New York Observer and the Forest AND STREAM usually come to us by the same mail, and in the evening my husband and I become forgetful of each other and the world, as he reads the paper last named and I drink in the religious and secular news of the Observer. My husband will not read the Ob- server, giving as his (flimsy) excuse that it carries many fake financial advertisements; but some allow- ance has to be made for him, for in his -re- ligious sentiments he is of the Golden-Rule- Brother-of-Man kind. I did not read the Forest AND STREAM for a long time, for I believed it to be a sporting paper, and I hate the word “sporting.” . But when one evening a few months ago my husband explained to me the difference between “sporting” and “sportsman,” and said his paper came under the last denomination, my prejudice passed away, and since then I have found much pleasure and very wholesome information in reading it; and I further confess it has inspired within me considerable desire to become a sportsman myself. I am specially fond of its cleanli- ness. It was early last spring when my husband said, one evening after a long reading of his paper, that he was inclined to take a vacation in the Adirondacks and see what it was like. He being a hard-working man and in need of rest, I supported the proposition, and the more we discussed the subject the more his inclination was strengthened, until finally he resolved to go late in April. It was now early in March, and as days wore away, he became enthusiastic, especially as his close friend, Donald, had promised to accompany him, He never had studied his catechism so thoroughly as he read the ForREST AND STREAM eyen to the advertise- ments these days, and he also read several circulating library books on “Camp Life,” “The First Principles of Angling,” “Woodcrait” and others. He read chap- ter after chapter to me after I had fallen asleep in my cosy rocking chair surieited with what he had previ- ously read. My husband spent much time and more money in gathering an outfit for that, his first trip as a sports- man, and I also took keen interest in the work, which was quite new to him and especially so to me. I saw things I had never seen before, and asked many ques- tions in relation to them, all of which Jack was kind enough to answer as well as his own information would permit. : Every day for three weeks previous to the date of the projected trip, at least one article of some kind would come to the house, and on some days a dozen or more things would be delivered... Two or three days after, every evening when Jack had studied the Forrest AnD STREAM advertisements more faithfully than usual, a lot of things would come by express from New York. Very soon his den became well filled with his pur- chases, when he meekly asked my permission to use the adjoining sewing room, and of course, consent was readily given, and it too was soon so well filled that’ when packing time came, the work had to be done in the hall, Incidentally, one day while this gathering of an outfit was in progress | was made somewhat unhappy by the half-hidden appearance of several black quart bottles, against which my suspicions were aroused, Yet I could not really distrust Jack, for he could not have | found in his paper, by which.he swore, not profanely, any suggestion that spirit-disturbing influence should constitute any part of his outfit. But I was entirely relieved of my vague suspicions, and chided myself for them, when my husband came home at night, and in reply to my early and earnest inquiry, told me that the bottles contained tar oil, to be used in protecting him- self from annoyance by flies. I could have hugged him for thus relieving my mind, but did not, for to have done so would have been to expose my weakness in the entertainment of my suspicion. : See ee Aprit. tt, 1963.] : -When completed, Jack’s collection must have been most complete. It not only comprised 167 articles, but they ranged all along the sportsman’s line, from the very handsome and very expensive meerschaum pipe which I bought for him in Europe while on our honey- moon, to an iron boat anchor weighing a hundred pounds or more. His friend Donald, who had spent hours and hours with Jack in discussing preparations for the trip, had a similar outfit. a _ When packing time came I watched the process with great interest, and I confess, with a strong desire that I might, with Henrietta, Donald’s wife, accompany the twain, But, though Jack had always been one of the most indulgent of husbands, he met my diffidently ex- pressed wish with the remark that aiter he reached camp if he found it to be comfortable and congenial for women, we might be invited to have our wishes for wild experiences in the wilderness gratified. But this meant but little to me, and my wishes vanished. I continued to lend him a helping hand, however, just as if my hopes had not been crushed most mercilessly. Among the many, many articles of his equipment was a hundred or more yarieties of flies, for the “‘finny tribe” and “speckled beauties,’ he said; his “trusty, unerrine” rifle of .22 caliber, a 12-ounce lancewood fly-rod, which would “cast a fly like a feather,” he as- sured me, and a heavy, strong bait-rod, both supplied with half a dozen extra tips. His tents were carefully _ wound over the tent poles, after repeated trials, to suit his fastidious taste. Then his rubber suit, cap-a-pie, stiff and contrary and sttiffed with numerous articles until it stood out in full form, perplexed him in the handling of it, and was finally disposed of by undoing one of the tents and wrapping it therein. Blankets, pillows, material for a mattress, two suits of under and outer clothing, ulster and rain coats, a leather sack coat, a bath robe, a pair of long and a pair of short rubber boots, three pairs of shoes, one pair hob- nailed, a pair of slippers and a sleeping bag made of a buffalo skin, were among the articles for personal com- fort and convenience, of which the list omitted was many times Jonger than the list enumerated. Then there was a list of cooking conveniences, longer than an inventory of the articles in my kitchen, all the way from a nutmeg grater to a filteen-quart kettle; also some cainp comforts, such as an oil stove, kero- sene lamp and shade, large mifror, earthen washbowl and pitcher, and perfumed soap, rose blankets for outer covering, tableware, etc., etc. A Rushton boat, a canvas boat and-one in two parts, to be used for “‘porterages,” he said, and a lot of ‘Sack” lanterns, electric lamps and carpenter’s tools made up one lot. ; The supplies for the table did not come to the house, but were sent direct from the grocery. It did’ not seem to me that he had overlooked a single thing in his list of 167 pieces, yet when he re- turned he said he had 148 things he didn’t need and was short of some simple ones which he really did need. Evening after evening was spent in getting the duf- fle into transportable shape, and we were both glad when the end came and the great rolls of tents and their contents, and the big boxes were ready for the trip, all neatly marked “Liberty Camp, Heron Lake, Adirondacks.” Bright and early on one Monday morning late in April, Henrietta and I accompanied our respective husbands to the station to “see them off.” All was haste and excitement for a few minutes, for the bag- gage master absolutely refused to permit the transpor- tation of the camp equipment as ordinary baggage, and not until a goodly “tip” had been accepted for “excess baggage” was the controversy settled. This accom- plished, our two husbands proudly tread the station platform in their $115 sportsmen’s suits, with daggers and revolvers in their belts, and with us at their el- bows, while sweet adiets were said, until the train rolled into the station. In a moment they were gone! And as Henrietta and I walked along toward our respective homes the awful thought came over us that whereas we were now only grass widows, what if some awiul accident should befall them by. which we would be made sod widows! The horrible thought did not forsake me during the entire day, and disturbed my sleep at night. It was some ten days before a letter came from either Jack or Donald, and then both Henrietta and I were made happy and forgot the talks we had had about being “neglected”; that while they were having a good time they were also’ unmindful of us, etc., etc. We were in each other’s company almost constantly dur- ing this absence of our husbands, and if there was any- thing omitted as a topic for conversation it was done through forgetfulness or want of information. We did no gossiping, however, strange as it might seem, We talked about our friends and neighbors and people in general whom we did not know personally, to be sure, and did some criticising, but no gossiping. I hate gossipers! Each told the other many society secrets, some of them very surprising, some of which it would do no harm to repeat, for they were “too good to keep.” Jack’s letter was long, endearing, and readable. I take some extracts from it: “We reached our camp late Monday night, after a beastly ride in a farm wagon a distance of eleven miles from the railroad, We couldn't bring all of our sup- plies, so the greater part was left to come in the next day, but it didn’t come until Wednesday night, two days late. While I had made arrangements previously, as I had supposed, by letter for two guides, leaving the exact date when wanted to’ be fixed by telegraph, we found, to our great surprise, five guides on hand. This came from a blunder of the telegraph operator, who substituted ‘ten’ for ‘two’ in my telegram. ‘Two guides must be at camp Monday not later than noon.’ A consultation among the guides at the place where the message was received ended in the conclusion that not more than five guides could be advantageously em- ployed by two men, and so that number came. We doubted the expediency of keeping so many in service, but they explained to us that we each needed a guide while fishing or hunting, that there should be a cook, a “FOREST AND STREAM, wood cutter, and one held’ in reserve to take the place of one who might become incapacitated. This seemed: reasonable, and we retained all of them, “We haven’t done much hunting or fishing yet be- cause the flies are so thick, I have used up most of my tar oil, and wish you would call at Trouter’s, and tell him to duplicate my previous order and send_it by express and buckboard at once to ‘Liberty Camp, Heron Lake, Adirondacks.’ "T fished one evening, using a primrose fly, My line tangled a good deal at first, and later I lost what the guide said was the biggest fish he ever saw. In my haste I cast again, hooked the guide in the ear and had to go ashore and get it out—the hook, I mean. The guide said the weather wasn‘t favorable for fishing. “There was sotme snow on the ground, which I, thought was good for still-hunting, according to the Forest AND STREAM, so I got out my rifle one morn- ing and went off on a hunt, moving most cautiously. I saw no deer. When I returned one of the guides had the impudence to tell me that in April deer were so poor that they could not stand alone; hence I could not see one; also that if I had killed one I would be subject to a fine of $250. I should have thought the guide was under the influence of liquor if there had been any within five miles of camp. ’ “Now, about the coming here of you and Henrietta, Nothing could be more comfortable than our accom- modations, and we live high. We are told by the guides that they never saw a more ufique camp; that’ it is built and conducted according to the ideas of a true sportsman. I was not sure whether he was compli- menting me or some other sportsman. Yot would find it an awful hard trip coming in here, and would suffer from the great swarms of punkies, wasps, bees and deer flies; but perhaps you could get on with them. We both wish you and Henrietta were here, yet we are agreed that we cannot’ urge you to come; indeed, to ’ be entirely frank with you we should advise you not. to come, as much as we want to see you, if you were to ask our ‘opinion,’ ” After reading my letter my mind was filled with queries, and the more I considered it the more my curiosity was arotised. I called immediately on Hen- rietta and found that she had received a letter from Donald, and on comparing the two letters they were so much alike that it was perfectly apparent that our husbands had agreed tipon the stories they would tell; and it was also too apparent that they’ could get on without us. The more we discussed these letters the more determined were we to unravel the mysteries, and it was not without some of the spirit of a woman who cannot abide deception by her husband that we very soon resolved that we would pay a visit to Lib- erty Camp, Heron Lake, Adirondacks, and we con- . cluded to start at once on the morrow, and spent the remainder of the day and evening in putting our golf suits in order for the trip. With only hand bags for baggage, off we went, and without special incident during the trip to relate. When’ within half a mile of the camp, an hour or more be- fore sundown, we halted the horses and walked the re- mainder of the way that we might stealthily’ surprise the settlement, which we did. We found not a line of tents, which we expected to see, but a bark shanty, seedy from age, with the earthen floor covered with last year’s balsam boughs. The surroundings were no less forbidding. There was not a sign of the camp comforts or cooking utensils which our husbands” had transported from home; in fact, theré was nothing to relieve the utter desolation of the place. The five guides, who were comfortably seated at a card game when we came upon them, were scarcely © civil to us; but one of them did take the trouble to explain that our husbands were “off somewhere fish- in’,’ and probably would soon return: so we had noth- ing to do but wait for their coming and discuss: the situation. ing about equally mixed with surprise. Shortly after this we proposed a stroll, mainly for an opportunity to “talk it over” with our husbands and ascertain why they were pursuing such an utterly bar-_ barian life. We found that they were the victims of five lazy, shiftless guides without knowing it; that they, the guides, had conspired together and under various reasons and sundry statements plausible to a tender- foot, had really convinced our husbands that the life they were leading was that of genuine sportsmen—the other extreme of their ideas of the subject at home. There was not one single comfort to be had, for it ~ would have cost the guides extra work, and very little work and full pay was their main object in life. None but the plainest food had been miserably provided, though the supplies embraced much which was luxuri- ous; but this was explained later, when it was found ~ that the guides had made free use of the luxurfes-in the absence of Jack and Donald. I had never before really believed in hypnotism, but now I did, as I surveyed the situation. Henrietta and I spent the night as best we could, and in the morning were up bright and early, and firmly resolved to establish a condition of affairs which was endurable. To that end we ordered the guides to bring the tents and other things stored under a tree, to a pretty opening in the timber on the shore of the lake near a beautiful spring. There was a short consultation ' and some disgtiised appearance of rebellion among them; but soon they took up their work seemingly with a full understanding of what was expected of them, and long before the sun set we had a camp well pitched and supplied with the comforts and some of the luxuries of life, together with a thousand and one things we did not need, of course, but as they were present”all pos- sible use was made of everything. The ideals of the men when at home were quite fully realized. Here we remained for two weeks, and found the very bliss of enjoyment; but this transformation never would have come about only that two women in- - tuitively saw that laziness and falsity on the part of the guides was the reason for such imposition upon two men haying their first experience in Adirondack camp life. Since these experiences—which, in the main, I hope to have repeated year by year—I have been told by old | When they came there was a warm greet- 285 most-shiftless, inexperiencéd-men- in -the- Adirondacks who call themselves guides and prey. upon uninitiated visitors to that exhibition of mature_in primeval ’- grandeur in the ‘Adirondacks, “the great body .of guides are men of character and trustworthiness, faith- ful to their*employers under all circumstances. — None can’ know what rest, general physical benefit and happiness is to be found in the right kind of camp and reliable sportsmen that, while there is a class of life in the Adirondacks until he shall have spent a, month or more in-such experiences. I do not mean such — ‘ >? _“camps”’ as cost large sums of money and are sur- rounded by the' vast acreages’ which great fortunes can secure as’ against the humble, and poor, but honest, citizen, Rather choose, whatevér your means may be, a new and clean bark protection from the weather, . Pleasantly situated in some secluded place near a lake and spring, where nature will give plentifully of her’ great bounty for the renewal of health and strength. JACK’s WIFE. Shatural | History. ———— ‘ Spring in the Adirondacks, Tue first sign of spring in the Adirondacks is seen when the snow is five or six feet deep and the ther- mometer registers below the freezing point. It is the foil- lowing of one fox by another. One will find the tracks leading along over: the snow, sometitnes with the track of the second fox placed squarely in the first, so that you | could not tell that two had passed by.’ It marks the be- ginning of the mating season of a great number of birds and animals. Probably the next sign is the coming of the crow, about the first of March. He does not winter here as he does in most parts of the State, but comes along about the time the first bare ground shows on top of hills and knolls of the sandy farms which are to be found close to the edge of the “big woods.” The dickcisse!—some-, times called the little meadowlark—a bird whose call may: be mistaken for the common meadowlark—follows soon ” after the crow. The meadowlark does not come until late | in March. The skunk is not a good timepiece by which to tell the coming of spring, for: he comes’ out at most any time, in the winter during a good thaw. But if one will stroll around a little about the first of March, when the ther- mometer is above 32°Fahrenheit, he’ will*see its tracks leading aimlessly about over the granular snow, and per- _ chance he will see the animal itself, for now he goes about in’ broad ‘daylight, even when the’ sun is brightly‘ shining, eee | The rains of early spring make a sight in the woods ' well worth standing out in the wet to see. As thé warm damp air comes in contact with the cool snow a fog is formed which the wind carries through the trees, giving ' almost a-true picture of a forest fire. The fog’ will first drive swiftly close to the ground, and then shoot up into the air to the tree tops, whirl* around, then fall to the ground again and go eddying in and out among thé trees. It will go-swooping up the ’side of a ridgé or mountain ' side sending the smoke high into the air to mix with the clouds above. To make it seem more real the wind con-’ tinually breaks twigs whose crackling sounds as it does” when they are burning. Soon after the crow we see the first tracks of the wood-’ chuck. In 1902 they caine out On the 7th of March, eight of them, and in the’ morning at’ that. Some of them dug out through the snow. One came up through three feet, Each took’a short run of from three to ten rods and then ' back to its burrow. This ‘year one came out the 21st of February: The stn was shifing a little warm, but the wind was from the northwest and cold. Theére’ was no ~ bare ground or anything in the landscape to remind one ’ of spring. It was a good winter day. through’a couple of-feet of snow and just pushed his head out. The next day he-came out a little further, but made no track upon the snow. -After that he ventured far out and was out nearly every day thereafter. : He came up. The chipmunk appears a little before the: woodchuck, ~ usually. Last-year he: was seen on Februaty 24. «When the backwoodsmian heard of it he remarked that the back: - oi the winter was broken. The robin, bluebird and red wing blackbird and crow | blackbird arrive next after the dickcissel and«after the woodchuck appears—that is, about March 15. It is then that we think spring ‘has really commenced. Close on to | the robin follows the song sparrow. even as with the other birds, and as: the days pass by you hear and see more and more of them. - By this time there » is plenty of bare ground in the open fields, and if you will First you hear one, :- go along the southerly side of some hill you might: see a ' snake basking in-the sun;'and perhaps a lizard, a toler- : ° ably lively little fellow, reddish on the back, blackish on the sides and gray on the’belly. Very likely,-too, you | will see a butterfly flitting about as lively as ever you saw ‘ ome. ; ms The pussies of the willows and poplars show themselves during the first- good thaw, and by the latter part of March the flowering and leaf buds of maples, birches, etc., growing in the clearings have swollen considerably, but - the first green thing to grow is the swail grass in wet - ground on the south side of a hill. Soon after that the’ skunk cabbage can be found coming up near the swail - grass. Along about this time the kingfisher makes him- self known by his usual call as he flies up the already - | opened streams. The killdeer makes his appearance about the same time around the coves.and marshes. But he does not stay with us. He passes on to the north, A warm rain in the first part of April hurries the spring ° along. The buds of the balsam tree become quite large and conspictious, while the adder tongue in the ‘cléared pastures and the leeks in the patches of woods on the low- lands spring from the ground. yie t= About the middle of April, ‘the snow banks’ having all a melted in the clearing, the first of all flowers, the bluet:''” can be found by looking sharply on the low saridy pasture’ lands, and to one side in the marshy bogs the cowslips, = | with little leayes, are budded. Now at sundown the many robins fill the air with their ° 286 FOREST +>AND STREAM. {Ari 11, 1963 } NER A eS ~ songs or anxious-like ealis as they fly from tréé td trée. Later in the evening the frogs, a couple of weeks since the first oné was heard, fairly make the air ring. To stand - close to a pool and listen to them is almost deafening. Yet frogs of different pitch of tone can be distinguished. In three pools observed there was a single frog in each whose voice was an alto, and was varied at times from the regular chant of the others to a song quite different and truly pretty. And here, close to the 15th of April, the phoebe, the field sparrow, the tree swallows and the yellowhammes come north on their migration. The first leaf of a tree or shrub to show is that of the fetid currant, a wild shrub growing on high ground. In the line of flowers spring beauties, blood roots, violets, addertongues, and a few hepaticas are seen. , A trip to the main woods now is a surprise. The snow is, about off in the patches of woods at the edge of. the big woods, but if you go back in the ground, on the northern slopes of hills and ridges or in swatmps where it has been protected from the sun and warm air by the evergreens, is found covered with snow two. or three feet deep. Big chunks of ice, dripping with water, hanging dewn from ledges of rocks, are seen. And these in shaded ravines, in some cases, last well along into the summer. Deer tracks lead off over the snow, sinking in only an inch of so, but occasionally way in, and now and then a bear track is noticed, with the edges thawed around so much that you would think that you had a grizzly’s. The air is cool, especially on the snow, for there it is usually shaded, but on the southerly sides of ridges there is a warmth in the sun which is agreeable to most animals, including man. But nothing green is found, or no birds seen or heard save the chickadee, bluejay, pine grosheaks, nuthatches and goldfinches—all of them winter birds. Even the buds ef the underbrush are but slightly swollen in the most favorable places. While out in the clearings fifteen or twenty miles away, the robins, the song sparrows and the flowers remind you that warm weather for good is not far distant, here it seems as though you were way back in March instead of close to the fair month of May. The ice in the lakes is not all gone. Some coves are entirely covered, About the 20th of April the first egg is laid. The butcherbirds have the distinction of having the first nest. -In April the first deer is generally seen out in semi- civilization. The March rains makes the crust so hard that they can easily travel on trop, and they at once do so in search of food that might have been hard to get in the winter. As the spring advances and the leaves begin to come out, more and more of the animals are seen: The first part of May or last of April brings the white- throated sparrows, a bird whose song is as sweet as any bird’s in the whole region. Each of these birds has a tone or pitch of its own, and one never sings its little song like that of another. They are a bird truly of the back- woods. They do not often nest near a house, but make their homes in wild clearings, old burnings, beaver meadows, edges of lakes, and one seldom fails to hear one about an old abandoned lumber camp. In the first part of May the clearings and burnings at the edge of the main. woods are filled with the music of this bird. They stay with us a couple of weeks or so and then most of them leaye, a few remaining throughout the nesting season. I imagine that they, as well as other birds, remain outside the woods till spring has further advanced within. With the white-throated sparrow come the white- crowned. sparrow, the bird of the far north; the. great crested flycatcher, a bird whose song might sound sad to some people. Later, about the middle of May, the cat- bird, the ruby-throated hummingbird, and the Baltimore oriole, a tolerably rare bird here, make their appearance. About this time the partridge has her nest. Jn the latter part of the month the cedarbirds come. They are in small flocks of four or five, and are among the last arrivals, though some less conspicuous birds come in June. The flowers to blossom about the first of May, when the white-throated sparrow arrives, are the trilliums, red and white; the white violets, which are about two weeks later than the yellow, and violet; and the soft maples whose blossoms give the trees a color of fiery red. The leaves of the hard maples, poplars and cherries have protruded a little way from their winter covering and make a beau- tiful greenish background for the dashing red of the soft maple flowers. About the middle of the month the wood- sy shrub which the deer hunter hates, the witch hopple, blossoms. This flower spreads its petals of a dark green color, when in a few days they fade to a pure white, and -then ‘later drop off. Though small patches of snow can be found in the most shaded places in the mountains, Jeaves of the trees are now taking shape on the sunny slopes. They are about two weeks behind those at the edge of the forest. It is ctrious how they leave out. The lower limbs develop their leaves first. Here the shape has formed, while, as you look up along the tree, the leaves are smaller and smaller till at the very top you cannot see that the buds have swollen at all. It is due to the fact that the cool wind strikes the upper buds while on the lower ones the buds are more sheltered from the breeze, yet getting full benefit, of the warm rays of the sun. This feature is more noticeable in the hard maple and birch. Now to pass to the shaded side of the ridges is like going into another climate. The buds here are merely swollen and you can see why, for the air is cool and damp. The dandelions and cherry flowers in the fields and grown up burnings are very beautiful, and a great many birds have their nests in them. The last year’s leaves and the twigs are very dry, so that now a match will set a fast-spreading fire. Some lazy backwoodsmen clear their potato patches just in this way, and consequently destructive fires are started. At the last of May we almost cease to fear frosts. We get them, however, quite heavily sometimes in this month, and even real snow storms. Throughout the spring the prevailing winds are from the southeast, and whenever they turn to the northwest the thermometer lowers. One observing the first birds and the first flowers of spring will hardly fail to notice that certain birds will come with certain growths of vegetation. Thus: the kingfisher about the time of the skunk cabbage; the bluet struck ~ with the yellowhammer; the white-throated sparrow with the trilliums, etc. But then you cannot nail nature to any strict rules, No spring is like another, nor does the bird always come in the same part of month. He is just likely to do so. ELpRIpDGE SPEARS. The Story of a Bird Lover. Unpber this title the Outlook Company has recently published in a handsome volume of nearly 375 pages an autobiography of Mr. W. E. D. Scott, well known as Curator of the Department of Ornithology in Princeton University, and the author of a great number of papers “an birds. The volume has an especial interest for all nature lovers, because ever since his childhood days Mr. Scott ‘has been an enthusiastic lover and student of birds, and his investigations have carried him over a very consider- able part of northern North America. Mr. Scott is now, and for years has been, studying wild birds in captivity, having in his house at Princeton a laboratory of six rooms where are confined about 500 live birds, native and foreign.” Some of his observations and conclusions have been published within the last year or two in Science, and about five years ago he published a volume of “Bird Studies” giving an account of the land birds of eastern North America. The present volume begins with the author’s first child- ish recollections of Nearly fifty years ago, The boy from childhood was interested in living things, and during his student days at Harvard fell in with Henry Henshall, William Brewster, Ruthven Dean, H. A. Purdie and others, who afterward formed the Nuttall Ornithological Club. He studied with Agassiz, Wilder, Morse, and others at Penikese Island, and not long after that started west, to set on foot natural history collections for a normal: school in Missouri. This accomplished, he re- turned to New York and took up: the work of skinning birds for John Wallace, the taxidermist, in North Wil- lizm street, well remembered by many of our older readers. A little later he was engaged to arrange the col- lections at Princeton, where he has been ever since. Mr. Scott’s volume takes us, as we have said, over much of the country. The Atlantic Coast as far south as Florida, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Arizona, and the island of Jamaica are all visited, and concerning each section through which he went Mr. Scott gives us full and most attractive detail. Where all is so good it is hard to say what in the book is most interesting, yet we are inclined to prize most what he tells of Florida and Jamaica. There is perhaps no one who has done so much to present to the public the terrible destruction of Florida birds as Mr. Scott. At the time of his first visits to Florida in the early *7o’s, the business of plume hunting had hardly begun. At the time of his later visits most of the plume birds had been destroyed, their rookeries, or nesting places, had been broken up, and Florida, froin the greatest of our resorts for tropical birds, had become almost barren of birds. From the very interesting pages of Mr. Scott’s book we may quote an interesting experience of his which shows how readily—what is already well known—wild creatures learn where they are protected and take advantage of this protection. In February, 4887, Mr. Scott took from a nest in a rookery not far from Tarpon Springs three young Ward’s herons for the purpose of watching their growth and the development of their feathers—for when secured they were in the downy stage of plumage. They readily be- came tame, and when they had attained their full growth —the purpose for which the author had reared them hay- ing been accomplished—they were put in a coop, driven to a cypress swamp some threé miles from town, turned loose in the dusk of the evening, and that was supposed to be the end of them. “Imagine my surprise,’ Mr. Scott says, “the next morn- ing on coming out of the house to see the three herons perched in a row on the fence, announcing with loud voices and gaping mouths that it was high time for some one to go to the fish market. Needless to say, I went at onee. Nor was this the end. I found I could not get rid of them. Like Sinbad the sailor, I had taken up a load and could not lay it down; the Old Man of the Sea would not relinquish the advantage he had gained. After various experiments and expedients, an arrangement was contrived that seemed fair to all parties. There was a boathouse on the bayou that had a grated water door through which the tide rose and fell, and inside was a spacious pool for the accommodation of various craft. Now, this was not in use, and here, for a time, two or three weeks, the birds were confined. They were supplied daily with food, and were able to catch many small fry that swam about in the inclosute, eking out a good living. After a time the water gate was left open, when they all waded out and flew to various points in the bayou, From that time on for months the herons were daily seen walk- ing about, and at any time when I had a fish I could cail them and they would come and get it. With the arrival of sportsmen from the North, one by one these birds were sacrificed to satisfy the killing instinct that seemed to be rampant in the breast of every man who invaded Tarpon. The last one disappeared about fourteen or fit teen months after liberation. “Fortunately, these occurrences answered a good pur- pose. The town authorities, of course, had noticed these birds, and I had frequently warned people not to kill them; but this lesson was better than all preaching. Now . a law was made that, within a certain distance of the town, and on the adjacent waters, no one should be allowed to fire a gun. As a consequence, during many ensuing winters many kinds of birds frequented these waters; wild ducks swam about in the bayou which reached away into the town, and became so tame as to approach within a few feet and pick up pieces of bread thrown to them, much as swans and ducks do on the pends in Central Park. They soon found out that here they would be unmolested. “Nor was this the only place where similar results fol- lowed protective steps. There is a hotel on Tampa Bay ‘which the men handle dextrously. located at the end of a long railway wharf which extends several miles out from the shore. Here passengers em- barking and arriving on the steamer for Key West are entertained. The dining room windows did not simply look out upon the water, but were over it, the walls of the house rising on piles straight-from the bay. While taking breakfast one morning in March, the windows all open, I was surprised to see countless wild ducks, chiefly the lesser scaup, swimming about close to. the building, inuch_ at home. On throwing out a bit of bread, they scrambled for it and tussled with one another much as tame ducks do. Then, as soon as other ducks at a little distance perceived that feeding was going on, they joined the group, and before long several hundred wild ducks were under the windows of this hotel, affording an un- usual sight. “The, waiter, noticing my interest, informed me that this result had been brought about because, in order to prevent accidents to guests, one of the rules of the estab- lishment was that no firearms should be discharged in the vicinity, from any point on the wharf, or on the ad- jacent waters. Not the least curious part of this incident is that the same kinds of ducks, only a little distance away in the bay, say a mile, were so extremely wild that it was difficult to approach them. I believe that probably some of the individuals observed as so wary were the very birds that, when in the vicinity of the building, lost ail sense of fear, I am inclined to believe that ihey dis- criminated that danger ensued from the approach of men in the boats, and that in the vicinity of the inn nothing was to be feared.” North Siberian TViscandale! Tue Jesup North Pacific Expedition, sent out by the American Museum of Natural History in New York, has been heard of by all ethnologists, and at the Congress of Americanists, held in New York last autumn, some of the discoveries made by this expedition were announced in the papers there read by its members, though, of course, the general results of the expedition have not yet been published. It is not generally so known that Mr. N. G. Buxton, a collector in zoology, went to the northeast coast of Asia with the Siberian division of the Jesup Expedition, whers - he made extensive collections. A report.on the mammals, with his itinerary and field notes, has just been published by Dr. J. A. Allen in Volume XIX. of the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. The present paper includes, beside the mammals col- lected by Mr. Buxton, those obtained by other members of the expedition. The chief localities represented are thus the west coast of Okhotsk Sea, the middle Anadyr Riyer, the lower Amoor, the mouth of the Anadyr River, Indian Point on the extreme northeast coast of Siberia, and the middle Kolyma River. The collection numbers about 500 specimens representing 35 species, which in- clude 12 new forms. Mr, Buxton reached Vladivostok about the middle of May, 1900, and Gichiga August 13. This is a great place for salmon, which ascend the rivers of the gulf in im- mense numbers during July and August and are caught and dried and constitute the people’s chief supply of food. They obtain also a few reindeer from the Tungus and Coryaks, some wildfowl, and exchange labor and furs with the traders for birch tea and sugar. In that latitude snow begins to fall in October and a little later the rivers and lakes freeze over. From this time until spring all travel is by dog sledge, and the abundance of fish enables each man to keep from ten to sixty dogs. From ten to sixteen animals constitute @ team, the animals being hitched in pairs to a long line attached to the sledge and being driven by the word. Mr. Buxton’s travels in this far northern country lasted for about a year, and he returned by the Transsiberian rail- way to Europe and thence to New York, which he reached the end of November, 1902. Among the collection are reindeer both wild and do- mesticated, including two races of the domesticated rein- deer, which are very different in size. The Chukchees, who inhabit the extreme northwestern corner of Siberia, possess the largest herd of any of the Siberian natives, some of them containing as many as 20,000. The Koryaks, Tungus and Lamuts are also owners of reindeer. These last possess the largest breed, while those of the Tungus of the interior are larger than those owned by the other two tribes. The animals wander at large, but a herd of four or five thousand visited by Mr. Buxton was accom- panied by twelve men and their families, who looked after the deer and moved along with them, frequently changing them to fresh pasturage. One or two men are with them constantly day and night, summer and winter. Many ot the reindeer are broken to ride and drive. The animals are tame and are easily caught with long sealskin lariats, In color the animals range from pure white to dark seal brown. It is interest- ing to note that in Siberia reindeer usually give birth to young when they are two years old, and it is unusual for them to haye young when one year old. On the other hand, in Alaska the reindeer descendants of these Siberian animals calve at one year old, and it is the exception for — them to wait until they are two years old. Wild reindeer are still quite common in the country about Marcova. They are smaller than the domesticated cones. The elk—by which is meant the elk of Europe, corre- sponding to our moose—seems to have disappeared from the region immediately about the Okhotsk Sea, but is still found further inland. One member of the expedition re- ported them as abundant in the valley of the Kolyma River. The single specimen of the muskdeer (Moschus nioschiferus Linn.) is found in this collection. It was taken in the Verkhoyansk Mountains in Yakutsk, Siberia. The bighorn (Ovis mivicol Esch,) is more or less abundant in northeastern Siberia, though just how com- mon cannot be said. It is far more nearly allied to the American forms of bighorn than to those of western Asia, - Bears are véry abundant in the country around the head of Okhotsk Sea as well as in northeastern Siberia gen- erally along the coast, but Mr. Buxton’s notes tell us little about their habits. so eS { Arent. It, 1903.) FOREST AND Si REAM. ‘ 987 the collection. A ted fox very similar to the Alaskan form, the Arctic fox, wolverine and other weasels are noted, and it is inte:- esting to obsérve the number of forms which seem to be closely related to those of northwestern America. Mr. Allen, discussing the American affinities of certain Siberian mammals, considers it probable that most of the more northern types of mammal life on the two conti- nents are the slightly modified descendants of types which formerly had a continuous circumarctic distribution, which have become slowly differentiated, probably mainly since the disruption of the former land connection of Bering Strait. There is evidence that eastern Siberia has derived some of its present mammalian life from northern America, and no doubt within a comparatively recent time, i iFive specimens of the wolf (Canis lupus) are found in About Beavers. In his habits the beayer resembles the muskrat; he likes to live along the bank of a stream, not too swift. He is decidedly herbivorous in his tastes, using for food green cornstalks, grass, weeds, and the bark of trees, such as the quaking asp, willow, cottonwood, etc. The only entrance to his nest is from the bottom of the stream; it is often to be found under a clump of overhanging willows, the roots of which help to keep the dirt from caving in, He digs upward, plastering his hole with mud, and bracing it with sticks till he gets high enough above water level to make his nest. These animals are wonderful workers. J have known them to stop up a 2-inch pipe with grass, mud and moss. it had been laid to the center of their pond, in perhaps four feet of water. The pipe at the end had a strainer placed over it. The pump house was about too yards away. How they discovered the water was escaping from the bottom of the pond, I do not know; but every morning, and sometimes in the night, the workmen had to go to the pond, wade out and clean off the end of the pipe. Besides being the most patient of all animals, the beaver is a model housekeeper. “As neat as a beaver” should be considered by all housewives as a high com- pliment. Every stick is carried out of the nest after the bark has been peeled off for food, and thrown into the stream. He sometimes builds a “house,” but he prefers a stream, deep enough to allow him to lay down his food for the winter in its bed, for if shallow it 1s quite likely to freeze up and cut him off from his winter's supply. He lays down his fresh-cut poles close to the bank, with the butt ends up stream to prevent their floating down and away from his hole, Almost helpless on land, he is perfectly at home in the water, his broad, paddle-shaped tail and his large webbed hindfeet making excellent “oars.” His front feet, strange to say, are laid close to his belly in swimming. Like men (with the exception of some Oriental races, who use their toes about their daily work quite as cleverly as their hands), the beaver uses his “hands” in doing his work. The old story about his using his tail for a trowel is not reliable to any extent. These animals usually herd together in small families, go upstream during the spring freshets and remain there. If their dams are cuit out, a dog can be sent into the hole and the occupants driven out. They are then easily caught and killed, as they are so clumsy on land and see but little. They have a wonderful scent, which makes it impossible to trap them on Jand. To trap them even in water requires more or less practice on the part of the-trapper. He has a cunning creature to deal with, and he must proceed carefully. If the creek is not frozen over the surest way to catch him is to use a No. 4 trap, set back far enough to catch his hind foot as he climbs out upon the bankk, the water being somewhat shallow. .It is best to catch the hindfoot rather than the frontfoot, which he readily twists or ghaws off. A No. 2 trap is too small for the hindfoot, for he can cover it, and not get fast in it If the trap is set under the ice, and he is caught by either front or hind foot, he will drown, as he begins to struggle and soon smothers; he gets excited and does not try to gnaw himself loose, which he might otherwise do. Like the muskrat, the beaver can swim a long dis- tance under the ice by breathing upward and inhaling again as he swims across. This breath is seen to collect in bubbles under the ice. An occasional ‘‘fair- hole” also serves him, so that I have known him to cross under ice a lake a mile and a half wide. I had my first experience in beaver trapping when a boy of fourteen, This was at Beaver Lake, five miles from the Des Moines River. The remains of an old beaver dam is still to be seen there. Since then, [ have not trapped for thirty years till last winter, when I caught enough to make two sets of furs, My wife is so stuck on hers that she wears them about her work in the kitchen. I have a nice lot of beaver tails on hand yet, so if any of your subscribers should want one for a fancy bag, I hope they will not all speak at once. J. R. MooreHran. “Where do the Ducks Mate?” Editar Forest and Stream: I notice in Forest AND StREAM of April 4 your editorial en where the wild ducks mate. Having hunted on Lake Champlain and the Little and Big Otter creeks for the past twenty-five yeats, I have had a very good chance to observe the ways of our ducks and cther game, As soon as we have open water and up to about April 15, our ducks are found in flocks and are mostly the black duck. From April 15, or about this time, they are seldom found in anything but pairs and seem nearly always to be alone. That is, in going along the edge of the marshes you will Aush two; then in a few rods two more, and so on. Judging from this I am of the opinion our ducks pair off about the middle of April. I saw a nice flock within a stone’s throw of Sam Lovell’s old camping ground a few days ago, J Our State made no appropriation a year ago for the protection of fish and game and alteady. the result is plain. Pheasants were hunted all winter; partridge snar- ing was the principal occupation of some last fall; and at present the hoop and gill net, assisted by the set lines, are working destruction to our fish, Where are the active members of the Vermont Fish and Game League. I hear the reply, “Trying to figure out who will be Governor in 1904.” H. B. CHASE. Gane Bag and Gun. ———_—>—_——_ Proprietors of shooting resorts will find it profitable to advertise them in Forest AND STREAM. Spring Duck Shooting. DueKs are getting scarcer every year, and if something is not done abcut it soon there will be none left. What. is needed is a gun sealing law—every man’s gun sealed by ihe Government on the first of January and not taken off tintil fall. How sad it is to remember that the prairie sloughs across the river from St. Louis were well covered with thousands of wildfowl, whereas now there are none short of away up on the Illinois River. Having indulged in these pious reflections, as is my wont each spring, I packed my Parker and a few shells and telegraphed the man at the club to meet me at the train last Friday. The roads were dry and we made good time, but the man showed me where he and several of my wicked clubmates who had heen there the week before had stuck in the mud. Mrs. McKever had a good dinner waiting for me and after I had partaken thereof I got into my corduroys and rubber boots. While the new man was placing twenty-five decoys in the boat I said:,, “Do you want a duck caller?” handing him my pet one. “No, IT reckon not. I was raised on the river and used to make my living shooting ducks,” and he screwed his fist in his mouth and gave the most realistic call I ever heard. It would fool a sprigtail! The bottom was waist-high with the flood, and as he rowed up toward the head of the prairie over a submerged cornfield, I sniffed the gathering breeze and exclaimed: “I do believe I am going to run into a little weathet for once in my life. Generally when IT go after ducks I get nothing but blue skies and sun- shine.” And, sure enough, the sky began to overcloud and the wind to blow from the north. There was a blind in a line of trees skirting a fence, or the remains of one, about a mile from the club house, and as the man rowed he kept twisting his head around toward it, watching the ducks. He had been enthusiastically inclined to an old straw stack at the edge of the overflow on the way up, but finally settled upon the old blind. -By the time we reached it the wind was blowing a half gale, and he had to keep at the oars while I threw out the decoys thirty yards to windward. Then we ran the boat into the blind, which had been partly washed away, and the fun began! A blackjack hove in sight to the south, and the man gave that marvelous imitation of his and it headed for the decoys. When he swooped down to them I rose up— and so did he—and I missed him with both barrels. A moment later three more came and I missed again. “Gee!” said the man, “I wish you’d let me fetched my eun.’ The truth is, I hardly ever go spring shooting until IT am worn to a frazzle, and I am sure to have a big string of misses until I begin to feel braced up a little. “Never mind,” said I, “I know a man that will give me a certifi- cate of my ability to hit a few of them.’ But I could see he felt badly. To make the humiliating confession at once and have it over with, I shot away 50 shells that evening, all I brought with me, and only killed 13 ducks. Some of the shells, however, were used on cripples. But it was two hours of fine fun. Owing to the wind, we had to get out in a hurry after each duck that fell, whether dead or crippled, and we were on the go all the time. We were back at the house by five o’clock where, after eat- ing three square meals, the duck shooter’s ration, at eight o'clock I went to bed and slept sound, The next morning the man put his gun in the boat. He wanted to kill my cripples, he-said, but I had my own ideas as to that. We were hardly in the blind until a flock of bluebills came hurtling along toward ts. A call and they circled around us once and swooped down into the decoys. “Now!” and as they sprang straight up into the air we each made a double. When we had gathered them the same thing was once more gone through with, except that I noticed the man shot his first duck on the water, bred in the bone market hunter that he was. Then a single bird came in sideways, passing him first, and just as 1 was about to let go at it he killed it under my very nose. I thereupon read him a lecture, to the effect.that he was not hired to kill my ducks; that I was getting too many as it was, as my limit was twenty-five. If he could get anything after I got through missing all right. He was good natured about it, grinned and declared all he wanted was to see me have fun; but he afterward made a beautiful kill of a bird I had only winged and which in that wind might well have lit so far off as to escape. He did not do much of the shooting thereafter, and for a curious reason. I noticed that when he called ducks to the decoys and just as they were over them, he made a slightly premature and too quick motion for his gun, whereat the ducks invariably whirled and “climbed” out on my side, giving me the finest kind of 40-miles-an-hour shots. JI said nothing about it to him until we were through that night, when I explained why I got all the shots and jeered at him, Market hunters don’t know everything, That morning’s bag was sixteen, when I said: “We will now go in to dinner.” “Why, it isn’t ten o’clock yet.” “No matter, my limit is too nearly exhausted. We must save some for this evening.” And he reluctantly rowed ine¢é in, where I ate three dinnets and came out again at about three o’clock. even forty, all blackjacks and bluebills. A great many sprigs came in, but I did not want them, and also some niallards and one flock of canvasbacks, but our blind was too poorly constructed for them. The man said I only missed two ducks at the morning shoot, and that he would We killed eleven more, making - like to take me for a side partner and shoot some other two fellows a dtick shoot. Whereat I looked modest and said the choke was nearly all out of my gun; but I en- joyed his blarney, all the same,. The last thing that hap- pened that night was three blackjacks that he did the scare act to and I[ killed two of them dead in the air and they were flying so fast they landed too yards away. Now that it is over, I hope the law will son be changed to prohibit spring shooting. GEORGE KENNEDY. The Maine License Law: Baneor, Maine, March 30.—Editer Forest and Stream: At last the first and regular session of the seyenty-first Legislature of Maine has come to an end, the adjourn- ment having taken place early Sunday morning, after one of the longest and most exciting sessions of recent years in this State, with the first of September next as the date for again coming together, in extra session. While fish and game legislation is possible at that session, it is not probable, as the majority of the legislators are guided in their ideas on these matters by what the State Commis- sion of Inland Fisheries and Game tells them, and that Commission usually is represented by Chairman Carle- ton, who seems to have a most convincing way in telling them why they should do what he wants ¢hem to do. As he has not announced any more changes in the laws as amended by this session, it is improbable that the solons ‘will be asked to do more than complete certain un- finished business, which could not be settled at this time. But, at least in the eyes of a great many non-resident linnters, as well as guides and camp owners of this State, it is entirely unnecessary for the legislators to do any more now for some years—unless it is to repeal some of the objectionable enactments of the present session. Not for years, mot, in fact, since the days when the first radical legislation of the newly aroused “protective” spirit stirred into active enmity and extraordinary cun- ning those deer and moose slayers who killed for hides and a market, and whose contention was that the deer and moose belonged to them and they would defy any man or men to take away their living, has such a radical departure marked a legislative session in this State. With what success they combated the onward march of humanity, sportsmanship and protection by means known only to them and, to one unacquainted with their venge- ful natures, beyond belief, is well known to the veterans in this branch of sportsmanship who have followed the vicissitudes of Maine’s game resources. To educate that class into the careful, thoroughly reliable, desirable class of citizens who are to-day guides for other hunters, has cost time, money, argument without end, persuasion’ and even lives. But it was worth all it cost, in the great inerease of gaine enjoyed by this State in the last several years of this persistent policy on the part of Maine, so that the entire: nation has looked to Maine as the model recreation State, and her game laws have been selected all over this broad land as models of effective legislation. To be sure, pro- tection has not always protected, any more than a law en- torced against burglary always prevents housebreaking, or a law against selling liquor prevents some bolder than cihers conniving with corrupt officials and defying the law; but, on the whole, Maine’s game has been so well protected that in spite of occasional violations it has continued to increase and that, too, at a most astonishing rate,so that the supply of deer in Maine is to-day something wonder- ~ ful, and the question of protecting his growing crops from their ravages comes into the problems which every farmer in border towns has to consider: — The principal departure in game legislation made by the © law-makers, has been the adoption of the policy of some other States, in the way of a license fee to be paid by non- resident hunters for the privilege of killing and trans- porting the large game of the State, a policy which has in past years been suggested, but has heretofore met with defeat before reaching the Legislature. This year those in favor of this movement exerted every influence to create a sentiment against non-resident hunters and in favor of making those non-residents pay for the expensc of maintaining the game supply of Maine, and with such success that the sentiment of the legislators was over- whelmingly in favor of the passage of a license law be- fore the question was even argued—yes, before they left their homes for the capital of the State to consider their duties as lawmakers. As in most States where the agri- ~ cultural element is of the major importance and: influence,: so in the Maine Legislature the farmers and those repre- senting farming communities are in the majority, and ihe long existing jealousy of State moneys appropriated for the enrichment of the few, while no funds were ap- priated or created for the reimbursement of those-border farmers whose crops were actuallly damaged by deer, furnished rich soil for the sowing of those seeds of dis- content that the promoters of the license plan knew so well how to scatter. : ew, : Months before the Legislature was elected, it was bold-— ly announced throughout the State that the powerful Grange was to moye, as.a unit, against all fish and game appropriation, and steps were at once taken to. pacify that order, so that there might still be money forthcoming from the Government cow to sustain the inland fish in- terests, which have been growing in needs as fast, if not faster, than the game interests have developed. Accord- ingly they were promised that if they would support the license plan the money so raised would be used. to pay them for their damaged crops, and their opposition faded away. ‘This is, in the light of developments, more than hinted at as the compromise which secured to the adyc- cates of this measure the cordial support which it received from the agricultural element, so that the first output _ from the “game protective fund” to be raised by taxing the non-resident’s rifle is to reimburse the farmers. _ And _ the necessity for traveling about over the State to inves- tigate such complaints, the time, expenses, etc., of com- missioners, with the additional compensation to be allowed “as the Governor and council may deem just and fair? will have a decided influence in reducing the amount applicable to the real protection of the game of the great North Woods... > - : oe Neg MD It may be, too, that the services of “proper” wardens. will pot he longer obtainable at two dollars per day and “than one hundred dollars and costs for each offense. acts and parts ‘of acts inconsistent with this act, are hereby re- region. expenses. as one of those who spoke in favor of license at Augusta told the writer he had worked his last day for $2 and expenses, his difficult duties being worth far more, in his estimation. If this rulé holds with all those now holding commissions, there will be still less “net pro- ceeds” to be applied to seeing that the game of Maine is protected, and the game laws are not violated. The license law, in full..as passed by the recent Legisla- ture, is as follows, being known as Chapter o9 of the Public Laws of 1903: oa “An act providing for a license for non-residents to hunt moose and deer.” ' Non-Resident License,—Chap, 99, Public Laws 1903.—Sec, 1. It shall be unlawful for any person not a bona fide resident of the State, and actually domiciled therein, to hunt, pursue, take or kill any bull moose or deer it any time without having first procured a license therefor as hereinafter provided. Such licenses shall be issued by the Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and Game, upon application in writing and the payment: of fifteen dollars, and under such rules and regulations to be established by them, and approved by the Governor and Council, as may be required to carry out the true intent of this act, and not inconsistent there- with. All money received for such licenses shall “be forthwith paid to the State Treasurer, and ‘then expended by the Commis- sioners in the protection of :noose at.d deer, under the direction of the Governor and Council. Provided, however, That the Com- missioners of Inland Fisheries and Game shall have authority to adjust and pay, out of the funds received for such licenses, for actual damage done growing craps by deer. Provided further, That the Governor and Council shall have authority to allow the Commissioners of Inland isheries and Game, out of the funds received for licenses and fines, such compensation as they may deem just and fair for the additional work required of them in carrying out the provisions of this act. Provided also, That the Governor's Council shall, as often as they see fit, examine the books, accounts and vouchers of the Commissioners of all moneys received by them for all ticenses or other fees, and make a report thereon to the Governor. — Export._Sece, 2. Each license shall be provided with three coupons, one of which shall permit the transportation of the carcass of*one bull moose, or part thereof, and shall be divided into two sections, lettered “A’ and “B” respectively, and shall ‘be called the “‘moose” coupon; the two other coupons shall per- _mit the transportation of the agcass of one deer, or part thereof, each, and shall be divided .into-two sections each, lettered “C,” “DD” and “Ie” and “‘F” cespectively,.and shall be called tke “‘deer” coupons. The holder of a non-resident hunting license shall be entitled to offer for transportation and have transported, within or without this State, by any railroad company, express company, boat or other transportation company, the carcass ot one bull moose, or part of the careass nf one bull moose that he himself has lawfully killed, on the “moose” coupon attached to said license; also the carcass cf ome deer, or part of the carvass of one deer, that he himself has lawfully killed, on each of the ‘*‘deer” coupons attached to’ his said license, by presenting to the agent of any transportation company, his license with the-coupons at- tached to the license at the time when he shall offer the moose or deer for shipment. The agent receiving the carcass or part of a careass, for shipment, shall, if it is a moose, detach section “A” from the “moose” coupon of tke license, cancel the same by writing or stamping thereon the date and nlace of shipment and his initials, and shall forward the same forthwith to the Commis- sioners of Inland Fisheries and Game, at Augusta, Maine; sec- ‘‘tion “RB” of said coupon shall be hkewise cancelled and shall be attached to the carcass, or part: of the carcass, of the bull moose offered for shipment, end sliall remain attached to the same while it is being «ransported in this State. Im case of deer received for shipment the license must be presented to the agent with the coupons attached as aforesaid, and, if but one deer is offered for shipment, the agent shw#ll detach section “‘C’? from the first “deer” coupon and shall cancel it and forward the same to the: Commissioners of Tnland Fisheries and Game as aforesaid: and section “*D” of said coupon shall be likewise cancelled and attached to the carcass of the deer or part thereof, offered for shipment, and shall remain attached fo the same while it is being transported in this State. ‘In case two-deer-are offered for ship- - ment, the agent receiving rhe same for shipment shall detach sections “C” and “E” ‘rom the “deer” coupons, and after cancell- p ' ing the same, shall forward them to the Commissioners as aforesaid, and sections “D* and “F” shall be likewise cancelled and ai- tached to the carcasses of the deer, or parts thereof, offered for transportation and shall remain attached to the same while it is being transported in this State. It shall be unlawful to transport any bull moose or deer, or narts thereof, within this State for any non-resident, otherwise than as provided herein. Any agent, seryant or employe of any transportation company, railroad com- pany, express company, boat or common carrier, who shall receive for shipment or transport, or heve ‘n his possession with intent to ship or transport, any carcass of a bull-moose, except as herein provided, or who shall refuse cr neglect to detach the sections of the coupons as herein provided, or who shall fail to forward to the Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and Game, at Augusta, Maine, as herein provided, the sections of coupons by him detached, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars and costs for each offense.” Sec. 3. Whoever is found cuilty of violating any of the provisions of this chapter, or who shall furaish to another person, or permit another person to haye or use amy license or coupon issued to him, or shall change or alter the same in ‘any manner, or ‘shall have or ‘ use any license or coupon issued to another person, or any regis- tered guide who shall knowingly gitide any non-resident in hunt- ing wha has not a license to hunt as herein provided, shall be punished by a fine of not less than tyenty-five dollars, nor more Sec. 4, All pealed. Sec. 5. This act shail cake effect July Ist, 1903. While of course this is the central pivot on which the whole fish and game legislation has turned during the “winter, it is not-the end of the restrictions added to the sportsman’s future * outings in the Maine recreation af the coast become that the shore birds-would be entirely éxterminated and their favorite sport discontinued, and so persistently have they applied to the commissioners for protection that they conld not get, that a new law was drafted to protect thase sections, known legally as Chap- ter 236. This chapter forbids any persons not bona fide residents of this State to “hunt, pursue, chase or kill within the limits of Knox, Lincoln, Waldo, and Sagadahoc coun- ties, and the towns of Brunswick, Harpswell and Free- port, in the county of Cumberland, any teal, ducks, sea or shore birds without having first procured a license therefore, as hereinafter provided.” ‘Cost of license, five dollars, and all such moneys received to be devoted to the protection of the shore birds in the territory named in the act. Tn addition to what has been outlined above, there is still further restriction of the gunner’s privileges, if he he an outsider, in the addition of the wood duck, teal and - gray duck’ to the list of birds one may not take out of the State, except-on special license tags which, for fifty cents, permit one to send one pair of birds to one’s home, or to ‘take them with one to his home outside of the State. In previous years this prohibition was applied to woodcock and ruffed grouse only, but now includes all the above named birds and water fowl, which may be killed in this State for consumption in this State only to the number of So. fearful have the residents of certain sections” FOREST AND STREAM. 15 in one day, but may not be taken or shipped to an out of the State point except on special tag. A step in advance can truly be said to have been taken in forbid- ding the sale of any of the above birds or water fowl in this State, where formerly it only applied to the wood- cock and grouse, while the shooting of quail is forbidden at any time, oa There have been numerous corrections and amendments of existing laws, among the most noticeable of which is the changé in the compulsory guide law. One of the chief evils attending the influx of visitors during the hunting season, has been the large parties of hunters who have come from outside, brought their own outfits and pro- visions, hired one guide to clear the law, and thus, spend- ing as little as they possibly could and get into and out of the State, complied with the law in appearance while it was suspected that they were violating it in spirit and reality. In some cases they even kept the one guide drunk about all the time of their stay, so that he knew nothing of what was going on among the hunters, and was forced to make up any kind of a report when his “cinch” was finally ended. This condition and this class, largely elaborated, perhaps, and boomed in the press of the State for effect, was’ one of the strongest arguments the adva- cates for a license used, and those who opposed the “revenue” plan believed the evil could be combated ‘in the limiting of the number any one guide might be employed by at one time. This was adopted, but in addition to the license scheme, so that as amended the guide law only permits one guide to be employed by “not more than five non-residents in hunting.” As your correspondent has pointed out some of the ob- jectionable features of the session’s legislation, it is but fair that the other side should have a show, and the fol- lowing are some of the reasons advanced why the scheme for licensing non-resident hunters is both right and necessary in Maine under existing conditions: It is plainly evident that the Legislature will grant no more moneys for the protection of the big game, since other interests called for and sectired, at the recent ses- ‘sion of the Legislature, upward of $500,000 more than the probable income of the State for the two years of 1903-4. If the big game is to be protected, furnishing a revenue to a limited section of the State only, and sport to men who come here from outside of Maine to participate in same, there must be a sotirce of revenue to enable the commissioners to keep efficient wardens in the field (or woods) to see that the laws are not violated. The payment of fifteen dollars ought to be no hardship when it is remembered that this carries with it all the pos- sible privileges granted in former years under different statutes. For instance, when a man has shot his moose or deer this year he need not break up his outing by a premature departure for home, tather than pay the fee for unaccompanied transportation, since he has but to let the ‘agent of the transportation company tear off the coupon furnished him “free of charge,’ as one legislator is pleased to consider it, and there is no further bother or anxiety for him until he reaches home, no matter where his home is, or such point-as his game is billed to. Thus there is no disagreeable delay in awaiting the convenience of the warden at Bangor, no identification annoyances, nothing to interfere with or mar the comfort of the home- ward journey. The tag privilege for all this immunity would cost $0, making the actual cost of the license to hunt, take, catch, kill and destroy in a lawful manner one bull moose and two deer, for a man who lives outside of Maine, just six dollars. This is, of course, providing he gets his full quota of game, and with the expected in- crease in game under this new law, of course he will, There is one bright ray of light which I had almost forgotten, and which may help in materially reducing the expenses of those who feel the added fifteen dollars a burden: One of the new laws establishes a bounty of 25 cents on porcupines, and when the hunter can’t kill bsg game he can use up his ammunition in practicing on these destructive animals, for whose annihilation the tim- Ler land owners have secured a bounty. What more can one ask of any State than such a gratid opportunity to help yourself? Herbert W. Rowe. A Day With the Broadbills. Tue other day I got to the point where I could not endure city life another moment. It was necessary that I escape from the noise of cars, contact of men, and the interesting gaseous exhalations of the subway. I straight- way took my gun and a Long Island ferryboat. At the railway station I was joined by another man in search of oxygen; quiet and fried pork. Presently we were aboard a sloop engaged in working our way out of this tangle of boats in Sayville Inlet toward the broad reaches of Great South Bay. Our guardian spirits were the Cap- tain, six feet six inches in height and so thin as scarcely to cast a shadow, and the Ancient Marmer, short and stout, with skin tanned by many storms to the color of his oilskins. Now and again the Ancient Mariner squirted tobacco juice vigorously and cast his weather eye far to leeward. We sat silent and took long drinks of the clear, pure air. A lively thrash to windward and then a little cove offered inviting shelter for the night. We anchored and made things snug. The Ancient Mariner seized the frypan and over the red hot stove in the cabin did strange and wonderful stunts. It was a long time since the other man and I had been blessed with a real appe- tite. We had one—or rather we had two—one for each of us. Oysters, freshly gathered from the bottom of the Bay, fried in sizzling pork fat, fried potatoes, bread toasted in the frypan, coffee strong enough to float the spoon—all this and more we put where it was needed. At four o’clock next morning the sky -was overcast, with rain as a probability. After a good breakfast we got under way for the ducking grounds. Off a point of land and in shoal water we put out the double battery. This consisted of two coffin-shaped boxes with a platform of boards about them and so weighted as to sink level with the surface of the water. Numerous decoys anchored with bricks jumped about on the waves and looked life- i‘ke enough to quack. Into the battery the other man and I crawled, kept as much out of sight as possible, then peeked over the edge of the boxes and waited patiently forashot. Suddenly from out of nowhere appeared a cloud of ducks. There were ducks to the right of ws, ducks to the _shown at the hearings of last winter. > - [APRIL 11, 1903. left of us, ducks over us, in fact everywhere but under us. It seemed wicked to shoot, we would make so long a list of dead. But shoot we did right into the bunch, and not a duck was harmed. The other man and I looked at each other, but said not a word. Our thoughts were too deep. Way off somewhere in the far beyond we heard a hoarse cackle; it was either the Ancient Mariner or a duck giving us the laugh. We again lay low and made new resolves to pick our bird. Next there appeared a dim speck over to the seaward side; in a little time it separated into four dim specks, and then, as swift as lightning, as many broadbills made straight for our de- ccys. Over the outer ones they hesitated, swerved and— but four barrels again cracked and three fell dead, the fourth alone escaped. , A. half hour passed and then the other man hissed: ' There’s one—just to the south’ard; he’s coming—no, he isnt, he’s turning!” Fortwith he pointed his right leg straight up and waved it back and forth. “Keep down, I will call them in!” he said, at the same time making strange noises like all else but a duck. I kept down and even drew in my breath to keep down lower. And then a strange thing happened. The duck turned toward us and came along just above the water. He was about to join his fellows who were bobbing about so briskly. He quacked a welcome and ‘thought it strange there was no answer. As he drew nearer there seemed something odd about it all. True, there were many ducks upon the water, but they moved as though governed only by the. motion of the waves and—but all at once his eyes lighted on two motionless men, prone upon their backs, in the very midst of his queer acting kindred. He jumped, but’ just too late. One of the men sat quickly up, his gun came to his shoulder, the nitro powder gave a vicious lit- tle snap and down came the duck. So it went through the day, now a miss or kill, varied by waits of different length. It was pleasant, however, during the waits. The rain clouds had disappeared and _ the sun shone warmly; tiny waves splashed upon the can- vas wings which protected the head and sides of the bat-. tery; now and again a gull wheeled gracefully through the air, while over toward Fire Island the sails of numerous oyster dredges.and fishing craft were sharp and distinct against the skyline, . Toward night the Ancient Mariner poked his skiff alongside and gathered in two stiff and hungry shooters. It was beginning to get cold and to blow. In the techni- cal words of the old bayman, “a breeze of wind” found the thin spots. In the little cabin of the sloop, however, all was light and warmth and good cheer. The Captain poked coals into the stove until it fairly glowed. The Ancient Mariner cooked many and savory dishes, and as a proper prelude thereto, the other man blended certain liquids in due and harmonious proportion. Soon peace and contentment reigned, and much tobacco smoke curled upward. The Captain and the Ancient Mariner told of marvelous happenings on land and sea, and the other man went them one better, Nine o’clock came and we were too sleepy to stay awake another minute. Thick, warm blankets were unrolled, divers cushions were arranged, and in less time than it takes to tell it we were making doubles in the “Land of Nod.” The next day broke with a heavy wind sweeping down the Bay. A battery could not live. All day we waited and all day it blew, and at nightfall we hoisted sail and, under three reefs, ran home before the wind. For those who like figures I append: : Services of two men, sloop and battery 2% days...$25.00 Supplies ..... ech sae on: Helo: Sije- cet stand Mle +». 10,00 Garters s ste: Sita. M snceiaal eset eee ee ae rae 85100 ioral atest} abet ase Sita ih cith diel eres EO BSHOO Ducks: killedecg: ashe sof ee Sine gee a Vere Ry ORISL Average cost per duck ...........2.s.05- wate, .» $3.18 WaAtLtter K. Barton. Massachusetts Fish and Game. Boston, April 4—Editor Forest and Stream: On March 31 a hearing was held by the Committee on Fish and Game upon a bill introduced by Representative Davis, of Amesbury, which, if passed, would make the month of August open time for ducks of all kinds. Mr. Davis ex- plained that he had introduced the measure at the request of some gunners in his section, but declared himself a friend of proper protection. Messrs. H. S. Fay and George H. Mackay opposed the bill on the ground that ducks at that season are young, inexperienced birds and therefore at the mercy of the gunner, and that the friends of protection were in favor of shortening the season for shooting them rather than lengthening it. After the remonstrants had been heard, Mr. Davis, while not for- mally withdrawing his bill, gave the committee to under- stand that he was not at all strenuous in his support of it. I understand the committee have voted leave to with- draw. Another bill heard the same day is one to protect heron and bittern. Mr. Ralph Hoffman spoke in favor of the bill, emphasizing the value of these birds from an educational point of view, being objects of great interest to young persons. He was followed in a similar strain by the eminent ornithologist, Prof. C. J. Maynard, to whom the committee listened with great interest. Mr. George H. Mackay emphasized the value of the birds as scaven- gers. A favorable report is expectéd on this bill. The Buzzard’s Bay Bill. This was substantially the same as that of last year, ably advocated by the late Attorney-General Hosea M. Knowlton, and which, although reported by the commit- tee, failed of passage in the House. Representative Sulli--_ van, of Worcester, explained that he had introduced the bill at the request of a traveling salesman, and that he had no special interest in it. Hon. Charles 5. Hamlin, Louis S. Dabney, Esq., and Girard C. Tobey, Esq., spoke briefly in opposition to the bill. They assured the com- mittee that public sentiment in the towns bordering on the bay was practically unanimous in opposition, as was “Leave to with- draw” is the verdict of the committee. ‘ The anti-sale bill of the central committee, after tak- ing its several readings in the House, has passed the engrossment stage in the Senate without change, and only Aprin 11, 1003.] FOREST AND STREAM. _awaits the signature of Governor Bates to make it a per- manent statute, and the Forest Anp Stream Plank will keep partridge and woodcock ovit of the markets in Mas- sachusetts perhaps for all time. At any rate, to Secure tts repeal the burden of proof will be on those who wish an open market. Tt has proved of great benefit not only to the partridge and woodcock, but incidentally to quail as well. To say that no partridges have been sold in the State since the law was enatted three years ago would be claiming too niueh. But such sales lave been elandestine and not, ~ we believe, very latee in humber, — No dealer would take the risk of opeti violation of the law with the efficient watden service now at the coni- mand of the State Commission. The number of paid deputies might be increased without entailing upon the taté an unhféasonable expenditure of money. Froti what has already been accomplished during the present séssion of the Legislature, yotit readers have no doubt formed a favorable opinion of the Committee, on Fish and Game. Its members have not only given patient hearings to all who have come before them, but have shown a high appreciation of the aims and purposes of sportsmen who favor proper protection, Of this I may say more in another letter. A Farmers’ Bill, On Aprils a heating was given on House bill No. 1,184, presentéd by Repfesentative Warreii C. Jewett, of Worces- ter, entitled “Relative to the Preservation of Deer.” The first section extends the period of protection till Novem- ber 1, 1908, and the second provides for compensation for damages done by deer- ; In speaking for the bill, Mr. Jewett expressed a desire to continue the protection and at the same'time take care of farmers whose crops are injured by the deer, which, he said, were already becoming numerous in the northern and western parts of the State. The second section, he said, was drawn on lines similar to the Massachusetts dog law. f inclose a copy of the bill. Mr, George S Ladd, of Sturbridge, Maste# of the State Grange, Repre- sentative G. H. Doty, of Waltham, and Mr. A. B. F, Kin- ney, of Worcester, also spoke in favor of the bill, and there were no remonstrants. A favorable report is antici- pated. A New Departure. The town of Cohasset, at a recent meeting, voted to appropriate the sum of $300 for the purchase of game birds, to be liberated in the town. You, Mr. Editor, or someé of yout readers, may know a parallel to this, but the writer does not, This was brought about in part, at least, by a miember of the Massachusetts Fish and Game Pro- teetive Association, Mr. W. O. Souther, Jr., a resident of the town, and a deputy warden. Several other members ot the Association are summet residents of the town, and have been doing missionary work there for a long time; Ex-President Benjamin C, Clark, for instance, and there are others. The committee appointed to secure and put out bitds is desirous of buying quail, but so far have found some difficulty in purchasing them. It 1s very de- sirable that, so fat as can be done legitimately, the barriers now existing in the way of securing live quail for pur- pose of stocking should be removed. From Maine come reports that several salmon have already been taken from the Bangor Pool by local anglers, and that both salmon and trout have been caught at Eagle Lake by Bar Harbor fishermen. The ice in Moose- head is reported very thin and dark, which is thought to indicate an early fishing season. From New Hampshire comes intelligence that a non- resident license law has been passed, and that the open season for killing deer has been shortened by taking off the fifteen days in December, making it the months of October and November only. Next week I may be able to send good reports from some of our Boston anglers who are trying their skill on streams in our-own State. ; CENTRAL. CHICAGO AND THE WEST, The President at the Yellowstone Park, Cuicaco, Ill., April 4—President Rooseyelt is now working his way westward on his extended trip through- out the Western States. He will arrive at the Yellow- stone Park on April 8. His guide there will be, of course, Billy Hofer. Billy is in Chicago to-day and leaves for the Park to-morrow morning. He had little to say regarding the proposed trip at the Park, of course, but I gather that President Roosevelt's stay will be about ten days in duration. By the time of his arrival the snow will have pretty much disappeared in the lower districts of the Park, that is to say, around Mammoth Hot Springs, parts of the East Fork coun- try and some of the country between the Mammoth -Hot Springs and Yancey’s. It is thought that a com- fortable trip by amubulance and sled can be made to Yancey’s, where a cabin has been especially prepared for President Rooseyelt’s comfort. From tlis point the big winter herds of elk can be easily located, and it is thought that President Roosevelt will take delight in seeing the big game animals in such numbers. It will be necessary in getting about in the mountains to re- sort to ski. Billy tells me that he will give to Presi- dent Roosevelt for use on the trip his own pair of ski, the same which he wore during his trip through the Park in the winter of 1895. The intention is to allow the President a short time to get familiar with tricky footwear, and then to let him have all the rough work he likes in actual snowshoeing. It is possible that there may be some mountain lions killed in the Park by the agents of the superintendent this spring, as the latter have made trouble with the sheep and deer. It is not, however, in the least likely that Presi- dent Roosevelt will do any shooting, Attempts are making to get him a lion or bear hunt near the Park, and possibly this may be done. The main delights of the visit to the President will be the keen sport of snowshoeing and the pleasure of seeing the big game animals. There is talk that Buffalo Jones will do his jbest ta get President Roosevelt to come over deep into the Park, where the buffalo are. Twenty-one Huffalo, that is to say twesty-one wild ones, and not including the senii-domesticated ones held in the in- closures, were lately counted in the Park. President Roosevelt planned a still earlier visit to the Park, but the late adjournment of Congress rendered this impos- sible, As it is, there will still be winter enough to appéal to him, though not enough to make outdoor work too severe. Allard Herd of Buffalo Dispersing, Howard Eaton, who recently got an option on the entire buffalo herd of the late Charles Allard, in the Flathead country, is now in the East disposing of these buffalo. He has sold seventeen head to the Gov- ernment, and is negotiating for the sale of other speci- » meétis to private individuals. Duck Shooting Fair, Duck shooting in this part of the world is for the present fair. We had a heavy snowstorm day before yesterday, and this has set the flight back for a few ays. Meantime the water is falling along the Missis- sippi Valley, making the sport better than has preyious- ly been the case in some of the tracts where the best feeding grounds had been flooded. Mr. Henry Clarke, of this city, is back from Henne- pin Club with twenty-two nice birds. He says the best of the sport is yet to come at Hennepin, as the feeding grounds are just getting good. Mr. W, W. McFarland is also just back from Hennepin and reports good shooting and good prospects. _ Mr. Fred M. Hild, the urbane head of the Chicago Public Library, received to-day a present of four nice mallards froti his friend, Mr. Sellers, who is shooting at Swan Lake Club and who reports good luck. Mr. J. V. Clarke and his brother Mr, Lou Clarke are to-day absent at Tolleston Club, where good shooting has obtained pretty much all the week. They should have success. Mr. Hempstead Washburne and his son, Clark Wash- burne, are to-day at Goose Lake Club, on the Kanka- kee River, where they may be expected to have fair shooting, as the Kankakee has held a good number of birds all through the flight thus far. Mr. Eddie Pope, Mr. W. L. Wells and Mr. Hollis Field start to-morrow for Fox Lake, Illinois, where they expect to gét at least four ducks between them. The shooting is good at Fox Lake, when the ice drives the cripples into the grass, and granted proper weather conditions, these redoubtable sportsmen may come back with quite a bunch of birds. From Ca“forng,. By the way, Eddie Pope just gotin this morning from his winter in California, where he has, of course had a very delightful time. At Santa Barbara he found some mountain climbing not too far away, and was surprised to learn that grizzly bears and mountain lions are not yet extinct in that corner of the world, A hunter came down from the mountain where Mr. Pope had been rambling around unarmed, and brought the skin of a fine raoutitain lion which Eddie might just as well have killed with a stick if he had happened to run across it. Of fishing for yellowtail and the like, he had his fill, and also. as much shooting as he cared for. “ah AY New Sporting Region. Mr. John M. Bulkley, of Detroit, dropped in this morning atid chatted for a time about his interest in the new sporting region opening up along the Algoma Central Railroad north of Sault Ste. Marie. Mr. Bulk- ley says that that region is undoubtedly destined to be of the greatest interest to sportsmen of the East and Middle West, being so easily accessible. He says of his personal knowledge he can take one to moose within ten miles of the railroad, and can also find bass and trout fishing good enough to suit the most fastidi- ous. He mentions “gray trout,” which he says is found in some of the smaller landlocked lakes. This-is the satne fish that is sometimes called landlocked sai!mon in one or two Wisconsin lakes, and is, of course, only the lake trout of the Great Lakes in a more restricted environment. Mr. Bulkley says this fish gives a very good sport, as he has found it in Ontario. It is much worth while keening an eye on this immense new region, which lies between the Sault and Hudson’s Bay, and which will presently be opened by the railroads. Wew Alaskan Railroads, A friend in Chicago brings me the prospectus of a new Alaskan railroad, which expects to build from the Kenai peninsula northward across Alaska to the Tanana Hills and the Yukon River beyond. It is thought that work may begin on this railroad during the present summer. Should it become a success it will, without doubt, open up the greatest sporting country now left on the American continent. It is something of a con- tract which these railroad men are tndertaking, but railroad builders have always done the impossible. Hot and Cold Water in Camp, I am shown the prospectus of a Rocky Mountain guide, and having personally known him to be a very good one, I shall not mention his name. What inter- ests me is his description of the comforts of his camp. To say nothing of “special” hams and bacon, of camp chairs and a very high grade of sleeping bag, a “camp- ire every night, etc., I observe one paragraph which reads: ‘Hot and cold water is also served at each tent each morning, or at any other time it is wanted.” I surely think the Rocky Mountains are getting to be a pretty degenerate sort of country. When I have to have a man bring me hot water at my tent door in the wilderness every morning, I want to quit calling myself a hunter and go into a hospital, where they bring you hot soup as well. What was the matter with the sort of water our good friend Col. Anderson, of the Yellowstone Park, used to have of a morning when he was in camp? Col. Anderson used to break the ice in Henry Lake every morning and go in for a bath, and he could have had a whole geyser full of hot water any time he wanted. No hot water for the real campaigner. As they say in France, Ah! bah! the hot water. I never did think this sort of thing would ever really come in the Rockies, but it shows well enough the sort of sportsmanship which pertains to modern days. As for me, gimme the tin washpan of our daddies, or gimme death. - The Habits of Raccoons, In reply to the ’coon hunting comments ina late issue of the Forest AnD StreAmM; Mr. W.'A. Powel, a: mighty ‘coon hunter in the land, has the following to say re- garding the habits of the ring-tailed gentleman as he finds him in lower Illinois; - : “T noticed the New York gentleman’s remarks. about *coons last week, and he is all right, but a ’coon is about the wisest ever, and takes pretty good care of himself. “At Mr. Spears’ place, in Mississippi; we had a coon hunt one night, and started our first one about y P. M., and from then on we just kept om treeing them, with intermissions of chopping 4-foot gum trees (by proxy), treeing the last 7coon about 5 A. M., as they seem to run all night in Mississippi. Once near Bald Knob, Ark., I shot one in a tree at about noon. Here, a year or two ago, Harner and’ I were duck hunting, had quite a’ little pile of ducks, and Harner was sitting down leaning against a tree, when he heard a noise, and looking around, saw a large ’coon within a couple of feet of our ducks. This was about 10'A. M. “A *coon is a much better weather prophet than any goose bone, and I think the weather and moonlight. and lots of other things, have considerable to do with the time of his rambles. I know that last fall when quail shooting, we saw lots of ’coon tracks, and went there several evenings without the dogs striking a single trail; so Harner and I got up at 3 A. M., went to the same place, and had a coon treed in a half hour or so. My dogs have treed ’coons at 9 or 10 o’clock A. M., also early in the evening, but of late years, near here, under most conditions of the weather, they seem to run late rather than early. Me “The gentleman is all right about the advantages of having a friend named Spears, in Byhalia. I never ex- pressed a desire for anything to be found in that coun- try, but what it was presented to me as soon thereafter as possible. If every one in this country was like our ne Spears, this would surely be a glorious place to ive, “IT suppose it is about settled by now that the squir- rels do migrate. My father says that when he was 2 boy and lived at Parkersburg, W. Va., a squirrel mi- gration took place, and they swam the Ohio River, landing at the town, and he, with other boys, caught a great many of them. : The wolves are getting numerotis here again, and some ofie comes in about every day wanting me to come out and chase them, They seem to be catch-- ing lots of pigs and poultry, and soon as’the young ones get a little older I will have to take a hunt or two for them. I think I could ‘hardly kill even a rattle- snake while it had little babies depending on it. “The weather is fine here now. The babies are well and everything lovely. Come down and we will go fishing.” - The squirrel migtation was settled when Col, R. FE. Bobo described what he had seen. As to those wolves, it is interesting to know that they ate in a closely farmed district, which has been settled for 60 or 70 years. “© From the Blackfoot Country4}? = = ™ Marg 27.—A letter from Jack Monroe, of the Black- foot Reservation, just at hand, says that in the neigh- borhood immediately about Blackfoot and for 50 miles east the winter has been very mild and the 'oss to stock very slight. In the Milk River Valley the weather was much more severe, and along the foot of the moun- tains it was also hard upon cattle. Jack says that he thinks: that up in the mountains it has been a hard winter also on the game animals. Jack has put ont a line of baits for a bear hunt with Dr. Henry, of Philadelmhia. - He says that Collins Anderson and Malcom Clark last spring killed four bears in one day, and rather thinks this was the bunch of four bears which we saw when I was out there, but states that there was no grizzly, whereas we were sure that we saw one grizzly in the bunch which we fcllowed for so long. Anyone wanting a good elk might do well to aldress Jack Monroe, as he advises me personally that he has a spot located which he thinks will produce the goods without much ‘difficulty and -within a ten days’ trip from Blackfoot, ont and back. Our other friend, Joe Kipp, of the Blackfoot Reservation, is building a. big hotel over at Browning, and will start a general store at Blackfoot. Joe is about the hustlingest all round proposition there is west of Havre, and may “%e counted upon to turn up with something new any mi, ute... From Lake Superior. “es A few months ago I mentioned the invitation cf Mr. P. F. Stone, of Munising, Mich, to go tip there and have a little fall fishing after lake trout. Some brief description of this syle of sport was made at the time. This morning Mr, Stone himself dawned at my office with photographs and other corroborative material. He showed me one pictufe of five trout which weizhed 90 pounds.. These fish were taken by himself and his brother Louis in two hours’ fishing, Another picture ‘ showed 15 trout weightage 122 pounds, which were taken by C. H. Worcester and E. H. Everard, All this fish- ing was done in Munising Bay. Mr. Stone tetls me that the biggest trout he ever took there was 35 pounds, and adds that in October the numbers of trout taken off that point are very large. Frequently a fishing boat will bring in T,cco pounds as a catch, and do this day after day. These nets are set on the spawning grounds, the fish coming in to spawn in the month of October.’ Of course all the rod and reel angling is also done on these same spawning grounds. The depth of water in which the fish are taken is from 20 to 30 feet. and in good weather a fish is easily dis- cernible at this depth in the beautiful clear waters of Lake Superior. Mr, Stone tells me that he believes the habits of the trout during the spawning season are quite similar to those of the black bass. They don’t take the spoon 290 FOREST AND STREAM. Aprr. rr, 1903. when feeding, but in anger. Hence the best lure is a pair of very large spoons, say No. 13, the gang re- moved from one of them and the two being used as a tandem. This is too heavy for casting. A pair of No. 8 spoons can be cast tandem, and this offers the best sport. Frequently the trout would be seen to rise from the bottom in 30 feet of water and strike the spoon just below the surface. In play these fish are a bit dull and loggy. They fol- low in to the boat readily enough, but when they strike the surface near the boat are apt to make a splash and a stiff run. It is necessary to gaff the fish. Mr. Stone says that angling after them is about as good fishing as fishing for muscallunge, although he does not call them a very game fish. According to my informant, there are in Munising Bay the two varieties of lake trout, those having white flesh and those having red flesh. The catches of these fish are enormous in the total, much of the catch being bought by A. Booth & Co., of this city. The 5 and 6- pound trout are marketed in the cities, but the large ones, more especially those having pink flesh, are sent to the Sault or to another factory on the lake and made into “salmon.” The innocent purchaser thinks that most of his Columbia River canned salmon comes from the Columbia River. This is not necessarily the case. I don’t know the names of the companies can- ning “salmon” on the Great Lakes, but that it is done admits of no question. Mr. Stone ‘says that the fish is very good to eat as taken fresh in Munising Bay. - Of large experience in operating in hardwood and other timbers, Mr. Stone has been engaged for three years as director of large lumbering interests at Muni- sing. He says that region is full of deer and is abun- dant in fur-bearing animals. His men do a little trap- ping on the side, and there are some regular trappers near by. These take a good many otter. Last week a live fisher was brought into camp. Every year a few beaver are caught. These are taken alive when possi- ble, the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co. having a permit from the State warden to trap beaver alive for their preserve on Grand Island, on the north shore of Lake Superior. Mr. Stone states that two or three beaver have been killed for every one taken alive, but that some of them have been taken over to Grand Island, and are believed to be there now. The company’s game preserve includes moose, elk and other large game animals. The moose is supposed to be extinct in Michigan and Wisconsin, but this is not really the case. In Schoolcraft and Al- ger counties there have without doubt been two or three moose within the last few years; in fact, one bull moose was killed there not long ago. Last fall some of Mr. Stone’s workmen saw a cow moose and called for Mr. Stone, who, however, got there only in time to see the tracks of the animal. I mentioned some years ago the report of-a Wisconsin trapper in regard to seeing a cow or small bull moose in one cf the northern counties of Wisconsin. It is generally sup- posed that these animals swam the river near Sault Ste. Marie, but this may perhaps not be the case. All this upper Michigan country is now under 5 or 6 feet of snow. Mr. Stone looks hard as nails and fit to run for his life. He says he is good for 20 miles or so daily on the snowshoes, and never felt better in his life. He uses the web shoes when the snow is soft, but when it crusts resorts to the skis, and tells me that he has become quite proficient with the latter One envies him his life of regular exercise in the keen north- ern air. He invites all his Chicago friends to come to Munising in the summer time, and declares that a bet- ter summer place was never seen. No Caribou in Nova Scotia. I should add a word of correction, which is prompted by a personal letter just at hand from Mr. Frederic W, Jenkins, of Binghamton, N. Y. He says: ‘You are a little twisted in your story of March 14. We did not kill any caribou in Nova Scotia last fall, and though I hunted in Nova Scotia a number of years, I have never seen one there, although it is said there are a few there. I never killed or saw one in that province. We got our caribou in New Brunswick and New- foundland. The fall I killed the big moose in New Brunswick Mr. Hotchkiss killed two caribou there. In Nova Scotia Mr. Hotchkiss killed two moose, Mr. Phelps one, and I killed the one about which you wrote. Mr. Phelps has hunted a great many years, but has, until last fall, had hard luck on the moose propost- tion,” E.. Houer. Harrrorp Buiipine, Chicago, Til. California Duck Shooting. San Francisco, March 30.—Editor Forest and Siream:. The past season’s duck shooting which closed February 15, has been one of the best in many years. The fresh water birds—mallard, teal, sprig, widgeon and spoonbills —were unustally plentiful early in the season, but the preserves, with their baited ponds, had almost a monopoly of these birds in the neighborhood of San Francisco. The canvasbacks and bluebills furnished excellent shooting during the remainder of the winter. Owing to the fact that they are open-water ducks the preserves did not suc- ceed in killing all of them. Conditions are changing in California, as elsewhere; birds are becoming scarcer and most of the open marsh land in the vicinity of San Francisco Bay is being ab- sorbed by preserves, so that the outlook for the unat- tached sportsman is not particularly cheerful. The float- ing brush blind, moored in the open water, concealing the hunter’s boat and surrounded by a large stool of decoys, is a recent innovation on our bay, and has been wonder- fully successful during the past season. Bags of from 20 to 40 “cans” and bluebills have been taken regularly throughout the season, within an hour’s travel of San Francisco, from these blinds; so the “outsider” still has a chance to have a little sport without being compelled to buy it at a price which is prohibitive to the man in or- dinary circumstances. Public sentiment in favor of game protection is yearly becoming stronger in California, and many wise laws protecting game and fish have recently been added to our statutes, and there is yet hope that we may stop the in- discriminate slaughter of our game and fish before it is entirely exterminated. oh aP: F. E. B. v Game Legislation at Albany. _Ausany, N, Y., April 4.—-But few game bills received considera- tion by the Legislature during the past week. The status of those acted upon as follows: The Senate passed these hills: Senator Malby’s P. No. 188, relative to fishing in Black Lake, St. Lawrence county. Senator Warnick’s, P. No. 717, relative to the close season for grouse and woodcock in the counties of Schoharie, Montgomery and Otsego. senator Bailey’s, P. No. 621, relating to the powers of supe1- visors in Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties. Assemblyman C. W. Smith’s, P. No. 1386, relating to wild birds, Assemblyman Cowan’s, %, No. 724, prohibiting the taking of trout and game in Delaware, U!ster and Sullivan counties for the purpose of selling same. Senator Armstrong’s, VP. No. grouse and woodcock. The following bills Senate: Senator Fancher’s, P. No. 785, im relation to pickerel and pike and nets in Lake Erie. Senator Raines’, P.. No. 920, in relation to taking fish through the ice in Canandaigua Lake. The Assembly passed ihe following bills: i Assemblyman Palmer’s, P. Ne, (1%, relative to the close season for quail in Schoharie county. Assemblyman Nichols’, . No. 813, relating io the taking of woodcock. Assemblyman C. W. Smiih’s, P. No. Til, relating to penalties. The: Assembly Committee on Fisheries and Game reported the following bill: _ Assemblyman Nichols’, P. No; 1722, in relation to spearing fish in certain towns of Greene county. ‘71, in relation to the sale of were advanced to third reading in the 100 Sportsmen’s Finds, Some of the Queer Discoveries Made by Those Who Ar ‘ Looking for Game or Fish, 90 Brant Rock, Mass., April 4.—Last fall, while gunning at North River, Franklin Bryant lost a handsome finger ring. He searched for it, but was unable to secure any trace of it. A few days ago Fred Keene, a young gunner of Marshfield, was shooting ducks on the marshes and secured a number of the spring visitors. In the crop of one of the birds was Mr. Bryant’s ring, looking as bright and elean as when it was lost. It was returned to the owner.—New York Times. = Sea and River Fishing. nd Proprietors of fishing resorts will find it profitable to advertise them in Forest anp STREAM. Canoe and Camp | Life Along the Delaware River. IL.—The Black Bass Fishing of its Upper Watets. ‘*Aj] these, and many more of His creation, That made the heavens, ihe angler oft doth see; And takes therein no little delectation, To thinke how straynge and wonderfull they be: Framing thereof an inward contemplation That sets his thoughts on higher fancies free; And whiles he lookes on these with joyfull eie, His mind is wrapt above the starry skie.” —Davors. Nearty all anglers are obliged to fish during mere vacations—periods of escape from the cares and worries of business. Often they desire to have their families with or near them, and so they cannot visit distant angling waters. Scant time and a limited supply of spare cash may be obstacles. Instead of visiting remote lakes and streams in British Columbia, Maine, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Quebec, or Colorado, Minnesota, Wisconsin or Michigan, they are obliged to fish in waters that can be reached in a few hours by rail, say from the cities of the Atlantic Coast, or of the central Mississippi Valley. And this is no deprivation, for excellent fishing and exquisite natural beauty dwell around hundreds of inland lakes and along the rivers and trout streams of the East. New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey have sylvan scenery quite as fair as that of the rock-guarded, black waters of Kootenai, Lake Crescent or the Saguenay. More, a few hours of travel by rail can take the resi- dent of New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia or Buffalo to jair waters where any fisherman of average skill can not only hook and land enough fish to satisfy any true sports- man, but where he can also use his camera, which is be- coming an almost indispensable part of a fishing outfit. And he can camp in thousands of places that are wild and beautiful, and as seemingly remote as those to be reached only after days of plodding, portaging with canoes, or heart-breaking effort through forests with pack-horses. On October 26, 1870, a few mature black bass were placed’ in the Delaware River at Easton, Penna. The re- sult is well known to eastern anglers. That royal fish abounds in the Delaware from source to mouth, and has given royal sport to a generation of anglers, amid scenes of rare beauty. -The black bass is always a tremendous fighter; all anglers thoroughly respect him. He becomes a burly water athlete when he lives in a swift river, and is obliged to breast currents, mount rapids, dart through eddies and struggle with water that changes from a seething mass of air bubbles of less than half the average density of water under normal conditions, to the plunge and power of its downpour and onrush among boulders and around their points and crags. Such a fish, taken arnid such environment, is a foe worthy of any rod. The foliage, birds, flowers, rocks and mountains, the sweet, perpetual change of light, the shores and vistas also changing as the canoe glides down the stream in storm, sunshine, or under moon or stars, furnish an almost in- finite variety of natural beauty—a condition upon which anglers are insisting more and more, They know they can buy fish in a dark corner of some noisome fish market. Work, perhaps hardship, sound of clear, cool waters, sough of wind through pines and hemlocks, pun- gent smoke from a camp-fire, the novelty and unex- pectedness as the current grows swift, and warning roars come from rapids below that yet are felt to be full of good-fellowship—these are what the angler longs for through many a weary week of waiting in town, and that satisfy him when possessed! There he finds happiness, sleep, appetite, all too short days! What becomes of the hours that passed with such leaden pace in the office? By what magic do they now run so swiftly? He looks at his cheap watch, procured for use during this outing, wonders how it can possibly be two o’clock, and longs to put a prop under the sun. He wakes at daylight, goes to bed with the birds, eats for two, and sleeps like a child while health broods over his pillow, and waits to accompany him on the morrow as he casts the feathered lures over rapids, eddies, and on those deep, still pauses where he feels the real giants lurk. And he revels, yes, glories, in old clothes, uncombed hair, beard a week old, dirt, hunger and happiness; even going barefoot, drink- ing from a spring as he lies prone on the earth, wet from his deliberate, seal-like roll from the boat into the water out of very love for it! And this is why two graybeards made that canoe trip down the Delaware from Deposit to the Gap. How slow- a 7 ONE MILE FROM OUR STARTING POINT. ly time had passed—Thanksgiving snows growing deeper! Christmas with its kindliness and good-cheer; spring with the robins, crows, bluebirds and flowers; finally summer! And two men in shocking bad clothes stand beside canoes on the upper Delaware. We have already fished it from Walton to Deposit, finding excel- lent sport with the trout in its tributaries, and with the bass in the river that averaged about a pound and one- half, and so plentiful that there was not a day on which we did not release a dozen. _ That was done with the regulation modern tackle— lithe rods, oiled silk lines, shining reels and landing-nets. Sut now my comrade smiles as the tamarack poles are taken from the peak of the barn, and a line two feet longer than the pole is tied to its tip, with two flies, a Parmacheene-belle and_a Montreal, fastened by snells to a six-foot leader. What a mongrel combination! I test his purpose: “Here are the lancewoods and bamboos. We can rig them up in a few minutes and cast sixty feet. We can- WHERE WE CAMPED THE FIRST NIGHT. not cast at all with these tamarack sticks unless the wind favors us, as well as the current. And then the ijimit wiil be about thirty-five feet, instead of seventy-five.” But he is sincere. “What do you suppose I came up here for last fall, and cut these poles, if I did not use them now? If we are to ‘be boys again’ we should do far more, and bait with earthworms, minnows and frogs. However, the feather lures, even on these awkward sticks, will bring us more fish than we can use. Besides, I Wane to do the most of my fishing with a camera. Here goes! Kindly hands shove our canoe from shore, and into the grip of the current, with two extra tamarack poles ex- - tending far over the stern, and two anchors ready for use at any “likely” fishing place. He paddles to the center of the stream. It is a glorious morning! An occasional lazy use of the paddles, the current always carrying us onward! Mists low on mountains that seem like visible dreams through the evanescent night-caps that slowly rise, leaving earth, air, _ sky and water perfect in beauty! Five, ten, twenty minutes go by, and we grow less awk- ward with our nondescript rods. Then, a small jerk, and my comrade whispers, “Hist!” He is “getting a bite!” Then the unexpected happens. He pulls in a ten-inch cathsh! ; “Misery! I wonder if he knows I paid twenty cents for that Montreal fly—imported it from Edinburgh! Now that is what I call assurance!” ao He cuts the wriggling, slippery mud-lover from the hook, and eyes the fly regretfully; and, in desperation; J tell him that a cat may look at a king, and to try on the other side of the boat, APRIL IY, 1003.) "FOREST AND STREAM. 291 Each of us soon lands a lively, angry bass, slightly under two pounds. Then we stop and take the picture herewith, one mile below Deposit. - Onward, always onward, and the real fishing begins! The bass are long, slender, like race-horses. Soon a half- dezen lie in the canoe. That-is enough, and we string and trail them in the water, using them as a brake and helm to keep the canoe pointed down stream. More catches with the camera as we admire the noble views of river, forest, mountain, cloud and shore! Luncheon—fried bass, bacon, coffee, cheese, brown bread. The sky for a ceiling and clouds for frescoes, each of their changing aspects seeming to be more ex- quisite than the one just vanishing; the hills for the dado of our dining rodm, the birds for our orchestra, our- selves for waiters; spring water, and the music of the river, rufiled by a breeze that makes each leaf flutter and tug at its. anchorage, each twig full of trouble, and the Loughs all bend to spring back again with happy lite! And then a long, long run through vanishing heurs, fiast little towns, under bridges, close to boats holding fellow fishermen; and the inevitable question, “What luck?” and again we drift between lovely hills, the still pauses showing as much in the water as above them. “Sweet views, that in our world above Can never well be seen, Were imaged by the water’s love Oi that fair forest green.” The whole upper Delaware is singularly wild and sylvan. Yet railroads and highways. make it accessible over nearly every mile of its length, with hotels and farm houses where mountain hospitality dwells, so real that we often had to urge the receipt of the small charges for ac- commodations and supplies. Tt is a region of cloud-views that seem to be nique in magnificence. Sky-ranges full of caught and held sun- shine, white mist-wraiths along hills, dreamy and far vistas opelling as we approach them; life-lusty, smiling- earnest water flowing and talking to itself, noble salience and re-entrance of banks! Hundreds of tiny dells and tmiooks invited us to stop; springs purled with offered water; robins called their “Cheer up! cherries are ripe. tp! up! cheer wp!” A pair of bald eagles sailed over the hills below Hancock. Red squirrels, warblers, buntings, larks and blackbirds scolded in surprise or voiced their happiness. This was our experience that evening as the canoe was brotieht to shore, just above Southport, and we established our first camp. “No wonder the Delaware Indians made this river the - “center of their possessions,’” I remark. “What a perfect place this must haye been hundreds of years ago for a young Delaware to talk nonsense in ‘TInjun’ to his best ir] !” ; Then my comrade’s rhyming skill appeared. I believe he had studied all day on that stanza, getting it ready: “Were came, long ago, the Indian maid, Awed by the Great Spirit’s power; And as she knelt by the spring and prayed, Bach rhododendron flower Bent toward her, to kiss the forest belle, Whose dusky and blushing face, As she worshipped here in this little dell, Was the light of the sylvan place!” This river was the favorite stream of the Delaware branch of the Algonquin Indians. Along its lower flow they called it Pautaxet. Deeds from them to William Penn in 1682 call the stream Mackeriskickon and Zuni- koway. Some of the sub-tribes called it Pohoqualin, or river hetween two mountains—manifestly referring to its passage between Mounts Minsi and Tammany at the Gap. Up here on its higher waters the stream was known as Lamasepose, or Fish River. But it was best known as the Lenape-Wihittuck, the name given to it by the Confederated Tribes of the Lenape. I close this second article of a series by asking careful study of the two pictures furnished. Note the grace, finish and companionship of-the shore plants in the fore- ground of one of them. Remember that white is the most brilliant color that even the painter can use, and that the blue of the sky is really blue fire—throbhing with faint shadows always, and far more brilliant than the whitest paper—and realize how pitifully slight and meager at best must be the small picture that the reader can entirely cover with either hand—a picture that is merely black ink on white paper. Yet observe the sharp- ness of the hills on the sky-line, the mystery in the banks and masses of foliage on the far shore; and what must have been the brightness of the sunset glow in the other picture; and the tenderness and delicacy of the gloom as it gathered in the forests of those hills. Besides, in the picture ate no colors—golden green of sunset on foliage, dazzling radiance on rapid water, purples and mauves and browns and yellows blending. No bird- notes, no sough of wind, no harp of foliage that it stirred and caressed, no glancing motion, purl and water-choe harmonies ! There are no mosquitoes, We did not discover a dozen in all that voyage. And so, to all fellow anglers and sportsmen, good- night. L. F. Brown. Shad and Striped Bass on the Pacific Coast. As A result of the introduction of shad and striped bass on the Pacific Coast by the U. S. Fish Commission the yearly catch of each of these species amounts to one and a half million pounds, which net the fishermen about one hundred thousand dollars. One of the first plants of shad made by the Commission was carried in an ordinary bag- gage car by Mr. Frank N. Clark aud Dr. Tarleton H. Bean, This was in 1876, when early one hundred thousand lively fry were planted in the Sacramento River. These had been collected at South Hadiey Falls, Massa- chusetts, from the Connecticut River. Earlier plants of shad fry had been made in the Sacramento for the Cali- fornia Commission by Mr. Seth Green and Livingston Stone. In 1885, and for several succeeding years, shad fry were introduced into more northern waters, including Puget Sound. The species is now found from the Sacra- mento to the Sound, but the striped bass as yet is confined to the streams of California. } Bon, The Sea Trout Question. Editor Forest and Stream: As stated in a previous letter, had I not verified my belief in the identity of the so-called Sea Trout of North America with the widely “distributed and universally known Salma fontinalis by a study which precluded all reasonable probability of ertor, 1 should scarcely have ventured to combat the opinion of Mr. Charles Hallock. This gentleman’s writings have been in the hands of several generations of sportsmen, and he is acknowledged by those competent to judge to be the best living aiithority on all subjects to which he has devoted his careful attention and on which he has exercised his acute powets of observation. In his several instructive and fas- cinating books which have done so much to create and foster a love of genuine sport in the United States and Canada, he leaves the impression on the minds of his readers that he considered the Sea Trout a species of Salmo entirely distinct from fontinalis in the same sense that it is distinct from S@lmo salar. In his letter on the subject in your last issue, he ex- plains that this was hardly his meaning; that he con- siders it a distinct variety of fontinalis, though in no way differing from this species in its anatomical structure. With this opinion I have no fault to find, though I do not, in all points, agree with his conclusions about the difference in their habits and habitat. He thinks their home is the sea, and that, like the Salmon, they resort to iresh water only to propagate their kind. My belict is that they are true Brook trout; that their home and proper habitat is the fresh water of otrr rivers, lakes and streams}; that they go out to the mouths and estuaries of rivers for the greater abundance and variety of food to be had there, but that they never go far to sea, seldom leave the estuaries of their native rivets, and always spend the summer and autumn in their proper home— fresh water.” There is little to argue about in our differ- ing opinions, and as neither of them is susceptible of ab- solute demonstration, I will devote this letter to some general observations on the “Sea Trout,’ and on the dif- ferent varieties of undoubted fontinalis which are found itt most all of our rivers, lakes and streams. So far as the writer has been able to discover, without having opportunity to refer to the great libraries of the United States or England, the only writers who speak ex-cathedra of the Sea Trout are Hamilton Smith, who named it Sahno canadensis, but gave little information as to its habitat or habits and still less to the specific charac- teristics of its physiology. Sir Wm. Jardine mentions it as a species distinct from fontinalis, but gives no satisfac- tory teasons for his opinion. In describing the habits of the fish he says: “In approaching the entrance of rivers, or in seeking out, as it were, some one they preferred, shoals of these fish may be seen coasting the bays and harbors, leaping and sporting in great numbers, from about one pound to three or four pounds in weight, and in some of the smaller bays the shoal could be traced several times circling round it and apparently feeding.” Following these, Thaddeus Norris, in his Angler’s Book, gives a detailed description of the Sea Trout, and in his later book, “American Fish Culture,” says: “From all my researches the only scientific account given of this fish is by myself. It is decidedly distinct from the varieties of S. fontinalis which migrate to and from salt water and acquire a larger size and darker tinted flesh by feeding upon crustacea found there; nor has it but slight affinity to the Sea Trout of Scotland and Ireland, These fish come in large schools into Canadian and New Bruns- wick streams. On their arrival they are beautifully bright and of surpassingly delicious flavor; but, like the Salmon, which they precede a month of so, they lose their bril- liancy and flesh up to the time of spawning, which is in October. As far as I have examined them, their stomachs are empty after entering fresh water, while an occasional Brook Trout taken in the same pool has a well-filled patinch. They are, therefore, purely anadromous, and, like the Salmon, attain all their growth and flavor at sea.’ From further and more exact investigation, Mr. Norris found he was incorrect in every statement made above. He found, in the writer’s company, that these Sea Trout never had an empty stomach, but were always ravenous in fresh water and their stomachs always full of undi- gested food of all sorts, from flies to young field-mice. The writer pointed out to him that he was not the first hor the only savant who had fallen into the same error from hasty and inaccurate observation. He showed him that, in 1849, H. Robinson Storer, of the single specimen of Sea Trout which he saw at Red Bay in the Straits of Belleisle, gaye the following luminous scientific descrip- tion: “Length of head about one-sixth length of body; depth of head two-thirds of its length; greatest depth of body directly in front of dorsal fin, equal to length of head. Upper jaw the longer. Jaws with numerous sharp in- curved teeth. Eyes laterally elongated; their diameter one-third the distance between them. Opercules rounded posteriorly; lower portion of operculum naked, marked with concentric striz; lateral line commences back of superior angle of opercle, and assuming the curve of the bedy is lost at the commencement of the caudal rays. The dorsal fin commences just anterior to meridian line; is nearly quadrangular. Adipose fin situated at a distance back of the first dorsal little less than one-half the length of the fish. Pectorals just beneath the angle of opercu- lum; their length three-fifths of the head. Ventrals just beneath posterior portion of first dorsal ; the plates of their base very large. Theanal is situated ata distance back of the ventrals just equal to the length of head, and ter- minates directly beneath the adipose fin; caudal fin deeply forked; its length equal to greater depth of body. Dorsal fin, Q rays; pectoral, 13; ventrals, 9; anal, 11; caudal, 30 rays.’ Principally on this learned trifling has a mew species been formed. Sayant Storer gave tongue as above, fol- lowed by Savants Jardine and Hamilton Smith, and all the lesser lights yelped in full cry, until to express a doubt of this unique Sea Trout is rank. heresy in the eyes of the Savants, whom I defy to show any substantial dif- ference between it and fontinalis when the same profes- sional patter is applied to the latter. With trout in Nepissiguit and Tabusintac and Storer’s luminous description before us, we fajled to find any substantial difference; certainly not so much as the most casual ob- server can see at a glance between the Salmo salar of Restigouche, Nepissiguit and Miramichi. Even the Mil- licnaires of the Restigouche Club can distinguish between the Salmon of Matapedta and those of Upsalqiiteh, Pati- pedia and Quatawamkedgwick. Mr. Norris frankly ad- mitted this on comparing his own description of the Sea Trout with the wndoubted fontinalhs we caught on his second visit to the North Shore and Tabusintac. I have. always considered Mr. Norris’s death a great loss to piscatory science. As he was largely responsible for the widespread delusion of the Sea Trout myth among Amer- ican and Canadian anglers, it.is much to be regretted that ees before his more mature convictions were made public. abe When Savants tediously describe the colors of fish, which they all do ad nauseum under the head “Colora- tion,” they are simply leading themselves and their readers astray and exhibiting to observant fishermen and intelligent anglers their practical ignorance. The Old Angler never saw two Salmon or two trouts precisely alike in color; but he has seen trouts taken from the same lake so entirely different in their “coloration” that they might well be thought of-different species. In Kingston, Kings county, are two lakes not far apart; one has a bright, white-bellied, brilliantly spotted trout that often attains three pounds weight. The other lake, not a mile distant, has trout not larger than four to eight ounces, which are yellow-bellied and dirty colored on sides and back, the vermillion spots barely perceptible, but sprinkled thickly from back to belly with mimute jet black specks, as numerous as if a pepper-box had been shaken over them from head to tail, the specks not larger than finely ground coffee. The speckled fish from the low, swampy lake, if placed in the clear water of the higher lake, soon lose these minute black spots; the vermillion spots become brighter, the belly whiter and the back ver- miculated. Another instance of the same kind is seen in Tracey and Henry Jakes in St. John county. In the former the fish ate clean and bright; in the latter, dirty and dim, covered thickly with the minute jet-black specks above described. Every observant angler knows how various are the colors of trout in different waters, but he never has a doubt that all are of the same species. These remarks apply to perch, chub, suckers and pickerel in fresh water, whose colors are as various as the waters they inhabit. Even amone salt-water fishes like Cod, Pollack and Haddock, the colors vary with the individual. I have seen vastly more difference between trout taken from the same lake than I could ever find between a so- called Sea Trout and an undoubted fontinalis of the same size. In your issue of January 17, Mr. R. T. Morris writes about the difference in appearance and habits of Sea Trout in notthern and southern streams, Every fisherman with his eyes open must have observed considerable difference between the appearance and habits of Salmon and trout in different waters, and indeed in different parts of the same water. Any Salmon fisherman on the north shore of New Brunswick, after a few seasons’ experience, can tell Miramichi Salmon and trout from those caught in the Nepissiguit. A Miramichi angler can readily dis- tinguish between the Salmon of the northwest and those of the southwest branch. A Restigouche angler, if he is at all observant of small differences, will have no diffi- culty in distinguishing an Upsalquitch from a Patapedia Salmon, and detect among them all a Matapedia fish .or one from Kedgwick. The man must be “color blind” who can see no difference between the Salmon in Port Medway River in Nova Scotia and those from Gold River; between those from Indian River and those from the Margaree, and yet no one doubts that all are of the same species. Mr. Morris tells us: “The sea-tun brook trout likes to remain near cover or under it when in the stream; while the sea trout lies in the middle of the most open pools, * * * and cares very little about the presence of the fisherman in full sight, and will rise freely tc the most clumsy cast. * * The sea trout often rises near the surface and makes a wake like a muskrat before getting to the fy. The sea-run brook trout runs for cover when hooked; the sea trout keeps in the open when hooked and splashes about near the surface.’ (The italics are mine.) Then comes Mr. J. W. B., in your issue of February 7, and tells an entirely different story of his own experience in the Escuminac at the extreme head of Chalenr Bay, ’ in which and in the Nouvelle the Old Angler and the late John Mowat, for twenty years Fishing Overseer of the district, have had the finest angling in all the lower pools and never found it necessary to go higher for fish. J. W. B.’s experience is the “exact opposite” to that of Mr. Morris, for he writes: “* * * The pools and reaches of the lower five or six miles of the river never contain any large trout, * * * but countless thousands of fingerling trout.” Unlike the Sea Trout of Mr. Morris, which keep in the open and splash about near the sur- face, those of J, W. B. “seek the shelter of the banks and the overhanging bushes, and then, to get your fly where the concealed fish can see it, requires skill, patience and profanity. But they are there, great spotted beauties, as plenty as the angler can wish. When you fasten ta a four-pound fish after digsing lim out from under the alders, he 1s very liable to exhibit a frantic desire to re- turn to cover.” Let the reader compare these two descrip- tions, especially the passages I have italicized, and he may well doubt whether these observant gentlemen are writing about the same fish; and yet both give their opinion that these Sea Trout, with such opposite habits, are a distinct species ftom fontinalis, with a different habitat. Thus sciolism rushes blithely in where knowledge creeps with cautious steps, and a few hours’ fishing of a Single stream is put against the laborious sttrdy of forty years on all the principal rivers, lakes and streams of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and P. FE. Island. Mr. Morris is quite right when he says: “I suspect the mat- ter is well understood, and that differences in opinion are simply differences in information on the part of corre- spondents.” Your issue of January Io contains some very sensible remarks from Mr. W. B. Mershon, who seems to know the Cascapedia well and has had great facilities for study- ing its trout. He says: “My observations on the Casea- pedia River, extending through 4 good many years, lead 292 ‘ FOREST:-AND STREAM. [APRIL 11, 1903. SS me to believe that there is no difference between brook trout and sea trout.” In issue of January 24, Mr. E. A. Samuels; author of that charming book, “With Rod and Camera,” which every angler ought to have and read often, gives a great deal of useful and interesting information about Sea Trout. His remarks show that he is a careful and ac- curate observer. Peculiarities of habit in different waters and mere “coloration” have little weight with him, be- cause he knows that all these vary with the rivers in which they are found, and indeed with different parts of the same river. His experience seems to have been large and various, his observation careful and exact, and his conclusion irrefutable. Only in one respect does he differ trom my own conclusion, carefully and laboriously formed after 40 years’ study, viz—that the home of these itrout is the open Sea, and that their visits to fresh water are only episodes in their life. My conclusion, based on most carefully ascertained facts, is that their home is in fresh water, and that their visits to salt water are only two episodes in their history—the first in spring to feed ‘on SMelts, the second in the fall to recuperate after spawn- ing. During these two visits to salt water from their home in fresh water, J have the strongest reasons to doubt that they ever go far to sea, or indeed far from the estuaries of their native rivers. Some of these reasons were given at length in Forest AND StrEAmM of December 20 last, and until the facts therein set forth are either disproved or rationally explained, I must continue to hold my present belief that the so-called Sea Trout is simply the universally known Salmo fontinalis, and that it goes from its home in fresh water to brackish and salt water in the mouths and estuaries of its native rivers for the- better feed found there; but that it returns to its home in the upper waters after a longer or shorter stay lower down, dependent on the state of the river and the supply of food. If anyone—Scientist, Savant, Angler or Fisher- man, who all agree that this trout follows the smelt up rivers—can prove to me that after the smelt have spawned ‘and left the rivers, this trout follows them down to sea again, | may be inclined to reconsider a question I have lheld as settled for the last thirty-five years of my investi- zations, VENNING. Since the above was written, I have read with much pleasure, in your issue of March 28, the letter of a brother Octogenarian, Mr. Von W., who says: “The weight of evidence is against Mr. Venning.” If so, it must be against himself as well. An attentive reading of what I have said in combatting the widespread belief that the so- called sea trout is a species of Salmo distinct from fon- imalis, will show him that I have expressed throughout precisely the same belief that he himself holds about these trout spending the winter in salt water. He will perceive, also, that I incline to the opinion he expresses that Salmo AND STREAM. | | [Aram 14, 1903. cruising in the summer of 1902, we never once sailed the Rambler with a reef in any sail. We had the foresail down altogether several times to ease her when we didn’t have time to reef; but here I go moralizing again instead of driving the Rambler into a stiff gale and head sea to Friday Harbor. We got there about noon and repaired to the hotel for dinner, the mate remarking that the culi- nary department of the Rambler would require a Sunday off. Thus a mutiny was quelled and every one made happy, including the hotel proprietor. Friday Harbor is an excellent one, albeit a little deep for raising a heavy anchor. It is well protected from all winds, easy of ingress and egress, and is the best place among the islands for purchasing. any kind of supplies. On a previous visit only a few weeks. before we had Chart Tete / FoRecastLe Chart Tablte . and Berth - AMONG THE SAN JUAN ISLANDS, anchored in compaty with the U. S. Revenue Cutter Grant, and exchanged visits with her officers. The prin- cipal article smuggled in_these waters is Chinamen at $50 per. On board again at 2 P. M. we immediately got under way for East Sound. Once outside the harbor we found that the wind had increased rather than decreased, but as our course soon brought it abeam and then aft we started sheets and proceeded to get as much speed out oi the Rambler as she was ever guilty of. The tender towing astern made one continuous roar that almost drowned conversation in the cock-pit. The painter was tight enough for one to walk out on it, but although every one conceded the fact there were no offers. We carried the wind aft clear up to the end of East Sound. This is a good place for yachtsmen to stay away from. We walked several miles and worked all the farm-houses for milk and bread, but didn’t get a rise. Query—what does the local creamery make butter of? The anchorage with Shelve: iA OF here is very exposed with a south wind, and it is apt to “Le Pbaceex| a aie be a tedious beat in or out. We found it a beat out ll ye the next morning. The Artist had become so engrossed x in a sketch composed of a broken-down wharf and the » & back end of a grocery store that we delayed our departure with the anchor hove short until the “color-scheme” could be evolved. = Now, if the reader will refer to the chart he will ob- serve a small island almost blocking the passage between - Blakely and Orcas Islands. This is appropriately called Obstruction Island, and the passages north and south of it the Obstruction Passages. We took the north passage this time because it is wider (although longer). We will know better next time. I have been through both and .- _ the narrower and shorter passage is best, as the wind can draw straight through. We got becalmed when al- most through the north passage, and for about half an hour had a rather anxious time drifting back and forth within too yards of a fine breeze that we could see on the water at the mouth of the passage just ahead. It is so much trouble to take the cover off the tender and put it on again tight that we thought we would try to get through without it, but we couldn’t. We finally got Chris out in the tender and five minutes’ tow was enough. Whew! How that wind did blow up Rosario Strait. The = Le oA ' » aX [oO DESIGNED BY V. D. BACON FOR T. W. HOBRON, COMMODORE HAWATIAN Y. C., 1908. 4 4a a fa) 43 e 42] 4 v7 7 a) 7 a a) a4 tel mae z 4 4 CRUISING YAWL—CABIN PLAN ) “A STRONG WIND AND A SMOOTH SEA.” tender dropped the tow line and then tried in vain to — catch up. We had to heave to and wait for it. Then easing main and head sheets we jogged along under fore- sail only until the cover could be made fast on the tender. With a quartering wind we romped across Rosario Strait, rounded the southern point of Lummi Island and opened | up the city of Whatcom, off which we dropped anchor about 6 P. M. We spent two days in Whatcom and said good-bye to the Lawyer and the Artist, who left by train for Van- couver, B. C. We left Whatcom about noon and an- chored that night in Watmouth Bight, a very secure and sheltered harbor in the southeast side of Lopez Island. This is a good port of departure for the run across the straits. A salmon trap is situated here and the trap men kindly presented us with a king salmon that would weigh at least 25 pounds. ; f For our passage across the straits we had very little ‘forward Main Gasin Lookin Tim Ware Apri tt, 1903.] FOREST AND STREAM. 2905 SAIL _AND SPAR PLAN 35 er. KEEL YAwL. Scale Hin. to ket. Designed by Vale: Dis co B ARMSTABLe Ma - e : Nore All Dimensions are for Save when fully Stretched. So al ast fe Teta S10 FE s © * £ fitead Sypreadces To Swing CRUISING YAWL—SAIL PLAN——DESIGNED BY V. D. wind and evening found us becalmed off Smith Island. There is anchorage off the north shore in about four fathoms, protected to some extent from prevailing west- erly winds by a bed of kelp nearly a mile in extent. No vessel should lie here, however, with any appearance of bad weather. The next morning we were under way at 4 A. M., but with a very light breeze which failed alto- gether about 7 o’clock with us not more than three miles on our way. We started towing and kept at it steadily the whole morning, Chris, Jim and the writer each taking one hour shifts and relieving each other. The water was just like oil. Not a single catspaw visible in any direc- tion. The stin was like a ball of copper through the haze, caused by smoke from forest fires. We took the circuit- ous course shown by the chart in order to avail ourselves of the ebb tide on which we left Smith Island, and later the flood tide, on which we wished to be sure and make Port Townsend, and not be again carried back up Rosario Strait. Everything worked to a charm. We towed through the very spot where the tide rips had been so fierce less than two weeks before, and passed inside of Point Wilson about noon. Inside the bay there was a nice land breeze, so we trimmed the sails which had been flapping idly all the morning and stood in until off the town where anchor was dropped only long enough to get the mail and some fresh provisions. Then anxious to get back to Seattle, we were again on our way with a nice free wind which held until evening, when we an- chored about five miles north of Apple Tree Cove. Nearly another whole day of light airs was necessary to make the last 25 miles, but it was accomplished at last and about 4 P. M. we picked up a mooring at the Seattle am aut fee anchorage and the cruise of the Rambler was nished. Design for a Cruising Yawl. In 1899 Mr. T. W. Hobron, commodore of the Ha- Walian Y. C., had a 25ft. waterline cruising knockabout built in San Francisco from designs made by Mr. Vaughan D. Bacon, of Barnstable, Mass. The boat, which was named Gladys, was shipped out to Honolulu on the deck of a steamer. For the last four years Mr. Hobron has used Gladys constantly for racing and offshore cruising in the Pacific. She proved to be such a very satisfactory craft that when the time came when he wanted a larger boat he commissioned Mr. Bacon to get up the plans. . We publish in this issue the plans of Mr. Hebron’s new boat. She is toft. longer on the waterline than Gladys, and is to be rigged as a yawl. The new boat will be built in San Francisco and will make the long trip out to Honolulu on her own bottom. The dimensions of the boat are as follows: Length— Overs alee we om ei iets soft. L. Ser es cae os Pa tire a che Ht ted 3cit. Overhang— ECC TAWiAlTC ont fereveke etcetera Recreate acter pelt. AE eantsbs tas picks ee si ea ee oft: Freeboard to planksheer— BOWS oe erdtnact: catesiuetre eee) (Sito iiin »set wash bowl and linen and clothes lockers. Dec astanraue se TNE ESD SPS cyt hOtae Gree ok D te aft, 6in SLOT as ee es Pil send torte ht sega ee ait. 3in Breadth— EE GREIICM vos ee aeeete eeerias eae bee t2ft. 8in SWE AN OSE Lee aN fen, 8 12it Drait— Doane ST Se nea Sn icad o AS aa te eee ait. Displacenrentgetann eam er mentees een eee To tons Ballast e ne er es Seer ace ne On NP, PU 7.5 tons Sail area— 1ptty eee ees BAA ad ert aaron EBA ae 200 sq. ft. SEAV SALE ce dae ee WE ee ne SL See 105 sq. ft. , METIS atl Me IWe, Cite rimet totes hte eae 845 sq. ft. IEE EGTINEe re, he AA spoon gi Feare Maelo St Poe 300 sq. ft. Soper 2 Boe Bicins Aen Nee one oo Oe A la 1,510 sq. ft. The displacement is generous, and the construction ample for a boat of 4o to 46ft. waterline, as she is intended for offshore cruising. The deadwood is ar- ranged so that an auxiliary can be installed at any time, the engine being placed under half deck between cabin and cockpit. The companionway is on the starboard side of the center and leads into a steerage containing chart table (which can be used for extra berth, if de- sired), drawers, chart and book shelves, and locker for oilskins. Opposite, on the port side, is the owner’s stateroom, with bureau, clothes locker, set wash bowl, drawers under berth, etc. The main cabin has two regular berths with transoms to extend, making two extra berths, with lockers and drawers under herths, floor space between transoms, 4ft. sideboard and small lockers and extension table. Forward of the main cabin is the toilet room to starboard, with patent cosas € headroom, in cabin under carlins, is 6ft. 2in. The galley is large and roomy, with dresser, sink, ice chests, food and dish lockers. Forecastle has patent closet for crew, lockers and two pipe berths. The water tanks, under the cockpit at each side, have a capacity of 200 gallons, and are piped to stateroom, galley and toilet. The sail plan is small and snug, and includes topsail, balloon jib topsail, storm topsail and square sail for running in heavy weather. Yale Corinthian Y. C’s. New House It is hoped that the new Yale Corinthian Y. C. house at Morris Cove, will be ready by the middle of this month. The house is 31ft. wide, 4oft. long, with a piazza I2ft. wide running across the entire front. From this piazza two large double glass doors lead into the main room of the building, which is 30 by 20ft., with a great fireplace at the rear end. The woodwork of this room, when finished, will be stained a dark color and the hangings will be red. To the left and rear of the main room, looking from the front, will be a large - kitchen, while to the right and rear will be the locker room, completely fitted up. On the second floor three large rooms are being fitted up for the servants of the club. C. F. Greishaber..of Norcross Brothers, who is superintending the work on the Bicentennial buildings, is the architect of the new house. The officers of the Com., D. R. McKee, ’03; Vice-Com., Clark, °03S.; Rear Com., David Boies, ’o4; Treas., R. H. Thomas, ’05; Sec., W. L. Mitchell, ’oa. The Yale Corinthian Y. C. from a very small be- ginning in 1881, has grown to a membership of nearly 400, with a large field of boats. In 1881 the club was known as “The Yale Y. C.,” and its membership was about thirty. The officers were: Com., John J. Phelps, 83; Vice-Com., William H. Parsons, Jr., ’82; Sec. and Treasurer, John B, Woodward, ’83. The fleet con- sisted of nine yachts, varying from a 2tft. catboat, La Cigale, owned by J. E. Wayland, ’83, to a 45ft. schooner Edith, owned by H. L. Whittlesey, ’84. This unpre- tentious fleet had its anchorage at Morris Cove, where the clubhouse was situated. From this humble begin- ning the club grew very rapidly, tripling its member- ship the following year, and enlarging its fleet. In 1885 the interest in yachting began to decline and short- present year are as follows: ly after that the club went out of existence. It was not until 1892 that sufficient interest was shown in yachting to warrant reorganizing the club. The following year the yacht club was reorganized under the name of the Yale Corinthian Y. C. The officers at this time were: Com., Guy B. Miller, ’94; Vice-Com., Henry B. Harris, ’95; Rear Com., William A. Delano, *95; Sec. and Treas., Harold W. Buck, ’94S: The mem- bers numbered about 200. The fleet also was greatly increased, amounting to about thirty yachts. The club- house and anchorage as before were situated at Mor- ris Cove. - From this time on the club advanced rapidly. In the summer of 1894 a regatta was sailed with Harvard, on June 27, the day before the. Yale-Harvard boat race at New London. There were five classes entered, rang- ing from sloops and-cutters of 30 to 4oft. waterline, to catboats of below 2oft. waterline. Schooners were entered in the race, rating 84 per cent. .of their water- line. The challenge cup offered for this regatta was -won by Yale with a total of 21 points to Harvard’s 16. In 1895 the club had a regatta open to all yacht clubs having stations on Long Island Sound. The yachts entered in this regatta were restricted to a racing Jength of 6oft. In the spring of 1897 the club decided to build a new I5s{t. racing class of half-raters. These boats were designed and built by W. H. Hand, of New Bed- ford. Their dimensions were 15ft. on the waterline, arft. gin. over all, 6ft. 3in. beam and 3ft. 6in. draft, with the centerboard down. There was a sail area of 350 sq. ft. in their jib and mainsail rig. Although the one-design class of 1897 proved a failure in point of design, the idea of a one-design class was followed out in 1901 in the Swampscott dories. These boats were built by Gerry E. Emmons, of Swampscott, Mass. Their dimensions are: Length of the waterline, 17{t.; over all, 21it.; beam, 5ft.; draft, 6in., with cen- terboard down 3ft. The rig is a leg of mutton main- sail and a small jib, with a total sail area of 100 sq. ft. The fleet of dories now numbers 28, and for this class two races are given every week for cups offered by the club and by graduates. The scoring for a series is one point for finishing and one point for every boat astern. Besides the one-design class now in the Yale Corin- 296 FOREST :>AND STREAM. Q\ NSB \ “eo es DS as ee ee TT ATU OUE Too, NC eae ONG tl oobi one eas Ea F (NUS ieanamsii AS) aS eS STEAM YACHT ELGRUDOR—-OUTBOARD PROFILE, CABIN AND DECK PLANS——DESIGNED BY HENRY J. GIELOW FOR SPENCER KELLOGG, 1902. thian ¥’. C., there are 22 other yachts in the fleet, rang- ‘mg from a 85it. yawl to a 2oft. catboat—Yale Alumni Wiaék]y. The Steam Yacht Elgrudor. WE publish herewith the outboard profile, cabin and deck plans of the steam yacht Elgrudor, that is now under construction at Mr. Robert Jacob’s yard at City Island. She was designed by Mr. Henry J. Gielow, and ‘is being built under his supervision for Mr. Spencer Kellogg, of Buffalo. Her dimensions follow: iLength— Crier caret ek, NY ele hod Eee, ard ae t27lt. 6in. iD ded Oe Be ih Won AS 5 fad. oe RC eee Overhang— Forward) tua St tce cd katie. AE ln eee eee huh, A Ah sine ail Oe di eRe Oe oP alt oh Ae 15it. 6in. Breadth— Extreme T6ft. 4in. Freeboard— EGrwertl ectap ee: eee bee haere oft. NSeaS on) bee eal fn, Sees seit he a sit 61. Rei a Pei brat tly QE 3 ee: ce Oka Satie at Off. 6in. Elgrudor is a handsome vessel of steel construction, -and will undoubtedly prove fast. She is schooner -rigged, and has one funnel. Four boats will be car- ,ried on the davits. There are two deck houses each 23ft. in length. In tthe forward house is the dining saloon 14it. 6in. long. iin the after end of the deck \house, on the port side, is the captain’s stateroom, amd @pposite, on the starboard side, is the pantry, whieh is connected with the galley on the deck below by a dumbwaiter. The deck house aft will be used as a general Jounging room. The forecastle is 12ft. long, and has accommoda- tion for eight men. In the forward end is a wash basin and patent closet for the men, as well as ample locker room for their clothes. Aft of the forecastle is a room for the petty officers, which is oft. long, and has berths for four men. On either side is a large wardrobe for their. belongings. Next aft comes the galley, which is 6ft. long and runs the full width of the boat. This room is equipped with all modern fittings that will aid the cook in his work. Aft of the galley is the engine and boiler space, 22ft. long. The owner’s quarters are aft of the engine space, and are reached by a staircase from the after deck house. The owner’s stateroom is 8ft. long and extends the full width of the vessel. This room is separated from -the engine room by two steel bulkheads with an air .space between. Along the forward end of the state- ‘oom are hanging lockers, drawers and the bureau. ‘On either side of the room there is a berth. A pas- ssageway runs aft from the owner’s room that gives access to the other staterooms, On the port side of -the passage are two staterooms, each 6ft. 6in. long and a toilet room 2ft. 6in. long. On the starboard side ‘of the passageway is a stateroom Oft. 6in. long, and a bath room Oft. 6in. long. A door at the after end of the passage opens into the after stateroom or ladies’ cabin, which is 8ft. 6in. long. All the staterooms are roomy and will be very attractively fitted up. The rooms below are well ventilated by either port holes or skylights. The yacht is lighted throughout by elec- tricity. Elgrudor is fast nearing completion, and will be launched early in the season, Me 129. Plan whSeeaie Yeche Spencer Kellogg: Foy. Llechite Light Plas 2 oe a Conditions Governing Match for Manhasset - Bay Challenge Cup. Conditions agreed upon between the Manhasset Bay Y. C. and the Indian Harbor Y. C., to govern a match to be sailed for the Manhasset Bay Challenge Cup un- der the auspices of the Manhasset Bay Y. C., during season of 1903: Management of Match,—The match shall be managed by a com- mittee of three judges; one to be selected by the Manhasset Bay Y. C., one by the Indian Harbor Y. C. (meither of whom shall be a. member of the respective clubs), and the third to be chosen by the two thus selected. Each club shall nominate its representative and notify the other club of his acceptance of the nomination, not later than May 1, 1903. This committee shall have all the powers of a race committee, and shall elect its chairman from their own number. Subject to the Declaration of Trust governing the cup and these conditions, the committee shall have the entire direction of the match, Date of Races.—The races of the match shall be sailed on Monday, June 29; Tuesday, June 30, and Wednesday, July 1. In the event of failure to race on any of the dates scheduled, for any reason deemed sufficient by the committee, or in the event of a tie, as a result of the first three races, the series shall be continued daily thereafter, Sunday excepted, until the match is won. Crews.—Each club competing shall file with the committee on the completion of each day’s race a crew certificate on the stand- ard form of the Yacht Racing Association of Long Island Sound, which, in addition to the details called for, must state the club to Waite each amateur member of the crew of its representative yacht belongs. : Fs Time Limit.—For a race.of the match to count as such one of the yachts competing must cross the finish line within five hours after the starting signal is given for such race. Courses.—It is hereby agreed and understood that the distance to be sailed over windward and leeward courses shall approximate 16 nautical miles, and over triangular courses, 18 nautical miles. The races of the match shall be sailed in the following order: Monday, June 29, to windward and_ leeward; Tuesday, June 30,- oer triangular course; Wednesday, July»l1, to windward and lee- ward. Should any additional races be necessary to decide the winner of the match they shall be sailed alternately over the above’ courses. Starts and Signals.—The starts shall be made from the black and red buoy to the northward and eastward of Execution Light, except where a windward and leeward course cannot be laid from this point, in which event the committee shall establish a starting point as near as possible to said buoy. The windward and leeward course shall be laid to a mark down the Sound, four nautical miles to windward or leeward of the starting point, and shall be sailed twice over, the marks to be rounded on the starboard hand. The compass bearings shall be announced before the hoisting of the preparatory signal. The triangular course shall be from the same starting. point to the red spar buoy off Scotch Caps, thence to a mark off Red Springs point in Hempstead Bay, thence to-the starting point, the course to be sailed over twice. All marks to be rounded on the starboard hand, unless it be deemed desirable by the com- mittee that the course be sailed in the reverse direction, when they shall be left on the port hand. “ The starting signals shall be as follows: 7 Preparatory—Hoisting of the blue peter on the committee boat, Warning—Five minutes later, hoisting of a red ball. Start—Five minutes later, dropping of the red ball. : ‘Attention shall be called to each signal by the firing of a gun or blowing of a whistle aboard the committee boat. _ Signed, sealed and delivered on the 3d day of April, 1903. Mamuasset Bay Y, C.,, Per Secretary, Inpran Harszor Y. C., Per Secretary. YACHT CLUB NOTES. At a recent meeting of the Ocean Y, C., Stapleton, Staten Island, the following officers were elected:. Com., Otto E. Schroeder; Vice-Com., William Olsen; Rear Com., William Anderson; Fleet Captain, Wilham Lindsay; Fleet Surgeon, Arthur T. Welch; Sec., Henry Harder; Treas, Frank Rieff. . The Yacht Masters’ and Engineers’ Association have elected the following officers: Pres., George E. Nut- ter; Vice-Pres., Jefferson S. Briggs; Treas., Elbert F. Bishop; Sec., Henry T. Smith; Trustees, T. I. Miller, Henry. Lang, Harry Betts, D. W. Pratt and D. C. Packard; Quartermaster, C. W. Wood and C. J. Peter- son. The association’s headquarters are at the foot of Twenty-third Street, South Brooklyn. RRR The Regatta Committee of the New York Y. ©. has’ . given out the racing schedule for the coming season, which is as follows: May 21, Thursday, Glen Cove course, 90-footers; 23, Saturday, Glen Cove course, 90-footers; 26, Tuesday, Glen Cove course, 90-footers; 28, Thursday, Glen Cove course, 90-footers; 30, Saturday, Glen Cove course, 90- footers; June 8, Monday, off Sandy Hook, 9o-footers; 11, Thursday, Annual Regatta, New York Bay; 12, Friday, off Sandy Hook, go-footers; 15, Monday, Glen Cove cups; 27, Saturday, Newport, R. I., 90-footers; 30, Tuesday, Newport, R. I., 90-footers; July 2, Thurs- day, Newport, R: I., 90-footers; 4, Saturday, Newport, R. I., 90-footers;,6, Monday, Newport, R. I., 90-footers; 8, Wednesday, Newport, R. I[., 90-footers. Annual Cruise.—July 16, Thursday, Glen Cove; 17, Friday, Morris Cove; 18, Saturday, New Londen; Io, Sunday, New London; 20, Monday, Newport, R. L.; ai, Tuesday,.Vineyard Haven; 22, Wednesday, Newport, R. I.; 23, Thursday, Astor Cups, Newport, R. 1.; 24, Friday, disband, Newport, R. I. Newport Series—July 27, Monday, Newport, R. I.; ae Tes Newport, R. I.; 290, Wednesday, Newport, Trial Races.—July 30,. Thursday, Newport, R. IL; Aug. 1, Saturday, Newport, R. 1; 4, Tuesday, New- port, R. L.; 6, Thursday, Newport, R. 1.; 8, Saturday, Newport, R. I. ; America’s Cup Races,—Aug. 20, Thursday, Sandy Hook lightship; 22, Saturday, Sandy Hook lightship; 25, Tuesday, Sandy Hook lightship; 27, Thursday, Sandy Hook lightship; 29, Saturday, Sandy Hook lightship. Autumn Race,—Sept. 17, Thursday, Glen Cove course. The complete racing schedule of the New York C. C. for this season is as follows: ; June 13—Spring regatta. June 20—Yacht Racing Association of Gravesend Bay, Brooklyn Y. C. ee 27—Yacht Racing Association of Gravesend ay. ‘ July 11—Record sailing for open and decked canoes. Yacht Racing Association of Gravesend Bay, Benson- hurst Y. C. ae July 18—Record sailing. July 25—Yacht Racing Association of Gravesend Bay, Marine and Field Club. Aug. 1—Record sailing. Yacht Racing Association of Gravesend Bay, Brooklyn Y. C. Sept. s—Yacht Racing Association of Gravesend Bay. Sept. 12—Fall regatta. » Sept. 19—Yacht Racing Association of Gravesend Bay, Bensonhurst Y. C. eRe At the annual meeting of the Portland Y. C., held in. March, the following were elected officers for the com- ing year; Com,, Dr, Charles W. Bray; Vice-Com,, Aprric 1¥, 1903. THE LAUNCHING OF SHAMROCK III,—STERN VIEWS. FOREST -AND_ STREAM. Fritz H. Jordan; -Sec., Charles W. Small; Treas., Carl F. A. Weber. The following were appointed by the Commodore: Fleet Captain, Philip I, Jones; Fleet Surgeon, Dr. Will- iam H. Bradford. mR The annual meeting and election of officers of the Southern Y, C. took place at New Orleans, La., April 2, the following officers being elected: Com., Albert Baldwin; ViceCom., A. M. Cooke; Rear Com., Jj. A. Rawlins; Treas., J. J. Hooper; Sec., L, D. Sampsell. YACHTING NEWS NOTES. For advertising relating to this department see pages ii and iii. Czarina, the steam yacht built at the Crescent Shipyard, Flizabethport, N. J., for Mr. Charles S. Bryan, was suc- cessfully launched on Saturday afternoon, April 4. She is built throughout cf steel and the hull is sub-divided into six watertight compartments. There is a double bottom which runs the entire length of the vessel. She is 166ft. 3in. over all, r4oft. waterline, 22ft. breadth and 8ft. 6in. draft. Her engines are of 1,800 indicated horse-power, and her builders guarantee a speed of 15 knots. Her coal bunkers have a large capacity, and she will have a steam- ing radius of 3,000 miles at a 9-knot speed. In the forward deck house are the music room, owner’s room and bath, dining room and pantry. Below deck the owner’s quarters are forward of the engine space, while the officers’ and crew’s quarters are aft. Four boats are carried on the davits, a launch, a gig, a cutter and a dinghy. The yacht is lighted throughout by electricity. Canoging. — Prizes for Canceists. In order to encourage canoeists and small boat sailots, who do their knocking about on inland -waters, to keep a record of their trips and experiences, the publishers of Forgsr anp STREAM offe1 cash prizes for the best accounts of cruises taken during the season of 1908. As few restrictions as possible will be imposed, and those given are made only with the view of securing some uniformity among the competitors’ stories, so that the judges will be able to make a fair award. The prizes will be as follows: First, $50.00. | D Second, $25.00. ite Third, $15.00. le Fourth and Fifth, $10.00 each. ; j Sixth to Eighth, $5.00 each. Pa EE I. The cruise must be actually taken between May 1 and November 1, 1903. II. The cruise must be made on the (fresh water) inland streams and lakes of the United States or Canada. III. The canoe or boat in which the cruise is made must not be more than 18ft. long over all. IV. An accurate log of the trip must-be kept, and all incidents and information that would be of yalue to other canoeists cover- ing the same route should be carefully recorded. V. A description of the boat in which the cruise is made should preface the story, and a list of outfit and supplies. VI. Photographs of the boat and of the country passed through, not smaller than 4x5, should, if possible, accompany each story, and they will be considered in making the awards. VII. Stories should contain not less than five thousand words, written on one side of the paper only. ; VIII. An outline chart of the trip drawn on white paper in, black ink (mo coloring pigment to be used) should also be. sent in. IX. Competitors should avoid the use of slang or incorrect - nautical expressions in their stories, as it will count against them , im awarding the prizes. Each manuscript to which a prize is awarded shall become the, property of the Forest and Stream Publishing Company, All) manuscript should reach the office of the Forest and Stream, Publishing Company, 346 Broadway, New York, N. Y., on or before December 1, 1903. : A. C. A. Life Members. Editor Forest and Stream: I beg to inform you that in accordance with the amend- ments to the constitition and by-laws of the American a 298 Canoe Association, the following have been constituted life members. The names are entered in the order of their receipt by the Board of Governors from Edward Muller, purser, Atlantic Division A. C. A.: Robert J. Wilkin, Brooklyn, N. Y.; H. Lansing Quick, Yonkers, N. Y.; Frank C. Moore, Bensonhurst, N.Y. -Ropert J. Witkin, President Bd. of Gov. A. C. A. AprRIL 4. Rifle Bange and Gallery. a Vee Cincinnati Rifle Association, Cincinnati, O.—At the regular meeting of this Association on March 29 the following scores were shot. A strong, changeable wind prevailed all day, which made high scores scarce. Our semi-annual 100-shot match*took place at this shoot. Gindele and Nestler shot weil, considering the weather. ditions, 200yds., offhand, Standard target: Con- Nestler 40 88 88 82 82 SL 80 80 79 77—822 Gindele 89 89 87 84 &4 $2 82 79 76 78—825 Strickmeier 84 84 82 80 79 79 79 78 74 66—785. ayne 83 81 80 76 74 74 74 72 70 63—T47 Fioter Jae ee wakes wUiaala te 82 80 78 78 77 74 71 71 69 66—746 1 eee AB yy eee eT a rss 81 79 77 76 i4 73 72 G8 67 67—734 Bruns | Jehan Re eects eek bY bt Gi ¢: Sart: Sot GB Rae ry Odell»... RA hak feet Ale 80 79 79 78 “/ 76 74 74 72 72—761 Roberts [Ris ei ae ae weet a oe ‘19 77 T7 74 (2 69 69 68 65 52—702 PomscherA p-Seresh sees ewe teh ore VOSGmiits cig de Meee ah ey ADGMHSHTMe wecchnL a -se tte et ceetn . 76 75 74 73 68 67 66 66 65 61—691 Plcpnrartany | hed oc laine Acraeaiceche 0 ote hie 2. ee Be oy PAPE, Lakai teal ea sedereasaespaen FP) SRO TN SR Er eee © PAPER Slee sence hagh suite ich e.cees ae re 7b 7S G9 Gb 64 2. o. . Honor target: Crapshoating. > -. Fixtures. *April 8.—Allegheny, Pa.—North Side Gun Club. L. B. Fiem- ing, Sec’y. : 5 April 10.—North Hudson Driving Park, .N. J.—Second- annual individual Eastern championship at live birds; 20 birds, $10, birds included. April 10.—New Haven, Conn., Gun Club’s all-day tournament. John E. Bassett, Sec’y. es Aug. 12-15.—Toronto, Can.—Annual tournament of the Dominion Trapshooting and Game Protective Association. A. W. Throop, Sec-y-Treas. =} April 1417.—Kansas City, Mo.—The Interstate Association’s fourth Grand American Handicap at targets, at Blue River Shoot- ing Park. One thousand dollars added to the purses. Elmer E. Shaner, Secretary-Manager, 111 Fourth avenue, Pittsburg, Pa. April 16.—Kent, O.—Portage County Gun Club’s tri-county shoot. W. L. Lyman, Sec’y. P K ; April 18.—Glen Rock, Pa.—Open shoot for live-bird champion- ship of York county, Pa., and all-day shoot of Glen Rock Gur Club. Allen M. Seitz, Sec’y. j April 20—Springfield, Mass.—Spring tournament of the Spring- field Gun Club. C. L; Kites, Sec’y. q April 20.—Patriots’ Day shoot of the Haverhill, Mass., Gun Club. S. G. Miller, Sec’y. April 21-22.—Olean, N. Y., Gun Club’s fourth annual tourna- ment. B. D. Nobles, Sec’y. April 21-22.—Attica; Ind., Gun Club’stournament. C. B. Lamme, Sec'y. April 21-23.—Concordia, Kans.—Kansas State Sportsman’s Asso- ciation’s State shoot, under auspices of Concordia Blue Ribbon Gun Club; $300 added. F. W. Olney, Sec’y: April 22.—Rushylvania, O., Gun Club’s shoot. April ‘22-23.—Troy, 0., Gun Club’s tournament. *April 22-23.—Pittsburg, Pa—Herron Hill Gun Club. Harry Vandergrift, Sec’y. , April 26.—-Brooklyn, L. I.—Fulton Gun Club’s shoot, G. R. | Schneider, Sec’y. - April 28-80.—Paducah, Ky., Gun Club’s tournament. April 28-May 1.—Lineoln, Neb.—Nebraska State Sportsmen’s As- . sociation’s twenty-seventh annual tournament, under the auspices of the Lincoln Gun Club. F. E. Mockett, Sec’y. April 29—Wellington, Mass.—Boston Gun Club’s annual team shoot. H. C. Kirkwood, Sec’y, 23 Elm street, Boston. May 1-2—Annual spring shoot of the Glen Rock, Pa., Gun Club. Allen M. Seitz, Sec’y. AA P May 4-6.—Tournament of the Mississippi Valley Trapshooters and Game Protective Association, under auspices of Vicksburg, Miss., Gun Club. y *May 5-6,—Irwin, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. , John Withers, Sec’y. May 6-7.—Union City, Ind.—Parent Gun Club’s tournament. May 6-7.—Lafayette, Ind.—Lafayette Gun Club’s tournament. May 6-7.—Titusville, Pa., Gun Club’s annual tournament. T. L, Andrews, Sec’y. ~ : May 7-8.—Wilmington, Del.—Wawasett Gun Club’s target tour- nament. ; May 9-10—Chicago, [1l—Spring tournament of the Grand Cres- cent Gun Club. het A BG 7 7, May 1215.—Pekin, Il]—TIllinois State Sportsmen’s Association tournament. - May 13-14—Crawfordsville, Ind., Gun Club’s tournament. May 13-14—Dubois, Pa.—The Interstate Association’s. tourna- ment, under the auspices of the Dubois Rod and Gun Club: U. S. N. Crouse, Sec’y. : May 1416.—El Reno, Association’s fourth annual tournament. May 16.—East Walpole, Mass,—All-day shoot of the Neponset Gun Club. Edgar Bills, Sec’y. May 18.—Marion, Ind., Gun Club’s tournament. . May 19-21.—Osceola, la—lIowa State Sportsmen’s Association’s twenty-sixth annual tournament. | ] May 19-22.—Wissinoming, Philadelphia.—Thirteenth annual tour- nament of the Pennsylvania State Sportsmen’s Association, under auspices of the Florists’ Gun Club of Philadelphia. V. V. Dorp,. Sec’y. May 21-22—_New Paris, O., Gun Club’s tournament. May 21-22.—Kenton, O., Gun Club’s tournament. May 21-22.—Kenton, O.—Shoot of the Kenton Gun Club. A. G, Merriman, Sec’y-Treas. | , 4th May 24-26.—San Francisco, Cal., Trapshooting Association’s three days’ bluerock handicap tournament. Open to all; $1,500 added. Cc. C. Nauman, manager. May 26-27.—Dubugue, Ia., Gun Club’s fourth annual amateur target tournament. A. F. Heeb, Sec’y. | Fi *May 26-27.—Brownsville, Pa.—Brownsville Gun Club tourna- ment. W. T. Doherty, Sec’y. iene) May 27-28.—Williamsport, Pa.—The Interstate Association’s tcurnament, under the auspices of the West Branch Rod and Gun Club. H. A. Dimick, Sec’y. | May 27-28.—Fort Wayne, Ind,—1wo-day bluerock tournament of the Corner Rod and Gun Club; $100 added. John Y. Linker, May 99.30.—Union City, Ind.—Spring tournament of the Parent j Gun Club. ee 30.-Altoona, Pa., Rod and Gun Club’s tournament. G. G, th, Sec’y. ’ ; J oe 30 Tournament oi the East Harrisburg, Pa., Shooting iation. AS 30._-Newport, R. I.—Second annual tournament of the Aquidneck Gun Club, .J. 5. Coggeshall, Sec’y, ; , May 30.—Detroit, Mi¢a.—Winchester Gun Club’s Decoration Day third annual tournament; zi day. Rose system and average rizes, Sliding handicap, 16, 18 and 20yds. D. A. Hitchcock, doe "9-5.—Baltimore, Md.—Third annual Baltimore County shoot; three days targets; one day live birds; $500 in purses and prizes. Hawkins and Malone, Managers. Nay) June 3-4.—Boston, Mass.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- ment, under the auspices of the Boston Shooting Association. O. R. Dickey, Sec’y. l June 3-6.—Parkersburg, W. Va.—Sixth annual tournament of the Okl.—Oklahoma Territory Sportsmen’s - “FOREST AND STREAM. | West Virginia Sportsmen’s Association, under auspices of Ohio Valley Shooting Association. : June 4-5.—Greenville, O.—Spring tournament of the Greenville Gun Club. “*Tune, second week.—Shreveport, La—Caddo Gun Club's tour- nament. June 7-8.—Ligonier, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. June 8-12.— Ossining, N. Y.—New York State shoot, under the auspices of the Ossining Guh Club. June 9-10.—Lafayette, Ind—Indiana State shoot, under auspices of Lafayette Gun Club. June 9-11.—Sioux City, Ia.—Ninth annual amateur tournament of the Soo Gun Club. B. F. Duncan, Sec’y, June 9§-11.—Cincinnati, O.—Seventeeénth annual target tourna- ment of the Ohio Trapshooters’ League. Chas. T. Dreihs, Sec’y. *June 10-11.—Ruffsdale, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament.: R. 5. Deniker, Sec’y. : * June 16-19—Warm Springs, Ga.—The Interstate Association’s tournament, under the auspices of the Meriwether Gun Club. Chas. L. Davis, Sec’y. June 16-18—New London, Ia,—Seventh annual midsummer tar- get tournament of the New London Gun Club. *June 17-18.—McKeesport,- Pa., tournament. j June 24-25—Rutherford, N. J.—Interstate Association tourna- ment under the auspices of the Union Gun Club. pier, 24-25.—New Castle, Pa., Gun Clib’s tournament. James Atkinson, Sec’y. July 4. Topsham, Me,—All-day tournament of the Riverside Shooting Club. Fred W. Atkinson, Sec’y. ; “July 7-8.—Ligonier, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. J. O’H. Denny, Sec’y. si ~ July 8-9.—Huntsville, Ala.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- “ment, under the auspices of the Huntsville Gun Club. E. R. Matthews, Sec’y. July 8-10.—Arkansas State Sporismen’s Association’s thirteenth — annual meeting and tournament, under the auspices of the Jones- boro, Ark., Gun Club, of which Matthews is Sec’y-Treas. **Tuly, second Nise mei a Tenn., Gun Club’s tournament. *July 21-22.—Beaver Falls, Pa.,-Gun Club’s tournament. W. R, Keefer, Sec’y. July 30-Aug. 1.—Viroqua, Wis.—The Interstate Association’s tournament, under the auspices of the Viroqua Rod and Gun Club. Dr. R. W. Baldwin, Sec’y. *Aug. 5-6.—Brownsville, Pa., Rod and Gun Club’s tournament. Aug. 12-15.—Toronto, Ont.—Annual tournament of the Dominion Trapshooting and Game Protective Association. A. W. Throop, Sec’y-Treas., Ottawa, Can. ; Aug. 19-20,—Ottawa, Ill_—The Interstate Association’s tourna- Selember, Sec’y. *Aug. 19-20.—Millvale, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. Wm. Buss- eee 1-2.—Irwin, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament.. John Withero, ec’y. BAGSS the auspices of the Akron Gun Club. G. E. Wagoner, ec’y. ment, under the auspices of the Rainmakers’ Gun Club. Paul A. ler, Sec’y. Sept. 2-3,—Akron, O,—The Interstate Association’s tournament, *Sept. $10.—Enterprise “Sun Club tournament. *Sept. 23-24.—Ruffsdale, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. R, §, - Deniker, Sec’y. Oct. 6-7.—Allegheny, Pa.—North Side Gun Club’s tournament. » L. B. Fleming, Sec’y. Oct. 20-21.—Ligonier, Pa, Gun Club’s tournament. J. O’H. Denny, Sec’y. Saturdays.—Chicago.—Garfield Gun Club; grounds W ‘Fifty- second avenue and Monroe street. Dr. J. W. Meek, Sec’y. *Member of Western Pennsylvania Trapshooters* League. ~ Chas. G. Grubb, Sec’y, 507 Wood street, Pittsburg. **Members of Mississippi Valley Trapshooters’ and’ Game Pro- tective Association. J, JO Bradfield, Sec’y,-Vicksburg, Miss. ~’ Limited Gun Club, Inpranapouts, Ind.—The tournament of the Limited Gun Club was held on April 2 and 3. : There were thirty-six shooters on the first day. Kit Shephardson was high gun with 188 out of 200, The scores: = Events: 12346 6 7 8 9 los Targets: 10 15 20 25 10 15 10 25 20 15 15 10 SISK eas aene dk lelaa mirc ove iets, cvrialele cd 713 17 20 8.11 12°20 141234110 . MEIECES IMM Ma ete ce oe rere ceetonese cs 71419 2210-15 8.22 19 12 14 10 PASETID EOL epee sn coe ie viele eg eea se 10 13 20°22:10 18... 22 16 1345 ~. Mirchaxeligttesen «suka peatcthtece sats 8 15-19 22) 815 1715 181414 9 Cari eke see ee eee ee 10 13 20 24 9 1448 20 18 18 19 10 Farrell 8 13 16 24°9 1171 19 141110 .. Wiggins .. 9 14 19 21 10 13 16 2117 18 14 8 Voris 8.42 18 21 91416 21 18 1513 10 Davis. 22ers PAO eAe. (9 ASS bes Ah see ee Phellis 71416 25.10 12 17 28.16 14 14 9 hes Comptemises wipes stake steed eae 912 20 24 915 15 24 18 14 15 10 Faust. Shen oe eece eeetied een peere 61419 22 8 917 221714 15 10 Korda yn csariietacie eee = teiheman inet mek oie 6 11 17 22° $ 11-15 22 1411 1b 9 VAicS LULA TARA MEM vie. velae,s coptta taal ls telarte G6 816 20 5141218 141214 § MVEA ALE 456-25 2 alps cnhiomeeyh o wlt 10 15 17 21 61216 22191214 7. Shephardson .......ss0¢s Ee baer 7 15 18 25 10 15 18 22 20 13 14 10 Hailes swine venti e as seech ees sees ie 9 14 18 23 10 15 16 20191515 9 Des tiyee DON OC TONIC A ce tote Bits 7) 7 15 18 23 10 14 13 23 17 14 14 10 LAO OUTER nao nano ens ae ted ele pre MIE eel, Beale Ree Yi PAE ACSE VA ne sethit gnc yeh ee aatesieee Vpibteit ae at Ae Bey Seabee 4 Wee atiah pores snl tutees veNs Seg ine TOS Ge lire ol ceris hi pe alc eens Gate Snydetairrsis eee Sa erties $s Otiee eg ce Ls aes Se Arete tet ani 23-9 1b... «. 19 1433510 - be a i ae ee a alt 21 713 14 22151410 9 BAe doce Cont eco ears GY Oa oe re ALR) Oem out DFS: seule Oi eke 102 0916.44 “9 il «. «- «- 101321 17 13.11,-8 ISTIC PES Me Kash pis avleg anne totes tie e orp te aes oe eerie . 5 AS Ke Sas cask ae deka eee hea eng oe ee Woo 4.3 Beas 6S a3 IR ea Seale? SEP ses Aes Thompson : Crawford Stewart HM Cee eee Pee ree eee eee eee ee ee ee oe ee ee ee es oe On the second day there was a falling off in attendance. Mr. J. L. Head was high gun on the second day with 183 out of 200 targets. The scores: Events: 1 -2e Sy, 15, Gi 8 38 10s, Targets 10 15 20 25 10 15 10 25 20 15 15 10 Head) ite teen ater aMin an tds tages 10 15 18 24 1013 16 19 18 8 23 9 “THD, 4 Alas neae tee eee amen teers 912 19 22 9 14 18 23 17 13 13. 8 - Wiisterenh tie be asi ABE SAcmoMannian vetes, 8 it 20 22101517 1816 11 13 9 Fue ptshet soos tlh orinirordstshey.¢ 7 13 18 24 $ 12 16.21 12 12-11. -9 Claris) Snares pe eal iarces $1319 2410 11 16 2244 812 8 Shepardson .....ccceessceeeeseeees 10 15 18 22° 9 14 16 18 13 12 13 10 A] ant Wey cote: aes Aes ee tise acest eta 718 18 23 91514 20161012 8 Washburn ...,...... ten fe AGALA $1215 20 8 9121810 910 § The -Compte: Coihaodeueenere a eect 9 15 19 24 10 14 19 28.17 12 13 9 Gig: Se oe os anata MAA oedene 9 91422 6 81612 13,1012 5 Michaelis a wt avepies ces scesns cece se 10151924 713112812 8 9-8 Karby. thteiedt sassy Ne

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Gale Les ee Bare ee INS) bere ener tne a ar ete W114 714 yh cue aoe Ballet AWiest Sen erties attain oie aisle loves tats ME ANTE ae RA pa a * Shiaddincle Siero negsace settee 10 16 12 17 121410 .. 1117 ae BaF iB etaak ewe heeds tengye 0 ode ea Ge Walbeldl 17a 128 Fre drrra ties cs perek eet Ore aoe aes lege tise ee See Ble no AD TCS oe oredr tse Sob ebb trots Ree ae Reser ici iss een irctan te nce SL aa ee eed ASAIN S400 denies Seta aee Oe “ Poffenberger , Robinson .. , Worm BGHO LI yee a as reer e were eee ee J OT tie ins Oh ett pe een et a SA A . April 3, Third Day. Ten live birds: Anderson, 30.......+ 01010w leer) Weaee sees 22111112%2— Dolson, 28.42.54... 0222*2222*%— 7 Phillips, 30.......... 1211102121— 3 Morrill, 28..........0120*w Hindmarsh, 30...... 122121*112— § Townsend, 30....... 02*11.2210w. Slusser, 28.......... 1110221*22— 8 legeeaie, Gil bnteocre este 222222222210 Winkowitch, 28....1021110119— 8 Garter, 8006 fiers.) 0222222222— 9 Starkey, 28.......... 1020112211— g Slattery, 2Bin. 2: 020220w leary oAdeelgec tardy coe 111201010w Ei sievers; 302 22..2. 1110221212— 9 G@ Sievers, 80....... 2111201022— 8 Fe gE) pcene Morrill, 28:....,..-.1112110221— 9 Heer, 30............ 1111111122— B-27, 30..... sveeeeesl212202222— 9 Anderson, 28....... PALLIOII 9 Waddington, 28....0220212122— § Reed, 80............. *1100w Diefenderfer, 28,...11122*1212— 9 Phillips, 28....._.... 211122112210 Bacon, 28......+...-212121112110 Starkey, 28.........: 1221102*J1— 8 Winko, 28. 2....5.. .2022*2 Hayden, 28......... 0112111211— 9 Simpson, 28........- p El Seivers, 3020. .3.0 211022122*— § Meyers, Bei ashha rele ce Townsend, 30....... 1221022222 9 Seiveusy eo Usncasenins BUG Aes t he ee 1120222222 9 Carter, 30 ... Mlrayys OR Lee 2110222211-— 9g Linderman, 30 22, Crosby, B00!) 25512 2212111222 10 Eonar byee aerate 2, UO aael SiN dt eye 222122299110 Schroeder, 30....... McAllister, 28,...... *021212 Shattuck," 28s 925.8 e Bey Friday was devoted to live birds, two ten-bird events being shot. In the principal one of these Heer and Bacon made the only money straights, and in the second Dan Bra ot hi money alone. Crosby and Riehl, who as the only tae aes sentatives in attendance, shot for birds and targets only, also killed all their birds. The pigeons were fresh from the surround- ing country, and a very fast lot. This was probably the last live hird match of importance in Nebraska, as it is anticipated that the Legislature will put a ban upon the sport in the present session. KILLMORE, _ was held to-day under yery unfavorable weather conditions, IN NEW JERSEY. : Notth River Gun Club, Edgewater, N. J., March 28.—Scores made at the shoot of the North River Gun Club are appended; Events 123 45 6 7 8 9 1011 12:13 Targets 10 10 10 15 10 15 10 10 & 15 15 10 10 Greitts Cie eneeeeh éARiuttisoaeg TG. aeRO Yer ee ae verte OS Gon sees NOT Se pea seer ety De vim, se coeeceee co) 45 Seer srileide. HAUSE ee cagacmeone DRUMS Rs. Sore aye Cees NA MA elSe one ue ata" [ERTN BREE eee cnr erEntr errr DeGek i. antinn ween olny per oman Eickhoff .,..., ra hee daa GeT. preset aepoutr ell) Ome Open ated Alea ye .7 NIGER SOT math ta tas hares eae Rents MESES. LSet he aie el ee Be AS alll eros rte tees eee ele se sty oly Werke io eee ee 9138 5.. 71414 6 7 Merrill yen) ares anit hee : seh ho Le nA ne, PALTS OF Me ttt eae etree tes RODE oo ct a ee A ee ees eT AY Ue et Townsend ....... Ae te ard ier eh cr, P yetenestvsele STAs spLCmpre Bap (ce ISIttnierMnerontrys Lieee wy npr eseee, oe rrered Maes - t . “yas. ‘R. Merrit. Hudson Gun Club. Jersey City, N. J., Apzil 5— Following are the scores of the regular shoot of the Hwlson Gun Club. The club had to use a temporary set of traps, as |he box for the trappers is sunk in the ground and leaked so badly that it could not be used. The mem- bers hope to have it fixed and fhe traps working better fer the next shoot, which is on the 19th inst, Scores: Events Vip Sat ie Ge alt. dh 1K Targets aks allay ay NT 1). als aks SSCHOLEY) | pete Getcas dus ened cade dts porate 2 3) th We Be 4 Staples. eter ouintns oak fy anime teks gH! al yal lly Gey ego 5g IDEN ATS oa et i ee epee Se LB Ui ls ee a: CANVIGIE ieee isfineceetns Pips sony oe 10 25 di 12 14 4 Badin Gah asain soe ances oer eens hy TZ) 1s" 39 Wan iy As, 12 Van Dyne 8 14 10 12 14 12 29 Ge Siena eoenate ts ster t eree eter fe ee mn Sh tte ete er aR. VV GELS tease cok t 20 -lelerien e-crei cee Wie Ree inl ghia Ge ae! 13 GOWAN gy lle eee ete aes oe ae 12 12, 12 Al 12 11 lecosnclll Re. Ae Anew Rory Vel enema EY SHOT ASE ee Pearsall, Jr ae Se IR re 153 5 Hennessy ilo $s *Schorty el ae) VAC S CMe eos Rene erglarercte rashes, ae eee. ee dhl Hey ph 14 Hansman 10 8 Ti 10 12 *Hansman Lior. ae ae Hughes ..... aM ine el ale ty *Dirdleyorss.. -oee Lt rhe rts Oe oh SOTA LESS EON EL Geel er eee Mesa tatel 12 2 ba OAR A 3) ore a es Ue oe med wa C *Cowan ee a a ae a a . * Re-entry. James HucuHes, Sec’y. Union Gun Club, Rutherford, N. J., April 4.—Very bad weather made unfavorable conditions for a good attendance at the shoot of the newly fo Union Gun Club. The scores: y formed Events: Ue eS) 49 -5S iG aeie eRe oo Targets: : 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 25 25 PACS ISS |. omer tahoe aie coh rash eee 92 Shel Z aT Sr ei Saetie a7 ee LOFes aR hGedn rcpt citer n Wrte HOMAGE Aces 1G alk BEY KE Se igS ai Pal) ig} C Von Lengerke .....000 bcs ceeecs I sil 1 1S 30. APs ats. AG% 15 em peuatice stale nanan ataenin oe a A lt) 8 HOrdy Wedded dodoct eee de dees dard IH ahi) GB ae Mey ality SE 3) HOt er cat dal estate ie oi Grae te See 7 8 t 5e dir larry eetetaie aie ere kere ee eer ie Se Te Ge iL se A Ge ae TENCE YAN Ss albet athe Pu aeciee ee heel 12 10 13 14 14 11 14 22 99 (Glovers iti Ligier lens iia ie 12. 12° 13: 13 eS. | Se VET ACp oy ee AN ONT mele ecee ren a ati hs Wie Gleilentsa seeereitatel neste rEmnee SOD o> -7eAG ae BOOKS aah tae et ye os Cee re A ii ee: ay ple H Von Lengerke.........-.....-.. ee AE AO a) Pg te IN) ale gionobl Arnage cnind dA aie. on sf a et a 2 Fredericks SA ae) A at 10 15 Matzen ...... are: LE See 10) Baldwin .....,. He 8 5 8 9 6 19 WVASGl Sagtleyn tetas oo Specosieeeetin. lb aa ae a : ED lander ante iseee teeny eel aa fo oe dee gts Miaitz er oy carl skate een aN a PAN a te ee © Won tenperkern.s.. teas eseceee Mee ocd Cihz ll 1 Saori C. B. Axrorp. Moniclafr Gun Club, Montclair, N. J., April 4—On its grounds to-day the Montclair Gun Club held a handicap shoot. The weather conditions were bad, stormy and a high wind. Shooting at 50 targets, the first prize was won by Mr. Tichenor, with a handicap of 5 points; the second was won by Mr. Cook, scratch, and the third was won by Dr. Case, with a handicap of 15 points. The scores: Soverel, In, 27, Tichenor 34, Case 22, Winslow 30, Crane 25, Cook 38, Cockefair 32, Doremus 22, Howard i8, Holloway 24, Howe 17 Wheeler 38, Babcock 35, Connett 32, Soverel 34, . ON LONG ISLAND, Fulton Gun Club, Brooklyn, L. I.; April 5—Mr. A. Woods won the cl b with a handicap of 6 targets at the shoot of the Fulton penn Tht. There was a good attendance of contestants. The scores follow the first event being the medal shoot: f : Pea 1234 5 6 7 8 9. 100112 Total Targets 15 15 20 15 15 20 15 15 ¥0 15 15 20 Broke, Gilbert, Astac.assuraageeess 12721515 10171381418 141319 173 Marshall) Access = ns ones 12 1216121413813 1417121216 168 Henshaw _.., 181218141318 1381515 181218 173 Bottger ..... / 13 10 18 18 1514 141219151018 iv Burmeister .... 141118151817 71417 12 13 Is 163 Adams ..+...05 14151910 101514 915121318 ba Gilsonie caked Sanya tes 321319131818 13 620131819 172 Stege ....... RE ORET EE Seen 421417 (4 12 18 14 13 17 10 13 1” 171 Ghote ey hestissayle cies bra 18 1019 181518 131219131415 174 IMIPeTO Ye ist le S652 5a 8 ie 8 ae 19°13 1532121511 91371712 .. 1 NIEHS Ma dtchke bai acslAien es i] 1117 41 1017141116 1512 20 165 Stanr. Weceeteecnahaenece ney Willis 14 91011 12 .. ; Pex Atites SRNEME GE i Pp chenesaas PRS Let) Die Pen leer me Nt sof siellimatas nt: cles oat er 14.1319 141418 141119131318 180 (Oimtebectsiol micet rbooeruto ed 910161313138 101017131213 149 EMITSCHY: cpeaenenedes tetseke 11 13 17 12 13 16 14 13 19 14 16 19 Met Weayinlath Gecsarscdeeetinenes es esse a8 cmos 15 15 1/7 12 13 af i TMA ai He Od ea ersne tere nck 10 12 9 13 10 11 12°13 13 12 , leakhaal ester ony eee ree TO A le Nt esa. een he OAL elelnte atqe cb ORSON BP TES GANS S Ay ang es ete Ore: WSOC serena ph 5 ieee ule thls Un ke, be Selae eek Goodwin ....:++- ER Bai ee ee Sey er oct '2)3 AW IES ChYT pay wha ey itera seees 3 oe 14 240415 16.14 17 15 1317 Hazelwood le ery oe. BER Dy BA ES ES Boy Logs Ae! Oi tet ode oe Serer ai extra a) Taped: gan LW ee es 9 ache HAWKEYE. Ossining Gun Club, Osstntnc, N. Y., April 8.—A few of the boys came out for a little practice to-day. A, Bedell, Bruin, J. Hyland, A. Smith and C. Blandford started the ball rolling at 2 P. M. The weather con- ditions were such that the scores made would not look well in. print. Bruin got 8 out of 10 in one event, which was the best string made during the afternoon. J. Hyland did good work with a strange gun. : ; ; Later, Col. Fiske and Gayl Hubbell came up and tried their luck. Their scores have not as yet been received. ro During the coming week, work will be started on the addition to the club house. Forty more lockers will be put in and a cashier’s office will be built. pts The writer has received a communication from Mr, E. D. Fulford, calling attention to the fact that this coming shoot in June will be the forty-fifth annual tournament of the New York State Association for the Protection of Fish and Game, and sug- gested that it be advertised as such, He also mentioned that it is . the oldest shooting event held in the Latte States annually. . _C.. G. BLANDFORD, Sec’y Ex. Tournament Com. Ossining G. C. Seraaton Rod and. Gun Club. Scranron, Pa., April 4.—The Scranton Rod and Gun Club held their opening shoot of the season to-day. ‘VYhe grounds are situ- ated on top of a hill at yunmore, and on account of the severe cold weather and the wiad blowing a gale from the northwest, made shooting difficult. Because of the weather conditions, only a few shooters attended. Following are the scores made: . Events: Selec ween 20 Targets: 10 15 10 15 10 10 Broke. Av. Spencer ..cccceeeeecceesreeseveseceues ae oS aeons 18 72 Peealnted bete dhe departs & ay aesre oleinle (alg nleridid an Pee BLO! coe tatumtans 34 836. BG 2-3 Shoemaker ...,cecccssreusreccecccens S12, Soe a AR “agedey. Jackson .seeeeceyeceecsee steers eee nes eee ES ation, GrifAn ends scseedeeees hese ee ees we 400 8.8.-9 4 43 603-7 Bittenbender .......seeeeereseceesees 510 810 5 7 4 642-7 NISTEC TE sthicelclee a srecteeebtnbus arse ani boi-tiacase 8 9 611 5 6 45 64 2-7 erie Be ome AAR Kreck se 2d Beare eee meS wh La ee el at ha J.-D. Mason, Sec’y. Crescent—Boston. © Boston, April 4—The eight-man team of the Crescent Athletic Club, of Brooklyn, again defeated the gun team of the Boston Athletic Association at Riverside, on the grounds of the latter, to-day. The scores were 701 to 638. The weather conditions were stormy and bad. This was the second -victory of the Cres- cents, and established a property right to the $100 trophy. The scores: Crescent A. C.—Bedford 88, Keyes 89, B. Stephenson 85, Remsen 98, G. Stephenson 90, Fish 89, Lott 79, Brigham 88; total 701. B. A A. Gun Club.—Daggeti 79, Edwards 65, Clarke 80, Hallett 84, Howell 81, Elis 79, Dennison 83, Weld 82; total 633. Keystone Shooting League, Hormessura Junction, Philadelphia, April 4.—Shooting was specially difficult owiiig to a gale of wind blowitig across the traps steadily dufitig the shoot. Mz. Davis arid Dt. Spoil Fp the elles Hateecs was high with 14 out of 15 in the officefs’ event. e scofes: _ : .™ ; ; Club handicap, 10 bitds: Davis, 10, Darby 10, Budd 9, Geikler 9, Miller 8, Harrison 8, Morris 8, Jenkins 4, : Officers’ trophy, 16 birds, handicap rise: Harrison 14, Budd 13, Fitzgerald 18, Morris 12, Darby 11, Geikler it. Darby killed - Arkansas State Shoot. Muskocet, I. T., April 1.—The Arkansas State Sportsmen’s As- sociation has selected July 8, 9, and 10 as the dates for holding its thirteenth antyal meeting atid touthament at Jonesboro, Ark., 4ifidet the alispices of the Jotiesbofo Gun Club. The tournament will be condiueted on tiuch the saine lines as chatacterized all the previous tourtiamerits of the Association. Thete will be $330 isn added moriey, and the Rose system of divisiofis will prevall. Tar gets orily will be used, and these will be thrown from expert traps arranged ori the Sergeant »ystem. The Jonesboro Gun Club is a young otgaiization, though active aiid vety erithusiastic, and is putting forth every effoft to make this the most sticcessful tourna- metit if the history of the Association. New gtounds have been secuted; ant these will be put in first-élass shape for the occasion so that the visistitg sportstnen will be well pfovided fot an assuted 4 Hood tiiiie. Mt. Gordon Matthews, ofie of Jotlesboto’s sterling youtig busi tess, then; is the chief executive of the Arkansas State Sports inen’s Associatiofi, atid also secretary-tteasuter of the Jonesboro Gui Club; he will take pleasure iff answeting all letters of in- quity and supply programmes wien the same ate issued, _ Paut R, Litzxs. Riverside Shooting Ctab, Torsitam; Match 28.—The Rivetside Shooting Club held their annual meetitig to-Hay and elected officets, atid did such other business as came before the meeting. The festlt of the election was as follows: Presiderit, A. E. Hall; Vice-President, Dr. H. O. Curtis; Secretaty and Treasurer, Fred W. Atkirison.. Executive Conimittee: A. E. Hall, Dr. H. O, Curtis, Fred W. Atkinson, Claude Strout and George Rogers. Fred W. AtkrN80N, Sec’y. Garfield Gun Club, _CHtcaéo,, April 2—The aririual meetirig of the Garfield Gun Clib was. held, last night. The election of officers resulted ds follows: Presitiefit, Thos. W. Eaton; Vice-President, A. H. Hell- man; Secretaty-Treasutef, Di. J. W: Meek; Captairi, J. D. d. The secretaty-treasuret’s report showéd the club miemibérship full to the limit arid nitie appli€arits or the waitirlg list, 4 very few delinquents on diets; tio debts, ang about $100 cash in the treasuty: x. J. W: MEER, See’y. Answers ta Correspondents. ch No notice taken of anonymous communications, A., Prince’s Bay, N. Y.--There are two English starlings that toost under the eaves of my barn every night. Would it be uo charitable act to destroy them and give other birds a show, or will they become a useful bird like our _robins, bluebirds, ete.? They seein to live in hatmony with the English sparfows- Ans. Statlings afe tiot-repcrted to do any harm or to be quarrelsome with. other bitds. Oi the other hand, they ate very destructive of itjutiots ifisects. ‘The statlings are fifmly established about New York, and are attractive birds. We shold tot advise their destruction unless they develop bad tfaits. PUBLISHERS’ DEPARTMENT. Mr. Irving Snyder, for thirty-five vea-s of the firm of Peck & Snyder, about three years ago bought out the tackle departments of Peck & Snyder and A. G. Spalding & Co. and since then has been located at 180 Nassau strect, this city. He publishes “The Fisherman’s Friend,’ a handy booklet, giving salt-water and fresh-water fishing points about New York, tide tables for 1903, and much other useful information for anglers. Tt will be sent to any address on receipt of price of 10 cents. Having acquired the ¢elescope busitiess of the Cataract Tool and Optical Co., of Biffalo, the J. Stevens Arms atid Too! Company, Chicopee Falls, Mass., ate prepafed to furnish telescopes, or rifles and pistols mounted with telescopes, of which the have a long line, magnifying from two to twenty diameters. They have pub- lished a catalogue, illustrative of the telescopes, mountings, rifles, with a price list, and mtch valuable information concerning te:- escopes in their relation to rifles, which will be sent to those who apply for it. The calendar for 1903 issued by Parker Brothers. Meriden, Conn., bears portraits of famous shooters who have used Parker guns in keen and successful competition, and a summary of their greatest achievements. Fred Gilbert holds a place in the center, and grouped around him are many portraits new to the Parker calendars. A high-grade Parker gun is portrayed on the top of the calendar, with a mention of Grand American Handicap win- nings. Parker Brothers, Meriden, Conn., have issued a circular illus- trative and descriptive of their new Parker automatic ejector. Sectional views are shown, with full explanations of the mechan- isms, in the text. For the present the ejector will be put on guns only of special orders, and wiil not be furnished on any guns now in finished condition. ‘Lhe circular will be sent to those who apply for it. : Messrs. Von Lengerke & Detmold, though best known as deal- ers in guns and ammunition, by no means neglect the angling side of sport. The new artificial bait which they call “Silver Soldier,” and’ for which they are sole agents, is so made that its course when drawn through the water is zigzag, in imitation of a living, moving fish. It is privately reported to be a most killing bait, and as the sellers say, “No fishing outfit is complete without one.’ Mr. J. H. Rushton, of Canton, N. Y., began to make canoes and boats a long time ago, and he is still doing it, and making boats that are constantly better. His canvas-covered white cedar canoe, known as “Indian Girl,” would seem to be very near perfection. Beside these special canoes, he manufactures all sorts of wood boats, canoes, oars, paddles, etc., and furnishes free a catalogue of his goods. The Whitestone Hollow Spar & Boat Co., formerly the Spalding St. Lawrence Boat Co., of Ogdensburg, N. Y., has recently moved to Whitestone Landing, Long Island, N. Y. The company, manufactures the Fraser hollow spars, and_ builds high grade davit boats, paddling canoes, St. Lawrence River skiffs, launches, etc. Catalogues mailed on receipt of application. Messrs. Berner & Co., of 752 Lexington avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.. beside the automatic fish hook which they advertise, carry a full line of fishing tackle, including split-bamboo rods, multiply- ing reels, silk lines, collapsible landing nets, fishing baskets, etc., and these they give a premium to agents. Their premium list is furnished on application. Of the making of trolling and casting spoons and imitation minnows there seems to be no end. Of these, one of the most perfect and effective is that called the “North Channel,’ manufac- tured by the Detroit Bait Mfg. Co., of Detreit, Mich. — Its, spin- ning qualities would seem to be perfect, and it should be a most successful lure. The opening of New Spruce Cabin Inn, the celebrated head- — quarters in the spting for trout fishermen, which has been set fo. Wedriesday, Aptil 15, promises to be marked with the advent of a large number of old guests, and all the indications point to a prosperous seasons B. D. Nobles, of Olear, N. Y,, shooting a Winchester repeating shotgun and Winchester faesory ioaded shells, won high average at the Jamestown, N. Y.; tournament, held April 2; breaking 126 out of 130 targets. At Trenton, N. J., April 2, Jas. T, Skelly, of the Laflin & Rand er C ny, made two runs of 62 and high average for th Powder comer targets, bit, Skelly shot 28 grains of *Lntaliblar” FOREST AND STREAM. = vt A WEEKLY Journat or THE Rop anp Gun. — Copyricut, 1908, By Foresr anp Stream Pustisnine Co, Terms, $4.4 Year. 10 Crs. A Copy, ; Six Monrss, $2. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1908. VOL. LX.—No. 16. No. 846 Broapway, New Yor«K. The Forest AND STREAM is the recognized medium of entertain- ment, instruction and information between American sportsmen. The editors invite communications on the subjects to which its pages are devoted. Anonymous communications will not be re- garded. While it is intended to give wide latitude in discussion of current topics, the editors are not responsible for the views of correspondents. Subscriptions may begin at any time. Terms: For single copies, $4 per year, $2 for six months, For club rates and full particulars respecting subscriptions, see prospectus on page ili. THE COMIC OPERA SPORTSMAN. Have we not seen a comic opera king—complacent, strutting, posing, loquacious? Was he not comic, indeed ? And yet the character, with all its exaggerations of cos- tume, color and action, had a subbasis of fact in real life. Tt contained fact and fancy, for all the comic opera of life is not on the stage. Real life, serious life, has it in abundance. Since lordly man, tilting his haughty nose toward the empyrean first set his arch foot on this beautiful dollar world of ours, he has been a hunter or an imitation of a hunter, a creature of fact or fancy, for man is a being of both earth and air. His advent as king of creation, with feet on earth and nose turned perky skyward, is typical of the double life he leads from the neccessities of his being; that is to say, leading a life both real and imaginary. Gravity holds man’s body in contact with the earth, but his imagination is not bound by any laws or forces. Thus, while his feet rest on matter, his head - most of the time is in the clouds. In the actual struggle for existence, each man reasons and acts more or less logically according to his cerebral make-up and the circumstances of his environment. Then he may be said to think soundly by virtue of his feet rest- ing perforce flatly on the earth’s surface. But when he smartly turns nose skyward and thinks, his ego, freed of bodily restraints, does glorious transformation feats in the pathless clouds, brilliantly ennobling by their valor, their genius, their sterling worth, their pure perfection. The clouds become a stage then in imagination. On it the disembodied ego does capers of marvelous ‘excellence in the individual comic opera, the earthly man for an audience, the paradoxical situation of the ego being the actor and the egotist the atidience. When the egotist draws the curtain, ego and egotist depart together, both vested with all the vanities of the ego. And yet it may have been all a ces! dream. It is unwise to dream yaeuet one’s nose if one’s mind is not well disciplined, or if one’s natttal mentality is not quite strong. Sportsmanship has more than its share of the comic opera of life, funny and sad, for there is no comic opera so funny that it is free from pathos. And of all the comic opera of sportsmanship, none is more comical than the claim to sportsmanship by virtue of contemplation, or how to be a sportsman without any of the qualities: of true sportsmanship. How does it so happen? Because the ego gets into the clouds, returns, and the egotist imagines that his dreams were true. Thus there is the man with the camera who sallies forth into the wilderness, photographs trees, water, flow- ers, and perhaps some deer, moose or rabbits. He returns and declares that the men with dog and gun on killing bent are cruel, barbarous, unsportsmanlike; that he him- self is your true sportsman because he indulges in the only true sport. He mistakes an idea, of which he him- self is the king, for the only true domain and definition of sport. Now, it is sport if it pleases him, but it is distinct, differentiated from true sportsmanship more than a bal- loonist is from a coal miner. Let him enjoy it at its face value. La! la! That would be asking too much. It is something to be a sportsman, and how can the prestige of the ages and the praise due individual prowess be more quickly secured than by photographing a deer and by force of insistence becoming a sportsman? Then there is the man who takes himself to the wilder- ness a few miles from town, seats himself on a moss- grown rock in propinquity to some trees, a few wild flowers, a sheen of water, a deep, deep blue sky over all, rests his hand upon his chin and thinks about the lovely things he beholds, He tries to think differently about them, else his thoughts will have no currency; for, mind you, he is not thinking solely for himself—the public must know of it. He returns heavy with the perfection of his form of sportsmanship. He has gazed on rabbits which have hopped by, squirrels which have run and sat and peered and quivered; observed flowers bloom and the mellow winds wave the green grass. talks of it. He has discovered the true sportsmanship. All other is savage and cruel. And yet, while he con- templated the beautiful he probably had a round steak in his stomach, or chicken, or other animal food, according to the law of his being. He mistook the workings of his mind for a tniversal law governing this terrestrial vale of tears. The ego broke through the boundaries and by mere force of thought a star thinker within the confines of his subject became a comic opera king in the domain of true sport. Say not alas! to this. It is the nature of man to have his toes on earth and his nose in the clouds. Blame him not for his nature. He did not make it. Real man has been always a hunter. His passion for the chase has ever been enthralling. His aversion to be- ing chased as an object of sport, or as a food possibility, has been stronger yet. All the obtainable evidence, past and present, on this subject, enormous in scope, is in sup- port of this allegation. The traditions of mankind from time immemorial are largely devoted to the deeds of mighty hunters, to a glorification of the hunters, and to the laudation of them as examplars for the generations to emulate. Then there is testimony which goes so much further into the past that it makes all history and tradi- tion things of yesterday. The geological strata tells of man’s doings on earth tens of thousands of years ago. Flint knives, flint axes, arrows and lance heads, human bones, together with the bones of wild animals found together deeply buried, bear silent witness of man’s man- ner of life on earth czeons ago, probably contemporaneous- ly with the cave bear, the extinct rhinoceros, the mam- moth. Why man is by nature a hunter no one knows. The question why? involves the problem of life itself. His nature is as it is, a part of his being. No man with a camera, or his chin resting in his hand in deep medita- tion, can change it. To question it is to rebuke the creator, and all the generations of mankind who were hunters. If it were essential to know the why as well as the what, man would probably have been taught it all long since. Yet the prestige of a Bemrenes is desirable. It presup- poses good qualities of mind and body, fortitude, vigi- lance, patience, courage and valor, the enduring of fatigues and hardships without murmur or yielding. “Imagine the man with a camera’ or the man seated on a log at the. dawn of creation going forth to subdué the earth, and to take dominion over the animals. Hurrah for the comic opera sportsman! — GAME LEGISLATION IN SECRET. — ~ Ir Connecticut is called the land of wooden nutmegs and shoe.peg oats, this is a humorous tribute to the astuteness, progressiveness and go-ahead-qualities of its citizens. But evén as Homer is said sometimes to nod, sc the citizens of Connecticut occasionally go to sleep, -or if they do not-go to sleep, they become so drowsy that they permit themselves to be buncoed by their Tepresenta- tives in the Legislature in a fashion which is more or less humiliating. At the present time, when the sentiment of sportsmen throughout the country strongly advocates the abolition of the spring shooting of wildfowl, when a considerable number of the Northern States have already abolished such shooting, and when a hard fight is being made in New York to pass such a bill, the State of Connecticut takes a long step backward and extends the shooting for wildfowl one month later in the spring. A bill was re- cently introduced making the close season for web-footed wildfowl from May 1 to August 31, both inclusive, in- stead of from April t to August 31, and the Committee on Fisheries and Game reported through Mr. Arnott, of Manchester, chairman of the Committee, on the part of the House, that the bill ought to pass. The bill has passed both Houses, and Governor Chamberlain has said that it will become law. The act is absolutely opposed to the sentiment of the majority of gunners in Connecticut, and its passage is due to the fact that it was secretly introduced, and that nothing was said about it in the public prints of the He writes of it, - State, so that the announcement that the bill had passed both Houses was an absolute and bewildering surprise © to most Connecticut gunners. It is understood that two members of the Legislature, one from Hartford and one from Bridgeport, engineered the passage of the act, doing it with absolute secrecy, and taking measures to keep the whole matter from the public until the bill was. passed. It is alleged that no hearings were given before the com- mittee, that the sportsmen of the State had no oppor- tunity to advance arguments against the bill, and that every effort was made to preserve the wutmost secrecy, and to rush the bill through with what is termed indecent haste. Many Connecticut gunners are highly indignant about the matter, and feel especially mortifred for the State; less at the action of the Legislature, perhaps, than at that of the Committee on Fisheries and Game. They,feel and say that if this committee can be manipulatéd ‘in such a fashion, proper game and fish protection is impos- sible unless counsel shall be hired to reside in Hartford during the whole session of the Legislature to watch every. movement of the Fisheries and Game Committee, and make public each act of that committee which is op- posed to the general welfare. ’ Incidentally the second section of this bill does away with the prohibition against battery shooting which ex- isted in the old law. The good sportsmen of Connecticut—and there are very many of them—are likely to express their views in no uncertain terms over this action of the Legislature. Public opinion in the State is greatly aroused over what is regarded as an outrage, and we shall be surprised if 1t does not find expression strong enough to force an im- mediate reconsideration of this Act by the present Legislature. Assemblyman Finigan, of Rockland county, has intro- duced in the New York Legislature a bill which is an ex- cellent illustration of the spite-fence spirit prompting much of the anti-non-resident shooting and fishing legis- lation of the time. Rockland county adjoins New Jersey. New Jersey compels Rockland county and other non- resident sportsmen to pay a license fee of $10 before shooting in the State; and now Rockland county sports- men are bent on retaliation. They would out-Jersey New Jersey by exacting from non-residents a license fee not only for shooting but for fishing in any county of the State which borders upon New Jersey. ‘The ‘supervisors of the several counties may fix the amount of the fee, but in no case may it be less than the $10 exacted by New Jersey. Such a law wotild affect the fishing in Green- wood Lake, which lies in both States, and it would have direct and unwelcome application to many of the citizens of New Jersey who have been accustomed to: repair: to Rockland and Orange counties for shooting and ‘fishing. Mr. Finigan and the constituents he represents may not be cerisured for this move. It is human to give tit for tat, “Tf IES Jerseymen make us pene pay them,’ they reason, “we will make them pay us.” As retaliation these non-resident tax measures are excellent and noble, and their promoters are worthy of all applause. But they are not game and fish laws. Fish protection is»one thing; building spite fences is another. z Mr. Justus Von Lengerke recorded in our columns two years ago the discovery of a colony of beavers in the wilds of New Jersey, a region from which the atlimal was supposed to have been exterminated long ago. The pre- cise location of the colony Mr. Von Lengerke judiciously withheld, for he was apprehensive that the beaver would prove a temptation to the trappers. But now the animals have revealed their whereabouts and forced themselves into public notice by reason of their beaver nature and the activity and enterprise which it has prompted. -They have built dams and overflowed the adjacent farm lands, and the land owners have at last become tired of destroying their work, and are now seeking some measure of relief. At Mr. Von Lengerke’s suggestion, the New Jersey Legislature passed a bill for the protection of beaver; and the aggrieved farmers are thereby restrained. Taken altogether, this is a very ctirious conflict between wild life and agriculture within two hours of New York city. Che Sportsman Tourist. ———_. A Perilous Ride.—Il. A Story of Indian Days, (Concluded from page 283,) THE next motning proved beautiful. The sterm was over, the sun came out warm, with a slight south breeze, and the snow began to disappear rapidly. We made no fire, and had a scant breakfast. About 10 o'clock we saw the Indians about a mile to the south making their way down the river, but taking good care to keep ott of gun shot of our long range rifles. They went below the island about three-quarters of a mile, turned toward the river, crossed on the ice, saw no signs of our leaying and returned. About noon we built a small quick fire and made coffee, the last we had. Our flour and bread was gone, but we had about half a pound of salt and about two or three pipefuls of tobacco. We were getting short. Nevertheless we would be compelled to remain a few days longer on account’ of snow, for the making of a fresh trail which from the surrounding hills could be seen so far would surely bring the Indians on us. We passed the time in shaving bark for the horses and lamenting our shortage of tobacco. The next day, after the Indians had made their third trip to see 1f we had left the island, we made up our minds that on the following morning we would make a break for the lower country. After supper, which meal consisted of buffalo straight, except a little salt, I took a stroll down the north river bank, keeping just within the timber. After going about half a mile, I was amazed to see a small column of smoke on the island toward the lower end. I got out my glasses and took a long and careful survey in all directions, but could see nothing but the smoke. made it, but who, was the question. quite dark, got under the bank of the river on the ice, but hugging the bank as close as possible, and made my way slowly and carefully toward the smoke. When I had reached a good point to look over the bank, and not a great way from where the smoke appeared to be coming from, I crept to the top and cautiously peeped over and discovered a small, brightly burning camp fire not over thirty steps from where I stood; but not a soul could be seen. ; I kept my position, not moving an inch for at least five minutes, and still no signs of life; when all of a sudden there came from near the fire one of the loudest sneezes I ever heard—it was easily heard by my partner up the river, who, mistaking it for a call, immediately started in the direction from which it came. I could not help laughing—but not very loud—when I heard a voice say- ing: “That d——d nose of yours will be the death of you yet. You'd jess as well fire a cannin’.” I could stand it no longer, and hallooed out: “Hello, there, supper ready?” “Bet your life,’ came the answer. “Got any salt?” “Yes; have you got any tobacco?’ “Bet yer life we have.” “It’s a swap, then,” says I, going forward and shaking hands with two of the roughest-looking men T ever saw. They were both dressed in buckskin, old and greasy, and had bands of antelope skin about five inches wide for hats, buffalo leggins and moccasins. They had some tobacco and any amount of meat, the finest I ever saw, but that was all. In a few minutes my partner had got near enough to hear us talking and came to camp, Having the salt with him, we divided, and lighted our pipes, which was worth all the grub in America just then. We began to smoke, talk and roast buffalo. These two men had come from the Black Hills, somewhere near Deadwood—Bill Tripp and a man by the name of Hammond. Tripp was a desperate man, and about a year afterward, single-handed, robbed the Vir- ginia City bank in broad daylight, escaped with several thousand dollars, and was never captured. They treated us.well, however. They had been on the island for some time trapping beaver, and had a fine lot of skins! Wezall stayed together this night, as they had plenty of buffalo skins for bedding. About to o'clock the next morning, seeing no Indians, we all crossed the river, going down to the abandoried Fort Pease and for some distance below. The snow was about all gone, and a warm wind blew from the south. On returning to the old fort we were startled by the most dismal sound one ever heard. What on earth could it be? Not Indians; it sounded to me as if the whole earth | was going to pieces. Tripp spoke up and said: “Run for © 1 As I ran I looked, * the island, the river is breaking up.” and such a sight I never saw before. The whole bed: of ice the full width of the river seemed to rise up and then fall to pieces with the most terrific noise one could im- agine. On it came, and we must get on the island if possible. When about one hundred yards from the lower end, I saw our horses on the ice and yery badly fright- ened. The mule was not there. When the tce suddenly left the island, away went my pony and Lowery’s horse on a cake of ice. A moment later here came the mule with the picket rope on, and, plunging into the water, she followed the other horses. Now we were in a fix— 200 miles from the Cantonment and a-foot. On went the horses, still on the ice, and the mule close behind in the water. We followed on down the bank of the river, keeping opposite the horses. Below the old fort the river miakes a bend, and the ice began to jam, and the cake of ice that the horses were on stopped almost in the center of the stream. As quick as thought Tripp ran on lo floating ice, gave the two horses a slap, and the ice being jammed so tight, they came to land safe and sound, but the poor mule could not be seen from the shere. Tripp, however, saw the end of her nose between two cakes of ice; he caught her by the nostrils, shut her wind off and she came to the top, He at once seized the rope and started for shore, when we all four of us got hold and pulled her over. She was badly cut by the ice in places, but was all right otherwise. We did not give three cheers, but we felt like it. Not over five minutes later the jam went out, and on went the ice. We took the animals ' into one of the old fort rooms and we occupied another and remained all night without bed or supper. ' Early next morning, the river being much lower and free from ice, we took the horses and went to the point jieafest to the jsland and swam them oyer, three of us Somebody must haye ~ I waited until it got - FOREST AND STREAM. two of the going with them; Tripp swam back with horses and brought Hammon: over. No: ~e were safe. We built a good fire and to re meat, and pretty soon were quite comf: dle. _ I was now quite anxious tu {| on; s: Wig we packed our mule, saddiesb our hm 2s, bade our two friends good-by, and were off for ' mgue River. ‘The breaking up of the river was very mut.; in our favor, not but the Indians could and would cross, but they could not do it so quickly. We made a good day’s ride, saw no Indians, but plenty of fresh signs. We kept as miuch in the timber as possible. When night came on we camped just before reaching a deep, wide, dry coulee. The next morning it was brim full of water and mush snow which had been washed down from the mountains during the night. We traveled up the stream for about a mile to a place where it looked as if we might cross. Lewery took the lead, as he had the largest horse. The stream was spread out so that it looked like a great river, but seemed not over knee deep, and continued about that depth until within a few feet of the opposite side, when out of sight went old man L wery, horse and all. The next instant he was up, anc within a few feet of the bank, which he easily reached. Not wanting any of that, 1 turned back, went down to the river, unpacked and un- siddled, took the mule and horse back to where Lowery had crossed, started them in, and away they went. They got a good ducking, but crossed all right. I got three small logs down at the river, lashed them together with my picket ropes, put my saddles and other things on the raft, and away I went, intending to raft across the mouth of the water-filled ravine. I was getting along finely until I got pretty close to the mouth of the incoming stream, when I discovered that it was coming with such force as to almost cut the river, and looked to me to be at least thtee feet higher than the river. I tried to stop my raft and get off, but I kept getting further from shore. When I saw I was in for it, | threw my steering pole away, laid down flat on the raft and let herslide. I struck the incoming stream and began to whirl round and round until | was almost at the opposite side of the river, where I came within an ace of being knocked off by an old root of a tree that projected out from the bank. I kept spin- ning round and round, landing back on the side of the river I had entered, and exactly where I wanted to be. As soon as I got near enough I got my rope in one hand and rifle in the other and jumped ashore, on what seemed to bea beautiful black sand bank, which I had no sooner touched with my feet than down, down, down I went, not touching solid bottom until the sand was up under my arms, and then I was held as tight as in a vise, and it was getting tighter. I gave a yell for my partner, who scon came and looked over the high bank. He threw me a rope, and finally I worked owt, and with much labor and difficulty got my things ashore. I was in a terrible fix, wet and muddy, sore and hungry and disgusted with the whole country, and wished myself back in old Ken- tucky. We made camp, which consisted of a fire and a good smoke, but we had nothing to eat that night. Still I slept well. Next morning we were off early. About 9 o’clock we found a dead buffalo that someone had killed for amuse- ment some time before. For all we knew, it might have lain there half the winter. It was frozen. We hacked out a chunk with our hatchet and ate it raw as we rode along. Don’t laugh when I say it was good. It was good, and I enjoyed it very much; and to this day nothing so disgusts me as to hear some one say, when they are surrounded by almost everything in the way of erub, “Oh, dear, what shall I get to eat? This is a time of year when there is nothing.’ Such talk as that always makes me sick, since my trip to Tongue River Canton- ment, whén bread would have been a luxury. About noontime we were at the mouth of Froze-to- Death Creek, which had broken up, and the ice from the river had jammed up in its mouth and stopped the ice from going out of the creek. I crossed over on the ice on foot. It seemed solid, I hacked a little trail over with my hatchet, and we started to cross with our horses, Lowery in the lead; when about half way across, his horse stepped on a large flat piece of ice, when it began to tip; I being behind, gave him a slap, the ice tipped more and the horse slipped down into the hole. It was something strange; the ice was piled up several feet deep, but in this one spot there was no ice under the top piece. It looked just like a well. Lowery held on to the bridle, or the horse would have gone below. We tied a rope next morn- around his neck and to a tree on the bank, and went to work to-cut a trail through the ice to the bank, which was a tedious job with hatchets. On either side of the stream the bluffs were quite high, and being now in the very worst part of the country for Indians, we were in danger of having them get right on top of us before we knew it. Every few minutes we would have to stop work and go to the top of the bluff and take a look. I concluded to tie my mule up on the bluff, behind a thick patch of pines, and then watch the mule and save running so_often. On account of the thick pines, the mule could not be seen by anyone except us. We went to work now iui earnest, but in a few moments I looked up at the mule and there she stood, with ears straight forward as if she might be looking at the devil. We dropped our hatchets, «rabbed our guns and made for the top of the bluff, where not a single thing was to be seen. We soon went back to work, and a few moments aiterward had to go through the same performance, and with the same re- sults. So we dropped our attention from the mule. About 6 o’clock we had our trail ready to get our poor tired horse out of the hole, where he had been hanging by the neck all evening. He got out all right and was walking up the bank when he stopped to shake himself, like a dog coming out of the water, and immediately after doing so, dropped dead. We took the saddle off, neither of us saying a word. I took the mule and pony across, got down under the bank and sat down and smoked. While smoking we heard someone talking. We could hardly believe our ears. I was so hungry and weak that I thought [ must be dreaming. Lowery had also heard the talking, and on looking over the bank, we saw two men rolling something on the ground. “What the devil are they doing?” said Lowery. “Tt looks like a barrel to me,” said J. We went down toward them in full yiew, and had come to within thirty feet of them before they, saw us. When they did so, both made for the timber, hut stopped {Aprit 18, 1903. as soon as they knew we were white men, Sire enough, What they were rolling was a barrel of beer that had been I@st with a boat late the fall before and had lodged on the sandbar and was frozen, They rolled it down to their dugout, where they were trapping beaver, and soon had the staves off and a solid barrel of ice, except about a gallon or two in the center which was what they were after, and soon had it. I would not touch it until I had had something to eat, which was very quick, I then took a sup of the beer. It was strong as alcohol, but did me lots of good; at least I thought so. The two men were soon as drunk as drunk could be, and ready to fight all the Indians in Montana. They were all right next morn- ing, but wanted no more beer. We remained in the dugout all next day, resting and - eating. I thought I never would get filled up. On the © icllowing morning we made another start and were told we could make the Cantonment in two days if we had no trouble. As Lowery had lost his horse, we were now compelled to abandon our pack saddle and most of our bedding and considerable other stuff, so that he could ride my mule. We cached our things in a safe place in the timber, each taking an extra blanket under the sad- dle, and what we could tie on behind, taking care not to overload our animals. We took some bread and cold boiled buffalo, and at daylight were off, keeping in the timber, which made the traveling much slower. It was cooler and cloudy, and what should if do in the afternoon but begin to snow again. Snow was what we wanted now more than ever. It would check the Indians from moving around, and be- side would cover our trail, which could now plainly be seen in the soft ground whenever we went outside of the timber, which we were compelled to do every little while if, crossing open spots. It continued to snow fast until — after we had made our night camp in a patch of cotton- wood timber, when the timber belt on our side of the river gaye out, leaving a space of three or four miles to the next belt. We made camp about the middle of the timber, when we discovered we were on a sort of an isiand, the timber being almost surrounded by a slough, which was still frozen over and quite wide, connecting with the river below, leaving a narrow space at the upper end of solid ground, where we had entered the timber. We shaved bark for the horses, ate a cold snack and niade our bed on the snow, which was now about six inches deep, but had ceased to fall. Next morning we were up early, intending to sleep at the Cantonment that night. I went out to shave a little bark, when I thought I heard a horse snort. So did Lowery, who came to where I was to see if I had heard it. We slowly and carefully walked through the heavy timber. The small undergrowth was heavily laden with snow, making it difficult to see any great distance and the timber getting thicker with willows as we got nearer the lower end. Suddenly we ran on to fresh shod horse tracks and a moccasin track of a white man—the big toe turning back instead of in. We followed the trail a few yards, when we heard two men talking. After listening a few minutes, I recognized the voice of one of them as being the notorious “Yankee Jim,”,who is at this time the sage of the Yellowstone Canyon a few miles north of the Yellowstone Park. I was well acquainted with him, and had assisted him to some extent in makine his toll road through “Yankee Jim” Canyon toward what is now the National Park. We boldly went forward, making noise enough so as not to surprise them, You may rest assured that we were gladly received. The other man was Muggins Taylor, who had been one of Custer’s main scouts, and was with Reno, at the Custer battle. He and “Yankee Jim” had been at this point all winter trapping beaver and drying elk and buffalo meat, of which they had several thousand pounds. They had a lodge made of poles about six inches in diameter and about twenty or twenty-five feet long, placed in a large circle, standing on end and meeting in a small circle at the top. It was covered with raw elk skins, hair side down, and heaped up from the ground to a height of five feet, was from 2% to 3 feet deep of earth, with port holes in every direction. The remainder of the covering was of skins alone. After talking until quite late, we all went to sleep on a big bed of tanned buffalo robes. The next morning my eyes were paining me dreadfully, feel- ing as if sand had got in them, and I soon found I was snow blind. Pretty soon I could not open them at all, and as far as Indians were concerned, if I had to depend on myself, I was completely at their mercy should they find us. “Yankee Jim” went to work doctoring me. He took a large boulder which he had brought from the river -bank, heated it almost red hot, then bringing me a bucket of cold water told me to sit on the ground with the hot stone in front of me. He covered me over with a large buffalo robe, and directed me to hold my head over the stone and sprinkle cold water on it, and let the steam go in my eyes. This I did and in a very few moments got much better, and by night was very nearly cured, The next day was beautiful and warm, and as we had last the day with my eves, we concluded to make the ride to the Cantonment at night, as we were told the Indians 'were watching the actions of Gen. Miles from every | direction, and a night ride would be much safer, and, in — fact, the only way we could get there. We bade our friends good-by and started about 8 o’clock at night, and — instead of keeping the river and timber, we took to the © bluffs about a mile from the river, keeping under the ~ bluffs as much as possible, and made good headway. When daylight appeared we found we were about one mile above the Cantonment, which was on the opposite — side of the river from us. We rode down to the river, near the mouth of Tongue River and close to the camp ef Gen. Miles, when we were halted and asked who we were. I told the guard I had dispatches from General Brisbin at Fort Ellis to General Miles, which being re ported to General Miles, a boat was sent over after us, | and a few minutes more I was in the presence of General Miles, and delivered my dispatch, forty-one days j old, but none had been ahead of me from that direction. That route had been abandoned for some time as not possible to be traveled at this season of the year, and all news from Fert Ellis or the East had come by way of the Missouri River and Fort Buford, What always was a mystery to me was this: I was shown a copy of the New York Sun—TI believe it was giving an account of my running on the ice down the Yellowstone Canyon, and being killed and scalped Apri 18, 1903.4 the Indians. How that tun was ever found out so soon, sent East, and published and back before I had finished the journey, who reported it and to whom, I never could imagine. I remained at the Cantonment until in the fall, or late summer, trading with the Indians and soldiers, and look- ing after the mail from Tongue River to Fort Buford, when I again took the trail toward the headwaters of the Yellowstone on a hunting and trapping expedition. Coon TAIL. Letters to a Chum.—l. Curcaco, September 22—Dear Clark: Here we are home again after one of the most delightful hunts I ever experienced, but it is good to get home again. After all, the best part of going away is the coming back. rit Well, old pard, I feel almost guilty of something in going away for a good time without you. I felt one- sided all the time L was gone—my right-hand man was absent. I- felt mighty queer about it, too; didn’t seem tight, somehow. I needed my old partner every day. I hope I will have him again next time. Here is how it happened : Last fall when you and J returned from our Utah hunt [ told my wife about our good time, and the won- derful things we had seen. She was greatly interested in my stories, and I sure had some good ones to tell, as you know. We did have a good time and no mistake. I got earried away with enthusiasm in the telling, but didn’t romance so yery much—didn’t have to, you know. She listened with wide eyes when I told of our adventure on Old Ben Mountain, and when I'd finished my yarn, she says: “Why don’t you take me with you on some of your trips?” Isaid: “I'd like to, if I thought you could stand it, but we rough it too much for a lady. We make long journeys over rough country, sleep outdoors, eat anything we happen to have, get our clothes pretty dirty, get dog tired, and have an all around good time for men; but it don’t seem just the thing for a lady. You would get sick of it the first day and want to go home.” “No,” she says, “I wouldn’t do any such thing, I could stand it as well as you can. You know that I could walk as far as you can. I would keep my clothes cleaner than you do yours, and J can excel you in frying trout, broil- ing venison or making hot bread. I can shoot and I can catch fish.” Now, this was all true, and of course I had to admit it. Stull, I was not convinced; but it was a long time till next time—a year—and I thought she would probably forget al] about it before that time or change her mind. So I says, “All right, you get ready and I’ll take you along on my next year’s hunt.” Rash words! And spoken without consideration, but the edict had gone forth, and she held me to my promise. I don’t believe there was a day of that year that she didn’t say something about our trip. Such planning and such getting ready I never saw. She had her trunk packed four months before it was time to go, and then she thought of a lot of things that she didn’t have which necessitated sundry trips down town. ‘Then we had to have another trunk. She enjoyed the thing so much in anticipation, and [ enjoyed seeing her enjoy it, that I don’t know when I’ve had so much pleasure in getting ready for a hunt. We couldn’t decide on a location for a long time. We studied the map of the United States together, and finally concluded that Colorado would about suit us. But what point in that State would we select? That was the rub. We wrote letters to the postmasters of about every out- ot-the-way place we could pick out on the map, with ad- dressed and stamped envelopes for a reply. Soon the answers began to come in and then we were more puzzled than ever. There seemed so many good places to select from. Each one had some advantage that the others didn’t have. We could only go to one of them, and wanted the best—didn’t want to make any mistake, you know. Well, we finally sifted the places down to five, and I etiess we never would haye made a selection if it hadn’t been that one of our correspondents said in his letter that he was a guide of many years’ experience (so were the other four). He had a complete outfit—horses, wagon, saddle horses, tents, cooking outfit, ete. (The other four had the same). But this man said that he had a good bear and lion dog. That settled it. None of the others said a word about their dog—forgot it, I guess, Lem Crandall was his name, and he lived in De Beque, Colorado. I want to say right here that we made no mis- take in our guide. A better fellow never straddled a “hoss.’ Tall, straight, and powerful, he seemed to know things by instinct, Eager and untiring in the hunt, modest and retiring in camp. But give him a’ pipe and good tobacco over the camp-fire, after the labors of the day were o'er, draw him on carefully, and he could tell a story of adventure that would raise the hair on a dead man, and he didn’t have to “make them up,” either. He had had experience in his thirty years of roughing it. Well, the time finally came to start, though it was mughty hard waiting for it toward the last. In fact, we couldn’t wait for the appointed time, but pulled out four days ahead of time and spent them sight-seeing at the show places in Colorado. On the morning of August 13 we alighted from the train (D. & R. G.) at Rifle, and found Lem awaiting us at the station, with everything all packed and loaded for an immediate start in to the hills, and it was not long till we were in the wagon on our way north, ; But, oh, what a day! The dust enveloped us like a fog, while the sun beat down on us unmercifully, Lem said there hadn’t been a drop of rain in that valley for two months, but that we would soon get out of the dust as we left the valley, This was encouraging, and J heard no word of complaint. For about two hours we stifled and cooked, Then we reached the foothills and entered a canyon where the trail followed the windings of a noisy, roaring little brook. As we advanced green trees filled the canyon and coyered us with a grateful shade. A cooling breeze sifted down from some cool mountain top, the quaking aspen whispered to us overhead, while the brook sang us a lullaby at our feet. Birds sang in the tree tops, and mountain trout sported in the stream. his mark. Animal life everywhere. FOREST AND STREAM. . What shall Iiway of such a place? I cannot tell its beauties. [Jw wot to yo bmagination, There was only one drawbaeaniiese road iv ll uphill. We had a splen- did team oy + ould nelltchave got to the head of that creek, oth a jaa Dismountifet*rom thé wagon, we walked ahead, leaving the team anda’ ver to follow as fast as they could. Get- ting out of & nt and hearing of the wagon, we seated ourselves on a handy log and drank in the surrounding beauties. Never had nature made a more beautiful spot, nor-a more pleasant. It is beyond me to describe it. I will take you there some day and show it to you. On we went, and up we went, forgetting to feel tired or weary in that wonderful place. Long before we were ready for it darkness came upon us, and we pulled into a little valley across the creek, where there was a good place to camp, with plenty of grass for the horses. Then we were all busy. Wood to get, fire to build, tent to set up, ‘Then supper. Oh, how good it tasted! No time that night to try for trout, the dark caught us before we were aware of it. But the next morning J was out at the peep of day, determine’ to haye fish for breakfast. A white frost lay on e. ‘rything, and our water pail had a scum of ice oyer it. What a change from yester- day in the valley! Hastily putting a rod together, and selecting a light colored fly, I started down stream. It seemed a joke to fish in such a little stream. It was about six feet wide by two deep. There were fish in there, though; I saw them, and they saw me, too, I guess, for I had no luck. Two fingerlings looked lonesome in my basket when warned by the sun peeping over the hill that it was time to go to breakfast. Walking up the trail that we had come over the night before, | saw a fresh deer track crossing the road, with one hoof mark in our wheel track. I was feeling cold, hungry and desolate, but when I saw that track my pulse went up, and my heart rejoiced again, as I eagerly scanned the hills for a sight of him, but he was not visible. Reaching camp 1 found breakfast ready, and a big bright fire that warmed my shins and dried my wet gar- ments. The bay horse was at camp eating his oats, but the gray had not come in with him, so I went out to look for him. Going out in the direction the other had come from, I gave a call to him, and heard an answering whicker up among the trees, and presently Old Gray came hobbling out into sight 200 yards away. But what a sight! He could not walk. His leg was broken or his shoulder out of joint. I couldn’t tell what was the matter with him. When he saw me he whickered again so pitifully that I could not bear to look at him. dewn into my boots. Good, honest, faithful Old Gray suffering like that! How will we get on without you? One horse can never pull us up those hills, and the sad- dle horses are forty miles away, up at our permanent caimp. I hardly had the coutage to go up and look at him, I hesitated and turned back to get Lem. Then, getting my wits again, I went on and Old Gray hobbled on to meet me. Poor old fellow! He talked to me in horse language, trymg to tell me about it, and a sob came into my throat as I went up to him. Then I stopped and stared. Then I laughed and shouted as I hadn’t done for many a day. Old Gray had his front feet tied together with a rope: Clark, did you ever think you were falling off a preci- pice—down, down to sure death, and just as you struck bottom, wake up to find yourself in a nice warm bed and everything all right? That’s how I felt. Bundling our camp into the wagon we joyously went on our way, up and up, hill after hill, always following the crooks of the creek. Lem said that this forenoon would be our hardest pull, that we would all have to walk for about ten miles, then we would be on top of the mesa and could all ride as much as we liked. So we trudged on cheerfully, my wife and I in the lead; uow through a box canyon with bare old rocks rearing their height a hundred feet above our heads, almost coming together at the top, now through a wooded dell, every tree set by a plumb-line so straight were they. Everv~- where a deep dark green, only where Jack Frost had set Strange birds that I had never seen before. A kind of bluejay and magpie, then a covey of mountain grouse trot out of the road and stand looking at us wonderingly. Luckily I had my .22 short Winchester repeater in my hand with the magazine full of cartridges. There stands a grouse at forty feet in plain view! Taking a quick aim at his head I unhitch, and the grouse don’t move. Then again, and again, with the same result. My wife titters behind me and I am hecoming exasperated. Confound that bird! Ill make him move, and aiming at his body I knock him over. ‘Then turning on another I lay him out, but he dies hard and flutters around, making such a racket that.the others are alarmed, and some fly while others run off into the bushes, Gathering our birds as we go, we pick our way care- fully through the bushes, looking for another, but they are hard to see. Pretty soon my wife whispers, “There’s one.” “Where?” “There on that log.” But I can’t get my eye on him, so I hand the gun to her and she aims at him. Then I see him very plainly about a hundred fect away, the most conspicuous object in view. I hadn't looked high enough. Rose tries her best to hold the gun still, but the excitement has got into her veins and she wabbles. “Steady now.’ And she nerves herself, holds the gun steadily an instant and touches the trigger. Over goes the bird and I congratulate her on the shot, but we jail to gather him—must have been crippled and ran away, which makes Rose feel very badly. “Poor thing,” she says, “I wish now I hadn’t shot at him at all?’ I finally convince her that if it was a mortal wound he is dead by this time, but if it is a flesh wound he will be well in a few days, and her face clears. Lem and the team have pulled up opposite us and stopped, “What did you get?” he says. I hold up the two grouse. “How many was there?” he asks. “Oh, about a dozen or fifteen,” I says. “Well,” he says, “you ought to’ve got morn two of ’em. What was the matter —couldn’t you hit ’em?” Now, I thought we had done pretty well. We had My heart went away - 303 enough. meat for, dinner; but.after I had seen Lem Uperate on a covey of nine grouse for about nine seconds with that same gun, then go and pick up all of the nine, each shot through the head, I began to understand what could be done with a .22. On we went, up and up, the breath coming fast and loud, but we had no time to think of being tired. We were in fairyland, with thoughts only for the surround- ings. At each turn a new view bursts upon us. Here a mighty monarch of the forest of magnificent proportions hed fallen across the trail and some former traveler had, .cut out a section of the bowl, making a passage for the wagon. What a splendid tree it must have been! At least one hundred feet, perhaps more, and straight as an arrow. Further on we find a spring of clear, cold water gush- ing out of the rocks, making a streamlet across the trail dewn into the creck. We get out our pocket drinking cups and sample it. How good it tastes! Look there! Just at the junction of the two streams in the mud, what tracks are those? Good Lord! they almost inake my hair raise. I had never seen a bear track, but I had heard of them, and there they were, life-size, looking as if they had been made but a moment before. We glanced quickly around, half expecting to see him coming for us, and only a ,22 to meet him with. “What's that?” my wife says in a hoarse whisper, hold- ing up her hands in a listening attitude. I hear a rattle acwn the creek, then a cheery “Go on there, Barney,” and Lem comes into view with his puffing horses. Lem got down and examined the tracks. “Yes,” he says, “that was a pretty sizable silver-tip. Must have gone along early this morning, No telling where he is now; up on the Macy, mebbe.” “D’you notice that feller in the wagin we passed ’bout an ’our ago, with his arm in a sling and his head tied up? That was ol’ man Harris. Lives back there a piece whar you see them hay stacks in the little bottom at the forks. Well, *bout two weeks ago he was up here sum’ers lookin’ after his cattle, an’ he run across a little cub. Thought he’d take ’im home, as the cub looked lonesome... No old bear around as he could see. So Harris got off his hoss and caught the little cuss after a right smart run and started back to his hoss. Didn’t get fur, though, till he run. tight smack into the wust kind of trouble, The old bar was on him ’fore he know’d it. Well, this is the fust day he’s been out. He tole me just now that the ole bar’s hide was nailed up on the stable. Done it with his knife alone. He was a blamed ole fool, though, to tackle a cub at this time o’ year ‘thout shootin’ the ole bar fust.” Clark, it makes a tenderfoot feel funny to see in front of him a bear track about thé size of'a dishpan, and about two minutes old, and no gun handy. He feels like mak- ing a fool of himself right then and there by climbing a tree till things get settled. I went to the wagon and got out my .30-30 Savage and filled the magazine with soft-nose bullets. Then I felt better, but we walked along the wagon for awhile. All long roads come to an end if you follow them far enough, and about 1 P. M. we reached the topmost hill. And what a view opened to the vision! Lem stopped the horses and said we could get in the wagon if we wished.- You bet we were dead willing. My wife had walked with a quick and springy step all. of that long steep climb, and never once complained of feeling tired. I don’t believe I was ever more “beat out” than I was right then, but I kept it on the quiet. I guess we had both determined not to peep first. “Thar,” says Lem, pointing to the southward, “is Man’s Cap, seventy-five mile away, and here,” pointing to north- east, “is Sleepy Cap, sixty mile away.” Neither of the peaks looked to be over five or ten miles away, and both stood out clearly and plainly above all the other lesser mountains. Lem said that we would drive about a mile further, where we would find a good spring of water, and would camp there for dinner. Up at the spring we found a large camp, with several men lolling around in the warm sunshine. One of them. came forward and asked if we had a permit to camp on Government land. Lem answered in the negative. So the man said that if we would walk over to his camp he would write us out one. This was something new, but the man said it was necessary; that he was a game warden with instructions to arrest anyone found camping without a permit. Luckily it only cost fifty cents, so we got the permit and went into camp about a quarter of a mile away in a grove of trees, Soon our coffee pot was boiling, but we didn’t have any fried grouse that day. Lem had hidden them some- ‘where, and whispered to me that the open season for grouse and deer did not begin till twelve o’clock that night (Augtst 15). . We had an abundance of tinned stuff, and it never tasted better. While we were eating our dinner a cowboy rode up on his pinto, and told us that a bear, a big silver- tip, had killed one of his steers the night before about a mile and a half from there, and that he had just seen him near the carcass. I was now full of courage, so I told Lem to hurry and unharness the horses so that we could ride out and get Mr. Bruin, But now occurred the first disagreement my wife and I had on the trip. She wanted to know what I was going to do. “Shoot the bear,” I says. “Yes, and get all chewed up like the man we met in the wagon,” she siys, “Oh,” I says, “there’s no danger on a horse: be- sides, Pll kall him dead the first shot” “Like you did the grouse,” she says. “You are not used to hunting bears and you shan’t go; besides the horses are tired now, and we've a long way to go yet to-day.” Well, after some more argument, and after I’d promised to only go over and look at him, I gained a reluctant con- sent. Meanwhile, Lem had been pottering around, mak- ing no headway at all. He seemed very reluctant to start out for some reason, which surprised me mightily, . He now beckoned me around behind the wagon and said: “See here, Mr. Paddock, if you say so we'll goand kill that bear, but ’m not in favor of it. My gun is up at the camp for one thing. I wanted to go as light as possible, so left everything there when I came away that I did not absolutely need. But my main reason is that the bear’g 8O4 hide will be absolutely worthless if killed at this timie of the year. Two months from now it will be worth $100, and that’s a good deal of money to me.” That kind of argument was unanswerable; besides, I liad shown up my courage bravely. So I said, “All right, then, we'll let him go.” So we hitched up the horses and went our way. About five miles of comparatively level road was before us. Across the mesa green grass, green trees and thousands of wild flowers everywhere. The man that gave us the camping permit had told us that about two inches of snow had fallen on August 10, which seemed mighty queer to me. It hadn’t done any damage that I could see. ‘The air was keen but the sun was warm. After crossing the mesa we began to descend. Down, down, down, nearly all the afternoon, through a rather unattractive country. About all of our attention was absorbed in hanging on. We made good time, and before sundown we pulled into the camping place selected by Lem for the night, on the bank of a raging torrent that Lem said was full of trout. So hastily getting things in shape for the girls to get supper, LemandI got out our rubber boots and fishing outfit, and were soon in the water. Only about twenty minutes of daylight remained. I did my best, but did not get a bite. Lem landed three beauties, and we soon had them in the pan. That night we had a concert of wolves. It was a clear, frosty night, perfectly calm, with millions of stars blazing down on us, and later a big moon came up. Sound car- ried well and for some time we lay enjoying the music, sntigly tucked away in our sleeping bags. The next thing I knew the sun was shining brightly through the canvas, and a hundred blackbirds were twittering on the ground outside where we had fed the horses their oats. Hurrah! the open season is here. : We'll kill a deer to- day or bust. Everybody was hungry and happy. A little stiff in the joints at first, may be, but that soon wore off. More fish have to he caught while the coffee pot is do- ing business. “Wheres Lem?” “Get up, you lazy fellow, its almost noon.” (Lem slept in the wagon.) No answer. Going up to the wagon I find his nest empty and his fish pole gone. Soon he came out of the willows with four speckled beauties, one of them weighing 234 pounds. Oh, why did I sleep so long! Lem said that our permanent camp was only about twenty miles away now. With a fair road and with good luck we ought to be there soon after noon. If you had one of our appetites, you would enjoy read- ing about that breakfast—fried trout, hot biscuit, bacon and coffee. Ye gods, what a feast! But time flies. I must hasten on. [TO BE CONTINUED. ] Blatuyal History. ——— The Intelligence of the Wild Things. False Natural History. BY HERMIT. I HAVE before me the Atlantic Monthly for March, containing Mr. John Burroughs’ attack on .Ernest Thompson Seton and the Rev. William J. Long. I do not care to express an opinion on either side at present, but do desire to call-attention to some of Mr. Burroughs’ false natural history. Mr. Burroughs ts a naturalist who is widely quoted by other writers, and should not, to use his own language, “Disseminate false notions of nature.” Keen observers are springing up throughout the world, and their studies of nature are deeper, and far more logical and far beyond the knowledge of Mr. Burroughs’ studies if one must judge by his writings. Mr. Burroughs is positive in his statements. Too posi- tive, for he is careless enough to contradict his state- ments in many cases. I will quote one of his positive statements: “There is nothing, in the dealings of ani- mals with their young that in the remotest way sug- gests human instruction and discipline.” This is a broad statement, but Mr. Burroughs con- tradicts it in the same paper. He contradicts it when he tells how the crows teach their young to forage; when he tells how birds induce their young to leave the rlest, and when he relates how doves push their young from the dovecot to make them use their wings. Ii Mr. Burroughs will visit the Central Park menag- erje and the Zoological Park, up in The Bronx, in his own State, he will see animals chastise their young. Two’ ways of chastisement are decidedly human. By spanking and by a box on the ear. “The New Babies at The Bronx” is the title of a paper in Forest AND STREAM, March 28. The writer. when referring to Susie, the baboon mother, states in rela- tion to her baby: ‘ “When he got a bit obstreperous she gave him a dainty box on the ear, and then smoothed his head anxiously to make sure she hadn’t hurt it. The baby squeaked, but he was good after that.” Reads like human discipline, don’t it? further: ’ ; : “Tt appears that chastisement is an important part of animal bringing up, as seen at the Zoo. All the animals have different ways of chastisement for their young, but all the children get it, and some of them get it hard.” , Last spring I saw an old crow discipline her baby. I was watching the nest from a bluff, which was nearly on a level with the nest. The three young crows were calling for food in dead earnest. A crow came and fed one of the youngsters. Another came and fed number two. This crow discovered me, and instantly called to the babies to stop their cries. Two stopped, but the third, the hungry one, cried louder than ever. The old crow circled above me, then flew to the tree and knocked the baby .crow into the bottom of the nest. This rough usage stopped its cries, but it was discipline just the same, The crows bring their young to my cabin door yard when I am absent, On my re- turn the old crows fly away calling the young to fol- I will quote FOREST+AND_STREAM, low, It often happens that the latter remain without fear of my approach. The old crows return and beat the youngsters until they are glad to obey. If these young crows were left to themselves, | would soon have them tame enough to eat from my hand, hke the chickadeés. ‘But the old crows give them lessons in wildness until they become as wild as their parents. It is instruction beyond a doubt. A pair of towhee buntings come to my cabin for food. The male bunting takes charge of the first brood, while his mate rears a second brood. When the second family appears, the male bunting takes his charge to a bird resort. It sometimes happens that a young bird finds its way back. The old bunting pounces on the little one; gives it a severe whipping and takes it to the resort again. Truly, the young bird gets a lesson that is very much like human discipline. I could fill a volume with proof that animals chastise théir young, but it is unnecessary, for any one can visit a Zoo and find proof for himself. So much for one of Mr. Burroughs’ positive statements; here is another: “No bird teaches its young to fly.” This is positive enough, but as usual, Mr. Bur-_ roughs contradicts it. He writes: “I have often thought that the parent birds sometimes withheld food for the purpose of inducing the young to leave the nest.” Then he adds: “The common dove will un- doubtedly push its fully fledged young off the dovecot to make them use their wings.” In the name of common sense, why did Mr. Bur- roughs, with this knowledge, positively assert that “No bird teaches its young to fly.” That assertion will stand and be quoted by scores of writers. Thousands of persons have seen the swallows teach their young to fly. The parent swallows take their young, perhaps two broods, to the fences or telegraph wires, and at short intervals teach them to fly. Soon the birds will gather, in what might be called companies. They mount and wheel and drill until the young are hard of muscle, and can touch elbows, and are fitted for the long, dangerous journey Sotth. In the face of these facts Mr. Burroughs asserts: “‘No bird teaches its young to fly.” Here is another assertion: “The young of all the wild creatures do instinctively what their parents do and did.” If this be true, why don’t a tame crow fly to the clam flats; or to the beach when the tide is out; or to the carcasses of horses in the woods, as its parents do and did? Mr. Burroughs may claim that the change is due to tameness, but the argument will not hold. When farming in Maine, if I caught a young crow in the cornfield, in a foot trap, and tamed him, I found he would pull up corn the following spring. All through a long cold winter he had remembered the lesson taught him by his mother. Young crows taken from the nest would uot pull up corn, although their parents before them did. They had been fed on sprouted corn, but without a lesson in the cornfield did not connect the food they craved with the rows of green blades. Wild fowl, bred on our northern lakes, will not go south without old birds to lead the way. I have hatched black duck’s eggs under a hen, but the young did not go south, as their parents did before them, al- though their flight feathers were perfect. Farmers around me had flocks of wild black ducks, hatched un- der hens. I never heard a flock that went south. One flock foraged on a trout brook until cold weather. Their life was nearly that of the wild ducks, and I thought they might go south, but instead, they trooped to the farm buildings for food and shelter. They did not go south, as their parents before them did, be- cause they had no old bird to lead the way. “The bird sings at the proper age,’ asserts Mr. Burroughs, and then adds: “Without a hint from its parents.” A song sparrow in my dooryard has failed to com- prehend this law of nature laid down by Mr, Bur- roughs. He is teaching his year-old boy to sing. I stop my writing to listen. The old bird sings the mat- ing song, note for note, but in a much lower key than usual. The young bird imitates the singer in an im- perfect song, he sings one song after another rapidly, while the old bird sings at short periods, just often enough to give the beginner a lesson, The old song sparrow has visited my dooryard for fourteen years. e would desert the fields for a life in the woods, if his wife would consent. As it is, he puts in many days, spring and fall, at the log cabin. He is usually alone, but sometimes he brings one of his children with him. If it is a female he does not teach it how to sing, but does teach the young males. \Vhen the old bird is alone he does not sing the mating song, but instead sings a low twitter by the house. I often take my visitors to a wood thrush’s singing school. The old male sings the loud clear song, then the young males begin. Some sing one note, some two. Some notes are hoarse, others are shrill. As the birds forget their lesson, they drop out one by one, and when all are silent the old male sings again, and so it goes on for hours. It appears that Mr. Burroughs tried to discourage an amateur naturalist, who had discovered a fact in her observations. I quote from his paper: “The other day a lady told me she thought she had heard a robin in the summer teaching its young to sing. But I said the young do not sing till the following year, and then only the males. If they are taught why don’t the females sing?” The lady was right, robins do teach their young to sing, and teach them all the call notes besides. I hear the old males sing, for the purpose of teaching the young, every season. The singing is not in the loud notes of the mating time, but is confined to a minor key. One cannot go blundering through the woods and hear the robin teach its young. It takes hours of patient observation to overcome the fear of mian,, be- fore the robins will go on with their domestic affairs. When Mr. Burroughs flippantly asked: “If they are taught why don’t the females sing?’ the lady could have asked in return, why don’t the females sing. any- way, like the males, if they are not taught? The little girl plays at housekeeping and imitates (Avnm, 18, 1903, het tother. Through observation and teaching she will in time become proficient in domestic affairs. The boy whistles and whittles and imitates the man. It is just the same in bird life, The young females learn nest building and how to rear a family, and the young males learn to sing. These young birds learn by ob- servation and by teaching. Mr. Burroughs asserts: “A young bird takes its appropriate food without a hint from its parents.” Again Mr. Burroughs contradicts himself. Here is what he writes: “You may see the old ones (crows) with their young foraging about the fields, the young often being fed by their parents. It may be permissible to say that the old are teaching the young how to forage.” Yes, and all the birds teach their young how to for- age, from warblers to crows. It would be a poor ob- server that could not understand that the old birds are teaching the young how to procure food, Robins, catbirds, buntings and oven birds bring their young to my dooryard and feed them on bread. When the young birds are old enough their parents give them a hint to feed themselves. An old bird will drop bread before the baby, with some sort of a clucking note, which may mean “help yourself.” The young bird takes the hint when right down hungry and picks up the food. According to Mr. Burroughs, the old roosters do not teach the young to crow, and the cock grouse does not teach the young male to drum. Writers on nat- ural history, for many years, have called attention to the drumming of the grouse in the fall, heard mostly in the night time. Some have claimed that the old males were teaching the young, and my experience leads me to believe that this is the true solution to fall drumming. For eighteen years it has. been my prac- tice to sleep in the open air from April to December. I hear all the wild sounds that abound in the woods, and some of these sounds are very interesting. Not far from my cabin there is a boulder where the grouse drum. In the early fall, before the birds are scattered by hunters, I hear the old grouse teaching the young to drum. The old bird sends up the roll with as much force as in the mating season. The young birds, at first, make a poor imitation of the roll, but keep trying every evening, until they meet with fair success. Hear- ing I believe, and no assertions by Mr. Burroughs can make me discredit my sense of hearing. Mr. Bur- roughs asks: “Does the rooster teach its young to crow?” Certainly it does. I am surprised that Mr. Bur- roughs should express a doubt on the subject. I have understood that he was reared on a farm, and I sup- posed that all farmers knew the proverb: “The old cock crows and the young one learns.” The old roosters confine their crowing mostly to the morning hours, until the young roosters are old enough to learn to crow. Then they crow throughout the day, at short intervals, to show the young the proper thing. The young birds slowly acquire the true notes, but the old ones patiently continue the lessons. Young birds re- moved out of hearing, will not learn to crow. A grass- hopper year, when I was farming, threatened the de- struction of a large field of cabbage. I put up a chicken house in the center of the field and stocked it with over a hundred chickens, There was a large number of males in the flock, but not one attempted to crow, although they remained in the field until cold weather. Their mates left at the poultry house had become fair crowers, under the teaching of several old roosters. As soon as the young roosters returned to the poultry yards they began to learn to crow. Every now and then, poultry papers bring out the fact that young roosters will not crow without a teacher. Mr. Bur- roughs and the cat: “The cat brings her kitten a mouse, but does she teach him how to deal with the mouse? Does he need to be taught?” That a naturalist should ask such questions is beyond my comprehension. I thought eyery one knew that cats teach their kittens all the ways of cat life. It was my first lesson in natural history. In my boyhood days a fall confined me to the house, At the foot of my trundle-bed a litter of kittens in a basket afforded me amusement. I noticed the thin voice that gradually developed into the strong mew of the old cat, and I knew the mother was continually giving a lesson in cat language. When the kittens were old enough to leave the basket I was surprised to see the old cat playing with them, Pussy, as we called her, was a staid old cat, and I did not know that she had any play in her. I soon noticed that she played with each kitten. She had no favorites. After a while it dawned on me that Pussy was teaching her kittens how to fight. The arched back and spiteful spitting was soon acquired by the kittens, and they practiced together. The mother gradually dropped out of the game when the young ones took it up. Pussy’s family was reduced to one kitten. As this kitten had no mates to practice with, the old cat gave it lessons again in self-defense and ag- gression. She taught the kitten how to deal with a mouse. She would drop a live mouse near the kitten and then stalk it when it attempted to escape. The kitten looked on several days and then tried to imitate the old cat. The mouse nearly escaped. Pussy caught it, just in time, and let the kitten try again. This time the kitten succeeded in catching the mouse. The old cat often brought in a mouse, but was a long time before she would allow the kitten to deal with it alone. When the kitten’s education was completed, Pussy gave it to understand that it must strike out for itself. When the kitten persisted in following its mother, crying for its natural food, the old cat would turn and box its ears soundly. Very like a human mother when she boxes the ears of the child for over-teasing. Mr. Burroughs would have us believe that animals are born with a knowledge of the calls common to their parents. Messrs. Long and, Seton never promul- gated such an unnatural theory as this, As well claim that the human baby is born with a knowledge of the language common to its parents. Mr. Burroughs says: F ’ roi chickens and young turkeys understand the various calls arid signals of their mothers the first time | Ata 28, to03] FOREST AND STREAM, 308 they hear or see them, At the miother’s alarm note they squat, at her call to: food they come, on the first day aS on the tenth.” . k From my own observation I know that this state- ment is founded on error. When farming | handled thousands of chickens, hatched in the old way, under hens. Mr. Burroughs claims that chicks understand calls the first day as on the tenth. The first day of a chicken’s life is a blank. It is hovered by its mother nearly all the time. It knows nothing of calls the first day, It gradually learns the calls of the mother. The call to food first, the call to hover next and the danger call last. Chickens hatched under turkeys soon learn the strange calls of the turkey mother. Ducks hatched under hens soon learn the meaning of the calls of the mother hen. Certainly Mr, Burroughs cannot claim that chickens and ducks understand the calls of their foster mothers when first hatched. This would be too ridiculous for a thinking mind, Now, if a chicken can learn calls in a strange language by observation and association, why not learn its mother’s calls in the same way? The mystery would not be half so great as it would be to claim that a miraculous power im- planted in the chicken a knowledge of its mother’s calls, before it was born. 1 Without a mother’s care, guidance and teaching wild life would be blotted from the face of the earth. grouse hatched thirteen chicks within sight of my cabin, When the young were ten days old the mother was killed by a stoat. I looked after the orphans for seyeral days, but they perished one by one. Without a mother’s care and teaching their fate was inevitable. I leave the subject here as I do not care to occupy more valuable space. Red Squirrels, I was greatly interested in “Hermit’s” article on Red Squirrels, and can attest the accuracy of his observations, as most of what he describes I have seen squirrels do. As he has the advantage of living among them in the open country where English sparrows and rats are com- mon, he has seen some things which cannot be seen in the degh woods. His account of a battle between a squirrel a it ° » Mit it tt was something entirely new to me, had not s(q posed that a squirrel was able to defend himself against a rat. I think the reason why people know so little of the habits of squirrels is that they are so common that every- body thinks he knows all about them, and so takes no pains to observe them. Thirty or forty years ago I thought I knew all there was to be known about red squirrels, and so rarely spent much time watching them. I had always seen them eating pine and sprtice cones, but I had no idea they ever cut and stored those cones or that they ever followed any particular method in eating them. It surprised me to find that they had a regular time to ctit them, as a farmer has to gather any crop, and that they gathered them for the seed only, and always handled them in the same way when getting the seed. As most people know, cones are covered with soft pitch when green. As the season advances the pitch dries up into separate particles and later the scales bend back and the winged seeds fly out on their mission to reforest the surrounding region. After the seed is gone the cone is of no more use to the squirrel than a corn-cob would be to the farmer. Knowing this, the squirrel cuts his cones just at the time when the seed is ripe, but before it is detached from the cone. He works for hours at a time and for days in succession doing’ this tntil he has all he cares for. These cones he stores up in some dry place to furnish him with food during the following win- ter. In most cases he places them in piles among low bushes, or on rocks or in holes under stumps. I have sometimes seen aS many as two hundred pine cones stored in one place. When he wishes to use one for food, he sits upright and places the cone small end down; then he cuts off the upper scale at the butt, exposing the seed beneath. In a pine cone the seed is about the size of an apple seed. In a spruce it is the size of a turnip seed. He cuts off a scale to get at each seed, and as the scales are arranged in spiral rows he keeps turning the cone as his work progresses. When enough of the central pith has been stripped so that it interferes with his nose, he cuts it off and gets it out of his way. Many people think that he eats this central pith, but the seed is the only portion eaten. Knowing that the seeds near the small end of the cone are undeveloped and worthless, he rejects the tip of the cone. Squirrels in late fall and winter are more local than most people stppose. They do not wander a great way irom their stores and will bore down through several feet of snow to find them. Many think that they can find a cone under the snow by scent, but I feel quite sure that it is by remembering the spot where they stored them. I have noticed that when a very hard crust has been formed by an ice storm, so that they cannot get their cones, they will live for days entirely on the mast of the white birch. They can, and sometimes do, live for weeks at a time on the buds of the elm. A few years ago a squirrel took up his residence for the winter under the outbuilding of a neighbor. Within a few feet of where he lived was an elm tree, the only tree that he could reach without going some distance, He used to climb this tree nearly every pleasant day from December till into March and eat the elm buds. We watched him with a field-glass and could see the buds as he ate them. He certainly got no other food for some three months, When it was stormy sometimes he did not appear for several days at a time, In all my traveling in the woods I never saw a squirrel eat an elm bud, but this one lived all winter en-" tirely on elm buds. Most people know that sqtitrels tap maple trees for the sap, and when writing of it speak of the squirrels suck- ing the sap. I have seen squirrels getting sap for some sixty years, and always thought that they sucked, till this winter I had a chance to learn better. Though living in a city, a pair of sqttirrels took up their abode in my attic last fall and stored a great quantity of horse chestnuts for their winter supply. Early in the winter a ‘cat caught one of them, but the survivor has remained till the present date, March 27. As the weather of Jate ‘be learned about them. has been unusually warm, he tapped some limbs in warm days in January, but in March he began regularly, A tmaple grows so close to a chamber window that one can reach its branches with the hand. As I have been for weeks confined to my chamber by illness, I have had such an opportunity to watch him as one seldom gets in the woods, I was very much surprised to fitid that he did not suck the sap. He lapped it with his tongue. There could be no mistake, as often he was within six or eight feet of me, and I could see his tongue plainly. I watched him day after day, and while in some cases he would hang back down under a horizontal limb and let the sap drop into his mouth, in all other cases, whether lying head up or head down, or holding on crosswise, he al- ways lapped it with his tongue. He did as I have often seen others do, keep busily getting sap for a while and then stop and wait quite a spell before resuming work. I think they do this to let the sap thicken by exposure to the air. While this may not be the true reason, I have been able to give no other for their action, as there is always plenty of sap flowing if they wished to keep busy. I notice that the squirrel sometimes varies his sap diet by going to an elm close by and getting a few buds, but he seldom eats many at atime. — ! While many years ago I thought I knew all about red squirrels, | now think that there is a good deal yet to Manty Harpy, A Remarkable Rat’s Nest. THE remarks on the wood rat’s nest recently published from the always entertaining pen of our California friend, Ransacker, recalled to us an account of a mountain rat’s nest published nearly thirty years ago in Forest AND STREAM under the title given above. We reprint it here: Mr. A. W. Chase in a recent letter to one of the editors ef the American Journal of Science, gives the following account of the habits of the California wood rat— Neotoma, no doubt: “While on the northern coast, I noticed a fact in natural history, to me quite curious, regarding the habits of the so-called wood rat, I am not sufficiently versed in such matters to give you the name of this interesting creature. It is a little larger than an ordinary Norway rat, dark brown in color, with large, lustrous eyes, and a tail covered with thin hairs. This creature builds its nest in the woods, sometimes on the ground; more fre- quently on the lower branches of trees. late a surprising quantity of dried twigs, which they interlace to form a dome-shaped structure, often ten or twelve feet high and six or eight feet in diameter. Open- ings in the mass lead to the center, where is found the nest, consisting of the finely divided inner bark of trees, dried grass, etc, But it is to the pectiliar thievish pro- pensity of this little creature that I wish to call your attention. To make my story intelligible, I would first state that I am partial owner of some property on the Oregon Coast, on which a sawmill had been placed, but which, owing to various causes, has never been in opera- tion. On this property was a dwelling house for the hands, in which, on work being discontinued, was stored a quantity of stuff—tools, packing for the engine, and. six or seven kegs of large spikes; in the closet, knives, forks, spoons, etc. A large cooking stove was left in one of the rooms. ~ “This house was left uninhabited for two years, and, be- ing at some distance from the little settlement, it was frequently broken into by tramps, who sought a shelter for the night. When I entered this house, I was aston- ished to se@ an immense rat’s nest on the empty stove. On examining this nest, which was about five feet in height, and occupied the whole top of the stove (a large range), I found the outside to be composed entirely of spikes, all laid with symmetry, so as to present the points of the nails outward. In the center of this mass was the nest, composed of finely divided fibres of the hemp pack- ing. Interlaced with the spikes we found the following: About three dozen knives, forks and spoons, all the butcher knives, three in number, a large carving knife, fork and steel, several large plugs of tobacco; the outer casing of a silver watch was disposed in one part of the pile, the glass of the same watch in another, and the works in still another; an old purse containing some sil- ver, matches and tobacco; nearly all the small tools from the tool chest, among them several large-augers. Alto- gether, it was a very curious mixture of different articles, all of which must have been transported some distance, a they were originally stored in different parts of the ouse. “The ingenuity and skill displayed in the construction of this nest, and the curious taste for articles of iron, many of them heavy, for component parts, struck me with sur- prise. ‘The articles of value were, I think, stolen from the men who had broken into the house for temporary lodging. J have preserved a sketch of this iron-clad nest, which I think unique in natural history. “Many @rious facts have since been related to me con- cerning the habits of this little creature. A miner told me the following: He once, during the mining excite- ment in Siskiyou county, became, in California parlance, ‘dead broke,’ and applied for and obtained employment in a mining camp, where the owner’s hands and all slept in the same cabin. Shortly after his arrival, some articles commenced to disappear; if a whole plug of tobacco were left on the table it would be gone in the morning, Finally a bag, containing one hundred dollars or more in gold dust, was taken from a small table at the head of a bunk, in which one of the proprietors of the claim slept. Suspicion fell on the newcomer, and he would perhaps have fared badly, for with those rough miners punishment is short and sharp; but just in time a large rat’s nest was discovered in the garret of the cabin, and in it was found the missing money, as well as the tobacco and other arti- cles supposed to have been stolen.” The same wood rats are among the greatest pests of our western country to those who live in log cabins. They establish themselves in the roof beneath the sod, and once in possession they seem to bé constantly on the watch to see what they can carry off. We have long been familiar with their purloining proclivities, and have even suffered by them, but the: above narration far exceeds any ex- perience of our own. Can any of our readers match it? They acctimu- - of a down-trodden, nothing so much as to get away. It sneaks along with Massachusetts Bird Arrivals. _Bast WareHAM, Mass., April 9—Editor Forest and Stream: I notice in your issue for April 4, that Morton Grinnell remarks on the early arrival of the white-bellied swallows at Milford, Conn. My record for the last five years gives the following dates for this locality, which 1s 125 miles east northeast from Milford: 1899, April 4; 1900, April 4; toot, March 26; 1902, March 22; 1903, March 18. I have a box that these birds use to nest in every year, and have observed that the first birds to arrive are males. It is singular that although there are two separate com- partments in their box, they have never used but one. Each year they raise one brood, and still, while several Pairs come around to examine it every spring, only one pair use it. On several occasions I have had to oust the English sparrows that took possession before the swal- lows were ready. At first I watched their proceedings. and. destroyed their nest before any eggs were deposited. This did not discourage the sparrows, and when my vigi- lance slacked they got to work and had five eggs laid be: fore I was aware of it. I may say that this box-is placed on the inside of one of the gable ends to my barn, and two holes are bored through for the birds to enter, This situation was chosen so that cats could not disturb.the cccupants, and at the same time the box could be exam- ined and undesirable tenants ejected, I cleared out-the sparrows nest, eggs and all; still they would not give up, and drove the swallows off whenever they came around. I finally shot the female sparrow and for two years no sparrow has ever peeped into it. ; We have a post near by on purpose for the miale swal- low to sit upon while the female is on her nest. Other arrivals have been noted as follows: Redwinged blackbirds reported on Febriary 25; I saw them on March 5; bluebirds on the 4th; wild geese on the 7th; song spar- rows on the 8th, pine creeping warbler April 6, and field sparrows singing on same day. We have had no snow- flakes, no crossbills, and I have not seen-a pine grosbeak in the last five years. a Game birds wintered well, and twelve quail of our home flock survived, Pheasants are in sight every day ; mine were turned loose early in March, and one of them comes to the barn about every day to be fed; she comes right in without fear and eats corn at my feet. Watter B. Savary. - a r) rs A Misleading Tail. Editor Forest and Stream: I am very sorry to have to disagree with Mr. Charles Hallock in a statement which I understand him to make on page 203 of Forest Anp Stream of April 11. He says ! Wolves and coyotes have a sneaking way of carrying their tails low, almost dragging on the ground, while dogs carry their tails up: and the further removed they - are from the feral type the higher they carry them. Shepherds and collies, which retain many of their racial characteristics, carry their tails lowest of all; setters and pointers, a degree or two higher, stiffening out straight’ when drawing on game. Terriers and hounds elevate their tails to the spinal line; St. Bernards and New- foundlands affect a curve over the back, while: pugs actually come to a full twist.” My observation is that American wolves often carry the tail high, just as dogs do. The same is true of foxes, especially of the little kit fox (Vulpes velox), which is so familiar an animal of the plains. We arte accustomed to think that wolves carry their tails low and in a “sneaking” fashion, chiefly because we always see wolves frightened and running away from us, at which time the wolf lowers his tail, precisely as a frightened dog lowers his. In the same way, a wolf that 1s greatly terrified put its tail between his legs just as a dog does. In support of these statements, let me quote at some length from my article entitled “Wolves and Wolf Nature,” published in 1897 in one of the books of the Boone and Crockett Club: “IT have often seen wolves, young and old, at play when they were ignorant of my. presence, and have been impressed by the similarity of their actions to those of the dog under like circumstances. When not alarmed they often hold the tail high up. I have-seen them hold it nearly straight up, and also curved up at various angles, as a dog may hold his. To show affection or friendliness toward their fellows they wag their tails just as a dog does: and some young wolves seen a year or two ago in the zoological park at Washington on the approach of the keeper showed the evidence of affection and delight that a dog would at the approach of a friend: laying back their ears, grinning, wagging their tails and wriggling their bodies in an absurd transport of joy. When the wolf is frightenend, it tucks its tail between its legs and ean under its belly precisely as does a frightened og. This is of the gray wolf, the so-called timber wolf buffalo wolf or lobo of the plains; but I have seen precisely the same thing in the prairie wolf, and I am not alone in this, since in the same article I quoted from Mr. Lew Wilmot, an old timer in the western country, who speaking of the coyote, said: , x “On another occasion I was coming down from a neighbor's, when near the bottom on the Columbia TI noticed a couple of coyotes hunting through the grass and low bushes; they had their tails up like dogs and seemed to be as busy. “Soon they were joined by two more, and all had their tails up, and as they had not discovered me, I waited to see what they were after. I never saw dogs hunt through a flat more diligently than they did, and it was. very amusing to see them with their tails up. I think they were hunting chipmunks, -Not having anything to shoot with, I started on, and when they saw me they~ started -off up the gulch, but lowered their tails coyote-like.” | The coyote has often been seen to point game, and ‘when doing so holds his tail straight out behind him, just as a stylish setter or pointer holds ‘his, As he is usually seen, the coyote gives the inipression much-bullied animal, that’ “desires downcast mien and lowered tail-and casts fearful ‘glances 806 backward over its shoulder, as if it expected every moment to have a stone thrown at it. But if you happen to be without a gun when you meet it, there is no animal on the prairie more unconcerned and impudent. They will bark at you from a nearby hilltop, or trot a few paces from the trail you are following, and lie down and yawn as you ride by with an asstimption of being bored that would be aggravating if it were not so comical.” In the old days on the plains country when one would no more have thought of shooting at a kit fox than at a buffalo bird, these little animals were extremely tame. It was a very common thing to come upon them lying at the mouths of their burrows or indeed anywhere on the prairie, and to see them get up and walk about for a moment or two with the tail held absolutely vertical. After a brief inspection they would commonly retreat to their holes, or trot off to a distance; then carrying the tail straight out behind them. I do not venture to say why some dogs carry their tails in one way and some in another. In the same volume, “Trail and Camp-Fire,” from which these quotations are made, President Roosevelt has an interesting paper which treats of wolves at some length, G. B. G. The Squirrel’s Bite. Editor Forest and Stream: It seems somewhat amusing—at least to me—that your correspondents on the subject of squirrel migration should be led from the point at issue into a discussion of a subject on which there is no grounds for contention. As I understand it, the criticism on the original story was not as to squirrel migration, but in reference to row- ing along in a boat, picking the squirrels up by the tail and dropping them into a bag, or bags. Now, if it had been reported that the party picking the squirrel up by the tail had at the same time rapped it on the head, there would probably have been no criticism offered, though scme doubting Thomas might have wondered if the said rap fractured the skull. The fact of the matter is, while a squirrel lives its propensity is to.bite, as anyone will find to his sorrow :f he picks an untamed one up even by the tail. Imagine a sack partly filled with live squirrels, held open for the reception of another that is being lifted from the water by the tail! Even if they were nearly exhausted, it don’t take a squirrel long to get his wind, and he could get out cf an open sack quicker than you could say scat. G. W. CUNNINGHAM. Game Bag and Gun. es Proprietors of shooting resorts will find it profitable to advertise them in Forrst anp STREAM. Ducks Among the Sand Hills. Omana, Neb., April 8—I have just returned from my annual wildfowl shoot among the western sandhills— probably the greatest ducking grounds in the world to-day. With my boy Gerard, I was at Stillwell’s ranch in the cen- tral southern region of Cherry county. Stillwell runs a ‘hunters’ hostelry—a commodious sod structure—and en- tertains large numbers of sportsmen during the wildfowl season, spring and fall, as well as in the black bass season, from May till October. George A. Hoagland, Omaha’s millionaire lumberman, and one of the oldest and best known sportsmen in the West; Rev. Edwin Jenks, a shooting minister, and a_cracking good one, Chester Jenks, Wilber Fawcett, Fred Goodrich, Tom Foley and Walt Miesner, of this city, as well as Major Doolittle, of Lexington; the Hon, R. J. Green, Judge Holmes, George Holmes, Douglas Frye, De Forest Moore and Billy McClay, of Lincoln, were also guests of Still- well’s at the same time I was. at But the spring ducking has not been what was antici- pated, and yet good enough for any rational gunner. While the northern flight, which is still on, by the way, was one of the biggest and most picturesque seen in Nebraska for many years, there was too much water, too ‘much latitude for the birds. Since the first rain and thaw early in March, the whole State—and think of it, once designated on our geographical maps as the Great American Desert—has been almost entirely under water. The Platte, the Elkhorn, Loup, Rawhide, Snake, and Blue rivers have been rushing and roaring, brim full for more than a month, while the overflow and back water cover large expanses of the prairie, and the lakes have’ been changed into sprawling marshes almost immeas- urable in extent. Thus a haven was furnished for the birds, and the most ingenious hunters were set at de- fiance. It requires plenty of water to make good wild- fowl shooting, but this spring, out this way, we have had too much of it, and yet many good kills have been and are still being made, and the sport promises to extend on through the month of April. , j The Omaha party at Stillwell’s this spring, however, was a full ten days too previous. We arrived there on March 18 and it was not until the 27th that the lakes began to open, Everything, even to the deepest and coldest creeks, was frozen tight, and what birds were in—and there were thousands of pintails and geese, with a spattering of canvasbacks and redheads—put in their time sitting idly on the ice or on the highest slopes of the distant plain. For the ten days’ freeze-in we barely managed to kill enough for the table, but what we did kill were in fine condition, and enjoyed beyond measure. In the crops of the geese we killed, and the two or three mallards that fell to our guns, Mrs. Stillwell and “the girl” took out several pints of undigested corn, showing conclusively that these birds had traveled something like ninety miles from their feeding time to the moment they were killed— the nearest grain fields being fully that. distant. _In the crops of the pintails and canvasbacks and bluebills was found a mixture of green grasses, wild parsnip tops, gravel, dried rosebuds and the desiccated polyps of the slough umbellaria and smart weed, the grasses predomi- nating. I examined the crops of most of the birds that were prepared for the table, and found all of them toler- - materially changes. FOREST-AND STREAM. ably well filled with the exception of the pintails, many of which were empty. On March 27, when the ice in the lakes began to crack and boom, and to recede from the northern shores, the real flight from the overflowed valleys of the Platte and the Loup, a hundred miles to the south, began to manifest itself, and I must say I never saw such flocks of canvas- backs and redheads since my days at Koshkonong, twenty- five years ago. There were plenty of bluebills, too, and pintails and geese all the time, but precious few mallards and widgeon. Sheldrakes, the lesser and the greater, were more profuse than I have ever known them, and the sight of flocks of swan were of daily occurrence. We saw also, off on the low lands north of Hay Lake, a bunch of ten ora dozen big whooping cranes, rare, indeed, even out here nowadays. The sandhills just began to show themselves the day we left, But before going further I desire to impart a bit of information to the readers of the Forest anv STREAM, and, as incredible as the statement, mayhap, may sound to your eastern readers, it is nevertheless incontinently true, and that is that as fine canvasback grounds as are to be found in the length and breadth of the United States are situated right here in the desolate heart of Nebraska’s great sandhills country. Years ago, and many do yet, for that matter, eastern sportsmen and authorities on game birds held that the Chesapeake canvasback was really the only canvasback, save from the standpoint of the naturalist, to be found in this or any other country—that the Illinois, Texas and California canvasback could no more be compared in gastronomic merit to the bird that frequents that legend- ary Maryland waterway and its myriad of tributaries, than a mud hen can be likened to an acorn-fed mallard. But this ridiculous opinion has gone for naught these many years with us sportsmen who have enjoyed the facilities for teaching them better. . I have shot canvasback on the Chesapeake and at Cur- rituck as well, and I know the bird taken there is season. is a beauty, a good thing and a joy forever; but T have also shot canvasback at Koshkonong, Wis., English Lake, Ind., and above Liverpool on the Illinois River, as well as right here, over the waters of the Missouri and Platte, and out on the sandhill marshes, and I assert with the most uncompromising emphasis that the latter bird has no superior in the world, and if anything he is bigger, fatter, more luscious and succulent than the bird that makes his vernal and autumnal habitat amid the estuaries and friths of the Atlantic seaboard. More than this, I be- lieve that the evidence could not be produced, even by culinary art or science, that would make the Nebraska ducker confess that there is a bird in the world that can hold a candle to the tawny-headed, ashen-winged beauty he brings to bag every March and October along the Loup, Platte and Elkhorn, and on the marshes at Still- water, Waubuncey, or out in the dear old lonely sandhills. The Chesapeake and its companion waters are assuredly the oldest canvasback grounds in the country. It was here that the birds were evidently first found in their greatest numbers, and for a long time it was honestly be- lieved that they could be found nowhere else. Why, at one time the Eastern savants (and I was one of them) went so far as to claim that the bird shipped in to the Eastern market from the West was only an ally of the true canvasback, Aythya vallisneria. The aristocratic shots and gourmets were extremely jealous and refused to be convinced that this feathered morceau, so long distinctly their own, could be knocked over by hundreds by even an ordinary shot along the rivers and streams of the plebian and vulgar West. But such was, and is yet, incontrovertibly the case, for if anything these royal birds are appearing’ here, especially in the springtime, more numerously than ever, and of the countless millions of wildfowl that make a transitory halt here at this season, none seem to be more plentiful than this king of them all, and their favorite re- sorts seem to be the lake country within the yucca- covered sandhills of the western sections of this State. If this region, then, is the chosen home of these royal birds, it is but natural that sportsmen will want to know something specific about it, and, impelled by the obliga- tion which rests upon every follower of the gun to give his fellows in the craft the fruits of his own experience and knowledge, I will tell them something of this won- derful country. The sandhills territory extends somewhere from the middle of the State, both north and south, a couple of hundred miles west until a high plateau bordering Wy- oming is reached, when the character of the country What I denominate as the “sandhilis wilderness,” however, begins with central Cherry county and stretches west into Cheyenne and Dawes county, Deuel county being its thoracic center. There is range after range of sandhills in this country, undoubtedly left thus by .the receding of prehistoric oceanic waters, and presenting in the main such a homogeneousness of scene that actually, at times, it becomes bewildering to the senses. Still, there is exceeding beauty in all this monotony, and a wagon ride through the seemingly limit- less waste is full of interest to all those who love nature in any of her many and varied forms. The sandhills present the rounded dome-like summits of all sand- hills, though at times, notwithstanding there is nothing of the hypersthene in their formation, they are cloyen into jagged, whitish, chalk-like peaks, which in height some- times touch many hundred feet. In the summer time they are clothed with matchless verdure, with myriads of flowers, including the yucca, with its fragrant golden blossoms, and the cactus in many forms. Lying within the basin of the hills from the Dakota line clear south through Deuel county to the South Platte River, is a re- markable chain of lakes and insignificant streams, filled with pure, cold water, save through the alkalescent belts, which frequently cut through the country, but in almost every instance devoid of piscatorial life, excepting the pure waters that have been stocked by the State. In this sea of sterile hills there is no stone, no timber or ore of any kind, but instead it is one vast pasture of hay land, as extensive, probably, and as luxuriant as any in the known world. When I use the word “wilderness” in connection with this region it must not be taken in its literal sense, for all the valleys east of the plateau are capable of supplying most all of the agricultural products indigenous to the State, even corn, rye and biclewrteat and peas, beans, turnips, horseradish, cabbage and pote toes, The soil, however, is especially adapted to grazing) and haying, and a cereal patch is an oasis, indeed. Among! the hills there is absolutely, almost, no arable land. I will not attempt to enlarge upon the weird gtandeur' and picturesqueness of this strange region, as that is something that must be seen to be appreciated, Settle.) ments throughout the hills of any considerable size there are none. Here and there, under the protection of q) choppy chain, are occasional clusters of rough adobe! habitations, and along the lakes and streams are the sod) palaces of the ranchmen, cattle dealers and hunters andi trappers. Muskrat trapping in the hills is quite an ex- tensive industry. The tent of the sportsman alone, in ad dition, dots the boundless sweep of grass and sand. Aly of the wild animals of the western country were here it Swarming plentitude up to within a very few years, the birds and finches. and while the magpie abounds, bluejays and members of. the woodpecker genus are rare occurrences. i _A few days before we left the sandhills this spring, the birds came in by thousands and the sport was fine. On Monday morning last Gerard and I, from a hole on the shelving shore of Dewey Lake, bagged thirty-two canyas- back and twelve redheads, the biggest kill made by any of the hunters there, although Mr. Hoagland and Rey. Jenks, on the whole, killed more than all the shooters! combined. i Sanby GRISWOLD, Deer in Colorado Wilds. Editor Forest and Stream: We are, as a whole, a plenty selfish people, and yet would it not be better if we were in some respects more selfish. _ For instance, when relating a successful hunting trip in your columns, would it not be better, for the game and for posterity if we withhold the exact) location of our successful hunt. other hunter’s “patch.” if every reader of your journal was a true sportsman and not a game hog, game pockets, let us know who is listening, “unchained” for a month, and went to Colorado for an outing, and was successful so far) as the killing of game goes. I would be pleased to’ give anyone the exact location if they will furnish Forest AND STREAM credentials. No Chicago parties need apply unless they come recommended by Mr.} Hough. Our party of four was made up of Prof., Jim,| G. and the writer, and a royal time we had, camping, | loafing, fishing and hunting “deer with horns,” grouse, sage hens and jack rabbits. Our success with the deer was all we could wish; in fact, all the law allowed us. We killed our two bucks each, with just the proper amount of hunting to make it enjoyable, and I am glad to state that no one of our party fired a shot at a doe or fawn, although we saw from one to twenty- five every day we hunted. We could not bring any meat out with us, but we wasted none, and knew the residents of that section will welcome us another year, Not so as to some parties camped near us, One Chicago outfit, camped about a half mile below us, was shooting at does to our knowledge, and our teamster told us that they had been there the year before shoot- ing does, and when remonstrated with, simply said they shot the does for practice. The idea of slaughter- ing does and fawn simply for practice! Another Chicago party, camped near us, consisting | of two young men and their guides, were the produc— tion of the yellow novel, as they dressed like bad men _ with revolvers and full cartridge belts on them at all times. When they moved on they left a half of a deer, a doe, I think, rotting in the roadway. Then a party from Georgia camped near us for four days; when they left we found, on the site of their camp, a full carcass of a deer. untouched and ten whisky bottles mutch touched. The only gentleman sportsman that camped near us during our stay was a Mr. Miller, of Chicago; he with his guides camped across the creek from us for four or five days, killed his two bucks and was greatly pleased and satisfied. To such.as him you may give the exact. location of your “game pockets’; but not to such as the others mentioned above. I have men- tioned three bad parties that we met; there were per- haps 300 in a radius of 100 miles in that part of Colo- rado just as bad. Is it any wonder that our game is about gone? On this trip happened the most touching incident — of my hunting experience. I was going up a gulch alone one day when I heard a peculiar throbbing sound, and upon looking around I discovered a little | spotted fawn lying near a pile of rocks, getting its breath in gasps. I kneeled by it and lifted its head in | my hands; as I did so it rolled its innocent eyes toward me, gave a few feeble gasps and died. It may be that I am a little too tender-hearted, but I admit that I wept ' for that poor innocent, as for a dear friend. What | caused its death I could not tell. Its tongue was swol- len until it forced the mouth open. , One day three of us were climbing a steep mountain and had stopped to rest on a log that lay in the trail, | when we heard a noise, and looking around saw two small fawns coming toward us on the run down the trail. They ran up to within five or six feet of us be- | Aprit 18, 1903.1, te they discovered us, and it was laughable to see he surprised look they gave us, They then made a ew jumps to the side and went on down the trail. The guns we used were a .30-30, a .38-55, .38-56 and 45-70. On this trip I used what I consider the best all ‘ound game gun, a three-barrel, one cylinder 12 gauge shot barrel, one choked 12 gauge shot barrel and a 28-55 rifle. In the cylinder barrel I used a solid ball, Hid it is very accurate up to 50 or 75 yards. The pene- eration of this ball with three and a half drams of good Sowder is good. We tried this on this trip, as com- Jared with a .30-30 and a .45-70; the 12 gauge ball pene- rated about two inches more wood than the others. The Prof. killed a deer with one of these, and the hole it made in that deer’s neck was “great.” One day G. and I went after grouse, he taking a shotgun and I my three-barrel. We had killed seven grouse, and eré coming back to camp, when we saw two bucks cross the valley and start up the opposite mountaim side; G. said he saw where the large buck went into a scrub oak patch, and as he did not see him come out, he proposed to cross over and see if he could not drive im out so that I could get a shot, as he had only a shotgun. JI sat on a log and waited. G. had walked to within about twenty yards of the scrub oak patch, hen out jumped the buck, taking two or three jumps along the side of the mountain, and then ttirned up to- ward the top. After he turned I pulled between his horns and held high. At the-crack of the rifle he fell over backward, shot through the neck, I confess I as about as badly surprised as the buck. So much or the thtree-barrel. If I had been hunting with a shotgun with no rifle attachment, that beautiful buck’s head would not now adorn my wall. I mounted 1t my- self, and I believe I can tell any reasonably “handy” man how to mount his own game heads equal to most taxidermists. * I met my first mountain grouse on this trip, and I think them very choice as an article of diet when well cooked; but as a game target, you cannot. tell what to expect. Perhaps he will sit on a log until you can set close enough to knock him over with a club; and again he is up and off at the first sign of danger; and when flying through a quaking asp thicket, they are ot easy marks. 4 We also had some sage hen shooting, which is, I think, similar to prairie chicken shooting. The young ones, if drawn as soon as shot and properly cooked, taste about the same as grouse. The old ones we did not try, but would think they would taste about like underdone sage brush. Colorado needs more and better game wardens. We only met one on our thirty days’ trip, and of him our teamster said, “He is afraid to call me down for any- thing, for [ caught him killing a cow elk last winter.” And he also said, “Anyone with $10 can fix him.” This is the sort of protectors that protect the “game hog’ and the “sooner,” but not the game. But I believe the law protecting does is generally ohserved by the residents, as the hills seemed alive with them, and many were quite tame. En Amt, Massachusetts Fish and Game. Boston, April 11.—Editor Forest and Stream: ‘The Massachusetts Legislature has another good deed to its credit. This relates to marsh and beach birds. Section 5 of Chapter 92 of the Revised Laws, has been amended by striking out the word “May” in the third line and substituting the word “March.” By this action March and April are included in the close season for “plover, snipe, sandpiper, rail and the so- called shore, marsh or beach birds.” The remainder of the section is left as before, and is susceptible of further improvement as regards the “herring gull’ and the “black-backed gull.” There was never any good reason for making an excention of those birds, A former chairman of the Fish and Game Committee was instrumental in making this exception on the flimsy plea that some of his constiuents about Martha’s Vine- yard were accustomed to kill them for food, and the other members yielded to his wishes—an illustration of the fact that much of the legislation in these days js secured by compromises and concessions, if not by downright bargaining. As regards the two bills pre- sented by the Central Committee, viz; the anti-sale law on partridge arid woodcock, and the deer law, there is no longer any fear—the former having (it is thought) secured the Governor’s signature, and the latter haying met no serious opposition in its amended form providing recompense to farmers for actual dam- age done by deer to crops. On the recommendation of the commissioners sev- eral bills have been reported favorably, and we shall soon know their fate. One of these is for better pro- tection of song and insectivorous birds. Another relates to “possession of bodies or feath- ers of certain birds.” One authorizing the “Commis- ‘sioners to re-stock certain great ponds with food fish,” and another To prohibit the use of trawls in certain ponds,” in which “the use of more than ten hooks by one person shall be deemed a trawl.” Still, another prohibiting the “tse of dynamite or other explosive in fishing waters,” If all these salutary meastires run the gauntlet the present session of the Legislature will stirely be a record-breaker, so far as the cause of pro- tection is concerned, On Thursday there was a very hot debate in the house over Representative McCartney's bill to allow Sunday fishing in salt water. The reference of this bill was to the Committee on Probate and Chancery— just why it was so referred the writer has no knowl- edge, as it would naturally go to the Committee on Fish and Game. It was favored by the socialist mem- ber from Haverhill, Mr. ‘Carey, by Representative Dean, of Wakefield, one of the strong men in the house, and by Mr, O'Rourke, of Worcester, while the speakers in opposition were Represefitatives Quinn and Ham, of Boston; Everett, of Wareham, and others. The bill was up for the third reading, and was defeated by a large vote. - trout. FOREST AND Si REAM. Two years ago a bill presented by Ward N. Boylston, which was drawn to repeal the law against Sunday fishing, was lost by one vote. Trout Fishing, A few anglers of Boston and vicinity have tried their luck, but owing to the cold weather of the first few days this month they haye not been very successful. At Wakeley President Reed, who never misses fish- ing April 1, and Prof. Myron Whitney, took a few Several others who have visited the Cape waters have not yet returned to the Hub. From Worcester come reports from a score Or more of fishermen, several of whom took a good number, but most of them report that they found unmistakable evidence of illegal fishing during the warm days at the end of March in well-worn and numerous tracks along the banks. This. suggests the need of more extended warden service to patrol the brooks just before the opening of the fishing season, A larger reserve force for special emergencies is greatly needed, and probably in due time will be provided. I have interesting information from New Hampshire, but must defer it to another time, only mentioning what 1 presume many of your readers have heard, the license fee voted by the last Legislature for non-residents hunting large game is $10. CENTRAL. CHICAGO AND THE WEST. Big Jacksnipe Flight. , Curcaco, Il, April 1.—What will doubtless prove to be the best flight of jacksnipe this spring is now all over this country, and those who get afield inside of the cur- rent week will no doubt have the best sport of the season, ‘There were warm rains for three or four days back, and for the last twenty-four hours the earth in all this neighborhood has been simply covered with angle- worms. This shows that the feeding is good for the jacksnipe, and the latter seem not slow to appreciate the fact, since they have appeared in good numbers in all the better known grounds in this vicinity. Mr. J. G. Kendall and one companion in Indiana last week bagged forty-six jacksnipe, shooting on the Kanka- kee bottom. Mr. Oswald Von Lengerke on last Monday bagged thirty-three jacksnipe, and sixteen on one shoot a few days precious. On last Thursday he and some friends went out over the same grotind near Morris, Ill., and only got a dozen birds between them. He thinks that now the flight will be better, and intends to try them again to- day. Billy Cutler, a very ardent snipe shooter, got back from Momence, on the Kankakee, the other day with a fine bag of jacks and other snipe, He reported very pleasant sport, indeed. At Fox Lake, along Squaw Creek and other bogs, the snipe shooting has been excellent within the past few days, according to scattered reports which are now com- ing down. Along the Skokie marsh north of Chicago and in the region of Crystal Lake in this State, jacksnipe have been about as numerous as they usually are within the past four or five days. I hear of some very decent shooting in these neighborhoods. Along the Calumet country, which was formerly famous snipe ground, although it is now almost within the limits of Chicago, the longbills have been present in good numbers. Henry Kleinman killed fourteen in one day this week, and other shooters have been heard hammering the birds pretty hard in that neighborhood, so that there would seem to have been quite a little flight in on these once much frequented marshes. As to a tip for this present flight, I would suggest the Little Calumet marsh near the B. & O. bridge, at the * points which are commonly used by the members of the Calumet Heights Club. The Tolleston members also ought to get a few snipe around their preserve this week. There may be a few birds along the western prairie sloughs adjoining this city. Sometimes a few jacks can be picked up among the fields near Arlington Heights, a suburb in the north- west corner of this city. I have no reports from the Illinois River or Mississippi bottoms, but presume they are having their share of jacks from this general flight, which now seems to be working north. Ducks Gone. The ducks seem now to have pretty much all gone. I hear of a last flight of bluebills now far up in Wiscon- sin on Fox Lake, and suppose that the shooting is over for this season in this part of the world. No Spring Law Needed. T was talking this morning with a friend who some- times kills a good many jacksnipe and a few ducks in the spring. I asked him why he was not out duck shooting, and he said that he had not in very many years shot ducks so late in the season as this. He admitted that he had killed eight ducks this spring, and that sometimes earlier in the season he did a little spring shooting on ducks. In this he is joined by a good many others who also, I fear, sometimes take down their guns in spite of their consciences. I recall having made recent mention of the rules which Mr. J. B. Castle, the member of the House of Representatives who has in charge our present eame law bill, always laid down for his personal conduct. These rules do not frame themselves according to the game laws. It is Mr. Castle’s theory that you do not need a game law to stop yourself from spring shooting, if that is the way your conyictions lie. He feels the same way. about large bags and a great many other unwise things in sportsmanship. When you come to think about it, Mr. Castle and gen- lemen like him are quite in the right of it. No one compels you to go shooting ducks in the spring if you don’t want to. If you are really a thinking sportsman, the kind that you and I write about, you don’t wait for the Legislature to tell you what to do. You are not obliged to kill 100 ducks in a day’s shooting if you don’t want ~ 307 to. If you do this I would suggest that, as a matter of personal consistency, you don’t say anything whatever about the desirability of having spring shooting stopped, Of course you probably will, for such is human nature. I simply say that it is not obligatory upon you. In my own case, I gaye up the spring shooting idea with considerable reluctance. Like nearly all other sports- men, I am very fond of a little exercise, especially in the spring. It is such a joy and comfort to get out of doors and become good and tired, and incidentally to shoot a few things beside. I stopped duck shooting largely be- cause the Forest AND STREAM said it was not the right thing to do, and I did not think it was quite consistent not to practice one’s own preaching. The first season I found it a little hard to stay in the house on the first few days when the passing of winter made it desirable to get out of doors. The second season I though little of it, and of late years the giving up of spring duck shooting has been perfectly painless with me. I admit that I shot jacksnipe two or three years after I quit duck shooting, Then I saw that the principle was the same, and I stopped that also. I don’t think that to-day I really suffer very much from it. Under the laws of this State this has not been obligatory upon me any more than it has been upon anyone else, but I have proved to my own satisfaction that you don’t haye to have a law to prevent your doing things which you say you do not think are right. Now suppose instead of spring shooting one would take to spring fishing. Early spring fishing is wrong in the case of those fishes which spawn during the spring time. I used to catch bass on the spring run under the mill dams, and many and many a bass I have taken which was leaded with spawn. A few years ago I figured out that this was hardly consistent or proper. I don’t fish for bass now until along in June. Under the laws I can if I care to. This statement on my part I certainly hope will not be taken as any expression of self-righteousness, for I have never found it necessary to be self-righteous. It is just an unbiased statement as to a possible personal atti- trde in regard to good personal game laws. Now, in the case of brook trout, they are fall spawners. There are more trout now in Wisconsin and Michigan than there were ten years ago. You will see that nature has offered you a certain compensation for your self- abnegation in renouncing spring shooting and early spring bass fishing. After the 15th of April—cthat is to say, by the time the leaves have begun to come out and the grass has begun to shoot—you are at liberty to legally and sportsmanly to go after a form of sport in its natural and proper season. Is there not sufficient in the possibili- ties of trout fishing to reimburse one for the unseason- able forms of sport against which many of us declare openly, but which so few of us are personally so willing to renounce? It is certainly a question which every fel- low can solve for himself, and solve it without any claim of special virtue one way or the other. Geese Atound Chicago, Within the past week there have been very large num- bers of Canada geese in the neighborhood of Crystal Lake and on some parts of the Skokie marsh, though they are more usually to be found on the corn fields ad- jacent to these regions. These geese seem for the most part to roost out on Lake Michigan and come inland to feed. One farmer who lives near Crystal Lake came in to town for some No. 5 buckshot to-day. He says that day before yesterday he made a sneak up to a bunch of geese in his corn field and fired into them with No. 2 shot, kill- ing seven geese. He thought if he had buckshot he could have done better exectition here, or on some _ other chances on which he had still lonver range [ hove | from time to time mentioned this flight of wild geese along the lake shore north of Chicago. Mr. 1tuwiescud Smith is one of those northern suburbanites who some-: times do a turn at the passing flocks of geese which come over the bluffs along the lake shore. Good for Texas. The most startling news in the world, if it can as yet sefely be called news, comes in the form of a report of. the proposed sportsmen’s bill in the Texas State Legisla- ture. My friend Guessaz, of San Antonio, writes: “Our game bill has passed both Houses and we are expecting the signature of the Governor every day. It is a corker. It absolutely prohibits the sale or barter of any game bird, or any bird of brilliant plumage—even of any song bird. It limits the bag to twenty-five birds of any kind, shortens the open season fifty per cent., limits deer kill- ing to bucks, and allows only six bucks per man each year. We admit that it is weak in that it has no pro- vision for wardens, but that will come in time. It is certainly a fine measure.” Tt is certainly a fine measure, and one most startling as coming from this hitherto careless State of Texas. If this law shall really stop the market shooting along the Gulf Coast—including the unscrupulous and unlimited market hunting of Banker Moody at Galveston—then cer- tainly the millennium will seem to have arrived in the Lone Star State. We may be crowing before we are out of the woods, but it is much to be hoped that the Govy- ernor will put his signature to this bill, and that, indeed, he has done so before this writing. Two years ago this advance along the lines of game protection would have been considered impossible for the State of Texas. One year ago, or six months ago, it would have been almost chimerical to expect that the State of Illinois would stop the sale of ducks. Yet it is hoped and believed that the [lineis game bill, which has hitherto been outlined, will pass and be signed, just as it is hoped and believed that this Texas measure has by this time become a law. The sportsmen of the West need by no means be discouraged. The splendid progress in game legislation within the last few years seems to indicate that at last the people of the West are beginning to value their game and to take measures for preserving it. While 1 was in Texas I heard a great deal of talk about this proposed sportsmen’s game bill, but must confess that I thought nothing would come of it, as hitherto the Moody idea and allied influ- ences have been too strong in the Legislature of Texas to allow sportsmen to get a decent bill upon the statute books, The limited bag idea also seems to be growing in the 308 FOREST AND STREAM, | [Aprit 18, i608: SSS West. As I have earlier stated, it would seem an excel- lent substitution for spring shooting prohibition where nothing better can be done. This idea and the non- resident license seem to be the growing features of Western ideas on protective lines to-day. I do not doubt that eventually Texas will put a non-resident license law upon her statute books, Singing Mouse No, 26, TirFin, O., April 2—J. H. Davidson, who conducts a grocery store on Market street, recently captured a curiosity—a whistling mouse. For several weeks past noises like the whistling of a canary bird were heard in his store, coming from boxes, barrels, etc. Mr. David- son had no idea what was the cause of the noise, but de- termined to set a trap, and the result was the capture of a mouse, which whistled and sang like an ordinary canary bird. The little animal was on exhibition at the Central fire station till last night, when it died. E, Houex. Hartrorp Burtprna, Chicago, Ill. Deer and Quail in Washington. Kerrier, Wash., April 5.—Editor Forest and Stream: I returned to camp a few days ago from a trip down on the Colorado River, where I had a pleasant trip, this be- ing-the first time I ever wintered in a warm climate. The boys in camp tell me that deer have been much more plentiful this winter than they have been since the opening of the reservation to miners. I tell them that it is easily accounted for; the snow has been much deeper in the mountains the past winter than it has been for several years, and the deer had to come down from their old winter quarters, and the whites as well as the Indians killed all they could: One of the miners killed a fine cougar; it is a fine speci- men. Several years ago I claimed in your paper that the cougar and the panther, or puma, were two distinct ani- mals, and I have had no reason to change that opinion, for this skin is about as near like the skin of a puma as is the-skin of a fox like that of a big wolf. But then I am going to allow anyone to think as they please, for I cer- tainly ask that privilege. Grouse have evidently done well, notwithstanding that the snow has been so very deep, for they have made their appearance in large numbers. As I came home I asked about the bevy of quail that was seen on the river last fall; there were several gentle- men present, but no one had seen the birds. If they sur- vived the winter some of them should soon be heard, for eight out of the eleven were Bob Whites. I do hope they survived. I have not heard any ruffed grouse drumming; there were several on the creek near my cabin when I left. I fear they have been killed. The pictures of Kettle Falls and that of the Old Church remind me that I am getting along toward the divide. JI was there forty-one years ago, and think I will be there again before long. Lew WILMor. Narrows Island Club Election, THE annual meeting of the Narrows Island Club was held at the Hoffman House, New York City, on Monday, April 13, at 8:30 P. M. There was an unusually large at- tendance of members; the president, Mr. Lawrence, occu- pied the chair. After the reading of the usual reports, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: -Presi- dent, John Burling Lawrence, Jr.; Vice-President, Henry Sampson; Secretary and Treasurer, Wm. Trotter; Ex- ecutive Committee, the officers and R. H. Robertson, T. S. Young, Jr.. and George Bird Grinnell. The House Committee for the year, as appointed by the President, consists of Mr. Jones, Dr. Markoe and Mr. Austin. Sea and River Sishing. ———S—_—_—_ Adirondack Notes.—I. WE were camped in a private car festooned with balsam boughs where the blue waters of an Adirondack lake showed through the trees, and after breakfast of trout and pancakes we all started across the lake and up river, Old Skiff, the guide, and Jack in one boat, Old Hi and the Colonel, Old Bill and the Doctor, and finally Hank and 1. Let me stop to say that Old Skiff, usually called by the Colonel Old Skiff, after a well-known financier of that name, was the father of Old Bill, the Doctor’s guide, and as villainous an old blasphemer as one could find. His contemporary in age and comrade in villany and in obscene and lurid language, Old Hi, was originally the village blacksmith, a man of a lost generation, who thought railroads were ruining the country. To prove it he told us amid flashes of cuss words how as a black- smith he had once conducted a nice trade in plowshares and harrows, but the advent of the railroad had ruined the trade. Now, the Colonel knew considerable about railroads, and thought otherwise than old Hi, but as he could not swear 1 competition with him decided any discussion of the matter would be unprofitable. Going up the: river that beautiful May morning, Old Skiff and Old Hi lingered within speaking distance of each other, so that one could cheer the other’s drooping spirits with witty references that deteriorated into the most grew-. some of dirty stories, and which they seemed to think reduced the beauty of the scene to a state of lowliness more easily comprehended by the “sports.” Hi’s “sport,” as I’ve tried to show, was hardly appreciative of his efforts, but when night came and we were once more sit- ting around our good table, the Colonel would say: “Well, Hi’s killed more than a million deer on the river, and he’s told me about most of them to-day,” or “Ai says he’s caught most 1,000 pounds of trout in the hole about the dam, but come to find out this extends over a period of fifty years when he and his ‘woman’ camped on the inlet. If the fish were like the ones we got to-day, I suppose it would take 10,000 to make up that 1,000 pounds.” Then Jack would tell us about Old Skiff’s war record. Old Skiff must have been a bit sensitive on that point, and fearful that some enemy would get a first chance at said record, for he always started off to say he was “Temder hearted and never took no plunder, no, not any; and when the general told me to take a file of men and go burn down Sinders’ Mills down to Savannah, what did J] say to the general, says I, ‘You old pirate, yeu go to hell and burn them mills your- self; I’m ¢po tender hearted.”” Now it was May, but Old Skiff thad his rifle along, and I suspect the rifle made no bones about being tender hearted when Skiff found a deer in the water. Up the river was a long stretch of dead timber and flood woods caused by the Government dam at the outlet, which, we were told, was put in to help the pulp people out with their logs. That the Goy- ernment had incidentally destroyed the standing timber, to say nothing of the scenery, was of no account. This isthe manner.of governments. But to return to the fishing. I began with worms on my flies and was trolling deep and had Janded three or four fish, when we caught up to Jack and found that he had landed about the same number with bait pure and simple. We continued to work back and forth where the holes were deepest under the bank, and managed to get as many more, one of three-fourths of a pound, which was high hook so far. Then we carried around a quarter mile of rapids and shallows, and launched the boat above the dam. Where the water ran through the broken down sluice it had worn a deep hole, a fine looking place where the shadows lay thick in the amber-colored water. “You won't get nothin’ there,” said Hank. “Them other fellers has scared what they ain’t caught,’ but Hank was good natured, and I wanted to try, so try we did, Two or three little rascals popped out, and as we put them care- fully back. Hank informed me we were not likely to see anything larger: up in that part of the brook. These fish were only about the limit, and it is not great sport to pull them out of their quiet homes; however, we worked down to where the rocks broke the stream into smother, and I cast over a smooth little roll just above where the water broke. Over the rocks went the dancing flies, and slap, a big fellow hit the stretcher, the line straight- ened, and I was leading him over the swift water to the surprised and delighted Hank. There was another equally pretty place fifty yards below, where the water had/ hollowed out a black hole under a big balsam. I could not quite reach it, but by great care of my back cast managed to get the flies in the swift water at the head of the pool and let the current carry them down. This time Hank scored, for the little fellows that came up were hardly of a size to take in my No. 8 flies. Down lower a quarter pound fish rose nicely to the black gnat from under a great log, but I missed him twice, and no self-respecting fish will come more than twice. We went back to the dam, and found the Doctor and Jack hard at work among the infant class, while Old Bill and Old Skiff gloated over each baby that came into the boat. Those old reprobates would stretch out a four inch trout to seven inches if you showed any sign of “puttin? of ’*em back.” My man Hank was of different breed, and when I told him to put back the first little fel- low he approved strongly, nor did I have to remind him again. We now went along up the brook and found the Colonel with some twenty-five nice fish, but no large ones, waiting for the rest of us to join him at lunch. After lunch the Doctor and I tinkered my ‘rod, which lL had carelessly broken on a fingerling, and then, after dividing up the brook so that we could all fish, we started off in the hot, bright afternoon to-try our luck. it was no use. I didn’t want to catch those little fellows, and then the bright light was an awful handicap on the open brook, so Hank and I started down, fishing as we went. The small fish were jumping everywhere. I be- lieve you could have caught a barrel full up that brook, but the fair sized ones were few and far between. Down below the dam, at the head of the stillwater, I got a half dozen very nice fish, bright in color and firm in flesh, and good little fighters, too, so that when evening came my fifteen fish outweighed and outclassed anyone else’s, ~ though the Doctor had sixty odd. Coming down the river I missed several good strikes, one fish coming out from under a log that Hank pointed out on the way up as a good place and which we approached with great care. He was better than half a pound, possibly a pound, and so I hated to make a flubdith and miss him. Altogether T missed too many. Hank said I was throwing too long a line. Something was wrong, but the string I had was altogether beautiful, the day had been one of pleasaut changes, my gttide was a clean-mouthed and enterprising backwoodsman of optimistic temperament, and so we were happy. He told me there was plenty of good work in his part of the world for any man who would work, and no one needed to starve. His only complaint was against the pork trust, which he afterward acknowledged might not be so much the cause of the advance in “fried meat” as was the price of corn, but anyhow he thought he was agin the trusts. The day had been a great suc- cess.. My friends had, however, one reason for lament. Hi and Old Skiff drank the last of their supply of so- called whisky, which looked like pure spirits, early in the morning, and by to A. M. their flagging zeal needed bracing up.. There was no bracer forthcoming, and they consequently had pains in various places and aches in other spots all the rest of the day. to Old Skiff to know how he was “feelin’,’ and recom- mend a little whisky as a cure “fer the misery in his head,” and how it happened their supply of medi- cine got “upsot and they ain’t had no drink since early morning.” This discussion gave rise to the breaking upon my narrow horizon of a sovereign remedy named “Five Drops,’ so named because you took that amount on a lump of sugar. It was great for “rheumatiz,” said Hank. He knew “A woman who weighed 300 pounds who was took so bad with rheumatiz that you couldn't move her, and she took Five Drops and in some two months she was well and spry as ever. So I bought it, one hundred doses for a dollar, and cheaper than most any doctor, and do you know, sir, it done me a heap of good. I give it to one of my sick sheep and doubled the dose, seeing it was a tough old he, and du you know, sir, he got right up and chased me outer the barn. Did you ever take it? Five Drops. You get it down to New York. That afternoon there was an aged citizen working along the railroad burning dead timber, “clearin’ up,” he said, and I stopped on the way to the car to pass the time Hi would. call out - o’ day and warm my hands by his roaring fire. It was a marvel to me that anyone should want to farm or live in such a hard climate as this, and I so expressed myself to the old man. “Yes, sir,” said he, “it be pretty freezin’, come winter, and the season is short. Can’t raise no corn of any account. I had a fine farm way back yonder,” and he pointed with a huge poker over his shoulder to the south, “and I says to my son, ‘Son, I’ll give ye the farm, and two sheep and a steer and three cows and the team (and one of them horses was as fine a horse as _ you'd care to see and worth near $100), yes, and seven- teen hens and two roosters and a sow pig, I'll give you all this,’ (an’, sir, the farm had thirty acres cleared), ‘I’ll give you all this if you stay here and settle down and live here.’ But he wouldn’t stay, sir, and so we sold out and drove over here, and now he wishes he hadn’t come to so freezin’ a place.” Come to find out this rural scene was only some ten or twelye miles away in the moun- tains, and not, as I had first supposed, where the seasons were long and the corn could grow. So I stood there and we talked about the trees and the snows of last win- ter, and the trout, until Frank called me to dinner, and then I hated to leave the old man for fear he’d fall into _his fire. The next day I wanted to try Mountain Pond. They all said it wouldn’t pay to fish it, but we ought to walk up and see it. There’s nothing in walking up to see a pond where you understand it’s no good for fishing, but the.-more I heard about it the more I wanted to fish it. Few went there, it was too much of a climb, a nasty place to lug a boat to, etc. So Hank and I started this windy afternoon and waded up the dryest part of the brook. ‘The first tramp to such a place is always the longest, and my efforts to keep reasonably dry added to the trip. However, finally we came out on the pond, half a mile long, nearly as broad, and with lilypads all over it, except right at the outlet. It was a perfect place to float for deer, and many the white-tail, Hank said, had there taken his fatal look at a bright light. The sun was bright, the hour was about 2 P. M., and the water shallow, but not too clear. I tried a cast of black-gnat, brown-hackle and Parmachenee-belle around the outlet. Nothing doing. Then on the other side of the boat toward the pads. Nothing. Then toward the shore, and slap, a quarter pounder came up. I snaked him into the boat and got an- other, a trifle larger, and that was all. We fooled along and I suggested a spoon, for the Doctor said that once he’d seen a man who said there were some big trout in that little pond. It was a casting spoon, and we put a common garden hackle on it, but the wind blew us where it listed, and the paddle was not able to keep us straight. My, that was a whale! Where he turned in the water the swirl was as big as the head of a barrel, but I missed him and he wouldn’t come again. That, however, was enough. They were there, so we backed off into the pads and let things quiet down. I rigged up with the same flies, only smaller, No. 10 hooks, except the tail fly and wormed them (shame on it). The wind blew stronger and there was quite a little sea on. Soon a fish rose, a half pounder, I cast over him with the baited fly, making no perceptible splash in the wind, and I had him. Again I did it, another about the same size, and the most brilliant fish I have ever seen. Soon they were really jumping all around us. There was no time to bait up; a big one came up and I missed him, and then I got caught on a pad and had to paddle over and loosen the cast. While doing so with the hackle two feet out of water, a ten-inch trout jumped out from among the pads within his own length of the boat, for that fly. He went up straight in the air higher than I ever saw such a fish go, but fell short of the Ay. This showed the anxiety I liked. Back we went into the pads; up and down the line went the flies, and they took first one and then another. I tried a Montreal, instead of the hackle and they took it as well, Slap, a whale. This time the hook went in and he gave us quite a tussle, 14% pounds, and a beauty. Bang, another big one, and a good battle again, 134 pounds, and several running between half and three-fourths pounds; but then a beauty, say half a pound, and all sunset color and bronze that I was holding in both hands, admiring his rainbow hues preparatory to knocking him on the head, jumped overboard with a little twitch of his tail, and must have told his brothers all about it. The wind began to drop, and with it the fish ceased to rise. We had one or two more medium sized ones, but the fun was over. We stayed, however, till the shadows lengthened across the water, long enough to see three deer come into the head of the pond. It was like old times, when the sight of a deer would drive me nearly crazy with ex- citement, and I paddled up as close as possible, till they threw up their white flags and ran. Then we crept quietly out of our boat and started down to the car, frightening a hedgehog into a small balsam and stopping to watch his slow motions, so much like a rickety old man. My catch counted up only fifteen. There should have been five or ten more, but they were the most beautiful fish I have ever seen, and gave me as much _sport as any I ever caught. The next morning the pirates appeared with four fine lakers; they said they had found “the old man” set out by some wicked person from down river and pulled it in the night. I had my suspicions, but have noticed such things are usually done by “a feller who lives down river,’ and so, no doubt, they were in the main correct. The Doctor told me the pirates were old friends of his, representative citizens, who had done just right to “pull the old man,” and he, for one, was in favor of this kind of local protection by public sentiment; that those fel- lows from down river should lose their set lines and their fish, too, for fish illegally taken didn’t belong to them, and he, for one, thought they would never put in a claim. He was right, they didn’t, and so he kept them. ‘That day we tried Mountain Pond again, but only took soine seven or eight fish. We had a pleasant afternoon, however, over a smudge, the Colonel, Jack and I talking over quiet outdoor things and former good times under the balsams and laying up a store of ozone, which, I am sorry to say, was altogether too little for poor Jack, who within the year has joined the great majority. Evening found us in the car again, and next morning we pulled mie the Giaee passin Station with a better color ind-some yery pleasant recollections. : soe ee _ . _.. Geo. F. Dominick, JR, audacity, instead of knowledge. \ From the hundreds of photographs 1 cut two for reproduction here. One is a wild camp and garden scene be- low Long Eddy; and the second, a view of the mystery of woods, and of the onrush and millions of simul- taneous dimples all over the wide face of rapidly flowing water, life- lusty, smiling-earnest, busy with its ‘mission and duty ae pate there ha Jants have come to dwell sr aoe Note them by the score in the foreground of the pic- ture, growing in nature's wild gir- den—their joyous life to be ‘een and felt, and their profusion, all full of that “felicitous fulfillment of func- follows may %t and feeble my album, I tion” which Ruskin calls vital beauty.” And in the other picture, what a haying! good time that angler is Pipe aglow, canoe safe but ready, tent, tackle-box, camp hatchet, cook- ing utensils, even the last touch given by the planting of a little star spangled banner! He is in care-free communion with what is fairest, purest and most divine, close to the bosom of Mother Earth! Yet that wild garden is wh + we call “the weeds,’ so feared and fought by the farmer, so harriea and exterminated by the plow, scythe, spade and hoe. Yet that angler, if he is a botanist, is drawing heavily on his wild garden for much of his food. The “crinkle-root” is there, more delicious than celery when eaten with salt; the dwarf, or ground-nut, grows thick in the moist land of the adjacent “bot- tom.” There are the red berries of the wintergreen, lush water-cresses; and the leaves of the swamp marigold, cowslips and trillium make fine ‘‘greens” when boiled in his tiny camp kettle and “dashed” with salt and vinegar The dells are thick with several kinds of ferns, waving in their green and mystery of refreshing plumes and spires; and their white roots are delicious eating. Of course there are the aromatic twigs of the birch and sassafras to browse upon, The brier-patches often grow to the water's edge, yielding several kinds of berries ready to be picked and eaten fresh, with sugar. The-black-red and purple of the wild cherry is often seen. Wild grapes gleam from amid the green of their vines;. like’ painted glass. And the wild crab-apple is HARMONIES. dred thousand years ago. They have not added a fold to their netals, re-ordered a pistil, altered a shade, invented a perfume. They keep the secret of a myste- rious mission. They are the indelible primitives. The HAPPINESS. soul is theirs since its origin. They represent, in short, an essential smile, an invariable thought, an obstinate desire, of the earth. “That is why it is well to study them. They have evidently something to tell us. Let us not forget that they were the first, with the sunrises and sunsets, with the springs and autumns, with the songs of birds, * * * to teach our fathers that there are beautiful things in this world of ours.” . Thus, our greatest living writer about nature. And that greater (alas! now silent) beholder, Ruskin, says of these same “weeds”: “The leaves of the herbage at our feet take all kinds of strange shapes, as if to invite us to examine them. Star-shaped, heart-shaped, arrow-shaped, fretted, fringed, cleft, furrowed, serrated, sinuated; in whorls, in spires, in tufts, in wreaths endlessly expressive, de- ceptive, fantastic, never the same from footstalk to blossom, they seem perpetually to tempt our watch- fulness, and take delight in outstripping our wonder.” So, too, the poets love and describe them: “Cuckoo gossips, never quiet, Blossoms revel, blossoms riot. Every breeze abrim with fragrance From the hill and valley vagrants. Roses in the tangled coppice; Privet, pimpernel and poppies; Harebell, thyme, in purple stretches, Vervain, violets and vetches; : And through all, above and under, | Something moving like a wonder, Something vigorous and vernal, Evanescent, yet eternal.” So we learn that God is in these still, small voices, and strive for humility and insight as we realize what nature is to the far- piercing, worshipping, beholding eyes of the really great artist or poet—that, as Melanchthon said: “The humble ones are the giants of the battle.” The best modern analyst of poetry, W. J. Courthope, stated in his lectures at Oxford, that Homer was the great- est poet, because he best saw that the humblest things have a divine life of their own. No wonder that the Greek name for the earth was Beauty. No wonder that as we see this fair stream at Long Eddy, with its cloud-ranges massed in scarlet and pearl, its hills so stately and far-reaching, we become dazed, and the eye can look no more for gladness. Our camp comrade yet uses the tamarack poles, and has caught three bass, and dressed them. There is an odor of boiling coffee in the air. Twi- light is settling on the scene as sup- per is eaten. Cigars are a comfort after a day of such scrutiny of the small things right about us. No ex- travagant fish stories are told, and there is no whisky drank, no liquid “fish-bait” or “snake-bite”’ tolerated. It is the crying duty of all true ang- lers to rebuke drunkenness in camps, so often used against them as a re- proach, and so often deserved. To emphasize this, attention is asked to the most tremendously important and vital fishing story that has oc- curred, or that possible can occur,-in the annals of mankind. Read, carefully, the last chapter of the Four Gospels, that essence-of Scripture. It is not mere history, no Enic Poem. It is fact, never more imperatively demanding attention than now—the last earthly life of the already crucified and risen God Man, ‘ and His parting plea to us as He partook of the fish that were His last food on earth, Seven disciples—rude, roughly at- tired fishermen—had cast their‘ nets all night in the Sea of Tiberias. Dawn had lighted the solemn, en- circling hills; but the nets had gath- ered no fish. Then, just before leay- ing the earth, He appeared on the shore and called to them, directing that the nets be cast on the other side of the ship. Even before the nets were hauled, Simon knew His voice, girded his rough fisher s coat about his loins, cast himself, naked, into the water, and swam a hundred yards to shore. There he found his Master, and a coal fire, where fish were cooking even while the nets were yielding one hundred and fifty- three large fish. Think of that open-air scene in Palestine—of the fish, of our Lord’s question: “Simon, loyest thou me?” and of his command: “Feed my sheep”; and then marvel in humili- ation that after almost two thousand years of human progress and boasted civilization, with church spires point- ing heavenward, and faith-incense burning on myriads of family altars throughout Christendom—yes, with His love and pleading now even more fresh and vital, and with the marvelous beauty of the golden summer brooding over all our ang- ling waters—think that as the stars of heaven shine and beckon, so many = men who call themselves anglers, should, by some strange travesty on the pursuit of happiness, delight in being false and drunken! It is a miracle of miracles— infinitely sad and tragic! He said: “Bring ye the fish that ye have caught.” Brother anglers, if we will not do that, at least we should not crucify Him anew. The comfort is great that sport becomes, yearly, more and more a life of love and insight, and less and less one of orgies and untruth. But my sleepy chum is scolding over the attempt of _his sinner tent-mate to sermonize, and we “turn in” te continue our good time in the morning. L, F. Brewn. cape oe ie 310 FOREST AND STREAM. [Aprit 18, 1903. The Blooming Grove Dinner. ONE must reckon back to a very respectable age to re- call how many annuals have been enjoyed by some of our game and fish preserve associations. The recurrence of such retinions is peculiarly gratifying because they indi- cate that the organization is fulfilling its purpose; long life and a large membership mean that there are game to hunt and fish to take. These conditions are characteristic of the Blooming Grove Park Association, whose extensive preserve in Pike county, Penn., is one of the pioneer in- stitutions of the character in this country. The member- ship is made up for the most part of business and pro- fessional men of New York city, and the annual dinner held here gives occasion for a reunion which the members are wont to regard as one of the pleasantest social gatherings of the year. The banquet of 1903 was held at Delmonico’s on Tues- day evening of last week. On the right of President Nathaniel S$. Smith sat Mr. Charles R. Miller, editor of the New York Times and vice-president of the Blooming Grove Association; Chief Justice Wm. S. Gummere, of New Jersey, and Adjutant-General R. Heber Brientnall, of New Jersey. On the Jéft of President Smith were Messrs. A. A. Anderson, Superintendent of the Govern- ment Teton Forest Reserve; Robt. B. Lawrence, formerly secretary of the Association; and T, Elmer Batten, of Forest AND STREAM. The members present were: H. Powell Ramsdell, R. Heber Brientnall, Frank L. Froment, Charles R. Miller, Thomas G, Barry, James Wills, Charles Edison, William W. Cook, Dr. William R. Pryor, Henry E. Passavant, Milton G. Starrett, Dwight C. Dorflinger, D. D. Allerton, Louis J. Dorflinger, H. A. Caesar, Dr. Spencer M. Nash, Edwin A. Richard, Edwin A. Cruikshank, Henry F. De Puy, Pell W. Foster, EE. M. Youmans, James §. Taylor, George R. Rebmann, William H, White, Jr., James M. Seymour, Jr., Hosea Webster, Bette E. J. Eils, James D. Foot, Robert C. Post, William C, Post. After the elaborate menu had been discussed, and the banqueters had come to that. stage where the mind is in its most receptive mood for the appreciation of flashing wit and good counsel, President Smith read his annual report and in a felicitous address congratulated the Asso- ciation upon the happy condition of its varied interests, and the promise of the future. Mr. Charles R. Miller found his text in that portion of Exodus xx. 17, which enjoins, “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s ox.”’ The application was to the conflicts the Blooming Grove Association has had from time to time with the people of the neighborhood who have failed to recognize the Association’s rights in the fish and game of its preserve. Chief Justice Gummere told an entertaining story in humorous vein, and Mr. Robert B. Lawrence, in reminis- cent mood, recalled an occasion when he had been guilty of what had afterward been credited to the Association as one of the sins for which it was guilty, when eighteen years ago he mistook a highholder for a woodcock and killed it. This fortunately occurred before heavy fines were instituted for bad memories and nearsightedness. Mr. Anderson gave a most interesting review of the changed feeling prevailing throughout the United States toward the protection of game and fish and the enforce- ment of the laws; especially in the remote West, they not only make arrests for offenses against these laws, but secure convictions where a few years ago arrest would have been dangerous and conviction impossible. Other speakers were Mr. Passavant, of Philadelphia; Dr. Pryor, Mr. James T. Foot, and Mr. T. Elmer Batten. The incident of the evening was a presentation to Otto, the head gamekeeper, whose service has been continuous for a term of twenty-five years. To his faithful study and care the club is largely indebted for the splendid con- ditions that prevail, as betokened by the whirr of the partridge, whistle of woodcock and leap of trout. The Blooming Grove members are in a high degree apprecia- tive of Otto’s worth, and in their behalf President Smith presented to him a check for $250. Otto’s response was sincere and heartfelt and given in original style; and all those who heard it could recognize in it the whole heart of a whole man. “This is the supreme moment of my life,’ he declared; and it was. CHICAGO AND THE WEST. ‘ ae ‘Trout in Wisconsin. Eugene McK. Froment, L. Victor Froment, Frank M, Lockwood. Charles R. Hedden, William M. Copp, Fred Engle, Lawrence E. Sexton, James L. Livingston, Frederick K. Gaston, Luther Loomis, Curicaco, April 11.—I would suggest the beautiful little Prairie River as the best open stream for the Chicago man who wishes 1o go out April 15. This is the earliest river I know. After that I believe the Ontanogan would be a good one to have in mind. I hear the Paint and the Fence mentioned, but have had no recent reports from these streams. Mr. B. K. Miller, of Milwaukee, will open the season on his preserved stream, the Pine, with several friends on the 17th. The first of May will be early enough for the average Wisconsin river, the first two weeks in May affording the best fly-fishing of the year in any usual condition of weather. I should regard the first week in May as safer even on the Prairie than the first legal week in April. The Pere Marquette River and other streams near Baldwin, Mich., should hardly be visited before the roth of May, in the opinion of some Chicago anglers who trequent that locality. The Saginaw anglers are getting ready for one or two good trips this spring and summer, but they have not yet determined upon their streams. Wherever these gentle- men land is apt to be pretty near delectable. Chicago Fly-Casting Club, Mr, I. H. Bellows, Secretary of the Chicago Fly-Casting Club, issues the table of handicaps as below, with the fol- lowing advice: The handicap committees have been working overtime, and the result of their labors is enclosed. When handi- cap is not given, the committee had not sufficient informa- tion to base their figures, and handicap will be based on the first half of the season’s work. Prizes this year will consist of medals, rods, or reels, as winners elect. A new casting weight and target have been adopted and higher scores in bait are certain. Members in arrears for dues on day of last contest are not eligible for prizes. All rules governing contests of last year, not in conflict with above, are in force this year. It is hoped that mem- bers will bear in mind our event days in arranging their fishing trips. Come out to the park as often as you can. A. full company looks better than a corporal’s guard. Club tackle always on the ground. Long Dis- Distance & Acc’y Bait Delicacy, tance, Fly, Acc’y,Fly, & Del’cy, Casting, Bait, Feet. Per Cent. Per Cent. Per Cent. Per Cent. H. H. Ainsworth 8 312 6 1- 1 1- 1 TI. D, Belasco.... 10 7 0 2 is I. H, Bellows.... .. 1, 2-3 41-3 1 1 1-4 L. I. Blackman.. .. ¥ 5 5 i, SEEee Browse. Coen 7 1-2 7 8 8-4 212 Wenn ehurch) 4.79. ; Ar 21-2 2 Cr Ares axis . 4A 3 1-2 ‘ Fy (G. Pallet. so5 4: us of 2 1-2 $3 B. W. Goodsell... 4 1 2-3 at re H. Greenwood.... 10 41-2 aH 2 oh Ei iG. lascallr, onre 1 2-3 5 1-2 1 1 Nin Gs. SeveStOnie es 5 6 2-3 oF 1 G. Hinterleitner.. .. 6 1-2 as 2 3-4 112 J. Hohmann... s. 44 v3 2 3-4 2 E. R. Letterman.... 5 +. 21-2 as Bola Masoneve. 9: 7 oe 2 3-4 2 TNA Becks mapelemee 1 2-3 41-3 1 1 H. W. Perce..... 12 21-3 7 112 1 C. B. Robinson.. +) Ae 3 1-4 3 fae. (Salter sees t8 * ‘ 2 3-4 3 AY iG Smiths: 6 4 5 1-2 1 0 3-4 AE eye een Itai tL eee ee - 11-23 1 1-2 Spee LAV r¢] Greer sf 2 Pickerel in Wisconsin. The biggest pickerel, or rather pike, of which I have heard this spring was taken by Bill Leidtke in Fox Lake, Wis., last Wednesday. The fish weighed twenty-eight pounds and was a fine*specimen. By the way, it seems to be mighty fishy around Fox Lake this spring. A dog belonging to Frank Griffin saw a pickerel in the water near the boat dock on last Sunday, made a plunge and succeeded in retrieving the fish, which weighed about a pound. The temperance and moderation shown by the narrator in establishing the weight -of the fish robs this story of all possible features of ‘doubtful- ness. E. Houeu. Hartrorp Buiztpine, Chicago, Ill. Ouananiche of Grand Lake Stream. Granp LAKE Stream, Me., April 6—Editor Forest and Stream: With your permission I would like to notify the readers of ForEsT AND STREAM about the “ouananiche” (land-locked salmon) fishing in Grand Lake Stream, Washington county, Maine; also of the special law gov- erning it. In past years people have been allowed to fish in the river here from the first of May until the 15th of September with any device except with nets and spear. Under the new law the open season is from June r to October 1, from one hundred yards above the dam at the outlet of Grand Lake to Big Lake—about 214 miles. This river is open to fly-fishing only, and since the bait-fishing has been prohibited. the fly-fishing has not only doubled in. number taken, but anyone can catch ouananiche at any time up to October 1. A great many people think you cannot catch ouananiche during July, August and September with the fly; but such as have that notion are mistaken, for here catches of from ten to twenty-five are common during August and September. Last season there were more than 12,000 ouananiche taken in Grand Lake and the river below; and the year before there were 8,209 taken during May and June. This is the home of the ouananiche, and we have the best fish- ing in the world for them; the nearest approach to us is Lake St. John in Canada. Our fish are about a quarter pound larger on an average, and you can catch more in the same length of time. Usually the land-locked salmon are dry when broiled, but these salmon caught in the lake and river are very juicy, and have a beautiful flavor which cannot be excelled. Anyone wishing to try their luck at ottananiche fishing would do well to visit Grand Lake Stream. The salmon come down from the lake and go on the run during May and June and do not re- turn; and as any fish that lives in quick water will take bait at any time, and as the law used to allow bait-fish- ing, they were nearly all caught before the last of July, and, as everyone knows, where there are no fish you can- not catch any. But since we have put a stop to all fish- ing except with the fly, there are plenty of fish at any time during the summer. J. T: MERRILL, A New Jetsey Devil Fish. Ir is not generally known that a large specimen of the devil fish (Manta manatia) was taken last fallin New Jersey at Stone Harbor, about a mile from the shore. It was harpooned in a pound net by some fishermen, and was then towed to the beach behind a boat. When in the net it was quiet until it was harpooned. Then it became ° very violent, but was unable to escape. When brought to the beach it soon died. The only portions of the great ray preserved were one of the eyes and a small piece of the skin. The eye, which at present is at the Academy of Sciences of Philadelphia, measures about 2% inches in diameter. Mr. Henry W. Fowler, who records this in- teresting capture, calls attention to the fact that the scientific name in current use—Manta birostris—should be changed to the name given above. Sportsmen who visit Florida, and generally the south Atlantic coast, are more or less familiar with thé appear- ance of this species, and with the excitement which some- times attends its capture. These captures have often been described, notably in Elliott’s “Sports of the Caro- linas,” and in various articles in Forest AND STREAM, one of them printed only a few weeks ago. The species belongs in tropical or subtropical waters, and is extremely rare, if not unexampled as far north as the locality where this one was taken, although reported as far back as 1824 by Mitchell “off Capes May and Henlopen during the warm season.” The Sea Trout Again. Editor Forest and Stream: Referring to the dispute over the “question” whether a sea trout is merely a brook trout who lives in salt water: Is not this “question” immaterial to the sports- man? Is there not often a rather amusing eagerness, even among naturalists, for Latin names and hair-split- ting? Of what practical moment is it to anglers whether wiseacres brand either or both of these beautiful fishes Salmo or Salvelinis? We already know that one is a trout that lives in a brook, that the other lives very largely in salt water, and that both are splendid fish, and have much in common. Many old anglers are disposed to demur that these kings of the jeweled coat are not more appreciated for themselves alone. Some cataloguers seem to joy in them principally because they furnish places for pedantic Latin ~ labels that will sound learned in books. Both fish are well known, and can be adequately named and per- petuated in English; and their relationship or ancestry is of very little practical use to “science,” and none to sport. In other words, in this matter, nearly all anglers care nothing whether “sciolism rushes blindly in,” or “knowledge creeps with cautious steps.” L, F. Brown. Brilliant Trout. Two 9-10 inch trout, astonishingly brilliant in their color, have been shown us by Mr. Robert B. Lawrence as taken near Flushing, L. L, within a few days. The fins, lower sides and tail are brilliant carmine, while a narrow strip, varying from 14 to 4% inch in width, run- ning from chin to vent in the median line of the belly is pure white. The line of demarcation between the red and the white is sharp, and there is no shading of one color into the other, but in one case the white is bordered by a very narrow thread of dusky. These fish come from a pond owned by Mr. A. L, Thorne, situated on the edge of the salt meadows near Flushing. The pond was made about five years ago, and is only about seventy feet in diameter. It has no inlet, but it is fed from beneath by a strong spring of fresh water, and also by a small iron-colored spring. The fish were put in as fingerlings four years ago, and have not greatly increased in size. Where the fish came from is not known. Anglers who have seen them call them Salve- linus marstont. Florida “Black Bass. Wasuincton, D. C., April 11.—Willard Nye, Jr., of New Bedford, Mass., has set his heart on catching a twenty-pound large-mouthed black bass, so that each year, along in February, our genial Nye is to be found some- where in Florida looking for Micropterus salmoides. This season he stopped in long enough to say that he had succeeded in catching a bass of 1114 pounds’ weight; a Des ; female, 2644 inches long, 21 inches around the girth. Nye says the fish of medium size were plentiful, Twenty-six were taken one day. A bass of sixteen pounds’ weight was once taken in the neighborhood fished by him. Nye says the fish are excellent eating; the big ones especially, simply boiled without seasoning, served with potatoes and seasoned to taste when on one’s plate. The phantom minnow was a successful lure. Bon, Legislation at Albany. Axsany, April 11.—Now that the end of the legislative session is drawing so close at hand, game bills are being rushed forward with all possible dispatch. Two have lately been signed by Gov. Odell, as follows: Senator Bailey’s, P. No. (Ass. Print.) 1485, providing that the board of supervisors of the counties of Queens, Nassau and Sul- folk may respectively pass laws regulating and controlling the taking of fish and shell fish in arms of the sea, and fish bait from public lands of such counties, and may also prescribe what viclations thereof shall be punishable as misdemeanors, and may impose penalties, the same to be enforced under the provisions of Article X. of this act. Senator Fancher’s, P. No, 785, providing that pickerel and wall- eyed and yellow pike shall not be taken or possessed from March 1 to April 30, both inclusive, in Lake Erie, and allowing the taking of sturgeon, mullet, suckers and carp with nets in parts of Lake Erie. ¥ The Senate has amended Senator Townsend’s wild deer bill, P. No. 780, so as to make the close season from Noy. 10 to Aug. 31, both inclusive. The following bills have passed the Senate: Assemblyman Bedell’s, P. No. 453, relative to the close season for trout in Orange county, ? Assemblyman Whitney’s, P. No. 1248, relative to fishing in Sara- toga Lake and Lake Lonely. Y Senator Armstrong’s, P. No: 697, relating to the sale of venison in certain parts of the State. e.,. The Senate Committee on Fisheries and Game has reported the following bills: F Assemblyman Palmer’s, P. No. 612, fixing the close season for quail in Schoharie county. Senator Gates’, P. No. 1068, relative to information concerning leases and franchises for the cultivation of shell fish. The bill was restored to its place on third reading. Assemblyman Reynolds’, P. No. 1060, relative to the close season for grouse, woodcock and quail in Rensselaer county. Assemblyman J. T. Smith’s, P. No. 443, relative to the taking of fish from the waters of Waley’s Pond, Dutchess county. Assemblyman Nichols’, P. No. 813, relative to the taking of woodcock, t rhe Senator Townsend’s, P. No. 776, relative to privileges of wit- nesses. Senator W. L. Brown’s, P. No, 935, relative to fire wardens. Assemblyman Burnett’s, P. No. 1696, relative to taking fish in Canandaigua Lake. ‘ ‘ The Assembly has advanced to third reading these bills: Assemblyman Allston’s, P. No. 1721, relative to fire wardens, Assemblyman Moran’s, P. No. 1324, relative to fishing for non- game fish in Cayuga Lake and its tributary streams. Senator Townsend’s, P. No. 392 (S. Print.) for the protection of wild black bear. ‘eh Assemblyman C. W. Smith’s, P. No. 1878, giving the chief game protector an annual salary of $2,000, with $1,000 a year for ex- enses. ® The Assembly has passed the following bills: Assemblyman McCormack’s, P. No. 1715, relative to game in Richmond county. : f : Senator Malby’s, P. No. 183, relative to fishing in’ Black Lake, St. Lawrence county. Senator Armstrong’s, P. No. 805, relative to the close season for grouse in the counties of Ulster, Sullivan, Greene and Orange. Assemblyman Simpson’s, P. No. 1100, to prohibit hunting and ~ fishing on Sunday in the county of Sullivan. : Assemblyman Nichols’, P. 1722, relative to spearing fish in Greene county. F Assemblyman Cowan’s, P. No. 1727, relative to the close sea- son for mink, skunk, muskrat and foxes in Delaware county. Apri 18, 1903.]) FOREST AND STREAM. Siti | Bachting. ReELiAnce, the new yacht built for the defense of the America’s Cup, was successfully launched from the Herreshoff’s yard on Saturday afternoon, April 11. Bad weather had been predicted, but the day broke fine and clear and was ideal for the event. Mr. N. G. Herreshoff was on hand early in the morning, as was Captain Charlie Barr. Both had their men attending to the many things that turn up at the eleventh hour. Shortly after eight o’clock Sunbeam, Reliance’s tender, dressed ship, and as the bunting went aloft it added a bit of life to the scene. Sunbeam was lying at the end of the south pier. Lying in the offing was Constitu- tion, the boat built by the Herreshoffs two years ago. Constitution was launched on May 6, almost a month later than the day fixed for launching Reliance this year. Shortly before noon Mr. W. B. Leeds’ new steam yacht Noma, flying Commodore Frederick G. Bourne's private signal, appeared on the scene. She came to anchor off the shops, and Commodore Bourne and his guests went over to the tender Sunbeam to call on Mr. Iselin, and then came ashore to see the new boat. With Commodore Bourne were ex-Commodore E. M. Brown, Mr. W. B. Leeds, Secretary George A. Cor- mack, Fleet Captain C. L. F. Robinson, Mr, Edward H. Wales, Mr. J. Frederic Tams, Mr. Whitney War- ren and Mr. Arthur Kemp. Noma leit New York on Friday afternoon, where Commodore Bourne and his euests joined her, and they had a delightiul run through the Sound and up Narragansett Bay to Bristol. Early in the afternoon a special train brought a number of people from Providence, who were guests of Mr. C. Oliver Iselin, the managing owner of the new boat, and they went directly aboard the tender Sunbeam. As the day wore on trolley cars, carriages and antomobiles brought many people to the town, and quiet Bristol presented a very busy appearance. Con- stitution’s tender, Satellite, was in the harbor with Mr. August Belmont and a large number of guests on board, A gun was fired from Constitution just before half- past three, and she went formally into commission. She dressed ship, and Mr. Belmont’s colors went to the mast head. The tornedo boat Winslow, with a party of naval officers on board, came over from the Newport station during the afternoon. The launching was scheduled for half-past five. A limited number of tickets had been issued, and those holding them were admitted to the south shop, where Reliance was built. Many people were allowed on the _ piers, which extended into the water on the north and south sides of the shop, and were thus afforded a good opportunity to see the launching. Reliance rested in a cradle, which was built on a low car. The marine railway on which the car ran was specially strengthened and tested in order that there would be no accident. A wire cable was attached to the forward end of the car, which led to a windlass. In this way the yacht’s speed could be regulated as she moved down the incline. The yacht’s bottom had been burnished to a high de- gree of perfection, and the white topsides did not show the lines of the plating or the rivet heads. Festoons of laurel leayes and bunches of carnations decorated the bow of the yacht, and streamers of red and black, Mr. Iselin’s colors, were in evidence. A gong sounded in the shop at 5:28, and Miss Nora Iselin broke the bottle of American champagne over the bows and named the yacht Reliance. The boat was only allowed to move slowly down the ways, and it was some twelve minutes before she was water borne. As Reliance moved out of the shop, the American yacht ensign was hoisted over the taffrail, the “New York Y. C. flag was hoisted at the bow, and Mr. Ise- lin’s private signal appeared on a staff amidships. As the boat took the water, there was quite a demon- stration, the crowd present being very enthusiastic, and while the attendant fleet of boats was small, it made up in enthusiasm what it lacked in numbers. Captain Barr and a number of his men were on board, as was Mr. “Nat” Herreshoff, when Reliance took the water. After the launching Reliance was warped over to the north pier under the big shears, so that her mast and other spars can be put in place without delay. Reliance is essentially a big craft, big even for a 90- footer, was the information gained by everybody who saw her launched on Saturday last. Her great breadth and remarkable over all length conveyed the idea of large froportions, for the boat quite filled the big shop where she was built. For some time it had been said she would be something of the scow type, and would combine some of the features of Independence. To some extent this rumor has been Lorne out by the facts; not that we would hint that Mr. Herreshoff had copied or adopted a single feature of Mr. Crowninshield’s boat. That Mr. Herreshoff is a creator and not an imitator is a well-known fact, and there is no ° question that the design of Reliance would have been just exactly what it is now had Independence never been built. Reliance only shows the natural development and expected improvement over Constitution as did this latter boat show these same points over Columbia, even though in the actual racing the progress was not demonstrated, But we think it but fair and just that we give Mr. Crown- inshield the credit of having been two years in advance of the Bristol designer, and had it not been that Inde- pendence was his very first experiment in designing big yachts, we believe she would have beaten Columbia had she been handled by as capable a skipper as Captain Barr. Reliance is not so pretty a craft as was Columbia; in fact, she reminds one more of the 70-footers, particularly in the forward part of the boat. Her forward overhang is mutch longer in proportion, and her bow sections are a little fuller. In Reliance it is very evident the designers have endeavored to turn out a boat that will combine, so far as it is possible to do so, all the speed elements of the scow, such as gaining length quickly. when heeled and haying great sail carrying capacity,.and yet reducing. tc the minimum, the disadvantages of this type of craft. Scows are not fast in light air, and their full bow is 3 ~ great handicap when there is any sea on, and particularly when the wind is light. Reliance has a much flatter floor than Constitution, but yet has more deadrise than Inde- pendence; her bilge is also a bit harder than that of Con- stitution. Reliance is 25ft. 8in. wide, and although her over all length is not known exactly, it is said to be r4oft, Vhe draft is put at 18ft. 9in., somewhat less than Consti- tution’s, but she is longer on the keel than the latter boat, and the lines of the lead are finer and drawn out more. There are practically one hundred tons of lead on the keel, a gain of something over seven tons in Constitu- tion. This increase was made by a material reduction in the freeboard and a saving of weight in the construc- tion, and will therefore give greatly increased sail-carry- ing power over the older boats. As Reliance heels she will gain power fast because of her form, and this fact, together with the advantage of the increased quantity of lead on the keel, should make her a wonderful sail carrier. She will swing, probably, in the neighborhood of 15,000 square feet of sail, although we would not be sur- prised if it were even more than this. The rigging on the 7o-footers stood the rack of hard racing without parting a single rope yarn, so that if the material put into the new boat is made proportionally as strong there will be little danger of breakdown or accident. The construction used throughout Reliance is prac- tically the same as that put into Constitution. Deep belt or web frames of nickel steel are spaced 6ft. 8in. apart, these being located at every fourth station. The hull is plated with Tobin bronze, with the exception of the top strake, which is of nickel steel. There are seven strakes of plating which are laid with flush joints. A series of T irons and bulb angles make up the longitudinal frames. The T irons are placed over the seams in the plating, the plating being riveted through them, The bulb angles serve mainly to stiffen the boat longitudinally. Web fraines are strengthened by braces extending from the bilge up to the deck. The deck is covered with aluminum and under this are diagonal straps which will add to the general stiffness. Races took place between Shamrock III. and Shamrock T, almost every day last week off Weymouth. The new boat is sailing well and from the reports is getting into better shape daily. On Saturday last the two boats sailed a race over a thirty-four mile course, and Shamrock I. received ten minutes’ time allowance from the new boat. The wind was light during the race, and the water was smooth. Shamrock JIT. beat the old boat six and one- half minutes, but lost the race on time allowance. Shatn-= rock I. was favored by better wind, and had it not been for this it is believed that the new boat would have saved her time and won the race. Columbia Y. C., Chicago. CApraAIn Frep Pagrst, of Milwaukee, shows his iond- ness for the water still, although many years retired from active service thereon, by annually (through his com- pany) offering yachtsmen of Lake Michigan valuable trophies for competition. In 1900 he presented the Co- lumbia Y. C. with a magnificent silver water cooler, for competition in Class 2A. This trophy was won by Mr. F. W. Morgan’s Prairie of the Columbia Y. C. In 1901 he presented the Columbia Y. C. with a sterling silver loving cup for Class 3B sloops and cutters. This cup was contested for on August 17 of that year, and was won in a heavy weather contest by Commodore J. F. McGime’s Eleanor II., she handily defeating such cracks as Vixen, Wizard and Martha III., to the surprise of all the wise ones. This year Capt, Pabst has, through his company, presented the Columbia Y. C, a most exquisite and beautifully etched sterling silver loving cup for com- petition in Class 1A sloops and cutters on July 4. The following Lake Michigan yachts are eligible to start for the Pabst cup the morning of July 4, next: Vencedor, the crack mahogany fin keel, owned by ex- Commodore Fred A. Price. Vencedor was built in 18096 as the first yacht from the United States to defend the Canada cup. She was designed by Pokel and built at Racine for the Messrs. Berriman Brothers, Mr. E. C. Berriman at that time being commodore of the old Lincoln Park Y. C. The first races for the Canada cup were sailed on Lake Erie off Toledo. The Canadian Y. C. won three straight races. WVencedor was tunquestion- ably the best yacht, but was under construction before rules for races were adopted, and the Canadians pro- posed rules to sail under that defeated Vencedor, and re- fused to sail under any other conditions. Vencedor won several races from Siren in fall of 1896, and won from Vanenna at Cleveland in 1806. Vanenna was given a race at Milwaukee July 4, 1896, on account of buoys drifting away. In spring of 1807 Vencedor was sold to Commodore Gillig, of the Larch- mont Y. C., of New York. She made a very creditable showing there. When Commodore Gillig retired from yachting in 1901 Mr. Fred. A, Price purchased her and brought her back home. Last year she was the flag ship of the Columbia Y. C., and won several big races, atnong them the Michigan City Cruising Race, July 4 open regatta, cruising races to Waukegan, Holland, and South Haven, and one of the three match races with Vanenna. In match with Vanena more overconfidence was indulged in, the match being arranged as a flat event, no time allowance, and Vanenna, being much the larger, had a great advantage. However, this match resulted in bringing about two of the best yacht races ever seen on the Great Lakes, Vencedor winning the first race of the series by a few seconds. Vanenna won the second race, Sailing the course alone, Vencedor breaking down im- mediately after the start, and Vanenna won the third race quite easily, on the last leg of course, her lofty tig catching the high air and driving her in ahead with a couple of minutes to spare. Siren and Vanenna were from. designs of Joseph Meyer, and were also built at Racine in 1896. They were built by Columbia Y. C. members to compete in trial races with Vencedor of the Lincoln Park Y, C., to see which should represent the United States in match with Cana- dians, but as Lincoln Park Y. C. decided to send Vencedor without holding trial races, they did not have a chance at that time to show what they could do, and to date the three have never been in a race together, although they have raced two at a time on several occa- sions since that time. Siren has demonstrated time and again that she is as good. if not better, than the others in light weather, but has never shown any great liking for heavy going. Vanenna claims the championship of the Great Lakes on series sailed last September with Vencedor, Vanenna was originally built for W. R. Crawford, then of the Columbia Y. C., and was sold last season to Wm. Cameron, of the Chicago Y. C. Siren was originally built for a syndicate composed of Ildo Ramsdell, Judge Loren Collins, Robert Hayes, and Mr, Dyrenforth, all of the Columbia Y, C.; was after- ward sold to Geo. R. Peare, of the Columbia Y. C., and by him to her present owner, Mr. Frank J. Canty, of the Columbia Y, C. i Neva is a Lake Erie product, and was undisputed champion there, but has never duplicated her perform- ances here, although she has been a strong factor in all races in smooth water, but the most of the time her spin- naker and spinnaker boom and big club topsail have been left ashore and over half the races she has been in haye been sailed with small cruising mainsail instead of her big racing mainsail, her owners and crew being particu- larly fond of comfort, Such cries as “Ease her sheets, so can cook,” and captain yelling at crew to “Jibe over as wind has shifted,’ and crew telling captain to “Wait awhile until card or crap game we are playing is over,” being frequent occurrence during races. Just try to im- agine a winner under such circumstances. This year she will be placed in pink of condition and raced hard. She is now owned by Messrs. C. T, Bailey and F. Palmer, of the Columbia Y. C., who claim her to be the most com- fortable ever as a cruiser. If the weather on the morning of July 4 next happens to be light, these four yachts should make a magnificent struggle for this elegant trophy, and it is nearly a toss up as to which would win. Jf there is heavy weather, race should be be- tween Vencedor and Vanenna, with yacht with best crew given preference. Ex-Commodore Price announces that he has engaged the services of one of the crack eastern skippers for the season, and that hé intends doing all he possibly can to capture the time prizes for A Classes and prizes for Class Ar. Vencedor, with new hollow mast, boom and gaff and new racing mainsail, will undoubtedly be in front at the finish on most occasions, Commodore Price being particu- larly anxious to regain championship of Lake Michigan —in fact of the Great Lakes—the coming season. It is hoped by all yachtsmen that these four are brought together in the Columbia Y. C.’s eleventh annual Michi- gon City race, to be held June 13 next. Such a race would indeed be a rare treat for the spectators, It is hardly probable that any Lake Erie or Lake Ontario yachts of this class will be here to compete on this date, as it is too early in the season to entice them this far from home. These are the giant sloops and cutters of the Great Lakes, being the largest fresh water craft of this style or rig in the world, and embracing some of the finest yachts of the world in the class, all four being cham- pions of the class in different years. Neva of Lake Erie; Vencedor of the Great Lakes in 1896 and 1901; Siren in 1898 and 1899, and Vanenna in 1897 and 1902, the three latter having defeated one another on several occasions. This lends enchantment to the coming season’s contests. Vencedor is being fitted with complete sets of hollow spars and new suit racing canvas. Siren, not to be outdone, will have new racing suit and entire rebuild, and be placed in best possible condition, Owners are already selecting crew, and expect to have her in her old time form for season’s contests. ie abe wey Endurance Races for Motor Launches. ARRANGEMENTS are being made by the Narragansett Bay Y. R. A. to hold endurance races for power boats. The idea is a good one, and should prove a real and valuable test of the motors and the boats themselves. The plan has much to recommend it. “There are so many possibilities of mishap to motors in the sailing of launches that a straight race is of little value in determining the relative merits of the various boats and their engines. Even a fairly well behaved boat is apt to become stalled in the midst of a race by a minute or two of crankiness on the part of the motor, and no- toriously uncertain motors have been known to work to a charm in a most unexpected way and win out without trouble. Under the arrangements planned for the proposed en- durance race, all these uneven conditions will be taken into account, and the running qualities of the engines will be scored as well as the speed attained and the time made in reaching the finish. Each launch will have a scorer aboard to keep tally on the amount of attention required by the motor and a limit of three minutes will be allowed as the total time that an engine may be stopped during the race. _ The start will be made some distance aboye the start- ing line to give opportunity to warm up the engines. As the launches come to this point a gun will be fired and all engines will be stopped. The starting gun will be fired a minute or so later and the scoring will then begin. The run will be of about an hour’s duration, and any boat whose engine is stopped for more than three minutes during that time will be disqualified. This will count the same, whether the time lost is in one stop or in two or three, the total time of which amounts to more than three minutes. A one minute stop will count one point against the boat; two minutes, two points, and three minutes three points. : The boats will be classified according to size and power, and everything being equal, the first boat in will win. There will be a time limit on the race, however, so ar- ranged that the motors will have to be pushed to a fair speed, and no wily skipper can loaf along in order to coax an uncertain engine into a semblance of good be- havior, and thus dodge the possibility of scoring the los-- ing points on account of time stopped,” 312 FOREST«AND STREAM. [Aprit 18, 1903. A CHARITY CRUISE, < Winner of Third Prize in “Forest and Stream” Croising Competition. BY WILLIAM LAMBERT BARNARD, BOSTON, MASS. I am, alas, a “charity sailor’—not having a boat of mine own I am dependent upon friends for my cruises. Some times I am able to do something for them. Thus it was in the present case. The Armorel’s owner wished to have her at Port- land, Maine, when his vacation began, but could not find the time to take her down from Marblehead himself. So I charitably agreed to sail her down for him and he in turn charitably said that if I would have her there on time I could use her for a little eruise beforehand. Our final arrangements provided that he and a friend would sail her from Marble- head to Gloucester one Saturday afternoon, that I should join them early Sunday morning and then they would sail with me as far as we could get that day, when they would return to Boston and strenuous life while I continued on my way with the Armorel and Albert, the boy. This arrangement was carried out to. the letter. The Armorel is a 21ft. knockabout and was designed by Mr. Arthur Binney, and built by the Lawley & Son Corporation in 1895. She was. origin- ally known as the Sally. She has rather more free- board than is customary with boats of her length, but owing to the fact that her waterline is painted quite high she appears to have only the usual height of side. Her ends, which are moderate for these days, are sharp and so well balanced that she is very easy and dry in a seaway. She is 3rft.-over all, 21ft. on the waterline, 7ft. 11in. extreme beam, and draws 5ft. when in cruising trim. She has about 4ft. 9in. headroom under a low cabin trunk with a very flat roof. There is a hatch in the deck forward of the mast. ARMOREL, The cockpit which is self bailing is roomy and comfortable. From it you enter the cabin. On either side of the companionway is a hanging locker. The floor is 2ft. 6in. wide between the transoms which are nearly 2ft. wide and have very comfortable cush- ions, The transom tops are hinged to lift and beneath each is a large stowage space for bottled and tinned goods. At the forward end of each transom is a buffet with a locker behind and drawers beneath it. These draw- ers have a novel feature, an idea of the owner—a tin box with hinged lid was made to fit inside each drawer so that everything stowed therein might be kept dry. It is extremely “comfy” to have one’s linen, socks, towels, and bread always free from dampness. On the port buffet a large lamp and an ash tray are securely fastened. Over the lamp, in the cabin top, is a brass ventilator which when opened carries off the heat from the lamp. It can be closed and made water tight by simply turning the flat brass top. Above the starboard buffet are the ship’s clock, aneroid barom- eter, and thermometer. Back of each transom is a net for clothing, toilet articles, etc., etc. Access is had to a large lazerette beneath the cock- pit by removing the companionway ladder. In this lazerette are kept the three spare anchors and rodes, spare rope, oilers, rubber boots, etc. The blankets, which have been converted into sleeping bags by folding them and sewing them across the foot and two-thirds of the way up the side, when not.in use are folded and rolled up in a waterproof cloth so that they keep remarkably dry. Forward of the starboard buffet is the stove space which is a sort of cuddy of galvanized sheet iron. In it are two brass Primus stoves. ‘There is a brass plate in the deck above them which. can be removed and a ventilator screwed in to carry off the surplus heat. This stove cuddy has doors which can be shut —then anything hung in front of them can be well. dried out. This furnishes.a convenient method of dry- *Light Chart o§ course taken Pitione opt Small by Armere] in July Mor. Tortland Head Ts Pe ey, ¢ vn geo ifs 'e Soace Ko '@ K. N . ty Mond T 1, “ ae Pe Forpoi se lt York * Cope Neddiek Le, 7 ae go" Portsmouth mittee, SLpnt or of? exe xc “oe Din, lendyne tah stern PE. Lt, swhiatler Gloucester ing socks, underwear, dish towels, etc., after sun- down or during wet weather. Forward of the stoves is a narrow bunk (with an air cushion) just far enough below the deck to admit of one’s turning over when lying thereon. Opposite the stove space is an ice-chest with a capacity of 150 lbs. This amount of ice, when wrapped in a cloth, will last three or four days. The drip from the ice drains into a small tank which can be removed and emptied —a daily task. Or better still, the drip can be used when washing dishes and silver, thus reducing the de- mand on the supply of drinking water. Forward of the ice-chest is a locker for such things as coffee, sugar, salt, pepper, cereals, plates and tableware. Still fur- ther forward are hooks and lanterns, dust pan and brush, etc., and here are stowed the jibs and spin- naker, each in its separate canvas bag. Fresh water is carried in a wooden breaker which is stowed beneath one of the seats in the cockpit. It has a faucet so that the water is easily drawn off and it holds enough to answer all the cooking, drinking and washing needs of two men for three days. A box for vegetables, stops, light gear and tackle, and a pail stow away under the other seat. At the aft end of the cockpit are small doors on either side of the rudder- post—these doors give access to small lockers where are kept kerosene, metal polish, paint, varnish and tar. She has 580 square feet of sail in mainsail and jib, Sunday. July 27, 1902—Got underway at 8:15 A.M. with a light south south-west wind. Beat slowly down Gloucester harbor to the buoy off Eastern Point, over- taking and passing a small yawl with a clipper bow— the Keren, if I rernember aright—and then squared away for “the Londoner” off Thatcher’s Island. The wind was rather soft but we got along fairly well and pulled steadily away from the yawl. Armorel’s spin- naker boom does not have jaws—they have such a heavy clumsy look. Instead a becket is made by the passing of a light line through a hole in the heel of © the spar splicing it back onto itself. As the old one had disappeared I occupied myself for a few minutes by splicing in a new becket. We had the two lights on Thatcher’s abeam at 10:10 A.M. and a few minutes later set the spinnaker. This bit of “muslin” is of no mean size, having a hoist of some 25ft. with a 24ft. spinnaker pole. After the sail was’ Hoisted we snapped its clew to the tip of the spin- naker pole, ran that out to port and passing the bec- ket around the mast, thrust the heel of the boom through the becket. We also stuffed a bit of canvas between the mast and boom to prevent chafing. When the spinnaker was sheeted home and its tack taken down to the bitts it added a good bit to our speed. All this takes time in the telling but was a short task and had been easily accomplished some minutes before we had Straitsmouth Light, (Rock- port) abeam at 10:20 A.M, Our course was now N. 34E., to take us just inside the Isles of Shoals, and the wind was a couple of points off our port quarter. We wallowed along through the Jong, easy roll at a good, steady gait, con- stantly drawing away from the yawl and slowly over- hauling a craft ahead, which was steering about the same course as we were. The day was warm, but not hot—the sun only showed occasionally—inside of us up Newburyport way the weather looked rainy. On this run the owner brought out a jar of prunes and insist- ed upon our eating some of them. It did not take much urging to persuade us to fall in with his wishes, and I mention the fact merely because we found the prunes of value medicinally—they are a slight laxative and offset the effects of amateur cookery and the salt air. The craft ahead of us was caught up with as we passed the whistling buoy south of “the shoals’—she proved to be. the Reynard. I suppose her crew attri- buted our superior speed to our large spinnaker—they had their jib poled out, but, of course, it was not as effective as our “merrie muslin.” The Reynard now held more to the. westward and was evidently running for Portsmouth. * We had the Isles of Shoals abeam, to starboard, just before two o’clock. The wind had pricked on a bit and we had taken on quite a turn of speed. The yawl was hull down and hard to see. ,, The light air hardly suited her rig and large displacement. As we ran on for York River the breeze took on more and more, reaching a quite respectable velocity and backing until we were running a bit by the wind. We held on, however, not wishing to take in the spin- naker until we reached York and being too lazy to shift it over to starboard. But it finally had to come down at 3:30 P.M., just as we were passing inshore of Stone’s Rock Spindle. The shore thereabouts is ; i ‘not! high, but is steep: and’ rocky with almost no, land: Aprit 18, 1903.]; ing place—save at Brave Boat harbor. The country is fairly flat while in the distance Agamenticus Mountain rises sheer out of the plain. It resembles a large sugar loaf and is quite a prominent land mark. Soon after passing Stone’s Rock we reached York River and ran up it on the last of the flood. .We anchored at the first turn in the river, well in toward the apex of the angle and out of the current which sweeps with great force around the bend. AI! the other boats that we saw at York Harbor swung to the tide, but the Armorel kept her nose to the wind throughout our stay. The owner and his friend left us soon after the main- sail was furled—giving us final directions as to the rendezvous at Portland. July 28—Up at six o’clock and had breakfast halt an hour later. The morning was beautifully clear and crisp with a strong S.S.W. wind. We dallied over stub and the subsequent cleaning up so that it was 7:40 when we got our anchor. We had taken down a single reef in the mainsail as the wind came off the shore in fierce gusts. When reefing I always roll up the slack of the sail instead of merely knotting the points around the bunt. This gives a neater look to the reef and makes the sail set better over it. I also take pains to pass a gasket through the reef cringle and around the boom, tying it tignt so that if the ‘pennant stretches the last reef points will not tear the sail. The reef was a needless precaution and under re- duced canvas we were rather slow about getting out of the river. I soon ached to shake it out and did so the minute that we were well out of the ebb from the tiver, and then, after getting the mainsail well sway- ed up, made the course N.E. 4% E. for Cape Porpoise. The wind offshore was rather light and as our course was so nearly dead to leeward we felt almost becalmed. Should have set the spinnaker at once, but the breeze looked as though it might shilt ahy min- ute so I waited until it should give indications of steadiness. We passed Cape Neddick Light at 8:43. The light- house is on a small “nubble” just off the mainland. The wind had backed by this time a full point and had hardened a bit so I dove below and got the spinnaker out of its bag. I sent the “fairy fabric” aloft in stops, | swung the boom out to port, ran aft with the sheet and made it fast, and then broke her out by hauling down on the tack. I found this the easiest and quick- est way to set such a large spinnaker when doing it alone. It drew nicely for half an hour, but then the wind dropped and became so variable that the spin- naker had to be dowsed. The breeze continued very light and shifty for some time, amounting to little more than a series of cats- paws, which varied in direction all the way from S. by W. to N.W. We did not lose steerage way, but were engaged in a series of ladylike jibes for the best part of an hour. Finally at 10:30 we caught a nice W.N.W.. air. At eleven o'clock we met a tug with a barge in tow bound to the westward. The next incident occurred a half hour later when we set the Kay taffrail long. This was a pretty toy and a valuable one as well. (The day before we had towed it for several hours during which time it overran a fourth of one knot— or an error of less than one per cent.) Soon after setting the log we met the schooner yacht Redskin III. beating to the westward. She is about as home- ly a sled as ever I saw. Her owners came out this summer in an open letter to a Boston paper and re- sentlully bewailed the fact that she is commonly con- sidered a freak. As they strenuously objected to her being called by such a name I won't call her anything, but I know a chap who had the misfortune to be anchored near her one night and he could not sleep a wink, she made so much noice pounding the small sea with her long flat bow. We came up with Goat Island Light (Cape Por- poise) just before noon. There the wind came straight offshore with some weight so that Armorel took a comfortable list and did some pretty sailing. But as we drew away from the shore the breeze lightened again. However, when we looked at the log it had registered 5% miles for an hour’s run. As we drew up to Wood Island there seemed to be iess and less air so that we felt that the light- house would never be abeam. In fact the prospects of having wind enough to carry us to Portland, seyenteen miles away, before late that night, seemed so remote that we debated whether or not we should run in be- hind Wood Island and anchor. But as it was then only 1:37 P.M. we decided to keep on and trust to luck for more wind. The run across to Richmond Island in the hot sun was very tedious. We had again set the spinnaker to port and made better time than we realized for we had the Red Whistler, south of Cape Elizabeth, abeam at 3:26, We passed halfway inside of Taylor’s Reef can buoy and took in the spinnaker as we brought the Cape Elizabeth hghts abeam, The day boat down from Boston passed us at this point. The wind now came off the Jand in wholesail quant- ities so that the Armorel put her lee rail awash and walked up the harbor right cleverly. We cut the can on Trundy’s Reef and passed in by Portland head and the new fortifications at 4:31. Then reaching between Cushing and House Islands we arrived at the Peakes Island anchorage (Portland Harbor) at 4:55, took a look around for a good berth and anchored ten minutes later. We took our breaker ashore to be refilled and found a place where any quantity of ice water could be had for the drawing—talk about luxury. Peakes Island is a popular but rather cheap sum- mer resort. I'll say this for it though—we would get the best of everything at the shops for very moderate prices. For supper we indulged in fresh raspberries and thick cream, During the night I heard a hail and turning out in my pajamas found that the tide had turned and that as we swung to it we were in altogether too close proximity to the bowsprit, of the famous old 4oft. (L.W.L.) cutter Gorilla: The weight of her chain had kept her from swinging far from her anthor, but the FOREST AND STREAM. tide took us pretty well out to the end of our manila warp. Then too it was pretty near low water, so that we had an extra two fathoms of rode to deal with. I shortened up as much as I cared to, but soon saw that that would not get us out of the impending pickle, so roused in the warp smartly and, as the anchor broke out easily, got way enough on her to forge ahead and sheer enough to starboard to get a better berth. Tuesday, July 29—The morning was as “hot as the hinges” without a breath of air to temper the stun’s rays. The thermometer registered 84° in the cabin at 10:30 and on deck the temperature was, of course, much higher. I was, however, grateful for the heat as the summer had been stupidly cold, rainy and dis- agreeable, Sent the boy ashore for some provisions and while he was gone nearly broke my backbone try- ing to go below without opening the companionway slide. Just as | was crouching on the companionway ladder preparatory to ducking under the slide a steam- ct went by and by her swell gave Armorel such a lurch that I was thrown off my feet. In my fall I struck my spine, at the base of my-neck, against the slide, which felled me like a log, Well, it taught me not to be too lazy to push the slide back. Just before half after eleven o’clock a light E. by S. breeze sprang up. We were soon underway and stood out between Peakes and the Diamond islands. The channel is narrow, on a slight curve and we had a head tide. Could not lay our course through but made it in two long starboard tacks and one little port hitch across the channel. Ahead of us was the knockabout Thistle, a boat of our class, but newer and more of a racer. We determined to trim her if we could, so worked our sheets for all we were worth. We managed to keep the jib full and drawing well and-still gave it considerable sheet: so that it had quite a lift to it. I find this takes a boat up the wind faster than does flattening the sheets and try- ing to point too high, Albert could not be persuaded to see it in the true light, so I had to take the ib sheet into my own hand. We soon began to pull the Thistle back. As we crossed Hussey’s Sound the wind came more S.E. so that we were able to ease our sheets a good bit. As we drew up on the Thistle she held well to weather of her course and inside of black buoy number eleven, north of Long Island. I suppose the idea was to drive us off and make us attempt to force a lee passage, but it was no go. We forged up on her wea- ther quarter, hung there a moment and then by rous- | ing in our mainsheet jumped into her wind and walked ahead. After that we drew steadily away from her. Our course was about N,.E. by E. along the norther- ly or inner side of Long Island for two miles, leay- ing the buoys on the Channel Rocks to port. This brought us to Chandler’s Cove, a pretty bight formed by Little and Great Chebeag and Long _ islands. There are ten fathoms in the cove and as it is nearly landlocked it makes a fine young harbor—three quar- ters of a mile in diameter. Entering the cove we pinned in our sheets and fetched through on the star- board tack, leaving Deer Point buoy just to port. Then eased away again and ran along E.N.E. up _be- tween the Great Chebeag and Hope Island. This passage is less than three-eighths of a mile wide. We had a slight head tide and the wind was extremely dainty, but by hugging the Hope Island side we got over the bottom at a decent gait. We invariably found more air close to the lee shore of those islands than there was two hundred yards out. Just beyond Hope was a smaller island which we knew from its look must be Sandy Island before we even looked up its name, It is rather an oddity for that region as it has no trees or rocks upon it. To N.E. of this island is a black spar buoy which we left to starboard and hauling to E. % N, left Little Bang’s I. to port and ran for the spar off Stave I. ledge. This reads like a chron- icle of islands—well so must any record of a trip in Casco Bay. They are so thick that you find it hard not to butt into one while dodging another. Stave I. ledge runs off N.E. from the island of that name and typifies the striking geologic formation of the region—the islands are all comparatively long and narrow and extend in a N.E. and S.W. direction as regularly as 1¢ laid off with parallel rulers. When up with the spar buoy we hauled our wind a bit and reached across Broad Sound for the end of Haskell Island—two and one-quar- ter miles away, S.E. by E. This reach was rather slow work, the breeze being in very delicate health. On our way over we passed inside of Eagle I., which is small, high, rocky and thickly wooded and is owned by the Arctic enthusiast, Lieut. Peary, U. S. N. On reaching Haskell Island we found quite a gut be- tween it and Haddock Rock on the southwest and Little Mark I. on the sotitheast. The latter is treeless and is made prominent by a white-washed stone monument about thirty feet high. The gut was well buoyed, but we had to fight to get through against the current. After tounding the end of Haskell we started to cross the mouth of Merriconeag Sound, but the wind failed utterly, leaving us to slat gently on a very quiet sea. This was all very well for a while, but as it threatened to become monotonous I jumped into the dinghy at 2.15 and started a white ash breeze. Once I got the Armorel started she towed nicely for half a mile when we picked up a light air, which made off_of Haskell’s so ran up the sound to the easterly entrance to Pott’s Harbor. This entrance is very crooked and is more or less of a tide race, but with a fair current and light breeze we worked through it nicely and anchored off the steamer landing, in four fathoms, at 3.20 P. M. Soon after we had laced the cover on the mainsail the breeze quit work for the day— we could see the Thistle becalmed out in Broad Sound all the rest of the aiternoon. Pott’s Harbor lies between Potts and Basin points which extend like arms from the shoulders of Harps- well Neck. It is protected from the open sea by Has- kell I., several ledges, the Thrimb Cap, Upper Flag, Little Birch, and Horse islands. Went ashore with Albert to the Merriconeag House for dinner and found some southern acquaintances there so took them aboard in the evening and showed them the ship. Wednesday, July g0—A beautifully clear, cool day. 313 Had a fine plunge before breakfast—the water was icy. After giving our friends a spin in the early forenoon we cleared at 10.30 with a rattling east wind. It came along with some wicked puffs so that wholesail was perhaps a bit too much, but she lugged it, so we did not reef, She steered easily, even in the worst puffs, with just enough weather helm to make her handle well. We beat out the east way, with fair tide, in several short hitches—were thankful she was so quick in stays and so speedy in gathering way—in fact she never seemed to slow down, but shot around from one tack to the other as if eager to show her ability. ARMOREL, Reached down Merriconeag Sound to the red spar on Turnip I. ledge and then flattening in gave her.a good full for the climb to windward. Here the Armorel showed us what a grand sea boat she is. The wind across the current had kicked up a nasty, short, criss-cross sea; and as we had, as I have said, a bit too mutch sail she had her lee rail under. But she bucketed her way up the wind in fine shape, keeping her feet well, and going over the seas handsomely. Now and then she threw some spray aft to the cock-pit—not much—just enough to make it exhilarating. While we were working along I went forward to see that the anchor lashings were secure, We carried the hook always with stock in place and flat on deck, one arm erect and the other down over the bow—it fitted the curve of the stem quite well. A strop around the crown and stemhead held the anchor securely in place and the rode was led direct from the ring to the bitts and be- layed with two half hitches. Armorel was jumping con- siderable, so that while making sure that the strop was properly knotted I crouched on all fours, of course she could not resist the temptation to stick her nose through one green sea and wet me down. She did it and gave me “fisherman’s luck,’ but I was used to that. After a hitch out to sea we stood in towards Jaquish I. and then turned to weather in short hitches in to the Pond J. ledges, over to Saddleback, in to the Middle Ground, which was just awash, then over to Ragged Island. We were working across the chart diagonally and somehow or other the islands were hard to place— it seemed as if we must be further to the S.E. than we really were—but by taking cross bearings we located ourselves aright. When Ragged I. bore east, distant one- quarter of a mile, we tacked to port and starting our sheets laid her head N.E. by N. to run up between Cedar Ledge and Blacksnake Ledge. The name of the latter is particularly appropriate. Two Bush Ledge (really an island) and the Elm islands were left to starboard—this was the only proper course. We were now entering Quohog Bay—a sort of fjord, four and a half miles long and less than a half mile wide. Its head opens out’ into a most beautiful sheet of water with several little gems of islands and innumerable en- chanting little coves. Midway, and for about half its length, the bay is split into two passages by Pole Island and the north and south ledges. This island is narrow, thickly wooded, with very steep sides and is about sixty feet high, The passages on either side of it have an average breadth each of less than 250 yards. As the sides of the bay, like those of Pole I., are high the wind generally abandons its true direction and draws up or down the bay; it did so this time and we had to beat in, We went up the east channel and got a glimpse back of Yarmouth Island mto Ridley’s Cove, which furnishes another entrance to the bay from the sea. After passing the north (Pole I.) ledge we left Centre and Snow’s islands to port (turning sharp to starboard) and slowly worked up into a bight among some half dozen tiny islands, finally anchoring at 1.38 P. M. at a spot where the chart shows thirteen feet at mean low water. I had long heard the beauties of this place sung by my friends, but scarcely credited their poetic accounts of it, I had been a doubting Thomas until I saw the, reality when I could only sit and gape wonderstruck at the land- 814 scape. There we were with land within a hundred yards in every direction, no sign of a definite way in or out, the water like a mill pond and as clear as crystal, and apparently surrounded by the forest primeval. Through a vista between two diminutive isles we could see a small clearing with a neat, old-fashioned white farm house—the only building in sight save for a weather beaten fishing shanty on a near-by point. Not a beach in view, the rocks rose straight out of the water six or eight feet and the trees grew on their very edges. The only landing was a sloping rock with a path leading away among the pines. Now and then we heard the whirring of a mowing machine at some distant field, but could see no signs of a farm in the direction whence the sound came. The whole effect was supremely restful and dreamy. When I had had my fill of gazing I took the tender to do a bit of exploring. I would row up a cove and when I thought I had exhausted its beauties a bend would open out a new bit of enchanted land. All the while I could hear no sound but those of the forest and the drops from my oars and see nothing but water, rocks, trees and sky. At what I had supposed to be the head of one cove I found a small steep rapid leading into still another. I shot down through the rapid and then landed on some shelving rocks. Near at hand was a stretch of black mud—by hopping from rock to rock over this area I traversed it and on my return picked up half a bucketful of clams which lay on the surface in surprising profusion. On getting back to the dinghy I set out to return to the Armorel. I had much difficulty in rowing up the rapid, but by putting my back to the work finally got through. This rapid is rather peculiar so I will describe it. It is about twenty feet wide and only forty long, in which distance the water dropped more than a foot. It is caused by the fact that when the flood tide sets up the outer cove the level of the water rises faster there than in the inner cove because the latter is supplied only through this narrow sort of gut. The result is that the water simply falls in. At high tide the level of the water in both coves becomes the same. Then when the tide ebbs the outer cove empties quicker than the inner one, so that the water tumbles over itself to get out. It isa reversible rapid, good either-side out and warranted not to wear, tear or fade. Once back to the Armorel I rinsed the clams in a bucket of salt water and then went in for a swim myself, The water proved to be delightfully warm, so that I stayed in for some time. Then I climbed out and lay full length on. the deck and had a jolly good sun bath. Having dressed I- went ashore in the dinghy to make repairs. When rowing up one of the coves I had been so occupied in admiring the scenery that I failed to observe where I was going, so ran plump into a rock, smashing a hole in her bow just above the water line. She was a fine little boat, light, easy to row or tow, and of consider- able carryig capacity, but altogether too flimsy for a Maine trip, being built, canoe fashion, of very thin cedar planking covered with canvas painted white. Reaching shore I pulled her out on the rocks, melted some tar in a big spoon and ran it into the hole. Then I took two thicknesses of linen soaked in varnish and fastened them on with some liquid fish glue. The patch was a bit un- sightly but made her perfectly tight. Incidentally the accident emphasized the advantage of carrying a small stock of tar, white lead, glue, etc. That night we had a grand feast on clam bouillon, steamed clams with melted butter, etc. We two fellows devoured the half bucketful of clams and sighed for more. Put the mosquito netting over the main companionway and fore hatch for the night, but did not hear a mosquito. I must mention an experience which Albert had with one of the Primus stoves while I was ashore repairing the tender. When the alcohol burnt out and he started to pump, he forgot to close the air-valve and so was soon pumping kerosene, instead of gas, out of the jet. It all blazed up and completely rattled him. There was no danger since the stove sits inside of a galvanized iron cuddy, but he valiantly grasped it and rushing on deck thrust the whole business overboard. He put out the fire but I had to take the whole stove to pieces and clean it before I could make it work once more. Before turning in for the night we took a row looking in to Brickyard and Rich’s coves and landing on one of the islands—it was about eighty feet long by forty feet wide, and like all the others, was thickly wooded. The only signs of life we saw during our row were a few dories moored in the cove south of Rich’s and a few shanties on the shore where there was a small clearing in which a cow gtazed contentedly. No one was about. Finally we saw a man sculling down the bay—this strange sight made us feel like Robinson Crusoes discovering Friday’s footprints. We did not get within hailing dis- tance of the apparition. Thursday, July 31—The morning dawned bright and still. After a delicious breakfast of plums, grape-nuts with cream, scrambled eggs and toast, we got under way at 7.57 A. M. There was almost no wind, so that we had to tow out the bight. When south of Snow’s I. we picked up a light air which blew straight up the bay. We decided to go out by the west passage so as to have seen the whole bay. Stood past Centre I. and ran right up to the shore before tacking ship. Like all the shore in the vicinity it was very bold—all the way down the channel we stood right up to within a few feet of the rocks before coming about. I have not mentioned the fact that Quohog Bay extends up into the heart of Sabascodegan Island. The latter which has a total length and breadth of six by three miles is so indented by coves, etc., that it has a coastline of some fifty-four miles. To resume my narrative, beating out the west passage we saw more signs of the human race and actually beheld aman and woman. 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There is a break in the middle of this reef giving a chance to cut through from the west to the east channel if occasion arises—the gap is narrow but carries fifteen feet of water. When down between Long Point and the Yarmouth I. ledges, and out from the steep shores of the bay, the wind veered a little, allowing us to make a long and short hitch out to Yellow Rock, where we passed a native fish- erman in a lobster boat with a loose-footed spritsail and exchanged greetings with him. The breeze was light but took us out by Blacksnake ledge and Ragged I. at 10:20, when we made our course W.S.W. % W., which we could just lie with sheets slightly eased. The sea_was smooth, but was breaking rather heavily on Round Rock and the Middle Ground. Passing Jaquish Island at 10.55, we held on out to sea, going between Mark I. ledge buoy and the spindle on Drunker’s ledge. The lighthouse on Halfway Rock—two and a half miles outside of our cotirse—was in_plain sight. There was a strong current setting out of Broad Sound causing a steep little sea. The edges of this cur- rent were very plainly marked, as the volume of water running out did not seem to mingle with the rest of the sea—it was perhaps five hundred yards across the broken water. It set us to windward very handily so that before reaching Inner Green Island we were able to start our sheets, Ten minues before noon we passed between Jewell’s and Inner Green islands. The sea was still very smooth, but the wind (S, to E.) had taken on strength. We had a beam reach, with sheets checked, across the mouth of Luckse’s Sound. It was a delightful bit of sailing—the stun warm and the atmosphere very clear. My favorite seat when steering is to leeward, so that I can look ahead under the mainboom and keep an eye on the jib to be sure it is drawing well. This seat also, by bringing me nearer the water, adds to the charm. We had a small strip of sheet brass which we tucked in between the rud- der post cap and the tiller arms, and by this means held the tiller at any desired vertical angle. ‘This took the weight of the tiller off of one’s arm and yet allowed of shifting it readily to any comfortable height. (A bight of the mainsheet would answer in place of the brass strip.) We romped along over to Overset Island, cover- ing the three and a half miles in thirty-three minutes. We bucked the tide up Hussey’s Sound to the Pump- kin Nob, which we rounded at 12.31 P. M., and then could just fetch the Government wharf on Little Dia- mond Island on our way between the Diamond and Peakes islands. The wind was very fresh from the S.S.W. and came tearing through the islands in wicked puffs. We could just fetch along the weather side of the channel and had our hands full, for we could not luff to the puffs owing to the shoal water close to windward; on the other hand we did not wish to work off to leeward, as that would mean stemming the full strength of the head tide. So we “gave it to her,” only letting the sheets run in the worst puffs, regular “williwaws,’ to quote Capt. Slocum of the world renowed Spray. When up with the Government wharf we made a few short hitches and then stood in to the Peakes I. anchor- age where we dropped our hook, in four fathoms, at 12.55 P. M. We were careful to pick out a berth outside and to weather of the fleet. We wanted to keep out of the ruck. It was a wise decision—during the afternoon we witnessed series of mishaps among the boats inshore of us. Several new comers fouled boats already anchored —one fifty-foot sloop in trying to cut across the bow ofa small knockabout caught the outhaul block of her main reefing gear on the latter’s jib stay and walked away with her bodily, ground tackle and all. Several other laugh- able mishaps occurred before nightfall, and I for one “allow” that many a man envied my secluded berth out- side the bunch. During the afternoon Albert went up to Portland, via the steamboat, to get our mail. I put in the time going over the deck with some cold tar which I paid into the seams wherever it was needed. Friday, August 4.—It blew very fresh during the night and in the morning we got sail on her about ten o’clock and tore up to the city, picking up the cutter Sirroco’s mooring, in eight feet of water, opposite the Portland Yacht Club, at 10.20. The rest of the day was spent in a general overhauling and airing, washing the deck, the top of the cabin trunk, and the cock-pit, polishing the brass work and picking up the cabin. By turning the ventilator over the stoves to windward we forced a fine draught of air through the cabin. I want to add that we received every kind of hos- pitable aid at the Portland Yacht Club. They are always courteous to visiting yachtsmen and will receive and hold their mail. I had to leave the boat before the owner arrived, and as I trained up to Boston I could not help feeling that charity is the noblest work of man, especially 1f it takes the form of giving a chap a charity cruise. Vale! Vale! A double launching took place at Morris Heights on Saturday, April 11. The two boats that were launched were the high speed steam yachts Velthra and Levanter. The former was built for Mr. S. Parker Bremer, of Bos- ton. She is 1toft. over. all, ro4ft. waterline, r4ft. breadth and aft. draft. Velthra is of wood construction, and is double planked and is similar in design to Niagara IV., Mr. Howard Gould’s new steam yacht. Her engines are of large horsepower, and it is expected that she will do She is lighted throughout by electricity, and will carry a crew of six men. The owner’s quarters are commodious and all the - fittings are of mahogany. Levanter was built for Mr. Alfred Marshall, of New York City. She is also of wood construction and double planked. Levanter is 9oft. over all, 84ft. waterline, r1oft. 6in. breadth and 3it. 8in. draft. Levanter will be fitted and equipped in very much the same manner as Velthra, only on a slightly smaller scale. She will have a guar- anteed speed of twenty miles. : All communications interided for Forrst anp Stream should always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co, New York, and not to any individual connected with the paper, °) = SSS : Ss RO Rea A Shoal Draft Auxiliary Schooner. == In 1800 Mr. B. B. Crowninshield received an order i for a 7oit. Waterlirie cruisitig schooner. The prospec- 816 | _ FOREST+AND STREAM {Arn 18, i904 LID tive owner was to use the boat in southern waters, and in consequence it was essential that she should not Rs x draw over 3ft. of water with the centerboard hoisted. : To turn out a boat of Zoft. waterline length with only * y ae 3it. draft that would be safe and able at sea, was con- ea Sls iol siderable of an undertaking. Mr. Crowninshield dealt woes with the problem in a very intelligent manner, and : ' os A Mt Beet he designed a boat that not only met all the owner’s ; : oN = anit s X82] requirements, but proved to be an excellent all around dl pele , Qo boat in every particular. She was named Attaquin, and : Fae VM as she has done a good lot of cruising she is a familiar Se bP Sie BX craft to yachtsmen on the east coast of the States. y Nn Attaquin was such a success that she brought her = Sak designer another order for a boat of the same type, al- OS a though a little smaller in size. ‘ The plans for the new boat appear in this issue. She _ i V3 was designed for Mr. Lawrence Jones, who will use ‘ NN . ’ NS " her for cruising on the coast and inland waters of NN ; Florida. fi 2 a s Her dimensions follow: N r N Length— i : \\ RAT EE Ca! A ala ly ne sa ace eee toe Sift. r1in. 5 nan Soeien eee Oh —- | : ee! TEA Dal a ame Ly OL Oe ae aura k 55it 5 3 2 Overhang— RN =< : Suara eb oo meen Ae AN ce dee 12ft. 5in. S < PASH bio dun pana Whwmtnh sane aeiy ee cake 14ft. 6in i Breadth— ‘ J TSP ETE Bee ante k oa f eccs vin Cae eet 2oft. oi has N ; Tes WV ee PR hee CE A, Oe a a Gites oaiTT yy] yy Drait— 4 od BO SED DEtey ce toh ate es enka tenets aft. 7in. qf" & EEGEMIC: Bae ee ere aL Rage ee Pe ee 2it. gin, yy } POAT GCOS sel gee eee tae ue eee Cit ene ena y Sail area— Acar Scat] (vee eee pee, ae ee eee oem eas Cesk HOhesarl (elk HENLE oc te. eee. BOSE Scoamt. ' Forestaysall oh: kal teeta Bigsadt N Ne of eee Oe ants el are ae hye os 332 sq. ft. S = = N pe SS = S AMned TOWET: Saulss NRE Ee Pi ac e Oroots Gates TD PMCOPSAl a Aas. See, ST ees 223 sq. it. OTETO DP Salle et, weed Fete ager niet Seen eee TOES Ge EE: .\ MeniiiatOpSailes weenie Geer eee ey Lote ttre x este etsanl! panes apn Adee or Tea eet oie 3,493 sq. it. * ae = at i There is considerable room below, and the accommo- dations are laid out to good advantage. ‘here are quarter rooms on either side of the companionway, the one on the port side being used as a stateroom, while the one on the starboard side is used as a bath- =a -—o i Ce = |[Nee room. The saloon is 12ft. long and extends the full width of the boat. On either side is a very wide berth. The sideboard and wine locker are on the port side, while the linen and china closets are on the starboard side. A large skylight directly over the cabin table will 8 give ample light and ventilation. Port holes in the : = : thes cabin trunk open into all the cabins, and will materially help to ventilate them and make them cooler. : q Forward of the main saloon, on the starboard side, is the owner’s cabin, oft. in length. In addition to the wide berth is a large hanging closet. Just forward of ule sealale and connecting with the owner’s room is a lavatory aft. | Ty : 6in. wide, fitted with a folding wash basin and patent closet. There is a skylight over the owner’s room. | WAKE DESIGNED BY B. B. CROWNINSHIELD FOR LAWRENCE JONES, Running forward from the saloon on the port side, is a passage which leads to the galley. Just forward of the saloon and reached from the passage is another stateroom oft. long, fitted up very much the same as the owner’s room. The galley is large, roomy and well arranged. The forecastle has berths for five men. | Bvrrecas BIT ek Bere 7 \ ac > Dae ee Lue SCHOONER There is a closet for the crew on the port side of the forecastle. Aft of the forecastle, on the starboard side, 2 tps is the captain’s room. eal land I) ah ae The centerboard trunk, which is r4ft. long, is placed a little on the starboard side of the center; this was done so that the propeller shaft might run along the I center line of the boat. The motor is placed just aft of the foremast. It takes up but little room and still is 7 quite accessible. There is 6ft. 3in. headroom in the clear under the cabin house, which is 35ft. long. The cockpit is 11ft. long and is watertight. There is a waterway 3ft. 6in. wide all around the cabin house and cockpit. = = 7 | SHOAL DRAFT AUXILIARY Boston Letter. Boston, April 13.—This season there will again be harmony between the clubs which are enrolled in the | Yacht Racing Association of Massachusetts and those am NE: clubs that are not members of the Association. Last year there was a conference between the three largest clubs in the bay and the Yacht Racing Association, with the result that there was more harmony in the selection - of dates than there has ever been before. In fact, there were only two instances where there was actual conflict. The result of such action has gone a long way toward creating a precedent, and this year another conference was held. Some of the clubs not in the Association. gave way, and like concessions were made on the part of clubs of the Association. The result was the following list of fixtures: May 30, Saturday—South Boston, Y. R. A. open, City Point. June 17, Wednesday—Boston Y. R. A. open, off Point Allerton. June 17, Wednesday—Dorchester, small classes, open, Dorchester. June 19, Friday—Eastern, special open, Marblehead. July 3, Friday—Eastern, special open, Marblehead. July 4, Saturday—Corinthian, special open, Marble- head (morning); Eastern, special open, Marblehead (afternoon). July 18, Saturday—Winthrop, Y. R. A. open, Win- throp. July 28, Tuesday—Squantum, Y. R. A. open, Quincy hed i oF. AGT aes - rn Sp ay. , July 29, Wednesday—Quincy, Y. R. A. open, Quincy. _ July 30, Thursday—Boston, midsummer series, invi- ; tation, Y. R, A., Hull. + . a = ake A i ae ae " veaererot 1 Apri, 18, 1003.1 Tapmait everalt 3o°@" Fore Staysait 413 0° JAIL Plan We 250 B.B CROWNINSHIELD - NAVAL ARCHITECT DESIGN W21691 |. FEBR. 25: 1903 Drawn by Lvl Tracea. by L-v.wW. * 6 Dern SHOAL DRAFT AUXILIARY SCHOONER——-SAIL PLAN——DESIGNED BY B. B. CRO July 31, Friday—Boston, midsummer series, invi- tation, Y. R. A., Hull. : Aug. I, Saturday—Boston, midsummer series, invi- tation, Y. R. A., Hull. Aug. 3, Monday—FEastern, special open, Marblehead. Pee 4, Tuesday—Boston, Y. R. A. open, Marble- ead. Aug. 5, Wednesday—Corinthian, midsummer series, invitation, Marblehead. Aug. 6, Thursday—Corinthian, midsummer series, in- vitation, Marblehead. Aug. 7, Friday—Corinthian, midsummer series, invi- tation, Marblehead. Aug. 8, Saturday—Corinthian, annual open, Marble- head. Aug. 10, Monday—Manchester, Crowhurst cup, open, West Manchester. Aug. 11, Tuesday—Manchester, Y. R. A. open, West Manchester. Aug. 12, Wednesday—Misery Island, Y. R. A. open, Salem Bay. Aug. 13, Thursday—East Gloucester, Y. R. A. open, Gloucester. Aug. 14, Friday—Annisquam, Y. R. A. open, Annis- quam. Aug. 15, Saturday—Annisquam, Y, R. A. open, An- nisquam. Aug. 17, Monday—American, Y. R. A. open, New- buryport. Aug. 20, Thursday—Duxbury, Y. R. A. open, Dux- bury. , Aug. 21, Friday—Duxbury, Y. R. A. open, Dux- bury. Aug 22, Saturday—Duxbury, Y. R. A. open, Dux- bury. Aug. 24, Monday—Wellfleet, Y. R. A. open, Well- eet. Aug. 25, Tuesday—Wellfleet, Y. R. A. open, Well- fleet. Aug. 27, Thyrsday—Cape Cod, Y. R. A. open, Pro- vincetown. Aug. 28, Friday—Cape Cod, Y. R. A. open, Pro- vincetown, Aug. 29, Saturday—Cape Cod, Y. R. A. open, Pro- vincetown. ; i. Sept. 5, Saturday—Eastern, special open, Marblehead. Sept. 7, Labor Day—Lynn, Y A. open, off Na- hant. Sept. 12, Saturday—Bay State, Y. R. A. open, Lynn ay. Only the Y. R. A. open races will count for Associa- tion percentage. There are still some clubs to be heard from in the matter of Y. R. A. open races, and there are good dates remaining which may be taken. By this early arrange- ment the clubs that have not yét laid out ‘their club races may select the dates and for the classes which will insure the best attendances, = see Sees Moise te Ee EB CET Power dailsgc oR of Be The yachts are already commencing to appear in Dorchester Bay, as many as half a dozen being seen this morning. The yards where the smaller boats are stored, were the scenes of great activity all day yes- terday. Every one turned out for the general over- hauling festival, before fitting out. In a few weeks they will be as thick as bees all over the bay. The first races of the season will be sailed on April 20, Patriot’s Day. There will be a race given by the Savin Hill Y. C. for one-design sailing tenders, and there will be a scrub race down in Duxbury Bay be- tween some of the 18-footers that have been built dur- ing the winter and some of the older boats. The Savin Hill Y. C. has prepared the following list of fixtures for the season: = April 20, Monday—One-design tenders. July 18, Saturday—Club race. Aug. 15, Saturday.—Club race. Aug. 29, Saturday—Club race. On account of the arrangements made by the larger clubs and the Yacht Racing Association, the Corin- thian Y. C., of Marblehead, has prepared a new list of fixtures, which are as follows: June 20, Saturday—First championship. July 4, Saturday—lInvitation. ; July 11, Saturday—Second championship. July 18, Saturday—Third championship. Aug. 5, 6, 7 and 8, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday—Midsummer series of invitation races. Aug. 15, Saturday—Fourth championship. Aug. 22, Saturday—Fifth championship. Aug. 29, Saturday—Sixth championship. Three new courses have been added to the number already laid out by the Regatta Committee. This makes 14 courses in all, which will cover every condition of wind and weather. It is expected that the new steam yacht building at Lawley’s, from designs of Mr. A. S. Cheseborough, for Mr. Charles Fletcher, will be launched about the first of May. The steam yacht, by the same designer, for Mr. C. G. Emery, will be launched about three weeks later. Deck beams are being placed on the 64-rating schooner for Mr. John M. Richmond. The interior work is being finished on the 43-rater, designed by Mr. B. B. Crowninshield, for Mr. Trenor L. Park. The keel for Sally VII., designed by Mr. F. D, Lawley for Mr. L. F. Percival, has been turned out. Mrs. H. D. Gob- son’s soft. auxiliary yawl has left the basin for New York. Messrs. Small Bros. have placed the order for build- ing the Lipton cup defender, Little Shamrock, with a Swampscott builder. She will be tried out here before being sent West. Another boat on the same lines has been ordered, which will be built in the West. The Ssft. auxiliary schooner, designed by Messrs. Small Bros. for Mr. W. Amory Gardner, is being built at East Boothbay, Me., and is now planked. ate Joun B, KILLEEn. ru WNINSHIELD FOR LAWRENCE JONES, 1903, YACHTING NEWS NOTES. For advertising relating to this department see pages ii and iii. Mr. G. P. Granbery, of New York city, has sold his 30ft. racing sloop Zaza to Mr. A. C..Fairchild, and has bought the knockabout Firefly through agency of Mac- Connell Bros. mRR Mr. Morgan Barney is now associated with Mr. Frank Bowne Jones. Since Mr. Barney was graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he has been with Mr. Henry C. Winteringham and the George Lawley & Son Corporation. RRR The schooner Ramona has been sold by the Marine Construction and Dry Dock Company, Mariners Harbor, S. L, to Mr. Stephen Peabody. The sale was made through the agency of Messrs: Gardner & Cox. YACHT CLUB NOTES. The second meeting of the newly formed Bensonhurst Y. C. was held in the Johnson Building, Brooklyn, on the evening of April 3. The following officers were unanimously elected: Com., A. C. Bellows, sloop Carrie; Vice-Com., Arthur T. Wells, auxiliary yawl Cygnet; Rear Com., Charles E. Allen, catboat Pleione; Treas., Clarence H. Clayton; Sec’y, Charles H. Parsons; Meas., Richard Rummell. Auditing Committee: W. J. O’Neil, chairman; Allan Semple, James E. Nicholson. Regatta Committee: Alfred Mackay, chairman; George B. Waters, G. D. Eggert, W. V. Collins, P. L. Wells. Dele- gates to Yacht Racing Asshociation of Gravesend Bay: Alfred Mackay, George B. Waters. Delegate to Special Y. R. A. of G B. Committee for Revision of Racing Rules, ete.: Alfred Mackay. Building Committee: John: R. Brophy, chairman; Richard Rummell, G. Ashton Kay. House Committee: T. A. Hamilton, D. F. Lacy, W. R. Sainsbury. Nineteen new members were elected. Beginning March 1 the dues of the club will be $15 a year. The club’s quarters are now located in the construction build- ing of the new yacht basin, near Ulmer Park. There will be no bar on the premises. The governing rules of the Indian-Harbor Y. C. were taken as a model. A com- mittee was appointed to confer with the Y. R. A. of G. B. in regard to the adoption of racing rules. RRR The eighth’ annual dinner of the Hartford Y. C was_ held on the evening of April 3 at the Allyn House, Hart- ford, Conn. The guests of honor were: Governor Chamberlain, Baron Speck yon ‘Sternburg, the German envoy to the United States, Rev.’ Dr. John Coleman Adams, of this city, and Commodore Woodward and Rear Commodore Ladd, of the Springfield Y. C. One 318 FOREST AND STREAM. {Apri 18, 1903. hundred and twenty members and their guests were present. Commodore Louis F. Heublein presided. RRR ‘The annual regatta of the Gloucester (N. J.) Y. C. will be held on the Delaware River June 21. The officers and committees of the Penataquit Corin- thian Y. C., of Bay Shore, L. I, are as follows: Com., J. Adolph Mollenhauer; Vice-Com., Willard L. Candee; Rear-Com., Charles. A. O’Donohue; Treas., Richard A. Bachia; Sec’y, Joseph E. Qwens. Board of Governors— Rawson Underhill, Allan Pinkerton, William A. Tucker, Edward C. Blum, William A. Hulse, M. D.; J. Campbell Smith and George W. Burchell. Regatta Committee— Josiah Robbins, Robert W. Haff, A. W. Seaman and R, Tucker. House Committee—William A. Tucker, C. O. Grimm, Edward C. Blum, Richard A. Bachia and C. A. Q’Donohue. Membership Committee—Joseph E. Owens, Richard A. Bachia and Chester B. Lawrence. Rifle Zange and Gallerp. ; Iroquois Rifle Club, Tue Iroquois Rifle Club, of Pittsburg, Pa., will hold its spring tournament on April 21-28. It will be opened with the Memorial trophy handicap match, open to members only. Each contestant will shoot 50 shots on five targets of 10 shots eacn. The member having the highest total score with handicap added, will receive a valuable silver trophy presented to the club in honor. of its late meinber, A. C. L. Hofmeister. The cup was given the club by Hofmeister to be shot for annually. The last two days will be devoted to a continuous prize shoot, open to all: The scores for last week’s shooting are: Medal match: TG IREEUL | Ree jefdaese Cher asen casa cn ewe seta 244 244 243 Fig SEMeSnMCis seh oc ctineie cect cre sclecth bits 245 244 244 ER GEL TH We babe cele) d'elcisienin'g UMN NR Henig cine ecin a 239 235 234 PRU Star ae ar Feg tevouni omic seers aus ra ater 239 239 239 AOE Tre eee oe Ges e he cl cap eeise seperate te aeOD 236 238 FAW er oelicr -Lbrer cs yo ee eee nalinieinetimeasnccd 228 230 230 OG SEMyiinieieters: (Ar. ceceeae ost rales manana ees 239 239 1 4 Co Aa rol ee eee ees eee aH oooeooen ee 226 226 228 Secret handicap: UNE pe tear ga hee PO Ek ARERR Pe See neice 242 242 He Paha ag cee sc adn dittelgtslote 242 231 Ele periineeed Gladiuseacn cess 237 235 Grapshoating. ———— )—_—— Fixtures. April 16.—Kent, O.—Portage County Gun Club’s tri-county shoot. W. L. Lyman, Sec’y. April 18.—Glen Rock, Pa.—Open shoot for live-bird champion- ship of York county, Pa., and all-day shoot of Glen Rock Gun Club. Allen M. Seitz, Sec’y. , April 20,—Springfield, Mass.—Spring tournament of the Spring- field Gun Club. C. L. Kites, Sec’y. , April 20.—Patriots’ Day shoot of the Haverhill, Mass., Gun Club. S. G. Miller, Sec’y. April 21-22—Olean, N. Y., Gun Club’s fourth annual tourna- ment. B. D. Nobles, Sec’y. April 21-22,—Attica, Ind., Gun Club’s tournament. C. B. Lamme, ec'y. April 21-28.—Concordia, Kans.—Kansas State Sportsman’s Asso- ciation’s State shoot, under auspices of Concordia Blue Ribbon Gun Club; $300 added. F. W. Olney, Sec’y. April 22.Rushylvania, O., Gun Club’s shoot. April 22-23.—Troy, O., Gun Club’s tournament, *April 22-23.—Pittsburg, Pa.—Herron Hill Gun Club. Harry Vandergrift, Sec’y. April 26.—Brooklyn, L. I.—Fulton Gun Club’s shoot. G. R. Schneider, Sec’y. April 28-30.—Paducah, Ky., Gun_Club’s tournament. April 28-May 1.—Lincoln, Neb.—Nebraska State Sportsmen’s As- sociation’s twenty-seventh annual tournament, under the auspices of the Lincoln Gun Club. F. E. Mockett, Sec’y. April 29.—Wellington, Mass.—Boston Gun Club’s annual team shoot. H. C. Kirkwood, Sec’y, 28 Elm street, Boston. May 1-2.—Annual spring shoot of the Glen Rock, Pa., Gun Club. Allen M. Seitz, Sec’y. 5, to PN : May 4-6.—Tournament of the Mississippi Valley Trapshooters and Game Protective Association, under auspices of Vicksburg, Miss., Gun Club. 3 *May 5-6.—Irwin, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. John Withers, Sec’y. May 6-7.—Union City, Ind.—Parent Gun Club’s tournament. May 6-7.—Lafayette, Ind.—Lafayette Gun Club’s tournament. May 6-7.—Titusville, Pa., Gun Club’s annual tournament, T. L. Andrews, Sec’y. May 7-8.—Wilmington, Del—Wawasett Gun Club’s target tour- nament. May 9-10.—Chicago, Il].—Spring tournament of the Grand Cres- cent Gun Club. ; 24 May 12-15.—Pekin, Ill.—Illinois State Sportsmen’s Association tournament. May 13-14.—Crawferdsville, Ind., Gun Club’s tournament. May 13-14—Dubois, Pa.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- ment, under the auspices of the Dubois Rod and Gun Club. U. S. N. Crouse, Sec’y. ; , May 14-16.—E1 keno, Okl—Oklahoma Territory Sportsmen’s Association’s fourth annual tournament. May 16.—East Walpole, Mass.—All-day shoot of the Neponset Gun Club. Edgar Bills, Sec’y. May 18.—Marion, Ind., Gun Club’s tournament. a May 19-21.—Osceola, Ia.—Iowa State Sportsmen’s Association’s twenty-sixth annual tournament. / f May 19-22,—Wissinoming, Philadelphia.—Thirteenth annual tour- nament of the Pennsylvania State Sportsmen’s Association, under auspices of the Florists’ Gun Club of Philadelphia. V. V. Dorp, ec’y. : bpereen 21-22._New Paris, O., Gun Club’s tournament. May 21-22.—Kenton, O., Gun Club’s tournament. May 21-22.—Kenton, O.—Shoot of the Kenton Gun Club. A. G, Merriman, Sec’y-Treas. ’ Li Pier, May 24-26.—San Francisco, Cal., Trapshooting Association’s three days’ bluerock handicap tournament. Open to all; $1,500 added. c. C. Nauman, manager. May 26-27.—Dubuque, Ia., Gun_Club’s fourth annual amateur target tournament. A. F. Heeb, Sec’y. _ *May 26-27.—Brownsville, Pa.—Brownsville Gun Club tourna- ment. W. T. Doherty, Sec’y. Min May 27-28.—Williamsport, Pa.—The Interstate Association’s tournament, under the auspices of the West Branch Rod and Gun Club. H. A. Dimick, Sec’y. May 27-28.—Fort Wayne, Ind.—two-day bluerock tournament of the Corner Rod and Gun Club; $100 added. John V. Linker, Sec’y. : May. 29-30.—Union City, Ind.—Spring tournament of the Parent ‘ove Gun Club. Oviey 30,Altoona, Pa., Rod and Gun Club’s tournament. G. G. Zeth, Sec’y. : é ? ae ay 30.-Tournament of the East Harrisburg, Pa., Shooting lation. cerns 30,_-Newport, R. I.—Second annual tournament of the Aquidneck Gun Club. J. 5. Coggeshall, Sec’y. ; f May 30.—Detroit, Mita.—Winchester Gun Club’s Decoration Day third annual tournament; =i day. Rose system and average prizes. Sliding handicap, 16, 18 and 20yds. D. A. Hitchcock, 2y-T 7 . , sere oe. Baltimore, Md.—Third annual Baltimore County shoot; three days targets; one day live birds; $500 in purses and prizes. Hawkins and Malone, Managers. ay ra June 8-4.—Boston, Mass.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- ment, under the auspices of the Boston Shooting Association. O. R. Dickey, Sec’y. eee an rremar ire pw | | June 3-5.—Parkersburg, W. Va.—Sixth annual tournament of the West Virginia Sportsmen’s Association, under auspices of Qhio Valley Shooting Association. June 4-5.—Greenville, O.—Spring tournament of the Greenville Gun Club. **June, second week.—Shreveport, La.—Caddo Gun Club’s tour- nament, June 7-8.—Ligonier, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. June 812.—Ossining, N. Y.—New York State Association for the Protection of Fish and Game’s forty-ffth annual tournament, under the auspices of the Ossining Gun Club. June 9-10,—Lafayette, Ind.—Indiana State shoot, under auspices of Lafayette Gun Club. June 9-11.—Sioux City, Ia.—Ninth annual amateur tournament of the Soo Gun Club. B. F, Dunean, Sec’y. June 9-11.—Cincinnati, O.—Seventeenth annual target tourna- ment of the Ohio Trapshooters’ League. Chas. T. Dreihs, Sec’y. *June 10-11.—Ruffsdale, Pa,, Gun Club’s tournament. R. S. Deniker, Sec’y. June 16-19.—Warm Springs, Ga—The Interstate Association’s tournament, under the auspices of the Meriwether Gun Club. Chas. L. Davis, Sec’y. June 16-18—New London, Ia.—Seventh annual midsummer tar- get tournament of the New London Gun Club. *June 17-18.—McKeesport, Pa., tournament. June 24-25.—Rutherford, N. J.—Interstate Association tourna- ment under the auspices of the Union Gun Club. *June 24-25,—New Castle, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. James Atkinson, Sec’y. July, 4.—Topsham, Me.—All-day tournament of the Riverside Shooting Club. Fred W. Atkinson, Sec’y. “July 7-8.—Ligonier, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. J. O’H. enny, Sec’y. July 8-9.—Huntsville, Ala.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- ment, under the auspices of the Huntsville Gun Club. E, R. Matthews, Sec’y. July 810.—Arkansas State Sporismen’s Association’s thirteenth annual meeting and tournament, under the auspices of the Jones- boro, Ark., Gun Club, of which Matthews is Sec’y-Treas. **July, second week,—Memphis, Venn., Gun Club’s tournament. *July 21-22.—Beaver Falls, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. W. R. Keefer, Sec’y. July 30-Aug. 1.—Viroqua, Wis.—The Interstate Association’s tournament, under the auspices of the Viroqua Rod and Gun Club. Dr. R. W. Baldwin, Sec’y. : *Aug. 5-6.—Brownsville, Pa., Rod and Gun Club’s tournament. Aug. 12-15.—Toronto, Ont.—Annual tournament of the Dominion Trapshooting and Game Protective Association. A. W. Throop, ec’y-Treas., Ottawa, Can. Aug. 19-20.—Ottawa, il_—The Interstate Association’s tourna- ment, under the auspices of the Rainmakers’ Gun Club. Paul A. Selember, Sec’y. ' tee 19-20.—Millvale, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. Wm. Buss- er, Sec’y. eae 1-2.—Irwin, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. John Withero, ec’y. Sept. 2-3.—Akron, O.—The Interstate Association’s tournament, eee the auspices of the Akron Gun Club: G. E. Wagoner, ec’y. *Sept. 9-10.—Enterprise “aun Club tournament. *Sept. 23-24—Ruffisdale, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. R. S. Deniker, Sec’y. Oct. 6-7.—Allegheny, Pa.—North Side Gun Club’s tournament. L. B. Fleming, Sec’y. Oct. 20-21.—Ligonier, Pa. Gun Club’s tournament. J. O’H. Denny, Sec’y. Saturdays.—Chicago.—Garfield Gun Club; grounds W Fifty- second avenue and Monroe street. Dr. J. W. Meek, Sec’y. *Member of Western Pennsylyania Trapshooters’ League. Chas. G. Grubb, Sec’y, 507 Wood street, Pittsburg. **Members of Mississippi Valley Trapshooters’ and Game Pro- tective Association. J. J. Bradfield, Sec’y, Vicksburg, Miss. DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. The programme of the Interstate Association’s trapshooting tournament given for the Dubois,-Pa., Rod and. Gun Club, May 13 to 14, is now ready for distribution. There are ten programme events each day, 15, 20 and 25 targets, entrance $1.50, $2 and $2.50. Lunch served on the grounds each day. Targets 2-cents» Grounds open for practice on May 12. The Rose system will govern. Send guns and ammunition prepaid to Mr. Frank Guinzburg, Dubois. The club -will-add--$37.50 each-day, to be divided. equita-- bly to those shooting through the programme who fail 'to get their entrance back. 4 The hosts of friends of Mr. Harold Money will rejoice to learn that he was sufficiently recovered to journey from Kansas City to his home at Oakland, N. J., where he was due on Monday of this week. He came in charge of his mother, Mrs. A. W. Money, who nursed him through his illness in Kansas City. Our best wishes go forth to him for a speedy recovery. td The Birch Brook Gun Club, of Lynn, Mass., held a meeting on April 6, and elected officers as follows: President, Frank Hil- liard; Vice-President, J. W. Hay; Secretary, Henry Rood; Treas- urer, H. A. Emery. The club will hold a shoot May 30. The weekly shoots will commence on June 6, and will continue through the summer, ® Mr. D. W. Hallam, secretary, writes us as follows: “In ac- cordance with their usual custom, the Dover, N. H., Sportsmen’s Association will open the season of 1908 at their grounds on Fast Day, a day of April not yet appointed. Our friends of the sur- rounding towns and elsewhere are cordially invited.” RZ The Audubon Gun Club, of Buffalo, N. Y., has arranged to hold a shoot on Decoration Day, the main features of which will be a team shoot in the forenoon, and a club handicap prize shoot in the afternoon. & The daily press dispatches recount that Peter Dennis and Martin Winters have agreed to shoot a match at 19 birds, April 18, for a $400 purse. It sounds a little odd in some of its details. sd Mr. Chas. E. Humer, of Carlisle, Pa., won the gold medal at the shoot of the Carlisle Gun Club on April 7 with a score of 19 out of -25. = The next shoot of the Richmond Gun Club will be held on April 25, commencing at 2:30 P. M., on the club grounds, Staten Island. BERNARD WATERS. Wew Haven Gun Club, New Haven, Conn., April 10.—The day was pleasant and favor- able for good enjoyment. There was a good attendance, several of the visitors being New Yorkers. The shoot was a success. The scores follow: Events eG ey etka Lig eyes 9 10 11 12 13 14 Targets 10 15 10 20 10 15 10 20 10 25 15 20 10 15 Whitney ..... 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Pee oddanchs 710 810 7.5... .. .. .. corer QokfGrd) Tk ee iaes evan aes 810 616 811 813 8191012 711 Brestetucs cite et conan erin 710 716 9 9 710 GIT & 7 9 Edgerton .....s0ceeeeeceeees 914 717 613 917 8191217 611 WN Ls Bates. .5...2002 Citcseee aL OTL eee NC a geen ln prac Schortemeier . wy ae ee 115 8 8 919 8251520 915 eller aus ah nescence 2 oe we 1191013 915 8 23 1817 10 12 Sanford ......++.++ eA set OB re { 9 421 BS191111 ,. MOrriSOM sicsccecscecserneces ae eles oe a8 6 415 8 201214 6 9 EL Bates: cle seeecve eect men ageemen eR iby abe berkarsiale dak: Robertson ..vcsscsscseucesene ce te ce se pe ce te 1388211518 911 Joun E. Bassett, Sec’y. IN NEW JERSEY. Erie Gan Club, I ., April 8—A heavy rain and small attendance were the main features. The birds were very good, considering the weather. The club now shoots at 14 birds instead of 7, on account of not shooting in June, July and August. The conditions Were governed by club rules and handicap. Carlstadt, N. Schofeldt ...... 00100000112002— 5 Meader ........ 01201210022222—10 mboteryol - ae 20101210211200—10 Mohrman ...... 11011012102212—11 Dohrman ...... 11011.021202222—11 Pe geeey SEE 00210000120010— 5 Detlefsen ...... 1121111212222214 Roberts ...... . -00122110200100— 7 Lynch hes vee 00000111100010— 5 Practice, 5 birds: : Dobra se ecneeees ..-11121—5 Schufeldt .......-..,...:- 111215 Deyirchieenat, eer ben toe 11121— , Heflich—Piercy, : East Rutherford, N. J.—The match between Mr. H. MWeflich and G. Piercy, on Heflich’s grounds last week, was at 25 live birds, $25 a side, 30yds. rise, and birds. A strong 7 to 8 o’clock wind was blowing. The birds were good. Piercy had by far the hard- a of the draw. They tied on 23. In the shoot-off Heflich won. e scores: ; EL ICHIGME 2c cy. sistoe tush hatte ete ee eRe 222201112212*222222191222 23 (Ge dah POORER preg, aededentuedadote 1212212111212010222122211—23 Shoot-off: EPSHreh Cer cae cs eeateetad 222126 “Piercy: veesewcse eset es +. -+22120—4 Eastern Championship. April 10,—At the North Hudson Driving Park, the Eastern championship at live birds was shot to-day. Mr. Geo. H. Piercy, of Jersey City, was the winner, he being the only one to kill straight. On No. 1 set of traps there was a 10 o’clock wind; on No. 2 set a 5 o’clock wind: ‘The birds in the first half were an excellent lot; in the second half of the race they were about average. The conditions were 20 birds, $10 entrance, birds in- cluded, handicaps 25 to 33yds. The scores: FERC McGereleal fie ccaes i tatceteret a oretaan er riers 02201221202121111122 17 ME Var Alleny Sa0t. vince otal se tee 222.9229229220222222* 18 QACT rica ti: S28: eet se auaald qcanensmaaaae aces 21*110001222220w TP WARES OL QUITE ep Asters bie ass b late Seca etb Hae aDG oe 22222922229222929920 19 (GP Bie Brerey es 0st Pi ciate vast eete cstv nae tes aes 222222222221 21212222—20 Ae USE OShiru tage 2/ eee nen Sarenre mere peerirr n 22212*11022020001212—16 Pa Sau benbnaoresiy Aer on yer Coen etn ate od 121221*2220102102201—15 CU STEALEN SF 30 p noes ener e wre wasn el seus 2229121112212212221—19 HP apes Blatt sian semana coed secu ense eine 121.22121122222100010—16 Hy ORCHENSS OF Nle ste cs ep and sans ae ss Stealer ee 1121212112112*201222 18 HP RELOUSSUORE Ging Docent ies eictele pte eal sents a oan 1111.012212111101211218 E B-Smith, 28 ..... Sr Mn eCMEt ea. retin. 5 1112211222222**02210—16 COE a ISVica len redioreecandoncopedtns perp 22021222222112221221—19 (On AN Zonal IL Giavetoa ely A RRA casei tena Sie Ae 22222112121121221222—19 MS WMarkais 20h bsrussatns sees che oe EN teil 020002222220*2222202—13 G E Greiff, 30....... tien » « «22222222202921221220_18 S SiGloversescr: ares ue Lathes cease «» o22*22222222229292222 19 [aN Es Sara ge Ae eRe Oe re calnrt ed Be wi . . «222222221 02212202222 18 Lie Hvis telovopee VE erm danmcerceetr cot reior ts 22122100001121121221_16 ID ISS Er niipr tee ns St ero ricci 22**2122200111111111—16 Ga lnitenmans (205 Seren ne napetaa tale pretaeaaste ystems 11222211020122112021—17 (OD ADE Wire ona e es ee Sour Groce oe ann Sons 2012212*020011221121—15 Rs Mlolinriettiy 28° 244 ers a 8 eric nape secre atelier vibeeree eee 20221211*21111122220—17 Eyent 1, 7 birds, $5, birds included, 30yds., high guns, one™ money, resulted as follows: a Gta eral tenairn mete acs 2203122 We Wr Colatiiths. eeu 222022*—5 SM BVaneAllencecss.s 02212226 G E Greiff............. 1222112—7 heel 34 eShosthaat sae, ..“101012—5 + © Ghidricati ........... 1112101—6 H. Pape. 4 --2022000—3 C L Kyte.............- 212*010—4 INE OS WMiatckciyccicrsce. = 2022*02 4 S Glover .......+.....-2212222—7 Miss-and-out, 30yds., $1: FRoegel® ier. ssc oc aa eate 12122227119 Kyte 2.22... --- eons 20 UMbermantiey cee tse 1221222229 Steffens ............. 212212222—9 Sriit he ee ere aretha RCV eth gy treacle 111210 (Crop Kei Sbhure cise pchteeerc st cx 2222220 MerldGor seasepsiesans 212211221—9 (Ghetthee te tier keeacs 0 Kroeger! 28%... 222110 Were Al etiam veseeeens 22* C Von Lengerke..... 220 Piérey” atiaeecere see 21222210 AWM Weyer BS Sosa A 2220 Wigteeey seemenerr eect * Franklin Gun Club, Franklin Furnace, N. J., April 11.—The following scores were made at the shoot of the Franklin Gun Club to-day: bs Event 1, open to all: F. Sutharn 4, A. Wright 5, J. Williams 5, F. Kishpaugh 3, P. Glynn 2, W: J. Pope 7, H. Pope 2, H. Corner 5, J. Hawkin 2, J. Madden 10, A. Wright 2, W. Stephens 6. , Event 2, 20 targets: J. Williams 14, F. Kishpaugh 12, A. Wright 7, W. J. Pope 10, H. Corner 18, J. Hawkin 6, J. Sweeney 6, J. Madden 15, Alfred Wright 11. North Rivet Gun Club. Edgewater, N. J., April 11.—The weather was delightfully pleas- ant, though cool. A stiff breeze made erratic flights, and the targets were not of the easiest in regard to speed. Mr. S. Glover was easily the star performer of the shoot. The scores follow: Events: LP RD SSR e Sir GUe iamees Targets: c aki, kik ay Bibs She Gis hab ts USstetidaneser AA ee or igaoete dacs Ce Re PP er Ral), SCE fh Wie egeheeesel miqnnoncnsseec eres eee Oe ee Oe BE ot, AT JERGarrie” CAA padam tine yaks oe teesnere nti Minas s, oaks ae ei) 5 Richter. : itt ivairrsaaeckee's hee eeee LO 2 be SO Sr Seo es al oety Jo. cre niciaferereescers oracceec wore ore cop eho LO) 3 eae 20 oe tae ace een Nigel seepeoosscsc Srmtrethretae ede WUE Gp o> a SeLG Se Pay eae etme TROT STUN sooretseyerincere rein cn oie eteeeearinerern see a fel 2S Fo aie at NWN 025 erie tee AAO AABB EG AS oth les ee oe epee lee ahi SIRs SL aL Hearne, re-entty....c¢sde+seeneedee eS ga Si Te ee es WksiiatUh 2 URE pea eA hee ae Hye oF ade ts- BOTTCHOLT. Pema cee elon aee 5 + elgietorsiateiteld fale . : Tas. RL ieee ‘Sec’y. ON LONG ISLAND. Brooklyn Gun Club. Brooklyn, L. T., April 11.—The scores made Gun Club’s shoot to-day are as follows: at the Brooklyn Events: Le Pisa ee Sh Rissa Targets: 10 15 10 15 15 15 10 10 15 ‘ 5 1 8 Seu 6 9 12 5 Ye Kb ie te diane 23 on 7 i 8 1) 10 4 na fy veer Bp eh tight a /stveatti earmienoiece Go Ge fe D0? SS age "Goa NEW LOT Sime de teeters Dinieialnatieatnisins h loeaely Ay sole Bee ele Wiriblit® brasscheriresetereanisrisninns @ 10 oo 1a 12 i) ss. ie Fropkins) 6.5.4.2 0s shes sees gee net 9) 15> 8. 1a amy I a a 2 Gritithitlrs ce asde desea hed sacra tests ile Gs The bets COS eels Richmond Gun Club. New York.—Herewith are the scores of the Richmond Gun Club shoot Saturday, April 11. Our next shoot will take place Saturday, April 25. Our new club house and grounds are in good shape, and we ask all trapshooters to pay us a visit. It takes about forty minutes from New York. For any information address F. Schoverling, 312 Broadway, po ae : $4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ea 10 10 15 15 20 15 25 15 15 25 ae Feb IER dann taate 9 10 18 14 17 13 20 12 18 .. Bcahtal Md tiee dae Se. 8 9 12 13 17 12 23 12 13 2 Pe -Sehiavecline Leeson cee sas 9 10 14 18 18 13 20 13 12 20 Rac ecetaee tes Leeteeee enc. 7 8 9 11 15 10 17 11 10 .. Te sce Aen ie Oty de 76 11 10 14°95 16.9 3% Ee Winichearera sty ie tebe ius 9 8 15.14 19 14 20 14 13 .. F. ScHOVERLING. Baltimore Shooting Association. zr, Md., April 11.—Six men shot at 100 targets each. gt ie Mes was high arte 86, Chew second with 85, Edwards third with yi, Sores 10 15 10 15 10 15 10 15 aa Mt . EE cos, Lomaengne ee ..1012 912 912 912 &© Cheiyerncaekels Veer. Joana hoes 912 912 9131011 85 Po pew Bt Cicean stab svete cestcagsoeeeee ace atans ode eet Gee GLU) eeLOma nen: 64 Kessler '...... enti cits Tr hnnact: 5 6 510 613 710 62 Tapa emebech Asai stcqsat ese hewoeee 910 811 9 91013 79 rvaptorda cist vamsattieucstapapeceeeep, Mas soup EU tale TD Aven. 18, 1903-1 -FOREST+AND STREAM, 319 — ence ee a nye ie 18 .. 12 15 16 13 12 15 roe (Cricdenes Loser AeaaDO ocx Ras el eee 11 .. 14 12 .. 18 15 18 ube CaTrtige lO tresearsoctie sae ce Ove ere a eh Pe nt Soe JV ea Gens Ser eae een eee eee a, 2 Bg re (al Sree GySpenctr loetrirs:ceeene ae are ee EE ee ae aCe AWEISI SS the SRR E SEARS nO pe tie eS Se ee yen 1S = Salas hte Wlohvatsy » (iP sete. ORS eS Or BRL Ee sews 13 18 ; Totals for the three days: April7. April8. April 9. Total. Gilbert tare ensanenies rib see 180 173 175 528 OPE rien Wah senses eee cece ik 79 148 157 484 ATTIN OL ee ceemth ee cee were trr cree 175 137 173 485 1 Stilo Omen etedh sa4aAss Soke 173 157 166 496 Gare cee Menrrinee pete te el 173 175 155 503 \NGHISoy a a BRM Er Je Getec- seve Aes eure dy) 170 158 160 488 EMUSIC SE turrets teins Anes Shae ee 171 162 171 504. HUTT EDs chee ete daetan dadirete eae Rae 167 171. 145 483 Crosbya eset renee cs 167 154. 168 489 ELGG R tele as ioe Sean a aan oe 166 154 164 484 TLIETS Given teles Wate hater pte a 164 167 183 514 VWALGESEr oan SWAP AAMT a een 163 170 157 490 Mercier race etc uh tye 162 146 164 472, TI BERS witlatasirees ieee ee 159. 164 178 501 TROLS Sete trethaed seers tele nleri ae anes 162 167 162 491 WDSitCe Ly Sree Mee Pee oars 159 163 158 480 PHantrer lacey watreeriincieieisy accents 157 156 169 482 IENbTC Lah aah AAR GR Re bosons 156 163 171 490 DAHGETSON. Mee aoa En Sener 155 156 159 470 ONE, saidearnccse ty usenicoen finns 155 152 137 444 (Comme hatin ene saben tae ne 154 155 164 473 NSE viich) ORS Ss oaenaadimornn seer 153 157 161 471 PR ERIASt erection ale aren) ee 150 156 156 462 INIOLLOTIN ree cnt tiem ate aiaen: 150 141 160 451 Re ra seeticrpersioetetetion coor iO te PRarn 149 154 158 461 Live Bird Events, The management wisely decided not to mingle the target and live-bird events, and the last two days were given to the latter ex- clusively. These included a sweep at 25, open to all and handicap rise; the annual four-man club team event; the State and Inter- state championship events, and the final contest between former winners of the State amateur trophy, at 50 birds. The live birds also were a fine fast lot, with the weather favoring them, and the average scores were again low. The next State meet was voted to St. Louis during the world’s fair, and that city was given the offices. H. B. Spencer is Presi- dent; Joe O'Neil, Secretary, and Dr. Burnett, Treasurer, Ia ditle Felt, of St. Joe, was re-elected Vice-President. Four-man team contest: Kansas City Gun Club. Hel Coclerill” Sionepiterae teh dees enamine eM 20220122212222012 AB TIED aay sree eet Ride an Be enn, NG. 202211200220212—11 GNCoclkeilll wegen renee eieos ee bo ern 112111011110210—12 ISTE TT LAN oe, ere fonts his eT oc ee 3 EN Da 200222222999990 12-47 Washington -Park. Gun Club. WMIGIG RSTn meres COD BRED ROHR NORAD Prepay oor 101210002100111— 9 « .022020001202222— 9 Clayton . -221002210222190—11 Tipton 220020000222222— 938 (Oihdic AAP nb E RN PERE acti CO ce Cre ee 21200120022222211 Menmod stant tat tnsca tum eel elle ce ie sen meld 200200122200222— 9 HCH GEE gasr-t rene nmeemnpieny iyeic ck i finns We kNy 222220002002220— 9 VEIN es Noata er cas ten ei cee seek ee MiLB 122221222222022—14 48 Belt Line Gun Club. FAOLIMES Mc uiehanashls Leet: tt Sol OPM en Mine et 011111110111222 43 Gloss ier genoa aN tly Anaad hk ee hil Bn 202020022000200— 6 SUUItH A Meree nna tenn ot sae Settles een ae eT 200222010000022— 7 SVE est ts Metracaetnptaverteeys soeeeen ry an ne Leib ie Ny 001221020120102— 9—35 Dupont Park Gun Club. AL rATN iy. Wee ch ciate . 012002210020021— g Pendleton 210000010000200— 4 Alexander 000122020002121— § EXDICEDME re cholo cte’suisteLVe nae a ye tees Ban een ends sa ee 020200220020020— 6—26 f Metropolitan Gun Club. (Cisbebepmerestsrel Fy A Jour dg dea asksos ee gbeee ene 220022222200222 11 PATH GOTO Saas atl fenetee ee en ee See ete eg ae ins 121122022020020—10 UA Gee leet ed eer ala sachin ea etna sc lWint fe 222222002222202 19 Mig tTe= U5 VERNON: Se ER eas pate ene ents 120000000200210— 5—38 Sweepstake, 25 birds, open to all: AGEOST yap ceten set tinebs eet aomcloe epee -~ - -2111112222022211101222021—99 veerig ole. acs aint ~ -2211220121222999991199999 94 Fulford, 31 -« -1221212201222911201229991 99 Hin iigernes (May kliespe cee teel-cale err +. 222022220222222292999999- 99 Merrill, 30 ve eeses -22110101*211020w TGR US ES REM epee ah eer ey | eee 11112222999229%91 29999999 9.4 Mind enmity ole od adele es delta a neton swt 2022212222020222299999999 95 Bates ae toyed sya pi erste eke bs: 22222*222991 2299999999090 99 H Spencer, 30 aden? asthe he = ees clefts 0222202222002222000222299- 18 OLB ret 0s Daceteh ceri rrr ssc: 9 5 222.2222222929999992991999_ 95 (Crikettac, SF IER TCAD NS eee NEU] Lj spelohal 2121122222211199992910999- 94 Morreyyesl tee perpen Ree vette ie oi ctaee« 0201022222220291299199919 97 Budd, 81 2.0.0.4, SN area EU hs ey sch rhe shplsiorets 2 2121222222111221129999999__ or D) Elliott, 20 se. cervscus. 43542 57 pty hee 2222122112011222299999%09._99 lOMISih A renee hun jade sd eee ee «++ = -2212111011220201020222991 90 Clayton, 29 02200-w. ELISE Aerts cea adereeats = clelaleeia eee ce 00222.22222022*222202*2200—17 (Carre reS I eee ane sahara Seer «4 22Q222**22222201 222222222 —22, F Cockrill, 30 ...... Fido) poeeeennbo or + 0+ 222202221022202w Waters stole ears tame uscctenoe eee 421.2202212021220001121122—20 Morn ealhre see epee ee ene finda net coher +, 1222222220222922292722*20—21 Cxtuosdabouuleebane cde Get a yerenies tect t tn 22°2222222222220022022"22—20 Wort 30) Whee ieideealian ness bee Cee 222212022222222222222022—22 Wreatsom; “20% faneeners Pines edhe cise ise 1002211.020222222202212022—18 Gorinatia BO pee orks. te es edahidecoe cy ees 19121111.2212112211121122—25 IEMA bNe, EE nemectnd! beAertAbeebcnouc 200%*12202*221200221*02002—14 SEDO) ee S men enenate naam e (cee ete (een 1012122012*11122202221221—21 IMS iikompsonweetenoms eat LOR reste e 11.212211*21*2202*01110221—19 CHSGISST irae weet hte anys is 2102221222212222222202**1—21- COMSED 29 7 dvncdtecduveodssin vines rmaetonlezcaenda0a aia Baker, 30 ...... lace ereyarala tte bodes 9 rereatooaycreaitea is 2220222212121120010w Adams, 29 .......... bd. heuesreck ovals aJ8.8 ey 2211201*221222202202w. Mermod, 81 ,........ » .2210222221222220022210w Bramhall, 30 .. Alexander, 27 . «2222022202111222222221202—22 « .12121022221.22012022212202—23 RIGHTS! WSN Laer oats terre ere ot wo teeters 222202202212102w. houarersiaul, WE = acegog yet abba no need | 100*12022210112w AER S eA ery pears wireey teeter See 2122122122220222221112122 24 (Oyo yol an ey peg RAH gee ae ere a ()22022022222022w (ON ebdliyy FUS) 2 ta Ge UH oP OeARY eneneemaee Deel RATION Thy: GS Gockrill ssa Umexpetsn ingens en oilers eens 2101*1220201221w eNGmatanrni (ALO HO. oiee haan cbhad 4 baat ones 2122212*2*11121701110w (GEASTIG UCIT BEN Hoaasee BOE Bigs Seach ceomcacee 2221222223222222222922990 95 TEE Oya MED ee 5 eee cen eevee sce atcha 22120111112211 92921 111212—94 KILLMORE. North Side Gun Club. ALLEGHENY, Pa.—The first shoot of the Western Pennsylvania Trapshooters’ League was held under the auspices of the North Side Gun Club here on April 8 and 9. The weather was bad, and caused a late start, competition not beginning until about 2 0’clock in the afternoon. Nevertheless, the attendance was pleasingly large, about forty shooters taking part in the different events, many of whom were of the twa classes, amateurs and profes- sionals. igh average for the day was made by Messts. Kelsey and Lutz, who tied on 112 out of a possible 120. They were co. eiy pressed by Messrs. Schley, Raven and Squier with 111. Denicker broke 110. On the second day there was a high wind, which interfered ma- terially with high scores, There was a good attendance, larger than on the first day, The League’s team championship contest was won by the North Side Gun Club, of Allegheny. The Milvale Gun Club team was second; Irwin team third. In the contest for the Hunter Arms Company gold medal Irwin and Hickey tied on 45 out of 50. In a toss-up Hickey won, The scores follow: Fitst Day, April 8. Events: een G Targets 15 20 15 20 15 2015 Broke Telitelcey: Geeocauetstety AGC deter fen E, 1319 1419131713 108 Lea DR A mgcwarmnig potent an Ohh wae 1113151111 8 80 IP Cehi are = Det hatin Omari a oye 15 171419151913 4112 OTL San tC ne ha eet een nO 14 15 12 17 13 9 11 96 SCULSV Meta: eye ee eee eee EE IE 16 1713819151814 i411 5) a Matllonyre setrane cee eee ee ne 13 18 15:2013 16°8 108 TTS Ee Serer et thos Weng ene eailersaitene ieieeee toe 15 201118141915 112 BESSENTELS Bini eh ey eee rete ctee os ei as nO 9 14 14 20 14 18 13 102 REGROS onaarra saan ast eee eee neds 1312131913 1813 106 VVSUET Chyacmee « a alelePeistatgtstat piece ie ne (eeceriatay 11 15 13 17 13 12 11 2 Ga Mite: PAINS Stee eetels ee ae 11 161418121613 106 ICA GILES eriieteta cach saishses eee et cee”, See 13:19 1418141815 11 Henry See eeeatetererecegrscecstivecsssoys 14 181216 10 15 128 97 SUtLCIES sanuoeete tt epi hc wT An meee. 1315 14 19 13°46 .. 90 Jessup auiturels=atnrye teres tlgtys net oe oye] rare avout 11 18 11 18 14 19 12 103 SLR Bon andn Chatters nD Abada year be 14 19 14 18 14 17 15 111 Daudt mPstiadieleralesint rent Se ty siatercerpote ach] oe etn D 3 18 13 20 14 17 13 108 Fleming Rol een hal Aa eerie es 15 18 15 15 12 18 13 106 Iti tablet ce tien ete 15 1614181818138 107 GEO wilt rem eee clare Ne ela ae be EB 17 14 14 14 17 13 89 IDI SEM NC a ereui toot eer a Nate Brnil 11 201418151715 ilo PULSE clement aen e ea Pepe eee Sie UPSET Sint these eee eereteen, Ue ie eer chon eee => I FSF) criss ooccueornimcetie sop -.., 12 16 12 18 14 19 12 103 Ieee... ceo ir Seana hE Rane mall 13 18.13 1815 .. ., TT VY We IM PSS SPELT IN), Aldean oes 1018-13 18 15... 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Be gs tla clever 5516.0 sisfelevare wu wy ae nets eee 14 18 14 19 65 Hockensmith ....... scvelelstaae ree ranetn ie: eee: 81614 .... 3 IRSTSOTLSS Sens eee omen Oba ea athe ere EF oe, S10 ee. 19 Waneienhyaee ie eee Paves etaesaiteteer, tae 15 15 12 14 12 68 CrP iota Ral en ape iM ACA bet: Bhd eee, eae 15 14 14 12 11 66 INTL" ner SADtWaerorte mntaner ee ewer aes Le 1318 11 15 .. 57 Second Day, April 9, Events: a ee ER Re tet) ait} Targets 15 20 15 20 15 20 15 20 45 0 BCR Gy Me Ce edt te ee it ale By aye Gale Wee eS ae. ae Jeropataerereveies | Oy Yemen titan un Ay apt Ge Gs She iseeril vs 9 Chil eke heen a wena eee atm 4 17 15 18 138 15 18 15 12 418 ANA GITORT oP oohonaennnh bane ike iisegih! aby We als nee ie any BU SVGRETIE) oe Ath acd btinetarie on PAS: =t3) 3 1B. 0P 19) am 5) 15 IDSC SB seu RHBGA Mpedcielte 14 13 $8 -19 15 14 45 16 14 i1 NC UIGE) Sh canes ee RR Rilo ner 12 15 11 18) 14 17 TW 44 45 15 Trimble Paehofelelectecn pean cee at Il 15 10 14 11 18 18 15 8 11 Bilemnine eee eee nes, EAA) £2.43 13 16-38 15 48 43 18 18 13° 1s ADF PL eo oe haw eirn Ah eae Pe dint Gh aon ite GaSb aL VEST Om yaaa neice oe ogee 1% 27 d4 15, 11 418 1h 15 44 45 lok Y Bos enh te Sie eee mn § 10 15 12 12 10.13 14 12 14 IBGSSemer mae Aayoc pnt A pe nema ie! 10 17 8 48 12 14 15 14 41 17 PEGS Oi Sit.) giea teem nee 12 16 12 15 Wi 16 10 1 12 17 Shaiieraantilieesnsiod epee eee ie Uy MESA RY te Tey SiGe 17 vas orTnttt eee TATA Ae we i a2 1418 14 17 TA 18> 13; ig Peo eer eeanmenteeeedv sienna st 6 3 2 8 fe Breet pakke 2 ti i ene ey ee CSStip er ceatnee sce 5. 12> 3 i Rete ree ' " R vi at * Ah tenes TONE Wate DORN ee 14 16 11 14 “9 15 “6 G4 f0 ig Rosse: areal 9 te Eira -SPv, ae hee oe r ri Bel pisteetiace Sin aes 2 15 13 16 13 5 Coleman HH ile) aes lh ty C We ecure Howard Foto d tre ee 11 13°09 : OT Hrs teteteresteritee 5 12 4.12 12 19 ‘ apipe Bonn ganetneds = *e a ss Ie ae elsey anne 3 17 15 16 i4 10 i is Withrow .... re ie mM peer At Te UPS Bap Gla Hoss .. LGC Oar | ee ieee a 0 10 ree ong creas poupseH Heetreh aren) il i Ni et dere eepiiats aE OC Ken Sit thee ye een dee pee ee (8 a Ove ING raw ondagy sewer ens * 4 pote a Gime Rigitardss Sane e po eenence Sales Reb dante ke Arrest Ce Mie Connelly Meter reas LOO a ae teeta ROSS hoon Soba bene a oeeee ahby th AL eh) Haratltqraen eee Serruanynint 107 1) seri: Rn tae ela Tien EAS Sakaecgetly ey J4 Vie ose oS Sas he lat FIT one een eas eee 10 18 1 1 10 12 10 9 DL ATD zag ca ents, be apne ie eel US Als Wee HBS aks Ue ea GES ELE als aps lela eters Wael toe gene 9 9 10 eee. aN iLO. Polarel Yoletsica mee ei seitats Hee aS diy Gis hieniGy ail OF a Teer PCO RSE Soot codon eRBAL Aas 10 18 11 15 8 15 9 16 TB ee aoe ea a cache et Be Betson—Schwartz. f Beene ORD tiny ib 9—A match at 50 Or a purse o a side, Rhode Island rules, was : the grounds of Boerckle Gun Club at Bridedshere nie en adelphia, between Elmer Betson, of Frankford, and Fred Schwartz of Bridesburg. As both men are the undisputed wing shots of their respective towns, a large gathering of friends of both were attracted to this shoot, and as the score indicates. were well repaid or their presence, particularly as this is the first shoot lied off under Rhode Island rules in this section for many a day Appended are the scores: " ea Betson Schwartz stestees A011 0111 04111111091 01.0111191111110101111101111 live birds per man, 320 FOREST AND STREAM, _ [Apri 18, 1903. i Trap Around Reading. Reapine, Pa. April 2.—A large crowd of sportsmen witnessed the live-bird match between J. George Kuersten, of this city, and James Wertz, of Friedensburg, which took place at the Spring Valley grounds. Friends of both contestants were out in full ‘force, and played their favorite heavily in the betting ting, Wertz being the favorite. Kuersten won by killing 43 birds to Wertz's 87. The match was for $50 a side and the 50 bitds. Interstate rules governed the contest, and both men shot at 28yds. The birds were a selected lot and were exceptionally strong. Wertz had a bad start, and not until it was too late did he recover and shoot in form, The scores follow: Kuetsten \.......22011121221997 019122200292942990992997 022902991191 43 Werte ..55.5.4++.10002202002122121.202219223220022222202201221002222 37 Pottsville, Pa, March 81.—Over 1,000 sportsineii witnessed a live- pigeon shooting match to-day between William McMutrie, of Potts- ville, and William Fox, of Moréa, fot $100 a side. The match was to have beeti at 13 birds, but after the ninth bird had been re- leased from the trap, Fox being ahead, he having killed 6 to MeMutrie’s 6, hie opponent put two “drivers” into the trap and taised a heavy Smoke by burning black gun powder at the trap, mo that he Could not see the birds. R. E. Coogan, of Pottsville, the referee, declared the match no contest and called off the bets.’ Milton, Pa., March 28.—The Milton Rod and Gun Club of this city, held a target shoot to-day. The high winds made shooting very difficult. In the team shoot, best two out of three matches, bétween the Regulars and the Crescents, the former team, cap- pnee by Godcharles, won by a total score of 56 to 64. The scores ollow: Team shoot; teams of two men, 10 targets per man; best two out of three events: Ast match, 2d niatch, 3d match, Total. Crescents (Rangler and De Haas)..19 s 17 54 Regulars (Godcharles and Roth)..,.18 19 19 56 Sweepstake events: Events: 12 3 Events: es ae Targets: 10 10 10 Targets! 10 10 10 Godchatles> <....s:-ese+e 9% % Dehaas Vice. DAE resin tat 0 Baba okatsits ctatinialuths tema Bot oe Stree sesess 24 4 Stn assa sere tuniihitce of 6) 0. ORene leh G4 dee ote ena 9 49 Tower City, Pa., March 28.—The live-bird shooting match be- tween Charles Shugar, of Pinegrove, and Joseph Hand, of this place, held here to-day attracted a large crowd of sportsmen. Hand won, killing 9 out of 10, while Shugar killed 6. The match was the first of a series of three, for a purse of $100 each match. Milton, Pa., March 28—High winds prevented good scores being made at the regular weekly target shoot of the Social Gun Club, of this place, held to-day on the Island grounds. The scores ollow: Events: 12 3 4 #£4Events: ifn! Sao ob Targets: 5 10 10 10 Targets: 5 10 10 10 MeHIS sta enankc pesos 2 58 7S iWhitmeyerm f2)-ecicn sercs 9 6 PP ikriee esas aA Bo ie oe EMO MEL Coaniist piece ate eee PSEA Teta ay Ne seer to 7 ag, 48, Gensel Pe ES RET s ewe care teen 466 (elt; (Sees eters so ee T Robesonia, Pa.. April 4—The team shoot at live birds held at Robesonia House to-day resulted in the following scores: Link 5, German 6, Bricker 7; total 18. Gundy 8, Brossman 7, Sherman 8; total 23. : ; , The conditions of the match were 10 live birds per man, 28yds. rise, Interstate rules, for a purse of $50. i Temple, Pa. April 4.—In a live-bird shooting match here to- day for a purse of $10, William Becker killed 7 out of 10 birds from the 30yd. mark, winning the event. The conditions of the event were 10 live birds, handicap rise, 27 to 30yds., Interstate rules, high gun. The scores follow: Becker, 30yds., 7; Ziegler, 27yds., 6; Jas. Keller, 28yds., 5; Albert Miller, 28yds., 5; Frank Miller, 27yds.,.4; John Keller, 29yds., 6. Reading, Pa., April 4—A shooting match at 25 targets was held on the lot in the-rear of the Reading ball grounds to-day by well- known marksmen, when these scores were made: 1191019111101110111111111-—28 ash Midd te jen 8 enn cece oo atl ete cet es 111001101111111111111.0010—19 Saylor ljsjlsdasnnat ced cess: setinsenne centr 4111111101010010111111011—19 KatzemMmoyer ..i.esreoresececencecceeress 011110110011011100101110—16 Wileileraaty ji Looe lower sase50 se se eres eae m= 01011111011.0011111101001—16 UO eater eae slots s id ar Binte to6 seks nine (=| [ole ate]ars 6 0010000100000001100110100— 7 DuSsSTER. Boston Gun Club. Boston, Mass., April 1—The Boston, Gun Club’s regular Wednesday shoot took place to-day on their Wellington grounds, and a more enjoyable occasion could not be asked for. Twenty shooters furnished the enjoyment, Secretary Hallam, and Went- worth coming all the way from Dover to be there. Griffiths and Cake, from Providence, Tozier from Haverhill, and all the regu- Jars you could think of, not forgetting the new faces of Nowelles and one or two friends who seemed to keep in the fast company without much trouble. Bell again was out for keeps, averaging second high for the afternoon, sharing first honors in the prize match and securing the only 15 straight of the afternoon. Harvard can well thank herself that she has such good material for future jnterests, as we are told that Yale is not far behind, and waiting the call in May. ( One of the welcome changes noted during the afternoon was Frank’s recovered form, and now we all think it will be a differ- ent story from now out. Let us hope so anyway, as Frank’s shooting lately has not been what we expected from him, and we have been trying to figure out what was the matter. We did not do it, however, but he apparently has attended to that himself, and once again is on easy street. Other scores follow: Events: 1284567 8 9$ Wl pene 1510 155p 151510105p 151515 Av. PGwes Ws. psa aelnencr n= O12 Boo AZSo. EEN eR Rs See 189 rain a state pal Bee AR Ree SCM SY dB Tie au Ere: 650 Frank, 18.0 .0ser.ecees deine Ont R10 Te Se op) LA +789 (eri Re ASA aaa sce nee: algae a Seas ae rae 740 ctor yale Ate ee cbt Oe O SetOe An as: ow. 288 Bell, 16) 2.25. 0s0--s0-+-- 5-9 G14 5aibl2 9° 9. oTy 830 Nowelles. 16.......-..+.-.- Be Ai Ree +s ak 830 Migziety TGs seh eesista)l 2 "9 51211 b&b 9 7 we 710 Woodruff, 17 Relos Gilead tO, vom Pegi 782 Hallam, 16) ..+..3<000 WAGE Vente: col Nie Pee 872 Kirkwood, 18 914 813 14 9 10 91414 14 909 Retwood, 14. ...:.--sesceees oe ee te oe oe BS rd) oraene Bae TVA TH: BIS TASS is css ein telale eceieisrejeles Hag oot ahs Sere Get pono - 400 Spencer, 18....002ceeeereee shee oe Bere aml ents Godenaaens 800 Wentworth, 16 ....-.c.0082 se ce ae ee ee Ba tee eas 520 Wadleigh, 16 ...eseeeeesee ee ve ee ee te ee § 8 811 822 107 Masure, 16...,.cceceseseeee ce ce se oe ge ne 4 8 41110 9 614 Adelina, 16) ...c.-sccceeseey “2 =e oe eae a Pe ae So .B34 Frederick, 16.......00scee8 oe ce ee 4 oe oe Reais .734 Henry, 16 ..-...cceseeeseee ce te te ce te oe te y ee: a ce: tive breaks: Bell, IGyds., 32; irkwood, yds., 215 Benes lsaglae 16: Griffiths, 19yds., 13; Tozier, 16yds., 13; Cake, l6yds., 13; Frank, 18yds., diy Prize match, distance handicap, 30 unknown: ¥11141111111111111111101001111—27 ear at =a SSO NRE Pn RM 011111140111111111111011111111—27 (dis HAS Oi. sien koe ees 111110101111011110111011111100—23 Tet hieh et aaa peice cae Hie bai yr eb: 4110111141110011111100111001111 23 Wadleigt, U6 .lusip-neems BE spy 111101011100111111110110011111—23 Voodruff, 17 ....-.ceeeeeee eee eeeeeee 101111011111011110111100111011—23 eee 10011111101110011011111.1011011—22 Nownclles, WARE A AAR q artes cancels 010111010001111411011110111111—22 Masure, 16 ....eeee-secee rere ee eeeees 141111100000111011011111100111—21 Howe, 19 .......- 111.000110001111001111111101111—21 Prior, 16°) ...-.2s+0s+9+ 000111101111000111111101010001—18 Wentworth, 16 _ .-010000000100001111110011110101—14 Hallam, 16 ......cceeeeseee cree eeees 101010000000111.01011000001001112 April 8.—The regular weekly shoot of the Boston Gun Club was held here to-day, and the inclement weather prevented a large attendance, just nine shooters braving the elements, and are now on the fence as to whether they should have been there or not. Just one clean score marred the afternoon’s sport, Frank making that mistake, and also securing high average for the afternoon; not really a Heikes or Gilbert ayerage, but very creditable for our grounds. Woodruff, too, was much in evidence, securing first position in the prize match, and running second to Frank for high average. Other scores as follows: Events: 1 Bet 5 GS 7 S- 9eS10 ail: Targets 10 10 15 10 15 15 10 15 10 15 10 Avy. Biratilc,. sb Seles ceases tue cneees § 813101110 8 9 810. 760 Lee, 16 a Debeemeda2.9-+4-78 9 Pele 6. 6 “7 Sa0i a6 SS eoes 582 letsrore, Ul Sa Pee ete 2 7 8 2 Bb) od 8)., 8 =. 1:00 Woodruff, 17 ......... eee 8. BA2 G00 aS 389 ees 750 Hallam, 16. ...,-++12-50-++- ee le Be Peed Rae) ACERT ha) 192 Williams, IG: assegecceevrecnys vf 412 8 8 713 oe 99 te (00 Howe 19 AERA eee E eee eee beh se 46 bd ok be 10 s4 a Ger, “By 68! Predenek, ME ssssitoeahean: eb ts Me reeee Peele ean T ee aT Henry, 6 ee ee ee 2 1330 Cotiseeutive breaks: Frank, 18yds., 19; V aed , ; Williams, Ioyds., & yds ; Woodruff, 17yds., 13; Woodruft, Vass ccccceeseeee eee sees o-011101011010111911111111 01111028 Prank, U8 ceccc cece dee eee esse oe L11110000111011010111011011110—21 Howe, 19 cies esce ee eee tee eu ees ees O11101111100101011110111110001—20 Williatiis, 16 ......5.0.0.c.seeea5.e 6. 5041111001111 05100101011110110018 Tee, 16 ee cee e ees ea ee ece eevee os 010011010111111110100001111 001—18 Hallam, 16 y...cccsicseseueseuss.s. 6000000101011.000000000010000100— 6 April 1i;—The Boston Gut Club’s annual team shoot takes place on their gtoufids at Wellington, April 29, and we wish to extend ah itivitation to any shooter in the United States happening to be in this vicinity at that time, and we assure him he would be more than welcome, This is the fourth annual contest of this kind that the club has held, each one going the former one just a little better, and this year's promises to be a repeated success, some ten teams of five men each having been entered, and a few more to hear ftom. The club itself has not been idle in preparing for this shoot, an extra set of traps having been installed with electric pulls, which with the regular magautrap, constitutes the trapping facilities and puts the club in position to take care of any number of shooters. There is also a long-felt want in Boston and vicinity to see the crackerjacks shoot, and while we only put up prizes tor the ama- teurs on this occasion, there would be no place that the expert would be more welcome than on our grounds. In fact, it is some years since any of the Western cracks graced our platform, and if there were a possible chance, we would like them to tread our festive boatds once again, and see how they have grown. But, then, we realize that Boston is just a trifle out of the regular route, still this does not prevent us from wanting them to come, and nothing. would stimulate trapshooting circles in this vicinity more than a visit by. these expert exponents of fire- arms, powder and shells, H. C. Krrrwoop, Sec’y. Colt Hammerless Gin Club, Hartrorp, Conn.—The scores of the Colt Mammerless Gun Club, Hartford, Conn., April-10, are appended. There was a high wind, heavy rain and hard shooting. Events: 2 Se Sa Ge 7 Targets: 10) 10) 15) 25520" 10" 20 TLETMIEI styesceree ese spe eee s biay Pet Eee we to. IGG 26 PUSHES feb ped tae einem coe ae ene cree AY 2 R14 10D A 16 AGUS Hic pits eet hack Caen lee Peaeeee ee Sd Re lh ele’ EMD ELLA al ert erieen tt ater, ate peen Ge Sada c08 eo, 7. SET Gir AAAs ctala ts « alstelaternislarcehtteeieeioe € eh Solar GIR Ge ly Apgar Siste fee oe hada eek aug cee PERE eae se Smo ts ed" AS eTO AO OM ister) arsed teerdae cas cates Sennen ne oe 8. 8 di-<21 73 G 8 Miller sci tisee ao stehice. Seb nae eae seen are s ey he MecPatridge ........2 essence ccessnssessece Gy So Tee Shi eae? COCs hs Re Rae RMA HIS HUN os Ante cictees wae ee abo wake) We at a ate ST a Ss Teta at” ae hee arte ee Akt ct’ 9s 3 (8 14 .6 (5 BAT, Se aes Aone MS vem Zones ee ce th ie. Aga 1S thege Aa Sy), poeta Bd eClari: A MALN he teebiteas eehinteae hbase 1 peg ae: Hefairst: CPSP Aaa uaeees mats eeeeins + 38) 3 YD Ses hc La er eas ee Oe ese eee at tre cepa de 6 4 ., Ossining Gun Club, Osstntnc, N. Y., April 11.—The members. of the Ossining Gun Club, at their regular Saturday shoot to-day were glad to have as guests two of the best exponents of the fine art of. shooting in and around New York, Dr. Martin and Bob Schneider. The competition was keen, for the Ossining boys, though not out in great force, were intent on getting high average on their own grounds. One of the members of the prize committee came up ‘during the shoot with the medal this club is to donate to the shoot in June. The medal cost $100, and is most appropriately designed, the main pendant is a clay bird, on which is the arms of the State of New York and proper wording. In the space between this and the bar is a 1-karat diamond on a small pendant. This medal is for the amateur championship of the New York State Association at 60 singles and 20 pairs: Events: Oe Soe Ebaby ele ee go) hele el Sees Targets: 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 25 25 25 25 25. Avy. Dr Martin ..:....... 99 9 8 8 9 8 9 10 22 22 23 22 25 897 G R Schneider 910 81010 910 8 921 .. - 904 JAIGh aise Me de ora en Bae TST, Stim O Ree Oe ON ot> he ¥ 740 HM ELylctritlietye so theose eat GS ReGen =: 660 en Gaetano wene se sterner At otal, 5,00) Sam hee ie espe -720 (ey Wash butt. uvaisnmece ts 8 7 9 9 9 810 20 23 22 22 21 860 [Sats Jealepulahivoruly AAA SS eich ae, oe Saree esha pets or he) cae 907 EB YAN UDG, inate eevee Oe eaten see eels u ooh CG Elh bell... o- spe BES ie TTS c eet C.G.B York Shoot, Suoor at York, Pa., April 19, for the county target trophy and the club cup event, each at 50 targets, MacMiller, of Felton, won the trophy with 49, and now holds both the live-bird and target championship county trophies; Burnham and Jackson tied for the cup event with 42, and in the shoot-off Jackson won with 21 to Burnham’s 19. The total scores follow: Events: ih Pes Bye a) fh ore tee il Siaroye Targets 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 50 50 at. Broke. ROSE tet ondickk soon aot de 59 8 8 8 83642 160 124 Bob White .......< vate £8.68. 6) 7 46 i Sesbr32, RO" 128 Grove ie VOR yf Gee SPhBtE sitdite eal Nevin 9 96.°5 “bh 4°75. Bt 2S pr = 104 Miller 899968 8..4941 176 147 McSherry bo? 8 8 1658) F-83888 T0° - 183 Smith 69 7 8 7 & 836 120 91 Bush 3 6° 8 % 9: G30. 28) ~ 160 98 Site ee cn ahora rrect erin ve sete eon eis 8 9 710-3937 140 86110 ES Tineft lieth lacey Wala leieiettaistere: osc) msreo setae 9 8 9 7 43 42 140 118 IDK ake, GS Gaon ignaconn oe. sono oe T 4... .. 30:21 120 62 ALLEN M. SErtz, Delta Shoot. Gien Rocx, Pa., April 11.—Shoot at Delta Pa.; April 9; Events: 123 45 67 8 9 1011 12 13 14 15 16 17 Targets 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 Stover SS neonkaeoere 4 6 510 610 5 9 9°910 8 8 9 87 8 8 GROVE) eras sat to 05 bie PIR ie 16858: 6D BBB OD 1G) 9 10. “4 8 9 84 7 Fae i fend: O77? DORR LIOR PSCES SRR ERS er eS SES Gi Ae ee Cie VIP Ge oe LO 9" Dee of leu Ls Me ie 9 Gin L0s 8-0 Gh oe One: BanOp ioe) Abeer Gand) ALON Geile Oo Si POS Sta vr fe art Gael vbeOn ae Oo eo OM Sal Vp ne Le Lee ee, Choe or hak be lee pit ae Ome one § Roberts ‘ he cy EDL mae feta Famous 4 le tre eA ae A Silver 3 AAC ASEM A tem sjen ye day Wisindts Gace she Beh abe orb a re vi " “Atten M. Serrz. Omaha Items, Omauna, Neb., April 8—The recent trap tournament at Grand Island under. the auspices of the Grand Island and North Platte gun clubs, was one of the best attended, most spirited and best regulated tournaments held in the State this year. There was three days’ shooting, with a daily entry list of over forty, among whom was champion Bill Crosby, of O’Fallon, Ill. In the two days he shot he dropped but two targets out of 250 shot at, but being a professional, was barred from getting in on the money. Billy Townsend, the popular sporting goods man, of this city, captured the Dickey Bird cup, emblematic of the State’s cham- pionship, with 47 out of 50, against thirty-nine competitors. W. Hi. Kerr, of Concordia, Kas., won the high average. The City next Tuesday, and Billy Townsend will chaperone a dele- gation of Nebraska shooters to the scene of action, leaving via the St. J. & K. C. R. R. next Monday night, In Townsend’s bunch will be Sandy McDonald, Dave Morrell, Frank Dvorak, oe Dreisbach, and Frank Togg, of Omaha; Frank Beard, of rina A. Reed, of Ohiowa; W. H. Hlian, of Albion; G. A. Grand American Handicap at targets opens up at Kansas | Schroeder and Dan Bray, of Columbus; F. R. Patch, of Hartley + . * P i! ? ’ Ia.; Dick Linderman, of Lincoin, and Deputy State Game Warden George Carter, of Notth Platte. The week following the same delegation goes to Concordia, Kas., for the State shoot, thence back to Littcoli, the succeeding week for the Nebraska State Spottsmeti’s antiual tieet, Sanpy GRISWOLD. Peru Tournament. Peru, Ind.—The seventh annual toutnamefit of the Peru Gun Club was held:on April 7 and 8. The weather was good, and the management was perfect. ; On Monday the match between Mr. J. L. Head, the State champion, and Mr. Hugh Clark, of Wabash, Ind., took place, — the scores of which were as follows: EPEAT stats aig Selec 2*2211222222921 971 *222222201222911121*2121221 2012244 Slap eee 12 DP EQQ*2D4I 222 222242499992") 22022220920 0209000200—A1 The conditions were 50 birds, $50 a side, for the live-bird cham- picrship of Indizna. Mr. Fred H. Lord, of Chicago, was referee. Mr. Max Witz, of Ft, Wayne, challenged Mr. Head for the cham- pionship, and the match may take place on April 24. First Day, Aprif 7. Evetits: 123 465 6 7°8 9 101112 Broke. Targets, 15 to each event: Long, sss.ssss 3 sali okrepeeteale -13 1414 1414 14181312181312 159 eT deginkcy scieerrerirtac ce a Aichhine 11 1213 11 141013 1214181112 140 TED NROMARRLEN a poate Pere: 15 8 14 14 12 12 1212161381315 155 TEP ists) 3 Fo Samsara 12 141413811 1115 15 151314138 — 160 Partie LOIN o, bel. 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WATE, GO hi Se oe ren lille oi terasreken nero 1413813 1412121511 154 ICR es Heb pAponn Sooceed diene 1313 141015101112 145 Clark 1113121115101212 147 WRAILBIS: ABA EE Boo Soe s 1 S183 93815 11 13 i 13 11 bn IDS yeboibe And AANA Se SoGdauoas” 13 1810 914101312 141013812 143 EN oyptaceyece yy canto ebb yo es) xx, te) deen ta W18141313 13 .. Atkinson ae prea a, 3 eee Pitisfteld Gun Club. Pirrsrietp, Mass., April 11.—The scores made at the shoot of the Pittsfield Gun Club to-day are appended. Neaf Apgar made the extraordinary total of 117 out of 120 targets, The weather was comfortably pleasant: : Events: 28 a be 85 9 Shote. Targets: 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 25 25 at. Broke. 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Reduced Rates to St. Louis, VIA PENNBYLVANITA RAILR®AD, ACCOUNT DEDICATICN LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. For the benefit of those desiring to attend the Dedication cere- monies of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, at St, Louis, Mo., April 30 to May 2, and the National and Internarional Good Roads Convention, April 27 to May 2, the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany will sell excursion tickets to St. Louis and return from all stations on its lines, April 26, 27, 28 and 29, good going only on date of sale and good returning to leave St. Louis not later than May 4, Tickets must be executed by Joint Agent for return pas- sage, for which service no fee will be charged.—ddv, The Laflin & Rand Powder Co., informs us that Mrs. .Nellie Bennett, widow of the late A. L. Bennett, of Colorado, has joined the company’s forces as a traveling representative, and that she is the only woman representative on the staff of a smokeless powder company in the United States. Her favorite load at the traps is 24 grains of L. & R. “Infallible” and 14g ounces of chilled shot. She will take part in the Grand American Handicap at targets at Kansas City, this month, and any other shoots that take place along her line of travel. “Phe Trapshooters’ Guide” is an artistic booklet issued by the Winchester Repeating Arms Co., New Haven, Conn. It contains the Interstate Association’s Trapshooting rules, the standard systems for dividing purses, a list of loads for traps and field shooting, some bright shooting apothegms. It will be sent com- plimentary to applicants. ~ Capt. George E. Bartlett was recently a guest of the Douglas Gun Club, of Bristol, Ariz., one of his feats being specially mar- velous. After throwing a tomato can in the air, he with a re- peating shotgun hit it six times before it reached the ground. He uses Peters ammunition and a. Marlin pump gun, The Crown Land Department of Fishery Leases, Province of New Brunswick, will sell at public auction on April 23, some ten salmon streams. [Further information can be had of D. G. Smith, Chatham, N. B., Canada, LL, W. Ferdinand & Co. haye recently sold the Herreshoff Mfg. Company a quantity of Jefirey’s patent liquid quick-drying marine glue, “C” quality, for use in laying the canvas on the decks of Reliance. 1a f aes FOREST AN A WEEKLY Journat OF THE Ron. anp Gun 0" i CopyricuT, 1908, BY Forest AND ae, Popissinie Co, Trrms, $4.4 Year. 10 Crs. A Copy. } S1x Monts, : NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1908. { VOL. LX.—No, 11. No. 846 Broapway, New Yor«K THE PLANK IN NEW YORK. Tue New York Assembly on Monday last passed the Armstrong Bill, which had already gone through the Senate, to prohibit the sale of woodcock and grouse killed in the State. This is not all that it should be, but it is a tremen- dous step in the right direction. Tt will mean an end of lawful killing for market in New York. It will mean that the most destructive element in the reduction of the game supply will have been eliminated. The action of the Legislature is a great victory for the cause of game protection and for the sportsmen. That is to say, for the citizens of the State of New York. zens. That blatant objection to the anti-sale restriction which is put forward under pretense that to stop the sale of game would be to deprive the masses in favor of a privileged class, has not the slightest founda- The sportsmen are the masses. The There are scores of For the sportsmen are the citi- tion in reason. market shooters are the class. sportsmen fo one market shooter. The anti-sale law gives the scores a chance to get some game on their holidays, that is to say, Tt de- prives the market shooter of pursuing game on his that is to say, his shooting and snaring their shooting days. work days, days. It insures the permanence of the outdoor sport of shooting. It stops the outdoor business of market hunting. It secures the greatest good to the greatest number. What has been done this year in Massa- echusetts, Texas, New York and elsewhere by the adop- StrREAM Platform Planlx —“The sale of game should be forbidden at all sea- tion of the Forest AND sons,’ may be done and soon will be done for the entire country by the enactment everywhere of the same beneficent law. LIMIT THE BAG, THE game protective idea is growing more and more rapidly as time passes, and a large class of people whose pursuits give them little interest in it and who are without practical knowledge of its working, are unconsciously acquiring proper ideas on the subject. Even the average legislator now considers game bills with a certain amount of respect. One form which this game protective idea has taken is the acquiring of large tracts of land by individuals or groups of sportsmen, and the stocking—or at least the stringent protection—of this private property. All along the lakes of the West, and at many points throughout the central region, as well as at many localities on the Atlantic seaboard, from Maine to Florida, are the grounds of shooting clubs, associa- tions and individuals from which the general public ‘is. rigidly excluded. Such grounds the birds are in- yited by various attractions to visit or to remain on. They are protected from molestation by all except the owners of the land, often some spots are set aside as actual game refuges, where even the owners do not shoot. Frequently the birds are liberally fed, in case their natural food seems to be growing scarce. In exchange for the time and money expended to in- duce the birds to resort to such protected grounds, the owners take from them such toll as they can during the season, and when the shooting is good they kill as many birds as practicable. This certainly is natural enough, and is very likely what we all of us would do, even though we may preach a different doctrine. Among the restrictions placed on shooting by the statutes of various States, there is one often advocated by Forrest AND STREAM, and which in time is likely to be generally adopted. This is a bag limit. It is com- ing to be recognized that if the greatest good of the greatest number is ta be considered, no man should be allowed to kill in a day or a season more than a certain number of birds—his share. The game belongs to the State, and the State presumably desires the great- est good of all its citizens, and wishes its game to go possible to all its citizens; it is certainly within its powers to limit the quantity of game to be taken -pre- cisely as it limits the period during which game may be taken. We may say, that to be’ absolutely fair, the State should divide up the game within its borders— which can be killed without injury to the game supply —and should allow to each gunner or each person wishing any of the game his relative proportion of that game. In other words, the State should issue a ration of game to its inhabitants. There are many States which have not yet reached the point of legislating for a bag limit. But since such legislation is likely to come and probably within a few -yeats, we are inclined to think that it would be a fitting and a graceful thing were the owners of these private preserves voluntarily to establish for themselves with- out legislation, a limit for the birds to be killed each season. It would be fitting, too, for such clubs and associations by their by-laws to abolish—as, indeed, many such clubs already have abolished—the ~ shoot- ing of wild fowl in the spring. The members of such associations being commonly well-to-do, and presum- ably persons of intelligence and education, may be as- sumed to know perfectly well that wildfowl ought not to be shot in the spring, and that the number of birds to be killed in any season ought to be limited. It is easy to recognize how very strong is the temp- tation to take advantage of the rare days when birds are flying well, when at last there comes the opportun- ity to make up for all the dull days that have gone before. Here is a man, let us say, who has’an oppor- tunity to go shooting once a year and for. a single week. Perhaps for five days of that week, he sits in his boat or blind, and sees the clouds of wildfowl fly- ing, or resting in great beds on the water and never moving or coming near his decoys. On the sixth day comes gunnning weather, and the birds.pile into his stools so fast that his gun gets hot, and he has to wait for it to cool off. The stress of such circumstances might tax one’s resolution; but even under such conditions it would be easier to stop. shooting when one could say he had reached the prescribed limit, than it would be to lay down one’s gun without any such gratifying consciousness. In view of game conditions, the gunner ought to put a limit on his shooting, and just as we advocated that a part of their season should be cut off in spring from the Long Island gunners, so we firmly believe that the members of clubs and associations controlling private. preserves, the well-to-do men who spend their time and their money to protect the birds—though for their own uses—ought to be limited in their shooting, both as to bag and as to time. THE TARGET SHOOTING OUTLOOK. THERE are those who predict the decline of target shooting as a consequence of the prohibition of live bird shooting in a number of States, and of a certain degree of public sentiment against it. ‘The signs of the times do not sustain the calamity prediction. The large number of target tournaments already ‘held and to be held throughout the United States this year, show an increase instead of a decrease in the sport.- The recent Interstate Association Grand American Handicap at Targets, held at Kansas City, is in itself an object lesson of the stability and breadth of the trap- shooting interests in the United States.- It did not have half the number of entries of the live bird handicaps, held in Kansas City, last year, yet those who deduce a decrease in trapshooting from this difference of en- tries, have given the matter only a superficial analysis. The two events do not admit of comparison as an in- dex of the trapshooting situation. There were special reasons why the G. A. H. at live birds, held at Kansas City last year, should have a large entry. It was a new event in that region; it was held in a section of country containing excellent field shots; it was held in a city centrally situated; it had the prestige of years of history, and the money rewards to the contestants were incomparably greater. Jet us now consider the Grand American target tournament. It has not the money attractions that the corresponding live bird event had; target shooting in the West was an old, old institution, and, therefore, was not a novelty; and it as far as possible and to furnish as much pleasure as could not draw on the field shooters as could the live bird shooting. Probably the true reason for the greater entry in the live bird event was the large sums of money to be won in it. Let the inducement be suffi- cient in the way of a reward and men will journey long distances on a possibility. of winning. However, with nearly 200 contestants in an event, no one can there- from deduce a decline in interest and support of trap- shooting. With gun, gunpowder and ammunition fac- tories running to their utmost capacity, there must be a corresponding consumption of their output, all of which denote activity in the wholesome sport .of trap- shooting. A glance at our column of fixtures will also be proof that there is no cessation in the target inter- ests. ; STEPS FORWARD. Ir the cause of game protection receives a setback now and then, as was the case recently in Connecticut, its ad- vocates have yet abundant reason to congratulate them- selves on the continued progress which it is making. Last week the New York Assembly passed Senator Brown’s bill to prohibit the shooting of ‘ducks in, the spring, and it has now gone to the Governor for signature. Tt will undoubtedly be signed, for the Assembly passed: it in response to an urgency message from the Governor. As finally passed, it excepts from its operation the brant, which birds, as is well known, make their appearance..in Great South Bay in shootable numbers only in the spring. The advocates and opponents of the ‘bill have thus each won something of a victory, and may fairly, feel satisfied. , In our news columns reference has recently been mes to the excellent game law just passed in Texas. While we have not received the text of this it is understood to prohibit the sale of game, to protect many insectivorous birds, to establish a bag limit, and absolutely to forbid the taking of mountain sheep, of which there are a few left in Texas. Wyoming is reported to pigs season. on moose, and a five-year close season on antelope. The Wyoming winter in the’ Rocky Mountains has been one of great severity, and unques- tionably a vast amount of game, chiefly elk, has perished by starvation. Forest AND STREAM has- more than onte called attention to the fact that the settling up of the country south of Jackson Hole has cut the elk off from their winter range, and the letters received by Mr. A. A. Anderson, Special Superintendent of the Yellowstone Forest Reserve, and printed in another column, show the terrible straits to which these animals are reduced. It is understood that Mr. Anderson has contributed out of his own means a large amount of money to be used in purchasing hay to feed these starving elk, an act of humanity which entitles him to the greatest credit. Mr. Anderson suggests that the recurrence of a period of star- vation like that of the past winter may be avoided in future by making provision for feeding the elk, and this should be done, if it is impossible to open a way to these animals to their old time feeding grounds in the Colorado Desert. These feeding grounds are very likely useless now, even if the elk could get to them, because they are being more and more run over by the domestic sheep and turned into barren wastes where no vegetation grows., put a ten-year close George W. Van Siclen, of this city, who died last Monday, April 20, at the age of 62, was one of the well-known anglers of New York. He was for many years a member of the Willewemoc Club, whose club house was on the shore of Willewemoc Lake in Sulli- van coutity. Mr. Van Siclen was of the class of schol- arly anglers, and in 1875, desiring to add to his angling library a copy of Dame Juliana Berners’ “Treatyse of Fysshynge,” and finding that it would cost in the orig- inal edition of 1496 from $2,500 to $3,000, he brought out an American reprint, based on the text of the Eng- lish reprint of 1827. & Joseph B. Thompson’s consideration of the, bearing of the recent Supreme Court lottery case de- cision upon the constitutionality of the Lacey Act, will be read with deserved attention by all who are inter- ested in the operation of the Federal law. Mr. Thomp- son is a member of the New York bar, who has de- voted much study to the subject of game legislation and the principles underlying it; and by his published writings he has done much to advance a pepular under- standing of the theory of { ate protective system. 322 FOREST AND STREAM, [APRIL 25, 1903. ee Che Sportsman Courist. —_ ?——_ A Cruise in the Ojibway Paradise. In Two Parits—Part One, THE attractions of the Ojibway Paradise, or the Tema- gami Lake region, had become irresistible, and after many conferences with Mr. Salsbury, passenger agent of the C. P. R. R., who was most patient and obliging, and did everything in his power to procure information for us, we left Pittsburg on the evening of August 26, 1902. Leav- ing Toronto at one o’clock we reached North Bay about half past ten on the 27th and spent the rest of the night at the hotel. We dressed in our cruising suits the next morning and soon after six o'clock were rushing eastward to Mattawa on the C. P, express. Mattawa is quife a pretty town with several hotels, a number of large brick business buildings and many pretty homes. There is a magnificent stone cathedral here, but we did not have time to yisit it. From Mattawa we took the branch road which con- nects Mattawa with Kippewa. The train on this road runs only three times a week—Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, leaving Mattawa about ten in the morning and returning about five in the evening, thus making con- nections with the steamer on Lake Temiscaming. We had but a short wait at Mattawa and did not try to see the town until our return. The branch road follows the windings of the Ottawa River, which, with its high bluffs and numerous rapids, is very picturesque. We arrived at Temiscaming before one o'clock and went to the Bellevue Hotel for dinner, We were already dressed in our cruising suits, so ar- ranged to have our trunk left in the wareroom, after taking out our duffle and putting in our suit case, travel- ing hats and coats. We should have taken our trunk through to Haileybury, changed our clothes at the hotel there and had the trunk sent back to the hotel at Temis- caming. _ About three o’clock we began our journey up Lake Temiscaming. The dav was warm, the air pure and clear and the scenery charming. The steamer is small, but we were fortunate enough to get a stateroom, and the meals were good. About dark we passed the mouth of the Montreal River, and an hour later tied up to the dock at Ville Marie for the night. In the morning the steamer left Ville Marie before I had commenced to think about getting up, so I did not see the town. As we came from the dining room, after an excellent breakfast, the whistle blew for Haileybury, and we rushed down to see after our baggage. There are but few docks and the water is so shallow the steamer has to anchor out in the lake. A pointer, which they tow, is brought alongside the steamer and bageage and passengers taken ashore in that. A surveying party was going ashore at Haileybury to do some work up the Montreal River, and we had to wait for the pointer to make the second trip. There will be no trouble of that kind at Haileybury in the future, for they were building a dock when we were there. Tourists can outfit at Mattawa and start on the canoe trip at the mouth of the Montreal, and then into the Matabitchouan River; but this is going up stream, and a shallow one at that, with a heavy load of provisions. The Matabitchouan ‘is full of shallow rapids that can be run coming down stream with light loads, but must be carried around going up. Then there are two portages over a mile long on this river, and both of them are hard, so it is well to have the loads as light as possible when you reach them. These are the only long, hard portages on the trip. We had written to Mr. Paul A. Cobbold, at Hailey- bury, to engage two good guides and, when we finally got ashore, he and the two guides were waiting for us. The guides picked up our baggage and we all went to Mr. Cobbold’s store for provisions. Our guides were Samuel Stata and Robert Morrison, professional guides and thoroughly reliable and trust- worthy. They know all this region well, are first-class woodsmen and old hunters, and as an outdoor cook Sam has but few equals. These men spared no pains to make us comfortable, and took us on side trips for extra good’ fishing, to show us game and for good duck shooting. For carrying they used the tump line, a leather strap not less than twenty feet long. This is made by taking a piece of leather from two to three inches wide and about two feet long, then sewing to each end a strap about ten feet long and tapering from an inch wide at one end to less than one-half inch at the other. For carrying the narrow straps are tied, one around each end of a box or large pack, in such a way that when the broad strap is placed around the forehead the pack rests on the hips. Other packs are then piled on this till a man has all he can carry. The last pack rests on the back of his neck and head, thus leaving both hands free. Our guides could carry two hundred pounds over a short portage without stopping to rest. In outfitting we used the provision list we had last summer, adding two pounds of dried peaches, two pounds of raisins and two cans of evaporated cream. At Mr. Cobbold’s suggestion we changed our list to three pounds coffee, two pounds tea, ten pounds flour, ten pounds corn meal and twenty-two pounds bread. The bread was baked especially for carrying, in a brick oven, and, while not hard, was well baked. Each loaf was baked in a separate pan and well browned all over. We had no trouble keep- ing it, for while it did not get hard, neither did it mould, and we ate the last of it the twelfth day out. We got all our provisions from Mr. Cobbold, and found the bacon and everything first-class, with prices about the same as at home. We had with us a cooking outfit, one tent, two gum blankets, duffle bags, small sacks for provisions, a small ax and two pair of six-pound woolen blankets. Mr. Cobbold said we would not be warm enough and, at his suggestion, we hired a rabbit skin blanket. These are made by the Indians. They cure the skins and cut them round and round till they have a long string like a carpet tag, which is then twisted, fur side out, and knit into a blanket. We would have suffered with the cold without eur rabbit skin blanket. We also hired one tent and two -ground and we stopped here for dinner. pair of blankets for the guides, one tarpaulin for covering provisions at night, two tump lines, one additional bucket for cooking, a shotgun and a large ax, for Sam said we would need good fires to keep us warm. Everything needed for either hunting or fishing trip, except guns and fishing tackle, can be hired from Mr. Cobbold at very reasonable rates. Indeed, when we had bought our pro- visions and paid our bill we felt that we had never been more fairly treated when outfitting. Mr. Cobbold has for hire birchbark, basswood and cedar canoes at from twenty-five to fifty cents per day. As we had never cruised in an Indian canoe we hired one large birchbark. The guides packed everything in the sacks and went to engage the team to haul us over the six-mile portage to Sharp Lake, and we went to the hotel for dinner. There is a good hotel here, and we got an excellent dinner for twenty-five cents. The guides had got their dinner zt their own homes, and when we came back to the store had everything on the wagon and were ready to start. The first part of the road is good, and has been enchant- ing before the pine forest, through which it runs, -was burned. We passed several clearings with comfortable log houses on them and stopped at the last one for a drink. An old gentleman was sitting by the door reading a book that he had gotten out of the library at Hailey- bury. I have forgotten the title, but remember it was a story of the far North. The road was getting very rough and we had given up our seats on the wagon soon after leaving the burnt country. We found a coat and small satchel on the road. The satchel contained a rosary, a prayer book, and a deck of cards. The owner was evidently gettings things badly mixed. A wagon, carrying provisions for the surveying party, was ahead of us making the trip overland to Partage Bay, and these things had fallen off the load. We enjoyed the walk through the woods very much, but decided that, by the time the driver got his team back to Haileybury he would earn his $5, for the road is horribly rough in places. The guides had our canoe loaded and we were about ready to start across Sharp Lake when the rest of the surveying party arrived and the coat and satchel, which the guides had put in the shelter house that stands here, found owners. We crossed Sharp Lake, made a short portage to and crossed Mud Lake, camping for the night on the end of the portage from Mud Lake to the Montreal River. By seven o’clock the next morning we had crossed the portage and were ready to start up the river. We were traveling in one large birchbark canoe, 16 feet long, with a 37-inch beam. It had never been used and weighed about 65 pounds when we started and 100 pounds at the end of the trip. One guide would carry the canoe over the portage and the other one, making two trips, all the baggage, which weighed 350 pounds. The shores of the Montreal for some distance were high bluffs, and one especially high point on our left is called Huckleberry Hill. All along this part of the river were beds of the most exquisitely colored moss. The dark maroon, which was a rich wine color in the sunlight, blended into the faintest, most delicate of yellows and greens. Nature, when furnishing her kingdom, had, with lavish hand, spread a carpet for her feet that exceeded, in texture and color, the far-famed weaves of the Orient. We had paddled through two or three short rapids and gone some distance up the river when we came to the first portage, which is quite short, Above these falls are beaver meadows, where the shores were full of moose tracks. On the second portage there is a good camp After dinner the guides ran a hot skillet handle over the pitch on the seams of the canoe, for it was leaking in a dozen places. Our canoe was just new, but I believe that is not a recommendation for a birch bark. Birch bark suitable for making canoes has become very scarce in this region. Mr. Cobbold told us that the In- dian who made his canoes had only succeeded in getting enough for four the past season. As we were about ready to push off, the surveying party we had left on Sharp Lake the afternoon before crossed the portage and began preparations for dinner. The chief engineer was very courteous, offering to render any assistance, and giving us some valuable information regarding the country north of this. We were now in a part of the river known as Bay Lake, which is very pretty, and when we came to Partage Bay we could look over great stretches of open water to the blue hills away off in the distance. Just before we reached Pork Rapids we crossed a bay to visit an Indian named Joe Watta, who was camped in a red pine grove. He had two or three tents but no house. There were three rabbit skin blankets hanging out. One of them was new and the fur, which is whiter than on our rabbits, makes a very handsome gray fur blanket that is soft, light and very warm. The blankets sell for $15. A tanned moose hide, with two bullet holes in it, had been hung up to dry. It was a lovely shade of yellow and very soft and pliable. The moose meat was hanging on the drying rack over a smouldering fire, but-the flies had been there before us, so we did not buy any. In the garden were cucumbers, pumpkins, potatoes, beans, onions, corn and rutabagas. Vegetables grow well here, for, while the season is short, it is warm and the soil is very fertile. We made a short portage around Pork Rapids, and when we launched our canoe again were in the forest reserve. For some distance the river is broad with low shores fringed with reeds and covered with hemlock, maple, poplar and an occasional cedar, while the hills in the distance are covered with pine. The frost had painted the poplars yellow and touched the maples with red, add- ing much to the beauty of the river. About five o’clock we landed‘on Red Pine Point at the head of a bay just below the narrows, where the river makes a sharp bend. We camped in a grove of red pine trees, magnificent speci- mens, many of them a hundred feet high, growing tall and straight, with no limbs except a clump at the top, We were sheltered by a hill back of our camp and had a pretty view across the bay and down the river. Taking our rods and fly book, we went to the narrows to try our luck while the guides put the tents in shape for the night and cooked supper. The fish were not hungry, but we were, and gladly went to supper when the guides called. Some time in the night we were wakened by the cry of an owl. I thought it was a pack of wolves, for I had never heard an owl make a noise like that before. wild and picturesque. There was a first cry that sounded quite near, followed by a peculiar hooting that sounded some distance away. he next morning was very cloudy, and as it was Sun- day we did not move camp, The Doctor and Sam went cut and caught a fish for breakfast, and Sam baked some corn cakes that were not hard to eat, but I never cared to count the number that disappeared off my plate. After applying hot skillet handles to the bottom of the canoe, we took our storm coats, camera, two tin cups and the gun and went up the river. Above the narrows the tiver widens until, near the mouth of the Mattawapika River, it is almost a lake and contains great beds of rushes and wild rice. We had expected to get a duck here, but they were so wild we could not get close enough for a shot. Jamie Mowett, a Scotchman that used to be in the employ of the Hudson Bay Company, is married to an Indian woman and lives at the head of this bay. He has a comfortable log house, but his garden was not as good as the Indian’s we had seen the day before. It was still early, so we bought a loaf of bread, a jar of huckleberry jam and a quart of milk and continued on our way up the river in the hope of getting a duck. We paddled through marshes and beds of wild rice, but did not get a shot at a duck, and about one o’clock went ashore for dinner. Sam had a small hunting knife and we cut the bread with it, but the blade was too narrow to be of much use getting jam out of a jar. Bob cut two notches, one above the other, in a small poplar, split off the piece between and made two nice little paddles that brought out the jam. We ate all the jam, nearly all the bread and drank all the milk. There were high bush cranberries growing around us and we gathered about a quart and Sam found some black currants‘and put with them. We were at least six miles from camp, with a stiff head wind and an occasional shower, so we gave up the ducks and returned. We cooked our cranberries in lots of water, strained them through a piece of clean muslin, sweetened the juice, put it on the fire again, and in a few minutes had our jar full of jelly, which proved to be delicious; the handful of currants had greatly improved the flavor. The wind had been increasing all evening, and as we sat by the fire I kept watching the tops of the big pine trees swaying back and forth till one of the guides, thinking I was afraid, said there was no danger as long as the wind contined in that direction. It commenced to rain, and the guides covered the provisions over carefully with the tarpaulin and we went to bed. About eleven o’clock Sam called us and said he did not like the conditions of the weather; he was afraid we were going to have a storm, The wind had changed and was very high, and the clouds had a stormy look, The guides thought we had better move across the bay to a clearing where an Indian, Petin Albany, lived. We soon had our shoes on and I gathered up my hairpins out of the crown of my hat, tied them in my handkerchief, and we were ready to start. The canoe was launched, and taking our pine bed, blankets and tent we paddled across the bay. It was a good deal of a disappointment to be blown out of such a warm, comfortable bed into the cold at twelve o’clock at night. The night was dark, the sky very stormy looking and the wind high enough to make things more than in- teresting. I thought we would stirely be blown on the rocks before we could find the Indian’s landing, but after paddling along the shore a couple of times we found a tiny dock. The canoe was lifted ashore and we went up to the Indian’s house but he was away and the door fastened on the outside with a padlock. Our tent was soon up and the bed made, then the guides, wrapping up in their blankets, crept under the canoe and we heard Bob say: “JT wonder what we did with the jelly?” The wind had been increasing and was now blowing very hard, but we were safe and slept well. We had a 7x7 “A” tent, and it was almost impossible to put it up so the wind could not blow under. The best tent for such a trip is a 7x8 with an 18-inch wall, and when put up there should be 6 inches on the ground, leaving a 12-inch wall. The six inches on the ground is drawn in under the tent and the bed is made on this, thus shutting out the cold wind. The blow was over in the morning, and the pine trees were all standing. The guides were inclined to apologize, but we concluded that guides who would go to that much trouble for the sake of protecting tourists were worth having. After an early breakfast we loaded the canoe and were soon at the Mattawapika Falls, which are very The water falls over in three divisions, or falls, which are separated by well wooded islands. We were just on the edge of the Laurentian fcrmation and the ragged cliffs were of a slaty rock while the river bed was full of boulders, many of them weighing hundreds of tons. For some distance above the falls the high bluffs aré very rugged. There is a copper mine on the right shore, but it is too far from the railroad to be profitable. . Coming through a narrows into a wide bay full of rushes and wild rice, we saw a number of muskrat _houses and a big flock of ducks. Landing on a cranberry swamp we gathered low bush cranberries, or the berry of commerce, On the sandy beach where we landed we saw fresh tracks of a wolf following a deer. The side trips on which the guides took us for berries, ducks, or fish, or up some little hidden creek, or to see a pretty fall, or to the top of a hill where we could get a wonderful view, were quite a rest, and added much to the interest of our cruise. When we reached Mattawapika Lake we landed on an island, made tea and ate a lunch. Near the foot of the lake we went ashore on a sandy beach to explore what seemed a lake lying some distance back from the bay, but proved to be an arm of the bay that could be reached through a narrow outlet some distance further down, On the beach we found moccasin and moose tracks. Early in the afternoon we passed through the Obisaga Narrows, and were in Lady Evelyn Lake, with its cold, sparkling blue water and its beautifully wooded islands. The day was perfect. the sky a clear, bright blue with here and there an island of fleecy white clouds. The water was rough from the wind the night before, which added to the exhilaration and made the canoe seem a thing of life as it bounded oyer the waves. On our right, in the distance, was the house where one of the fire marshals lived; in front was water and islands and pine trees; on our left was water and islands and pine trees, and beyond them rose the Maple Mountains, a broken line of deep, intense blue against a blue sky. Apri 28, 1003.] er ee IS = It was a magnificent view, and if once seen would never be forgotten. Lady Evelyn Lake is almost a thousand feet above sea- level, and the Maple Mountains are over two thousand Keeping to the left across Lady Evelyn we passed near an island on which there is a fine camp ground, table, benches and everything convenient. We were on an arm ef the lake stretching toward the west and intended te camp for the night on the portage around the Sucker Gut falls. About half way down this arm we passed the home ot a Pagan Indian who had died the year before, but his family still lived here, and on a little island near his house there were not less than a dozen bear skulls hang- ing on the trees. The old Indian had, no doubt, recited the harangue, or apology, to the spirit of the bear when ~ he killed it and then hung the head where no animal could desecrate it, for the lower jaw-bone was securely tied to the upper jaw with cedar bark. The cedar bark was in a fair state of preservation, though the skulls had evidently been hanging there for years, as the bones were old and moss-grown. We were traveling almost due west and directly toward the Maple Mountains that rose up grand and beautiful far beyond the wide expanse of water we were traversing. ‘This arm of the lake ends in a pocket inclosed by high bluffs with a break on the left where the Sucker Gut Riyer comes tumbling down over the falls. We camped on the upper end of the portage, and after supper the guides took us two or three miles up the river, where there are good feeding grounds for moose. We saw plenty of ducks, but no moose, although they had been tramping all along the shore. : We had heard of the wonderful trout fishing in Mc- Pherson Lake, and, like many other tourists, were under the impression that we could make the trip to McPherson Lake, catch all the trout we wanted, and return to the Sucker Gut Falls in one day. On learning that this could not be done, we left the arrangements for the trip entirely to the guides. Bob had taken two parties over this rottte, and_one of the parties had gone through to Florence and Smoothwater lakes, then down the East Branch to the Montreal River, which they followed to Mud Lake, and so back to Haileybury. We took with us enough provisions for three days, one tent, all the blankets and the cooking outfit. The other tent was left standing and everything we did not take along we cached in it until our return. I wanted a light to get some things in our tent that we were to take along, and Bob made me a candlestick. He took a round stick an inch in diameter and two feet long; one end of this he sharpened and split the other end down about two inches; then, aking a piece of birch bark, made a kind of pocket in which he set the candle. The loose ends of the birch bark were then drawn through the split in the end of the stick till the candle was held firmly in place. By shoving the sharp end of the stick in the ground the light could be placed where it was needed. A. W. C. [To BE CONCLUDED. | Bad Wien of the West. THE recent articles on the “bad men” of the West were quite interesting. They call to mind many dark incidents ci border history. I quite agree with Mr. Day in his contention that these frontier terrors should not be paraded as heroes. Yet I think that some of these bad men were not as bad as they have been pictured. There were two distinct classes of bad men. One class con- sisted of men whose quick aim and intrepid bravery made them a terror to evildoers. The other was of those who killed for the mere love of blood and for the sake of notoriety. James Hickok, or “Wild Bill,’ as he is better known, was an example of the first class, while King Fisher, Alf Shade, Bill Longley and the Daltons were examples of the second class. - Wald Bill rose to fame as a man killer in the celebrated Rock Creek fight, in which he whipped ten desperadoes in a fierce hand-to-hand encounter. From that time on he was a target for the bullets of the aspiring bad men and was thus forced into many a deadly encounter which otherwise he might have avoided. As marshal of Abilene and Hays City, he sticceeded in clearing that locality of miost of its desperadoes, but in no instance was he the aggressor. That his heart was not in the work is shown by his many acts of kindness to the widows and children of his victims. He always paid the funeral expenses of the man he killed, and always appeared as chief mourner. Were it not for such men the West would never have been tamed. They had a mission of their own to fulfill, and knives and revolvers were the only life insurance policies they could carry. i With King Fisher and the Daltons the case was differ- cnt. These men performed their bloody deeds for the notoriety it gave them. That King Fisher thirsted for notoriety is evident; he was a law-breaker instead of a law-enforcer, It is said that he once placed a signboard at the forks of the road that ran by his home, bearing the iiscription ; ‘ Sr PEER he CwalalaligQywrwrwe tenses ecccce sss ean ne tnanennas eannibhelwmaep gases TAKE THE RIGHT-HAND ROAD, : THE OTHER IS KING FISHER’S ROAD. : So great was the fear of him that both desperadoes and law officers dared not trayel on the forbidden highway. Bob Dalton was another candidate for the title of “man killer,” else why did he say, just before his raid on Coffey- ville, Kansas: “I will beat Jesse James and go him one more.” Most of these bad men met death “with their boots on.” Wild Bill, Bob Dalton, Grat Dalton, Jesse James and numerous others met death at the hands of an assassin; Alf Slade was hanged by the Montana vigilants, and so the list might be extended, There is a tendency among writets to idealize these desperadoes. Never was this more evident than in the recent case of Harry Tracy. On every hand, even among people of education and influence, could be heard words of sympathy for the outlaw and ridicule for the officers oi the law. Story papers, novels and even history teems with the words of praise for these border villains. The example is bad for the rising generation. If we must be hero. worshippers let us choose more worthy examples on whom to lavish our praise. CLARENCE VANDIVEER. FOREST AND STREAM. Letters to a Chan —ii, About 1:30 P, M. we were pushing down a steep bank to the water’s edge. Lem stuck a pole through the wagon wheels so they could not turn, and it was well he did. The horses set the brakes on their-legs and we all slid down about one hundred feet to the bottom. Here was an acre of level ground, a natural park. Big trees, green grass and the river pouring along as clear as crystal. Here was our camp, all made ready for us, and a beauty it was. Camp stove, table, awning, seats, spring, shade, everything within twenty feet of the waters edge. How pleasant and home-like it seemed. And we were to stay there two weeks, or longer if we wished. What shall we do first? Dinner, of course. All right, T'll catch the fish while you build the fire. No, let’s just have a lunch with some hot tea, then all go and get a big mess of trout for supper, That seemed good advice, and we were soon seated round our new table. Then rubber boots, rods, reels, lines, book of flies, basket—a_ grand assembly of our entire fishing outfit. Some of it is hard to find, and my best reel and line can’t be found at all. I try to hold my temper as I rummage through everything. I had it last night at the ford, and ['m sure I put the blasted thing back in my tackle-box; but it isn’t there, and it isn’t anywhere. Confound stich luck! I'd rather stay in camp than to try to use that old one; still, it might be better than nothing. ‘You all go ahead; don’t wait for me; it'll take me a half an hour to get that old thing in running order.” And so I hurry and sweat. Finally I get my outfit into some kind of shape, after some unmentionable language, and pick up my boots and tam a foot into one of them. Down in the toe is something sharp and hard. More cuss words, Over goes the boot and out drops my lost reel. Well, did you ever! If I’d had sense enough to put on my boots first I would have been fishing an, hour ago. There were plenty of fish in that stream. I could see them, twenty at a time sometimes, watching me blunder. Throw a fly over them and they would dart away. I soon found it was no use trying to catch them that way. There they were, a continuous line of them, all with their heads. up stream. All standing perfectly still without apparently any movement of the fins, while the water es past them at breakneck speed. “Tell me how they Oeics For an hour I did not get a bite. Then I caught a small grayling. Then moved down stream a mile or so to where there was dead water. Here I got a two-pound trout; then another larger one that made things lively for a few minutes. Getting down on a mud bank under the overhanging willows in the deep shade, the water looked dark and deep, with scarcely any current at all. The sun had gone behind the mountain. The air seemed cooler immediately. Making a good cast down stream, close to the willows, there was a lunge and a splash that almost gave me palpitation of the heart, and the reel be- gan to sing. I had 150 feet of new silk on and I let him go till he got enough of it. Then brought him in a ways till he got ready to go again. Then buz-z-z-z-z goes the reel till only a few yards of line is left on it. Then I snub him at the peril of my rod, and he throws himself high into the air away off there mid a cascade of spark- ling water. Slowly and sulkily he comes back, and I feel safer as I get more line on the reel. and another gain for me. Then he changes his course and darts up stream, almost faster than I can reel in, but he finds it harder pulling up stream, and I gain on him till he comes in sight near the shore—tail first, and I can’t get him turned around. Giving him an extra hard yank to get him headed right, I rouse his ire again and away he goes, and nothing short of a log chain would stop him. All my line is out again, and the fish is more lively than ever. I begin to get warm under the collar. I don’t want to spend all the afternoon on one fish. I want a lot of them. So I begin winding up whether he likes it or not. Then he takes another spurt, but I put my thumb on the reel, and crack goes the rod, and two or three feet of the tip hangs slack on the line. This will never do. If I want that fish—and I bet I do—l’ve got to keep my nerve and handle him like a fisherman. Careful is the word, Back and forward he goes; now almost near enough for the net, and now my line-is all out again. I’m sorry, Mr. Fish, that I can’t accommodate you with more line, you seem to want it, but when you get so far you’ye got to stop if it busts the firm. Slowly and carefully I work him in. God! how my arms ache. And my beautiful new rod is a complete wreck. Still the line holds, and still the fish is on. If I only had a little more room I’d snake him up on the bank, but there is a solid hedge of willows be- hind me. I must fight it out right here. : I get him up close again, but can’t see him, the willows make such a shade; but I know he is there, and make a dive for him with the net, but it is no go. He's off again, throwing the water all over me, and I have my work to do over again. When I get him back to the sticking place again he seems low spirited and sulky, He shows signs of giving up, and I say, “Now I’ve got you,” and yank him out on the bank. But something happened. Something gave way—but it wasn’t the fish. I suddenly sat down in the mud while my fish went off somewhere to rest. Well, we both needed a rest. So I sat still. I didn’t ery, but I felt foolishly like it, “Dick, my boy, that fish outgeneraled you. It was a fair fight and you lost. Take your medicine like a man and try him again.” I wiped the perspiration out of my eyes and looked around me. Holy smoke! it’s pitch dark and about a million stars latighing at me, I wonder where camp is? What makes it so still all at once? Now, let me think a minute. Which way did I come from? Why, down stream, of course. All I’ve got to do is to follow up the stream to camp. Hi, ho! I wish I had a boat, Well, no use sitting here in the water any longer. I'll go to camp. Easier said than done. Solid walls of brush confronted me at every turn. My line and basket caught on them, so I left the things and went through somehow. Good Lord, what a place, and how dark it is! It pains me yet to think of that trip, but I got through to an open place, more turned around than ever. Then a short spurt- I looked for the North star and found five of him. Standing still trying’ to decide which star to tackle, I heard a faint halo-o-0-o away off to my right. Then six shots in rapid succession. I gaye an answering whoop and started on, letting a yell every few steps, till I found Lem coming to meet me, with my Savage and his big yel- low mastiff, Bull, the bear and lion dog. Lem had a lantern, and, what was better still, he knew the way to camp, though I still maintain that I would have got in all right. Pll not harrow your feelings with the scolding I got when we got to camp; but honestly it sounded good, for I was eating my supper at the same time. It was good to hear Lem’s big laugh when I told them about my fish. “Thar’s rainbow trout in thar,’ he says, “that'll weigh fifteen pound. You mustuv hooked on to a big feller.” We-had planned to go out after deer early the next morning, so I asked Lem what time we were to turn out in the morning. “Oh, the earlier the better,” he says. “The moon’s up now and deer feed the rest of the night and lay down before sun up. Our best show is to start early.” ‘They then told me that they had seen three deer while coming in before dark, a doe and two fawns. Well, to make it short, we were on our horses, Lem and I, at dawn, with a substantial lunch, and everything we thought we should need, I with my .30-30 and Lem had my .22 for grouse. Straight up the mountain side we went, through thick clumps of aspen, where we had to. look sharp to our legs. I caught some sharp scratches before [ learned the knack of putting my hands against the trees and pushing the horse away from it, Once we were within ten feet of a deer when he jumped and ran, but the leaves were so thick that we nevet saw. him at all, or her rather, for Lem said it was a doe, but how he knew is beyond me. Higher up it was more open, with lots of deer tracks. Once we saw some buckshot on the ground that Lem said was elk sign, Half way up the mountain Lem, who was in the lead, stopped his horse and quietly got off. I stopped to see what he was going to do. Taking the .22 out of the holster he stepped around his horse and pointed the gun at the ground under a tree. Then I saw a grouse. .22 smokeless don’t make much noise, but the grouse lay over with hardly a struggle. Then for a few seconds Lem - worked the slide and shot. Chuck-caslump, chuck- caslump, caslump, chuck-caslump. Then he walked in there and brought out nine young grouse—all there was in the covey. Sounds like a fish story, don’t it? But it isn’t, and I can prove it, for I’ve got the .22 here now that he did it with. a: The sun was high by this time, and deer tracks were thick wherever there was a soft spot for them to show. We had the big dog along, but Lem kept him at the horses’ heels. Up on the next bench we found a big patch of down timber. Been a cyclone through there, I. guess many years ago. The timber must have been heavy in there some time, for big logs were thick on the ground. Our horses knew how to get over them, though. All we had te do was to let them take their own course. We went all right till Lem’s horse tried to go over a little log that lay across two big ones, and couldn’t make it, The horse wanted to turn back, but Lem urged him on, and over he went, bottom-side up, with Lem under him. - Gosh, but I was scared! But it wasn’t necessary. Be- fcre I could get there to help them, they were both on their feet, none the worse for their tumble. I thought Lem was going to lick the horse for falling, but he didn’t. “You poor ole cuss,” he says, “if you had a rider that knew as much as you do, it wouldn’t have happened.” Lem said it wasn’t safe to ride any further; so we would leave the horses there and go on foot. It was pretty bad walking for a while, but later we found smoother going. Lem said that it was a good place to find a big buck lying in there sunning and hardening his - | horns, which were yet in the velvet. Pretty soon Lem says: “Give me that air field glass o’ yourn an’ I'll set down here on a log-and scan that air hillside over thar; mebbe I can see one, while you go on round that ridge and I’ll meet you over yonder.” So I went on along the top of a little ridge till I got to the. end of it. Before going down off the ridge I took a look around in all directions. Back where I had come from, about 500 yards away, I could see Lem and Bull sitting side by side. Lem had his arm around the dog and held my glasses in the other hand. While looking at them, I saw something moving in a line beyond them. Another look and I saw it was a big buck, or an elk, coming straight toward me on the jump. I got behind a handy stump and waited, my heart going pitty- pat. The buck, for such he proved to be, and a big one, tco, was going to get to Lem before he did to me, Would he change his course? ? He was soon tip to Lem, but did not seem to see him till he went past about twenty feet away. Then Lem heard him and looked around. “Here he goes! Here he goes!” yelled Lem. “Shoot, shoot! Sick *m, Bull, sick 7im! Shoot, shoot!” : Well, if I’d shot then I would have been pretty sure to get Lem or the dog, they were all about in line. I was aiming at the buck’s head, but he was coming nearer all the time, and I know how to wait for a mallard when he comes that-way. Bull started after the deer like a yellow streak, but he couldn’t keep up. The buck had changed his course and wasn’t coming so good now. Still, I was sure of a shot. All this time I had been aiming at his head, and Lem had . been yelling, “Shoot, shoot!” As the deer came nearer his head looked to be about all horns, and not a very sub-. stantial target, so I lowered down to his neck and cracked away. Nothing dropped. I worked the lever as fast as I could, but by the time I was ready to shoot again the buck. was Opposite me, going like the wind eighty-five yards away. I swallowed my heart and tried to draw a bead on his, Bang! Nothing dropped. I worked the lever again, and was trying to hold myself together for another shot, when the buck stubbed his toe on a log and stood right up on his head for a moment,. - then fell over and lay stiil. Lem yelled till he was hoarse, and Bull pounced on tq 824 FOREST «AN D_ STREAM, [Atri 25, 1953, ea the deer and began to chew his rieck. T faced down the hill too fast, caught my foot in something and took a header. Soon we were shaking hands over the buck, I want to tell you he was a magnificent specimen of a blacktail. Vl show you his head when you come to see me. We found that my first shot had cut off his jugular vein and windpipe. The bullet had mushroomed and made a hole an inch and a half across on the far side. The other shot had hit his heart, a little too low for center, but that organ was simply pulverized and shattered. Lem congratulated me on my shooting. Then I wanted to get back to camp just as fast as possible to show my game and tell how I did it. No general ever marched in prouder than I did that day. My wife’s eyes sparkled and the toses were in her cheeks. “Oh,” said she, “how I would like to have been with you.” “It was a pretty stiff climb,’ I says, “but by going around a little, and taking it easy, | think you could make it. So, if you think you can stand it, 1 will have a horse ready for you on our next hunt, and you will be one of the party.” After that she was always by my side in about all our expeditions, and I want to say that I never had a more enthusiastic, patient and pleasant hunting companion. Now, old friend, that sounds as if I had gone back on you, but don’t you think it. There wasn’t a day that I did not wish you were with us, and I sincerely hope that [ may have the pleasure of your good and ever welcome company, as well as the benefit of your true sportsman’s inbred sagacity and instinct that has ever been so pleasant and welcome to me on many, many trips, in the future. And now, old chum, I must hold up on this and take a lay off. I have sat here all night long, living over again as I wrote them the many pleasant incidents of this glorious trip, till daylight is peeping in at me through my open window. If you enjoy the reading of this as much as I have enjoyed the writing of it, my time has mdeed been well spent. But I cannot now complete my story of how we hunted the mountain lion and found the underground cave with its many wonders, its underground lake and its animal in- habitants. Nor how I killed my next buck, All that I leave for my next installment. So with best wishes for your health and happiness, I wish you a vety good morning. RicHArp A, PADDOCK. Alatuyal History. ee! aS Amiable Bears. Most Sociable of all the Bronx Park Prisoners. “One half the world does not know how the other half lives’ does not apply to human beings alone. If the saying were transposed and made to state that but a small portion of humanity—a very small part—realize how the members of the brute creation survive, by what means they do so, and what interesting material is to be gained by even a casual study of their species, it would be perhaps nearer the mark. But few of the visitors to the New York Zoological Park, commonly called the Bronx, as they pass the four- footed occupants, consider what strange animals there are in the collection, and what unexpected traits of in- telligence they possess. Animal keepers declare that every creature in their charge has the same individual characteristics and idiosyncrasies as persons. Mr. . Hornaday, Director of the Park, says emphatically that wild animals have much more sense than they are generally credited. with. Whether it is simply instinct or is an understand- ing’ gained by experience is a question. ‘They learn enough to be able to gain sustenance and save their lives in time of peril. “Tt has been often said that a bear and a wolf know the range of a rifle,” said Mr. Hornaday. “I saw two coyotes out west that knew I had no gun—but that is another story,” he added, reflectively. “Of all the living creatures in the New York Zoological Park, some 2,000 in number, the most grateful and com- forting are the bears,” continued Mr. Hornaday. ‘They make less trouble, better repay care, cause less anxiety, and yield more satisfaction per capita than the members of any other collection. Since’ the starting of the bear collection in June, 1899, only one bear has been ill. One was executed by another and one was killed by a kind- hearted visitor with four peaches, fed on the sly. It is. a pleasure to keep animals which repay our care with good health, good temper and fine development. “Beyond question comfortable captivity, or what I call freedom in confinement, reveals many phases of animal nature which cannot be developed or observed in a state of entire freedom. The wisest animals are the most ap- preciative and the most philosophical. They study how to be happy though corraled; leave all fretting to be done by professional fretters, and mind their keepers. All this is when under proper conditions, remember. Of a bear roaming free in a big, sunny yard, climbing, swimming, skylarking and romping with several jolly companions, and never teased with food, much may be expected. But of a bear in an 8x10 cage, a solitary prisoner in a miser- able, sloppy, stinking cell—cribbed and confined in per- petual violence to every sense and desire save appetite— what can you ask? Such an animal is but one remove from a well mountd skin in a museum. In fact, a dead animal finely mounted is better than a live one badly kept; for the latter is a sin against nature. “Tn nineteen cases out of every twenty, a bear that is taken young, properly denned and intelligently cared for, promptly becomes a thing of beauty and a joy as long as he lives. No man who knows anything about bears pre- fers to capture them when full grown, and keep them alive in his zoological garden. The most terrible incarnation of fury which I ever saw was a newly caught, full grown grizzly. ‘The worst black leopard ever caged was a lamb in comparison to him. The longer he remained in cap- tivity the angrier he got; and at last he died of an over- dose of misery and a broken heart, - “When beats ate caught youtig and reared in captivity, under proper conditions, everything good in thetn is de- veloped and stimulated and the bad traits are correspond- ingly dwarfed. Take the grizzly. As the wild animal to be hunted and killed on his native mountains, his reputa- tion is very bad. Everywhere, save in the Yellowstone Park, he is an Ishmaelite, his hooked fist against every man, and every gunner against him. No time has he to show his real nature. He can only eat, run and fight. But in the reservation mentioned, a wonderful fact has been developed. Even in a wild state a grizzly is not dangerous when he is let alone. He haunts the hotels and tourists’ camps and steals food whenever he can, but thus fat, despite a thousand opportunities, he has harmed no one! So, indeed, by far the most amusing part of the great zoological show is the bear department. Happier and more playful creatures than these bears it would be diffi- cult to imagine. They are much*more interesting than those in Central Park, because they have more room; they display greater variety and are in greater numbers. Nowadays the majority of them are feeling just right. In fact, so continuously are they playing tricks and pranks on one another and going through all sorts of antics, that the public suspicion is often aroused to the point of asking whether they haven’t been trained to do these things. Not one of them has been trained; it is all pure animal spirits. The grizzlies in the center at- tract the most attention. They are big, clean-furred, hard-muscled fellows and their growth has been as rapid and satisfactory in every way as if they had been in their own native wilds. They will come shambling to the front at a call and sit there blinking with solemn good nature, or poke their big noses between the bars as a sugges- tion that if you have anything good to eat in your pockets they would be glad to pass judgment upon it. Prohibitive signs all over the place warn persons against feeding the animals or throwing anything whatsoever into the cages, but the crowd around the bears the other day made an exception in favor of peanuts. So did the bears. All of them lined up in front of the pit and wagged their noses/so suggestively that many a peantit, originally de- signed for the delectation of the buyer, found its way to the big fellows, to be promptly and appreciatively crunched up and swallowed, shell and all. One small boy of six years or thereabouts became so interested in con- tributing that before he knew it his paper bag was empty and he was led away bawling. The deftness with which a bear will pick up in his clumsy paw and transfer to his mouth so small an object aS a peanut is extraordinary. Some of the spectators tried the experiment of shelling the nuts and tossing in only the edible kernel. In this case the nearest bear would run out a big red tongue, lick up the dainty and poke out his nose for more. The only member of the bruin family that fared poorly the other day was the little yearling. Every time a peanut was thrown toward him one of the big bears who stood next to him would growl out: “That’s not good for a small bear,” or words to that effect, and would gobble it himself. Finally a peanut was thrown almost under him, and he promptly sat down on it by way of concealment until a favorable opportunity of snatching it up should occur. In vain. The predatory neighbor came over and growled. In reply the little fel- low ventured to growl a bit himself. The next instant he went whirling head over heels from the force of a whack on the side of the head. The bigger bear ate the peanut, while the little fellow whimpered in a corner. In the center of their pit is a deep pool, in which floats a large knotted log. Two of the bears are at that log nearly all the time, playing water polo with it. One will hit it a bat with a huge paw, sending it rolling across the pool, where it will be met with a swing from the other bear that rolls it back again. Suddenly both bears will make a dive for it; and the next instant the air will be full of waving paws and water will be splashed for yards around until after the “mix-up,” when two great shaggy faces will reappear above the surface and one could al- most swear that the faces wore a grin. Meantime two of the other grizzlies are having a wrestling match. They are about of a size, and to see them run at each other open-mouthed with their white teeth gleaming one would suppose that when the matter was settled the Zoological Society would be out one speci- men of Ursus horribilis. Nothing of the sort. The say- age teeth close on the thick fur of the neck, the two contestants rise on their hind legs and grapple, and presently over they roll, panting and grunting and snort- ing with glee, while the others look on approvingly, and perhaps lay a side bet on the contest. After a fall they nose around and shake themselves and rub against the side of the pit until they happen to meet nose to nose, when they grapple again. They never lose their tempers, and when one of them gets tired of the play a little growl apprises the other, who promptly stops and lies down to rest. The writer was present the other day when Keeper Mulvehill went into their cage to sweep it out. Naturally the crowd of onlookers was much interested when he came to unlock the door, and looked to see him provide himself with a club or iron rod or some other means of protection should the beasts attack him. The only thing he carried in with him, however, was his broom. All of the bears were lined up at the front bars, but when he entered they politely waddled away, leaving the coast clear; all except the little bear, who came around and rubbed against him and wanted to be friendly. The keeper paid not the slightest attention to any of the ani- mals, not even taking the precaution of keeping his eye on them, nor did they seem much if any more interested in him. They accepted him as a matter of course. Once when he went over to dip his broom in the water one of the two medium sized grizzlies, who are the liveliest and most playful of the lot, ambled toward him. The man flirted a shower of drops from the wet broom into brutin’s face and that animal promptly made a mild pass at the instrument, then sat down and washed his face with his aws. . The polar bears in the next pit spend nearly all their time in the pool, which they nearly fill with their huge bulk. They have a wooden ball to play with, and the chief object of the game seems to be to keep it submerged. Whenever it pops up they both whack at it at once; then, as likely as not, they forget the ball, clinch and both dis- appear beneath the surface. Presently one of them comes up and occupies himself with pawing down the other until it séems as if the urider bear must be on the vetge of drowning. All that one sees of him is an occasiona pinkish paw waving signals of distress, and the curve of his back through a swirl of water. Then up comes the white head and one is amazed to see that he isn’t even gasping for breath. ‘There was one period of a trifle over a minute that one of the polars was submerged while the writer was watching, and all that time he was strug- gling at a rate to breathe any creature, but he was ap- parently perfectly comfortable when he came up, and promptly proceeded to put his companion down. They are beautifully white and clean looking fellows, and seem to be in as fine condition as the grizzlies. On the further side of the grizzly cage are the black bears and Japanese bears. The latter are quiet fellows and don’t pay much attention to their fellow citizens. Both of the black bears were brought up in captivity and fed on sweets and ice cream, which is very bad for little bears, and in consequence their growth has been stunted, and it is doubtful whether they will ever be more than anything but dwarfs. But they are as lively as crickets, and one of them is possessed of an abiding curiosity. He loves to climb up the side of his cage that adjoins the grizzly cage and look down on the grizzlies. Maybe he would climb right over there if there weren’t ingrowing spikes at the top to prohibit such visits, and then there wouldn’t be any more black bear. The grizzlies always come over and rear up to meet him, and he clings like a fly to the wire side of the pit above their heads and makes faces at them. When he isn’t doing that, he is showing off his paces around the pit, for he has a great conception of his ability as a runner. When the cinnamon bear and the Kadiak bear get to wrestling, as they do nearly every day, there is no end of fun. The other day they wrestled right on the edge of the water pool in their cage, and the Kadiak rolled his huge friend head over heels into the water. ‘Then he stood on the edge and seemed to jeer. The cinnamou struggled and sputtered, and one seemed to hear the pro- fanity that he let loose. To add insult to injury the Kadiak refused to wrestle any more with his chum until he dried off; so Brownie chased him all around the pen trying to corner him, while the grizzlies looked on with evident amusement. This Kadiak is one of those rare bears who have their home on the long string of islands running out westward from Alaska, and until a few years ago it was considered one of the great tasks of the naturalists to get a live specimen of this splendid brute. The management of Bronx Park are very proud of their specimen, which was born near Cook’s Inlet, Alaska, in 1899. In the middle cage there is never any end to the frolic. The brown bear is the prize buffoon, and his particular friends are the two cubs, black and brown. He plays the star in the daily variety show, and they support him. He lies down and they roll all over him. pull his ears, make tats of his long’ hair, chew his throat, and maul him generally. The other day the small brown cub was manifestly homesick. He went pacing restlessly up and down his cage, refused to eat, simply could not bring himself to play. His big friend tried every way to coax him into some game, but all to no avail. He moped and moped, and was as sad as any little brown bear could be who longed for home so that he thought his heart would break. Even the mournful old bear from Borneo, who thinks this is a beastly cold country, tried to cheer him up, telling him, in all probability, that he himself was about 5,000 miles from home and never expected to see Borneo again. Of course this did not make the baby bear any more happy. At last the small black bear just about his own size, succeeded in doing just what all the other bears could not do. He had respectfully stayed in the background while his elders were trying to fix things, but when they failed be came out and coaxed his lonesome chum into a game of chase around the pen and up the dead tree. The old bears sat around and approved, though the big brown bear was evidently jealous. After that the little exile was all right again. There is no animal of them all, not even excepting the monkey, whose antics and games recall more vivid- ly to the stroller’s mind the characteristics and weak- nesses of the human animal than do those of the bears. For instance, they are never satisfied with the good -things that they get, but they always think that the particular steak or loaf of bread which has fallen to their neighbor is a much nicer and better steak or loaf than their own. For that reason they constantly change around from portion to portion during meal time. Very seldom does bruin sit down and eat his meal without some of these shifts. : The bears’ nursery at the Park is a big yard, with a tree to climb, a. swimming pool, three sleeping dens and a rock cliff. It seldom contains fewer than six cubs. It is considered a test of courage and temper to turn a new bear into that roystering crowd, Usual- ly a newcomer is badly scared his first day in the nursery and very timid during the next. But grizzlies are different. They are born full of courage, and devoid of all sense of fear. Director Hornaday tells that when Cyclone’s travel- ing box was opened, and he found himself free in the nursery, he stalked deliberately to the center of the stage, halted, and calmly looked about him. His air and, manner said as plainly as English: “T’m a grizzly from Alaska, and Pve come to Stay. to you from me, come and take it!” Little Czar, a very saucy but good-natured European brown bear cub, walked up and aimed a sample blow at Cyclone’s left ear. Quick as a flash out shot Cy- clone’s right paw, as only a grizzly can strike, and caught the would-be hazer on the side of the head. Amazed and confounded, Czar fled in wild haste. Next in order, a black bear cub, twice the size of Cyclone, made a pass at the newcomer, and he, too, received so fierce a counter charge that he ignominiously quitted the field, and scrambled to the top of the cliff, Cyclone conscientiously met every attack, real or feigned, that was made upon him. In less than an hour it was understood by every bear in the nursery that that queer looking gray fellow with the broad If any of you fellows think there is anything coming — i their pursuit and capture. Avant 28, 3908 ‘FOREST AND STREAM. 325 head and short nose could strike quick and hard, and that he would fight any other bear on three seconds’ notice. From that time on Cyclone’s position has been assured. He is treated with the respect that a good forearm inspires, but being really a fine spirited, digni- fied little grizzly, he attacks no one, and has never had a fight. “Speaking of young bears,’ said Mr, Hornaday, “the average citizen has all he wants of a pet bear cub in six months. In a year he is tired of it, and in eighteen months he is sick to death of it. When I was in the West I heard rather a good story in that connection: A gambler out in Denver, it appears, had a couple of cinnamon bears. When they were little he had lots of fun with them, but after they grew up he could not take care of them himself, and there was nothing to do but board them out, This cost him $100 a year for each bear. By and by another gambler came along, saw the bears, and thought he would like to have some like that. ‘How much will you take for them?’ he asked. ‘Three hundred dollars,’ said the owner. They dickered for a while, and it ended in the sale of the two bears for one hundred dollars, After he had pocketed the money, the Denver man said, ‘Bill, you're not so bright as I thought you. If you'd held on fifteen minutes more I’d have given you a hundred to take them bears,’ ” Poston, JR. t s Wolf Traits. Editor Forest and Stream: _I was much interested and edified by your intelligent cotrespondent’s (G. B. G.) delineation in your issue of April 18 of wolves’ behavior when at large in their native haunts, and not disturbed or frightened by man, or con- scious Of man’s presence. The information which he gives of their antics, attitudes and idiosyncrasies coyers a field of observation which was not studied as now in the days when I used to follow the western trails. At that time there were no Rudyard Kiplings or Seton Thomp- sons: no “Jungle Books” or “Animals I Have Known.” Trappers and hunters acquired a close familiarity with the habits of animals only so far as the knowledge served for Exhibitions of wolves’ dog- like behavior were seldom afforded to prairie travelers. Timber wolves and coyotes both kept their distance in the day time, excepting a few of the latter which followed the wagons and were given names, and were individually recognized. Usually when seen they were loping off over the brown swales nearly of their own color, looking askance, with tails lowered in a sneaking way, “precisely as a frightened dog lowers his,” to quote from G, B. G. Again, in another passage, he says of the coyote (prairie wolf), “it sneaks along with downcast mien and lowered tail,” etc. So it would seem, I plead, that exception cannot fairly be taken by this observant naturalist to my original state- ment when differentiating the traits of dogs and wolves. But it was when we made camp in the evening or at dusk that we had the best opportunities to become ac- quainted with the “nature of the beast.” Then they would gather in a circle around the seething pots, and sit on their haunches, and fidget and whine just like dogs (Cams latrans); and later on, at supper, when an occa- sional bone was thrown at them, there was a desperate scramble and no politeness wasted. This foolishness of baiting these nuisances with tidbits was not kept up many days. The mistake soon became uncomfortably apparent; for at night, just as the tenderfoot was wooing sleep, the “varmints” would gather around the tent or wagon-tilt and crunch bones till we couldn’t rest! So the cook was instructed to carry the offal and remnants away out be- yond the limits. This was in the fifties. Years after, when I have scorned a tent and laid out with my back to the sod and my face to the stars, | have had the starve- ling scamps steal the shaganappi (raw hide) from under my pillow and eat that! Memory plays a lively part in respect to the days when I went gipseying, not only in the country of the Platte and Arkansas and in Dakota and Minnesota, Idaho and Montana, but in the “Prairie Provinces” of the British Northwest, where buffalo grazed galore. In those flush times when “meat was a-runnin’,” the wolves didn’t carry their tails down, I’m sure. CHARLES HALLock, Goodnight Buffalo and Catalo. THERE haye been so many conflicting reports of the success of Mr. Goodnight’s enterprise that in crossing the Staked Plains of northern Texas last September, I stopped over a train to learn something definite about his herd of buffalo, and the catalo, as he calls the crosses be- tween the buffalo and polled angus cattle. From the little station of Goodnight I walked a quarter of a mile back to the fine old ranch house surrounded with fruit and shade trees, an attractive spot in the big grassy plains. Mr. Goodnight said the buffalo were a couple of miles back in the pasture, so getting into his buggy we drove out through a big corral where nine beautiful elk that had been brought in. the day before to be “gentled,” merely looked up as we passed them, not half as wild as the range cattle usually are. The small pasture in which the herd of fifty full-blood buffalo were kept contained a few thousand acres and was inclosed with a barbed wire fence about seven or eight feet high, of thirteen wires. As we drove through it over the prairie we could hardly see that the grass had been eaten or trampled, and when we came to the herd of buffalo lying down or grazing along a gentle slope, there was not a fence in sight and it was easy to imagine that these were wild free buffalo of the plains. It did not seem so much as if they had been fenced in, as that the hunters had been fenced out. Mr. Goodnight said that all of the full-bloods were in this herd except the three largest old bulls that kept away im the corner of the pasture, The herd was a mixture oi cows, calves, yearlings, two-year-olds and a few fine full grown bulls, all in perfect health and fine condition. ‘They were not as wild as the ordinary range cattle, and paid little attention to us. Mr. Goodnight said it was not safe to go among them on foot, but that they did not object to a man on horseback or in a wagon. I started up one of the best bulls and photographed him at twenty feet from the buggy, and we were often closer to them. Unfortunately, I set my camera with too slow a speed for snap shots and spoiled all of my photographs. In this herd there were but two of the catalo, a three- quarters buffalo cow and her seven-eighths buffalo calf, . and these kept at one side by themselves. The cow had much the build of a buffalo, but had slenderer horns, was a yellow brown color, and had long, straight instead of curly hair. The calf could not be told from a full-blood buffalo calf. Mr. Goodnight says the buffalo and catalo will not herd together, nor will the catalo herd with the cattle. Part of the seventy catalo of various grades were out in the big pasttire, so I saw only a dozen in the field near the corral. These were half and three-quarters polled angus and kept apart by themselves, not mixing with the cattle in the same field, though not different from them in general appearance. The half-bloods were black or with only a trace of brownish; some with little crimply horns and others without horns. The high shoulders and light hind- quarters of the buffalo were noticeable in them, but not ‘more than a fair compromise’ between the two parent species. The three-quarter polled angus are what especially in- terest Mr. Goodnight at present, and he thinks promise to develop into the finest breed of cattle in the world. They are black without horns, have the build and heavy form of the polled angus cattle and far exceed them in size and weight. Three yearlings standing together at one side were as large as any of the two-year-old polled angus in the herd near by, although they had been raised in the same pasture with no advantage on either side. The superiority of the grade, Mr. Goodnight says, is kept up to maturity, and full grown steers weigh eighteen hundred pounds. By careful crossing he hopes to establish a permanent breed of very superior catalo of about the proportion of one-quarter buffalo to three-quarter polled angus, and his success seems almost assured. The grade cows are said to breed freely, but most of the bulls are converted into steers for the market. Mr. Goodnight crosses his full-blood buffalo only from the bulls and keeps increasing his herd as fast as possi- ble. As they are worth something like a thousand dollars apiece, he naturaliy cannot afford to experiment with full- blood buffalo cows. He has no difficulty in making the cesired crosses and both full-bloods and grades are per- fectly hardy, He has never lost any of his buffalo except by injury when shipping or handling them, and I see no possible danger to his herd except through in-breeding. VERNON BAILey, Chamberlain’s Nuttall’s Manual. SEVERAL years ago we called attention to the enterprise of Messrs. Little, Brown & Co., of Boston, in issuing an edition of Nuttall’s Ornithology, and to their excellent judgment in choosing Mr. Montague Chamberlain to supervise the editorial work of the volume. At that time we said: “Of the earlicr writings on American ornithology none have a greater charm than those of Thomas Nuttall. The result of his labors were modest by comparison with the -claborate productions of Wilson, Audubon and Bonaparte, but in the two little volumes which constitute his work there was careful study and painstaking care. Whether as botanist or ornithologist, Nuttall was a close observer, and he wrote with a deep feeling that appeals most strongly to all lovers of nature. He it was who first wrote a connected history of our birds in such form that it was accessible to the general public. Other works on the subject were expensive and to be seen only in the libraries of the wealthy, but the two plain yolumes of the ‘Manual’ with their pleasing text and their simple yet truthful wood engravings, were within the reach of all. It was a popular hand-book of ornithology, and the charm of its style, as well as of its subject, at once secured for it a large share of the popular favor, so that after a few years it passed to a second edition,” Messrs. Little, Brown & Co. have now issued a new edi- tion of this work, the title page of which reads, “A Popu- lar Hand-Book of the Birds of the United States and Canada, by Thomas Nuttall. New revised and annotated edition by Montague Chamberlain, with additions and 110 illustrations in color.” So far as the type matter of this edition goes it is essentially similar to the earlier one in two volumes, which bore date 1891.- There are, however, some addi- tional notes on the species and twenty lithographic plates ot different species, chiefly reductions from Audubon’s plates, with a few from Wilson and others. Everything good that was said about the earlier edition thus applies to this one, and the colored plates are particularly good in color, most of them being exceedingly truthful and life-like. The two volumes of the old edition, printed on light weight paper, are bound up in one quite thick volume, and yet the book is not heavy to the hand, . although containing about 900 pages. We note an appar- ent error or two in naming the species figured in colors, since figures 4 and 5 on plate 16 do not appear to be her- ring gulls; nor does figure on the same plate appear to be a Bonaparte’s gull, though Audubon’s figure and name are given. : On the whole, Messrs. Little, Brown & Co, have per- formed good service in presenting again to bird lovers so charming and useful a book as this, to which the colored plates add a very great deal. The price of this edition is very modest, being only $3. “The Intelligence of Wild Things.” NortHwoop, April 16—Editor Forest and Stream: Permit me to thank Hermit for his article on “The Intel- ligence of the Wild Things.” His straightforward state- nents will be approved by every observer of wild life who reads ForEsST AND STREAM. ; Joun R. Spears. Four-Legged Fowls. Four-teccep fowls are mentioned in the Bible—in Leviticus xi. 20! Which see, CHARLES HALLock, - s7Sthat AT Eb lave oy ELE One Way to Cast out Devils. Boston, Mass., April 20—Editor Forest and Stream: Who was the inspired idiot who proclaimed that if you take the piazza off your bird-house the English sparrows forthwith will cease their troubling of the bluebird in- mates? If you know him, present to him my compli- ments; for, to quote a friend, “I am ever polite;” and tell him that it may be all tight in his latitude, but in the neighborhood of Boston, where the sparrows as they. choose can make small gargoyles of themselves along the public library eaves or take a (lamp) post graduate course at Harvard University, they are altogether too weil educated. Theoretically I thought so, for I found them nesting in a knothole in an apple tree not two inches wide, and on the under side of a sawn off limb. Practically I know it, having believed tao easily others knew best and removed the piazza in consequence. I set up a model tenement house in my garden; lofty within, with a halfchamber above, and two rooms back to back. In a day, two bluebird families entered into pos- session. In a week, a pair of sparrows began to inter- tere with the family on the most desirable, sunny side. So I took my saw to the piazzas and abolished them. I forgot to add, the house has a gable roof with an attic open to the breezes from end to end, and thus in summer will be especially ‘cool. Did the sparrows go? Not they! On the contrary, the bluebirds had to, on that side. Twice I rose in my wrath and my pajamas after dark and ripped ont the sparrow nest bodily. Back they came, with the persist- ency well known as one of the attributes of devils, and built again. So, as my polite hints were thus ignored, and guns are tabooed, I set a flipap wire mousetrap in ~ the room after once more clearing out the straw; and next morning found it at the bottom of the pole with a very mad sparrow in it fast by the neck. “So much for Buckingham!” And the other imp has never come back after the first whirl of indignation. Once or twice I have caught the bluebirds clinging to the lower sill and looking in, as though they realized that some great tragedy had happened there; but not once have I seen them enter on that side, as yet. Still I am hoping. Meanwhile, I can com- ‘mend that mousetrap for neatness and dispatch. I don’t know it’s name; but as it is a patented article your hardware man can find it doubtless. It has a flat bedplate, a wire loop bent backward and caught down, and a food- piate. Its value lies in its small size and flatness. It could be slipped in most anywhere that it is wanted. Joba: P. S.—By the way, go easy on John Burroughs, boys! Remember, he is no longer young; and while, like others, he can now be caught napping, still he’s probably learned and forgotten more than many of us young fry ever knew, and has helped greatly to spread abroad the gospel of out- door life and observation, Swimming Squtrrels, Editor Forest and Stream: Early last Saturday morning, April 11, while out on the lake near this place in my canoe, I heard a splash near the shore one one side of an arm of the lake, and Saw soine animal that I thought was a muskrat swimming and headed for the other shore, which was some forty or fifty yards distant, Turning the canoe in that direction I quietly paddled toward the animal, the head of which then looked very small for a muskrat’s. As I got nearer it seemed more like a big watersnake than anything else, as it had quite an undulatory motion; but as it crawled ashore I found it to be a very large gray squirrel. After getting ashore it slowly crawled up the trunk of a nearby chestnut tree and dragging its tail. Then it crawled from limb to limb and slowly jumped from one tree to another, _without using its tail seemingly, until I lost sight of it. As it swam I noticed. that it dragged its tail all the while under the water, and when it got ashore it could have been caught very easily had one been there when it landed. As I was within perhaps ten feet of it when it got ashore, I had a good opportunity to observe its move- ments ; and since there has been quite a discussion of late _in Forest AND STREAM in regard to gray squirrels crossing bodies of water, I was greatly interested ; so much so that ‘I took particular notice of this one’s every move. I no- ticed that it swam as easily as a muskrat, and as the water was very cold—since there was a heavy frost the night before—I came to the conclusion that that branch oi the squirrel family is accustomed to swimming in cold weather, and as I saw nothing that compelled it to swim across, it showed conclusively that gray squirrels can take to the water and handle themselves easily in it when they choose to do so, or when necessary. ; About gray squirrels migrating, I have never seen them do it, but last year my brother up in Connecticut told me that once some three years since when he was in the woods he saw scores of them, all big ones, going through the woods all in the same direction, and as he was in the inidst of them, they would turn a little away from him on each side and continue on their way, showing but little fear. He said it surprised him greatly to see so many of them at the same time all going the one way. Axia ASBURY Park, N. J. One Buffalo the Less, America’s decimating colony of buffalo has lost an- other chief. “Ben Tillman,” the prize bull in the herd in Pawnee Bill’s Indian show, yesterday bit the dust, dying’ with honor in a fatal battle with a rival of his own fierce breed. The fight took place in Pawnee Bill’s winter quarters in Carnegie. “Ben” weighed 2,100 pounds, and was valued at $5,000.—Pittsburg (Pa.) Gazette, April 14. Misser—“Is there anything I ought to do while waiti for the bird to rise?” ; ; re Parmer—“Yep ; you might as well hand me $10 in ad- vance fur shootin’ the dog.”—Washington Eyening Star. All communications intended for Forest anp Stream should always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing C€o., New York, and not to any individual connected with the paper. 826 Gane Bag and Gun. ———gr—. Proprietors of shooting resorts will find it profitable to advertise them in Forxst anp STREAM. My First Hunting Trip. Wao would believe it? Two years ago I fired a shot- gun for the first time. I handed it back with disgust, swearing never to touch such a cursed thing again, for not only did I miss the bird, but, as if for punishment, I had my shoulder kicked green and blue. The consolation which I got from my companion was a laugh and the ad- vice to hold the gun to the shoulder next time, not half a mile from it. It took quite a while to get over my disgust with shot- guns, though I could not withstand the temptation to ac- cept an inyitation to a pigeon shoot. Once there I over- came the distrust and brought up the gun as advised. I soon found that I could do as good work as the rest, if not better; in fact, after a while I could understand how a man can be in love with his gun. Christmas brought 4 most welcome gift, a fine rifle—a Savage little affair which promised me lots of fun. Too late in the season, Il had to wait for my occasion the coming October. I found a companion who shared my inclinations, and by the middle of October we were off to the nearest hunting grounds which promised to give us the much looked for sport. As I cannot absent myself too Jong from my profes- sional work, we decided to go to Maine, and on inquiry we selected Mesardis as our starting point. The trip was uneventful, although for me—and I have traveled much—tull of interesting sights. An amusing incident occurred on board the train while nearing Bangor. ii was a traveling rum shop. A lot of robust looking lum- bermen came into the smoker led by a decrepit looking iellow, who had his hip pockets stuffed with quart bottles of gin or applejack. Every now and then he would march up to a fellow and address him with: “Come, I have one with you now.” He then produced a dirty looking tumbler and filled it to the other’s heart’s content with fire-water. After the tumbler was returned, he took his horn with a smile. A few words of conversation followed and out came a little book, the ledger, and the victint was charged with so much; and these tactics he kept up, returning to the same man three and four times, and never forgetting his book.- When we were near to the station our Boniface made his final trip, asking each one to pay or to sign his name to the amount he was indebted. But alas! it was easier to give the drinks than to collect the pay. Bangor made an end to the squabble and we all felt relieved. From Bangor upward the route is rich in scenic effects; the most impressive sight is the Katahdin Mountain, a giant among giants, its summit covered with fresh fallen snow. Station after station the crowded cars became emptier, and when we reached Masardis only a few sportsmen remained who went further up into the woods. Our host, Mr. Libby, was awaiting us with a comfort- able buckboard; he bundled us up snugly in buffalo skins and soon we were on the way to Oxbow, a distance of about ten miles, which we covered, although the roads were bad, in less than two hours. Once in Oxbow we were cared for with all home comfort, almost too tenderly for sports who are out to rough it. After a good night’s rest we started early in the morn- ing on our trip up the Aroostook River. As usual, our guides had provided for the canoes. It was our intention to travel all day to reach a certain camp in the evening. The weather was raw, rain drizzled all day, the river was very low; in short, there was no pleasure for us or guides, who had their greatest trouble to push the frail craft over the eddies up stream. 4 Toward evening my man, who was of the two the stronger, but not the wittier, was quite a distance in ad- yance of my companion’s cance. We reached a carry where canoe and outfit have to be carried for about a mile; he thought it best that he would bring his canoe to the upper side, that meanwhile my friend would come up and could follow. So it came that I found myself alone on the banks of the Aroostook River in pouring rain, peeping expectantly down stream for the second canoe. Now, that canoe did net come, nor did my guide come back, but night came, and that suddenly, too. Shivering from cold, sneezing and coughing, I looked around and tried to decide what was best to do under the circum- stances. The blankets were gone, the victuals were in the second canoe. All I had were the few belongings which I carried on my person, including matches, hunting knife, and on my chest a Boston Sunday paper to keep warm. Before it became too dark I began to cut off all the branches which I could reach from the surrounding firs and pines. Soon I had a big pile and before long I had started a blaze, which illuminated the skies to such a dis- tance that even my guide a mile away noticed that some- thing was wrong and returned. I had my great troubles to keep the fire going, as my knife had become dull and as dry wood was not to be found. The guide felled some trees and green as they were they burned lustily. What had become of my companion? Undoubtedly his canoe had sprung a leak while passing one of the many shallow places; the poor man was probably in the same stress some miles down the stream as I was up here. We decided to spend the night here. Supper consisted of a drink of chocolate made in an old tin can which we found on the ground and a swallow of whisky; to keep warm, I danced around the fire all night like an Indian, steaming in front and freezing on the back. At daybreak we decided to continue our trip to the camp and to return in the afternoon for my companion, if necessary. About 10 A. M., after crossing a lake, we reached the camp. The first man we met was our lost friend, who asked us most sympathetically where we had been so long, why we spent the night in rain while a good warm bed was awaiting us nearby. His guide had injured his hand and had to give up canoeing. They had tramped several miles over an old tote road, and had many times been in danger of breaking their necks, but nevertheless had reached the lake about 10 P. M. They built a fire to attract the attention of the camp and soon a canoe called for them, and after a hearty supper they had retired. FOREST AND STREAM. I was suffering from a peculiar feeling of misplaced confidence, but I got over it, and the incident ended in a laugh and a change of clothing. : We needed a rest, so we spent the day in restoration of the inner man and turned in soon, as we wanted to start early next morning. The weather had changed; though cold the atmosphere was clear and bracing. My friend’s guide had fetched the abandoned canoe the previous day, and we both em- barked, I taking good care not to lose sight of the second canoe again. For a distance of about four miles we had a chance to stretch our legs in a brisk walk along the borders of the river, a most welcome exericse after being cramped and frozen in a canoe for hours. The night we spent in a camp which we reached shortly before sunset. Seyen o’clock saw us in our canoes again; a ride of three hours brought us to a tote road, and a tramp of eight miles lay before us to reach our final destination— Spider Lake. The guides packed themselves with our luggage; small as it was, a great burden considering the distance and the poor condition of the roads. We had not gone 500 paces when my first opportunity for action came. Stepping out of a pine cluster I saw standing before me a big buck. To say anything as to the size of horns would simply be an invitation for me to lie, for they could not have been as big as I thought and still think they were. My rifle rested leisurely against my shoulder, prepared for the long march, my eyes were fixed on this thing of beauty—my first buck: It took quite a while before it was clear in my mind that something had to be done, arid when I did it the buck ran off, showing me, as a cordial adieu, his white flag. I had made a botch of it. Strong language followed all around. I saw in the eyes of the guides that they did not think much of me as a shot. Arrived at the camp our arrangement was great. Sixty miles from Oxbow, after a three days’ trip over land and water, we found anything and everything the most spoiled city chap can ask for, from a good dinner with daily changes of table linen to a library of well selected books. To think that all these luxuries had to be carried here the same route we had come made a strong impression upon us and spoke worlds for the good will of the dear people to please in every way. The camp was so inviting that I can easily understand that a man with time on hand could content himself with the pleasures he finds in and around the camp for almost any length of time. With us it was lifferent; eight days was all the time we could spend here, and in this time our sporting tastes had to be satished. Next morning after a short consultation with the few sportsmen whom we met in the camp, each guide selected a different corner of the compass and we started to test our luck. Considering the short time of eight days I must confess that we did not economize properly our time, but I suppose many others have made the same mis- take. The hunting was not done with the same zeal the first few days as later on. True enough, we spent the whole day in the woods, but foolish things were done which should have been left undone. For instance, the first day I killed many partridge, and I do not know how much game I[ frightened away by my cannonade. On the fourth day I surely missed in this way my second oppor- tunity; a big buck started right in back of us after I had decapitated a partridge. From then on I kept my gun in control. I became foxy in a certain sense, for the first thing I met next day was a fox, which walked right up to me the same as it I was nobody; so near, in fact, that I could have used my rifle to give him a hypodermic injection of morphine instead of a shot. I had really no trouble to shoot him, so near did he come to my legs. The result of such a shot is plain— only head and neck of his fur were worth taking along. The same day I shot at a doe, but I think there was still some buck fever in me, for I shot low, breaking one leg. We followed her up for some time, but we lost the track of blood among fallen trees in the swamp. ‘That animal made wonderful jumps with that broken leg; she jumped over obstacles six feet high. The sixth day snow had fallen, the best hunting condi- tions were prevailing, but it was the quietest day of all. We saw absolutely nothing of game; they were to an im- portant meeting somewhere, as my guide said. Something happened, though, which I want to relate for general benefit. We had taken our lunch on top of a hardwood ridge and worked our way downward to the swamps, when suddenly my guide, who had become nettled by this time by our poor luck, raised his rifle in the direction of a cluster of firs some 200 yards away. At the same moment a pair of arms came up in the air, and a loud voice hallooed: “Don't shoot!” — If you want your shoot to be announced here send a notice Itke the following: init Fixtures. April 22.,—Rushylvania, O., Gtn Club’s shoot. April 22-23.—Troy, O., Gun Chib’s tournament. *April 22-23.—Pittsburg, Pa.—Herron Hill Gun Club. Harry Vandererift, Sec’y. . April 26.—Brocklyn, L. I.—Fulton Gun Club’s shoot. G, R. Schneider, Sec’y. April 28-30.—Paducah, Ky., Gun Club’s tournament. April 28-May 1.—Lincoln, Neb.—Nebraska State Sportsmen’s As- sociation’s twenty-seventh annual tournament, under the auspices of the Lincoln Gun Club. F. E. Mockett, Sec’y. April 29.—Wellington, Mass.—Boston Gun Club’s annual team shoot. H. C. Kirkwood, Sec’y, 23 Elm street, Boston, May 1-2.—Annual spring shoot of the Glen Rock, Pa., Gun Club. Allen M. Seitz, Sec’y. May 46.—Tournament of the Mississippi Valley Trapshooters’ and Game Protective Association, under auspices of Vicksburg, Miss., Gun Club. : alee §-6.—Irwin, Pa, Gun Club’s tournament. John Withers, ec’y. May 6-7.—Union City, Ind.—Parent Gun Club’s tournament. May 6-7.—Lafayette, Ind.—Lafayette Gun Club’s tournament. May 6-7.—Titusville, Pa., Gun Club’s annual tournament. T, L. Andrews, Sec’y. May 7-38.—Wilmington, Del.—Wawasett Gun Club’s target tour- nament. May 9-10.—Chicago, Ill.—Spring tournament of the Grand Cres- cent Gun Club. May 12-15.—Pekin, Ill.—Illinois State Sportsmen’s Association tournament. May 13-14.—Crawferdsville, Ind., Gun Club’s tournament. May 13-14—Dubois, Pa.—The Intersiate Association’s tourna- ment, under the auspices of the Dubois Rod and Gun Club. U. S. N..Crouse, Sec’y. : May 1416.—El Reno, Okl.—Oklahoma Territory Sportsmen’s Association’s fourth annual tournament. May 16.—East Walpole, Mass.—All-day shoot of the Neponset Gun Club. Edgar Bills, See’y. May 18.—Marion,; Ind., Gun Club’s tournament. May 19-21.—Osceola, Ia—lIowa State Sportsmen’s Association’s twenty-sixth annual tournament. May 19-22.—Wissinoming, Philadelphia.—Thirteenth annual tour- nament of the Pennsylvania State Sportsmen’s Association, under auspiage of the Florists’ Gun Club of Philadelphia. Y. V. Dorp, ec’y, May 21-22.—New Paris, O., Gun Club’s tournament. May 21-22.—Kenton, O., Gun Club’s tournament. May 21-22.—Kenton, O.—Shoot of the Kenton Gun Club. A. G. Merriman, Sec’y-Treas, ; May 24-26.—San Francisco, Cal., Trapshooting Association’s three days’ bluerock handicap tournament. Open io all; $1,500 added, C. C. Nauman, manager. May 26-27.—Dubuque, Ta., Gun Club’s fourth annual amateur target tournament. A. FH. Heeb, Sec’y. *May 26-27.—Brownsyille, Pa.—Brownsyille Gun Club tourna- ment. W. T. Doherty, Sec’y. May 27-28.—Williamsport, Pa.—The Interstate Association’s tournament, under the auspices of the West Branch Rod and Gun Club. H. A. Dimick, Sec’y. : May 27-28.—Fort Wayne, Ind.—fwo-day bluerock tournament of the Corner Rod and Gun Club; $100 added. John V. Linker, ec’y. May 29-30.—Union City, Ind.—Spring tournament of the Parent Grove Gun Club. May 30.—Altoona, Pa., Rod and Gun Club’s tournament. G. G. Zeth, Sec’y. May 30.—Tournament of the East Harrisburg, Pa., Shooting Association. : May 30.—Newport, R. I.—Second annual tournament of the Aquidneck Gun Club. J. S. Coggeshall, Sec’y. May 30.—Detroit, Mi¢s.—Winchester Gun Club’s Decoration Day third annual tournament; =!i day. Rose system and average prizes. Sliding handicap, 16, 18 and 20yds. D. A. Hitchcock, Sec’y-Treas. . June 2-5.—Baltimore, Md.—Third annual Baltimore County shoot; three days targets; one day live birds; $500 in purses and prizes. Hawkins and Malone, Managers. June 3-4.—Boston, Mass.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- ment, under the auspices of the Boston Shooting Associatior O. R. Dickey. Sec’y ; June 3-5.—Parkersburg, W. Va.—Sixth annual tournament of the West Virginia Sportsmen’s Association, under auspices of Ohio Valley Shooting Association. June 4-5.—Greenyille, O—Spring tournament of the Greenville Gun Club, *'June, second week.—Shreveport, La.—Caddo Gun Club’s tour- nament, . 7 June 7-8—Ligonier, Pa,, Gun Club’s tournament. LPs June 8-12.—Ossining, N. Y.—New York State Association for the Protection of Fish and Game’s forty-fifth annual tournament, under the auspices of the Ossining Gun Club, . June 9-10.—Lafayette, Ind.—Indiana State shoot, under auspices of Lafayette Gun Club. June 911.—Sioux City, Ta—Ninth annual amateur tournament of the Soo Gun Club. B. F. Duncan, Sec’y. June 9-11,—Cincinnati, O.—Seventeenth annual target tourna- ment of the Ohio Trapshooters’ League. Chas. T. Dreihs, Sec’y. *June 10-1.—Ruffsdale, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. R. 6S. Deniker, Sec’y. ae June 16-19—Warm Springs, Ga.—The Interstate Association’s tournament, under the auspices of the Meriwether Gun Club. Chas, L. Davis, Sec’y. June 1618——New London, Ia.—Seventh annual midsummer tar- get tournament of the New London Gun Club. *June 1718.—McKeesport, Pa., tournament. nS June 24-25.—Rutherford, | J.—Interstate Association tourna- ment under the auspices of the Union Gun Club. *June 24-25.—New Castle, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. Atkinson, Sec’y. July 4—Topsham, Me.—All-day tournament of the Riverside Shooting Club. Fred W. Atkinson, Sec’y. ; *July 7-8.—Ligonier, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. J. O’H. Denny, Sec’y, July 8-9.—Huntsville, Alai—The Interstate Association’s tourna- ment, under the auspices of the Huntsville Gun Club. E. R. Matthews, Sec’y. July 810.—Arkansas State Sporismen’s Association’s thirteenth annual meeting and tournament, under the auspices of the Jones- boro, Ark,, Gun Club, of which Matthews is Sec’y-Treas. **July, second week.—Memphis, ‘’enn., Gun Club’s tournament. July L-16.—The Americus, Ga., second annual interstate target tournament. JI. S. MecCleskey, Sec’y. i *July 21-22.—Beaver Falls, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. W. R. Keefer, Sec’y. July 30-Aug. 1.—Viroqua, Wis.—The Interstate Association’s tournament, under the auspices of the Viroqua Rod and Gun Club. Dr. R. W. Baldwin, Sec’y. *Aug. 5-6.—Brownsville, Pa., Pod and Gun Club’s tournament. Aug. 12-15—Toronto, Ont.—Annual tournament of the Dominion Trapshooting and Game Protective Association. A. W, Throop, Sec’y-Treas., Ottawa, Can. Aug. 19-20.—Ottawa, Ill—The Interstate Association’s tourna- ment, under the auspices of the Rainmakers’ Gun Club. Paul A. Selember, Sec’y. James *Aug. 19-20,—Millvale, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. Wm. Buss- ler, Sec’y. Aug. 25-28.—Lake Okoboji, Ia—Annual Indian tournament, Frank (©, Riehl, Chief Seribe. nage 1-2.—lrwin, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. ec’y. Sept. 2-é.—Akron, O.—The Interstate Association’s tournament, under the auspices of the Akron Gun Club. G, E. Wagoner, Sec’y.. ; *Sept. 9-10—Enterprise Gun Club tournament. *Sept. 23-24—Rufisdale, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. R. S. Deniker, Sec’y. Oct. 6-7.—Allegheny, Pa.—North Side Gun Club’s tournament. L. B. Fleming, Sec’y. Oct. 20-21.—Ligonier, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. ‘J. O’H. Denny, Sec’y. Saturdays.—Chicago.—Garfield Gun Club; grounds W_ Fifty- second ayenue and Monroe street. Dr. J. W. Meek, Sec’y. *Member of Western Pennsylvania Trapshooters’ Chas. G. Grubb, Sec’y, 507 Wood street, Pittsburg. **Members of Mississippi Valley Trapshooters’ and Game Pro- tective Association. J. J. Bradfield, Sec’y, Vicksburg, Miss. John Withero, League. DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. Club secretaries are invited to send their scores for publication in these columns, also any news notes they may care to have published. Mail all such matter to Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 346 Broadway, New York, Forest AND STREAM goes to press on TUES- DAY OF EACH WEEK. The fourth annual team shoot of the Boston Gun Club will be held on the club grounds, Wellington, Mass., on April 29. Shooting commences on the arrival of the 9:55 train. All shooters invited. Lunch served _on the grounds. Guns and cartridges forwarded to Kirkover Brothers, 23 Elm street, Boston, and not arriving later than April 27, will be delivered on the grounds free. There are thirteen events on the programme, 10 and 15 targets. Targets, 144 cents. There are two merchandise prizes for first and second amateur averages. % The grounds of the Boiling Springs Gun Club, at Rutherford, N. J., had an activity on Saturday of last week which was a re- minder of old days. There were thirty contestants in the regular sweepstakes. In the six-man team shoot for the Shooting and Fishing trophy, at 50 targets, between the Union Gun Club and the Boiling Springs Gun Club, the Union club won by a score of 231 to 212.. The South Side Gun Club, of Newark, challenged the winner, RB The Princeton team defeated the University of Pennsylvania on the grounds of the Clearview, Pa., Gun Club, April 19, by a score of 220 to 211. The conditions were such that Pennsylvania team was severely handicapped. Princeton had six men on its team; U. of P. five men. Each man shot at 50 targets. The scores: Princeton—Archer 41, McKaig 35, Pardoe 42, Stutesman a0, Frick 382, Gaines 35; total 220. Pennsylyvania—Lowdon 48, * Perkins 47, Adams 42, Farwell 34, Henderson 40; total 211, Mr. L. W. Colquitt, from the 28yd. mark, won the 20-bird event at Smith Brothers’ grounds, Newark, N. J., on April 16. There were six entries. The entrance was $20, high guns, two moneys for every ten entries. &® The next shoot of the Hudson Gun Club, Jersey City, will be held on May 3. » The Americus, Ga., Gun Club’s second annual interstate tar- get tournament will take place July 14, 15 and 16. BERNARD WATERS. Poughkeepsie Gun Club, April 18—Tt has been our Juck—ill-luck—for several weeks back to have a howling wind to shoot against. But anything that we have had heretofore was not a circumstance compared with the wind to-day. There was a regular hurricane blowing from the north—from the directiom in which the targets are thrown, and which raised the targets to an immense height. Several times targets, after losing their force, given by the trap, were carried back by the wind to the shooting platform. Some of the boys were tempted to shoot at them when coming back. Event 8, for the Marshall cup, was, as usual, the principal one of the day. H. E, Winans scored another win by breaking 18, which, with his allowance of 4 misses as breaks, scored him 22, Buckley was next high with 20 to his credit. Events: 123 45 6 7 8 910 Shot Targets: 25 25 251010 15 102515 25 at. Broke. Warshall ieee. biasie ee. 101614 6 311 51811 8 189 87 SWickers slsoddtspebennnh aph .s ab 4, pr ere 85 4) AWE Saw verre tect wi ey ALD. On ee, tin tne ce ee 65 35 EGQotaiteroes cacccaviinecetie oe fen obptanl oaks) ike 95 55 Clayman aye stars shaman ee ls dD re, VE sak 50 23 EIT CICLO Vea siete pppaiet Pese we Mee ee omer 82 8 eZ OP. 89 75 7 SEE Gay SBN peice no Ree eet rete so (rip) ee eels 6) 3l JESTER SUP Bo Epo OGHEDOCHDRDCI Ga att. che nae pa Thies ver 25 13 *Shot along in cup event. In eyent No, 10 Buckley dropped out after fifteenth round, SNANIWER, Special Meeting of the Indians, Kansas Crry, Mo., April 16.—A special meeting of the Indians was held at the Midland Hotel, this city, on the above date, by eall of High Chief Tom A. Marshall, who presided. The meeting was called for the purpose of selecting the dates and place for the annual meeting and tournament. This business was taken up at once, and the bid of A. W. Arnold, of Arnold’s Park, Lake Okoboji, was selected. The tournament will be held there on the dates of August 25, 26, 27 and 28. It was voted to follow the usual custom of issuing a handsome souvenir programme. Names were also chosen for the six recently elected Indians, as follows: John M. Lilly, Chief Cyclone; E. D, Rike, Chief Sleepy Eye; A. W. Du Bray, Chief Gouchon; E. B. Coe, Chief Decoy; John Burmister, Chief Back to the Woods; Hood Waters, Chief Follow Trail. The following resolutions of respect to the memory of the late lamented Col. A. G. Courtney were passed: The fleet-footed runner from the far land of the Alleghanies is in the council wigwam of the Indians to-day bearing the heavy tidings. that Col. A. G, Courtney, on the roll of Tribal Chiefs honorably known as Chief Sitting Bull, follows the trail no more, but has passed into the mysterious shades beyond which hie the Happy Hunting Grounds of rest and reward for faithful service on this earthly trail. With these tidings before us we are reminded of the transitory nature of the chase in otir present surroundings and of the great change that must ultimately come to us all; but as we turn in this hour to look back upon the record of the hunt for honors and the things that make life worth the living, as left by this lamented Chieftain, we find much of inspiration and satisfaction in the record. To have been a leader in the fight whenever it was worthy of a foeman’s mettle, and to haye won the plaudits and com- mendations of his peers, is the acme of achievement for a brave and fearless man, and such at all times was the position of him whose chair stands empty in this conclave, draped in the symbols af tribal mourning. And in acknowledgment of his faithful ser- vice be this memento inscribed upon the tablet dedicated to his memory, and his place declared vacant for the space of three moons. In witness whereof, and in token of our deep sympathy and condolence with the wife and children of our lamented fellow Chieftain, is hereunto affixed the official signature of the Indians. Frank C, Riehl, Chief Scribe. Tom A. Marshall, High Chief. Ossining Gun Club, Ossintnc, N. Y., April 18.—Owing to the high wind blowing and a local ball game, there was very little shooting on the grounds of the Ossining Gun Club to-day. The scores of those who came out are herewith appended. Each event was at 10 targets: Events: 1°23 4 5 Events: the Sepak ais [Pe Cem tteay han AS eo aee & Gb 6. bes -CMGs Bignudtords ee eae TET yan? te pesch x - CT et Mera rid Git ll ee aes PITS ris 8 isis sek ceaseeot el Tay be Ae OllM EG Sees cte Daaw It is a pleasure to find how important this time-honored annual event, the shoot of the New York State Association for the Pro- tection of Fish and Game is considered by the sporting goods trade in general. In answer to our appeal for prizes we have been most liberally dealt with. As the prizes have come rolling in to the net value of $800, not counting local prizes, we are reminded of an appeal we once made as a club, not knowing of the cast-iron agreement the dealers had entered into regarding dona- tions to clubs. We take this opportunity to most heartily thank these generous donors. Regarding the hotels of Ossining, they are fairly up to the standard of hotels in other towns of this size, 10,000 residents. There are six of them, the prices of which for shooters will range from $1.50 to $2.50 per day: In addition to this, there are a num- ber of desirable boarding houses in town where many could be comfortably housed for the week. During the week of the shoot two military schools here will hold their commencement, which will fill some of the hotels, so that shooters who desire may write to the undersigned, who will take pleasure in booking accommo- dations ahead for them. C. G. Branp¥Forp, ; Care Ossining G. C., Ossining, N. Y. St. Hubert Gun Club. Orrawa, Can., April 13.—The team race and event No, 1, at the tournament of the St. Hubert Gun Club, held to-day, were shot under expert rules, five expert traps. All other events were shot Sergeant system. Entrance moneys were as follows: No. 1, $1; No. 2, $2; No. 3, $1.50; No. 4, $2.50; No. 5, $2; No. 6, $1; No. 7, $1.50; No. 8, $1.50. The home club lost the Montreal challenge cup, which it had held during two years, Events: Zeno Geo Events: dyed Targets: 10 20 15 25 20 Targets: 10 20 15 25 20 Nt fr MSTAV acres i 51513 2117 W L Cameron.... 519111815 G B Goodhue..... 616121816 Z Ketchum ...... Bes. lee A Teh erate oe cee 61212 2116 C Brodeur ....... Bry sO ete 9 © G Thompson... 917101918 Hl Viau ........... 318 12 15 11 A W Throop...... 518101917 J Marshall ........ nels 9 Vie: W. Slateyi..2..5.5 Bde Aas eG cae Seana Be, tar eye ae I N Deslauriers... 516 61712 J Higginson ..... 6181219 .. ity (Ge Baton: race: eA RS OB WOO UOI bs alts aon eo tr pie Ra ty ate SE eaay sees oes 616 138 2018 C Strangman..... DUB he rel sy GC ne Paneteoe a... BAL Tad Pehle, EUSA El ts 5 serene 5 15 11 19 10 R B Hutchinson. 817102218 IF G Bradley.......... 10 15 10 WILE oS Paws oe Gitlseey USER eA Vilrasery eh s2uicac ye sen as 21 18 R Redman ....... Telos tgoe diel eolemGhigrer nats eld silane Onis W J Cleghorns,:. 617 921014 P Walters 2.25.5 .. +. =. 16 12 J K Kennedy..... AAT AS 24d We Walters 3. .isie) sas see ats eakye ee CL Nasties ses ict We eae Met Sete t ae Oia Se oy gs 6 16 es Weewis: ee anys 514 914 .. Team race for Montreal cup: St. Hubert Gun Club. Westmount Gun Club. Capt Higginson ........... 13 IRS, CEPntchrTsan hy ponces see 13 De Sr Wanita! se. rercenstsae 9 GoANbIIE so seten cheese tne 13 Capt Wy ereBovilles Sa. as., 10 (0g Gea eA SA 8 CUP RS Etre ee 9255S inti qa il Wi JT. Cleghorn, .45533 052406 10 Vie I OATRELOMNS sg asuus-9 sls'r39 11—54 PS eited yin be rey snes 11—55 St. Bazile Gun Club. Sr. Bazite, Que., April 11.—In spite of the high wind some of the boys had their weekly shoot to-day. Following are the scores: Up IRE a Ah ots wistelaste ettrla Cla he ,stemleiatas clots slats lactis 11011110011111101111—16 dP miiyneaneia ee eS Mire eRe ee er aa wate we tata EAD 01410111111000111011—14 EA revit: aartieasce emcee ahh bk es ih bae aa ae eat 11111000101111100010—12 iD UhelGksnt #0454408 akan peeeroer ta tact sie ocs 1111000001100 ie Ue IESG ORE) sey hcl ot poe arpoeimerecrri a rrerartart oS 11111000111111011111—16 (Eig) Jets Bis tht} SAA ATA A ASOD Lilo forges Ck te 1111111111001111011—-17 Te VED Te ce Py eee, SAS Ss SR 1110000010 A Jeunnesse 11111111001000111011—14 ET BPICHE) Seed ose ers eens 01100111010111601111—13 Ti VACQUES oo cece tags tote cinema nara ccsis tenes. 00011100110 FE. Bloudean Fea ties ha hate elisa site 11111001100011111001—18 IE amie” Caney aman e oso e ane n aon tot ccdae ms ar 000001001 ISR Gotethol | SP BE tiace-A~ SABE Onaga daooodo Ty ine 11010101111110010110—12 Wie VACGUESe teks a csscasdseves mans r reds s4 oes 11111111.000110011011—14 GQ) MGMT wate seca: S acaihulsia eles ensaaies sere -- 11100010010 UAe WU tiataag sees ates basta aaiateilaela tals loiain ise sea digioad 11011000100 J Chastoniay 2 .j.c sist. nccsweadeueenscssisee near 11000101011 His CRB TTALH O otitg gue vielsie/e itt o hee aaee dialer ee 110111001000 Pennsylvania Association, Tue thirteenth annual tournament of the Pennsylvania State Sportsmen’s Association will be held May 18, 19, 20 and 21, at flying targets, at Wissinoming, Philadelphia, under the auspices of the Florists’ Gun Club. Also May 22 and.23, at live birds, at Holmesburg Junction, Philadelphia, under the auspices of the Keystone Shooting League. In giving the thirteenth annual tournament of the Pennsylvania State Sportsmen’s Association, the Florists’ Gun Club, of Phil- ydelphia, has endeayored to present a new programme, in which many radical changes have been made. The new plan of adding money to fifth and sixth places posi- tively guarantees a prize to 10 and 11 targets out of 15, and 15 and 16 out of 20 targets in the open amateur sweeps. The 66 to §0 per cent, shots are sure of winning money neyer offered before, The daily average money for high and low guns, and general average money for high and low guns in open amateur sweeps is for State Association members exclusively, . : FOREST:AND_ STREAM. There will be individual prizes to wittners in team matches, absolute trophy to each winning team, absolute trophy for State average winner, and guaranteed purses in State events, A special tax purse will be divided among all amateurs and State members who shoot through the three days’ open amateur sweeps and fail to win back their entrance. Three merchandise eyents for sportsmen’s prizes will be shot under a hew system of handicapping. All merchandise prizes, added money and guaranteed purses are offered and given by the Florists’ Gun Club, Frorists’ Gun Crus. Cincinnati Gun Club. One hundred bird race: Total Gain bello eG TG soe het os nhists es mele eles 19 19 19 20 18 95 SEs eels erate each nnele s cio ahmeeaeelaNy siete aie iP UTE athe Rep ile 89 DVIS C1 TSO) Oar yale elej etal ck hata a seston etnias 19 18 18 15 16 86 Dreihs, 16 dip aks Ve SRE aks) 85 Atkinson, eGo ebie aife Sf ler 84 Phil, 20 Daudt, 18 Second 100-bird race: ; Total PR e207 otek sec che Bie ea ae Sener RT pela Ag 217-200 21 80 SeiwrEs, FPO wai d., haae pee pee ene oreo are 2a 2m go 2a 92 Atkansori, £202 4isesinceues ees meee none meme as 21 20 20 24 85 TIAA, OM cea chi cMeneee ite er ee eee. Oren e 18 13 15 21 67 One hundred bird race: Total AB ral a Ute t ees eer stp fe reer 16 18 16 12 12 73 Iolog Wa rik eek Re Pe Tt 9) W580 de duc L718: ie Tih 219 84 Pil esc an tcentonh he nesaee ae ree een ent 17 18 18 16 17 85 AUISIEIS OIG loeaene oy yee ously ieee selene 17 19 17 19 18 90 SLUR LE Rot A Or WTA EN Coe INP e re tad hoe et 17. 18 7 18 20 90 aH elles. c, As sy cee ce ae san seeeena elie: 18 15 17 16 18 84 CGlariai salt cuthbert pee enes adeno oeeee MUGdICO. 5% 2 iets aus Lhe sate peeeen ce pee Le Compte dynein, sewer ene stan Ferm athe. wana le bae JQRELSH 38m ee eT ee eae Faran The Lady and the Dickey Birds, Wymore, Neb., April 18.—Editor Forest and Stream: reading Mr. Fulford’s suggestions to trapshooters, in regard to live birds, and the reasons he gives for the growth of the senti- ment against shooting them, and heartily approve of all he said; and while I was congratulating myself on the fact that none I enjoyed of this unhealthy sentiment existed in the West, happened. First, in looking over a list of bills passed by our Legislature and awaiting the signature of the Governor, I discovered one pro- hibiting the shooting of live birds at the trap. I regret that it was not noticed sooner, as [ am very certain that a fifteen minutes’ talk with the committee would have put a quietus upon it, for this session at least, Second, about two weeks ago the Wymore Gun Club opened up with a shoot at dickey birds, and a day or two afterward a lady called at my office and told me that she called to see if something could not be done to prevent the shooting of the poor little dickey birds, at the city park by the gun club. She said she knew I was a great lover of birds, and that if any one could stop it I could. I told her I had noticed reports of the shooting of these little birds in the local papers, and would in- vestigate the matter at once; and in fact would have done so sooner on my own motion if it had not been for the fact that a traveling man had told me that these little birds, if allowed to propagate in this country, would soon be worse than the English sparrows in Philadelphia. I investigated, and a few days later wrote the lady that 1 was gratified to learn that the little dickey birds were made out of clay. A. D. McCanpiess. two things ‘The Wymores Get the Park, Wrynore, Neb., April 12.—Editor Forest and Stream: Gun Clubs, like individuals, have their ups and downs; and the Wymore Gun Club is no exception to the rule. A year ago, when the boys went up to the old Fair grounds for their first shoot of the season, they found it fenced with barbed wire, the gates closed and notices up; and they also found a man in charge who in- formed them that it was private property, and that no shooting would be allowed. It was a stock pasture. This was a body blow, for we had shot, played ball, and had _ circuses there for twenty years. But it was private property! It had once been a fair ground and driving park, but the company had gone to picces, the property had changed hands, and we had no right there. Well, the boys came down town and talked it over with their friends, and things soon began to sizzle. The Mayor and City Council soon concluded that they would take a hand in the game. The property was looked up, and it was discovered that there were thirteen years’ back taxes due on the property. And the city authorities concluded that if it was not worth paying taxes on, it would make a good city park anyway, and the condemna- tion ordinance was drawn up and passed by a unanimous vote, the property appraised at $50 an acre, twenty-six acres, total $1,300. A law suit followed, in which the city was victorious, and to-day it is a city park, and on March 4, this year, the Mayor and Council passed a resolution giving the Wymore Gun Club the right to establish shooting grounds, build a building, and use the land inside of the old driving track for our purposes forever! We took possession and built a nice building, and have about the nicest gun club grounds in the State; and a prouder set of boys you never saw. A, D. McCanviress. ON LONG ISLAND. Brooklyn Gun Club, Brooklyn, L. I., April 18,—The scores made at John Wright's matinee are appended. Brigham was the leader in the high scores: Events: Le Se Ai BG aS ee Targets: 10) 15-10; 1b) ago die db 15) 10 GOTIDSS Solgar thea e aber siemerea an £5 2 2 a 7 G ty ri EOP TE EL ot ape cree Aa tae at atest? oY 3 eal mameia te Sc ey oad 5 6 5 12 6 12 9 F Stephenson .........+ retsts aes (eQii yee) be Ree ae Ale Brigham 5 (el rf lbp ly ie ay abl is Bedford .... StS) “S10 a. Ot 2" 1s ow Hitcheock . 6. 10) 4-410 4.18 9 SGI Win Gace bi klats Bid ye Na ee UK Mohrman Co YE Ae Goran Cheeseborough i Tce ie igs Creat Plansletter: sa cac dete cei heeenees es == 2° Givaie Spits wecome 7, G Remse .......s37- pets as-is EG pA. ap en Wirtehite: Gesvcics-aeesmatesaescoss Go “DS eniG- Swami re Nonpareil Gun Club, Cutcaco, April 18.—In the club shoot at 50 targets, the members of the Nonpareil Gun Club who were present scored as follows: Rupe! 49, Stannard 47, Kuss 44, Barto 43, Bush 42. Fitty-cent sweeps: f'vents: 123 4 Events: 1 2.3 4 "Targets: 10 16 15 15 Targets 10 15 15 15 g eeu oys| ar sary kee reece tat 71412... Mack (Ce atit thie IMSS F2betsSeehaen ee 91315 21 Shogren ae td alec ee IRATEO. eoncta ss space 10111418 Clark pet ide Lys Bitsh) [os cascscsews dee} GID ELS. nO LAtuTaTe ao een er mee ap peal ke al No. 4 was at 15 singles and 5 pairs, entrance $1. WATSON. Missouri State Shoot. (Concluded from page 319.) Mayflower medal, amateur State championship: Spencer .....:.+: 222222.20222202222222020222222020222222*22221022200—40 Bramhall) eer. 0)221*222992%2021 221291 21 *2*2111022221 291291 *w Cle iGiisy = vere ae 020121121 22201 #1121211 22021212121122119221 2923991945 ARgrinovate AA AAR AAS 22212211012022211221 22220202221 9*21212221211122212 45 Cunningham... .222222222202222292999*29999992 22220222221 92202222 45 Shoot-off of tie: Glavin seca eek 22122*1122— 9 Cunningham ......2220222222— 9 MN OTM SOLE Scoops pate 1212121212—10 State and Interstate championship: , Hirschy ; 102222222222222022222222223 Bottger 1111222122122221222220222-—95 Gorman 112110122212012102211 222122 Gilson 1911211222122222012110212—23 me le pee teh eee: cee ew ate eaten eeeees 120111.2211111122111221122—24 COISpPeUuceT i eee eee ee heel ena Loer sen oy 121022222000w IPEr Veto ieee sale nrielels diana an micleletas 00222222212020022022002221—18 Pera home aN Mo WeretenttsAe sib r ertin Meqtieansefraye site sete 2221101222202021112211211—22 GB SCockrellseeie see enca eee es Care 221 2211222111222210201212—23 Bratch all pa ee eee eet ee eee eee 202212022120220w ot pe Y Kot TMA AA A AAA AA AAAAAAR AAAI SAA ie 2010112112202112222212022—21 SLCCLH Ss av chls Pied ueec.s oe bene ohs cere E ere 1111011121222121211121222—34 0221100220w 22221112202201010w 2221000120w : 2222222202220222222222022—23 : 2122222222022222222022222—23 Epo a Fos Fh fag 'Rio ala nfo la lal laghata bata 21221.22221222222221201222—24 Arnhold lakepGooiss. Bebo nodtonsabacdd. Sade a ayniad san are dee 9221121121222200222011222—22 OYA er Te pene ene ones imeem enter laradie tracers 1200212111110221121222202—91 APh shee An obese edict inet abbr et eet stitihs 1022122122212222299212220—23 Glaytan: ssa eisd wot AMT EVE Hee oh eh Peet tye, 0202102002w i TP Bo SPENCER whist eeeiie ais sete aaetsctes 0222929222999292122220220—22 Wiexardert Ti Yapsad catia aueeeeta i sennues 2202200022202222120100020—15 State Shooters—Pendleton, O’Neil, Clayton, H. B. Spencer, Alexander, Zim, Arnhold. Championship of York County. Guen Rocx, Pa., April 20.—The shoot for the live-bird cham- 7 pionship trophy of York county, held on the grounds of the Glen Rock Gun Club on Saturday, April 18, was a great disappoint- ment to the club. Out of eighteen who had promised to attend and participate, seven were present and participated, a fact re- flecting very little credit on the word of at least eleven. The scores were much better ihan they appear, as the wind was blow- ing a regular gale, and many of the kills were of a sensational kind. Jackson (Elias Spangler), of York, won the trophy with 17. The scores at live birds follow: Events: 123 4 Events ioe) 3. Targets: ZU ee Targets: 20m, i TEAR es ceed are 12 tae 4 siitetidicl e255 theaters, eee 3 0 Bob White, 26....... Uh 8% "6-85 “Grove; BAG, aac eal lesley Page Deardorff, 28.... 16 9 6 1 P McGuigan, 26. Fee sill! Jackson, 28 .17 9 6 Wilson, 26...... oe nes eanere fs sete ee cle 13 8 4.. G McGuigan, 26...... .. 0 Piyster -20s0..n:!- scene 16 9 % 4° Black Bird, 28)iseteee : 3 Mitlen-geusetrcer cscs: T6- 2: “Bask *Miss-and-out. The target shoot to be held on May 1-2, open to all, by the Glen Rock Gun Club, will no doubt be attended by a larger number of target shooters, The programme will be at 200 tar- gets each day, with average money for both high and low guns shooting through each day’s programme. A. M. Seitz. WESTERN TRAP. Cnrcaco, Ill., April 18.—The secretary of the Cripple Creek Gun Club, of Colorado, reports that at the meeting, of April 11 the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Larry E. Kinfg; Vice-President, Don. V. Torrest; Secretary- Treasurer, C. R. Hutchisor; Executive Committee; L, E, King, Den. V. Forrest, C. R. Hutchison, G. C. Stoddard, Nat. Thorp and J. A. Woodruff. Ey 1. North Adams Gun Club, Norra ApaAms, Mass., April 14.—At the shoot of the North Adams Gun Club to-day seventeen shooters participated. Mr. Neaf Apgar was easily high average in the total of the pro- gramme events. He made an even 90 per cent. performance. Following are the scores: Events: 123 4 61657 3 9-10 Shot WDatal Targets: 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 at. Broke. AGIAT erick cee any nal shes 10) SS 00S S299 00 90 AIG PAV ESea otk keen eer ee eit lin MIG ty ie MED b- 60 44 Keller : iwetew ye Muweae veayseere Mie or Mtlh) 64 ING artisan aa votue asses ees + S910) "9 6 210 bei ceeLUU 78 Rae steDpens: meer eee V6 Te Play Ete Nip Bb aif) 67 TBKeGEES” 8 ade cienndnelcs PERS hs Ridin ip spe 90 50 NEC ELA ea ieieta arercee snes eet br ieee ace UP ye. 40 29 MeaGlashotiiunnadel esses me BP eee ye eS 2 vi MOVBIRTHOTT Wteteie siezerals tale (att aiers 5 AGE er, Oe Gar Ss doen 70 38 SERVANT escaeoca ae eiy leis 'e’a latelntels Teh Pye Sac TeR Sot is 70 40) IRE AS tas meets bbe ol case hie vereth ter bt i 80 BL Srv ithFigumene ercieise a tiewte Psi aiiranere (OME sraemy Someta! att ove 60 45 JR settle bere see AA een So, Ss UM KES Ee URE. ye Ve 50 37 (Ope TCO ore tl Rae AT AAAS ele ierlh dr FA RO AA op pe 20 9 WSR Te porno ggeotteccodkers Ta uhe ecg elas era ee pe 30 19 I@ligyss hapeebor ato’: Cc) ok Bec eel teins Me wal 30 22 Graves) <5, +s RassArhenotthieds ASSP tata Woes ase iate 20 ll Portage County Gun Club, Kent Team—Mingo 45, Yarhling 46, Smith 40, Parks 39, Ly- man 81; total 201, Columbia Team—Galt 39, Pullman 41, Taylor 389, Krider 41, Smith 38; total 198. Akron Team No, 1—Roots 32, Wagoner 48, Beck 41, Jerry 87, Hull 43; total 196. Canton Team—Young 46, Wilson 38, Becker 30, Hawk 48, Eeley 34; total 191. Akron Team No. 2—W. W. W. 45, Joy 38, J. R. K. 37, Russel 41, Dobson 29; total 190. Ravenna Team—Davies 36, Becker 32, Jerry 41, Fairchild 34, Raven 45; total 188. Sparta Team—Galt 85, Brown 23, L. Becker 29, Wilson 42, Dr. Becker 39; total 168. Winchester Gun Club. Derroit, Mich.—The regular shoot, April 18, was a small affair, although the day was a delightful one. Following are the scores. The handicaps were for the trophy event, No. 6, the seventh being the club event: Tivents: 1 ge se, ch pti ate) Targets: 107) 15" “10 “0 S257 25 Brodies 1b 1st. Eye terateptririrte adobe abt: 10 J 9 10 12 18 16 Teen Ue yngoplobnutucc Gath sti eter poet SPSS i SNe Ihe Ue oe Githatd), Ue yeag jes elrrwet ese eons. ot SS Te Hag esioo Tebkgeletsclo Age! bs abbr bb cig? Pe Bonodsteer at: 10° 8 Bb “7. 18 2a ws Tescetiy IG6 cvageespaepsecess epee area ete Sowa: [otitis Dovet Sportsmen’s Association. Dover, N. H., April 11. The light was good, but there was a deal of wind. The targets were thrown fast and low. All the events were at 10 targets. Secretary Hallam is hustling for a large attendance on Fast Day, the 23d inst. The seores were as follows: Out of 60 shot at, Beard broke 45, Fisher 36, St. Evens 30, Hallam 27, Durgin 20; Carson broke 76 ont 110; Goodwin 10 out of 20; White 19 out of 40. A team of the University of Pennsylvania will shoot a match with a team of Harvard College on May 1. collegiate contest at the traps will be held on the grounds of the Clearview, Pa., Gun Club. , n May 2 the inter- | Aprtt 28, 1903.) . Grand American Handicap. Tue fourth Grand American Handicap at targets, with its as- sociated events, all given by the Interstate Association, was held in Blue River Park, Kansas City, Mo,, on April 14, 15, 16 and 17. On the same grounds last year the Grand American Handicap at live birds was held. Jt was a record-breaker in point of num- bers, and it is probably the last one at live birds which will ever be given by the Interstate Association, on account of the un- friendly public agitation which live-bird shooting, at great tourna~ - ments, evokes. The four sets of traps, installed Sergeant system, were in nearly a straight Jine east and west on the north side of the house. High board fences between the firing points guarded the contestants, one from another, against any possible accidents from wild pellets. of shot or wild shooting. They were not needed in fact, but were a precautionary measure on the safe side: ~[here was an extra set of traps on the south side of the grounds, which was used for practice eventS. That there was an enormous aggregate of shoot- ing is evident when it is mentioned that 101,980 targets were ~ trapped at this tournament. 4 . =P President Irby Bennett, alert, debonair and dignified, as be- came the president of an association and also an officer ligh in power in a great ammunition company, was ever doing his utmost . to promote the interest and comfort of all the shooters, and he won many words of deserved praise for his successful efforts. He filled all the duties of his office with the utmost ease and efficienéy. ‘ The management was perfect, The staff was so well selected and organized that every detail was skillfully managed. Indeed, every detail had been anticipated, and carefully provided for by the secretary-manager, Mr. Elmer E. Shaner, many~weeks before the tournament began. ‘The ordinary manner of managing an ordinary target tournament would not do at all as a manner of managing the Grand American Handicap with its large number of entries and limited time. The taking in of moneys and paying out of moneys for each event, the entries, the withdrawals, etc., were not possible in the scheme of the Grand American Handi- cap. This Mr. Shaner recognized, and as a result the following condition was imposed: ‘fA contestant who. takes part in the reg- ular events any day (events other than the three handicaps) must _ niake entrance for all'events called for by the programme of that day, Entries will not be taken for less than the total number of. In case a contestant, after © regular eyents scheduled for the day. making entry, fails to take part im any event or events, his entrance will be forfeited for that particular event or events, and the amount so forfeited will be added to the purse the same as if he had contested.’”’ This provision kept the different squads per- manent throughout the day. The squads were treated as units in so far as managing the competition is concerned. There was no patching up or changing of them. If a man or more dropped out, the squad went on in the competition with what men were left, thus preserving its unity from start to finish. Thus No. 1 squad shot at No. 1 set of traps, after which it went directly to No. 2 set, thence to No, 3, thence to No. 4 When No. 1 squad Jeft No. 1 set of traps, No. 2 squad immediately began at No. 1 set of traps, and followed No. 1 squad down the line, Thus one squad followed another as units of the competition, and the shooting continued without a break till the programme of-the ~ day was finished. Organized in this manner, the matter of man- aging a big tournament was reduced to the simplest ease. _Nevy- ertheless, the manager was ever active, and was continually. pass- ing on questions submitted, most of which were fully treated in the programme. There was one dominant feature in the policy of the management, namely, to conduct the shoot up to the very letter of the governing rules. Ili a man neglected or forgot tu enter in time, he was out for good. If he was not on deck when it was his turn to shoot, and a reasonable wait or effort failed to produce him, the competition went on just the same. All were treated fairly and alike, but the tournament was not changed in its particulars for the accommodation of the individual. As an assistant manager, Mr. Ed A. Hickman, of Kansas City, was energetic, attentive and efficient. He has had great experience in managing men, and sways them with an ease and grace beyond the compass of most men. Mr. Fred C. Whitney, of Des Moines, Ia., acted as cashier, which is an assurance that the cash was handled expertly and efficiently. Im such matters, Mr. Whitney’s fame is second to none. The compiler of scores was Mr. J. K. Starr, of Philadelphia, who has had great experience in that relation for several years past, and is esteemed for his ability in keeping the scores in a perfect manner, while maintaining the utmost urbanity when catering to the reporters and shooters who are ever applying for information or extra copies of scores. He was ably assisted by Mr. John B. Hayes, Jr., of Kansas City. Mr. J. H. Monahan was clerk to the compiler of scores. The different crews at the traps were as follows: ‘ No. 1 set of traps: W. V. Rieger, referee; Ed Casey, scorer; Lee Hickman, messenger; F, M. Denslow, squad rustler, all of Kansas City, Mo. c No. 2 set of traps: E. P. Frisbee, Des Moines, referee; Hugh S. Carnahan, Kansas City, scorer; John Graham, messenger; Lee George, squad rustler; Graham and George, both of Kansas City. No. 3 set of traps: J. H. Quistgaard, referee; E. H. Glenn, scorer; Lee Hayden, messenger; W. B. Wolbren, squad rustler; all of Kansas City, Mo. No. 4 set of traps: Ted Turner, referee; H. J. Dooley, scorer; Geo. Hammill, messenger; Frank Workman, squad rustler; all of Kansas City, Mo. No. 5 set of traps, for practice events: Leonard Shepherd, Os- borne, Mo., referee; C. J. McGee, scorer; Harry Lord, messenger; John Lantlin, squad rustler; all of Kansas City, except Shepherd. Cashier at No. 5 set of traps: J. D. Sweet, of Kansas City, Mo. The background was a particularly unfavorable one for a continuous view of the targets. There were buildings and trees along the river to the leit, the railroad embankment straight ahead and to the right, making patches dark and light. The tar- gets flew at hard angles, some very high, at times almost straight up, and some flew very low. These flights were much agegra- vated by the wind, which blew from the north on the first three days of the tournament, a direction facing the contestants when at the traps. . In reference to the targets, a rather ludicrous episode occurred on the third day, though it was regrettable, too, as showing how misinformed the Humane Society officers may be in matters of which they are presumed to have an interest and accurate knowledge. This was in the form of a communication, received by the president, Mr. Irby Bennett, a copy of which is herewith presented, as follows: ee Sees A. ‘Kansas Cit Lo., ril 16, 1903, “To Management ¥ * jain “Blue River, “Shooting Tournament. “Gentlemen: You are kindly requested on behalf of the Humane Society to have all crippled or maimed birds immediately de- stroyed, and oblige, (Signed) “WW. H. Gibbins, Field Officer.’? When an officer, who professionally made it his affair as above set forth, had such an utter misunderstanding of the situation, how much more is the people at large to be excused for their in- dignation and misunderstanding when taught and incited by such leaders? ; The spectators, as compared with the numbers which visited the park at the live-bird handicap last year, were not numerous. Qn the third, the G. A. H. day, they were present in fairly good force, but still the grounds were not at all crowded when com- pared with their crowded state of last year. As a matier of course, the Grand American Handicap event was the one of greatest interest, All the programme events before it were stages of adyance to it. The first day was devoted to sweepstake shooting, and a part of the forenoon on each of the following days was also devoted to that kind of shooting. All those events were at unknown angles, no handicaps, and in their competition in the sweepstakes, manufacturers’ agents, paid rep- resentatives, etc., shot for targets only. The 100-target events were a succession of surprises as to win- ners. The Preliminary Handicap was won by a young man Mr. M, E. Hensler, of Battle Creek, Mich. He is said to be only nineteen years old. He tied with Mr. D. F. Timberlake. of Seneca, Kas., for first, and won out in the shoot-off on the fol- lowing day, Thursday. Mr. Ilensler displayed admirable nerve being as cool and collected externally as any one could desire. It is not to be assumed, however, that because a shooter in a crisis is steady and methodical externally, he is the same in his nervous interior, There is much more creditable and credible that, having nerves, the shooters haye such masterly control over them, : The Grand American Handicap at targets seemed for a time to be also an annex to Mr. Hensler’s belongings. He scored 93 which was a high performance, and as contestant after contestant FOREST AND. STREAM. fitished his score without tieing it or beating it, there was a general conviction that Mr. Hensler had won two great events, the Preliminary and the G. A. H. There was a keen revival of interest toward the last of the race, when Mr. E. Brady went to No, 4 set with a score of 70 out of 75, and Mr. M. Diefenderfer in the same squad with a score of 69. Brady could lose two out of his last 25 and still tie, while Diefenderfer could lose only one and tie. Brady was shooting in fine form, but was unfortunate toward the latter part and lost 5, finishing with 90, a good per- formance at that. Diefenderfer shot with perfect steadiness, seemingly without a flutter externally, and broke his last 25 straight, really a marvelous performance under pressure. Mr. Diefenderfer is a hardware merchant of Wood River, Neb. He had but little experience in tournament competition. When he - broke his last 25 straight, and, was therefore almost the winner to a certainty, there was a friendly rush for him to congratulate him, to praise him, and to do him honor. After a while, in the presence of the assembled shooters and visitors, President Irby Bennett, in a dignified and impressive short speech, presented him with ‘a yaluable gold watch, properly inscribed to com- memorate the event. Mr. Diefenderfer made a modest response, and hearty cheers were given’ for the amateur, Mr, Diefenderfer, who had won such~a long and difficult contest. His portrait, published with this report, shows him in his winning. garb and” as he competed, It is but fair to mention that the shooting, owing to the absence of wind, was much easier in the afternoon, than in the forénoon, and therefore the later but such is the fate of -war, : : Dr. A. Quick, of El Dorado Springs, Mo., in the Consolation Handicap made an excellent score, and is entitled to mutch praise for that performance. ‘*. ‘ It is a noteworthy fact that the East sent no shooters in any important numbers, so that it is a logical inference that the scores improved, ee i | i | M. DIEFENDERFER, Winner of G. A. H., Kansas City, 1903. G, A. H. at targets East or West will have respectively an Eastern or Western support almost exclusively. Mr. Alex D Mermod, of St. Louis, Mo,, presented strong inducements in behalf of his city to secure the next G. A. H., but no definite action can be taken till the Association meets in due time, as in the past. Blue River Park is hardly adapted to the requirements of a great tournament, it being too limited in area, and too modestly equipped. It is particularly open to objections in case of rainy weather, on account of the mud. The tournament was run smoothly from start to finish, and was a success, a much greater success with its numbers of entries than it would have been had there been 500 entries, or 1,000. The winners of first in the different events used guns and am- munition as follows: ae Hensler used a Smith gun, mixed powders, and U. M. C. shells. Mr. Diefenderfer used a Lefever gun, Dupont powder and U, M. C, shells. 4 Mr. Quick used a Smith gun, Dupont powder and Winchester shell. First Day, Tuesday, April 14, There were eight eyents at 20 targets on this day. These had $25 added to each event, and the entrance was $2. There were thirty squads, five men to a squad, a total of 150 contestants for the day. The weather conditions were all against good scores. gel UE Fegechsy a be Uy a Sl Rien cet A By Matt) W E Vankeuren, 16... 00.02.22 .ceeccssovsss nse aly R 1G Ambrose, S6y ets sine caste nas “itt scien than 14 J M Marshall, 16... 2 i: ese senses Paige ale ama V7 W B Wilson, 16......... 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The wind still blew from the north, though much gentler than on the previous days, and died away almost entirely toward midday, so that the afternoon offered much better weather conditions, and the scores improved very much in that time. The scores of No. 1 event follow: W. R. Crosby 19, Gil- bert 19, Garrett 19, Hughes 19, Hirschy 19, Trimble 14, Faurote 17, J. A. R. Elliott 15, Heikes 16, Atchison 18, Bates 15, Fulford 16, Heer 18, Le Compte 15, J. L. Morrison 19, O’Brien 17, Phellis 9, Spencer 13, Sconce 18, Rike 17, Squire 13, Powers 17, Roll 13, Waters 15, Stauber 17, Willard 18, Linderman 15, Fort 19, Budd 17, Wade 15, Eick 14, Snyder 11, Price 18, Frank 14, Bonebrake 19, D. Elliott 12, Skelley 17, G. Hughes 15, Mermod 19, Klein 17, T. A. Marshall 18, Arthur 20, Landerberg 15, Daudt 16, Cunning- ham 17, Arnold 16, Patrick 18, Guy 14, Confarr 17, Dorton 13, Gilson 15, Jackson 19, Foust 15, Anderson 16, Arnhold 15, H Morrison 18, Reust 15, Beveridge 13, Stege 17, Gorman 17, G. Baker 18, Tolsma 18, Head 16, Riehl 18, Linell 19, Adams 19, Brookman 13, McDonald 12, Chingren 17, Foley 18, McKelvey 18, Rogers 18, Townsend 17, Norton 9, Kirby 18, Money 12, Gottlieb 17, Driehs 9, Ward 19, Wetzig 12, Hardy 18, Jenkins 14, F. Miller 18, Ryan 15, Rue 18, Darr 15, Taylor 17, Kalash 12, Storm 14 Stevens 18, Avery 15, Tucker 15, Cumberland 9, Gentry 14, B Allen 11, G. E. Crosby 15, H. Dixon 15, Gibson 13, Guessaz Brady 17, Diefenderfer 19, Matteson 15, Still 11, Ambrose Tipton 17, Wickey 7, Timberlake 17, Decker 13, Thompson 18, Pearse 17, Holmes 18, McBride 15, Merrill 15, Plank 16, Atchison 17, Rohrer 16, Watson 15, C. Dixon 10, Peak 17, Brown 12, Anthony 13, Cravett 10, Connor 15, Cook 15, S. A. Smith 13, Gresham 15, McCrea 15, Smith 13, Millbank 11, Nash 12. G, A, H. at Targets. The interest in the competition was much greater on this day, as shown by a much larger attendance of visitors than there had been on any preceding day, and of these a goodly part were ladies, After the unfinished competition of the Preliminary Handicap and event 1 of the regular day’s programme were finished, the fourth Grand American Handicap at targets was begun. There were 179 entries. Of these 28 were post entries, made by contestants as follows: Alf. Hill, R. Wilson, C. R. Wil- son, J. T. Anthony, H. Pearse, H. Sconce, E. Brady, H. C. Dorton, E. F. Confarr, H. McMurchy, M. E. Atchison, R. Klein, H. O. Baker, D. T. Timberlake, J. J. Gorman, M. Thompson, A. W. Ryan, Geo. Tucker, L. E. King, C. Dixon, W. J. Graber, B. W. Ejisenhour, C. R. Millbank, F. D. Ellett, R. Storms, Dr. W. H. Gentry, E. E. Logan, H. Stege. The purse amounted to $1,837.20, and was divided as follows: M. Diefenderfer broke 94, won $184 and trophy; M. E. Hensler, 93, won $165; L. Squier and C. B, Adams, 92, won $187.50 each; J. M. Hughes, H. Sconce, C. M. Powers, A. J. Stauber, E. C. Fort, D. Elliott, S. Foley and M. Thompson broke 91 each and won $59.60 each; C. W. Budd, E. Brady and T. Irwin broke 9u each and R. O. Heikes, C. O. Le Compte, E. J. Chingren broke 89 each, and F, Gilbert, F. C. Riehl, P. C. Ward and E, Rike broke 88 each; the 90s, 89s and 88s won $36.80 each; W. H. Hee1, G. Roll, H. C. Watson, I. L. Wade, H. Stege, W. D. Townsend, L. Rue and §. A. Smith broke 87 each and won $23 each; H. C. Hirschy, J. A. R. Elliott, A. S. Tolsma, H. N. Kirby, D. T. Timberlake and G. K. Mackie broke 86 and won $18.40 each; J. T. Atkinson, D. Linderman, A. Mermod, A. Frank, H. Sander- son, W. Clayton, J. P. Leggitt, S. A. Sherman and E. W. Patrick broke 85, and won $8.15 each. : The conditions were: Open to all, 100 blackbirds, unknown angles, $10 entrance, targets included, handicaps, 14 to 2dyds., high guns, $200 added to the purse. The number of moneys into which the purse was divided was determined by the number of entries received. In addition to first money, the winner re- ceived a trophy presented by the Interstate Association. Regular entries were made on or before April 1, and were accompanied by $5 forfeit; penalty entries were made after April 1, up to 5 P, M, Wednesday, April 15, by paying $15 entrance, targets in- APRIL 25, 1903.] OREST*AND STREAM. wees as cluded, an entry was not transferable, and entrance money could not be withdrawn after entry had been made.. The names of the contestants, handicaps, scores made at 25 tar- Chris. Gottlieb. Elmer E. Shaner. THE WINNERS AT KANSAS CITY G. A. gets at each of the four sets of traps and totals are as follows: Yds. Ww Grosby,, O-Pallon, le wissccloe s 23 PeGiberteopititebakes elt cree er een 23 J W Garrett, Colorado Springs, Colo....22 J_M Hughes, Palmyra, Wis............... 22 H C Hirschy, Minneapolis, Minn........ 22 R S$ Trimble, Covington, Ky.............. 21 F M Faurote, Dallas, Tex...........5...: at J A R Elliott, Kansas City, Mo.......... vA REO) tHletkes wWaytony On w sere. eet ees 21 M E Atchison, Giddings, Tex............ 20 El a Bates; Detroit) Mich: .2,...+..+.:- 20 PDs Pulford) Utica Ne Yole 2. i... 20 W #H Heer, Concordia, Kas.............. 20 C O Le Compte, Eminence, Ky..,...,... 20 J LD Morrison, St. Paul, Minn......... 20 Hesconce, Sidelll. Dect. cers. cn inant 20 Ed O’Brien, Florence, Kas.............-- 20 C W Phellis, Mechanicsburg, O,.......-20 G Grspencer, (St Mouis, IWoves. s,s. t 20 BD, Rake; (Dayton, OF- cc. eeaa sete et ees 19 L J Squier, Wilmington, Del............. 19 C M Powers, Decatur, HA ee AAAS a8 19 Geo Roll; Blue: Island, Ill...-........-.5: 19 H Waters, Baltimore, Md..............-. 19 © Bottger, Ollie, Ta............ Eee rl o A J Stauber, Streator, Ill...... sitaidiefae artic 19 L Willard, South Chicago, Ill............ 19 D Linderman, Lincoln, Neb.... ely) FE C Fort, Fostoria, O........ . 9 A C€ Connor, Pekin, Ill....... Segall) Hf C Watson; Sewickley, Pa............. 19 C W Budd, Des Moines, Ta.............. 19 IL I Wade, Nacogdoches, Tex............ 19 Ben Bich, soterlines Wilssn geese ware cece eee 19 A D Mermod, St. Louis, Mo............. 19 H MecMurchy, Syracuse, N. Y,.......... 19 R Klein, Spirit Lake, Ta...... idiot eee T A Marshall, Keithsburg, Ill............ 18 A H Frank, Memphis, Tenn............. 18 H E Bonebrake, Weatherford, Okla..... 18 D Elliott, Kansas City, Mo............6s 18 H Pearse, Chickapee, Kas............-.-- 18 J T Skelly, Wilmington, Del............. 18 FE F Confarr, Livingstone, Mont......... 18 ELaee Wortony wsondaymldneneticnes sie see. 18 LG Soneehotiedare Va wai ps cocoa actrees 18 J_ A Jackson, Austin, Tex.............22- 18 TRIBE Dapehecsiey AW Seners vis ll tyetsly Tee Oh oy a 18 D §S Daudt, South Bethlehem, Pa....... 18 F B Cunningham, St. Joseph, Mo....... 18 E W Arnold, Larned, Kas..........-.0+5 18 E W Patch, Mechanicsburg, O........... 18 R B Guy, Mechanicsburg, O............-- 18 A Gamble, Cincinnati, O............0.006 18 Ta WaetAriclersp tiers 2 fed We tauteteebars Saieecowetloe 18 F Arnhold, St. Joseph, Mo............... 18 Hf Merrison, Lakefield, Minn.. C F Reust H Stege, Waterloo, Ia.... J J Gorman, Topeka, Kas W A Baker, Griffin, Ga.... A S Tolsma, Detroit, Mich............... 18 J L Head, Peru, Ind......... ROAD ee ech eae 18 {et ON ES, AMkxore se TEM rw oy pan ee ea 18 Wieeb einell (eidota:, viatieceeeneste 5 5 Ae, 5 18 C B Adams, Rockwell City, Ia........... 18 J H Bookman, Central City, Ta........... 18 he Beardie) patra «ce ahaa ee recon 18 E J Chingren, Sioux City, Ta............. 18 PEGG yg eNaCtiCls a Mets iena teelitare vretelev tere ue 18 J A McKelvey, Hedrick, Ia.......; Tae SSSE 18 FE E Rogers, Bucklin, Mo...:........---- 18 E P Troeh, Watertown, S. D............. 18 W D Townsend, Omaha, Neb...... ee eer 18 M E Atchison, Giddings, Tex........... 18 GrDixonl online MLO niwkecsseeaeaeae et 18 T F Norton, Kansas City, Mo............ 17 H N Kirby, Greensburg, Kas............ 17 ASW Money, (New. cViorki ls: oi5s.asceacae 17 C Gottlieb, Kansas City, Mo..........-.. a M E Hensler, Battle Creek, Mich.......17 C.R Wilson, Tecumseh, Mich........... 17 C F Driehs, Cincinnati, O........ tragedeo 17 A Hill, W. Libetty, O.......-.c0ccee neon 17 P C Ward, Walnut Log, Tenn...... gals Col. Anthony, Charlotte, N. C.... 17 E L Wetzig, Junction City, Kas.. ny, He@ Baker,: Pekin, Ullac.cusetant AT Gl Osbakensoee sees nent 17 Dr Hardy, Sumner, Mo, 17 G W Jenkins, Wamego, ak Mallet) Berwyn, Neb... .s. sss. .ts eee 7 AE AEE CER ONG Ad Opes Seep tere a8 17 L Rue, Lakefield, Minn-........ eewerttee 17 R C Daw, Lakefield, Minn ............... 17 D T Timberlake, Seneca, Kas........... 17 F Kalash, Lakefield, Minn............... 17 R Storms, Waterloo, Ja............. ule 17 H M Davis, Richmond, Mo.............. 17 M Thompson, Gainesville, Mo...........- 17 C R Stevens, Moline, Til.......... Seber ttc 17 Acawrencer Mhinkolis) dilpstserces rene ell 17 J BAvery, Atlanta Gadesore eels e ase ss 17 G Tucker, Brenham, Tex.........-......- 17 L E King, Cripple Creek, Colo..........17 Total. W J Grahr ee Irby Bennett. M. E. Hensler. L W Cumberland, St. Louis, Mo C R Millbank, Kirksville, Mo... D. T. Timberlake. WP Ag a Solg donsudebs ose OeecErah Miverreecaset okt Ol calor 73 W #H Gentry, Galesburg, Mo............: 17 21 1Y 2 1a ess HE Bogany tarned, Kasesuy s2525. 0.0.08 17 18 21 19 17 7 IB vAtiien.s ElittGhin soit s isd Sy yess xv ee ot 17 ale ky) SiG) a] 73 Ji W Branthall, Kansas City....c.scesers i AQ 220 LONG 76 C E Cook, New London, Ia.............. W222; 19) e229, 82 (> Te Le rreliokis COMME AKepre Tle ee hi) VIS 319) Ban e2 8 C82 H Dixon, Oronogo, Mo.. F M Bybee, Idaho Falls, Ida... J Batcheller, Kansas City, Mo.. W B Crowder, Roff, I. T Pe Dyadic. Oren ois cece aeons ste icle Bag a6, 17 22 17 19 20 7 A G Fisher, Colorado Springs, Colo..... i? 8-16 19°20 20 ='% F Gibson, Kirkwood, Ill.............,... 1 20 21 28 20 84 E M Gravett, Gravett, Ark......... Beanie ii Ge Skye aly. are! O C Guessaz, San Antonio, Tex.......... 7 20 14 w . W M Howe, Kansas City, Mo............ 17 18 16 17 18 69 BRE Maords lua Grane enelil. a. a) nannies sei 20 20 22 19 87 W (Golytle, “Atchison, Kasai... discs ee ie 2 tomes) hn eos AM oMc@rea, Lamar, Mov... ...6:.csne eee 17 19 22) 19) 22 82 HR Patch= ipartleyalaneues sas ses ee 17 iS hoe ros 80 Jeb Rohrer, (blero; Okla: el a.cerercee fe 23-0200 Ape oee eee D C Sanderson, Colorado Springs, Colo.17 22 21 21 21 85 Count Smyth, Lamar, Mo................. Wii Ber 20° 19) 20 83 Lil Scott, Kansas City, Mo............. mele Mall UA aly ales {ith SePAa SS Uiitin rlaitle yen slice dertacceies eelues Le AE ERy EPS CAL A H Thiele, Junction City, Kans........... lhe. Bra ike Aah ii i Brady, Memphis, Tenn.............,.. 16 24 24 22 20 90 M Diefenderfer, Wood River, Neb....... 16 24 22 23 25 94 W A Matteson, Abilene, Kas......:...... 16 21 21 21 21 84 RS Wilson, Springfield, O............... 16 14 12 16 21 63 C E Still, Kirksville, Mo................. 16 #20 17 18 15 70 W E Vankeuren, Hutchinson, Kas....... Los 20 uel, AT Gy 0 R L Ambrose, Pine Bluff, Ark........... 16 20 22 22 17 81 ‘J M Marshall, Richmond, Mo............ 16 23 18 19 20 80 ANNIE WVadliet cy ARE HAL S Soe iy etn + ues A Le wld SPI ASST 5 VIL WORST et Atop hintohicve eerie Ne reels Tom S20 20Pt9h 678 W T Nash, Indianapolis, Ind.. 19 20 21 -23 83 W_ Clayton, Kansas City, Mo............; 16) 24 820 1S r23) 85 J J Comett, Kansas City, Mo............. 16 19 23 15 20 ile JE Cambpbell, Kansas City, Mo......... DGS 18" AE 202i 80 E, Decker,’ Pleasanton, KiaS-....-7-..-+-.5 AG. “40-217 le 78 ROE. Dore, Centerville, Tasso ky ees 16 17 20 22 W Grueninger, Kansas City, Mo E A Hickman, Kansas City, Mo F X Hellman, Hanover, Kas.... R J Holmes, Scammon, Kas.... W T Irwin, St. Louis, Mo...... G L Jenkins, Osage City, Kas........... 16 3 10 19 17 59 C H Wleinhaus, Grantville, Kas......... 16 18 18 17 20 73 J P Leggett, Carthage, Mo...) ...0.,.0.55. 16 19 28 24 19 85 Cane Villenm@hanutes, Keisseetses.cc eee 16 17 22 20°17 —%6 shyallvicatnoyes FSC ILC uecine eon ce ee Een 16 Lo) Li 19° 18 72 G K Mackie, Scammon, Kas............. 16 19° 22) 28 29 86 Wo keParks (Philadélphiae.) 225... LG) 2198 Ge 138 74. BS Mis late re ay sea voce ean tastes se ad Un ah allie “ahs Gee Path Dr A Quick, El Dorado Springs, Mo.116 19 18 22 22 81 A F Rieckmers, Kansas City, Mo H Sherman, Kansas City, Mo.... HL Tipton, Kansas City, Mo..... A Wilson, Kansas City, Mo...... W C Williams, Wichita, Kas.... E W Ejisenhour, Hale, Mo....... G Essig, Pittsburg, Mo....... P Franke, Kansas City, Mo.... J W Haughawout, Fort Dodge L A Sherman F Wickey ’ Ta SAG ASAS: ie a GE BAD SI Fall ecre are 16 #416 15 20 12 68 erpsikatss 1G iv Aas a7 42 oct cee 16-21 17 15 16 69 Apa Ra eo utr BY GBS ARG rire 18 17 19 15 69 2 18 24 22 sopmotas aie) BS ie ar Mares 20 17 17 21 75 Fourth Day, Friday, April 17. There were four events, 20 tar and the Consolation Handicap. excellent degree. Mr. W. R. reasonably calm, scores Events: AS ASS, a eer F Gilbert...... ++. 20 20 20 19—79 J M Hughes. 19 16 20 17—72 H C Hirschy.....18 18 19 18—78 W R Crosby.....20 20 20 17—77 J A R Elliott.....19 19 20 20—78 R O Heikes.......16 19 19 17—71 NeeGanceth acres a 18 18 18 19—73 S T Atkinson..... 16 18 18 20—72 Ws iy steers ee 19 18 18 1974 C O- Le Compte..15 16 20 19—70 I Sconce suse. 17 17 19 19—72 R S Trimble......15 12 16 17—60 F M Faurote.,.... 19 18 19 18—74 A J Stauber...... 16 16 15 1966 I SD RAkea as 18 18 18 17—71 Posters eres 18 19 19 19—75 C M Powers...... 18 19 19 19—75 G Rolly Sea 12 19 18 17—66 C D Linderman...16 15 20 18—69 BY CRO eee 17 14 17 17—65 GW. SBuddsee 18 19 18 18—73 Te Ti Wader—-tra os 17 19 20 20—76 A H Mermod..... 19 19 19 20—77 Lieibaebatess ene 13 18 20 19—70 E D_ Folford.....19 17 17 20—73 Ed O’Brien .....18 19 18 19—75 J lL. D Morrison.17 19 19 19—74 : Crosby was close up with ‘77, three misses out of the 80 targets. gets each, $2 entrance, $25 added, n Gilbert broke 79 out of the possible the regular sweepstakes Fred 80. This was shooting to an only The weather was pleasant, clear and favorable for the making of good Events: Ds 8) EMEA BED Meusterinnae 20 15 17 17—69 E A Arnold...... 20 17 19 20—76 W A Baker....... 17 20 18 19—7 We Be Lirrell a) sae 17.19 20 20—76 J_H Bookman,....18 17 16 17—68 M E Atchison:...18 14 15 18—65 H Brady ©.......,.15: 16-18 17—66 iyigelen Even seen oes 18 15 18 19—70 C Gottlieb......... 16 16 18 17—67 C R Wilson...... 18 18 18 17—71 Col_ Anthony..... 18 17 14 16—65 HO Baker....... 16 14 15 1762 Dr Hardy naar as 18 17 16 19—70 G W Jenkins..... 19 18 15 18—70 AU WV oskoyatie ences 17 16 17 18—68 JB Avery...11.... 18 17 16 19—70 Gob Crosbyus, sees 16 19 18 15—68 Je CER WRofirer-. sa: 19 19 18 17—73 ioe 1) See 15 12 12 10—49 R L Ambrose..... 16 13 12 16—57 Wo eed Nash eyo 13 11 14 16—54 J W McGee ll AS AS Taylor v.00.) H W _ Anderson... Mrs Bennett.. H Morrison ......14 17 16 17—64 L Rue ....,,,,..-46 17 16 18—€7 M. Diefenderfer. = C W Phellis...... 1713 17 14-61 R C Darr......... C G Spencer..... 2018 19 20—77 EF TKKalash......... A Frank ......... 15 17 15 1865 S A Smith........ Av -S Dolsmay: . >. 1414 1415-57 E J Chingren, pe Rieter, 13 19 12 12-56 D GBy Adams... -.-). 19 20 18 16—78 Dr Cook........,. Wee Holey etnies ¢ -18 2017 17—72 R Klein........... W OD Townsend..18 19 20 18—75 W B Wilson.. El Waters. san ssee 17 15 16 1866 T M Bybee.. © Bottger:.......6 16 16 1619-67 H C Watson L Willard ........48 1919 19-75 F A=€ Conneéri. v2; 19 19 18 18—74 C H Arthur F Arnhold ....... 13 20 16 19-68 C W Patrick Ce Reisthayeey 18 19 18 19—74 R B Guy....!.... NG Korb yess. 19 12 17 1765 E IPG, Ward erste ace 1818 19 16—71 D T_ Timberlake..18 17 17 i8—70 G Tucker ........ M Thompson..... 19 1919 19-76 W RaWerkillp ey ceees 171618 17—68 IF Dyorak......... M E Hensler..... 171516 17—65 J F Beard........ H Bonebrake...., 16 18 14 17—65 W T Irwin HH pRearse gsc sf 15 18 18 20—71 W J Graber Wiebe Skellyenccscee 19 16 18 18—71 C Dixon ......... E F Confarr...... 17 18 18 1871 C Millbank lly GilSor es. coe + 18 16 17 20—71 J A Jackson...... 18 15 16 19—68 W Howe ......... The Consolation Hardicap. There were 103 entries in this event. 16 14 15 1762 14 10 11 17—82 19 18 17 15—69 19 17 17 18—71 .15 16 18 16—65 .15 13 14 17—59 19 16 17 1769 B Cunningham.18 19 19 18—74 16 11 16 17—60 \ 17 18 16 16—67 17 17 15 17—66 A Hickman....14 15 15 16—6u S McDonald...17 14 13 17-61 a 18 15 14 15—62 C Gresham....14 18 17 18—67 15 14 17 19—65 17 18 17 17—69 14 12 12 17—55 13 17 14 18—62 17 18 16 16—67 16 13 17 16—62 iP Rep eaten eters: 17 17 12 16—62 18 18 19 14-59 It was open to all, 100 targets, unknown angles, $7 entrance, targets included, handicaps Winners of money in the Grand American Handicap at targets had one yard added to their handicaps, and non-winners of money in the Grand American Handicap at targets went back one yard. of moneys into which the purse was divided was determined by 14 to 2byds., high guns; $100 added to the purse. the number of entries received. The number In addition to first money the winner received a trophy, $40 of the net purse being reserved to purchase same. Dr, A. Quick, of El Dorado Springs, Mo., was first with a score of 95. $56.50. Arnold broke 92 and won $45.20. won $39.55, He won $73.45. Connor and Pearse broke 93 and won Gottlieb broke 91 and Spencer, Millbank and McGee broke 90 and won $30.10. Fulford and Confarr broke 89, and won $24.40. Heikes, Budd and Thompson broke 88 and won $15.95. Heer, Chingren, Willard and W. A. Baker broke 87 and won $10.80. Garrett, Townsend, R. Merrill, Gilson, Jackson and Avery broke 86 and won $9.40. The conclusion of this event concluded the tournament. The scores: Total as Gilbert, eA reer ee ayaa Et. Facatah ode Abie Sail ae" ot 83 BP (ets ties Ghee oe pee WMA TUN: 23°23 19 21 85 FIs Ca Bits liven ones vite me Neen) ee IG SeAR er, 79 NVoERSe GrOSDY, eae Fea c aig eee tied. ore es 20..20: 21 28 84 MASE Torta p22 sen ee Leeann on nnn ooo n 20° 22) 21 22 85 Aes Oot a Ct OPAL Seed aan po ge 23° Fi. 23" 21 + 288) Paganve the DA Atari ek, oats EAE WT ping 93 19 24 20 86 AIRE STi 2 Ly. Seren eee ik WIN IB agit 19-21 19% 2h- ~ 30 VSS Cog cVertr OAM ante cece MMU eet ert Li 20 20 -23 24 87 CeOS Wes Comprenscile ne pene tins ee 22. 20 2 2 84 def! SEY la ee eee ee Dann If *21. 2A 28 82 REM a Ssler ten hese etal ere aan ote py ck enn 14 18 G8 23 73 Nie Batiropes sal ae 9 es Ae MON) inl ERG 20 23 16 24 83 2 Stauber 0ber sa fine Pac wf Prete bree iat Me 19\ 20 48 20 77 TID) ARE 2 ee ore yay 73 ee NE Be Lis 22). 318" 924! 81 er IU ERSTSROTOE 2104 eo eat ie La PRELIM ad Ee 22, TOPO 22 “85 GABIVTSERO cre hs sie) Seeeeey ere rhe ETH 20° 23° 22 20 85 Geopltc IIt2 0: suerte .-15 Pao a a nnn ones 22 22 20 21 85 (OL ADIL ira(sksareeyy Aer cemaaer le eke 16 18 19 19 72 AD (CTI Soy til) dnc ha eee eA Ke RAM py rely 2% 20. 18) 22 82 CL VE Buddmy20-j teen ise a eae 2a: 24 D1 BT 88 em Weider a 205 ay ota wins sess wera Plat in 1S Pal Ui zal 76 AN Tbilisi al, aM cee .AnnoerBtcor Aha eR oboe 19 20 19 22 80 Ei DEBATES NO emer. y Saeaipem ee we Nannie 18 22 20 21 ID AD MAD Moreh pete ccc rela ee ph ann yon 21 21 23 24° 99 RONG c ree 10S es eet einen eeueT CnIUne! 15-22 18 19 74 MP edly ID) Wikasrtiiteyes: Ge A Le 20 18 18 19 15 CO Warl ellis Ole Ns, (2 eenneereeO alias Soha 18 18 16 22 74 CAG Spencers Lisi eie seeeneinn | 101s oe il 25 21 21 28 90 SV Rai tice FIRE Os dnote, aap AE enn ee 20 22,20: 21 83 MESURE LO ISA age Oe od pe mee nn te § Wey wal 200 aes 72 Ep Cael S1OtW Pers ney ec un ennai 14 20 12 23 69 CHB SAda SA TURP set eae yer bert 18 22 17 23 80 Fite Oley perl ONG Meatly attedi a eye ce eo) fj 22 16 21 24 83 W D Townsend, 19 21 20 22 238 86 B 23 20 18 24 85 2 22 20 20 23 85 * 20 23 22 22 87 A 22 22 25 2a 98 18 20 19 20 77 G 20, 17 20 22 79 H 19 20 223 24 8&5 12 22 20 22 91 85 a a 17 at 23 15 R Merrill, 18 50 20 a8 os 38 M E Hensler, 18 16 21 23 924 84 H Bonebrake, 17 21 23 20 20 84 Hi Pearse, 17 19 25 25 24 93 J T Skelly, 17 20 18 22 20 80 = F_Confarr, 23 22°22 22 89 AL Gilson, 17 21 21 21 23 © 3G JA Jackson, if 21 24 21 20 36 Is A Arnold, 17 oe s a, io W A Baker, 17 hak, ele 1225 9(), 24 8&7 We MBOeImclie wits, ea ins 4- Seta GUN 21 20 21 21 38 NEI ootnar, sly ce, Ma: santas Uae iL ati mueis 23 18 23 21 85 Wits Ti ey eR a MS AN i= anemone hy ge rhein at 21 19 19 298 99 E Brady, TEA deshont sancres deer? chaleur CMDs 22 22 33 340 FOREST AND STREAM; [Aprit 25, 1903. TG. lca Paine cc atas sans swe ee tame et ~ 18 22) 21 20 “st (CeO rei sib See. eer aee Na ioad- ees 23 24 21. 23 91 CRM VISISGM, Wicsh rock heme oktrt ey a ten-etelot megs 19 18 21 18 76 Gol At or eh tis 6 dence eh .s nichctalgals ¢ palatine sks 19 18 21 22 80 Ve Er Barer line foc scientist Shae asec tanh 19 20 21 21 81 Dr (Hardy, ic sta ses. E caoaralynly cap lcetp eee Baie ek es 22 18 20 23 $3 G WW Vembkinsy d6tacwiscccsses sete pen cree. vue 17 19 22 24 $2 TAL APU RSyetan et LG roptets eae arvten sg. 2 toma carein ye OWN FO 23 22 16 18 7 J AG Ase tte ceeeL ecb er cnocee assent 23 20 22 21 86 G E Crosby, 16. J He Relirer, 16.... ese Og gsiiili wlis Cee re ole er Bile ree i Sonne tc Af Ae SOU 72: k L Ambrose, 15 19 16 19 16 70 Wo DANS tiytheg.teb-ts ee tw ena sa okies estes i5| 46> 3s 9" 68 Bf Ghunisrensdo sre reeks ex%eu tb stecarseer 19 21 22 25 87 oI ee Eck Vee Ley ar To VORA ch ectete ate ee chelates beeaine ny 18 20 20 23 81 ED (MEGrriserts S15) Jense ceca cake one Makin manne 11. 22° 22- 24 79 LY ARATE SALMO ee Saag 2 ea oe gids 53.0 gen ad cou eg oe 20 17 18 19 «674 LY GQ -Samtlersorbal Bene hlty stu. ie tacentts tants 19s Zaeeds. 20 85 BAY Sinithvanits soacst ase setins 46d peat Manis caine 20 20 21 3 Adee Bo ra '2 1 ¢ A 0 ee eas eee eye eye poe 24 21 21° 88 Ge JIK “Wheesictiey wht CSE eerie a cmtae tis oe Bee 20.17 22 78 W C Gresham, 17 20: 20.205 Tt G Acthur elie cos. 18 19 20 £TA T Hubby, 17 C R Millbank, 17 J W MeGee, 17 24 22 Ack “Maire tC seemed: tds Anu et lar Bie Ib 14 18 19 67 [coin OMY) cit NAA AA, On ee et tte i ol Seas t4 Br dSalesti G05 ve SAE ONS ace nor eee ic |: 156.15 w Gidget ast ea (SR ee rere PAA Py HARA a hsv LE Sabre 71 1D OG ried | Loe ek ee re ey Se 3 Sa 63 13° Aden RG itd icra ent hou rth kbe pte t 20 14 22-28 75 (Op Crores le, hil eee eee een eg awe es wary 3 20-20 18 22 “0 TI Real Lvorte bS eB a os Sao Se og yo TO Ze. 76 A M McCrea, 16 15 18 20 72 ACh agi Ps or ce ge a> a Ark 6 A 21.19 19 20 79 Count Smyth, 16 . I’ M Bybee, 15...-. $4 20 22 21 &4 W 3B Crowder, 4 Dr A GQhick, % 23.924 2b 23 95 [CN DENS Te gs eam 4 4 Ss a Se ey Sere et re 20 18 19 15 Fey ickceity Aue nee ieee yt ce Ohinlldtan aces 17 17 15 20 69 How About li? Had the IIumane Society of Kansas City been seeking good feod for thought at Blue River Park, it could have found abun- dance of clay pigeons on the ground, and fresh goose eggs on the blackboard, all gratis. The parents of many of the goose eggs were a north wind an a perpendicular target. There were others. There was a chill in the atmosphere of the first two days, though tempered somewhat by hot air here and there. Mr. Fred Gilbert made high average of the total programme, notwithstanding some setbacks. ; The 23yd. mark seems to be about one yard too many for even the best shooters. : Doc A. Quick, in the Consolation Handicap, made the highest score of any made in the 100-target events, namely, 95 out of 100. Mr. Max E. Hensler, winner of the Preliminary Handicap and second in the G. A. H., is nineteen years old, an age that some of the shooters can imagine by thinking backward. Mr. M. Diefenderfer, winner of the G. A. H., took his honors as modestly as became a good contestant. He should cut off the last half of his name, for he is no derfer with a shotgun. Mr. Chris. Gottlieb, an excellent shot himself, watched the scores with deep interest in the G. A. Messrs. W. R. Crosby and F. Gilbert were on the 23yd. mark, Messrs. J. H. Hughes, John Garrett and H. C. Hirschy were on the 22yd. mark; easier marks were nearer. The two ladies, Miss Nellie Bennett, of Denver, and Mrs. Net- tie King Burrows, of St. Louis, shot with an accuracy superior fo that of many of the other contestants, and with a grace equalled by none. The U. M. C. Co. and the W. R. A. Co. made the evenings pleasant for those who chose to enjoy their princely hospitality. Mr. Irby Bennett was the host in behalf of the Winchester Com- pany; Mr. A. C.- Barrell in behalf of the U. M. C. Co. There were a few trade agents at the shoot. St, Louis would like to have the G. A. H. next year. The press should feel deep gratitude to the manager, Mr, Elmer E. Shaner, and to the compiler of scores, Mr. J. K. Starr, for uniform courtesy and consideration at all times, and for neat, full and correct copies of the scores, etc., at the right time, the earliest possible moment. IN NEW JERSEY. Live Bird Handicap. Newark, N. J., April 16.—The live-bird handicap, given by Smith Brothers, on the grounds at Newark, had for the main event a handicap at 20 live birds, $20 entrance, birds imcluded; two moneys for every ten entries, high guns. Mr. L. W. Colquitt was the winner with a score of 18, one of his lost birds falling dead out, Five sweepstakes at 5 and 10 birds were also shot. The scores follow: } Nos. 1, 2 and 3 were at 5 birds, $8 entrance, high guns: No. 1. No, 2. No. 3. A A Schoverling.........eccececeee+s2222225 02222—4 222225 (SRD Pie b yen 6.pe es ole relepvie lv whee (ale alnpere 121014 111125 121216 es AVM HL ES theg cree sar etme at oteiepstgeis errs 22*12—4 231115 22002—3 J) Mearns 2. niente es sewn ecie senses cnee os4ine 21200—3 1*2*2—3 ees eeidescrS: arly dys q yop one bone tee eer * 12111—5 20221—4 Fe ID MP Tere G Ae atte eS, ater sieja tak ie sheer ve 22*20—3 20220—3 No. 5 was 10 birds, $10, two moneys, as follows: Piercy, “aUsteees es 0201** w Steffens, ' 30.......45 2122112202— 9 Wolyiitt, SOs sss 9999992200— 8 Pierce, 30..........: 222222222210 No. 6 was at 10 birds, $10, one money, as follows: ; Colquitt ...........2222121212—10 Pierce «+s..se+eees 2021222022— 8 PIECCYel sere suee wee 0111121110— 8 No. 4, main event, $20, birds included, high guns: G at Piercy, 30..... ; Winton cre ubialemserpioeele eee 11012111121012022212—17 Chas ‘Steffens; 80.0..5:20c-c nesses seenasetiog 00212012111211121222—17 Ts W Colquitt; 28... 2c. ce cees sensors nna sttnes 122222212.22229*20212—18 RT Bierce, 285 yon one a dac se seig paistinwanane rn *22222220222*2222222 17 A A Schoverling,, 29.2.2... ssncrvecsescr stirs 22220221 022201020*02—12 D E Gavin; 28.0... s2cce eres cecen on sasteeosets 02220200112020221222—14 Hudson Gun Club. Jersey City, N. J., April 19.—The shoot of the Hudson Gun Club, held to-day, had seventeen contestants. Schorty, C. V. L., Staples and others did some excellent shooting. Eight events were shot. Following are the scores: Events: 1 BR See a by ies eee 1b 16 15 5) We 26 2a. 1 BS CHONEY catsup envlh = ssn artitassa teen eins 18 14 14/14 12 22 25 .. Une Ties Oye ee ee tells wpe ale aincntals 14.14 15 12.13 20 ,. .. Staples ....ceeececeeccesieetesstenernase 12 10 12 1 415, 22: 25 Wart Dye: .iccisersec cece cenveesceeeses 12°10; ak Tbr WO" 20) Reynolds 17> estas A= 21 3 Teatlcets sev naaes oo nietls tte rile tein jole\>ininlaldiays 4 SO ot we Cee LS: Siig ee a anh desentnas saat aes 2 a +f 10 10 15 Munsey . ni yoni) ali 3) aii) ose e 5 OP Peters aay pits Mireiats ys elaseteleialeleme at 12> of 30) go, 10 8 Goetter 12 9 Gr Uy iby = 1% Scheftel A st, hc A San S80 nD Pearsall See ee ae LD eer ee Jenkins Be i Us) SME nL Pearsall, 4 8 14 138 Hughes eli Flansman ects ee eee es neeerter ree ceteee & 10 9 38 20 James HuGHeEs, North River Gun Club, April 18—Sweepstakes were shot as follows Edgewater, N. J., t S River Gun Club to-day, nine shooters at the shoot of the North participating: F vents: 12345 67 8 91011 121314 Targets? 15 10 10 15 10 15 10 10 15 10 10 10 10 10 Eickhoft 9°) Gee TAU 7 De Lad) 7 37 Richter -..-.:- One’ 6 10 SB te YP 2s eg Se ae \Vcsselman Hr ype 9 4 9 7 ig vee? oh Sterwnns Harb baa daa lla oz eew es eee PRL” ah Sees a Aye Peer a oer Lindel ...--. Webbie see oe 2 2 eae ie Seararas a Tk sgt TAINSOre Gee tee es ce cee ene cin (om ss ee a ere Ea Bittner so teceepacee ven eeste et can Gillerlain Geri bl! Pet Rhee Cen ls ee RS Ae SR Be 7 Nos. 12, 18 and 14 were at 5 pairs. ‘ Jas. R. MERRILL, Sec’y. Union Gun Club, Rutherford, N. J., April 18.—There were thirty contestants at the sheot of the Union Gun Club, a gratifying revival of sport on the grounds of the Boiling Springs Gun Club. Six events were shot, five at 25 targets. The scores follow: Events: A 2h #4056 Events: dl) ceca SOneG Targets: 15 15 15 15 15 25 Targets: 15 15 15 15 15 26 Gardiner ....... 121018 91018 Van Winkle...... 0 0 0.... fneles- isicacen Sas A252 AD Banks Rsinssess. 52. oe 13 16 12 20 Piercy aseeesess ASIA eS LOD SOMIVEM week ees acde ss, oe Tee GIG Terie nents 9-10 TO) <9 -& ... Andrews .....-. o ce ute LN) eee Guenther .,.... LT GR GAD ietSount. ee recs on cee Gis e: Yeomans ...... T1241 4.34 C6 Von Lengerkes. 42 37461120 Baldwin ....... 61111 910 22 H Von Lengerke.. .. .. 10 916 Morrison ...... See LOGIE Sst SHAT CN elon cell falst a pees 5 8 16 Garlogeh Sythe. 912 9121249 Wan Tassel .... .. 4 Harrington .... 111011141314 Fredericks ..:... .. .. : James ie bats ec 34 6 611. MEISE. 8s ct ins s nicole ier arcs & TACKS) Ryans Aten ve TOU ee NEatzet | ai eb mre scsern © Ist-Uhh DAL AVA ARrnL AM 14141412 22 Axford ......... Woldguith 6 cone es 11 12:10 i1 Dr Brooks...,.. 5 Mac Clements... ... 5.6 9 H Von Lengerke..19 19—38 ASTOR Bey eee 15 15—30 Whise* Vie. se eee 21 22—43 Matzen S4y..sc0s08 19 16—35 [Oxy opie bly erie lpn.) 21 20—41 PLETSOM stele sisueswiee 16 18—29 C Von Lengerke. .22 23—45 PIGGY. epee coves 23 23-46 England (2 2yesse 15 13—38 be ch ee earicg Hed ete theca 23 20—43 Dr Fredericks ....19 17—86—281 Jenerette .......... 15 14—29—212 Sander—Meckels—Packard, Carlstadt, N. J., April 18—On Outwater’s. grounds to-day a match at 50 live birds, $50 a corner, was shot between Messrs. W. H. Sanders, E. A. Meckel and R. L. Packard. All stood at 28yds. Meckel won with a score of 34. The birds were remark- ably good, There was a strong northwest wind. The weather was pleasant. Sweepstake shooting -followed the match. The referee was Mr. J. HW. Martin. The scores: Wil EL, oSanidersh: rie ett be rece err 2202222222%01122020220222—19 220210010020000001120101—12—31 (Rp LEGIEE], Mies us. ocetick sein Tria (1022201 221221212200102011—18 ()212222002202021220011200—16—34 RM EP BRAGS asi Mens 5 ps Sates eee 0220102002022220000200022—12 0220001.022021000100000100— 9—21 Franklin Gun Club. Franklin Furnace, N. J., Aug. 18.—The scores made in event 1 of the Franklin Gun Club shoot to-day follow: FOF, ope. eee len ae cre 1OWO0IIONN Alf Right ............. 1010001010 Ee Suthentic ssn0 tee ae 0001100100 F WKishpaw............. 1010010001 RGR AACE Verve petce-raty 1000000000 W ‘Stephens ........... 0011100000 AG SR TERED Mates este terstetstete edie 0000000100 J H Williams.......... 0000010110 Jeannette Gun Club, Guttenberg, N. J., April 17—The shoot of the Jeannette Gun Club, held to-day, was refereed by Mr. L. Hl. Schortemeier. In the club event no one made a straight score. Schortemeier won Class A, Interman Class B, and Gerdes Class C. The scores: BP Ehlen, 28.....+.- 001020*120— 4 N Bruni, 28.......- 01201*0210— 5 J H Kroeger, 28...122101*102— 7 G Greiff, 30......... 0201*11222— 7 C Meyer, 30....... 021221**12— 7 C Thyssen, 28...... 0012020012— 5 Schorty, 80........-2222222722— 9 HH Gerdes, 20.....;, 1*20120020— 5 G Loeble, 30....... 2002100222— 7 C Meyerdiercks, 28.1012112102— 8 Eb BPaear oe ae Meee 201*101200— 5 HH Rohilfs, 28........ 0120110200— 5 F H Kastens, 28...2120102022— 7 C Interman, 28... .12121*1221— 9 J H Hainhorst, 28 .111*110221— 8 Challenge medal, 15 birds: J Luhrman, 26..... 0020002202— 4 A Schumacher, 28..0022000000— 2 D Mohrman, 28....2100111121— 8 G@ Meéyerdiercks; 28.02.55 sce csnevvssneeegyaeteneess 20100*1101*1101— 8 [Wns pacakciete O2h reer joo sock cen cee taea , -212200211202011—11 Team race No, 1: Capt Interman ...... 10202—3 C Meyer . Faainhorst, 5222 nae ASSOCIATION, For the benefit of those desiring to attend the meeting of the American Medical Association at New Orleans,-La., May 5 to 8, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company will sell excursion tickets from all stations on its lines to. New Orleans, on May 1, 2 and 3, good going on those dates and good to return-reaching original starting point not later than ten days from date of sale, at re- duced rates. By depositing. ticket with Joint Agent at New Orleans between May 1 and 12,-and payment of 50 cents, an extension of final return limit to May 80 may be obtained.—Adv. It is a great feather in the cap of any manufacturer to have won the Grand American Handicap, by far the most important shoot- ing event of the year; and the one held this month at Kansas City, was one of the largest target shoots ever held. That this success should have come to the old reliable Lefeyer gun is a mat- ter of great gratification to the manufacturers, as, of course, it is also to the many men in this country who are using these ex- cellent arms. Mr. Martin Diefenderfer, of Wood River, Neb., as will be seen elsewhere in Forrest AND STREAM, won the great prize with his Lefever Arms Co. ejector gun. In view of this vic- tery, it is not surprising that the Lefever Arms Co. have some- thing to say on this subject. Any one that has in mind ordering a gun this coming fall and has not decided on the make of gun, will do well to call on Messrs. Von Lengerke & Detmold and look at their beautiful line of Francotte guns and knockabout guns. They will take dimensions of your old gun and order you a gun in any gauge wanted, to be delivered in the fall, guaranteeing the gun to fit same as your old one and to shoot as wanted, without extra charge. Any one liying out of New York City can be furnished with engravings of all the different grades, and by furnishing Messrs. V. L. & D. with dimensions of their old gun or sending their old gun to them, orders will be satisfactorily executed. The very striking and beautiful cut on the adjacent page calls attention to the business of Messrs. Abercrombie & Fitch, who are so well known to our readers as supplying camping and other goods needed by sportsmen. From their new quarters they re- cently sent out an enormous quantity of material fo fit out the Ziegler Arctic Expedition, and these quarters are daily thronged with sportsmen. Mr. E. S.Osgood, for many years with the U.S. Net & Twine Co., has charge of the fishing-tackle department, and many of his old friends who have not known of his whereabouts will be glad to learn of his present connection. . i Mr. T. H. Keller, of the Peters Cartridge Co., informs us that. a new 50-shot out-door pistol record has been established at the range of the Massachusetts Rifle Association, Walnut Hill, Mass., April 4, by Thomas Anderton, of Boston, who, shooting at 50yds., scored 480 points on the Standard American target, four points higher than the previous record. Mr. Anderton used Peters .22- caliber long rifle cartridges in making this record. At the Allegheny, Pa., tournament, April 8 and 9, we are in- formed that thirty-five out of forty-seven shooters used Peters factory Joaded shells. New Advertisements. Messrs. H. & D. Folsom Arms Co., whose advertisement appears in another column, are the New York headquarters for the Rush- ton and Morris rowboats and canoes, two makes of boats famous among those who travel on the water. Lightness, beauty and speed are the especial qualities of the Rushtons, while strength and durability, combined with low price, make the Morris product attractive. « Besides these boats, the Folsom Arms Co. carry guns, rifles, revolvers, ammunition and all the camping goods and other articles needed by sportsmen. Lake St. John, Chicoutimi and the ouananiche and brook trout of the Lake St. John region are familiar enough names to ForEst AND STREAM readers. That an admirable hotel should stand side by side with unequalled fishing, and a hunting ground where moose and caribou are to be found, seems extraordinary. You can almost play golf with one hand and cast your fly with the other. Full information concerning this country may be had of the agents of the Quebec & Lake St. John Railway, whose adver- tisement, as usual at this season, appears in FOREST AND STREAM. During last spring and summer a considerable number of anglers visited Washington county, Maine, for the admirable trout and salmon fishing to be found there. The Washington County Railroad, whose advertisement is again this year found in Forest AND STREAM this week, offers to give information about this fish- ing territory, as well as about summer places where men can take their families and be comfortable at reasonable rates. Most men—for their sins, we suppose—are obliged to shave, and we never heard of anybody who could get along without shaving soap. Williams’ shaving stick, manufactured by the i; B. Wil- liams Co., Glastonbury, Conn., whose advertisement is found else- where in this issue, reduces the suffering of shaying to a minimum and makes that usually painful operation comfortable, convenient and safe. Complaint is often made by those who in summer do deep trolling for salmon, lake trout and other fish, that the heavy sinkers which it is necessary to use take away all sport from the capture. The Metal Line Mig. Co., of New York City, have an article which does away with the need of sinkers. What this is their free leaflet will tell the inquiring angler. Visitors to the Adirondacks, the Maine woods, Canada, and the Recky Mountains in June and July know something of the sor- rows that black fly carries on his small back, and unloads on the human being that he meets with. It is said that the preparation Presto, manufactured at Ossining, N. Y., keeps mosquitoes away and kills all insects. It is thus something that every one needs. The Fisherman’s Novelty Mfg. Co., of Dayton, O., whose adver- tisement is found in another column, manufacture a variety of — Janding nets of peculiarly interesting character, because they are eaustble to a variety of different positions. At this season, when anglers are renewing their supplies, the information given by these manufacturers is especially useful. ; It has been shown that lands ~ FOREST AND STREAM. * Copyricnt, 1903 By Forest anp Stream Pustisuine Co. A WEEKLY JournaL OF THE Rop AND Gun. Terms, $4A Year. 10 Crs, A Copy. Six Montus, $2. { NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1908. { VOL. LX.—No. 18, No. 846 Broapway, New Yore The Forest AND STREAM is the recognized mediumn of entertaln- ment, instruction and information between American sportsmen, The editors invite communications on the subjects to which its pages are devoted. Anonymous communications will not be re- garded. While it is intended to give wide latitude in discussion of current topics, the editors are not responsible for the views of correspondents, Subscriptions may begin at any time. Terms: For single copies, $4 per year, $2 for six months. For club rates and full particulars respecting subscriptions, see prospectus on page iii, The Forest and Stream’s Platform Plank. “The sale of game should be prohibited at all seasons.” NAILS DRIVEN IN 1903.—No. II. ARKANSAS. Laws 1908.—Act No. 117._Sec. 1.—That hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person, corporation or company to purchase or haye in possession for barter, exchange or sale, or to expose for barter, exchange or sale, or to sell any buck doe, fawn or any part thereof or any wild turkey, or pinnated grouse, commonly called prairie chicken,.or any quail, sometimes called Virginia partridge, or any other kind of game, wild fowls or birds, what- soever within this State. except bear, rabbits and squirrels. Sec. 2.—Thit it shall be unlawful for any railroad company, express company, steamboat company, or other company, or any private person to export, ship, remove or carry from this State any game of any kind whatsoever. THE CALAVERAS SEQUOIAS. Ir is reported that the threatened destruction of the Calaveras growth of giant sequoias is imminent. The Duluth lumberman who paid $100,000 for the forested tract on which the trees stand is building a railroad pre- paratory to realizing upon his investment by felling the sequoias and converting them into shingles and sidings. Being human, the Duluth man is doing only what would. be done by anyone else who had such an amount of capi- tal locked up in giant trees and could not afford to let it remain idle. With him, as with any other practical lumberman, the exploitation of the California trees is a business proposition pure and simple. Sentiment is well enough in its way, but when sentiment and financial in- terests clash, the money considerations prevail. And yet there is another side to the matter—the senti- mental side, if one pleases—which is the actually im- portant one, and so transcendent that it should prevail to avert the lumbering of the Calaveras grove. The destruc- tion of these majestic sequoias would be a crime against nature, a crime against the human race. Their destruc- tion would mean the robbing of this generation and all sticceeding generations for the benefit of an individual. It would mean the demolition in a year or a day of marvels of the vegetable world which have been thousands of years in the making.. It would mean a conversion fo pri- vate gain of something which belongs to the people, to mankind, and which in the very nature of things cannot of right belong to an individual. The big trees of California are unique. There is noth- ing else like them in the world. Their towering trunks are the slow development of centuries upon centuries, counting thousands of years. They are believed to be the oldest living things on the globe to-day. Their pre- cise age is a subject of scientific speculation, but all are agreed that it covers thousands of years; President Jor- dan is quoted as assigning to them an antiquity of 7,000 years. They reach back to a period beyond that remote past when time was reckoned by the years of the reigns of the Pharaohs. Compared with the life of man, the passing of the generations of men, and the succession of races and of peoples, they are as the everlasting hills. And yet a thousand fold more marvelous than the hills, for the hills are of inert mass whose contours have been formed by the convulsions of nature, the raging of fires, the flux and convolutions of molten matter, and erosions by water and wind; they are products of the hazard and chance of the ages. The sequoia, on the contrary, is the development of life, beginning as the minute seed sending its fibres down into the ground and taking precarious hold upon the earth—a frail and tiny plant which the foot of a wild animal might crush, the summer shower sweep away, or the frosts of winter uproot—and expanding slowly and deliberately, but ever in accordance with well defined laws of vegetable growth, into the imposing and “stupendous monuments we marvel at to-day. If among natural objects there be atty which compel veneration, certainly the giant sequoias must be counted among them. As to such objects there can be in equity no such prin- ciple as ownership by individual man. They are heritages of thé race; they belong not to one age, but to successive ages, for all time. They may not in equity be alienated. A government which in its scheme of land partition and appropriation to individual ownership fails to reserve such heirlooms from coming into private control is recreant to its trust. The United States should never have parted with its title to the California wonder trees. This having been done, the duty of the hour is to repair the error and to reclaim, rescue and restore to their right- ful ownership the sequoia grove. Congress should pro- vide at the next session for the purchase of the Calaveras trees, and give them place with the Palisades of the Hud- .. son, the Falls of Niagara, the Yellowstone and the Yosemite as public possessions jealously to be protected and preserved for all time. IN THE SPRINGTIME. THE fields and woods and swamps, which so long lay gray and silent under the cold skies of winter, have at last taken on the brilliant hues of spring and are joyous with sounds of life. Green grass has pushed its way up through the brown mat of last year’s herbage, and this green is varied with blotches of white where the pale bluettes are clustered close, and with half hidden flecks of purple where modest violets barely push their heads into sight. Thick along the stone walls and fences stand lines of ancient cherry trees, masses of white bloom, whose petals are already beginning to fall to earth; the peach orchards are glorious in their dress of pink, and even the apple trees are showing blossoms, pink now but a little later to be white and sweet smelling. ‘Tiny leaves, white and purple and pale green, are thrusting forth from the tips of every twig on tree and shrub; soon the woods will be verdant. Already robins and phcebes have built their nests, and the mothers are brooding their precious eggs. Black- birds, beautiful and glossy, quaint in song and grotesque in action, are seen in the trees overhanging the water, or stalk over the smooth shaven grass near the house,-dig- ging actively for grub and beetle, which a little later, if undisturbed, would eat the grass roots and cause the householder to fume and fret at the unsightly appearance of his carefully tended lawn. How brilliant are the colors of the red-shouldered male, or his cousin of bronzy hue and boat-shaped tail, or even of the vagabond cowbird, in their fresh spring dress. It will be but a few weeks before the tips of the feathers are worn off, and the hues of these beautiful birds are less brilliant. The crows have mated, and while some perhaps have already built their nests, others in, small groups spend much of their time flying over the woods, calling loudly and performing various graceful evolutions. During the day, and even at night, from wood and swamp comes the muffled roar of the partridge’s drum, and already from fence rail and stone wall is heard the mellow “bob- white” of our friend the quail, a sound more familiar in June than in late April. Already the warblers are here. How many in number or in species we cannot tell, but their graceful forms are seen flitting through the swamps and about the snowy blossoms of the shadblow and the taller huckleberries, or sometimes, as in the case of the black and white creeper, starting at the top of a tall shrub and working their way downward to the ground, thence to fly to the top of an- other bush. The yellowrump, the redpoll, the black- throated blue and the black and white creeper are already plenty, and from now on other species will come in greater and greater numbers until a little before the middle of May the migration is at its height and trees and shrubs are crowded with these fluttering fairy forms. The little leverets, discovered two or three weeks ago by one of the boys in their form down on the edge of the swamp, have already opened their eyes on a new and lovely world, and now, when taken from their nest to be exhibited to the admiring small children, are likely to scramble off the hand and slip away into the ground pine, where they vainly strive to hide. But when put back into their warm nest and covered over with the fur and moss and dead grass which their mother gathered for its roof, they remain quiet, waiting for her return. Before long they will desert the nest and will take to wandering in the swamp, where it may be feared too many of them will fall a prey to prowling fox or light-winged owl. In an old woodpecker’s hole in a rotten stump not far away the flying squirrel has her little brood, and if one raps sharply on the stub she pops her head out of the hole and perhaps runs up the tree a foot or two to another hole into which she darts, stopping as soon as her body is within, and leaving her soft flat tail hanging out in plain view. The swamp is pleasant for the life it contains. Here the black-capped titmouse, the gray squirrel, the chip- munk and the downy woodpecker, all have their homes and may be watched from day to day and from hour to hour, as they go about their various tasks. From the office window of a tall building one may look down on tiled roofs and smoking chimneys and streets full of hard working people, and remembering the joys of field and swamp and woodland, may wish that it were his lot, in this lovely spring time, to be one of these out- door people, even if it were only to stride in the furrow behind the plow or to drop corn or potatoes. VANISHING WILD FLOWERS. Tue coming of spring and of the spring flowers prompts another reference to the Society for the Pro- tection of Native Plants. This New, England society has been formed to arouse interest in the preservation of certain species of wild flowers which are in danger of extinction in some localities. Among such plants _are the Mayflower, two of the ‘gentians and some of the orchids. The peril of the wild plants, as in the case of the wild game, is found in the demand of the inarket and the destruction to meet that demand. The gathering of country wild flowers for sale in citites is the agency which threatens their extermination. The Secretary of the society, Miss Mary E. Carter, of the Boston Society of Natural History, Berkley Street, Boston, will gladly furnish such information as may aid in the establishment of similar plant protective so- cieties elsewhere. As is well know, there are several such associations in Great Britain and on the conti- nent. There is one in Ireland to protect the Killarney fern, and another in Switzerland whose care is the edelweiss. ; In some localities the taking of rare plants is pro- hibited by law. There is a famous scarlet orchid of the Cape of Good Hope, the Disa grandiflora, or flower of the gods, which is found only on Table Mountain, near Cape Town; and so persistent has been the industry of the orchid hunters, in collecting it for export to Europe, that the very existence of the unique species is threatened; and the authorities have prohibited, un- der severe penalties, the taking of flower or plant. Thus in all parts of the world intelligent public opinion is waking to a realization that the beautiful things of nature’s garden must not be ruthlessly blotted out; that these things of exquisite beauty, which are in form and color the wondrous product of the slow evolu- tion of the ages, must not be annihilated in a moment by the thoughtlessness of man. Mr. Charles A. Shriner pokes fun at the New Jersey Legislature because it has created in the “sharp-skinned” hawk of the game law a new species. The Trenton legis- lators are by no means the first to try their hands at introducing new species into the world. In many States: “ruffled grouse’ owe their origin to such fiats, and in New York there long flourished the famous. “gallimule,” which was not a quadruped but a feathered biped which the Legislature created and kept alive for a number of years. td The Governor of Massachusetts has signed the bill making permanent prohibition of the sale of woodcock and of ruffed grouse. The Governor of New York has signed the Armstrong bill forbidding the sale of wood- cock and grouse killed in the State. Arkansas has a new law forbidding the sale of any game whatever except bear, rabbit and squirrel. These three news items from widely separated States show the growth of the anti-sale system which in time will be of universal anntrsiion # There is nothing like having a pull, as the robin said, when it yanked a worm out of the lawn. 342 FOREST AND STREAM. [May 2, 1903. Che Sportsman Tourist. a Letters to a Chum.—IIl. (Continued from page 324.) Curicaco, Ill, Feb. 18, 1903—Dear Clark: It has been such a very long time since I sent you the first installment of this letter that it is doubtful if you remember where 1 left off, or what it was all about. I trust you will forgive this long delay, and I think you will when you recollect that I sat up all night long in writing that long letter, and you know how well I love to sleep. Do you wonder that I have hesitated to take it up again? In-my former letter I gave you a history of our trip into the White River country, and told you of my ad- venture with the first mule deer I ever saw, and whose -head now graces my den and looks benignly down on me while I write this.- I also have before me various other trophies of that glorious hunt in the Rocky Mountains, of which I will tell you here. The following day being Sunday, we decided to stay in camp and rest, and take care of our deer meat, head and hide. «-We found the deer to be a very fat one, indeed; there were places under the skin on his rump where the fat was nearly an inch thick. We had made a resolution at the outset to try to kill all the game we could eat, and to eat all the game we killed. As we viewed the mammoth hams and shoulders of the noble animal we had secured, it seemed to us that we would have to wait until Christmas before we could go hunting again, unless we could find someone to share with us. Accordingly Lem saddled his horse and took a goodly portion of the carcass and distributed it among our neighbors ten miles down the valley, whom Lem said were very glad to get the meat, To provide a cool place for the remainder of the meat, we dug a cave under the overhanging bank at the water’s edge, where the sun could never reach. This cave proved to -be a living spring of ice water, and made as good an ice box as one could ask. We spent the most of the day at this work, and in dressing and curing the deer head and hide. The day was a perfect one, as were all the days: we were out on this trip. That night we were disturbed by the savage barking and growling of Old Bull, the big dog. We bore with this for some time, hoping he would have done with his uproar. Then I arose and went out to investigate. Bull was out under the trees in the deep shadow where it was black dark. The only animal I could find was the dog, which was glad to see me. He leaped upon me out of the darkness, nearly knocking me off my feet, and gave me a swipe with his long wet tongue right in the face. Then he made off again into the bushes, barking as if he had treed something noble, Then he would dart away in some other direction, and make another stand and more noise. If he heard or saw anything, his senses were bet- ter than mine. I had my gun and was ready to use it, but no‘ opportunity occurred. I came to the conclusion that the dog was playing a joke on me, but I failed to see the point. I was getting out of patience with so much fuss and noise when I wanted to sleep. I didn’t like it. So I caught the dog and boxed his ears soundly, then I led him up to. the camp and told him to lie down and keép still. Now, a more intelligent or wise dog than Bull never lived. He could do almost anything you told him. He was a regular trick dog, and learned easily. Talk to him, and he would watch your eye, trying his best to under- stand. you, and it is my opinion that he did understand the most that was said to him. Lem would say to him, “Go and drive in the horses,” after they had been gone a half day, and it would not be long till in would come the horses on the dead run, with Bull at their heels. Bull was a good dog, all but the name; he deserved a bet- ter one. So when I[ said to him, “Lie down and keep still,” he did so. evidently against his will, and I went back to my cosy nest. Bull laid still about three minutes, when away he went again, leaving behind him a streak of yelps and barks enough to wake the dead. Then we heard a screech and howl of another compl-xion, and Old Bull suddenly changed his tune also. Back he came as fast as he had gone, only now his aggressive bark had changed to “ki-yi, ki-yi” at every jump. I grabbed for my trousers and gun again, but before I got “cleared for action” Bull bounced into the tent and stayed there. I could find nothing outside to have caused such a com- motion; all was dark and silent. Each dark-spot looked like an animal, and when a twig broke under my foot, I confess to a queer feeling on the top of my head. I now understand why people speak of their hair rising when scared. -I did not go far, you may be sure of that. Soon I heard Lem coming down the path. He had pitched his tent about 200 feet away from ours, and out of sight of it, and-lived there with his wife and two boys. Lem lighted the. lantern, and we made an excursion out into the bush., Bull had had enough of it, and was loth to leave the tent. At his master’s command he caine with us, but his heart was’ not in the hunt. We could not persuade him to: “hie on.” He stayed at our heels. Lem said: “That dog ain’t afeared of anything that walks, I can’t understand what he had out there in the bushes; it must-have~been something big. That squall sounded like a‘¢atj:don't you think so?” EF said that I had never heard anything like it, but for a genuine, hair-raiser it certainly took the cake. ' Lem went back to roost, but I sat and watched the spots of moonlight—and they were mighty few in that glade—for a long time, till I got so sleepy I couldn’t keep awake, ‘then [ turned in, and things remained quiet till merning. . wi Lem was out at daybreak looking for signs of last night’s disturbance, and we all joined him, though the bed never felt’ better. mtich that nothing could be discovered in the way of signs.of the marauder. Bull had capered over the ground so.long that nothing in the way of tracks could we find. Finally, down at the water’s edge, some distance from camp, we found q fresh track pointing toward camp that We had tramped over the ground so . Lem pronounced that of a mountain lion. This track was not so large as the bear’s track we had seen along the trail coming up to camp, but it was big enough to suit us, and rather too near home for comfort. Lem said that after breakfast we would put the dog on the trail and see if we could find the other end of: it. The ladies did not want to hunt lions, nor did they want to stay in camp with all the natural protectors gone. So we compromised by saddling the horses for them, and telling them to ride up on the bank and wait till we found which way the trail led, then they could follow us. Lem took the dog, who was now as eager and anxious as ever to hunt, and put his nose into the tracks we had found in the sand. The dog soon took the hint, and followed the trail up toward camp and into the place where the fracas had occurred. There the trail seemed to end. No matter where we took the dog, he would soon be back to that spot. ; After a half hour of this work, Lem said: use trying to follow the trail out of here. done. The cat’s been around here so much and crossed his trail so many times that it confuses the dog. Now, it seems to me that the natural direction for the cat. to take would be south. He was south of the camp all the time; he could not go north without passing both camps, which I don’t believe he would do. He could not go west without going up that bank which nothing but a bird could do, unless at our trail in the ravine, which is north of-us. If he went east he must cross the river and we will find his tracks inthe sand farther down. But his natural course is straight south between the bank and the river, where he would have an open course through the bushes, in just the kind of a place he likes to travel in. My advice is to strike right out south, and look for the trail in a new place. You follow along the water’s edge and watch for tracks in the sand, and I’ll take the dog down the center.” _ So calling to the girls up on the bank to go south, we struck out. I found it very difficult to follow the stream, there was such a growth of bushes and weeds right up to an over- hanging bank; at other places there was a margin of boulders between the bushes and water, where an ele- phant would not make a track, I was making slow time when I heard Lem’s “Halloo” away off south, so I pushed out into the open and hurried down there. - Lem was waiting for me, and as I came up he pointed to a little spot of soft earth with the cat’s track in it. He seid that the dog had picked up the trail some distance back in a game trail, and had gone on ahead. Further on we came up with the girls, who were waiting for us at a place where the high bank did not occur, who told us that the dog was away on ahead. Following the direction they had seen the dog take, which was not along the river, but up into the timber toward the mountain, we hurried on. Soon we saw the dog coming back to look for us, and it took a long time to find the trail again, then we lost it and could not locate it again, so we struck out in the general direction the animal seemed to be going, till we came to a tiny brook with muddy edges. Here we separated, some going. up and some down stream, until we who had gone up stream heard Lem’s “Halloo.” _He had struck the trail again, where the cat had crossed the brook. Here Lem took the precaution to take a hitch- strap from one of the horses and put tround Bull’s neck, so we could keep up with him. Lem said that Bull -was half blood hound, and could follow a trail that was two days old. It is my opinion, however, that some allowance should be made in this statement for ownership, and the unusual affection that existed between the man and dog. Be this as it may, Bull had much difficulty in following the-trail, and had it not been for the patience and untiring “It is no good nature of the man, who could almost “smell out’. the trail himself, we should never have found the other end of it. Finally’ the leaders brought us into a path, where evi- dently the scent was strong, for the dog tugged at his strap and made us go at a trot. x This path led us along a hillside, and then into, or | along, the side of a ravine, where the horses could not go without danger of slipping off and rolling to the bot- tom. So the ladies dismounted. Lem slipped the bridle reins over the horses’ heads and let them go where they . pleased, and: we all went on on foot. ae The path became more rugged and narrow until it was along the middle of a veritable precipice, where we could not have gone had it not been for the bushes and shrubs growing there to hang on to. Luckily this kind of traveling did not last long; our trail ended in a hole in the face of the cliff under a great overhanging rock that went away up half-way to the sky. This hole looked black and forbidding. It was about three feet high by about twelve feet wide, with a smooth floor and a rough, rugged ceiling. There was a level platform in front of the opening, like the floor of a porch, level with the floor of the opening; there was a roof over it, too, for the old rock overhung the opening by thirty or forty feet. To stand on the “porch” and look down made one’s head swim. Away down there three or four htindred feet below us was a mass of red looking boulders at the bottom of. the ravine. -: The entrance to the cave was covered with the dust of countless ages, where a drop of rain had never fallen. In this dust were hundreds of foot marks of the same — general appearance as those we had been following; some were large and some smaller, but were great big cat tracks. Rest assured that I had my Sayage ready, and loaded to its fullest capacity. : Lem was for. loosing the dog, and sending him in, but’ here vigorous expostulations were heard from. the rear, and not without reason. For if the dog were to drive out anything, there was but one place for it to go, and we were otcupying that place. Nothing could be seen in that black hole. I str med my eyes to get a glimpse of those two balls of fire I ha read about, but they were not in evidence. ; We ealled a council of war, and decided to retrace our steps to where we could procure torches of pine knots, which were plentiful in that country, eat a lunch, then come back and fill our game bags with long, It-can’t be- Soon we were back again with faggots, and built a fite on the front porch of the lion house. . When our torches wete nicely lighted, Lem disttibuted them, one to each, with some extra unlighted ones, ex- cept that I had none. 4 ‘Then Lem said: “Mr, Paddotk, you and I and Bull will take the lead, and the rest follow us. I will carry my gun and a torch, but you ¢arry your gun only; and | in readiness to shoot quitkly- if you get a chance to use your gun, shoot as you shot at that buck the day before yesterday.” 7 Now, I hadn’t supposed that we were really going into that hole. One would have to get down on hands and knees to get in at all. _ It seemed to me a good deal like sticking one’s head into the lion’s mouth. We were well satisfied that there were a lot of lions in the hole, and it seemed to me that they would have the advantage of us in that narrow place, and in the dark. I thought Lem was joking or try- ing to frighten the girls when he mentioned it.. I-looked at the girls to see how they were taking it, and could see no signs of weakineng on their part. They were pale, but.-neyer said a word against going in there. »-If-they were scared, they did not show it very much,-and I felt ashamed of myself for the scared feeling that I could not keep down. I said to Lem: “Let the dog go in first, and we will stand at one side out here and ‘pot’ them as they come out.” Well, sir, we couldn’t get that dog even to look into, that hole. He felt just as I did about it. He was seared. “Come on,” Lem said. “The dog won't go in first, but there is no danger; we will keep to one side and leave room for the animals to pass us if they want to.” I had either to go in or back out entirely, and be a lsughing stock forever after. ; Mas I don’t believe Lem had ever heard the word “fear.” If there was any of that element in his composition it must have been mislaid where he had never, found ‘it. In any event, he walked up to the hole, got down on his hands and knees and started in. Then it was up to me. Clark, you have been with me years enough to know whether I am a coward or not. What is your opinion? Honestly I would almost as willingly have jumped from that ledge down 200 feet to the rocks below as to get down on my hand and knees and crawl in there, where I could not see two feet ahead of my nose, and where, from the indications, there might be twenty mouti- tain lions. ‘he a On the other hand I had rather take the 200-foot leap than to own that I was afraid. Luckily I had sense enough, or luck enough, to keep my mouth shut as to my feelings, and nobody knows to this day how I felt at that time. . I don’t know just what the girls thought about it, but : Leas a shrewd idea that they felt about the same as id. Well, it was up to me, and I went, and the rest fol- lowed; all but Bull, and he soon came on as a rear guard. I could plainly smell the animals in there, and you may bet that I intended to sell my life dearly. About twenty feet back from the entrance the ceiling rose, and the floor descended until we could stand up- right. Further on the room grew wider and higher, until it must have been sixty feet wide by nearly as many feet high. The entire walls and ceiling seemed made of gold or diamonds; there was a sparkle everywhere. I thought we had found a treasure cave, and forgot all about my fear. Upon closer examination we found the sparkling things to be flint. There were things hanging down from the ceiling that looked like icicles. There were other icicles standing up on the floor. I believe these things are called stalactites and stalagmites, but “icicles” describes them exactly. In one place the stalactite at the ceiling had reached down and connected with the stalag- mite coming up from the floor, and enlarged until it must have been twelve inches through at the smallest point (the center), and twenty feet high. It looked as if it had grown there to hold up the ceiling. This large room extended back about three or four. hundred feet, then grew smaller. There were numerous holes at the sides at the floor line, looking like a row of dog kennels: We thrust our torches into some of them as far as we could reach, but the depth could not be told. There were about twenty of these holes in the room, of just about the size to accommodate comfortably a good sized wild ‘animal, and they went away back into the rock, no telling where. Even Lem did not care to get down on his stomach and crawl into one of them; not that he was afraid, but it seemed a foolhardy thing to do. No one volunteered to exploré any of them, and it soon became plain to us that we would. never find any lions in there—there were too many hiding places for them. Strange to say, no one seemed to care very much whether we found game or not; we had found something more interesting. _ Further down the cave where it was about thirty feet broad by about twenty feet high there was a drop off in the floor, straight down about fifteen feet. It was a lucky thing that we had lights or we would have broken | our necks sure. There was no way to get down there safely that we could see. At one side, hanging over the precipice, and resting against one side of the cave wall, was a rock about-the size and shape of a load of hay. Lem’ was snooping around this rock and found a hole at the back lower corner about the size of his body, and crawled into it. Soon he called out to us to “Come on, we can go through here.” x T left my gun and took a torch and went in. I have more avoirdupois than Lem; I made a snug fit of it. ‘ About eight or ten feet in I stuck fast and could get no further. I called to Lem that I couldn't get through, and would have to go back. Imagine my horror when I found that I cauld not get back an inch. My clothes would bunch up and wedge me fast until I was as solid as the rock around me. I certainly had a bad five minutes in that hole. ve heard of people’s hair turning gray in a single night, but I don’t believg it, ox mine would have been whitg alter that day, ha ek. collate May 2, 1003.] ee eee? My torch was smoking my eyes out, and I couldn't breathe for smoke, ‘ Giving the thing a toss to the front, ‘it rolled down somewhere out of sight, and it was as dark as Egypt in a second. ; T’ll not harrow you with a description of my feelings at that time. I guess you can imagine about what they were, I yelled to Lem again that I was stuck fast and could not get back, and he came back to see about it. He was in a bad fix as well as I, for unless he could get me out of that hole, he could not get back himself. ’ Lem’s torch soon appeared at the other end of the hole, about six feet away, and he asked me what was the matter. When I told him, he had the bad taste to laugh. That was the only mean thing I ever knew Lem to do, He crawled into the hole, pushing his torch ahead of him, and nearly smothered the two of us. He backed right out again and came back in the dark. “Give me your hand,” he said, when he had come up close. He nearly pulled the arm off me, but it was no go; I was there to stay. Then he said: “Turn over on your side a little’? Presto! I slipped out of that hole as easy as anything. May the good Lord forever deliver me from another experience like that one. There was a kind of a slide from the far end of the hole down to the floor below, and the rock in it looked as if somebody had chipped out “toe holes” in it; at least they were there, and came in mighty handy in getting up and down. The ladies concluded to remain where they were, and not attempt that narrow passage. They called to us to “hurry back,” and Lem and I went on, ; A hundred feet further on the caye made a right angle bend, and got much smaller. At one place we had to get down on our hands and knees and creep through. Then it opened up again to fair proportions and we came to another precipice. Here we found a strange thing. Lean- ing up from the floor below and resting against the ledge at our feet was a dugout canoe, with notches cut in the sides for steps, and it made a very good ladder. Up to that time I had supposed that we were the first mortals to ever set foot in that cave. It was so far away from all inhabitants, and in such a very inaccessible place, that I thought that we were in a virgin place. That country is almost uninhabited, as we understand the term. Here before us, however, was evidence that we were not the first to enter there. That old canoe had evidently been there a hundred years; there were cracks in the sides and bottom of it an inch or more wide, but the wood was sound for the most part. We went down on this canoe Jadder to the floor below. The floor all along was strewn with bones of all sizes; some old and black, others fresh with signs of flesh on them. We were evidently in somebody’s dining room. As we went forward we also went downward at about a 7 per cent, grade I should think. There was animal life all around us; we could hear the scampering of small feet, and could hear the scolding and squealing of some animals which Lem pronounced rats, but none of them came into view. As we passed along we noticed a kind of roaring sound that had come on us so gradually that we had not no- ticed when we began to hear it. But now it had de- veloped into a good sized steady roar that filled the cave full of sound; we were unable to tell where it came from—nowhere in particular, but it got louder the deeper we went, until we could hear nothing else. We knew it must be water pouring down somewhere, and we were keenly anxious to see it, As we walked along we suddenly splashed into water, and found that the entire floor was covered with it ahead of us, but it was so clear and transparent that we could not see it in the dim light. We could see the bottom of the cave under the water just as plainly as where there was no water, The roaring in there was terrific. Talk about your thunder storms! They were not in it. Our way was blocked; we could go no further without swimming, and from the noise ahead it would not be safe to swim very far in that direction. The floor of the cave was here covered with pebbles and sand that looked very pretty in the water where they were washed clean. We gathered some pretty stones there, and while looking for others at the water’s edge, where there was sand, we noticed that the sand was full of little particles of bright stuff that looked surprisingly like gold. Indeed, the sand was one-half gold. We tried to wash the sand out of some of it, so as to earty back only pure gold, but could not do it. We would take up a handful of the stuff and squat at the water’s edge and wash away at it; when the stuff was all washed away but a teaspoonful we would find that what remained contained as much sand as it did in the start; the gold washed away just as fast as the sand. There was enough gold there to make us all rich if it were gold, and, by George, it looked to me as if it were the pure stuff. J really thought we had struck a gold mine. I forgot everything else in gathering gold and fill- ing my handerchief and pockets with it. Lem said it was either gold or mica. I had seen mica in the front of stoves; this didn’t look like that at all, so I knew it must be gold. In my eagerness to gather a lot of gold, I stuck my torch up in the sand just at the edge of the water; soon it toppled over and fell with a splash into the water, and went out with a splutter. There wasn’t very mutch of it left, so I didn’t care much, but Lem did. “Come on,” he said, “we must get cut of here while our torches last, or we will be likely to stay longer than we want to.” My torch was drifting away with the tide, out into deep water, and I was trying to get it back, while Lem was impatiently watching my maneuyers. “Don’t stop for that stick,’ he said. “It wouldn’t burn, anyhow; come on, you have all the gold you will ever want of that kind,” he added, with a grin. I expect Lem had his own fun with me on that trip, and I never suspected the sly humor that was in him. Well, I had about all the golden sand that I could. handle, so I was ready, and we started on the back track. It seemed a long way back, much longer than coming in, but we made goed time. and it was rot very long till we were standing atthe foot of the precipice where the girls were, Then came that dodgasted hole in the rocks FOREST AND STREAM, io go through again. I took the precaution this time to. lake off my coat and vest, and to empty my trousers pockets and toss all the surplus up to where the girls es waiting for us, then I went through the hole easily, The girls said that we had been gone a long time, and they were setting anxious about us, and cold, too. They said that the dog had stayed right beside them all ‘the time, and would growl sometimes, which made them think a lion was coming. I told them that we had found gold by the wagon load down in the cave and that we were all as rich as anything. Then I showed them the samples I had in my pockets. Then they were excited, and we all hurried out to the daylight ta see what it looked like. The stuff did not seem to sparkle so much in daylight as it had by torch light, but it was there all right, and to me it had a striking appearance of gold. I have a bottle of that stuff here in my den; I’ll show it to you when next yoti visit me, and if you don’t say it is gold I shall be disappointed. The sun had gone behind the mountain, and it was get- ting chilly and dark when we started for camp. Our korses were not where we had left them, so we started toward camp on foot, Soon the moon came up and made pretty fair light. We found the horses about half way there feeding along. RicHarp A, Pappock. [TO BE CONCLUDED, | A Cruise in the Ojibway Paradise. In Two Parlts—Part Two. We made an early start the next morning, and were several miles aboye camp when Sam said: “There is a moose!” We were going toward a marsh and the moose was away at the other end, near the woods, but coming towatd us. The guides drew the canoe up a long, sandy beach to the sHore, The Doctor took the camera, and we all crept into the grass and crouched down. The wind was blowing down stream and the moose came on, wholly imconscious of our presence. He was some distance to our left, but turned and took a course at a right angle to the one he had been following. This brought him directly in front of us, where he stopped with his side toward us, and not more than forty feet away. When the Doctor stood up to get a picttire he turned toward us, and Sam said: “Look ont! That fellow is going to charge.” We all jumped up ready to run, but the moose turned around and followed his own tracks back, till he was a little to our left, then he changed his mind, and, turning toward us, lowered his head and we saw the hair on his neck rise as he started toward us. The length of time it took us to reach the canoe was sufficient proof that none of us were paralyzed with fear, but I doubt if four worse scared people ever lived to tell about it. We were not only will- ing but anxious to quit playing in that moose’s backyard. When we reached the cance someone looked back to see what was coming, but the moose had turned his back on us in contempt, and was deliberatetly trotting off across the meadow to the woods. We were very thankful for our escape, for the moose certainly had the best of the argument, and had it been a month later I fear something would haye happened. I had never seen a moose before, and thought they were the color of an old red cow, but this one was a beauty. He was so sleek and black and glossy, and had a nice pair of antlers, though they were not so yery large. He was a two-year-old, and would weigh about eight or nine hundred pounds. When the moose had disappeared in the woods, w pushed off and continued on our way up the river. Ducks were very plenty and we shot one for supper. I had mever gone duck hunting before, and was much surprised at the length of time they could stay under water, and when they did come up only their heads came above water, and if the canoe was in sight, they were down again in an instant, making hardly a ripple. The first portage is very short, but we had to step from one boulder to another, which is always hard. The next portage is quite difficult. In one place we had to climb up the face of a cliff and realized the need of empty hands. When I saw the place it was a mystery how the guides got the canoe up, but they did and instead of being cross and surly they came back to assist us lest we should fall. The water here slips over the side of the river bed, mak- ing a drep of fifty feet over nine ledges or steps, and con- tinues on its way without changing its direction. All the way along this riyer the moose had destroyed the beds of water lilies; there were acres of them pulled out of root and tramped to pieces. About twelve o’clock we reached the Morrison Falls, a regular mountain chute, the water falling fifty feet through a narrew, rocky chasm. It is a bit of nature in her wildest, most picturesque dress. This part of the river is well worth taking a day to see. Every turn of it is full of interest, and very different from anything seen on the regular tourist route. The trip to the Morrison Falls and back to Lady Evelyn Lake can easily be made in one day, and will well repay the time it takes to make the rip. We had crossed the eddy to get a view of the falls, and, on our way back to the portage landing, a game warden came round the bend, pulled up beside our canoe, and handed us his book to sign, all the time looking closely over our baggage. He had heard us shooting, and thinking we might be killing moose had followed us up the river. When we told him about the moose, we knew, by the beautifully serene expression on his face, that he did not believe us. When we were eating dinner he came back to fully satisfy himself that we had neither rifle nor moose meat. When we came rotind the bend of the river and Boh pointed out the portage, I decided that we had reached the end of the trip, for it did not seem possible to carry a canoe up that rock. I had no doubt about getting down on our return, for I could see that if once started we would come down whether we wanted to or not. Asa portage I did not think much of it, but felt sure it would make a beautiful toboggan slide if the landing could only be improved. Sam took the Doctor out to try the fishing while Bob and I cooked dinner. Every one seemed to take the cross- ing of this portage as a matter of course, so I said nothing, but told Bob we would cook as much as we could ‘forks, one on each side of the table. B48 for dinner and there would be less to carry. I found some onions in the sack, and, thinking we were doing a good turn, we peeled and cooked them every one, but learned to our dismay that Sam had put them in for some special dishes he intended to prepare. The portage was not as hard as I had expected, for the rock was rougher and more uneven than it appeared, but ‘a climb of fifty feet up the face of a steep rock is not exactly easy. When we reached the top of the falls a sheer wall of rock rose a hundred and fifty feet or more above us. On the top, broken and seamed, were boulders weighing hundreds of tons which were balanced, appar- ently ready to fall if the wind should blow or a bird or leaf light on them and disturb the equilibrium, We fol- lowed the path along the river for perhaps an eighth of a mile and again launched our canoe. Not far above this is a portage that Bob calls the Fifth avenue stone pave- ment, around a shallow rapids about a twelith of a mile long. The shore on the right is paved with big round- topped boulders set as close together as they can he packed.’ The pavement is a twelfth of a mile long and about a dozen yards wide, while the tops of the boulders ate three or four feet above the surface of the water and scme distance apart. This is an extremely dangerous portage, it is so hard to keep your footing as you step from the top of one round boulder to another, and a fall with a pack or canoe would certainly result in a crushed canoe, if not worse. This pavement is evidently the result of glacial action. Crossing another portage we were in the Lady Evelyn River where it divides, one branch flowing into Willow Island Lake and the one we had come up into the Sucker Gut. We saw an abandoned eagle’s nest on a dead pine tree. ‘The top of the tree had been broken off, but the stump still rose above the surrounding timber with the nest on top. We had probably traveled a quarter of a mile without making a portage and were getting lonesome, or else Satan had found extra employment for us; at any rate Sam said: “IT would like to shove that rock into the river. “So would I,” said the Doctor. “All right,” says Bob, “put me ashore.” The shore on our left was a smooth rock that rose with 4 steep slope twenty-five feet above the surface of the water and just on the top lay an oblong boulder, with nicely squared edges, weighing twenty-five or thirty tons. Bob took the ax and went ashore to shove the rock over the edge so it would slide down that smooth surface, while Sam took the canoe to the middle of the river, where we could watch the performance. Bob went up the hill and cut down a small tree to get a stick to use as a lever, and gradually working the stone over the edge, it started on its downward journey. It came grinding and siding down the face of the rock, gaining momentum as it went, and, on reaching the water, went under with a splash, but instead of going down to the bottom with a thud, as we expected, 1t continued on its way, grinding and sliding down the rock until directly under our canoe, where it quietly settled down. We could follow its course by sound under the water just as well as by sight above. They all insisted that the rock was so smooth there was no danger, but I felt relieved that nothing had happened. The river is very wild, in places quite narrow, again widening until almost a lake that is surrounded by marsh where we would see ducks and signs of moose. In many places the river bed is full of immense boulders, whose tops are just a few inches below the surface of the water, and some skillful steering is required, especially in swift water. Bob was bowman, and says he knows all the rocks now, for the ones we missed going up the river we struck coming down. After leaving the Morrison Falls we made just one long portage before reaching McPherson Lake, but there were five or six short ones and a ntimber of rapids where we walked along the shore, and the guides led the canoe through. In the rapids, at the foot of McPherson Lake, we hooked and landed a beautiful speckled trout weighing a quarter of a pound, but it was getting late and we did not try for any more. We camped on a point just above the narrows in McPherson Lake. This is an old camp ground, and we had a table with seats, while near the fireplace was a low table made by driving four forked sticks in the ground, then placing two straight, smooth sticks in the The top of the table was made by drawing a piece of birch bark tightly over the sticks at the sides of the table and tying it firmly to them, in several places, with cedar bark. There was also a register made by cutting a piece of bark off a tree and writing the names on the white wood underneath. When these registers are sheltered they last for several years, for we saw one that had been made by a surveying party in 1808, and it was still quite legible, though written with a pencil, When Bob was back in the woods getting pine, he picked up an arrow with a heavy blunt point. They are used by the Indians to kill rabbits and grouse. Sam skinned and fried the duck and made corn cakes for supper, which we enjoyed with a tin of good tea that we always found refreshing. We could see the trout jumping in the lake, and aiter supper went out to try our luck. We tried all kinds of flies and fished all kinds of ways, but did not get a trout. When we quit fishing Sam turned the canoe toward the head of the lake, and, as it grew dark, the river seemed to be- come narrower and the high bluffs on each side to rise higher. Moving slowly and noisely along we watched the transformation until the gorge had become an im- mense hallway, down which we were drifting toward the light in the western sky, that glowed through the opening at the other end, like the light from some vast aerial space. A strealc of licht, reflected here and there on the water, increased the length of the hallway and made the opening seem miles and miles away. We were drifting down the Corridor of Time and were in sight of the Gates of Eternity. It was a dream of childhood. Sam turned the canoe and we went back-to camp, where Bob had a goad fire burning, and we sat around the fire. In the night we heard a far-off moaning cry, which would increase and then die away. We were all awake, listening intently. It grew louder and louder, until we could hear the hunting cry of a pack 844 of wolves; then it gradually died away in the distance and all was quiet again. Toward morning there came rain and we did not get up early to go fishing, as we had intended, but the guides were up, and asked if they might take the rods and try to get some trout for breakfast. They returned in about an hour wit iwo small ones, which, with the one caught the even. ing before, made our breakfast with bacon, corn cakes and good coffee. Sam had hooked a large trout, but did not succeed in landing it. It was still raining hard, and while Sam cooked breakfast Bob built a fire in front of our tent, by the side of a tree, which I thought was very reckless. I learned, when reading the story of Mr. Hough’s hunt- ing trip alter we got home, why he built the fire be- side the tree, but 1 did not know at the time that the tree would serve as a chimney and keep the smoke from blowing into our tent. The front of the tent was thrown open, the blankets rolled up for seats, and breakfast was served in the tent, which was nice and warm, on a big piece of bark for a table. About ten o'clock, the rain being over, we all went out to fish, and 1 caught a small trout and a little herring. We re- iurned to camp for an early dinner, and then went to the falls at the head of the lake for the evening fishing. Sam made a loaf of squaw bread for dinner and baked it in the skillet. I do not know how he made it, but it was very appetizing. It was always a mystery to me how he succeeded in baking bread in our sheet iron skillets with their shaky, adjustable handles. Through it all I never heard him swear, though Bob claims he said his prayers backwards when the big trout got away. ‘ At the foot of the falls that afternoon we cast flies of various kinds all over’ the water, until I had hooked everything above water that was in reach and some things not in reach, but nothing under the water. Then I quit for fear I should lose my arm at the shoulder. The Doctor had met with less success, not having hooked as many things as I had. We gave our rods to the guides while we went to take some pictures. On one side of the falls is a sheer wall of rock fully two hundred feet high, while the other side is com- paratively low and broken. There is a small camp ground here, and on a register were names of tourists from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Mattawa, while underneath the fol- lowing legends were duly inscribed: “Fine trout fishing—N O T.” “Such an easy place to get to? ?” “The trout here weigh 2lbs.—that is, a dozen of ’em do!” “Cheer up! There is much worse farther on.” We were wet and cold so built a fire, and soon the guides came back. Sam had two trout, one was a very dark color and weighed over a quarter of a pound, but the other one was small. It was time for us to re- turn, sO we put otit our fire and went back to camp, where Sam soon had tea brewing and trout and bacon - frying in the skillet. A cold wind was blowing, which increased in the night, and in the morning the rain was pouring down. I had a dreadful headache and could not have gone in the canoe, so was glad the weather and not I kept them from breaking camp. When breakfast was being eaten two whisky jacks, or Canada jays, came around and flew quite close to the tent for bits of bread that were thrown to them, and they finally tried to carry off our soap. By ten o’clock the rain was over and my headache had about gone, so we hastily packed up and were ready for our trip down the river. We were undecided as to whether the trout fishing had been a success or not, but felt we could answer with the Indian Sam told about who, when asked if he caught any fish, re- plied: “A few, not very many. One big one, one little one, two small ones.” Our trout fishing was done on the 4th of September, sometimes casting and sometimes trolling the fly along the water, and while we did not get many trout, I be- lieve there are plenty of them there and they could be caught in the fly-fishing season, for we saw them jumping the first evening we were on McPherson Lake. Bob says the trout fishing is better farther up the river, but we were not able to find out anything about the fishing in either Florence or Smoothwater lakes. Bob said the party he took through had caught so many trout that when they reached Florence Lake they never thought to try the fishing to find what kind of fish were there. 7 A cruise up this river would be delightful, but it is a cruise by itself and not a side trip. The start should be made from Haileybury, where guides, outfit and provisions can be procured; then follow the route we took to McPherson Lake, continuing on up the river to Florence Lake; cross the head of it and enter a small stream, which brings you to Apex Lake. Cross- ing this lake to the outlet brings you to Smoothwater Lake, and the outlet of this is the East Branch of the Montreal River, which you follow to its junction with the Montreal, near Fort Matachewan, a Hudson Bay post, where supplies can be procured. From this point there are two routes back to MHaileybury, one down the Montreal River to Mud Lake, the other down the Blanche or White River to Lake Temiscam- ing. To reach the White River a three-mile portage must be made across the plateau that separates the waters of the Montreal and White rivers. To come up the Montreal and go down the Lady Evelyn River is not practicable on account of a portage around the ‘Three Mile Rapids on the Montreal, part of which can be run going down, and the current being against one more than half of the trip. We made our way down the river without difficulty, but I could not help thinking about that Fifth Ave- nue pavement, for the rain had made the rocks very slippery. The guides wore shoe packs and could get over the slippery rocks much better than we could in our stout walking shoes with rubber heels. When we stopped for dinner they made me some toast, which: 1 enjoyed very much, with a tin of good tea. We found the Fifth Avenue pavement almost dry, and it was a relief to all when we were safely over. We had no trouble making the portage around the Morrison -stories. FOREST AND.-STREAM. Falls and got down the cliff, where the river falls over the side of its bed, without any difficulty. When we reached the more open river, a cold north wind was blowing up stream, and we had to face it for four or five miles. Long before we reached camp I was chilled through, and, when some one asked me a question which I had to answer, my voice trembled. Bob, who was sitting in front of me, looked around, and, taking his coat from under his knees, told me to put it on. : I was very glad when we rouiided a bend and saw our little white tent as we had left it. Not a thing had been disturbed. The guides made a fire, and as soon as the water was hot made some good beef tea. We drank a tin of that, put on warmer clothes and were ready for any kind of weather. The tents put in good shape and supper over, a big fire was built, and when well warmed we went to bed and were soon asleep. When we awoke in the morning the sun was above the tree tops shining bright and clear, and every- thing was covered with a heavy white frost. After breakfast a warm skillet handle was used on the canoe, and we were ready to move. IJ heard Sam say he was glad those detachable handles were good for something. The day was perfect, the sun warm and bright, and. Lady Evelyn Lake perfectly calm and ex- ceedingly beautiful. About the middle of the lake we went ashore on an island, where there is a fine camp ground commanding a splendid view of the lake and its numerous tree covered islands. Mingling with the dark green of the pine was the lighter green of the birch and the yellow of the poplar, whose foliage had -al- ready been touched by the finger of frost. On many of the islands in Lady Evelyn Lake are good camp grounds, where a small party, not caring to cruise, but wanting a camping trip, could have a delightful outing. We cooked our dinner on an island near the end of Lady Evelyn Lake, and when tramping round, found a string of fifteen or twenty black bass that had been thrown away. They were not small ones, but would weigh from two to four pounds, and no doubt had been caught for a picture. The heathen are not all dead, neither are they all converted. This end of the lake and the river that connects Lady Evelyn with Diamond Lake are full of boulders that are just a few inches under water, and it requires aJl the skill of an expert canoeman to steer clear of them. Making a quarter-mile portage around the rapids we came to picturesque falls at the mouth of Diamond Lake. Early in the afternoon we reached an island in Diamond Lake, where there is a good camp ground. We had a table and seats with backs, a lux- ury that was almost too much for us, but we resolved to keep away from the seats by the table, except at meal time, and, as there were seats by the fire with- out backs, we soon felt quite at home, Sam boiled some beans that evening and baked them in the skillet, some way I do not know how, but they were better than any of the canned beans in the mar- ket. There was a sandy beach at the end of the island, and while Sam was getting supper we went to s-e what message had been left for us by the wood folks. We found the footprints of deer, wolf, crane, man in moccasin and man in civilized shoe. After supper the guides took the gun and went across the lake in the canoe to try to get some ducks, while we kept house by the camp-fire. They returned after dark, having shot one black duck. A gentleman and two ladies from New York with their guides, were camped on an island some distance farther up the lake. A. W. C. [TO BE CONCLUDED. ] The Real and the Fanciful. Editor Forest and Stream: We read stories of hunting and of Indians and adven- ture; they might be divided into three classes: those told from actual experience, by a participant; those told as having happened within the knowledge of the writer, either direct or through tradition, and those which are the sole product of the imagination, or manufactured There is only one publication pertaining to the woods life which naturally includes all the above subjects, which I have read, that, so far as I can see, excludes stories of the last class, and that is the Forest AND STREAM. To the person who is thoroughly familiar with the subject about which he is reading, the earmarks of a manufactured story are so disgustingly evident that all interest is lost in the reading, and a corresponding inter- est in the publication itself. Probably such stories are all right for the novice who is naturally interested in woods lore, but who knows nothing by experience of that of which he reads; but to one who has “been there” the reading of such stories is about as satisfactory as eating meat without salt. What makes them fall so flat is the fact that so many such stories are written by persons who are not familiar with that of which they write, thus making statements which are ridiculous when read by those who know better. For instance that fine Indian story which no doubt was read with rising hair by many, but which Cabia Blanco, in January 24 number of Forest AND STREAM so mercilessly tore to pieces. Here was the man who knew all about the location and tribes of In- dians involved, and was prepared to say unhesitatingly that it was without foundation in fact. It may be a pity to spoil a good story which has been carefully written and put together, but to me it is not only amusing but gratifying to see such stories torn to pieces. It also seems a pity that so many thousands of true stories of adventure remain untold, while so many thousands of fictitious stories are thrust upon the people. When a boy I was very fond of reading a certain very popular paper which always contained at least one story of adventure, because I supposed them to be all true, of course. As I got experience and became familiar with the habits of wild animal life, it disgusted me to read the same paper, for not only some, but all, of the stories of adventure were simply products of the imagination of someone who was paid for writing that which never occurred, Fiction is all right in its place, but there are too many good true stories pertaining to the wild woods and plains which are yet untold to bore lovers of such literature with the rank manufactured stuff. The remi- -are inclined as I am). niscénées of Cabia Blanco which Appear from time to time in Forest AND STREAM are all treasures of history which will be preserved in my family and read by many ~ generations to come (that is, if the future generations I Many other of the “old timers” give occasional glimpses into their past lives, and thereby gladden the hearts of some of us who are younger and who wish we had been-born sooner. We often read of the hunts which were taken “behind the writing desk,” where the would-be. hunter “heard a noise as of some animal moving about and presently a deer walked out in sight.” Anyone who has been much among deer knows that all you can hear of their move- ments when they are walking about undisturbed would not unduly startle the listener, or disturb the peaceful silence of the woods; in fact, I have watched very many deer as they have moved about in their natural way, when not startled, and have watched some at very close quar- ters, and I never yet “heard a deer walk;” in fact, I do not know that J ever heard a sound of any kind made by a deer while it was moving about in its natural way. They come as near to being noiseless in their movements as is possible for any animal of tle size. A friend of mine with whom I used to hunt, always called them ghosts, for, he said, they seemed i9flfe like spirits than solid matter of flesh and blood: Suddenly, unexpectedly and noiselessly appearing in plain sight, and then just as mysteriously disappearing, phantom-like, without a sound. One of the peculiarities of their manner of walking is the way in which they lift their feet; lifting them very high with that peculiar quick jerk which reminds one of a string-halt horse, but lowering them slowly and cau- tiously; thus, with their sharp-pointed hoofs, making it nearly impossible for the slightest noise to be made by walking: and yet the manufacturer of hunting stories will insist on their making a noise in moving about in the woods something like domestic cattle, we would imagine. When studying wild life, the effect of environment is most interesting to observe: notice the deer, for instance, in a park; owing to their surroundings there is no need for their exercising the caution and watchfulness ‘natural to their kind, and after a time they lose, to some extent, some of the characteristics which are the most interesting in their wild state. Deer which have’been born in parks, and have never known the necessity of self-preservation by watchfulness, stealthy movement, etc., could readily be detected from a wild deer by a close observer who is familiar with them in their wild state, in their manner of movement. Man with his present environment can and does allow some of the faculties to become dormant, which, in the old pioneer of long ago, were kept active and acute, be- cause upon them depended his safety, his support, and, in fact, his very existence. His surroundings were such that it was important that he should not relax his vigilance for the shortest time, and so trained did his ‘faculties be- come through necessity that even while he slept the least suspicious sound would arouse him. So when he went to the woods in search of meat, no matter how many hours or even days he might continue the search, not one care- less step was taken, and he did not for an instant relax his watchfiulness, because his very existence depended upon the keenness of his eyes and ears, and the constant necessity of it made it a part of his nature, which he exer- cised unconsciously. In these times a man will go out to hunt and perhaps for a few Lours will exercise caution in walking and vigilance in watching, but after a while he gets tired and discouraged, and the first thing he knows lie is plodding along as if he was following a plow, in a meditative mood, with his mind on something entirely foreign to the object of his search. So the person of to- day who leaves his business for a few days in the year io go hunting might be compared with the old pioneer of Indian days, as to constant watchfulness and vigilance in the woods, about the same as park deer could be com- pared with a wild deer in its exercise of the senses used in seli-preservation. I have spent hours, which, if they were all added to- gether, would probably amount to many days, watching wild game, especially deer, and I never yet saw one which seemed to be off its guard for even an instant, but every sense seems to be strung to its highest tension at all times, and they look and act at all times as if expecting danger every minute. Once while trailing a bunch of deer on snow, I- saw through some thick bushes a dark object which looked something like a deer lying down in the snow, but minus the head and neck sticking up, as I naturally expected to see. Walking a few steps to one side to see past the bushes, I got a fair view of it, and saw it to be a deer lying down with its head laid back on its body. Just as I was bringing my rifle to my face to shoot, a red squirrel near by ran up a tree with that fierce chattering noise made by them when disturbed. The deer, no doubt accustomed to accepting “tips” of ap- proaching danger from its small neighbors of the forest, instantly raised its head and looked about in a startled way, but as I already had my aim on it, the warning was too late, and at the crack of the rifle it sprang up, ran a few rods and fell dead. So it is with them at all times: not the least intimation of danger from any source is disregarded by them, even though many of them may live for years without encountering danger, yet it does not tend to make them careless. When a bunch of deer have been scattered, and especially when one of them has been killed, some of them are nearly sure to come back to the same place in a short time to hunt for the missing one, and even if none have been killed they come back that they may get together again. Knowing this fact, and being in need of another one at that time, I dressed the one I killed and, as it was then noon, I went off a few rods and sat down on a log in a thick clump of bushes to eat my lunch, all the time keeping a sharp lookout for any returning deer. Just as I was ready to begin to eat, I saw one coming back, and when it got in a spot just where I wanted it, it stopped, and without moving from my seat I reached for my rifle and killed it. As I went home I saw and shot the heads off two mountain grouse, thus getting two fine deer and two grouse with four shots and got home at two o’clock. I did not realize it at the time, but as it has proven, this was the last hunt I ever had while living im the grand old Rockies, but it was a most pleasant one with which to wind up my woods life. Emerson CARNEY, Morcantown, W. Va. ' 3 - May 2, 10034 @latuyal History. Se Our Batra¢hians and Reptiles.—I. Amonc the many wonderful works of Dame Nature which are familiar to her true lovers, perhaps none in- spire our antipathy more and excite our curiosity less than the two classes of animals known to zoologists as batrachians and reptiles. On the part of those who have not made a scientific study of natural history, little or no distinction is made between these groups, and snakes, turtles, salamanders, lizards, toads, frogs, alligators and various other forms are all regarded as reptiles. Nor does this confusion seem strange when we consider how closely the members of the two groups resemble one an- other in outward form and habits. Indeed, it is only within comparatively recent times that zoologists have come to recognize the enormous difference between them and have universally agreed to regard the salamandets, toads and frogs as fundamentally different from the alli- gators, lizards, sne‘-s and turtles. To the first group they have given the name Batrachia or Amphibia (Batrachia from *’. Greek word meaning a frog, Am- phibia from two Greck words signifying both and life in reference to their amphibious habits), and to the second the name Reptilia, : : It is the aim of the author in this paper to present, in the simplest manner possible, the differences between batrachians and reptiles, and to give some idea of the kinds of animals embraced in each. In a number of later articles the classification will be followed further and an account will be given of certain typical species to illus- trate the life histories and habits of these extremely in- teresting but much neglected forms. In the case of every species of either batrachian or reptile much is to be learned, and only those whose excursions into natures haunts bring them into actual contact with these animals can tell the scientist that which is so important for him tc know, and it is hoped that the readers of ForEsT AND STREAM will be stimulated to contribute to this ever- growing stock of knowledge. - mh. ‘ The batrachians differ from the reptiles 1n several im- portant respects. The skin of the former 1s usually smooth and moist, sometimes raised into warts, as in the common toad, but never covered with overlapping scales or regular plates. Scales or plates, such as are seen on snakes, lizards and turtles, are almost universal among the reptiles, the only notable exception among American species being in the case of the soft-shelled turtles. The soft skin of the batrachians is usually provided with glands, which supply an abundance of mucus, giving fhese animals a slimy covering, but in the reptiles such. . ‘glands are not developed, and, except when wet with water, their skin is smooth, firm, and dry. The common expression, “a slimy reptile,’ is, therefore, without zoolégical foundation. . The life history of the members of the two groups 1s also very different. The batrachians almost always lay their eggs in the water, and the young spend the early days of their existence as tadpoles. At this period breathing is carried on by means of gills and in appear- ance .and habits they are decidedly fish-like; legs are en- tirely absent or represented by the merest rudiments, and they swim about by means of their broad oar-like tails. After a time, usually a few days or weeks, their anatomy undergoes certain changes by which they come to resem- ble more closely the air breathing animals: legs are de- veloped, the gills become much reduced in importance, and respiration is carried on in part, if not wholly, by means of lungs, except in the case of some of our com- mon salamanders, which, after losing their gills, fail to develop lungs and apparently must extract their supply of oxygen from air which they take into their stomachs or by absorbing it through their skin, A few batrachians retain their gills life-long, breathing both by means of these and their lungs. : Pie Batrachians, therefore, begin their lives as water- breathing animals and must pass through a metamor- phosis before they are able to live on land. Reptiles, on the contrary, are born alive or hatch from eggs which have been laid on land, and in either case do not pass through a metamorphosis, since at the moment of their coming into existence they have the general form of the adults. Gills are never developed, and irom the beginning their respiration is carried on by means of lungs, as in the birds and mammals, hut is much less active. h Beside these differences, which are for the most part external and apparent to anyone, there are a number of internal differences which show conclusively that ibatrachians and reptiles are not only very distinct, but that the relationship of living forms, at:least, is very re- mote. The reptiles, by almost every point in their struc- ture, show a close relationship to the birds, while the batrachians are more closely related to the fishes, and to a certain extent seem to establish a transitional link be- tween that group and the reptiles. _ Both groups are very old, having appeared upon the earth in the latter part of the paleozoic epoch, or, more strictly speaking, during the carboniferous period. Dur- ing this time and the following two or three geological periods they flourished greatly, increasing both in num- ber of species and individuals, and soon came to occupy the most important station among the animals of those ancient times. An examination of rock beds in various parts of the world has brought to light a large quantity oi the remains of batrachians which in some cases were very much like our common salamanders in size and shape. Others were long, slender and snake-like, and still others, known as the Labyrynthodonts, were more like mammals in form, attained a length of six feet, and were protected by a thick armor of large bony plates or shields. In company with these and in other rock beds have been found ‘many remains of reptiles which differ exceedingly from those species which are in existence to-day. Some of them were as perfectly fitted for a life in the water as are our whales or seals; others stalked about on land, while still others had wings much like a bat’s, and flew about in the air. Most of them were of moderate size, but some were enormous and far exceeded any of our living reptiles. Of the forms adapted for a life in the = water, the Ichthyosaurians, some reached a length of forty feet. The Dinosaurs, which, while fitted for a life on land, were to a certain extent amphibious in habits, in some cases reached a length of over eighty feet and a bulk as great as that of a whale. Many of them were armed with great spines and bucklers of bony plate and must have been the most terrible animals of all time. The Pterodactyls, or flymg reptiles, were in most cases small, a foot or so in length, but some had a stretch of wing of twenty-five feet, and can therefore hold the palm as the largest flying animals that have ever lived. Our modern birds have undoubtedly developed from some of these flying reptiles by exchanging a coat of scales for-a coat of feathers, and becoming even more perfectly adapted for a life in the air. Our modern reptiles and batrachians came into exist- ence rather early in the history of their groups, but have had their qualities so overshadowed by their more glorious relatives and by more perfect classes of animals which later appeared that they have come to occupy a station of comparative insignificance. Of living batrachians, it is estimated that there are about 1,200 species, and, of this number, probably 120 inhabit North America exclusive of Mexico. These 120 species are divided into.two great groups or “orders”— the Caudata containing the salamanders, and the Salientia containing frogs and toads, and we may pass at once to the consideration of these: I. Salamanders, order Caudata, including all such -batrachians as retain a tail throughout life. Limbs may be altogether absent but are usually developed, and the hinder pair is never much larger or stronger than the front pair. Here belong the “mud-eels” or sirens, and the “congo snakes” of the Southern States, long, slender, eel-like batrachians with diminutive legs; the large “mud- puppies’ and “water-dogs” of more northern waters, short, stout and with well developed legs; also the forms commonly known as salamanders and newts, which are intermediate .in character and more variable in appear- ance. In fact, all American batrachians which are unlike frogs in form may be regarded as Caudata. 2. Frogs and toads, order Solientia, including such batrachians as are destitute of a tail in adult life. Two pairs of limbs are always developed and of these the hinder pair is much larger and stronger than the front pair, No one can mistake a frog or toad for anything else if a moment’s attention is given. Both orders occur in all parts of the world embraced in the tropical and temperate zones wherever fresh water is obtainable. So far as the writer is aware no species of either frog or salamander inhabits the sea or even strong- ly brackish water, and the common conceit of the artists in associating these animals with others which are typically marine is a mistake. In the great fountain in front of the new Congressional Library at Washington, Neptune is represented with his horses in a sea inhabited by sea-serpents, sea-turtles and frogs! The reptiles of the world, although far less conspicuous than in former days, are still well in evidence when it comes to making up the roll of animals. It is estimated that there are some 5,000 species in existence, and that of these, nearly 400 inhabit North America. Leaving ex- tinct reptiles out of consideration we find that zoologists divide all the living species into four orders. Of these, one, the Rhynchocephalia, is represented by only one species, a large lizard-like animal which lives about New Zealand, and need not be further mentioned. The re- maining three orders which are represented in North America are: 1. Order Crocodilia, including the crocodiles and alli- eators. 2. Order Squamata, including snakes and lizards. 3. Order Chelonia, including the turtles. The order Crocodilia includes probably the largest liv- ing reptiles, and is confined to the tropical and semi- tropical regions of the earth. By crocodiles it is repre- sented in both North and South America, in Asia and in Africa. Alligators occur only in North America and in eastern Asia. Another closely related animal known as the gavial occurs in southern Asia, and still another called the cayman lives only in Central and South Amer- ica. All these forms are aquatic in their habits, have the teeth firmly implanted in sockets in the jaws, and the bedy is protected by a thick, heavy skin which along the back bears thick bony shields. The eyes have a vertical pupil and are protected both by lids and a thin membrane (nictitating membrane), which can be drawn across the: eyeball from front to back. In the structure of the soft parts of their anatomy they present the highest type among living reptiles. The order Squamata, in which most modern zoologists combine both lizards and snakes, is characterized by the possession of a covering composed of tather small over- lapping scales instead of the large, plate-like scales of the Crocodilia, or the bony, box-like shell of the turtles. Lizards usually are provided with limbs by means of which they are able to move by walking or running, but there are some lizards which do not have a vestige of such appendages and move and act altogether like snakes. One may usually recognize the lizards, however, by the fact that they have eyelids, or if this character is want- ing, by the fact that legs are present, or that the bones of the skull are firmly knitted together, This last char- acter is most evident in the lower jaw, which in lizards has the two sides immovably joined in front at the “chin,” but which in snakes are joined only by ligament, and can be moved independently of each other. In all our Ameri- can lizards the tongue is not at all or only slightly notched in front, and does not present the slender, thread- like divisions as plainly in evidence in the snakes. The snakes are to be regarded as very degenerate rela- tives of the lizards. They have entirely lost their legs, and eyelids are altogether wanting. The bones of the head, particularly those about the jaws, are to a great extent attached to oné another only by ligaments, so that a much greater range of motion is possible than in any other reptile. The deeply forked tongue has been men- tioned above: : Snakes and lizards are distributed very generally over the tropical and temperate zones of the entire world, be- ing absent only from isolated islands which they have not yet been able to reach. The story of St. Patrick’s famous campaign against the snakes of Ireland is well known, but it must be taken with a very liberal “grain of FOREST AND STREAM, salt,” for there is every teason to believe that Itéland lacked these animals from the begitining. The latgest lizards teach a length of over six feet; the smallest 1s not more than two inches long. The largest snake must be carefully disentangled from the largest snake story, for, although there are numerous reports from all parts of the tropics of snakes from fifty to eighty feet long, a, the lower jaw of «a snake; 6, the lower jaw of a lizard, Both as seen from above, In a are shown the quadrate bones, by means of which the snake’s jaw is able to move back and forth. the largest one which has been actually measured was less than thirty feet in length. A third of this leneth— or at most a half—would cover any species found within the United States. The last order of reptiles*the Chelonia, or turtles— is too well known to require a definition or detailed description, Their form alone is characteristic, They are common inhabitants of forests, swamps, streams, lakes, and seas in all the warmer parts of the earth, and although they represent an order which has passed its prime, they still exist in numerous species. The largest ones are the great sea turtles, known as leather-backs, _ which attain a length of nearly seven feet and a weight of over half a ton. Among the land-inhabiting forms some of the species from the Galapagos Islands reach a length of about four feet, Among American species the alligator-snapper of the Southern swamps and streams is the largest, attaining a length of five feet, while the common “skill-pot” (Kinosternon penusylvanicum), is the smallest, being usually less than five inches long. With this introduction, we are now ready to look more carefully into the characteristics of some of our common species, description of which will be given in the follow- ing papers. W. P. Hay. Real and Sham Natural History. Editor Forest and Streant: That John Burroughs sees fit to disbelieve statements which other men have made in regard to nature is a matter of some moment to a good many men and women who enjoy reading about woods life and the life of the fields. To those who are just beginning to observe in themselves inclinations to tiitn toward na- ture as a study and recreation, it must come as some- thing of a blow against the inclination to have so noted a man come forward to say that animals are moved by instinct alone, and know by instinct how to do everything of the wonders they do perform in the. way of home-building and eluding enemies. There are minds that prefer mathematics, but history is far more _ interesting. With those who have already begun to observe birds or animals, the statement that true rea- son is not possessed by any of the “little brothers of the air,” will quicken the perception, but to those not yet started, it must prove ardor-dampening, Probably the last man in the nation to desire to check the growth of natural history observation would be Mr. Burroughs. His own fame rests on the. fact that he has seen more in the fields than other men previous to or of his day. Other men, with his books in hand, can now go into the meadows and along the streams among the alder bushes and with quickened eyes see what Mr. Burroughs says to lool for, and see other things unseen by their teacher, their eyes being clearer for the cobwebs brushed away by their precurser and trail blazer. ope In “Signs and Seasons” Mr. Burroughs says: ‘One secret of success. in observing nature is capacity to take a hint; a hair may show where a lion is hid.” Still-hunters of deer know that this is true. In having a direct object in view, hunters necessarily learn more - about their craft than mere dabblers, who wander afield and pick up forty facts about forty birds, flowers and insects, no two of them related. The hunter's knowledge is something more than-a collection of trinkets, It is a means to an end, and embraces the “capacity to take a hint,” one goes into the observation of nature with no object in view, it is ninety-nine chances to a hundred that he will drop out of the practice. His mind simply won't take the food offered—he must turn to collecting’ postage stamps, or uncut editions, But instinct will turn a man to nature—so with Mr. Burroughs, His mind needed facts about the field life—it would digest that sort of material along with the rest that it assimi- lated, so he became, of necessity, a great naturalist. And he observed many curious things, for his mind was built that way. Among others: “The jays, per- haps, had a tougher time during the winter than the _ crows, because they do not eat fish or flesh, -but de- pend mainly upon nuts.’ 50.) Now I never saw a blue jay eat a nut in my life, but only this winter I killed more than six that were. eating a dead cat I had hung up on a sapling three rods from the lumber camp, where I was a watchman for two months. We call blue jays, butcher birds (shrikes), ruffed grouse, and other birds that eat meat and rob traps, “meat hawks.” This is only to show that the instinct of my mind was to sce blue jays eat meat, and that Mr. Burroughs was different, as might be expected. j - o Now here is a statement from page 56 Of the same (Signs and Seasons,” page [May 2, 1003. 346 FOREST AND STREAM. book: “There is one thing the red squirrel knows un- D 4 erringly that I do not (there are probably several other The Italian and the Birds. Game Bag and Gun, things), that is, on which side of the butternut the Robert O. Morris in the Springfield Republican. meat lies. He always gnaws through the shell so as _to strike the kernel broadside, and thus easily extract it; while to my eyes there is no external mark or indi- cation, in the form or appearance of the nut, as there is in the hickory nut, by which I can tell whether the edge or the side of the meat is toward me.” Eee SEP a oe aly Gk Vee es Ge iy es perc A lle ess sas oles ‘ala « eyste bs rivaeee oC AB Ube soe 195 S. 27°20 AVAL TIS S cbipars Wuliieis isrcistove rietntabade o(stes eee ; Be 25: spl 2a" 6G 13 gene SEED TIM seals li sants a apigtatg tn lalace (ale bava oe 1. ee eer MUN RRR eee ee eR ol er igots A Si> 8 Ala. ie Leominster Gun Club. Leominster, Mass.—At the shoot of the Leominster Gun Club last week the weather was cold and a high wind prevailed, the latter being so violent that the contestants could not stand steadily at the score. Under the circumstances, the scores were not at all bad. Mr. Neaf Apgar was high man. Events: 1p Ae yr Sp TTS Events: ney i ech shyt Targets: 101010101015 ‘Targets: 10 10 10 10 10 15 Apgar .4ssseees DP SEIO! 29) WEED A Rice; a tiaa wens eneea eet teee none UPPes Fees gous TT SG e ee SAVORY Ratna raed ex 6 8 6 6 Keller, Jr......- 5: fb 4 2. Conover “ise. ok . 8 8 410 Andrews vseee0e ihe tie Wh Aico oe laaubelbyeeolsSl aaa py ce Chitin. cen Tenney ...-+. 57 8 b 4 7 Beir .,-4527-0e-0 ee BB prerg) Bh Stickney ....-+, ee 8 gh SARIS aaa aon fe, cen seme Batror be: deme 465 5 6 8 Maryland Gun Club, Orancevitte, Md,, April 27.—The scores below are those made by the Maryland Gun Club, April 25: Events: 123 4 #£«x24£Events: 1d Targets: 15151010 ‘Targets: 15 15 10 10 Steever ....- veceeseee L041 7% 7 Shackeltord .........5 8 (Gah tae BANC Peek osgn 1111 8 8 W Bond ......... Br aU tee 3 Hughes ...-ccrsereees 1002.34. Diffedater Sari... ripe ee ewe thse ACKSON .-.seeee veeee 141210 9 Hodson ......--.+5.+ Sires ae es Se tek ait 15141010 List ....cssssecescues eli Pe as Smith ..+..-- ae AF) dU ae act Evins ge Berean Bee ihe: Lynch vieveyereeerery OU, -- UdSON eeveeeceeese rien St as teats. Hartner. IN NEW JERSEY. Hudson County Consumers’ Club, The Hudson County Consumers’ Gun. Club held a club shoot last week, at which three events were shot, a club event and two team contests. The scores follow: Moehler: - 8.864 cge 1O11101122— 8 aspe ............4. 021102021— 7 Bergman .......+.; 1100211202— 7 Bierner ............ 1021101001— 6 IBAgSGs "oper esd peste 0122210021— 7 Barbiri ............. 1012202212— 8 LECH EI averaatceeed 1011201221— 8 Intermann ......... 1111121111—10 Havenstein ...+..., 1102210201— 7 Woehlib ............ 21021.22221— 9 Event 2, team shoot, captains, Intermann and Woehlib: Intermann .,,....... 2210—4 MSS Ltawelafatm macs arco Sao 12201—4 Havenstein .......... 21222—5 IBietiver lengracanntacd 10022—2 Barbiri .-.0. 72-00: 12211—5 0 Bile r Wiis hahaa ncn 12201—4 wLeCker et iet vie anume 1220—3 EEABPE. Heiheasocantocete 10012—3 IBdase- .4 asap den esaees 10220—3—20 Bergman ............. 11202—4—18 Event 3, team shoot: Werte yesh leek neon 202—4 sbriteriniatitin 1 soe ae 11211—5 IsGehler Coaiseeetprsee 211225 Havenstei ...2...052 10221—4 lakiggese My eee 022013 IBAGHITe Seo eeeae 12220—4 ELAR Gehl staate ee sttee te 22010—3 Stecker ....... -01022—8 Bergmarfi oct ayes 21022449 Baase .........5, . » -12201—4—20 North River Gun Club. Edgewater, N. J., April 25—There were thirteen eyents shot at the weekly gathering of the North River Gun Club to-day. The weather was pleasant. Mr. S. Glover broke 25 straight in the 25- target event, which was about the best shooting of the afternoon competition. The scores follow: Events: 12 346 6 7 8 9 101 13-18 Targets: 15 10 10:10 10 10 10 25 10 10 10 10 5p DECI OTE asteyts ss 4c0p ace BS mee 166) Ss86 950s Bob 7 Oo b's ti ASLO Olen seiedes atid stefan snesteires LSTA ay RLU Pee Rep! San pete U8 ULC He Pa. ua cue ceeds stt)7 sais see the te Ee iis gules, eee sl AVEGTEISON Wn. cps eater es cradles tere ene Sem) KAmUGY Aaa Gy S64 aD WOSSEI Mat 0. os wassen sass cer es sae FicN wird. “One see ren gel. Harland Dem Wait Se IIe Ao od tag AMM SOTia gas pets (hus rem omens: Ae ks a LS chee I) pet eles Pie Schneider .... See STON IR io cores aS) “Seno NEGO PL bee ee eres Rel ME ett nee. eC tt Ye Schneiders re-Entryans heb iat cask ben ween ty 7 919 7 Emerald Gun Club, Newark, N. J., April 21—The Emerald Gun Club held its April shoot on Smith Brothers’ grounds to-day, with eighteen contestants participating. The day was pleasant. The birds were a fair lot. A pleasing feature of the meeting was the presence of Mr. W. Sands, who had been absent in Jacksonville, Fla., since Decem- ber, 1902, He was much improved in health. The scores follow: Points. Yards. TA PSE OEE Sy SSeS Seca Ror arcaen 6 25 1121110111— 7 OF GA TS Ot ig eee cca eet serena ae 7 28 011211 *111— 8 S[slekea he BS SBEe Aros As obs HOA Sat os coach 7 33 2020222020— 6 A CAS SCHGVErlitt pe npcdsociaciiacte cee eel « 7 30 *292.002022— 6 W Corbett ..... ne 6 25 002*222211— 7 Ja Celentvan.cnasees 6 26 1211210211— 9 M Rierson .........-++. 7 28 2222122012— 9 TeStrort weasels aes cee 7 28 %222110220— 9 PDH EM cihetaaetet atest ateyela ote lem eee 646 28 2022211101— 8 WOVWiGhtemben 1. tetas sciteists ataaleleoelt oh 6 28 0200010000— 2 EW Va Weulciiti omnes celeron aie cen ele 7 30 2222000222— 7 WViSEIASSINIDVGT: | clei sicwmscseirnrers cule eran rive rel 30 *212221001— 7 N[PHASGHEI mn tA hte es baissiech npc cccencscstcrays 7 28 00*1222111—- \ NVUR SATIS rae eek oh hele peezisters cere ait a el 64 28 2221110222-— 9 PINAY ae esha sees noth cece conceal 6 28 2220202202— 7 Wii Gatton she cette ese miceks cei tisnneitrcy 6 28 0210121011— 7 12 UAW SDT Ay a iedattiadddesto cn dandy ae asprod 6 28 0000120221— 5 1G AB IRWelS eer ata igbtoddednoqouanus sae ds 6 28 2200220120— 6 New York German Gun Club, Carlstadt, N. J., April 22—The New York German Gun Club held its shoot on Outwater’s grounds, with a good attendance, twenty-five contesting. The club event was at 10 birds, but it was unfinished owing to the insufficient number of birds on hand, owing to the failure of birds to arrive as per contract, much tv Mr. Outwater’s disappointment. The scores will be shot up at the next regular shoot. ‘This event was the postponed club event from April 15. The scores, 10 birds, distance handicap, unfinished event: J H Wellbrock, 29..2102221241—8 P Albert, 28......... 02011 Von Kattengill, 30..10122 Te TR AG Glee oremie = 21111 H Mestoh, 28....... 02010 UR Selewvaror steerse 21002 Dr Hudson, 28...... 02111 EE Seo bier cence a slates 11001 R Baudendistel, 28..21001 P Dannefelser, 28.11221 Schlicht, 28....... 11201 *— A Meckel, 28....2111 H Cowe, 28....... 02022 RC. Wariver 25iis,os~ 2102 WR GATS s eos caste 11121 C F Lenone, 28..... 1201 L T Meunch, 28....00221 *E Heppe, 28.,..... 1021 POONA eo csepa su isttes 11110 *C Saldarini, 28..... 2222, E Steffens, 28....... 20121 *Judge, 28.......5 ,» «2102 J H_ Block, 28...... 00021 * Guests. Franklin Gun Club, Franklin Furnace, N. J., April 26.—The target shoot of the Franklin Furnace Gun Club resulted as follows in the 10target event: Suthren 6, C. Ramage 6, Right 7, F. Ramage 0, Kispaugh 3, Williams 6, Right 3, Pope 2, Stephens 6. South Side Gun Club. Newark, N. J., April 25.—At the South Side Gun Club’s shoot to-day sweepstakes were shot as follows: Events: 1, egeet= Deo Events: he cd se 45 Targets 25 25 25 25 25 25 Targets: 25 25 25 25 25 25 Garduen ".ssa2e9 DRS RA eAL Ge ohaheehs bare eth py ob 2D) wp ole Guenther ....-- 91 20 211917 .. Fiegenspan .... 16 22 23 21 20 PiGrCy “ssceseess 91 2291 94 ., 28 Hungerford ..2. 161017... . Garlough .-2..; 20 2019 17 21 21 Butler ......... .. tast Mesh lady He Marshall .....-. 2902018 .. ... Mockridge 10 18 15 15 13 nce. puss DOP. Bee Te28F eleinischl i yseusssane oe ore 21 21 19 (Gxtintiie sass WAPI eR NA Pehrelrartehe, Rens Be ai ee Safe oer tn Wishoyne Gun Club, Orange, N. J., April 25.—Three events at 25 targets each were shot at the Nishoyne Gun Club’s matinee to-day: ub Events: ah ya} PAC VAAL AW Mabe ciel rere copra oe de ee A HASIG MRR ATION, psecne st ees caer e ei 14 Keystone Shooting League. Hotmessure Junction, Pa., April 25—The main event of the Keystone Shooting League’s competition to-day was the match between Mr. A. Felix and A. J. Miller. The club events were shot first, the first being the club handicap at 10 birds, in which Fitchgeraid and Geikler made straight scores. , ; The scores of the handicap shoot for club cups, 10 live birds, handicap rise, follow: Geikler 10, Fitzgerald 10, 1. W. Budd 9, Rothacker 9, Davis 9, Harrison 9, Thomas 8, Sanford 8, Winches- ter 7. § Shoot for officers’ trophy, 15 birds, 28yds. rise: Harrison 15, I. W. Budd 14, Geikler 14, Fitzgerald 14, Miller 14, Rothacker 14. Match, 100 birds, 30yds. rise: lb eahantces) telok, Neots 2202222229222002011200222—19 = J a 2012221222230222220222222—22 22.929.92999292)2020221 2222 22 92999992()222)222201 22222922 85 i SPP ie sateen lies eae rie 0222222222229292022200222—21 AAT DEERE Sa 2,9292929.29.1 9902292922999 94 0221222202222922022022202—20 2999992999991 2222992992 93 —88 92,—On the grounds of the Keystone Shooting League A. J. Miller shot a match at 100 finishing strong with a run of 34 -2122299222222091292220222—25 2222022200202022222222220—19 22:22.022222922020292229222 22 22.2,999999992229992292202 25 —91 .0202222220202222202229210—19 2202220222922222022220221—23 2222202220222222202222222—22 202200222002222202222200—17—81 April ( to-day, Messrs. A. Felix and live hades Felix won easily, straight. The scores: Ao Felix: A./-ssse5 eee ec tewesoresszecoe . AJ Miller. ....seeccccseeeeessecances (May 2, 1003. ON LONG ISLAND. ——= Brooklyn Gun Club, Brooklyn, L. 1, April 25.—At the shoot of the Brooklyn Gun Club to-day there was a good gathering, favored by pleasant weather, Mr. John S. Wright was in good form, and was high average in the programme events in their entirety. There were thirteen contestants, a Jucky number, all evidence to the con- trary notwithstanding. These shoots have a steady support, are convenient to reach by Kings County Elevated Rk. R. ll in- by Mr. Wright, : oa formation pertaining to them will be furnished 318 Broadway. The scores: Events: De, at 368 7 8. a Able Targets 10 15 10 10 5p 10 15 15 10 25 10 COMTS IS reentry ca ache ee GO Dom by NG NNT oe eee seas HOYOS eh ae ae Te ede “13 10 9 10 10 12 13 10 .. $ ESTChCSrk enurcr en) ALen A Ge BOS eG LOR L0 Soe yi SUSI det ne Horemeee an Mares FA a, OE as ie aoe eer eee Cheeseborough ............ GB Berle abe 74S Tb Ueese 5 Z Astor caeedamansddten Aan SDE WBE EG pS} AS ee) Bee TEE ois. Lanne ite Gf Soa 8D. OW, Gob eee EiGatlone wae cae eat eee v by «SG! Go GROG) SSeS a: ee: PTE Ig yates rargtstateiy aia ali at Se Oh Ot Wy Te 9 Soe aS Gels Klepetko, Jr y 3 7 eh Ros ors AA oben SAAR AS Aaa i. i. Gp “Soe Deals aay Mohrman .,..5... aes BG. 9) Col ir SCH anid to = wage UF ps Sees eth Ee Club, Brooklyn, L. 1., April 27.—The scores made at the Fulton Gun Club’s shoot to-day are appended. The weather was pleasant, the attendance good, and the meeting enjoyable. The medal shoot was won by Mr. Hearne, The scores: Events: Neca AY Dee Targets: 15 15 25 15 15 25 1b Goetter, Bite rcnsmare rescind yer see eee 9 11 14 12 11 14 Il (Davis: Dane cae e eee en oe, ASSN ENE Se eee ay RUB? Ge elie Ee a} Staples. “HeRRe ese yt Solos Sea ah SoS Aes As eS Se. See he is Pearsall: olitedaateces te athe AR Bort 4 3 10 4 yee ye Jeleehs aes pee bok nn roe hey, Mba chee pe AZeae los —9 pine Hic Giller oe ee eer naar eta ee asi eea tate e (0 Bi iby yf 17 Péarsall’ .) ARMA reasttelsten poncrstme Omen hee rien SUIS TT oy Pe Ba Miers; 10358 eanescmeeent aida ete eaay tae (FUR ns er 9 Vidite Dynes os sseoeasese tes Drateeeeeee we ees de OP ole eee Se sd ysiet yeh maples Met mr eee 0: VLG 823) Oe Sens eae HBB UOME eee Dette cheAAP SESE Nctecp Porat we Si 48 167 10 16S Te GHNEIEIsce re pasties Daca eee ne ener eT eras 8 eee 3h (VAPOUR Rc meet attas mht ors ene ere it) ebenlse 39 15 ELOPSitis! (Conair ba tere er tone ene aery aah a gee, Ee ee gl ar Hlopkans, Jirtccsswaseece ee Reo ee eect 2 27 5 ek Lee BGOHGWItZA Sige eoies ce edad tinea eects eet | eee =e vies Chal egress denen mee se EOE: 7 10 . SCHNEIDER, Sec’y, Worcester Sportsman’s Club, Worcester, Mass., April 20.—We had a very good crowd for our first shoot. Lunch was served at the grounds. A pleasant feature of the day was the number of ladies present. We have another tournament May 30. All clubs invited. Events: 12345 67 § 9104112 Targets 15 15 25 15 10 10 15 25 10 15 10 25 IDI soe cent sbobisdtsbps oor Pr: GIL 9 8 7 1sgt6 840 516 \QVSTU ESAS! oe el oceania poe 12 11 2213 9 9 619 611 816 NCO reba tal ee ee neter necrosis oe nue 121T 412813) Coe 1S: DO SELS De en ee UE EAN ESTE anh orcad piers outa felasgleteip aig cateee Peas test 24S tO Sie Sel nal Oe reac Je ab bo Merde como nrirr eo HED Orne 12.13 2112 .. .. 1418 610 5 21 Bonner .... Lid bts She ae mee ers Ae Vinton ... OP ee OF dele Wilson bes Gai CHen by ineacees chee eee eee . 817 410 413 Wiley: SA ced eaten mae te eee Soi a fas NUTEY le Ae Weer Sie We, eke Ae ye W PL eh tie ons ey Orie Fk: alee Warden) icf tiny Sonor Rs ere 91314 9 6 71016 312 512 Sie ee a aes geet Se On ee eae Wwe CW eae oot deecr ki diiicc fel oe 1910 7 4 913 410 618 MATTE! S! suc neh eee eee tee eee ene mee 129) SOO eRe aes teeeetee PHU ere tas ii ces shames eeasseaase, 29 34.98) weal oe 1031-4 °9..04 AATTOTIG. 0 tas.. utrasiyo eerie teas ana ere eee GONE TENT ae 6c IGEN ls Be ww arrriner aansesoocdboretroarh siete ck dr (he PET eek fal (Rarer ll 7 Mes pn viene lls Petee ict antes atta ee neice Uma camer aiests meets 15 Saas Stanleyy 2a ov. sentiee thaths greacnte 8181513 4 8 617 5°9 419 AYefeler hh asa ddeohe kxsoater as a Wea Zia Semen Seg BER, Stone ..... Enec gee 62: Cape areeee OSA ee FO mes apie dts Waschester .. Sots atten suai cee aes 8 o oils At. Becleers 2aia ci. Suceree minster years cae eee as ke 9 Nc OL Saelipst Becker) Jatt. sC0R ae eal ali eke eet. ot 6 2 1 Kare ye Sk os Ae eae teeter iatnis 7 b.. 4 aa Piggy 05.30 get tret te iene eas eee 8 .. z a3 Sinithy Ue nakeageacsigte a ee alae emer Ongeres Nord Wralls |. ORO WEe ie tren tmerietre cleave oer pie Cini me nmr anemia ti TE aKage LOD hase Tae co creer eeraene testes 8 11 13 ‘ ey pee Schenectady Gun Club, ScuEenectapy, N, Y., April 27.—I send you a clipping from the Schenectady Gazette, giving an account of the spring tournament of the Schenectady Gun Club, which is correct: The match that has been going on for the last seyen weeks, from March 14 to April 25, inclusive, among the members of the Schenectady Gun Club, came to an end last Saturday afternoon. The prize winners are headed by one of the youngest and most enthusiastic members, H. J. Borden, who smashed 99 out of a possible 100 targets, leading the veteran Livingston by one target. The conditions of the match were to test the skill of the shooters during the windy, stormy and disagreeable weather of early spring, when the worst conditions for the trapshooter invariably prevail. The match was intended to give the shooters the problem of get- ting 25 successive breaks in one event in any four of the seven successive Saturday afternoons. . There were fourteen entries for the match, seven of whom fin- ished and seven withdrew. There were four prize cups awarded to the four high guns, who were as follows: H, J. Borden, first, with 99 breaks; H. M. Ley- engston, Jr., second, with 98 breaks; H. E. Greene, third, with 97 breaks; S. K. Warnick, fourth, with 97 breaks, The full score of those who shot during the month is as follows: Events: 123) 4b 6 pabotal Targets: 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 Broke. H J Borden ZI Bri Sane 3) 99 HeOM «CLevengston, Jr ne Boe ee 98 H E Greene Pate 97 S K Warnick see snot eRe 97 OMA dant see: cceea rae RE A anal 96 C A Arnold Pal weno 87 V Wallburg 20 23 87 Each event was shot on a different date as follows: No. 1 March 14; No. 2, March 21; No. 3, March 28; No. 4, April 4: No. 5, April 11; No. 6, April 18; No. 7, April 25. : VALENTINE WALLBURG, Capt. Poughkeepsie Gun Club. Poucuxeepsiz, N. Y., April 25.—The weekly shoot of this club, held to-day, was fayored by fine weather and a good attendance, including two new members, Mr. Bissing and Mr. Klein, to-day being Mr. Klein’s first experience at the game, The principal event to-day was No. 6, for the Marshall handicap trophy, which was won by Mr. M. F. Hoctor, who, with his handicap, made a straight score. To-day is probably the last Saturday on which this club will hold their weekly shoot, as there is a special meet- ing scheduled for Wednesday evening, the 29th, at which time it is expected that the day for regular shoots will be changed to Thursday. ‘ ' We have just put in a set of two ground traps for field prac- tice, which were used to-day for the first time, and over which the boys had considerable fun, as well as good practice. Events dpe 2 ea 4 bert nie Se eeohot Targets 10 10 5 15 15 25 25 1 at. Broke. eerste eon ee eee itl a eee e fete) Te & tee ie ee We Wore 50 38 Wrinatisy 2, 020k Siecemesers eres 6 7 4.. 121916 90 56 Spencer. .eeee: te kee era ey iets Eee Ar 45 33 Tt mises Gates ee ietncpnieee wee pe Par te, AOL a entsin (i 15 53 ENGL Te Se ge noel asa NOR ek. 5 eet ees oe ee a 50 38 Marshall, 6 5..<.<<-+-++00ceure feb roars ie sO 7 Uh 59 Se RleitisUs aa eicy eer dertateustis ee aaa eeees T See 25 8 APS sitter WR AAR Renelogce fees a eek gh 12s SA bees 75 50 er seas iy ces ie ay a ee ee hig 15 47 RE at see ay ee, 25 13 SNANIWEH, ‘Smith, 8 Briggs, 40...+. * Shot along. eeeererepueere = May 2, 1903.] FOREST>AND STREAM. 359 Olean Gun Club Tournament. Oxeay, N._Y.; April 23.—The fourth annual tournament of the Oleari Gut Club was held here at the Jetsey Fatm_ Association grounds, April 21 and 22, under very unfavorable conditions; whic in a measure account for the rather smal] scotes made. A cold raw wind sent the targets high and wild for the first oe and the second day the wind was not so high; but weather cold and rainy, makin& shooting difficult and yery unpleasant. The 4t- tendance was good, considering all things: The targets were thrown from a magautrap with almost perfect satisfaction, hatdly a dozen targets being broken out of the 7,000 thrown: f Shooters from Kochester, Buffalo, East Aurota, Randolph, Warren, Kane, Bolivar and Wellsville attended. y The trade was represented by Forest H. Conover, Geo. R. Gini and W, B. Lyons. ‘hese gentlemen aided the management im- mensely in condueting the shoot, and made many friends, who wish to see them in future tournaments here. The programme had a total of 190 shots each day. The first day L. V, Byer, of Rochester, won high average, and B. D. Nobles of Olean, and Harry M. Stewart, of Rochester, tied for secon high average. The second day F. D. Kelsey, of East Aurora, won high average, and B. D. Nobles, of Olean, won second high average. ‘The high average for the two days was won by B, D. Nobles, who broke 305 out of 380 targets from the 20yd. mark. Taking everything into consideration, the shoot was a success, and all the boys had a good time, and we wish to see them all again, First Day, April 21, Events 123 45 6 7 8 9 1011 12 Shot Targets 10 15 15 15 2015101515 201525 at. Broke BV Chae Ome pn eee, DIOS 130 IS 418 120 190 143 Stewart, 21........: 81013141612 6 711181418 190 147 Nobles; 205. ce. 611 1012-1612 6 11 12 17 13 21 190 147 Crandall, 18,.-...<. 51813 13 15121011 8 1413 18 190 145 Daniels, 16,........ 6 9 7141514 7121516 921 190 145 Miller, 18.....-. was 413321415138 9 910151218 ~190 144 Vaughan, 18.0... 7 9141517129 9 8331018 190 41 Cutting, 18..u...-5 31112101718 6 13 11 14 12 19 190 141 Mason, 1i..... , Sllil Mm 4 9 592 7 1b 13-19 190 135 Kelsey, 18... § 6101215 8 Gil 9141119 190 120 Conover, 1S.. » 61010111311 7 910181119 190 130 Waldron, 14, » 56 510 915 9 §$1011151217 190 126 Farnum, 16 . 8 Vise ta eA see 1908 26 Stohr, 16... . 6 61211 14 5613 $14 819 190 125 LE ene Fotis 8 6.7 B10 G46 190 Td Zi erman, 14,. 7 “ ! eae 6 811 9 $ 8 310 4121017 190 107 7 &$i1 714 ERSTE nae ty ae 115 67 Coes eae tae man, 6 TL 1 i En 5 Soca oa es te ae on 1293 7 13 14 16, 14 23 135 1 Fields, 16.. OS aE bean SSG aStseh Ball aes 90 IDlovaber sty eS yeetee Aen eee et eta ay aa a: Slab er 65 20 Tullar, 14....... re th er sine acl ; 55 17 Rivenbure, 1UGtsics: as -. 4s 910. 55 40 Barnes, 14 .ccceecee ane ayes 3 40 27 Malony, 14 ah, 45 40 15 Ciara ate tet sect al ie 40 17 Dougherty, i6,,.... 9 78 40 26 Nichols, 1 59 25 18 (Reyzhuel, aleereyseoee eb raoeet oo Ans 15 13 Wertman, 14......., 6.., eS Zb 13 etzgar, 14........ Sie oo Le 15 10 yee oy tag teed twa tiie is Rin Rae ae Tae ae ede nee at erga! STE 3 Second Day, April 22, 12345 67 8 9 1011 12 Targets: 10 15 15 15 2015101515 2015 25 at. Kelsey, 16...... woe € 141213 16 15 9 12 13.18 12 20 Nobles Die enen see 91111121813 101114181119 190 158 dete tidel, Alea ata 91411121413 8 13 11 18 11 23 190 157 Stewart, 21......... 715 3141613 91412161220 190 156 Mason, 16) ....-.... 9101213 1815 7 813181316 190 152 Conoyer, 18...-.... 513131111 9101415171418 190 160 Cutting, 18.....,.-- 1013 11 1018 10 91313161218 190 148 Miller, 16......+.-- 8 812131613 8 910131417 190 4 Byer) Be eet 7 911 61612 81318161018 190 139 Vaughan, 16....,... 81110121611 8 9 9141018 190 136 Daniels; 13... 2....5 811101116 ....11 4171121 ~ 165 120 Waldron, 14........ 7 910111918 7111213138 ., 165 125 LB ee ese be 5 7 6 915. ee dh ees HE ag 74 divtetin, Geta neoh © Chg lt (38 le Ry Sse he pele 90 41 Zimmerman, 14.... .. .. -- +. »- «. «- 1118 16 1219 90 val Miles, 14....... Lefee. Bee ay a eae piesa pony eas Es Ua eae 65 45 Fields, 16.......... ptt ne ca slop le 2 60 46 . Shattuck, 14........ Ee Nie oe er AER Rey et eee 20 8 Brunswick Gun Club. Brunswick, Me., April 24—Appended find tabulated scores of a little shoot’ held yesterday afternoon on our grounds at Merry- meeting Park. We had thirty entries, and threw 2,550 targets. A. G. Fisher, fresh from the G. A. H. at Kansas City, was con- ceded the winner before the contest opened, from the fact that he had been in constant practice for past winter at Colorado Springs. He shot finely, and did what was expected by breaking 87 per cent., and winning the trophy as champion of Bath, Brunswick and Topsham. ‘The runner-up was cx-President Webber, of ‘the home club, who has not had any practice since last August. He greatly pleased his friends by smashing 82 per cent. in fine shape. In the team race, out of a total of 250 shot at the result was: Brunswick 180, Bath 167, Topsham 187. Events: peters 2) Gr ee oO hot ‘Targets: 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 at. Broke. Ay. Fisher .....,.. Eee 710 8 § 9 8 91010 100 87 87 S Whitmore ....... 869998 8 8 8 6 100 79 79 Webber ........005 Vo e859 Sond 0es8: 1S. 100 82 82 Maxwell ........... ti oth rel heey Epesy Vee | calito) 76 76 aickacy hg? qoasesbtee $1010 6 8 78 85 & 100 75 15 Mees FAK ABBE BE Se Or Se 6 Ye oo. 96 | AOD B 73 Dunning .......... 699565 8 9 49 = 100 70 70 Toothaker ....,.... 86 7 % 6 8 8 % 6 7 100 70 70 GuTpis. Pio sats else 68 5966478 8 ° 100 67 67 Scribner 7....+-+++ 8648578 78 6 100 67 67 STGVGINE Prin se teva GopGe Decks Ss aie oo el OD 67 67 Thompson .......- Helos: bo ie tee Gs ak | et 00 66 66 ye! Oven E-UUC AMPs Dee MPT eh Rene Sen ete AULD 65 65 EL G Whitmore.,... 678 7845 8 7 4 ~ 100 64 64 NiaSOti We Nigh pluck be iey 7176588448 5 4 100 59 59 Tone * iis. LT oe OA GS Oetie sGs Gales te ue 100 58 58 G Surg ttle Apt suey BG 2 be 6 4 or 8 6-- halons 14 11°15 12 11 10 15 14 18 1h be Gea oe ee eee ae, e.. 22 14 11 43 14 138 12 18 1 1b A OCRE Ye hineoneoat Clary ene ea te 10 14 21 18 § 17 11 14 12 16 (Sohn) GAPE atcon en cu tad antesar 10 10 9 16 10 16 11 18 12 15 Deniker ..... Asner ots ae aOR 3 19 15 17 14 13 12 16 11 15 NA Glo ARS PatecScmeratares conics He) gitbealr hl ot sie eiamee aie Pe IN Gr:tlige supblpeeieaies cleats e ine eoeee «. 16 12 138 12 15 12 19 10 16 mnehirw Bare sags ads aces pee CUD mah mee ale le aspera al EAN FIaISAIIOAE Pet isteh fos eirielealy “5 pe iy gee aise ace ably alse ey als; 1 habs sa ss adaands see SER Oe ab) ie ahh Be ae : NGWSTNS ense damm ona nates 2h aieanh Ae abbeaZe ain : atihatel wee wets ea tick atecaneeeae 14 $18 10 10 12 19 12 ‘ IR AITIS Gyan pave ts og eireleesehe aeticeY 5 -« 10) 15 the oe p FS ea acsieges ies ; ee i for cissee lip al eles CEO Re oats man easaveiees eee ee 7 14 9 15 10 15 Main Spice oe evan alt pe iaeeee Pete tee tet tp eae te Uk ope ae : BER S:455) hO lines Ssaee Caan nce oe ore ce SS aera SP ae Gb alle Gilles pieirecerc wise leu scene nee nes ie ty td ee ree PE ES ES. atin ale, yle . ARSC cd sncbaHine AL . 16 12 15 13° 19 Connors pubes ce ceawes eclectic we 10 15 & I (STIL Sti eee Oe eee Re ee oleate aenlste ob A TD gt She TRAC sen rete cnn ee see cict are a 5 yaealve xiu3 ApeMeyae there cdc pastg ses Io doce Pie tence atime ce MCE NS _/.fPmer cme) a CC TATIESOID wre aig ots actos a Ger is atte Hoe he A wap esq Sha aN OEM Peo eer gi Thutsday, April 23, Events: iP, ay EG iE ie Oe att} Targets: 16 20 15 20 15 20 15 20 15 201 PSE MViallonyeenacs rae perens seb 14 18 15 16 13 20 14 19 13 18 Sy Pe VEallorya cede picstsasive phere 14 15) 12 17 13 20 1 18 13-19 Heli lotivrasnamee anenuentys 14 19 15 16 12 18 12 16 13 16 Sqilter ese sasesgicen sees 138 17 14°17 14 19 15 19 15 19 NAM CT Is eH eed terete Stee ate 12 17 14 18 14 14 13 18 14 18 ID YS avehicn ty teehee pera eee ier nba CS Jo 0 ODE SY ss bo IDS cabesse eee eres 15 18 13 19 14 17 15 19 14 17 WESSOp Mie tent en ernie ras 10 18 10 19 14 17 14 14 11 19 IDR ha irs Neer bette Tabet Se 1h. AD. Whe 69) 5. E90 4a a) es Pontefractearasc: cseaueacueienerh 14 15 10 14 14 17 12 15 12 14 HICKS MPAA Searle cra sctacttioee 14 48 13° 15 12 19 12 19 13 17 MiGpiowmenyiaadddier cceeiitcens 14 19 14 16 11 18 14 19 13 18 TCEISB VRE ent cb emcees tes islacieteisrs 12 16 11 16 13 17 15 17 12 19 dahta ens” - +o BERS SERS eor sede 15 18 12 16 13 16 18 19 12 17 [ak Zan 5. SBEe ERR BSE vw Je 17 12 16 10 8 10 20 14 15 Bessemer ....... atictal cists etateleote 11 18 14 17 138 19 15 19 11 151 ING rp hee iethv-osent> one's > etelershala'easte abe aia ath UD ile aah aie aie ik saya Fete dated ae Crna Ratan ds ae IE! ae Sie okie AB ike Gh akegileaks UNKes eyfovort h eateentee RO OMR EOS . rey ant wks sie als by abst aie aes Galera scales aaieatede es thee age ely UP ae a hie ake abl abe sepals Wea tir ose aanns Seas seena ates gE, Oty piles nivfemie ae be She Ag al Cochran’ ...... Mik cise eciecene : 14 18 14 17 9 GOnvOLS) aiendes wy widigtesiaoeae Mere : okt) idl “Gvar | Ste She wate @Clarkcans ween pishecitaresie ats Ahir Ps wc; TOS ALEE St dees A H King..... Somh poset oe so & Hr SGN Sie by ER ais Jacovy ...:.. retainer ni NaN TS ds: oe ay SEO GBs Te ail, ier Bilt. epee Wetacscrtts seaeipencpeote Sr) ft aM ey 10 5) 12" 17 CuarLes G. Gruss, Trophies Which Eelonged to Jacob Per tz. New Yorx, April 24—Editer Forest and Siream: We have in our possession the following articles owned by the jate Mr. Jacob Pentz, “Uncle Jake,” so well and favorably known to most of your readers: grand elk head, a good elk head, a good moose head, a pair of elk antlers on carved wooden head, a pastel picture of Jeaping salmon, two male mallards stuffed, hanging position, a rare hybrid duck mallard, hanging position, and a pair of eider ducks, hanging position. 7 Tt was the wish of Mr. Pentz to dispose of these articles before his death, and some of them were in our possession before he died. Several articles were sold, but the estate is now anxious to close out what there is left, and if you can assist in disposing of the articles, which can no doubt be procured for less than actual value, you will confer a fayor upon us as well as the heirs of Mr. Pentz. Any fair offer for these goods will be accepted. As Mr.. Pentz had thousands of good personal friends throughout the cotintry, I should think that some of them would be pleased to have some femembrance of Uncle Jake.” . He SSSR ASSES Nee ELST ae aR we Von Lencerxe & Dermoxn, Haverhill Gun Cleh, Havernitt, Mass., April 22.—The weather man! was exceedingly kind, as he favored us with a beautiful day for our Patriot Day tournament, April 20, and a goodiy nuniber of shotgum enthusiasts; were present. Among the number were Mr. Poweil, of Newport}, R. 1.5 Mr. Odkirk, of Concord, N. H., and Mr. Bell, of thee Howard Gun Ciub, gemiai gentlemen all,, and splendid shots: This was their first yisit to our ciub, and we shall be pleased to see them again, Of our old friends from Baston, Lynn, Lowell, Amesbury, it is the same old story, they kna’ where they are: always giadly welcomed. A glancé at the summagy will tell who) they are, and how well they shot. : ~~ Vy Our old standby Lambert was not with us in person, Wats it's al sute thing that his heart was, and many was the inq?iJij for the- old “‘war horse.” = , The day was about as neat pérfect as could be for target? Shioot- ing, and the boys made good use of it, as the summary will ‘how. In the prize handicap Climax won first, George second, and sell third. Fligh average for day, Climax, .844; Luckey, .897; Rule an Geotge, .888. In all, 5,025 targets were thrown, and an average of 784 made by the thirtysseyen shooters, some of whom had never before shot at a target. Events: 12345 6 7 ® § 1011 1273 1415 Targets: 10 15 10 15 15 10 15 10 20 201015151010 Avy. Winelsey; 20Vue a. eur 1015 81412 7141016 1h 1018 .... .. 890 Pacey 20s ee 10 1210 13 13 715 217 6 12 Be 830 UHebbard, 16.....,. &§ § §1010 713 : . 696 TB eLIRMEDG onmertcmetare 715 1013 15 7 12 anes 878 Riley 200. jereedos 6 14 10 15 14 10 14 R ie -888 iDpeaupiley Np ea 512 81412 812 cals eee 787 Glimax, 30 21.8070. 918 91415 9 14 y 5... ~944 Burton, 17... > 710 Giad4d 8 12 10 h 6&4 12 ! 817 George, 18... > S16 S1113 813 FISTS 91ST.) 888 Miler, 18.... . 9101013 18 812 91715 81914 .. 838 I rkwood, 19..,,. 1017410 14 14 613101617 814 ., .- 884 Waliam, i7 . - 812 61414 915. 71818 912 .. 2 860 oer etiat walt e eee DSU RO ale sie Olt Gs be TS iets 4 bn, 793) Soaks, NUM RA 912 61414 8712 915 181410... .. £1983 Miu'down, 16...... SOS el) SOM ieelas Foe eyes -638) edwards, Wie. EH a2" GS ss Ae Gale IEP Be. ty T38X Terre Lee ethte nts 718101812 914 81914 914.... 800) Lockwood, 16.,... 8il 7 911 812101618 9131210 8 805? Teceliye 1 Mae 1 6138 G1014 413 91414 9141310 8 185" (Golly When aoeceor er Sasa pleeria Sarg ae. 10h Galea cs. 600! Ghillie sae ie Seed ans cline i lil OMA Gel? Ia. Wh Sac, .769) Romer l8teuaens 818 91310 914101717 8 APP 3 853! Odekirk, 17....... U) dee 42) nae erates ese ee | eee VT Webster, 16....... f10 61018 813 81415 91411 9 9 115" Spofford, 18....... Si4IOT 13 S14 T1516 8.... 2... 933! Ira ialbly Wiig ar 83 515 91213 713 81615 6. Bal 1h 86" Grieves, 16.,...... 513 711138 810 $15 hs i a0) Oleots Gite ee ew nke SOA seer nn ae Aes) 480? avsiay 16h. ee ee ee aero l lence Guvaced .838! PGC ERVETIS Oi tae vi voete bane eae uee ass) OMPD MT) Cae the che 6667 Follansbee, 16. fe ent af ll) Grabipeiate aye ~ TAG Griggs, 16 11 41516 6.. 1334 Shorea MGS Re ee Ay cor, : -. 12 81718 7 .. 12 800! Folate Gade u ree stad ne Reet aT oh Sel Gee L ieee Rhee 586 * Black hittin Oc waemae ce Raat ars were ROSE oe So ee) Aye heaps 520! ivory swe atte mere se edn, Lapeer eee alee he se 720 LAE VEY on riseearenaa, tae tomer nes Mans 1a DATS wee «205 Events 1, 4, 7 and 9 regular angles; 2, 5, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14 and 15, unknown; 38, 6 and 11, reversed. Nos. 9, 10 and 11 constituted prize handicap; all other events, 16yds. S. G. MILLER. Boston Gun Club, Boston, Mass., April 22.—The third last Boston Gun Club serial prize shoot was held on their grounds at Wellington to- day, fifteen shooters participat.ng during the afternoon. Among the ever welcome visitors were Apgar, Keller and Griffiths, the former negotiating the high run of the afternoon and first posi- tion in the prize match, and the latter securing a well-earned 26 for second place in the: match. Phillips and Bell, both members of the Harvard team, easily kept up with the procession, and bid pais to: make the regulars hustle in future shoots. Other scores ollow: ; Events: - ; 2 3) 4056 7 8 9 1011 Targets: 1015 *10151510 * 15 15 10 Ay. LEpeu arin) AK) Ka egG hoe epee 611 8 913138 7 910 9 9 156 Apgar, 21.0.0... ES 98 3 91215 9 31014 7 °740 birzint kegel Sats Aeon MEO! “2 eral EOS lean 636 Bre SHOE Rees dee tee ce nn leider: (labs PBS! ghey -828 Kirkwood, 18.......- Roh A 1013 6 §1112 8 4 4, -690 Wiees SIGE ta eee cee nee Sitio + Dell Are Sri Ub tee foe he 664 Worthing, 16..........-. menace At elon bee. oy «716 INGE rrlbotracr tetera ts Peake: Lie is) ASP TUT Toke fe EEO .609 Woodruff, 17....... teveswawses O ¢ 6 GIT10 9 G1? .664 Adams;*16....0....6 Puede nen Tank Ot ot seat elec ee 23600 RELW COC aid: aeRosatacdt Sites Tse An Wer desfO a Fer ut" aun 340. AGleasonmdhuneeseahceeaepeeciee. ee ee 61113 8 7 910 712 DSP AULT oo OSE eee misery gree ran 9. 913818 6 5 9 - 734 Spencer, 18..-...... arnt EN Oe. ee alte Sy aki. Ay, .600 Brel eticlow SLGic reas Faerie ee ey Leite | ce eee MELT iachs Bical t/e Sin efpitd NS (Sih ao ioc eocmarteatt ee eee LS BR A teeth 7 467 * Rive pairs. Consecutive breaks: Apgar, 2lyds., 28; Bell, 16yds., 27; Grif fiths, 19yds., 14; Phillips, iGyds., 12; Spencer, 18yds,, 11; Gleason, 18yds., 11;- Kirkwood, 18yds., 11. 4 Merchandise prize match, 30 singles, handicap distance in yards: INTE rere il ebcans hols tates tee aero aeite eiPesat teal 1100.011111141111191111111111—28 Griffiths, 19 ............0ee eee. es -110091111101191101101111911111-—_96 BTA Sr wil teueigetce nt nce see ne cent 111101.011911111111100111111111 26 Brel elie Oe rn np sar eee ~ -0111111111.01111.1011101.01111185 GlcasOnaeleal. wena ase ese) ~ -1110111111101.00101110111111111—34 TEC G) GAL GL Nahe ceieianuices tetas « 111111011 0011011111910111 0110123 Kirkwood, 18 ....,,...+.. ~ -111110101001111001111111111110 93 Woodruff, 16..........5.. + -11110°10011111.0101191111110011—22 Woodruff, 17 .. Spencer, 18..; Frank, 18 .. Keller, 16 . ~-111170111111000111100107 01110121 « 010111110007 01014911111111 0001—20 year 011111001111010011001101011110-—19 casei sceae ge sar 1011111.01010110111101000010101—18 Riverside Gun Club, Urica, N. Y., April 2—The prize shoot of the Riverside Gun Club had a total number of twenty-four contestants, There was a high wind, erratic flights of targets, and consequent difficult shooting. There were five events in the programme. Visiting shooters were Russell, of Hion; Deck, of Clinton, and Parmenter, of Sherburne. The winners of prizes, with donors, were: L. Warren, painting, donated by the club; W. Wagner, Victor reel, donated by Joseph Coupe; William Bennett, lancewood rod, donated by E. J. Loughlin; J. Wagner, keg of beer, donated by the club; William Bennett, toilet sect, donated by Dr. E. 123 SS W. Milgate, bottle of Hunter whisky, donated by E, Af ish. The committee of arrangements in charge of the shoot was: D. Loughlin, referee; P, Gatiney, compiler of scores; E. Lough- lin, secretary. The club hold another prize shoot on Memorial Day. The scores: bs Ce a ee i i a ae i as ee sase Ce i i inane eae BO Rropeveaclhiat rea Pee anicgs pte) ae Wee Vici eur as aah een, ohebt Newton ee OA Jp of ee es anita irae SP ec tee we eee eae e teeter ne hane ae ows 300% Friday CUSTER STE A oebssteeh 6 eee Nita bhennketce 19 5s qrerea an eee A A ohrespaet dia VENT eee eer. Oem ease hts Sera De Dexter . — = Seem eee eee eee ete w ee nntnonenny a re ee oe i ie i a irr iri ir ies = ee fo. i socom: ft WEA Cltie Gia suai tecthiies be ci tte 10 ain BaP TOD Aaainteocs:. catia Soaane as 5 NATRETION, ps eumae mates cisions toiae tad: hes 6 * PAO SOOM CINCOM MOO Roo ~ fo - 4 - BCAISCRASHOIMNIIAHAN WOODSON ’ « * . Te) ef e © D3 Om OVS 60 60 Co 155 60 69 oS OO He fe = = MonmommniSoo cso oF « . e 6 - . . ‘ . . AAMAIG A WA aTqo conmcsIMIaAna® ’ 7 r = . a © . . * ‘ 2 * 2 ~ 360 ert a | | | FOREST AND STREAM hare Lt ; Kansas State Shoot. Chingtin otusbd Sele Cope ALAS aS tt ae dad 1617141448 177 _ THe Kansas Stat , ee . Sip 216 14 14 17 13.1 Tiap F hs is Sete Sporumens uments gual ace Pai HERE MUA AHNH HR Atuenogn Day Reel laa * cordia i] 21-2 45 . eity of Con- pa 13 11 ENTOWN,, Pa., Aptil 25.—Fin ii : pleasant fad vdutidtector 1S a ty to say that the meet was very i re one 13 11 12 14 13 14 i8 it ia 20 ieh Fullertod; Pa. Tepe ee Fons Pea es elas ied ta es oe effect of the Grand jyyers” 18 8111612 919181417 156 Under the, cfficietit management of C. F. Kramlie m, Sopa ire gaa ia aa Peg Eueety He Rhone see ona se cane eae! oughly enjoyed the week in the Grassho and ‘thor- aS meas Rie a 81818131419 169 . live-bird match was held, each man shooti “at 10 bi i ) : per State. Th q & : § killing the nu i i SS TER ERSTE gtammie Pas of 00. targets, 200 cach ay, in 15 and 20-target , ergs itt te aaa a th 10 16 ie % 18 13 13 13 i i2 is: 167 Milson 7, Englert Mert 10. F sie res oe BV lores a N system. rlake. 2c Atees ewes te é : 2 2 teitz ....... i ks Se ee one ae 17.450) Se ate ee et ee tO special strings to” eine eat Hebe ee ae re ne 494 t Tiehermat.co oS Seared tee Te cae oe ay ee POIEE etted ieee oan : im on the first score, did Aap err i : B43 ee aD aaeee otal targets of the day’s programme events pe ePeme ig topes By ts 131 ie O31. . . | = Ete horecine ti i 63a Beyenite: L 2 3 “ 5. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12) =Hotel E Wee Tena ances cb We ue oe PUBLISHERS’ DEPARTMENT. aa 20 16 15 20 18 1520 Broke. H Wetzig ........ PRR 7 : rf —_ GABE i ovcowesseesote B18 4 eB 1b BD A AB By Meyers oS | cae a The Cotton Pi gi Me pel gore ter 13 11 20 14 12 19 10 13 18 ae pelle ge lanes seis ee 165 186 150 1 one raat Kirby siesta. 417121016 159 Lewis ...sssseeeseessene a7 ° ae vy ; Waters sieeceeieteeee, + BUVME 1816116 7 Timberlake \erharea rae 186 64 PB MANY people north of Mason and Dixon line wonder how cot Waitington yc" aa ge ay aa dt ae 46 Oe 7 12 14.17 7 ; K the cotton plant furnished eG k aire ee maker escription of Lisidermat .lls.cs.le cc ETELETECECECECERSCECET MET? ay the Winter Health Resort, Pineblulf, N.C, the town that. has eM TE CEST RrE CE ETC ETETECINECS lle Ri } been built up by Northern people: “We concluded to_ plant ie poten Ee ee eS SS se lps dels Gas) Wile efop af Sotton and give fail description, “he aed ee 15 15 19 14 13 18 ibid isi3 i819 185 SRO ee RO Le aE ET Ie peso Dae tsrpm oe a He with a very tough dark hull OATHNITO® wisi cap. 'o 0 A Rapp Ss Seaway. sr, ifle 2 a Gl 7 r ry ashi A, e P i BS ied eee Se 141112 18 14 is ui Ww is ii ii is - 65 ted dae res see W beh W Ch eeae aanrad Mey eerie saat ae covered ere hn eeacnibe Boece ser es ie se = TEU “RRs yy oes 749 ° 4148 1214 OF 5 sing’ ; ree Tate De aes ere and Keller, by their ot the 4 fi icki F i ; Rates Cg seas eens ee = s in cf i os 13 a = 13 a - 181 plegsing peteouauty and professional courtesy, made many tend nhe Phcveas AE eee ys tight on the hull in the gin- Conninghain epee coy. TER eee 16 14 13 18 169 a ne success of the tournament. The scores: like the haits enter the human scaiph the ete aber Ot Bok AMET OS TEE Mies hatin chs a epee ne 12 12-17 16 4 3 14 16 q i 1 COG a Ts Hague rach 3 i wnted i ei oe ae Se ta dd 4 ie a: i a 3 : 1s te 175 First Day, April 21, North Carolina pina a eae te die eaten seed is planted in BASE aa RP Tere EEECELET SRT ARTE 186 tents: 1234 Te Sak period, of twenty days to plant. In fav ‘abl e farmer having a BL Wettigec secs 16 MAT i 18 13 13 19 1315.19 178 ‘Targets: Tibet TIS Savi AAD TEASER SecHible abutie bret week's time. ‘The young plant fools a8 Gidley! baste te kiss ereepe eer er tren iS; eet och SA ot) 9 15 20 6 10 10 E roke. much like young buckwheat as two Pan ar fame cc ates ce erga cera pee ee gree T$ QU $1897 $1910 S$ 1s a month old a Notthecn than woul tate ae cate cr ae BEE elie oo hok ol Sao 2111543121712 1319 18 1419138 1b i9 «7g 0 EB Heke. 889 981 Ti 81. Ble 81] ie pecs | Mebane a cam Tetra aie Matt ee NR ini Se! ag Timberlake ts ee 128 12.19 13 1417121317131516 175 Kipple ....... 76 61M 473., 5 16 3 rf . 132 first blossoms out early in the day, the flower is white; by evenin F t3 Ce cy oe ar q Ss “5 ta ee sii Aabac Aree a # Be m4 it 19 HT 13 19 12 1416 174 eee ap Hae 9 6 8 10 13 201012 910 6 13 Tse 9 156 avd a aae pene ball aNae rin ges the blossom drops off anil Townsend Ryu gel mats ore Gata 18g ay te os ie i oe ve He Geaper de aks R ‘ 5 4! ia i , 133657476 90 a few days it is as are ‘S Mi Saal See a trae oe aan Ree ee SS aes sa ea 2 Rane men Nana See aes i 15 9 fee 5 10 8 150 grows until it becomes the size of a uine: 1 plies and eS trae ates 2218.16 13 102 sigetes ce Raul 8 21212 61 7 4.5 9 918 9 182 bursts open, and in a day or two the 4 Siings Coie ad ie Matteson 2.....ccc.0sscse Hii SW isidWWidis iG Stam ew 8 a es Ae ee Ca ball in tts “snowy. whiteness; and:a-feld of cotton i October, Lewis eseisteisesteeeen Me AES 18 15 LAC 08 TA Bs SAO Baretta Sees ieee olny OR Ra Bai eaten a Mae aa AU ey Con RE ee ‘show. We GkGatehty anihoda so hes ene 10 18 10.48 18.19.13 1117 114816 166 Bittenbender .... 6 6 8 i218 16 apie eae ee Feet 2 ortherners who have come South to: live do-not plant-the cotton Ficholtz ..--s+sssss0reess. Tei ene gp ead ge Heiges .....-0.-. Bob: ete aie Se Bore pct see ee Me Tate ann fetiar Ge chiar ceata Dre ie ncaa eee Tiere Wess ae enwt aves 14 14 11 15 11 19 131420141320 183 Schitatg | Asemcdp ne me Be, Ercoey peutagt tee Wye EMD esters A RSS A farmers ‘of the eethsntk. 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W: KO" RIOR S chp oe kau ase ovale cow mrn im oe ae 11101111101111111111111111111_28 See Sabo bb obi a 7 82 vi ue 912 410 79 9 9-16 3 Peivieeee General Passenger Agent, Broad street ‘station, April 22, eae well veces pmererecas: 10 713°7 513 620 149 “4 Seco: poe ee E-Bay eee 7 812 612 81012 920 ‘166 The advertisement of the Billi x Mes icorsaite wactabteted wreincelaycetia a : eat ee ee 2 : ee Ee iv en 814 5 9 8 820 152 Cenn., introduces to our Soff Dectage CHE LaoEEe weit att ise able conditions, and nearly all contestants a tesGed fies ene Bouhem ......... LG bela 8 13 4 5 6 10 a % anh i ee mrad Wa ep ED SEA La yee Bria wise ee jets the pee gain iP pee for the first place. ave Altes tee eeeeaenee Paer or h Tie eh heey et ad See S 55 the daedaaies BLE A ee apse ee = ehatak te Aenceatea iott got in for s i whi iehl and SAMGTEWS «aeceere S 10 : cpm aaa Ee geroad en a Fae poe seule Bick! and ean ; : 4 : ne i - 3 sere ee oy es 5 10 42 as yachtsmen, gunners, campers, iia aaah cithiaees S ecard SD eed Sit yocihice aioenieatatt p ; Tiaiey Der ane tael ¢ tas aa ie c Haar j 2 ia 4 ip Be bean uay ape fully illustrated catalogue which they issue shows The programme events had a total of 200 targets. The scores: Speiser .....+++46 9 5 6121216 812 613 8 9.. 820 145 handiest hinge fools catch Oe Or coe tebe Aiita Events: 12345678 910012 Total SU ee eee ee Bae e me es meicakan eg sisi so Targets 4B 15 20 15 15 20 15 16 20 15 15 20 Broke chtam) ..)--se--- de Saleen eee te cstas ee ae O'Brien. teceteneosussye> 11 1415 1514171413 1815 1418 178 WQOIEY wevereere TEM Og Be : Har . Cabninedae ee 14 13 14 13 14 18 13 15 20 14 13 19 180 ah acs seg eecae be we 3 o> ee ae 5 oe en oe ee 7 Se 5 15 f The Aeron Weare Co., New Haven, Conn., have issued, for Rie 5 PTT NRE ve i 1419 15 14.17 15 1420141419 186 PRUNE cieceebenss POM tet vet ah Seach sam LA ee vis BOC 5 ree eee a circular illustrative and descriptive of their Bates vocisesesicesseers "* ¥2 1417 10 10 2012 13 1415 1117 165 ae | ee agate eek Tie Cea hoe laa Pega atta gato Ratan SY cae tae Oe It is designed for Anderson. 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Hinieiide ete cag eeet epee 15 1417 12 14 20 15 13-19 12 1517 ~=—188 Thiers diet eer eee 222225 Flick 7120221 | fir Ph ek eh eee 222: Flick . 202214 i ic mace PEMUEMMUME RH Ie Robe gcc oBe Ss Be, Poe ptika ACE TEES 5 \ ig via SatmELM ocikedd Seis 917151519141519 185 j W EL Elarrisec.cers+eeee — ey . és 3 i i Witt E itor feos tantra oth 15 4 13 15 2 18 1 14 18 18 15 19 181 Geavcneles panties UA A tN, on Spicer pi shade bo spe aeaan SAMS which shall Berga SRGOHEIY, ANTES cle “Ae peat, Maticsor preiaapeh nati fae 1B ore a aon ua 2 ins yk gee mar BAA 20—2 a > that he can take his train on the Boston & Maine Railroad to DEiipsa eh a se qo Ae soar Pad ae ae dental aces Ai oe Belet oreo ates Drea shy, | iese depos, teal waters a Ce Poe ule aaneiee Ses Tele meeps Tey crc re ereverert veramettl Keller, .+sssssrseveecrss 02202008 Strine ......eseeeeeesee 0021224 teached by ‘this road. The advantages of the country which. it Cowley ... i 14 13 18 13 13 141213 18141515 172 Tree eUll Pee y tree poet coe poop00e —& Krauset t2tiretneusuets 210120 —4 penetrates are well set forth in the interesting Gamiphiers entitled GWIEY sry p> combat. By this time the crowd had increased until 7 sclt it was . from in, dis- necessary to use other measures, sol pumpe .cartridge mito the chamber and brought the rifle . _y..shoulder, warning all to keep back. I gave one s ‘ glance at Eaton’s camp and saw both he and Dunn “ac still near their fire; I cried to them to unlock the cal joor and I would make a run for it and get inside. jere I knew I would be safe for a time, anyhow. In the meantime I kept walking backwards, and facing an increasing number of foes in a ©; 9jsavhich was momentarily being reinforced from all, > \jons, and -I plainly saw that in a few minutes I woy,,\e outflanked and my retreat cut off. As quick as a flash I turned and made a run for the cabin door, only to find on my arrival that it was locked with a large padlock. Before I could turn or seek the protection of Eaton’s camp, the mob was upon me. What occurred during the next minute or two is yet in my mind more like a dream than-anything else. It sounded to my ears as though a hundred angry, revenge- ful voices were talking at once. I was conscious that a number of other hands than my own were on that rifle, and that it was full cocked. With a cartridge in the chamber, it might be discharged any instant. Oh, the grip I had on that gun! Suddenly I saw or rather felt a bright flash in front of my eyes; I glanced up and to this day my eye still re- tains the photograph then taken; a large bright-bladed butcher knife in a dusky hand, the point about six inches in front of my face and a pair of dark wicked eyes peer- ing with murder into mine. I closed my eyes to shut out the sight, and in that moment, expecting to feel the cold steel cutting its way to my heart, a panorama of all my life passed in instantaneous review—and still I never re- laxed my grip on that gun, and still the pandemonium of angry voices sounded in my ears. But why did not that knife bury itself in my body? . I opened my eyes. The knife was yot there; the pull- ing and straining at the rifle was not so strong; the density of the crowding at my right side was less; more light was in my eyes. Suddenly ... _..W!an standing near my right arm disappeared as by magic, in another moment one who stood directly in front of me reeled back and struck the ground about eight feet away, then another and another. In a few moments I was standing alone beside my deliverer. I sti!’ Weid the rifle; I glanced up and there stood Little Plunis sJaring at those around him like an angry god. pl Fi Not a word passed ifs.” oul, satisfying himself that none cared to disputé’ pc ~“hion of the field with him, he turned to me and sitter. _, yo words in English: - “Me gun,’ pointing to the ri4¢;—~Towering the hammer I gave it to him. He recocked.*t, fired it in the air, pumped out the remaining cartridges and giving them to me said in his own tongue, “Come.” A brave Indian who could talk very good English now _ appeared and swore by all the gods in his calendar that he would see that no harm c-me to me or any other white man. He was caref:!, ay all this in English. I had noticed him in the b..ckgfround of my assailants. Little Plume at once became pleasant to all, explaining that I did not want to have any trouble, and that it was all a mistake: for all to come to his lodge the next morn- ing and I would show them that I would recompense all who had been injured, We then visited the trader’s camp, after I had washed tne blood from my face, which lad been scratched and bruised in the melee, and found that Eaton had been cor ect. The outfit belonged -to three white men, hard characters, who some few years afterward were hung for 1orse and cattle stealing at the ' mouth of the Musselshell River on the Missouri. I accompanied Little Plume to his lodge, where I learned that a short time after I left for the trader’s camp he had learned from Billy where I had gone, and that I had taken my rifle in spite of his advice. Billy said Little Plum- made no reply, but shortly he went out, saying nothing > to where he was going. Next morning there held a big pow-wow. Both the injured families—that s, the parents of the young bucks who had receiy 1 Lroken heads—presented their grievances and wanted about all we had in the wagon as indemnity, but ende taking a few pounds of sugar, a few yards of calico aru some other nick-knacks to the amount of perhaps two dollars, beside some plugs of “black strap” tobacco. A cheaply paid for lesson, _ I afterward saw Eaton and asked him why he did not unlock the door of the cabin when I cried to him to do so. He gave as an excuse that the whole thing occurred so quickly that he had not realized anything until Little Plume was on the ground and had the game under con- trol. He had not seen the Indian with the knife until he went head over heels, knife and all. But those days are gone; and such scenes are only memories of the frontier. Their place has been taken by civilized pursuits less hazardous and more pleasant, the natural sequence of the opening to settlement of all sav- age populated countries. ‘ Nigger Andy was a remarkable character. With the general characteristics of the negro, he combined a sur- prising amount of nerve and physical bravery, with ab- normally developed combativeness and aggressiveness. He possessed another quality not often found in_ the negro, for he was apparently as much at home in a frigid as in a torrid or temperate climate. It was under- stood he had spent a number of years as far north as Athabasca Lake among the northern Indians, where he had lost both hands and feet by freezing. He used wooden pegs for both, with iron hooks in the ends of the arm pegs to seize hold of anything, and he used them, too, with amazing agility and success. He handled a Winchester as rapidly and successfully as anyone with both hands. He was usually good natured, unless an- tagonized, when, especially with Indians, he was a fiend — incarnate. He was looked upon by the Indians as a sort of evil spirit to be placated or avoided. He was mur- dered in cold blood, shot in the hack, at Junction. j te J. H. BoucHer, May 9, 1003. A Cruise — oe — in the Ojibway Paradise. an- In Two Patts—Part Two. After fPeakfast the next morning an application of hot skill] “andle was made to the bottom of the canoe, and.) Were ready to start again. When pack- ing up the ‘“visons we found that a squirrel had got into one ie sacks and helped himself to about a dozen prut, “leaving a handful of seeds in one corner. We had decid not to go to Temagami Lake by the regular tourist route, but through a chain of lakes to the west ar cmme into Temagami by the Northwest Arm. Sai » “pf keeping to the south over. Diamond Lake, we tt ‘o the west. Part of the way we had a head wind . made haste slowly. Near the head of Diamond’ Lake is a deposit of rock that has no doubt been placed there by glaciers. It is a short dis- tance below the mouth of a stream that comes down through a narrow gorge and empties into Diamond Lake. The denosit extends two-thirds of the way across this arm of the Jake, but does not reach either shore. It is slightly curved and rises two or three feet above the water, sloping off gradually at the ends. Coming up the lake toward it, we could almost be- lieve that some one had been using up their spare time building a stone wall across the lake to fence off their share of the water. The stones were fitted per- fectly together and were as large as good-sized build- ing stones. The face of the wall toward us was regular and even, while the side toward the gorge was piled up with smaller stones and debris. The ice coming down this narrow gorge had spread out, depositing its burden of rock in the lake a short distance from the mouth of the gorge. We went un this river till we came to a place that had eyidently been used as a dumping ground for all the rocks and boulders that were leit over when the North American continent was made. The portage around this medley was about a half mile long, We then crossed a small lake, made a short portage to an- other lake, which we crossed,-and landed on the por- tage to Wakimika Lake, which is noted for the num- ber and size of its sm@S mouth bass. We were going to stay here a day 24 try the fishing, so we put up our tents on the other thd of the portage where there- is a good camp ground with a most beautiful outlook. Wakimika is an Indian word meaning clean or clear, and is well suited to this lake, for the water is clear and cold. We found “¢ ppass large, of a very dark color and flesh firm an¢@ “=nsually fine flavored. The lake is about four m | :ang and a high wind was blowing, which made i‘! roreh and sent the waves 7 vit of our camp, rolling up the sandy be. d dinrar we went out on the While the guides coo beach to seé what me » had been left. We found the foot prints of deer aiu Wolf, the wolf following the deer as usual. There we also foot prints of moose, crane, man and a smaller foot print that might have been made by either a woman or a boy; when we found a fort made of sand with pine cones planted in a circle around it we concluded they were the foot- prints of a boy. The D’ 'r’s special find was a yel- low-jacket’s nest, and m, ..-the yellow-jackets ap- peared to be at home at the time. We heard a sound from camp, and were soo1 deeply interested in the mysteries of fried black aucx, baked beans and other delicacies. The lake was too rough to go fishing, and the after- noon was spent making a coisfortable camp. Indians had camped here on a hunting trip, for their drying rack was standing and we fonnd an Indian’s ax near it and the hoofs and bones of mogqse. The wind went down in the evening, and, the skillet handle having been duly applied, we started out to get huckleberries for a pudding Sam was to make next day. We rigged up one rod with a very small spin- ner, thinking we might get a fish for breakfast, and on the way to Huckleberry Island hooked and landed a 234 and a 4¥%4-pound bass. Ii wjs hard to resist the temptation to rig up both rods .and try the fly-fishing, but the huckleberries were stili, a. Cra) Always they had seen a . man that caught 50 pounds of perch in two hours and had | Hachting. ——_——_—— SHAMROCK III, got under sail for the first time since the accident, on May 7. Shatnrock I. was also out, but the breeze was too light for the boats to have a brush. They drifted around with the tide after the wind died out entirely, and finally got back to their anchorages at Gourock. The day following Shamrock III. went out alone to stretch her sails. There was a fresh breeze blowing, and the new spars stood well. She has re- ceived a new boom as well as a new mast. The boom is stiffer than the old one, and is quite a bit longer. The two Shamrocks sailed a race over a forty-mile course on May 9, and the new boat again demon- strated her ability to beat the old one on all points of sailing. The boats started out soon after nine o’clock; at this time the breeze was light and club and jib top- sails were carried. The start was made at half past ten, the old boat got away ahead and to windward of the new boat, but after a little while Shamrock III. - worked out to weather of Shamrock J. and they were soon on even terms. Shamrock III. rounded Powder buoy eight seconds in the lead, Spinnakers were’set, and the new boat drew away from the old one in good shape. Off Gourock pier Shamrock III. had a lead of one minute and twenty seconds, but the old Sham- rock was doing well and holding a better breeze. The day’s trial proved to be more of a sail stretching spin than a regular race. Shamrock III. proves her ability to beat the old boat, yet Shamrock I. is show- ing up well. CotumsBia and Reliance had their first brush on the afternoon of May 5, and in the light breeze Columbia had rather the best of it. Reliance left her moorings oft New Rochelle just after three o'clock. A club top- sail and a reaching jib topsail were set over the lower sails. Reliance was headed toward Sands Point, and Columbia was becalmed off to the eastward. The wind was S. W. by S. Reliance was put off before the wind and the spinnaker was set to starboard, After a few moments Reliance’s spinnaker was taken in, her boom jibed over and the spinnaker reset to port. Columbia was trying to get out of a soft spot in the meantime, and Constitution was becalmed in Glen Cove. Re- liance’s spinnaker was taken in and she was headed for New Rochelle, and a baby jib topsail was set. Colum- bia had caught a little breeze and stood after Reliance. After Jogging around a while Columbia caught up a little on the new boat, but was still some distance to leeward. It was just after half past four when Columbia and Reliance came together. Reliance had a reaching jib topsail set, while Columbia had a smaller one aloft. As they headed for Red Springs Point, the new boat was Some distance to windward. Columbia drew aliead slowly in the light breeze, and Reliance was kept off and given a good full and picked up a little, but was forced to pass astern of the old boat. Columbia was put on the wind, and as she took the port, tack her jib topsail was taken in. Reliance fol-~ lowed suit and took in her jib topsail. Columbia was out to weather, and the boats were moving along on about even terms. When Columbia tacked a little later Reliance was also put about, and she was then right astern of the old boat. On this tack Columbia opened out a little on Reliance, and when she finally came up into the wind she was some distance ahead. The result of this spin was, to say the least, immense- ly disappointing, for it was generally believed that Re- liance would show her heels to Columbia in any weather. It is understood that on this occasion both boats were pushed for all they were worth, and even making allowance for poor: sails Reliance ought ‘to have done better. So far seven suits of sails have been made for Re- liance, representing an output of about $100,000. With such, a large number to select from it does seem as though one really good suit could be found. The sails tent so far on Reliance have been indifferently good, and it is certain that the boat will not be at her best until she gets some good canvas. Scows, unless they can be heeled well down, cannot be driven in a light breeze, and this appears as well to a boat as large as Reliance, as it does to the small craft. This has been demonstrated in the racing during the past few years to everyone’s satisfaction. It is now said that Reliance needs 20 per cent. more sail, this additional canvas would undoubtedly help her in light and moderate breezes, but it would be next to im- possible to keep such an enormous rig in the boat in a strong wind. Even if the rig stood the boat with such a sail area would be a constant danger, not only to those on board, but to rival craft, for a boat of that type and enormous rig would be extremely diffi- cult to handle in a breeze, and, besides, she is very likely to take matters in her own hands, as did one of the go-footers at Newport two years ago. Constitution is from three to eight minutes faster in any weather than Columbia, and she will demonstrate that in the racing this summer. It is hardly possible that Columbia will be selected a third time to defend the cup, and as we said some time ago, Constitution can defend the cup safely. This being the case, it is more than probable she will have occasion to do so, Mr. August Belmont, Constitution’s owner, is a thor- ough sportsman, and the yacht will be raced under his management this year. All yachtsmen would be glad to see Mr. Belmont’s boat selected for the important and delicate task of defending the America’s Cup. - The annual meeting of the Beverly (N. J.) Y. C. was held on May 5, and the following officers were elected: Com., George W. Halloway; Vice-Com., Blair Fer- guson; Sec, and Treas., William T. Kirk, Jr.; Finance and Elective Committee, John W. Hamer, Gilbert M. Wilson, William T. Kirk, Jr., Jade C. Wilson and Henry _W. Hall; Regatta Committee, Theodore Bon-— field, Chairman, br ae ee May 16, 1003.] FOREST AND STREAM. 898 English Letter. THE only test race of the two Shamrocks that has been sailed resulted in the victory of the old boat on time. The new yacht was set to give her ten minutes in 34 miles, and through a fluke she failed to do it. She could, I believe, give the old boat about 12 min- utes over a 34-mile course in ordinary weather, pro- vided both always had the same wind. But as that time represents nearly two miles of separation, one can never tell how one is seryed by the wind, as coin- pared with the other. On every occasion on which the yachts have been sailing close together the new boat has left the old one with the utmost ease. Up till the time she lost her mast the mainsail was very poor, and a good sail would have made a sensible difference in her speed to windward. Her superiority in very light winds (in which the old challenger is also very good) has been most pronounced, and if one of the Cup races should start with this weather with a freshening breeze toward the finish, so that the time limit will not be reached, there can be little doubt but that she will win. For the rest, no person can gauge her chances until Reliance is tried. It will be most interesting to note Herreshoff’s success with a boat of her type. Over here she might win a lot of races if she turns out as I expect, but Cup conditions seem rather to favor a boat of Shamrock’s type, which will keep going in the slight swell, even if the breeze be light, and which will heel easily up to a certain point. The defender, if Re- liance be chosen, will probably have to allow Sham- rock quite a longish time allowance. I have seen the expression of a doubt in many papers as to whether Shamrock I. is sailing as well as she did two years ago. Of course, it is impossible to tell, but there is no earthly reason for believing that she is not. Her canvas is good and well set, and Bevis is a thoroughly good skipper. The new vessel has always sailed in the same trim as when she first came out of dock. Nothing whatever has been altered. Experiments will, no doubt, be made with a.view to improvement, but as yet none have been tried, and she has been sailing under all the disadvantages in- separable from a new vessel, and with a rather faulty mainsail. On the other hand, the older boat is in her proper trim, and so far as those who know most about her are aware she is going as well as ever. On 17th inst., at Weymouth, Shamrock III. lost her mast, under circumstances with which readers are no doubt familiar. The immediate cause was the part- ing of the foremost rigging screw on the starboard side. One of the men—the steward—was pitched over- board by the recoil and drowned, in spite of a gallant attempt to save him. The yacht was brought up to Southampton on Monday and docked, along with Shamrock J. No damage was received by the hull, and she will be under way again in a week or two. She is going out as a cutter, not under ketch rig. The old Shamrock is also going over to sail trial races with her. From this it will be known for certain that she sails in the Cup races in the trim found best over here. It would be almost as interesting as the Cup races themselves if Shamrock I. were once more to get a chance at Columbia. Perhaps she may be entered for some of your ordinary regatta races, but I know noth- ing of that. With a skipper who knows how to lay a yacht on the wind, some of the doubting Thomases of the press would be surprised to note the result of such a race, At present they seem to regard nothing but the figures of her cup races, discounting nothing by the evidence of their eyes and forgetting the result of her real trials with Shamrock II. Over here we are so well pleased with the new challenger that it almost seems permissible to look for- ward to the defense of it next year in Belfast Lough. In the event of your losing it, I have heard it said that vou will challenge with a schooner. From a spec- tacular point of view this would be charming, and it might bring a class of schooners into existence over here, but I cannot possibly see why you should stand a better chance with a schooner than with a cutter. It is a thousand pities that no scantling scales are to be in force for future Cup racers. They could only conduce to putting designers on even terms, and, whether you win or lose this time, the type of the future Cup racers will be so good that it wil! be a shame to make the yachts themselves ephemeral. An astrologer over here has cast the horoscore of the new Shamrock, with the most discouraging results. Curiously enotigh, he did not think to do it before she was dismantled. However, now that it is done, it ap- pears that the vessel was launched when the planets were exercising some highly disturbing influences. There is something about a scorpion in it, and other unpleasant things, but in view of the great success achieved by St. Patrick (on whose day she was launched) over the snakes in Ireland, one may fairly expect his influence to counterbalance that of any eclestial bug. E. Hl. [lameiron. Boston Letter. Boston, May 11.—The Regatta Committee of the South Boston Y. C. has arranged the programme for its Y. R, A. open race to be sailed off City Point on Memorial Day. This will be the twenty-sixth year that this club has opened the racing season in Massachusetts Bay. Classes are provided for 25-footers, 22-footers, 21-footers, 18- footers, and 15-foot sailing tenders. The 21-foot class provided for will be class R, recently formed by the Yacht Racing Association, and governed by the general rules applying to class S, with a few additions to keep the sail area of freaks low enough to give a normal boat a chance. The manner in which classes are provided for the first races of the season has considerable bearing upon the programmes of other clubs, and so’ it would look as though there would be nothing doing in class S this season. The sailing tender class is one in which great interest is taken by the members of the South Boston Y,. C. and other clubs in Dorchester Bay. In the South Bos- ton Y. C. the rating is obtained from the oyer all length, MIRA. Owned by Charles Lane Poor, Designed by Gardner & Cox. Built by B. F. Wood, at City Island, 1899, plus the extreme beam. There is no limit on sail area, and only mainsails and spinnakers are used. The crews consist of two men only. Time allowance is figured at the rate of two seconds per inch per mile. _ The Regatta Committee has announced that the follow- ing Saturday races will be given: May 30—Y. R. A. open. June 20—Club race. June 27—-Sailing tenders. July 18—Sailine tenders. ¢ August 1—Club races. August 15—Sailing tenders. August 22—Sailing tenders. August 29—Club race. Three of the new 22-footers designed and built by Messrs. Burgess and Packard and built by Messrs. Hodg- don Bros., at East Boothbay, will start on an ocean race to Marblehead Saturday. The total distance sailed wi'l be about 110 nattical miles. The boats are Opitsah V, owned by Mr. Sumner H. Foster; Tetsu, owned by Mr. S. W. Lewis and Mr. F. B. Talbot, and the third is owned by-Mr, H. H. White. They will start as early as possible Saturday morning and will endeayor to make Cape Por- poise on the first day’s run. The next day they will sail from Cape Porpoise to Marblehead. Mr. H. H. White’s steam yacht Wild Goose, will convoy the trio and will tow their tenders while they are racing. The 22-footer designed by Mr. Fred D. Lawley and built by James Bur- gess, of Duxbury, had a trial in Duxbury Bay last week, and it is said to have shown great speed. Another 22- footer, designed by Mr. Lawley for Mr. J. C. Neale, is being built by the Hanley Construction Company, At the Hanley Construction Company’s shops, Quincy, the 18-footer Yo San, designed by Messrs. Burgess and Packard for Mr. R. J. Randolph, Jr., is nearly finished. An 18-footer by the same designers for Mr. B. D. Barker is in frame. The 28ft. yawl designed by Mr. Isaac. B. Mills for Mr. B. D. Amsden, has been given a trial. She proved fast and able. A goft. gasolene yacht is being set up. A machine has been built at the yard for weighing yachts of the restricted classes. The 27ft. over all scow designed by Mr. E. A. Board- man for Mr, Bacon won her first race at Chicago last week, beating a fleet of new boats by three minutes. The Chicago yachtsmen said she was the best boat they had seen on the wind in pointing and footing. Mr. Board- man has sold the 25-footer Chispa, owned by Mr. W. E. Dexter, to Mr. T. L. Gilliatt, of Beverly. The 18-footer designed for Mr. Reginald Boardman has been finished by White, of Manchester. The Malcolmson 18-footer has been launched and will be called the Allanda. She will start for Providence Thursday. Mr, Boardman had a lit- tle brush in his 18-footer Arrow with Mr. A..A. Packard in Nic-Nac last week, in which it is claimed the Arrow had a little the best of it, Commodore Franklin L. Codman, of the South Boston Y. C., has announced in general orders No. 1, that Mr. Joseph H. Corrigan has been appointed fleet captain, Commodore Codman has announced that he will call a cruise to the eastward some time in July, if sufficient num- ber of yacht owners respond to warrant issuing the order, The 36-footer designed by Mt. B. B. Crownitshield for Mr. W. E. Rogers and built by Lawley was given a trial last week which proved quite satisfactory. She will be used on Lake Champlain. A 25-footer designed by Mr. Fred D. Lawley for Mr. J. Swift, Jr., of New Bedford. was launched last week. A cruising 21-footer, also de- signed by Mr. Lawley, was launched last Friday. She will leave in a few days for Kennebunk, Me. The steam yacht building in the west shop for Mr. C. G. Emery, N. Y. Y. C., from designs by Mr, A. S. Chesebrough is expected to be launched in a couple of weeks. In the east shop the cabin is being finished on the 4o-rater for Col. R. H, Morgan. The Y. R, A. 25-footer, Sally VIL, for Mr, Lawrence F. Percival is partly planked. The cabin joiner work.is being fitted in the 25-footer for Mr. F. E. Sweet- zer. The cabin work is being finished on the 64-rating schooner for Mr. John M. Richmond. A 22-footer for Mr. Whittier is planked, ‘and the keel is out for the Walker 22-footer. The 43-rater designed by Mr. B. B. Crowninshield for Mr. Trenor L. Park will be launched this week. A meeting of the Beverly Y. C. is to be held at the Ex- change Club Tuesday afternoon, at which a new constitu- tion, by-laws and racing rules will be acted upon. Joun B. KILLeen. The Manhasset Bay Challenge Cup. Unoer the declaration of trust governing the match for the Manhasset Bay challenge cup, challenges of clubs wishing to enter for this season’s match to take place on June 29 and 30 and July 1, must be filed with the club secretary not later than May 15, So far four challenges have been filed, these coming from the Indian Harbor, Shelter Island and Atlantie Y. Cs and the yachting department of the New York Ath- letic Club. In adition to these, two other challenges are pending. The representative yacht of the Indian Harbor Y. C. will be the Oiseau, the best known of all the 3oft. class, which will be sailed by her owner, Mr. Henry L. Maxwell. The Shelter Island Y. C. will in all probability be repre- sented by the new 30-footer now building for Mr. Oscar B. Weber at Greenport. This boat was designed by B. B. Crowninshield and should make a hard competitor to beat. Her entry is dependent upon the builder completing her in time, and in the event of her not being ready the club will probably be represented by Kalmia, designed by Wu. Gardner. The 30-footer, Bagheera. formerly Astrilde, will enter from the Atlantic Y. C., and is owned by Mr. Hendon Chubb. She is one of the Bar Harbor class of last season, and was designed by Clinton H. Crane. The New York Athletic Club will be represented by Flosshilde, owned by Mr. W. David Hennen. She was designed by Crowninshield, and sailed last season in the 30ft. class of the Shelter Island Y. C. The Manhasset Bay Club will have as cup defender the sloop Alert, which is owned and will be sailed by Mr. James W. Alker. She was the champion of the Bar SOA © FOREST:-AND STREAM, (May 16, 1903. Harbor class last season, and was designed and: built by Herreshoff. With these entries the Manhasset Bay Y. C. is assured keen racing, and whichever boat finally wins the coveted mug will certainly have to make a good showing to do so. The match will be managed by a committee consisting ‘of a representative appointed by the Indian Harbor Y. C. (the first club challenging), one by the Manhasset Bay Y. C., and a third member to be selected by the two first chosen. The Indian Harbor Y, C. will be represented by Mr. Stuyvesant Wainwright, of the American Y. C., and the Manhasset Bay Club has chosen Mr. Walter C. Kerr, of the Seawanhaka-Corinthian Y. C., to act for them. Both of these men have had extended experience both as racing men and committeemen, and are thoroughly con- versant with the racing rules, so that the supervision of the match will be in good hands. In addition to the committee boat, the Manhasset Bay Club will provide a club steamer to enable its members and those of the challenging clubs to witness the series. Pellegrina. WE are glad to announce that Colonel R. N. Mor- gan, of the New York Y. C., has again joined the ranks of yacht owners, and will fly his flag (a blue swallow tail with a vertical zigzag red bar) on board his new cruiser Pellegrina, designed by Messrs, Burgess & Packard, and now ready for launching at the yard of the builders, Geo. Lawley & Son, Corp., South Bos- ton. We are indebted to Messrs. Burgess and Pack- ard for Pellegrina’s plans. : Colonel Morgan had the 35ft. waterline cutter. Rondi- nella built in 1900 by Stearns, of Marblehead. She was designed under the former New York Y. C. measure- ment rule as the largest boat that could be run with two men. Pellegrina was designed to fit in the K~ class New York Y. C. new classification 4oft. sailing. length as a cruiser. Her rig is about the same size as Rondinella’s, which contained about 1,800 sq. ft. of canvas. Pellegrina is 3ft. longer on the waterline than Rondinella, and is of somewhat heavier construction and has less ballast. Pellegrina hails from Plymouth, and any interested ‘reader may trace her name back to the Pilgrim Fathers. Her dimensions are as follows: Length— ; Gverrale sea eee eoae eyibe Ey oa iol Baal Aa, Se ni yl sting 38it. Overhang— Litera hash LA Sra eeacincid se docuilcokie LF Sit. 9 -in. DO hin ea whe Ppt tn en itech eerie es - Toit) 3) sine Breadth— - Extreme ....... sae highs ata d bis ale ea Kette FR Fsite 2) Atte Te, click | Selle oleh Ridkesvanteuel ete anies t2ft. Io in. Draft— HER tntley Mi yale ghey psa CME EES asym ees Sit. 134in. Freeboard— (Ronwatd 5. 2s6eGe tes geyser tant .. 3ft. 1144in SEM on og et Eee CMT Pee ene coe . git. Yin RESTS SS bake 9 ne EU 5 HE are 5 4 eh ee 2it. 8Y4in. Below:decks Pellegrina makes up six berths aft, as the Colonel wishes to provide room for his sons’ Har- vard chums. Two would be a sufficient crew, but in order that the boat can make any necessary trips with- out the owner, a competent sailing master will be shipped. : The interior finish is of mahogany with the sides of cabin house and under side of cabin top white enamel. The furnishings, such as carpets, curtains and cushions, are to be in green. The stove in main cabin is of Dutch tiles, representing attractive marine studies. Stowage room has been well looked after, and each guest will be provided with ample space for his dun- nage. A good locker for bags is found under the cock- pit and deck on the starboard side. The Yapeni Aquatic Club. The Yapeni Aquatic Club of Bordentown, N. J., will hold a regatta at their house, Bordentown, on the Dela- ware, on Decoration Day, May 30. A very interesting day is anticipated with races in the afternoon and a dance in the evening. The programme for the races will be: Event No. 1, launch races, 16ft, and 2tft. classes; No. 2, skiff race; No. 3, bateau race; No. 4, one man single pad- dle; No. 5, one man double paddle; No. 6, two men single paddle; No. 7, two men double paddle; No. 8, three men single paddle; No. 9, four men single paddle; No. fo, tilting tournament; No, 11, tail end race; No. 12, hand paddling; No. 13, tug of war; No. 14, overboard race; No, 15, swimming race; No. 16, sailing race; No. 17, novice race. The club had decided to make this, the first regatta of the season, a purely club event. No one but members are entitled to enter. Members and their friends will be cor- dially welcomed. Dr..Wm. M. Kester, Captain; Chas. S. Osmond, Mate. The officers for the year 1903 are: Com., Horace G, Reeder; Vice-Com., Richard C. Woodward; Sec’y, J. Bert Reynolds; Purser, Chas. E, Burr; Capt, Dr. Wm. M. Kester; Mate, Chas, S. Osmond. Board of Directors: Geo. W. Swift, Dr. I. C, Leedom, Frederick W. Taylor, Chas. A. Tyler, Harry C. Ford. (Gn esp 10): YACHTING NEWS NOTES. For advertising relating to this department see pages ii and iii, Mr. Frank Bowne Jones has sold, through his agency for Mr. A. Howard Hinkle, of Cincinnati, the English-built cutter Senta, to Mr. Thomas M. McKee. The Buffalo Gasolene Motor Company have moved into their new quarters on Niagara Street, Buffalo, N. Y, Their new plant will be one of the largest and best equipped factories for the construction of gaso- lene motors in the country. All the machinery, which is of the latest and most approved design, js run by electricity. ee! The third annual meeting of the Southern Gulf Coast Yachting Association, held at Biloxi, Miss., Sunday, April 26, was fruitful of good results for the upbuilding of the sport in the South. The delegates of the asso- ciation paid the Southern Y. C. the compliment of -adopting its new rule of measurement, which is highly flattering to the local club. This rule of meastirement ‘was gotten up for the express purpose of being fair to every kind and size of yachts that might desire to race. It is the outcome of a lifetime of study of yacht- ing and the yachting rules of the world, and it was in- tended to meet with the approbation of the entire yachting fraternity in both the old and the new hemis- pheres, which has been the case to the great reputation of the Southern Y. C., and not for the purpose of favoring any one club in a union of clubs nor of foster- ing a particular size nor type of yacht. It is safe to say that there will be no winning type of boat come up that the Southern Y. C. will not have a share in the game, and that was another reason its new rule was de- sired to be absolutely fair and impartial to any kind of a hull that might be devised. What rule could be fairer to any particular design, or to all kinds of models of boats than one that does not require any hull measurements at all? The next best thing accomplished by the association was in adopting a uniform classification of yachts. In adopting one set of rules and one classification for the six association regattas the main object of the forma- tion of the S. G. C. Yachting Association is accom- plished—L. D. Sampsell, in the New Orleans Times- Democrat. RRR Mr. Hendon Chubb has purchased the 2o0ft. water- line racing sloop Astrild, through. the agency of Messrs. Tams, Lemoine & Crane. Astrild was built at Wood’s yard, City Island, last year, from designs made by Messrs. Tams, Lemoine & Crane. She is 45ft. over all, 29 ft. waterline, oft. breadth and 6ft. 6in. draft. She carries 1,222 square feet of sail. RRE The sloop yacht Halaia, built and owned by Messrs. J. P. and C. E. Loud, has recently been sold to a Mr. Paul, of Philadelphia, through the agency of Mr. Frank N. Tandy. Halaia is a 35ft. cruising sloop, designed and built by Stearns, of Marblehead. mee Mr. Dumont Clarke, New York Y. C., has sold, through the agency of Mr. Stanley M. Seaman, the steam yacht Tranquilo to Mr. Frederic Nicholls, Royal Canadian Y. C. The yacht has been sent to Toronto by way of the Hudson River, Erie Canal and Lake Ontario. She will be used between Toronto and Lewis- ton this season, and next year be taken to Lake Sinco. Mr. Thomas H. Wheeler, of New York City, has purchased the steam yacht Empress, through the Mc- Intosh agency. The steam yacht Clermont has been chartered through the same agency to Mr. Charles G. Gates. Ree A small centerboard sloop is being built at Wood's yard, City Island, for Mr. Anson Phelps Stokes, from designs by Messrs. Tams, Lemoine & Crane: © —— SAIL PLAN OF THE 38-FOOT WATERLINE CRUISING CUTTER PELLEGRINA. ; Designed by Messrs. Burgess & Packard for Cot. R. H. Morgan, 1903. a F The steam yacht Doll, ex-Viola, has been sold by Mr. E. C. Converse, through the agency of Mr. Frank Bowne Jones to Mr. William T. Rainey. She was de- signed by Mr. A. S. Cheseborough, and built by the ceo. Lawley & Son, Corp., in 1895. RRR The English-built turbine yacht Emerald arrived in New York on May 4. She left Greenock on April 17 and stopped at Fayal, Azores, to recoal, leaving there on April 23. Very bad weather was experienced throughout the trip, and the yacht’s sea-going quali- ties and machinery were put to the severest possible test. The yacht is owned by Sir Christopher Furniss, and is under charter to Mr. George Gould. Captain Donald Tod brought Emerald out to the States. He spoke in the highest terms of the yacht’s behavior at sea. He also spoke of the turbines and commented on the freedom from vibration when running. Emerald is 236ft. over all, 28ft. 8in, breadth and 18ft. depth. ee fe On May 7 the last meeting of the Harlem Y. C. was held in its old quarters on East 121st Street, New York City. On the first day of June the club’s head- quarters will be transferred to the new location at City Island. eRe Mr. John W. Gates is having a shoal draft steam yacht built by the Racine Boat Mig. Co., of Chicago. The vessel is built of steel and is rooft. long, 17{t. breadth and 13in. draft. She is to have a guaranteed speed of seventeen miles, and is to be delivered to the owner complete at Port Arthur, Texas, on Oct. 1. mReR Messrs. T. F. Smith & Co., Jersey City, are building Among the — a number of good-sized power yachts. largest is an auxiliary schooner 54{t. over all, 13ft breadth and 2ft. draft. She is to be equipped with a 40 horse-power White & Middleton gasolene motor, and it is expected she will develop a speed of 12 miles. The high speed launch for Mr. Albert A. Guigues, of Newark, is soft. waterline, 8ft. breadth and 2ft. qin. draft. With a 60 horse-power Dutton motor she will have a guaranteed speed of 20 miles. Mr. G. . Butts, of Hoboken, is having a launch 2oft. long, built from designs made by Mr, W. P. Stephens. : Rene On May 8 Khama, the 6oft. waterline cutter owned by Mr. Seymour J. Hyde, put back to Gourock for the second time. - She sailed from this port on April 24, but returned a day later, as there had been a misunder- standing between the sailing master and the navigating officer. The mate was put in the captain’s place, who quit, and on May 3 the yacht again started on her voyage across the Atlantic. When some forty or fifty miles off T—— very heavy weather was encountered, and as the yacht was damaged, she again put back to Gourock for repairs. The yacht will leave for this side as soon as she is refitted. RRR The Regatta Committee of the New York Y. C. has sent out the following announcement: “For the accommodation of members of the club and their guests the Richmond will leave the foot of East Thirty-first Street on May 21 and 23, at 8:30 A. M., and Shoitoes FOREST AND-STREAM. ee (895 & ia) oF ‘ it hangin faiaect H i" * eerten iP énees Ls C= art rawecalle spindle parole, dnyeete sl | ee fo; ? (Polished Saas water deca collar mach rope earning 7 daczer dens. (aperssrere y) | z : i : varwaret end = Doig hv etafermert. r eeston q™ frame 19 eee erehion fresh galley, ee agter end behouce + ewrers alblercem t ferraze- == s= LINES, CABIN AND SECTION PLANS OF THE 38 FOOT WATERLINE CRUISING CUTTER PELLEGRINA, La es { Designed by Messrs. Burgess & Packard for Col. R. H. Morgan, 1903, will make a landing at Echo Bay, New Rochelle, to meet the G:oz A. M. train from New York. (Trolley cur Service from station to landing.) She will also make a landing at Glen Cove (N. Y. Y. C. station No. 10), at tr A. M., leaving there at 1r:15. She will touch al these two points on her returtt. “Memibers’ tickets and also extra tickets, at $3 each, including lunch, but exclusive of wines, ete.,, can be obtained from the committee at the clubhouse. (Ladies’ tickets on the same terms.) RRRE Scioto, the steam Jaunch built at Morris Heights for Mr. R. M. Gilbert, has had a trial trip, and will soon leave for Lake George, where she will be used. Scioto is 6sit. over all, s7it. waterline, toft. Gin. breadth and 3ft. éin. dralt. Book Notices. There have appeared in the columns of Marine Engi- neering during the past year an intensely iiteresting series of articles by Mr. E, W. Roberts, on the sub- ject of gas engines. The demand for these articles has been so great that the publishers have been induced to republish them in book form. It is, perhaps, only necessary to print the table of contents to show how thoroughly practical, comprehensive and valuable the book must be to builders and users of gas engines, Table of Contents.—Chapter I, General Types of En- gines; Chapter II, Carbureters and Vaporizers; Chap- ter IIJ, Igniters and Ignition; Chapter IV, How to Handle Gasolene; Chapter V, How to Operate Gas Engines; Chapter VI, Installing Gas Engines in Boats; Chapter VII, Hunting for “Troubles”; Chapter VIII, Preparing for a Cruise; Chapter IX, Making Repairs. In order to round out the completeness of the book and to make it as valuable as possible to its readers, three chapters have been added from the pen of Profes- sor W. I. Durand, entitled: The Design of Motor Launches, The Construction of Motor Launches, The Powering and Propulsion of Small Boats. These twelve chapters make a book of 150 pages, which include a large number of illustrations. The work is well worth the low price asked for it—$r.50. Another interesting book published also by Marine Ingineering, is a most interesting and cleverly told story of an engineer's life at sea, entitled The Profes- sor on Shipboard, The price of the book is $1. These two books, if ordered together, may be had for the sum of $2. We do not know of a better investment or a more valuable addition to one’s library. Address Marine Engineering, 309 Broadway, New York. aaa The year book of the American Power Boat Associa- tion has recently been issued. The book contains the articles of association, by-laws, racing and measure- ment rules as well as the time allowance and square and cube root tables. The book sells for 25 cents, and copies can be obtained from the Rudder Publishing Co., 9 Murray Street, New York City. Canoeing. ae Prizes for Canoeists. In order to encourage canoeists and small boat sailors, who do their knocking about on inland waters, to keep a record of their trips and experiences, the publishers of ForEesT AND STREAM offer cash prizes for the best accounts of cruises taken during the season of 1903. As few restrictions as possible will be imposed, and those given are made only with the view of securing some uniformity among the competitors’ stories, so that the judges will be able to make a fair award. The prizes will be as follows: First, $50.00. Second, $25.00. Third, $15.00. Fourth and Fifth, $10.00 each. Sixth to Eighth, $5.00 each. I. The cruise must be actually taken between May 1 and November 1, 1903. IJ. The cruise must be made on the (fresh water) inland streams and lakes of the United States or Canada. III. The canoe or boat in which the cruise is made must not be more than 18ft. long over all. IV. An accurate log of the trip must be kept, and all incidents and information that would be of yalue to other canoeists cover- ing the same route should be carefully recorded. V. A description of the boat in which the cruise is made sliould preface the story, and a list of outfit and supplies. VI. Photographs of the boat and of the country passed through, not smaller than 4x5, should, if possible, accompany each story, and they will be considered in making the awards, VII. Stories should contain not less than five thousand words, written on one side of the paper only. VIII. An outline chart of the trip drawn on white paper in black ink (mo coloring pigment to be used) should also be sent in. IX. Competitors should avoid the use of slang or incorrect nautical expressions in their stories, as it will count against them in awarding the prizes. Each manuscript to which a prize is awarded shall become the property of the Forest and Stream Publishing Company. All manuscript should reach the office of the Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 846 Broadway, New York, N. Y., on or before December 1, 1903. . A. C. A. Division Meets. The following letters have been sent out by the pursers of the Eastern and Western Divisions of the Fee OR Oph Eastern Division. Medford, Mass., April 28, 1903. Dear Sir: It having been decided by the Executive Committee and approved by the commodore, the an- nual meet of the Eastern Division A. C. A., will be held at Canobie Lake, Salem, N. H., May zo, 30 and 31. The lake is é¢asy of access, being about six miles north of Lawrence, and reached by electric cars going to Canobie Lake Park, where the association launch will take you to camp. The lake is very picturesque, thickly wooded shores, clear water for bathing, with fine paddling and sailing courses. All canoes and camp equipage shipped to Canobie Lake Station, B. & M. R.R., care of H. L. Backus, will be cared for and forwarded to camp. Those desiring tents or tent floors are requested to make application to the chairman of the Camp Site Committee as soon as possible. Mess will be provided at an expense of $1 per day. The Regatta Committee has arranged the following programme of races to take place Saturday, May 30: War canoe. Club four—single. Club four—double. Tandem—double. Tandem—sinegle. Single—single. Single—double. Relay. Rescue. Tilting tournament. Division Trophy (6 miles) exempt from upset rule. Combined 3 miles. Novice sailing 3 miles, It is earnestly desired to increase the membership of the association this year, and to that end every mem- ber should try to interest new members in the A, C. A. Application blanks may be obtained of the Purser. At the last meeting of the executive committee of the association, an amendment was made to the constitu- tion and by-laws providing that “Any active member in good standing may commute dues for life by pay- ment at one time, to the purser of his Division, the sum of fifteen ($15) dollars.” The fund thus created is greatly needed by the board of governors, and I hope will meet with the support of many in this Division. The national meet will be held at Sugar Island, St. Lawrence River, August 7 to 21, 1903. Per order ©. C. Cunningham, Purser. Benjamin F. Jacobs, Jr., Vice-Commodore. Western Division. Cleveland, O., April 30, 1903. To Members—Greeting: The annual meet of the Western Division, A. C. A., will be held at Ballast Island, July 5 to 18, 1903. It is the wish that we may have a full attendance of all members of the Western Division, and as many from the other divisions as can find it convenient to be on hand. All will be welcome, and we will try and give all a good time, Information about camp sites, tents, meals, routes, ete., can be obtained from the purser. (He has noth- ing else to do but answer letters.) A programme of races and events will be sent out about June 1, by the Regatta Committee. Be sure and come. Geo. W. Gardner, Vice-Commodore, A. W. Foote, Purser, 1301 St. Clair St., Cleveland, O. Princeton C. C. A canoe club has been formed at Princeton Uni- versity, with a fleet of some forty canoes, and sixty members. The club-has taken over the boathouse on the canal—a relic of Princeton’s rowing days, and the gift of Robert Bonner in 1874—for its use, and its members have already done a considerable amount of cruising and exploring in the Millstone and other tributaries of the Raritan, the upper Passaic, and the Delaware. The members of the P. C. C. gave a most success- ful “smoker” in the grill room of “Tiger Inn,” Prince- ton, Friday evening, April 24, having as their guests Messrs. H. C. Allen, W. N. and F. G. Furman, F. W. Donnelly and H. C. Hill and J. H. Fritz, of the P. I. C. A., Trenton, and H. L. Pollard, Vice-Com. A. C. A., and J. K. Hand, of New York. Much enthusiasm was shown, and the A. C. A. is likely to enlist a large number of new members from the ranks of the P. C. C., who will, it is hoped, in their turn, arouse an interest in canoeing in the different parts of the country, from which they hail. Speeches were made by Messrs. F. C. Wallower, President of the club; Miner C. Hill, H. C. Allen, H. L. Pollard, W. A. Furman and J. K. Hand. A number of the members of old Nassau’s Glee Club sang delightfully, and refreshments were served, “With a stein on the table, and a good song ririging clear.” We hope to hear frequently from the P. Cc. C. in the way of cruising and camping and racing at the neighboring clubs and the camps of the Ay GaAs 404. A. C. A. Membership. The following have been proposed for membership to the A. C. A: Atlantic Division—A. S. Gregg Clarke. The following have become life members to the A. “Gieks Hon. George W. Gardner, Cleveland, Ohio; John S. Wright, Rochester, N. Y.; Reade W. Bailey, Pitts- burg, Pa.; Walter C. Witherbee, Port Henry, N. ME; and C. Fred. Wolters, Rochester, N. Y. Rifle Range and Gallery. —— Fixtures, June 15-16.—Union Hill Schuetzen Corps twenty-fifth anniversary shoot. P. Stumpf, Capt. j June 18-20.—St. Louis, Mo.—Tournament under auspices of tral Shooting Bund. Horace Kephardt, Sec’y. Cone orate Haven, Conn.—South New Engiand Schuetzen Bund annual schuetzenfest, under the auspices of the Independent German Rifle Company. H. C. Young, Sec’y. sie Palma Trophy Matters. ress we reprint the followi il ng: Ea errei ay 10.—The secretary of the N ational Rifle Asso- “Washington, i tha 26, 1903, ciation, Lieut. Albert §. Jones, and Col. E. J. Dimmick have, with the consent of the Secretary of War, made attdngements with the Ordnance Department for new, carefully sefected tifles for use by the teatn that is to go to England to shoot for the Palma trophy. The War Department will order the best shot from each military department sent to Sea Girt, N. J., to take part in the compétitions to be held May 18, 19 and 20, to determine the petsotinel of the team. : f “Assistant Secretary of Wat Satiget, ds president of the Board ot. Promotion of Rifle Practice, will appoitlt a cominiittee of seven, composed of three members froim the tegulat establishment, three from the National Guard, arid ofie civiliah, to stlect the teant. Ohio, the District of Columbia, New Yotk, New Jersey and Perin- sylvania have notified the National Rifle Association of their in- tention to send representatives to the trials for places on the team. The United States Marine Corps has brought its crack shot, Lieut. ‘Thomas Holcomb, home frestn the West Indies to represent the corps.” Grapshooting. If you want your shoot to be announced here send a notice like the following: ss Fixtures. May 11-12.—Crawfordsyille, Ind., Gun Club shoot. May 13-14.—Crawferdsville, Ind., Gun Club’s tournament. May 13-14—Dubois, Pa.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- ment, under the auspices of the Dubois Rod and Gun Club. U. 5S. N. Crouse, Sec’y. : May 15-17,—Ocean Park, Cal.—Pacific Coast championship blue- rock tournament, under auspices of Ocean Park Country Club. L Herzog, Sec’y, Los Angeles. May 16.—Trenton, N. J., Shooting Association’s tournament. J._R. Taylor, Genl. Mer. May 16.—East Walpole, Mass.—All-day shoot of the Neponset Gun Club. Edgar Bills, Sec’y. May 17-18—Cedar Lake, Ind., Gun Club tournament. May 18—Marion, Ind., Gun Club’s tournament. May 19-21.—Osceola, Ia._lowa State Sportsmen’s Association’s twenty-sixth annual tournament. May 19-22.—Wissinoming, Philadelphia.—Thirteenth annual tour- nament of the Pennsylvania State Sportsmen’s Association, under ee ices of the Florists’ Gun Club of Philadelphia. V. V. Dorp, ec’y. May 21-22.—New Paris, O., Gun Club’s tournament. May 21-22.Kenton, O., Gun Club’s tournament. May 21-22.—Kenton, O.—Shoot of the Kenton Gun Club, A. G. Merriman, Sec’y-Treas. May 24-26.—San Francisco, Cal., Trapshooting Association’s three days’ bluerock handicap tournament. Open to all; $1,500 added. C. C. Nauman, manager. May 26-27.—Dubuque, Ia., Gun Club’s fourth annual amateur target tournament, A. F. Heeb, Sec’y. *May 26-27.—Brownsville, Pa.—Brownsville Gun Club tourna- ment. W. T. Doherty, Sec’y. May 27-28.—Williamsport, Pa.—The Interstate Association’s tournament, under the auspices of the West Branch Rod and Gun Club. H. A. Dimick, Sec’y. May 27-28.—Fort Wayne, Ind.—Ywo-day bluerock tournament of the Corner Rod and Gun Club; $100 added. John VY. Linker, ec’y. May 29-30.—Union City, Ind.—Spring tournament of the Parent Grove Gun Club. ¢ May 30.—Orange, N. J.—Decoration Day shoot of the Nishoyne Gun Club. Ralph B. Baldwin, Sec’y. May 30.—Shrewsbury, Mass.—Shoot of the Worcester Sports- men’s Club. May 30.—Altoona, Pa., Rod and Gun Club’s tournament. G. G. Zeth, Sec’y. i : May 30.—Tournament of the East Harrisburg, Pa., Shooting Association. May 30.—Newport, R. I.—Second annual tournament of the Aquidneck Gun Club. J. S. Coggeshall, Sec’y. May 30.—Detroit, i¢a.—Winchester Gun Club’s Decoration Day third annual tournament; all day. Rose system and average rizes. Sliding handicap, 16, 18 and 20yds. D. A. Hitchcock, ec’y-Treas. May 30-31.—Pullman, I1l.—Calumet Gun Club’s target tourna- ment. E, B. Shogren, Mer. June 2-5.—Baltimore, Md.—Third annual Baltimore County shoot; three days targets; one day live birds; $500 in purses and prizes. Hawkins and Malone, Managers. a June 3-4—Boston, Mass.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- ment, under the auspices of the Boston Shooting Associatior O. R. Dickey, Sec’y June 3-5.—Parkersburg, W. Va.—Sixth annual tournament of the ’ West Virginia Sportsmen’s Association, under auspices of Ohio Valley Shooting Association. **June, second week.—Shreveport, La.—Caddo Gun Club’s tour- nament. June 7-8.—Ligonier, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. June 8-12.—Ossining, N. Y.—New York State Association for the Protection of Fish and Game’s forty-fifth annual tournament, under the auspices of the Ossining Gun Club. une 9-10.—Lafayette, Ind.—Indiana State shoot, under auspices of Lafayette Gun Club. June 9-11.—Sioux City, Ia.—Ninth annual amateur tournament of the Soo Gun Club. B. F. Duncan, Sec’y. June 9-11.—Cincinnati, O.—Seventeenth annual target tourna- ment of the Ohio Trapshooters’ League. Chas. T. Dreihs, Sec’y. *June 10-11.—Ruffsdale, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. R. & Deniker, Sec’y. 7 June 16-19.—Warm Springs, Ga.—The Interstate Association’s tournament, under the auspices of the Meriwether Gun Club. Chas. L. Davis, Sec’y. June 16-18.—New London, Ia.—Seventh annual midsummer tar- get tournament of the New London Gun Club. *June 17-18.—McKeesport, Pa., tournament. June 23-25.—Grand Rapids, Mich.—Second annual target tourna- ment of the Consolidated Sportsmen’s Association of Grand Rapids; $1,000 added. A, B. Richmond, Sec’y. June 24-25,—Rutherford, N, J.—Interstate Association tourna- ment under the auspices of the Union Gun Club, *June 24-25.—New Castle, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. James Atkinson, Sec’y. July 4.—Towanda, Pa., Gun Club’s annual tournament. W. F. Dittrich, Sec’y. July 4.—Topsham, Me.—All-day tournament of the Riverside Shooting Club.- Fred W. Atkinson, Sec’y, ; *July 7-8.—Ligonier, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. J. O’H. Denny, Sec’y. ; July 8-9.—Huntsville, Ala—The Interstate Association’s tourna- ment, under the auspices of the Huntsville Gun Club. E. R. Matthews, Sec’y. July 8-10.—Arkansas State Sporismen’s Association's thirteenth annual meeting and tournament, under the auspices of the Jones- boro, Ark., Gun Club,.of which Matthews is Sec’y-Treas. **July, second week.—Memphis, Tenn., Gun Club’s tournamert. July 14-16.—The Americus, Ga., second annual interstate target tournament. H. S. McCleskey, Sec’y. *July 21-22.—Beaver Falls, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. W. R. Keefer, Sec’y. ‘ F July 30-Aug. 1.—Viroqua, Wis.—The Interstate Association’s tournament, under the auspices of the Viroqua Rod and Gun Club. Dr. R. W. Baldwin, Sec’y. *Aug. 5-6.—Brownsville, Pa., Rod and Gun Club’s tournament. Aug. 12-15.—Toronto, Ont.—Annual tournament of the Dominion Trapshooting and Game Protective Association. A. W. Throop, Sec’y-Treas., Ottawa, Can. Aug. 19-20.—Ottawa, Ill.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- ment, under the auspices of the Rainmakers’ Gun Club. Paul A. Selember, Sec’y. — peace ,19-20.—Millvale, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. Wm. Buss- ler, Sec’y. Aug. 25-28.—Lake Okoboji, Ia.—Annual Indian tournament. Frank C. Riehl, Chief Scribe. *Sept, 1-2.—Irwin, Pa,, Gun Club’s tournament. John Withero, Sec’y. Sept. 2-3.—Akron, O,—The Interstate Association’s tournament, under the auspices of the Akron Gun Club. G. E, Wagoner, ec’y. “Sept. 9.10.—Enterprise Gun Club tournament. Sept. 15-16—Ligonier, Pa., n Club’s tournament, J. Denny, Sec’y. a May 16, 1003.1 4Sept. 25-24—Ruffsdale, Pa,, Gun Club’s tournament. R. 5. Denier Sec’y. = oe Oct. 6-T—Allegheny, Pa.—Notth Side Gun Club’s tovrnament, L. B. Pleming, Sec’y. . Sriiays2 tC ieane—Catheld Goh Club; grounds W Filty- second ayenue and Monroe street. Dr. J. W. Meek, Sec’y- *Member of Western Pennsylvania Trapshooters* Chas. G. Grubb, Sec’y, 507 Wood street, Pittsburg. #*Members of Mississippi Valley Trapshooters’ and Game Pro- tectiye Association. J. J. Bradfield, Sec’y, Vicksburg, Miss. League. DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. Club secretaries are invited to send their scores for publication in these columns, also any news notes they may care to have published. Mail all such matter to Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 346 Broadway, New York. Forest AND STREAM goes te press on TUES- DAY OF EACH WEEK. Messrs. Budd and Burmister have issued the programme for their tournament, to be held at Arnold’s Park, Iowa, June 2, 3 and 4. In added money and average money, $200 are added. There is a like programme each day, twelve events, eight at 15 targets, entrance $1.50, and four at 20 targets, entrance $2. To each of the 15-target events, $4 are added; to each of the 20-target events $5 are added. High averages, first to seventh inclusive, $10, $8, $7, $6; $5, $5 and $4. Shooting commences at 8:20. Moneys in 15-target events divided 40, 30, 20 and 10. ‘Twenty- target events, 30, 25, 20, 15 and 10 per cent. Trade representatives welcome to shoot for targets. rounds open for practice on June 1, For further information address Mr, John Burmister, Spirit Lake, Ta. =, The programme of the Interstate Association’s trapshooting tournament, given for the Boston Shooting Association, June ¢ and 4, has like competition for each day, namely, ten events, 20 targets each, $2 entrance, and $2 added money. Average money $50, open to all who shoot the whole programme through; one money. Dinner will be served on the grounds. ‘Targets % cents. Kose system, 6, 3, 2 and 1, will govern. Guns and ammunition, pre- paid and marked with oWner’s name, shipped eare O. R. Dickey, Wellington, Mass., will be delivered on the grounds free of charge. He is the secretary, and will furnish all pertinent in- formation to applicants. x 3 The programme of the tournament of the Calumet Gun Club, Pullman, fil., May 30 and 31, has like events for both days, tour- teen in number, 10, 15 and 20 targets, entrance based on 10 cents per target. There is a total of 200 targets, $20 entrance. The Rose system will govern the division of the purses. Each day $5 to high gun; $3 to second high gun; $2 to low gun. Shooting commences at 9:30. A set of traps will be provided for those who will shoot for targets only. Guns and shells, freight prepaid, can be shipped to J. W. Hoffman, 310 Morse avenue, Pullman, Il. Mr. E. B. Shogren, manager, 164 Dearborn street, Chicago. Rm The programme of the Neponset Gun Club’s all-day shoot at East Walpole, Mass., on May 16, provides 20 events, all at 10 targets, except the last, which is a miss-and-out. Shooting com- - mences at 9:30. Ammunition and guns sent to the Neponset Gun Club, care J. F. Freese, will be delivered on the grounds free. Targets 14 cents. Mr. €. A, Flower is the president. Mr. E. L. Bills is the secretary. 4 The Worcester Sportsmen’s Association will hold a shoot May 30, on its grounds at Shrewsbury, Mass. The programme con- tains twelve events, 10, 15 and 25 targets, 195 in all, with a total entrance of $15.30. Professionals and paid experts barred from money. Shooting commences at 10 o’clock. There will be three merchandise prizes for those shooting through the entire pro- gramme. R The Nishoyne Gun Club, of Orange, N. J., will hold a shoot on May 30, commencing at 10 o’clock. There are ten programme events, at 15, 20 and 25 targets; 50, 75 cents and $1 entrance. Lunch and ammunition obtainable on the grounds. Take Eagle Rock trolley car from D., L. & W. R. R., Orange station; also Erie R. R., Orange station. Mr. Ralph B. Baldwin is the secre- tary. Rg The Richmond Gun Club, of Staten Island, will hold a live- bird shoot at Smith Brothers’ grounds, Newark, N. J., com- mencing at 1 o’clock on Saturday of this week. The main event will be at 15 live birds, for a solid silver cup and the champion- ship of Richmond county. Optional sweepstake. Visitors are wel- come. Mr. A. A. Schoverling, P. O. Box 475, New York, is the manager. a The Amherst Gun Club, at a meeting held on May 6, elected officers as follows: President, Charles S. Branch; Secretary and Treasurer, Thomas R. Hill; Executive Committee, H. B. Perry, . W. Harlow, A. R. Bridgman, C. R. Kenfield, O, S. Cady, L. . Dickinson; Captain oi Rifle Range, Henry Adams; Gunmaster, J. F. Page; Master of the Range, A. F. Bardwell, It was de- cided to have a shoot on Memorial Day. At a recent meeting of the J. F. Weiler Gun Club, Allentown, Pa., officers were elected as follows: President, W. L. Gillette; Vice-President, Charles Hohe; Secretary, Schindel Weiler; Financial Secretary, C. F. Kramlich; Trustees, C. L. Straub, J. J. Flickinger, Harvey Frankenfield; Captain, C. L. Straub; Assistant Captain, C. F. Kramlich; Sergeant-at-Arms, Ben Beidler, ® The two days’ tournament at Irwin, Pa., May 5 and 6, was a suc- cess in attendance and class of competition. Mr. Luther Squier, of Wilmington, Del,, was high ayerage with a total of 325 out of 350. He made a run of 75 straight. Fleming was a close second. The Millvale team, four men to a team, won the trophy event with 175 out of 200. * : The Leesport, Pa,, Gun Club, at_its annual meeting, held re- cently, elected officers as follows: President, John Haines; Vice- President, James Adams; Secretary, W. C. Bagenstose; Treasurer, R. H, Fields; Trustees, Thomas Dunkel, Alvin Snyder and How- ard Hener; Captain, Howard Hener. The annual spring shoot of the club will take place on Saturday of this week, ~~ } Messrs. Chris. Inferman and Leonard Marcey have agreed to shoot a 25-bird match for $50 a side, which will take place on Friday, May 22, at Guttenberg, N. J. Mr. Marcey receives a handicap of 2yds., while Interman stands at 30yds. On the same day Messrs. Karl Bjurman and Sam Luckham will shoot at 10 birds each, for $25 a side. Rx The Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Press, states that “Hudson has a new gun and rod club, and that doubtless means contests and sport with the Poughkeepsie Gun Club. The main purpose of the ciub is to prevent violations of the game and fish laws, with shooting at target and whipping for trout on the side.” td _ The excellent programme of the New York State shoot, pub- lished elsewhere in our trap columns, this week, is worthy of the careful consideration of trapshooters. A number of items in it eonvey information of special importance. Those who desire copies of it should address Capt. C. G, Blandford, Ossining, N. Y. At the Rockwell City, Ia., tournament, May 6, Mr. C. W. Budd. high average with .915 per cent. rae ; he a: of Des Moines, won Adams, of Rockwell, Ta., was second with ,905 per cent. programme provided 200 targets for the total of the regular events, FOREST AND STREAM, Mr. J. L. Head, of Peru, Tnd., fathotis as A leaditig trapshooter of eminent skill, and a successful representative of one of the pteat ammunition companies, was 4 Visilo} in Wew York on Tuesday and Wednesday of last week. The secretary, Mr. A. B. Richmond, Grand Rapids, Mich., in- forms us that the second annual tournament of the Consolidated Sportsmen’s Association, of Grand Rapids, will be held on June 23, 24 and 25, and that $1,000 in added money will be given, Mr. C. G. Grubb, of Pittsburg, Pa., writes us as follows: “The Beard of Control of the Western Pennsylvania ‘rapshooters League has changed the dates of the Ligonier shoot to Sept. 16 and 16, instead of Oct. 20 and 21, bd At the De Witt, Ia., tournament, May 6 and 7, Mr. T.. Walrod, De Will, was first average with .923 per cent. HH. C. Watson, Sewickly, Pa., was second with .894; Mr. W. B. Linell, Eldora, was third with 89 per cent. R To decide the individual target championship nt the University, the U. of P. Gun Club will hold a shoot on Saturday of this week, on the grounds of the Clearview Gun Club. * Mr. S. H. Vandegrift, of Pittsburg, known in shooting circles as “Sandy McPherson.” will make New York city his permanent place of domicile in the near future, * The Towanda, Pa., Gun Club announces that its next annual tournament will be held on July 4 Mr, W, PF. Dittrich is the secretary. & We are informed that the Illinois State shoot, which was fixed to take place this wéek, has been postponed to October, BERNARD WATERS, Some Nebraska Shots. Omana, Neb.—Now, for a little chat about our Western shoot- ers. W. H. Heer, ot Concordia, Kans., and well and favorably known to all our local shots, is the crackerjack of them all, and 1 do not except event Fred Gilbert, the Spirit Lake trapper, or Alphabetical Ejliott, from the hamlet down on the Kaw. leer is a umgue character, a plain, common, coal digger, a graduate from neither Yale or Harvard, but an affable, good-natured all- round man. He is a big, smooth-faced six-footer, and when shoot- ing wears a mammoth broad-brimmed black slouch hat, turned up in front, like an old-time border ranger. He is a left-handed shooter, and holds his shotgun like a rifeman holds his rifle, close up with a very crooked arm. There are but few like him. Hle is wondrously quick, surprisingly graceful, and one of the very best target shots im the world. At the late State tournament at Con- cordia he won the State championship, with 78 out of 80, from the 20yd. mark. On the second day Ired Gilbert had to break his last 50) targets straight to tie him for high average, which he did, both getting 195 out of 200. At Lincoin, the Nebraska State Sports- men’s tournament last week, Heer won out high, beating experts and all with but 17 misses in 400. Against him were such men as C. B. Adams, of Rockwell City, Ia.; high man at El Paso; the “old vet” Chippey Budd, of Des Moines; Tom Norton, of Kansas City; Major Kirby, of Cincinnati, and all the best of Nebraska’s shooters. Lew Reed, of Ohiowa, this State, is another rattling fine man with the hammerless, of whom the world abroad knows but little. In type he is the direct opposite to Heer—an undersized, clerical looking chap, but like the Kansas man, an “‘awfully” decent fellow. When he shoots he pulls his gun down out of the clouds, then crouches lower and lower until in the attitude of a sprinter await- ing the pistol’s crack, when he squeaks, “‘All ready, pull! and into a nebulous cloud bursts the asphaltum pigeon, Dick Linderman, of Weeping Water, and Frank Beard, of Herman, tied Reed for the championship at Lincoln with 24 out of 25, and on the shoot- off Linderman was almost an odds-on favorite, but he was last in the race, the result being Reed 24, Beard 23, and the redoubtable Richard but 19. There was lots of money won and lost on this shoot-off. In the regular event for the championship, Dan Bray, “‘Old Single Eye,” of Columbus, was considered a cinch, but after breaking his 23 straight, he fell down on both No. 24 and 25, Reed, this season, has won high average at most all of the State shoots, and is a man to be classed with the very best of them. The premiers, so far as Omaha goes, are W. D. Townsend, the popular and energetic sporting goods man, and holder of the State’s dickey bird championship; Henry McDonald, manager of the gun club park, and County Commissioner, and Frank Fogg, the voluble druggist. These three are in a class by themselves. Then follows in succession George W. Loomis, Billy Brewer, Charlie Lewis, Dave Morrell and Dick and Tom Kimball. All of this bunch, in addition to several out in the State, are getting ready to go after Mr. Townsend’s honors, the dickey bird belt, and a number of specials are being arranged for the near future. Townsend won the title at the Grand Island shoot a month ago with 48 out of 50. Over the State are such great shots as Dan Bray, of Columbus; Dick Linderman, Weeping Water; Gus Sievers, Grand Island; Gus Schroeder, Columbus; William Veach, Falls City; W. A, Waddington, the sheriff of Holt county; O’Neill; W. H. Tilian, Albion; Frank Beard, Herman; Frank Nicholson, Nebraska City, and “Borey” Moore, Frank Williams and P. J. fiindmarsh, of Lincoln, The latter gentleman is a noted field shot, has had un- limited experience in the big game regions, and is the best wild- fowl shot I ever saw, The new officers of the State Sportsmen’s Association are: Dan Bray, Columbus, President; Gus Sievers, Grand Island, and G. A. Schroeder, Columbus, Secretary and Treasurer. In the ballot. ing for the site for the state tournament for 1904, Columbus won out over Omaha by a majority of 2 out of 41 votes, The Dickey Bird Gun Club opened their regular weekly shoots at their park out on the Military Road yesterday, and the Omahas will inaugurate the regular season Saturday, May 16, at their charming grounds at the other end of the big bridge. In place of the State shoot here next May, Billy Townsend and Henry McDonald will give a big sweepstakes the first week in October, two days at targets and one at live birds. The Omaha grounds being on the other side of the Missouri, the live-bird day will be observed as of old, before the modern crop of sycophants and pretenders developed, and’ when pigeon shooting was one of Nebraska’s most popular pastimes. Dickey Bird Gun Club. The Dickey Bird Gun Club’s inaugural medal shoot for 1903 took place Saturday, with the following scores, 25 targets to the man: Wreishaclen meee teas sees be iret 11114144110141111110100101—20 Vorhees .....- Dee aE: nicees teens sie 1119111111011111111011010 21 TRRO GER OY CUI Luba heh oclello ne RRP 1011111111111110010100111 19 Tewrsendh | hs4 ions seared ese eae... 1111101111011411110001010118 Wieser Sa cthoc: smteeeeacnneee ee + +«.0011111110111111101011100—18 STA Cia gone neice hich xe eee ees 111110011111111101010011118 DYER hay WP acisartea sant Meck oe ee 1111011100110110001111101 17 OTT dike eee Come nin ook 100110110011011000111010114 Calpe PM chee TTR Geely ah conte 100110110011100111010000113 Raifirieaseittie cures eran SRE rita et acpi 110001101011100001010011412 IGGPN PE. ata tach ch ceoermtenr panic oeiriins tT 100110001011101001010011013 STARA Beyer Wb ecw «OG AY DOR a a 110001011110011001001000112 Waites Ol Pus tigivesMecdégccaces arses 111001000011100110001100119 Goadsich, eee owe Tt: +v+++.1100011400000110001101101 15 Sanpy GRISWoLp. Greensboto Gun Club, Greensporo, N. C., May 9.—The Greensboro Gun Club held its weekly shoot to-day under unfavorable weather conditions, gusty, strong wind and a bad light. Mr. E. H. Storr was a visitor, The scores follow: Shot at. Broke, ,. 105 86. Proctor Daniels ; Atpraite USAR, oitemere i 32 Store) 2oecep uses H Lee .. . Welsh ........ Sane Et 47 Shot at. Broke. } 30 “J dare say,” she remarked acridly, sitting up in bed, when he stumbled in at 2:30 in the morning, “that you have been sitting up with a sick friend or attending a lodge meeting?” “Neither one,” he replied, “I’ve been. playing poker, and I sloughed off 85 good bones. Where's my night-shirt?”—Washington Star, Lovérhe Tot#hatnent. . . WHAT promised to be a good shoot, both as t) nurbers and favorable opportunities for making good scores, proved quite the feverse; as when on Wednesday morning, May 6, the boys began to assemble upott the Luverne, Minn., Gun Club grounds, the wihd was blowing fitreely, not dil it let up for two days. This kept many at home, and prevented those present ftom making even fait scores. . ; Both the attendance and the weather was a great disappoint- ment to Mr. Schwartz and others of the club who had labored hard and offered good inducements for patronage. H. ©. Hirschy and Tom Norton assisted the management by shooting through. Spirit Lake sent up their usual two members, Slocum and Michelson came from South Dakota, Patch came from Towa, and with the local boys there was a total of fifteen men present during the shoot. ; Hirschy proved the best judge of the wind, and easily won high average, yet had little edge over Schwartz the last day. This is a little too far north for Norton, as he is not acclimated. There are plenty of shooters in the near vicinity that should have been present, yet there is not much pleasure in shooting when 70 and 80 per cent, is the best a good tan can make. The scores? First Day, May 6, Events: T2345 6 7 8 9 1019 12 Targets: 15 15 20 15 15 2015 15 2015 15 20 Broke Slocaria tetsu hatin epee 12111392) 913 13 1216101112 148 IBRIGS liye Heeb leecenee aneee 1112171813 16518 14181413817 #170 Syren: fiz eles vostagn pay elacctoreey aera Mom cr ey aM lone DLO adl che ed ab ool yh 160 AOIOAU ESO he adag tett ee nee ec 12 11 13 13 11 14 14 12:17 11:11 13 152 Sell Teper reece e bt x. 10 914 100005 $915.10 “9 11. 130 WichelSotm Wessgsseyes sea 14 1016 1113173 141216141318 164 J ckAGGT Gee hersorest FO bE 12 912 9 6 15 1012 16 13 1 14 139 SHO GIeere eth es ce werent ere 10 11 14301213 91112 912 132 136 Towne 12 “7% 12 10'18 15 14 12 12 12 12 I6 147 Storts ST LY Nit oo, Serene eee 2 i 32 Perley cusers tary eee -6 1014111213 151014 9 916 139 Schuels 8121612101712 91211 912 £120 Patch 91416 1313 12121316121218 160 ll atte 24 th ee 11121712311 12101215 910123 148 Klein 14 18 14 13 12 16 12: 12 20 91017 162 Gyiapiniey st clsome eres crete ie tees take enesete 91212 10 16 59 Second Day, May 7. Teyents: 123 466-7 & 9 10 11 12 ‘Targets: 15 15 20 15 15 20 15 15 20 15 15 20 Broke DLOGUCT Ieheeeeey eT Tete hen. 15 $1511121210 914121814 145 NESEY Meee te nep eres ss 21418 12 1818 131317111318 172 Ola cites eee tees emneas 111216151318 91217151418 170 ROLLS TER ere mene ee § 815101112 91017 91012 131 UATEVSCLE Ia nomen nee Eee anne 61012138 1215131114 9... 114 Michelson! 2o2))\-se---.. lo TIGTOD0IS. TIbB ATI 10as §©6-14G iiciawelut SBonenngore nes SBN ge § 9 Dd412 14 1b 10.10 112) 912 142 Patch 21013 1212 151313815 7% 1215 150 of rere) fae eer 21113 11 914101414 71918 137 Klein 5181311161018 16111817 166 Chapin I 10 9:4 13° 7.10.15.13 G44 192 Rea earn 3. 00°35 thle be 8G) be 67 W : HU) Ree ee Chee Ps 41 MGWREM acest eet ee oe 12121411 9111211151211 17 146 DCIUGK wee eee erga: 43: 10.43 104015 9 93 18 78) 102 S09 BEHEE HEROES EE BSB Dodd teeth mew ii Subs Sty he A 7 Richmond Tournament, RicuMonp, Va., May 5.—The tournament given by Messrs. Harris, Flippen & Co. was a great success. It had a large at- tendance, It was conducted on liberal lines, and was designed to introduce the ammunition of which that firm nas the agency in Richmond. Everything was free. Interstate rules governed. There was a gold medal, which has to be won three times by one contestant before becoming his property. The winner must, when challenged, defend it, or forfeit it, within thirty days from challenge. Mr. Polk Miller, weli known to fame in the shooting and kennel world, on behalf of the contestants, extended thanks to eae a Harris, Flippen & Co. Mr. J. A. Anderson won the medal. The scores, 50 targets: J. T. Martin 39, W. F. McLelland 34, ©. J. Thompson 30, Lee Lorraine 45, Dr. Hillsman 48, H. S. Hawes 42, M. D. Hart 40, J, W. Harrison 38, H. Brown 40, T. H. Fox 35, T. R. Kemper 33, G. W. Peters 37, H. P. Collins 20, E, H. Storr 44, B. W. Jones 31, J. A. Anderson 47, Pb. J. Flippen 39, Jas. Walters 37, R. H. Johnson 39, D. Edmonds 33, iie Si Leach 6, W. Harris 16, W. C. Saunders 30, A. K. Thomas 13, EB. S. Jones 11, Tomson 25, Ruffin 32, Ford 24, J. W. Bauer 32, Atkinson 35, V. Hechler 27, Cersley 34, Neurhor 30, Dr. McGuire 3, J. R. Jones 4, Boudar 33, Southward 30, Dr. G. Bagny 30, Hatcher 25, C. P. Weiss 17, Cushman 43, Banks 41, W. H. Hill 44, John Lannox 18; Bolton 80, Grimes 20, A. J. Warren 43, Jim Crow 35, Tiller 26, Hazlegrove 25, Polk Miller 27, G. C. Jackson 26, Blair 34, Hammond 46, Dickerson 28, Allison 25, H. B. Flippen 18, Tolman 32, J. Jackson 36, Dr. Rudd 27, F. Stearnes 45, W. Miller 30, T. Williamson 42, T. Whittett 35, Wm. Hechler 42, O. Hazelgrove 22, I. W. Dawson 18, C. S. Cross 35, C. O. Saville, Jr., 27, B. McClellan 38, S. Vincent 22. Ossining Gun Club. Ossintne, N, Y., May 9—To-day the weather conditions were such that fine scores were foregone conclusions. However, the scores herewith presented are not likely to make back-liners of any of the shooters who took advantage of the day. The ancient game of golf detracts somewhat from our Saturday matiness in summer, Our friend J. Henry and his clever niece, Miss Hol- land, were welcome visitors to-day. Miss Holland handles her pump gun like an expert, shooting in fine time. No. 5 was at 5 pairs: 5 Events: iby ATs 9 10 10 10 10 10 Tie Pe fF OTL a 5. ee eo 9 Ww o ee co H ry i momen Sop ERGn ty tassel ayrensete cote nese ne a Tiss srenand AE ALES ee erat: nee ee aa + goo OU Baltimore Shooting Association, Bartimorre, Md., May 9.—The regular weekly shoots of the Baltimore Shooting Association commenced to-day. The interest is maintained by subdividing the competitors into classes A, B and C, a medal being the prize in each class. Lupus and Hawkins tied on 46 in Class A; Roberts was first in Class B with 40; Chelf took the lead in Class C with 31. The medal contest: is at 50 targets. The scores: Events: Te toe bared ro Events: Targets 10 15 10.15 50 Targets Malorie S-i20. emer SaB YB VSUS Csi SHA) BAe yaa ee ne Lphysyatst pie AAUP: 915 81546 Mordecai IBA dtebat SAA Aa ine: EDs BEER TAGES. Spe ows yea In Be Sne fe GV Sa Hie enwirares ae ee Se 814 81443 Chelf ............., SHA ee ret pee eek OC Solas Sprimneseey toe. Edwards ... 910 8 838 Kesler ....... Biddle ,.-. Vell <6: 38-35. Preston’)... ., Franklin . Aer lA. Oo Glave Ee ont ape Roberts Fels 10340 Cox. oes: Hillside Gun Club, Chestnut Hrrr, Pa:—The monthly shoot of the Hillside Gun Club had nine contestants. The main event was at 50 targets, unknown angles, handicap. The scores: W. Haywood (5) 58, N. Caie (4) 51, M. Bisbinge (10) 50, J. Haywood (17) 50, R. Bisbing (9) 48, W. Aimen (15) 47, C. Larson (2) 46, J. Hamil 2) 46, L. Parson (9) 44 Sweepstake event, 10 targets, I6yds., unknown angles: Caie 9 Hamil 9, Bisbing 8, J. Haywood 7, M. Bisbing 7, W. Haywood 7 Laurent 6, Parson 4, Aimen 4. : Franklin Gun Club. FRANKLIN Furnacr, Pa.—The shoot of the Franklin Gun Club to-day resulted as follows: Shooting at 25 targets, C. Barnage broke 12, A. Right 9, F. Kishpaw 9. Shooting at 30, H, Pope broke 23, J. Williams broke 19, 3898 Lexington Gun Club. Lexineton, Ky., May 7.—I am inclosing with this a copy of the scores of the shooters in attendance at the live-bird and target tournament of the Lexington Gun Club, May 5 and 6. Am inclos- ing clipping from one of our jocal papers, the Democrat, contain- ing fairly accurate accounts of each day’s shooting. The programme, as- advertised, was not adhered to closely, events being substituted to suit the shooters, The live birds were an unusually good lot, but an utter absence of wind, together with the warm weather, and the fact that the traps were set inside the diamond of the ball park, made the birds show up splendidly, and the dust told plainly the shooters just where they were placing their lead. Mr. A. W. Du Bray, of Cincinnati, O., shot through the entire programme at live birds, and was high average man, he only failing to score on five birds, three of which were dead out of bounds. Mr. C. O. Le Compte, of Eminence, Ky., won high average on targets, and this shooting from the 18yd. line. Events 1, 2, 8 and 4 were miss-and-outs, No. 1 was at 28yds., $2 entrance, birds extra. No. 2 was at 28yds., use of one barrel only, $2.50 entrance, birds extra. Ties divided. No. 3 was a handicap, $2, birds extra. Clay and Rogers divided, No. 4, was a handicap, $3, entrance, birds extra. PARLIN are, Sette 1, pail a9 ddscvussesescanen 2ea22222222. 20 Theos Clay, 30. eeree.t 2222222221 2112211 A W Du Bray, -22002 2221211111 Ti* : R H Smith, 28 .. 21220 0 210 C O Le Compte, 222120 210 A Buckner, 30. 20 22* 222220 Mae A ears Fond nlnta atedemrsraseceeted sere eens Side ees 2222222111 21210 Be Seerd. 2bsce sckk stack Uhasduecownaeds cn of see 20 10 Me tie tle AAI EET EW OLN SERUn Smear create cess | Uesreke res 1120 AY ERE ELE op eR ale ck SOC ra Une 2 hors Sad ahd ore rae abe Set terra “ 122* JeeW OSD OENG, whsbe cee sh nohheelcurceb cecsiteste | Aiea deem 212* Wi ARETE Se eet uve ie sbeehieceh -oeeeenc: Bidseh a Sanljeescesann 1222221 No. 4, purse of $45, divided between Le Compte, Clay and Regers: Bill Nye, 30....2022220 E Sellers, 26,...2221112210 Maye Une eee 2211011112112—13 ‘44,7? 30.......... 2212111210 Du Bray, 50..... 221111221122*—12 Detts, 27. ....... 11121* Sriehs Livteenas 92919711220 Osborne, 27..... 22122* Le Compte, 30..1121111212122-43 Rogers, 29....... 1112112221221—13 G W Clay, 30...2212110 W Henderson, 27.0 Buckner, 30..... 222222220 Event No. 5, Hotel Handicap, 10 single live birds, entrance $5, birds extra, $15 added; two moneys, 60 and 40 per cent.; ties to be divided, except that in case of unanimous consent of winners, the same may be shot off miss-and-out, in which case should three or more tie for first money the management will add $5 for high gun: Bill Nye, 29......- 2222092292 — Q 158 350 313 Paritavde Weve ne sats ale 175s 155 Mi 14 350 =. 09 esConipteas sa eee 175 152 175 = 154 350 306 156 175 150 350 ©. 806 157 175 = 149 350 =. 806 157 175 147 350 © 304 152 175 86149 300 = 801 151 175 ~=6.149 350 300 152 175 — 145 350 297 VVERLETS We nt giieceney itt: 154 175 «= 143 350 4 ©=- 297 sake =e ee ae 144 175 149 300 293 tare) Tees ease ore ade 142 175 148 350 290 Brady 142 175 = 146 SOAS FDertaa DYGS eseatirere ranean 137 175 148 350 285 Meaders 138 1% ©6188 350 276 Davis 132 5, 142, 3500274 Mercer tetiasssabedsaase 127 175 = 126 350 253 iw Braye censsete eee 118 175 = 188 350 =. 251 Beker Mirerreeiein sv 0 © 106 175 = 121 250 86-22) IETS DLO wee sete yin 124 100 66 275 = §=©190 EereLeree elec wate 73 140 ~~ 108 240 176 I2rouseen yee oie cer nes 152 Bas 175 = 152 Robertson 146 ars 176 146 WED AIS) The Brea 75 6=— 146 175 86-146 Marshall . 1% 145 175 ©6145 McMillen Hibs 1 175 39-145 G W Hill 175 144 175 = 44. Gia Var Pee eed ese 175 188 175 = 188 Wels gare hitomi rete 175 =. 180 i” 175 = 180 SVeirlbreles Ehren horse abyss aby ae aie G2! ETE CELV nepal paces teenie reek ‘ Ha 17% )~=— 119 175 ©6119 GaTitee eras ete eey eh lore 175 89 x 175 89 WratSon Sisiscasieccncen 105 71 105 71 (pages Sha lnctererett 100 gal oy —! 100 TL SIDE acto sas ncesoaaoe dee and 120 69 120 69 ora Gal lie leeteeeeien ere geen aed 100 48 100 48 HELD Chiupaansete oiere dhe cutehesterees 50 3 255 Sal 50 34 Mont Ward ........5.. 50 28 tes oo 50 28 The third day, April 30, had a live-bird programme. The’ first event was at five birds, $5 entrance, divided 40, 30, 20 and 10 per cent.: T. Marshall (31) 5, Ben Starr (29) 5, M. Starr (29) 5, Bronaugh (28) 5, B. Weille (27) 5, Hansbro (28) 5, Le Compte (29) 5, Gilbert (82) 5, J. T. Page (8) 5, E. Brady (28) 5, Phil (30) 5, Heikes (81) 5, Walters (7) 5. J. M. Hughes (80) 5, Waters (30) 5, Crosby (82) 5, Lang (28) 5, Fort (30) 5, Davis BZD, Bec Ward (29) 5, Fulford (30) 5, J. J. Gray (17) 5, Rouse (26) 5, G. Ward (26) 5, Ed Voris (29) 5, F. O’Leary (29) 4, J. W. Farrell (27) 4, Du Bray (29) 4, Carver (28) 4, E. B. Coe (30) 4, Kimball (26) 3, C. Strow (26) 2, M. Ward (26) 2, Mercer (26) 2, Eaker (26) 2, De Nemo (26) 2. i Event No. 2, Paducah handicap, 25 birds, $20 entrance, birds extra, $500 guaranteed. There were thirty entries, three moneys for each ten entries: TU EAM ONE ae Senses re kah ele reuth ise 222229.2299292999999299992 95 GiGErE See hie ie det ee rT eee hae nee 2222222 2111122112295 CrOSHMA UMS Lace t etait en een 222212292121 22999299091 29-95 Marettalliwocle aenet ae ths mite ete ee « «22222999 LOT Geiss) eer ee Nie thigiae oe ithe ByTyOuds ea0 gs compe s trey. ee eee 1022222322122229292919299 94 OFS 5 Pte ite epee ee oe ne 222.2*22222229991 922999999 9.4 VESSEL, C20 pine Seeirh on: 2, See V9 = -22220)2292.9299999999 2—24. Hitieh ess 30) et er rr eee Nees Lie 20112121111121222912194 21 94 OPCs yes DO epee: ene E EL. | ad 2222939229 (0.222123 i) A BES eee HL ae ad Say 2223122315 201210—23 ETO Vir Lear.cwe Sheen eerie nee) Pe LALA Sy 1202222022239112229919999 99 Bie VTS AAO LE OEE alee cep eienla hens ee 14*22111221222291112919%91 93 TAG chro SLANE Scr rier ieee eee ei 1222211211110112112011120—23 MesiGomptess2 00 ne Ae een unk: beds eos eee 224220 2222202229192999) 99 99 Led tr el ig San aR Annee edutesgereis ene e 2222202222202229999999099_ 99 I Bracly 28) 4s one in enielele ee neat 14 1517141413141715 160 Piatti s 0 soy ceca ee eae 13 14 14 15 17 14 14 141317 13 158 Lawrence 15 10 2013 1512151514 157 Foord 11 11 19 14 12 13 15 16 12 153 Antar: -peuLbei 1415161318 14131913 #155 German ......... 14 13 13 14 15 12 12 18 15 152 Gad Dect Sere toe oceans enka 15 13 18 13 15 11 13 19 13 151 (SEW Lorpctllls sete oe ace 11 1418181313131812 161 Malone .,:...s0.-- epeite ettns 0 14 14 12 14 15 11:18:19 13 151 Wrekielyeqn sees conc cursuben wits 13 1842 138 1913 12 12, 9°19 13 148 Ehendersoni tis hide sevess caveees 138 1611 1217131113141613 48 agiths Ue SLU rhe, Pel oe, 13 1211 15.13131412 91915 146 Weta ee cet as) Se SOLA 12: 1213 1217151013131612 145 LENT tah POO eS OPE pa 12 11 10 12 17 13 13 18 13:17 13 144 Careline eteteen had cesonceatte 15 13°13: 11 20111211131913 141 Bibrousnsecrsvercesecees tease ll 9 914171421315 151612 141 Lee ey a eee Bele SL Eas Ht Cn TOs ods ERS ae wee BEWAL soscecs shed eatoe ss lam elie her. ee cate, une Weller: «2 st.78 sun ts. Eee AAAI ue ih OF 4. 3S 8, TAGES OM Whe teih 38 edu-meane runs 141014111510121110.... Beckers! 2) (a0 sks Pree es aaetin 91411 111712 12141116.. A Eto, PACE CRewees Teer, OUT ett Neier, cle E Dupont LO ieee Baskerville siey> ttle hielo hs Simon Spl ps ela, Faulkner ... OLDE Gt FA TR ieporsthien ret ceeelel isc. asl ye Seeeie ice ya ty oes Bote SAS LOT RIR E> Ste ta ee lays kia slogha doy (lv, MB9 6 ioe see oho 14 14 ope {RRL ome ere here eee ann Ane ae wr hrm re eek: 5 fas VET It tig te ha EH SES bn = SEG aiaioretels 13 12 18 15 18 12 10 14 14171 152 General Averages, First Day. Second Day. Total. Ue i) Feyo keys) ee ere tre RAE bees live 162 319 SRS elby ewes eres ese beeen eae aed 152 160 312 T Ml Fawiktios: oo ois. wreeeatunaen vat yL49 158 307 Seat. paper sc... ol Ulius enacts a Dene 150 155 305 Te. (eaperCese on. yes eae cn endadto ey 157 304 7. Se Gehinas.9. bc. l as arcs ete oe 150 152 302 LPS Eculavet come pea elena, ae Ee RAE Ee 148 151 299 WOM MLIGhoEe coins aa eee aeteh pce votes 142 153 295 Flerirlencoiys micitate ss dttetceuriae toate se 148 148 291. Ohew 5ities Bearer Be Son ne: err 138 151 289 Rockwell Tournament. RockweLt Curry, Ia., May 6.—The Rockwell City Gun Club's two-days’ tournament did not have as large an attendance as was expected, and the lack of live birds did not allow them to com- plete the programme, For the same reason the special match between ©. C. Battger, of Ollie, Ia., and Al Gilson, of Fonda, was not shot. C. W. Budd was the only manufacturer’s agent present, and shot through the first day’s programme for targets only. He was high with .315 per cent. , ; After lunch it was decided to shoot the target events on second day’s programme, as two avérages were given for the two high guns. W, B. Linell won first and C. B. Adams second. The weather was pleasant in the forenoon, but soon after lunch it began raining, and was very disagreeable the balarice of the day. Events: 12 34°65 6 Ts 910 10 12 Targets: 15 15 20 15 15 20 15 15 20 15 15 20 Av. Wiel wb estes ea poe e 18 12 20 12 15 18 12 18 18 14 12 18 885 PA IATISOTL: Uy ba ete vile Seer eee 5 Eales tA Ee pe bg are ks J Peterson ........ rei fedaee i 11 18 17 12 16 13 10 19 14 15 19 860 ONC: Wo ateOs nese sen see ... 10171 16141819141517151316 ,866 Mia Woon!) ole. re TRIE TE AAA GOTTA eae os rer AIMOT BE Renee dicexes ee AQoioolhar sn cen ent ani ae W D Townsend...... eevee 1821517311 12171210161418 17 835 C B Adams.i.s.seeeeeeeees 11 18 20 14 13 18 14 aka 14 20 ae C W Budd..,....... veveevee 1213 19-12 15 2015 1519121418 915 Geo Hughes ........seceeee 14 14 1412 11 11 Hee he oe es FC Dorton yyeryerseveveee 14.4416 DB WB 1h 1 4 ys oy 2. es . oe te ' poe TT. Blaweeye, Ss ieny sill Dewitt Tournament. De Wirt, Ia., May 7.—The tournament of the De Witt Gun Club closed to-day. The attendance was good on Wednesday, but quite a number went home on Wednesday evening. Event No. 2 on this morning had twelve entries, which was high for the day. The weather was fine both days, but owing to a bad back- ground the scores were not high. May 6, First Day. Events: L128 45678 9TOUNW Total Targets: 15 16 15 15 20 15 15 15 15 15 15 25 ~Broke We See sig. caseddeciat 13.13 1413 18 13 13 1411131223 170 L Walrod . .... 19:14 14141716 1414151415 23) =-182 Apa RoSove By eee bo 4 9 10 11 18 15 13:14 13 12 1417119 ~~ 154 VIEL SNTIReL een, cee 12101012 1513111111141023 152 I McCatiehey -....06;..0. 12 14713 1216 1411151315123 21 109 AEM Weare ts gu A acne sayee tas 11 910 916111313 7131421 £147 | aves’ yaerereracsccetas 13111118 1514131110101817 161 1) GOV teor anes oeeninned 9131411 2015141215131420 174 He Steere bao ad tebes na cers 1413131318101118311141220 160 THUHIAZEN tit sheedks tia ate 101111 11-13 91012181211 22 146 @ HW Arthur 2.25... i. WdI2I8 IT 16 bb 121415 19 «= 162 ney NOTRE Y a A A cre eee ec eis | Bie Degas as is ee e019 Jack Shaddow ..........% 12141311151311141215 $20 158 F Butterfield ...........: 101110 91313138 912 71023 140 RSs -. La ere eka s oe its eo as ine yet LO! = are as I sLortd’s-Ra0eee pi der eels epee Rees 10 10 14 12 18 i eWheeles Vea vAte Se hh MA ee 16 Dh. NCCAA Soy ieetniere eu ce eee totems 7il42.. 15 SELOW GME Gadieaestao9 sete ee Feel ta che eee seat aL IV CC Arye Lah Ee Pee elle Matrentles Mt) Suen we eae ab O- he Wiad: “Blanreris e085. ofgceh 2 Ci tee eS rs ae oe May 7, Second Day. Events: A 28) A Rs OE OIT 127 Total Targets: 15 15 15 15 20 15.15 15 15 15 15 25 Broke KGET veel Aare Garbo aee eee 13 12 141519 141410131415 25 178 PLomen ss aetee SAA AGRO 121010 138 16 121312141411 21 158 Wiitscul \seastehcser ure se este 11 1414 151918121513 121423 175 Linell ......5 PM eee ae 141411 151812151414131225 177 SPSS” Con Mi tmet Oilats sstsjsiets 1213-138 19 2 4 2 sate APU RENAE ES ie erect 10 11 10 12 18 131213131313 20 158 SOME We eit Heke A eS Pr LAL eet Meee se uci ae cla AS ete Se Wibeelétes 2cke hic depos AA hs SIS Sse too ee Butterfield .........0e008 TS) eLON4 6 14 OLE Sree = ee TOPs Susana settee be TUR RES 1211 9121713 10141111 11 21 158 BVT hentia este abut ths pays ti ecotahtie ental 2 eames le waite ae a oeeey Nd Beelleveunscske sapaeetaaeeteetees 9: ROR St sue ees General averages; f First Day. Second Day. Total. Average. 360 To. PUVA ¥Ot bike ei etch Ate 6s 182 178 -920 Fie Watrsoniesa): t6L bk cas peace 174 175 349 894 A tell sss bak eens eerie’ 170 177 347 890 HAWKEYE . Boston Gun Club, Boston, Mass, May 6.—The Boston Gun Club’s final shoot of their spring prize series was held at Wellington to-day, and a dis- . agreeable day prevented what was sure to be a large attendance. The finishing up of the various matches brought the interest up to fever heat, in spite of the small attendance, and many an ex- citing 10 and 15 target event was the ouscome. Bell managed to keep up his good work, breaking a 25, displacing an old 19, a jump of @ targets, enough to land him in first place at the finish. Woodruff also increased his score, his efforts of 23 cutting out a 21 and securing second place. Baker third, not availing himself of the opportunity to throw out scores. Ties were in abundance on fourth, fifth and sixth places, Spencer, Gleason and Kirkwood each having 165, the two former having the advantage, and through B. G. C. rules are to shoot off for fourth and fifth places. Seventh place went to the shooter present the most times, Frank, and a little bit low for him, too; but wait till next series, and there will be another story to tell. Eighth and last places were taken care of by Prior and Lee, the latter wishing there had been another shoot to cut out a 12, which would have had to go, as the new gun has shown lots of improvement the last few shoots. ‘The consecutive match was won by Rule, of Lowell, 45 being a score no one could beat, though Griffiths’ 41 looked like a winner at the time, but then you never can tell what is coming. Other scores: Events: 1 2304 FPR) S90 01 Targets: 10 15 10 10 15 15 10 15 25 25 25 Av. Wrcocdtinthy Wi Si siwscres sees 710 9 51211 611 afis .710 eee garth als) apbeceryg vin ea alee § S12 6) 7 “8 Ll. eel2 660 Pell Me AGs oes touty ure sie armeo wns 714 7 61218 9.14 -820 Retwoads 6l4 ¢=Casarecsedese ce ae ASI eB .384 Nia terttis, atnees ied este tae ad cas teal ES pba Bye. les hey .740 Soe cer Mt ns. sae eltaine ee dlvees we Woe tesee lll Roe chew 829 Frederick, 16 ....... Serre ee oe oe ee 623 AagTIS ITO Me ere PAT ede ret: oe lei bra 193 Gleason, WIRY Sosh cece teas Se IBN BS Cora ee rey alh 193 Deceit ie he en nero te ory OG cam Eo.) une] be ee LG -500 Consecutive breaks: Gleason 25, Adams 19, Spencer 17, Bell 16. Merchandise match, 30 singles, distance handicap: Bells 1G Ae ais dae peti iaek fst eee 117011110111101111111110111110—25 Spenceri nls My sas asese cleat nivale ee 1111111.01011101111101100111111—24 WV allizinS: ol txeecehs pout elcwaie settee re 010111110011111011110111111111—24 Wteatatate ohh ee Sey ee ere ae Shar 1110111 01111011011111011101101—23 Gleason APRs Paine s Hobe khan s aceite ed 1111101101111111 000111011001 01—21. [EST Ma pe ore oe eee Cee ee ptr ae 0101101101 01110111101101101101—20 Adamsialy opr poaed tt adidas Ais Sipe 00100001010011111.0011010100101—14 Final winners, seven best scores to count: Bell, 16 eee tle aepetaa ero halelges 27 26 25 25 25 24 21 178 Woodruff, 17..s.s....-es ainlergla'e Bat ea 30 27 24 238 23 28 2L Ayl Baler HO cota beihescndurd os. ds : 25. 24 23 .23 920: 170 Swestedac, Uke See eyes tysrss ae 24 24 21 21 165 Gleason, 18 ......-. 2p pa 2k ool 165 Kirkwood, 18 .. 28. 22 22 20 165 Frank, 18 ..... 22 22 22 22 158 Prion lbs iaeacere a Apne 18 18 16 10 184 Trees) esr e cer niet senabst ga 18-417 27 12 Zl ON LONG ISLAND. Brooklyn Gun Club. Brooklyn, L. I., May 9.—The shoots of the Brooklyn Gun Club have settled down into quite substantial events of late, the hustling “manager, John S. Wright, making new students as the old ones graduate, or business cares or change of domicile engage them elsewhere. Mr. H, S. Welles was the bright particular star of the shoot. Events: 1h 3 S49 G8 OT 8d Neat Targets: 10.15 10 15 10 15 25 10 15 10 45 MA le Sirchacs dence bvs ox rege 10 75 5 10 8 2 24 9 34 7 15 RErQeH eee es beans see aU ale Ee ON yt Eh eee I ee 1 Irate, jseti tito e et a , © 1 4 13’ 6 Tt db .. 12 3 Fittchcock ...-..ssceccesees Oe LO ce NE eet Be ee ACkIey a... raw ueget tones es Ge he a ae ae Sy ee ne Cheesebrough ......-...-.. oP SP Pink Ase eS i 7: Dewhatr (71.0. oe. snsesaet are Be Se oF 17 er? RAPT hi tho. pamela oe bieebe,ueakea Gould) Dil4awe6 0 Aa Oh AO 7 ae IMghrmait: fie... soss eens Ae YC ane ne (OE SPSS beg” A Ratinett oSiecterd c.ee.+ sao Ry fai Fe a A Eo ete 8 Druver . A eee. Ta Rael oy: ae Oe RlowaG- tows to. obs TO, 74a ey Corins Chicago Gun Club. Curcaco, Il., Mey 9.—In_ the handicap trophy shoot of the Chicavo Gun Clb to-day, O’Brien was first, Waters was second, Patrick was third, The scores were as follows: Walters (4) 24, Patrick (8) 22, Ruck (6) 20, Lefferts (7) 22, Franklin (6) 18. Dr. Morton (f) 20, O’Prien 26. Young 14, Hensler 18, Zacker (4) 17, Bowles (4) 22, Bureky () 14. ; ; , In the first shoot-off between Patrick and Bowles they tied on 9.' In the second shoot-off Patrick won, 9 to 5 ~ 9 was a sweepstake at 15 targets, handicap. as follows: : Waivers (2) 14. Patrick (4) 16, Morton (3) 13, O’Brien (4) 16, H. ¥ (2) 8, Hensler 11, Zacker (2) 9, Bowleg (2) 12; Burcky 4 i 8 yl ea Brownsville Rod and Gun Club. i BrownsyiLLe, Pa.—The fourth two-day target tournament of the’ Trapshooters’ League of Western Pennsylvania will be held on the grounds of the Brownsville Rod and Gun Club, May 26 and 27. The programme calls for 175 targets each day, five of 15 and five of 20-target events; entrance $17.50 each day; moneys divided under the Rose system, the ratio being 6, 5, 4 and 3 in 15-target events and 7, 6, 5, 4 and 3 in 20-target events, , Targets, 2 cents, - included in entrance, 1% cents for each and every target trapped added to the purses in each event; and in addition to this, the: Brownsville Rod and Gun Club adds $125 as follows; $50 to each day’s Pee $4 to the 15, and $6 to the 20-target events, and $25 to the two low guns shooting through the two days’ pro- gramme and not winning their entrance; to be divided equitably between them, and not to pay more than their entrance. No- shooter, excepting a paid representative, will be permitted ‘to shoot for targets only. Everybody ht a . T. Dauauerty, See’y: PUBLISHERS’ DEPARTMENT. " Up State Business Notes, New York, May 9.—Editor Forest and Stream; It was indeed a - pleasure to call at the factory of the Lefever Arms Co. The~ Messrs. Durston, president and secretary of this concern, are naturally well pleased over the fact that one of their ‘medium grade guns won the Grand American Handicap at Kansas City. . The writer was greatly pleased when examining some of ‘this’ company’s fine grades to discover a workmanship and quality of’ the very highest, which is a great credit to American arms, ; This was true also of a visit with Mr. Farwell; Secretary of-the- Baker Gun Company, at Batavia. While it is well known “that. this company make a good medium grade of guns, it is not so’ Ae known that in the finer grades of their work there is nothing acking. : ie : _ I was informed by Mr. A. W. Savage that their prodtce for 1903 is sold up in all departments, . Mr. Wolcott, manager of the Fred Divine Rod Company, of - Utica, showed me many samples of their hand-made rods, of” various woods used in this class of work, and for all waters. It was here that I saw the bait-casting rod made by this company: that won the world’s record at Chicago. oF Mr. W, H, More, formerly with the Winchester Company, was keeping house at_the Syracuse Arms Company’s offices in” Syracuse during Mr. Buell’s absence in the Adirondacks, where his son is staying on account of impaired health, Mr, More is enthusiastic over the outlook for the shotgun meats E B = Down in Dixie. THERE are many opportunities in the South for making money, especially to those who understand manufacturing some -useful article and have the means to start manufacturing on a small scale. Mr, Fred Oliver, of Pennsylvania, went to North Carolina’ a few-years since with comparatively small capital, and to-day he ° as a wealthy man. He made his first money by starting a small cotton-seed oil mill, Mr. Julius Lewis, a Northern man, went to Raleigh, N. C., and started a small hardware business, and he made, within a few years, enough money to afford to retire from - business. Mr. Lewis was elected chairman of the Selectmen of the County of Wake, which has located in its district the State | Capital. Northern men are not only welcome down South, but in many instances elected to important offices. If you want to learn something about the South, there is no better man to write to than John T. Patrick, of Pinebluff, N. C., who was founder ot the prosperous Northern men’s settlement and winter resort. Southern Pines. Last year there were more than ten thousand people from the North who visited Southern Pines. It is a noted health resort; and Pinebluff is another place being built up by- Northern men and women.—Adv. : : Gettysburg and Washington. PERSONALLY-CONDUCTED TCUR VIA PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD THE battlefield of Gettysburg, and the National Capital in all © the glory of its spring freshness, are attractions so alluring that few would feel like refusing to visit them, It is to place these two attractions within easy reach of every one that the Pennsyl- . vania Rairoad Company announces a tour over the interesting bat-_ tlefield, through the picturesque valleys of Maryland, and an en- tertaing stay at Washington. é, The tour will leave New York 8 A. M., and Philadelphia 12:20 P. M., Saturday, May 23, in charge of one of the company’s tour- ist agents, and will cover a period of six days. An experienced chaperon, whose especial charge will be unescorted ladies, will ac- - company the party throughout. Round-trip tickets, covering trans- portation, carriage drives, and hotel accommodations, will be _ sold at the extremely ‘ow rate of $22 from New York, $21 from Trenton, $19 from Philadelphia, and proportionate rates from other oints. ’ ee itineraries and full information apply to ticket agents; ~ Tourist Agent, 263. Fifth avenue, New York; Court. street, Brooklyn; 789 Broad street, Newark, N. J.;_or*address Geo. W. Boyd, Assistant General Passenger Agent, Broad street station, iy Philadelphia,—Adv. Mr. E. C. Griffith won high average at Boston, Mass., April 29, fifty shooters present. Mr. E. Brady won first high amateur aver- age; Mr. Wade was second; Mr. Livingstone third, and Mr. Skan- | nal fourth, at Vicksburg, May 4-6 tournament of Mississippi Valley Trapshooters’ League. Mr. J. T. Skelley won second aver- age at Wawasset Gun Club tournament, Wilmington, Del., May 7, Mr. Lester German killed 97 out of 100 pigeons, defeating Mr. E. L. Smith at Baltimore Shooting Association grounds, Balti- more, May 6. All shot “‘Infallible.”’ ’ The fashion of using telescopic rifle sights now being once more generally adopted, carries one back nearly forty years, to the ; time when we first saw these telescopes used for antelope hunting. - on the flat plains of Colorado. Those telescopes were made by .. Malcolm, of Yew York State, and the Malcolm Rifle Telescope . Mig. Company is still making telescopes for rifles at Syracuse, N. Y. It is interesting in these days of change to know of so old a business. The Malcolm company send out to applicants an il- - astra red catalogue of their product, which may be adapted to any rifle. No‘angler can very well read the price list of rods issued by the _ Fred D. Divine Company, of Utica, N. Y., without being inter- | ested in the fine rods described in it, and more or less thrilled — by the pictures of the fish and fishing scenes which it pictures, The Divine rods have had areputation for many years, and as the business grows, this reputation spreads and increases. Besides rods and their accessories, the Divine Company sell a nesting boat and various articles for outfitting the camper. Catalogue on application. . Under the title “Hints about Camping,” the Canadian Pacific R. R. Company has issued a pamphlet interesting and useful to: tourists and pleasure seekers. It contains much information that contributes to the enjoyment of a successful camping trip, and deals with guides, canoes, outfits, fishing tackle and arms, and tells how to prepare for the table the results of the day’s sport. Some hints on practical taxidermy bring to a close a useful . folder, which is embellished with a number of attractive illustra- tions. At Derry, Pa., April 29-30, Peters shotgun ammunition won high general EC aos Me Irwin, Pa., May 5-6, the latter won both first and second averages for the two days. At Glen Rock, Pa., May 1-2, E. H. Storr made high average for the two days; he used Peters factory loaded shells. The tournament at spite Bien Va., May 5, was given by. Harris, Flippen & Co., agents o Peters Cartridge Co. 1: New Advertisements. The inany outers who are constantly investigating of what is the best sleeping bags, tent or other contribution to camp comfort would do well to write to Mr. T, C. Phelps, 11 Central street, Boston, Mass., sending him ‘a stamp for his new catalogue, which develops some original ideas in these directions. ‘To the great number of Adirondack enthusiasts who spend their outings in Hamilton county, the name Morley is familiar, Mr, Morley’s resort now. accommodates in his hotel and cottages. 250 _ people; and he tells us that he has the best woodcock, grouse and deer hunting in the State. He furnishes @ catalogue on apr at FOREST AND STREAM. A Weexty Journat or tHE Kop anp Gun. Copvricut, 1908 BY Pores? an) STREAM PuBLISHING Co, Terms, fa Year. 10 Crs. a Copy, Six Montus, $2. The Forest AND STREAM is the recognized medium of entertain- ment, instruction and information between American sportsmen, The editors invite communications on the subjects to which its pages are devoted. Anonymous communications will not be re- _ garded. 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Flowing thus unopposed that writing, if good, is a pleasure to its author and to its readers. But in the other phase of literature pertaining to land and water, the discussional, each party to it is almost cer- tain to have his own personal view-point, which, in many cases, he partially or wholly, according to the opposition, is bent on maintaining, more as a defender than as an im- partial demonstrator. In a debate or controversy, the men who can dispas- sionately, logically and pertinently confine themselves to the real isstie are a small percentage of the whole. As a rule, men who can so discuss a pet hobby are naturally of an equable temperament and broad views, or who have had long continued rigid discipline in dealing with their fellow men, or ‘both combined. Discussions, conducted courteously and impartially, cannot fail to be both pleas- ing and improving. Controversy in field matters should be conducted with special reference to the gentlemanly amenities, for as a class, sportsmen are gentlemen. Controversy, aS con- ducted in the struggle for existence in everyday life, wherein each one more or less directly endeavors to sur- pass his fellows, is out of place in matters of sport. In everyday life the competition is unceasing, In the world of sport all should meet on a common ground of good fellowship and common good. ‘ As a rule, Forest AND STREAM’S correspondents are ad- mirably courteous and fair in their discussions, and we desire to compliment them for accomplishments as de- bators. Occasionally, however, one becomes restive and pugnacious under criticism or opposition, then, ignoring the subject matter at issue, he becomes personal. A blue pencil with a broad end is then likely, as a mediator, to be invoked. A kind word turneth away wrath, but a blue pencil deracinates the wrath itself. When a debator abandons the subject matter and be- comes personal, he makes a double display of weakness, for he confesses, on the one hand, that he cannot hold his own in the debate on its merits, and, on the other hand, that he feels a greater or lesser degree of malice toward his opponent, as expressed by the utterance of unkind personalities. We feel quite certain that some of our correspondents, on meeting erstwhile opponents, have felt indebted to us for the suppression of personalities, on discovering how many claims to good companionship they found in their opponents’ society. Unpleasant personalities have nothing of good in their favor, but have unlimited possibilities of harm. In many instances the parties directly opposed to each other overlook entirely the fact that there is another party directly interested in their debate, which party has a right to insist that the debate shall be conducted in a manner cotirteous and instructive, for the greatest good of the greatest number; that patty is composed of the readers of the journal in which the debate is carried on. The same care and politeness should be observed as if all the parties, in their proper persons, were gathered to- gether under one roof. It may justly be remarked that the journal bearing a debate or debates has a character for dignity, justice and proper censorship to maintain, henge an editor, as an NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 238, 1908. impartial arbiter and responsible censor, would be remiss in his duties if he did not scan unpleasant personalities with an unfriendly eye and trim them with a firm hand. However specifically as this general subject concerns Forest AND STREAM, we desire to express our pleasure at the excellence of our contributors’ offerings, for they are sensible, refined and instructive, As they have been in the past, so will they ever be in the future. SPRING NIGHTS. Tue first ten days of the month have been shuddery with more than the normal amount of chill east winds. Though bright, they lacked moisture, and the thirsty earth has dried, and dried, till all the paths and by-ways are powdery with dust. The wavy softness of the spring is giving place to a slow, partially stunted, inelastic leaf- age grown old before its time, like the child-life of crowded tenements. Victims of an unfavorable enyiron- ment, little men and women, scarce out of babyhood, so with the spring foliage of 1903. Baby leaves looked for quickening showers that never came, and are now tough- ening to stoical indifference. But at night, when the winds are still, and the fever is gone from the parched ground, Venus smiles in glorious brilliancy from the western sky to see the mounds of snow white fog that heap silently together in the hollows. As the planet floats to the horizon the moon throws a flood of radiance that brings the dim features of the landscape into full relief, and presently we find the knolls and upland a-glisten with heavy dew. Now we hear the drip, drip of the eaves. Quiet, comfortable, a sound of contentment. Gone is. the chill of the east wind from the heart as that soft tattoo stirs up memories of home life under the old roof tree of the past. Longfellow says: “The night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day, Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And.as silently steal away.” So we find it. Up from the marshland comes the rythmic peep! peep! peep! peep! of frogs; an humble melody, but music nevertheless. The harsh tones of a restless meadow hen’s cackle blend to smoothness with the sounding chorus in its regular time beats. Hark! the whistle of a wildfowl’s wing! At intervals we hear, now distinct, now far away and dream-like, the music of birds that pass in the sky above. A shooting star trails its fiery way for an instant across the zenith, and the bird voices seem to rise and fall in comment, as it flashes by. So let us go abroad and rejoice in these soft “spring nights.” Truly, they are “filled with music”—nature’s mttsic—for those whose hearts are properly keyed. IN THESE DAYS. Wao of us all may read the signs of summer for the continent? On the one hand lie the tropics, on the other the frozen north; here the manati and the crocodile, there the walrus and the Arctic bear, To the northeast are the moose and the eider duck; to the southwest the tiny deer and the creatures of the torrid desert. A range of forty- five degrees of latitude and“sixty of longitude implies difference of environment hard to comprehend save by the seeing or the feeling. A range of 15,000 or 20,000 feet in altitude means corresponding differences. On the middle Atlantic Coast the sun shines down with blistering heat through a smoky sky. Under the heat and drouth of late April and May the meadows are already becoming parched and brown, although the frondage vi the trees has as yet hardly lost the tender green of spring for the darker hue of summer. The fields of rye have reached full height, have headed out and will soon be ready for the sickle. The birds have all come, and many have passed on to their homes further te the north. Others have built their nests and hatched their young. Young crows, big headed and short tailed, rest on the bor- der of the nest, keenly watchful of the approach of hard worked father and mother, bringitg food; owlets, fluffy and round headed, sit at the mouth of their hole and stare about. Of some birds the young are already abroad. In the fields men sweat as they follow the plow or sow the seed. On the prairie which flanks the mountains, the back- bone of the continent, the grass is green, but it is hidden { VOL. LX.—No. 21. No. 846 Broapway, New York. now by a covering of deep snow. The cattle, which a few days ago were rejoicing in the fresh springing herbage, now stand about, belly-deep in drifts, starving and wait- ing for the snow to melt. The little calves lately born, if not hopelessly chilled by the cold storm, drag vainly at the mother’s udders for nourishment that they cannot yield. To the cattle and to their owners this sign of sum- mer comes as a bitter mockery, Among the higher mountains which overlook the stricken prairie, there is as yet no sign of spring. Valleys, ravines and gulches are piled deep with snow, and the glaciers have thickened many feet by its heavy fall. Mountain sheep are still nearly white, for they have not yet begun to shed their long winter coats; bears have - come out of their holes and are prowling over the foot- hills searching—too often in vain—for something to fill their empty bellies. They make long journeys over hard frozen snow banks, and tear away rocks on the mountain sides to reach the nest of mouse or ground squirrel. It has been a hard winter on mountain game and it is still hard. Away to the westward, on the shores of the still Pacific, is the beautiful land of flowers, a land named for the saints and the angels, a land where in feeling it is always summer. Now cultivated fields and mountain sides alike are green from the plenteous rains of winter, and roots and grain and fruits are almost ready for the harvester’s hand. Here is a larid that smiles always, ever growing richer, more populous, happier. Well has it been called the right hand of the continent. From the northern part of the Bering Sea the pack ice has not yet vanished. Esquimaux are still killing walrus and narwhal along its slowly receding border; whalers are waiting in their harbor for leads to open, through which they may press on toward the Arctic Sea. Inland the snow still covers the earth, but here and there strips of green show where the strengthening sun has called forth the leaves of the Arctic plants—a sign of summer. i In his diary for the years 1787 and 1788, John Quincy Adams wrote: Game laws are said to be directly opposed to the liberties of the subject; I am well persuaded that they may be carried too far, and that they really are in most parts of Europe. But it is equally certain that where there are none, there never is any game; so that the difference between the country where laws of this kind exist and that where they are unknown, must be that in the former very few individuals will enjoy the privilege of hunting and eating venison, and: in the latter this privilege will be enjoyed by nobody. This was an enlightened view when we consider that it was expressed in New England a hundred years ago, when the necessity of game protection had none of the popular appreciation it has in our time. No community realizes the necessity of game protection while the native game supply is abundant. If the birds or the game ani- mals are in hosts to-day, it is the complacent confidence of human nature to fancy that they will be plenty always. It took a prescient eye to see in the future a time when without game laws “the privilege would be enjoyed by nobody.” In all of Adams’ diary are no truer words than these. Nor could he have dreamed of the growth of population, the marvelous perfection of firearms, and che popularizing of. hunting as a sport and the effect of all these upon the game supply. Time has demonstrated that but for the protection offered by the game laws, in New England as in every other part of the land, the existence of a continuing and perpetuating stock of game would long ago have become a thing of the past. A sufficient and unanswerable retort to any benighted fogy, who in these times questions the wisdom and public utility of - game laws as a system, is the simple question, Without game protection where would there be any game? Adams shared the view of his time that protecting the game meant the securing of a privilege to be enjoyed by “very few individuals.” That view was based upon ob- servation of the European system of preserves. The spirit of the American system, on the contrary, is to secure the privilege of hunting to the greatest number of citizens. ae Newfoundland’s experience with a $100 non-resident license fee for caribou shooting has been decidedly dis- astrous to the interests of those who have in past years derived a considerable revenue from American sportsmen. A reduction of the fee at the first opportunity was a, fores gone conclusion, It has beep made $50, 402 FOREST AND STREAM: {May 23, 1003. The Sportsman Tourist. ——~ _ A Visit to Pitcairn’s Island. : In Three Parts—Part Two. I LOOKED over my shoulder just before we had got | in, to see when to stop rowing; I was bow oar, and noticed that a number of men and one boy had come down to the beach to meet us. J meant to get that boy as soon as we landed. The men dragged the boat ashore, hardly giving us time to get out of it, then be- gan to shake hands with us. JI looked around for the boy, and saw him some distance up the beach; he stood there sticking his toes in the sand; he had run off before we landed. The mate saw him and said, “Yonder is your boy already. I wonder who told him that you were coming?” The white members of our crew had a standing joke that I would try to steal a boy off of every island we touched at, and a mate was supposed to examine my cabin and engine room each time before we raised the anchor, to see that I did not have both half full of boys. This had been started while we were among the Society Islands early the last summer. We had taken a fine whale one morning, the first one we had got in more than two weeks, and just as he was brought alongside, the weather began to get thick and the barometer was falling. We could not cut in while the gale that was coming was on; and if we rode it out, with the whale towing astern, we might lose him; the nearest island was only. twenty miles away and we ran down to it and came to anchor in smooth water be- tween a reef and the land. This was Sandez’s Island, it is the second largest one of the groxp, Tahiti being the largest, While we were cutting in and trying out here, I took a lot of smoking tobacco, some hooks and lines and a few jack-knives, and hailing a canoe, had it take me ashore. Always when I landed on one of these islands I hunted up the boys, and after I had given a few of them tobacco and fish hooks they would then do the hunting for me. This was the island that had those half-breed boys on it; they were the descendants of the mutineers of the Bounty. I soon had half a hundred of them around me, and in a short time one-half of them wanted to go home with me. I made up my mind to get at least one of them if the old man did not stop me. I meant to smuggle the boy on baard, then keep him out of the captain’s sight until we had sailed, then as long as I had not bought the boy he probably would let me keep him. The mates would know that I had him; but none of them, except the chief mate, would inter- fere: it was not their funeral; and I and four of the mates were very friendly. ; I picked out a boy about 14 years old, who was dressed in a cotton shirt and a pair of leggings, and that was all. He told me that he was the chief’s son, but his father had about thirty boys, and had told them that any of them could go to the white man’s country if the ship would take them. I took the boy to his father, and after I had given the chief some tobacco, hooks and lines and a large jack-knife, I asked him if he needed this boy in his business. No, I could have him; and I also might take half a dozen of the brothers; he had too many blanketety blanked boys here anyhow, they were in the road here; he must have at least thirty of them; he would be blanked if he knew how many he had. The blanked missionaries had told him that he must keep these boys and raise them, and he added: “Do you know what else they told me?” “No, what was it?” : “They told me I must send off all of my wives but one; I told them they might go to Hades.” That was not what he called the country, but it will do. “Ves, I told them I was chief here; let them teach the boys if they want to; but I need all the wives I have; who would feed these boys after I had sent. their mothers off?” The missionaries evidently had not converted this chief enough to hurt him; he could swear in two lan- guages fluently and had five or six wives. I told him to keep them. “How many chiefs are there on this island?” I asked. I knew he was not the only one. “Three,” was the reply, “just two too many.” “Well, then, why don’t you take these men and boys and drive these other chiefs off?’ “The blanked English won’t let me. I tried that, but they sent a blanked gunboat here and told me to quit fighting, that is what the blanked missionaries are here for, to watch me; I am no fool, I know it.” These people do not care for their children; I have had a nearly full-grown girl offered to me for a few of our silver dollars, but I wanted a boy; and if I had any place to put them I should have taken the chief at his word and got half a dozen of his boys; but I took this one: I stayed to dinner with the chief and as many of his boys as could crowd into his shack. Two of them got up a fight over this; both wanted to get in; the smaller of the two seemed to be “it.” He landed on his brother, knocking him out, then ran in and took his place on the floor alongside of me. His father told him to get out. “No, chief,’ I said, “I want him in here; this boy seems to be a fighter.” “He is; he has half of the boys on the island whipped. I wish you would take him.” “T’ll leave him here until he has whipped the other half. I am going to taboo him now; he must be let do as he pleases here.” “That is what he does do, now.” | I afterward found out that this boy was his father’s favorite, on account of his fighting propensities, I sup- pose. All these boys spoke good English and many of them read it; their father could not read though. I had a number of them write their names in my note book, and one of them wrote the natiye name far his island, We ate dinner seated in a circle on the floor, while the wives of the chief waited on us; I had the chief point out the mother of my boy; he gaid I might take her also if I wanted her; he could get an-— other one. I took my boy on board and kept him there for kK a day; then the gale having blown itself out we got under way the next morning, and had got about a mile off shore when the captain noticed my boy and wanted to know what that native was doing on board? Some one of the mates told him that I had him. He had the ship rounded to and a boat lowered; then he sent for me and told me to take charge of the boat and land that boy again in his own country. I did so. and eame back expecting to be landed in a pair of irons myself, but I never heard any more about it from the captain. I did from the crew though, This is what the mate was driving at now here cz the shore of Pitcairn, “T see him, sir,’ I told the mate; “I will get him,” and I started toward him, but the boy began to run again, “Don't run away. I won’t hurt you. Come here.” He hesitated a morcent, then ran down to me and held out his hand. “You can speak English, can’t you?” I asked. “Oh, yes, 1 am English,” and looking me all over, he asked, “You are, too, are you not?” , “No, | am an American from the United States.” “Oh, I know where that is; my uncle is there, don’t you know him?” “No, I think not. What is his name?” “Tuesday October Christian.” “Oh, yes; I have heard of him, but I have never seen him, He may be there though. It is a big country, you know; I can’t know every one in it.” He wanted to see my boat, and he examined it all over, then wanted to know what I called it. I told him it was a whale boat, and showed him the two harpoons and the lance, and how to use them. “The whales come around here sometimes, but we never try to kill them.” “You could not, your boats are too small, and it is dangerous to kill them unless you know how. When we put this iron in one he sometimes gets mad and tries to do the killing himself. When he does he would smash this big boat as if it were an egg shell, but if they come while we are here we will kill a few of them; we only want a few more, then we are going home.” \ “Can’t you take me home with you?” “Why, yes, I could; I want a boy, but your father would not let you go.” “Oh, yes, he will, if you ask him.” His name he told me was Johnnie. “Is it? My name is John also. What else do they call you besides Johnnie?” “My whole name is John Adams Christian, name John Adams?’ “No, it is John Anderson.” “Why every John here is called John Adams.” “That is because they call you after that old goy- ernor who is dead; his name was John Adams.” He kept examining my clothes; my cap and shoes were a great curiosity to him; there was not a pair of shoes on the island then. He wanted to know what kind of stuff my clothes were made of I told him flan- nel out of wool off a sheep. “That captain who came with you had nice clothes. I thought he was the nicest man I had ever seen.” “That is not the captain; he is the second mate, Mr. Robinson. When he speaks to you always say ‘sir’ to. him; we have to do it; but you need not say sir to me, any more, only ‘yes’ and ‘no’; and tell the other boys not to do it.” “The governor makes us say ‘sir’ to every one. Ti I said only ‘yes’ to him he would whip me.” “Well you need not say ‘sir’ to me; I don’t want a boy to do it.” Our crew had to address me and my partner as “master” and say “sir” to us; the captain kept up his gunboat rules in that as he did in everything else; but if the men forgot, as they sometimes did, to add the sir I never called their attention to it; though a mate or the captain, if he heard them, would give them a keel-hauling for it right away. I took my notebook and pencil and had him write his name, then had him add “Pitcairn’s Island, De- cember 20, 1874,” and told him to write his name and address that way for any of our officers who asked for it, but I forgot to tell him to change the date, and next day when he wrote it for the captain he was a day behind. He handed me the book but kept looking at the pencil, it had a rubber tip, and he asked what this was for, and I showed how to use it. “Have 'you got two of these?” he asked. “Ves, a dozen of them; you may keep that one, if you want it.” “T’ll have to keep it hid though, or I won’t have it long. The goyernor will take it from me; he needs pencils badly now; he has only two short pieces in the school; they are to teach us to write with; when I want to write I take a burned stick and write with it, and I can make pictures, too.” “Then I’ll bring you colored pencils and white paper, and you need not hide that pencil; tell the governor that I can get him all he wants, but he must not take anything I give you boys from you; I will stop that in a hurry if he tries it.” He came back to the clothes now, and would like to have some out of that cloth. All the clothes he had on were a pair of knee pants and a small shirt, neither of them had any buttons on them, only strings, and-he had no pockets, his shirt bosom was his pocket. “T am going to get you clothes like mine,” I told him; “there’is a man on the ship that can make them,” Oh, his mother could make them if I got him the stuff. He stood up and gave the whole beach above us a close looking over, as though he were expecting to see some one; then asked, “Have you got ‘any tobacco?” J handed him q small bag af smoking tobacco, tell- Is your ’ anywhere. ing him to keep it and I would get him some more; then I gave him paper to make his cigarette. Next he wanted a flint and steel to light it, “We don’t use them,” I told him, and striking a match I lit his cigarette, then threw the match away. He got it and tried to light it again. “It won't light but the one time,” I explained; “don’t you know what matches are?” He had never seen one before. This boy was 14 years old, but was nearly as large as a boy of 16 would be at home. He was entirely white, the only trace of the native woman being his long black hair that hung down on his shoulders. He proposed that we go up to the village, keep out of rue cee sight, get all the boys and explore the island. I told him I meant to do that to-morrow, but to- day I wanted to see that chapel, and we started, he going up in rear of the village so as to hide his to- bacco, he said. When half way up he crawled in through a hedge, and coming out again said, “It is where the governor can’t find it now, I have a place in there that he knows’ nothing about.” The chapel was a long, low, one-story affair, having a cross on the roof with the English flag flying above it. The old ship’s bell off the Bounty was hung to a post in front. The door stood open, and going in we found a young woman who, the boy had told me, was their teacher; this was their school. She came forward to meet us. She was dressed in a sort of a Mother Hubbard gown of native cloth, while her hair, which was brown instead of black, hung down clear to her waist. Had she been well dressed she would have passed for a lady By the way, she was in America only a few years ago on a visit; but did not come East. I saw a hotice of her in a California paper. I should like to have seen her again, she is a middle-aged wo- man now, but has never been married. Before we left the island the governor was making his plans to give her to me and keep me there. “Cousin Amelia,” Johnnie called out, “that ship is from the United States, and here is a man off it who can speak English, too.” “Of course he can, what else did you think he spoke? He is English the same as we are,’ then to me: “You don’t know how glad we were when we saw your ship at daylight this morning, We watched to see what flag you would have.” She started to show me what she called their organ; it was one of our old style parlor organs. The name plate was on it yet, and I told her it had come from New York. She sat down and played it and could still get music out of it, but it was rather worn; they had been using it for many years. She showed me their library, consisting of a few school books, prayer and hymn books, Testaments and about two dozen old magazines that they had put cloth covers on; none of the magazines were less than six years old, most of them being dated 1867. Then she brought out a book made by sewing illustrated papers, Harper’s and the London Times, together; hardly a page ot this had not been torn and mended again. I felt sorry for them when I saw what a poor library they had and how much they thought of it, and told her I meant to get her new books right away. |: We got back to the beach and got the boat into the water, and I sculled out to the ship and found the captain on deck under the awning, and told him that | I had come on board to try and get them some books. “Go to my cabin,” he said, “and take all of my maga- zines, and get what the mates have and take them ashore. If you see the governor tell him that I will be ashore myself this afternoon. I am going to re- main here a few days. Any time you want to visit the island take a boat and go; you need not ask me; tell the mate in charge of the deck that those are my orders.” 4 I thanked him; this was a privilege he had never been known to give any one except his mates, and they had to notify him before they left the ship. Going to his cabin I got all his magazines, then a lot from each of the mates; then the first mate gave me a big bundle of picture papers; next I got all of my own and the steward’s. None of these magazines were over a year old; we made a practice of buying them in every port we called at; the last had been got at Hobart Town, only a month ago; it had taken them several months to get these though. I made up a large bale of them; then began to hunt up the stuff for Johnnie. I had not flannel enough, but there was a man on board who acted as my tailor, and I could get it from him, He went by the name of Marblehead, from the port he hailed from down East. I had got him out of a scrape last summer when he went to sleep up in the crow’s nest; and came near wrecking us on a reef. I happened to go aloft in time to see it and reported it; we missed it; and that was all. Then the captain had him put in irons, and sending for me a short time after had me give an account of the affair, and I asked for Marblehead’s re- lease and got it. Ever since then this man had made my caps, altered all my clothes and never charged me a cent for it. Going to him now I got a lot of flan- nel, new canvas, thread and buttons, telling him I would get enough of these from the steward to-morrow to pay him back; but after he had seen Johnnie him- self he refused to take any pay. I got a new cap from him also. Then I hunted through my books and got “Cook’s Voyages,’ “The Life of Columbus,” “The Swiss Family Robinson” and “Peter the Whaler.” Then I got the paper and pencils, a jack-knife, about 200 hooks in a tin box, a ball of lines, some lead sinkers, a comb and glass, a box of matches and a box of colored crayons. These I made into a bundle and took all ashore, where I told Johnnie to open his bundle and get his cap out of it. When I next looked at him he had all the books out and wanted to know whom they were for? ; “For you. Everything there is yours.” -“T must keep these hid, then,” he said, “or they won’t be mine long; the governor will take them,” = 1 i ‘ L May 23, 1903.) a “T wor’t let him; tie up your bundle now and let us go.” f We went to the governor’s house, and leaving the bundles outside we went in. The goyernor and our mate were there, After our greeting I told him about the books, and we brought them in. - I was about to cut the strings aff his bundle when he stopped me and untying them carefully laid them away for fishing lines. Then sitting down on the floor he acted like a boy over his first pair of boots. “Why, here are more books than I ever expected ta see again, and all nice, clean ones, too, Now the women and girls must go to work and cover them right off before they are given out.” He piled thet on a table now, then turned his at- tention to John’s bundle. John?” 4 “He has some flannel for clothes and a few things that I got for him. He must be let keep them, I haye given John a few books; he was afraid that you might take them. You must not take anything I give these boys from them, governor, I wort allow that to be done, remember,” “Oh, I won't take anything irom them. see that bundle, Jolin.” ' ; John was slow about letting him see it; he was still afraid of being plundered. John saw his Imife for the first time now and made a grab for it. “Let me see that knife, John,’ the old fellow told him. John had shoved it into his shirt bosom; he brought it out very slowly now. “Tt is a better one than I haye, but that boy has no business with it. He will cut himseli or some one else beiore he has it an hour; he has neyer had a knife yet.” ; “Well, he has that one now, let him have it. I had about two dozen of these kmves. I will give you and John’s father good ones, Can't I give the rest to your boys?” “Yes, give them anything you can spare them except tobacco, Ii one of them asks you for anything let me know it.” 4 : “Yes, sir, I'll bring him right here. Now, governor, if one of these boys should happen to forget your or- der and ask me for a few fish hooks or a knife, we need not half kill him, you know; how am I to know what a boy wants unless he asks for it? Our boys at home would ask me for what they wanted quick enough.” Next he got hold of the fish hooks: “Here is what | want. Do you know that these boys have lost all the hooks I had and can lose them as fast as I can make them? J want to set the boys to fishing to keep them out of mischief.” . “Well, you don’t want those hooks to do it with; those are for John. J can get you all you want to- morrow.” ' “Let me do that now,” the mate says; “the steward has them.” : , He next got hold of the books and asked if Cook were not an Englishman? ‘ “Yes, it was he who discovered this island of yours and a lot of others. He found one too many when he found the Sandwich Islands; the Kanakas killed him there.’ “Yes, I must read about him when I get time and about Columbus, too; I haye heard of him.” “Here is ‘Peter the Whaler,’ sir.” ; “Well, John will want that; he wants toe go whaling; they all do, but they won't.” ' “Maybe some of them will before I get through with them; I need not tell you about it, I thought.” After the books had been returned to John, we set out for John’s house for dinner. His father proved to be the man who had come aboard us that morning. The house was one of the largest in the village, none of them being very large. It had a living room with a small kitchen in the rear. The front room had a rough table with a number of benches around it; the floor Was the earth beaten hard and smooth; but as rude as these houses were, they were the hest I had seen yet on any of the South Sea Islands. ; The beds were ranged around the wall and screened with mats, and a number of shelves had pieces of English pottery, flowers and shells; everything was neat and clean. John tid his bundle, then going back to the kitchen Srought im the whole family, his father and mother, a sister older than he and a boy about ten years old. The boy ran out again as soon as he saw me, but John dragged him in again, and in five minutes J had him climbing all oyer me. His name was Albert Ed- ward, a namesake of his then Royal Highness, the present King of England. This boy was ready to so whaling, also; in fact, before I left every boy on the island was ready to go. John’s mother turned out to be the governor’s daughter; that made John the old fellow’s grandson. The girl brought in for dinner a dish of roast pork, yams and string beans, and bread made of corn and taro root, The woman was sorry that she had no white bread for me, but I told her that-I ate corn bread at home when I could get it. After dinnef the bundle got-another overhauling. John’s_mother said that there was cloth enough there to make clothes for half the boys on the island. I told her to make it up for her own two boys. She was glad to get the needles; she said there were only four of them here now among all the women. I told her I would bring her plenty for them when I next came ashore. She brought out an old pair of scissors that had come off the Bounty; they were curious looking things; I told her I had plenty of nice steel ones on the ship, and I would get them for her to-morrow. I gave her a dozen pair, and received those old ones of hers, and brought them home with me; they are in a museum now, together with a knife and fork, probably roo years old, which she had, and a number of spoons made of horn. John now gave his orders about how he wanted his clothes made; he wanted a jacket like mine and a shirt with a wide collar with anchors on it, such as I had, Let me _ FOREST AND STREAM. “What have you in that, — ' house. (She could make the shirt, but did not know about the anchors; I told her I would get the anchors for him. Then we started out to see the village. Casta BLANcG dlatuyal History. | —_}—. k* My Next Door Neighbors. Tue family which for years has taken the home next to mine for the spring and summer moved in not long ago, and | am very glad to see them back again, ‘They are eood tenants, quiet and attentive to their own affairs— not mine, They keep no dogs; their children break no glass; they never ask me to do any repairs ‘on their Their water pipes do not burst, their ceilings do not fall, and if there are any leaks in their roof during bad storms, they never say anything about it to me. Of course, like other mortals, they have their peculiarities, and occasionally I see people staring rather hard at the head of the house who always wears a red coat. But, on the other hand, he never obtrudes his taste in dress on his neighbors, and I feel that any little eccentricity of this lind is more than made up for by his general good man- ners. And if the husband’s taste in dress is a little pro- nounced, his wife is yery modest in hers, for she is always becomingly clad in gray. Perhaps she is a Quaker. I feel that I am very lucky to have such tenants. Their home is only about twenty feet from my house, and of course such close propinquity gives great opportunity for annoyance; but we get along splendidly. : I think that very likely my tenant has the same good opinion of his landlord that I have of him, He pays his rent regularly, and is never troubled by me. In fact, I have never spokén to him, and there is no intercourse between the families. If circumstances ever brought it about in just the right way, I feel sure that the two fami- lies might associate with pleasure and profit to both. But perhaps it is better to take no risks. That we have not met on a social footing seems a little odd, for if I recol- lect aright, they haye occupied their present home for parts of ten or a dozen years. Perhaps. this failure to get better acquainted may be accounted for by the fact that we do not speak the same language. I am a kind of a foreigner, for my ancestors came to America only about 275 or 280 years ago, while his have been here for, uncounted ages. I make myself most easily under- stood only in English, while he uses the language that all screech owls haye spoken since the beginning of time. Very likely he may feel for me something of the con- tempt which many true Americans—so-called—have for all recent immigrants from the old world. In the tremendously stout branch of an old oak tree which stands twenty feet or more from the corner of the house, there is a hole perhaps thirty feet from the ground, where long ago a side branch was broken off. This hole is the home of my next door neighbors, a pair of little screech owls (Megascops asio). Each year about February they make their presence known by becoming tuneful, and from five or six o’clock P. M. to midnight the male bird may be heard trilling his love song on the branches of the trees close to the house. In March there is less of this shrill song, but often at night a turious cooing sound is made by the birds, their voices rising and falling as they whisper to each other among the branches, Now, too, they begin to be seen; either standing in the mouth of the hole at evening and in the morning, or just at dusk flying about among the branches of the oak, or passing from tree to tree and bush to bush about the place. Every spring they are looked for with interest, and if for any reason they do not appear, great disappointment is felt by all members of the family, Tt is usually toward the last of March that they become most active and begin to be most frequently seen. Some- times they alight in the wistaria vines on the house and within a few feet of the building. I remember that on March 29 a few years ago, one of them was discovered about seyen o'clock in the evening, standing on the top- most twig of a little lilac bush about four feet from the piazza and not more than eight from the steps up and down which people were passing into the house, The twig on which the bird was perched was hardly as thick as a lead pencil, and it stood on the extreme tip. Every now and then the strong wind which was blowing in gusts from the west caused it to lose its balance, and it was forced to flap its wings and to reach out one foot and grasp the twig further down, to hold itself on its perch. For the rest of the time it stood quite motionless and bent forward, as if scanning the ground eight or ten feet below it. It remained here for nearly fifteen minutes, and then someone passing near with a little more noise than usual, disturbed it and it flew away, and at the same time its mate flew out from a neighboring spruce tree. This spring there was some doubt as to whether their house would be vacated by its winter tenants in time for them to take possession. Often the gray squirrels occupy it during the winter, and sometimes carry so great a quantity of leaves and other rubbish into it, that it is really impossible to get it cleaned out in time. This year, also, a couple of starlings were seen loafing about the hole in March, and it was thought possible that they might take possession and-decline to yield to the old time occupants. However, none of these things happened, and at the proper time the Megascops family moved in. The hole occupied by the owls faces west, and often when I am dressing in the morning I see one of the birds sitting there with half its body exposed, its chin sunk on its breast, apparently asleep. As the sun gets higher and the light stronger, the bird gradually sinks down and dis- appears, Yet sometimes at eight o’clock or half-past, its gray head may be seen rising into view, and it looks out for a moment or two and then again sinks back out of sight. We believe that the eggs are laid and the female begins te sit quite early in April, but about this we cannot be sure. Sometimes during the first two weeks in April, just after sunset, an owl is seen sitting in the hole, show- ing its whole body. Usually it sits motionless, looking toward the setting sun, but if one raps sharply on the window pane with the knuckles the bird may turn its head to see what the noise is, and then look back to the west, and will pay no attention to further rappings, It has usually proved that the two birds are different in color, the male being red and the female gray. While the female is sitting, it is not always easy to see the owls, for during the day the male does not move at all, but re- mains hidden away in some secret recess which is not always known, Some seasons this resting place is in the top of a pine tree, among the thick needles, where it is very hard to see the bird, but one year he spent the day on the horizontal branch of a hemlock tree which stretched out over the lawn, and was exposed to the full glare of the sun. From one point on the branch grow half a dozen small but rather thick-leaved twigs, and the owl] used to sit among these, which perfectly concealed him. His perch was about ten feet above the heads of people passing across the lawn, but usually he paid no attention to such passersby, unless, as sometimes hap- pened, they stopped beneath him and pointed at and talked about him, Then he was likely to draw in his feathers and erect his horns. - Just about sunset every evening the little red owl com- monly leaves his place of concealment and flies to a nearby branch of the oak tree over the drive, to wait there for half an hour until it shall grow dark. The children are usually playing or riding their bicycles on the drive, shouting and screaming, and while he is not in the least disturbed by the noise, he appears to take some interest m their movements, and bends over to watch then. About the last of April the birds are commonly seen together among the branches of the oak, and it is there- fore supposed that the young are hatched. Often at this time they are seen to have something in their bills which they take to the hola and from this time on they seem to be hard at work feeding their young. ” For two or three seasons toward the end of April the children used to find about the place the bodies of Eng- jish sparrows. Semetimes these were headless, at others their breasts had been torn away. When the head had been cut off, this had been done with great neatness, as if with a sharp instrument. The death of these sparrows was attributed to the owls, and it was hoped that they would contintle the good work, One day, after one of the boys had come home from school, he was looking at the owl and saw beside him on the branch on which he was perched two small colored ebjects. As he could not tell what they were, he climbed the tree, and found two song birds placed side by side, apparently for the owl’s dinner. On several occasions after this, feathers of thrushes, scarlet tanagers and warblers were found on the lawn. One day in June as we were at dinner, Sylvia came rushing in and told us that a baby owl was to be seen in the hole. This caused great excitement in the family, and everyone leit the table to look at the owl. Later in the evening a second head was seen. Then it was sug- gested that a ball be tossed in the air near the hole to see what would happen. As soon as the young owls saw the ball pass near them, they climbed out of the hole and looked on with the greatest interest. The next night one of them fell from the tree, which drew a family crowd. When it was picked up, the mother owl flew close to the head of the person helding it, snap- ping her bill and uttering a low whistle. The little owl, placed on the branch of a tree, climbed bravely upward, and before long was out of the way of cats or dogs. Both young owls were coyered with white down, but already had wing feathers strong enough to keep them from being hurt by falling. Several times after this they fell, but always, when given a fair start, were able to climb pretty high again. The old owls were seen until mid summer, and often spent the day in plain sight on the branches cf the oak, where they were seen by visitors, who fre- quently insisted that stuffed birds had been put up in the tree for the purpose of hoaxing them. Several times during the summer the male owl was seen sitting on the gravel in the walk with his wings partly extended, apparently taking a sun bath. Yo. False Natural History. Editor Forest and Stream: ‘In an article arraigning Mr. John Burroughs, your contributor Hermit lucidly remarks, “Keen observers are springing up throughout the world and their studies of nature are deeper and far more logical and far beyond the knowledge of Mr. B. Possibly so, and Hermit cannot object to a few citations from scientific observers, even if they sustain the naturalist that he dog- matically condemns. With reference to Mr. Burroughs’ contention that ~ birds fly untaught, it may be said that Spalding has shown experimentally that young swallows can fly as soon as they reach the proper age. As regards his assertion that the bird sings in due time without a hint from its parents, Mr. Burrough a little overstates the fact. Romanes, Groos and Weinland agree that while the song of birds is instinctive, it can never be so quickly nor so fully expressed as when the parents serve as models. Mr. B.’s query, “Does a kitten need to be taught how to catch his prey,” excites Hermit’s unbounded astonishment, and he innocently remarks, “That a nat- uralist should ask such a question is beyond my com- prehension.” Despite Hermit’s ‘contention that tutelage is necessary to form a mouser or ratter, I am convinced that the observation of scores of ForEst AND STREAM readers is to the contrary. Again I ad- duce experimental evidence. Prof. W. Mills a few years ago subjected a new born kitten to constant observation for 135 days. All the doings and misdo- ings of the little creature from the day of its birth were minutely chronicled in a published diary. Before it opened its eyes it spat at a dog, and even at the professor’s hand when, through fondling the dog it had acquired a canine odor. On the forty-second day it keenly smelt of the professor’s fingers that had handled a recently killed mouse, and when given the defunct, it seized it with teeth and claws and growled when an attempt was made to take it away. On the 118th day a living mouse in a pasteboard box was pre- sented it, whereupon it eagerly smelt of the box and followed it when carried away, arid when the mouse AOA FOREST AND > STREAM, (May 23, to03, lias . was released, seized it with a grow! and played with it before killing it. Mr. Burroughs’ observation that young chickens understand the various maternal cries Hermit pro- nounces an error. Now, the behavior of newly hatched chickens has been the subject of much experimental investigation. In common with all young birds they evidently come into the world with a remarkable amount of inherited knowledge. Chicks hooded imme- diately upon emergence from the shell, and then, after the lapse of two days, given an opportunity for the first time to exercise their visual power, were observed at the end of two or three minutes, to follow move- ments of crawling insects with precision, and in a few minutes more to peck at minute objects with an in- stinctive perception of distance. Placed upon a carpet the chick, as a rule, remained quiescent, put upon gravel, it forthwith began to scratch, the material evidently acting as a stimulus to the dormant instinct. An unhooded chick, upon hearing the maternal cluck, at once ran to the hen, leaping over and dodging ob- stacles as though habituated to arduous locomotion. As a tule, it may be said that maternal example awakens sleeping impulses, as did the gravel with the chick alluded to. Chicks covered by a hen walk twice as soon as those incubated, ducklings swim and birdlings sing sooner with parental encouragement. Hermit seems to believe with Mr. Long that an ani- mal’s failure or success in the battle of life depends upon its maternal training, a very pretty theory and one attractive to sentimentalists, but void of due founda- tion. No instruction is given, in the proper sense of the term. Not as the human mother at the cradle, does the mother bird sing to her nestlings; she is moved by no conscious interest in her offspring’s future. Of such charmers, but, nevertheless, seducers of the pub- lic, as Maeterlinck, Seton and Long, it may be said that were they to profit by the works of Lloyd Mor- gan, Groos, Romanes and other students of animal in- stincts, their writings, while perhaps less remunerative to themselves, could be of greater value to_the world. A, H. Gouraup. The Intelligence of the|Wild!T hings. Editor Forest and Stream: : I HAVE read with much interest the papers in FoREST AND STREAM on the above subject, and as I venture to dissent from some of the conclusions which the writer Hermit arrives at in his article in that paper of April 1€ last, I trust to your courtesy to allow me to express them. He argues against the assertion of Mr. Burroughs that “the young of all wild creatures do instinctively what their parents do and did.” He supports this by a series of assertions that old birds teach their young ones to fy, and animals their young to walk, and presumes, I think, when he asserts that without such instruction they could neither fly nor walk; but he does not attempt to prove that without that instruction they could do neither, for that is the correct alternative of the argument. Granted that imitation being so strong in all living crea- tures, it is only natural that they should strive to do what their parents are doing before their eyes; but I submit that the young of all from man downward, will, if left to themselves, instinctively make use of the modes of progression with which they are blessed. A bird taken irom the nest, as 1 have often done, and caged before it can fly, will, when matured, if allowed liberty in a room, fly about it as gaily as an old one; and to my loss, occa- sionally, if the window is left open, fly through it as straight and strong as either of its parents. Animals born in a perfect condition—the calf or the lamb—walk without teaching from the moment they are dropped. Children, though too often encouraged by an overfond mother to stand atid walk before their legs are strong enough to bear them, would undoubtedly find their legs, as the saying is, as soon as nature gives them strength, from crawling to standing upright and walking without assistance, 7 an With regard to the action of the dove in pushing its fully fledged young ones off the dove cot: this is not, I take it, in order to make them use their wings, but be- cause the old ones are about to breed again, and are jealous of the presence of the older brood. ; Again, is not Hermit altogether begging the question when he says that “wildfowl bred on our northern lakes will not go south without old birds to lead the way.” What proof, may I ask, has he that that is so? I ven- ture to think the wonderful instinct which induces birds to migrate would not be found wanting in those birds to do so, because they had no leaders to show them the way. No doubt the migration of birds is one of those mysteries of nature quite beyond the power of men ‘to dogmatize about, and I look upon it as an unwatrantable assertion to make that it is not inborn in those birds that practice it, given to them by their Almighty Creator. _ ‘Then, with regard to the question of birds being taught by their parents to sing, or make any other noise similar to that of their parents: here again Hermit believes in the necessity of instruction. Now, though undoubtedly the young copy their parents, I contend that without assistance we see every day evidence of the fact that such teaching is unnecessary. Witness the caged bird which has never heard a note, but who will, on arriving at maturity, sing with ease the natural song of its species. Chickens reared in an incubator, though removed miles from any other fowls, will likewise, when old enough, and the breeding season begins, if cockrels, crow, and if pullets, cackle and cluck exactly like the parents they have never seen. : Hermit also contends that birds are not taught by nature irrespective of their parents to select the food most suitable for them: surely one sees this contradicted con- tinually. A ies j Cage birds that feed on grain will, if given a variety of seed, invariably choose that which is most suitable to them, though I admit confinement generates a morbid taste for a seed that is detrimental to them. Soft bill birds could never be persuaded to touch grain, but readily take to insects or chopped meat, though they are tempted io eat moist mixtures of a kind that may, if given in excess, be injurious. This all goes to prove that caged birds do not find any difficulty in sustaining their life by food which only nature has taught them is good for them. Poultry also without parental instruction will, if given latitude in the variety of food placed before them, select that which is best for them, until again the morbid taste created by domestication induces them to indulge too freely, if tempted, in what is deleterious to them. I do not, as will be seen, deny that the example of parents has a great effect on their offspring, but I ven- ture to support the theory that, especially if the environ- ments are the same; young birds and animals will in- variably exhibit, when fully grown, all the habits and idiosyncrasies of their species, irrespective of parental in- struction. F. C. Brunt, Colonel. Rypbe, Isle of Wight, May 4. Pranks of Wood Rats. Kettte FAs, Wash.—In the make up of the wood rat the mischievousness of the monkey is united with the in- dustry of the beaver; and both are guided by a perversity which would land him in an idiot asylum save that the in- mates would prove entirely too orderly and systematic in their every day life to suit him even a little bit. Once he has taken possession of an empty cabin, do not turn in there to stop over night for the sake of avoiding a thunder storm; for, unless you succeed in shining the little wretch’s eyes and blowing him into satisage, you have got a job on hand which will last the night long. Sleep is out of the question, as he delights in raising a racket in comparison with which an Irish wake would prove seductive harmony. Visiting the empty cabin of a miner, I found that the cook stove had been left with the end door of the stove swung wide, and the griddles and crosspiece of the top removed; and while the whole interior of the stove was filled with the nest of a wood rat, the inside of the nest being lined ‘with moss, the nest was continued up on top of the stove, piled with every imaginable kind of trash which the little brute could drag into position, until the whole affair on top of the stove looked like the rush house of a muskrat. J In the woodhouse adjoining the kitchen of my old home at Valley, a wood rat once came to preempt the whole affair, and for some days he remained so cunningly hidden in the daytime that I was unable to rout him from his retreat. Turning himself loose at night, he made things lively in general. Burrowing beneath the sill or lower log of the cabin and coming out under the floor of a closet, he then gnawed a hole through the floor, when he proceeded to utilize the closet for general purposes. Something in the line of carpentry called the jack plane into use, and the resulting shavings were piled in the corner of the woodshed for kindling. The following night was a busy one for the rat, and happening to go into the closet next morning I found a pair of my shoes that were lying on the floor—and were the only things on the closet floor—literally crammed full of shavings, each and every one of which had been drawn singly through the tunnel and up through the floor. Evidently there had been no thought of nest-making, as the closet afforded no hiding place whatever, and the shoes were some distance apart. His work had been very painstaking and neat, and not a scrap of a shaving had been left on the floor, while the shoes were tightly packed to the ends of the toes. A trap was then set for him in the closet near his entrance hole, which he somehow managed to spring with his head, leaving only the bristles or long hairs of one side of his upper lip fast in its jaws. This appeared to satisfy his curiosity fully, and he left for parts un- known. Nineteen years ago a party of my neighbors went on a prospecting trip into the mountains east of the Pend dOreille River, and journeying along the bank of the stream as the noon hour approached, they camped for din- ner near the log cabin of a placer miner, whom they could see at his work on the river bank a short distance away. Dinner was cooked and they had just began their meal when the miner arrived on the scene, bade them good morning and passing on to the cabin unlocked the padlock of the door and vanished inside. But a few minutes elapsed when he reappeared, bareheaded, with pale face and eyes that blazed with wrath, and rushing up in front of the seated group he presented a .50 caliber needle gun at full cock and announced that the first man who moved in his seat would be shot dead. One of the group, Mr. R. B. Lane, was a good talker, and he quietly and coolly asked the infuriated miner to raise the muzzle of his gun and tell them what was . wanted. “Qh, if I only knew which one of you blankety blanked scoundrels it was there’d be no foolin’ about it!” cried the miner. “And now I don’t want a bit of nonsense or I'll kill some of ye right where ye set.” . “Took here, my friend,” said Lane, “listen to me a moment before you do something you may have to re- gret. We don’t know what you mean, and now I ask you to quiet down and tell us what you want.” “7 want my buckskin bag of gold dust that some of ye’s got. Ye needn't try to deny it, for it was there when I went to work this mornin’ and there’s been nobody along since but you fellers; and I want ye to hand it out with- out a word.” “Well, my friend,” said Lane, “just as good looking men as you or I have beén mistaken before to-day; and now I ask you to be very sure you are right before you attempt anything rash. Please go back into your cabin and make a careful and thorough search so you will know to a dead certainty whether your gold is really gone.’ The calm, dispassionate tone of the speaker had its effect, and the half crazy miner, after a moment’s hesita- tion, turned and reentered the cabin. Some twenty minutes elapsed when he again reappeared —without his gun—and Lane said that of all the humiliated men he ever saw, and of all the abject apolo- gies to which he ever listened, they had now the most perfect examples. Asking the whole party into his cabin he showed them where in the side wall of the cabin he had a block of “chinking”—one of the billets of wood used to stop the cracks between the logs—which he could pull loose; and where behind it he had a place fn which to hide the gold sack, and as the cabin had been built in an excavation in the river bank, this part of the wall was below the surface of the ground, forming a cunning hiding place for his gold. On his first eritrance into the cabin he had felt for his treasure, and the bag was gone. Then followed the scene which had destroyed the appetites of the prospectors. , Returning for his second search he discovered that the hole continued along the log beyond his reach. Tear- ing the remaining blocks of chinking loose, bit by bit, he followed along to the back wall of the cabin, when he felt and drew forth his precious sack, unbroken, but with the teeth marks of an avaricious wood rat plainly legible in the folded top of the sack. = _ Pranks and trickery of this kind soon teach the pioneer that when one of these pests appears there is but one thing to do—make war, and war to a finish; for a pair oi spectacles, the family Bible, a stick of stove wood, a bottle of peppermint, clothes-pins, iton wedges, socks, or broom handles—everything is fish that comes to his net, and his industry is yet unmeasured. Ortn BELKNAP. Food Birds of the Eskimos. Brom the ‘Proceedings of the Linnzan Society.” BY J. D. FIGGINS, PossigLy at no other place on the globe are birds so extensively used for food and clothing as they are in North Greenland. A portion of this bleak and barren coast is inhabited by a small tribe of Eskimo, commonly known as the Arctic Highlanders, consisting of about 250 individuals, and divided into seven or eight settlements. Through force of circumstances these natives are strictly carnivorous, and a large supply of meat is required, not only for their personal use, but for their numerous packs of sledge dogs. Seals and walruses are the animals most hunted in order to obtain food, but they are not to be depended upon entirely, as it is impossible in some years to secure the necessary numbers. Caribou are not com- mon, and are very hard to obtain. Narwhals are taken during the early spring, but usually in very limited num- bers, and they make only a slight change in the usual bill of fare. Whenever there is a shortage of seals and ' walruses—and this occurs often—the natives depend almost entirely upon birds. Seals and walruses often desert a locality for a year or two, and to be prepared for this the natives locate their villages as near bird rookeries as possible, regardless of unfavorable conditions, The stupidity of the birds renders them an easy prey for the hunters, whose methods of capture are very simple. As soon as the birds arrive in the spring the harvest begins, and ceases only when an abundance of other game is assured. _ While at Cape York during the summer of 1896, I was invited by a party of native hunters to accompany them on an expedition to the great rookery of dovekies (Alle alle) near that place, and being greatly interested I gladly accepted their invitation. It was a strictly business affair with them, and they requested me to leave my gun be- hind and take along a net, which, of course, I did. A half hour’s row brought us to the foot of a high cliff, the base of which was piled to the height of about two hun- dred feet with boulders, detached from it by the action of the elements. This mass of loose and treacherous rock —entering the water at an angle of about 45 degrees— was the breeding ground of the dovekies, and here they were to be captured. These birds deposit their eggs well down in the crevices among the smaller stones, and at the time of my visit the young birds were nearly ready to leave the nests. A curious subdued murmur, made by the plaintive call of the young birds, formed a kind of background of sound for the louder notes of the adults, whose incessant chatter gave abundant proof of the countless thousands breeding at the rookery. Climbing to an altitude of about one hundred and fifty feet we reached the flight zone of the dovekies, where there was a continuous movement of large flocks, whose sole employment appeared to be flying round and round in circles which extended from within a few feet of the cliff to well out over the water. Conse- quently to come within striking distance of the birds, it was only necessary.to watch a flock, and while they were away on their circuit, to take a position screened from be- hind a large rock in their line of flight. A curiously constructed net is used at present for cap- turing the birds. It consists of a hoop about two feet in diameter across which a net, slightly bagging, is con- structed, The hoop is secured at the end of a light pole about ten feet in length, and when in use the nets remind one very much of lawn-tennis racquets on a large scale, being swept forward with similar strokes. The hunter places the net on the rocks in the opposite direction from which the birds are expected, and on their approach raises it to meet them with considerable force, which stuns or entangles them in its meshes. The net is quickly drawn to the hunter and the victims secured. A firm, quick pressure under the wings usually causes almost instant death, but to make their capture doubly sure, the wings are crossed on the back, which prevents flight in case they survive the deadly pressure. Again the net is placed in position ready for a new strike. The escaping birds of the flock invariably dart aside in unison when the strike is made, but they apparently forget all danger by the time they have again completed their circuit, for they repeat the movement time and time again until their diminished numbers make the casting of the net a labor that is prac- tically without result. A new flock is then selected, and the work continued until a sufficient number of birds is secured, Before the advent of the white man, from whom materials for net making are obtained, a more primitive method was employed, namely, throwing stones, and it is still carried on by the younger generation with consider- able success. Dovekies display great curiosity, and if the hunter sits quietly in full view, he will soon have an audience of them near him, all bent on occupying one rock, regardless of its size, or of their numbers. A com- pact flock of birds soon results, and a well directed stone thrown into their midst does great execution, -Stones may be thrown a number of times at the same flock be- fore they decide to adjourn. I experimented with both May 2g, 1003.) ee method’, but fotind the latter most successful, as I was either too late or too soon with the net, much to the amusement of the natives. , oc : On Saunders Island the method of bird catching is not quite the same, as the birds dnd conditions ate differ- ent, The net is used, however, to advantage. At this rookery Briinnich’s murre (Uria lomvia) is the priricipal species taken, although when a vety large supply of birds is needed, kittiwake gulls (Rissa tridactyla) _aré also hunted. The rookery is on a perpendicular cliff, rising from the water to a height of several hundred feet, the birds occupying a space about half a mile in length, and from a few feet above high tide to the very top, and every projection of rock is covered with birds, so that standing room appears to be at a premium. Hunting at this rookery is little short of murder, for the stupid ibirds can be clubbed from their insecure perches or netted iby the hundreds. Approaching the cliff in his kayak, the lhunter gently presses his net against bird after bird that dn its struggles to escape thrusts its head into the meshes of the net which entraps it. Each bird is quickly drawn to the hunter and dispatched, those remaining not being ‘tt all disturbed, and the space made vacant by one is immediately occupied by another. When the sea 1s smooth whe matives often climb upon the ledges of rock and club the murres, hundreds being killed in this way in a very shonrt time. The hunters frequently meet with accidents ‘at this rookery, for the perpendicular cliff and a heavy swell make “kayaking” dangerous. _ Puffins (Mratercula arctica glacidlis) and eider ducks (Someteria mollissima boreahs and S. spectabilis) are imuch prized by the natives, and are killed by spearing from the kayak. The spear is simply a sharpened rod of iron set into the end of a light shaft. At fifteen or twenty ‘yards the hunter seldom misses his mark. Ptarmigans (Lagopus lagopus) are also taken, but in_yery limited inumbers, as they are not common. Dovekie and murre ‘skins are used throughout the tribe for making clothing, ‘and hundreds of them are preserved each year for this jptirpose. In removing the skin, the wings are cut off mear the body, and the skins are cut loose at the base of ithe neck and stripped over the body. The Eskimo’s sim- ple, but effective, method for removing all fat and making ithe skins soft and pliable, is to give them a thorough chewing. ’ It would be impossible to estimate the number of birds taken by this tribe each year, even when other game is plentiful, but it must be enormous. Still, the birds do not appear to be on the decrease, for the outer edges of the rookery have a new appearance that leads me to believe the breeding area is being extended. A few years ago an epidemic caused the death of a large percentage of the Eskimos, and as the food demand was consequently less, the extension of the rookery may have resulted. This, of course, is merely a conjecture, but it seems plausible. ; f . From an economic standpoint the birds of this cheer- less Arctic region are in the superlative degree a necessity io the Eskimo, and without them they would long since have perished by famine. That the natives can never ex- terminate the birds seems assured, for the greater portion of them are inaccessible; and if the great herds of seals -and walruses become extinct, and even the natives them- selves cease to exist, the birds will probbaly still con- \tinue to rear their young among these desolate and rocky surroundings. Food Flavors. ‘New York, May 14.—Edtior Forest and Stream: You nro do@mt recall an editorial published in Forest AND ‘StREAY? a year or two ago bearing on the flavor given to. tthe edible products of various animals by the food which tihey eat. This editorial drew out seyeral letters from correspondents confirming the position which it took, and to may mind was very interesting. ; I [ thaye just heen reading a paper printed in the Pro- ceedings of the Linnzan Society on the Mammals of Westchester county, by Mr. John Rowley, and quote from it a few words of testimony on the subject of the edi- torial just referred to. In his notes on the muskrat, Mr. Rowley says: , ; { “The name ‘muskrat’ is obviously applied to the animal because of the musky oil which the glands. secrete; and ‘this secretion so strongly permeates the entire anatomy that a piece of flesh cut froma any part of the body will be found to savor strongly of this essential oil. The ; flesh is eaten by some people, but unless very much dis- ,guised in the cooking, the musky flavor is so strong as yto be extremely disagreeable. [ am informed that a ‘“professional’ muskrat trapper who fed his fowls during the winter largely upon the carcasses of muskrats, the {following spring found that the eggs were so strongly yimpregnated with the musk as to be naa AGE, A Mysterious Bird Mortality. CLARKSDALE, Miss., May 8—Editor Forest and Stream: A yery curious and apparently inexplicable visitation of mortality has recently been inflicted upon many birds in this locality. On the morning of May 6 it was the common talk of the town of Clarksdale that the streets and yards were strewn with numerous dead birds, as well as the roads in the immediate yicinity of the town. So far as could be learned by limited inquiry this strange phenomenon did not extend far outside of Clarksdale as a focus. I regret that I was so occupied indoors at the time that but little atten- tion could be given by me to the subject. The mor- tality was mainly confined to one day, or night, but some additional dead birds were found on the follow- ing day. ae ‘ : As well as could be learned by inquiry this mortality embraced all the common varieties of birds that come here in the spring and remain during the breeding season. Only two of these dead birds came under my awn obseryation, one of which, by reference to Audu- bon’s work, was identified as a vireo; the other was of the size and general appearance of the sparrow family, except that the bill was too slender. One gentleman said that among eleven birds picked up by him in his yard there were seven different species, one of which, rom his description, was an indigo bunting. It does FOREST AND STREAM. not appeat that any of the abundant. English sparrows were atriong the victims. My information is that none of the dead birds showed marks of violence on their bodies. . I have heard tio plausible theory offered to account for this extraordinary occurrence, and have none to offer thyself, Can any of the readers Gf Forrst Anp STREAM Sugeest a solution df the case? or my % COAHOMA, Gane Bag and Gun. ———<-_— Proprietors of shooting resorts will find it profitable to advertise them in Forsst anp STREAM. Saskatchewan and the Rocky Mts. For many years after the California and Oregon trail had been opened, and regular journeyings by wagon train were taking place between the Missouri River and the Pacific Slope, the far Northwest was still an unknown country. Its trade was a monopoly of the Hudson's Bay Company, and few people penetrated it, except the em- ployes of that great corporation, and the occasional free trappers who crossed it. Except for the trading posts dotted here and there over the vast region, its only in- hebitants were the Indians and the so-called Red River half breeds, who in many qualitiés of mind and body, and in many of their ways of life closely resembled the Indians. Among the interesting out-of-print books on this terri- tory, is one entitled, “Saskatchewan and the Rocky Mountains,” a diary and narrative of travel, sport, and adventure during a journey through the Hud- son’s Bay Company’s Territories in 1859 and 1860, by the Earl of Southesk, formerly, Sir James Carnegie, a Scottish nobleman, very much devoted to sport, absolutely ignorant of America, and of course of the West, but eager to travel and to find good shooting, as well as to recruit his health by an active open-air life in a healthy climate. To him in the year 1858 a friend recommended the Hudson’s Bay country, and, as it hap- pened, this friend exercised a very powerful influence in the councils of the great company that dominated those enormous territories in British North America. Said the friend: “The country is full of large game, such as buffalo, bears and deer. The climate is exactly what you require.” As a result of this conversation, in the spring of 18509, Sir James Carnegie sailed from England for New York, and early in May joined Sir George Simpson, then Gov- ernor of the Hudson’s Bay Company, and proceeded westward with him to Saint Anthony, Minnesota, where he met James McKay, a Scotch half breed and an em- ploye of the company, whose brother was to be his guide during his journey. The party traveled westward, meeting various adven- tures, and at last reached Fort Garry, now Winnipeg. The Indians whom they constantly met, the birds and the mammals, the methods of travel, now wallowing through marshes and again ferrying across flooded streams, were all strange to the Scotchman, who never- theless bore himself well under these new conditions. At Fort Garry he purchased his supplies and hired his men, and with considerable outfit, including one wagon and ae Red River carts, the expedition started for Fort Ellice. These, of course, were the days of muzzleloading arms. The men carried smoothbores, running from the ordinary Hudson’s Bay fuke up to excellent heavy double guns, which carried a bullet accurately for 100 yards or more. The leader of the expedition, besides a smoothbore, had a pair of double-barrel Purdey rifles. They had not been long gone from Fort Garry when they met with a large camp of Red River half-breeds, who were now just starting on their annual summer buf falo hunt. With some of the characteristics of these people the author was disgusted, yet he was wuch inter- ested in their appearance, as shown by the following description : “Fervently as I wished them away, it cheered one’s spirits to see the hunters on their march. There was in- finite picturesqueness about them. Their long muving columns sparkled with life and gaiety. Cart-tilts of every hue flashed brightly in the sun, hosts of' wild wolfish doys ran in and out among the vehicles, troops of loose horses pranced and galloped alongside. The smartiy- dressed men were riding their showiest steeds, their wives and daughters were traveling in the carts, enthroned on high heaps of baggage. Many of the women were clearly of unmingled Indian blood. Tall and angular, long masses of straight black hair fell over their backs; blue and white cotton gowns, shapeless, stayless, uncrinolined, displayed the flatness of their projecting figures. Some wore a gaudy handkerchief on the head, the married. bound one also across the bosom. “In M. B.’s first cart there sat a singularly handsome girl, a dark-complexioned maiden of the mixed French descent. As with so many of her race, her countenance bore a half-shy, half-disdainful expression; she looked like one who would be amiable to few, ill-tempered to most, but true to the death to her husband or her lover. “The hunters were all in their summer clothing, wear- ing the usual brass-buttoned blue capot, with moleskin trousers and calico shirts. Wide-awakes, or cloth caps with peaks, were the favorite head-coverings. Gaily-em- broidered saddle cloths and belts were evidently preferred to those of a less showy appearance; red, white and blue beading, on a black cloth ground, seemed to form the most general arrangement. “Mr. R., who accompanied us part of the way and slept that night at my camp, rode beside me on his well- bred old white horse adorned with red and black trap- pings. He himself wore the dark blue capot, a black cap, and black moleskin trousers and moccasins, and to English notions looked a most unsportsmanlike figure, but, like all the rest, he rode gracefully and well. “They sit very upright, with the leg nearly straight up and down. Their saddles are exceedingly small, either mere Indian pads, or narrow Spanish frames, high before and behind, with a long peak to the front. Over such a 4.08 frame they strap a blanket, and sometimes also place abother beneath, but nothing can keep these ill-contrived saddles from galling the horses’ backs.” At Fort Ellice the party reached the border of the buffalo country. Here they feasted on fresh tongues, catls came in from the plains bringing fresh hides, and also four calves to: be added to the tame buffalo already grazing about the fort. Here another ian named Pierre Nummé was hired. Journeying on toward Fort Qt’appelle, they began to meet antelope, or, as they were there called, cabree, of which a good number were killed. At this place there-were some Ojibway Indians ,but they were now in the country of the Crees, both of the woods and of the plains. Also, they were near enough to the Blackfeet and the Assinaboines to feel some doubts as to how these people might receive them. It was July 4 when they left Qu’appelle fort, and only a little later they began to see buffalo—at first a few scat- tering bulls. They wete now in a.sandhill country, of which the author says: “These hills, covering a con- siderable tract, are about 200 feet high, and are entirely composed of sand aS fine as that of the sea shores, Near them the grass grows short and seantily, much as on some of the ‘links’ along the Scottish coast. The Crees fancy that the souls of good men enter into a paradise concealed amidst these arid ridges.” It will be remembered that the Blackfeet Indians locate the home of the dead in a sand- hill country not far from this. Now they began to see bulls and to be seized with the lust of killing that seems to attack all men when such temptation approaches them. “As I returned from the second chase I perceived McKay and Nummé driving a large buffalo before them, which on my nearer approach I found to be an old bull, very thin and sickly and hardly able to move. It was a mercy te save him from the cruelty of the wolves; so, as he had to die, I rode past him on Black and gave him a shot for practice sake—a buffalo’s strange form making him a puzzling mark for a beginner—but I placed it too high, as one is always apt to do, and it merely dropped him on his knees without depriving him of life. I then dismounted, and, walking close up to him, fired both bar- rels of my gun right at the center of his forehead. There was no result, no'more than if a clod of earth had struck him; the bull continued in the same position, glaring at me with savage eyes; the densely matted hair on his thick skull had completely defied the penetrative force of a smoothbore. McKay then gave me my Purdey rifle. At the very first shot the conical bullet passed. clean through hair and bone, and the huge buffalo rolled over, dead. “Soon afterwards we saw another bull feeding about, a good distance away on the prairie. JI mounted the Bichon, M’Kay took his favorite Wawpooss, and we set out, using every depression in the ground to conceal our- selves from view. The bull, however, quickly observed us, and made off at a remarkably fast pace, with a long start in his favor besides. After some miles’ galloping we, began to near him. McKay was leading, though not by iach, and when signs of the finish appeared, he drew rein and let me pass on. “The bull was still running, but in evident distress. Suddenly he stopped short in a small hollow, turned round and faced me. Bichon was father blown, and as I checked him at the edge of the hollow he made a great stumble, as nearly as possible falling on his head—in which case I should have landed directly on the horns of the buffalo. Happily my pony recovered himself in time, and the bull remaining at bay about ten yards from me; I dropped him with a bullet in the shoulder, and finished with another in the brain. Like many of the males at that season this fine, well grown bull was exceedingly scant of flesh, so we left his careass and merely brought in the tongue. Even that was tough eating, though far from being rank or ill flavored.” Buffalo were abundant, and there was much hunting. Cows were killed for food and especially fine bulls with perfect horns and long manes and beard for heads to be taken back to the old country. There is much that is curious and interesting in the various accounts, and the author continually mentions that his balls struck the buffalo high, the old-time common blunder made by the novice. It was now mid July, a season when, as was formerly well known, the buffalo bulls were quite as likely to fight as they were to run, and two or three times a group of bulls declined to move off when approached by the author, who usually left them to themselves. He mentions also about this time seeing a peculiar looking skull with slight much curved horns—that of the buffalo ox. Later he saw one of these animals, but was unable to overtake it, At the Bad Hilla couple of bears were seen and shot at, but the wounded animal got ilo the brush and no one dared 10 follow it. The next day it was found dead. *. Carlton [louse and l’urt Edmonton were the next points reached. Mr, Hardisty was in command at the first of these forts, ard as usual he gave every assistance to the traveler. At Mort Edmonton was met Mr. Woolsey, a missionary, who gave the author much information about the country and the Indians, and especially about that great Blackfoot Pi-tah-pi-kiss (Eagle Ribs), figured by Catlin and still remembered by old men in the northwest, Shortly after leaving Edmonton the author encountered Mr, Moberly, of the Hudson’s Bay Service, a gentleman who formerly was a correspondent of Forest AND STREAM, and just before leaving Edmonton he had hired as a guide over the new country into which he was to pass, Piskun Monroe, a Scotch half-breed, whom it was important to engage as interpreter, for he not only knew the Blackfoot language, but was on intimate terms with the tribe, being closely connected with it by blood.’ This man, old Johu Monroe, is still living on the Blackfoot reservation in northwestern Montana, hale and hearty at an age between 75 and 80 years: _ They were now traveling through the swamps and the timber, by roads that were difficult enough, but they at last came within sight of the great mountains, and his first view of their stupendous peaks tepaid the leader for all the sufferings and difficulties of earlier days. With the mountains came a new fauna, There was fishing, and there were marmots, porcupines, wild sheep and white goats.. Their first efforts at hunting these ani- mals were not very successful, but they got much practice in climbing. A little later sheep Were met with so abundant and tame that numbers were killed on a single hunt. And while at first most of the animals killed were 406 FOREST AND STREAM. ewes and lambs, a little later the hunters.came upon large herds of rams and a number of unusually fine speci- mens were secured, It was now September and the best of hunting. Bears were plenty in the country, but, though signs were seen, none were killed. From here they crossed over a rough spur of the mountains to what was called Kootenai plain, losing some horses on the way and traveling straight across the peaks and not by a known trail. From the Kootenai plain their toute was to old Bow Fort on Bow River, which they were anxious to reach, partly because their provisions had largely given out, though they still had abundance of dried sheep meat, of pemmican and of tea. Goats were abundant here, but, as a little earlier with the sheep, they had not yet learned how to hunt them. The game con- stantly saw the hunter and climbed away, and he speaks of them as “enchanted beasts;” beasts which, however, at last he succeeded in circuinventing. Toward the end of the month an Assinaboine hunter was met who euided the party to the camp of his own people, Stonies, who were killing goats and moose. These people were Chris- tians and very simple, good natured and anxious to learn from and please the white men. From Bow Fort the route was back to Edmonton, which they reached October 12, finding Mr. Christie then in charge. Leaving Edmonton October 17, they started down the Saskatchewan River in a boat, but before long the river froze, and it was necessary to send to Fort Pitt for horses in order to escape from the country. On the first day of November the men arrived, bringing sixteen horses, and six days later they were at the fort. It was now winter and the weather very severe. They passed along by way of Fort Carlton to the Touchwood Hills, and thence to Fort Pelly, where they passed Christmas day. From here by dog teams they reached Fort Garry, and in February Sir James Carnegie found himself in Boston and took passage for Liverpool. Nebraska Game Country. Although the springtime in Nebraska is most aggra- vatingly short, there is no sweeter or more charming cycle in all the horoscope of the year. The April rains, which fall with so gentle patter upon our fertile plains and low, graceful hillsides, quickly start the young grass and in less time than it takes to tell it, almost, field and wayside are carpeted with a delicate emerald which painter can never hope to imitate. Just now the universal green is spangled with numerous wild flowers of early bloom, and overhead arches an ex- panse of azure flecked daily with fleecy splotches of cloud that cast shifting shadows upon the peerless landscape below. Not a tree or a shrub but which now shows the effect of its recent drenching, and table-land, hillside, and gully, swept of their recent covering of dead grass and ragged leaves, by the boisterous -winds that proceeded the heavy rains, have fully awakened from their long winter’s slumber. Along the glorious Elkhorn’s bottom the stunted oaks, glistening cotton- woods, plum and straggling elms have donned their early summer raiment as dainty and fresh as the face of the schoolboy’s sweetheart. Aromatic pink blos- soms and furzy bursts of faint color in every miniature canyon gives promise of a rich harvest of crab apples, golden plums, purple crow-eye grapes, wild rose buds and the acidulous sumach berry. Along the gushing Rawhide, the Papio and Silver Creek pungent water cress crowds its tender shoots along with clumps of wild musk and tough sawgrass, while bordering. the wooded banks are tangles of lacy ferns, maiden-hair, Johnny-jump-ups and sturdy little polypods. The thorny locust is just sending forth its almost stifling fragrance from adjoining thickets, where the alder buds are swelling and sweet azaloas blowing. The Morpho butterfly undulates upon the sensuous air, the dragon fly flits in and out of odd nooks and crannies over the dark places, and from the woods higher up the valley comes a lilt of melody from robin, thrush and tanager. This is Nebraska at the dawn of the first month of summer. Notwithstanding the past winter, for continued in- tensely cold weather and heavy drifting snows, was the worst we have experienced out here since 1888, and notwithstanding the statistics I have accumulated from all parts of the State, show that fully 33 per cent. of the quail crop was frozen and starved to death, there are undoubtably more of these birds in the State to-day than ever before in its history—thanks to the three years’ prohibitive law, which expires on the last day of next October. Deputy State Game Warden George Carter, of North Platte, told me some weeks ago that fully 50 per cent. of the quail had been winter killed, according to the warden’s figures, but he has amended this opinion by reason of more recent and broader in- formation, and now puts the birds’ loss at 20 per cent., but I consider my own estimate the nearer correct. However, there are going to be thousands of birds in all sections of the State, and the sportsmen are jubilant over the fact that they will be allowed to indulge in their favorite sport once more this fall. With a favor- able season of breeding Nebraska's tangly creek bot- toms will afford better quail shooting than can be found elsewhere in the United States, north or south. But if the quail are going to be plentiful, what about the chicken? If I should presume to lay before the readers of the Forest AND STREAM the facts with refer- ence to the plentifulness of this royal game bird in Nebraska at this period, I know I will be charged with willful extravagance and an attempt to falsely boom the State through the medium of its wonderful game re- sources. But to those who are familiar with my en- thusiasm as a sportsman and my selfishness in keeping good things to myself, these assertions will be taken as anything but idle gossip. So far as life is concerned, I am fast getting on the other side of the slope, and if I was purely selfish the general reader would receive no information with regard for chances at the sport I love so well. Why should I care if you all went hungry, just so I had my fill? But I do care. I never did enjoy fishing or shooting alone, and now as the years keep rolling steadily on, I find myself in these times of restored plenti- tude less able to endure fatigue. I try to convince niyself that it is simply some temporary indisposition or weakness, but from the way IJ felt the other evening after coming in from the snipe bogs, I sadly fear it is some- thing that has come to stay. It doesn’t ybother me, though, as I used to think it would—a kind provision of an all-wise Providence—and it is simply my generous nature, - my keen interest in the generations of younger and brawnier sportsmen, who can tramp and row and climb and shoot arid fish with all the ability to endure that I once knew, that influences me in telling what I tell. And the chicken, ; While they are not to be found in such flourishing abundance over as wide a scope of territory as in former years, they are every whit as numerous in certain locali- - ties—especially in the lonely sandhills—as they were half a century ago, and it will be no trick at all this fall for even an ordinary shot to kill the limit—fifty birds per day—at hundreds of different points in the northern and western parts of this State. While riding across a measureless tableland on Barber’s big ranch-out in Cherry county on the 23d of March last, en route for the ducking grounds on Pelican Lake, we saw thousands of chicken at a single glance of the eye in any direction—more chicken than many sportsmen have seen in all their lives together. It was early morning, with the sun just send- ing his arrowy shafts of gold across the almost limitless and closely cropped expanse of pasture land. The birds were sitting everywhere—two’s and three’s generally, but sometimes as many as two hundred in a bunch. The cocks were ‘“‘a-boom-oom-oom-ooming” in the bounding ecstacy of the trysting time, walking and jumping and ’ sweeping around, with tails outspread like fans, the un- impressible hens, and the spectacle was such a rare one, that, as keen as we were to get our blinds made, we pulled up the teams and watched them for many moments. And coming into Wood Lake from Stilwell’s ranch, after the hunt was all over, we flushed both chicken and sharp- tail grouse at intervals of less than a quarter of a mile - for the entire distance of the forty miles or more. And it was the same throughout the whole sandhills world— and it is a big one—as we were told by Stilwell, Ballard, Harris, Francke, Baird, Anderson, and scores of other ranchers and cattlemen. Last fall, coming from Stilwell’s, we saw the same picture, only thirty-five miles further north, We were on our way to. Valentine then, instead of Wood Lake, and after we had crawled down the long rocky escarpment of the roaring Niobrara, and struck the wagon road in the valley along the river’s shore, we were fairly startled by the rising of flocks of pintailed grouse that numbered their thousands and thousands, and as they got up in front of us and from along the brushy banks, they streamed in veritable-sheets across the broad river. l warrant you it was a sight that but few sportsmen in these modern days have ever seen. The movement on foot in Nebraska to interest sports- men as well as the farmer and the public generally in the preservation of the birds, is one that commends itself favorably to every righteous minded man, woman and child among us. That much has already been done in this line is demonstrated by the fact that many of the birds that were all but driven out this section of the world—notably the blue bird—are returning and many other species which for several years have undoubtedly been on. the wane—robins, larks, chickadees, nuthatches, chewi@ks, song sparrows, thrushes, cedar and jay birds-—— are conspicuously increasing, Even ‘the twittering, sheeny-coated martin has returned quite numerously to various localities that have not known the bird for years and years, and there is a marked increase, at least in this particular region, of the little feathered denizens of all kinds. No longer ago than yesterday, while driving out the Ponca road along White Tail Run, I saw, about the cupola of the little old rustic church at the base of Long Hill, scores of sweet-voiced martins in aerial convolution, and the sight-and sound took me back to the days when i was a boy “back in Ohio.” Nebraska is certainly a great bird State—probably the greatest in the Union. There is something like 4oo varieties that dwell at least a portion of the year with us, and all our citizens should take an especial pride in their protection and preservation, not from any mere sentimental standpoint, although sentiment alone is sufh- cient to furnish a most abundant reason for this plea—but from a serious consideration of the economic relation of the birds to man, In September and October last I made many notes of passing bird life in Nebraska, and while I observed that the migrants were tardier coming down from the north than I had seen them for years, there were many more of them when they did come. Jt was not until September 10 that the warblers whose mean line of northern migta- tion is along the British boundary, put in an appearance. But from this date on till October 20 there were plenty of all kinds of migrants that linger a brief time with us— juncos, white-throated sparrows, thrushés of several varieties, and mingling with this late issue I noticed were many red-breasted nuthatches, Canadian peewits, and our sturdy little hyperborean friend, the golden-crowned king- let. As late as the last of October, on certain lowering days, almost storms of robins and blackbirds came in, - and for days they were here in confusing thousands. There is no doubt whatever that last year, in this and adjoining States wasa particularly auspicious one for the birds, and what incontrovertibly contributed to this happy condition, was the better sentiment which prevails among men with reference to their care, protection and preserva- tion. In a little pamphlet written by Professor Bruner, of the State University, and scattered broadside through- out the State, he says: : “To appreciate the beauty of form and plumage of birds, their grace of motion and musical powers, we must know them. The ease with which we may become familiar with the feathered neighbors robs ignorance of all excuses. Once aware of their existence and we shall see a bird in every bush and find the heavens their path- way. One moment we may admire their beauty of plumage, the next marvel at the ease and grace with which they dash by us or circle high overhead. ‘The comings and goings of our migratory birds in spring- time and fall, their nest-building and rearing of young, their many regular and beautiful ways as exhibited in their daily lives, stir within us impulses for kindness to- ward the various creatures which share the world over with us. But birds will appeal to us most strongly through their song. When your ears are attuned to the — music of birds, your world will be transformed. Birds” songs are the most eloquent of Natute’s voices; the gay carol of the grosbeak in the morning, the dreamy, midday _ call of the pewee, the vesper hymn of the thrush, the clanging of geese in springtime, the farewell of the blue-_ bird in the fall—how clearly each one expresses the senti- ment of the hour of the season!” + b, - 2 In nearly every case where the food habits of our birds have been carefully studied, do- we find that the good done tar exceeds the possible harm that might be inflicted hy our birds. Allowing twenty-five insects per day as an — average diet for each individual bird, and estimating that we have about one and one-half birds to the acre, or in round numbers, 75,000,000 birds in Nebraska, there would be required 1,785,000,000 insects for each day’s rations. - Again, estimating the number of insects required to - - fill a bushel at 120,000, it would take 15,625 bushels of in- sects to feed our birds for a single day, or 937,000 bushels for sixty days, or 2,343,750 bushels for 150 days. These estimates are very low when we take into consideration the number of insects that various of our birds have been. known to destroy in a single day. For example, the stomachs of four chickadees contained 1,028 eggs of cankerworms. Four others contained about 600 eggs and _ 105 mature females of the same insect. The stomach of a single quail contained tor potato beetles, and that of another upward of 500 chinch bugs. A _ yellow-billed cuckoo shot at six o'clock in the morning contained forty- three tent caterpillars. A robin had eaten 175 larve of Bibio, which feed on the roots of grasses, etc. Birds, like all other animals, feed upon that food which is most readily obtained, ence the insectivorous kinds destroy those insects which are most numerous—the injurious species. Ed Krug; a prominent naturalist and inveterate fisher- man, is at his own private box down on the Waubuncey, and ‘reports the bass rising famously. Yesterday he landed 21, the largest tipping the scales at 534 pounds. Frank Dworak, president of the South Omaha Gun Club, on the bottoms below Bellevue, ten miles south of Omaha, on April 12 killed to4 jacksnipe, including one pure albino, which he has had mounted. Ex-United States Senator Manderson and George A. Hoagland will leave Saturday for Woman’s Lake, northern Minnesota, for a try at the muscallonge. SANDY GRISWOLD. Hearing Deer Walk. Editor Forest and Stream: . A recent correspondent remarks at length on the noise- lessness of a deer’s movements when undisturbed, and says in all his years of experience he has never “heard a deer walk.” I have. Once when my Jong-time comrade on hunting trips and I were spending a night far from camp, and were trying to sleep on the boughs and under the boughs (overhanging), we more than once distinctly heard deer walking quite near us. In the morning we found several tracks, and one independent fellow had come within about twenty feet of us. We had not dis- turbed him, and he had not disturbed us, for the rain and the chase of the situation had kept us awake most of the night, Another time I was on a fishing trip with a party and another party came to the same Adirondack pond to hunt deer. We assured the newcomers that they were welcome, and we would be quiet at night and keep our fire down so as to facilitate their hunting. (“‘Jacking” was then legal.) Reassured, they made themselves at home, and May 15. the one who was to hunt was soon asleep preparatory to his night’s work. We soon knew his fate would be dis- appointment. Talk about a lion’s roar!- I have never heard that, and I don’t want to if it is any. worse than that man’s snore. We were morally certain no deer would ecme to the pond that night. The hunter and guide went out between 10 and 11 o’clock, but soon gave up and the snoring was resumed. I could have slept better in a thunder storm. During that night I “heard a deer walk” on the side hill above the pond, but of course he did not “come in,” Again: On two different occasions when I had taken a friend into the woods to give him a shot at a deer, he heard the deer (undisturbed) coming for some distance in the woods before appearing in sight. In one case the deer came into view about too yards away, and in the other case about 200 yards. Both times my friend told me of hearing it in advance of the animal’s appearance. 1 do not question your correspondent’s statement that he has not “heard a deer walk,’ nor that in general they can go quietly if they wish (1 also know something about that); but my experience and that of several friends © teaches us that they do not always wish to. Like man’s, their practice varies, JUVENAL, All Around Guns. Orient Potnt, N. ¥Y.—Editor Forest and Stream: 1 do not suppose there is any shotgun so popular as the “all around.” For more than forty years I, with most of our shooters, believed the Io-pound 1o-bore was the right gun for this locality, where the game is principally ducks, rabbits, quail and snipe. All is changed now. I sell ten 12-bores where I sell one 10-bore. Were I compelled to carry and use it in all my shooting, | would not accept the best 1o-bore 10-pound $100 ham- merless gun as a gift—made in this or any other coun- try. The same gun cannot be the best all around gun for all localities. In some parts of the world I would rather carry a 6-bore than a 12, but these are not the parts of the world I live in. It is folly for (what some call) small bore cranks to contend that a 16 or t2-bore can do the execution of a 6 or 8-bore, either a short or long range. In selecting a gun the shooter should take into con- sideration the-kinds of game he has to shoot. . Mr. Hammond, in his book “Hitting vs. Missing” (which I have just finished reading), gives good advice to those about to choose guns.. We agree exactly as to size of bore, length of -barrel, weight, etc—of the “all around” gun. He recommends 12-gauge hammer or hammerless, length of barrels 28 inches, weight 7 — AY 23, 1903] FOREST AND STREAM. 407 : - : 7 ———————————eeeeeeeee —$—$_ + pounds (length and drop of stock to suit the shooter). The above gun cofresponds almost exactly with my own gun, which I have used for the past five years. This gun has become so dear to me that when I am pretty sick it does me good to have it stand near me where I can look upon it. Of course, in all the fifty-five yeats of my shooting 1 have used and owned many guns, large and small, but I have never owned one so bewitching and true as the one I now have. In the five years’ tse I have given-it I have never had a shell misfire. This speaks ‘well’ for the ammunition as well as the gun, ig Ps! ; A good duck load for a -7-pound gun is 3% drams of black powder, or its eqtiivalent in smokeless, and 144 ounces of No. 4 shot is considered all right by most of our duck shooters—unless to be used over de- coys. Iii this case No, 5 or 6 shot are preferred. Uneie Dan. Staten Island Game. Prince’s Bay, Staten Island, N, Y., May 18—Editor Forest and Stream: The sportsmen in general on Staten Island are glad to know that Goy. Odell has signed the bill t6 protect gray squirrels at all times in Richmond county; also that it will be unlawful hereafter to kill rab- bits while snow is on the ground, and the close season for quail has been extended until the year 1908. All this has been done by the push and energy of the Richmond County Fish and Game Association (incorporated), and 1 know that all members will thank our good Assembly- man, and be ready for him in the future if he puts him- self in our way for us to help him in our way. Now, as to Staten Island, gray sqttirrels being protected at all times, some people will laugh at the idea, but it is simply a sentiment. There are a whole lot of people on this island who wish to see the wild things preserved as long as they can. Staten Island is slowly but surely be- ing denuded of its forests, and streets are being cut through field and marsh; people from the city proper are buying land and building homes here, and it will not be many years before Richmond county, or the interior of it, will be one grand park; and it is well that the squirrels should be protected; by and by they will become tame, and no one will be sorry that they are still with us. Protecting rabbits when the snow is on the grotind means more rabbits next year. Dogs are not of much use trailing tabbits when snow is here; but there is another animal that geis its work in then—the two-legged cur. It carries a club and tracks its prey through the snow until the rabbit is found sitting; then one blow with the club does the rest. That is sport, I suppose, but I never saw it registered as such, The quail that the game association bought and put out in 1900 have done fairly well. They can be heard ilow every morning from Sequin’s Pomt to near the Great Kills on the south side of the island, and on the north side, in the vicinity of Rossville and Greenridge, they scent to be fairly well established. We have a hard time to bring them through the winters; they must be looked after and fed; but the trouble is little compared to the satisfaction one may get if he likes to hear the sweet call of Bob White. IT wonder what-has become of the “War Cry” from Port, Richmond? Does he send any more arrow-heads wrapped up ina trattlesnake’s skin? iia «Sea and River SHisling. Proprietors of fishing resorts will find it profitable to advertise them in Forrest anp STREAM. Wild Trout that I Heve Met. My experience with uneducated, wild and roving trout has been more limited than I would like it to have been, IT haye sat on the bank of a well-stocked trout stream and after haying tried every fly in my book unsuccess- fully, have seen the trout not twenty feet away from me breaking the water and flouting their tails at me in mute disdain. I have seen a trout cast goo-goo eyes at me from a few feet down in a clear, crystal pool as the flies skitted over the surface above it. I have even gone so far as to imagine that that trout laughed at me. In one instance, up in Maine—the home of big trout and bigger trout stories—I actually had a trout, in his wild dash at a moth miller which had dropped alongside the boat, leap into the boat with the moth miller in his mouth. On another occasion; after getting up at daylight and work- ing hard for an hour or two and not getting a rise on the lake, I laid my rod on the gunwale of the boat and incat- fiously allowed the leader to work loose and become wound round the rod toward the tip, the flies hanging overboard, when up catne a lusty trout who, seizing a fly, snapped my tip, but, thanks to the strength of the leader. paid the penalty that all rash trout deserve if the hook, leader, line and rod hold out. After reading the following veracious description in the Duluth News-Tribune by Mr. Grant, of his trout, Friday, ] made a resolution neyer agaim to tell any. more fish stories. Let the story speak for itself: “John S. Grant, who lives in a-comfortable log camp on the banks of the Cloquet River, six miles from Wood- land postoffice, came into Duluth the other day for some fishing tackle, “‘What’s the matter, John?’ inquired the clerk, who waited on him. ‘You look as 1f you had lost your best friend.’ ; ; “*T have,’ was the reply. ‘I have lost Friday’ a ‘Friday? Who is Friday? I thought you lived alone. “Well, I did—only Friday. He was my tame trout. I took him a year ago about this time, in a net, and - he was such a handsome critter that I hated te kill ltim, and for a week kept him in a pail in the kiichen. At first he was pretty shy, but after a time he wonld come ip to the top of the water and eat ont of my hand. And finally, one day, as I was sitting out on the piazza, smoking, he flopped out where | was, and lay right down side of me, just as though he wanted to keep me company. “Prom that time on, Friday—I named him Friday because it was on that day I caught him—Friday and me was inseparable. Wherever I went, he went, All through the summer he camped down in front of the door, and I tell you the way he would jump up and catch a fly beat anything [ ever saw. And in the fall he would follow tight along after when I was on the trail of a deer. When the snow come, I fixed up a box for him by the stove, and there he stayed until the other day, when he went with me down to the river, where I was sluicing some fire-wood. “*T had to eross on a Jog, and Friday, he followed right alone after, just as he always did- But the log was slippery, or something, and he missed his fin hold, and fell into the water.’ “Didn't he ever come back?’ queried the clerk, who was beginning to get interested. “*Come back? No, Friday never come back,’ responded Grant, with a mournful shake of the head. “*The poor little feller drowned. I found him the next day, and gave him the decent burial he deserved.’ “And John, paying for his tackle, took the first car back to Woodland and the grave of his little tame trout.” CHARLES CHRISTADORO. Fish and Fishing. Disappearance of the Ice in Canada. Av last the ice has left Quebec’s northern lakes and a few trout have rewarded the efforts of patient fisher- men on the lakes adjacent to the city, which are always open a fortnight or so before those along the line of the Qnehec and Lake St. John Railway. Very little, however, has yet been done in the way of fly-fishing. East winds have been the rule since the ice went out, and up to the second week of May there has been but a cotple ef warm days in Quebec. It was well on toward the end of the first week of the present month before the ice left the last of the lakes along the line of the railway. Nothing had been done in the way of fishing in any cf them wp to the commencement of the following week. It will be the third week of May this season before the fishing will be good in Lake Edward, and it will doubt- less be better a weel later. There will be no fly-fishing for trout worthy of the name until well on toward the end et the month. Ouananiche are reported extremely aluindant in Lake St. John this spring, and though the ice only went off it on the sth inst., a number of splendid specimens of the-fish found their way to the Quebec market for the following Friday, when they sold for 14 cents per pound. Needless to say they were taken by bait. Unfortunately there is a very great deal of this fishing done in the spring of the year. Fly-fishers for ouananiche ought to find excellent sport at the mouths of the Meta- betchouan and Quiatchouan by the time this letter ap- pears in’ print, and the sport should continue good there until well on into June. By the time it slackens off, there is generally good fishing to be had in the Grand Dis- charge. This year the snow in the woods is mélting very slowly on account of the cold weather, and it would not be surprising 1f the fall of the water in Lake St. John which precedes the opening of the fishing in the Grand Discharge, will be somewhat later than usual. At all évents, I intend to watch the reports from the north yery caretully in order to keep American friends posted through Forest AND STREAM’s columns of the progress of the season. A few fishermen destined for the Lake St. John coun- try have already put in an appearance here. Messrs. R. FF. and W. W. McCormick, of Biscayne Bay, Florida, arrived some days ago, and are going to fish on the Tourilli Club waters prior to visiting Newfoundland for salmon fishing. Rev. Dr. Zimmerman, of Syractise, has taken up his headquarters at Lake Edward, ready for the first big trout of the season there. Messrs, Preston Lea and H. Swift, of Wilmington, Delaware, have passed through Quebec on their way to the Stadacona lakes, and Dr, Porter, of Bridgeport, R. J. Fisher, of Washington, and W. E. Lincoln, of Pittsburg, were here a day or two age en route to the Metabetchouan. It will be fully a week from present writing before there will be much of a rush to northern waters. Salmon Fishery Dispute, The Government of the Province of Quebec and some of the best known salmon fishermen of Canada and the United States are parties to an important lawsuit arising out of the right of fishing in the river Moisie. Alexander fraser, of Quebec, claims to have owned the fishing rights ot the Moisie, in virtue of his proprietorship of the banks ot the river. For some years he leased the fishing in the tiver, and some time ago Messrs. Fitch, Boswell and others, of Quebec, became possessed of it. A little over a year ago, Mr. Ivers Adams, of Boston, purchased Mr. . Fraser’s property for $30,000, and claims the sole right of fishing in the river, On the other hand, the Government has always claimed the ownershiup of the fishing rights in the Moisie, in virtue of a judgment of the Imperial Privy Couneil, which declares the Province to .be the proprietor of the fishing in all public navigable waters. The details of the present lawsuit possess a very great interest to all,salmon fishermen on navigable waters. While Messrs. Boswell and Fitch were exercising their supposed rights to fish the Moisie, as owners of the riparian privileges, the Government resolved upon assert- ing the rights declared to belong to.it by the highest court of the empire. They therefore notified Messrs. Boswell and Fitch that- they were fishing upon Govern- ment waters and asked them to come to an arrangement with their officers, The owners refused to recognize the allezed rights of the Government. Meanwhile, Mr. Adams became proprietor of the riparian rights of the river. Then Messrs. Boswell and Fitch, who had become dispossessed of proprietary rights before they were aware that any negotiations were afoot for the change, applied to the Government for a lease of its rights. The Govern- ment believed it proper first to give a refusal of its rights to Mr. Adams, who had purchased the river from Fraser in good faith, and Adams took the Government lease for $2,500 a year, sO as to be sure that nobody could interfere with him. he Government is naturally delighted to have nade this lease, which they regard as a quasi recognition, at least, of the correctness of their claim, This year, liowever, Mr. Adams dropped the lease, which has been promptly taken up by Messrs. Boswell and Fitch. Both parties now propose to fish the river and a conflict may ensue. The Government lessees naturally look for Goy- ernment protection, and the whole case has been thrown into court to decide whether or not the Moisie is a public navigable and floatable river forming part of the de- pendency of the Crown domain of the Province, and whether the defendants, Fraser and Adams, have any right to fish the river. The outcome will naturally be looked for with very great interest, for ifthe ultimate de- cision be favorable to the Government’s contention, many anglers will find that they have paid out good money for supposed salmon fishing rights to riparian owners who do not really control the fishing of the streams at all. The present test case will doubtless be appealed from court to court until a final judgment is obtained from the Privy Cotnecil. °* Lieut.-Col, Andrew C. P. Haggard, D. S. O. The many American and Canadian sportsmen who have met Colonel Andrew Haggard or have read his stories, will regret to learn that he has been very ill all the winter, which he spent in Italy and the south of France. He is back again in England, however, contributing, as before, to the columns of the Field, and busy preparing two new books for the press, one a novel, the other a volume of sporting yarns from Canada, Newfoundland, India and Japan, to which Mr. John Bickerdike has written an iitroduction. Royal and Other Fishermen, An English letter says that the Prince of Wales has lately had a very good week of salmon fishing on the Dee. The King’s Balmoral and Abergeldie waters ex- tend for fourteen miles, beginning at Invercauld Bridge, while a few miles lower down the river His Majesty has another stretch. The fact that King Edward is a very poor angler re- minds me of a story which I lately read of another monarch whom he has lately visited. [ mean the King of Italy.- Victor Emmanuel is very fond of fishing, but it is the one sport at which he has no luck. One day he was out for several hours and was returning to the castle with the keeper, on foot, with three poor fish on a string, when they met a poor man with a magnificent catch of trout. The peasant planted himself before the King and asked a light for his pipe, and when he had received it, he said with scorn: “You seem to be no great things at fishing. To look at your catch one would think you were the King.” His Majesty, rather red in the face, asked why. “Oh,”’ returned the other, “he thinks a good deal of himself, but he is a very poor body more fit to be a king than a sportsman.” E, T. D. CHAMBERS. Fifth Annual Tuna Tournament. SANTA CATALINA IsLAnp, Cal., May 12—As the big steamer Hermosa drifted into the dock at Avalon a line of men appeared not far away, which reminded some of the passengers of the old-time Chicago or New York hackmen, but it was a little different. In- stead of “Have a hack?” it was “Have a boat, sir?” “Tuna boat, sir?” “Glass bottom boat, sir?” “‘For the Admiral Dewey, right this way.” “Here you are for the glass-bottomed side-wheeler Admiral Sampson.” “Here you are, the ‘Teddy’ glass-bottom boat.” “Go- ing yellow tailin’, sir? Fine boat, sir; best of tackle.” and many more from as jolly-faced and pleasant- voiced a lot of sea dogs as ever spliced the main brace. There are horses at Avalon, but the “livery” is boat, Avalon being a sort of a Venice, where you get into a glass-bottomed boat or a launch to go any- where; and a very delightful custom it is, But it takes some time to get accustomed to hearing the wealthy residents of Avalon talk of launches and boatman as they would of horses and carriages, as every one has his launch and “driver” or boatman. The hotels and boarding houses at Avalon—all have their quota of tuna anglers from all over the country who are anxiously awaiting the arrival of the big game, which is due now. Judging by former years, the exact arrival of the game is very uncertain. Sometimes they come in April, then disappear; again it is May 15; and one year they did not arrive until June, and then came with such a rush that many were taken. Eastern ang- lers ate often astonished at the small number of tunas taken. In no one season have over 200 been taken with the regulation rod and line of not over 24 strands; and no angler has beaten Mr. E. L. Doran’s record of eighteen for the season. The reason for ‘this lies not in the small numbers of fish, btt in their game qualities. They come in thousands, fairly cover- ing the sea at times; but the angler who takes his fish without several or indeed many losses, is fortunate indeed. There have been known certain anglers who could neyer land their tuna; yet offer up lines, hooks and rods year after year. The average fish in its best condition is apt to demoralize the average angler, and a wreck of tackle is the result. In a word, the chief reason why more tarpon are taken than tunas lies in the fact that the tuna in its best condition is much harder to take, and again, there are in the United States many hundreds of miles of coast providing tarpon fish- ing, from Aransas Pass around to the mouth of the St. John’s in Florida, mot to speak of Tampico, while the tuna, remarkable to relate, is, so far as sport with the rod is concerned, confined to the three or four-mile limit between Avalon Bay and Long Point of Santa Catalina. The season for this tish may be said to be from May 15 to August 15, though it changes every season, and fishes have been hooked at Catalina in February. The angling tournament given this séason by the Tuna Club, organized by Chas. F. Holder several years ago to encourage rod fishing and prevent the waste and over killing of large game fish, is attracting much attention, and many well-known anglers are on hand hoping to heat some of the records. Among them are 408 FOREST AND STREAM. [May 23, 1903. Col. Stearns, of Los Angeles, who holds the tuna record for 1902, and Mr. John W. Northrop, of Chi- cago, who is one of the best-known sea anglers in the country, having taken about every big fish that swims, including the big devil fish of the Mexican Gulf. The following are the Tuna Club’s records up to date, and as may be surmised, the club record of 251, of Col. Morehouse, president of the club, until he is beaten, is the plum which anglers are reaching for. The fifth annual angling tournament of the Santa Catalina Island Tuna Club opened with this month of May. The only restrictions are the rules of the Tuna Club that rods and reels must be used and that rods must not be less than 6 feet 9 inches in length, the tip of which must not weigh more than 16 ounces. By “tip” is meant all that portion of the rod from reel seat to end of rod. The line must not exceed 24 threads or strands and be capable of sustaining a dead weight of not more than 48 pounds. All anglers must bring his or her fish to gaff unaided, and the fish must be reeled in, a broken rod either before or after gaffing disqualifies the angler. The tournament is open to amateurs only, professional boatmen, those engaged in allied industries on the island and members of their families being barred, except as in special class I. The present holders of cups and records are: Largest tuna—C. F. Holder, Pasadena, season 1809, 183 pounds; Col. C. P. Morehouse, Pasadena, season 1900, 251 pounds; F. S. Schenck, Brooklyn, N. Y., sea- son I90I, 158 pounds; F. V. Rider, Avalon, season I90I, 158 pounds; John E. Stearns, Los Angeles, season 1902, 197 pounds. Black Sea Bass.—F. V. Rider, Avalon, season 1808, 327 pounds; T. S. Manning, Avalon, season 1899, 370 pounds; F. S. Schenck, Brooklyn, N. Y., season 1900, 384 pounds; A. C. Thompson, Pomona, season 1901, 384 pounds; H. T. Kendall, Pasadena, season 1902, 419 pounds. Largest Yellowtail—F. V. Rider, Avalon, season 1898, 41 pounds; F, §. Gerrish, Jacksonville, Fla., season 1890, 37 pounds; R. F. Stocking, Los Angeles, season 1900, 48 pounds; T. S. Manning, season 1901, 33 pounds; Dr. Trowbridge, Fresno, season 1902, 47%4 pounds. The game fishes listed in the tournament are the tuna, black sea bass, albicore, yellowtail, whitefish, sheepshead, bonito, rock bass. Handsome prizes are offered in all these classes for both boatman and ang- ler. There are prizes to the boatman for the boat which takes the first fish of the season, and for the best equipped boat, all of which has had its influence in making Avalon the admiration of anglers for the sportsmanlike methods which hold there. Everyone fishes with a rod—no one uses a handline or any kind of a line larger than a number 24 Cuttyhunk. If the fish can’t be catight with this he is not caught at all, but that he is caught the records show. Local anglers are looking forward to the visit to Avalon this week of Dr. Van Dyke, of Princeton, a famous lover of the rod, who is in Los Angeles as moderator of the Pres- byterian General Assembly. The ‘rugged cliffs of Santa Catalina are far different from the charming scenes Mr. Van Dyke has pictured yet none the less beautiful, and it is the hope of many to see this disciple of Walton have a full measure of the “fisherman’s luck,” of which he writes so charmingly. SENOR X, At the Agquarium’s Table. Where they Like to see Every Boarder with a Good Appetite, Atways after a newly captured fish has been put into a tank at the New York Aquarium, the first thing to be done is to feed it, or try to get it to eat. At some periods of the year some fishes in nature my go entirely without food for a long time, and in captivity they may do the same, or eat very little; but as a general proposition a fish that is doing well eats well; and there is nothing that pleases those who have the care of captive fishes so much as to see the stock with good appetites. That means that the fishes are feeling well, to begin with, and their taking food regularly and in sufficient quantities means that they are keeping up their strength, and, so to speak, their spirits. As long as a fish eats it is all right. The new- comers are not only tempted with the most attractive food that can he supplied to them, but they are actually fed by hand; that is, the food is actually put into their mouths, and this very likely is done day after day; and the biggest and clumsiest of the fishes are the ones lilce- liest to be fed in this manner. Every effort is always made to give the fishes generally what they would like to eat, and their diet is varied as much as possible with marine delicacies such as shrimps, soft shell clams, and so on; and it is sought to satisfy eyen the tastes of individual fishes. For example, the green parrot fishes like soft clams, shells and all, and they get them, these beautiful fishes eating the entire clam, biting out small chunks and chewing up the pulp and shell very fine and swallowing all., Most fishes that eat one sort and another of crustaceans, reject the shells. But that’s the way the green parrots Jike clams, and that’s the way the clams are fed to them. On the other hand, there are some fishes that get their soft clams on the half shell, these heinge the angel fishes, the cowfishes and the trunkfishes, and as it has been found that it is better for these fishes’ health that they should not eat the tough head of the clam with the leathery, skinny hood that covers it, that part is cut out before the clams, on the half shell, are put into the tanks for them. Indeed, the dietary is quite varied, as some fish are vegetarians, many carnivorous, and a few omnivorous. The vegetarians are few in number, and feed on soaked cereals or green plants in season. Beside shrimps and clams, the carnivores have various tastes. Some will eat only living fishes that they can capture; others thrive on dead fishes from which the bones have been removed; some require a diet of small crabs, and almost all enjoy a bit of salted codfish as a delicacy. Besides the fishes there are the turtles, seal, lobsters, sea-anemones and others to provide for, each requiring a special knowledge of its wants and habits through all the seasons. Many an anxious consultation is held over fishes that refuse to eat or that develop some disease and lose their wonted vigor. This one needs a salve for some wound, that one is suffering from some fungus growth. The latter is treated by hydropathy literally; that is, if it is a fresh water fish it is put into salt water, and vice versa, for the fungi that live in one kind of water cannot live in the other. Another matter of prime importance to the welfare of the inhabitants is the constant circulation of the water in ample volume. The regulation of the temperature also requires constant attention. Fishes are commonly called cold-blooded; they are, in fact, variable-blooded, and are keenly susceptible to fluctuations in the temperature of the water. In the aquarium not less than in the open water, these sensibilities play an important part in the life of fishes, and success in management means almost hourly attention to the regulation of the temperature. The New York Aquarium is furnished with a refrigerat- Ing apparatus on the one hand, and a warming apparatus on the other, so that salmon from the icy waters of Maine may feel at home, while the tropical fishes are com- fortable in the neighboring tanks. _ The men in charge of the fish get to know the peculiari- ties of every individual. In fact, this is necessary to success, and it is knowledge acquired by experience, not found in books. They tell us that fish of different kinds put together in a tank will fight till one kind is killed out, and that occasionally those of the same species will hound certain individuals to death; or perhaps it will be one only that is made the butt of all the rest. This trait is characteristic of the trunkfish. The species of fish of which the New York Aquarium has the largest number, but of which the public sees the least, is the killifish. Although they are only from one to three inches long, they are as quick witted as the brightest of the big fish. They have to be, for they have so many enemies. At the aquarium they have an oppor- tunity to display their powers of adaptation. They have only one opportunity to show what they can do in this direction, but they.make good use of it. There is only an instant in which to decide upon the use which they will make of this opportunity, but there is no hesitation in making the decision. The “killies” are collected every day for the aquarium by a man employed for the purpose. They are needed in large numbers, for they are used as food for the other fish. Every day a quantity of them are thrown to the bass and trout alive. It is then that they display their intelligence, or instinct, whichever it is. One is inclined at first thought to believe it is the former, for it is cer- tain that they have never been called upon to meet the enemy in tanks shaped like those into which they are thrown., They quickly adapt themselves to the conditions under which the conflict for survival must be fought. The foe is as keen in the hunt as the hunted. It is a war oi the wits. The striped bass are kept in one of the oval basins on the main floor. There are a score or more of as fine specimens of the species as a fisherman ever looked upon in it, and it is tantalizing to one fond of fishing to watch them lazily moving across the white enamel bot- tom. A few minutes before 4 o’clock one of the keepers approaches the tank with a pail containing a hundred or two of the little fish. He leans over the edge, dips his hand into the pail, takes out a handful and tosses them into the center of the pool. There is a sudden commo- tion in the water. The bass are rising to the surface with a rush. It is now or never with the little fish. Do they lose their heads? No! The fight between the bass and their supper is now on. Will the bass have their supper? They have jumped for the largest of the “Icillies,” leaving the smaller ones for dessert. When by themselves the smaller “killies” usually remain at the bottom of their tank. They do not seek the bottom now. It is safer on top. With sundry darts they spring for the side of the tank. They know the habits of bass. The bass jump for their food. The small fish says to himself: “If I can only get to one side of the tank he- fore the bass gets me, I have a fighting chance. he is exceptionally clever, he cannot get me without hurt- ing his snout when he jumps for me.” He succeeds in reaching thé white tile side, and finds there many of his fellows. They swim along the tank side in groups, and the bass leave them alone for a time. Probably no angler would think of the weakfish, for instance, as one that could be induced to take food from the hand; but the weakfish at the New York Aquarium will eat in this manner. That lightning-quick fish, the mackerel, and others of his quick moving family, can likewise be brought to take food from the hands, though they do not come up and pause and take the food deliberately from the fingers. They seize it out of the fingers as they flash past; doing this, however, of a deliberate purpose, so that it may be said of them, too, that they will take food from the hand. In fact, there is hardly a fish which comes to the aquarium which will not take food in this way after be- ing there six months or more. The fishes that will take food thus include not only the common, familiar kinds, but the strangely-shaped and bright-colored varieties from the tropics. They are indeed so ready to do this that the man who feeds them has to look sharp and see that they don’t bite his fingers, There are here plenty of fishes, and some of them not so big, either, with teeth sharp enough and jaws powerful enough to enable them to bite to the bone. At the same time there are plenty of the fishes here that don’t nip and catch in that way, but eat with more de- liberation, and there are plenty of them that are at the top of the water waiting for the man that feeds them when he comes along, or that come to the top ‘to meet him the instant he raises the screen above their tank. Here is the orange filefish, from local waters, an odd looking fish, which comes to the top and feeds from the hand with absolute confidence. Its small curious mouth, when open, presents a round orifice not much more than hig enough to take in a lead pencil. It takes its food by suction. ’ The orange filefish comes up for the shrimp held out for it and mumbles around it without any hurry at all until it gets it just right, and then sets its suction going and takes it in, and it takes in this way shrimp after shrimp. Unless” A little further along there comes to the surface for his daily treat of killies a big portly triggerfish from Ber- muda—a veteran; this old chap has been here since 1897, and it comes up now at tegular feeding time regulafly and waits with its nose right at the top of the water, and rolls its eye at you as it waits. The man with the feed holds a killie down, puts it, in fact, right into the fish’s mouth, and the old chap stays there and takes the killies as they ate handed down. Indeed, some of the fish at the aquarium ate fed as if they were infants who were just being weaned, or in the’ trying period of developing teeth. Instead of preseriting the food to them on the end of one’s finger, however, a slendet, sharp pointed stick is used. The sea anemones, the African catfish (among the liveliest fish in the aquatium), the Siamese climbing perch, sunfish, paradise- fish, the amphiuma, or Congo snake, the white axolotl, the Spanish ribbed newt, the common newt, and the triton are some of those which receive their food in this way. To all of these is given minced beefsteak. As they are not sticklers the steak is only top round. These fish are kept in the glass jars in the laboratory and’ have no opportunity to secure food for themselves. They are always glad to get their meal, which varies from one lit- tle piece of the minced steak to a number of pieces. Mr. Spencer gives them their meal about 4 o’clock in the after- noon. He carries it about on a little wooden spade which suggests a butter paddle such as the good housewives of New England work their butter with. Beginning at the end of the row, he stops in front of each jar in turn, and, taking a morsel of the meat on the end of his stick, pushes aside the ulva floating on the top of the water, and pokes it into the mouth of the fish, which, as a rule, jumps for it. Sometimes the meat sticks on the end of the stick and then the fish has to give it a pull. Some of the fish are so small that they have difficulty in swallowing a single morsel. They are always greedy for it, however, and ready to undertake the task. “Blue Crab!” exclaimed a trim young woman teacher in charge of a flock of scholars, reading the label on a tank and glancing then into the tank itself, “I don’t see any blue crabs.” But scarcely had she spoken when there came swiftly floating down from above through the water of the tank a lot of small fragments of clam that had been thrown in. And scarcely had the first of these fragments reached them when the bottom of the tank fairly swarmed with the liveliest lot of small crabs ever seen, and lots of them. There are in this tank upward of one hundred and fifty young blue crabs, ranging from one-quarter of an inch up to three inches in length, Before that food came down they had all been buried in the sand at the bottom of the tank. Now they were all out dancing and prancing and jumping about, grabbing at pieces of the floating clam and grabbing it away from one another, and two crabs pulling at the same piece; little blue crabs—and the blue is the liveliest of all crabs— everywhere, and every one on the jump and go. The tank that had been a moment before so quiet, was now a scene of great activity and excitement, and the young teacher and her flock were quite fascinated by the show; as, indeed, are all who chance to see this little spectacle of the blue crab tank at feeding time. When one of the little crabs has got its claws on a frag- ment of clam, it may dart upward through the water; the biue crab is a greeat swimmer. It puts out one big claw, bent with the elbow to the front like a cutwater, and trails the other straight behind like a rudder or steering oar, and propels itself with its swimming claws. Many of these little crabs take their food and climb up the back or one of the side walls of the tank and stay there to eat it, where they are less likely to be disturbed by others; so that now all the walls of the tank are sprinkled with variously sized small crabs scattered ir- regularly, while the bottom of the tank still swarms with them, and the previously vacant water is alive with them, darting here and there. So that it is a lively tank, in- deed, this tank of the small blue crabs; and many pause to look at it. There is one crustacean which need have no fear of the vivisectionist. It is the prawn, the first cousin of the shrimp. There are a number of them at the aquarium, where they are kept in a round jar in the laboratory. The reason that they need never fear the vivisectionist is that they are so nearly transparent that one may see their little hearts, livers and lights, and black linen thread tract right through their sides. They look as if they were made of glass with a tinge of sea green in it. Except for the two tiny dark bead-like eyes on the ends of two horn-like projections on their heads, one can scarcely distinguish them from the water in which they swim, they being sv nearly colorless. When they swallow a morsel of clam, which they do from time to time when they are hungry, one can observe its progress to the digestive apparatus, Strangely, the white morsel looks black when once it is inside the prawn. This is because no light can pass through the clam, and none can be reflected from it. It is no more than a black period inside of a short para- graph of a fish. Prawns are three or four inches long. In shape and actions one might suppose them to be em- bryonic lobsters. They have miniature claws in front and a tangled undergrowth of legs. Great feelers—great for such an atom of life—go before to warn them of danger. Behind they have a paddle-like extremity which serves the same purpose as a similar organ on the lobster. By suddenly doubling themselves: up they are able to shoot themselves backward when danger threatens before, but they are not as pugnacious as lobsters. garded as good to eat. ; Since the death of the big West Indian seal, long famous for its habit of squirting water over the by- standers around its pool, many of the visitors have trans- ferred their attentions to Nellie, the harbor seal, appar- ently with the hope that Nellie will cut up some similar antics, The handsome harbor seal has always been a favorite here, but her pool is now surrounded daily by more people than ever. Nellie ie never a joker like the big West Indian, but she is a lively creature and a lightning quick swim- mer, and often in making the circuit of her pool she will jump three-quarters of her length out of the water. She has always heen very intelligent and seems now ta he Prawns are re- May 23, 1903.] . FOREST AND STREAM. 409 getting more so all of the time. For instance: Every day at 4 a man brings out of the feed room at the aquarium a tin bucket in which is contained the harbor seal’s supper, which he sets over between the outer and inner railings of the seal’s pool, at the plat- form end, there to await the coming of the man who does the actual feeding. j Nellie always comes up on the platform at this time, too, for she knows as well as anybody what is in that bucket. There on the platform she waits for the mati who is to feed her. He climbs up over the railing and steps over to the pool’s platform and stoops and says: “Shake hands, Nellie,” which Nellie never fails to do, putting up her flipper promptly. Tf the man who daily feeds Nellie comes along, as he sometimes does, rather early, and goes for the feed him- self, then Nellie, as he passes along near the side of the pool, swims along inside as close to him as she can get, jumping out of the water two or three times on the way itl joyous eagerness and anticipation. And when the man appears with the bucket she jumps out of the water and splashes. round again and then bolts for the platform to meet him there. But passing the pool thus early one day recently the man was surprised to see that Nellie did not follow along in the pool parallel with him as usual, but stayed right on the platform, whither she had already gone, without budging. This was strange, and looking back he saw Nellie close by the inner railing and throwing up a flipper apparently to him; and, looking again, he saw the flipper resting now on the top of that inner railing square abreast, as he now observed, of the tin bucket, which was already there, and which, to all appearances, Nellie was trying to point out to him. It had been brought out that day a little earlier than usual, and it had chanced to escape the man’s eye; but it had not escaped Nellie’s. When one of the small turtles in the pool of little alligators, turtles and bullfrogs gets hold of a piece of meat bigger than it can swallow at a gulp, it spreads its hind legs apart, as though to brace itself, and then fastens the claws on one or the other of its fore feet in the meat and pulls; just-as a small boy might pull with one of his hands on something tough that he held between his teeth. In this way the turtle pulls his food into pieces that it can swallow. There are in this small pool many small turtles, includ- ing many varieties, and they all have pretty good appe- tites; but some of them are too lazy to hunt around for the food when it is thrown in, or they have hazy notions of right or wrong, for no small turtle will hesitate to grab the food out of another turtle’s beak if it gets a chance. A small spotted turtle here picked up a piece of meat the other day and was industriously clawing it apart and eating when there lumbered up to it a snapping turtle twice its size which snatched the food from the spotted turtle’s mouth and calmly bolted it. The spotted turtle was powerless to tesent this treatnient, but a minute later the spotted turtle got a chance at this same snapping tur- Ue and got even in great shape. When the spotted turtle had been deprived of that piece of meat it swam on a foot or two beyond the snapper and then turned around, by chance or intention, just in time to see the snapping turtle pick up from the bottom of the pool a good sized piece of meat, which it had found itself, For that piece of meat little spotterino now made a dive. It couldn’t have begun to pull it away from the bigger snapping turtle, but when it came upon the snapper unawares, snipped the meat out of its beak, and was off with it before the snapper could put its wits together and shut tight. With the piece of meat in its mouth the little spotted turtle kept right on, paddling away as fast as it could, like a small boy who had snatched something and was running away with it. The lumbering snapping turtle didn’t try to follow, but the little spotted turtle took no chances. It got away from the bigger turtle as fast as it could and as far. Other turtles reached out for the meat, but the spotted turtle evaded all and made for a clear space on the bottom of the pool ten feet away; it was like going out into the open lots of a town, where there would be no houses, no people around at all, and then devoured its prize. Truly, there’s something going on all the time in this pool of reptiles and batrachians. The big sturgeon which died at the aquarium recently was not the only specimen there on exhibition. There are three more swimming about in the tanks. The sturgeon is an interesting fish with a telescopic mouth. Its mouth has not the usual bony jaw opening like that of most fish, It is on the under side of its head, like that of a shark, and is more like a hole than anything else. In front of it, hanging down like a thin beard, are a number of sensitive tentacles. Whenever the surgeon in his search for food skims the surface of the bottom, these tentacles sweep the ground. If they chance to pass over the end of the siphon of a soft-shelled clam, the information is immediately telegraphed to the brain, and the telescopic mouth unfolds into a tube over the neck of the clam, Its gills begin to work with the speed of bel- lows when a fire is being stirred up. The sand blows out of them on either side in a little cloud. In a few seconds the sand around the clam has been sucked through the gills and the clam is fitted into the mouth of the sturgeon. Once inside the vestibule of the stur- ~geon’s mouth, the shell is crushed to pieces, the gills again working like a busy pair of bellows. The clam, iS 5 needless to say, does not follow the fragments of the shell. Weakfish near New York. Prince’s BAy, Staten Island, N. Y., May 18—Editor Forest and Stream: Weakfish are here and ready for business. It is early for them to take the hook in these waters, but their actions prove the fact, On thergth, 15th, and 16th goad catches were made at Gifford’s, and yester- day two or three were caught here in Prince’s Bay in near shore, and, as we call it, “under the light.” Any fisherman from New York who has fished in Prince’s Bay will know the location “under the light” and “on the flats,” two good places for these large veloy-haned tide TERRETS: Canoe and Camp Life Along the Delaware River. | =e VIII.—The Campet’s Sky and Clouds. “The heavens recount the glory of God, and the firmament pro- claims His handiwork.’—From Wellhausen’s Translation of X1X. Psalm. “TJnderneath the young, gray dawn, A multitude of dense, white, fleecy clouds ‘ Werte wandering in thick flocks along the mountains, Shepherded by the slow, unwilling wind.” —Shelley. Tue wild, savage instinct lingers in nearly all civilized men, and blazes forth during an outing with rod or gun, The diverse moods of my tent-mate prove this. On Sundays he “dresses up”—white shirt, collar, a sedate face under his sober hat, patent-leathers, cuffs, and a cleat shave. He protests as he sees men fishing. But we take the canoe on the train up to Curtis’ Eddy, just above Cochecton, and make a Sunday run down the river to the tent at the head of Upper Westcolang Rift; and in the favotable morning light he loves to watch and follow the bass, gliding about over their now disused beds that look like big submerged soup-plates lined with little stones. He tells how the fish make them, change color during the time of actual spawning, and how the male fish guards the vitalized exes. He says it is a shame to pursue and kill them, as they hevet do us any harm, and have as good a right to life as ourselves. ‘This is when he wears his Sunday face and clothes, and feels and talks what he is, a dignified college professor. But om Monday morning he dons a blue shirt, brown overalls, coarse shoes, and a horrible straw hat. All through the week he grows more and more disreputable; and by Saturday he is eatitig fried fish with his fingers, _ and talking in the rough dialect of a backwoodsman. He PURE SKY AND REFLECTIONS, voices his impatience at my slow preparations to join him in the canoe for a try at the fish with modern tackle; for our tamarack poles have been broken, stolen, and whittled up on wet mornings for shavings to start the camp-fire. “Tyon’t ye see ’em jumpin’ out there? ” he protests. “Hurry up!—rain’s a comin’ soon, an’ they'll bite fine!” “Thought you didn’t approve of killing bass.” “Pooh! Nonsense! That was last Sunday. See, there’s another jumpin’ and aggravatin’ me. Hurry up!” Yet even on a Saturday afternoon, and especially after supper, if he stretches himself on one of the two rubber mattresses from the tent, and smokes, he quite charms me with the grace and taste of his conversation. But he talks rather pompously, as if he were lecturing to his: classes. Here is a sample of his remarks after he has “flopped down,” has a cigar “going,” and while he scans the sky and its cloud-ranges as evening twilight approaches : “Now, this is comfort, and what I often did when a boy—watched cloud-castles over the fields of the old homestead out in the West, forty years ago. It was a dream-life. I pictured faces in the ‘thunder-head’ clonds, flocked and balanced in the heavens. Mountains, rivers, islands of the blue sea, titan birds, faces, boats and persons in them floating down azure rivers; dragons, alligators and elephants; and I tell you those clouds of that long ago were my castles in Spain. I even wrote some verses about them, Don’t run away—l’ll let you off if you will listen to two of the stanzas: had them in our village paper, and the girls said they were fine.. *€A fair, illumined cloud, rose-tinted mist, Rises above the groves of yerdant yew, Joins with the clouds aboye, whose cheeks are kissed With sunlight mild, and forms a castle true! A castle wondrous fair, suspended in the blue: All subtle pearls and purples in the sunset ray; Made beauteous by the rich light melting through. v Wor fancy’s pencil bright, nor poet’s sweetest lay, Can justly to the mind this fairy scene portray! “Columns and terraces, and lofty towers, Ane deftly fashioned, as divinely planned. The massive portals are bedecked with flowers— Wreath crowning wreath and band encircling band: While on the snow-white dome, superbly grand, A golden staff supports the flag of bliss, Qn whose pink folds are traced with cunning hand, The symbols of man’s earthly happiness, In wild confusion thrown, yet nothing placed amiss!” “Why don’t you applaud?” he growls. “You ate three fish for breakfast, and have drank four lemonades since we came in this afternoon. Indigestion—that’s your trouble. How hard it is for a ‘poet’ to find appreciation! But really you ought to study the clouds.” We watched them while on the Delaware, as boys watch a circus. This article is for the casual reader, who would skip dry details about cloud perspectives and some of the laws of light and color. Besides, no writers about clouds can account for much of their phenomena. So the few hin- dreds of words here devoted to them will be woefully in- complete and fragmentary. The sky should be regarded as a clear, fiery-bluc liquid, yet full of air that is more or less saturated with moisture that is visible when cold has condensed,it, A cold wind rushing out of an Apine valley often forms clouds in the warmer, moist air which it finds below. A snowy mountain-peak frequently has its cloud-banner streaming out, but stationary in high wind, as if some wizatd had tied it to that pinnacle. It is caused by the moisture being condensed into a visible cloud which is constantly blown away and as constantly formed, as the air swoops over and past the peak.. This invisible moisture in the air will cause endless change of hues in the sky without clouds, tinting its transparency in a dozen blues, faint pinks and purples, mauves and greens. I do not now speak of hues of clouds, but of transparent sky without clouds, where the moisture becomes sufficiently visible in sunlight to make tender changes of hues in the sky itself, just as dust is shown along the line of sunshine that traverses a room. So the absolute purity of the sky’s deep blue is endlessly changed by invisible moisture, which is yet capable of affecting the color of the sky itself. And when clouds do appear, the sunbeams falling just along their edges and darting beyond them, show this vapor partially in effects that country boys sometimes call “the sun drawing water,” and which artists so often try to show on their canvas skies. Perhaps the leading feature of all clouds is their con- stant and perpetual changefulness of form and hue. No part of any cloud remains the same either in shape or color, for two consecutive moments. The sky scenery is divided into three great cloud classes—the upper (cirrus), central (stratus), and lower, or rain cloud. The cirrus clotids never touch even the highest moun- tain pinnacles, and are always full of hair-like and par- allel lines whose direction is also parallel with the wind, to which each cloud always presents its narrowest point. The outlines of all cirrus clouds are very sharp, with distinct edges. When they gather in flocks and fill the sky, their number is like the leaves of the forest; and they are apt to -be agitated by lofty winds which bend, break and serrate them, but without marring or destroy- ing the individuality of any. These clouds show the coolest and softest white, pearl-gray and scarlet tints, They contain no impurities; and as light is caught and held in them, they become saturated, as a sponge with water, with the most exquisite colors, perhaps unequaled by any other hues in nature. The whole sky is often covered with them, each sharply visible, yet often so ethereal that you can see the stars through their films. They then make the sky a titanic canopy of fleecy wool. And there will not be one of these thousands of clouds in any one of their myriad rows which will not appear to embody a distinct thought and plan; separately set, poised and balanced, yet with a thoughtful location when considered in relation to the whole giant company! It stands like a soldier on, dress patade, just where it should be, in orderly companion- ship with the host of which it forms so tiny a part, and symmetrically aiding to make the sky a concave of petrified foam—yet tender white, pearl, mauye and pink throbbing through it all in moments when nature tries to surpass even herself, and the vault becomes transfigured ! Ti is an unspeakable, visible plan of buoyant, sublime re- pese. Yet it has its unwearied, subtle passion and change on the uplifted floor of the heavens. This whole pageant, quite as much as flowing water, is governed by inflexible laws of perspectives, curvature, light and hue, as it marshals itself from the zenith down ito its re- tirement into the horizon, melting back into the sky re- cesses—“folded veils of variable mist.” Thus we always find in clouds the purest vital beauty— felicitous fulfillment of ftinction. It is quite as manifest in the stratus, or central cloud, To this second class belong the sky-mountains with their radiant summits and buttresses of cold shadow—clouds which fling themselves into crags and precipices more gigantic than a dozen Matterhorns, yet gashed with cafions seemingly as solid as rock, and under crowded, uplifted peaks, domes and promontories—torn with cavi- ties and tunneled with long reaches of perspectives lead- ing back to the open firmament beyond, and with sunlight pouring through them, showing tender little fields and points of intensest blue sky; sometimes all in peace; still, fixed; and again boiling and tortured in convulsions, like Milton’s flinging of “hills with all their woods.” And breaking through all this will be a dozen aisles, each full of its histories of distance and space, “fifty hol- low ways among bewildered hills—each with their own nodding rocks and cloven precipices and radiant sumimnits and robing vapors, but all unlike each other except in _ beauty, and all bearing witness to the unwearied, ex- haustless operation of the Infinite Mind.” And as 1f to show that she is never satisfied with her own beauty, nature will often set above all this as a © canopy, an upper concave flecked with innumerable fields of the higher cirrus clouds, also graced with exquisite glories of colors. The magnitude of the stratus cloud formations is also amazing. So is their seeming solidity, Anywhere in them the aeronaut could breathe freely; yet with all their actual, evanescent fragility, they look massive as stone! Real motintains are thus mocked with their own forms, and multiplied m size while filled with unspeakable brightness and many-hued fire. There is no Alpine or Himalayan mountain view but sinks to insignificance in comparison with these unsubstantial pageants of the sky, which can be well seen almost any midsummer day along the Delaware. Far too often we scarcely note, much less see them. Even when specially looked at, I have heard 410 this dialogue between an artist and sportsman of taste, and a mere fisherman: “What a magnificent, fiery sunset in clouds!” “Y-a-a-s! Looks as if the sky had been wearing a mustard plaster.” It is difficult to have patience with such vulgarity before all that infinity of loveliness, equally infinite in all its parts and divisions of parts. For if you select from all that conflagration a single square inch of the picture, and study it, vou find that it has the vital purity and deli- cacy of a leaf of the wild rose, and that it still triumphs over and defies you withits infinity quite as much in that subdivided, tiny spot, as in the marvelous whole—each point of mist and color too tender, changing, subtle ,deli- cate and mysterious for analysis. To those of open eye and humble heart I say, study the stratus cloud; for in the above struggle for some approximate descfiption, I have only made pitifully weak and imperfect mention of some of its numberless attractions. ; Lastly, to the rain-cloud belongs the white wreath that broods over or steals along the mountain sides, ap- pearing, vanishing, reappearing and widening to junctions with other mists, and often ascending and blackening with increased and electric life, to take possession of the whole sky. It then plays with thunderbolts, reigning perhaps in gray. monotony, or forming afar off; and, rousing and carrying its own winds, it advances toward you, the white and gray couriers crowning it like a skir- mish line before the ominous main body. Or it may be seen retreating, and fringed with dreamy, down-reaching, wind-swerved rain-curtains far away among plains and hills. But it 1s so comparatively near that it cannot be studied in really titanic masses, sky-wide, like the’ cirrus and stratus. Its most fearful life is when it seems to fill the sky be- cause it is nearer, and brings its twisted, motion across your path in the sweep and fury of the thunder-storm. It is always heavier than the rain it releases. Its edges become ragged, hurrying, fitful. And its gloom and indescribable electric oncoming and threat- ening murmur, its fiercer voices, sulphurous béing, wild- ness, and impending swoop over you while it yet seems to be relentlessly shattering its own self with chaotic frenzy, CLOUDS. SUNSET AFTERGLOW ON form what is probably the most impressive scene of earth. Its intense gloom is yet visible through enormous space and height, a gloom full of wild haste and crouching fear, its mad swirls of hurrying drift being flung up and on- ward, every writhing wreath full of its own special pas- sion of torture, vet all overpowered and swept along by one omnipotence. Lurid colors, uncontrolled, posing fury, a sky-wide Terror being chased and fleeing before a power infinitely greater than itself! No wonder that not orily children, but many strong men, dread the advance of the maddened rain-cloud! Here, again, nature uses the power of contrast. The rain-cloud passes; streams of fire come from its inky folds, and it bellows in pain. But as it retires into the hollows of distance, the rear guard of its rain-drops pattering on wet foliage like showers of buck-shot, note the sweet promise and blessing which it shows not only in the rainbow, but in the golden-green colors dancing on washed and sparkling forests and hills.. White, dreamy, sun-flecked peace of thousands of delicate, snowy clouds, trooping to transform the heavens from their dark horror into ineffable light; while the heated hills steam like overdriven horses—the inexpressible beauty of “sunshine after rain!” But why attempt the impossible? Far abler pens than mine have shown themselves impotent to tell of such scenes. He who dares attempt to describe them must he audacious in words; and the chances are many to one that he will not only miserably fail, but feel that his language is pompous and ridiculous, even when he has ‘an humble desire, freed from all self-consciousness, to try and stimulate study of clouds—the downy-winged sea- angels from above whose driving shadows the scrolls of the heavens are unfolded, and from which pour the showers which wake to life the grateful laughings and sparklings through woods and meadows, rivulets and brooks that join to make the volumed music of rivers like the Delaware. Before me are a dozen photographs of clouds; no’ camera can show their beauty, and no engraver repre- sent a thousandth part of their delicacy and finish of curvature and hue. Look at the sky-pictures themselves. See them, teeming with that Vital Spirit of Nature described by Kreeshna, the Hindoo Deity, as he ad- dresses Arjoon, the pupil. It is the Sanserit key-note of all later writings about nature: “T am moisture in the water, light in the sun and moon, found in the firmament, human nattire in mankind, sweet- smelling favor in the earth, glory in the source of light.” (See Bhagvat Geeta Dialogues.) ¥ All this is not rhapsody, but benign fact, and as vitally true of the sky and its clouds as of the earth and its peoples, whom Jean Paul came to know so well that Carlyle said of him: : ; “Every gentle and generous affection, every thrill of mercy, every glow of nobleness, awakens in his bosom a response; nay, strikes his spirit into harmony; a wild music, as of wind-harps, floating round us in fitful swells, but soft sometimes, and pure and soul-entrancing as the song of angels. His is the spirit which gives life and tortured — FOREST AND STREAM, beauty to whatever it embraces. Inanimate Nature is no longer an insensible assemblage of colors and perfumes, but a mysterious Presence with which he communes in unutterable sympathies. The infinite Night, with her solemn aspects, Day, and the sweet approach of Even and Morn, are full of meaning for him, He loves the green Earth with her streams and forests, her flowety leas and eternal skies; loves her with a sort of passion in all her vicissitudes of light and shade; his spirit revels in her grandeur and charms; expands like the breeze over wood and lawn, over gladé and dingle, stealing and giving odors.” . _L. F, Brown. In Maine Waters. Bancor, Maine, May 16.—Editor Forest and Stream: ‘The week has passed, and with it have passed all the de- sitable fishing records hitherto held in the State.of Maine —to hear the enthusiastic anglers tell it themselves. ‘And, beyond question, the conditions have been such as to make the past week one long to be remembered among the fishermen, who in 1902 had so much that was untoward to interfere with their perfect enjoyment of the best week’s sport for the parallel week, ever enjoyed by. visi- tors to the Maine trout waters. This has been a week of peculiar conditions for Maine, especially in May, when sportsmen usually begin to watch the skies with care, and the direction of thé wind with real concern. The very unusual conditions of low water, and, following soon after the cold weather, a delightful spell of warm weather, have united to bring the fishing up to date with a rush, and those who have had sufficient time to go to the fishing grounds and stay right there for twenty-four hours, or until they had all the fish they wanted or could carry, have enjoyed sport such as has. not been experienced by them in long years of annual visits to Maine waters. ~ There has been, too, another interference with one’s fullest enjoyment, when a half hundred of the best fish- ing waters have been made secondary in quality for the weeks of spring fishing, by holding back the water and raising if as high as the law would permit, to be used later in/ driving the logs. This year all is changed, and the high water does not come nearly.as high in these reservoirs as has become customary since the log driving cencerns secured control of them, in a measure. Par- ticularly is this true at Moosehead Lake, which is lower this season than for several years, owing to the early freshets which rushed away the snows depended on for a later supply of driving water. This low water prevents the fish getting into the bushes and swamps along the shore of the lake, in search of insects; and as a conse- quence the fish have been very hungry and ready to at- tack almost anything that gave promise of having food qualities. ' Another important feature of the past week has been the forest fires, which have raged in almost every section of Maine where there was woods, and has undoubtedly caused extensive damage to the timberlands. ' It. has been so long since we had rain that in many places the ground and twigs were almost parched, and offered good food for the spark that sooner or later came that way. Several camps, private and public as well, have been seriously threatened, and, in some cases, even wiped out, and un- less rain comes soon and in abundance, there will be large extra expense to camp owners in replacing that which the fire destroys. It is probable that the past week has seen brought into Bangor the largest square-tail trout caught by a fisher- man in Moosehead for many seasons. P: H. McNamara, of this city, was one of a party at the lake, and he landed, among others, a trout that weighed 6% potinds, which is believed to be the record fish for those waters during the present season. Green Lake, which panned out fairly well for the first part of the season, hasn’t reported its run of smelts up the brook yet, and until that event the fishing will con- tinue to be poor. Reports say that but one man had the courage to fish there during this week, and he happily landed a five-pound salmon. Perhaps no two strings shown in this city have created ~ as much interest and admiration as those of the Sterns party from Moosehead and the Pierce party from Burnt Pond. The former party was composed of Ezra L. Sterns, Col. I. K, Stetson, Hon. Wm. Engel, Collector of Customs, Albert R. Day, Capt. H. C. Chapman, E. E. Walker, and Elgin Greenleaf, of this city. They had a magnificent string, led by a fish weighing 534 pounds, taken by Mr. Greenleaf. The other string was not as large, even proportionately, but few handsomer trout will be seen in eastern Maine this year than the five exhibited by Assistant Postmaster A. H. Pierce and Postal Clerk H. A. Jordan, who were at Burnt Pond. Their largest weighed four pounds. Governor John F. Hill, of Augusta, Councillor Wm. T. Haines, of Waterville, and Dr. F. G Kinsman, of Augusta, have just returned from a trip to the Passadum- ‘keag Stream, where they fished with great delight and most desirable results, from the source to Cold Spring. They camped out one night and caught lots of fish, none weighing above a pound, but affording some of the very finest stream fishing ever enjoyed by any member of the party. On the way home Dr. Kinsman left the others and stopped off for a day at Cold Stream Pond, Enfield, and caught eight good fish to take home. It was at Cold Stream Pond, too, that Postmaster G. D. Libby, of Gardner, hooked “the grandfather of them all,” as he puts it. Mr. Libby was at the pond all the week with a friend, J. F. Wight, of Boston, and both had been having very good luck—so good that there was an abundance of fish for the table and some to set aside against the departure for home. While trolling Friday afternoon, Mr. Libby had a tremendous strike and played his fish for a long time, once getting the fish near enough to the boat to be seen—and it was a bouncer, the largest he ever hooked, he says, and those who were near at the time support his story. But finally the fish got the better of the angler, and, much to the latter’s disgust, escaped. Wm. G. Dillingham and George A. Crafts, of the East- ern Manufacturing Company, accompanied hy Fred Ayer, son of the president of that company, all of this city, have returned from a great trip to Sisladobsis Lake, where they landed forty-seven handsome salmon. They [May 23, 1903. brought home all the law allows, and had an abundance of salmon, in all*desirable ways of cooking, while in camp. - The sea salmon do not. seem to be coming in great schools, and tip to date only one has been taken during the week, ‘a 19 pounder caught yesterday by C. P. Hodgkins, of this-city. At Calais an occasional one is being taken, but the best run there is in early June, while the best run at the Bangor Pool is any time, and you are fortunate to be on hand during its continuance. BAT Ses Herbert W. Rowe. bs ' ~ 4 New England Angling. Boston, May 16—Editor Forest and Stream: Some facts regarding the Megantic Club will be read with in- terest -not only by the 238 members of it but by many others. who have partaken of its benefits. The club has exerted a powerful influence in the cause of protection in. Maine, and’ many of its members have been zealous workers in other States. This is especially true in Massa- chusetts, where a goodly number of them have joined the State Association, some of whom have been for several years members of its Board of Management. Previous to its formation, some fifteen years ago, Canadian Frenchmen were wont to come over the line into Maine and kill deer in winter time while in their yards for their hides, In fact, indiscriminate slaughter of all kinds of game was the rule with them winter and summer, Not only has this wanton destruction been stopped, but, under the guidance of efficient directors, a careful observance of the game laws has been secured on the part of its members and visiting sportsmen. In addition to this: a fish hatchery has been established and placed in charge of a competent superintendent. Last Angust 140,000 young fish were liberated in L, Big Island, Rock, Grant, Northwest and Arnold ponds. In the laiter were placed 2,000 landlocked salmon obtained from the United: States Fish Commission last fall. 200,000 trout eggs were - obtained by purchase, and 20,000 salmon eggs, as a gift from the United States: The fishing is reported to be constantly improving in spite of the fact that 163 mem- bers and 84 guests visited the preserve last year. One new camp at Chain of Ponds has been recently built. The managing director, Mr. Stephen F. Johnson, of Boston; who has recently returned from a trip across the preserve, reports that materials and help have been pro- vided to put the club house and camps in thorough repair prior to the opening, which occurred May 15. He, how- ever, advised members not to visit them earlier than the 20th, and says fly-fishing is not likely to be good till June. “The club house is in charge of Mr. E. MacPher- son; the Chain of Ponds camps are-to be managed by Mr. C. F. Sprague. Mr. L, Dana Chapman has retired from the position of secretary and treasurer, and Mr, E. A. Phippen is assist- ant clerk and secretary, while Mr. P. C. Wiggin is now treasurer. é er A new rule has recently been adopted by which here- after guests will be permitted to visit the preserve only when accompanied by a member. Secretary Phippen tells me to-day that Mr.:L. O. Crane, of the directors, has already started with a party for the preserve, and several other members are getting ready for the trip. The organization of this club 1s one of the marvels of the times, and is due to a man who has a genius for this sort of thing. Mr. Bernard Hyneman, of Hyneman Brothets, Milk street, has just returned from the Cupsuptic. Several of the salmon he caught weigh- ing from 3% to 4% pounds, together with a handsome showing of trout, were on exhibition last Thursday in the window of the Boston and Maine Railroad office on Washington street. Mr, J. C. Ackerman, of Boston, who was one of Mr. Hyneman’s party, captured a salmon weighing 7% pounds. Mr. Hyneman says he returned greatly delighted with his trip. They had pleasant weather and found things lively, several other sportsmen from New York and from cities of Maine were all getting good catches. Another gentleman just returned from the Rangeleys is Mr. James Brown, of the Railroad News Company. Mr. Wm. S, Hinman, of Boston, returned from Clear Water recently, bringing a salmon caught by himself which weighed 11 pounds, and was 31 inches in length. Mr. Hinman reports a good number of anglers and everybody having good luck, On Thursday, May 7, Dr. C. A. Moore and S. W. Bass, of Lawrence, landed five trout from 6 to 8% pounds each, a total of 3634 pounds. Dr. Frank Stratton, of Swampscott, got one weighing 9 pounds, and Dr. C. W. Hutchings, of Boston, one of 8 pounds. Mr. S. W. Staples, Taunton, Mass., after a two hours’ struggle, more than half the time after dark, brought to gaff a salmon weighing 12%4 pounds. Dr. Aldrich, of Somerville, took a salmon 1234 pounds, and Mr, W. S. Gilman a laker 1134 pounds. Mts. E. G. Gay captured a lake trout weighing 11% pounds. On Monday, May 11, Mr. N. F. Staples, of Taunton, after a struggle of more than two hours, suc- ceeded in landing a salmon weighing 15 pounds, which was 33 inches long. Several others have taken_trout, bass, salmon and lakers from 3% to 74% pounds, This is a wonderful record for Clearwater. “ From Lake Webb, Weld, reports continue + rosy, Messrs. Whiting and Taft, of Whitinsville; Dr. Walter Hoyt, of Waltham; Mr. C. M. Reed, of Providence; Mr. Edward Stanley and family and Mr. M. W. Forester, of Dixfield, Me., have met with excellent success. Fine fishing is the report from Middle Dam, Doctors Twombly and Jones, with two friends from Colebrook, N. H., on May 5 took two 7-pound salmon, and others weighing 6, 4, 44% and 5% pounds each. The two days - following they caught several trout and salmon from 1% to 514 pounds each. ; Dr. Thayer, of Fairhaven, Mass., had good fly-fishing on B Pond May to, taking ten trout from 14 to 34% pounds each. May 9, Mr. F. Rolfe, of Rumford Falls, from Pond-in-River got ten trout and salmon, the largest 4% pounds. Several others have had similar luck. At. Bemis is a large number of fishermen who are having good sport. Mr. and Mrs. Adam Leighton and their son ‘Hugh C., of Portland, have enjoyed a delightful week in one of the Bemis camps, Mr. Leighton haying taken a 4- pound salmon fishing from the dock. An old-time fisher- man from North Woodstock, Mr, Isaac W. Andrews, is May 23, 1903.] AA FOREST AND:+STREAM,. MAY II, 1903. Speckled trout taken in Belgrade Lake, Me., by H. IL: Boyd. The largest weighed 8lbs. 2oz.3 the. next - one Tbs. 1402. Photo copyright, 1903, by H. L. Boyd. here for a few days, as are also several parties from Lewiston and Rumford Falls, and many other places in Maine, and not a few from Massachusettts. Mr. Edward 1. Richards, of Woburn, left for Bemis on Thursday. rom Haines Landing come reports of a great week for fish and fishing. Hon. Joel Wilbur, of Phillips, stands at the head with a 934-pound salmon to his credit, also three others from 3% to 4 pounds each. Mr. J. N. Well, of New York, has taken several, the largest 5 pounds. Mr. and Mrs. Bliss, Mr. Charles N. Wood, of Boston; Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Coe, and Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Sabin, of Portland, have made good records, the ladies having outclassed the gentlemen in the number of fish taken. Commissioner H. O. Stanley and Hon. S. W. Carr may be named among the well-known anglers at this resort. At the Bald Mountain camps an unusual number of trout are brought in this season, Fifteen fish a day are secured frequently by a single boat. Among the success- ful ones are Mr. W. D. Hines, Portland, and Ethel M. Hines, a 12-year-old miss who has taken six fish from 21% - to 4 pounds. Others are Dr. N. M. Marshall and Mr. A. L. Edgecomb, of Portland; Dr. F. L. Cochrane, New York, and Mr. Clement R. Hooper, who is entertaining Mr. John C. Lowry and Mr. H.C. Jones, of Philadelphia. Guests at Mountain View are happy every day, but May 7 was a recotd-breaker. On that day Mr. Noyes, of Brockton, took two good salmon; J. H. Prince, of Bos- ton, two trout, 4 to 44% pounds; F. I. Nichols, Fitchburg, six salmon, from 3 to 534 pounds, and a 3-pound trout, and F.C. Sheldon, Fitchburg, two salmon, 3 and 614 pounds. Some of the new arrivals are A. L. Harlow and Ii, J. Pierce, of Gardner, Mass. and Wm, A. Putnam, of Leominster. > Reports from all the lakes in the Rangeley country agree that the season is proving a remarkable one. Hou. Joel Wilbur, whose name has already been mentioned, wrote to a friend on May 9: “Weather perfect, fishing best for years. To-day I reached the limit, 25 pounds.” Mr, Walter Twombly, who guided your correspondent more than 20 years ago at Kennebago, has done some- thing the past week he has not done before in the twenty- six years of his experience as guide, namely, he “went a-fishing,” and he got a fine string. : Mr. C. W. Porter, of Lynn, is at his Dodge Pond camps with a party of five. Messrs. Breed and Proctor are at their camp on Rangeley. Fishing at Moosehead is reported good, and great ex- pectations are indulged by all for a rushing season. Mr. FE. H. McKenzie, of Boston, and J. E. Dunning, of Bel- moni, Mass., are among the anglers at Kineo. i Mr. Harlow says there is good fishing in Round Pond, where he recently took thirty-five in one day. He reports seeing three big moose in the road in going to his camps; also that three black bears swam the Dead River and all came ashore at the same place. Anna Held, the famous singer, has gone to Belgrade for rest and sport, being an ardent lover of the gentle art. Her husband, Mr. Ziegfeld, and several members of the company are in the party. Mr. H. L, Boyd, of New York, is reported high line for the past week, having taken one trout over 8 pounds and another 7 pounds to ounces. Mr. Wm. Bourne, of New York, has had good luck, also Messrs, J. M. and J. T, Frank, of the same city. ‘The trolling season on Winnepisseogee and Wint- - nisquam is now at its height. The Messrs. -Wax, of Boston, have taken lakers from 4 to 8 pounds each, and a total of nearly 70 pounds. Mr. Jesse Eddy, of Boston, with five others, recently took in one day nineteen trout, with a total weight of 7034 pounds, and two salmon 1114 ~ pounds at Lake Winnisquam. Newfound Lake has furnished good results to Messrs. Henry F. Elliot, Wm. H. Bean and J. C. Stott, of Bos- ton, and Mr. Wm. Nevins, of Clinton, Mass. Connecticut Lake has been the magnet that has attracted Judge Edgar Aldrich, of the United States District and Circuit Court. At the Summit camp on the lake he has had as guests at various times Senator Wm. E. Chandler, Senator Spooner and other men of note. Several local fishermen have taken fine strings from Mulliken Brook, Gale River and other streams accessible from Littleton, N, H. From Simm’s Stream Mr. Lee Barber took a trout weighing over 3 pounds which was 31 inches in length. Congressman McCall opened his summer home at Mt. Prospect, Lancaster, a few days ago. Mr. Rollin Jones, of Boston,.has gone to his camp on Winnepisseogee for a stay of two weeks. A lull is reported in the fishing of brooks in southern New Hampshire as well as in the western part of Massa- chusetts due to dry weather. Many forest fires continue to be reported throughout New England, and unless rain comes before long there will be loss of trout in all moun- tain streams. It is reported from Pittsfield that dyna- miters are at work on the Housatonic River and other streams. The wardens are on the watch for the mis- creants and are likely to “pinch” them. There is a flurry of suppressed excitement in southern Berkshire, due to the report that President Cleveland is expected in Tyringham the last of this month or first of next. ‘Two years ago he was reported as getting good luck in whipping the streams of this section, getting fish where the natives little expected. Trout fishing on Lake Quinsigamond is reported to have disappointed our Worcester friends this season, and Some of them are disposed to blame the fresh-water smelts which they say haye become so abundant as to gorge the trout. Some people think the fishing in the Maine lakes, even, would be better if there were less of these fish in the waters, Right or wrong in this instance, it is a great thing to know what will and what will not disturb the balance of nature. Human ingenuity has accomplished wonders in the work of propagating fish, providing them food, ete., but it is quite likely there are not a few things yet to be. learned. Certain portions of the work in this line have not yet passed the experimental stage. Some of our big-game hunters are watching the pro- ceedings of the New Brunswick Assembly at Fredericton, where a few days ago Hon. -A. T. Dunn, Strveyor- General, presented a few radical changes to the game laws, First, to debar non-resident guides. Second, to shorten the season on°moose one month. Third, to pro- hibit the shooting of partridges for two years. Fourth, to prohibit the trapping of mink, otter and sable for a period of three years. This as a protection to beaver. Fifth, to’ prevent camp helpers from getting a license to shoot moose. The close sedson for beaver is extended to 1907. All cur New Brunswick moose hunters are on the qui vive to know the outcome, CENTRAL, Some Belgrade Big Trout, BercraveE Lakes, Me, May 11.,—Editor Forest and Stream: Guests of the Central House have had very: good fishing the past week. : Messrs. Sackett and Gallagher took five trout of 514 founds, 4 pounds 14 ounces, 434 pounds, 34% pounds, and 2% pounds, respectively. Mr. Gibbs, of Montclair, N. J., took nine, the largest 634, 614 and 534 pounds, and six from 334-to 344 pounds, Alger Farnum, guide. ; Miss Ada H. Powell, of Brooklyn, took six of 6, 5, 4%, 3%, 3 and 2 pounds to ounces, Lonnie Morrell, guide. Monday, May 11, H. L. Boyd took two trout, one 8 pounds 2 ounces and 7 pounds 14 ounces, Alger Farnum, guide. These are the two largest fish ever taken in the Belgrade region, but as the fish are getting more numer ous every year we look to see larger ones at any time. Bass have commenced to run into the shoal water, and fly-fishing for same should he at its best ae ‘. e CHICAGO AND THE WEST. Trout Fishing Looks up, | Critcaco, Ill, May 15.—A pronounced change for the better in fishing matters occurred this week, and good catches of trout are reported along all the streams which offer any decent fishing in this part ‘of the ‘country. Of these, the Prairie River is making the best show at the present writing. Mr. Charles An- toine, of this city, with his friends, Dr. R. B. Miller and Dr. CG. W. Carson, are at the Bates place, above Dudley’s, and haye been meeting with excellent suc- cess for the past few days. Catches of thitty and forty trout have been not tnusnal for one rod, and Mr. Antoine has sent down to his friends a bunch of some fifty trout, which ayeraged in the 8 and to-inch class, with some over 1 pound, so that it may be secn the ‘sport has been good for at least a part of the time. Mr. Edward G. Taylor, also of this city, has gone up to the Prairie again this-week. He spent a day at Delos Cone’s place, and intends trying the fishing on that part of the stream. Other anglers of this city are starting to the Prairie to-day and to- morrow, so that probably the stream will be well occupied for most of next week. . A special car party of city officials and friends, headed by Mayor Harrison, will leave Chicago to-day or to-morrow for a trout fishing trip on some north- ern river, not at this: writing determined. Mr. Graham HA. Harris will be of this party, and also, it need not be said, Colonel Bill Haskell, of well established pis- catorial fame. ‘The Bass Fishers, The bass fishers are out in good force these warm days, and the big-mouths are now. running. Some excellent takes were made by the parties reported last week. To-morrow will see a still larger number go out for the better-known waters of the vicinity. Bass Lake, Cedar Lake, Maxinkuckee Lake and other Indiana waters are reported to be doing well, and I hear also that bass fishing has begun on Pawpaw Lake, Gun Lake and others of the good waters of the lower peninsula of Michigan. Gun Lake is a water which I have never fished, but from stories I heard. last fall regarding it, I think it is very well worth a visit from the Chicago talent. Shooting Bass, A Chicago gentleman, who does not care to have his name known, drops a note, saying that boys and men are shooting bass at Hickory Creek, near New Lenox, Illinois. The informant says: “I understood that you might take steps to stop this. °I am not a sportsman, but I do not like to see the destruction even of fish life. I do not care to get the ill-will of residents there, as I am a new resident myself.’ The complainant’s advice has been referred to State Game Commissioner Lovejoy, who properly hands it over to Nat H. Cohen, president of the Fish Commission, [ have no doubt that Mr, Cohen will take prompt meas- ures to stop this violation of the law. The spearing of suckers is now in practice very largely over rural Wisconsin and parts of this State, and the man who sees a fish running in the water and who is after that fish with a spear or gun is not apt to stop to ask whether it be sucker, trout or bass. The spring run of bass was a little delayed this year, and is now well on toward its close. The Kankakee River ought, by this time, to offer a little sport below Momence. The carp are not quite so much a nuisance in that part of the stream as further up in Indiana, where the river is more sluggish and runs through the big marshes. Minnesota Tip. I offer as a bass fishing tip Elbow Lake, Harbor county, Minnesota, near which are twelve other lakes, from two to seven miles in extent. These waters-con- tain both museallunge and bass, the Crow Wing Lakes, - eleven in number, a part of the head waters of the Mississippi River, offering good sport at bass, wall- eyed pike, pickerel, ete. Parties can be accommodated, and perhaps this is a good place to keep in mind for the muscallunge trip, Wiscons'n Trout Tip, I offer as an additional trout tip for Wisconsin the town of Sparta, from which, at a distance of some eight or ten miles, good trout fishing can be reached on the head waters of the La Crosse River. There is some fly-fishing along the La Crosse and two or three other streams in the vicinity, but for the most part the fishing is rather brushy. This used to be a great trouting locality some years ago, and even to-day will yield fair returns. The best place to head for an this _ 412 FOREST AND STREAM. [MAy 23, 1903. stream is the Trout Falls, something like eight or ten miles from Sparta. One can camp out or can find ac- commodations at the farmhouses near Trout Falls. Sparta is to be reached by the C. M. & St. P. Railway. Vhis is a district which I have not heard of as being much patronized by Chicago anglers. Gone to Fox Lake, The following anglers are among those who left this afternoon for Fox Lake and adjacent waters, near Lake Villa, Ill.; Messrs. L. Ries, C. C. Ingraham, T. Ander- son, E. A. Wood, William Paulsen, Chas, Oak, M. Wedertz, T. Ambrose, W. G. Ruskin, Chas. Lawrence, Dr. S. B. Friend. i For the Nepigon. Mr. W. P. Powers, of Chicago, with one or two friends, will go up for some of the big trout of the Nepigon this coming month. He ought to get plenty of trout and plenty of flies at the same time. Mr. Powers is an old trout fisherman and has had con- siderable experience in Wisconsin, Michigan and the Canadian provinces. Last summer he fished in the Gaspé country and was on the Grand Pabos with a friend of Montreal, who holds a fishing on that stream. Fort Tatpon. A party of Chicago anglers, made up of Messrs. Wiiliam Nash, O. Von Lengerke, C. H. Lester and Dr. J. N. Shallenberger, will start in a week or ten days for a tarpon trip’ at Aransas Pass. Mr. Delos Thompson, of Rensselaer, Ind., will also be one of the party, and there was talk that Dr. R. B. Miller might be on hand also for the tarpon festivities. Mr. J. C. Haskell, of this city, has regularly visited: the Aransas Pass country for several years, and he told me this week that during his several trips he had taken to his own rod fifty-four tarpon. On one day he knew of thirteen of the fish being taken at Aransas Pass. The custom is to beach the fish, have a look at him, measure him and turn him loose again, unless a good specimen is required for mounting. Something Doing in Saginaw. From certain ominous indications the appearances are that something more is doing over Saginaw way. The next party of these doughty anglers to take the field will probably be composed of Messrs. C. E. Davis, W. B. Mershon, George Morley, Tom Harvey and James Peter. The whereabouts of the trip is not yet determined. There seems to be a feeling among -the Saginaw Crowd that their favorite streams have been pretty hard hit this year and last. E. HoueH. Hartrorp Buritpine, Chicago, Ill. As to Perch, Cooked or Otherwise. Editor Forest and Stream: To skin, or not to skin; that is the question; Whether ’tis nobler for the soul to harbor Thoughts of things that are, yet might be t’other- Wise, or fret one’s fingers with the spine Festered with slime, and scales unknown to justice. To jab; to squeal—for in that messy strife What stings may come as knife swerves keen from aim And gives us paws, pitted with punctured pain! Excuse the metre. There’s a cog loose in the poet- machine, and to catch the mail I haven’t time to screw it up. But why, brothers, go to the trouble of skinning your perch, anyway? Cui bono? Just split them down the back, broil or fry them flesh side down, and eat them out of their skins as you would do a potato. Nobody asks you to eat the scales, and if broiled you aren’t likely to find any to speak of after the process. Drop a stout log across a cradle knoll ‘or a couple of rocks, and build your fire against it in the hollow on the lee side. Prop up your wire broiler against the log on the windward side where the coals glow red, and your cook- ing will be a delight to a hungry man; and the cook need not be served personally, half-cooked, as an entree. Sir Sam White Baker says, “always carry a gridiron. A fry- ing-pan is good if you have fat, otherwise it is_ useless. With the gridiron you are independent,” and Sammy's head was! level, even though he knew not of the Yankee wire oyster broiler. But now, here’s something that I want to know. Per- haps Dr. Reinhart can get back at me! Harking back to boyhood -days and disinterring from the dust of ages a glass tank, I’ve started an aquarium down in my laundry among the potted geraniums. Therein dwells a perch, yellow, caught with a hook one | bitter cold day in April and carried five miles in a pail on a bicycle. Life has lost charms with him, for he will not eat. He scorns a buzzing fly, worms he coldly ignores with a frigid, fishy eye at me the while. It’s too early for small pollywogs. What, then, shall I give him? I be- lieve he did take a worm or two at first, but now he must Le in love, in spite of the season. Does he want company? Let some fishwise ancient say. Salmon Culture in America. Editor Forest and Stream: Mr. C. H. Barkdull, in your issue of May 9, gives me the unique information that “the hatching and propaga- tion of salmon is just like, everything else.” And then he sneers at “unfortunate Englishmen” like’ Prof. Huxley, Francis Francis, Frank Buckland, Sir I. Gibson Maitland, of the Howietown hatchery, and all those specialists who, from time to time, have had charge of the Stormontfield hatcheries on the Tay in Scotland, before fish hatching was thought of in America; at the late Samuel Wilmot, the present Professor Prince, and Mr. Livingston Stone, the most experienced fish culturist now living in America, and including the Old Angler, “who should know some- thing about what he has been angling for,” (sic) because none of them have been able to make salmon culture an eco- nomical success either in Great Britain or in Canada. He fills nearly a column of your journal with platitudes about the enormous extent of the canning business on the Pacific Coast, and vast amount of capital invested in it, which he estimates at $100,000,000, and concludes by tell- ing us that he is interested in a number of fisheries in Alaska, and will have in operation there two hatcheries this season, and then he “extends a cordial invitation to the Old Angler, Mr. Stone, and other unfortunate fish cul- turists and skeptics fo join us and let us teach them how to increase the number of some varieties of salmon, and at the same time decrease the numbers of others already too plentiful.” a _ Mr. B. then tells us that “out West we have the pret- tiest girls, the richest gold mines, the best battleships, the biggest trees and the most salmon of any country in the world, and with the assistance of Uncle Sam (the italics are mine) we intend to show England and the world that we can keep up the supply of our increasing- products, if we have to do it artificially.” All this will be very in- teresting to Mr. Marston, of the London Fishing Gazette, but I doubt that either he or the scientific skeptics he is opposing, will see in it anything more than the broad assertions without proof contained in the previous letters of Mr. Stone and Commissioner Babcock. The Old Angler, who is just entering his eighty-second year, regrets much that age will prevent him from accept- ing Mr. Barkdull’s kind invitation to extend his knowledge of salmon culture and Jearn what need there is of hatcheries on rivers already overcrowded with fish. It would be a great acquisition to his present knowledge to learn the feat of “eating his cake and having it, too.” Meanwhile, he sincerely hopes that all Mr. B.’s expecta- tions will be accomplished. Tue OLp ANGLER. Asbury Park Fishing. New Yor, May 6.—I ran down to Asbury Park last week to see the outlook for striped bass angling for the coming season which opens on Decoration Day by some of the anglers catching a big one. The weather having been so propitious, all the boys are looking forward to a good season for big fish, such as we had in 1900 and toor. Last year our catch was very poor, and the only reason we can give is that the water was very cold dur- ing June. Our fishing is principally done at the flume, which is a long~box-like structure about 300 feet long and 25 feet wide, allowing the surplus fresh water to run off from Deal Lake into the ocean. This forms a brackish pool of considerable extent in which a bed of skimmer clams have taken up their abode and from which we get most of our bait. The pier above the flume was greatly. damaged by last winter’s storms, so we all have to fish from the beach unless it shall be repaired shortly, which seems doubtful. I went over to the head of the flume where the water rushes out from the lake and found the village boys ‘scrapping herring from the box, just below where the water tumbles over forming quite a waterfall. The herring rush into this box in large schools and remain there until dipped out by the boys with their nets. The boys stand on the tops of the short spikes which protrude from the bottom of the flume and by industriously running crab nets through the water bring up from one to six shining, struggling fish, and the herring are the largest I have ever seen, the majority weighing a pound each and containing very nice sized roe. The boys sell these beautiful fish for ten cents a dozen, and are always willing to throw in a half dozen extra if any one objects to the price. One of the bad features is that the farmers of the vicinity bring their wagons and by using a dip net as large as a barrel catch these fish by the hundreds and thousands, both roe and milt fish. They bury one near each hill of corn; this forms the richest of fertilizers and causes the corn to grow doubly fast. The farmers say that if a hill of corn is dug up the roots of corn will be found all intertwined into the decaying fish. This is probably why the herring fisheries are becoming poorer year by year. Yours for the preservation of bird, beast and fish, Macnum Opus. The Sea Trout Question. Editor Forest and Stream: When a writer like Charles Hallock, who has spent thirty years of an active life in the study of salmon and trout, whose books are read by all true anglers on both continents, differs from an angler like Walter M. Brackett, whose admirable pictires of fish have delighted anglers the world over, and whose experience in fishing all the waters of Canada and the Eastern States covers a still longer period, as to the species of a Salmo, and when one of the leading ichthyologists of America, con- senting to act as arbiter, pronounces them both wrong; when old anglers like Mr. Gregory, of Quebec. Mr. Manuel, of Ottawa, Mr. R. range themselves on one side, and E. A. Samuels, Mr. Mershon and Mr. Von W. form upon the other side, your many readers, who are divided in opinion, must have been ereatly edified when informed by L, F. Brown, in your issue of April 18, that “the question was immaterial to sportsmen, and of very little practical use to science.” His brilliant suggestion in your issue of May 9, that a “commission of three expert North Atlantic Coast anglers be appointed to settle the question,” shows beyond a doubt that he knows very little about the matter, and is not qualified to give an authoritative opinion, Where will he get any more experienced, expert or intelligent anglers than Messrs, Hallock, Brackett, Mershon, Morris, FB. A. Samuels or the late Thad. Norris? All these have held varying opinions both as to the habitat and habits of the so-called sea trout. His offer of fifty dollars to- ward the expenses of a commission shows only that science cannot expect much information from his pen. Tue OLp ANGLER. Fishing in a Providence Park. Provipence, R, I., May 12.—The people of this city are io enjoy an opportunity for fishing seldom equalled by any municipality. Roger Williams’ Park Lake is to be thrown open to the fishing public July 1, 1903. For a long time past the fish of this park has troubled the “man with the rod” and at last a new superintendent of parks and a liberal city government are to allow the fishermen to realize their fondest dreams. This place has always been Te Morris anc ele We Bet closed to fishing except occasionally a few have been Stolen in the night; several men and boys have been at different times arrested and fined the customary $20 and cost, Some never got caught at it. A few years ago a police sergeant was accused of fishing there, but it never was proved. There are some large fish in this lake of over 100 acres, and on several occasions they haye been found dead on the shore. Probably died of old age. . Two years ago Assistant Superintendent James Cos- tello saw a great commotion in the water, and rowing out to it in a skiff found a large pickerel, six pounds’ weight, about dead by trying to swallow a sunfish which was too large for him. : ; There are being built by a local boat builder twenty-five flat bottom skiffs for fishing purposes only. Superin- tendent Fitts is not to allow the round bottom cedar skiffs to be used for fishing. Almost every kind of common fish abound here in great numbers. Bass, pickerel, white and yellow perch, eels, carp, and, it is said, landlocked salmon have been planted there, although I never heard of any being caught. About 50 cents per hour will be the price of a boat for fishing, and no fishing from the banks and no pot fishermen allowed, as only a certain number of fish of each species can be carried away. A non-resident license is not required in this State. SELDOM. [A Brook Trost in New Jersey Salt Water. Perth Ampoy, N. J., May 12—EHditor Forest and AY tream: Peter Rasmussen, of this city, recently took a ten-inch brook trout from his fyke net at the mouth of the Raritan River. Where do you reckon it came from? L. K San Francisco Fly-Casting Club, Medal contests: Saturday, Contest No. 6, held at Stow Lake, May 1; wind, west; weather, fair. Event Event Event No.1, No, 2, No. 4, Distance, Accuracy, ———Event No. 83——~ _ Lure Feet. Percent. Acc.% Del.% Net% Castings CP Gea Mio tities.) ethers 88.5 87.8 72.6 90.1 96.4 Jt, “Browne... ..- 84.8 87.8 88.4 8&8 72.9 W._E.. Brooks... 112 88 88 86.8 87.4 Ar G. E. Edwards... 98 85.4 91 86.8 88.10 v3.2 T. W. Brotherton12514 88.4 92 90.10 9l.a 95.8 T. C. Kierulff.... 88 90.8 84.8 82.6 83.7 84.1 C. R. Kenniff. 108 91.8 90.4 95 92.8 98.1 E. A. Tucker 110 89.4 86.4 93.4 $9.10 - ALB. Garr ai) tals 87 90.4 92.6 91.5 95.1 G. H. Foulks 90 79.8 85.4 80.10 83.1 Ae Gi Wie Bivanie? 4a is wa 88.4 89.2 88.9 Hye battery esos 76 85,8 Sty 75 78 Judges—Kierulff and Brooks. Referee, Mocker, Clerk, Bruning. ’ Medal Contests: Sunday, Contest No. 7, held at Stow Lake, May 10; wind, west; weather, fair. CG. Mote. eres ye 91 91 96.8 83.10 97.6 VY, M. Haight... 106 79.4 83 77.6 80.3 = W. E. Brooks... 110 91.4 92.4 86.8 89.6 nm Eaeebatitieer ree 115 86 92.4 83.4 87.10 97.2 cC. R. Kenniff.... 100 89 94.5 92.6 93.5 97.5 It. C. Golcher... 130 90.8 94,4 88.4 91.4 ie Ge Eitiyoke si Seeseesen 89.8 a Ss “a t, C. B. Kenniff,.., 130 90.4 88.4 $9.2 88.9 97 W. D. Mansfield. ... 90 89.4 94,2 91.9 sae2 i. Everett ....!- 121 79.4 a : FA T. W. Brotherton 124 88.4 89 90 89.6 92.4. TC. Kierulfi.... 94 87.7 87.4 85.10 86.7 86.6 G. W. Dinkelspiel 65 80.8 76.4 72.2 75.3 od AD OW, eBlaken, . oO. . 101 71.4 86.4 77.6 81.11 , Mr. Mansfield, who has not taken part-in the long dis- tance contest for the past three years, borrowed a rod from one of the contestants and made an exhibition cast ol 144 feet. Judges—Kierulff and Brooks. Referee, C. R. Kenniff, Clerk, Bruning. Machting. ’ Yachting Fixtures for 1903. Members of race committee will confer a favor by sending notice of errors or omissions in the following list, and also changes which may be made in the future. MAY. 20. New Rochelle, spring regatta, New Rochelle. Se New York, special races, 90-footers, Glen Cove, L. I. ound. 29. New Rochelle, Y. R. A. of L, I. Sound special, New Rochelle. 25. Royal Canadian, club, Toronto. 30. Royal Canadian, club, Teronto. 30. Seawanhaka Corinthian, club, Oyster Bay. 90. Harlem, Y. R. A. of L. I. Sound, annual, City Island. 30. Indian Harbor, Y. R. A. of L. J. Sound, special, Greenwich, 30. Bridgeport, Y. R. A. of L. I. S., special, Bridgeport. 30. South Boston, Y. R. A., open, City Point. 30. Columbia, open, Chicago, Lake Michigan, 80. Chicago, cruise to Indian Harbor. 30. Williamsburg, open, spring regatta, 30. Atlantic, club, Sea Gate. 20. Riverton, club, Delaware River, 30. Toledo Y. A., Monroe Piers, JUNE. Atlantic, ocean race; Sea Gate around Fire Island and North- east End Lightships back to Sea ‘Gate. _ Seawanhaka Corinthian, club, Oyster Bay. - Columbia, eleventh annual Michigan City race. Chicago, handicap race, Lake Michigan. Royal Canadian, club, Toronto. Marine and Field, Y. R. A. of G. B. Knickerbocker, Y. R. A. of L. I. Sound, annual, . Payonia, open, Bayonne. 812. New York special races, 90-footers, Sandy Hook. 9. Atlantic, annual, Sea Gate. . 10. Atlantic, 90-footers, Sandy Hook, 10. South Boston, club, City Point. a 40-12-13-15-16. Manchester, trial races for selection of challenger for Seawanhaka cup, Manchester Harbor. : 5 11. New York, fifty-seventh annual, all classes, off Sandy Hook. 13. Chicago, special, Lake Michigan. 13. Boston, club, South Boston. 13. Royal Canadian, club, Toronto. 13. Seawanhaka Corinthian, club, Oyster Bay. 18. Larchmont, spring regatta, Larchmont. 14, Jamaica Bay, club, Jamaica Bay. 15, New York, Glen Cove cups, Glen Cave. 17. Larchmont, races for 90-footers, Larchmont. 17. Boston, Y A,, off Point Allerton, open. 17. Dorchester, open, Dorchester Bay. 18-19. New Rochelle, club, New Rochelle. 19. Eastern, special, open, Marblehead. 20. Brooklyn, Y. R. A. of Gravesend Bay. 20. Corinthian, first championship, Marblehead. 9). Seawanhaka Corinthian, 90-footers, Oyster Bay. 20, Atlantic, club, Sea Gate, / AGiGaraas * 2h et May 23, 1003.] : FOREST AND STREAM. 20. Columbis, motor boat race, Am. P. B. A., Hudson River, 20. New Rochelle, Y. R. A. of L. I. Sound, annual. 20. Chicago, handicap, Lake Michigait. 20. Royal Canadian, club, Toronto. 21, Old Mill, club; Jamaica Bay. ; 21. Gloucester, N. J., annual, Delaware River. 25-26-27. Seawanhaka Corinthian, Y, R. A. of L. I. Sound, annual and specials. 27. South Boston, club, City Point. 27 New York, special race for 90-footers, Newport. 27. Boston, club, Marblehead. 27. Chicago, special. Lake Michigan. 27. Royal Canadian, club, Toronto. 27. New York C. C., Y. R. A. of Gravesetid Bay, 30. New York, special race for 90-footers, Newpott, 30. Royal Canadian, L. S. S. A. regatta, Oakville. 29-July 2. Matihasset Bay cup races, L. I. Sound. JULY. 1. Royal Canadian, Queeh’s cup race, Toronte and L. S. S. A. regatta, Oakville. # 2. New York, special race for 90-footers, Newport. 3. Ametican, Y. R. A. of L. I, Sound, annual. 8-4. Eastern, special, open, Marblehead, 8-6. Williamsburg, annual cruise. 4. Corinthian of Marblehead, special, open. — 4, Columbia, annual open regatta, Lake Michigan. 4. Royal Canadian, club, Toronto. 4, Seawanhaka Corinthian, club, Oyster Bay. 4, Atlantic, club, Sea Gate. 4. Toledo Y. A., Monroe Piers. 4, Chicago, race for Pfister cup and handicap race. 4. Flartford, Y. R. A. of L. I. Sound, annual, Saybrook. 411. Larchmont race week, Larchmont. 5. Jamaica Bay, Y. R. A. 6-8. New York, special races for 90-footers, Newport. 91. Beverly, Seawanhaka raceabout series, Buzzard’s Bay. li. Chicago, special, Lake Michigan. 11. Moriches, club. ii, Seawanhaka Corinthian, club, Oyster Bay. 11. Royal Canadian, club, Toronto, ii, Bensonhurst, Y. R. A, of Gravesend Bay. li. Norwalk, Y. R. A. of L, I. Sound, special. 11. Corinthian, second championship, Marblehead. ~ 11. Eastern, run to Gloucester. 13. Eastern, annual, Marblehead. 11. Penataquit Corinthian, open, Bay Shore. 14. Hempstead Bay, club. : ' 15. Eastern, cruise, Marblehead to Vineyard Haven, 16. Eastern, cruise, Vineyard Hayen to Newport. 16. New York, fifty-eighth annual cruise, rendezyous Glen Cove. 17. Eastern, cruise, Newport to New London. i 18. Atlantic, club, Sea Gate. 18. South Boston, elub, City Point. 18. Penataquit Corinthian, special, Bay Shore. 7 18, Indian Harbor, motor boat race, Am. P. B. A., Greenwich. 18. Seawanhaka Corinthian, club, Oyster Bay. 18. Corinthian, third chemi nOnSH: Marblehead. 18. Savin Hill, club, Dorchester Bay. 18, Canarsie, club. 18. Riverside, Y. R. A. of L. I. S., annual. 18, Corinthian of Stamford, Y. R. A. of L. I. Sound, 18. Corinthian, 3d _champ., Marblehead, Massachusetts Bay. 18. Winthrop, Y. R. A., open, Winthrop. 18. Chicago, races for Warrington and Lillienfeld cups. 18. Royal Canadian, L. Y. R. A., skiff races, Toronto. 21. Inter-Lake Y. A., open, Put-In-Bay. 22. Inter-Lake Y, A., open, yacht and power races, Put-In-Bay. 23. Inter-Lake Y. A., squadron sail and auxiliary race, Put-in-Bay. 24, Inter-Lake Y. A., open, Put-in-Bay. 25. Boston, club, Hull. 25. Seawanhaka Corinthian, club, Oyster Bay. 25. Royal Canadian, L. YY. R. A., skiff races, Toronto. 25. Hartford, Y. R. A. of L. I. Sownd, special. 25, Marine and Field, Y. R, A. of Gravesend Bay. 25. Hempstead Harbor, Y. R. A. of L. I. Sound, annual. . 25. Bridgeport Y. R. A, of L. I. Sound, annual. 2b. Chicago, club, Lake Michigan. 25. Penataquit Corinthian, cruise, rendezvous Bay Shore. 27. Atlantic, club, Sea Gate. 27-29. New York, Newport series, all classes, Newport. 28. Squantum, Y. R. A., open, Quincy Bay. 29. Quincy, Y. R. A., open, Quincy. 29-Aug. 1. Corinthian midsummer series, Marblehead. 30-Aug. 1. Boston midsummer series, Y. R. A., Hull. 30-Aug, 1-4-6-8. New York trial races for selection of defender of America’s Cup. AUGUST. . Atlantic, club, Sea Gate. . Seawenhaka Corinthian, club, Oyster Bay. . Eastern, Marblehead to Gloucester. . Chicago, special, Lake Michigan. , Brooklyn, Y. R. A. of Gravesend Bay. . Manhasset Bay, Y. R. A. of L. I. Sound, special. . Columbia, race to Highland Park, Lake Michigan. Royal Canadian, club, Toronto, , Penataquit Corinthian, open, Bay Shore. South Boston, club, City Point. . Bergen Beach, club, Gravesend Bay. . astern, special, open, Marblehead. . Boston, Y. R. A., open, Marblehead. . Chicago, race to Milwaukee. “8. Corinthian Marblehead midsummer series. -§. Indian Harbor, Y. R. A. of L, I. Sound, specials and annual. -8, Milwaukee, open. -8. Lake Michigan, Y. R. A., meet at Milwaukee for all classes. . Seawanhaka Corinthian, club, Oyster Bay. . Corinthian, fourth championship, Marblehead. . Moriches, novice race. . Royal Canadian, Canada cup race. . Shelter Island, Y. R. A, of L. I. Sound, annual. Chicago, cruise, rendezyous at Charlevoix. : 10. Boston, club, Marblehead. 10. Manchester, Crowhurst cup, open, W. Manchester. 10-16. Hempstead Bay, cruise. 11. Manchester, Y. R. A., open, W. Manchester. 12. Misery Island, Y. R. A., open, Salem Bay. 12-16. Atlantic, race week, Sea Gate. 13. East Gloucester, Y. R, A., open, Gloucester, 14-15. Annisquam, Y. R. A., open, Annisquam. 15. Penataquit Corinthian, special, Bay Shore. 15. South Boston, club, City Point. 15. Horseshoe Harbor, Y. R. A. of L. I. Sound, annual. 15, Moriches, special, : 15. Huntington, Y. R. A. of L. I. Sound, annual. 15, Seawanhaka Corinthian, club, Oyster Bay, 15, Eastern, Marblehead to Gloucester. 15, Corinthian, fourth championship, Marblehead. 15. Royal Canadian, club, Toronto. 15. Chicago, special, Lake Michigan. 16. Savil Hill, club, Dorchester Bay. 15. Hartford, Y. R. A. of L. I. Sound, special. 16. Williamsburg, ladies’ day. 17. American, Y. R. A., open, Newburyport, 17. New York, autumn cups, Glen Cove. 19. Moriches, ladies’ regatta. 20-22. Duxbury, Y. R. A., open, Duxbury. 20. First America’s cup race; balance of races to be sailed on alternate days, Sundays excepted, until result is determined. 22. South Boston, club, City Point. 22. Corinthian, fifth championship, Marblehead, 22. Royal Canadian, club, Toronto. 22, Chicago, special, Lake Michigan. - 24-25. Wellfleet, Y. R. A., open, Wellfleet 26. Moriches, MecAleenan cup race, 27-29. Columbia, Lipton competitive cup races, Michigan. 27-29. Cape Cod, Y, R. A.. open, Provincetown. 29. Seawanhaka Corinthian, club, Oyster Bay. 29. South Boston, club, City Point. 29. Chicago, special, Lake Michigan. 29, Royal Canadian, club, Toronto. 29. Corinthian, sixth championship, Marblehead. 29. Savin Hill, club, Dorchester Bay. 29. Huguenot, Y. R. A. of L. I. Sound, annual, SEPTEMBER. 1. Chicago, special, Lake Michigan. 45, Eastern, open, Marblehead. 5, Seawanhaka Corinthian, club, Oyster Bay, 5, New York C. C., Y. R. A. of Gravesend Bay. 5. Royal Canadian, cruising race, Toronto. 4, Indian Harbor. Y. R. A. of L. I. Sound, fall r a. 5. Eastern, special, open, Marblehead. “~*~ ©" ' = = §, Chicago, special, Lake Michigan, © Pept pp OT CO DO tt “Ina co-J co 00 09 65.06 Chicago, Lake . Columbia, cruise to Indian Harbor, . Hempstead Bay, open, b Penataquit Corinthian, special, Bay Shore. Atlantic, club, Sea Gate. Moriches, annual, open. Seawanhaka Corinthian, cliib, Oyster Bay. Jamaica Bay Y. R. A. A Larchmont, fall regatta, Larchmont. Lynn, Y. R. A., open, Nahant, . Williamsburg, cruise. . Norwalk, Y. R. A. of L. f. Sound, annual. . Sachem’s Head, Y. R. A. of L, I. Sound, annual. . Penataquit Corinthian, open, Bay Shore. Ee 9-11. Columbia, races for Webb cup, Chicago, Lake Michigan. 1012, Seawanhaka Corinthian, Y. R, A. of L. I. Sound, specials. and fall regatta. 12. Bay State, Y. R. A., open, Lynn Bay. 12, Chicago, handicap race to Kenosha. . 12. Columbia, fall regatta, open, Chicago, Lake Michigan. 12, Royal Canadian, Prince of Wales cup race, Toronto. 19. Chicago, special, Lake Michigan. 19. Seawanhaka Corinthian, club, Oyster Bay. 19, Larchmont, schooner cup race, Larchmont. 19. Atlantic, fall regatta, Sea Gate. 19. Bensonhurst, Y. R. A. of Gravesend Bay. 19. Manhasset Bay, Y. R. A. of L. I. Sound, fall regatta. 26. Riverside, Y. R. A. of L. I. Sound, fall regatta, 26. Seawanhaka Corinthian, club, Oyster Bay. 26. Chicago, handicap, Lake Michigan. 7. Williamsburg, open, fall regatta. OCTOBER, 8. Scawanhaka Corinthian, club, Oyster Bay. 3. Columbia, special, Lake Michigan. 10. Columbia, special, Lake Michigan. 17. Columbia, special, Lake Michigan. AFAR AN ARAN se BAD weather prevented the two Shamrocks from getting together but once last week. The boats will not have any more trials on the other side, and are now being put in shape for the voyage across the Atlantic. Cable reports state that Shamrock III. and Shamrock I. will leave the Clyde for the States on the thirtieth of May. Erin, Sir Thomas Lipton’s steam yacht, will convoy Shamrock IT., and the ocean-going tug, Cruiser, which was recently purchased by Sir Thomas, will look after the first Sham- rock, After spending several days at Bristol, Reliance left there on May 15 for the westward. . While at Bristol she was given a new boom and a new gaff and other improve- ments and changes were made. Reliance reached New Rochelle on Saturday morning, and at noon that day she was towed to City Island, where she was hauled out on the railway at Jacobs’ yard to have her bottom cleaned. Columbia has been hauled out at the Morse Iron Works, South Brooklyn, in order to have her bottom rubbed down. Constitution was to have been hauled out at New London, but owing to an accident to the railway that would take some time to repair, she was towed to City Island, and will be hauled out at Jacobs’ yard as soon as Reliance goes overboard. In an Eighteen-Footer—Some Short Cruises and a Longer One. Honorable Mention Story in “Forest and Stream” Cruis- ing Competition. BY E. P. MORRIS, NEW HAVEN, CONN, THE Lapwing is a small cutter of a type now becoming obsolete. Her dimensions are O. A., 27ft. 9in., L. W. L. 18ft., beam at water-line 6 ft. rin, draft aft. The dis- placement is 6,400 lbs., ballast on keel 2,400 Ibs., inside ballast about 600 Ibs., sail area 404 sq. ft. She is of my own design, and in the Forest anp Stream of Novy. 14 and 21, 1896, I gave her lines and some account of her building. Any reader who is sufficiently interested to turn back to his files will see at once why I say that she is of a partially obsolete type. The midship section is a very easy and, I still think, a pretty S curve, but she has too little beam and bilge and is too thick through the floors. She is a low-powered boat, with the defects and the virtues of this type; she has a good deal of room inside, but a narrow cockpit; she does not carry her sail easily, but she is reasonably fast with a small sail spread, and she is easy in a sea and easy to handle. She is, however, a small boat, at the best, and has to turn in sometimes when larger boats go on in comfort. ; LAPWING. The spars are heavy and the running rigging was new this year, so that I feft complete freedom from the ap- prehension that something would give way at a critical time. I catry two anchors, 30 lbs. with 30 fathoms of cable and do Ibs, with 35 fathoms, the latter stowed below. The tender is toft. long, unusually high and wide, and a good boat if properly handled, though I got into serious trouble once with it, as I shall have to con- fess below. In the cabin arrangements there is nothing unusual except the placing of the stove, This is fastened down upon the forward end of a slide which runs back under the cockpit. The after end of the slide holds the dishesi in slots, so that all these things can be pushed back out of sight. When the slide is drawn forward for cooking, the stove comes under the companion-hatch and the fumes of cooking escape easily. This arrangement, which 1 have not seen on any other boat, has proved extremely convenient and I should be glad to furnish drawings and dimensions to others who may wish to try it. As to meals I seldom cook under way, but have a hot breakfast before starling and a three-course dinner at night. We use canned provisions almost entirely and especially canned soup, which invariably forms a part of the dinner; fresh fruit and water are the only things for which we are ever forced to land. The Lapwing was built at Pemaquid Point, Maine, dur- ing the stimmers of 1805 and 1896. In September, 1895, 1 brought her around to New Haven and for the next three years used her in the Sound. In July, rgoo, I took her back to Pemaquid and cruised about the Maine coast as far as Mt. Desert. The following summer [ could not get away and she stood high and dry, on the spot where she was built, until August last, whem I set her afloat again. At this point my summer’s critising begins. All the cruises started from the old wharf half a mile inside of Pemaquid Point. On the shorter trips, of which I will give somewhat brief account, I was accom- panied by some member of my family who fortunately shate my love of sailing and take turns in going with me), and I was skipper and crew and cook and steward. Occasionally, in reefing or coming to or getting under way I allowed my guest to take a hand at the tiller. I.—To Blue Hill Pay and Back, Ts ‘Po Blue Hitt Boag. and Back, bvd H oe oi sah é / DY Sf —* ’ 1 7 yi Dees 7 Monhegan This was a cruise with an object and, like all cruising that is limited to a definite cotirse and time, it had an element of “business” in it; we felt obliged to make cee runs, regardless to some extent of weather or com- ort. The log in brief is as follows: Saturday, Aug. 9—Pemaquid to North Haven in Fox Island Thoroughfare. Distance, 3414 miles. Aug. to—A drift across the East Bay to Green’s Landing in Deer Island Thoroughfare. Distance, 9% miles (the shortest whole day’s run of the summer). Aug. 11—To Blue Hill Bay. Wind E.N.E.; thick weather and part of the course sailed by compass. Dis- tance, 16 miles. i Aug. 12—Returning by the same course. To North Haven with puffy northwest wind; single reefed. Dis- tance, 25%4 miles. , Aug. 13—To Pemaquid. Wind northwest. 3444 miles. Total for the cruise, 120 miles. This was a cruise of much variety, which extended to the scenery, the weather and the people and things that we met. The course from Pemaguid to Deer Island Thoroughfare is the one usually followed by yachts going along this coast and is therefore well known to Maine yachtsmen. After one passes Whitehead, there is a rather curious alternation of sheltered and open water. The Muscle Ridge Channel is much more protected by the outer islands than one would suppose from the chart; the West Bay is comparatively open; Fox Island Thor- oughtare is like a river; the East Bay is open and Deer Island Thoroughfare is similar to the Muscle Ridges. zs each of these five stretches is just about six miles ong. I cannot say that the weather alternated so regularly, but it began and’ended with breezes almost too strong and there was a calm in the middle. We started, in reality, on the afternoon of the 8th, but ran at once into a heavy southeast blow, which raised immediately the question whether we should go on or turn back. Every- body who sails goes through this experience and knows the quick calculations about a harbor, the hasty balancing of common sense (or perhaps mere common fears) against pride, and the discomfort of putting back, as we Distance, . did. When we met strong winds on the return, how- ever, in almost the same spot, we were within sight of home and of course had no thought of turning back. We had started that day under two reefs and staysail with a puffy northwest wind which gradually lessened as we got along to the Georges. I shook out a reef soon afternoon and F. got out the lunch; we expected nothing but a quiet afternoon's sail. But it. was not so willed. I was just taking up a pilot biscuit well spread with cold chicken, when a violent puff came out of Muscongus Bay, the sea rose, the boat jumped, the spray blew and the scene was changed. I wished for my second reef, but we were nieat home and I contented myself with lowering staysail and began to jockey the boat up toward the land with the mainsail half full. By way of contrast to our excitements, a big schooner yacht went past us just at this time, getting in her topsails, tobe sure, and slacking off her mainsheet, but going on her way with so little fuss that a lady on the deck could keep her seat quietly in an armchair. Yet I do not know that she was enjoy- ing herself more than F., who regardless of the waste of good provisions was making merry over my pilot bread, which had seized the opportunity to slip down to the cockpit floor, My boat is so sharp and heavy that 414 she holds her way well in a choppy sea and I had no difficulty in getting into smooth water and reaching my mooring, but I had evidence that it was.a fresh breeze when we met a good-sized cutter under two jibs and trysail—making, by the way, a pretty and an unusual picture, : On this cruise I had my only experience this summer, of sailing ina fog. It was in going from Green’s Landing to Blue Hill Bay. We worked to the eastward as far as Long Ledge Beacon before it shut in thick. From there F. gave me a compass course E.N.E. to the buoys at the narrow entrance to the Bay. I held this course for nearly an hour, then made land (which looked very near and very high) on the starboard bow. Suspecting that the tide had set us to windward I kept alongshore, look- ing sharply for rocks, until we made a black can buoy. I saw this for an instant. only under the sail and very absurdly took it to be a schooner at a distance with her jibs down; F., partly correcting my exaggeration, thought it was a fishing boat. But it was the buoy we wanted and from this point all was easy. I do not usually like fog, but this experience was rather exhilarating. In returning through the same channel the next day l had a chance to test the plans which I try to have ready in case anyone should fall overboard. It was only Fs hat; had it been the owner of the hat I should have been less cool, but so far as the test went I found myself equal to it. We were close hauled on the starboard tack. I came about, stood back a little, gybed over, ran down with all sheets slacked off to stop the boat’s way and picked up the hat to my satisfaction. But it is sur- prising to see how far a boat gets away from an object dropped overboard and to discover how easily one Joses sight of an object in the water while he is bringing the boat back to the spot where it was lost. I suppose the only safe course is to use the tender. North Haven, in Fox Island Thoroughfare, is a favorite anchorage of mine. We lay there our first night out, one of the most beautiful star-lit nights I have ever seen, and again on our last night. This time there was a strong northwest wind and every boat in the place seemed to be in use, some of them double-reefed and carrying ladies and children, others with crews of boys and heeling over under whole sail. It was a most animated picture. While we were watching it, a fisherman came in, luffed up and let got his anchor. But his peak halliard jammed and he was in some danger of dragging down on a neat yacht astern of him. Then the animation of the scene increased rapidly. Loud profanity from the man in charge of the yacht, excited gesticulation from the femi- nine owner ashore, dignified silence on the part of the fisherman; no damage to the neat yacht. The anchorages that I used on this trip need no de- scription; in fact, one can make a lee almost anywhere in the Muscle Ridges or in either Thoroughfare. One who is going over the course for the first time should try to get, the advantage of fair tides through the Muscle Ridges; in the other narrow channels it is not so impor- tant. “Obstructions are well marked,” as the Coast Pilot says, but the very number of buoys and spindles is so great as to be confusing, I should not care to. go through without checking off the buoys on the chart. I.—A Leisurely Cruise. u(m A Lersuraly Crucse 3 After three days ashore I started with a new passenger to spend a few days among the islands in Casco Bay. Saturday, Aug. 16—Under way at nine and sailed to the westward inside of Ram Island, past Boothbay and inside of Sequin with an easy northwest breeze. Off Small Point it fell light and I worked up toward Small Point Harbor, intending to go into a cove at the head of the bay. Some fishing boats, however, moored behind an- island showed me that I need seek no further and J ran into the little harbor called Carrying Place Cove, deep, fairly well sheltered and extremely pretty. The bottom is, I think, rocky, but we lay in comfort and sat laie on deck enjoying the beauty of the evening. Dis- tance, 20 miles. Aug. 17.—In accordance with the plan of the cruise we made a very leisurely start at nine, wind northwest, cold and strong. We ran along the outside of the fringe . of islands, following in a general way the indentations of the shore until about 1.30, when we went inside be- tween Junk of Pork and Green Island—two expressive names. Then followed an hour of delightful sailing be- tween Jewell and Crotch Islands, with bright sun and keen little puffs of wind that made a single reef con- fortable. About three, after a stretch of more open water and some flying spray, we turned into Pott’s Harbor and anchored on the northern side in Basin Cove, Here we instantly began to experience all that has been said or sung of the pleasures of harbor after storm. Not that we had had a storm, but the wind had been fresh and cold and there had been enough water aboard to make us ready for escape from it; inside, under the shelter of a hill, we lay in absolutely unruffled calm and the sun shone down with comforting warmth. On either side were shores wooded to the water’s edge and at the head of the cove was a farmhouse surrounded by pastures, with an old tide-mill, now disused, on one side. In this peaceful scene we spent an afternoon of Sunday calm. M. sketched, while I smoked and dozed in the warm sun and turned alternately to the quiet cove and to the outer bay, where others, less wise, it seemed, than we, were FOREST*AND STREAM. seeking the pleasures of activity under two reefs and. clad in oilers. The only drawback to this almost perfect anchorage is the strong tide which runs from the basin above the old tide-mill. There is good water up the middle of the cove as far as the turn, Distance, 19 miles. Aug. 19—Under way at nine, wind light. northwest. With a fair wind we had no difficulty in going out by the southern passage, where there are seven buoys within one mile. Sailed quietly over to the Cuckolds and tacked up into Boothbay Harbor, by way of getting a contrast to our previous anchorages. Here all was bustle and mo- tion and noise, not altogether agreeable noise. A band was parading ashore and the launches and fishing boats of Boothbay are equipped with a peculiarly offensive kind of motor, But in this harbor there is always much that is interesting; this time I kept my eyes upon a fine large cutter, whose graceful sheer proclaimed her a Fife boat, even before I saw her long English tiller. Dis- tance, 2514 miles. Aug. 19—A short and easy run to our mooring at Pemaquid in time for lunch ashore. Distance, 7%4 miles. Total for the cruise, 72 miles. This kind of unhurried cruising, making an easy start and turning into harbor in the middle of the afternoon, does not.carry one far, to be sure, but the making of long runs is not the object of cruising. It is only the very inexperienced who suppose that sailing is a lazy occupa- tion; the quick and constant motion of a small boat, the work of cooking and cleaning, the occasional heavy straining at cable or halliards—altogether these make a good day’s work. In addition to them six hours’ sailing is enough. Perhaps such easy cruising may not satisfy the energy of youth, but I commend the plan to the middle-aged, Iil,—A Small Boy’s Cruise, For the sake of completeness I will mention here my cruise with H., who had at the early age of five his initiation into a sport which I should like to think that he may pursue for fifty years to come. I expect him to begin paying me back about twenty years from now with cruises) in a yacht of larger size, bought, I trust, with his own money, on which-] shall be an honored passen- ger, doing no work and offering advice with paternal freedom and with the positiveness of age and experience. We sailed to Boothbay in rain and a light breeze, spent the night in peace broken only by its rolling off the bank, laid in supplies for the next cruise, rowed about the harbor and got home for lunch, a well-pleased pair. I was gratified afterward to hear him describing to his mother the operation of “pumping up” the anchor of a schooner; his technical terms were not quite correct, but his observations had been precise and detailed, Dis- tance, 15 miles. IV._A Drift. 0 Menhegaw My wife and I had spent some time over the charts, planning a six days’ cruise which should take us into the upper -Penobscot Bay, to Castine, down Eggemoggin Reach and home’ through the Thoroughfares. In ordi- nary weather this could have been done without pressure, but we struck a week of extraordinary light winds. The first day we had a reasonable breeze, but aiter that there was only one stretch of about two hours when we were really sailing; the rest was a drift in the lightest of light airs. And from the morning of Friday to Sunday noon it was a dead beat with sheets not once started. ~ In such a cruise there was nothing of interest on the sailorizing side and I will compress the log into a few . sentences. Tuesday, Aug. 26.—Pemaquid to Owl’s Head Harbor, with moderate southwest breeze. Distance, 2714 miles. Aug. 27—To Camden at 1.30. Turned in to escape the unendurable heat. Distance, 74 miles. ) Aug. 28—To Buck’s Harbor (Cape Rosier) across the bar between Job and Lime Islands. Distance, 17 miles. Aug. 29—To North Haven, down East Penobscot Bay. bar between Job and Lime Islands. Distance, 17 miles. Aug. 30.—To Burnt Island in the Muscle Ridges. Spent four hours at anchor to avoid drifting down the bay. Distance, 13'4 miles. Aug. 31.—To Pemaquid at 830 P, M. The afternoon almost a dead calm. Distance, 21 miles. Total, 103% miles. ' But if the weather was calm, so were we, and if the sun was hot (and.it was), we kept our tempers cool. lt was a disapointment to-give up Castine and Eggemog- gin Reach, but it had its compensations. The last day was especially trying to the soul; we rolled about all the afternoon in a heavy swell, taking eight hours to make seven miles, within plain sight of home, watching the fog sweeping over the land and expecting it to reach out to us at any moment, There was no breeze on the water and we seemed to progress only by the jerk-jerk of the main-boom as the boat. rolled, Yet we kept a philosophic. mind. Once I am told that I gave way. As we came down the East Bay, making for North Haven where we expected mail from our deserted family, ‘the nice breeze which we had had for two hours left us just [May 23, 1903. before I could round the buoy into Fox Island Thor- oughfare. This was hard and my composure was further shaken by a big schooner yacht which walked past us with her upper canvas full, Instead of standing over to the shore for a breeze I kept making impatient short tacks at the buoy. Of course I missed it and it is re- ported that I did not bear my failures with a perfect equanimity. If I did break down here—and I find noth- ing about it in the log—it was the only time. When we got up early for a good start, as we did every morning, and had no breeze till nine, we rowed about the harbor: when the heat became unbearable, I put up an umbrella for the first and only time in all my sailing or I made the ends of the staysail sheets fast to the tiller and used them as tiller-ropes, steering from a shady spot forward ‘ of the mainsail. And all the time which was subtracted from the pleas- ures of sailing we gave to the other pleasure of watching the shores and. fixing upon our memory the beautiful scenery of the upper bay. Thus in exchange for some lost experience in managing my boat I have a most dis- tinct picture of Owl’s Head Light, a vivid mental photo- graph of the West Bay full of vessels and yachts be- calmed—all hazy, like a Japanese sea-picture—and at the very time when I was losing my temper at the entrance to Fox Island Thoroughfare I now find that I was the gainer by a dark-toned evening memory of the harbor I was so impatient to enter. It was, in particular, a piece of good fortune that we were. obliged to give up Egge- moggin Reach and go down the East Bay past Eagle Island. When we left Buck’s Harbor there was just breeze enough to give us steerage-way close-hauled and keep us comfortably cool, and the whole scene, as we worked past Pumpkin Island Light, was wonderfully beautiful. The water-surface, after two days of calm, was absolutely level, not rippled by the breeze but marked with a tracery of fine lines, and from this level surface the shores and islands were reflected with a dark effect, a sort of steel-gray, like the reflection in a: Claude Lor- raine glass. The islands. were of varying shapes and colors, some sloping and green with grass, others abrupt and crowned with spruces, and the rocks about the water- level were of a deep reddish brown. The distant scenery was not less beautiful; the Camden Hills were in the west, Mt. Desert in the east, Cape Rosier and the Blue Hill behind and Isle au Haut ahead. We met no yachts and but few vessels on this sail and I fancy that the middle passage between Deer Island and North Hayen is less known than the West Bay and the Reach. However beautiful the latter may be, I do not see how it can be equal to the East Bay, and Owl’s Head, the most pic- turesque single spot on the West Bay, seemed to me to he surpassed by Eagle Island Light with the precipitous and richly colored island of Hardhead lying opposite to it. Of things of human interest, also, there was no lack: Off Pumpkin Island, at the head of the Reach, two large schooner yachts met. One, the smaller and newer, dipped her ensign, the other acknowledged the salute by firing a gun and the first responded by another gun. I am—or try to be—a cruiser and boat-sailor, not a yachtsman, and I have at times smiled at the anxious care which yachtsmen bestow upon their various flags, but there was something so gracefully courteous in the droop of the ensign across the white mainsail, something so dignified in the slow passing of the two vessels, that I forgot to scoff and suffered an instantaneous con- version. A moment later a small catboat, sailed by two nice- looking boys crossed my bow and to my astonishment I saw the name Morris in big black letters across her stern. Now my name is a respectable one, handed down froni a descent Welsh ancestry and I sometimes, in an etymo- logical mood, trace it back through the Moftris dance (in which my forefathers doubtless figured with conspicuous grace) to the Latin Maurus. This is all very nice, but I had not expected, even’ in these days of amazing yacht names, to see it painted on a boat. “Hallo,” I said, “what have you got my name on your boat. for?” The boy who was steering dodged this impertinence by a counter- question, “What is the name of your boat, then?” “Lap- wing.” “Where’s she from?” “New Haven.” “Did you sail her up here?” “Yes.” “What, around the Cape?” said he, and I never saw a more lively incredulity on a boy’s face. “Yes,” I answered, and I could not refrain from straining his imagination still further by adding, “and I am going to start back next week.” The two boys looked at each other a moment and each read the other’s skepticism in his look; “Qh, go on,” said number two, and they turned their back upon the gray-bearded jester. I hope they read Forest AND STREAM. Another boat-load of boys, somewhat older boys who might have been college students, | met in the Muscle Ridges late one afternoon. They had their tender across the cockpit, the tide with them, the wind aft, no lookout ~ (or so at least I thought) and a generally happy-go-lucky ~ air. After crowding me almost into a buoy they saw me and one of them shouted, “How do we go to get to Rocix- land?” “Go around Ash Island, there, by the beacon,” I answered and pointed as well as I could. When I saw them last they were headed for the bar on the wrong side of Ash Island, where there is about two feet of water. No chart, no knowledge of the place, no lookout! But they had the cheerful confidence of youth which car- ries one far and, contrary to all propriety, usually carries one safely. ; ; I tried three new anchorages on this trip. Owl’s Head Harbor was the best of them; it has good bottom and water enough, especially on the eastern side, and it has the great advantage of being within an eighth of a mile of the regular course into the West Bay. It 1s a much better small boat harbor than Rockland and better than one would expect from the chart. Buck’s Harbor is also good, but it is dishgured by a quarry and the bottom, at least where I anchored, is rocky, The anchorage behind Burnt Island, just off the Muscle Ridge Channel, I tools because it was too late to look for anything better. I don’t think I could judge it fairly, for [ ran back to it and a retreat is depressing; so was the dark hole itself, . so were the mosquitoes which swarmed down on us, so were the deserted quarries. Besides, I partly slipped from the bow and wet one leg to the knee. Brut on the most impartial judgment it is not a good harbor, though it would give shelter from an easterly and is very nea: ihe course. - , bel ~~ ° *MAY"23, 1003: ~~ = , - FOREST AND STREAM. — 418 oe ty re eee V.—Pemaquid to New Haven. ? Portland.) ,? : V. Parcyyid fo. New Haver. The object of this cruise was to bring the Lapwing to her home port between Sept. 2 and Sept. 22, with as much pleasure as possible on the way. The friend who started with me, H. W, F., is a well-tested woodsman, quick im expedient and cool in a crisis, but of limited experience ii cruising, I give the log almost as it was written, add- ing remarks. in parenthesis and reserving general com- ments to the end. " ‘ Tuesday, Sept. 2—Morning foggy, but clearing, wind W.N.W. Dropped the mooring at 12, taking the usual westerly course past Ram Island and the Cuckolds. We teak tricks of an hour at the tiller. (This custom we observed very punctually and I found it a great relief to the monotony.) As the wind was ahead and we could not make the mouth of the Kennebec, we stood up Sheepscot Bay and anchored in Herman’s Harbor at five. (A ledge runs partly across the entrance, covered at high. water; otherwise this is a good small-boat harbor.) Distance, 1034 miles, ; Sept. 3—Up at four and, as there were two to divide the work, under way at five with everything in order for the day. Light northwest wind to Sequin, then light southwest breeze, which gradually backed round to south and increased, so that we reacheed straight across to Cape Elizabeth outside of Half Way Rock. Anchored in Wood Island harbor at five, exactly 12 hours under way. Distance, 3614 miles, Sept, 4—Blowing hard southwest, dead ahead, and thick. Some vessels came in, but none went out. At anchor all day. Late in the afternoon there was a sud- ~den shift of wind to northwest, followed by a beautiful golden sunset. + Sept. 5—Under way at 5.10, wind northwest and fresh. Carried whole sail to Cape Porpoise, then luffed up into smooth water and put in one reef. The wind increased and off Bald Head Cliff we put in-a second reef and changed jib for staysail. Off Portsmouth we saw two naval boats racing; one was rigged with two sliding sunters and seemed to be having the better of the other, which carried two standing lugs. I had never seen either rig before. Both boats had large crews and stood up well in the strong breeze, So far we had made a fine run, fully five knots an hour, but about this time I noticed that the tender was filling from the splashing over her bow. I put off bailing, hoping that she would go all right, but as we headed more to the eastward she took a wide sheer and capsized. I laid the boat to and hauled the tender alongside. F. took hold of her gunwale to turn her oyer and did it, but his left thumb was frightfully jammed between the boats, the nail being almost com- pletely torm out. As the tender went astern, the oars floated out, but I paid no attention to this, being occupied with binding up the wound. Then I started for the near- esi harbor, This was Newburyport, some three miles away to leeward, and I anticipated no difficulty in get- {ing in, but we met a most extraordinary head tide be- tween the jetties, against which [ could make no head- way. As J was beating across, the tender, which I had only partially bailed, turned over again and I anchored: Righted the tender with the boat hook, got my anchor with very great difficulty in the strong tide and tried it again. Failure; anchored again, and here we lay for three hours within sight of a trolley line which would have taken us quickly to a surgeon, but unable to get 1o shore because of the loss of the oars. It was a long and wretched afternoon. Finally, about six, a tug came into the harbor and, when I explained the situation, iowed us up and under the pilotage of one of the men, whose kindness to strangers I shall not soon forget, we fell into the hands of a very skillful surgeon, Happily it proved that amputation, which we had feared, was un- necessaty, though the injury will leave permanent marks. Distance, 45 miles. (First, haul the tender alongside and bail her before she is half full. Second, lash in the oars. Third, use the boat hook to turn her back, if she does capsize. J wish I could have learned these elementary rules at a less price.) Sept, 6-7—In Newburyport harbor, at anchor off the yacht clubhouse. With much reluctance we decided that F. must.go home by train and I therefore telegraphed to White of New Haven (quem nomino honoris causa and because he is known to hundreds of Yale men) to send me the man who had made the trip with me in 1900. He arrived very promptly on Sunday morning and in the afternoon I set F. ashore, both of us deeply disappointed at this termination of his cruising. (But we have since exchanged yows to explore Buzzard’s Bay together next ~ summer.) Monday, Sept, 8—An early start and a slow sail around ‘Cape Ann. Wind south and light. Hoping to cross directly to Provincetown the next day we did not push on to Marblehead, but, turned in early to Gloucester, (This cost us a whole day. We counted too hopefully on crossing the Bay.) Anchored in the cove at the head of the harbor at 2.30. Distance, 2534 miles. To me this is the most interesting harbor on the coast and a fleet of fishing schooners is a finer sight than a fleet of yachts. Put a pair of them alongside and the yacht looks like a toy, as indeed she is. Sept. 9o—Foggy and breeze late from S.S,E._ Stood close-hauled along the shore toward Marblehead, look- ing at the fine summer houses. Toward noon the wind backed to southeast and increased, so that we had to give up Scituate. About 12.30, rounding the Graves, we stood up Hypocrite channel for Boston, ‘This was an interesting sail and consoled me for the short day’s run. Anchored near the wharves of the N. Y. and N- E, Transportation Co. and I made a hasty rush, the details ot which | now recall with amusement, for the Southern ‘Terminal’ Station, where I hoped to intereept my family on their way to New Haven, I was disappointed in this, but I learned some lessons in regard to the effect of wearing rough clothes. The conductor of the train hailed me in highly peremptory tones with “Ii, there! Where are you goine at?” and the well-dressed passengers, an acquaintance or two among them, did not even glance at me. Once before, on an earlier cruise, 1 was refused entrance to a hotel and was for a time under suspicion of stealing my own boat, and I consider myself qualified by these experiences to add a chapter to Stevenson's Inland Voyage. The storm signals (S.E.) were flying when I returned to the boat and the afternoon was made uncomfortable by the constant passing of tugs and steamers. Distance, 2& miles. Sept. to.—The weather looked threatening and we were not under way till 11. Passed the new seven-master lying at anchor and had an easy sail to Scituate. Distance, 20 miles. (The best anchorage is not behind the breal- water, but up the harbor out of the swell.) Sept. 11.—Under way at 5.30, wind light northwest. -In the expectation of a shift to southwest we ran down close to the land for a slant to Provincetown. The wind came i, however, southeast and we had along slow beat across. Passed a lobsterman with an auxiliary engine in his boat. As soon as he got hold of the buoy, he set his wheel hard down and kept going in a small circle, haul- ing in the slack by hand. When the slack was gathered in, he put the warp over a snatch-block on a dayit and then around a winch attached to the motor and so hauled the pot by machinery. J saw plenty of evidence this summer of the spread of the motor among fishermen, but nothing more ingenious than this. Reached Province- town at 6.15 and anchored on the western side of the harbor. Distance, 31% miles. Sept. 12 to 16.—Lay in Provincetown harbor, waiting for good weather and a pilot. This is, I believe, a not uncommon experience even for large yachts. of waiting was partly relieved by visits to the shore and talk with pleasant acquaintances and was, ior one night at least, entirely dispelled by one of the dispensations of what P., a former Rhode Islander, sometimes calls Provi- dence-town. For this harbor, though fairly good for vessels, is a poor place for small boats. It is so wide that, 1f one anchors near thé town, a strong southerly breeze puts him in a position of discomfort, and in a - northeaster or an easterly gale there is practically very little shelter anywhere. One must be ready to shift anchorage with every change of weather. teristic of the harbor got us into the scrape of which I propose to make full confession. Late on Friday the wind was coming strong from the southeast and it looked like bad weather. We therefore put in two reefs, to be ready for anything, and went over to the south side, anchoring directly opposite one of the old forts and, for extra assurance, putting down both anchors. Here we lay. in comfort over Saturday; the storm signals were flying (S.E.) and we had no communication with the shore. Just before sunset there was a slight break in the sky to the northwest, but-1t seemed to settle down again > for a southeast blow, and our judgment appeared to be confirmed by the red lantern (easterly winds) at night on the signal pole, which we naturally interpreted to mean southeast. We turned in therefore as usual. About 11 I woke to find the boat moving about in a lively fashion and the wind N. to N.N.E.; we were on a lee shore and much too near the beach.’ The weather was as bad as possible, blowing hard, raining, black, intensely cold: We waited an hour, not so much hoping for a change as dreading the trouble of doing anything. Then we went on deck; sounded; 6ft. and the tide half ebb. There was nothing for it but to get under way. We got the small anchor with some difficulty, set the mainsail two-reefed and both went forward to get the large anchor. It ap- peared to be impossible to break it out, though we were both straining on it and the boat was sheering violently to one side and the other; in fact, it had come up from the hard bottom at once and we were-all the time hauling it against the bobstay. The utter blackness of the night and the violent motion of the boat partially explain a blunder which now seems incredible. When we dis- covered the facts, it was too late; we got off on the wrong tack, touched, went on a little, touched again and finally paid off and stopped, broadside to the sea. We got the mainsail off at once, dropped the small anchor to bring her head to the wind when she floated and went below to wait. She was heeled over so much when she took the ground that she did not thump, and as the tide fell she went slowly down on her bilge. I felt great confidence in her strength, but it was, of course, possible that if the sea rose it would drive her sideways on the beach before the tide turned. Revolving these possibilities, we braced our bodies-on the sloping bunks and braced our spirits with tobacco. For I could not cook, and pilot bread and sweet chocolate, though sustaining, are not comforting. As the tide came in and-the boat began to rise to an even keel, I kept an anxious eye upon Long Point Light, directly over the stern, for the first signs of swinging, and when at last the anchor held her and the light began to shift to the starboard quarter, our spirits rose with every thump. About 3:30 we went on deck again, cleared up the tangled - about 11, Chatham about 2:30. The tediunr This charac-- gear, set mainsail and staysail and clawed off “like a pilot boat,” as P. remarked. A substantial breakfast, a warm drying sun and a general clear-up soon dis- solved this little episode into a mere memory, amusing rather than dismal, Sept. 16—Rounding the Cape, we intended to start early in the evening of Monday, the rsth, but the breeze was too light. Under way at 1:15 A. M., with a pilot aboard, wind light N/, cold and clear. A slow beat from Wood End to Race Point. Outside there was a heavy easterly swell which made it necessary to keep well off shore, and the wind was light all day, N. to N.N.E. It is almost impossible on this run not to feel impatient, and our progress was in reality slow; we passed Cape Cod Light (Highland) at 7, Nausett i The Marconi station, on the Highlands, is very impressive; the four enor- mously high lattice-work towers seem the higher be- cause of the low building between them, and the strange structure somehow increases the desolation of this part of the Cape. As we neared Monomoy, about 4:30 or 5, we could see lines of breaking seas ahead, and it seemed possible that we might have to go out around the Shovelful Shoal. But Bearse’s Shoal began to cut off the swell, and some of the breakers proved to be only tide rips. My tables gave low water at 4:30, and I counted upon a favorable tide around Monomoy Point. Instead of that I found to my-surprise, a strong head tide and heavy rips. At the Point the tide was too much for us, and we had to anchor to wait for slack water, which, by my tables, I supposed must be at 10:30. But, again, to my surprise and confusion, the tide rip began to smooth out soon after 7, (1 worked this all out afterward. The turn of the current at Monomoy 1s some two or three hours after the turn of the tide. I now remember that I was confused by this two years ago, and I ought to have remembered it. Eldridge’s tables give the time of currents; the Government tables do not.) While we were at anchor we had some soup and coffee, and at 7:30 we rounded Monomoy, stood N.N.W. to clear the Handerchief, and then kept off for Bishop and Clerk’s Light. (The fishermen usually preserve the old’ English pronuncia- tion and call this Bishop and Clark’s.) There was a full moon and moderate breeze; I took the tiller and sent P. and the pilot below. Having had only two hours’ sleep Saturday night and none on Monday night, I fell asleep while steering and had to stand up to keep awake. I was thus engaged at 12, when I entered upon my fiftieth year and I meditated somewhat on the ques- tion how long a man of my age should continue to amuse himself by sailing about in a little boat. (As long aS one can-get pleasure and renewed vigor out of it, I suppose.) As we neared Hyannis, about Te all called the men, went below and. instantly fell into a sleep so profound that I did not waken when we came to anchor or when the two men came down into the little cabin and made up their berths. Distance 64% miles; time, exactly 24 hours. As the passage around Cape Cod for small boats, I add a note or two: 1. The chance of going into Chatham is too slight to be considered. I once followed a fishing boat in, but it was a quiet night and I might just as well have anchored outside, near Monomoy. This time I saw a fisherman stand in twice and turn back each time, evi- dently because the sea on the bars was too heavy. And this was on a clear day with moderate breeze. 2. Yachts going south often wait a long time for a westerly or northwesterly wind, but the local pilots Z0 in almost any kind of settled weather; and rather pre- fer a N.E. wind, because it is fair from Monomoy to Hyannis. 3. A knowledge of the currents is extremely useful. Eldridge’s tables give this information pretty fully. 4. The coast from Chatham north is so clear that this part of the passage can easily be made at night. 5. Pilots from Provincetown to Hyannis can be had for $12 to $15, and I suppose at Hyannis. also, going north. After trying both methods I shall take a pilot for my little boat, not only for his knowledge and help, but also, I will say frankly, for his moral support. Anything more forbidding, desolate, depressing than the outer side of Cape Cod I cannot imagine. Sept. 17—Under way about 10, wind E. and strong. Passed Succonnesset Lightship at 11:25 (the captain gave us the exact time), and had a fast run with fair tide through Quick’s Hole, but at the western end of the Hole we ran into the heaviest tide rip I have ever seen. The poor little boat was almost helpless; one sea would catch her before she had recoveded from the preceding, and solid water repeatedly came over is rather long. - the bow and broke against the cabin house, something that I have rarely seen on my boat. Reached New Bedford at 4:30. Distance, 4044 miles. Chose a quiet anchorage on the Fairhayen side, away from steamers, and had a good night of sleep. Thursday, 18th—We made two attempts to go out, but found the sea and S.E. wind too heavy. Friday, toth—Wind E., but the clouds began to break about 7. Under way at 8. There was a strong. swell outside and we kept off shore, expecting a shift of wind to the S.W. It did not come, and we had a tather uncomfortable day, rainy and thickish, with a very threatening sky. P.’s weather prophecies, which are apt to be pessimistic, became quite appalling. We held on, however, resisting the temptation to run into Newport, and about 5 rounded Point Judith and an- chored behind the breakwater, very glad to get ‘relief from the swell. Distance, 36 miles. (1 suppose this is not a very good anchorage. The bottom is hard sand, We lay quietly in the angle of the breakwater; no other boat or vessel was in that night.) Sept. 20—Wind E.N.E., sky overcast. Under way at 5:35. The swell continued, but the tide was fair and, when we got into Fisher’s Island Sound, very strong, so that we made a rapid run. -Off Black Paint it turned against us, but the wind had risen and we made nearly five knots. In the rain squalls, of which there were four or five, I stood by to slack the peak halyards, but we carried whole sail all day and ran into Sachem’s Head at 5:30, exactly. Distance, 57 miles in just 12 hours, the best run my boat has ever made, ; 416 _ Sept. 2t.—~ a Bere IPSS ie ln 2 : Seltzer Viavoecla- ae OU eae te Oma er agree Davenport ..... 246 7 4.. Simon apes H Beck ....s--- 5.. 4 4 6.. Leidich 2 15 Updegrave .... 7 7 7.. 719 Purcell 3 Nef Beckeecnunr ces 6.... 5.. Goetler 7 SyDobsken ApABoSG oc aed rot Oph When Ohl sere te Gy Fd Springer.... .. 5 > ., 8... Raring ao Griffo PADASRS GO Guede ae IGE IBNabin 9" Bradley ......-, -- 9 2 a4 us cs 6 Hoffman 3 77 Piles. eese nae ss (eels die Seto ANC RRS © eke ARES 6. Same is sSupae. Se 8 Dieta Lom mle mains 0 oes : “|S VRC TM cere phe ates > 6 7 9 916 Gorman oe oe a at eo Wogegles ....1s. ve TxGl Anes) deekerattion ss econ ce ane pea H Adams.....,. -. fe ee sete Diltiehigee..,) were, See Paes G Lawrence.... -. 7 Go S018 Machemen pe... 2 ano 16 IEOEF care Get tee e+ He Gece deyobiteatis en A ay oe ily N Lawrence.... .. Gee eoalUnl ye ORyadl sve genial, ein mains D Leininger... .. Strode. bite There. menu ee Sine i anane seme IGRI eacone Aa oe Bt Abe Yemen yt Remiagton Gen Club, Inion, N. Y., May 16,—There was a good attendance at the second regular shoot of the Remington Gun Club this afternoon. The next regular shoot will be held Saturday, June 6. Events: aL SrA Events: 1h ale Fea Targets: 25 10 15 10 Targets: 25 10 15 10 Tenwe v.02: Me uiaterscune 22 a SE BaSSeLin teers 1 18 521.. Colling .....s.s.0s008 . 201013 .. Russell ......00 020 19.0. 6e *9 IDE MBAR eset SebOSH NOD 202; noe sElnib barcl agen sna nee Pil ON ae Hepburn ...... Ne oe SO Neo Tne came Ls oles 24 911 9 IPeHErsOi sons ocelssiglels 21101510 De Bourdieu .........16.. .. Brerinen .....sscseess 138 Seti COrbitueiee ao) -. 16 10 14 ;: De Garmo Seiewsene 20 en a5 os W. H. Grimsuaw, Sec’y, | IN NEW JERSEY. Trenton Shooting Association, Trenton, N, J.—The following scores were made-at the shoot of the Trenton Shooting Association, held on May 9: Tvents: Hie Ge ee, eee Ee ye Oe a: LO lel: Targets: 10 16 10 15.10 10°10 10 15 10 25 Ria ite ee ees DIS, ALT ee Bae ct ~« 22 WR TATED Seed cen Geen eases CA CMD ge oy dhe ee ae aS Piles) ak ey py hcen Sees o 1 30418 8 & 7 F.10 10 2 let y ita pte: bdelg bs GETS Bete. An Att Det rina cee he re! HEMey oka ss bkciada aha 5 i: bt SS A ne a et es haha) bE | a See oS Se er ees a EF 14 Pal ya Tee eee Br; 0 Ro ea i ea ii NEE Koei WA Fee Seis Sa Ae. Siew o ee) eoeRt0L oe. Gahan e dnteg haus sud Me ale TS ot cc Meal LA NOF EE) as eae car orcs Cope hee bas mea POW! Matthews 0842.08 PS | 19 DRerCer Egy sacars tee te Peta dare hae ti hs tT, W H Matthews.........., Be aie) ROE) ober STL se estes Zo ea LU ee Sampson ate ee RSHTESA tAr toe Denti Uns Scns take coca: Bete ath Maat Seen oli Trenton, N. J.. May 16.—The tournament of the Trenton Shoot- ing Association, held to-day, was. a pleasing success. Wuilming- ton, Philadelphia and New York were well represented in the cempetition. There were eleven .events. Mr. Luther J, Squier was high gun with a total of 186 out of 200, the programme total. Neai Apgar was second with 185; Chris. Feigenspan was third with 184. A steady brecze added to the difficulties of the shoot- ing. Four exira events were shot. The scores follow: Events: , 1 23 20 67 8 SA0Ib Shot Targets: 15 15 15 30 20 15 25 15 15 15 20 at. Broke, 7 ARR UBiGtee. 5666 14 13 12 29 17 12 20 12 11 15 18 200 172 Tore Tc oeee ere re 11 14 12 25 13 11 20 14 13 12 20 200 165 Elise VWiellatel » fle. a5 13 12 12 2716 142014121417 200 171 Dunster tenets 5s se 1111 112 2417171 4 Ww 200 147 VY DT ELOR DS: 20) 5203s IZ I5F10. PG oO oc eS 14st 125 102 Mea)” SOMITE. 5244554. a 14 15 14 a8 18 15 24 13 13 14 18 200 186 Maes Bh er nase Tir Sls 20 It 12s 00 DS Bey 200 149 AShe's: Gale? a taul oceans 12.1418 271613 1913131818 200 171 Grant a pends idk n dane ab 10S 6: 1b OS 1 ae Se a6 145 111 C W _ Feigenspan..... 13 14 14 2718 144 2315151219 200 184 Dr W Gardiner....... 1014 9 22:18 12 18 12 14 11 15 200 155 Albert. Young ...,... 121310 2216102013 91112 200 148 JORDEN ro. corre wae PO ese SP ag (eo 75 60 E E Sickley x i = 7 ee A 110 90 hu 22 SE DEG pence e serve : eee SOO ER 95 68 AEH SPietesyvir, cher es 2 a #2 14 1417 200 172 Capt Money :......... 10 2 3 22 15 10 11 20 200 169 G 8 Schneider........ 12 12 13 21 16 12 18:15 12 11 14 200 156 Neat pear 1633 pecden= 14 13 15 28 18 13 22 15 14 15 18 200 185 Beksemar 25 s5.e0cke see. oh ove 9 21 14 13 20 13 1015 15 170 130 PT eke ian ein eee ee acs 13°24917 111912101212, 170 130 E UBanks: &.wciverensoee a ees 26 15 .. 22 14 12 12 af 140 118 as Pais ee ore ae laa ane 6 PA ES peer Hoa Fe 75 58 SOAS Can Se ne Sh a ee. coe toe 50 30 A eae beet une epee Cree: aa Os died, hei 0 ea wha S.r3 St a ee, Me ee en Io 45 23 G W Squier.. tthe teat wants Ly Jak eee OR iL = 30 25 Dr J Pardoe.. Sta op eee toe eee Ln 15 7 Je Saneioask .wewas Melee oie 213 610., 70 41. Tidsveys: -dckeet see ne EPR ewe 1213 610.. 70 41 W I Pardoe.. = SNe Ke tpl Pane 15 11 Worth River Gun Club. Edgewater, N. J., May 16.—The members of the North River Gun Club, at the weekly shoot to-day, were favored with delight- fully clean and pleasant spring weather. Mr. Gus Greiff, who has been out of form for some time past, shot well and showed a positive gain in form. In event 11, at doubles, he scored 9 ont of 10. The scores follow: . Events: 123245 6 7 8 910111213 Targets: 10 10 15 10 15 10 10 25 15 10 10 10 10 ISTHE oth te open Sew alesis alae oulp BGR Gee Gr aE 8: i. ibn, a Pictrderad ease ced tes oe lt ten SD ell ee ete! eee ¢ SDE Ie Pec oak tite ieee erie Aude f, Bago aA 2: TOR 88 Ob Bick iiriti aos fo... RE RET Te Un 7 G12 712 6 618 85665 Voselman eons Mog sadOeld. oi Sf! er, 16 NIV ES OG Aaa A SA Lapin pee eR Reece poe es Shs eS a eae er ee Morrisen bh Sa ae F888 Gillerlain ae wee Ee ee Newkirk ... ee ree eee are a Richter rif sinew oes, opens eee aa els ole ne eee ee) kl oh alin Se bets eS Sudeep he Sabaneta cedure dense aad oes cles” ober satel Be Ehalminbe » uke rn puee te an 6 2 Events Nos. 1, 6 and 11 were 5 pairs; event No. 8, handicap prize shoot. Jas. R. Merritt, Sec’y. The Italian Gun Club, On May 12 the members of the Italian Gun Club assembled in full force at Outwater’s grounds, on the banks of the Hackensack, Carlstadt, N. J., the occasion being the regular monthly club ecntest at 10 birds, in which fourteen members faced the score. Saldarint, with 9 kills, won the club event. His eighth bird was a hard driver, which he failed to stop. Barbieri, Germolini and Rigani divided second honers with 7 kills each. Raoli shot up his April score, which added six birds to his yearly average. As usual, there was a large gathering of friends,-and the day was a most pleasant one for the sport. The scores were as follows: iste leak sate eke asst 1110212000— 6 Covati ....ccseseees 200011*012— Minewini ..........- 00101*0010-— 3 Arignoni ........., 1010211000— 2 Bapbiert Gee eeeer 2021012201— 7 Beéhcetti ............ 1000010220— 4 Gerbolini’ ......... 220*11*11d— ‘7 Dr Felice’ .......... 1000100022— 4 (gazzolat yo een ee ee 0 20100112 2h, ete et oeel cose 3 n 1020002201— 5 east sca eeeure 210: Tt =D Bannardi_.-...., 0000200022— 3 Saldarini WS RAONS oh) Fc eel tere 2220100022— 6 Anguivola Franklin Gun Club. Franklin Furnace, N. J.—In event 1 at 10 targets, the scores were as follows: Andrew Wright 3, IHlarry Pope 9, John Wil- liams 5, W. J. Pope 6, Frank Kishpay 5, Alfred Right 4, Elmer Black J, . Hudson Gun Club, Jersey City, N. J., May 19—There was a good attendance and pleasant weather as favorable conditions for the weekly shoot of the Hudson Gun Club. Some excellent scores were made: Events: eee Covet ye at We: Targets: 15 15 15 15 15 25 25 20°25 SChHOBty avers ernvestesscetasevee any As AS. 5. od 123 1 Theers TV EY, tes cat coment ee > eek ew ee 8 Ae A Sa 2s Oe 1G Nia SISAe ba wies yates se see i ue i “4 i ys ue 8 Vani) VelKenvere. .c nase vivestewsem ed» 5 2 Gillies pe eas Wivaussce theese Toi an asS Fob 17 Malcomb 1 ESs Sed pele 7 G Hughes eae ae Pape hE Abas ilve BAG RED Als ee epee 4398.9 fe oe 10, 19 as Reynolds 9719. 8 8) G0: 1b ay aie Rees) rer SE kk essere ed nemee ae eee 14 11 12 12 12 321 14 15 VTE ope at aaton su lalemiay roe etattecteeet ll 13 13° 14° 18 15) S21! J Pearsall 2... cececccecetseeees sens HE GID SI ale tie eleacldert \. se lelalyie oceans sats. Goeth Gomi So tkl & at Pearsall (1 pias tin paeetiets aetda ak GRY “lanes eA RS as Bees Be este sane aaanehd ahaa 11 ot 228; CUECSS Yo nla doet.t aoetslpsie eieinmin ) fo TLAUSTAt = Vee eee neha sites obr ae ee 915 Events 6 and 7 were at 20yds. Erte Gun Club. Carlstadt, N. J—Phe Erie Gun Club, one of the oldest shoot- ing organizations of South Brooklyn, wound up its winter sea- son in true shooting style at Onutwater’s grounds, Carlstadt, N. j., on Wednesday of last week. There will be no shooting during _score—well, a FOREST AND STREAM. June, July and August, as the club contests are at 14 birds in- stead of 7 as in former years. Charles Plate won the club event with a score of 18, losing his sixth bird, a fast right-quarterer. Henry Dohrman and Charles Detlefsen divided second honors with 12 each, while Finnigan, Hitchcock and Sweeney tied for third place with 11. ’ As a wind-up of the season, John Hen served one of his old- time dinners, and the boys were at the score from soup to pivot. The birds were a fair lot, and many friends were present. Scores follow: BY sahranatint ees sin snes ve s.cnmeeas Ree FED Lone be Fr 02122222201211—12 GREP ETE Ss Use a Leia te eueme reeds ob MORE Sek Ect 01120221*01011— 9 Ga Plate n28 tage ik p rae Sea OSS trcts, CRM ENTE, « Perr Heer nts 11211012222212_13 CWeblersen A28* cuihe ytaas) ve dogs anes kn enue Orme 21211112201101—12 R Maeder, 26 ......... Wh SO mettle Gree aie-c eine elas Mcted rerepaes 12220011020021— 9 Hy Neiet yee Gehan dle cacti oe eae an eee 00011102000222— 7 Cxolabalia Wr ysers; 925. “ihe. hudicind ees ihe meee tea b ates or 00121100000101— 6 JEW UA shot eeezh «bye {ie ae me . -22101*22102211—11 FEM SIUCOW SGV Siew con ty ani al eRe eee eon Oxon te 12121000001111— 9 JOS WWitohintiarm® Paes ee ys ee iat etccoascesteit paatatts 20212010101201— 9 Mir JSS WERE 2 oes eee sea be ces oaere oe ee es -2202212*021111—11. Jeanette Gun Club, There was a good attendance Friday last at the regular monthly contest of the Jeanette Gun Club, on the grounds of the Hudson County Driving Park, at Guttenberg, N. J, Although the day was mild, the birds proved to be a good lot of flyers, as the scores will show. Schorty, on the 20yd. mark, won Class A medal with 10 siraight, defeating Steffens, Greiff and Loeble, all at 80yds. George Haggerdorn, a guest, also grassed 10, and Henry Pape won the Class B medal, at 28yds., with a straight few were hard ones, while President Fred Ahlers decamped with Class C prize with 8, losing his first and tenth birds. Following the club event, Chris. Interman successfully defended the challenge medal, defeating Chas. Meyerdiercks by a score of 14 to 11. Next in order was the team race at 5 birds a man between Capt. Ehlen’s team and one headed by Capt, Pape, which resulted in a victory for Ehlen’s team by 5 birds, the score being 32 to Z7. Preceding all events, C. Meyer, with the gun that ‘Frank got,’? defeated Chas. Steffens in a 5:bird match at 30yds. rise, both contestants using brush guns. Scores: F Ehlen, 25......... *111121210— 8 C Interman, 28..... 2102221121— 9 F Kastens, 28....... 1122110122— 9 ~G’ Haggerdorn; 30, .2222222999 10 C Meyer, 30........ 1111202211— 9 C Thyssen, 28...... 1210010220— 6 J. Kroeger, 28....... 2111122*01— 8 J Luhrman, 25.....2222110000— 6 C Steffens, 30...... 11222021*0— 7 J Hainhorst, 28..... 1101011211— 8 H Pape, 28 122111212210 W = Rohlfs, 28......" 70101010011— 5 2222220222— 9 C Meyerdiercks, 28.12010110*0— 5 2122212222—10 G E Loeble, 30. .....1201220101— 7 Schorty, 30 H Gerdes, 25....... 2120100110— 6 Challenge medal, 15 birds: Ge Tritt ts a8 Pa in oat neat sean eg cree 111122121101222 14 CUMeyerdiercksy 2a ene ens see eee wee a 101121102102022—11 Team match, 5 men a side, 5 birds per man: GYR GENT eS ie fe 21102—4 HT Pape MY. cass nateens 22210—4 CAME Vereen sete 212115 G E Greiff..........:12221_5 C ySteffens| j....d- ses 21121—5 GE Loeblé..... ee: 01202—38 G W Hagedorn....... 22002—8 Go Wititerntan sean. 12171—5 Be Karstens cosas 12102—4 J HW Kroeger. :...:..¢ 00010—1 C Meyerdiercks ..... 00111—3 J H Hainhorst....... 10111—4 UV OHTTS? caistes caste ateltoins 12201—4 ©. Ee Physsen. ana... 11110—4 GELdes. omecrwanaten ts 21201—4—82 JME Sin ehoM a shone ae 00001—1—27 Richmond Gun Club, Newark, N. J.—Albert A. Schoverling was very much talked about on Saturday of last week by winning a solid silver loving cup and the championship of the Richmond Gun Club, at Smith Brothers’ grounds, Newark, N. J. EF. Hatkins and Ed Lovett were close seconds with 11 each, and divided second honors in the cup race. Baron Von Walkenberg, Fessenden and Hawes ‘divided second money in the sweepstakes with 12 each. In the 5-bird event Schoverling, Reierson and Hawes were high guns and divided first and second moneys. The birds were, as usual, a fast lot, and the day an ideal one. Following are the scores: No. 1, 5 birds, $2, 29yds.: Schoverling’ .....2.-0ss.0« 222204 Reierson ........ eeieu cece 1221* 4 Bechtel Ao ces ra paekee 1O001—2 Hawes J...:..2ecee dee ens 1*112—4 Richmond Gun Club championship, 15 birds, Rose system: MANS chovenlines sbres snacatneseteeene nada tensens 20222222222*222 13 G Bechtel, ZF Peasy, Vas ae Deen en salnalpaee 10*12011*221002— 9 E Joline, BO Ness SWS: Lael ok ge AE tet ae 212222*02121122—13 AP TEV AEICTT Ss 29 ve ie Pele ot ete oman erature prorat rigs 120121002222202—11 WIMRETERSOM Pod: aes eerie en aeeeemieD hier n cer rath -11020*200120101— 8& DAG Dongs igeet) SSAA 8555 Sacrmonnmincorarh het oor cen 102222202001222—11 We Colaiutt, 2905, cpsses eb eee SOREN nse 220212202022222 12 Von! (Wealké@niberpy a0 bape accrcts piers ccosle pisvatsin eee am sisvins 0220*022022202*— 8 F P Fessenden, 29......... Pei lon especies agente aes 2#2.22322022202212 Wi sPearsal li oes Si sass. choad s a8 aan aiihitiate eect 200222212000222—10 A Hawes, 28 PERSO Ser ek Sere ac tered We ne ern) rk 122222221022020—12 H. P. Fessenden was referee. ‘ Union Gun Club. Rutherford, N. J., May 16.—There were twenty-three contestants at the weekly shoot of the Union Gun Club to-day. follow: The scores Events: ee ea ee a0 Ce Poe oo Targets: 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 25 25 Garlodgh) .3., 2022 Pee ade es hip ay ee emai ihheaye eat JE RT lel ee oer he nd Some Mee Ue, We trilige FE Sly re eS ets ae Lex tp wall), ale Vale ey Ag je SA St RG zee ae ls tease lite Ale SR. Bh Oo An ee te ere 2 L024 I i 15 ie Meek” +B> LE Bolo. ws 6 10 9 9 10 18 Lawson 5 ine eee ies Gollins’ cpt tee aera reel ; 13 13 13 11 14 21 FRUGNES se cececeseeesdncnnenseuweae oe ee rbe 4b bra, WicWilententtse s.ec en estes ssa ae asess ee Lae Spa he os 4 Mord, weve. stan eenivenit sate se cee + SEO: W4* We Ve ha Rigas eee tse akiere metre entaenns : 1 2 AS 2A&- =20 Fredericks ....0.0deccseces Ah hese 4 Ne lee DDS MO, LOS SE 8s han Fe SAM AHOWS sist viriecalelp heads ealateiyin's/nle Brut of Beas pe eae lar eee IGeevit eee onetemos ss hbase cas cmeee re Setting Oi oe dees Pail Maen atest eee seas y a 10 8 16 Ite i, Wacone.ssccss res Aer DE ee ee eee Sa eo Warlonehveas messes Rrvtagan An 55 AE a eS ae ee FRBEVESS Dieta de betletis jap satiety ocd wooly oe ee ee el ee Tees H Von Lengerke.......,.-.« + ate eas: 20 GaB, AXFORD, “Sec’y. - Enterprise Gun Club. McKeesport, Pa., May 16.—The shoot of the Enterprise Gun Club to-day had contestants and scores as follows: Events: oe fee Ge ay Targets : Ste a aise ak) (GATIGI Sareea etyera cea a tes sche ; 14.8 8 IV eyboIe: « eordea de ie Aowtae a tones 2 MeFarland) (ifr. cvanase esta @ Pt scrainele Natale (gree ote vie es) UG EE 5 Ping ge eS APY roe Pee bet sip Wd sh, SOS 10, eae Black tekeeer amas aes Pe Ae eee ey oe 6:11, 4 6 4 IPOWElZ. steele ae err fe oh Tome VT RT aw, ey 1S lee mae RM att, 3 eaeeatate ad's COREE oS AONE Belles se reeks penal ee vt Pav te cho. irrew ay Gr.Olis 22544 Pee sa SAAC ott bree Set home, : Os all Wits ahh web Punley oes deans eager m NF re gto te (ehh erate rain oe ae ih Pre Ace BA Ty IPPECTOCK. cass asests'sis “ ibe pA a Mains, ‘Sec’ y. [May 23, 1963. Cirawfordsyille. "Tottnament.. CominG so close on the heels of Paducah, it will interest all lovers of trapshooting to know that Tobacco Bill has “gone and done it.” Just laid Fritz Gilbert, his side partner, in the shade; 398 out of 400 in a two days’ tournament is the record. We must not forget that Pop Heikes was a busy boy; he made 199 the first day and 193 the second day. There were so many other ~ good scores that all cannot herein be singled out, yet Hughy Clark going down the line with 194 is not to be passed by. | The happiest lot of shooters—and among them the best that - every gathered at one tournament of like nature—met at Craw- fordsville, Ind., May 1], and the day was so perfect, the trap on its good behavior, as it was run by a one-legged mad. Id. Voris was there to greet them, and all his lieutenants were ready — to attend to every want, and the most complaint I heard was that the dinner furnished was too good. Read the scores all aver; they tell the tale of -the most perfect conditions. This is the twenty-fifth time that Crawfordsville has held a spring tournament, and as Pop: Heikes has attended most of them, he only desires to live to attend twenty-five more of just such perfectly managed tournaments. When Crawfordsyille claims dates there is no use of worrying about anything only your shells, and then not to forget the dates. Voris, Stillwell, Snyder, Helm, Lacy and about fifty more very good gentlemen wil] attend ' to all the details, and what they overlook you can rely on Dad Detrick not failing in the smallest particular. New clubs have a keeper living in the club house. Long live the Crawfordsville Club, and may more records be made on their perfect grounds. Several years ago Ralph Trimble was just starting out, and he made a record at this city which has not been equalled, breaking 144 out of 145 targets, all reverse angles. Tramp Irwin shot through’a live-bird programme and killed 100° per cent, There are many other very large scores on record made there, and there will be many more in the future. But who can beat the one herein chronicled. It may stand for years, and -may never again be excelled save at the historic grounds at Craw: fordsyille. First Day. : 8456 7 8 91011122 20 15 20 15 20 15 20 15°20 15. 20 15 19 15 20 15 20 15 20 15 18 11 18 15 17 13 18 10 17 15 17 13 18 13 18 14-16 13 18 12 16 14 17 14 18 13 20 14.19 15 19 13 18 13 18 18 18 13:16 15 20 15 20 15 20 15 19 15 20 15 BMTTSIOG meena epee 5 nan ceed etl 7 10 15 12 20 12 15 14 19 15 17 14 Eagsthitian® aias bis eGtes newacy seus tines 9 12 17 14 19 14 18 14 18 13 17 Port we i 3c..5 5 sted tet tne too ve 8 15 17 13 19 13 17 15 19 12 20 14 Mco@atirey. lcci ctecivhessesaakees) 8-04 1613-20539 Ae Ae TTS. ae te esaneieies bate aenet Seidess 8 15 18 12 18 13 20 15.20 15 20 15 Tee Comptes Mabrtics yyecb at souts wees 9 13 17 14 20 14 20 1417 14 19 15 Worrsanacnsany SEE RAS ORES alerts neers she 10 14 16 11 19 14.17 15 16 15 17 14 Mie TR GOSH: dab rey scarcely eidietarsi wel lertert . 1018 17 12 17 14 18 15 18 14 19 13 Ary Bidets pod crae Pereiarerarserereeiecalale 9 14 18 13 20 14 19 15 18 15 20 15 Rike si tieak sc RA e ceisins, scree escent beeatrae, 10 15 18 15 20 13 20 15 19 14 20 12 9 13 18 14 17 13 2015 18 14 18-14 6 13 20 10 19 13 17 12 18 13.15 13 10 13 17 14.19 15 15 13.17 14 19 15 913 16 12-19 15 20 13 18 14 19 15 10 15 20 13 16 14 16 12 15 13 18 14 7 12 18 13 17 14 20 15 17 12 si 15 Hea cen ee bya ale Oinp sh See os 10 13 19 138 17 15191517. 9 12 19 14 20 13 19 13 19 13 19 14 8 12 15 14 17 14 18 13 18.15 19 13 912 17 14 16 11 17 15 20 15 18 14 SHEPWOOd Ss) «sarc ce pec e ee cree eres 71117 13 18 14 a - 16 13 15 15 Metrelly wikis hs akuheny iiafa antadesedetesetatare 9 14 19 12 19 te De Uceba.- Brekiniphar So c0cs eases rea eee oo Lacsker aU ucliGe. 5 Ser, Apipeee setarbel tem ST Sa Ty: BE ale cette eine a ees has » 6131381716, a5: LEA”. sree ta cote eect 7 1217 13 16 19 17 9) eat ACE Egat oe tiw.ccapelsSetykatie, acoenimecee 7131610. wale rok Jack Snipe ...... Mee Verittteiaetc at 3s 7 14 19 12 15 a d4 13 20. eis ar AMR aap MSs hoot) 913 18 141513191318. elle souecesee sly Sao aelcn ide oreo 8 12 15 19 He en 4 SSETIVAS: ctadslelessute slated ol guialee atl aie eepee 91418 .. 2 17 12: NUET 6, sibie wis clare snp pees eet ae aN a dete lees Oat Se ale WL ASLITIZATN Main) c lal atasetapetstatien cw rakieg, ots aeraas Nae ade 2 saute 2 “1 PG)-s.054 Deitrick By a) ae oh Waters + 14 20 15 Grimes eee pis 3b Snyder FEnure Second Day. : Events 123 456 7 € HiT 2 Targets 10 15 20 15 20 15 20 15 20 15 20 15. MGTGSIIV™ ceioig te sieteteeescic nad aplalg aici aetaret sie 10 15 19 15 20 15 20 15 20 15 20 15 Lhardied. .. i Aenea ee oy Mobiledia 9 1419 13 19 14 18 13 16 14 2018 Stal Well) snkele Les atati tack nstetelteeteavete 9 11 18 13-19 18 17 14 18 13 17 12 WrHrpins- oosteeseses3 6 Ait aenanahc 9 13 18 13 17 14 17 14 20 14 20 14 Trithble Phte ined taeewietacehatereene 9 14.19 12 19 14 18.14 19 14 18 13 THI EURIGSS Fons oe soaieeene etek Sa see. 9:15 20 15.19 13 20 45 20 13 19 15 SATIPITSI CE. sel Alaina tects tclelelt laces toes 9 12 18 13.17 12 19 13 201518 14 ASH HAMEL LAIN cettafeseistels ecleintemiele 9-14 15 14 18 14 19 13 18 14 19 14 Akers arene ser ean lends ucsaties 8 14-20 14 19 15 14 11-20 15 19 13 Washburn .. 7 10 19 13.18 12 18 12 171249 13 FETA) S226 o CGaaeiaha teoiennt: carries otbets 10 14-19 14 20 14 18.15 20 1119 14 Wer Giipres se ahcoeaararnmenns tase 8 18-20-15 19 13 18 14 19 15 17 14 Wichita aratettefeielstie ate Wastin n-cenareatere 9 14 20.11 17 13.20 15 12 13 19 15 EE Lva rigs etetebel estat iain Zu. tele eee te .. 10 13 17 18 18 11 19.11.15 10 13 14 lal ett clei seine her tare eet | 9 13 20 15 20 14 20 14 19 15 20 15 RANE weenie tte osm ak voto tere ck aire oe 9 15 20 15 17 15 20 14 20 15 18 14 Wkaiercaiwessdg sate dee scla BA AAA ABA 91419 14 20 14 19 14 19 14 19 18 TEV Re SAN 0 oles cts Mcchtentelpile saree 812 17 138 16 14 17 14 16 14 18 13 (GOsTIOLS: Vel caice seh ee eee 2 10 14 20 14 20 15 19 14 18 12 20 15 Naat el ildss BR a tees gan Coan cnn See 9 13 19 15 16 14 20 14 19 15 20 15 IVER eS hrall) SSeS Nie kis ine states atau te aa eteisee 7 14.18 15 19 11 19 12 19 13-20 12 | PETScLAW GAL ment shal street vite etesen epee et 8 15 19 13 17 13 20 12 19 14 20 12 Bimileyy 9. dios tina incre eaiielee ee ieee 9111613141011 12. TES Tala ape niecnaene eee ee erro ork $13.17 15 19 14.17 11 19 1319 13 IDishavel Ca ee ee. cnet af So teczes 2 15519 13.16. 12 12 o te aetG Daivaiaeitlieee es topp oe LS sty ela .. +» 2013 17 14 18 14 16 14.19 15 Rom DSO Yoekheiek sevens leek toma meees 19:14 17 15 19 14 19°13 19 45 © Slorudiewette | cee cdles ease pe esoee tprich 18 15 16 12.17 13 15 13 19 14 Batvise ucuehith teh heake heh ietrptere Salgt7A4s Sali, os. 15 ae Snyder OP loys. adapioy 48 eee tener She Se Be aa aes _1417.. | 1 cele Detrich . dae tee lesa, (alee foc ame etapa Tiisisy heh aes5 Sansies 4's By ahala erp late pes: Ol See + 19 Ae RE Se ee PO BRS) ee BASHA) aoe eens ea eps Cincinnati Gun Club. Cincinnati, O., May 9.—The Cincinnati Gun Club cash prize contest resulted as follows: Barker (18) 45, Medico (16) 45, Gerlaugh (16) 45, Gambell (20) 44, Ackley (15) 44, Herman (17) 44, R. Trimble (21) 44, Wilson (7) 44, Faran (18) 42, Nye (16) 41, Ahlers (19) 41, Willie (16) 40, Capt (7) 40, Maynard (18) 40, McB. (16) 89, Corry (17) 39, Harris (19) 37, Falk (16) 36, J. B. (17) 36, Roanoke (16) 36, Tandsley (16) 35, Block (18) 34, Du Bray (7) 34, Jack (16) me Team race, 50 targets, 16yds.: Gambell 49, Medico 46, Faran 46, Wilson 44, Ackley 44, Capt 42, Lindsley 41, Roanoke 37, Jack 33; total 382. Maynard 46, Harris 43, Block 43, Herman 42, Gerlaugh 8; ‘Willie 37, Du Bray 36, McB. 36, J. B. 33; total 354. j At the annual meeting the following Atti was elected: - R. He West, G. W. Schuler, J. B. Mosby, Dr. A. B. Heyl, Fred Dreihs, Joe Coyle, Lou Ahlers, J. E. Worth (Maynard), Herman Jergens. Officers will be named at regular monthly meeting. Three hundred and fifteen thousand targets were thrown the past” year. One and one-third fare has been obtained for State shoot all over United States. Mav 23, 1903.1 FOREST*AND STREAM. 419 _ Interstate Tournament at DuBois. Du Bors, Pa., May 16.—The trapshooting totirnament given by the Interstate Association for the Du Bois Rod arid Gun Club, on May 13 and 14, was a very pleasant affair. The first day, as far as weather conditions were concerned, was perfect, and thirty-three contestants, some of them of- national reputation, faced the traps in all of the events brought off. Twenty-three took part in the entire programme of the day. Some of these were members of the local club, and seyeral were from surrounding towns. ‘ihe shoot- ing was witnessed by a large number of people, quite a few of the spectators being ladies. There were ten events, four at 15 targets, four at 20 and two at 25. L. J. Squier, of Wilmington, Del., was high gun for the day, and he made the largest number of straight scores, five. Out of the 190 targets shot at, Squier missed but 8, J. T. Atkinson, of New Castle, Pa., was second high gun with 176 breaks. L. B. Fleming, of Pittsburg, Pa., was third high gun with a total score of 175 breaks. Messrs. Guinsburg, Quinn, Kelly and Wolfe made up a squad of local men who participated in all of the events. Messrs. Munch and Sullivan shot in all but one event. Kelley was in the best form among the local men, his total for the day being 167. Guins- burg scored 155, Quinn 146, Munch 139, Wolfe 136, and Sullivan 120: The number of targets shot at by Munch was 175, and by Sullivan 170. Burgoon, of Clearfield, Pa., was well up among the number with the high scores, scoring 164 out of the 190. Sizer, of Kane, Pa., broke 171, and No. 96, the cognomen of a gentleman from the same city, broke 166, The new score sheets, copyrighted by Mr. Chas G. Grubb, of Pittsburg, Pa., were given a trial by Manager Shaner, and they gave the best of satisfaction. Manager Shaner stated that he will use them at all Interstate Association tournaments in place of a blackboard, the possibility of mistakes being reduced to a mini- mum when using them, The programme of the second day was an exact duplicate of the first day. Thirty contestants, but three less than the number taking part the first day, participated, and twenty-two shot in all of the events. It was another fayorable day for the marksmen, the weather being fine and the scores made were first class. Again Squier carried off the high gun honors, shooting at 190 targets and breaking the same number as he did the first day, 181. Nobles, of Olean, N. Y., was second high man with a score of 178, Atkinson was third with 177. Dr. W. Jessop, of Kittanning, Pa., and L. V. Byer, of Rochester, N. Y., tied for fourth place with scores of 172 each. The local club was represented by Messrs. Sullivan, Quinn, Kelly, Munch, Cotter, Guinsburg and Wolfe, and each one took pert in all of the events. Kelly again led the home talent, scoring 168 breaks. Wolfe was close up to him with a score of 158. Bur- goon was in good form, as he was on the previous day, and he broke 163 targets. The tournament was handled in a very able manner by Man- ager Shaner, assisted by Mr. Chas. G. Grubb, of Pittsburg. _ The scores of both days follow: First Day, May 13. Events: , 123 45 6 7 8 910 Shot Targets: 15 20 20 15 25 15 20 20 15 25 at. Broke PREKATISOME SY cere cme ives . 12 20 15 14 28 1519 201424 190 176 WGINER Givees ray ate: 15 20 19 15 23 15 20181521 190 181 1 espe bs (oe ee SOO , 1417 19 12 2414191813 25 4190 175 Kelsey ...... Yess tg oe 141714 14 221316161218 190 4156 BESSEMEE Mot beLisslvent ts 14 15 17 1418 1415 201319 190 159 TEATS bt, tell le ct eersh err 12 19 19 15 221317 2013 19 190 169 Guinsburg ....... seresese 121919101712 1418 925 190 155 TESS OD alee tay a treeneerenes 40 17 17 12 171218141524 190 156 i £30)0) 230) ere Pat eh ed ok oh NA 35 20. 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Gren DERE) A 165 92 Gal ahaTi ery ase sas tne Se TAS 9 eS 165 88 CVE as sn neseet ys ae mete 10151513 14.... aes 95 67 Connelly ........ goer Pop B A ie ee a 95 55 SUE VAR oy, eee nee cn 13 111412 201220161115 190 i44 Welly, cis seess Teta bl} ely 12 181713 221218171321 190 163 Nitti AS eter cece ce eet 111411 10 20121617 720 1909 138 AViiarich paneer ran he emanr Ar § 15 15 10 221214131118 190 138 tai big Mey aan da Saad aes 1116 1613 2218171711 21 190 156 GT Zethe. . 7. weienetocneen . 13 15 20 121918 14181223 190 59 Summeryilles.i....., cyber oes tr we res 15 7 No. 64 .st..cs ASU oer ED IOE a 2 Saeco Ml ment ova TE 70 43 BEWIAUIIT Mepien ese sees ses lie ueeene Sek te a) a Shall 40 24 Clearview Gun Club's Shoot, Darsy, Pa., May 16.—The Clearview Gun Club handicap event at 25 targets was won by Forden, after tieing with Smith on a full score, the tie heing decided by the tossing of a coin after two tie shoot-offs. The handicap allowances counted as breaks. The scores: Hdep. Brk. Tatal. Hdep. Brk. Total. JONES skeasessasesdd ee ol Welles ss. «oy alt ie *38 Ludwig .......5 sa 8 5 18 LETS een Te 20 ee Pa Fisher ....20....: 23 he 23 Downes. see. wh 20 3 23 Tein scene calle oe ati Anderson spre i dy Bevans ..........14 ile rads Suevidel | Sores Sere! 4 25 Urian 5775-4 45. sa 2 23 ENG ‘sean ah coevewld 10) (24 Forden ...-+++.+,18 f-) 25.) dheicht eed: e2 «16 4 20 Davison eergeye +46 2 18 Aymstrong «veges § 10 16 Rambling Trap Notes. Bunkerhill, Iff, Wuat was to have been a live-bird plant proved to be a lively shooting match. Some of the Bunkerhill boys had intended to have a pigeon farm, but suitable quarters could not be arranged and the birds went to the market after being shot at by Messrs. Cumming and Payne, of this city. It was hoped to arrange a match between shooters of this and adjoining towns, but it fell through. Our townsmen then tried their skill, with the following result: Cummings ..,... 210201122012201221 02212212212222001210222210221202—40 istaecley ale, ALS 101212211210212122001221221210212112212*2102101201—41 Litchfield Cox test. The boys are not faltering. They believe in using our nice grounds when the ‘sun is shining.’”’ The shoot held last week had the incentive to make our boys get around and try for better scores: Shot at. Broke. Shot at. Broke. Syrell ais siesieeetees 115 98 Gigse" Wandiec en shee 60 47 McDonald ...... es eas 23 Rapley \ipesss eye . 50 29 PNGTECIINS Siok a: Clekeh 50 23 Meyets Sohscssisss 75 58 BiGeT ec Pe eae AAAS 6 25 9 Carroll. Se eecemie 25 8 MOITEE secs ea 3 4 Iowa Boys Cet Together. The Grand Mound Club got the shooting fever this week, and eleyen of the boys looked up their long neglected guns and went out to shoot the rust off them. The scores show lack of prac- tice, as only two made straight scores; Events 23 46 6 7 Targets 01010101010 Broke Mack 66 2.. 4 4 28 Allison BPS ase ees 23 Allison San ligt Oe Pe eneuaTs 20 Ritter nee el AER EPP 1 Voss ti Gees acance 16 Kaiser Besthie gar heley 7 Buck REPO! Ones =o. wae 43 R Lea th £4 ki eb ars 4] Jtsleexs la lobits Uae wettersepee Peabo cette weaned mos Om? #7 “Beng; 24 be ISP ene ober rg eee irises om eee ne LO Oe nen 26 ED ATI Oye Salq tains tote ct areten states Hate nee atcalGs fee tid Het cee 7 Colored Trapshooters’ League. Last week the colored trapshooters met ‘at Pleasant Hill, Mo., and engaged in a little practice at the traps. During the day an organization was perfected among the colored men, which is ex- pected to be to the colored shooters what the G. A, H. is to the whites, as some good system of handicapping will be used. The officers are as follows: President, Ed. Armstead, Kansas City, Mo.; First Vice-President, Leon Jordon, Kansas City, Mo.; Second Vice-President, J. E. Cohron, St. Louis, Mo.; Secretary and Treasurer, T. H. Cohron, Pleasant Hill, Mo.; Directors: S. A. Edwards, Kansas City, Mo.; N. G. Fulbright, Merriam, Kans.; T. H. Dawson, St. Joe, Mo.; R. H. Monday, Pleasant Hill, Mo., and Ed. Fort, Kansas City, Mo. The next annual merchandise shoot will take place at Kansas City during the horse show or fall festivities, in order to secure half fare rates. Harvey McMurchy was looking around for a good opportunity, and he spied out Mr. Cohron during the G. A. H. and offered a medal for the colored boys to shoot for, and here is the score of the MeMurchy inter-city medal contest: Cooley 18, Fort 14, Jor- don 16, Edwards 21, Crochett 18, Gudgell 11, Monday 15, Gibson 19, Armstead 18, Cohron 19, Monday 16, Dixon 13, Bonesteel. Mr. Leach, secretary of the Bonesteel, S. D., Gun Club, sent in a statement that the shooting season will open up on their grounds cn May 26. There will be nine events of 15 targets each, §1 entrance, four moneys, Rose system. In addition to this, Mr. Spotts, who holds the Peters Cartridge Company’s medal, has consented to put same up for open competition. This should call together a large crowd of shooters. Instead of giving added money, the club will charge one cent for targets, that will be the same as adding $10 to the purses for each 1,000 targets thrown. There should be a large gathering, as Fairfax, Lynch, Bristow, Butte, Armour and Geddes are our near neighboring towns. . The sliding handicap will be used, the losers going up and the winners going back a yard. This should even up matters a bit and give all a chance. Irving, Ill, Phil Standor, Irving, Ill., has sent a programme of a two days’ shoot that he will hold June 10 and 11, at Irving, Il, All amateur shooters are invited to come and have two days’ shoot. A good lunch will be provided, and the air will be fresh and fine, as the shooting will be on Mr. Standor’s farm. JOLty. Rochester Rod and Gun Club, RocueEsTeR, N. Y., May 13.—To-day the contestants in the shoot of the Rechester Rod and Gun Club made scores as follows: : Bonbright cup: Kershner ........ 16 512 7-19 Adkin ..........., 18 516 8—24 Bonbright ....... 16 514 822 Coughlin ......... 20 515 4 19 wewen MenibeRe Ha. 8 f 18 ee eiekpran eh hale ety +19 514 721 (are es SABE Br. TAYs ods uencesep nls 20 5 — Clary rae soca es 22 516 7—28 sf ae Club prizes: Rershnei® §.pes eres seh ubas peeiy AT NGll'ot au ses eA eres : 27 21 Honbriphtoyssaceeaeee cee 25 22 Coughlin 29 13 Warde Vi pant tniny otinatecsce 28 11 Rickman 28 23 WWOTth “Sjateese neue nsec ce 28 21 Stewart 95 92 Slarichesiase sued coe 32 24 Newton 26 25 In the cup event, column 1 denotes allowance of singles; column 2 denotes allowance in doubles; column 3 denotes number of singles scored; column 4 denotes doubles scored, and column 5 is the total. In the club event, column 1 denotes allowances; column totals. Winchester Gun Club, Derroir, Mich.—At the regular shoot, May 16, some good shoot- ing was done. Ford, in the shoot-off of the tie with Hitchcock for the Class B medal, broke 24 out of 25, and only 4 out of 60 got away from Andrew Reid, of Walkerville, shooting from the i8yd. mark, and it is almost a certainty that the lost targets have holes in them. Following are the scores, the fifth event being the trophy handi- cap, the sixth the club event, and the seventh the shoot-off- Events: ero 4. | eee: Targets 10 15 15 10 25 25 95 Re pete the eels ane Tetras Sette ely Aare A GHA ES) el mo ey EE CHG EUG Bete merc sea tro Sete V9 FY tereeuss 6 15 13 9 23 90 29 OL NSIR eras wir ec canssstyiite ee Wa Gc eae oe Gay, pe One od Pitcheodke MISS Ho te bee ne ese ee see. 8 12 12 9 FL 20 90 Litter fan 11 es OSE ce are Ristesoriecc'e setoas ) of ww tee 13-5 MOR ec, Ait Oe anna ee ce ane eee 10 PIBty n eithh ater eens Clark sweqtertrerersertrepttgeseepiveseeeven 4 12 J Svaa 17 ; D. A. H. ON LONG ISLAND. Brooklyn Gun Club, Brooklyn, L. I., May 16—At the shoot of the Brooklyn Gun Club to-day, Manager John S. Wright had a class of nine post- graduates, and the shooting as a whole was excellent for ama- teurs, Ten events were shot, a total of 120 targets. The scores follow: : Events; Wh ea et elit et reeenee aLO: Targets: 15 10 15 10 15 10 10 15 10 10 ACCOR: to aih nctaettn sade ee 14 S82 ft lee aor als d= 8 Goris: eee cers por) Uajater ee Teese i a ee be areal IFEER EH Vpetncdaaren ance ye Ve Se onl Ree ee Shas cla ce EP OS toes atte te ore opp freee lneclsiee ee Ge 2 TG £9 by Ver A eek? Piiteshcocka waenaiscsion sy eres ee Oe Ts 1S ctu wie s cuiet wa DFEVEDY Me cea nee enate we) ake fie SM ap Mae ke oil vee ae Wirrilitw aiplee katate eure ea ip LL De wary claw see ots Nica yee Hansleiter eccciecvs ees Baton SIU TQ AS ee eT SUL ys al Dele SOT Ghee gaat aside ie eE ites Lethe AO Go FON OE ce wees IMGT Fah oe Goh econ crn sca hee a gS Sia Ih alia) ee ea Py No. 9 was at 5 pairs. Neporset Gun Club, HAst WaLPore, Mass., May 16.—Events 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17 was the 50-bird prize event, with the following handicaps: Grif- fifths, 20yds., Campbell 18, Kirkwood 19, Fenton 18, Cuke 17, Puck 17, Barry 18, Tarkens 18, Sawyer 17, Linfield 18. Three prizes: Events: 123 4 5 6 7 8 910 Tl 12 13 1415 16 17 18 19 _ Targets: 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 Gritfiths ...,.5. he D8) & 8 SIO) WOES 19: Hae 8127 WB y-Gelsarg PUCK cons rae ty te tts ete SeGeeG G 40s “Roe te ge Gu geet MEnEGTEN Gncaee (S) fee -Oo os od) Gf G6) cDal@, “(Ss Gy OaeGuesi cow Campbell ...., 097688284999 4878 9 8 4 OO Kirkwood ,,.. 8 810 8 9 8 67810 98 8 889 8 6 7 GE Wolter no 8 By Gs 0 BOS 6 4 dob be 8 5 eae oF lS Morse le Cah EE 78 TTA at Tp tials, Sime ee Gh Se Deals oh as Sawyer ESetbs 9 3: SoS EP SGe eS of Vbe8y 4: be Be Rage 4 Losi i 8 1608) 4°67 5 § 6 5 Wwe 4 Bag -85677854626465 45 & 2 «6 ee My rity Seer eit ed Beatie a es, BO be ae ey Tarkens ad te Seco ea Sunt wee elon Cfeat eSaanG Barry (Ree VERT IO Ve Cimeeivess Lit pcaeeie ES rie os Merrill DOr tite, Sieh: 9 SS 16s aoe es Blanchard r 3553844546755 4236 Sanborn ..... 5 Wein ss) SBD UMe AM Di ducse Ome Belcher : are fetta) On Osta. Gey lees ey Wales ceases! oe we IG) 8s Obie So) Soro N by Cuke ‘ 5 Arbre opp (oe Gh Wah I ree Gp be 1S Linfield ....... Rene vee GeepelQ? sO) G6 952 G68 fez 8 Flowers : “ Seek hae Oy Oe ae ltr, ae Shehan 4 . Bist) a0 De Ho Tien Sack Hate iieriwas eee s 4 «+ 5643 4445 2 6 Willaims! Siege ice. ees ey gn hee ot oe Oe Se Oe ee Fim VWeales: «foe eee fe Ly Sw BS SWS ile Soke danas ae ears, Epear Brits, Sec’y. Scranton Rod and Gun Club, Scranton, Pa., May 16.—The Scranton Rod and Gun Club held their regular semi-monthly shoot to-day. Scores made. were as follows: Events: Plea. eO0 te se Ge is Targets: 25 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 2518 Broke. Av. Spencer seals VP Ep tee tr Sek Ye Yt ee a 60 63 Nichol cm fede By alles oy ae a le 23 44 Bittenbender 7 8 6 8 7..1022 8 16 78 Wan edonwewners sen cele es: #6) ede (8) Gi 99 6) to AG) 15: 62 -63 MLGEemiakerm pyyee ty setae es Gbros Grom Te 29 68 WAS OI cnet dae enn tree 8 8 810 7.., 41 82 Won Storch verre. weep ebncs ae ip get Nie ee 18 -60 Flardenpurg weer eee P16) 4s 76625 x 28 ~~. D6 *Extra events. Our next shoot will be held on May 30, Decoration Day, and will be the club’s fifth annual tournament, : The indications are that there will be a big crowd of shooters on hand, who will participate in the 10-target events scheduled for that day and extra events if time will permit. Extensive improvements are being made at the grounds, and we will be prepared to accommodate and take good care of all who come. This shoot will be open to all; four moneys, 40, 30, 20 and 10 per cent., excepting in special prizes for high average, which will be-divided, 50, 80 and 20 per cent. Will shoot rain or shine. J. D. Mason, Sec’y-Treas. S. D, S, A, Omaua, Neb.—The annual State tournament of the South Dakota Sportsmen’s Association will be held in Vermillion, Thursday and Friday, June 4 and 5. ‘Twelve events will be pulled off each day, including target and live-bird shooting. H. G. Taylor, president of the Association, writes from Mackling that about forty shooters will contest for money prizes and medals. The shoot will be given under the auspices of the Vermillion Gun Club, and the annual election of officers will be at the Waldorf Hotel, Thursday. even- ing. All money will be divided 35, 30 and 20 and 15 per cent., and American Association rules, modified, will govern. Manufac- turers’ agents and professionals will be allowed to shoot for price of targets only. The C. H. Arland trophy event is open only to members of the Association. The live-bird championship medal event will be a hummer. Shooting begins promptly at 9 A. M. andi P.M. Targets trapped at 2 cents; live birds at 15 cents. SANDY GRISWOLD. Colt Gun Club, Hartrorp, Conn.—The Colt Gun Club held their sixth medal shoot Saturday, May 16. H. J. Mills, of Bristol, made the highest score of the day. Four new members were added to the club, namely, John Stone, Wm. G. Grose, Clarence A, Bill and George Allison. These, with the recent former additions, go to show that trapshooting is steadily on the increase in Hartford. The scores were: Events 18 Events: Targets 25 2525 - ‘Targets: 5 oe oe IDE asec eh ee 2 ae Serge, ten ne eee 17 14 Cooke ge meiacteceitee en oe 22... Allison McFetridge ............. ze a Hollister , ERMAN. catstetete se base aie 21 21 Capron AS [ido itll BAPE REED eee 21 18 21 Stone Callens at sos eksceee 19 14 Miller COL rites ee Silks Ryan ~ Keystone Shooting League. Hormerssure Juncrion, Pa., May 16.—The officers’ cup and the club handicap were the main events of the Keystone Shooting League’s weekly contest at the traps to-day. Mr. H. LL, Cole- man killed the 10 straight in the club handicap. Fitzgerald tied on i4 in the officers’ trophy event. match between two shots was postponed. The scores Club handicap, 10 birds, optional sweepstake: Harrison and The special : Goleman! aussecs. 222222222210 Pitzeerald #22. EIALVEY" cae nn 2929022192 9 Morrie noe Ree Biase Brancott See Geikler .. ~ 2220202222 8 iE See eee 2120222212— i 1111 Rothacker 1. ../777! oosmznrt1 g aaTtison Sia ta a Officers’ trophy shoot, 15 birds, 28yds. rise: Harrison ...., 121102122122111 14 Wayne 2119 Fitzgerald “<1. 1121010011114 Harvey “2.2... “20100baspnpe ae Geikler .,,....11222220022022212 McFalls ....,_221201112*11940_-11 Jones .,,.,-.+.11211010122002211 Malone ..)’,,002020222020209 8 Rothacker ..,.001222221200121—11 420 FOREST AND STREAM. [May 23, 1903. Oklahoma Tournament. Ex Reno, Okla., May 9—The annual meeting of the Oklahoma . Territory Sportsmen’s Association was held here this week, This is perhaps the youngest association of its kind in the United States; but it is very wide-awake, and will be more so in future, through the action of its menibers in their annual meeting just closed, in which they decided to hold their shoots open, in future, to all comers, and to separate the live-bird and target events. They realize that Oklalioma is one of the few States (they like to call themselves a State, and in all justice it should be one now) where live-bird shooting is not tabooed, and they want to hold a big midwinter meet and invite all who wish to céme and par- ticipate. The next annual meet will be held at Oklahoma City, and the boys there promise that there will be nothing lacking of an attrac- tive programme when next they send them out. The weather this week was so bad that the programme was carried through under much difficulty, but the boys kept faith- fully at it, and thus compelled a successful issue of their under- taking, Their programme was deyoted to amateur competition, but trade representatives who attended were shown the utmost courtesy. The sum ci $300 was added to target events, moneys divided Rose system, three and the short and longer races, and birds thrown from magautrap and expert traps, the full Imiit of allowance under Association rules. The wianers of averages were Heer, Ruest, O’Brien, Kirby, C, Dickson and Riehl. The State target championship was won by Reust, of McCloud, for the fourth consecutive time. for in the two 25-target events the second day. Reust also won the live-bird championship, with 23 kills. This programme was spoiled by the lack of birds, the representatives and others who had lost three or more being compelled to drop out in order to allow possible winners to complete their scores: May 7, First Day. four places in It was shot , Total Events 1 ee on 5-6 7 Se OS te Srplke: ROGGE Ms oie ee teehee eee 11 13:15.12°21'18 16.12*15 6 19 153 OWENS) Ljpaetaipiet Ok Coedatclee 12 14 13:13 21 11 14 11 16 12° 2: 160 WeOtebi neice besuee tures sna set 14 15 14 12: 201013 8 14 10 20 150 ARS ye seats bie Th RIN testes 12 18-15 13-28: 12. 9-12 17 1322 161 ERE a ers Stace fate aekepegers 12 13 16 15 22 14 17 12 14 12 20 167 Huston meee h Wictbrets bores eb See 3 13 18 12 24 11 16 11 16 1017 161 dmb asy mtottcs (Cor eee ee tee ren 10 13 17 1424131510 91017 162 - 2 SLL hoy, wy" Le es ds a 2 Wee 444 0 13 13, 2 161 3 10°18 177 : 22 12 12 1 t 158 UES ES UA SS eee SH soon 12 15 17 11 23 12 15 11 17 12 22 167 EADY; eae teter ls sat Sensor enescre 10 d2 ASel4es> Sb 8 Pe ead step Believe Oa sane 11 1213 8181117181013 4 146 rie Pelee. teen. SAR 10 13 1618 19 9 11 17 13 10 16 142 aya snbeeeeeeeens oe oe oer 81115131911 151114 915 141 WAT ras: © oa ees ly ee 12 12121013 1414101612 22 147 AE ans Ae e POe eL ODeeR c ra se SHG 72 AI ee GY. ere ae bi eUIGS en areitete eer hee oi SMUT ALG CF seme dear Ws wots Cian le ols ps ots ee vrei: bh es Sats DGG Sie ake TS Rh AY ATS ae Poirier Se Ae a eae ees ee 121017 13 13 1413 12 201218 164 W H Hail 2110 8 $8 8 816 135 Trash epee a yeks een 317131313 8 8 21 143 VALE LOT aot cote ee es ek Ses aoa H Dixon 20 14 17 13 12 13 15 153 C Dixon 201414 8 16 12 16 153 Downing 916131014 81215 13 Chappel tc tte sre Seats US Td aoe 8 CEB eee ees 13 1119.13 21 12 17 11 14 12 22 165 Feeicbert) coerce rere eect on ae Cat be eG St plete ren LTP Lh is ead Hat PUWEES) bodaeee cet vset ere tee 1 Leas Pa hs eran as ete aw TUE eva} op Meeps vars, © oe See slays a ER as ol at: a aD MACNVELETID 4 Sate sk cla |b tlre nage HEGRE Uofeane Sails Bae ix tn Ban (e eitiiatt sec ressesticoetese ees 10 11 141214 .. 91216 11 20 Blickenget iiss. seksi cwview os TRA, ESE Ta aay BpLhitO x bud ecko acs nen sae pe ted ee eel 18 POE de A pey ess 8 .. 13 11 15 811161210 61012121114 al et era SE Oh Se lag ee ca au mb pea yyy SET Le ts eae a We ell oop eS oe Oe mesages is ALU ata ene ae at cael pi oh 15 12 18 12 21 Se CPAs SU ee lo. iin rier SHE 12 11 12 14 Rie Oe rete catered? PRA et 7 ..18 1419 p20 SAD. AAR soe Rotood Coe a ieee ee eee SEG UR Gol8]s el See AA AAA AL AA AR) Ame ta ES 1 RT] Co) 4 ea AEE POR COL eee ey ry RASA ESE RAED: PAIS ee ol oam eames ene tdnhha ita Reeth Medi gat Une ae Ebest bik May 8, Second Day. Total 8 45 6 7 89 1011 Broke. 13 14 1412 19 28 14 817 158 18 12 15 14 22 24111318 170 ANAS TA AAAT AL 9ele 132 171018 12 2319131514 168 1312 1514141418 2214 817 161 . 121315 11 15 14 21 227121518 170 15 11 14101712 2218121519 165 GD 19 hel 4 a ob ae 96 14 13 19 14 18 13 24 23 14 1417 183 Piety 14 13 18 12 19 10 22 21 12 14 15 172 OA ae oe eae SAA ATR ROE 14 14 19 12 18 15 24 24131418 185 PGE 6 ec alan cteaes seam inie pis 14138 19 15 20 15 21 23131219 184 RG A ee tenes aS oes sa fiom 11 12 19 1418 13 2024121518 176 THC Ode Et eit eel 1412161219 15 2117151219 172 Piney 23 hes asccee tensed 12 11 15 1217 12 2422131418 169 Bi ORC en cum oy tere os 91115131613 2023101418 162 Rhekenger,....0s. shale hte6 10 12 18 10 16 14 22 18138 9 18 160 CPOFROT pee caee ane pace ales 15 15 18 1418 15 2124101518 183 19 1518 18 2525121317 182 1713 16 12 2021151518 170 171118122019 91418 156 18 10 1513 2223101417 166 Sea ees MLL a ade 11 911 618 12 we 4 a ann 6 81018 9 16 23 12 a eV treo bike ay dearer scien 8 9141113111921 715 8 126 TUS VEAL in hse ete erie tee eee Lies erate tae: paises fis Miners wetness es eee ts 11 11 16 15 19 12 22 22141313 168 ANG) Vhs tee ee nn pe Set Jl 12 12 18.1514... .. 14:15:16 bf LP se» mies eee er ee an rs (7 /o bh ee ak ee Jhoretese 2 erence iti ge ISA PT ee eS ee See ees SS eS TS A A Rit ey 512121014 91623121312 1388 THERE) aH Goa eee paket Aye 4 TEL STEN AAS oS oy a SS en ee Smallwood n Puckett Peas ee eRe ie .ct dF oot kt creemeetag eee ote ee SOS Oe NARA R Arte ep aot ieee yee te PA ReYsty ee Roe re Cov ex yee crt trite lek Retiste besieipss on see nAgae GBIE Sci es UE UNE Basaran hehe poh ae aane~ Reis pater eh ore eees trai rne ted y= rm oP hime C Dixon Riciilw. 8. s eanuuie sabe Bors a aendabls re reire coe J Young CO) ee ow RAR Ae nett ee ei LECT Sige, pee Er na iene9 Sees c Fatt a tase iH Prerces sere ea con eye ee ase oleae I eens ERTS telat | eee Ee pear, SON CCR i Herriman Rohrer Bonebrake Bell H Dixon Willams Downey Tee rere CC Ce oe eee ee ee a) ee ee ee ee O'Brien: hia cesses Detenuernevereeeened ¢ e2202220022222222221*22102—21 Vie ee Ue te baie be hele ry rit pike is 2*20*22022w ACIS ee Pek Verte bere etek a Bay aise at ieeraeti eect yrs .212222222222291*221022222—23 ELGG hn Beg eneeece Meee nena PERL Seen Poche: 111111 2211222212222102120—23 Bonebrake .......- Pe Uae wien a vals fen .12220022*2122202222220122—20 Owen =A Roi aoe iaae te ee ee ven » L222202921 2012223111221 20—22 INweal pas dee papactte cot aes peeeteetees ss 0202210211220212022200120—17 Flickenger ...... Ae ore ttat fatids +++ -2122221220210*22*22w Sry ate we co COP. cee Boe bev eaeee ve 420*2220222222022w LECT TITEL y mares ike ie yg rae Lace te ett tenn see s2222220*229220222*0020222—19 BOW setesrsaraperirgnncerese bad bebaates 4 « . .222292292202222022w Sat Ee ee eee ree: aves 0+ 4222220012222222222w Hubbey sb sit Peed pears RL Gn bo Haale 222222222221020120w Jones Si as heb ectrens Gt aren iene Sees 4112**2*012010001* w Brow sq5.¢uingea, ern ahiae TUE Mte Rabe aces 0111211111011200010w KILLMORE. Florists’ Gen Clisb. Av the regular shoot of the Florists’? Gun Club of Philadelphia, at Wissinoming, Pa., May 12, the weather conditions were perfect. A large crowd was present, and many ladies were in attendance. Shooting was over two magautraps run by electric motor, and their work was perfect. In the club shoot at 50 bluerocks, Geo. Anderson was high with, 47. For Eisenlohr prizes, with handicap allowance added, Anderson had a total of 565. For the 75 shots, Fox and Landis were high with 67, Anderson 65, Sheeler 68, Shew 68, Mrs. Park 63, Sanford 68, Sterling 62, 3ucknell 61. After the shoot the annual shad dinner was served at the Dela- ware River club house, adjoining the Florists’ grounds, Over 100 members and friends participated, The day was voted a grand Success. F. E. Butler kindly assisted in many ways in running the shoot. Club shoot, 50 bluerocks: Anderson ...........00. 23 24-47 F E Butler............. 18 18—36 INGRSuinkoaec ad hiee neste ls 21 25—46 C W Haywood......... 13 23—36 NEAT: Aen e sf sleet hsaaine sc 2D. -28—AGS = REO as canes cress aren it Sheeler puscncetecas 443 = 21 23—44 Burton IB scyes thie bcc lara ose aa 22 22—44 WHfarris Battle ope eevee ph i Ce Bch ee PE BeAr SITE idea «ccs ds asthsrhianie 21 22-48 “Campbell ..i..........- 17 18—35 Sanfonth oe desc bi terres 21 20-41 Parsons .........seseees 16 18—34 Sev ou thes CAAA BRAM SA a 5 Bile 202 AML eal tch ogyaveicinahs vivre ately s 15 18—33 OMB GIL s,s ean aehhes 19 21—40 McKaraher ............ 18 1432 MeNMastdr 4 ...¥eeene 19 -20—39° Pleasanton’ ...........5 14 18—32 PROUT 3 e0 fade ea TG AROS A se Srivtten ites tere 18 18—81 Bie KHEIN p Fey tet noes BOS We S0n es OOMTAS: fot ents ged Fete aiele 16 1430 WWESEOLE: chante ene 20 18—38 Havermahl ........,... 13 10—23 JB? Haywodsy. 28 2 1%—88 Luther <.2.1...0ss2s000s 20 w—20 Twenty-five bluerocks; to count for Eisenlohr prizes: Fox 23, Bucknell 22, Sanford 22, Landis 21, Parsons 21, Sterling 21, Shew 20, Sheeler 19, F. Butler 19, McMaster 18, Anderson 18, J. B. Haywood 18, Pleasanton 18, Reed 18, Till 17, Mrs. Park 17, Burton 17, Wescott 16, Harris 15, C. W. Haywood 13, McKaraher 12. Selecting the best two out of the three strings and adding handicap allowance: Anderson 55, G. OQ. Bell 58, Sheeler 52, Park 51, J. B. Haywood 50. ° Wisstnominc, Pa., May 16.—There was a large attendance at the shoot of the Florists’ Gun Club to-day. Landis was high with 92 out of 100; G. O. Bell was second with 90; Sanford was third with 87. Six events were shot, the total number of targets being 100. The scores follow: Events: Le ata eee Targets 15 15 20 15 15 20: “Broke TEV AAR CLS hs m= eoregis wiele oe tecdect SURES wae Cas Tie hs Ae fe 86 MirsiPank- 2s -adesaiseei stare ree 14 8 16 12 14 18 77 ADA re isle ce OA A Aret heey titer cP abe his ale gle sky 79 WVeltnAigier nee sens Santer ote cte ag se eee Se 20 SLOE Ne OT re 79 STAT inegee dpevendas dees era tiaid 4a were gon le satire 10 9 19 9 10 12 69 Ercedthu tae eas esas ee digten Sater etaineiees 13 10 16 10 14 17 80 LEYS als tes 5 See eae SS Sea ee a, 15. Aa AR Asa Ge 90 aril we. ee. Pee naieeeapes 6°83 dT 31 Hapriscitt: tonsp bhuch eh aeiett: onan aast TW Ge 24 Wicca aah Sines en cae ae eee 9 11 16 10 11 14 T1 bears kates Se eM Ses, Samet 9 11 16 8 14 14 72 GREETS Was Re taateracs «tates Sia auacaiglilglatarelatslals 14 11 15 40 LAAT TS. ctchatetpet Ld tans aiptae. wdeatelet, ste 18 12 19 14 14 -20 92 Johnston =" 40 Siiritin mee ree ee easloas eins roe eke Le ines 12 Francotte abe, 38 Coleman 4. AT SiraricrSae.jel--taeseiskick ete ware eee RP 1B Ossining Gun Club. Osstntne, N. Y., May 16—The scores herewith were made at the regular Saturday afternoon shoot of the Ossining Gun Club. We have got the magautrap working fine, and hope to get the final win on the Inter-county cup from the Poughkeepsie boys next Saturday. We cordially invite any shooters who may care to try our grounds preparatory to the State shoot to come here Saturday, the 23d inst., and shoot a few sweeps with us if they are amateurs; and shoot along with us if they happen to be professionals. The addition to the club house is completed, and other work is being ‘yapidly pushed forward. We are expecting a big crowd at the State shoot, and will be prepared for them. The first batch of programmes have been sent out, and we have plenty more for the asking. Come up Saturday and see how you like the grounds. Events: : Gbps ote cl ay oie fe le Targets: 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 Mrs We Ball? mae Rida beasts] ante re che Cy ie SARA Ue Nk Meet oye ape Wiasnburtece: as ancet hs cae ule Ste et Gr sh 3 ye LER ei eS Aeron er teem Se Ae IS 8a Oe on Sos C G Blandfotd:.a¢,00e0- sade dese 9 9 9 8 6 10 9 10 10 DEM STOW asco eseiaeh hie SES Re Se ee ee oe ee ee Ae AIECIEISOTL cus ok pirate: «2 nan lee ee A ee C,.G. B. Remington Gun Club. Irron, N. Y., May 9.—Although to-day was not one of the regu- lar days for a meeting of the Remington Gun Club, there were several members present at their grounds on East Main street for a practice shoot, and they all showed up in good form. E. D. Fulford, the well-known trap shot, was present, and tested a shot- gun which has been just completed for him. The fact that he broke 94 per cent. would show that the gun was very much to his liking. 1 The new rifle range at the club grounds is nearly completed and will be used the first time May 28. Events: 123 45 6 ‘ Events: ee oh gr Ble Targets 101510151015 Targets: 10 15 10 15 10 15 Hepburn ....... 912 914.... Corbin ......... 911 818. Fulford ....... , 10 ee OM Morse) 2.aiaase ode dar, Humphreys .... 812 918 912 Jenne ....... oe yshilia ERIE hae Pederson ..+.-+4 79 8 914 Hubbard ....... Shild’ pehdelies Sees W: H. Gaimsnaw, Sec’y, Manufacture of Firearnis in France, Mr, Hitary S. Brunor. Consul at St. Etienne, writes to the State Department as follows: ‘ The number of sporting guns of divers sizes and models turned out by the impottatit tiatiufactories of St. Etienne is annually iricteasitig, the production for 1902 beitig considered in excess of that of the preceding year. ' Accotdifig to the official figures published recently by the Chamber of Commerce of St. Etienne, the number of gun barrels in an unfinished state presented to the proving house was 103,172 in 1902, of which 1,538 were rejected at the first trial, and 3,101 at the second. The remainder received the proof stamp, showing an increase of 26,210 over the preceding year. The great majority of, the barrels were made of steel, the rest comprising ordinary guns, pistols, revolvers, etc. There were 269 cannon to be used against hailstorms. At no other epoch in the history of the industry of St. Etienne were such favorable results reported. The value of sporting guns has likewise increased; the arms are better finished and command higher prices. On the other hand, the national manufacture of arms is going through a crisis, and many skilled workmen have been given a month’s notice, the Government orders not being sufficient to employ as large a number as formerly, This is the situation not only at St. Etienne, but at Government factories located in other parts of France. These establishments are at the disadvantage of being limited to one single product, viz., military arms, while the manufactories supported by private capital can engage also in making sportsmen’s supplies, such as bicycles, gun tools and novelties, gun cases, trunks and valises, lanterns, cutlery, fishing rods, reels and paraphernalia, swords, games, etc. Thus they are able to divert their energies to meet demands in various branches of the trade, according to changes of fashion or popular whims. In Teference to recent inquiries on this subject, it may be stated that French patterns of sporting guns are not well known in the United States, though we buy enormous quantities from Bel- gium, Foreign-made barrels bear Government proof marks as a guaranty of the safety of the arm, and the dealer, in selling, usu- ally lays stress on this point. A large, new proof house has been recently constructed at St. Etienne, equipped with the best . modern devices for testing the guns made in this vicinity. City Park Gun Club, New Orveans, La., May 13.—The Times-Democrat contained the following account of a shoot, May 13, at which Mr. Carl Von Lengerke, of New York, was present: The mid-week competition for the prize shoot took place yester- day at the Gun Club grounds. A good number of members was in attendance. Among the visitors to the club was Carl Von Lengerke, the New York representative of a powder company. Mr. Yon Lengerke reached the city yesterday morning, and complained of being tired, but was nevertheless high gun of the day, breaking 35 targets out of a possible 40. Of the regular competitors Maurice Kaufman was high gun in Class A, with a score of 32, while Lee headed the list in Class B with 34. Full scores: Class A. Yards. Totals. Yards. 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North Carolina, Ir you want to locate in the State where there are better op- portunities than in any other section of the Union—the State that has superior climate, excellent water, splendid facilities for manu- facturing and fine locations for poultry raising, fruit and vege- table farming—you should go to North Carolina. It is only ten hours’ ride from New York city. The freight advantages are such that the fruit and vegetables gathered in the afternoon reach Washington city early next morning. The fruit and vegetable growers of North Carolina—especially those around Pinebluff— have finer marketing facilities than growers in any other territory jn the South. For information, write J. T. Patrick, Pinebluff, Moore county, N. C.—Adv. About Yor Vacation, Lirrte journeys to lake resorts and mountain homes will be more popular this summer than ever. _Many have already ar- ranged theik simmer tours via the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, and many more are going to do. likewise. Book- lets that will help you to plan your vacation trip have just been published, and will be sent on receipt of postage, as follows: “‘Colorado-California,” six cents. “Tn Lakeland” and ‘‘Summer Homes, “Takes Okoboji and Spirit Lake,” four cents. F. A. Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chicago.—Adv. 37 e Hunter Arms Co., Fulton, N. Y., writes us that “Billy Gack, under dates of May 11 and 12, broke the world’s record for long continued shooting at Crawfordsville, Ind., in a two days’ programme event. He shot 200 birds each day, missing hut one bird each day, or a continuous shoot of 398. ree a | six cents. in ae OREST AND STREAM. A WEEKLY Journa or tHE Rop anp Gun. CopvricuT, 1908 By ForREsT AND STREAM PUBLISHING Co, RES, 4 A YEAR, 10 Crs.a Copy, Six Montus, $2. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 380, 1908. { VOL, LX.—No. 22, No, 846 Broapway, New Yore, IN THE DAYS OF OLD NEW YORK. Tue citizens of New York have just been celebrating the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its establish- ment as a government. Like St. Louis, Chicago, St. Paul, Winnipeg and many another, New York had its origin ina fur-trading post; and the chronicles of its beginning are for the most part records of barter with the Indians for peltries. In the annals of the first years of New York the antiquarian who is something more than a dry-as-dust delver in the musty records of the past may find abundant interest in the chronicles which have come down to us of the wild people, the wild animals and the wild ways of those times. The first traders came here not long after Henry Hudson’s landing; and for many years thereafter the traffic in peltries was the life and substance of the place. Daniel Denton, who was here in 1670, and whose “Brief Description of New York” is one of the rarest and most prized of the early books relating to the city, gives us many quaint descriptions of the settlement, the Indians, and the game as he saw them. “The inhabitants,” he tells us, “consist most of English and Dutch, and haye a considerable ‘Trade with the In- dians for Bevers, Otter, Raccoon skins, with other Furrs; As also for Bear, Deer and Elke skins; and are supplied with Venison and Fowl in the Winter and Fish in Sum- mer by the Indians which they buy at an easie rate.” “The commodities vended from thence is Furs and Skins before-mentioned; As likewise Tobacco made within the Colony, as good as is usually made in Mary-land: Also Horses, Beef, Pork, Oyl, Pease, Wheat, and the like,” The rivers he found “very well furnished with Fish, as Bosse, Sheepsheads, Place, Perch, Trout, Eels, Turtles, and divers others.’ And of the Long Island shore he relates that there was there a store of “Whales and Crampasses,” of which the inhabitants were beginning to make a successful fishing industry. In further descrip- tion of the Long Island country adjacent to New York; he writes: “For wild beasts there is Deer, Bear, Wolves, Foxes, Raccoons, Otters, Musquashes and Skunks. Wild Fowl there is great store of, as Turkies, Heath-Hens, Quailes, Partridges, Pidgeons, Cranes, Geese of several sorts, Brants, Ducks, Widgeon, Teal, and divers others: There is also the red Bird, with divers sorts of singing birds, whose chirping notes salute the ears of Travellers with , an harmonious discord, and in every pond and brook green silken Frogs, who warbling forth their untun’d tune strive to bear a part in this musick.” Which goes to show that Denton had music in his soul and was a very good sportsman in his day. Certainly he had the art of seeing things, of picturing his world in colors so charming that it has attractions for us as we see it with him. Here is one of the enticing bits of his . review of the inducement New York and its surroundings held out for the European: “And how prodigal, If I may so say, hath Nature been to furnish the Countrey with all sorts of wilde Beasts and Fowle, which every one hath an interest in, and may hunt at his pleasure; where besides the pleasure in hunting, he may: furnish his house with excellent fat Venison, Turkeys, Geese, Heath-Hens, Cranes, Swans, Ducks, Pidgeons and the like: and wearied with that, he may go a Fishing, where the Rivers are’ so furnished, that he may supply himself with Fish before he can leave off the recreation.” Of the Indians of New York and Long Island, Denton naively remarks, “it is to be admired [i. e., wondered at] how strangely they have decreast by the Hand of God, since the English first settling of those parts. * * * And it hath been generally observed that where the Eng- lish come to settle, a Divine Hand makes way for them, by removing or ctttine off the Indians either by Wars one with the other, or by some raging mortal Disease.” One less pious and not so ready to see the working of the “Divine Hand” might find as one potent agency of the decrease the thrifty traffic of the traders in drink. Wooley, another New York chronicler of that day, tells us of the Indi wns and their love of liquor: “The Skins of all their Beasts, as Bears, Bevers, Rac- koons, Foxes, Otters, Mutsquashes, Skimks, Deer and Wolves, they bring upon their backs to New York, and other places of trade, which they barter and exchange for Brandy, and other strong Liquors, of which they are.so ‘intemperate lovers that after they have once tasted, they will never forebear, till they are inflamed and inraged * * * as if they were metamorphosed into the nature of those beasts whose skins they barter.” The long story of the Indian and the white man’s drink began very early ‘in this country and the melancholy record is not yet com- pleted. That the New York Indians were no mean hunters, Wooley bears testimony when he writes: “They lived principally by Hunting, Fishing and Fowl- ing. Before the Christians especially the Dutch came amongst them were very dexterous Artists at their Bows, insomuch I have heard it affrm’d that & Boy of seven years old would shoot a Bird flying: and since they have leart’d the use of Guns, they prove better marksmen than others and more dangerous too (as appear’d in the Indian War with New England).” Wooley is the chronicler of early New York who must always be held in grateful memory by sportsmen for his cheerful little story of an adventure with a bear in Mr. Robinson’s orchard, a plot which is supposed to have extended from Cedar street to Maiden Lane, in the finan- cial district where the ground is covered with twenty- story skyscrapers. “T was one with others,” he relates, “that have had very good diversion and sport with them in an Orchard of Mr. John Robinson's of New York; where we follow’d a Bear from Tree to Tree, upon which he could swarm like a Cat; and when he was got to his resting place, perch’d upon a high branch, we dispatc’d a youth after him with a Club to an opposite bough, who knocking his Paws, he comes grumbling down backwards with a thump upon the ground, so we after him again.” Whether he got the bear or whether the game was lost in the wilder- ness which is now City Hall Park, Wooley neglects to tell, MYSTERIES OF THE DEEP SEA. To THE average man or woman there is perhaps noth- ing less known of more mysterious than the sea. We behold it from some little point and follow it with the eye for a short distance till its surface meets the-horizon, but we know nothing of what is on it or beneath it, or where its waters come from or whither they go. Less than a generation ago our knowledge was much less than it is to-day, but even still we are only at the beginning. The subject is one which must continue to fascinate us, and we may now learn much more than is generally known about it by a recent contribution from the pen of Mr. C. H. Townsend, the Director of the New York Aquarium. The most extensive inquiries into the mysteries of the sea have been made by the Governments of the United States and of Great Britain, but others of the European powers and an individual—the Prince of Monaco—have conducted important investigations. The two questions about the sea that most Paniediarely present themselves concern its depths and the life which inhabits those depths. Up to about the year 1872 the work of making soundings was difficult, and those made were untrustworthy, because they were made with hempen rope which did not sink easily and was greatly drifted by currents. In-1872, however, on the British vessel Chal- lenger, Sir William Thompson devised a means of sound- ing by which wire was substituted for rope, and by this means: the erroneous results previously made were cor- rected. The sounding wire sinks rapidly and presents but small surface either for friction or to be affected by currents. With the wire are sent to the bottom several instruments, a thermometer for temperature, a self-closing cylinder to bring up bottom water, and a cylinder to bring up the bottom mud. The weight is usually a 60-pound iron shot, which detaches itself when the bottom is reached. To the reel on the deck of the vessel is attached an indicator, showing the number of fathoms of wire that have run out. When the sounding has been made, the wire is reeled in again by steam. The greatest depth ‘at present known was discovered in the year 1900 by the United States cable survey ship Nero, near the Island of Guam. Here the sounding was 269 fathoms, or nearly 6 miles. had been found north of New Zealand considerably more Previous to that, depths than 5,000 fathoms, and there are many other depths in the Pacific Ocean only slightly less. It is, of course, well understood that the surface of the sea nearly everywhere carries an abundance of small ant- mal and plant life. This life is the cause of the phos- phorescence so often seen in the sea, These minute plants and animals are continually dying and falling to the bottom, and their remains constitute a large part of the mud which forms portions of the bottom of the deep sea. From every body of land there is continually being carried into the sea through the erosive influences of air and water by brooks, rivers, tides. and currents a vast quantity of matter which forms the floor of the sea near to the shore. Much of this suspended matter is carried a long way out from the shore, but deposits formed of this material do not commonly extend into the ocean more than 100 or 200 miles from the shore. These are the ter- rigenous deposits. Beyond this what are called pelagic deposits are made by the sea instead of by the land, and consisting largely of the remains of the minute plants and animals just referred to, and known as diatoms, radio- larians and globigerinee. Beyond these so-called oozes, in ‘the still deeper portions of the ocean, are the red clay deposits which are practically destitute of life or of the remains of life. These deposits lie so deep that the shells of surface organisms which fall toward the bottom are dissolved by the water before they reach it. Most of the knowledge which we have of the life of the deep sea comes from dredging by vessels especially fitted up for this purpose, and of such vessels none has done more than the United States Fish Commission Steamship Albatross, which is no doubt the best equipped deep sea dredger in existence to-day. From this vessel have been made a vast number of soundings and dredgings, some of them from a depth of over 4,000 fathoms, which have added enormously to our knowledge of the life of the deep sea. The operation of dredging may take but two or three hours for moderate depths, or, as in the case of the deepest dredge haul—that from 4,173 fathoms—ten hours was required to take in the line. Besides the dredge, there is used the tangle, of loosened strands of rope, which is . dragged over the bottom and frequently brings up great numbers of invertebrates. The Prince of Monaca has de- vised a deep sea fish trap in which fishes have been taken two miles below the surface and gill nets set far below the surface have also captured fish, and promise to yield good results. In the great depths of the sea it is always cold, the temperature being near to the freezing point. It is also known that at great depths the pressure of water is some- thing tremendous, and that the deep sea animals can only exist there because their tissues are so permeated by fluids that the pressure is balanced, while if brought to the surface, and the pressure which keeps them firm is withdrawn, they almost fall to pieces. Practically no light is found at a depth mrenen than 200 fathoms, yet many of the animals are brilliant in color, red, yellows, purples and greens predominating. There is an entire absence of blue. Although sunlight is absent at these great depths, many of the animals— both fishes and invertebrates—are phosphorescent and produce their own light. Some of the deep sea animals are wholly blind, and those which have eyes very likely see by the light of the phosphorescence which is being emitted by themselves and so, many others of the creatures that ~ are found in these depths. | Dr. A. P. Knight, Professor of Animal Biology in Queen’s College, Kingston, Ont., has conducted a series of dynamite explosions in water to determine the effect upon fish. The results show, for one thing, that such explo- sions are more destructive in deep water than in shallow water, where the pressure resulting from the explosion is not sufficiently great to rupture the swim bladder. The most significant fact brought out was that when dynamite cartridges are used for fishing, in addition to the fish which come to the surface and float and are taken, a mutch larger number may be merely stunned and escape, or be killed outright and sink to the bottom. Among those which come to the surface are so many immature that not one-third of the number killed is marketable. Dynamiting is one of the most wasteful of all the modes. of fishing, 422 FOREST AND STREAM. [May 30, 1903, Che Sportsman Tourist. ——— Climbing a Burning Mountain. (The interesting facts and experiences recorded under the above caption were taken from the letters and Consular reports of the late Major Albert Woodcock, and were indicted by him in the month of May, 1886, at the United States Consulate, Catania, Italy.) Sicity is one of the insular possessions of Italy. Catania, a beautiful city of 105,000 inhabitants, is a thriving seaport town of the island. It is situated at the foot of Mt. 42tna on the seashore. It has several very fine streets. One is named “Via Lincoln,” for our loved and lamented President. These streets are paved with laya, and are as smooth as a parlor floor. The houses are built of lava. The walls are veneered with white limestone or marble. The lava of the past cen- turies is like granite, and is susceptible of a fine polish. Catania has over 100 churches and some 80 old con- vents. It is a quaint old town. It was founded 729 years before Christ. The old town is buried in Java. The present city rests upon it. The old Greek theater has been partially excavated, also the amphitheater. The latter was capable of seating 2,500 people. The city has a beautiful park called Villa Bellini. It is a lovely gem. In it flourish tropical plants and trees and the choicest of flowers bloom there the entire year. The climate is admirable. The summers are no hot- ter than those of Illinois. The heat, however, is long and continued, without rain, and the sun is intensely glaring. Such continuous heat, with but little mois- ture in the air, is debilitating. Most of the Sicilians take an afternoon sleep of two or three hours. The winters are very mild, frost is seldom known, “the beautiful snow” never visits us, but we can always see it glimmering in the sunlight upon Mt. 42tna. The Catanese never have fires in winter. I find an occa- sional fire necessary for comfort. During the past centuries Catania has several times been shaken to the ground by earthquakes. It has been scalded and scarred by lava streams. In fact, as stated above, the old town is buried in lava. Mt. tna is the prominent feature of the landscape. It rises grad- ually from the sea, piercing the sky with its cone to a height of over two miles. i On the 17th of this month we had an earthquake shock. Ztna commenced to growl and roar in the distance like some infuriated monster. Occasionally sharp peals, as of distant thunder or the discharge of artillery, were heard, great, black clouds of smoke from the main crater were seen shooting upward thousands of feet in the heavens, soon great volumes of flame burst forth from the side of the volcano at the alti- tude of a mile, half-way up the mountain, and the ex- cited cry of “An eruption! An eruption!! An erup- tion!!!” arose from all parts of the city, and a shower of fine cinders came sifting down upon us, making it unpleasant to walk in the streets. At 5 P. M. of the following day, a party of five, in two cabs, left Catania to visit the scene of the erup- tion. The party consisted of two Italians, two Eng- lishmen and an American. One of the Englishmen was Charley Worthington, a gentleman of fine education and heart-culture. The eruption is distant from Catania about 18 miles. Our way wound upward through groves of orange, lemon and olive. The bright green foliage of the orange and lemon interspersed with the sober gray of the olive and fig makes the sides of /&tna very beautiful to the height of 700 or 800 feet. Myriads of flowers of every hue were by the wayside. The sweet breath of these, mingled with the perfume of the pearly blossoms of the orange, filled the air with their fragrance. The scene about us was one of enchantment, but higher up in the distance was one of terrific grandeur. There a huge column of black smoke from the main crater, and the fierce column from the burning one, united thousands of feet up in the heavens, formed a perfect arch of wonderful sym- metry that darkened and glowed alternately. The apex of the arch floated away in a great river of billows to- ward the setting sun. The sun looked wan and Jurid *midst the sulphurous smoke as it descended behind the mountains. There was not a cloud in the heavens save those from the burning mountain, which were be- ing driven westward by the wind. The full moon rose clear and bright above the Calabrian range, silvering its peaks. Far beyond us the’grand old Mediterranean Sea stretched away to the horizon in perfect tran- quillity. Its beautiful bosom wimpered and shimmered with the silver glitter of the moon. Our ride up the mountain was a most delightful experience. We left our cabs at Nicolosi, and hired mules and guides. It was still 8 miles further up to the erup- tion. Mounting the mules, we began to climb in earnest. When within 3 miles of the scene our mules could advance no farther. We then continued our climb on foot to within a mile of the eruption, where we halted for a rest and lunch. The scene before us was terrific. We ate our bread, cheese, and meat, well- seasoned with scoria, a heavy shower of which was raining down upon us from the volcano. After a rest of thirty minutes the order was to advance. Our guides, the two Italians and one other, refused to obey, declaring it was dangerous. Worthington and the American moved forward alone. A mountain, called Mont Grasso, loomed up in front, and a short distance south of the conflagration. To reach this we had to pass over the old Java bed of 1766. There was not a vestige of a path. We had a wild scramble over lava rocks that were like sea-tossed billows suddenly trans- formed to stone. They were rugged, sharp, contorted and twisted into every conceivable shape. Great seams and fissures yawned in every direction. To fall into one of these would be death. We moved slowly and cautiously till we reached the valley between the moun- tain and the fiery monster. In threading this valley we were nearly blinded by the smoke, and almost suffo- -cated by the sulphurous gases. When we reached the extreme end of Mont Grasso (the nearest point to the eruption) we climbed up its precipitous side about 100 feet and seated ourselves. Before us (no obstacle intervening) was one of the grandest exhibitions nature ever produced; tongue can- not tell it, or pen describe it. There were three monster cones side by side. Each was spouting flame thousands of feet into the heavens. Every few moments there seemed to be great internal throes of nature, when with a report as of a hundred cannon, there would be whirled into the sky, in gyrations, floods of liquid lava and red glistening lava rocks. These would fall again into the craters or just outside of their rims. Clustered about were other smaller craters, all shooting upward livid flames, or spouting red-hot lava jets, some of them resembling fiery fountains, and there seemed fo be a rivalry among them as to which could spout the highest. The incessant roar was deafening. It re- minded me of the battle of Chickamauga with its con- tinuous discharge of cannon and thousands of rifles. From the craters a riyer of lava came rushing down, bearing upon its surface great, black, unmelted boul- ders. It poured over a precipice in fiery sheets, form- ing a wonderful cascade. It then branched off into three different streams that wound along like monster fiery serpents. A little above the fall there seemed to be beneath the red hot river’s bed some gigantic power imprisoned and struggling to be released. I told my companion it must be old Vulcan who, the classics allege, lives and works in A®tna, forging thun- derbolts for Jupiter. It would puff, puff, puff like a mammoth high-pressure steam engine, and then, all of a sudden, with a burst of thunder, would hurl the river bed with its superincumbent lava gyrating into the heavens. A seething, boiling whirlpool would instant- ly set in, which,. in a few seconds, would again be flooded by the advancing tide. Again the puffing would be resumed, and in a few minutes there would be a repetition of the terrific scene. The heat was scorch- ing. A strong breeze blew from the east, driving away the sulphurous vapors, else we could not have kept our position for a moment. While gazing with awe and bated breath at the won- derful scene, the ground suddenly opened within a stone’s throw of us, and up shot a large number of great, redhot blocks that glowed with white heat. They fell back in the same spot, the ground closing over them. Many long flickering, beautiful tongues of orange, red, blue and green flame shot upward from the place. Soon again there was a sharp detonation of thunder, and from the same spot, higher up, still went another great shower of glowing blocks, of which some fragments fell uncomfortably near us. You ought to have seen an Englishman and an American climb! We went up that steep mountainside with the agility of squirrels, and throwing ourselves down upon the nar- row crest of the mountain, continued to gaze and wonder. The mountain upon which we were shook and trembled beneath us, as if it had an ague fit. We had experienced the quaking when seated near its base, but on the crest the sickening motion was in- tensified and it seemed to rock to and fro. At first we felt like clinging to the rocks lest we might be shaken off, but a sailor gets used to a storm, and a - soldier to battle, so we, after awhile, got used to the oscillating trembling motion. When scoriz. rattled down upon us like hail, we had all we could do to protect our hands and faces. That mountain to-day (May 30) cannot be ascended. It is surrounded by lava, and at times has been covered with fire. The spot that so suddenly opened up its battery and fright- ened us from our perch, afterward became a burning crater. We dared not descend where we climbed up. an hour or two spent upon the crest watching this most majestic exhibition of nature, we threaded our way on the mountain top to its south end, the most distant from the eruption, and there descended. Then came the slow, tedious struggle over the old lava bed. When we had recrossed it Mr. Worthington’s hands were worn through and bleeding, and the writer’s light buck- skin gloves were torn to shreds. When we reached the place where we had left the mules we found that guides, companions aud mules had left us, and we crawled back to Nicolosi on foot. Entering our cab we noted that the sun was gilding with golden light the eastern mountain tops, and that the sea was blush- ing a beautiful rose color beneath his ardent glances, but we were too tired and sleepy to return his glorious smile. We fell asleep in our cab, and were awakened at the door of the Consulate, in Catania, at the hour of A. M. e Our streets are black with cinders. The ashes have fallen upon southern Italy. An English captain com- plained to me that his beautiful ship was begrimed and blackened by the storm of scoria while yet far dis- tant upon the sea. The three great craters described have since consolidated into one. The latest news is that Nicolosi is a doomed city, that a fiery stream of lava 500 feet wide and 45 feet thick is slowly advanc- ing upon it. Bprello and Bellpasso are threatened. Every movable thing has been taken from Nicolosi. The water of the cisterns has been pumped out to pre- vent explosions that would be caused by the hot lava sealing them up and converting the water into steam. The gates of that city are closed, and it is surrounded by a cordon of soldiers to prevent anyone from enter- ing. A bulletin this moment received announces that the eruption within the last 24 hours has greatly de- creased; that the lava flood is within 1,000 feet of the town, but it is hoped that the town may yet escape. Burning lava, when exposed to the air cools and thickens and moves slowly, but irresistibly. The fresh warm lava continues to pour along on top of the cooler strata. This forms great ridges and spreads over much space, and when at a distance from the erupting crater makes slow progress. The ridge is constantly cracking, and throwing off on either side great masses of burning matter, Vineyards are being destroyed, trees are burning, atid everything is laid waste that the fell destroyer reaches. It will take centuries to deface the track of the fiery demon, and render the ground again arable, should there not be another visi- tation of Aftna’s wrath. ALBERT Woopcock, (Edited by his son, Dr, A. J. Woodeock.) RIVRRSIDE Farm, Byron, JH, ‘the children to Sunday school. After - A Visit to Pitcairn’s Island. - In Three Parts—Part ‘Three. As we went on our way to see the village, whenever we would pass a house, one of the women or girls would run out and drag me in to see where they lived. They had a lot of questions to ask about men who had left here, some of them years ago, and seemed to be surprised that I did not know them; they had gone to the United States; it was useless to explain that both the absent Pitcairn Islanders and I might be in the United States and still be 3,000 miles apart; they have no idea at all of distances or the extent of any coun- try. Ia about an hour we had got up to the chapel again and found the governor there ringing his bell to call He called us in and said, “Mr. Robinson tells me that you could teach my boys about everything that is taught in your schools at home. Now teach them to-day. It will give me a rest; I generally teach them.’ Then giving Robin- son, who was here, too, the girls to teach, he turned his hour glass and left us. i I had abont twenty-five boys, of all ages, from 6 to 18, but the youngest of them could read quite well. Their lesson was the third chanter of St. Matthew. about John the Baptist in the Wilderness. They had about six Testaments among them; a boy would read a verse, and then pass his book to the next boy. They told me that John the Baptist was the patron saint of about half of them here; about every second boy was named John. I told them that they could have him, but I claimed the other John, the evangelist, as mine. I was not a Baptist myself. Then turning over to St. John’s Gospel, I told them about him, how he was Christ’s youngest disciple, and that he had lived to be nearly one hundred years old. Then we turned to his book of Revelations, and I told them how he came to write them. i They wanted to know about my country, the people in it and the animals we had. In telling them about the animals I had to keep in mind the fact that these boys had never seen an animal larger than a goat. One of them had seen the picture of an elephant, and asked about him. I told them where the elephants came from, what they used them for there, and what we used them for. Another boy had read about the buffalo. I told them about him and how we shot them and how the Indians shot them with bows and arrows. Then I told them who the Indians were. They wanted to know what a horse was like. What he ate and if he would bite them. At the end of an hour the old governor came in, turning his hour glass again, put me and the boys over on the side the girls were on. Then going out he rang his bell, and every one on the island came in, all taking seats on our side of the chapel. The governor going to his reading desk, announced: “I expect the captain and his crew here this afternoon. When they come let every man and boy stand up; the women and girls need not rise.’ Then he began to read out a hymn; but in a moment stopped and held up his hand, and we all got on our feet. I looked over my shoulder and saw that the captain had brought three of his mates, all the white crew and all but an anchor watch of the natives. He had just landed the crew and marched them up here. The stew- ard and several others who were Catholics, had come of their own accord; he had not compelled them to come. The governor seated the crew, then led the captain up to his reading desk, and then took his seat along with us. The captain gave out the hymn, “Come, let us join our friends above,” and these natives sang it about as well as a congregation on shore would do, though few of them had hymn books. Then the captain read the lesson, a chapter out of the Bible, and then made an address. After church, Mr. Robinson, who had been ashore all day, took the crew on board, while the cap- tain and his mates remained ashore. Early next morning the small boats began to come off, bringing fresh meat and vegetables, and they kept on bringing them until the captain told them to stop. They wanted no money; they had no use for it at that time; but the captain gave the men and large boys shirts and cloths out of the “slop chest”; the value of these would be charged to the company as pay for fresh meat. The women did not fare as well. A whale ship does not carry any dry goods, but I got them a few later on. The first boat to come off was the governor's, and he had John for a passenger. I took the boy down to breakfast with me. The first thing that caught his eye was “the big lot of white bread that we had,” this mess of ours was called the second cabin mess; we al- ways had fresh biscuit. 1 offered it to John, but he wanted the hard bread. “Let him have it,’ said the steward. -““When he has eaten it as Jong as we have he won’t want it quite so bad.” : After breakfast, taking John with me, I went below to help to get the stores we meant to give them. We gave them a part of nearly everything we had—flour, sugar, coffee and vinegar—were what they wanted the worst. I showed John all over the ship. A little dumpy engine that stood forward to work the windlass and capstan claimed the most of his attention; he wanted to see it go, but we had no steam up. I took him everywhere except to the captain’s cabin, that, J told him, I would find an excuse to get into some time during the day. I left the cook’s galley until the last, IT wanted to see what the boy would do when he first saw a negro. The cook was a full negro, weighed about 300 pounds, and was nearly as broad as he was long. We called him Baltimore; his name was Collins. He was very good-natured, and when not busy cooking or telling his Kanaka help how to cook (they did the most of it), he would be either singing hymns or playing the banjo. That banjo was kept going from morning to night; when he did not have it I did. Baltimore was sharpening a.knife on a steel and sing- ing “On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand” at the top ef who>- , . May 30, 1903] _———— his voice just as we came in. John gave him one look, then with a yell fell out of the door backward. “Well, what is the matter with you? Have you never seen a nigger before?” Baltimore asked. “No, he has not,’ I explained. “Well, what are you going to do with this boy, take him to the white man’s country, too?” Baltimore asked. “Yes, | am, if you'll feed him for me.” “Oh, Vl feed him. Do you like pie, Johnnie?” John did not know. “Yes, he likes it; if he don’t I do; get it out.” He brought out a pie he had made for the cabin and cut each of us a piece. John took a bite and found that he liked it. I had a small magazine on board that contained 25 Sharps rifles and as many Colts pistols, with plenty of ammunition for both. The captain had giyen me charge of it early in the voyage. I went to it to show John a gun, for he never had seen one. The first thing that took John’s eye in the cabin was the library. He got hold of the big Webster dictionary, but could make nothing out of it. Then I showed him the baro- meter and explained how it could tell us when a storm was coming, and the chronometer, telling him that it fave us the time in England. Next I unrolled the chart and pointed out his island. He wanted New ‘Zealand and Norfolk Island, I found them for him. ‘Then I had to explain the sextant. The captain got out ibis telescope for him, and then gave us a shotgun to lean. We took it on deck, and I had John fire it off. By this time dinner was ready. The captain had a custom of dropping down on some mess nearly every (lay to see if there were any complaints. There never ‘was one; the ship had the name of being one of the ‘best fed in the trade, but this custom of his may have been one.reason why we did not have anything to isomplain of; the steward never knew just when or where the old man would turn up to ask questions. He came past our mess to-day and asked me “What ire you going to do with this boy?” : “I had meant to take him home with us, sir, if you will allow me to do it.” “Well, I don’t know that I have any objection to you taking him, but don’t take him without seeing the gov- ernor about it first.” After dinner I got a pistol, my pockets full of am- munition and a barrel stave for a target, and taking a native boat, John and I went ashore, and after he had got all the boys in the village together we went out a mile from town and proceeded to hold target practice. I had given the men smoking tobacco to- day, and the boys had most of them got hold of some by this time; some were smoking, the rest were trying to the moment we had got clear of the village. I put.a boy on picket to let us know when the goy- ernor was coming, then after I had fired a few shots I let each boy shoot. After a while the picket gave the alarm; the governor was in sight. I had the boys get their cigarettes out of sight and lighted one myself to account for any smell of tobacco. When he found that none of us had been shot he was greatly pleased; he told me, as he left us, that he had no use for fire- arms. After the target practice we explored the whole isl- and, It is only about five miles across either way, and about twenty miles square; a ‘mere speck on the ocean, so small that many of our maps do not show it at all; but as near as I can remember now my chart gave the latitude as 22 degrees 30 minutes south and 120 de- grees west longitude. There are no springs on the island: They have to depend for water on a small pond in the middle called Brown’s waterhole. This is fed by rains, and as it does not rain here at times for a year, they are often rather short of water. No ship will ever take any unless it should be out of water alto- gether. Their largest animal now is the goat. They did have a few beef cattle years ago; but a number of years before I visited them the islanders had all left here, going to Norfolk Island, and after a time finding that ii they remained there all were likely to die, they returned here, to find that meanwhile these cows had overrun the whole island; they had to kill them off, not haying room for them, but were sorry afterward that they had not kept some. But there is no room for the cattle; in fact, there was hardly room for them- selves now, and the governor wanted to send a colony to New Zealand. They raise everything that will grow in that climate, and it is growing twelve months in the year; winter is unknown; they only have a rainy season instead. They always have plenty to eat and some to give to any ship that calls. As small as this island is, it has been found more than once by shipwrecked men, who have been kept until they found a chance to leave; one or more never left, but remained here until they died. I can think of worse places than this for a man who had no family at home to remain in, Only that it was at that time cut off from the rest of the world, except when a whaler called, I should have stayed there myself; they tried hard to keep me. The next day John came aboard dressed in his new clothes. His mother had made trousers, shirt and jacket, but had put no pockets in them. Marblehead, the ship’s tailor, put pockets in the jacket and anchors on the collar; then went to work and made the boy a sailor suit of white cloth, with gilt buttons on the jacket. John got inside of this suit as soon as it was finished. After dinner I got out all my needles and scissors and all the steward had left of his private venture. We were going home now, so he let me have at cost the things he had carried to trade among the islands— muslins, calico, silk, thread, ribbons and woolen cloth. Making these up in two bundles I gave one of them to John’s mother, and asked her to give the other to Amelia Young; but she said Amelia would think far more of them if I gave them to her. John’s father consented to my taking the boy home with me. “I give him to you; take care of him,” he said. “T will take the same care of him that I would of my own brother,” I told him, “and see that he gets FOREST AND STREAM. back here if he wants to come. I did not intend to ship again, but I can if I want to, and may now; if I don’t our steward will bring him back for me; I started out here this time with $200 in gold, and have most of it yet and have all my pay coming to me when we get back, and while I have money he has it. I meant to go back to our army when I got home; I was in it a good many years, and if John wants to go along [I can have him taken as a trumpeter.. I expect I will haye a row with the governor before I get John, though.” “You go at father real rough,” John’s mother ad- vised; “that is the only way to get along with him. Hie will be disappointed, too; he told me he was going to keep you here and marry you to Amelia Young.” “Oh, he is counting his chickens before they are hatched; if he is not careful I may take her with me along with John.” I went up to the school to give Amelia her present and bid her good-by. “You are not going,’ she said; “the governor is go- ing to keep you; he told me so; he wants you to teach these boys; I can take the girls.” “He can’t get me. The captain would not let me stay or I might stop here. I may come again, though, and stay here.” “Well, I wish you would, we want you.” Next I went to the governor and found him in a > ‘peck of trouble; I had given the boys about three dozen jackknives, and he said that in a week they would have everything on the island that could be be cut, cut down; they were at it from morning to night; he saw nothing but a boy and a knife everywhere he went. “Well, let them cut, that is what those knives were made for. I called to tell you that I am going to take John home with me.” “The captain promised that he would not take any of my boys or men with him.” “He is fot taking him, I am.” “Well, you won't; he can’t go.” “Can't he? I say he can and will. Now you don’t want the boy to spend his life on this island, do you?” “I have spent my. life on it, and my father spent his on it, too,” “Yes, I know he did; and had your father belonged to any other country but England, he would not have been let spend his life here; he, most likely, would have finished his life from a ship’s yardarm.” “Have you a family at home?” “No, I was never married.” “Then stop here; I will get you a wife and when I die you will be governor.” “Who will you get me?” “Any of these young women here; any ohe you may want.” “How would Amelia Young do?” “Yes, I can get you her. Do you want her?” “She may not want me.” “Oh, that will be all right. you. her.” “No, sir; I could not stay, even if I wanted to, and I don’t; the captain would not let me. By the way, governor, since you won't let me have John, have you any objection to my taking Amelia Young with me?” “No, you can take her, I’ll let you have her, but I can’t give you a boy.” We came out now and I said, “Well, it is no use, Johnnie, he won’t let me have you.” “T am going, anyhow,” John told me. That evening at dark John’s father, who had been on board taking supper with us, was going ashore, and asked John if he were coming. “No,” he replied, “I am going to stay here after this.” The next aiternoon I told John’s father what the governor had said, and added, “But if the captain don’t stop me I am going to take him anyhow; so if he turns up missing you will know where he has gone to,” Next morning after breakfast we got ready to leave; I took John forward to see me start the donkey en- gine and our anchors come in; and we began to move off. Going into the engine room my partner asked, “Have you seen the governor?” “Not to-day; I am not looking for him just now.” “Then he is looking for you; he was here a moment ago.” | “Why, is he on board?” “Yes; he goes out to sea a few miles with every ship that calls here.” The governor came down and said, “I am atfter John, I want to go ashore now.” I can tell her to take Anything I want here is done. I'll get you “All right, go ashore, but you don’t get John. I have him now and mean to keep him.” “T can’t let you have him. I would hate to have to complain to the captain about you, but yon can’t take him. Had you asked for any other boy I have, you might have got him. You have been kind to us and I would not refuse you, but I won’t give you John.” The governor went on deck and we followed him; the captain was standing forward of the foremast. I thought to send John to him; but as soon as-the boy saw him he took off his cap, and walking up to him asked, “Can't I go home with you, please, sir?” “No, Johnnie, the governor won’t let me have you, I guess,” “Now you can go home with me, can’t you?” the governor asked, grabbing him by the arm. “Just stop that right now, sir,” the captain told him. “You must not abuse that boy for wanting to go with us; I won’t have that.” “No, certainly I won't abuse him; he is my favorite grandson, or I should have let your young man have him.” The ship was rounded to, and the governor’s canoe was brought alongside; he and John got into it, and the governor bidding us good-by, paddled off, while we swung around and started again. I had turned to go below, when one of the white crew says, “Look, sir, your boy is going to swim back to us.” John stood up in the canoe, he had thrown his cap off and was now pulling off his jacket, while the governor, who had stopped paddling, was dragging at him. They were likely to upset. The old captain made one of the 4,23 quickest moves I had ever seen him make. Going with about one jump to our nearest boat, he called out, “Stand by, here, this boat’s crew.’ The Kanaka crew took their places in the boat; it took us only about a minute to get a boat in when we were in a hurry, and we were in one now. I jumped in and sent one of the crew out again. If we picked them up I would get the mate to bring the boy back. But they did not upset. In a minute the governor got John’to take his seat again; then waving his hand to us started off. So again we turned our nose to sea, and in an hour the little island was far astern. For nearly ten weeks after leaving the island we saw no whales. I was in hopes that the old man would try some other part of the globe next; I wanted to go to the coast of Japan, for I was in no hurry to get home, and would as soon stay out for the next two years; the life suited me, it might not have suited me, though, if I had been with some captains. At last we got two rather small ones, and three days after this ran into a school of about a dozen of them. This was Captain Williams’ luck; we could find whales when no one else could. There were at least a dozen in sight from the “crow’s-nest,” and slowing down, our boats were called away. I was supposed not to have anything to do with these boats, and on some ships I would not be allowed one of them when it was after a whale; but early last spring, as soon as we had got on the whaling grounds and before we had seen a whale, I had got permission to go in Mate Robinson’s boat, and the first time our boats were called away after the lookout had given his cry of, “There she blows;.Oh blows!” I took my place in the boat as bow oar. I chose the bow so as to be able to see the crew and not make any mistakes. I had nothing to learn from them about rowing, I had been rowing a boat ever since I was ten years old, whenever I could find water enough to float one. But these whale boats were new to me, and then in the bow I could see the harpoon thrown and the lance used. We were lucky this day, and got one of the largest whales that had ever been taken in the South Pacific; the crew said he had been taken because a Jandsman had been in the boat; however, we got him, and ever after this, when the boats were sent away, if I was not on duty I took my place as bow oar for Rob- inson. But I was not satisfied yet, I wanted to go and kill a whale myself, but never expected to get a chance to do it; very few captains would give me a boat, even if all his mates were crippled, and our mates never had had anything wrong with them until now. Just before we left Pitcairn’s Island our fifth mate, Mr. Watson, was taken down with what we thought was the typhoid fever, and he still had it. When the boats had been sent away a few days ago he had not gone. I was in the engine room then and did not go, but I had been doing'a good deal of thinking since. I wanted his boat next time. So to-day, when the boats were called and he came on deck to take him, the captain said, “I am not going to send your boat to- day, Mr. Watson; you are not fit to go.” ~ I was standing beside Mr. Robinson and said, “I haye a notion to ask for the boat, sir.” “Go and ask for it” he told me; “you will get it.” Walking up to the captain, I said, “Will you please let me have Mr. Watson’s boat to-day, sir? I think I can get you one of those whales;-I should like to try.” “Yes, go ahead and try; you may not get one, you probably won’t, but you can try, I like to see a man try, and try and bring that boat back again whether you get a whale or not.” Running forward to the boat I called out, “Stand by here, No. 5.” The boat-steerer ran and took his place, and the Kanaka crew came forward, but stood looking at me. “Get aboard, men; be in a hurry about it.’ And tak- ing my place at the stern, I told the men, who stood at the falls, to lower away, and we were dropped into the water. Before I had left the deck I saw a large whale that was nearly astern of us and at least three miles away; he could only be seen when he rose on the swell. I steered for him, but when I had got to within less than a mile of him he began to move off, but left very slowly; he had not seen nor heard us Wen Il looked down at my crew; they were pulling on those oars for all they were worth, and the sweat was rolling down their naked breasts. “Men,” I told them, “I want that whale to-day. Get him for me.” “Oh, we get him, sir,” my stroke declared. “We fol- low him all day, if you say so.” After a while thé whale stopped again, and we be- gan to close up on him very fast. I kept my eye on the boat-steerer, he would nod to me when we were in close enough; we dare not speak nor make a noise, or the whale would be off again. , Soon the steersman gave me his signal to stop row- ing; I raised my left hand, and the oars came up to- gether while the boat moyed still further forward, then stopped, and the steersman, drawing his arm back, sent the iron home. As soon as I saw it strike, I threw myself down and called out, “Stern all!” and my crew sent the boat astern in a hurry. The whale lay for a moment after he had got the iron, then throwing him- seli half out of the water went down, but did not go far; he only took half of one line with him. These lines are 1,800 feet long, and I had seen a whale take nearly two of them out before he stopped. When he came up againg and began to blow, I saw that we had hurt him bad; the foul air and water he was expelling was tinged with blood. Now he started towing us, and headed right for the ship; that was where I wanted him to go; we were all of four miles away from it now. He only ran a mile, then stopped. must be something wrong with him; tow us five or six miles before now. “No, he is all right,” the boatsteerer declared; “he is lazy, that is all. He counts you a whale, anyhow, This is the best day’s work you have ever done, sir; this won't be the last time you will command this boat if you sail with the old man again.” Now we closed in on him again, and the boat-steerer I thought there I had seen them 424 FOREST AND- STREAM. a [May 30, 1003. put another iron into him, then the whale sounded again, but did not stay down long, and when he came up this time he started towing us in a circle, but soon tired and stopped again. Now he was ready to be lanced. The mate generally does the lancing, but this boat-steerer always did the lancing for Watson in this boat. mistake my boat would be smashed, and I and my crew lost; there was no boat near to pick us up. I could order Woodruff back here and do the lancing myself, but was afraid I would make a mess of it. “Do you think I can lance him?” I asked. “Why, yes; if you want to, you can. You it done often enough.” “Yes, and I want to do it; I want to have it to say that I killed my whale. I will never get another chance like this.” He took my steering oar, and going forward I picked up the lance. When about two lengths from the whale I nodded and the oars came up, but the momentum of the boat carried it up close to the whale. Bracing myself now I drove the lance in, then pulling it out, drove it in again, then jerking it out I called, “Stern all!’ and the boat was sent astern in a hurry. But we need not have been in one, the whale did’ very little thrashing around, and in ten minutes rolled belly up dead. Next I got a line on him to tow him, then looked to see where the ship was. It was coming to me at full speed, the lookout having reported me fast some time ago, and the ship had been kept close in to me since. I had my whale lashed alongside, mine being the first to be brought in, then had my boat hoisted in and stepped on deck. I felt a foot taller than I had when I had left the deck two hours before, The second largest whale we had taken on the voyage was lashed alongside there, and it was mine. The old captain was marching backward and forward across the deck near the wheel. Going up I saluted and said, “I have to report, sir, that I have brought that boat back and a whale also.” “Yes, sir, I see you did, and you brought me a good one, too; you have done well, sir.” The other boats came in during the next hour, bring- ing in two small ones between them; they had to tow theirs in, while we lay here hove to, but these three -filled us up, and we were ready to go home now. We were nearly out of coal, having only a few tons left, and were not using the steam except when it was absolutely necessary. ‘The nearest coal would be in the Straits of Magellan, and it would be a good deal out of our way to go for it, but we were ahead of time anyhow, so the old man concluded to go there when off Cockburn, Channel, the entrance to the straits, we got up steam again. It is dangerous for a ship as large as ours to go in here under sail, though most steamers use the straits instead of doubling Cape Horn, and a ship under sail has been known to pass through them; our old New Bedford whalers sometimes did 1b. There is probably only one meaner spot on the globe than in here in these straits, and that one is just below them, off the Horn. There is a penal colony here belonging to Chili, most of the prisoners seemed to be here for having been engaged in some revolution at home, from what 1 could learn about them. They seemed to be, most of them, quite intelligent, and they did not appear to be guarded very closely. They cannot get away, for if they left by land and were not frozen to death, the In- dians would kill them. I tried to see some of the Patagonians, but did not succeed in meeting any of them; they are perfect sav- ages, and the men average six feet in height. This place is called by the English Port Famine. When we were ready to leave I had my cabin and engine room searched in real earnest, and not in the crew’s imagina- tion. The Chilian officer of the guard, a young fellow hardly more than a boy, did the searching, but it was convicts he was looking for, not boys. I took him all over the ship to show it to him after the officers had convinced him that we had no convicts, and did not want any, and it was from him that I got most of my information about this country. He spoke very fair English, and finding that I had been a soldier he questioned me about our army, and told me about his; then going ashore he and I visited the prison, and I took dinner with him in his quarters. Just after we had got clear of the straits our lookout reported a sail. As she was several miles to the windward, we would not have paid any attention to her, but the lookout said that she seemed to be in distress, so we stood down to her. She proved to be an English merchant ship, and had her ensign set at half-mast, union down. Our captain asked what was wrong, and they said that they had no water; could we spare them some? “Ves, all you want. Send your boat.” While the boat was coming I went down and got a bucket of fresh water and brought it up. When their boat came alongside I saw that it was in charge of a boy of 18, the ship's second mate; he was the captain’s son, he told me; his boat’s crew were all, except one, young Irishmen, the one being a Dane. I passed the water down to the mate, but before taking any of it himself he passed a cup of it to each one in his crew. He said they had been on short allowance of water for a week, and had used the last this morning. They had been 168 days out from London and had been 14 days off Cape Horn trying to double it. On my remarking that he was the youngest mate I had ever seen, he told me that he had been born at sea and had always followed it, and could now sail his ship anywhere on the globe. We gave them eight casks of water, all they would take; and Captain Williams sent one of our boats, with me in charge of it, to help get the water to them. I was a mate for a short time to-day myself again, that was for getting him that whale. Had I stayed with this captain I no doubt would have been a sure-enough mate in time. After we had got the water on board the captain asked me down to his cabin and set out the wine and cigars, while the young mate poured a drink and cigar to each of my boat’s crew. Captain Williams had told me to offer the captain anything he might need in the way of supplies, but he said they had plenty have seen 1 wanted -to lance that whale, but if I made a - now to last them to Valparaiso; they meant to call in there; the ship was bound for San Francisco. When we were leaving them the young mate walked ait to his colors, that had been set right-side up now, and be- gan to dip them; I took ours and dipped them in re- turn. We called in again at Crusoe’s Island, then ran across to Valparaiso, and while we lay here, I had a chance to repay Woodruff, the boat-steerer, for getting me that whale, and did it in a rather funny way, too. He had gone ashore, got drunk and fallen into the hands of the police, and I being ashore, concluded to get him released, for if the captain had to do it Woodruff would hear about it afterward. Going to the calaboose I found an old judge, who, while he could speak English, could not read it, as I soon discovered. I had on a suit of clothes made of officers’ cloth and a cap on which Marblehead had worked in yellow silk letters an inch high “Engineer”; the judge took me to be a mate. I let him keep on thinking so, and asked for my man. Yes, I could have him; and giving an order in Spanish to two officers, they each took a rifle, which was carried there then instead of a club, and going back to the cells brought Woodruff out between them. was afraid that he might still be drunk and give us away, but he took in the situation as soon as he saw a ca stood in front of mé holding his cap in his jand. “Well, Woodruff, what is wrong here. as usual, are your” Yes, sir, he had been drunk, but he hoped I would overlook it this time; it would not occur again, sir. “Not for fourteen days, it won’t. I have overlooked it in your case too often. It don’t do you any good. Could you come ashore if you tried and not get drunk?” yo Yes, sir, he thought so. “Well, I don’t. You are a disgrace tu your ship and the flag you sail under; get aboard the ship now and see how fast you can do it; I'll have a pair of irons there ready for you; it will be fourteen days this time.” “He knock two of my men here down, and tell me he can whip all the men I got,” the old judge told Drunk again e. He could have done it and so could any of us if the police did not use their guns, but I @# mot say this to the judge. vide “Qh, he is not half as dangerous as he looks to be; I can handle him. How much will his fate be?” Rane peso, one dollar, if*you aretzotns to punish im. gs eit “T am going to do it, then, and he %nows it.” And handing the judge his dollar we left, druff taking care to keep far enough belind me i. carry out the idea of my still being a mate, From Valparaiso we ran up to Callao, Peru, and here I took a saddle horse and rode ont .5 Lima to see the cathedral, said to be the finest one in South America; Lima is only a few miles from Callao, its seaport; a street car line runs out to it now. Next we ran across to Honolulu and left our native crew there, then steamed to San Francisco, and the white crew were paid off and discharged; very few had more than a few dollars coming to them, having drawn their wages close up at the different ports we called at. Most whaling crews are paid by what is called a “lay.” They get their share of the price of what oil is taken, but this ship belonged to a stock company, who paid regular wages and took the oil themselves. It would have been better for most of these men had they been compelled to wait for their pay until now; as it was, the most of them would have to hunt a ship right away or let a shipping boss hunt it for them, then let him skin them. I had not drawn a cent of pay, I had not needed it; IT had taken money with me and brought part of it back, and now had all my wages due me, except what I owed for clothes. The captain counted out $485, then $25 more, saying, “These are for that whale you got me. I told the agent about it, and the company pays you this.” The whale would be worth at least a thousand dollars to them, but I had never expected a cent for it. The captain was anxious to have me ship again, but I told him I would go back to the army now, that I had only gone this time to see the islands. The captain told me that he meant to send a good organ to Pitcairn’s Island, and that one of the com- pany’s ships that would sail now in a few days had orders to call there and leave it. I saw a way now to get my stuff to them, and went to work right off to find what I wanted to send. I hunted through nearly all the book stores in the city for a copy of the “Mutiny of the Bounty’; most of them had never heard of it. At last I found a man in a second-hand book store who knew it, but he told me it had been out of print for forty years or more. I got a fine copy of “Robinson Crusoe,” a school geography and large atlas, a chart of the flags of all nations in colors, a history of the United States, a copy of Dana’s “Two Years Before the Mast,’ Greenwood’s “Reuben David- ger,” “The Cruise of the Beagle,” Cooper's novel, “The Crater,” “Cast Up by the Sea,’ “Gulliver's Travels,” about two dozen boys’ magazines, a lot of pictures, more white paper, crayons and pencils, enough hooks and lines to’ last these boys a lifetime, more knives, drawing books, water colors and brushes, and a large bundle of dry. goods for the women. When I had this stuff all collected my room at the hotel looked like a variety store. I had so much of it that I was afraid the ship would not carry it for me, so I went to see the captain. We had met this ship among the islands last summer; she was lying at anchor there with a broken shaft and her engineers could not mend it; they were two more such “engineers” as we were, only more so; the captain called them blacksmiths. I and my partner went to work on his shaft and mended it after a plan of mine; it held for him until he got home, he told me. “Vou can send a ton if you want to,” he assured me; “and can come and deliver it yourself. I am keeping a berth in my engine room open for you. Captain Williams has told me about you. You got him a whale, I am told.” “Yes, sir, I was lucky enough to get him one.” “Yes, he told me all about it; he gives you a good character, and a good one [rom him means something with us. He said you were one of the few landsmen he had ever carried that would make a sailor. He said he never had to follow you with a club to keep you from getting drunk; he had never seen the sign of whisky about you.” 4 “No, sir; I took care that he did not. I knew that to get along with him I would have to cut the whisky out, and I cut it out.” “Now come with me this voyage and IJl have you qualified for a mate when we get home and make you one, that is what you want, is it not?’ “No, sir, I don’t intend to follow the sea any longer.” “Well, Williams said he thought you wanted a mate's berth, and he told me that I had carried worse mates than the one you would make right now.” “T am much obliged to him, | am sure, but I don’t want to go again; if I did it would be with him.” “You are different then from some men I have met, you could not pay them enough to get them to sail with him the second time.’ “Yes, sir, there are sttch men, but the most of them are men that neither you nor Captain Williams would want the first time if you knew them; they have to be put in irons too often; I never had the least trouble with Willams.” - [ _ I boxed up my stuff and put a letter in ing the old governor to give the box to John just as it was; that there were no shotguns in it. I directed it to the Governor, Adams Town, Pitcairn’s Island, Then I took a train to St. Louis to go to the cavalry again. the box, tell- | I did not hear from the island for the next ten ~ years; but in 1884, just ten years after I had left the island, I found myself in San Francisco again. I had come down from Arizona with a lot of military pris- oners, who were going to Alcatras Island, in the har- bor, a military prison; and after I had got rid of them I took in the town again, and did not omit the docks, either. I found a schooner that had just come from the island, and asked for the governor and Johnnie. The captain told me that the governor was still liy- ing, but he could not place John. “He may be the young man who acts as the governor's aid,” he said. “He has a grandson about 25 years old, who seems to be running things there just to suit himself. When I was there anything I wanted I had to apply to him for before I got it, and he is as sharp as a steel trap, too; he may be your young friend.” Yes, he was Johnnie, there could be no doubt about that; and so he had never gone a-whaling. Since writing this the news has reached us of a hurri- cane and tidal wave that swept the Society Islands in January of 1903, destroying half of the people on them. There were none of those Society Islands that I saw, and I was ashore on several of them, but were at least 20 feet above high tide. If a wave high enough to wash people out of cocoanut trees a hundred feet high passed over those islands it must have blotted out Pitcairn’s Island. CaBiA BLANCO. Glatuyal History. a er Bird Nesting. Tue average man (if he thinks of the subject at all, which is doubtful) imagines, I suppose, that every tree or thicket at this season of the year is full of birds’ nests and that he has only to poke his nose in to find them. Let him try it. nest, except by mere accident. But he must not think the worse of his eyesight on — this account. The fact is, a bird’s nest generally is about as hard to find as the proverbial needle in the bundle of hay. (1 speak, of course, of the nests of the — Passerines or smaller variety of birds.) However naturalists may differ on the question of protective coloring in plumage, there can be no differ- ence between them, I fancy, as to protective coloring or assimilation in nest building. The closeness with — which a bird can make its nest harmonize with its sur- roundings is little less than marvelous. . | When I was a boy my fondness for bird-nesting amounted to a passion almost, and many is the holiday (and, I fear, day stolen from school) I passed in wan- dering through the woods, or by hedgerows, with eye keenly on the alert. I remember that nothing used to surprise me more than that I should find so few © nests. Often I would feel convinced that I must have passed some, and would retrace my steps to examine certain spots—dense, leafy thickets, or close, grassy hedges—where it seemed to me birds couldn’t help building, but usually in vain. ‘‘Where do they build, anyway?’ I would exclaim, not without resentment, deeming, with boyish logic, that the birds had no right to conceal their nests. with nature’s scheme of protective coloring and assimilation. I do not doubt that I often failed to see nests that were directly under my eye. call that I seldom found a nest except through some indiscretion on the part of the owner. t I will bet him a new hat that — he may go poking around all day through Central or Prospect Park without being able to find a single — I was unacquainted then — Indeed, I re- Now, if this is true of the trained eye of a-boy, how much more true must it be of the eye of an adult, which either never had any cunning or has lost it! a This was brought home to me forcibly during a re- cent stroll through Prospect Park. On the shore of the lake is a thick, scrubby tree of the thorn family, in which during the winter I had observed the remains of a nest, probably a bluebird’s. During my recent stroll I passed this same tree, which was covered with green leaves and blossoms (present- ing a very different appearance from what it had in the cold, bleak days of January), and it occurred to me that possibly the bluebird had returned and built in it. So I went up to it, and getting directly under th branches, made a careful examination, but no new nes’ pana! : = : nat asa tira Site May 30, 1003.] could I discover, nor yet the ~,mains of the old one, which, no doubt, had been scattered to the winds long before the winter was past. I was about to turn away, but unconsciously, as [ may say, reverting to a habit of youth, stood a moment to shake the tree, when 1 heard a flutter of wings. Looking in the direction of this I saw, to my great astonishment, a bluebird arise from ifs nest, which now, to me, was perfectly plain or discernible. Why I had not seen it before I could not understand. It reminded me of those puzzle pictures in which a face or something quite distinct in. its outline is lost in a harmonious setting. I had not proceeded far on my walk when I observed a robin perched on the limb of an aged, weather- beaten fir tree, with something in its bill. I drew back to observe her (for it was a female), saying to myself that her nest would be in a leafy elm close by, but there’s where I made the mistake. A minute or two after I had drawn back where I could not be seen by Mistress.Robin, she made a little race along the limb of the seraggy pine and popped into her nest in the fork. There it was, matching the rusty gray bark to perfection. Somehow these experiences aroused in me a little of my old-time passion, and the evening be- ing inyiting, I continued my walk down the peninsula —a part of the park which extends east from the water tower, and is, perhaps, more unfrequented than any other part. Certainly it is admirably adapted for nest- building, being thickly covered with trees and thickets. Here, then, I set about seriously to see whether I had lost all my old skill. But, will it be believed?—after an_hour’s patient hunt—peeping here, peering there, glancing everywhere—I was obliged to confess myself absolutely beaten: not a single nest had I found! Once again I asked myself the question: “Where do the birds build?” It was somewhat humiliating, but I had to admit that they build just in such places as I had been searching. And there was no doubt at all that I had overlooked many. Truly the motto of the birds in nest-building seems to be, Ars est celare artem. Which: may be freely translated thus: The greatest cart is to conceal art. e Such birds as build large nests which cannot be con- ealed, build them well out of reach. A notable ex- «ception to this class of nest-builders’is the osprey, ;commonly called the fish-hawk. Though its nest can ibe seen a mile away, there is no attempt made at plac- jing it high, at least systematically so. But woe be- ctide the yenturous youth who conceives the idea of in- sspecting the inside of it, whether from mere curiosity voc with felonious intent. I was recently down in .soythern New Jersey, where fish-hawks are quite num- yerous, and J had brought to my notice the case of a -youth such as I have referred to. 1 went to see him “and foynd him in bed, if you please, with his chubby ‘head swathed in bandages. At first he seemed disin- clined te talk, but after I had bestowed a few bad ‘names on fish-hawks and told him a few of my own yearly adventures, I won his sympathy and he opened «up and gave me a graphic account of his experience. I shall make no attempt to reproduce his words, not lbeing skilled in the southern Jersey dialect. Suffice it ito say that ignoting the popular disapproval of any molestation or disturbance of the fish-hawk (which is almost as sacred as the buzzard) and ignoring, like- wise, the warnings of his elders as to the bird’s de- fensive powers, the boy determined to make an in- spection of a nest which had excited his curiosity from childhood, a great big basket of a thing on the top of a blasted pine in the middle of a field. After reconnoitering, therefore, for a while, he found out when the owners were usually absent, and selecting his time (the hour after dawn—I pause a moment to picture him, in my imagination, as he emerges from the silent little frame cottage, stained and worn with half a century of rain and wind and sun. He gazes intently in the direc- tion of the well-known tree, and then across the sandy pine- lands, which the sun is just beginning to illumine. The _pines are black against the horizon, while shadows linger , here and there, but afar there is a glimpse of blue-gray ocean with a fringe of white breakers on the shore, and :1o! as the boy gazes he sees the hawks winging their flight _.thther. His heart gives a great throb and then) he made '.adlash for the tree and was up it in a jiffy. But wheu yhe reached the nest he found to his disgust that not only ,could fhe not peep in, but he couldn’t even reach his hand _over the side. A squeaking of young birds inside only whetted jhis curiosity, so he promptly proceeded to demolish ithe nest, or pull it apart as best he could. This proved jo easy job, and in his eagerness to get a glimpse of tthe fledglings, he lost his prudence (if, indeed, he had any) and outstayed his time. He was busily engaged in tearing out sticks when he heard a rush of wings and then a series of angry cries, and then, as he ex- pressed it in his maive fashion, “I kinder thought a cyclone struck me!’ Fortunately, he had presence of mind to cover his eyes with his left hand, while with his right he tried to defend himself. But what is a boy’s bare hand against the beak and talons of an infuriated fish-hawk? Needless to say, in a little while he fell to the ground exhausted and bleeding. His cries, aS well as those of the hawk, attracted the at- tention of a plowman, who was driving his team afield in the peaceful early morning. Seizing a breech- ing strap as the nearest thing at hand, he rushed to the rescue, By this time the other hawk had returned, -and both birds valiantly attacked the plowman, but “he beat them off sufficiently to enable him to raise the -prostrate boy and bear him to safety. After he had ibeen revived (for he was insensible when found) he \was taken home and put to bed, with lacerated head and hands and a fractured leg in addition. When my hero had reached this point in his narra- tive he asked for a glass of water, and his kind old mother, who sat by, got up to fetch it. Taking advan- tage of her absence he pulled me down toward him and © whispered: “Don’t tell the old lady, but I'll get even with them pesky hawks yet!” He spoke with the grit of a true-born Yankee. However, I told him that “getting even,’ especially with birds, was all a mistake, “Besides,” I added, “the hawks may get even with you But I could see that - fingers. FOREST AND STREAM. he was not impressed. Alas, when did the words of Wisdom or experience impress youth? Ih connection with the above story, a fact which J have observed, occurs to me. It is this: If you dis- turb a bird while it is building, or even after it has laid its eggs, it will not show much concern and may » eyen appear indifferent, flying off to a distance or quite away; but let you disturb it after the young haye made their appearance and then behold the demonstration of frenzied anxiety and fear you have occasioned, Perhaps the greatest demonstration of this kind I ever Se was occasioned not by a boy or a man, but by an owl. I was walking in the woods and heard a commotion among the leaves a short distance away—the loud tchick—tchicking of robins, and the louder twit-twitinge of wood thrushes, with a shrill under chorus of lesser bird notes. Approaching the spot I descried Min- etva’s bird perched on the limb of a tree. True to its character of wisdom, it appeared to be quite undis- turbed at the outcries: of the feathered mob about it. At sight of me, however, it took wing and softly dis- appeared in the dim aisles of the woods, with the mob howling at its heels, so to speak. It is certain that the small bey does not enjoy much popularity among the birds, but his unpopularity is as nothing compared to that of the owl. And the birds have reason, as the French say. For, as a despoiler, the boy is always more or less stupid and blundering, while he is often merciful, but the owl is at once subtle, unerring and pitiless. Save the helpless tribe of songsters*from Minerva’s pet. a: Francis Moonan. Our Batrachians and Reptiles —Ill. HAvine, in our Jast chapter, disposed of the tailed batrachians inhabiting the United States, we are now ready to turn to the tailless forms. These are well known to everyone, for frogs and toads are found everywhere except in the very driest and the very coldest regions. Some 800 species have been collected and named, and: of these between fifty and sixty occur within our limits. They are all inoffensive animals and of the greatest value to. the agriculturist, for they feed almost exclusively upon insects and are efficient aids in removing thousands of these f. When caught they have the rather disagree- able ’ defending themselves by discharging their urine, aia . iS a common notion that this fluid is a pro- ducer of watis on the hands of those who are touched by it. Rey "experiments by the author and others have demonstra¢d that this is a mistake, and, like many other popular ideas must be relegated to the realm of super- stition. By zoolggists the tailless batrachians are divided first into tye groups, according to the character of their breast bones, and these two groups are further si bdivided by the characters furnished by the teeth and Howeyer, as a discussion which would involve the dissection of numerous specimens would be out of 428 or rubbing its stomach to make its dinner lie well. It spends the winter season buried in the mud or in some hole, but it emerges early in the spring and the loud, trilling love song of the male is one of the surest signs of the approach of warm weather. It very quickly seeks the water, where 4 mate is found. The eggs are deposited, not im a mass, as are those of the frogs, but im long strings consisting of a double line of eggs inclosed in a lube of gelatinous matter. Two such strings contained 8,840 and 2,200 eggs respectively. Vhe tadpoles are nearly black and hatch very early. ‘The metamorphosis occurs near the middle of July, the young toads at that time being about half an inch long. From the wart-like excrescence of the toad there ex- udes a thick whitish fluid which is very acrid and serves to protect the animal against its enemies. It is said that this secretion will make a dog’s mouth sore and will even cause inflammation of the human skin, but the writer, who has handled hundreds of the animals, has never ob- served the latter to be true. The skin of the toad is shed from time to time, and many observers state that this skin is at once rolled up and swallowed by its former weater. Numerous stories have appeared from time to time describing the finding of toads sealed up in solid rock or buried in some hollow tree, where they must have remained torpid for an indefinite period. There is every ‘reason to doubt these tales, for experiment has shown that when deprived of food and air the animal. very quickly dies. Dr. J, A. Allen, however, has described the finding of some toads at the bottom of an old well, where they had probably remained for ten or fifteen years at least. They were lorpid, but being taken out they soon recovered and hopped away. Very much like the toad in appearance, but differing from it in having teeth in the upper jaw, and the pupil vertical instead of horizontal, are several species which may be called burrowing toads or frogs. The distribution of these is very poorly known, as they apparently spend most of their existence underground, coming to the sur- face only at long intervals to lay their eggs. They are also strictly nocturnal, and next to nothing is known of their habits. ‘The single species of this curious group which occurs in the eastern United States is known as the spade-foot frog, Scaphiopus holbrooki, Both names refer to the peculiar flattened spur with which the extremities are armed, and which is used by the animal in digging its tunnels. It is most interesting because cf its ability to utter loud eries, which are, according to several observers, second in volume only to a steam whis- tle, Dr, E, D, Cope, who has written more extensively than any other author on American batrachians and rep- tiles, in speaking of this species, says: “Though so wide- ly distributed, it is seldom seen. After rains in spring and summer its cries may be heard at night, proceeding always, so far as my experience goes, from temporary pools. I have observed it twice in Pennsylvania, twice in New Jersey, and once in Massachusetts on the main land opposite Martha’s Vineyard. Specimens from the latter locality, which I kept in a vivarium, buried themselves in OOD’. A, Fig, 1—Outline drawing of the Northern Frog—Rana septentrionalts. place here, we may conveniently divide our American species into the three following groups: I. Toads, no teeth on the upper jaw. Il. Frogs, upper jaw with teeth, fingers not enlarged at the tips. III. Tree frogs, upper jaw with teeth, fingers and toes nore or less enlarged at the tip to form a sticky adhesive isc. Of the first group we possess several species, but the common toad or wart-toad Bufo lentiginosus, being best known, will be described. It is an abundant animal in the whole of eastern North America, and extends its range toward the south and west as far as Montana, Arizona, and Mexico. It is quite variable in coloration; its back is usually grayish or olive-brown with irregular patches of dark brown, but specimens have been collected which were almost a uniform black or uniform brick red. Beneath the color is nearly the same as above, but of a much lighter tint. In size it may attain a length of body and head of five inches, but is usually smaller. The females are larger than the males. The habits of the toad are mostly nocturnal, although it is not uncommon to see one hopping about in the daytime. Usually, however, it hides away in some hole or obscure corner and comes forth at evening to seek its food. This consists almost wholly of insects, and such great quantities are deyoured that intelligent gardeners and farmers seek to induce the little animal to take up its residence on their grounds. One full grown toad was once seen to eat at one time twenty-three squash bugs, and a little later ninety-four caterpillars. The prey was taken by suddenly extending the tongue from the mouth and then as suddenly drawing it back with the insect adhering to it. In its efforts to swallow some unusually large morsel or keep down some obstreperous worm, the toad performs some curious acts which seem ludicrously intelligent; such as pushing a bite down its throat with its hands or some convenient stone, the earth by day, but isstied at nightfall and indus- triously explored their surroundings. ‘Their burrows were concealed by the loose earth, which fell into and filled them, but below this the bony top of the head could always be found. Frequently one eye projected from the caébris, presenting with its brassy colored iris a most singular appearance. On being irritated with a hard ob- ject they utter a clattering note entirely unlike that of the breeding season,” . Of the true frogs we have about a dozen species, but this number is apparently greater from the fact that several species are extremely variable and present a num- ber of varietal or sub-specific forms in different parts of the country which they inhabit. The best known frog in the United States is the leopard frog, Rana pipiens. Its range extends from Maine to Oregon, New Mexico, and Florida, a larger territory, perhaps, than is covered by any other batrachian. In most localities it is plentiful, and it is often used as food. In color and form it is quite variable, but as yet no satisfactory explanation of the variations has been put forward. In general the color above is ashy, olive, or bright green; below, uniform white or yellowish. On the back and sides are numerous rounded or oyal brown spots of small or medium size, usually bordered with yellowish. The spots on the back are larger than those on the sides and are often arranged i two or three irregular rows. The dorso-lateral folds, ridges of skin lying one on each side of the back, are con- spicuous in this species and are usually of a lighter color than the neighboring skin. he upper surfaces of the limbs are more or less barred and spotted. A full grown specimen may measure four inches from tip of nose to end of body, or have a total length of about eight inches. The habits of the leopard frog are quite as interesting as those of the toad. Its favorite home is the margin of some quiet pond or stream where the grass runs down to the 426 water’s edge. Here it can lie, concealed by its perfect pro- tective coloration, until some unwary’ insect comes close enough to be seized and eaten. Here, too, it is itself com- paratively safe from its arch enemies the snakes, and can escape from the small boy by jumping headlong into the ever ready water. When it dives it usually goes straight to the bottom, where by kicking about vigorously it can so roil up the mud as to hide it very effectually. Some- times, however, if there is vegetation in the pond, it will simply dart in among the leaves and stalks of the water plants and come to the surface some distance away and slyly watch proceedings from behind some fallen leaf or twig. Occasionally it tires of the monotonous sedentary life and travels away to considerable distances from the water, hopping about in the cool damp grass. When win- ter comes it retires to some quiet pool and in company with others of its kind buries itself in the mud to remain dormant until the advent of spring. It is,. however, not a good judge of time, and is liable to break the sleep at any warm day, come to the surface and croak away, only to be forced once more to retreat to the mud. Its song is quite variable and difficult to describe. Prof. Cope says that its voice may he imitated hy the syllables chock, chock, chock; but at times it sounds like derisive laughter, and again a sort of low querulous tone. It is on hand again with spring, and at once proceeds to hunt up a mate. Eges are laid very early, in favorable years even as soon as the middle of March, They are laid in great masses consisting of the small eggs inclosed in a large quantity of jelly. The tadpoles escape in about forty-five days and are dark brown and about five-sixteenths of an inch long. They grow rapidly and in August or Septem- ber undergo their metamorphosis. ‘he young frogs are about an inch long and seem to spend most of their time in the grass near the pond which they have left, but they scatter out, and such as suryive find their winter quarters wherever they may happen to be when -cold weather sets in. The largest of all our frogs is the bullireg, Rana cates- biana, a species which is distributed over a_ territory xlmost as extensive as the one just described. It may be distinguished at once by its large size and by the fact that there are no dorso-lateral folds. The color may be pale yellow, green, brownish or even deep brown above, be- tieath it is white or yellowish. Usually the back is more Fig. 2—The Tree Toad. or less blotched with brown: and sometimes the lower sur- feces are similarly marked. In length it may reach eighteen inches from the tip of the nose to the end of the outstretched legs. The bullfrog is notoriously an inhab- itant of the brooks, rivers, and lakes, being seldom found in small bodies of water. It probably never strays far from its home in search of food. Its note, which is well known to all who have approached its haunts, is a loud, hoarse bass. “bi’wum” repeated several times and under favorable conditions can be heard at a distance of several miles. It is said that if the bullfrog is teased or whipped it will cry like a child. The food of this creature is of an extremely varied character, and on glancing at the list of things which it is recorded to have eaten one is in- clined to think that it will swallow any living thing which can pass down its throat. In times of hunger it will even eat a weaker individual of its own kind. A grass-snake three feet long was found in the stomach of a large bull- frog by Dr. Jos. Jones, of Georgia. The tadpoles of this frog attain a large size and require two years for their full development. The bullfrog is a common article of commerce in all the larger markets of this country, and so great a delicacy has it become that most serious inroads have been made on its numbers. The great demand has led to numerous efforts to start “frog farms,” but, so far as the author is aware, they have not been crowned with any startling degree of success. The difficulty seems to lie in the fact that living food cannot be supplied in sufficient quantity to satisfy the frogs’ voracious appetite. We now come to the group of tree frogs, almost all of which are species of small size, adapted by their peculiar toes for a life on the stems or leaves of plants. Many of the tree frogs, however, spend the greater portion of their time hopping about among the dead leaves in the woods, and some are seldom, if ever, found anywhere except among the pebbles along the margins of some pond or stream. A common example, illustrative of the latter kind, is the cricket frog, Acris gryllus, which is abundant everywhere in the East about fresh water. It is one of our smallest frogs and may be known by its small size, warty skin, and the peculiar triangular dusky spot between the eyes. Often there is considerable green in a border to the tri- angular patch just mentioned and in a stripe down the back. The sides, behind the fore legs, have a dusky stripe and another of the same kind from the eye to the shoul- der. The color, however, is variable, and in the same in- dividual may change rapidly, The abdomen is always white. It is a cheerful little creature and even on the hottest days of sumimer may be heard executing its rat- tling song. It appears very early in the spring and lays its eggs at once. The tadpoles transform in August or September and shortly-after this they go into winter quarters, STREAM. FOREST AND F at S13! As an example of a tree frog which spends igey of its time in trees, our account would be incomplete without mention of the chameleon tree frog, Hyla versicolor, whose note is so well known as announcing an approach- ing rain. It is an animal which is far more often heard than seen, but if one will take the trouble to follow up the cry the songster can usually be found sticking on some branch or leaf or fence rail. It has the ability to change its color so as to resemble its surrotindings, and cne must look closely to find it. Usually the color is a light gray with dark mottlings, but the gray may give way to green of varying shades. ‘The species may be recognized, however, by the clear yellow color which covers the groin and the thighs, as well as by its large size for a tree toad, and the short, squat, toad-like form. It spends the winter in the ground or in hollow trees, never, so far as is known, going into the mud, as do the true frogs, It emerges early in April or May, and at once begins its loud love song. The eggs are deposited singly or in small clusters attached to grasses growing in the water near the shore.. They have very little gelatinous matter about them. The tadpoles emerge in two or three days, and by the end of July complete their metamor- phosis and climb at once into the neighboring trees and bushes. Their food is almost exclusively of insects. The tree frog is to some extend nocturnal in its habits, a fact which probably accounts for its evident enjoyment of the twilight hours and the few minutes of darkness which precede a storm. At such times, all through the summer, it gives its loud, clear, trilling note which tells us that although unseen these pretty woodland singers are always about us. W. P. Hay. Seaboard Air Line.—IX. Report to May 15, 1903, from Bay Ridge, which is in Greater New York, on the Eastern Shore of New York Bay. THERE is a corner in the edge of a certain piece of woodland, where the rubbish of years, in the shape of broken branches, decaying stumps, and a general ac- cumulation of riff-raff has been cast, till, with the lapse of time it has formed a goodly mass—jungle, in a small way, one might call it. Saplings, and various wood- land growths, thrust their way through this dead ram- age resting upon the damp mould that nourishes their life, to the freedom of the pure unfiltered air and sun- shine. Briers and vines weave here and there, binding with curious interlacings the whole mass so securely that none but the most persevering investigation is ever likely to penetrate the secrets its holds. In this sheltered nook the spring starts very early. The first balmy airs from the southland that wander there, are more than likely to be welcomed by the rustle of the tender green drapery in which our little jungle has already clothed itself. Every trailing vine gives greeting from its quiver- ing tips; and the plumes of the saplings are bowing right and left with graceful movement. It is a choice retreat, largely patronized by the “elite” wood-folk. Indeed, so crowded does it often become with the arrival of transient feathered guests in spring and autumn that I have mentally dubbed it “The Migrants’ Club,” One is sure to find interesting material there at all times, and especially when the migration is passing. A few days since a yellow-breasted chat was perched in one of its cool corridors. I could not see him, so well had he screened himself from view, but his voice seemed so full of complaint that I paused to listen. “Tt is: all very well,” he said, “this talk about soft green foliage waving about. . Sentimental stuff; I tell you it’s too dry! too dry! too few bugs and beetles, very few worms, and all of ’em dried up, Its too dry! too dry! I’ll move on.” And he did, that very night. This has been the plaint of practically all our transients who used the “Air Line” this spring. They have not utilized their stop-over tickets to any extent. We have had no rush, but rather a steady increase of travel from the first week in April, till its culmination during the first week in May, since which time it has gradually diminished. The “redstart contingent” was very noticeable in point of numbers, as also were the “black-throated blue’ warblers. Last spring the chewink, rose-breasted grosbeak and the vireos secured special mention in my report. This year, with the two exceptions above noted, the review was much as usual. It is certainly interesting and curious to note the varying numbers of certain migrants from year to year, and I have never been able to satisfy myself in regard thereto. It was a stirring sight in the afternoon of March 23, when a gang of nearly 200 fine Canadas passed us on their way north. The bay was shrouded with low- lying fog, that covered the craft at anchor from their trucks down, so that one could locate them only by their topmasts. Overhead, where the geese swung along under the blue sky, all was clear, and their wild clangor rang musically over the fog-bank below. Travel is practically over for this season. The first broods of robin:and starling are already foraging on their own account, so I think we shall “close our books” and join our little residents in a prayer for rain, to refresh the dry earth and relieve the parched throats that show their discomfort by the widely opened beaks that we see on the lawn and in the trees, where our birds move restlessly in their discom- fort. Witmor TowNsEnp. The Eagle’s Prey. WHiILk returning from meeting last Sabbath, and while driving through the pine forest between the village of Meyers Falls and our home, with my wife and two of our children in the hack, a large eagle crossed the road about a hundred yards in front of the team, flying some twenty feet above the ground, and bearing in its talons a porcupine. We were greatly astonished, and I want to ask the veaders of Forrest AND STREAM if any one else has ever seen this strange animal in the talons of an eagle? Ortn BELKNAP. - Rivers and their tributaries. [May go, i063. Game Baq and Gun. — Proprietors of shooting resorts will find it profitable to advertise them in Forgst AnD STREAM, The Land of the Wihoopers: Omatia, Neb., May 20.—The question whether tl Crow, Lone Tree and other small streams of the regio roundabout Cheyenne, Wyoming, are tributary to tl North or the South Platte River, and which was re- ferred to me for solution by a number of sportsme out that way, is answered, so far as the angler’s inte1- est goes, anyway, in the following letter from the At- torney-General of Wyoming: CuivenNE, Wyo., May 13—I am in receipt of your favor of April 29, requesting my opinion as to whether or not the South Platte Riyer is tributary to the North Platte, I presume that this question is suggested by virtue of the provisions of Chapter 22 of the Session Laws of Wyoming ‘of 1908, which provides a special open season for fishing from the Big Horn and North Platte This law would apply only to the Platte River or Big Horn River in Wyoming, and would not extend beyond the boundaries of Wyonting. As the South Platte River does not touch Wyoming, the question as to whether or not it is a tributary of the North Platte would have no bearing on the interpretation of this statute, Very respectfully, J. A. Van Orsper, Att’y-General. tributaries of the North The reason for desiring this matter established is that the Wyoming laws prohibit fishing in all streams of the State before June 1, with the exception oi the tributaries. of the Big Horn and North Platte rivers. While duck shooting this spring out in the Cherry County sandhills, we saw a flock of eleven whooping cranes, and the sight awakened the most pleasant mem- ories of my early days in Nebraska, back in 1886-7-8-9, when this now almost extinct bird flourished plentifully here. It was on Sunday, March 29, when we saw these birds, while Gerard and I were on our way from the ranch to Pelican Lake? and our attention was first called to them by the trumpet call of the leader when they were igh up in the air. The expectation of see- ing a whooping crane being, remote; indeed, I re- marked to the kid that they were swan, whose hoarse, but sonorous and musical “hoo-roeo-000-000-00!” is much like that of this big white, crimson-crested crane, but as they wound down and settled on a sandy point of ‘the island,” and that far-reaching clarion call again came quavering over the barrens, their identity flashed through my mind at once. Lolling down in the warm sand Gerard and I watcned them for fully an hour. It was a fine opportunity to study the great bird, though at a long distance, and) ¢ improved it fully; in fact, until they finally rose Ween a chorus of hoarse cries and circled up into the upper sunlight and then off and out of sight over the distant Red Deer Lake. For the benefit of our modern hunters, whose chances for becoming familiar with this grandest of all the game birds that ever chose Nebraska’s lonely wilds for a feed and resting place, lies in the pages of history, I will say that the sandhill crane, with all his beauty and wariness, alongside the whooper, is an inconspicuous fowl. Larger than the biggest of the sandhills by fully ten or eleven inches in extent of wing, and from a foot and a half in length, of whiteness that vies with the purest snow, save the dab of velvet black on the tip of the pinions, and carmine streak over the crown of his head, he is the most impressive feathered biped known in this section since the fabled wonders of the prehistoric days. When cleaying the golden sunlight of early spring over the blue lakes, reedy marshes, sandy barrens, pasture lands and choppy hills of Cherry County, he is a sight to tingle the blood of the most stoical, and incredible as it may seem to the young sportsman of to-day, there is no mistake about it. Twenty years ago Nebraska was one of the most fay- ored feeding and resting grounds for the whooping crane there were in the whole country. Just a short way northeast of Rogers, out on the Platte, lies a quite extensive half open valley and half billowy prairie, which was formerly thickly covered with the delicate and curly buffalo grass, with clumps of hybrid acacia, and splashes of moccasin flowers mingling with cat-o-nine-tails, flags and tules as you ap- proach the river. This stretch of country was a great stamping and picking grounds of not only sandhill cranes, but the big whoopers, who never like to asso- ciate with the former or any of the lesser breeds, but in this instance their fondness for the place overcame their prejudice, and they were often found there to- gether, They were always to be seen here through the dreamy month of October and. well into the gloom of November, but as soon as the air became bitey it would start them all off for their winter homes in the balniy South. The whooping cranes are, without an- exception, the wariest, most cunning and resourceful of all our big game birds and about the hardest to get a shot at. And yet, by our superior intelligence, we used to outwit them frequently inthe old days out about Rogers, and in another letter later, I will tell you of the last shot I got at one, way out in the sterile fast- nesses of Duel county, in March, 1894. What goose shooting is now, whooping and sandhill crane shoot- ing was to the few gunners who went out from this city in the days of which I write. My! how it used to make my blood bound to lie there in a blind in the low hopples or tall, yellowy grass and listen to that penetrating and weird hoo-roo-o00-00-00, long drawn out and rolling, seemingly, from every|point in the autumnal skies, as a flock of these great birds ap- proached me. If you find it hard to lie still now and await the incoming of a line “atth-unking’’ Canadas, you would have found it an insurmountable task to have done the same twenty years ago for the onrush of a ragged bunch of whoopers. To bat an eye meant the dashing of your hopes. Rigid and still as a statue you had to lie or crouch, until the low whiff-whiff-whiff of their fan-like wings fractured the atmosphere above you, until you could see the carmine of the eye and the long raucous throats stretched out over you. Then to your feet, and what a sound and what a sight—what a climax of frenzy, as you view the tangle of monstrous : MAy 30, 1903.]) ee white birds, with broad wings hammering the air des- , perately, every bird climbing distractedly toward the sky, sheering, tumbling and lurching in all directions at the same time, the sunlight glancing from their dark green, dagger-like beaks and crimson domes, and the yery earth and air vibrating as with the peals of thun- der. That was whooping crane shooting, and it makes my blood leap, my nerves tremble and my brain whirl -o recall it. Local sportsmen are quite indignant over the report that a number of wealthy Eastern gentlemen have, or ‘are about to ptrchase, Three Springs and Raccoon ‘lakes, as well as the old Anse Newberry ranch north of Cody, 400 miles up the Elkhorn, and are going to ‘urn the same into a game preserve for their own per- “sonal use. They intend, so the story goes, to pro- hibit all shooting and fishing there excepting that which they indulge in or oversee themselyes.. They are to get possession some time this summer. Three Springs and Raccoon lakes, with their bordering marshes, aiid running waterways, have been a favorite ducking grounds for Omaha and Nebraska sportsmen for years, and thus to lose them now will be an aggra- yation, indeed. I was one of the very first of the Omaha wild fowlers to visit Newberry’s; in fact, I al- most pride myself on discovering Anse’s cozy hunter's hostelry, and surely it was I who gave the place, through my tnpretentious sporting efiusions, the most of its pristine glory. Newherry’s shack then, was a tude log structure of two rooms, with crudely tanned buffalo skins for a pattition and with a mere paucity of conveniences and comforts. But things have changed since those dim old days, and the Newberry mansion to-day is complete and faitly modern in all its details. . Dear old Anse, how loth we “will be to give him up. I can close my eyes now, as I sit here at my scarred and rickety old desk, and look back and again enjoy the entrancing scenes and stirring incidents of my first visit to his homely root and the famed Lugenbeel marshes. What a magnificent bag of mallards and red- heads we made, and what, a battle our, old pointer, Don, now basking away his waning days on Ted Acker- man’s tanch, up near Spearfish, had with an otter, and how we did yank the rock bass from the Raccoon’s * mossy and limpid waters. You remember it, Jack, don’t you—it was only a little over fourteen years ago. You recall, don’t you, sometimes, even way owt there in your new home on the Columbia, what a picture of rapturous enchantment old Anse’s old log and sod house, with its bunches of ducks hanging on the back walls and the dark facade of old Thunderburg frown- “4g down on the lapsing waters of Three Springs. What did we care for the faraway world, what did we care whether the ducks flew or the fish bit? Did not tintrammeled nature supply all the senses demanded out in that wild and remote nook of the universe? Such scenes as environed that old frontier tavern in those old days, glowing as they did at sunrise or eyen- tide upon the background of that barren old sand mountain, beautiful as Bifrost before the portals of Valhalla. And must we now say farewell to that sacred spot in nature’s heart, those old hunting grounds, where the tints not so detectable in the atmos- phere, kindled the glassy lake’s surface when tlie sun went down, and where the fragments, even of each cloud, formed on its delicate texture a perfect image. A game preserve, indeed—yes, it must be so, it is. in the air, and the Lugenbeel is not the only spot to which this is coming. That we must make up our minds to. Even Billy Brewer is now organizing a club in Omaha, with the object in view of purchasing the Stilwell ranch out in the Cherry county sandhills for a game preserve. Mr. Brewer’s idea is to buy the Stil- well place, which embraces nearly one thousand acres and takes in over half of Hackberry Lake, a great bass as well as ducking grounds; the east end of Clear Lake, a noted canvasback resort, and runs clear down to the north shore of Dewey Lake, one of the grandest lakes in all that wild region, with plenty of bass and blue- willed sunfish and wild fowl grotinds unsurpassed in the State. The sod hunting lodge is to be quadrupled in size, and many improvements made about the living house and corral. The membership is to be limited to fiity Nebraskans, and Stilwell, one of the best duck shots in the country and an all-round efficient and in- telligent man, is to be installed as gamekeeper, who will reside there the year round. Mr. Brewer is count- ing on getting the deal through by next October. There is some talk of bringing the big coursing meet, which for several years has been held ott near Friend, to Omaha. This may be true, but I doubt it, for it is quite probable that the people who brought about the anti-pigeon killing law, would bob up as the friend of the long-eared Jack. The four days’ card planned for next fall is a grand one, and if it were possible to run it off near this city, it would attract an immense attendance. The pastime is very popular out at Friend, as well as through the whole southwestern and southern part of the State, and coursing devotees flock there from all quarters of the country. Many of the best bred and speediest greyhounds in the United States are ewned by Nebraska leashmen, and this -fall arrangements are being made for some entries of dogs from oyer the ocean. Backed, as it is, by the leading business men of Saline and adjoining counties, the , sport equals, if it does not excel, that of the great ‘Kansas and Califiornia meets. Owners hereabouts are already getting their strings in condition for the spring fr, outs on the open prairie, and when fall rolls around the speculators will have as fine a lot to pick from as ever ran against each other in the country. If is a notable fact that the Nebraska Club uses only Nebraska rabbits, although some judges pretend to claim that the Montana and Idaho breed is the best, but if they ean outrun our own long-eared buffoons of the plain, they are surely birds. Rich purses will be hung up this coming autumn, and whether held here or at Friend, the meet will be one of the most important ever held in the West. Some time this week I intend, for the exclusive bene- fit of the Forest AnD STREAM, to take a run out to O'Neil and take a look over the State field trial eronnds, said to be the finest jin America. FOREST AND STREAM. Tl. vill be a regular exodus of prominent anglers from niaha coming week, Judge Munger, Attorney Summers, Clerk Thummel, Marshal Homan, of the U. S. Court, and the writer will go to Sheehan’s on Lake Washington, Minn.; Martin Meyer and George Hayes to the Nishna, this State; Dr. Owen and Thos. Orr to Lake Jefferson, Minn.; Judge and Wilber Faw- cett to Lake Winnibigoshish, Minn.; Myron Learned and Will Hamilton to Three Rivers, Wis.; Fred Good- rich and Bob Lowe to Lake Ida, Minn.; Editor John Weaver and City Editor Joe Polcar and Artist Billy Pixley to Okoboji; Robert Patrick, W. S. Poppleton and some Washington friends to the Patrick ranch in the Wyoming mountains, and Hon. Tom Nolan, R. L. Metcalfe, editor of the World*Herald, and Dr. Wirth to Hackensack, Minn. SANDY GRISWOLD, Roughing It. ANY expression or term is rendered intelligible only through its relationship to its environment, and, therefore, the-accepted meaning may change very ma- terially, from time to time, to correspond with a change in surroundings. : “Roughing It,’ for instance, in the times of Lewis and Clark, and their immediate successors in western explorations and trans-continental expeditions, meant a contest with difficulties which were impossible to anticipate and also the risk of life; while now, the same expressions when applied to the Adirondacks, means actual luxury with merely a rough setting. On the whole, shooting, fishing and camping expedi- tions are, nowadays, owing to the supervision and as- sistance of professional guides, rather smooth affairs, as is indicated by the increase in the patronage of these recreations by the female element. There are few unexpected hardships, and the matter of fatigue can usually be kept well within the capacity of a frail member of a party; but occasionally circumstances will get beyond control; a party may get into the trotigh of the sea, so to speak, with a resulting shak- ing up that will fairly represent a genuinely rough time, as such is understood in this day and generation. Here, for instance, is an example. Last autumn, be- cause of an error by one of several persons who,re- peated a message, which originated in French on the edge of the Canadian woods, was told to the occupant of a telephone station, and was thence transmitted to a telegraph operator, who translated and forwarded it by his method to the States, a citizen of Quebec and the writer reached a remote railroad terminal, almost sinitiltaneously, on our respective ways to join a noted hunter—to whom each felt an exclusive right—in a search for moose, Being unable to determine by a comparison of, my written and his oral, evidence, which of us was out of time and place, we agreed to drive the 35 miles to the rendezvous and allow Pierre himself to choose be- tween us, The surprise, confusion, and forceful re- marks of the old chap need not be dwelt upon; it is enough to say that his trapping partner was sufficient- ly moved by the explosion of feeling to go to his as- sistance and divide us ‘‘share and share alike.’ During the long uncomfortable drive the Quebecer and I had been so shaken together and had corporally com- mingled to such an extent that neither of us objected to a union of our forces while proceeding to the hunt- ing grounds. A coolness having spring up between the two hunt- ‘ers and some Maine game wardens, it was deemed wise that we should make a detour around a corner of that State, which necessitated an additional drive of 30 miles in company with our canoes, and it also necessi- tated the search for an unfamiliar brook on which we proposed to float into the Canadian branch of the St. John’s River. By starting the teamsters with canoes before dawn, we were enabled to congregate at the end of the wagon road about 4 o’clock in the after- noon. This drive was even more severe than that of the day before, and we were glad indeed to dismiss the buckboard, the spring of which had been rendered nugatory by duffle and enter the timber on foot as an advance guard of the wagon, or rather running gears, which bore the canoes. We had been informed that the brook would be found after following an unused lumber road “4 miles,” and with the thought of pitching our camp upon its banks in time to catch some trout for our evening meal, we went merrily forth filling our lungs with the fragrant breath of the woods. Ere long we came upon a fallen tree, which had to be cut m twain before the canoes could pass, and, worse luck, every now and then another similar operation had to be performed; we found too, that many springs were busily engaged in emptying themselves into the forsaken road and thus conyerting it into a quagmire. The deep holes had to be corduroyed and from the shallower ones we had, time and again, to pry the conveyance and even the horse. Indeed, we had to go to the rescue of each other whenever a flying leap fell short of a substantial footing, and a deep and pertinacious mud puddle would threaten interment. When the sun went down, peep- ing at us through the trees from over the shoulder of a distant hill, we were seen still deep in the woods and the mire. and still tugging at the horse, the wheels, or our boot straps. The only thing that saved the informant of the distance to the brook irom our wishes of speedy discomfort “midst painfully heated surroundings, and also a prospective drubbing (if our wishes failed in their purpose) was the possibility that ie eer an indefinite “ior’ imstead of a precise “four” miles. : The Quebecer went on ahead with the hope and anticipated pleasure of soon finding the longed-for opening in the woods and signalling back to us that cheering information. When, however, we came up with him sitting bedraggled and disheartened on a log, convinced that we had lost the way, we stopped to think. To spend the night in that morass was’ out of the~question for us, and also the horse—the poor brute, having fallen in the slough a number of times, was bemg chilled by the night air—to return was seemingly beyond the endurance of any pf ns and so, i 427 a Ne eee ———————————e_ whether of not we were astray, we preferred going forward. The moon arose, and by the by was most cordially welcomed, to find us, man and beast, cut loose from most of our impedimenta and forging ahead for anywhere. Sooner or later a broader expanse of illuminated sky was noticeable, and presently we entered a small clear- ing in the middle of which were several log huts and, from one of these, rays of light were escaping through chinks between the logs. Well, thank heaven, we were somewhere! Without announcing our arrival, we pushed open the door of the illuminated hut and saw four youths ranging in age from 18 to 25 years, eating an ill-smelling mess, onions predominating, from a filthy shelf by candle light. We stared at each other through the doorway for a few moments, and then, in the French language, we were invited to enter and were offered food and shelter. We crossed the thresh- old to find the hot and foul air of the room insuffer- able, and we not only declined the food, but also the shelter, and hastened out into the night, though not before we had noticed cautious glances by the occu- pants at a pair of boots which protruded from one of the bunks, Outside in the moonlight we built a fire, and while having a frugal meal of tea and biscuits, woe- fully discrepant with our needs, discussed our new ac- quaintances, Pierre, who had been caring for our overworked horse, joined the circle and remarked, “De axes ees rusty; de chaines fer to draw de dogs ees rusty, too; de han’s of de men ees soft; no feed ees here fer de horses; sure dis ees no logging business what dey do.” After a while our hosts came from the hut, the four young men being accompanied by a middle-aged man whose frame was large and face as villainous as I had ever been so unfortunate as to look upon. No crime named in the statute books was tuncongenial to that degenerate countenance. Is he a Bill Sykes? I won-. dered. Simultaneously, with their arrival, an old gray mate emerged from the timber into the fire light and was promptly seized by the forelocks by one of the group and so cruelly kicked in the belly that I arose to object. She was released and I became the focus of threatening looks from under contracted brows. When out food was disposed of the strange wood dwellers still squatted like Indians near our fire, look- ing on and smoking in silence. The Canadian and I were very tired, after our two days of travel, over some 70 miles of frontier roads, to say nothing of swamps, and it was important that we should sleep, in order to be equal to the demands of the morrow; but where? Our tents were upon the abandoned wagon some distance back, over that awful tote road; and to go into the hut was not to be thought of. Pierre and Tom decided that we two “sports,” as they called us, had better take possession of a vacant log stable, while they would seek cover in such a locality as to enable them to detect any attempt on the part of our found- lings to forage upon our supplies in the rear. Accord- ingly, we were escorted to where the preparations were to be made and looked on while the Hudson's Bay blankets were laid athwart the doorway and my sleep- ing bag placed further inside of the shanty. As there was no door, we constricted a sort of barricade of odd bits of wood as a substitute and then crawled into our covering. Joye! the earth floor was hard and the inequalities of it necessitated frequent turning so as to make ati equal distribution, over our anatomy, of the rapidly accumulating sensitive spots. We had been asleep—I do not know how long—when, with a tre- sounding crash, in fell our barricade. I felt my room- mate jump into the air and heard him exclaim, “You get out of here right quick!’ JI turned over in my sleeping bag, as soon as its narrow confines and my aches would permit, with the expectation of finding myself covered by a gun in the hands of the villains; but, instead, gazed into the moonlit countenance of the gray mare, whose home we probably occupied. The citizen of Quebec would be the first to be stepped upon, should the critter make good her threat to enter, and I felt so much relieved, by the absence of bipeds in the rumpus, that I took no part in repairing the abatis, and promptly fell asleep. Within what seetned a very brief time, I was again startled by a watwhoop from the Canadian, who barely escaped be- ing trampled underfoot by our persistent friend. Once again he braved the night air in scant apparel and re- built his defenses without an attempt to formulate into words his views upon the subject. This repression and seli-control impressed me deeply, even in my drowsy condition. : When for the third time we were rudely recalled to a consciousness of our overpowering fatigue and mis- ery, as well as our inability to persuade the old mare to be merciful, I expected to hear a flow of oratory which would clear the surcharged atmosphere of its oppressive gloom, and when my roommate returned to his blankets and mildly said, in subdued tones, “We seem to be having a large-sized night mare,’ my mental tensions relaxed and I shook with suppressed laughter. The tmorrow was another hard luck day, and the thought of it makes me weary. Our horse’s feet slipped between the logs of a corduroy, and broken bones were narrowly averted, the shafts snapped and our broad opportunity for exercise was enlarged by having to carry the canoes and luggage a long slippery way to the much sought for brook; we had little else to eat than hard tack, and as cold rain came down in tor- rents, wetting us through and through, we did not find a landing place along the brook on which we em- barked about three o'clock, till darkness made tent- raising a difficulty, and eventually we threw ourselves upon the wet earth, ptactically supperless, for the night. Let me hasten to say that the glorious Sun arose in a clear sky the next morning and dried our clothing and our tears; it cast impressively beautiiul lights and shadows tpon the placid surface of the St. John’s River; aroused all of our latent enthusiasm and warmed our hearts into gladness. The rough features of our “roughing it” were ended, and thenceforth we had a thoroughly enjoyable time, and what is more each of ws was so fortunate as to get a bull moose. Tt just aceurs to me that I have put a period at the 428 FOREST AND STREAM. [May 30, 1903. end of my yarn before telling of our discoveries relat- ing to the den of bipeds we “dug eut” from their con- cealment on our first night in the woods, but on re- flection, I realize that that story would be a digression from “Roughing It,” and so, therefore, with King John I will merely add, “I had a thing to say, but I will fit it with some better time.” LIPPINCOTT. BatTimore, Md. CHICAGO AND THE WEST. - Wisconsin Game Law. Curcaco, Ill, May 23—I met Fred Merrill, of Mil- waukee, in Chicago the other day, and he said he thought that the Wisconsin Legislature was this week going to pass the bill prohibiting spring shooting in that State. It seems that we are not to have quite such good fortune. The new bill, as passed later this week, allows an open shooting season from April to to 25 on ducks and geese only. Pickerel are classed in the same category with bass and pike, and are protected March 1 to May 25, The bag of ducks is limited to 15 a day. Moreover, my brethren, the State of Wisconsin swings into line with the Forest ANp STrEAm platform, and abso- lutely prohibits the sale of game of any kind at any time! We surely can report a distinct advance, almost a start- ling advance, in our game laws in the West for the past two years. Texas, Illinois, Wisconsin—these names ought to be written high on the roll of honor for- this spring. To be sure the Wisconsin law, although it gives but a 15 days’ season in the spring, is a loop-hole law, and to that extent is bad. The limit of the bag to 15 birds a day is also to some extent a loop-hole, since the clause is hard to enforce, but it is a movement in the right direction. Upon the whole, we may say to-day that Wisconsin is further along the troublous road of game and fish protection than she has ever been before in all her history. This is not to say that Wisconsin has been re- miss in the past, for she has always before this spring led the State of Illinois distinctly in her attitude in regard to. the game laws. , E. HoucH. Hartrorp Buirpine, Chicago, IIil. Game Protection in Wisconsin. AccorpiInG to the official report of the Wisconsin De- partment for Protection of Game and Fish, 52 illegal hunters and fishermen were arrested last month and the receipts for confiscated articles amounted to $351.80, and the fines to $530. The largest seizure was made by Warden Follbrecht, and was a shipment of 1,078 black bass from Green Bay to Chicago. The fish were sold for $153.30. The most seizures in the month of April were made by Warden Valentine Raeth, of Milwaukee, containing gill nets, hoop nets, fyke nets, set lines, dce- coys, and six illegal shipments of fish. He also arrested, with Warden Vollbrecht, a man in Dodge county for fish- ing with nets, who was fined $25 and-costs. On April 18 Raeth arrested two hunters from Illinois for shooting ducks in Kenosha county. They were fined $20 each. The wardens, Geo. Redmond and A. Johnston, arrested fifteen illegal fishermen in Marathon county, twelve of them were convicted. Mrtwauxee, Wis, May 17. The . Wood? Rat. : Editor Forest and Stream: In the course of my wanderings I once held the camp for Frank Geduhn, at the head of Lake Macdonald, Idaho; to which returning after a day’s absence, I found a large part of the contents of my grip scattered about the floor and many articles missing. A pack of playing cards, among other things, was distributed about the floor of the cabin in a most promiscuous mannet. Hair brush, razor case, soap, and other materials which had heen leit on a table were gone, and a heavy volume was balanced on the edge, ready to fall. Suspecting the cause (for Frank had had provoking experiences with wood rats at his other camp at the foot of the lake), a search was be- gun for the rascal’s nest. In vain every probable place of resort was investigated, until we chanced to move a box which was used as a stand for a washbasin, when lo! the interior was a sight! Not only were my own missing articles brought to light, but the nest itself was in great part composed of several towels which were folded in the form of a turban, and intertwined with many arti- cles of domestic use, The animals did not seem shy or secretive after their lair was discovered, but scampered about the premises like tame kittens. These rats had fluffy tails an inch and a half wide at least. The body color was bluish gray. I am glad we don’t have these creatures East. They are worse thau tame crows, by whom I have suffered much in days past, CiaTARLES HALLOCK. The Wolf's Tail. Seymour, Texas.—Editor Forest and Stream: In the May 9 number of Forest AnD StreAm Mr. E. P.. Jaques, in his article on “Intelligence of Wild Things,” says he would like to know how anyone gets near enough to 4 wolf to make a study of their habits. Where he is located if is very possible that, on account of the comparatively thick population, the wolves have become so cautious that they are seldom seen. Here, however, it is common to sce anywhere from two to twenty in a day’s ride, sometimes not more than thirty to sixty yards off. I have ridden alone the tops of bluffs several times and seen wolves hunting cottontail rabbits in patches of plum bushes or broom weed below me. When running gate they carry their tails high over their backs and waving like a fox- hound making game. When carrying anything or travel- ing during the daytime the tail is carried low, the tongue is almost invariably hanging out, and they have a general air of being tired to death. Sometimes when with a wagon or working force the beggars will trot up to within fifty yards, sit down and watch you work for ten minutes or $0, yawn two or three times and trot off again: I’ve seen them sit perfectly still and watch a pack of dogs come toward them till within seventy-five yards. Evi- dently they were under the impression they were not seen, Mark Hopkins, Sea and River Hishing. OH Proprietors of fishing resorts will find it profitable to advertise them in Forest anp STREAM. Canoe and Camp Life Along the Delaware River. qe “The hain’t nothin’ like an aou’door fire, an’ a shanty like this, an’ a bed o’ browse, fer raal, genywine, restin’ comfert.”’—Sam Lovel, in Robinson’s “Uncle Lisha’s Shop.” “T love thee, O thou dim and dreary feeling! I love thee, O thou desolate communion Of the lone spirit with Nature, now revealing To her fond worshipper in that sweet union Of hidden brightnesses which lie enshrined In ihe dark recesses of the unconscious mind, A smothered flame, a torrent which doth need The hand of Nature and of Solitude To waken it; and then with headlong speed Shoots forth, until the mind, unformed and rude, Doth by that healing stream burst into being— All pure, all bright, all beautiful, all seeing!” —Thackeray. One who really camps out is not merely with nature, but a part of nature. And one who looks at nature while “dressed up,” and from the dawdling porch-chair or the soft seat and shade of carriage or automobile, is something distinctly apart. More and more, this is realized by the seeker for summer recreation and joys. More and more, the summer campers, and their pro- portion of women, increase along the Delaware. Rough, drunken, profane men are now the decided ex- ception; for they are instantly branded as sham sports- men. Families that camp out are increasing, with their charming personalities of matron and miss in heavy shoes, flannel skirts, and waists that were discarded for SUNSHINE. home wear, but treasured for use during a tenting month or fortnight. There is not a day here but .an artist would be charmed with a vision of a Hebe or Juno, “loose an’ free” in outing dress, and an old straw hat pinned into jatnty shape and often trimmed with gathered bunches of real wild flowers—daisies, bee- balm, delicate ferns, or meadow or pond lilies. And from under these hats smile freckled, brown and healthy faces. How grateful they are to the eyes of the real sportsman! There is nothing which will more quickly win the chivalrous interest, admiration and service of a camper or angler, than the discovery of one of these modern river-naiads. How well she fits her sylvan environ- ment! She likes to camp; she loves to fish. She is fond of what he loves. Seated on the camp-stool un- der the trees beside the tent, still and often timorous in the canoe as it shoots rift or rapid, or when proudly showing her new-found skill in cooking at an out- of-doors fire, her presence is at once a godsend, bless- ing and benediction! Right here is such a personage now, frying bass on the tiniest fire, over which you could place an inverted milk-pan—she has learned to cook with as small a fire as possible, and avoid the smoke and heat of the larger one. And my cynical old comrade is inviting her father, mother and chaperon, to “come across the creek to-night and take pot luck with us.” T can read on his old face, the stern resolve to bankrupt our Jarder in giving that “spread,” and I know that I shall quarrel with him for the privilege of acting as waiter while this nymph of the bronzed cheek and wavy hair of softest brown is eating from our tin plates, with a pewter spoon and a bone- handled knife and fork. Our sugar will not be sweet enough for her, and so we shall go to a friendly farm- er’s house and bribe his wife to sell us a jar of wild honey. And both of us are conscious of the fact that when we get back to town, each will accuse the other of being a gray-headed old fool. Meanwhile, we watch the charming picture of the real mistress of her camp as she fries and serves the fish. and we eat in the most exquisite of dining-rooms; all frescoed in gold and green and blue, and filled with water and foliage music; and which shows some signs as evening comes on, of getting its ceiling bespangled. If this experience is dangerous to us old fellows with daughters at home older than this Diana, think of the peril to the two college boys over in the next tent! Such a camp is the special trap of little Dan Cupid. T watch my tent-mate choke down his admiration, as- sume his sternest exercise of will, and proceed to study its Queen. An old waist with a bunch of daisies at the corsage, a gypsy hat trimmed by herself with a sprig or two of delicate ferns, big shoes, flannel skirt of blue, and | bewildering curls that refuse to be imprisoned, and get loose to fall and look at a happy face with black eyes, and the indescribable hue of bounding health which blooms, regnant, in the bronzed cheeks. That is all: but it is enough! Such a young sportswoman should ‘be avoided by the young man unless he is prepared to risk serious danger to his peace of mind. I know of several mishaps to bachelor life right here on the Delaware, because of the young man’s too great con- fidence in himself. Emerson says in a poem that the weeds and brambles he found along the shore were. very beautiful there, out with the sky and uproar; but that they were un- sightly and noisome when he had gathered and taken them home. Many of these woman campers are beau- tiful at home; but it-is perilous indeed to meet them on these shores. Several of these family parties are located along two or three miles of the Pennsylvania shore, and = A SUCCESSFUL WOMAN ANGLER. two more are located on the New York side. We exchange visits, the men to eat, smoke, and exchange fishing and hunting yarns, the women to gossip about the delights of the outing, and plan for fishing and canoe excursions. A charming matron member of one of these families has quite enslaved the two “ancient” sportsmen by her ability to cast far out and land an occasional bass from a favorite standing-point on shore. and by her skill, shown while bathing, in mounting and balancing herself on that most unsteady of boats, a rubber sleeping-mattress. And we keep asking each other: “Why do not more women camp?” The quarters need to be rough, but are easily maintained as comfortable. Tens of thou- sands of women waste their strength in social ambi- tions and struggles; and upon the advent of summer, they are in the tumult, strain and dazzle of life on some Atlantic liner, or flitting butterflies as they scamper through Europe. They are throwing away priceless opportunities to add many years to their none too useful lives, by camping out beside some fair lake or stream, or a forested river like the Delaware. It would be amusing if not so pitiful, as they stand before the masterpieces of the Dresden, Rome, Florence and Paris picture galleries, and voice their admiration for the work of Titian and Angelo, Tintoret and Raphael; to witness how blind they are to the fact that, back at home, say on this river Delaware, there is not one hour or minute of any day without its treasure of actual scenes that those very painters would humbly own were infinitely more lovely than anything ever placed on canvas. Raphael often spoke of the wild rose in sunlight, and would not even take up his brush, saying that flower was the painter’s despair. There are nooks and dells right along this shore, where hundreds of A BALANCING FEAT, — blossoms of the wild rose star their green bushes, smiling forth new proof of Ruskin’s statement that it is the supreme flower in nature’s wild garden. Another social advantage among campers is_ that they are known in advance to be presumably desirable comrades and acquaintances. For there is something about wealth which, far too often, hardens the heart, and causes the degeneracy manifested by insolent ex- clusiveness. Real “campers-out” are members of that noblest human life, and most vital foundation of the nation’s hope, the cultured middle classes. And they believe in and enjoy the democracy of tent-life. They are possessed in generous measure, not only of love of ‘nature, but of love for their fellow men. Right here are citizens from widely separated towns—merchant and judge, doctor, attorney, and journalist, state official, banker, manufacturer and railroad man. Among their most prized neighbors are two farmers, a shoemaker and a school teacher, happy in their tent across the river. And we all exchange visits, suppers, and gifts of wild flowers, and realize that some of these friendships formed on the stream will last through life. Such peo- ple are the glory of a nation, and certainly have far sicher measure of sincerity, usefulness and nobility * “ Mg May 30, 1903.] than many of the over-dressed, boudoir-fed and pam- pered habitués of our seaside and mountain hostleries and palaces. But, after all, we like our wild visitors the best. A pair of blue herons have been roosting in the top of a tall pine half way up the hillside. They are not disturbed; their shy presence and half companionships are pleasant as they drift on slow wing to their lofty perch at sunset. They are good dots of wildness im the swampy places, and can be brought near to the eye by use of opera glasses, as they wade in- sedges and through open watery shallows free from reed grass, while they look for frogs and fishes. . Nearly every day we see ofie oF both of the single pair of bald eagles that have a home somewhere in these hills. The soaring and diving of three or four fish-hawks furnish another subject for interest and conversation. During a few mornings we have heard the rise and quacking of a dozen or two of mallards, widgeons, teals and brants, fleeing on rapid wings from our approach, Circling hen-hawks and shouting flick- ers voice their approval of the summer above and among the treetops. Swallows range like happy dogs and skim the water’s surface. Indeed, a fellow camper is listing the wild birds which have visited our trees during a fortnight. Here are about one-third of them: Helldiver, heron, gull, three kinds of owls, blue jay, nuthatch, kingfisher, woodcock, stakedriver, chickadee, lark, martin, brown thrasher, bobolink, wren, loon, tree-sparrow, crossbills, crow, hermit thrush, smipe; pheebe, catbird, robin, whippoorwill, mourning dove, sandpiper, kingbird, bunting. Rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks, a woodchuck, an old hen with her brood of chickens and wandering far from home, dogs, horses, Cows, two calves, quail an yellowbirds have also been close to our camp. On two “muggy mornings we have been startled and sur- prised by the drumming of a partridge, which some dream of spring has charmed into making that love- call. And as we visited a wide marsh far below, and found a lagoon, we located two muskrat houses; and one of their inmates swam across our bow, his arrow- like course guided by that unseen but well-known black and hairless tail. He dived unsociably, and probably entered his home below the waterline! But we wish we could call on him in a friendly way, and learn if he and his wife prosper in their summer foragings, an whether the children are well.) |. ‘Among our most welcome visitors are the small boys and girls. Nothing makes my chum so happy as to take a youngster in triumph on_his shoulder and deposit him in the canoe, put a trolling lure and line into his hands, and paddle about, watching the child’s delight in his possession of the place of honor, so different from his subdted and humble presence down in one end of the boat, even then a place greatly he can see the men fish. And grateful mothers in some of the farmhouses have sent him little paper-covered glasses of maple syrup, an pans of hot biscuits, tokens of their appreciation for his kindness to their “chicks.” And the fathers some- times visit us to smoke a pipe and chat, saying, ° Never mind the trespass signs; come an’ go as ye like. They even bring the wives and children down for a smell of the smoke and a bask in the light of the evening fire. My chum visibly grows younger, and says that these are rich compensations for the lack of sense of greater wildness which the camper has along lakes and streams in the remote forests of Wisconsin, Nova Scotia or Quebec. : k having tried to tell something of the And now, r beauty in nature, and in human nature, and, perhaps, sadly tired the angler who may have scanned these ar- ticles in disappointment for some facts about the actual angling along the Delaware, I will try to fur- nish, in the next number of ForEST AND STREAM, facts about the fishing—where to 20, what bait to use, where to fish, and what kinds, numbers and average weight of fishes a fairly skillful angler may expect to get, with average luck. He shall not have occasion to complain that I never give him practical aid if he wants to gO a-fishing on this river- L. F. Brown. Lag ae ae! sae a Maine Angling News. Bancor, Me., May 23—Editor Forest and Stream: This week has been a record breaker among the fisher- men who have troubled the Maine waters with fly or baited hook, and owing to the peculiar conditions of the season, has resulted im some of those strings, such as the oldest visitors to WV oosehead, the Rangeleys and other famous waters used to catch in “the good old days -when fishing was fishing.” As Commissioner Ring remarked to the writer, “This season will go down as the most successful season throughout Maine that the fishermen have ever enjoyed, at least since there has been a record.” Singularly enough, this has resulted from almost the apposite condition of what would have been prophesied as necessary to success with rod and line. Had anyone been anxious to make a name for himself as a fore- caster of the fishing for the spring of 1903, he would have considered the phenomenally cold weather and rainy days of last spring to be coupled with the poorest of success, and. would have said that to have good sport, Maine would have to enjoy a long month of warm days with occasional showers to warm the water. On the contrary the month has been, except for a com- paratively few days, rather cool, although those few days have been scorchers for the time of year, and have brought the fish, trout, togue and salmon to the surface quickly, ready to take anything that offered chance of a meal. Perhaps the strongest cause of the good success has been the low condition of the waters, as the early freshets, coming before the lakes cleared of ice, dropped the water and prevented the fish get- ting into the bushes and swamps around the shores, and so picking up quantities of feed, even while they were out of reach of the average fisherman. To tfe- neat, not for vears have there been so many successful fishermen in Maine as during the present season up to -when the origin of such FOREST AND STREAM. date, and the fish taken have certainly averaged larger than usual. The forest fires, to which reference was made in last week's letter, have, fortunately, been controlled, al- though not without some tremendotis work on the part of the fire wardens and their assistants, who worked night and day, almost, for a week, in the effort to pre- vent the spread of the flames to more valuable timber than was destroyed or, as in some cases, to valuable resort property, as, for instance, the well-known camps at Indian Pond, near Moosehead Lake, which were re- ported to have been wiped out. Fortunately only an old lumber camp belonging to the same man was burned, and, although the camps took fire, the flames were €x- tinguished ands the fire controlled until all danger was passed. Later, heavy showers swept across the State, drenching everything in their paths, so that the tim- berlands of Maine practically escaped the great danger of destruction. Had not this relief come, Maine might readily have seen another fire to match the famous Miramichi fire, since conditions were ripe for such an event, and it was impossible to obtain men enough to fight the fire’s advance. In one town every able-bodied man and all the boys obtainable turned out and, in two crews, fought the enemy night and day. Yester- day Commissioner Ring, who is both forestry commis- sioner and fish commissioner, assured your correspon- — Gres in the State were out, and no be apprehended. This is a year fires will be closely investi- gated, and woe betide the luckless camper who is neg- Tectful of the rights of others in this regard and leaves a spark of his carapfire alive when he breaks camp or goes out for a fishing trip. Considering these different conditions, therefore, it is surprising that such records have been made. In fact, the records of some almost make a true sportsman to blush for those who permitted their enthusiasm to so far outweigh their sense of sportsmanship, and catch more than could possibly be used in camp of car- ried home. But it is always so, and the only protection the fish have when some people are around is not to feed. dent that all the further danger is to The Seboomook Outing Club, which has been—or at least whose first detachment has been—at the club’s hotel at Moosehead Lake, has had wonderful luck. During but three days’ fishing they caught 60 trout, several weighing from 3 to 514 pounds each, while they secured several good salmon weighing from 4 to 9 pounds, and togue ranging all weights from 22 pounds down. To enumerate the strings taken by the different men would be to greatly prolong this letter. Tt is enough to say, that in all the years of this party's com- ing to Moosehead, none of the club ever had stich sport with the fish. Mayor H. M. Doremus, Collector of Customs G. L. Smith, M. R. Sherrerd, R. L. Ross, W:. T. Johnson and Fred Castle, all of Newark, N. Ve and all under Mr. Castle’s guardian eye, were in the party. Other parties on the lake included one of Geo. M. Sherman and James M. Hall, of Boston, who took in a few days 00 trout, ranging from 3 pounds down; Clif- ford Bass and Dr. Eagan, of Gloucester, Mass., who took in a week 40 trout, one a 5-pounder; F. S. Snyder and H. W. Priest and wives, of Boston, who spent a week at the former's camp on Williams Stream, and took 10 trout; A. D. Thayer, of Franklin, Mass., and wife, who have been among the earliest fly-casters, and have had great sport, getting 12 in one trip of a few hours; J. F. MacGowan, of Boston, who also caught on the fly some exceedingly handsome trout, leading all rivals, some of his trout weighing better than 3 pounds, and a salmon of equal weight; Willard H. Wheeler, J. H. Spafford and Wm. C. Atwater, of New Tork City, and Arthur H. Dakin, of Boston, had great sport farther down the lake, about Deer Island, taking all the law allowed during their week, a. 4-pound trout being their best squaretail; another party of only two, caught in the same vicinity in a few hours, 5 handsome trout; A. W. Ford, of Salem, Mass.; F. D. Barrows, J. S. Rowe and E. B. Spearing, of Foxcroft, fished at the Outlet, and in one day took 18 squaretails from 44 pounds down; another party at the same place took, in a little over two hours, 33 lakers, as the residents call the togue. These are_but samples of the sport that has been going on at Moosehead for the week. Fishing at Sebec was rather-slow for a few days, owing to the presence of logs, butt as soon as they passed through the sluice and into the river, the salmon and trout began to take the troll again and some fine catches have resulted. Dr- Holt, of Dover, took two salmon weighing 5 pounds 7 ounces and 4 pounds It ounces; Fred Carr, of Sangerville, 314 and 4-pound sal- mon, and 1454-pound togue; N. J. Lamb, of the same town, 2 togue and a salmon averaging over 4 pounds each; Judson H. Root, of Hartford, Conn., had great sport. with the fly at Long Buttermilk Pond, a mile from Sebec, where he took togue weighing 10% and 15% pounds, salmon of 4 pounds and less, and quantities of trout. Mr. Root thinks that when togue do rise to a fly they are about as gamy as one need ask for. Attempts to stock Dexter Pond, or Silver Lake, or Lake Wassokeag, as it is called by the adherents of the several names, have never proved very successful, and the fishermen have begun to believe there were no Ssal- mon there. Lately several fishermen, while trolling, have lost their entire troll and extensive portion of their lines, through the rushes of some big fish. Roscoe Burrill, of Dexter, is the only prize winner so far, however, he landing a 2!4-pound salmon, Up the main line of the B. & A. the sport has been creat, although as those lakes opened later than Moose- head, the best sport is yet to come. At Nahmakanta Lake, Victor Hodgins, of this city, Arthur Felts and John H. Small, of Boston, secured a fine string, while a party from the Debsconeag Club, Wm. R. Noon, of Boston, and Gordon Merritt, of Ridgewood, N, J., took in a day and a half at Rainbow Lake, 33 pounds of trout. Mr. Noon, who has gone home, landed at the home pond, First Debsconeag Lake, a 19-pound lake trout; C. H. Gray and a friend of Oldtown, were at the same camps, and caught a splendid string at Rain- bow, some as heavy as 3 pounds. Trafic Manager G. M. Houghton and J. W. Cratty, of this city, were guests of Express Agent Moody, of Patten, at the latter’s Shinn Pond Camp, atid in their visit of Saturday and Sunday took a splendid string, one trout weighing 414, and six going better than 3 pounds. At Portage Lake the sport is fast and furious, and fine strings are being landed every day. A big string, hung up at the station as the down train passed through there to-day, attracted great attention. Dr. Dobson, of Ashland; Warren Pratt, Col. C. P. Allen and C. F. A. Phair, of Presque Isle, are among the lucky fishermen there this week. Herbert Lawton, Morton G. Baldwin and H. C. Jealous, of Boston, and W. E. Scoville, of New York City, have been at Square Lake for ten days, but owing to the lake being full of logs and other untoward cir- cumstances, some of which they could understand, they didn’t have the record-breaking sport that success else- where would indicate was awaiting their arrival. Two or three fish a day seemed to be the limit, and but few salmon were taken. Yet they had continual evidence that there are immense salmon and togue there, which, ~ for some reason, couid not be induced to take the lure. Mr. Lawton took the banner for salmon, getting two of 8 and 534 pounds. The St. Croix waters continue to hold up well; in, fact, it is doubtful if sport will be longer continued with more satisfactory results, in any system in the State, as in some part of this chain one finds sport from the leaving of the ice until the end of the season. Capt. W.: S. Higgins, of this city, and Lieut. H. G. Gilmore, U. S. N., went there the other day and caught all they wanted of salmon, bringing away all they were allowed to, and they might readily have taken many more. J: Putnam Stevens and G. M. Barney, of Portland, fish- ing at Grand Lake stream, caught 42 salmon. Megunticook Lake, at Camden, which is famous, not so much for its big trout as its close proximity to the sea, and to the mountains, affording a seashore resort, a lake city and a mountain range all close by, is de- manding its share of credit as a resort for big trout. L. M. Chandler, of Camden, caught there a 234-pound trout. And speaking of ponds that are making new records, there is Peabody Pond in Bridgton, where the salmon fishing is the wonder of the town, and everybody who can secure a tig is after the gamy fish. Horace G Larrabee leads the string at present with a 10%4-pound salmon, while Fred Libby is right behind with an 8- pounder. Lake Auburn evidently feels that it has been much maligned, as the majority of fishermen had come to be- lieve that fishing in that much-stocked lake was wasted time. Yet this week the beautiful little lake has been nobly cleared of such imputations, and furnished in three days’ fishing only, not including many that could not be recorded, 26 trout and 78 salmon. The largest salmon weighed 94 pounds. : The largest bass ever hooked in the Kennebec River north of Augusta, in which waters bass are numerous and grow to great size, was taken this week at Skow- hegan by Fred Niblen, of New York, and weighed 734 pounds. —= Among the ponds reached from Bangor is one, Floods, which, in the earliest years of his childhood the writer used to hear of as a wonderful spot for fish- ing, and out of which came the strange trout that had no red spots on them. Immense strings of these fish were caught there, some of them of large size, and it was many years before Bangor anglers found that these “ bee says ob 64 ri A. ea poghaeh asshe bur cobeane 58 GD eles Wee Mee lie no tale «tours evlo'e sais 58 PAYNE. Vso e ence kwtnecusenseerersccens 64 Roberts 60 res. See eael 64 Hofer .:... Y 2 61 Freitag ...... A5o5 an 2 : 62 Hofman ....-20s na 53 Drube ...-.-2:-35.+- 66 Uckotter ...... whee 53 2g Trounstine ...s.sieeeee> babe ceebices 184 184 182 180 180 48 Our Own Rifle Club, Horoxen, N. J., May 12.—In the team match of Our Own Rifle Club, the competition was as follows: Capt. Smith’s Team.—Smith 101, A, Bittle 106, F. Besson 108, F. Knapp 88, L. Bittle 105, F. Dable 103, J. Bander 115, G. Prigge 87, W. Watts 112, J. Kull 94; total 1,019. Capt. Ostermeir’s Team.—Ostermeir 100, C, Ebner 95, C. Bishop 95, Greenfield 90, J. Mertz 103, G. Ferguson 99, N. Mander 97, W. Hawthorne 108, J. Schneider 95, W. Coley 97; total 979. On the previous Friday Our Own Rifle Club met the Indepen- dent section, with results as follows: I. S. 5.—J. Hessenbarth (Capt.) 95, O. Roethe 101, G. Oberst 96, -members; Ist, $100; 2d, $80; 3d, $70. New Engiand Schuetzen , ‘ment. FOREST AND STREAM. A. Schrimpf, Jr., 115, F. Weber 86, A. Schrimpf, Sr., 91, W. Krueger 72, O. Habersang 92, B. Balzer 95, R. Feldweg 84; total 927, Our Own.—J. Bauder (Capt.) 110, F. Knothe 103, F. A. Frien- sehner 109, Ostermeier 66, A. Bittle 20, L. Bittle 86, T. Gabriel 105, ‘Ferguson 95, Besson 98, Watts 99; total 961. The programme otf the fourth sharpshooters’ tournament of the Central Sharpshooters’ Union of North America, to be held at St. Louis, Mo., June 17-21, may be obtained on application to Mr, H. Kephardt, corresponding secretary, St. Louis, Mo. The targets are divided into two classes: Open to the world and open only to members of the C. 8. U. The Point target has 56 cash prizes, a total of $500; tickets for 20 targets cost $1; shooters who score 200 points will receive a gold medal. The people’s target, German 25-ring; 3 shots on a card; first card $2; re- entries $1 per card; 60 prizes; total $450. Man target, tickets for 5 shots, $2; re-entries $1; 60 cash prizes, total $450, Honor tar- get, target same as people’s; 3 shots, no reentry; open only to Also other valuable prizes. Stich target, 3 shots, 60 cash prizes; total $400. Ming target, German ring, 60 prizes; total, $355 and medal. Bull’s eye, 2 shots $1, reentries; 33 prizes, total $422. Special railroad rates over all roads. Neadquarters, southeast corner Broadway and Elm Street. Grayshooting. If you want your shoot to be announced here send a notice like the following: Fixtures. May 27-28.—Williamsport, _Pa.—The Interstate Association’s tournament, under the auspices of the West Branch Rod and Gun Club. H. A. Dimick,. Sec’y. May 27-28.—Fort Wayne, Ind.—1wo-day bluerock tournament of ae Corner Rod and Gun Club; $100 added. John V. Linker, ec’y. May 29-30.—Union City, Ind.—Spring tournament of the Parent Grove Gun Club. May 30.—Rutherford, N. J.—All-day shoot of the Union Gun Club. C. B. Axford, Sec’y , May 30.—Concord, S. I—Decoration Day shoot of the Richmond Gun Club. A. A. Schoverling, Sec’y. May 30.—Edgewater, N. J.—Decoration Day shoot of the North River Gun Club. Jas. R, Merrill, Sec’y. May 30.—New Haven, Conn.—Decoration Day shoot of the New Haven Gun Club, John E. Bassett, Sec’y. May 30.—Orange, N. J.—Decoration Day shoot of the Nishoyne Gun Club, Ralph B. Baldwin, Sec’y. May 380.—Shrewsbury, Mass.—Shoot of the Worcester Sports- men’s Club. . May 30.—Tournament of the East Harrisburg, Pa., Shooting As- sociation. May 30.—Newport, R. I.—Second annual tournament of the Aquidneck Gun Club. J. S. Coggeshall, Sec’y. May 30.—Detroit, Mich—Winchester Gun Club’s Decoration Day third annual tournament; all day. Rose system and average prizes. Sliding handicap, 16, 18 and 20yds. D. A. Hitchcock, Sec’y-Treas. May 30.—Scranton, Pa., Rod and Gun Club’s fifth annual tourna- ment. J. D. Mason, Sec’y. May 30.—Buffalo, N. ¥., Audubon Gun Club’s all-day shoot. E. P. Reynolds, Field Capt. even 30.—Gallatin, Tenn., Gun Club’s shoot. W. G. Harris, ec’y. May 30.—East Harrisburg Association’s tournament. May 30-31—Milwaukee, Wis.—Shoot of the South Side Gun Club. May 30-31.—Pullman, Ill.—Calumet Gun Club’s target tourna- E. B. Shogren, Mer. June 2-4—Arnold’s Park, Ia—Budd & Burmister’s tournament. John Burmister, Spirit Lake, Ta. June 3.—Brooklyn, N. Y.—Shoot of the Fulton Gun Club. June 2-5—Baltimore, Md.—Third annual Saltimore County shoot; three days targets; one day live birds; $500 in purses and prizes. Hawkins and Malone, Managers. June 3-4—Boston, Mass.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- ment, under the auspices of the Boston Shooting Association. O. R. Dickey, Sec’y. June 3-5.—Parkersburg, W. Va.—Sixth annual tournament of the West Virginia Sportsmen’s Association, under auspices of Ohio Valley Shooting Association. J. F. Mallory, Sec’y. June 4-5.—Indiana State shoot, under auspices of the Lafayette Gun Club. R. A. Livenguth, Sec’y. June 4-5—South Dakota State Sportsmen’s Association’s annual tournament, under auspices of the Vermillion Gun Club. G. Harris, Sec’y. **June, second week.—Shreveport, La.—Caddo Gun Club’s tour- nament. une 7-8.—Ligonier, Pa., Gun _Club’s tournament. une 8-12.—Ossining, N. Y.—New York State Association for the Protection of Fish and Game’s forty-fiith annual tournament, under the auspices of the Ossining Gun Club. June 9-10.—Lafayette, Ind.—Indiana State shoot, under auspices of Lafayette Gun Club. : June 9-11.—Sioux City, Ta.—Ninth annual amateur tournament of the Soo Gun Club. B. F. Duncan, Sec’y. ; June 9-11.—Cincinnati, O.—Seventeenth annual target tourna- ment of the Ohio Trapshooters’ League. Chas. T. Dreihs, Sec’y. *June 10-i1.—Ruffsdale, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. R. S. Deniker, Sec’y. June 16-19—Warm Springs, Ga.—The Interstate Association’s tournament, under the auspices of the Meriwether Gun Club. Chas. L. Davis, Sec’y. June 16-18.—New London, Ta.—Seventh annual midsummer tar- get tournament of the New London Gun Club. *June 17-18—McKeesport, Pa., tournament. June 24-25.—Rutherford, N. J.—Interstate Association tourna- ment under the auspices of the Union Gun Club. *June 24-25,—New Castle, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. James Atkinson, Sec’y. July 4.—Towanda, Pa., Gun Club’s annual tournament. W. F. Me.—All-day tournament of the Riverside Dittrich, Sec’y. July 4.—Topsham, Shooting Club. Fred W. Atkinson, Sec’y. *July 7-8.—Ligonier, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. J. O’H. Denny, Sec’y. July 8-9—Huntsville, Ala—The Interstate Association’s tourna- ment, under the auspices of the Huntsville Gun Club. E. R. Matthews, Sec’y. July 810.—Arkansas State Sporismen’s Association's thirteenth annual meeting and tournament, under the auspices or the Jones- boro, Ark., Gun Club, of which Matthews is Sec’y-Treas. **) uly, second week.—Memphis, Tenn., Gun Club’s tournament. July 14-16.—The Americus, Ga., second annual iriterstate target tournament. H. S. McCleskey, Sec’y. *July 21-22.—Beaver Falls, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. W. R. Keefer, Sec’y. 4 July 30-Aug. 1,—Viroqua, Wis.—The Interstate Association’s tournament, under the auspices of the Viroqua Rod and Gun Club. Dr. R. W. Baldwin, Sec’y. *Aug. 5-6.—Brownsville, Pa., Rod and Gun Club’s tournament. Aug. 12-15.—Toronto, Ont.—Annual tournament of the Dominion Trapshooting and Game Protective Association. A. W. Throop Sec’y-Treas., Ottawa, Can. : Aug. jolene Hepidss Rich Second enka target tourna- ment oO e Consolidate portsmen’s ssociation of Rapids; $1,000 added. A. B. Richmond, Sec’y. : ena Aug. 19-20.—Ottawa, Ill.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- ment, under the auspices of the Rainmakers’ Gun Club. Paul A. Selember, Sec’y. _ : es ,19-20.—Millvale, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. Wm. Buss- er, Sec’y. Aug. 25-28—Lake Okoboji, Ia—Annual Indian t Frank C, Riehl, Chief Scribe, aia) pith? ane 1-2.—Irwin, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. John Withero, ec’y. Sept. 2-3.—Akron, O.—The Interstate Association’s tourna Bee the auspices of the Akron Gun Club. G. E, Waconer: ec’y, 438 Sept, 7.—Fall tournament of the Springfield, Mass., Shooting Club. C. L. Kites, Sec’y. *Sept. 9-10.—Enterprise Sun Club tournament, Sept. 15-16—Ligonier, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament, i. OoE: ‘Denny, Sec’y. *Sept. 28-24—Ruffsdale, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. RS: Deniker, Sec’y. Oct. 6-7.,—Allegheny, Pa.—North Side Gun Club’s tournament. L. B. Fleming, Sec’y. Saturdays.—Chicago.—Garfield Gun Club; grounds W Fifty- second avenue and Monroe street. Dr. J. W. Meek, Sec’y. *Member of Western Pennsylvania Trapshooters’ Chas. G. Grubb, Sec’y, 507 Wood street, Pittsburg. **\Vfembers of MisaisSLapl Valley Trapshooters’ and Game Pro- tective Association. J. J. Bradfield, Secy, Vicksburg, Miss. DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. Club secretaries are invited to send their scores for publication in these columns, also any mews notes they may care to have published. Mail all such matier to Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 346 Broadway, New ‘York. ForEsST AND STREAM goes to press on TUES- DAY OF EACH WEEK. League. The Union Gun Club will hold an all-day shoot at Rutherford, N. J-, on May 30: td The next shoot of the Fulton Gun Club will be held on June 3. Every one welcome. td The Richmond Gun Club will hold its next shoot at Concord, Staten Island, on Decoration Day. R The Sec’y-Treas., C. L. Kites, informs us that the Springfield Shooting Club will hold a fall tournament on Sept. 7. The New Jersey State Sportsmen’s Association, as a repre- sentative body, seems to be consistently reposeful, Mr. Fred Quimby arrived in New York on Monday of this week after a long business trip in the West. He will remain about a week before taking wing again. The South Side Gun Club, of Newark, and the Union Gun Club shot a six-man team race, at Rutherford, on Saturday of last week, The Union Club won by a score of 250 to 225. The members of the Binghamton Rod and Gun Club and Owego, N. Y., Gun Club are considering a series of club shoots, competing alternately on each other’s grounds. & The match between Messrs. S. Whitmore, of Brunswick, Me., and A. G, Fisher, of Bath, each shooting at 100 targets, resulted in favor of Mr. Whitmore, by a score of 89 to S4. Mr. Frank Lawrence was a visitor in New York after the Pennsylvania State shoot. He journeyed to Williamsport, 12 Bigg. on Monday, to attend the Interstate Association shoot, May 27 and 28. R The Hunters Rifle Club contemplate holding a shoot on the club grounds at Elizabeth, N. J., on Decoration Day. A 50-bird match, between Mr. Henry Orstat, of Elizabeth, and Mr. Geo. Wheeler, of Newark, will be a feature of the meeting. 4 The North River Gun Club, of Edgewater, N. J., announces a holiday shoot on May 80, commencing at 1 o’clock. In a 10- man team match with the Spring Valley Gun Club last Satur- day, the North River Club won by a score of 171 to 183; each man shot at 25 targets. Keep in mind this bit of information which the Cincinnati Gun Club emphasizes in its programme: ‘Reduced railroad rates, one and one-third fare for round trip on the certificate plan. Be sure and get your certificate, Ask your agent for them now.” 4 Mr. C. A. Lockwood, of Jamaica, L. I., will give a Decoration Day shoot near Rockaway, on the east shore of Jamaica Bay. The expert, Mr. J. S. Wright, has been engaged as manager. Mr. Lockwood will entertain his friends with a dinner on that day. The event has all the essentials of a pleasant outing. & On May 23 the Poughkeepsie Gun Club was represented by a team at Ossining with a purpose to take back the Inter County Cup, which it held for a time, till the Ossining Gun Club con- cluded to take it. There were seven men to a team, 265 targets to a man. The scores were: Ossining, 142; Poughkeepsie, 133. RB Mr. T. B. Nichols, of Nichols, Iowa, won the Smith Cup with a straight score of 20 targets, at the Iowa State Shoot, at Osceola, May 21. In the averages, Booth was first with 873 for the first two days, shooting at 440 targets; Crosby, second, 372; Heer, third, 368; Gilbert, fourth, 367; Marshall, fifth, 360; Budd, sixth, 359. t 4 The week beginning. June 7 is notable for the great tourna- ments fixed to take place in it. The New York State Shoot, at Ossining; the Ohio Trapshooters’ League, at Cincinnati; the Caddo Gun Club’s tournament at Shreveport, La.; the Ligonier, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament, and several others, will afford ample opportunity for the shooters of all points of the compass ‘to get busy. e The estate, on which are the clubhouse and traps of the Brooklyn Gun Club, is to be sold on June 18, and as a conse- quence, the last shoot of the Brooklyn Gun Club was shot on those old grounds on last Saturday. Mr. John S. Wright, the club manager, with his usual energy, has new grounds in view, and it is quite possible that the old clubhouse will be moved to the new grounds and shooting resumed in the near future. \ B Mr. D. W. Hallam, secretary of the Dover, N. H., Sportsman’s Association, writes us the following kind remembrance: “The regular field days of the Dover Sportsman’s Association are Memorial Day, May 30; Fourth of July and September 30, Labor Day. We shoot ever Saturday, from 4 to 6 P. M. If any of our friends should happen to be in our vicinity call and see us at the grounds, where we will furnish you with guns and ammuni- tion.” 436 FOREST AND STi. AM. {May 30, 1003. The programme of the Cimeinnati Gun Cluli’s forthcoming ‘tournament has a guessing event, purse $25, class guessing, two moneys, 60 and 40 per cent.; “t0 per cent. to the one making the nearest estimate to, or the exact number of shooters who will participate in this tournament, and 40 per cent. to the next closest estimate. Only those who participate in the tournament are eligible to guess. All guesses must be in writing, and must June 1, or bear P.O. mark of that date.” Do ties guess the tie off? R Mr. S. M. Van Allen,-an expert, is reported by the Brooklyn Eagle to have done some remarkable shooting on Tuesday of last week: ‘Stephen M. Van Allen broke the world’s record at 1,000 clay pigeons, consecutive shooting, by breaking 995 out of a possi- ble 1,000, at Jamaica. The event took place at his cottage, at the Three Mile Mill, in the presence of a number of invited guests. George Morris acted as referee, and William Seeley as scorer. One hour and thirty minutes were taken from the time that the first shot was fired to the close of the shoot. ‘The shooting was done in stands of 100 pigeons, at a 380-foot raise. ‘The birds were thrown by hand. Van Allen scored his first miss at his fifty-first bird. His longest run without a miss was 372, and he broke 765 with but four misses. Van Allen 1s manager of the Mansion House at Jamaica, and is quite a trick shooter.” The programme of the seventh annual tournament of the W. Va. State Sportsmen’s Association, under the auspices of the Ohio Valley Shooting Association, Parkersburg, W-. Va., June 3, 4, and 5, provides $160 added money. The events are alike for each day, eight at 15 targets, $1.50 entrance, $8 added, and four at 20 targets, $2 entrance, $5 added, with the single excep- tion that on the second day after the sixth event the State cham- pionship at 50 targets, entrance $1.50, will be shot. Jvery one will stand at 16 yards. Experts shoot for targets only, at 1 cent each. Shooting commences at 9 o'clock. Grounds open for practice on June 2. High gun for three days, expert class, will receive a gold medal, Three lowest averages, $4, $6 and $8. The Rose system will govern the moneys. Shells shipped, care of Mallory Brothers & Stewart, prepaid, will be delivered on the grounds free. . j R The programme of the Soo Gun Club’s tournament, June 9-11, at Sioux City, Ia., has like events for each day, eight events at 15 targets, four at 20 targets, entrance $1.50 and $2, with $10 added be in by divide or to each event. 7, at 15 targets, silver cup to high gun. which is the Interstate Championship Contest, In cash and merchandise, $500 will be added. Meals served in the clubhouse. Shooting commences at 9 o’clock. The tournament is for amateurs. Professionals are barred from the purses. Shooters scoring 93 per cent. or over will be charged $3 per day, extra: 92 and less than 93, $2; 91 and less than 92, $1. The fund so created will be equally divided among those who shoot through the programme and score less than 89 per cent, Professionals will have $15 per day, $10 to first high gun, $5 to second. 2 cents. Grounds open for Targets, 2 practice on June 8 Ship shells and guns to J. W. Boyd, 506 Fifth Street. The programme for the Interstate Association’s Trapshooting tournament, given for the Meriwether Gun Club, Warm Springs, Ga., June 16-19, provides two days of target shooting, ten events each day, alternately 15 and 20 targets, $1.50 and $2 entrance, and $8 and $12 added money. On the third day there are two live bird events, of which No. 1 is at § birds, $8 entrance, birds included, 30 yards’ rise, class shooting. No. 2 is at 12 birds, $12 entrance, birds included, handicaps 26 to 33 yards. Three moneys, Rose system, ratios 5, 3 and 2. On the fourth day, the Warm Springs, Ga., annual Live Bird Handicap will be shot. The con- ditions are 25 birds, $25 entrance, birds extra, four moneys, Rose system, ratios 8, 5, 3 and 2. The Meriwether Gun Club guaran- tees $500. The contestant who makes the highest score will re- ceive a handsome piece of sterling silver plate in addition to the money prizes. If a tie for it, it shall be shot off miss and out. Targets 2 cents. The grounds will be open for practice on June 15. Lunch served free to contestants. Guns and ammuni- tion prepaid and marked in owner’s name, forwarded to Chas. L. Davis, Warm Springs, Ga., will be delivered on the shoot- ing grounds free of charge. The target events are handicaps, distances 14 to 23 yards. The handicap committee has a member- ship as follows: Col. J. T. Anthony, Charlotte, N. C.; Col. Thomas Martin, Bluffton, S. C.; Messrs, R. H. Baugh, Birming- ham; F. C. Wilson, Savannah, and F. H. Woodworth, Chatta- nooga. Special rates, one and one-third fare on the certificate plan, from all points south of the Potomac and Ohio rivers, and east of the Mississippi River, including Washington, Cincinnati and St. Louis. ® The programme of the seventeenth annual target tournament of the Ohio Trapshooters’ League, to be held under the auspices of the Cincinnati, O., Gun Club, June 9-11, states that there will be $300 added money, and $1,750 in guaranteed purses. All stand at 16 yards. Targets, 2 cents. No one barred. Shooting commences at 9 o’clock. Targets thrown 50 yards, unknown traps, unknown angles, Professionals will pay $2 per day ex- tra; all others will pay $1, this fund to be divided among all amateurs shooting through all the regular events, and who do not win their entrance fees. There are eleven 15-target events on the first day, of which No. 6, 25 targets, is the Press-Post Trophy; Nos. 7 and 8, 30 targets, the State Journal Cup, and No. 11, special at 25 targets; all the rest are at 15 targets, $1.50 en- trance, $5 added. The Press-Post trophy event is for a guaran- teed purse of $250, all surplus added; forty-two high guns. Regu- Jar entries $3.50, close June 1; penalty entries $5. On the second day, besides the regular events, Nos. 6, 7 and 8, 50 targets, are for the L. C. Smith trophy, $7 entrance, for a guaran- teed purse of $500. The special event, the Sportsman’s Reyiew trophy, is at two-man team race, 25 targets per man, optional sweeps for $2.50; entrance per team, $1. On the third day, besides the regular events, Nos. 6 to 10, 20. targets each, is the Ohio Trapshooters’ League Grand International, at 100 targets, for the championship of the world, at 16 yards, en- trance $14, for a guaranteed purse of $1,000, and all surplus added. No, 11 is the Shooting and Fishing 5-man team race, 50 targets per man, $1 per man entrance; 30 singles and 10 pair. To each of the 15- paiee events, $12 will be added. BrerNnarRD WATERS. She had fifteen million dollars, Placed in bonds, and shares, He had fifteen million dollars, So they merged their sentiments. Wow they’ve raised a son who’s valued At exactly thirty cents. and rents; —Chicago Tribune, T, There is one exception on the second day, No. IN NEW JERSEY. Union Gun Club. Rutherford, N. J., May 23.—Between events 5 and 6 the contest for the Shooting and Fishing trophy took place between teams of the South Side Gun Club, of Newark, and the Union Gun Club. There were thirty-two contestants present. The scores follow: Events: tas se Se ere so Bo Targets: 1h 15.920 15.15. 1b 10: 26. 25 UB ATES 9 5.5.55.3.s5 fisctee dace $e salamat aU LD “1 LS ee Gardner * eee tangqnnt Quaiys el SOA Eee ee Bnielel heg.s en. tihsecaaare nah ot eer 3 Ip. 196 1a) ibe 10 9 CHUMGUST F.f4citiaau ee ket Eee Nee PAODIAL EAR ste 1 OTS. ee Apgar SOE SREB Oe At CREE RESIS SH 1g 24 19) 12) 43 36 99.5 24 Yeomans 1ieh ea Oe ae eA COS Tether feet 13 12 17. 12 Sa SC aErGy we eae 16: 5 18+ si29"ib: ey 22) 22 Gollins: 1h, 13) “WS* i 12 Whitehead Sz te Tee cca <4 ip Mich ete cn sims ER fi Peal iy bea) PPCTIAN TOL ers seeing cee Sh As oem te ata ealins T 9 9 Money +3 Ses ae feos ovis wh Bedde oe BA “ee 2s IO pd Abana eee NEE cae gt ot 14 13 18 12) 12 13° 10.223 Bytlete pub. cactt nto sapien keke ee ott eevee LU gia” atk Say Wise cores MAE LRN aes Se 1h: bran 25 PULL SOM pails ie teu leat e Reet 114 TS: eS) ALES sites TERA Tay Sens sqo ec emer. oer 7 Sy ay Eu ahs Mare basselley, ots < eat rakeet da 7 GO A as Hiigilard! 53 $2 5.5.0: sate ee 9 10° “9 A Deeb. siti erepe sae Tepe eT eo eee Ee: EPGTEMISCH panzer: Lanter ee tee Serer tt wird CAO OOO esa caret. wit. @h5 Oe OINhaGkh weg: J. sh sso ease eave BS pW fed ee a eve, LY BReivenspatte 2214. mss tend oct in ane eae ee elo” 5 ee 1a Gti) oe a SOR aap te He we eo eee ae Be P NED Sie Wom aiid o's «4/420 /ah ale skis bine rictele 15 TU a Jerotyd cia BPA AAAPAA SRSA OME A he A Aoe Fresainer. 6 ovivesits hash hoe seek des 1s? 8, -9 > 8 “8 Brinkerhoft Fa es eS OB H Von Lengerke Se ee ot MBE EN Mitch acts. ts bel 2G a4. 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Herrington. . .01111111101101110110010101101101111111111111101110—38 Wi ie eigichks | an 401111111101111111111.07111111111101101110110111101—42 ** Engle 36, Feigenspan 42, , Summary: South Side—Pierey 55, Sinnock 38, Gardiner 36, Herrington 38; Union—Carlough 37, Money 41, Simpson 41, 44, Huck 42; total 250 Franklin Gun Club. Franklin Furnace, N. J., May 23.—The club shoot to-day, at 10 targets, resulted as follows: TF. Kishpaugh 6, A. Right TE Williams 6, F. Suthren 38, Harry Pape 7, Hawkins 2, W. Stephens 6. total 225 Collins 45, Apgar Pattenburg—Independent, Pattenburg, N. J., May 25.—The Pattenburg Gun Club shot the return: match, May 23, with the Independent Gun Club, of Easton, on the Easton ground. Our boys report a very pleasant visit, and being well entertained by gentlemen. 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The following are the scores: North River Gun Club—Richter 15, F. Truax 22, Glover 21, Monahan 21, Eickhoff 16, Allison 17, Vosselman 15, Merrill 15, Morrison 20, Harland 9; total 171. Spring Valley Gun Club—Smith 15, Geiger 16, C. E. Fisher 18, C. B. Fisher 20, Mapes 6, Addis 8, Blanchard 12, Singer 15, Bahr 16, Keesler 7; total 133. We will have a large shoot on Decoration Day, May 30, shoot- ing to commence at 1. P. M. Jas. R. MERRILL, Sec’y North River Gun Club. WNew York German Gun Club, Louis T. Muench, Dr. Hudson and Emil Steffens were the three high guns on Wednesday of last week at Outwater’s grounds, at Carlstadt, N. J. The event was the regular monthly contest of the New York Germant Gun Club, at which eighteen lovers of trapshooting faced the score. Baudendistel, stars of the club, had the misfortune of losing his second bird, that was hard hit, and finished his score with a total of 9. Block, Von Kattengill, Schlicht and big Pete Albert tied for third place with 8 kills each. Little Charlie Brown, a son of one of the old-timers, made his first killing on that day with a score of 5 out’ of 10. Following the club event, the balance of the April sedres, on account of the scarcity of birds, was postponed until the May shoot. Garms, Muench and Steffens were the only ones to score 5 each. The birds were a good lot of flyers. Scores: J Vd Block, 285.255. cscccnceseretarecses 22101 20221— § 22120 —t P Garms, pie So Nal 2 Ae SRE ge) 2122021220— 7+ 12222 —5 H Von Kattengill, 30...........0srseeee *202221221— § 00120 —3 Eh ertchy e000 oares. reer este 121222222240 11222 — Dr. Edson, 28.\.). 0 eer cers betes e ne 1211112111—10 12120 — G Hagenah, 25......-..csseserteccesees 0010002020— 3 2002002200—4 J Wellbrock, 29..........0 +. sebeereseees 0222002102— Fain paecincee GB ryatde oe oe ec aig wees NaOsere Serayeeiss 110122*00?— 5. se eee E Steffens, TE an codoh cece tds 121222211110 22111 —5 H Mesloh, Oh ot Sere a ett och #22012000—= 4 sees eens J Schlicht, 28 2.0. ssssecevesc sree ee scene 2120212012— 8 O1*11 —3 R Baudendistel, PS ae TP el Ref oa 1021111222 9 01122 ae P WAI rte eS te bec eeeeaeeae re tr rin 0101111221 8 01012 =3 fag Dannefelser, 28........ BIE AR 1-43 12101012*2— 7 01011 —3 WW ale Asi Acliboio) enos0u cry see er ES 1010220021 6 0*#002° —t “ Radel 280.3 cusesssasaege sets tp ere en es 101*121201— 9 00100 —1 i welt acob, ee nthe PCI S ER eitiea atetso ag ...-1002*0*011— 4 O*111 —3 -1202021001— 6 Coe ee H Meyn, Dae Reker § ooanneks oreo Saturday of Owing to the fact that the estate, on which the clubhouse and one of the coming - ON LONG ISLAND, Fulton Gun Club, Brooklyn, N. Y., May 25.—The next shoot of the Fulton Gun Club will be held on June 3, commencing at one o’clock. Every one is welcome, ‘The weather was pleasant. The scores follow: Events: Tt. ed oy CEE Be Be el 3S Targets: Jo 1h a5 do ab ab) Ge: SS CHET EY guraiersicc piv nce ey PAWN acs ee eh oie 4 14 14 127 12° 13° 1120 ELAHICE | Anal iobha sts heen seeh ee wae 12 13 10.438" 10 14 8 20 AA Schoverling lag. a Fale basa orga es ae tee etl laedb lle E aT S. As. SGQEEET TEE Ro eials sellels sce aisles vsvesslote eo berenetctotttes O10 “Sel el Ome tt mals DAVIS Sesto sa dese sate nae dover ae SE TG con Lemp uke TET ESTEEM Atta te slaves slg ocs.5'4 5:4 sake ais testelsateete 12 10 aA 17 CEVA O LCL Stmatercrem iets | set feties « sires avieees tee TOs “OS Ls WETNSHCL: Mik codenee dead decieds st asshale 1 4 & wise Sioa COLE Ki setGiaatns MAG Cea s shes chafing sealers 12 se vitare ale atte a Club medal handicap, 25 targets; for inetanets only: Bis Hep. Tl. Brk. Hep. T’l. Fleatne. “annccamees li 4 CA WV ANASS asc aha enajarete ae 6, Sor SEL schoverling .......18 1 19 Reynolds .......... 8 4 fT GOCLTEr Meiers 12 4 A. A. SCHOVERLING. Brooklyn Gun Club, Brooklyn, N. Y.—At the shoot of the Brooklyn Gun Club on last week, there were fifteen shooters present. traps are situated, will be sold on June 18; this was the last shoot on the old grounds. Mr. John §. Wright, the club mana- ger, has other grounds’in view, and the club devotees will not be listurbed to any important degree. The scores: Events: 32 Back ee Gy Events: 1234567 ‘Targets 10 15 10 15 25 10 20 Targets: 10 15 10 15 25 10 20 Sharpes irene 713 81423 .... Dwyer ..... - 6 9 561020 613 Brooks sesee 4 7 9014.... Mohrman ... 7 9 91221 817 ROE Gas anos 511 81111 413 Winslow ANS VS 18es. 5. Made 6.5. 971 716201094 “Clark oi5.22 4. Sy. ety Wess TREN 425-5 614 81121 616 Ackley 2.5 Sh eels Wright ..... 812 81019 511 Randall ..... Sig ktee te UPL ea ates, “Newton ..... bE! “ete Osterhiout +7 TI Te Hitcheock .. G14.... 23 8 16 No. 6 was at 5 oar and No. 7 at 10 pairs. ; Sheepshead Bay Rod and Gun Club, Ed Voorhees was shooting in great form on Thursday, the 21st, and won the club medal of the Sheepshead Bay Rod and Gun Club at the Cedars after the third tie, in which he defeated John Pillon, with a score of 34 out of 35. Several sweepstakes followed, in which Schorty and WARS were high guns. Scores: Events: I McKane i Voorhees +1 Williamson C Cooper Dr- Gowband Schorty Montanus, Sr Paul Suss i es = o ona: $ CORDD: RWWA: re i i ey BOG? Com AS ft a) S ee ee ee ee ee i rit Montanus, E Carolan S Damon: omp~acte *Helmstreet Ebi ussa os racker 7p¢chorty .. Dr Hill *Guests. Shoot off: Voorhees Pillion The first column of figures is the point handicap. Events 1, 2, 3 and 4 ate sweepstakes at 10 targets. mon: 3 Bown: i X . . . . . . + . . . . . . * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . * . « . 7Re-entry. Indianapolis Gun Club, ‘INDIANAPOLIS, May 18.—We have organized in this city a new gun club, called the Indianapolis Gun Club. It is incorporated under the laws of this State, with a capital stock of $5,000, di- vided into 1,000 shares of $5 each. We have secured by purchase 16 acres of land, which, for natural advantages, cannot be sur- passed anywhere in the country. It is, in dimensions, about 825 by 900 feet, and is located on one of our trolley lines, within 15 minutes’ ride from the business center of the city. The land was purchased at $100 per acre, and before the title had passed we were offered $150 per acre cash, or about $800 profit on our investment; It is the intention of the promoters of this club to make if more of a, State shooting park than a purely local - one. Stock has been taken by a great many of the well-known shooters of the country. We propose erecting a large clubhouse and making such other improvements as will be necessary to have a strictly first-class trapshooting park, and will spend upon improvements alone, in the neighborhood of $4,000. We propose making this the best equipped grounds in the United States, having in view the securing of the largest trapshooting events which will ever be held in this country. We are going upon the theory thgit it is only necessary to show the shooters of the country and those interested in such sport that our grounds are superior to those of any other club, and that in addition to this we are able to handle the crowd. We will have sufficient frontage to place six sets of traps in a direct line, extending from one side of the ground to the other, “and enabling the shooting to be done toward the north. The trolley line runs directly in front of the clubhouse, and one can ‘step right off the car on to our platform. Indianapolis is so centrally locate? that it is an easy matter for shooters from all sections of the country to reach us, and on account of its ad- vantage as a railroad center, it will be of less difficulty to secure rates than at most other points. W. T. Nasu. Chicago Guo Club, Curcaco, Ill., May 16.—Lem Willard was the winner of first im the weekly trophy contest, after a shoot-off with O. O’Brien,. with whom he tied. The conditions of the Chicago Gun Club’s; weekly trophy are 25 targets, unknown angles, handicaps extra, allowances. ‘The scores: ‘ Shot at. Hep. Score. Shot at. Hep. Scores Wallanceee ns sotens 26 2 25 OeBrien. 4.5255 5.08e {im ON FACIE Ga Bel an eines: 29 4 23 Bowles sescueeseee 4 22° Be SGarsonuse 31 6 15. Paterick ws: iasss- 33 8 au Mts Carson..... B2 7 13 Walters) sicesnsnr 29 4 16 TROLL CEL settte anstetete 27 2 14 Wear L-.as0eseeer 31 6 17 VTS ye BIH cuslaseletahats 28 3 20 Dr Morton...... 3l 6 20. rari i ae ass 31 6 18 Dr Franklin.....26 . 0 10 Bolfman’ | iss.c5 +20 3 19° > jee Aioneswauene, 361 il dake dine oi eneeees 25 0 17 Darlington .....25 0 13 Weber 0 ssas-+s 28 0 17 Mrs Howard ....32 7 15 CBE OEE 25 0 21 In the monthly handicap at 15 targets that followed the weekly event, Paterick, Willard, Weart, Ikey and Dr. Buckley made straight scores. O’Brien and Dr. Morton scored 14 each. Zacker- -'and Boltman scored 13; Bowles, Walters, Weber and Elias eachy Des tnetae Franklin and Jones tied with 10 broke. broke 12; A. A. Watters, Sec’y, | SS May 30, 1903.1) Iowa State Tournament. May 21.—The annual tournament of the lowa State Sportsmen’s Association closed to-day. The attendance was good, and the tournament a success in every way. The pro- gramme was a large one. “The two first days, May 19 and 20, at targets, called for thirteen events each day, and the third day had three live-bird events: one for the State team trophy, one for Ottumwa diamond badge, and one at 15 live birds, which was cut to 12, owing to supply of birds running out. The weather the first two days was pleasant, with a good breeze; but the last day was warm and sultry. Event No. 8, for Smith cup, is not included in averages. Six teams tied for State team trophy, and the shoot-off was miss-and- out. Klein and Gilbert won on the eighteenth round. This gives them the ownership of this cup, as they have wen it three times in succession, ; Eleven were tied for the Ottumwa diamond badge and agreed to shoot off in next event, miss-and-out, to save birds. Marshall, Crosby, Hindmarsh and Bottger won, and will divide the en- trance money next year. The Association meeting was held on Wednesday evening. Spirit Lake was selected as the location for holding next annual meeting. The following officers were elected: C. W. Budd, President; Fred Gilbert, Vice-President; John Burmister, S-cre- tary; Chas. H. Copley, Treasurer. Board of Directors: Frank Duncan, Dr. Douthett, Henry Steege, T. B. Nichols, W. B. Linell. Legislative Board: Geo. McCulley, J. F. Powell, Dr. ©. E. Cook and J. W. Gray. : The manufacturers were represented by Marshall, Riehj, Crosby, Gilbert, Budd, Lord and Whitney. 7 B. Nichols, of Nichols, Ia., won the Smith cup’ with a straight score. The win was a popular one, as he is a favorite with the sportsmen of Towa. The scores: : First Day, May 19. Osceota, Ia., Events: Heegh ah 4a oh Goegeree SO deta: tS oe ‘Targets: 15 15 15 15 15 20 15 2U 1b YU 15 Zu lo Broke Gilberts, 22; 22... .5-.++ Jl 14.13 15 13 17 12 16 15 17 14 15 15 170 Grésby, 22, 22....++3+-+ 14 12 12 15 14 18 15 14 19 15 20 13 181 Heer, 20, 19 .........+- 13 13 11 12141312 ..14191417 14 = 1bb Budd, 20, 20..... . 14 12 12 12 15 18 13 18 12 18 12:19 15 L712 Burnside, 19, 18 . 18 9101410%,131713 16 9 14% Foley, 19, 21......- 1115151815161516121414 110 PRighi, TOP As. 4. 235.5% 1211131418 ..121213 1613 151 Marshall, 19, 19 12 14 13 16 12 .. 11 15 12 18 14 166 Aleing 29) 19s oieii sees 13 12 14 17 13 18 14 16 14 16 11 167 Waters, 19, 18........-. 11 111318141613 ..13815121611 158 Tinelloed seu Joven arise « 45 1314141818141812161218138 172 Croutheup, 19, 19....... 13 18 18 15 1417 1215131713 2010 170 Nichols, 18, 18 ......-- 12 12 10 18 15 15 14 201318121610 160 M thompson; 18 18... 12 13 138 131518 11 .. 1517 91813 167 McDonald, 18. 18..... 12 131214121511 ..13 18141915 = 166 Duncan, 18, 18..-...... 13 13 12 1312 1413 181419122014 169 Gray, 18, 17.......-- _... 101211 101317714 .. 13161219 9 ob Crisman, 17......-..-+- 11 13181213 18141413171215 11 162 McCulley, 17, 16........ 10 12 1412131811 181017121612 157 S Douthett, 17, 16...... 9 812 9 § 912181017121414 13: R Thompson, 17, 16.... 12 10 111012 16 12 .. 12 17121911 154 Stafford, 17, 16 ........ 1 91212101812 ..1815121813 155 Booth, 16, 17.........-- 13 1411 14131912141217141812 169 Elbert, 16, 17... 121414 9141913191516101815 169 Forney, iu, 10... .13:13 1214 91612 ..14171317 9 159 Burmeister, 16 .....--- 13 121015 917 1418 11 18 12 Wight Caren ebb has eerie imiepoee arse 2 Oren EEL MLO 9° 105 Roan Wo ves Gayle qn. 11 131015121613 ..1216 121711 188 iejigiance In Alle AREAS 1411 101215 1413161417191710 156 Grittities L6Ms step. eee « - 10141414 915121612161418% 161 McCauley, 17, 16 ..-... 42101812 9 8121312141016 %* 142 Ht Adams, 16.......... 42 $1111121814..1414131714 158 Clin fes bey ifbehata tao ee e 4131112141314 7..1115121514 1obl McFarland, 17, 16...... 7 911121012 7..1816101715 189 Wallace, 18, 17...-..... 4413 1118151511 ..1417131914 169 Bell Msn ee ass se se aa 44141112141714181419151911 174 W H Davis, 16........ TO Shade wal SeNE MS ey fey eae eres ki ne G Hy Davis, 16. =....-.- Cede G La) TEE ee a See eer Tee ae sa Painter, 17, 16......... Tiferer avila aie ee es ye se ce Ae AAMT aylor, lites treesast ite clues or) 2 teoto, 10 17 12 16 10 ees er Rite ben kc teeter gars shaese ee $15101613.. .. wee Bottger, 18 .........605 26 oe oe Oe Ee as Bee Tey AB reese ace ee ce we ee oe 13 2 12181320 8 e Teatdis,.16) sresearda sae! ss Wath Oe er ead ieee dnt, “5% Second Day, May 20. Events: TLR eae tae Tae gs Ss Gla ey Targets: 15 15 15 15 15 20 15 20 15 25 15 2015 Broke Gilberty W22a stk ese ee 131114181419 141712 23141815 197 Crosby, 22 ....2+-5+-++ 12 11 1412 11 16 1418 13 2215 2013 191 acs 20 Mees eteietatcit we 13 11 1214141713 161320131714 187 Foley, 20, 19.......---- 10 $14121216131814 20131814 182 Bele 20 tide see Pelee aiatelers 12 10 13 12 11 18 14 13 13 20131813 181 Heer, 19) ......0 2255+ 42 15 11141517 1419 14 24141914 202 Klein, 19, 18.....-...--- 12 12 141311 15121815 28 82014 185 Te TCH EAS ci Scie vte asian 1213141213816 8161123131714 18 Marshall, 19 ..........+ 43 141211131815 151° 22141712 191 Crouthcup, 19, 18 ..... 7il 914131411151: 20 9.... ae ING CHOIS: cS) sccm tanel a 13 15 101214171518 11 201218 8 188 M Thompson, 18 91112 151415141815 20111914 187 Duncan, 18 .. 12 12 1414 14 15 18 16 15 24121513 189 Teles JMS) se anne ous 9101110151311 920131614 161 McDonald, 18, 17 11 12 141410161517 14 23131911 =: 189 Crisman, 138 11 1412 1117131611 22101711 178 Bottger, 17, 18........- 9 15 13 14 15 18 18 18 13 23141913 197 Powell, 17, 18.....,..-- 15 10 15 141219151614 22132011 196 Burnside, 17 ....--.-++- 15 12 14 15 12 15 13 18 14 24142014 200 Wallace, 17.....:..-.--- 1413 18 121516151912 24111915 198 Bickmore, 18, 16 ....--- TOR te Gur Onlowli, seeeren ce 0 caer le a oe Waters, 17 .....-+-.---- 14 $1213 1418151515 24122015 195 Reheat esac nae ai 15 11 14 12 1418 121913 21141913 195 Elbert, 17 .......++.+-- 13 13 11 11 14 16 13 18 14 23 14 19 10 189 Booth, 17 ......s-.52r. 14 12 1418 13 18138 18 15 24152015 204 Burmeister, 16......... 121213 918 14 11 16 12 241016 .. oe McCulley, 16 ........-- Wi111112 $1414181118131410§ 16d Saunders, 16 .........- 14121211121618161021 91511 172 R Thompson, 16 .-.... 13 111311 1315181714 241317 8 182 Griffin, 16)... <:.s2--->=- 14 10 11 12 15 10 12 18 13 22121913 181 Stafford, 16, 18.......-- 10 12 15 15 13 2012 1513 22131814 192 Moore and Hart, i6.... 91011 9 81313 1111181017... Oar: Dr Douthett, 16 ....... 12 14 12.13 1213131713 22121511 179 Painter, 16, 17.... $1513 141871141021 91611 178 WMavewlG. Speen sss he: 7 db tip a abby a Re a Bes aaa McFarland, 16........- 21413 1118 1416 11 21... ... rOjth al, Be AS Pes ern do 1415 12 16 13 17 .. 20. Adams; 16 -....-.---.-. aE Lah aR Pity tye AU ae oe es Taylor, 16....-..+-+---- 15 141416121412 21141411 182 Tyandis; 1G «2. cce-see- (eee as WERS domes F iforily 106 Beater asesorad 13 11 12515 .. ... 12.20 14 18. Forney, 16 :.:...-..---- 10g? P41 As. 2s ee Rittgers, 16 .....-..+.-- 2iieski ckba on 6 Dare, 1G ..-..42¢22+50+> 20 Se eah lps rR Ruffcorn, 16.........--- By 3h Be ee ae ualss Tochrie, 16 ....---...+. «. + 5 7 Wee AWialle ne dGsee cee nen ts Pre sli pane hab ate WWiGt. | AG head eewe eh pop oss nae IRR MEME eS Warner, 16 ...-.+.4n05 ss 2 TH Spy Oey pa a See es Peckanelh casey vacer ree, Peenesae ne el el 1b nee sae See Thitd Day, May 21. State trophy team event, two-man teams, 20 birds, entrance $4, birds extra: ‘ Sioux City. GYAY cece eee e rte p eee cern tere eee eee ence eenes 229211*112 —9 Duncan foeis dec scce ccc cce senses Oeeeeenens 2322202020 — T16 Des Moines. Boettger, -..-..cecceceeeeseee eee eee ereeenees 22222021220 —9 2921222127 —10—19 Spirit Lake. Gilbert ..-.-.2..5.: at eres tes toe fo Ee he Hale 291111201111111191_17 WET ness esc ciate senna tas et EAE EL bac andy 129222299231 212112 18—35 ; Nichols. NicholS veccceccerscccccuteeerteseentecrreere 911212211 21222122218 Crouthcup ee be beeen e te eee OMe D ERE R Te tebe saws 1221111202221 22210—16—34 Osceola. Douthett ....ssseee- 9s Nebieea heals nyth ease 212122112*210 —i1 BOOtl, wae ers heehee sae eee eee ee eee: 122122222221 —]2—28 Ottumwa No.1. GTIFAT oncyoctiee cle ts ce een seg et pecs chn tomes sate 22912122221210 = —18 Crissman Te ee ato es cage nee enter AOAAD III AR ES —14—27 Ottumwa No. 2. ihe Garvnders 9999922122211 M Thompson, 28, 991100122222—10 Weallsp2ene creer 929999129112 12 R Thompson, 27, 212222211221 —12 Marshall, 30.....- 999999999992 12 Duncan, 28...-.- <221221120222—11 Boettger, 29.....- 121292299992 12 Taylor, 28 221121002220— 9 (bresgibs AR. Sees tie 9*999010120i— 8 Gray, 28... _ .221022111121—11. Feleitrolice se ereics 021222992992-11 Gilbert, : 919202121221—11 Gilbert, 32........ 94219112122212 Nichols, 28....--+ 299*21121211—11 Crosby, <82s2s5.405 999191111212 12 McCulley, 98... .222121012220—10 Stafford, 28......- 999991201102 10 Hindmarsh, 28.. 121111211211—_12 Burnside, 30...... 9710021222291 —10 Foley, 28...+-+--- 999927112020—10 Douthett, 27.....- 002211120122— 9 Crouthcup, 29, . .,212122122022—11 Budde oSileae cect 922921201202—10 The first day 215 targets; second 225: ist day. 2d day. T’l. 191 3 AGES [I se ataese ee 181 2 Gilbert Shs... 5.407 170) a9T 367 iBieije MEO ASE RAAT 166 202 368 1Dholeteh Be see eo ZS eto 309 Burnside ........ 147 200 347 MOEA Coae emcee 170 182 352 etre Messe a oe 1h1 195 346 Marshal .. 166 194 360 TIME Deke eae bbe 167 1s5 6-352 Waterss ceeaidade te 158 195 BDO MeN gaye pscee t- 172 182 3b4 Crouthcup ...... 170 SoH 170 INRGhOlSe ae ves 160 183 343 M Thompson....167 187 354 McDonald ...... 166 189 355 ID Weiter eet bese 169 189 358 Gaaye Belcanieeas 156 61 317 enismttiesetens 162 178 340 1st day. 2d. day. T’l. 7 165 O22 McCulley «....+: 157 i Dr Douthett.....1384 179 313 R Thompson ...154 i182 3a Stafford ........ 155 192 347 IBOotiie ches “Sith wad eae am aoe Gate 24 WB Walt Bosh easteeedd tn Ie SWanlaits. Gre wes ne es ee vy 14 A Washburn Ac SD) bGISE Fasack tones s 19 is effet)” SU. Cenacle TAY ray ere Sos is ban tases 23 C Blandford & Buckley -sesncec5n es PAIR} GRR "ioaoeewe oe Ueber Events: 28 be OT Events: IL) vA eS Beate yy Targets: 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 Targets: 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 TI Washburn. 6 9 7,. .,10.. H Marshall.. .. 7 6 510 3 5 IDS eR Ree ee Go ep Sian SS LOE Sanit eas ss (a9, ieee TL Winans:. 8° 8 0: (, 8 99 Aa Travers... +: ie. (G98 86 A Duboises 10V&.... 0 5-.9ee 4, A Bedell oF; LORS: ea ee | Solel C Blandford. 9 8 9 910 8. (olavatses inde tice, Go ert! Salad eOl Teg Bk Se PRR ee i ee Vi ELectores as ae GP tOmsg med will WY pGlarke: est 7 8 5 G10 .. Miss Holland.... 6 75 8 5 Sle GmBanlowees = (0 ae os aber ele BUCKLENy ucaa os owen hese ) Hyland ..... TAS Ge Ra SVE ELEM Yoo ete See te es OU ode ot Cy GB; Dickey Bird Gun Club. Omana, Neb.—There was an unusually large attendance at the second regular summer shoot of the Dickey Bird Gun Club Sat- urday, but the scores, owing to the gale that swept transversely over the grounds, was instrumental in keeping the score way be- low the Dickies’ normal standard, Vorhees winning the medal with a total of 19 out of 20. Voorhees .iceec cscs cece eeeenene seer seen ees 111191.0111111011110110001—19 VT OTTISOTI Me foi 26.09 Relea rice Sree eat eee esas 10141401011010101110111111—18 IDTony cates Cor O p pe PAA SAK eter g tal sescs 1101101011010101110110001—18 ANS hte Veer S delay eeetaadA see phe AEE 1111100011100110001000100—16 Oye oe. sess sees cece teense neee ep eceneeaes 0117000001111. 000111001110—13 Sherwood Reereieitn acetic 319 sistsitinre we cee ott aa 1100011101011100101010110—15 MEICHOISOM etree tee mendes eee PEE 10011.00110111001010100111—15 Lane 16. ee eee vecne essences ee ee neeeceee rece: 11.00111.001110001111101110—16 Crim Se area yrs bk re tele ot alare se nictaee aca raaes 1111010010000111111011011—16 WV GelByesedien Hekate ace mire Oo enters 1111100111111100010111110—18 After the regular shoot there were a number of sweepstakes, in which some thirty shots, non-members and members, partici- pated, and in which the scores were improved, notably, McDon- ald broke his twenty-five straight, Toozer twenty-two and Vor- hees twenty. On Decoration Day the Dickies’ will give a grand all-day sweepstakes, open to all. The Soo Gun Club of Sioux City, Ia., is making elaborate preparations for their annual summer shoot, June 9, 10 and 11, and W. F. Duncanewrites me that among the entries will be such men as Budd, of Des Moines; Townsend, Herr, McDonald, Loomis, Fogg and Kimball, of Nebraska; Gilbert, of Spirit Lake; Gottlieb, of Kansas City; Riehl, of St. Louis, and many other of the high-class trappers. The prizes will aggregate over $4,000, and both amateurs and professionals are eligible. The premier event will be the -insterstate championship contest on June 10. Last year the cup was won by Guy Burnsides, of Knoxville, Tenn., and 50 per cent. of this year’s purse will go to him. The high gun will get the cup, while the remaining 50 per cent. of the purse will be distributed among the contestants, according to their standing. SANDY GRISWOLD. Chesapeake Gun Club, Newport News, Va., May 20.—The Chesapeake Gun Club will hold a big shoot at Riverview Park next Wednesday afternoon. Special events are being arranged for the occasion, and a num- ber of visiting shooters will attend as the guests of the club, Among the visitors will be Mr. Du Bray, a gun company repre- sentative and one of the well-known ‘‘crack” shots. Members of the Norfolk and Portsmouth clubs will also be among the visitors. The weekly shoot of the club was pulled off yesterday after- noon. The,weather was fine for the shoot and some yery good scores were made, but the number of shooters was rather small. Mr. T. F. Stearnes led the field and Mr. Jack Robinson, who was shooting for the third time, was second. The scores of yesterday’s shoot follow: Events: 12.3 Events: i) B23 Targets: 25 25 25 Targets: 25 25 25 TNE: “Stesines. sce: sees coe 23 22 24 Fred F Allen........... 8 812 Jack Robinson.......... BOA AG) OWE Stowe pjaanaesete © 20 19 .. Harry Westacott ....... DIAS “Jaro Webiess oo aaa 22-18 .. Fleming Saunders...... 18 20 21 The members of the club hope to have a good team to repre- sent them at the annual State shoot, to be held at Lynchburg this year. No team has been selected as yet, but an effort will be made to get one together. ve IER TIS Baltimore Shocting Association. Barttrmore, Md., May 23.—At the weekly shoot of the Balti- more Shooting Association to-day scores were made as follows: Hawkins ..---- 10 15 10 14 45—94 Cockey ....... 613 6 & ..—32 SHEL by. sec: 1015 914 46-94 Kesler ........ 5 7 5 § 25—50 Chew .....0- 10 13 10 13 46—92 Winchester . 5 8... .. 24—37 Malone ...- 10 14 10 11 44—89 Mordecai ..... 5 7 8 12 35-67 Lupus ..-- 71510 13 39—84 Silver King... 611 -9 14 ..—40 Henderson 9 14 .. 14 45—82 Brown 2... 5 11 6 10 36—68 Gent ...+-+-.++ 713 6 14 43-83 Hall 21.2.0... 710) Ged. S34 Roberts .....-- 711 6 14 88—76 Harper ....... AS tay Fy ay Preston .....- G 8S 16-48) Marley 258.2 .: 814 714 ..—48 Biddle ...---.+ -- «- 812 40-60 George ..,.... 10 18 1013 ..—46 Franklin ..,.- 7 8 810 ..—33 All communications intended for Forest and STREAM should always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Ca,, New York, and not to any individual connected with the paper. 438 Pennsylvania State Shoot. Tur week of shooting, according to the programme presented for May 18-21 by the Pennsylvania State Sportsmen’s Association, the competition at flying targets being under the auspices of the Florists’ Gun Club, Wissinoming, the competition at live birds being under the auspices of the Keystone Shooting League, at Holmesburg Junction, was an eminent success. Upward of 100,000 targets were thrown in the four days devoted to them, although Menday was a practice day, and not recognized as a part of the programme events. ‘ The programme was wisely and justly arranged. It was liberal in its provisions. It provided competition for amateur and pro- fessional alike, though the amateur was given the greater consid- eration, Special effcrt was made in the division of the moneys to provide for that unfortunate tournament class which has diffi- culty in scoring 80 per cent. In the open amateur sweeps $5 was added to fifth place, $3 to sixth place, so that a contestant who broke 10 or 11 out of 15, or 15 or 16 ont of 20 targets, would win something even if small, High and low average money was pro- vided. For ihe open amateur sweeps State Association members only were eligible to win the averages. The daily averages were $10 to the four high guns and $5 to the two low guns, $2.50 each. The general average prizes for three days, 300 targets, were $10, $7, $5 and $3, first to fourth, respectively, class shooting. Lowest general averages, $5, $3 and $2. There also was a trophy for the State Association members making highest average in State events 1, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9, and a trophy to lowest average. These events had a total of 165 targets. In the open amateur sweeps, all shoot- ers were taxed 50 cents. This fund was divided among all ama- teurs who in the three days’ events failed to win their entrance. An admission fee to the grounds was charged. Four magau- traps, run by electric motor, threw the targets. This part of the tournament was in charge of the expert, Mr. Charles North, who has had much experience in all the details of tournament matters. The tournament was managed by Mr, D. S. Daudt, who is a crack shot himself, either at targets or live birds. The cashier’s office was in charge of the expert, Mr. J. K. Starr, assisted by Messrs. A. B. Cartledge and H. H. Stevens. Other assistants at the target traps were: Trap No. 1—A. L. Whitaker, referee; J. L. Horn, scorer; F. C. Schneider, rustler. Trap No. 2,—John Hack, referee; Ned Nieukirk, scorer; H. Reed, rustler. Trap No, 3.—J. Elwell, referee; Chas. Reed, scorer; Ww. N. Purcell, rustler. Trap No. 4.—A. G. Daudt, referee; F. Rieley, scorer; F. Zeigen- tuff, rustler. . The weather much of the time was sultry and oppressively hot, mere like days of August than of spring. The grounds are delightfully situated close by the beautiful Delaware River, and are enjoyable in themselves, apart from the good competition which they afforded. A good substantial lunch was served. The merchandise prizes, added money and guar- anteed prizes were offered by the Florists’ Gun Club. The annual meeting of the Association was held on May 20, a large attendance being present. A large number of new clubs were elected to membership, which denotes an increased interest in trapshooting, and permanency and greater importance of the State Association. York and Williamsport made application for the State shoot of 1904. York was awarded it, and the vote was made unanimous. Officers were elected as follows: President, J. O’Hara Denny, of Ligonier; Vice-President, John A. Wilson, of Franklin; Secretary, J. N. Runk, of Chambersburg; Corresponding Secretary, Allen N. Seitz, of Glen Rock; Treasurer, J. H. Worden, of Harrisburg; Board of Directors: C. F. Kramlich, of Allen- town; J. F. O'Neill, of Wilkes-Barre; Dr. Geo. Goebel, of Phil- adelphia; Geo. Crane, of Mountville, and R. R. Bennett, of Pitts- burg. Messrs. Denny and Wilson, beside offering a tropy in the live-bird competition, have promised one for target competition next year. It will become the permanent property each year of the winner. The different reports indicated that the Association was in prosperous and sound condition. The press members were shown special consideration, Nice carbon copies of the scores were furnished them promptly, for which they were grate- ful and have kind remembrance. d ‘ In the open amateur sweepstakes of the first three days, L. Z. Lawrence was high average with 289 out of 300. J. T. Skelly and J. A. R. Elliott tied for second on 288; J. T. Atkinson was third with 283, and Edward Banks was fourth with 282. Monday, Practice Day. Monday was not a programme day, yet there were upward of ninety shooters who were on the grounds for practice. The star performance was that of Mr. {pore TES Elliott, who broke 98 out of 100. Pyle was close up to him with 97, Brewster was 96. 'There were a number of others who shot well, but these were practice events and were no part of the regular programme. The scores follow: ; 12345678 9 Shot 4 at 15 15 201515 20151520 at. Broke. 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Aryl nye eel fone 181418121218 100 87 EBD al TRG wy oe atts aicbeen eas oko See 1Sie a eel lee 30 24 Teteariats® SA TO ee A es Sate a ee 12 hide 3 23 EE” SVM IIS DTION ata enceeetetme gees fod 9 iiks, 3 20 WEES GNITTe ie) enn PAC oe niens Bae te 14 12 30 eth Wai airis Rh Usa o asp acab gee ue reo 10 12 30 22 Loomis 50 30 A H Fox 50 41 Sanford 50 43 Landis 50 42 Xavier 30 23 First Day, ‘Tuesday, May 19. The masses of shooters visible in every part of the grounds were sufficient evidence that the tournament was one of the greatest, All the events were well filled, There were about 150 shooters. There were three State events, of which No. 1 was a sweep- stake, 20 targets, $2.50 entrance $100 guaranteed, surplus added, divided 25, 20, 18, 15, 12 and 10 per cent. No. 2 was the Milt Lindsley trophy. No. 3 was the Florists’ handicap, 25 targets, $1 entrance, optional sweep $1.50, Rose system, 8, 5, 3, 2, 1 points, speed handicap. There were nine prizes, the first being a Lefever hammerless gun; second a Stevens single-shot rifle. M. S. Brey made a clean score of 25. Six—Fox, Mink, Dover, Landis, Stroh and Anderson— tied on 24. The open amateur sweeps were six in number, four at 15 and two at 20 targets, entrance $1.50 and $2, and $8 added to each. This made a total of 100 targets, $10 entrance and $48 added. The purses were divided Rose system, 8, 5, 3 and 2 points; added money was given, $5 to fifth place, $3 to sixth place. These events were open to all amateurs and State Association members. Manufacturers’ agents were barred from the purses, but one-half cent on each target they shot at was reserved for daily average for them, Shooting commenced shortly after 9 o’clock and continued to late in the afternoon, Of the 100,000 and upward of targets thrown during the shoot, 27,000 were thrown on this day, hence the four magautraps. were kept reasonably busy. Mrs. W. K. Park was the only lady contestant, and although she shot well, she was not up to her best skill. J. A. R. Elliott broke 98 out of 100, but the daily average money for high and low guns being for State As- sociation members exclusively, he could not share in it, The general averages were governed by the same conditions. H. L. Coleman, of Higgins, Pa., scored 97 and took first. Chlay, Smith and Skelly scored 96 each. There was a large percentage of the contestants who averaged 90 or better, as the scores show: Open Amateur Sweeps. State. Events: Ty 5 6 13 Targets: 15 15 201515 20 Total. 20 25 CRW Peay WGod-er sa ekt rene: caste 13 13 15 13 11 18 83 19 22 IRileken! gs94,65 neste rn eer ose alae ene 14 15 17 13 14 19 92 16 21 Wits) Barks My ai itete ut awe banwaa teen 10 13 14 12 10 16 75 18 19 WHE ES) TE a oroe uk oor k nich ter Pian 10 10 18 12 13 19 82 18 21 PRONGGOT PEL rasa kt ofa dese semen 1010111013 8 62 1112 IEERO SSA SH Anphc ect oochEUD bi rerc. 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WANS SAA GRA SA 13 12 19 13 13 20 90 20 22 Straub AR BAAR ARAAA ATA SAAN ANS 12 912121217 74 18 13 Sehilerchiens sa) eine tess dhtee weet 12 15 20 13 12 19 91 17 23 HY Ms Hii OSs .aitiecsa treats ep,ouiees,e8 bras 11 14 18 18 14 18 88 16 19 IT OUSTIAN Pp tes sees Ree eo Le News siete see oemes 10 20 3 17 23 EWC OTD ic cas sical pent e-cme ieee eels ets 13 19 82 UM i Se In State event No. 2, the Milt Lindsley trophy for two-man teams, 25 singles and 5 pairs, $4 entrance, $10 added, divided 50, 30 and 20 per cent., twenty-three-teams entered. There was also an Association trophy, which went absolutely to the winner, and individual trophies to the members of the winning team. Eight or more teams, four moneys. First was won by the North Side Gun Club team No. 2 with a total of 66 out of a possible 70, as follows: North Side G. C. No. 2. West Chester Gun Club. St. Disa: os : af 10 ys ANA At ISOTy ce sacra She SOS GELOMET seinen eee 24 9-33 \VEUTS OILS perenne ime 25° 833. Rogers” Mewes eae 271 9 30 49-17 66 45 18 63 Keystone Shooting League. Oil City _G. C. No. 1. ODS SE tae eae sere Cie IO see fBatomern peat pea. 25° TF 382 Ride) aah teeecous eee 24 6 30 Cilavs sess. econ dee Pte SEL 48 16 64 48 15 63 Independent Gun Club. hattdise Cevr ens sue ene 23 7 30 VEST re. es et hte te eae 2 8 33 48 15 68 The totals of the other teams were as follows: North Side No. 3, Shaner and Fleming, 62; Altoona Gun Club, Smith and Halder- baum, 61; Ligonier Club No. 1, Jessop and Bessemer, 60; Ligonier No. 2, Denniker and Trego, 60; North Side No. 4, Pyle and Irwin, 59; Harrisburg Gun Club, Kreuger and Stephens, 59; Keystone, Cooper and Coleman, 58; QOii City No. 2, Bates and Huff, 58; Florists’ Gun Club, No. 2, G. O. Bell and Cartledge, 58; Ambler Gun Club, C. W. Haywood and Pfleger, 58; Towanda Gun Club, McCabe and Montague, 87; Wilkesbarre Gun Club, Stroh and T. B. Harris, 56; West Branch Gun Club, Everett and Flock, 55; Florists’ Gun Club No. 1, Sanford and Anderson, 55; Keystone League, No. 2, Eames and Harrison, 54; Chambersburg Gun Club No. 1, Minnick and Russell, 51; Chambersburg No. 2, Runk and TI. C, E.; North Side Gun Club No. 1, G. Henry and J. Fisher, 49. Second Day, Wednesday, May 20, There were three State events on this day, as follows: No. 4, the Wolstencroft trophy, 50 targets, $1 entrance, optional sweep of $2; $10 added, divided 30, 25, 20, 15 and 10 per cent., Wolstencroft trophy to the winner. Five tied for the trophy with scores of 48, namely, Messrs. Coleman, Atkinson, Denniker, Eaton and Ridge. In the shoot-off at 25 targets, Coleman broke them all and won. | No. 5 was the Sportsmen’s Merchandise Handicap, 25 targets, $2.50 entrance, speed handicap. This event was postponed till the following day owing to lack of time in which to shoot it. No. 6 was the Harrisburg trophy for three-man teams. _ The open amateur sweepstakes were like those of the preceding day. on this day the entries touched high water-mark, and made a new record for the numbcr of entries at a State shoot, and ranked well with the greatest open shoots of the United States, The total of entries for the day was 180. This made a heavy competition to handle, consequently the full programme of the day was not completed. The open amateur sweepstake events - were shot off first. The competition was of such a high order that an extraordinarily large number of the contest . were in the money, and as a consequence the purses were _ up ery fine. Messrs. L. Z. Lawrence and J. T. Skelly, inc = ¢_: non-resident professionals, were high in the amateur sweep +s with 97 out of 100. Messrs. F. Cooper, of Mahanoy City an .. B. Fleming, of Pittsburg, took first average with 96 out of 0, though tied by Hawkins and Johnson, professionals. Mes , ~ (ward Banks, — of New York, and E. C. Watson, of Tyrone, Pa., tied on 95, the mofiey going to Watson, as he is a resident amateur. Ten. tied on 94, namely, Apgar, Griffith, F. Coleman, Trafford, Stephens, — Mav 30, 1903] | FOREST*AND STREAM.- | _— 439 Humer, Ww. S. Smith, Shaner, Atkinson and Fisher, The scores OD Irwin ........ TeRHSUD ALOR Leek cannes 14181412. 53 ue Pler Roe a meeher arent e ne yes 2 ees vee ld 12 1813 12 19. 89 20 21 follow: J W Evans...... enact cee tk et "10 10 12 10 10 16 68 RVG me Kellogpem pat peeee ee rktics onsnnss tat 12 14.14 13 13 18 84 19 18 Harrison ..... Wietatacssteeye as na dint Oevetcataese tes 138 15 16 14 12 12 88 ve H E Love... . 11 13 14 13-11-17 79 13 14 Open Amateur Sweeps, State. Acker ........,........ feat! Per, ee 10 10 1410 917 70 my ehanpeversscne , 5 14 22 Events: U2 Paneer OF or, 4 Wilson ,..,....- EPPY NON, partes 525 or 10 12 16 13 11 17 19 = Se N "Miller. ‘ 10 12 16 41 12 19 80 or Targets: 1515 20151520 Total 50 M Desclt .........0:eeeee eee eeeseeees 10 eS oo 13 4 1 86 Pee Eleinnisc ries inno . 12 14 15 14 14 19 88 ee (EER AGES Ly on asec donee ona 5154 12 12 17 14 18 19 87 43 TORTS te Heb chore nog sg ara? os - 14 OTe (De Bei artisoarnet ce seis tiere . 11 14 18 13 15 18 89 19 25 Pfleger . 2... cece reese cece esse ce seee ces 14 15,20 9 13 19 90 BL MEST eTi Tithe hee esters, ialsls ee MNS forsake ra crea ect cue v nel “a "7 28 Re Mare RORY minder os peecigtee nits , 12 12 14 13 11 16 79 ree ibrsy eB VaR SHReAneE Eso Ste ices sss Ag 11 12 16 11 11 17 78 36 J Wolstencroft ..c..eccscecectenerser te ce pe ee te ne ne Be AN ee MS OKmea hays. tempea mars ebactseaeaeh ty oh Baaiin sts inde 6/6 14 14 19 15 14 20 96 19 22 Nii skramiices | ce- prnphre ohege ups fasrumoo wWiliwiwi4i 8 8 40 “WOH Wolsténcroft.....c 20h csnueetee es ners be re oe % 47 Te ensit cal ashe a nMencaka ERR nae 131417151219 90 i7.. 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IMicGHbGin vs faewes dear ee Pere nee e ae 11 14 19 15 14 19 2 fos HDETUTITICELp ma eet eee: a erwere aT 12 14 20 14 . 60 AR Ta ras ee Ie ise eae RE RASS RS hak bende oe wt Ses UC loiahaher gee eeorieee ie trainin tye 11121811 9 14 15 Figs IBGSSEITIET. seaahy Gente enti ta aati 12 15 19 13 14 18 91 EDS Vivahsre okt) Pe RReR OMe Hun ocubneenrd iene tay cine a ead eect Pe EnWS Slhelesarin cl Pee nn ln: omic a. 14.12 17 11 12 16 82 yee, TrOZO 2. 0c cece ese ccm ners r eee s er eeneees 11 12 17 14 10 15 79 AAO PAC MeL ceevere tcl ies Ruts art Satay vid Pate, baie Espculivns we - Sih SSSA series ts abs ado aatios 14 15 19 12 15 20 95 ape Denny ... are a if ie a 1 a fe an TOUS CREE eben erties ie Mone Uecc tate NE ht rats Barats! Reece ¢ 29 Be a Wawrencere eee ee ase ss. 15 13 20 15 14 20 97 bate Sap "ease re 2 eee Wen 2 ee eh ee | 6S CLICT Miro o £1 fade dt sabe die Bas 2 5 ems 1141 14 1b 18 Ft Shoottoff of the fie in State event 4 for Wolstencroft trophy: F. Hull ’.esc feiss lin Huiswiis sf wc Stier Seeesiash es aewece aaa a 14 19 15 12 19 93 “: Coleman 25, Atkinson 23, Denniker 22, Eaton 21, Ridge 21. (BGiaiGn Leb pieasica toboddamine tin 14 12 18 12 13 18 87 ae ce MeMurchy «...:.-.--+0s ... 1213 16 15 15 19 90 ‘+ ‘The Harrisburg trophy, for three-man teams, 25 targets, $6 Momey ...cecs esses reese eee nee ees . 15 10 18 12 13 18 86 rae ene USARSA CE CSc as at fa te te 2 vf a zi entrance, $10 added, divided 50, 30 and 20 per cent., had thirteen eo ata apni Gry 4 « Aenea aden Te tatoos 80 " ri TRETR AG nearer rector perk bol dates In 2h ae lar Seite bh ecbeioubUr nb oue aL 91315 912 § 66 : iP Colematt Greet ecaes les es oes ... 15 1419 15 14 17 94 48 entries, This was a closely contested race and evoked much in- McCoy ...:.+-eere senses eee eee e eens ity atte Se ee 14 Hee aie CNW. Bek ULu rd. mente nh ie me a ie a me HP ie terest. The J. F. Weiler Gun Club, of Allentown, proved to he See tose tecee ence sa euaieeeclisideds mH ag i iS 4 8 Be a TREE OR, | RON NUE HHRMBNSINGE SS gurtsea Foes Uae) 94 49 the victors with the excellent score of 72 out of 75, the members ia Vaid 9 tg ane F416 5 eae Tratford .........++++5 see beresric brine t ces 18 A) peels SS TUITE ittpe sere tal vs otal gals pores ayeripoteen te escts tote Lolanto 3 mtett [Sol va WBE ABD SBPSS SSH ie acicer 2pcecs eens 2 aur ria 988 8 89 50 35 of it making 28, 24 and 25, a score which is hard to beat. The Block ......+.sseees essere seeeeees 14 12 15 11 12 17 83 16 20 Ares Sebo ene serve et tett ses beg ge a a a nt o 18 a i Harrisburg Shooting Association, the Clearview | Gun Club, and aes Byligteeblselalelelntelmcho\syWhy Secs soe Wes 16 ve Fe i ? 18 87 18 .. Sobers LS 416 18 15 13.19 94-48 the Carlyle Gun Club scored 70 each, The scores Rone CaO UII BiB an ag is de Ok 8 BH BEG Strat heer ee ce nt ioele gaia eucstsisis 14 2 16 14 a 2 a a Oil City Gun Club—Eaton 24, Chlay 21, Grakar ois total 68. (We IR TBE ey Yeeord ok sen yo areer ice 12121411 817 74 16 20 are cececesseeecestenenre rrr ese tess ie a “a + ae a a J. F. Weiler Rod and Gun Club—Kramlich 28, Schlicher 25, Pee SAG UBM ake ti Oo neon + a re 14 aH is = 16 21 Pate Bt decent cee I AeA955 5S 98 | Brey, hy etotal 72, RENEE tn a ML ee Me TO | seeks Tier aBEee Rr RAMe vey meL ys SU SNER Se a3 i ay ike cy Me . Harrisburg Shooting Association—Stephens 22, Brewster 24, Jim .......... is Sse ee ahah oe 9112 2 1... TULL tvs |e sit claratets, «tds ie afar a tatatolodele|e 2 of Humer 24; total 70. Shibes eed dent bee ess ssttadddael add oat ct rare the pam He 17 22 Te JOHNSON 25.2... esl see sees sca ee 13 15 18 15 15 20 96 es r WWikhoniticlia. CAMre RARE eto Om eA aN 6 AX 21 McLouth ORE Sinn Nee LeRenEL 111113101018 73 32 Mette Ont Clubs Norm —Gahienry adm lo ae wGiier 2, “rasta fe Woe ane fea le ap tote e ge oe Py chests LAG [ety Aas Be ae occ 131318111519 89-38. Pontefect 18; total 63. Ce sate pratt Senay Wy mater eee toate ey ae eT cere. RRP MAT pie h ia Helicase eceee ss if i a ith 2 i a a Keystone Gun Club, of Lebanon—Cooper 22, Coleman 22, Trai- re cas PREP INS Bea oat he The te a an 18 Halderbaum c.ceececelole, 21414121417 ~ 88 43, ford 21; total 65. ASTER eR ee eaten beg ge eee ee ee BSS RP eee kad ore - io af ay a Be 35 North Side Gun Cine No. 2—Atkinson 25, Watson 21, Fleming. Bae r, 2 ASTRO ery Re Py ‘i si fi 2 1S eee ‘+ 24; total 70. USGA IN 5 ide itenene Goec UCU rege oc tetera ie EE nt, ey ly) Hankey ) 0-0 eek. sess FARA Ai tera Serbia) he 32 ms =i + Bisbin "50 9 : Re North Side Gun Club No. 3—Knode 23, Pyle 21, Shaner 25; By CE cee Bere aes See adhe LA RRAUE RS es A (ieee ACR cae SE Be fc 10 Wats a8 2 10 4 ; it 44 total 69. rh S ; Shoot-off for second and third prizes in WMieroharelises Ih, faites igi eect tretteret etteteeeeseeaeees 1913101216 743 Florists’ Gun Club No. 1—Sandford 19, Anderson 25, Bell 18; des Sat Se eee 24, es £5 Bie SAS pe A I Sanaa LP iree ey, eee inne IS GE 4g total see. ae an Sa aray pate ria ERE Sap Brown seessieesusticeeececesceere WIEN. 4 «Clearview Gun Club—Bucknell 25, Rogers 28, Visher 225 total 70 Far aca ae aare tata peated ghe ssHcitiseni ge bewider sou SERED eS PEERY 9 eT: laut? 4 e 3 Keystone Gun Club, of Philadelphia—Fox 25, Landis 19, Ridge “1 OTEWSIST Sos een os ne oe Danii ea eastcsnaf BAIS OO REEDED a OINe ao oi * ie HA Me 18 ai 47 19: er 63 2 ; . = T. B. Harris won first with 25 straight. Jfirst prize was a 9 LT) Bell. www arte ete eee eee os 2 2 nit + * i > Ridge v..ccesses ites hinged eiocead 144218101419 87 48 Carlyle Gun Club—Parker 25, Kreuger 22, Stroh 23; total 70. PES athena GUISE RUN TMS Sy Mullins’ duck boat; fifth a sees pe eaew | me tegesnnetesereserees ai ab uy i it ue Pe ae Ambler Gun Club—Brennan 21, Mink 24, Pfleger 20; total 65. Marlin repeating rifle. Seventh a Winchester rifle. There were oc BE pay ccscegy tent RTO cates 10 11 16 10 13 14 23 39 Ligonier Gun Club—Denniker 23, Bessemer 20, Jessop 21; total twenty-five prizes all told. Lots were drawn to determine the CE Myers $C ae RMLs 12 12 14 12 12 12 5 30 64. allotment of the remaining prizes, and the winners, from second i LL eR Pas uhh Rae hioccterehses 18 141 4 i to twenty-fifth, were in the ord tioned here: s i B Harel REESE one SOREL CANA 10 2 15 “ 15 11 82 45 Third Day, Thursday, May 25. Aa Huf, "gehools, Chlay,. pT Sopeae Br Sete ee ata ee tna gee rcensirs neediat (miner, aisioaaavresiakts ofthe Heyinedy Park) I. Be Atldnshty, Flemings Brey Beopetet, raiiich: oe.citaitis.ss EKER a AN 481218111319 6 43 Previous tournament days, there were three State events. Anderson, Wynn. STARE Ore nc, 4 Seon not ap te aod ee a te a i - i ie eh No. 7 was a swepstake, 20 targets, $2.50 entrance, $100 guaranteed, In the State sweepstake event at 20 targets, Pyle, Brewster, Sarina em certs eds TCE eon ae aR, wStties, added eclwidech Po HOE 18) Trae aud t0-Rer gent Cooper and Atkinson made straight scores, while Pfleger, Huff, Tet ne wee Eee EEE Laer 44 12 15 11 11 14 17 40 No. 8 was the Reading trophy for four-man teams, 25 targets, Trego, Kreuger, Fleming, Denniker, Anderson, Ridge, Henry, te aes DASH SAGES dad ere ios ade i a 8 a 14 20 fs 46 $8 entrance, Se added, divided 50, 80 and 20 per cent.; eight Kellogg, Harris and Fox missed but one. Tet eet ute WGN aca. Gee fgg mgr, teamen ioe: mcatys ‘he Meadingiiroply, andthe Associa: aye ores LNT: hudeet nd eee 14 14 19 14 14 18 93 a tion trophy to the winner, the latter absolutely individual trophies Reading Trophy. incr lls Shep y AP pene e bempeac usta eur 181518111818 88 .. to the members of the winning team. In the Reading trophy event, four-man teams, there were ten ohn des Serer st aa atlas ys me A ie ieee a @ ” No. 9, the Consolation Handicap, was not shot, the postponed entries. The contest was exceedingly close, but one target divid- Cet SAE LIU 1108 18 1) Sportsmen's merchandise handicap of the previous day's pro. 728 SEVeTaI Oe eae in i of the possible 100, ‘The North Nulbeniy cao saab Ol eoncenett PARES BOS BOGE 14 10 12 12 12 18 78 .. gtfamme being put in its stead. Club team No. 1 won with 94 out of the possible 100. The North TQTTMMICLE 1 yee 0} ome swsese rire ss = ers 12 13 18 11 14 17 85 ae The interest in the shoot was well Side Gun Club team No. 2 was second with 93. The Carlyle G DE DU ees a ee 14 13 19 14 12 15 t well sustained both, by the con- apa oe phen See cen ree eat Weick aac Te SONS Ae te 6 Sf «=. tt testants and the spectators. As on the previous days, the open Club was third with 92. The scores: Syiflies tee ee hetoaeea aanope ac RAIS ot ei ae a 10 915 .. amateur sweepstakes were shot first. Three professionals, Messrs. K Carlyle Gun Club, 59 rT ey wine Gun Club. Re ag Mae anes ope! aie OS 9 O11. : aK re megs J. A. R. Elliott, Luther Squier and L. Z. Lawrence made high Humer. “94 Tt Nea EeE. ot TraiyrTslte soe ea GCL Re crete pth MNES og sib ae) hy as AB AN average, 97 out of 100, but as they were non-resident professionals, Brewster B Coffroad LT ATEN DN ETS? settee ch emiien relnterte siyetete sts TRY TS Pay a5 ty 55 we they were barred under the conditions governing these events, as Stephens D Urwin -..5..+.-.0deeeeee- H Stewart cocccccnccrcsi HS is 5 of ig 187 explained hereinbefore, Mr. W. S. Sherer, of Carlyle (Parker), Jegystone Shooting Teagis. (Jt igiler Gan Cy Ree MERE cca als Coal noe 1418 18 ete © 8) l_—stied with Fox on 96, but Fox being a professional, the first Ridge ..l..Jollc2L © HE Schlicher 2.200000 53 Tail, inn dhe ore een GOO UL Leo as posdag 13 816 913 15 74 .. -monéy went to the former. Messrs. Skelly and Atkinson tied on ifibleitralll an aaseseceecanunceAl M Brey pane atts 1 es: 3D ae Poe 45 eRe nash stice aS ts ie 15 ie is ef a 95, the former a professional; the latter amateur. Bucknell, Traf- TBI XeMexteyete sy irre ROC Hoot ntnce 283—88 Trafford ...-.+s...s00: aves 22—87 Rata hd ashe heen Matai went Oey 10 12 12 ral 3g ford, Humer, Banks and E. Johnson tied on 94. There were a Florists’ Gun Club. 5 North Side G. C. No. 1. EEC) ty. Leesa nen, sitgtts tte ss = ade.) arn 13 13 19 12 11 16 84 43 total of 116 contestants in all the events. The scores in the open es CUM aarreieg sri ee a Baleinson Sesh Saale tet een 23 Montanye Leal ie 11 ie a a 19 a 3 eeeuts follows ene Cae ee ea yeas SUBSE et McCabe Sar PA 13 1 18 8 rd zs : we ueree epee ot “WOATSOMTL seceneenncavesverscs 4 W PRD ER Reina nie nme tet Tick 210 17 13 10 16 74 ‘A Open Amateur Sweeps. State, H B Fisher..............-.. Za SN OELETTOE a feiera cteteastaietsistel sacl =) sate and 24—94 Stroh” are ..e. 12 15 20 13 15 16 OL 43 Events: 123 4 6 8 ye ah S. S. White Gun Se North: Side G. C. No. 2. Bihan ‘43 11 16 11 14 16 R1 3g Targets: do He20 eo toee0ee Mota Oato, Sr COtIN ge: alps ld-1449-13-~ Gaiblieniyan ie co naduaee e 19 un ~i 11 12 19 13 13 16 84 43 C W Haywood Ane acs carer ae ee ee 13 13 16 12 12 17 83 14 18 Hinkson Perv eaoe thee ee eee ce J IRS TMG re ae SA eee iD venetert -101415 11 . 50 ne TESTS otter yumi natal tes 12 15 19 15 14 19 94 19 23 feeb, UE ey aot oe Te AEE 16 UST Hew SEOMASEME RECS SAS AC 23 Ber eee i ‘A ua a ‘2 WL id ir . 44 ee oe Eiec/a ate svelp nies wire ways nisle viele ate A ua cr A ae 1 te a an 1DYevadorcheolas Aes ee eet on tn 18—65 Pyle 4 SPE RRSP CAM ee bens RL TRU ees tht be 12 ©, WIS Barks. se eee eee e eens etry teens 2 7 ye . 4 x dep is eect? ee Se MO MSE INCUBa isis sti santat bese. TB GAS” ORE ATO payee a len ea NOS Benner ...... .. 12 13 18 14 13 14 f 84 ih JORNOSTY eRe R CREE SB beens obs Sonate 13 10 17 14 15 18 87 18 24 Bates PERE Nain. sae SSN 99 Treso ache Aaihwitpabiare ses 32 50 Nam ent, Sheree *) 48 11 17 11 15 18 85 hi TERRES) Sy 5 eos oss odadean Reais ise ae 15 15 17 12 14 19 92 17 24 Gaia eae ena ie 20 Ai? cy Meera Wal cokns ey a Niateeyy Sarit Cree et aaet eis Mees | age WXGiilaye \aeetss cia cacauae. Sart amae ne HIeip casio; OWS me Eee EG ee Sa Pibeeee cs Atl gectaMae te § bese oe Pee ce NEI MUMSTTSe) Nobu wan. Elitenecpetretrs rect fismorerece ies 1818315131119 84 1924 Pe Lc aa hit aha tt Meath Spe) tc aa gaa eGR re LEN a 44 —93 TG Gay ctee Ae ee “| 4445 19 14 9 19 90 43 Pee REINS Beetereremeti sisi teat a3 ul Me 13 id 18 89 pare This concluded the target programme. BUCKHED! op jjslelee ete .. 9 1416 13 13 17 82 ANG SEMEL SSNS ET | GOSMILE METS EAA i : 417 4 17 16 : McSherry .:ssesssssaes sit 14 iL 15 11 12 15 79 39 ae A> 5 SOC OU ODOMPOITAT ET IS3E200 a 2 4 a 13 a 91 lds Fourth Day, Friday, May 22. RiutaTuube eee usey-noes ba: Des rtaciaet etary a ec ODam 400 Stee On saingys een. tse ere tee ere é 91 19-24 ii Pree hisdentools ay aes oe peepee ee See nan Peas Te 2 6 OCT ROR: MOE eareer re are 1191413 914 69 ee ele competition at live birds took place on the grounds of the ciok acter 71a’ Comer aie SPEE TW Ar ag “45 15 20 13 13 17 93 pid MARS Set SC tp Oko Sonaeeiea Sacha hhh ii 13 16 12 14 19 85 16 21 Keystone Shooting League at Holmesburg Junction, under the Huttenlock eae Pee ee . ob i 15 91017 77 39. eet Settee ete e ee egeeeererter ees a a ae i i 20 2 ..., auspices of that organization. 2 fh bes REGAL EAA Rea ogi e “i - , iti Pesca nreet ss tacaystaa seas ae a OS 3 ue ni ea = WNIT Ente es 13 15 18 11 a a a sa Ne There were four events on the day’s programme, the conditions aera Oa Wsttinnsiskbonnares acces 43 14 19 12 13 14 5 fig MIL taht, Peers cee eet paper e 13 15 19 15 15 20 97 tithe of which are given in connection with each event. malay i0 14 ses , 10 ig 125 92 ERATETt base talhiureinve tions Ine lon ees 11 13 12 18 . 75 54 Good brome echrludeculeBaternn ts vase eee ete 15 7 Eiawileye Ghostcssee scence nes de oslo cts 13 13 9 pal 9 17 110 82 FRG WElLL Ju atresta neattinacwinnd) ee ree rele one 101714161415 110 80 TREO yaTel 5a ABQ ab ART Ane aie nor oer Ia bOe es Tes} 50 6 TRS Asma s 65549955595. bo tee Boke C 91810. 50 37 Wiese bce em AS UR 4A PAS Be 10s. 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Miia s ie roe era aie 8 800 Vers se hh IS Se eas dn sae pte oor Pe ca ocd ree beer 4 400 Merchandise. match, 15 singles and 5 pairs, distance handicap: espe EUV eae sete, Lice cute nee aces «ea 11111011011131 = 11. «OL 10 11 14 —21 ieee GE vanl ort oun acs oss te aet aes 121011711133101. 1010 11 00 11—19 Andres, 16 111000011110110 41.41 31 01 11—18 eID at ies AS rh ap a 111111111011100 10 10 10 00 10—16 Frank, 18 0119101101.001.01 00 11 00 11 11—15 Adams, 16 1111011001.01100 01 10 10 11 10—15 Waeodritin FEL f255 200 32. Sen eee 011101110111010 00 10.00 11 10—14 SEHCEC LS 1 ities state see tebe ney 110100011011111 00-00 10 00 11-18 NB hy Sh Nie re hi Te ee 110114.000001011 10 10 00 11 00—12 Polat, lonesteers t-) petaiep Sawer 000001010110000 . 11 GO 10 10 00— 8 Topeka Gun Club, ToprreKA, Kans.—Tuesday, May 26, was a sort of field day for the Topeka Gun Club. It was the date of the match between the two teams composed of Dr. F. C. Burkett and C. H. Morton, and J. J. Gorman and Chas. 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LAS ss 60 37 .616 Stawarh 225 ale Tea psne peas Mp ie Ze Behn ot 40 18 450 PUBLISHERS’ DEPARTMENT. Fred Coleman, of Hegins, Pa., at the Pennsylvania State shoot, Wissinoming, Pa., May 19 to 23, won, first day, high average with 97 per cent. On the second day he won the Individual State championship at targets. At pigeons, on the last two days, he “won the Williamsport trophy, emblematic of the individual cham- pionship of the State at pigeons, and the Denny-Wilson trophy. He was one of the three-man team which won the L. C. Smith trophy, emblematic of the State team championship at live birds. He always uses New Schultze. R. E. Parker, of Carlisle, Pa., won high amateur average at targets on the third day with 96 per cent. He used 3 drams of New E. C. : q At the Cedar Lake, Ind., shoot, May 17 and 18, first general average for the two days was won by John S. Boa, At the Lebanon, Ind., shoot, May 15, first general average was won by C. O. Lecompt. At the Trenton, N. J., shoot, May 16, first general average was won by L. J. Squier, and first general ama- teur average was won by C, W. Feigenspan. Each of the fore-. going used Winchester factory loaded shells and Winchester Re- peating shotgun. At the Sheffield, Ala., shoot, May 14 and 15, the highest score was made by C. H. Ingram, an amateur, who: shot Winchester factory loaded shells. The second day he broke 170 out of 180. j Mr. A. H. Funke, 325 Broadway, New York, calls attention, in our advertising columns, to his new line of shotguns, price 340. These guns are equipped with the Bittiner & Jaeger single trig- ger, besides nearly all the useful devices and good material of a high-priced gun, such as fluid steel barrels, matted extension rib, Greener cross bolt, Deely & Edge patent fore end, pistol grip, case-hardened frame, automatic satety, etc, Mr. Funke will send to all applicants a special circular descriptive of this gun. ‘This places an excellent gun equipped with the single trigger within the reach of all, W. R. Crosby, at Paducah, Ky., on April 28 and 29 last, in the two days’ programme shot at 250 targets, breaking 342. At Union City, Ind., May 6 and 7, he broke 387 out of 400, On May 11 and 12, at Crawfordsville, Ind., he eclipsed everything previously recorded by breaking 398 out of 400. Thus in three consecutive tournaments he broke 1,127 out of 1,150, averaging for six days 98 per cent. Mr. Crosby’s load was, as usual, 44 grains of E. C. No. 1. F) The J. Stevens Arms and Tool Co., Chicopee Falls, Mass., advise us that their new double guns, No. 260, $27.50 list, and No. 270, $30, will be ready for shipment in about thirty days; also single guns will be furnished in twist barrels in about thirty days on special order. Abridged catalogue, on how to operate the Stevens-Duryea, will be sent to applicants. Tt can be counted nothing less than a serious misfortune to Von Lengerke & Detmold and their friends—the burning of the entire plant of the Racine Company’s works at Racine, Wis., on Sunday, May 31. Many unfinished orders were being executed and were near completion. Von Lengerke & Detmold regret. the disappointment forced upon their customers. ; - The Mullins galvanized steel pleasure boats have been before the public now for a number of years, and have won a permanent place in the popular favor. The handsome illustrated catalogue issued by. Mr. Mullins is of interest to every one who uses the boat, and will be sent on application by W. H. Mullins, 216 Depot street, Salem, Mass. ~ The U. M, €. Co. advises us that Mr. Fred Coleman won both the clay-bird and the live-bird championships of Pennsylvania at the recent State shoot. At the Brownwood Gun Club, Brown- wood, Tex., Turner E. Hubby scored 94 per cent., winning first place. Each shot U. M. C. factory loaded Arrow Shells. Orrice or New Yorx American, New York, May 26.—Business Manager Forest and Stream: Will you kindly discontinue my advertisement in the ForEsT AND STREAM, offering salmon fishing, and send me the bill, | have sold the fishing through the adver- tisement, Runoyrn Brock. —_— FOR ST Al D STREAM. A WEEKLY Journat oF THE Rop aNnpD Gun. Coryricnt, 1908 py Forkst anp StreAM Pustisuinc Co, Terms, $44 Year, ~0 Crs, a Copy. t Six Monrus, $2. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 19038. VOL. LX.—No, 24. No, 846 Broapway, New Yor. The Forest AND STREAM is the recognized medium of entertain- ment, instruction and information between American sportsmen, The editors invite communications on the subjects to which its pages are devoted. Anonymous communications will not be re- garded. ‘While it is intended to give wide latitude in discussion of current topics, the editors are not feepanalk for the views of .correspondents. Subscriptions may begin at any time. Terms: For single copies, $4 per year, $2 for six months. For club rates and full anticulars respecting subscriptions, see prospectus on page iii, “Che Forest and Strean’s Platform Plank. “The sale of game should be prohibited at all seasons,” NALS DRIVEN IN 1903.—No. V. FLORIDA, ‘Aet -of June, 1903—Sec. 2.—That no person or persons, firm or ecorperation, shall sell, expose for sale, or haye in his, her, their ‘qr its possession for sale at any time any wild deer, yenison or deer jhidle. See. 3.—And no person or persons, tion ar campany shall sell, expose for sale, or have in his, her, ‘ar flkeir prossession for sale in this State, any wild turkey, quail cr jprartridge. = firm, corporation, associa- 7 Thelen Weal ee PRESENT AND FUTURE. Tie present extraordinary activity in the sport of tar- get shooting at the traps throughout the United States has a felicitous significance for its permanency and broader growth. It is a situation specially gratifying to ‘two classes in a manner distinct from each other, namely, those who are interested in trapshooting as a matter of ‘sport, and those who are interested in it as a matter of business. On the one side are all the target shooters ; «on the other side are all the manufacturers, while a third indeterminate class, by no means small, may be said to be ;relawed to both classes. ‘Thix general activity augurs well for this form of com- petition, as it pertains to the future. Therefore it must possess ji the essentials of a true and beneficent sport ffor the pulgjic, else it would not evoke such general en- wthusiasm, or sp firmly hold the constant interest and par- ticipation of its ¢levotees. At a time, moy some months ago, when the daily press, the humane societies, the Legislatures of some of the States, and a part of the general public, were more or less hostile in their attitude toward live bird shooting at the traps, there were many sportsmen who held the ,opinion that such hostility ww. ould have a harmful, deter- went effect on trapshooting im general. - While it may have done so in the localities where the hostility was _most active and forceful, it had no material effect on the . general whole. It is dowhtiul whether target shooting has ever been so general in the United States, considering the activity of tie clubs of the small towns as well as those of the great cities, and the unusually great number of tournaments held and to be held in every section. The trapshooting leagues and State associations haye been particularly successful. The Pennsylvania State shoot, recently held, was a record breaker of its kind, and, indeed, ranked equal with the great national trapshoot- Of the leagues, the Western Pennsylvania Trap Shooters’ League, the Mississippi Valley Trap Shooters’ and Game Protective Association, the Michigan and Indiana and other State leagues and associations are examples of eminent success. They have afforded broad competition and stimulated activity and enthusiasm in great sections of territory. A few State associations, on the other hand, appear to be lethargic or somnolent, although having abundance vot: good material wherewith to achieve success equally swith the most successful. It is, however, a noticeable ‘feature that, in all sections conspicuous by successful ef- fort, the leaders are skillful, energetic and persistent ~yorkers. Great deeds are not accomplished by indolent meditation or inaction of the officers, New trapshooters are engaging in the sport in great numbers, and but few are retiring from it. Turning now to a consideration of the trade interests, it has been qa great season for each branch catering to trapshooting, Most of the target manufacturers haye done a great season's business, and at least one of the largest has had record breaking sales. The great am- “munition factories are taxed to their utmost manufac- ing events. turing capacity to meet the needs of the great army of trapshooters. The gun manufacturers, in many instaices, are far behind their orders. Thus sport and business are both flourishing in a sound, broad manner. The success of the great leagues, whether State or inter- state, should engage the earnest attention of trapshoot- ing promoters, as a feature to be specially encouraged and imitated in other sections. There are great areas contaning numerous gun clubs yet unorganized into leagues, and in this matter of organization and general impetus to competition, no body of men can accomplish jore as edticators than can the trade missionaries and professional shooters. THE PALMA, THE announcement that the American rifle team will sail on Saturday of this week on the Cunard liner, Lucania, is very gratifying. The National Rifle Assocta- tion, during several weeks past, has been devoting- its influence and energies to raise the required stm, $10,000, but considering the history, associations and international interest attached to the Palma Trophy, subscriptions have been both slow and, except in a few instances, meagre. The sum early this week was about $3,000 short of the amount needed to defray the expenses of the trip. How- ever, before. the team sails, there is a hope that some gentlemen who are patriotic and wealthy will come to the front with the required subscriptions. The team personnel is excellent. The members have practiced industriously, and in their practice have shown steady, consistent skill of a high order. Compared with the scores of prior teams, both American and British, the practice work of this American team is good warrant for a reasonable faith in their victory and the return of the Palma to America, where it remained tndisturbed so many decades. The contest for it at Bisley will not be weak by any means. Word has been received from the N. R. A. of Great Britain that France, Switzerland, Australia, Austria and Canada will also contest with the holders for possession of the coveted trophy, so that the competition, thus broadened, is correspondingly more dif- ficult. Seven countries will thus be represented. Great interest attaches to the event in England, Many Americans, traveling abroad, will be present, and it is stated that the, King will honor the victors by presenting in person the trophy at the Mansion House, London. Undoubtedly it will be the greatest contest for the Palma which has ever taken place, and should the Ameri- can team fail to win it in this attempt, the difficulties in after years will be much more numerous and formidable, ivasmuch.as if it remains-in Europe.more interest:in it will be evoked, more teams will contest=for itsinsconse- quence, and the greater the number-ofsteams in a contest, ‘ihe sgreaterare:the odds against anyzone: team’s.!success. The American *team is fortunate: in shaving a*captain who.is a veteran, Mr. Leslie CeBruce, aw faut in all the cletails of the competition at home and sabr ae , he haying been a member of the original team “which: frst made the Palma Trophy a testimonial to the ‘superior Pekith of, Ameri- can riflemen, ee Ree However, the more contestants and ‘the keener the com- petition for it at the coming contest, the greater will- be the honors and the glory of the victors. Our best wishes go forth for the success of ‘the American team, and with them our hopes for rejoicing later over their victory; but, in good wishes fair to all, may the best team win. Cor. SAMUEL WezBER and Mrs. Webber, of Charlestown, N. H., have recently celebrated their golden wedding; and the item of social news has appropriate place here because, as Von W., Col. Webber is one of the veteran contribu- tors to ForEst AND STREAM. Born in 1823, and a sports- man from his youth up, he was in the early days a reader of the Spirit of the Times, the “Old Spirit,” as ihe veterans refer to it, and when some forty years later the TorEst AND STREAM came to take its place as the repre- sentative of the interests of the field sportsman STREAM. F i _, [Jone 13, 1903. ceeds of sale 650 pounds confiscated fish, $6.50; May 25, proceeds of sale 14 confiscated beaver skins, $112; May 30, proceeds of sale 140 confiscated deer hides, $175.97; total, $204.47. E. Houeu. Hartrorp Buiipine, Chicago, Il. Game Notes on Varietal Species. Puatnrretp, Mass., June 1—The increase of game in this northwestern section of Massachusetts is notable from year to year. The center of the accretion seems to be in Worthington township, fifteen miles away, where two deer, a bear, a black fox, and a cross fox are re- ported as having been seen last week. Woodchucks are numerous. One dog in Plainfield has an annual score of 25 or more to his credit. Red foxes are common in this township, with now and then a ’coon. ‘Trout of larger size than usual have been caught this spring, and more of them. The deer law is perplexing. Last summer and fall a deer ran with the cattle of one of our farmers located between here and Hawley until cold weather came. Then the winds blew and the snow flew and the kind-hearted farmer would fain have taken the poor crea- ture in out of the cold and giyen him shelter with its bovine associates. But the law forbade the having of deer in possession, and no motives of humanity could condone stich offense; so the barn door was shut! But care was taken to leave the door of a shed open, and in that the forlorn animal took refuge on occasion. Had that door blown shut by any chance and the deer been found within, a fine of $25 would have been impending. As we can neither protect nor kill our deer, nor have them in possession, nor ward off their ravages when they become too numerous, we are in a dilemma. and begin to wonder what game laws are really for. In many of our States they are principally used by protectors, war- dens, and informers to levy blackmail and exploit their vigilance, especially in respect to strangers and sports- men of means who trespass unadvisedly. In Plainfield we have no known spies or sneaks, officials or volunteers ; but there may be such in perdu. Our townsmen are too busy to do much fishing, though they show up to ad- vantage in the shooting season. But we have queer animals which are not wild. This town has been a nursery for Manx and Angora cats for seventy years past, and the crosses which have resulted astonish the naturalists. For example, we have Maltese brown, *mottled, striped and dark colored cats with long hair on body and tail, but seldom a pure white one. There are smooth coated cats with broad shaggy tails, and rough coated cats with no tails at all. The latest freak is a Maltese no-tail mongrel which comes from a shaggy “tiger cat” mother; four crosses in one, each distinctly thrown out by heredity. It would be interesting to know how far back its Manx progenitor lived. By the way, on page 103 of Paul du Challu’s “Land of the Long Night,” he mentions a strain of tailless dogs which are used for draft purposes by the nomadic Lapps, who herd reindeer. They have the color of a brown bear. Perhaps a mixture of dog, bear and hyena. Qui sait? An animal has been seen in a clover field here which looks like a woodchuck with the bushy tail of a fox! When surprised at its feeding place it makes for a scrubby knoll where there are several woodchuck bur- rows. The boys are_planning to trap it, but the farmer’s wife fears it may prove to be one of her stray bushy- tailed long-haired cats. These varietal freaks offer a fine field for those who have wrought themselves into a fever over the sea trout problem! Let’s change the subject. (Cn Ade The Strong Arm of the Law. From Newburgh, N. Y., come these records of recent game law cases brought by Protector Kidd: Geo. Louns- berry, of Newburgh, pleaded guilty before Justice Fowler to the charge of having quail during the close season. He paid a fine of $10. The case of the People vs. Richard Franks, of Tuxedo Park, was to have been tried in the Supreme Court. The defendant was charged with killing deer during the close season. Before it came to trial, Mr. Franks settled by paying to the Game Commission $143.50. O. S. Faulkner, of New Kingston, Delaware county, paid a fine of $50 for having trout in his possession dur- ing the close season. There are others implicated in this case, and they will be prosecuted later. Taking game out of season is becoming a pretty expensive pastime in this vicinity. Modern Rifle Shooting. “Mopern Rifle Shooting from the American Stand- point,” by W. G. Hudson, M.D.,, is the latest and soundest contribution to the literature of the rifle, both concerning its theory and practice, which has appeared in many months. Considering that Dr. Hudson has been a successful investigator on original lines both scientific and empiri- cal; that his researches have produced many valuable re- sults; and that he is in the front rank of practical rifle- men, as is in conspicuous evidence in the records, his introductory paragraph in the preface is too modest, when he writes as follows: “It is not without some misgiving that I venture on this, my first attempt to write a book on rifle shooting.” That is the modesty of true genius. The title does not contain the true idea. Instead of “from the American standpoint,” it should have been from the universal standpoint, because its theory is from universal natural laws. The work in question contains 154 pages, divided into thirteen chapters and an appendix, which treats of rifles, bullets, selecting a rifle, equipment of a rifleman, sights, sighting and aiming, adjusting sights, aiming, helps to good aiming, positions, targets, ammunition, personal as to the rifleman himself, National Rifle Association, and an appendix which gives a comprehensive lot of informa- tion on incidental practical accessories to shooting, such as cleaning shells, lubricants, amnti-rust grease, nitro cleaner, measures, appliances, tools, ranges, ete. The work is copyrighted by Laflin & Rand Powder Co., New York, and in it is contained more accurate knowledge than the unassisted rifleman could acquire in a lifetime. Sea and River Hishing. ——@—— Proprietors of fishing resorts will find it proGtable to advertise them in Forzsr amp STREaw. Canoe- and Camp Life Along the Delaware River. Whippoorwills, Algae, Mosses, Ferns ard chens at Delaware Water Gap. “The air o’ the woods tastes good tu me, fer *t hain’t been breathed by nothin’ but wild creeturs. The smell o’ the woods smells good tu me, dead leaves ’n’ spruce boughs, ‘n’ rotten wood, ’n’ it don’t hurt none if it ’s spiced up a leetle bit with skunk an’ mink, an’ weasel an’ fox p’fum’ry, An’ I luffter see trees ’at’s older’n any men, an’ graound ’t wa’n’t never ploawed er hoed, a-growin’ nat’ral crops. ’N’ I luffter hear the. still- ness of the woods, fer *t is still there. Wind a-sythin’, leaves a-rustlin’, brooks a-runnin’, birds a-singin’, even a bluejay a- squallin’, hain’t noises.’—Sam Lovel in Rowland E. Robinson’s “Uncle Lisha’s Shop.” XI. —Stalkio . it Water alga, moss and fern, Greet us now at every turn, And rocks whose faces gray and hoary, Guard the secrets of their story; While o’er them tiny lichens strew Tenderest thoughts of shape and hue! “THe finest bass yet!” cries my chum, as he helps an urchin pull in a fish that “tips the scale” at nearly four pounds. He was taken in the deep water by the rocks, crowned with woods, above the Susquehanna bridge on the Jersey side at the Water Gap. We are using a new boat, just a dory; for the canoe and tent are stored on the upper river; and we are at the Glenwood House at the Gap—temporary quarters, chosen because our families will not tent with us (more’s the pity), and because the unmolested squir- rels, robins, chipmunks and blackbirds live in and around the trees that hide the hotel, giving remarkable chances for observing wild life from its porches. I have heard a guest imitate the call of the female quail, and seen three of the birds flying into the trees, as they answered with their “up all night!” not a hundred feet away from the house. It is remarkable how wild life fringes even the busiest centers of civilization. I have stood on the Battery wall at the lower end of Manhattan Island, one of over JUST TO MAKE AN ISLAND. a thousand interested watchers of two boats fastened with ropes to rings in the wall, and not forty feet away, while four anglers in them landed large flounders —thirty-seven for the four rods in the twenty minutes that I counted and timed them. There are two sea gulls among the hundreds that love and haunt the East River many months of the year, with whom a certain Brooklyn man has a personal acquaintance. He calls them “Blue Mary” and “White Jim;” they know on what ferry boat he will leave the Brooklyn side, and will follow the boat even into the New-York slip, un- til he throws them the two biscuits taken for them from his breakfast table. Kindness, long and patiently offered, will win enough confidence of even a partridge, to reap the rich reward of seeing him perch himself on a log, and drum his love-call of the spring. Buckwheat kernels spread for him there during two winters, and crumbs and pop- corn kernels during the summer, will result in his per- mission that you lie behind some log a hundred feet distant, peer over it at this wild elf of the wilderness and his mate; and hear their love-notes, “k-e-e-t! k-w-e-e-t! If you persist in this kindness, and place food near the discovered nest, the couple will even linger around its site after their brood is hatched, and will visit you as you walk along fence or hedgerow, just to see what you are about, the fledglings following them, half-grown. Before me is a photograph of about a hundred feet of the White Horse trail in Alaska, showing a grouse, which had become almost the friend of the angler who lingered long beside that nameless trout-brook, which crossed the road where so much of hope, ambition, tragedy and wealth had passed, before the railroad was constructed. This is digression; yet it leads to the incident of the whippoorwills at the Gap. One of the birds had been singing in the woods along the rocks below which the bass was secured. A quiet watch for her just before sunset, located one of her nightly perches—an upturned tree root beside a thicket. The next evening I hid in that clump of brush. Just after sundown came the low swish of her almost silent wings, right beside me. There was Mrs, Whippoorwill, not six feet distant—a gray, ghostly, somber bird! She spread ‘her feet far apart, and began to rock her body sidewise, this motion increasing as her head was tilted far back; and then came the familiar cry! I say familiar. But it sounded far different when I could almost extend my hand and secure the bird. We hear the call of the whippoorwill, perhaps two miles distant, and when we are on porches, riding along coun- try roads, or from boats that we ply on lakes or rivers. Then the sound seems plaintive to many listeners— passionate, melancholy. The song has been called the Miserere Hymn of the Night, expressing grief, longing, heart-broken weariness. To nearly all, this song is sad. But to me the cry of this bird has always seemed assertive, strident, brave, and as full of life and health as the crow of a rooster. _ : And the cry was deafening as I heard it scarcely an arm’s length distant, It was continued about ten min- utes, when the bird flew way, and I heard its call from some dark perch in the woods on_ the island a mile above. Presently the song ceased, and was renewed still farther away. In about thirty minutes came the swish and moonlight shadow, and right be- side me was the bird again, renewing that love-call— the note cast out into the night for the male bird! Having confirmed this by observations elsewhere, I state that a female whippoorwill has three calling perches, on each of which she sings about fifteen min- utes, and then renews the perch cycle, singing until weary, or until the male bird comes. ; There, again, I saw their meeting—the two birds side by side, after a chase and coquettish exchange oi the indescribably soft, low and quick love-notes. Their “nest” is sure to be hidden away in some thicket or tuft of grass on a hillside, not far distant from one of these perches; and nothing could be more ghostly and weird than the female bird, clad-seemingly in sack- cloth and ashes. If she is scared off her “nest,” she tumbles and glides slowly along and among the plants and grass, leading you away. There is an all but universal conviction that the sound of the whippoorwill’s song is mournful—sad. This belief is due to the fact that the song is so often heard far away, and during the sentimental hours of morning or evening twilight, or at night. Besides, the self-deception is facilitated by the fancied words in the bird’s cry of “poor Will,” who must be “whipped.” Yet the marvelous looker and listener, Audubon, writes of his memories of ne song as he lay in his sleeping-blanket in the woods, alone: “Only think, kind reader, how grateful to me must have been the cheering voice of this, my only companion.” It is another almost universal belief that only the male bird sings the “whippoorwill!” The main object of this special article is to confirm, or help to dissipate, this belief. Its statements that only the female so sings will probably be challenged; and to assist those who may contradict, the following facts in support of this con- tention are given now. There will be no further .discus- sion by me. Only two ornithologists should be allowed to speak with authority here. Audubon dodges the matter, only referring to “its’ song and “their” song. See American Birds, Vol. I., p. 155, ef seg. So do the encyclopedias. Wilson (American Ornithology, Vol. IL, p. 176), shows how the naturalists themselves confounded the whippoorwill with the chuck-will’s widow, night hawk, and goatsucker. In attempting to settle those differences of opinion, and errors in the pictured birds, he cites a magazine, the “Portfolio,” wherein it is alleged that the author of “American Ornithology” stated that a male whippoorwill was shot (note that such author does not say he shot the bird; and it was probably by an attendant who killed the wrong mate of a pair of birds that were together) while in actual song, and that the shot bird was found to be a male. This is the real and totally insuffi- cient source of the statements by subsequent writers that ‘the singer is the male, Many of the books about birds in the Astor Library have been consulted in this connection. I do not find in them any positive assertion of personal knowledge that the male bird sings. Indeed, the “question” is of little practical moment. But it is singular that so general a be- lief rests on such slender actual observation. The New York Museum of Natural History did not express an opinion, but referred me to the well-known nature- student, Mr. Ernest Ingersoll, who states that his studies of the song have been mainly by ear in the woods of Ulster county, New York, where he could see (the italics are his) very little, owing to the dense forest and shadows. Of course Forest AND STREAM will invite and welcome communications from those who have actually scen a singing male whippoorwill, or better still, who have shot and can produce a male observed to be singing when killed. It should be remembered that the sex of the bird is easily told by the markings of plumage across the throat, which are a white semi-circle on the male, and smaller and of a cream or buff color on the female, whose general size is also slightly smaller. The female is lighter on the upper parts, and her three lateral tail feathers are tipped for about three-fourths of an inch with cream color. Both birds have a comb on the central, Jongest claw of one foot to assist in ridding the plumage of yermin. Here is my own experience: Location, just after sunset, of one of the three perches of song. Concealment the next and following nights, sometimes within six feet, and the birds seen so plainly that the hairs around their bills could be noted in detail. Notation of the buff markings across the throat of twelve different female birds while actually singing. These stalkings were at intervals during thirty years, and in five States. ' In addition, three females were shot (they are excellent eating) while actually singing, and their sex verified by the most careful demonstration. The first bird was shot on the Slagle trout stream in Michigan; another in But- ler, Branch county, Michigan, and a third on Saw Creek, in Pennsylvania. In 1870 a female was watched as she nested in an unused shanty of a sugar-bush, right on the leaves of its floor, where they had been blown the previous autumn. Four persons saw and heard her sing while beside the nest. Finally, on Saw Creek, in May, 1900, a pair of the birds flew right across the porch of the Decker cottage, the male pursuing and uttering his low love-notes very rapidly. ‘These birds perched right on June 13, 1903.) FOREST AND STREAM. 467 the fence and were not thirty feet away, and distinctly seen in the afterglow of sunset by three persons, trout fishermen, whose special attention was called to the fact that the female was calling, and that the male did not call. No male bird, while actually seen by me, has sung the “whippoorwill,” Yet nearly all the poets attribute the song to the male ‘bird. Thus, Bliss Carman: “And the Ione wood-bird, hark! The whippoorwill, night long, Threshing the sylvan dark With his dim flail of song.” He mistakes the songster’s:sex, but avoids the error that the song is sad. And here is a double error in two consecutive words of a couplet by T. B. Read: And there the whippoorwill recites , The ballad of his grief.” *# * x * on Ss, In the forest high up on Mount Minsi, four boys from the Glenwood House spend their mornings, looking! In the afternoons they read to each other what they have placed in their note-books, and exhibit their gathered specimens of mosses, ferns and lichens. This is good cullivation of sight, I was directed by them to one spot in that wood during the spring, before the present trip. Readers are warned that I shall attempt to describe it, and can skip the next paragraphs if desired. But I ask the earnest readers to go in there alone. } You will see the brilliant May sunshine flooding the open spaces, the gray haze and tangle of wildwood, and the leaf-shadows dancing over the profusion of mosses, ferns and flowers, ; ; Seat yourself on this knoll that is matted over with red and brown moss, and sandaled with the fast-fading flowers of the adder-tongue. You are with perennial nature, among the mottled patches of shadow and sun- light, under the great trees where, last might, the whip- poorwills sang their “amorous descant.” Distant drum- ming of a partridge, scolding disapproval of squirrels, chirp of the curious chickadees, call of robins and blue- birds! Below you, not a hundred feet away, 1s the river whose voice comes to you, while its unseen pres- ence is hinted at by the dancing reflections in a dozen places, of the light from its waters on the beech leafage. And now, look more closely. It is a veritable floral paradise, loveliest realism, something to be rapturously studied and earnestly loved! The base of this knoll is wreathed by a dark green cushion of wild strawberry leaves, thickly starred with their own white blossoms. Joined to them is the brown, far-spreading carpet of fallen autumn leaves that are a bed for the uprearing blossoms. A few of the pale-blue flowers of the forget-me-not, emblem of fidel- ity! To the right, becoming lost in the mystery of shadows and green confusion, are thousands of wild violets, their blue and yellow flowrets full of intense color and life. That little ridge to the left is matted with wintergreens, their scarlet berries peeping out from the emerald leaves. In front, wild lilies lift their flowered heads, The hill above you is white and pink with laurel blooms, and the great flowers of the rhodo- dendron. ‘Their sides embroidered boast the rich array Of flowering shrubs in all the pride of May.” And yonder are two slopes exqtisite with fragrant blossoms of wild honeysuckle and trailing arbutus. Beautiful? The separate parts of this little landscape ate delightful; the whole is entrancing! The perfumes, colors and sounds are indescribably joyous and grateiul to one who sees and loyingly appreciates them in their own spring home; and to the worn worker from the city, they are ineffable in the beneficence of their de- lights and memories. You will actually find all these beauties there; but remember, they must be sought and admired in May. Other beauties demand our atten- tion when summer broods over the Delaware at the Gap. He who in humble sincerity attempts to tell of such scenes, is no longer styled a rhapsodist; and one who “sloshes ‘round i’ the woods” is not presumably a “no *cagunt chap.” Our publishers and librarians say that the demand for nature books is multiplying, and now stands next to that for fiction. It is a temptation, as I look at mounted specimens of mosses, ferns and lichens, to furnish pictures here of some of them, with extended mention in the text. But these beautiful nature-forms belong far more to the domain of the naturalist than of the sportsman. Be- sides, real Opportunity to study them has been well- nigh drowned in an ocean of almost meaningless Latin terminology—the “scientific”? dead-language nomencla- tire of the dry-rot specialists. Almost all the books about ferns, lichens and mosses, are little more than lists and plates, works by mere cataloguers, and not by the real lover of nature. This is also largely true of the books about butterflies and bugs. There is a low reach of gravelly stones and marine plants just where the Analomink stream flows into the Delaware, about a mile above the Gap. There the angler searches for helgrafmites for bait. There, and especially in the sideflow of a portion of the river to form the island aboye, are very numerous examples of marine vegetation and water alge. 1 ture of one I took from that stretch of water along the island where shoals swarm with these plants. It is just natural size, photographed from the mounted speci- men. Observe its exquisite fineness and minute rami- fication, and remember that this is only one of a thou- sand well-known marine growths along the Delaware. Waving plumes, trailing locks of green from sub- merged log and brown rock! Leaves happy below the surface of the water! Spires of green, pink, yellow and golden red, gleaming and oscillating in the water- breeze, just as their air-cousins flutter and oscillate in the air-breeze. Forms like jeweled necklaces, sun- bursts and butterflies spring into being under the microscope. We become so interested that we obtain and seatch the books, notably Wolle’s “Fresh-Water Alge,” and we find and recognize the growth shown in the picture herewith (Plate 66, figs. 1 and 2), and Here is a pic-~ learn that this lovely and almost unknown and wild growth is called Tuomevya fluviatilis, Horrors! Not content with merely building these Latin fences around our innocent water-growths, the “writers” about them proceed to discourage the student with in- tensely technical descriptions. For example, we find, by use of the water-net- and microscope, that a certain lovely specimen of the water-algw, starred with ex- quisite colors and topaz-like ellipses, is called the Oedogonium hystix.- of American Fresh-Water Algz, as given by Wolle, and the picture of this one, plates, Vol. 2, page 84, fig. 8.) Now, observe how this poor-little thing has been abused and crucified in its description: “Gynandrosporous, or idio-androsporous; Oogonia- single, ellipsed to globous ellipsoid, opening by a pore in the middle; Oospore, same form as oogonium, near- ly fillmg it, coated with sublulated spines; androspo- rangia, 2-3 celled; terminal cell obtuse, dwarf male stipe, 2-celled, moderately curved, seated on the sup- porting cell, spermogomum, tI-celled.” This seems to be the result of following the pedantry of the Russian and German writers on the subject. Wolle cites over two hundred authors. It is pitiful that this most interesting nature-world has been shut away from popular interest and study by writers in- capable of doing more than making examination of the specimens, microscopic and otherwise. Their names for these children of the fresh water are hideous, Here are two’ more: Chroococcacez. Chlorophyllophycez, Meaningless, except to the “expert,” jumbles of orthography, a lock and bar to the student who cannot DELAWARE RIVER ALG. spend years in mastering the outlandish technical terms, and learning the by-ways of their labyrinths! When I come to write, in this series, of the Indian history and legend of the Delaware, I shall give some of thé words oi the Lenape language, and among them their word for marriage, viz: “Witachpungkewiwuladtpoagan.” Marriage was, of course, of tremendous import to them; and they can hardly be laughed at for using a long word for it. But suppose they had, instead, seen fit to name marriage with a word four times longer yet, and in a language known to them as “dead.” Would we not have smiled at their terms still more? Yet we find in a glass of Delaware River water, as we hold it up in the sunlight for observation, some organism so minute as to be practically invisible until we put it under the microscope; and instead of naming it in our good Eng- lish, and describing it in terms to be understood by the masses, we choose to label it with a name in a dead language, and two thousand times longer than the atom it 18 supposed to deseribe. L. F. Brown. Trout in Forest Fires. ELIZABETHTOWN, N. Y., June 6.—Editor Forest and Stream; Wednesday afternoon, June 3, forest fire swept over the Euba Mills or southern. section of this town with the besom of destruction, destroying the old saw mill, the mill house and J. F. Burres’ farm-house and contents, Henry Proctor and family lived in the old mil! house, and lost practically all their belongings. John B. Burnham, a well-known Forest AND Stream contributor, had some hunting utensils stored at Mr. Proctor’s that were destroyed. The fire raged so fiercely that it burned the heavy timbers in the mill dami and drained the water out of the mill pond. Friday affer the fire hundreds of brown trout were found dead along the Boquet River between the site of the mill dam and Hlunter’s Home, a distance of two miles. These trout would weigh from 2 ounces up to 2 pounds apiece; 95 dead trout were brought to this village and weighed, tipping the scales at 40 pounds. Curiously enough, only four speckled traut were found dead, while hundreds of the brown ones were easily located and picked up. A 2-pound brown trout was brought to this village. Another 2-pound trout, not quite dead when picked up, was put into a spring at Hunter’s Home and revived. Query: What killed the trout—extreme heat, lye, oil, lime or fright? GrorcE L, Brown, Florida Fish Commission. Tue new Florida. Fish Commission consists of John Y. Detwiler, John G, Ruge and C, R. Walker. ——— -___ (See the 2,300 colored pictures: Fishing Memories. “T jes set here a-dreamin’— A-dreamin’ every day— Of the sunshine that’s a-gleamin’ On the rivers far away. “An’ I kinder fall to wishin’ al I was where the waters swish, Fer if the Lord made fishin’, Why, a feller orter fish,” Hummine the last stanza, the afternoon of the 14th of May, found me alone, taking a hot dusty ride of twelve miles for Marshall, where I took the train for River- ton, The open season in the Shenandoah is the 15th of May, and I have made it a rule for years past to break the business chain for a day or two, at least, and be there on the evening of the 14th for a try at the fighters (and the bass in that stream deserve the name) on the 15th. My engagements were made or broken, accordingly, and my experience is that for a busy man who especially wants to go fishing or hunting, one always has to break more engagements than he can make. I had the promise of a fishing companion—but then John Keith could not get a diploma for always keeping an engagement—so on the day I was to start he disappointed me. Well, in this case there may have been a valid excuse, for it is said that before the month is out he proposes to constitmmate an “engagement” far more important than going a-fishing —and but few things can be more important to a true fisherman, My first impulse was to “rule” him and fol- low this with an “attachment,” calling for the produc- tion of his body, but rumor has it that one of Warren- ton’s fairest belles had preceded me, and that that “at- tachment” took precedence over any that I might have issued, so I could do nothing but forgive him. I hope, however, he will not disappoint me again. The morning before I started, I had sent two men out with my seine for “mad-toms,’ and my disgust can be imagined when, after four hours, they returned with six minnows, only four of which were alive. I have won- dered what those fellows were doing all that time. Disappointed as I was, fish I must, and take chances of getting bait at Riverton. I reached Riverton in good time, where I was welcomed by my friends, Wilkins, the agent of the Southern at that point, and Sam Duncan, a genial fellow, who is not only rtinning the principal store and livery in that town, but is also the present proprietor of the hotel at that point, ably assisted by his sisters. The waters in the two rivers—the North and South Branches fork here—were very clear, but from all I could learn, the indications for good fishing were better than usual. My boatman, Frank, while fishing for minnows that evening, had forced the season by catching seyen. I found side-tracked at that point the private car of Super- intendent Choate, of the Southern, a relative of your dis- tinguished townsman by that name, who was stopping over for a few hours’ fishing the next morning, having brought with him his wife, mother and some other ladies. While I was informed that he had had no experience in that line, yet [ knew that as Wilkins had him in charge he would have luck, even if his time was limited, if any bass were in the river. He did get eight that morning, and I am told was well pleased with his new experience— and who isn’t, I would like to know? For if there is any- thing that will make one feel young again—that he is “glad he is living’—that thing is to hear the click of the reel, to feel that you have him when at the proper time you ptt the hook home, see the bass as he leaps from the water, then his mad rushes for liberty and—but why enumerate? You all know how it is—that is, those who have “been there,” and if you have not, my advice is to go and try for yourself as soon as you possibly can. But I wonder what grudge friend Wilkins has against his superintendent, for he had him up and out about three o'clock that morning. I have gotten to that age and stage where I am not a great believer in too early fishing for bass; but I couldn’t sleep; in fact, I believe I dreamed of bass; so at four I was out and calling for Duncan, who had promised to go out with me. I have fished all these waters time and again, and my first try in the morning is usually from the abutment of Kenner’s mill, just below the dam on the North Fork, less than 200 yards from the hotel; so there we went. But while we fished industriously till breakfast, four fish—two apiece— were all we had to show. Getting breakfast and getting some minnows from the boatman, we took a boat and had fair luck until dinner, when Duncan was called away by business. After dinner I went with the boatman alone. I remembered having seen several nice bass in the clear water just opposite the limekiln, which would not bite, as I took it, because they saw us too plainly as we cast toward them. So I told Frank to put the end of the boat on a jutting rock which showed in the river just above where I had seen these fish, and he did so. My minnow had hardly touched the water before I had a Strike and landed a nice fish. Stringing him alongside of the boat, I remarked that perhaps I could do the same thing again, and, quicker than it takes to tell, another made a rush for my bait, and soon he kept company with the first. All my fishing was done between Kenner’s dam and the junction of the two rivers, possibly three-fourths of a mile, and at might I had thirteen, Duncan five. No big catch, you will say, but for all that the day was a most enjoyable one; the weather fine, all the surroundings pleasant, business forgotten, every now and then a bass— what more could one wish for or ask? Hard, indeed, must one be to be pleased if he would not have been satis- fied on stich a day, in such a place, and with the music of the reel combined with the singing of the birds and the falling waters to keep him company, But what of to-morrow? I did not intend to leave until the evening train on Saturday, yet bait was scarce. Early the next morning the boatman and I were again at Ken- ner’s dam, and as I failed to get a strike, I rigged up a minnow line from my fishing grip, using for a line a por- tion of No. 4o Barbour’s thread, a spool of which I al- ways carry along with me, and, pray, what is it that a fisherman won't collect among his fishing things after a good many years’ experience?—and it was not long be- fere Frank, to my surprise and gratification, caught some twenty odd minnows. Getting breakfast we again started, sees Ab Pe 5 468 a FOREST AND STREAM. [JUNE 13, 1903. EEE and following my directions he poled his boat—they do more poling than rowing in this section—some ten or fifteen yards from the bank so that I could cast my min- now close into the bank, and it was not long before I had a strike. Suffice it to say, I wound up the day with a good size string, none large, but all of good size, well content with my trip, myself and the world generally. Content with myself, did I say? Let’s see. I had begun to think that I was a pretty good fisherman—some have been known to stretch the facts by saying I was an ex- pert—but I missed more strikes on that day than I ever did before on any half dozen trips. Why, I cannot say. Whether it was because I began on Friday, or that I caught thirteen fish on that day, or the combination of both, or, and possibly the true solution, that the fish were spawning and only killing minnows and not taking them as at other times, I do not know. I was shown one spawn bed on the South Branch, but lately hatched, by Wilkins, and was told that he had seen the pair from the bridge when they had first made their appearance, and had been watching them daily, till now the male having left, the female was keeping watch over the small black objects which were destined later on, should they escape the many enemies lying in wait, to grow to goodly size, perhaps, and delight some eager angler. I was told that I could catch the mother if I would cast my minnow in a certain spot, and when I demurred, the reply was that it would not be long before someone would, and there- fore I] might as well. But to this I stated I did not pro- pose, knowingly, to be that one. I heard next morning that someone had caught that fish—more the pity! But with it all, how often my eyes cease roaming from the beautiful scenery and my thoughts turned from the fish that I was expecting to catch to some of my former fishing companions. Poor Markham Payne—as good a fellow as ever lived— passed beyond. How often have we not fished that stream together? I think it was next to the last time we were there, when we were coming down the stream from the “Trish Hole,” tired, luck poor and about ready to cuss and quit. Passing a log in the water, near the bank, we both must have concluded that it was a likely place for a bass, for at the same moment we cast our “toms” near that log and not more than six inches apart, when, with a rush that was almost startling, a bass that proved to be nearly a four-pounder, made a break for the minnow, and for a moment or two the question was which of our minnows he had chosen. We were not long in doubt, however, and Markham had him good and fast. The water was swift, and seeing the size of the fish, I was afraid he was trying to land him too quickly. He after- ward often teased me, saying that during the day when he was catching small ones and asked of me some direc- tions, I would say, “I never tell a fisherman how to fish,” but just then I had forgotten how tired I was, and the directions that I was so willing then to volunteer would have been Sufficient for the whole day, 1f not the whole trip. And wasn’t he proud of him! And well he might have been; it was worth a trip to see that rush, that fight for liberty, and that beautiful fish. Poor old Mark! Many a happy day have we spent together. And there is W. H. Haynes, of Baltimore, one of the family of Forest AND STREAM, a more congenial com- panion one could not find; ill, too ill to fish. I hope it may not be for long. He spent many weeks at Riverton last summer with his wife, trying to get back health, but failed. I saw him there for the last time soon after his arrival. Many a fine bass haye we taken from those waters in days gone by; and how pleasant it is to recall those trips. On one of them, some years ago, there were three of us. In two and one half days we got seventy-six of the finest bass that I have ever seen caught. The third man was a “grayheaded old sinner,” as he would often call himself, so I am taking no liberties in so designating him, nor will I call his name. He was very fond of fishing, but was very sure to fall far behind in the num- ber caught. How often, especially when the boat was moving, have I heard him exclaim, “Hold on, I’ve got a bite.” When, if the water was swift, the anchor would be put out, or if not too swift, the boat would be held until he ascertained, as he invariably did, that his “bite” was the bottom. I might write pages about what Haynes did and didn’t do for me on some of these trips, but I have already made this far too long. Old man, whether you are with me or not, you are not forgotten. C. M, WHITE. WARRENTON, Va. Dynamiting Lake Hopatcong Bass. New York, June 8—Editor Forest and Stream: Charles W. Levering (only son of the Doctor we have so often mentioned in your paper as a hunting and fishing friend for more than thirty years) is a chip off the old block, and inherits the enthusiasm in field sports from his father. He has just returned with his charming wife (who, by the way, outclasses her husband in luck with the big fish) from a ten days’ vacation at Lake Hopat- cong. Mr. Levering is just boiling over with righteous indignation, and his language is vehement. He reports an outrageous state of affairs at that magnificent watering place. The dynamite fiend is largely in evidence. The open season for bass will not be on until the 15th inst, Mr. Levering reports, and will make affidavit to it, vouched for by many other reputable citizens, that one day last week along the shore between John Ingram’s Coxe and Sharps Rock, something like three-fourths of a mile, he counted 1to2 dead pickerel and bass. Opposite the resi- dence of Prof. Alexander Lambert, he discovered eighteen large fish of four or five pounds weight that must have been dynamited during the night, as several of the fish were still breathing, though their air bladders were burst. It is well known that many fish when their bladders are broken by the concussion sink to the bot- tom, while others rise to the surface, and more than half are never gathered by the scoundrels. Cannot something be done to stop this infamous busi- ness? The penalty on dynamiting should be severe and imposed at once. It is earnestly hoped that the fish war- den stationed at the lake will leave no stone unturned to bring these miscreants to justice. Mr. L, says he cau get all the data needed in regard to these facts. . JAOOBSTAFF. Massachusetts Fishermen. Boston, June 6.—Editor Forest and Stream: The secre- tary of the Old Colony Club, Mr. Charles H. Taylor, Sr., announces that the annual dinner will take place at some point on the shores of Buzzard’s Bay in August. This is one of the numerous clubs that have been identified with the work of the Massachusetts Central Committee for - Protection of Fish and Game since its formation three years ago. ‘The club had as its representative on the executive committee at that time Mr, John S. Bleakie, of Boston and Falmouth. In the guarding of the interests of hook-and-line fishermen and in efforts to preserve for- est trees the club appeals to sportsmen, and the names of many of its members are enrolled upon the list of the State Association. Its president is Joseph Jefferson; vice- presidents, Hon. C. S. Hamlin, Henry R. Reed and Gerard C. Yobey; and on its executive committee are the names of some of the leading citizens of Boston, as well as of the Cape towns. In the very stubborn fight made last year by the American Fisheries Company to regain the right of seining in the Bay, this club had the laboring oar, although aided materially by the Southeast- ern Massachusetts League of New Bedford, the State Association, and sportsmen generally throughout the Commonwealth, The club has an interesting history, and now that it is likely to have a respite, for a time, from its struggle against seiners would it not find work for the immediate future of equal importance in saving some of the beautiful forests of the Cape from the woodman’s ax and from the devouring flames? We have no hesita- tion in suggesting this for their consideration, but unless abundant rain shall come soon it may be too late. The fate of the Chatham woods is already sealed. Deputy Thomas Stackhouse, of Marshfield Hills, re- ports that a fawn came upon his premises very near his house a few days since. A deer was seen on the Carlisle road about a mile from Bedford by Mr. Wm. Parker Jones and wife. He reports that it did not seem much frightened, and trotted off quite leisurely toward the Concord River near by. Within a year several deer have been seen about Bedford,-and it is thought there are a good many of them living in the thick woods along the river and to the east of the village. There is evidence that there are now more or less of these animals in every county of the State.* The close time of five years more should enable -them* to’ become quite numerous if they are able to find sufficient food. Capt. Hahn,‘ of -the United States Fish Commission schooner Grampus, recently shipped from Portland 300 seed lobsters to the Gloucester Hatchery, and he reports the season has been excellent for gathering and that each lobster averages a yield of 20,000 eggs, which is much above the*usual number, é Chairman Collins informs me that he has given instruc- tions to the deputies to make an example of all culprits who fail to observe the new law against the use of ex- plosives in fishing waters, and he would not be surprised any day at having a case in court. Only a few of the Massachushetts anglers who went to Maine for the early fishing have returned yet, for al- though there have been fires to interfere with fishing in some places, they have not interrupted those on the large lakes, and those who went for the trolling are many of them getting sport with the fly, or will very soon. A recent issue of the Portland Advertiser contains an interesting account of a trip to Moosehead from Mr. Frank L. Shaw, president of Shaw’s Business College, Portland, who is one of the best known of Maine’s fisher- men and hunters. His trip occupied ten days, and his time was spent chiefly at Northeast Carry. On the after- noon of his arrival in two hours he took 7 square-tail trout averaging nearly 2 pounds; others took larger ones and the fish are running larger than ever before—more fish over two pounds are caught than of those less than a pound. He has a camp sixteen miles from the Carry, and here one morning, he tells us, “looking out of the window I saw thirty-three deer feeding in the fields not 200 yards away. I counted them seyeral times, and am sure of the number.” Secretary Phippen, of the Megantic Club, left Boston to-day with several friends for the preserve. “Stephie” Johnson showed me a letter from Mr. G. M. Kirkner, of New York, written at the club house telling of fires not far from the club limits, Mr. Kirkner is accompanied by several friends and will go to his camp on Arnold Pond, Mr. Johnson is going with his family on Tuesday for a long stay on the preserve. The first fish of the season caught at Upper Dam was taken by a well-known Boston angler, a regular visitor to the Rangeleys for many years, Mr. Eugene Lynch, weight 9 pounds. Good catches continue to be made at Clearwater, and a 4-pound salmon has been taken from Tuft’s Pond, Kingfield; and it is reported that 780 trout were taken from Carrabassett River last week. No doubt the condition of the water, owing to the drought, is con- ducive to good fishing there. The reports which have appeared in Boston daily papers several times of late that Barker’s camps at Bemis were in danger from the fires that have been raging in the vicinity are contradicted by later news, and fishermen on the lakes are keeping right on with the sport and with good results. Wenders of large angle worms are making it easy for bait-fishermen to follow ex-President Cleve- land’s advice to use good bait. The experienced angler is never stingy with his bait, knowing well that’a good big mouthful is what tempts the big fish. Mr, A. A. Sar- gent, of Haverhill, is at Rangeley Lake, this being his forty-fifth season at the lakes. One of the most en- thusiastic fishermen here is Dr. F. W. Palfrey, of Boston, this being his first visit. Mr. S. W. Foye, of Worcester, is happy over his capture of an 8-pound salmon. Mr. Fletcher Pope, manager of the Phillips & Rangeley Rail- road, has several guests at his cottage at Gull Pond. The first to win success in fly-casting at Bemis is an ‘old-timer, Mr. E. F. Coburn, of Lawrence. At Pond-in-River an 8%-pound salmon was taken by an expert lady angler, Mrs. Harry Dutton, of Boston. Hon. F. W. Rollins, ex-Governor of New Hampshire, and his companion, a Boston angler, have taken several good fish, making the Birches his headquarters. Col. R. A, Tuttle, of Boston, Col. C.F. Hutchins and others, of New York, are located in their cottage at Lake Point. ‘cratic togue or, as the residents say, laker. Hon, George E. Smith, ex-president of the Massa- chusetts Senate, with two well-known members of the Megantic Club, is at Haines Landing. A Record Salmon, To a Bostonian, who is a Pullman conductor, belongs the honor of taking a salmon larger than any ever be- fore taken in the Rangeleys. His name is George T. McNeil, and the fish caught last Tuesday weighed 16% pounds. The fight lasted a good hour. The largest trout of the season, weighing 714 pounds, was taken by the wife of Hon. Seth L. Carrabee, of Port- land. CENTRAL. Maine Fishing Waters. Bancor, Me., June 6—Editor Forest and Stream: With the passing of the cold spring days and the ap- proach of the hot weather, the fish in Maine waters are beginning to lose somewhat their appetite for the live bait and the worm, and execept in those varieties which never raise to the artificial lure, to come up with a rush when the proper fly is presented to them. Still, in some of the colder waters, which rarely get warm because of very high altitude and correspondingly low temperature, the fish will take bait, particularly the earth worms, throughout the season. Although there have not been quite as many fisher- men at Moosehead the past week as during the pre- ceding weeks, still there have been enough to make it very interesting for the fish, and there has been some splendid sport, the square-tails predominating at some localities in the big lake, while in others the results were confined almost exclusively to the less aristo- And a good many of these have furnished nearly as good sport as their red-spotted cousins, since they grow to immense size, and, caught in very deep water, al- ways come to the hook with a strong determination to take everything in sight and get away with it. Probably no one party has had greater success than the Camp Comfort Club, which occupies the delight- fully located club camp on the west shore, near Sand Bar, where some of the great records of Moosehead have been made in past years by the members, who are largely Rhode Islanders. In the party this year were Commodore D. L. Fales, C. Fred Crawford, J. W. Freeman, A. G. Hazard, John Booth, Dr. Charles F. Sweet, George Sweet, Charles S. Foster, of Central Falls; C. E. Harrison, J. Milton Payne, Charles Payne, of Pawtucket; Hon. Fred Parker, of Providence, and Wm. P. McKinney, of Boston. The best fishing they enjoyed in any one day was when tliey safely landed a total of 156 fish, which in- cluded 148 square tails, 7 togue and a landlocked sal- mon. on some others, when they did not take nearly as many fish, they took some record breakers for size. Charles Payne led the party on salmon, his big one weighing plump 6% pounds, while the largest trout, a 5'%4-pounder, rose to the occasion when Mr. Parker came along, and Mr. Hazard had no other record leit to hitn but the togue, which he made in fine style, land- ing a 15-pound fish after a hard struggle—on the fish's part. Such big fish are an old story to Mr. Hazard, who has been coming to Moosehead for so many years that the big ones naturally go his way to see if he can fish as well as ever. Other fish worthy of mention were: Mr. Parker, 4, 4%4-pound trout and 6%-pound salmon; Mr. Booth, 3, 3, 3%, 4%4-pound trout, and 5%4- pound salmon; Mr. Crawford, 4, 4% and 434-pound trout. Another club, which had a most delightful outing, is the Mohawk Club, of Haverhill and, Boston, a list of which was given in last week's letter. Seen on their way home by your correspondent, they went into ecsta- cies over Maine’s great inland sea, and said that, al- though they had fished Maine waters every year for twelve or fourteen years and tried many reputed to be the best, they invariably returned to old Moosehead as the best of them all. They, too, had all the fish the law would allow them to carry home, and delightful memories of those eaten in camp, fresh from the water and cooked as only a Maine guide, in the Maine woods and aided by the fresh, appetite-giving air of Maine, can cook them for hungry men. Mr. Traiser had the sport of his life one day, when he landed 14 trout on a fly in just three-quarters of an hour, while Mr. Heintz added to Boston’s reputation by taking into camp 2 togue that weighed 9% and 7% pounds, and a 5'4- pound trout. Mr. Davis caught a 10'%4-pound togue, and President Arnold was obliged to content himself with a 3%-pound trout. W. W. Doane, of Brewer, and N. E. Bragg, of Ban- gor, have returned from two weeks at Deer Island, where they had some great sport, catching some very large square tails and some extra good togue. Henry E. Capen, of Augusta, whose boyhood was spent on Deer Island, has to catch fish there every spring or part of his lifes gone. This year he was there as usual, occupying his camp on the point, and took all the fish he wanted to catch, carrying home his full limit, all trout and weighing up to 3% pounds, Messrs. Archer, Evans and Smith, of Salem, Mass., who have been staying at the Crow's Nest, Sandy Bay, had some magnificent sport there among the big fish, catching square tails up to 4% pounds, and some large togue. Seelye, of Boston, went to the same place for a week’s stay, but had such good luck that he decided to go home, and left in three days with his limit, with a large proportion of square tails. Dr. W. James Starbuck and wife, of Boston, have re- turned home from their private camp on Lake Onawa, with 41 pounds of salmon and trout. During their stay they entertained Hon. J. Frank Lawrence, of Chicago, who took on the troll 10 salmon. Dr. Frederick Freeman, Dr. George H. Earle, Dr. J. J. Loizeaux and Frank D, Wilde, of Boston, have gone home after a delightful trip through the Fish River system of lakes, starting at Portage. They were in ten days and enjoyed some great fishing. The Richards party, just out from a stay at the Richards camp on Foster Knowlton Pond, reports a splendid time and all the trout fishing they could stand, But that was not the only day for records, as JUNE 13, 1903.] FOREST*AND STREAM. 469 at the delightful little trout ponds that are so abundant in the lower Penobscot, West Branch region, Rainbow, Daisey and Kidney furnish some especially fine strings. In the party were Wm. W. White, of Lowell; Peter Allison, of Bristol, England, who crosses the Atlantic -each year to go on this fishing trip with this sme party; Wm. J.-Leckie, George W. Brown, Wm, Fol- lett, Charles P. Hall and J. L. Richards, of Newton, Mass. Among the successful parties to visit outlying ponds and streams from this city was the Kimball party, ar- ranged by R. S. Kimball, and including John Webster and American Express Agent D. W. Webber, besides a fourth angler, They went to the Passadumkeag, go- ing to the stream via Enfield and fishing up, instead of down, as many parties do, They caught 250 trout, which satisfied them all that the Passadumkeag was what its admirers claim, the finest trout stream in the country. 4 ‘ ; A nearer stream, but not, perhaps, quite as casily reached, is Leighton Brook, 33 miles from this city by team. Elmer Archer and Galen Kingsbury, and John H. Piper and F. C. Ball made up two parties that fished that brook Memorial Day, and between them they took out 425 trout during their stay, the first- named couple catching 220 of them. Already canoeing parties are venturing upon the waters of the great north country to get the advantages of the outing before the flies and mosquitoes get too numerous, and while the early fishing is at its best. Walter T, De Haven, M. D. Boyne, and H. P. Wallis, of Brooklyn, N. Y., are on a quite extended trip down the Allegash. : : Senator Quay arrived at Greenville this week in the Pullman car “Rambler,” accompanied by a party of friends, and was joined there by his five guides from the Ox Bow region, who were with him last year when he made the same trip. They took the steamer to the head of the lake, and at the other end of the carry put their canoes into the Penobscot for one of the finest canoe trips in the northern country. They will go down the Penob- scot and through the Allegash to Churchill Lake, where the Allegash waters will be left and, by brook and carry, Spider Lake will be made, and this will be headquarters, whence, when the outing is about over, the canoe trip down the Aroostook will be made, leaving the canoe for the last time at either Ox Bow or Masardis. Senator Quay’s guests included State Senator Walter Merrick, of Philadelphia; Stephen P. Stone, of Pittsburg, and Capt. Ben Sooey, of Atlantic City. Secretary E. C. Farrington, of Augusta, has made a partial announcement of the plans for the annual gather- ing of the Maine Sportsmen’s Fish and Game Association and friends at Kineo, July 6 to 8, inclusive, The principal topics announced for discussion are whether summer campers and others, going into the woods in close season, shall be permitted to carry rifles with them; whether there shall be further restrictions on the killing of deer by permitting the killing of one doe only, and the killing of fawns prohibited. It has also been intimated that the question of setting aside.a tract of land for a State game preserve, in which no fish or game shall be permitted killed at any time, would be talked over at this gathering of sportsmen, but it was not included in the announce- ment. There is quite a long list of sports, including a bateau race, double and single canoe races, portage canoe race, log rolling and greased pole contests, tilting contest and a special guides’ rifle contest. Prizes will be awarded to the person who catches the largest fish; who catches the largest and second Jargest square-tailed trout on the fly, casting; the woman who catches the largest square-tailed trout; all the fish to be caught and presented to Presi- dent Judkins or one of his clerks during the three pro- gramme days of the outing. Salmon fishing at the Bangor Pool, where there ought te be more fish to catch, has not been as brisk as the habitues of that pool would like. Three have been taken there during the week, the largest being landed this after- noon by J. H. Peavey. It weighed just 20 pounds, When one knows that hundreds have been taken during the season in the weirs, and that of that number at least 400 have been purchased by the United States Government for propagative purposes at the Craig’s Brook hatchery, it seems as if the weirs must have absolute control of the river, or nearly that, and that the river will soon be empty of its salmon, the greatest game fish caught in fresh water. Between the weirs which catch the great majority of the fish entering the river and the pulp mills which have a decidedly bad influence on those few which are permitted to try and pass them to the spawning beds, the Salmo salar of the Penobscot seems doomed to ex- tinction. Hersert W. Rowe. Food of the Whitefish. In the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History for 1897, and again in my Catalogue of the Fishes of New York, 1903, page 228, I mentioned a female of the common whitefish which was sent from Canandaigua Lake, New York, June 17, 1806, by Mr. James Annin, Jr. The fish had in its stomach numerous small shells of several genera. These shells have been identified for me by Prof, W. M. Rankin, of Princeton University, as representing the following species: Amnicola limosa (Say.) Valvata tricarinata (Say.) Pisidium abditunt (2?) Of these three genera Ammicola was taken in abundance, while the specimens of the other two were present in smal! numbers only. The largest of these Pisidium shells are scarcely more than one-eighth of an inch in length, while the 4imnicola are yery much smaller. The common whitefish above referred to belongs to the same species which developed a singular habit of feeding upon live killifish in the New York Aquarium in 1806. It was considered a remarkable change of habit at the _time, for the fish has a stomach specially adapted for disintegrating small shells, its walls in the individual sent by Mr. Annin having been more than one-fourth inch thick. In natural stirroundings the fish is a bottom feeder; but in the aquarium it learned to catch live min- mows in any part of the tank © Tarteton H. Bean, Fish and Fishing. Opening of the Salmon Season. Satmon have made their appearaice for some weeks past in the Baie des Chalets and also in the estuaries of some of the rivers flowing into the Gulf of St. Law- rence. At first they were taken for a few days very freely by the net fishermen, though for some time past, to the despair of these latter and to the delight of the anglers, the weather has proved very unfavorable to netting, and it is probable, therefore, that rather more fish than usual will enter the rivers on their way to their spawning erounds. A number of members of the Restigouche Sal- mon Club were expected at the club house at Metapedia about the 8th or roth of June, and from the fact that a catload of fish boxes have already been prepared for the club this spring, I imagine that the members are antici- pating a good season’s catch. The amount of unleased salmon water in this country is growing less every year, and now another north shore river has been disposed of by the Government. This is the Olomonasheebou, a distant stream, wide and shallow, and in the early part of the season affording excellent sport, containing, as it does, large numbers of both sal- mon and sea trout, It has been leased by Sir Charles Ross, the manufacttirer of the Ross rifle, for $350 a year. Only for being so comparatively dificult of access it would doubtless lease for three or four times as much. Mr. Ivers W, Adams, with his two sons and Mr. Henry Sampson, of Boston, left here last Thursday by steamer for their fishing camp on the far-famed Moisie, and Mr. Walter Brackett reached here on Saturday on his way to his salmon pools and summer studio on the Ste. Mar- guerite. Among the earliest salmon fishermen to arriye on their river were Messrs. Stikeman, I. H. Stearns, and Dr. F. W. Campbell, all of Montreal, who fish Chamber- lain Shoals on the Restigouche, The streams are all so low for want of water that unless we soon haye rain the salmon fishing season will be a yery short one, especially upon the North Shore streams. The short and rapid course of the streams, as compared with those upon the scuth shore of the St. Lawrence, is responsible for the shorter season of fishing in these rivers, except in very rainy seasons. They rise tremendously in times of flood, but fall very rapidly after their ordinary leyel is reached again. I have reason to hope that friends who are about to fish some of the North Shore rivers will take the trouble this season to experiment with night fishing for salmon that will not rise during the day. I know that some of the fishermen on the Grand Cascapedia have had good suc- cess with night fishing, and friends of mine in Scotland claim to have done the same. On one of the Scotch rivers Mr. W. P. Campbell recently killed two good fish at mid- night on a large black-dose. Here in Canada the night {lies which have met with any reported success have been light in color. Dark flies are considered the best at night for salmon fishing in parts of Scotland. They can scarce- ly be too large, nor need the tackle to be at all fine. Fishermen and Fires, At present writing forest fires are ravaging the whole of Quebec’s north country. No living man remembers to have seen them so severe before or to have covered so large an extent of country. As scarcely a drop of rain has fallen here for the last nine weeks, everything is ex- ceptionally dry. Many of the rivers are tnusually low. Scores of fishermen have been driven out of the Canadian woods during the last three weeks. either by the existence of forest fires or by the dread of them. Many of them were burned out of their fishing camps, and in some cases had to take to the water to escape the flames. The pretty railway station of Triton, on the line of the Quebec and Lake St. John Railway, has been destroyed, though the beautiful club house near by was fortunately saved. The Press Fish and Game Club of Quebec, the Stadacona and the Iroquois Clubs have been less fortunate. All the main club houses of these clubs have fallen victims to the de- youring element, and so haye a number of camps on the Jacques Cartier Club’s limits and others on the shore of Lake Edward, including that of Mr, Odell. The hotel at Lake Edward has been fortunately saved, and so have been the buildings of the Metabetchouan and Tourilli Clubs. In many other parts of the country, too, where extensive bush fires have recently raged, fishermen who were in camp had a narrow escape for their lives, having had to take to their canoes and to paddle out on to the lake. One of the results of these fires has undoubtedly been to drive numbers of wild animals out of the woods. The fishermen who were burnt out of the club house of the Iroquois Fish and Game Club, as just related, saw hundreds of rabbits racing down the railway track some distance in advance of the fire, and bears, moose and red deer, and even a Canadian lynx have made their appear- ance quite close to the city of Quebec. Edgar W. Anthony, a thirteen-year-old angler of Boston, was cross- ing a portage in advance of his father and other friends, when he came suddenly upon a bear, which hurried off ahead of the party and took to the water at the end of the portage. This was on the territory of the Laurentian Fish and Game Club in the St. Maurice district. Young Anthony had the good luck the same day to hook and land a gray or lake trout weighing 21 pounds, on a troll. Ouananiche are Plentiful, Owing probably to the absence of rain, the fishing for ouananiche opened earlier than usual this year. Ever since about the 15th of May the fish have been rising very freely to the fly in the mouths of some of the rivers, and also about the southern shore of Lake St. John. Several fish weighing between four and five pounds each were taken in one day from the Metabetchouan, and eighteen or twenty fish have been killed to a single tod in one morning in the pool at the mouth of the Ouiachouan, while a dozen farmers were making good catches with bait at the same time from the railWay bridge at the mouth of the stream. It is a rather remarkable fact, how- ever, that as soon as the wind veers around to the east, the fish cease to rise. The fishing ought to be good, how- ever, by the 15th inst. in the Grand Discharge, ; Some very large catches of trout have been made dur- ing the last few days in Lake Edward by bait-fishermen, but the best of the fly-fishing is only comimencing, because of the continuance of the cold weather. The members of the Metabetchouan Fish and Game Club have made good catches with the fly, however, Mr. Bishop taking nearly forty pounds’ weight in one morning’s fishing. Dr. Por- fer and his party from Bridgeport, Conn., have also had excellent sport, and so has Dr. Zimmerman, of Phila- delphia. The Laurentide Club lakes are furnishing capi- tal fly-fishing just now to a number of Quebecers, and among American sportsmen who haye recently shared in it are Messrs. Curtis, of Round Lake, N. Y.; Boynton and Hayes, of New York, and H. Veeder, of Hartford, Conn. E. T. D. CHAMBERS. Quesec, Canada, June 6, CHICAGO AND THE WEST. Sparta District. Mr. D. J. Hotchkiss, editor of the Fox Lake Repre- sentative, Fox Lake, Wisconsin, writes the following re- garding the recently mentioned Sparta trout district of Wisconsin: “Your little pointer onthe LaCrosse River and Sparta a week ago touched me in a tender spot, and it made me homesick. I used to live at Sparta several years ago, and have fished all those creeks and streams there. It set me off so much that I just had to dig out Saturday night and go up there for a day with the trout. I went out with Capt. Frank French, an old time friend, and, by the way, a boy who made a great record in the Philippine war, whose company rescued Gilmore, and who has many other daring deeds and several medals of honor to his credit. We drove up some eight miles above Sparta and put in the LaCrosse River with a boat, fishing down stream. We got into the water about 10 A. M., my train being delayed in reaching the city, and we fished hard and faithfully until about 7 o’clock at night, but were only successful in getting nine trout, running from six to ten inches long. The water was very high and somewhat roily, and the day was decidedly cold, with a strong east wind which you know is a hoodoo for fishing, which accounts in part for our poor luck. We tried the fly first, as we wished to be sporty and fish right, but could not get a raise. Then we tried grasshoppers, dead ones, but the trout did not fancy that feed, not being fresh enough, probably, and would have none of it. Then we got down to the plebian angleworm and caught every trout we got on that bait, but they did not care particularly for them, and it was only after hard fishing and tantalizing work in running the bait over and over the holes that we could get them to touch it at all. There is lots of feed coming in with the high water, and they are not hustling much for feed: Before the cold wet weather set in the boys were getting a few nice trout, and several handsome strings have been taken, but for the past two or three weeks the fishing was poor. I wanted to remain and try them again, but was very busy at home and the weather was still unfavorable Monday, so I returned home. How- ever, I got a taste of the sport and felt much relieved in my longing for the old sport in the Sparta country caused by your little item. Perhaps later on, when the weather gets settled again, I may run up and try them again, but at present I shall have to be satisfied with our own fishing here. “By the way, isn’t it about time you paid me that promised visit when you were going to come up and help me harvest my bass crop? They are biting fairly well now, and several nice ones have been caught, though I haven't been able to get out among them myself yet. I shall be over my rush in a week or so, and then, if the weather gets favorable, I shall try and haye some sport with the bass and pipke, and would be glad to haye you drop up and help me out. Can give you some good sport with the big-mouths.” The Trout and the Goat. A gentleman who has recently been fishing the Pigeon River, out of Wolverine, Wis., writes me to-day, inclosing a bit of pebble which would weigh perhaps three-fourths of an ounce and which measures three-fourths of an inch over its greatest diameter and half an inch in width. He says: “Inclosed find a small pebble stone, which -I found in the stomach of a twelve-inch speckled trout which I caught in the Sturgeon River yesterday. It was a female fish, quite fat and in good condition. J broke a small piece off one corner of the stone. IJ have some- times found sticks, weeds and grass in the stomachs of trotit, but never before found a pebble stone.” Close examination would seem to prove that the trout at times somewhat resembles the Notth American billy- goat in his habits. I have often found them with their stomachs literally distended with what appeared to be black mud. This I think they take. while feeding upon the larve of the different caddis flies. The other day when Mr. Harris and I were fishing together over in Michigan, we paused for a time in the heat of the day to rest ourselves on certain inviting rocks. Looking into the water at our feet, we noticed what seemed to be pieces of black, water-soaked sticks, each from an inch te two inches in length. Examination proved these to be the cases of the caddis grub. They were apparently tabri- cated out of black and almost rotten wood or bark, but attached to them were small pieces of sand and tiny peb- bles. Breaking open these cases we found ensconced in each a grub about an inch in length. Any trout fisher- man is familiar with this sort of thing, and knows that when bottom food of this kind is abundant trout are not s@ apt to rise. Of course the trout has his mind set on the worm inside of the case, and if he has to swallow the case to get at the worm, very well. I imagine that my informant’s trout was going after a certain fat tidbit of this sort and regarded the pebble simply as an incident in the operation. For any fisher who is not familiar with the appearance of these caddis cases, I may say that he is apt to pass them over without careful examination, as they seem to be simply bits of the flotsam of the stream. Yet if he will watch closely along the bottom, he may see one of these black looking “stick baits” begin to crawl, even up stream against the current. The head end of the case igs 470 FOREST AND STREAM. [June 13, 1903. always open, and close examination will show the grub sticking’ out his head and a couple of sets of short and sturdy legs, by means of which he is able to accomplish locomotion. Putting some of these apparently inanimate bits on top of a rock, where the sun would strike them, we could see the little fellows stick out their legs and finally wriggle and squirm until they turned the whole case over and so got back into the water. Down in New Mexico, where I used.to fish, we often used as bait the grub of what we called the willow fly. These cases seemed to be made of a sort of glue, with fine sand and very small pebbles. One would sometimes find a handful of them attached to the bottom of a rock which he turned over in the stream. This form of “stick bait” was entirely different from the wood cases which we find in Michigan and Wisconsin. My recollection is that the grub of the willow fly was a little bit paler in color and rather larger than these Michigan larve. For Wisconsin, Messrs. John Bates and Henry Wagner, of Chicago, this week left for a trout fishing trip of some extent out of Ellis Junction, Wisconsin. They expect also to take a few bass. Back from Washington, Mr. W. S. Phillips, of Chicago, this week returned from a hurried trip to Washington and the Puget Sound coun- try. He found time to do some fishing and took one trout, which I suppose was likely a sturgeon, and which weighed fifteen pounds, We in this country know noth- ing but. baby fishes. Luck at Lauderdale. Members of the Chicago Fly-Casting Club who made the trip to Lauderdale Chain had fair fishing, but nothing very startling. It need not be said that they had a grand good time. The Pere Marquette Trip. The Pére Marquette trip of the Chicago anglers will probably be deferred until July, until the weather condi- tions are more favorable. So far the weather has been exceedingly bad for anglers of the middle West. Kalamazoo. I have at different times noticed with interest the beau- ‘tiful Kalamazoo River, more especially in its course be- tween Battle Creek and Kalamazoo towns. I am told that this is a very prolific bass stream, the fish being small- mouths, and that the Battle Creek and Kalamazoo boys frequently make boating trips between the two towns. One or two friends here wish to make this trip, and the only cloud I can cast upon their prospects is the com- monly believed information that in the summer months the fish of this stream are wormy and not fit to eat. ‘Some of the Battle Creek anglers bring them home alive ‘and turn them loose in cold water for a while, after which time they are said to assume good condition. I am sorry these fish are not good to eat, for the stream seems ideal for fly-fishing, and I believe a boat trip with a fly-rod on that water would be a pleasant experience. The Wautoma District. Mr. C. P. McAvoy, of this city, came in the other day to ask for a good vacation country for himself and wite. He wants some bass fishing, but would not balk at a trout now and then. He had in mind some point on the Mississippi River, where he intended doing some fly- fishing for the famous small-mouths of that stream. The exceedingly high waters on the great river, however, would seem to ptt it out of an angler’s plans. I advised Mr. McAvoy to go up to some nice farm-house near Neshkoro, or to drop in at Bean’s hotel at Wautoma, or to try Benjamin’s place near the White River. There are very many little trout streams near this place, and west of Wautoma there are a couple of lakes known as Silver-Crest. It is ‘still a trifle too early for fly-fishing for bass along the lower White, but still one might catch an occasional bass even now. ‘The beauty, restfulness and healthfulness of this district give it considerable at- traction, and Mr. McAvoy, who already was somewhat familiar with the streams of that neighborhood, took counsel to go in there for his vacation. He will probably do considerable exploration, in company with either Art Bean, of Watttoma, or Carl Bartl, of Princeton, both of whom know that country thoroughly well. About Hooks, A friend of mine down in Kentucky sent me a nice bunch of .round-bend Carlisle hooks, which he had specially imported at considerable expense of time and cash. He is very fond of this pattern of hook and thought he had the real thing. Now he writes me from Michigan that he tried them and had all kinds of trouble. He says: “I broke ten of them yesterday while fishing, and they all broke at the same place, seeming to be very brittle. I send you one, to show you just where they broke.” The hook inclosed is broken just at the thin place under the barb. I should think a hook which would break ten in one day’s fishing was a good thing to leave at home, or in England, whence they originally came. A good many of my friends are very fond of the Pen- nell bronzed hook, more especially that with the up-turned eye. This is a strong, keen hook with deep barb, and has great holding powers. It is said that under a fair driving test this hook will penetrate pine wood further than any other to which equal power is applied. I noticed a good many of the Saginaw crowd used Snéck side-bends. I be- lieve this is a good catching hook, though hardly think it has the power in holding the very heavy fish which would be gained by the thicker wire of the bronzed Pen- nell. The Sproat hook has the best reputation for strik- ing quality, as it is thought to be of ideal central draft. There are, however, Sproats and Sproats. I had a bunch of queen-of-the-water flies, or a sort of Sproat, which patterns seemed to be very attractive over in Michigan this week, yet I never missed so many fish in my life as I did on this particular fly. The point of the hook re- curved in so far toward the shank that in very many cases it not only failed to catch but failed to hold. I presume ‘for his namesake in Minnesota. every angler has his favorite pattern. Just at present the bronzed hook is having a big run ‘in this part of the angling world. As a matter of fact, almost any hook will do when the trout are well on the feed and are not com- ing short. It should not be forgotten, however, that one of the great functions of a hook is to come intact out of a tree or a log, when perchance it is fastened there in- stead of in the anatomy of a fish. . Record Rainbow, Mr. John Bain, of Grand Rapids, Mich., last week, ac- cording to advice just at hand from John Waddell, of the latter city, was so fortunate as to capture an eight- pound rainbow trout. I have no details as to the incident, but that weight is record for the Pere Marquette. E. Houcs. Hartrorp Buiipine, Chicago, Il. Another Tame Trout. Editor Forest and Stream: ; In Forest AND StreAm of May 23 I read with much interest an article by Mr. Chas. Cristadoro, “Wild Trout I have Met.” I note, with sympathy, for this gentleman, his remarks about the big trout which made goo-goo eyes at him from the depths of a clear pool, for this experience has tried the patience of more than one fisherman, who, after repeated efforts with various kinds of bait, has gone home wondering why these big- trout failed to take the least notice of the many good things offered. I have heard many theories advanced why, at times, trout will not respond to the most urgent dinner call. But no matter about the real reason. The fact remains. I will say to Mr. Cristadoro, if at some future time he finds a pool where he sees the goo-goo eyes and hears the hearty trout laugh come bubbling up to the surface, “Go home; get your supper; and when the shades of night have fallen over that charming pool, add to your fishing kit a bulls- eye electric light and try them again. Flash that light over the pool, and drop your wriggling worm within its circle. You may not enjoy midnight angling, but if trout are necessary for breakfast you will have them.” Now, a word about that tame trout which came to such an untimely death at Duluth. The world is wide, but printer’s ink spatters over a vast territory; and should a copy of the Tribune containing that story fall into the hands of Mr. Ed. Grant, of the Rangeley Lakes region, I fear he would at once drop his rod and go gunning That story, with slight variations, was told years ago by Ed. Grant; only his tame trout did not slip from a log, but dropped through a bridge and was drowned. Now, Ed. is original. He enjoys a good story and knows how to tell one. The tame trout story is his pet piece of fiction, told in such a positive manner that no one but a fisherman could doubt it. And were he to know that some other Grant had been fooling with his little fish I fear he would be justly angry. ROXBURY. [The tale of a fish caught, tamed and taught to live on dry land, has been told of many different fish by many different fish story builders in many places; but the claim is made that the original story as told in this country was the Forest AND STREAM translation from the Swedish of a story of a herring which followed its master about on dry land and eventually fell from a bridge and was drowned. This was printed, it must have been, ten years ago. | Fishing Temperance. Consistency requires those of us who are right minded fishermen to reasonably limit ourselves as to the number of fish we should take on favorable days. On no ac- count should edible fish be caught in such quantities as to be wasted. By restraining ourselves in this matter we discourage in our own natures the growth of greed, we prevent wicked waste, we make it easier for us to bear the fall between what we may determine upon as decent good luck and bad luck, or no luck, and make ourselves at all points better men and better fishermen.—Grover leveland in the Independent. A Tagged Jewfish Heard From. Tarpon, Texas, May 30.—Editor Forest and Stream: On the 27th inst. Mr. C. E. Gast, of Pueblo, Colo., landed a jewfish bearing a tag inscribed as follows: “Aransas Pass, 1903. Report to Forest AND STREAM. W. B. Young, New York.” This fish was tagged by Mr. Young about April 10. W. A. FARLEY. Che Fennel. ——_@—— Fixtures, Oct. 6-9.—Danbury, Conn., Agricultural Society’s show. ; Nov. 36._New oe Antal show of Ladies’ Kennel Associa- tion of America. J Nov. 9.—Fourteenth annual beagle trials_of the National Beagle Club of America. Charles R. Stevenson, Sec’y. Kennel Diseases. Arter an interval of some months, “Kennel Diseases, their Symptoms, Nature, Causes and Treatment,’ by Ash- mont, has superseded “Dogs, their Management and Treatment in Disease.” Excellent as was his first work, “Ashmont” (Dr. J. Frank Perry) has placed it under a total eclipse by the scope, profound, yet concise, informa- tion contained in his later work, “Kennel Diseases.” His first work contained 208 pages; his later work contains 424 pages. The whole work, aside from the author's comprehensive technical knowledge of diseases and their treatment, is markedly sterling good sense. The work is for the information of the layman, and therefore, as near as may be, it is written in language easily understood by all. In his preface the learned author gives the keynote to his theme, as follows: “In attempting to popularize medicine—for the guidance of non-professionals—a com- mon fault seems to be failure to particularize, and thus leave far too much to conjecture. In endeavoring to ob- viate this I may have gone over the line and indulged in what might seem to some to be needless repetition. But if so no real harm can have been done; and in the matter of doses, especially, my readers can scarcely go wrong. There are no specifics in canine practice. That is, 10 medicines which are sure cures always for the same dis- eases. Indeed, in many instances, a medicine which has cured a large number of cases may prove valueless in the next case, although it might seem precisely like the others. Again, cures can be effected only in stages, as it were. That is, one class of drugs will accomplish a certain amount of good and no more, and another class must be employed to secure greater gain.” This will commend itself to all serious thinkers for its soundness. The work is divided into three parts, “The Sick Quarters,” “Princi- ples of Medicine,’ and “The Practice of Medicine,” the latter including every disease to which the dog is sub- ject. Published by Little, Brown & Co. For sale by Forest and Stream Publishing Company. Price, $3.00. Wachting. —_—p——_ Yachting Fixtures for 1903. Members of race committee will confer a favor by sending notice of errors or omissions in the following list, and also changes which may be made in the future. JUNE. 10. Atlantic, 90-footers, Sandy Hook. 10. South Boston, club, City Point. 10-12-13-15-16. Manchester, trial races for selection of challenger for Seawanhaka cup, Manchester Harbor. 11. New York, fifty-seventh annual, all classes, off Sandy Hook, 13. Chicago, special, Lake Michigan. 13. Boston, club, South Boston. 13. Royal Canadian, club, Toronto. 13. Seawanhaka Corinthian, club, Oyster Bay. 13. Larchmont, spring regatta, Larchmont. 13. Beverly, club, Monument Beach. 14, Jamaica Bay, club, Jamaica Bay. 15. New York, Glen Cove cups, Glen Cove. 7. Beverly, open sweepstake, Monument Beach. 7. Larchmont, races for 90-footers, Larchmont. 17. Boston, Y. R. A., off Point Allerton, open. 17. Dorchester, open, Dorchester Bay. 18-19. New Rochelle, club, New Rochelle. 19. Eastern, special, open, Marblehead. 19. Indian Harbor, 90-footers, Greenwich. : 20. Southern, Baldwin and Walker cups, New Orleans. 20. Beverly, club, Monument Beach. 20. Keystone, club, Woodmere, L. I. 20. Brooklyn, Y. R. A. of Gravesend Bay. 20. Corinthian, first championship, Marblehead. 20. Seawanhaka Corinthian, 90-footers, Oyster Bay. 20. Atlantic, club, Sea Gate. 20. Columbia, motor boat race, Am. P. B. A., Hudson River. 20. New Rochelle, Y. R. A. of L. I. Sound, annual. 20. Chicago, handicap, Lake Michigan. 20. Royal Canadian, club, Toronto. 21. Old Mill, club, Jamaica Bay. 21. Gloucester, N. J., annual, Delaware River. 25-26-27. Seawanhaka Corinthian, Y. R. A. of L. I.’ Sound, annual and specials. 27. South Boston, club, City Point. 27, New York, special race for 90-footers, Newport. 27. Boston, club, Marblehead. 27. Beverly, club, Monument Beach. 27. St. Paul, cruise, rendezvous St. Paul, Minn. 27. Chicago, special. Lake Michigan. . 27. Royal Canadian, club, Toronto. 27. New York C. C., Y. R. A. of Gravesend Bay. 30. New York, special race for 90-footers, Newport. 30. Royal Canadian, L. S. S. A. regatta, Oakville. 29-July 2. Manhasset Bay cup races, L. I. Sound. CoNSTITUTION was put in the dry dock at Erie Basin on last Saturday in order that she might be measured. The yacht was measured with fifty-eight men on board. Mr. Charles D. Mower, the measurer for the New York Y. C. did not give out the results of his calculations. Owtnc to the thick fog that hung over the lower bay ott Monday, June 8, the race between Columbia, Constitu- tion and Reliance was abandoned. The three boats lay in the Horseshoe and made sail during the morning, but the fog rolled in so thick that it was impossible to start. As there was a fresh southeast breeze blowing and quite a steep sea running outside, it would have been a goad test for the boats, and it was a source of great disap- pointment to all interested that the fog prevented what might have been a very exciting race. | - Atlantic Y. C. Ocean Race. June 1 to 3. The first of three ocean races to be held by the At- lantic Y. C. this year, was started on the morning of Monday, June 1, and finished in the early hours of Wednesday, June 3. Six schooners started and finished the 248 mile event, which was won on corrected time by the smallest of the lot, Kiwassa, owned by Messrs. H. B. Shaen and H. A. Rusch, of the Atlantic Y. C. By winning the event Kiwassa gets a_ beautiful trophy presented by Com. Frederick Adams, of the Larchmont Y.-C. Mr. J. G. N. Whittaker’s schooner Iroquois secured second prize and George Lauder, Jr.’s Endymion third. Both the latter trophies were offered by the Atlantic Y-. C. The course selected was a long one, calculated to try out the craft-in every way. It led from Sea Gate to the Fire Island Lightship, thence to Northeast End Lightship, off Cape May, and from there to the finish, off Scotland Lightship. But conditions on the first ocean race were excep- tional. It was like sailing on a stimmer sea with hard- ly enough wind or wave to make the trip exciting. These conditions, of course, handicapped boats like Endymion, Iroquois, Fleur de Lys and Thistle, dis- tinctly at best in real ocean-going conditions. A gratifying feature about the event was that every craft finished the contest, and during the progress a majority of the contenders were in sight of one another. The courses and distances covered by the racers are approximately represented as follows: ,: Nantical Miles. Craven Shoal Buoy to Swash Channel Bell Buoy, 5S 4 W..... 4Y, Swash Channel to Black and Red Buoy, 5.E. by S........ sop ee Black and Red Buoy to Red Buoy No. 2, 5.E, by E. % E 1 Buoy No. 2 to Fire Island L. V., E. by 3.1.0.2... seeess 3614 Fire Island L. V- to N. E. end L. V., S.W. % S.-. 100 N. E. end L. V. to Barnegat Bell Buoy, N.N.E. % E....... 58 Barnegat Bell Buoy to Scotland L. V., N. by E. % E..........42 Thtal cistanCes eres wrenveeee cen tat ieee at ane tees eee yeerte 248 June 13, 1903.] FOREST AND STREAM. The event was scheduled to start June I at 10:15 A. M. Fifteen minutes before that time the prepara- tory signal was fired from the regatta committee boat, the power yacht Agnes, kindly loaned by Mr. T. C. Treadwell. The tide was on the last of the flood, and there was about a 7-knot breeze blowing S. E. by 8. The starting line was between the stake boat and Craven Shoal bell buoy. The six contenders, which came to the line, were as follows: Net Over All Racing Tonnage. Length. Length. Thistle, Com. Robert E. Tod............. 235 150 110 Endymion, George Lauder, Jr.........-.-- 116 126 100 Traquais, fo GN Wihtta betes 31 oes 606 ss .5 > 86.16 96.3 82.3 Fleur de Lys, Dr. L. M. Stimson......... 86.29 108 90 (Dealt DRM A Cculev ihr eo nara erene 59.99 91.2 18:5. awa SSay weber gle SWAACK Spsa 34 stra coda e ete eatery 45.90 79 78.5 Fhe starting gun at 10:15 sent the craft away. Estelle led. Qn her decks was L. J. Callanan and_ several guests. Fleur de Lys was next over. Miss Stimson represented her father, and was the only passenger aboard. Iroquois was the next craft over the line. Her owner was not present. The party to take the long trip consisted of men from the Quaker city, in- cluding Prof. Albert H. Smith, Benjamin Hawley, the artist, and Howard E. Myers. Fourth boat over was Endymion. George Lauder, Jr.. was on board and has as his guests Andrew Car- negie, Jr., Richard Sheldon, the Yale athlete, and Jas- per Rowland. On Kiwassa, the next craft to get away, were the owners, H. B. Shaen and H. A. Rusch, E. A. Ericson, Thomas L. Arnold and L. S. Baylies. Thistle was the last to cross. On board Commodore Tod had as guests Frederick Vilmar and Charles EF. Schuyler of the Regatta Committee. In the journey to Swash Channel bell buoy, the boats, which had all started close hauled on the port tack, made a number of short boards to get the best of the tide, which was running with great strength in the channel. Going about the buoy, Endymion led, followed by Iroquois. Fleur de Lys and Estelle stood further into Sandy Hook Bay than the rest of the fleet, got out of the tide and gained perceptibly thereby, at one time being well ahead of Iroquois and very nearly on even terms with Endymion. When the boats got straight- ened out for the course to Fire Island Lightship, they had a fair tide. At this early stage of the contest it was noticeable that whenever the breeze lightened Endymion, Fleur de Lys, Iroquois and Kiwassa would draw away irom Estelle and Thistle. A freshening breeze, however, would enable the flagship to pick up materially. At a bit after 3 o’clock the breeze hauled into the S. W., making eased sheets possible and with ballooners set, all stood for the first turning point, some 20 miles away.. Endymion slowly drew away from the other boats. At 4:45 the lightship was made out. When within 5 miles of the lightship the wind flattened to about 5 knots. The boats were slow in rounding, were timed as follows: PONG YMIGM .osey ecucee ne 5 36 20 Fleur de Lys ........... 5 58 27 TT OGFOIS. Gas iee ees sis cele += 5 45 37 ASG WASS 2M oh ae siintre st +0 6 05 28 stelle peeeeeks sake ates sae 5 51 33 pits tlewerns star erie nee 6 07 00 For the first 44 miles of the course Endymion had averaged a bit over 6 miles an hour. She had gained - 9 min. 42 sec. on Iroquois, 16 min. and Estelle, 22 min. 37 sec. on Fleur de Lys, 27 min. 38 sec. on Kiwassa, and 27 min. and 23 sec. on Thistle. ‘The boats were close hauled on the port tack, standing for Northeast End Lightship, 109 miles away. _ Some of them took short tacks out to sea. At sun- set Endymion was well ahead of Iroquois, which was some distance astern and to windward. A half mile to leeward and astern was Estelle. Abreast of her was Fleur de Lys a quarter mile to leeward. Kiwassa came next and then Thistle, all about a quarter of a mile apart. Up to this time of the contest all of the compet- ing yachts had been in full view of one another. As the sun retired over the starboard in favor of a most beautiful moon, the individual contestants lost sight of one another, not to see a welcome sail again and learn their relative positions until the next day. At 9:30 P. M. the breeze went into the W. N. W. and headed the six schooners way off their course. This took the boats directly back in range of Navesink Light, which could be distinguished on the horizon miles away. At midnight the wind again made a shift, this time into the west, and finally landed in W. N. W. This enabled the boats to retrace their course parallel to the Jersey shore, about 4 miles away. They all were about ae starboard and moving through the water at a good clip. At quarter after twelve the next morning the haze, which had been over the sea most of the day, cleared so that all the competitors were in sight and Northeast End Lightship could be distinguished some 4 miles ahead. Endymion was seen to have rounded and was beating the beach for home. Fleur de Lys and Iroquois were nearly abreast. Estelle was a quarter of a mile astern, separated by about the same distance from Thistle. Kiwassa was bowling along fimely with ballooner and spinnaker set, with some three miles distance to make up. Times taken at the second mark were as follows: 23 sec. on Endymion ...5.<:s<:.6s: Ii 35 00 ace IPP eer 12 88 42 Fleur de Lys......,... 12 33 26 MSL BPP ROR BAR eee 12 50 05 ibgorepetsn sy AA 12 37 10 TRSVWSSeL) casergy'eenecy's boy peels 1 28 48 In the tog-mile leg, Endymion had gained 13 min. 22 sec. on Fleur de Lys, 43 min. 21 sec. on Iroquois, 32 min. 6 sec. on Estelle, 24 min. 47 sec. on Thistle and 57 min. 7 sec. on Kiwassa. There was some windward work after rounding the lightship. At sunset the breeze had increased to a 9- knot clip from E. S. E.. Endymion could be just dis- tinguished some 4 miles ahead. Fleur de Lys and Iro- quois were haying it out astern. Thistle was leading Kiwassa and Estelle by 3 miles. The latter had diffi- culty with her centerboard on the way home and was rounded into the wind several times in an endeavor to fix it. The boats were within 2 miles of Barnegat at 9:30 o’clock P. M. 2 At midnight the wind worked around into the west- ward and freshened. This gaye the boats a starboard reach and the fastest sailing of the race. Again the breeze shifted and worked into the W. N, W. Sea Girt was abreast at 1:30 A. M.' At the same time Navesink’s flash could .be distinguished. Scotland Lightship was picked up at 2:30 A. M. The finish was when this beacon bore due east, magnetic. Daylight came at 3:45. At that time all but Kiwassa and Estelle had finished the long journey. Endymion was first to end the long race. Then came Iroquois, Fleur de Lys, Thistle, Kiwassa_ and Estelle in the order named. Times taken at the finish were as follows: LDrikaelsehs eSce gaps tans DRSGS) UTRHISEG. cre dasaanssinees os 3 23 30 Bleupedes Lysess.sstew< =~ 2 54 34 Kiwassae pepecteess ieee 4 57 27 PPOQUOSe peee see aes ad eee 3 04 00 PUStEllew vente tet ces ceca ns 6 05 00 Kiwassa had beaten Iroquois on corrected time, I1 min. 48 sec.; Endymion, 15 min. 23 sec.; Fleur de Lys, 46 min. 37 sec.; Thistle, 2 hrs. 41 min.; Estelle, 2 hrs. 59 min. 33 sec. The next ocean race of the Atlantic Y. C. will be started on Monday, July 27, at the end of the New York Y. C. cruise, when a number of the Sea Gate fleet are expected to be at Newport. The course will be from Brenton’s Reef Lightship to Nantucket Shoal Lightship, and thence to Sea Gate, an estimated dis- tance of 297 miles. A complete summary of the first ocean race follows: Atlantic Y. C, Ocean race for Schooners—June 1 to 3—248 Miles. Start. Finish. Elapsed. Corrected, Raweassasjunied. aed epee 10 18 35 4 57 27 42 38 52 38 22 52 OGHOISH aon Maia s ce 43.2 10 16 20 3 04 00 40 47 40 38 34 40 Endymion ..-.....-...+ 10 16 45 1 36 00 39 19 15 38 38 15 Heth dewisys~ J. .n- ces 10 16 05 2 54 34 40 38 29 39 09 29 Ms aStles ace eee tie ciel lef s r 10 19 3: 3 23 30 41 03 52 41 03 52 PBstelle ce ne ect eee 10 15 35 6 05 00 43 49 25 41 22 25 - Marine aad Field Club. Y, R. A, OF GRAVESEND BAY, Saturday, June 6. The third season of the Yacht Racing Association of Gravesend Bay was opened on the afternoon of Saturday, June 6, with a regatta under the auspices of the Marine and Field Club, The event was greatly marred by a heavy fog, which hung over the lower bay all day. Despite the unfavorable conditions, nineteen boats of all classes came to the line, all but three of which finished. Two were disqualified. It was the first race held since the withdrawal of the Atlantic Y. C. from the Association, and the showing of nearly a score of boats for the initial regatta of this season against an entry of twenty-five in 1902 for the opening event, is most encouraging to the clubs that now make up the organization. The start of the race was scheduled for three o'clock. A postponement of 15 minutes, however, was taken in hopes the fog would lift. Three minutes after the preparatory gun at 3:15 classes M and N were sent away. The other classes were started on 3-minute in- tervals. The course for classes above P has been slightly changed this year. Instead of going from the starting line to West Bank Light and return, the boats now sail a four-sided course, going, when covered in regular order, first to the red can buoys off Coney Island Point, then to Craven Shoal buoy, from there to a stake boat off Fort Hamilton, and home to the starting line. The breeze at the start of the race was S. S. E., blow- ing at about a 7-knot clip. This gave the larger craft a long, close-hauled board out with booms to star- board. A few windward hitches were necessary to make the can buoy. From there it was a reach and then a run to the mark off Fort Hamilton and a close- hauled leg home. Bonito and the yawl Ionta were the only boats to cover the longer course twice, which constituted the prescribed distance. The others did not care to risk the fog outside and withdrew. — “ oe Boats in classes P or under went from the starting line to a mark off Ulmer Park, thence to a stake boat off Sea Gate, from there to the Fort Hamilton mark and home. The first lege was to windward, the next close hauled, the third a spinnaker run and the last a close-hauled board home. From the beginning all had difficulty in locating the marks. W. H. Child’s class QO boat Trouble, was well sailed, and led the fleet home on the first round by a good margin. Times taken at this stage of the race follow: HMeCyE lt) nepececsHoosdses 3 410 55 BOOZE. fe en geeeis saeee 4 22 50 SS) OT Sette tenesierceee cejeta oe 4 13 50 ING eepeeaesea ss sng 4 28 10 stiealte = oc. Astro oe He 415 10 (ied |e ees lg re ale 4 30 10 Opeeman reste ere wesc 4 15 35 Esperance .....s2..2565- 4 31 05 dyiree "WISH 5 Le. sree oee 419 00 STBTIERS fe n= ARRAN 5 ey SCE 4 31 12 (GRE VIATOR DN Ame ene: 4 91 30 Wien: cosines, sasedgausen 4 33 05 WWarthar (ME Pe cs 22 3 stators 4 21 45 Bonito! yee tas aek as cesses 4 53 00 TREN OTE Sate ne ps omc et 4 22 10 ean tee 2 See ee 5 21 45 There was little change in positions during the second round. Boozie was disqualified for fouling the mark off Fort Hamilton, although she led her class home: Quingue was also disqualified for not covering the proper course. Ogeemah passed Streak, while Stinger passed both Esperance and Vixen. At the finish Trouble led Spots by 5 min. 45 sec. Flying Fish, by 1m min. 40 sec. Ogeemah beat Streak by I min. 30 sec. Martha beat Rascal by 2min. 9 sec. Kelpie led Jig-a-Jig by 2 min. Io sec., Stinger by 4 min. 22 sec., Esperance by 7 min. and 27 sec., and Vixen by Ir min. and 35 sec. The next regatta of the Y. C. A. of Gravesend Bay will be held on Saturday, June 20, under the auspices of the Brooklyn Y. C. The stummaries follow: Sloops—Class M—Special—Start, 3:18. Finish. Elapsed. Bonito, Haviland Bros.......... 2 05 10 Kangaroo, C. H. Humphreys Sloops—Class N—Start, 3:18. Shs hg U3 2d RET i Banc oecegecnc cere nope eee Withdrew. Tricltain.s Mietitome Brose. ster tmacnis hey cone stan Withdrew. Auxiliary Yawls—Class N—Special—Start, 3:18. TO Tita OVE Whe ORES ye ee eh oy a eects erieiee Not timed. Sloops—Class P—Stiart, 3:21. Ogeemah, Brophy & Mackay.........-.....+.- 5 03 30 1 42 30 Streak, “Speidell "Brothers ee acs oleae wee 5 05 00 1 44 00 Sloops—Class O—Start, 3:24. itouiple sey 2 ela we ites eee See bb ac esha tee ene sees dire 4 56 00 1 32 00 Spots, D. b A llentoah, tps de itectss sttictiti. 5 O01 45 1 37 45 Flying Tish, L. M. Dean... 2.0.5 ..50.ssce0-ses 5 OT 40 1 48 40 Catboats—Class V—Start, 3:30. Martha M:., Richard Moore.................+00% 5 ii 46 1 41 46 Rrsuad lene cers, LUV IILL Oc ea: een po actdmewenie s siya rats 5 13 55 1 43 55 BoOzZIG eters WUrKee Lea ewe. cae ooha3 9790340 - Disqualified. Marine and Field Class—Start, 3:33. Kelpie, W. K. Brown......... ee anes teee 5 21 20 1 48 20 Jig-a-Jig, Ferguson & Hutcheson.............. 5 23 30 1 50 30 LIN Set eels eC lcip PAW Lee! 4a CONES Ge aaas ee le 5 25 42 1 52 42 Esperance, T. A. Hamilton............2.+2--+- 5 28 47 1 55 47 Wixcily Jipiles Wl adhoney pepe n sar esas erase stale dase 5 32 45 1 59 45 QOuiIngues Wesel Geyser. trt-raotdaeal el eel: Disqualified. The winners were Bonito, Ogeemah, Trouble, Martha M. and Kelpie. Knickerbocker Y. C. COLLEGE POINT, LONG ISLAND SOUND, Saturday, June 6. The annual regatta of the Knickerbocker Y. C. was sailed on Saturday, June 6. The event was marked by a good list of entries, but the racing was unsatisfactory owing to the lack of breeze: The regatta committee of the club sent the towboat~ Glen Cove to Larchmont, New Rochelle, Manhasset Bay and City Island to tow gy yachts that wanted to race down to the starting ine. The larger boats started off the clubhouse at College Point and sailed around Gangway Buoy, then back to the starting line, a distance of 14% miles. The small boats also started off the clubhouse and rounded Big Tom Buoy, off Belden’s Point, City Island, then back to the starting line, a distance of 10% miles. The steamer Favorite, with the members and their friends on board, followed the boats over the course. The start was scheduled for twelve o’clock, but there was no wind at that time, so it was postponed an hour. Just before one o'clock a little E. N. E. breeze sprung up, and the preparatory was given at that hour. Effort had no competitor in the 43ft. class, so Mr. William Gardner, who designed the Canada’s Cup chal- lenger Irondequoit, very kindly entered that boat in order to give Effort a race. It was not expected that Irondequoit would beat Effort, as she was designed under an entirely different rule, and is a big power- ful boat, and Effort carried an enormous club topsail, which was of great benefit to her, as nearly all the breeze was aloft. Effort and Irondequoit were sent away at 1:05, Ei- fort being sailed by Mr. Addison Hanan, and the Rochester boat by her skipper, James Barr. Ironde- quoit crossed at the windward end of the line on the starboard tack, with Effort well to leeward. The two boats held together pretty well until off Clausen’s Point, when Irondequoit ran out of the wind and Effort was able to hold a favorable puff that put her well ahead. Effort being the leading boat, caught all of the puffs first and got a good lead on Irondequoit. At Gangway Buoy she was over five minutes ahead. It was a spinnaker run home, and Irondequoit seemed to pick up a little on the Herreshoff boat. When off City Island the wind dropped out, and Jrondequoit wt and ran back to her anchorage in Manhasset ay. Next to the 43it. class, the most interesting racing was in the 30!t. class. Alert, sailed by Mr. Edward M. MacLellan, had things her own way, and beat Flosshide by over 7 min. In the raceabout class Jolly Tar won with Grass- hopper second. During the latter part of the afternoon a little breeze came, out of the S. W., which enabled the boats to finish, The Regatta Committee was made up of O. H. Chell- borg, Chairman; Harry Stephenson, C. W. Schlesinger, L. C. Berrian, F. H. Stillman, J. O. Sinkinson. The summary follows: Sloops—4sit. Class—Start, 1:05. Bitont, whe, WMieeosmith emcees eee tens alas dae 4 31 55 3 26 55 Irondequoit, Thomas B. Pritchard............ Withdrew. Sloops—43ft. Class—Cruising Trim—Start, 1:00. White Wing, Louis C. Berrian..............25. 6 02 57 4 52 57 Nautilus, af Je Mie Gaee cs ree tse errs ces 5 48 45 4 38 45 Sloops, 36ft. Class—Start, 1:50. TEESE IELVAS eS a ih tate 5 sh tne Sl 5.21 38 4 06 38 Sloops—s0ft. Class—Start, 1:25. ATED. 0 lea WE PALK Giitee pe adorn ate ire were et 5 20 42 3 48 42 Flosshilde, W.. D; Hennen.....--+s;.0...0.053. 5 20 50 3 55 50 Little Peter, FF. M. Weeks..0...c..:020::-eees: 5 25 05 4 00 05 Curlews aa Ashmore: 20, ane ceo ua ad eee la Withdrew . Raceabouts—Start, 1:30. ROR Ter PAR ube, PAU tye mele) ete reese: oes Oe Le. 3 59 17 Vici vise Gree Mio ein tirieys Lee eee eta te tee mann ae 3 59 45 Jully Tar, Slocum Howland... = 3 56 07 Gainsmoyyoisey Ih ee Wee eS Bie hele ieee 3 58 10 Sloops—25ft. Class—Start, 1:35. Firefly, D. P. Granberry.................000008 5 30 07 4 00 07 SOIR ETA PUAN Lela dota tellceicie s ejree eciehcilale 5 382 45 3 57 3b bAtciNerme Ce ee Ve yan lett ides 6 vs V ped sae 5 43 40 4 08 40 Bonitas | Wer Hise PEGues oI ee et Pe caeerincelie's Withdrew. Yawls—Start, 1:15. Trene, Daniels & Allen... .......22.. 0.00.0 eeaee 6 04 12 4 49 12 Cabin Cathoats—25ft. Class—Start, 1:35, Ripple; Kraemer & Miller... .....¢.3j 002... ee 6 10 27 4 35 27 Annie: sasu Gtistancense:.) los. chug jddeadas 5 26 40 3 51 40 Open Sloops—21ft. Class—Start, 1:40. ee Ar ie Crow ieee es es Eee aoe 4 40 53. 3 00 53 (Gardner Tale 1rd. Wiehe] Boe Sere eae tec Withdrew. Pr hrcieisss 2 Oh MESTER OLN AR ae crefols alam acersicalctunlaininle nt Withdrew. New Rochelle One-Design Class—Start, 1:40. Mapere tials sot ovwances (yee ..4 43 16 3 03 16 Knave, R. N. Bavier.. 4 45 30 3 05 30 Ace, Miss A. Bavier.....: 4 45 47 3 05 47 Alga, A. Mestre............ ae 4 54 36 3 14 36 Manhasset Bay One-Design Class—Start, 1:40. lesthep lol ferrin, Nh ea ae essing Oe AR AG ER PL eas 4 47 52 3 07 52 Balconaotevensec. ‘Coles inos. isi. yoece ante as 4 55 35 3 15 35 EVA CAO eel ICA Holenits ec Mame ea BRP ee mE 449 14 3 09 14 One-Design Catboats—Start, 1:45. Shovonne, George J. Stelz..................... 5 11 55 4 26 55 Copperhead, R. Brandt........ Ae ALC Ee Withdrew. ‘The winners wete Effort, Nautilus, Leda, Alert, Grass- hopper, Snapper, Irene, Ripple, Jeebi, Caper, Lambkin and Shovonne. The following sales have been made by Mr. Stanley M. Seaman: 41-footer launch Ted, for Mr. Charles Long- streth, of Philadelphia, to Mr. F. B. Van Doorn, of New York citv; 47ft. launch hull for the Marine Construction & Dry Dock Co., to Mr. Robert C. Fisher, of Larch- mont; sloop Oriole for Mr. C. E. Pinckney, of New Rochele to Mr. Geo. C. Pease, of New York city, and the sloop Nan for Prof. H. E. Northup to Mr. R. M. Mc- Bride, of New York city. 472 FOREST:+*AND STREAM. [June 13, 1003. ee Annual Cruise of the Goodenough. Story Ssbmitted in “Forest and Stream” Cruising Competition. BY FRANK F. FRISBEE, DETROIT, MICH. With watching the now dimly seen shore line of Batchewana Island and keeping our sails drawing well, time flies rapidly, and before we know it we glide into Batchewana Bay and round the Fishhouse Point, and soon are on our anchorage. It is eleven o'clock be- fore our hook is down, and our sails furled. Taps are sounded and all turn in, with our riding light in the rigging we feel safe. Batchewana Bay is only about 45 miles from the Soo, but beyond the fact that it is accessible, might as well be as many hundred, for it is away from the immediate vicinity of the fishing station in the wilder- ness. It is probably 15 to 18 miles in extreme depth, by I2 or 15 wide, but it is cut in two parts by Batche- wana Island, which lies practically in its center. There are numerous small islands and countless bays and coves. There are five first-class trout streams, some of which are large rivers, with several smaller creeks running into the bay. Back of it are high hills or mountains coyered by the dark green forests of the north. Outside of the bay are numerous reefs and shoals where the trout congregate. By referring to the chart accompanying this article and the descrip- tions of our various trips, the above description will enable one to have a fair idea of our cruising grounds. The bay is a beautiful spot in this beautiful world, and happy is he who cruises on Batchewana’s crystal waters. If any one still questions the charms of the Bay, they will find in the lines beneath a few of the reasons why it is charming: WHERE IS BATCHEWANA BAY? Where the gentle zephyrs play, Where the rushes bend and sway O’er the wavelets clear and blue, Where there’s rest and peace for you. Where the forest, dark and green, On the distant hills are seen; Where the crystal rivers flow, Down to join the lake below. Where beneath the crystal tide, Tke “‘speckled crimson beauties” hide; And in waters dark and deep, The gamy bass ‘neath rock doth sleep. Where darkest night is turned to day, By bright Aurora’s radiant play, And the stars in sky so blue and clear, Seem to earth to be quite near. Where upon the rugged shore, The wild waves dash with mighty roar, ; When the Storm King cometh forth 3 From his home in distant north. Where still the caribou and deer, Roam the forest without fear, And m7n’s desecrating hand has not been laid, On forest deep and grassy glade. ‘ Where mountains raise toward the sky, Their fir-clad peaks and summits high; Where mighty waterfalls with crested wave, The caficn’s deep, dark side do lave. Where far from the crowd and push and strife, He who will, may live a peaceful life, And live not for the morrow, but to-day, That, my friend, is Batchewana Lay. The sun does not always shine even in Batchewana Bay, and the next morning when the Professor turned out, he found it had rained hard during the night. ‘The wind had gotten to the north, a little west (which means cold up there), and there was a nasty sea roll- ing outside, which did not bother us, excenting to make the yacht tug on her chain, so we payed out plenty, so she would ride more easily. Alter breakfast we went ashore and renewed our pleasant acquaintance with the foreman of the fish gang. For here is a commercial fishing station. We replenished our ice chest and sent our mail ashore for the down boat, which was due the next day. This is an advantage along the north shore, the fact that it is possible to send and receive mail from the fish- ing stations. So that while in a measure we are isolated, we still keep in touch with the outer world. LOWER FALLS AND POOL OF CHIPPAWA RIVER. About noon the Skipper took a vote on where we would sail to, and it was decided that we would go up the bay to the mouth of the Chippewa River. So the Skipper and Ed went forward and tackled the an- chor, while the Professor took the stops off of the mainsail and stood by the wheel. On board the Goodenough each man does his share, and we take mtch pleasure in handling our craft. We have tried taking a sailor man, but find we can get more real sport by handling her ourselves, and while it is some- times hard work, it gives us a good appetite, In get- ting under way we always followed a certain system, and it may please brother yachtsmen to know how we work it. The Goodenough carries two large anchors (100 pounds), a patent and old style, also a kedge. We sometimes need ’em all, but generally one large anchor will hold her. We never try to haul our an- chors with the windlass, but enough of the crew take hold of the chain to ride her slowly up to the anchor; when apeak we make on to the windlass and pump her up. Sometimes it is hard to break, and then we get the canvas on and break the hook loose that way. By the time our anchor is a weigh stops are off of sails, mainsail is up and then head sails go up. The Pro- fessor takes the wheel and brings her into the wind. The anchor is fished and catted, and we are off. The wind was very fresh- when we Started, and we were just able to lay our course for the cut (see dia- gram), between mainland and Batchewana Island, The wind held, so that by one o’clock, after a fine sail, we neared the Chippewa. Our anchorage here is just off the deep water near a bank, which is a great lurking place for bass. It is claimed that there are only two places where bass can be caught on the north shore of Lake Superior—Goulais Bay and Batchewana Bay. But you do not always get them there. Sometimes. We have had fair luck, as the photographs will show. Fishing for bass we put in the rest of the day, and when evening came enjoyed the beautiful scene and the echo, which came back to us from high mountains and hills. To the left of the Chippewa River the hills rise nearly precipitous from the shore of the bay, and in one place the huge rocks are like palisades, and they look like the walls of some old castle or fortress _ perched upon the mountain top, the highest point be- ing 1,040 feet above the sea, or over 400 feet above lake level. When the bugle was sounded the high hills would send the sound waves rolling along, and echo on echo would come back, until the sound would die away in a ringing note like that of a bell, and which we never tired of hearing. During the night a cold north wind came up, so double blankets were very necessary, as we always open windows and the companionway at night. No one was in a hurry the next morning to turn out, but the Skipper sounded the reveille at seven, and it was not long before Percy’s kerosene burner was puffing. Not that we burned oil in ot cook stove, but Percy had a way of hurrying things up by pouring coal oil into his stove, and then things hummed. The yacht has only been on fire three or four times, but that don’t count with Percy, when he is in a hurry, and we looked pleasant and put our trust in Providence. We can excuse much in Percy, ior he soon calls us to a very fine breakfast, for if we do not do anything else, we live well on the Goodenough, and fresh air appe- tites are generally with the crew. WATCHING THE WAVES ROLL IN—NORTH SHORE LAKE SUPERIOR. It was decided that the Skipper, Ed and the Prof. should put in a day on the Chippewa. So one of the small boats is dropped into the water and waders are donned, lunch put up and we pull from the yacht, leav- ing Percy and his burner in the hands of Providence, hoping to find all there when we return. It is only a short row into the mouth of the river and then up the winding, beautiful stream for a mile and a half. All north shore rivers are like the Kentucky Colonel's description of whisky—good—but, of course, some are more beautiful than others. The Chippewa is one of the prettiest and we always enjoy the pull up to the first rapids, or low falls, where we leave our boat. It would be hard to describe the beauties of the falls and rapids of the Chippewa. In about one-quarter of a mile the river descends at least two hundred feet, and this fall consists of sheer descent, broken cascades, tumbling rapids and deep, but swift flowing basins or pools. On one side the huge rocks and hills rise di- rect from the flowing water, and the dense forest crowns the summit with an ever-lasting green. Huge rocks with gray and barren sides, are piled in chaotic masses in the center of what, in the season of high water, is a thundering torrent and a mighty water- fall. Great boulders worn smooth by the friction of years are piled up in masses, and deep potholes worn by stones, whirled about by the rushing waters abound. The scene about the falls is wildly beautiful, and the immensity of the power that has cut its way through these granite bluffs is overpowering. Pen pictures fail in conveying any adequate idea of such scenes as we here behold, and the photographs accompanying this article are like all photographs, tame to look at, when compared with the original. The trout fishing below, in and above the falls, is generally good. We always get all we want, and that is sufficient. Our day’s catch will be a fair sample, fish- ing only about four hours. Sixteen fish—ten pounds. Largest one and one-half pounds. These trout are the genuine fontinalis, or, as commonly called, speckled brook trout, the largest taken from the Chippewa by our party weighed over three pounds. Our first day on the “Chip,” as we have abbreviated the name, was one of pleasure, We were not out to make a record, and. wanted other things as well as fish. We knew what we could do, as we had been there before. Much time was spent with the camera, and a few huckleber- ries were picked. Ed, who had never been up before, spent most of his time sitting on the rocks admiring the scenery. The Skipper likes to wade out waist deep into some favorite pool and cast a skillful fly for the big fellows that lurk in deep water, while the Prof. kept busy with rod and camera, even after the rest said quit. The pest of black flies and skeeters are here in season, but August has not proved to be a bad month and we dope freely. “We find that the Col. Fox receipt given in the Forrest AND STREAM, 1S as good as any, but the great secret of any fly dope Leing successful is to use it freely and often. As we rowed down the river the glassy surface shone like a mirror and reflected back with added splendor the drooping bush, stately fir and shining white birch, while the blue sky with its fleecy white clouds was beneath us instead of over. One who has never seen the startling effects of the shadows on these rivers would hardly credit the wonderfully beautiful re- flections, if told how they look. The water in most of the larger streams is dark and of a peculiar clear color, that seems to be capable of reflecting objects above with great distinctness. Slowly we pull back admirng the scene, and at six reach the mouth of the river. The Skipper looks over his shoulder and says, “Thank Neptune, the yacht still floats.” He always expects the burner will get in its work. Trout for supper, and then an hour on deck with the new moon, and bugle echoes. Then some games of crib before the crew retire to sleep the sleep of the north shore, which is a very refreshing and exceed- ingly delightful variety of slumber. A day spent in loafing, bass fishing, just a little, and roaming about, soon passes, and it may be some of the crew did not get enough of that fine article of slumber. At any rate, no one wanted to sail away from the Chippewa, until the next day, then a fine breeze tempted us to get sail on, and as it was favor- able we headed up the bay for the extreme southeast- ern portion. We had a great wind, and though it was squally, we carried all sail. In fact, it has to blow mighty hard to make the Goodenough say enough, as she is under, rather than over canyassed—a good fault in a cruiser. The wind came over our quarter and off shore, so we could, sailing the course neces- sary, start our sheets and let her go. We heeled a lit- tle, but there was no sea to speak of, und as the Skip- per said, “She went Some.” The ten or twelve miles we had to go were too short, as we would have enjoyed more of the exhilarating sail. We dropped anchor in what is known as Stoppel’s or Cady’s Cove, a beautiful little harbor at the ex- tremity of the bay. Here rise some very high hills and bluffs, and emptying into the eastern side of the small bay, or cove, is a small creek—Stoppel’s Creek. Now, we knew Stoppel’s Creek, and visions of the past, where we had taken two and one-half pound trout out of its deep holes, made us quite desirous of trying it again. The Skipper elected not to go up the creek, as he said we would have trout enough and he wanted to do some botanizing. So Ed and the Prof. took a small boat and started alone. Stoppel’s Creek differs from the other streams that flow into Batchewana Bay, as it is smaller and comes out of a lower country, there being no high falls upon it. Vhe smallest boat can only be taken up about a half mile, and then one has to wade. It has, of course, been lumbered, that is, timber has been cut on its banks and driven down with the spring freshets. At an old dam, about a mile from the mouth of the river, which was built by the Lumber Jacks, and which has partly been destroyed, we found some fine trout lurking under the logs and in the pools. We fished a short time and then decided to walk up the creek to discover the falls if possible, but after a hard tramp of two hours, gave it up, as we had gotten RAPIDS AND ROCKS ON THE BATCHEWANA BELOW THE FALLS. out of the hills and into what looked like a cedar swamp. We were informed afterward that the creek headed in a lake, It was after six P. M. when two June 13, 1003.] FOREST AND STREAM. 478 eee very tired individuals got back to the yacht, as an eight or nine miles tramp in waders is not easy. We had thirty-one trout, some of which would weigh three- quarters of a pound. But the lumbering operations had spoiled the fishing, as far as large trout were con- eerned. } [TO RE CONTINUED. | The Canada’s Cup Challenger. On Wednesday, June 3, Irondequoit, the cutter built to challenge for the Canada’s cup was launched from the yard of the builder, B- F. Wood, at City Island. She was designed by Mr. William Gardner, of the firm of Messrs. Gardner & Cox, for a syndicate of Rochester yachtsmen, headed by Mr. Thomas B. Pritchard. Irondequoit is a fine vessel, and rather more of a ship than one expects to see in the modern racing boat, and if she is a fair example of the type of craft that is to be produced by the present rule of the Y. R. U. of the Great Lakes it is indeed a good one. The boat is devoid of any extreme features, and is a very wholesome craft in every particular. In this boat Mr. Gardner has abandoned the balance rudder hung on a short vertical stern post and has returned to the usual taking sternpost with the rudder hung on it in the conventional way. In design the yacht shows a very clean and well modeled form with a midship section of good area. The overhangs are comparatively short and well balanced. She floated just to her lines after her spars were put in place and her high freeboard, moderate overhangs and short bowsprit gave her a yery snug and substantial ap- pearance, The topsides are painted white and the bottom is ‘treated with a green composition that has great anti- fouling qualities, both in salt and fresh water. Mr. Wood, who perhaps turns out the best work in the country, produced a superior boat in Irondequoit, and she is a model of fine construction and workmanship. The keel, deadwood, stem, sternpost, frames and deck beams are of white oak. Vhe planking is double, the inner skin being made of white cedar Sin. thick and the outer of Zin. mahogany, The floor plates are of steel, and diagonal bronze straps add strength to the construction. The construction has been made as light as was compati- ble with necessary strength and also to conform to the scantling restrictions of the Y, R. U. of the Great Lakes. The boat is very roomy on deck and the arrangement cf the cabin trunk is the same as Mr. Gardner originally put in the yawl Albicore, and last season in Rosalie. The. cabin house, which is quite marrow, is of mahogany, and at the after end of it two heavy deck beams run across the boat, giving great transverse strength. Thenthere is a square house, also of mahogany; aft of this house is the water-tight cockpit. The deck is laid in white pine and the rail, waterways, hatch coam- ings, skylights, companionways, etc., are of mahogany. With the exception of the bowsprit the spars are hollow and the yacht has a very superior suit of American-made sails turned out by Messrs. Wilson & Griffin, the duck of which they were made being woven according to Myr. Gardner’s own ideas. All the deck and spar fittings were also made according to the designer’s plans. The yacht steers with a tiller. The dimensions and particulars follow: Length— Win ote TUN Na oe Weatenl as Mirth ate tucian eae 64 ft. TEV 9S. ee eS ass 9 By cnn mee 30ft. 6in. bea GIP A OSORNO Airs tacit acs fo.ceec te Suna bags a ace T3it. WW iiatitgrenelti come e cee eee elect ge yebite en > oft. Freeboard least ......... arb itte Se Lee eae 2it. 1oin. Overhane— leker nikal 5 Geet ote, ae A oa tw pot Tit. SASH eeibes state iets afb eee ams ca spi T3ft. 6in. ID Bae ana Sane ie 6 ok es A ous cet SEA reid AM ALE A 22 tons Jeeval rope teliccri C PAe Bare er trae se ce A to tons. Cede IntdSHip “SeCtiOl . nee asus woe ee wees 35 sq. ft. Saleareamevoralees, assert seins si et 2,600 sq. ft. Below the yacht has a vast amount of room, The com- panionway leads to a large saloon. On either side are wide transoms and back of these are berths. At the for- ward end on each side are sideboards. At the after end are large lockers for lmen, clothes and general storage. A passage Jeads into the ladies’ cabin aft which extends the full width of the boat. There are transoms on either side with berths in behind. The large square house over- head gives full headroom and splendid ventilation. Over the main saloon is a large skylight. Forward of the saloon on the port side is a roomy lavatory with patent closet and folding basin with a half skylight above. Op- posite on the starboard side is the galley, which is also ventilated and lighted by a half skylight.’ The forecastle is large and affords unusually good accommodation for the four men carried. In the lazarette under the cockpit there is ample room for spare gear and sails. The writer was aboard Irondequoit on her initial spin -on Saturday last, when she tried conclusions against Effort in the Knickerbocker Y. C. race. The boat handled perfectly, and while Effort beat her, yet the test could hardly be called conclusive. Effort carried a big jack yard topsail much larger than the one used on Ironde- quoit and she seemed to have all the luck. The breeze was very light and fluky. The test was hardly a race, and in reality was only a sail-stretching spin. As Ironde- quoit was a “green” boat, the trial was very satisfactory, both to her designer and her skipper, Mr. James Barr. “Jimmie” Barr comes from a famous family of boat sailors, and is a brother of John Barr and a nephew of Charles Barr, A word about him may be of interest. He has been brought up in racing boats and has all the essentials that make up a successful racing skipper. Barr was six years in Musmee, the Newport 30-footer, and he also had the 43-footer Hebe the year she came out. He was also in the schooner Clorita and the famous 25-footer Cartoon, and these boats never lost a race while they were under his command. He is rated as one of the cleverest and ablest boat sailers in the country, and he will get the best there is out of Irondequoit. Irondequoit will be taken out daily in order to get the crew and sails in the best possible shape. She wiil also be raced occasionally until the end of the month, * when she will start for Rochester. The Canada’s Cup Defender. Toronro, Ont., May 30.—Strathcona, the cutter which will defend the Canada’s Cup against [ronde- quoit, the Rochester, N. Y., challenger, was launched on Thursday, May 28, and will be ready for her trial races in ten days. The new boat is not a syndicate craft, her owner be- ing Mr. Norman Macrae, of Toronto. He has gone to an expense of some $8,000 to provide a worthy de- fender for the historic trophy, and at the same time a staunch, thorough-going craft that will be a source of pride and comfort, whether she is a successful racer or not. Ya Lord Strathcona, the Canadian High Commissioner, was pleased to express his consent to the use of the name and his best wishes for the yacht’s success; and Strathcona she was christened, in orthodox style, by Mrs. R. S. Smellie, at Oakville, taking her first dip into the same old river that has floated all the Canadian defenders and challengers for the trophy. Commodore Emilius Jarvis was among those present at the launch- ing and was highly pleased with the new craft. It is probable that he will sail her, as he has sailed all the previous Canada’s cup racers and is the best-known Canadian skipper. Strathcona looks chunky, compared with such “long, low raking craft’ as the original Canada, Beaver, or Invader, whose names have become famous in connec- tion with the Canada’s Cup. But she is a graceful boat, and a pleasing product of the new rule. She has not much sheer, but sufficient for good looks. Her counter is long ahd fine, and her forward overhang rather short. She is painted white, with a broad silver band at the waterline, and glittering black underbody. Her deck is finished in mahogany and brasswork, and is flush, without a cabin trunk, but the usual breaks, such as hatchcoamings, skylights, companionways and cock- pit. 2 In sail plan the defender differs largely from the chal- lenger Irondequoit. The base of her triangle of can- vas is at least 8it. longer. The height is some aft. less.. This has caused some criticism, as the second week in August is usually the time for star-tickling club topsails on Lake Ontario, and while the broad- based triangle is a good sail plan to lug in a smashing breeze, the high and narrow one may be the kind that is needed. There is never any question of one of Payne’s designs being able to carry sail; the query is, has the English designer fully estimated the possibili- ties of Lake Ontario light weather? Beaver, the fastest boat of her size in a breeze Lake Ontario has ever seen, lost the Canada’s Cup through a succession of light days. Two suits of canvas are being made for Strathcona, one by Ratsay and Lapthorne, in England, and one by a Yoronto firm, and it has been suggested, whether wisely or not, that one or the other might $e cut expressly for light weather. - A higher peaked main- sail, allowing a larger and loftier club topsail, could be carried with the same set of spars, and would not take long to bend. Strathcona is a deep-bodied boat, with easy bilges, hollow floors and more hull and less fin than former Canada’s Cup craft. She has comparatively short over- hangs—S8it, forward and r2it. aft, leaving off the inches, and a fair, clean side that can be immersed to the rail without materially changing her lines. The lead is the biggest part of the fin, carried in a simple “U” shaped slab, 30in. deep at the after end and 15 forward. It does not quite reach to the sternpost ait, or to the for- ward end of the fin. The great rake of the sternpost, the simplicity of the slab of ballast, and the wide, deep wooden rudder are the features of her underbody. In construction, the benefit of the doubt has always been given to strength in preference to lightness. The complete frame of the yacht was constructed and set up in Southampton, England, by Summers and Payne, and is of English oak, The planking is inch and a quar- ter Douglas fir, absolutely without a knot, in 4oft. lengths. There are no butts, the planks being scarfed where it is necessary. The fir is a third heavier than cedar, but is much stronger. Accurate dimensions of the defender are: Length over all, 5o9ft. 7in.; waterline, 4oft.; breadth, T3ft. 8in. on deck, 13it. gin. at the waterline; draft, Sft. 3in.; lead ballast, 1014 tons; mainmast, cap to heel, 47it.; main boom, 47it. 6in.; main gaff, 28ft. 6in.; top- mast, 20ft. Ioin., irom fid to sheave-hole, and 2o2ft. over all; bowsprit, outboard, t2{t.; mainsail hoist, 33ft.; sail area, 2,508 sq. ft., divided thus: Mainsail, 1,303; club topsail, 348; staysail, 315; jib, 281; total headsail triangle, 856. For a trial boat Strathcona will have the benefit of Gloria, also designed by Payne, and of transatlantic fame. Gloria is a larger boat, toft. longer on the water- line, and of great capabilities as a racer and cruiser. She won the Coupe de France in the Mediterranean in 1808, and was subsequently purchased and brought out for Mr. H. C. McLeod, of this city, who generously places her at the disposal of the race committee as a’ trial boat, until June 20. On that date Gloria starts for a salt-water cruise, to last all summer, but there will be plenty of good material left behind in the local fleet to give Strathcona what further practice sailing she needs, CHARLES H. Sniper. Conditions Gowerning Canada’s Cup Matches. ConpitiIons governing the match for Canada’s Cup, to be sailed between yachts representing the Rochester Y. C. and the Royal Canadian Y. C: RULES. The racing rules shall be those of the Yacht Racing Union of the Great Lakes, as existing at this date, subject to such additions and variations as are herein provided, and in accordance with the deed of gift, dated January 16, 1897. CONSTRUCTION, The yachts shall be of wooden construction, in accordance With the scantling tables in the rules above-mentioned. SIZE OF YACHT. The competing yachts shall be in the 40ft. L. W-. L, class, NUMBER OF RACES, The winner of three out of five races shall be declared the win- ner of the match. DATE OF RACES, The first race shall be sailed on Saturday, the 15th day of August, 1903, and the other races on consecutive days thereafter until completed, Sundays excepted. COURSES. The races shall be sailed on Lake Ontario, off Toronto Harbor, on courses to be hereafter agreed upon. The first course shall be triangular. The second course shall be windward or leeward and return. The tug bearing the buoy shall start at the time the preparatory gun is fired. The third and fifth shall be similar to the first. The fourth shall be similar to the second. The triangular races shall be once around an equilateral triangle of twenty-one nautical miles. The windward or leeward races shall be nine nautical miles to windward or leeward and return. F The triangular courses shall be so sailed that one side of the triangle shall be laid to windward (first, if possible). {fn windward and leeward traces all buoys shall be left to star- board, and in triangular races all buoys shall be left to starboard or port, as directed by the judges. TIME. All races shall be started at 11 o'clock A. M. Any race not sailed in 5% hours by the winning yacht shall be resailed. The start may be postponed by the judges— 1. In case of fog. 2. If, in their opinion, the space around the starting line is not sufficiently clear at the time appointed for starting. 8. In case both yachts consent to a postponement, i is casé of serious accidents to either yacht, as hereinafter pro- vided. 5. Should such a course appear to them desirable. And in case of postponement the judges shall determine the Ee ics starting, but in no case shall a race be started later than . M. A yacht crossing the line before the starting signal is given shall be recalled by five short blasts of the wistle and the hoisting of her national flag, and shall also be recalled by megaphone. UNFINISHED RACES. An unfinished race shall be resailed until completed. ACCIDENTS. In case of accident to either yacht prior to the preparatory sig- nal, notice thereof shall immediately be signalled to the judges, who shall have power to postpone the race, if the accident, in their opinion, is sufficiently serious to warrant such a course; or if an aecident occurs during a race, the yacht to which the accident has happened, shall have sufficient time to make repairs before being required to start in the next race. SCRUTINEERS, Each yacht shall have on board during the races a representa- tive named by her competitor. The names of the serutineers shall be giyen to the judges not less than 24 hours before the first race, and the scrutineers shall Teport to the judges within six hours after the termination of each race. MANAGEMENT. The races shall be sailed under the management of three judges, none of them shall be interested in either yacht. One shall be appointed by each club, and the two so appointed shall select a third on or before the first day of July, 1903, and they shall act as judges and timekeepers and settle all disputes. The decision of a majority shall be final in all matters. The judges shall be the Regatta Committee referred to in the tules of the Yacht Racing Union of the Great Lakes. REFEREE ON CONSTRUCTION. A referee on construction shall be appointed not later than De- cember 1, 1902, to whom all construction plans may be submitted and all questions on construction referred, and his interpretations of the seantling table shall be final. MEASUREMENTS. The yachts shall be measured by the judges or by disinterested persons appointed by them, and each yacht shall be entitled to have a-representative present when measurements are taken. The yachts shall be measured not less than four days before the first race. INSTRUCTIONS. Charts of the course and instructions shall be furnished to the competing yachts not later than 7 o’clock on the morning of the race, ALTERATIONS. These conditions may be altered or amended by mutual agree- ment at any time. (Signed) #Emilius Jarvis, Commodore, on behalf of the Royal Canadian .-C., Toronto, Ont. : (Signed) C. Ik, A, Goldman, witness as to A. E. Jarvis signature. (Signed) Charles Van Voorhis, Y. C., Rochester, N. Y (Signed) Frank T. Christy, witness as to Chas. Commodore, on behalf of the Rochester Van Voorhis signature, Supplemental conditions governing the match for Canada’s Cup, to be sailed between yachts representing the Rochester Y. C. and the Royal Canadian Y. C: 1. These supplemental conditions, in so far as they conflict with the conditions dated June 16, 1902, supersede and control those conditions. 2. The rig of both yachts shall be restricted and limited ta what is generally known as “cutter rig,” and shall consist of mainsail, topsail, staysail, jib, jib topsail and such other canyas as is usually set under such rig, topmast to be carried or mast extended to form topmast, it being the intention to prevent the rigs generally known as “jib and mainsail” and “jib, staysail, and mainsail rig.” 2" 3. The first race shall be sailed on Saturday, the Sth day of August, and the other races on consecutive days thereafter until completed, Sundays excepted. 4, It is stipulated that the year book of the Yacht Racing Union for 1902 contains a correct copy of the Yacht Racing Union rules. 5. Mr. W. P, Stevhens, of Bayonne, New Jersey, is hereby ap- pointed referee on construction. r Dated, Rochester, January 23, 1903. (Signed) fEmilius Jarvis, Commodore Royal Canadian Y. C. The Rochester Y. C. by Charles Van Voorhis, Commodore. Seawanhaka-Corinthian Y. C. OYSTER BAY, LONG ISLAND SOUND, Saturday, June 6, Start, °3:253 Finish. Elapsed. Sabrina, ©. W. Wetmore............ Peet oy 6 28 35 3 08 35 (CeivGinknls, (Cn And el Bhat gan se Aloceponehyateeee eens 6 31 25 3 06 25 "pits JNb.2 Teh whl sabsteloi os henge ha osekeee Rm umneunad -p 6 33 41 3 08 41 CDSIET Ca INS A ERSTE aS EES In wn A ot eve AU MYR Ly 6 36 43 3 11 43 KantonassGy Fem Daviset oye sy saan aul oe 6 37 0. 3 12 08 Fly, Emlen Roosevelt ..... Deck eee eat talojort aan be 6 37 47 3 12 47 Birnie ves EES Wathesoh. eM oat) lbessetaniaie 6 38 30 3 13 20 OAKLAND, Cal., June 2—Editor Forest and Stream: In view of the large but unavoidable element of chance which enters into a modern international yacht race, would it not be much better to start the three Shamrocks against Columbia, Constitution and Reliance? Never before in the history of the American Cup races has there been such an opportunity as is now presented, and prob- ably another like it will not occur within this generation, Epwarp MARSHALL, 474 FOREST AND STREAM. [June 13, 1903. Corinthian Y. C. STAMFORD, LONG ISLAND SOUND, Saturday, June 6. The Corinthian Y, C. held a regatta for auxiliaries and launches off Stamford on Saturday, June 6. The course for the auxiliaries was off the clubhouse to and around Cow Buoy, thence to the finish line, a distance of four miles. The course for the launches was also from a starting line off the clubhouse to and around Gangway Buoy, thence back to the finish line, a dis- tance of five miles. The summary follows: Auxiliary Power Yachts. Witesse: We Do Bradleyes etc. don ndeh teehee eee seca cise jae mas 1 02 15 Ste Bime, Whamassbritchark. coves eae ese cheese acer eene 1 14 15 Mizpah, Mansfield) Towns: 0cc it ise2tievecew ees aens ences reas 115 OL Launches not over 26ft, and over 21it. #Palusy ARS Ti. “Gollespie 25. Saltese eee! acres shah bee es 1 06 00 Palmer, Thomas Smith ....... Wasp, E. J. Trowbridge... Spray, Meas mibbles. ge. e Pawnee, Uiaeeh, Msi ROCKeIA Rec cr pe ss svib or cere tates PsAhelld, SBrerle os meark, Coden peregbiey tga ela -lbducndse sree er Hartford, W. P. Hatch....... RY ABR S Aaa a : Ghict= VW lncen inc wits on seh 6 beem aiie ken pitts gio oe male Rte Launches not over 21ft, and over 17ft. TG STs) MALS Elias 12 ee com wetee atthe wis cushy igle ope ohm sieyaapes MayeS) Joseph Hatberts cnc... hive ans snes dase gees nne Launches not over 1T7it. Katherine, William F, Gillespie..............0ce secede neces 0 43 00 Bateniz, WVe SrcllEGR lie dl ekepcide a aptede otot ew wslytn one bees 1 06 00 feolus, Dick B. and The winners were Katherine. YACHTING NEWS NOTES. For advertising relating to this department see pages ii and ili. “The Yachtsman’s Annual Guide for 1903,”. compiled by Mr. M. J. Kiley, has recently been issued. The book is larger and more complete than any of the previous issues, and contains a large fund of valuable and im- portant matter. RRR The steam yacht Sagamore, owned by Mr. Edward Clinton, has been sold by Mr. B. B. Crowninshield to Mr. William H. Barnard, of New York. RRR The schooner Columbia, owned by Mr. Joseph De I. Junkin, of Philadelphia, has been chartered by Mr. W. Gould Brokaw. RRR Shamrock I, and Shamrock IIL. left Fayal, Azores, ac- companied by the steam yacht Erin and the tug Cruiser on Thursday afternoon, June 4, for New York. Re R Messrs. Colven & Bickmann have sold the steam yacht Apache for Mr. Spencer Kellogg to Mr. Carl R, Schultz, and the steam yacht Rex for Mr. Alexander Stein to Mr. Geo. F. Benson, of Montreal. This firm has chartered the steam yacht Rival for Mr. T. A. Beall to Mr. H. H. Sands. mee At the last meeting of the New York Y. C., the fol- lowing were elected to membership: Frank C. Swan, Leonard Richards, T. C. Dunham, Daniel Cox, James D. Goin, Thomas H. Wheeler, Commander J. D, Adams, U. S. N.; J. B. Francis Herreshoff, Alex. H. Rutherford, Medical Director Dwight Dickinson, U. S. N.; William Andrews Clark, Merritt B. Mills, William Ruloff Kipp, Commander W. H. H. Southerland, U.-S. N.; General Louis Fitzgerald, William H. Bromley, Edgar S. Turton, William M. Warren, Lieutenant-Colonel William P. Bid- dle, U. S. M. C.; C. H. R. Woodward, Lieutenant Stan- ford E. Moses, U. S. N.; Midshipman Isaac I. Yates, U. S. N.; Ensign C. H. Woodward, U. S. N.; Mefford Run- yon, Otto G. Smith, Henry M. Wykes, Alexander M. Orr, Jr.; D. L. Clemson, Nayal Constructor W. G. Groes- beck, U. S. N.; Frank H. Clark, Lieutenant-Commander W. L. Rodgers, Henry Howard, Benjamin T. Fairchild, Ralph A. Sturges, George A. Weber, Arthur W. Dennis, Charles F. Street, Frank A. Marsh, Captain A. Marix, U. S. N.; J. G. Neafie Whitaker, William May, Charles J. Follmer, W. Starling Burgess, Midshipman John Rodgers, U. S. N.; Heber R, Bishop, Samuel Dwight Brewster, Charles J. Harrah, Nelson Macy, John C. O’Conor, Herbert C. Leeds, F. L. Shippaid, Lieutenant Emory Winship, U. S. N.; Edward Bradford Dench, M.D., and James Kingan. mE Owing to the lack of entries the annual regatta of the New York Y. C. that was to have been sailed on June 11, the event will be combined with races for the Glen Cove cups, which will take place on the Sound on June 15. The following notice has been issued by the Regatta Com- mittee of the New York Y. C.: New York Y. C., June 6, 1903. There being no apparent prospect that any of the classes for the June regatta will be filled, the club steamer will not go down the bay on June 11. j The steamer Cepheus will be placed at the disposal of the members and the ladies accompanying them on the occasion of the Glew Cove cups, June 15. Lunch will be provided as is customary at the June regattas. The 9o- footers will be entered for this event. ' The Cepheus will leave the foot of East Thirty-first street at ten o’clock in the morning and will touch at this pier on her return. } Tickets issued for the regatta on June 11 will be ac- cepted on the Cepheus, Vitesse, S. NicHotson KANE, Newsury D. Lawton, Epwarp H. WALES, | | Regatta Committee, mR ER Mr. Lewis Cass Ledyard is the new owner of Dreamer, the steamer recently sold by Mr. Thomas W. Lawson. Mr. Lawson retained the name Dreamer when he sold the boat, and Mr. Ledyard will call her Roamer, me RH “Manning’s Yacht Register for 1903” has been issued. It is divided into two volumes: Part one contains a list - San Francisco. of all recognized yacht clubs in North and South Amer- ica, and also a register of all steam and sail yachts en- rolled in these clubs. Part two contains records of yacht club races sailed during 1902. The books are well gotten up and are substantially bound in white canvas. The Regatta Committee of the Sippican Y. C., Marion, Mass., have arranged the following races for this season: Friday, June 19—Open race. Friday, June 26.—First open Corinthian. Friday, July 3.—First club Corinthian. Friday, July 10—First open ladies. Friday, July 17—Second club Corinthian. Friday, July 24.—Second open Corinthian. Saturday, July 25—Second open. Friday, July 31.—Third club Corinthian. Saturday, August 8.—Sports—illumination. Friday, August 14.—Fourth club Corinthian. Friday, August 21.—Second open ladies. Saturday, August 22—Van Rensselaer cup. Friday, August 28—Fifth club Corinthian. Friday, September 4.—Third open Corinthian. RRR The plant of the Racine Boat Mfg. Co., Racine, Wis., was totally destroyed by fire on May 31. New buildings will be built.at once and the business will be conducted on a larger scale than ever before. mR eR Captain Howard Blackburn left Gloucester, Mass., for Havre, France, in a 15ft. dory on June 7. Captain. Black- burn is ‘well known as a lone voyager, this being his third trip across the Atlantic in a small craft. Hifle Range and Gallery. Fixtures, June 15-16.—Union Hill Schuetzen Corps twenty-fifth anniversary shout. BP. Stumpf, Capt. June 18-20.—St. Louis, Mo.—Tournament under auspices of Central Shooting Bund. Horace Kephardt, Sec’y. July 6-7.—New Haven, Conn.—South New Engiand Schuetzen Bund annual schuetzenfest, under the auspices of the Independent German Rifle Company. H. C. Young, Sec’y. The United States Revolver Association. New York, N. Y., June 2.—I inclose herewith a communica- tion in regard to the 50-shot revolver record by J. E. Gorman, of I also inclose a circular letter which has been sent out to a number of the principal revolver and pistol shots of the United States. This letter embraces about all the informa- lion that we have up to the present time in regard to the proposed international matches. The exact dates and other details will be arranged as soon as possible: A. L. A, HiIMMELWRIGHT, The communication above referred to follows: On April 26, 1908, Mr. J. E. Gorman, of the Golden Gate Rifle and Pistol Club, San Francisco, announced his intention to shoot for the 50-shot revolver record under the any revolver rules of, the U. S. R. A., at 50yds. The score was begun at 4:15 P: M. and finished at 4:53 P. M. Mr. Gorman shot a Smith & Wesson revolver, with a 6%41n, barrel, 2lb. trigger pull, open target sights. The weather conditions were fair. The score follows: Te. EN AGOrininits oe tastestcece tents 1010 8 910 91010 9: 9—94 10 810 910 81010 9 791 91010 9 8 7 810 8 88 7 9 910 81010 810 9—90 1010 8101010 9 8 10 10—95—458 The above score complies strictly with the rules and regulations of the U. S. R. A., and is recognized as the 50-shot revolver record under the conditions named. A. L. A. HimmMEetwricut, Sec’y-Treas. The circular letter follows: Dear Sir—As you probably have seen in the shooting papers and other publications we are now negotiating for two international matches, one with France and one with Great Britain, both to be shot with revolvers. In the match with France there will be fifteen men on a side, 60 shots per man, at 50yds. on the Standard American target, any revolver and any ammunition; trigger pull 24lbs. The time limit in which the scores must be completed has not yet been decided. In the match with Great Britain there will be eight men on a side, 12 or 30 shots at 20yds, and 12 or 30 shots at 50yds. The conditions of this match have not yet been decided, but they will probably be a plain 2in. bullseye used at 20yds., and the Standard American target at 50yds. The English suggest 12 shots at each distance. We suggest 30 shots at each distance. The complete details of this match will be decided later. The object of this letter is to urge you to begin systematic and regular practice, and get yourself in as good condition as you possibly can by the end of June; also to request that you use your influence to have any other good shots in your vicinity practice with you under the conditions of the matches and re- port to me what progress is made about once a week. The matches will probably be shot between the end of June and the beginning of July. The range at Walnut Hill, Mass., has been offered to the Association free of expense. This is the finest equipped range in the East, and the Americans will probably shoot both matches at this range. We expect to arrange for free trans- portation for as many candidates for the team as possible, and it is the hope of the Executive Committee that we may be able to assemble twenty-five or thirty of the best shots-in the United States at the Walnut Hill range several days before the match. The team will then be selected from the men who make the highest scores in preliminary practice. We are trying to make arrangements so that 2in. bullseye for 20yd. shooting in the English match can be obtained for the asking. Definite informa- tion in regard to this will be given later. We have just published a new booklet, giving the revised con- stitution, championship matches, rules and regulations, and list of members, bringing the latter up to date. This is going forward to you under separate cover. As you know, the revenue of this Association is obtained solely by the yearly dues of the members and sttch voluntary contribu- tions as individuals choose to make. You could aid very ma- terially if you could induce several new men to join the Associa- tion. Will you not try to do this? I am inclosing application blanks herewith for thus purpose, and will fordward reading mat- ter to any address that you may furnish me, A. L. A, HimMMELWwRicuHrT, Sec’y-Treas. U. S. Revolver Association, Grapshooting. —_¢——_. If you want your shoot to be announced here send a notice like the followlag: Fixtures. *June 10-11.—Ruffsdale, Pa. Gun Club’s tournament. R. S., Deniker, Sec’y. : June 16-19—Warm Springs, Ga.—The Interstate Association’s tournament, under the auspices of the Meriwether Gun Club. Chas. L. Davis, Sec’y. h June 16-18—New London, Ta.—Seventh annual midsummer tar- get tournament of the New London Gun Club. June 16-18.—Grand Western Handicap Target tournament of the Denver, Col., Trap Club. *June 17-18.—McKeesport, Pa., tournament. June 17-18.—Wilkes-Barre, Pa,—E. L. Klipple tournament. June 18.—West Chester, Pa., Gun Club’s all-day target shoot. June 28-25,—Grand Rapids, Mich.—Consolidated Sportsmen’s Association’s second annual target tournament; $1,000 added. A. B. Richmond, Sec’y, : June 24-25.—Rutherford, N, J.—Interstate Association tourna- ment under the auspices of the Union Gun Club. *June 24-25.—New Castle, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. James Atkinson, Sec’y. : June 25-26.—Indianapolis, Ind—Two days’ target tournament of the Limited Gun Club. Bert B. Adams, Sec’y-Treas. July 3-+-—Memphis, Tenn., Gun Club’s two days’ shoot. A. H. Frank, Sec'y. July 4.—Towanda, Pa., Gun Club’s annual tournament. W. F. Dittrich, Sec’y. July 4.—Concord, Staten Island.—All-day target shoot of the Richmond Gun Club. Special handicap, 100 targets, for $10 in gold. Albert A. Schoverling, See’y. July 4.—Altoona Rod and Gun Club. G.. «Go -Zeth, secretary, Altoona, Pa. . July 4.—All-day shoot of the Haverhill (Mass.) Gun Club. S. G. Miller, secretary. Bf July 4.—Dover, N. H., Sportsman’s Association’s Joliday shoot. D. W. Hallam, secretary. July 4.—Topsham, Me.—All-day tournament of the Riverside Shooting Club. Fred W. Atkinson, Sec’y. *July 7-8.—Ligonier, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. J. O’H. Denny, Sec’y. July 8-9.—Huntsville, Ala.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- ment, under the auspices of the Huntsville Gun Club. E. R. Matthews, Sec’y. July 8-10.—Arkansas State Sporismen’s Association's thirteenth annual meeting and tournament, under the auspices or the Jones- boro, Ark., Gun Club, of which Matthews is Sec’y-Treas. **July, second week.—Memphis, Tenn., Gun Club’s tournament. July 14-16.—The Americus, Ga., second annual interstate target tournament. H. S. McCleskey, Sec’y. July 15.—Charlottesville, Wa.—Shoot of the University of Vir- ginia. G, L. Bruffey, Sec’y. *July 21-22.—Beaver Falls, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. W. R. Keefer, Sec’y. July 80-Aug. 1—lLa Crosse, Wis.—The Interstate Association’s tournament, under the auspices of the La Crosse and Viroqua gun clubs. John M. Moore, sec’y. *Aug. 5-6.—Brownsville, Pa., od and Gun Club’s tournament. Aug. 12-15.—Toronto, Ont.—Annual tournament of the Dominion Trapshooting and Game Protective Association. A. W. Throop, Sec’y-Treas., Ottawa, Can. Aug. 18-20.—Grand Rapids, Mich.—Second annual target tourna- ment of the Consolidated Sportsmen’s Association of Grand Rapids; $1,000 added. A. B. Richmond, Sec’y. ug. 19-20.—Ottawa, Ill_—The Interstate Association’s tourna- ment, under the auspices of the Rainmakers’ Gun Club. Paul A. Selember, Sec’y. ' TAUs: ,19-20.—Millvale, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. er, Sec’y. Aug. 25-28.—Lake Okoboji, Ia.—Annual Indian tournament. Frank C. Riehl, Chief Scribe. 5 Berek 1-2.—Irwin, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. John Withero, ec’y. Sept. 2-3.—Akron, O.—The Interstate Association’s tournament, nue the auspices of the Akron Gun Club. G. E. Wagoner, ec’y. Sept. 7.—Fall tournament of the Springfield, Mass., Shooting Club. C. L. Kites, Sec’y. *Sept. 9-10.—Enterprise Sun Club tournament. Targets. Wm. Buss- Sept. 15-16.—Ligonier, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. J, O’H. Denny. Sec’y. *Sept. 23-24.—Ruffsdale, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. R. S. Deniker, Sec’y. Oct. 6-7.—Allegheny, Pa.—North Side Gun Club’s tournament. L. B. Fleming, Sec’y. Oct. 8-9.—Dalton, Ohio, Gun Club’s fifth annual tournament. H. Santmyer, m’g*r. Oct. 14-17.—West Baden, Ind., Gun Club tournament; $500 added. Saturdays.—Chicago.—Garfield Gun Club; grounds W _ Fifty- second avenue and Monroe street. Dr. J. W. Meek, Sec’y. *Member of Western Pennsylvania Trapshooters’ Chas. G. Grubb, Sec’y, 507 Wood street, Pittsburg. **Members of Mississippi Valley Trapshooters’ and Gzme Pro- tective Association. J. J. Bradfield, Sec’y, Vicksburg, Miss. League. DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. The Dover (N. H.) Sportsman’s Association have announced a shoot for July 4 2 The next regular shoot of the Mississippi Valley Trapshooters’ Association will be held at Memphis, Tenn.,:in July. The University shoot will take place this year'on July 15, at Charlottesville, Va., Mr. G. L. Bruffey is the secretary. Ro x Mr. Ernest F. Scott, captain of the Dalton, Ohio, Gun Club, informs us that his club will hold its fifth annual tournament on Oct. 8 and 9. Mr. H. Santmyer is manager. Mr. Henry H. Steyens, of Rahway, N. J., an expert shooter and géntleman of broad, accurate knowledge in tourament mat- ters, has joined the professional ranks of trapshooters, At the shoot of the Interstate Association, at Boston, Mass., June 3 and 4, My. J. A. R, Elliott was high in the averages, with 184 and 186 out of 200, a total of 870 out of 400 for the two days, 92.5 per cent. Ld The shoots of the Poughkeepsie (N. Y.) Gun Club are held on Thursday. Elsewhere in our trap columns this week, in the report of their last weekly shoot, a cordial invitation is extended to visiting sportsmen. . The Wanderers, a trapshooting organization, were inyited by the North River Gun Club to participate in its shoot at Edgewater, N. J., on Saturday of this week, but owing to the New York State shoot this week, probably the visit will be postponed to June 20. 4 At the opening shoot of the Delaware County, Pa., Gun Club- a team contest was a feature. There were three teams, six men to a team, 26 targets per man, and they scored as follaws: Dela- 4 ware Country Club 133, S. S. White Club 120, Century Gun Club 123. k . : 7 ex: > too eS ee June 13, 1903.) FOREST AND_ STREAM. 478 Tt is a pleasure to mention that Mr. Harold Money is recover- ing surely but slowly from his recent severe illness. He has been recuperating for some weeks in Colorado. His mother, who has been nursing him through it all, will return to her home in Oak- land, N. J., soon. Re The secretary,. Mr. Albert A. Schoverling, 302-304 Broadway, informs us that the Richmond Gun Club will hold an all-day target shoot on July 4, on the club grounds at Concord, Staten Island. There will be a special handicap at 100 targets for a ten dollar gold piece. Entrance $2. Refreshments will be served on the grounds. R In an eleven-man team match between teams of the Dalton Rod and Gun Club and the Pittsfield (Mass.) Rod and Gun Club, June 6, 25 targets per man, Pittsfield won with a score of 167 to 158. Mr. H. S. Sidway was high on the Pittsfield team, with 24. Mr. Flansburgh was high on the Dalton team, with 18. The Dal- ton Club was recently organized. R Mr. E. E. Shaner, secretary-manager, writes us as follows: “The Interstate Association tournament scheduled for Viroqua, Wis., July 30 to Aug. 1, will be held on the grounds of the La Crosse Gun Club, La Crosse, Wis., under the auspices of both the Viro- qua and La Crosse gun clubs, the same dates holding good. John M. Moore, La Crosse, Wis., will furnish information relat- ing to the tournament. ~ : The secretary ‘of the Haverhill (Mass.) Gun Club writes us as follows: “Our club will celebrate the “ever glorious 4th” by holding an all-day shoot, to which all our old friends are cordially inyited. We would like all lovers of the scatter gun to come and spend ihe day with us, so that we can call them all old friends. They can make all the noise they wish, and we will help them do it.” t At the Budd-Burmister tournament, Arnold’s Park, Iowa, June 2-4, Messrs. F. Gilbert and F. Riehl were the only manufactur- ers’ agents who shot through the entire programme. Gilbert broke 579 out of a possible 600, an average of 96.5 per cent., truly an excellent performance. Mr. W. H. Heer won high average in the amateur class, with 566, about 94.4 average. The recent floods in the West caused a smaller attendance than was anticipated. The programme of the Haverhill, Mass., Gun Club, provides fourteen events for July 4, 10, 15 and 20 targets, $1.15, $1.25 and $1.30 entrance. Events 9, 10 and 11, inclusive, are the prize handi- cap match, 50 targets, regular, unknown and reversed angles. Targets included in entrance at 146 cents. Sweepstakes optional. Lunch served free. Total number of targets, 190; total entrance, $17. Mr. C. A. Griggs is president, Mr. S. G. Miller is secretary. x The secretary-treasurer, Mr. Bert B. Adams, writes us as fol- lows: ‘“‘The Limited Gun Club, of Indianapolis, will hold a two days’ target tournament on June 25 and 26. Mr. Hugh Clark, of Wabash, Ind., has challenged Mr. C. O. Le Compte, of Eminence, Ky., for the possession of the Grand Hotel cup, and the match will be held during the tournament. Programmes for the shoot are now in the hands of the printers, and -will be mailed in a iew days.” td The Interstate Association tournament, to be giyen at Ruther- ford, N. J., on June 24 and 25, is within convenient reach of southern New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania trapshoot- ers, and is not inconvenient for others living at greater dis- tances. The programme is an attractive one, there is a comfort- able clubhouse and traps perfectly installed. The transportation facilities are first-class. Keep the dates posted in your hat and shoes. R Mr. Ernest Detmold, of the firm of Yon Lengerke & Detmold, suffered a serious accident on Wednesday of last week. His horse became unmanageable under the elevated road in Harlem, owing to fright, caused by a passing train, and collided with another horse, throwing Mr. Detmold from his carriage to the pavement. Mr. Detmold’s scalp was severely cut, and required several stitches, but we are greatly pleased to add that his injuries are not-dangerous, and that he is rapidly recovering. + The Grand Western Handicap totirnament at targets, June 16-18, given by the Denyer, Col., Trap Club, has $625 added money. On the first two days there are ten 20-target events each day, $2 entrance, 915 high average, one money, each day. On the third day there are five 20-target events, and ithe Grand West- ern Handicap, for the Denver Post Trophy, emblematic of the Western championship, 100 targets, $10 entrance, $100 added; two moneys for every ten entries. Shooting commences at 9:30. Prac- lice day on the grounds, June 15. Reduced railroad fares. Mr. Fred C. Whitney will act as cashier. Mr. Frank B. Cunning- ham, of St. Joseph, Mo., will act as manager. Guns, ammunition, etc., sent by express, should be addressed to Chas. E. Younkman, secretary, 1537 Arapahoe Street, Denver. The competition is open to all, distance handicap. ® The programme of the eleventh amateur target tournament of the Mississippi Valley Trapshooters’ Association, to be held under the auspices of the Caddo Gun Club, at Shreveport, La., June 16 and 17, may be obtained by applying to Mr. V. L. Fulton, secre- tary of the Caddo Gun Club. Added money, $1,100. The events are alike each day, seyen at 20, two at 25 and one at 10 targets, entrance based on ten cents per target; 20 events all told, $40 total entry, and $500 added each day. Rose system. On June 15 there is a special 100-target event, $10 entrance, $100 added money, high guns, three moneys for every ten entries. On the first day, events 5 and 6 (40 targets), are for the Labacher medal, for league members only. On the second day, event 5 is the 3- man team race for Peters team trophy. No, 6 is for $80 gun, do- nated by the Peters Cartridge Co. Sweepstakes are open to all amateurs. To high average for the two days, Hunter Arms Co. gold medal. td Mr. Edgar L. Klipple, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., informs us that he will give a two days’ shooting tournament, June 17 and 18, live birds and targets, at Hanover Park, a few miles from his city. He assures us that the tournament promises to eclipse the successful tournaments previously given by him at the same place. The programme of each day has ten events. These are 120 bluerocks and 12 live birds on the first day; total entrance $18.70. On the second day there are 145 bluerocks and 20 live birds; total entrance $30.15. Nos. & and 7 on the first day are at 5 and 7 live birds, $4 and $% entrance. No. 6 on the second day is the Hanover Park Handicap, 28 to a3yds., $15 entrance; 15 birds; ties shot off; open to all. Targets thrown from magau- trap at 2 cents. Live birds, included in entrance, 25 cents. Moneys divided in ratios of 50, 30 and 20 per cent. To amateur making high average in target events, $3. Shooting commences at 9 o'clock. For further information address the manager. BERNARD WATERS. Wapsie Gun Club, Crescent City, Ia., May 27——The Wapsie Gun Club, of Central City, Ia., held its annual shoot on May 27. It was intended to have a two days’ tournament, and the club had provided an ex- cellent programme, with $50 offered for average money. But the fact that they immediately followed the Dubuque meet, and that the weather had been very unsettled, caused the attendance to fall far below the number expected. Fifteen men faced the traps and shot the first day’s events; but it was decided not to carry out the latter half of the programme. Fred Gilbert and W, H. Heer tied for high average, losing only six targets each. Taylor had second and Linell third place. [The Wapsie Gun Club gold amedal was won by QO. N. Ford, with a perfect score, and John Brookman duplicated the performance in a 25-bird race for the Linn county silver cup. Trade representatives shot for targets only, except in a special event at 10 doubles, which was won by Riehl with a score of 19, The Wapsie Club has nice grounds on the banks of the pretty little river of that name, and it is to be hoped that they will not be discouraged over the combination of circumstances that counted against them on this occasion, Scores are subjoined: Events: L203 4 be 6-7 -Ss.-9 1011 12 Targets: 15 15 20 15 15 20 15 15 20 15 15 20 Broke. 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Gold medal eyent: Ford 25, Brockman 23, Ford 23, Cleveland 23, Linell 23. : HAWEEYE. Poughkeepsie Gun Club, PovuGHKeepsiz, N. Y., June 4.—The regular monthly shoot of this club to-day was well attended, there being two handsome cups to attract the boys—the Club Cup, which is shot for monthly, and the Marshall Cup, which is being shot for weekly, both of which must be won six times by one party to become personal property. To-day there were three scratch men—Tallman, Traver and Russell—and all three put up a good article of shooting, Tall- man and Russell tying for the Marshall Cup on 24, Tallman break- ing that number straight. In the club cup event (No. 8) Mr. F. J. Fenn, with three misses allowed as breaks, scored 24, there- by winning this trophy. Owing to Mr. Tallman’s time being limited—he, in fact, having left the grounds before: Mr. Russell had shot—the tie was not shot off. It is expected, however, that the tie will be decided next Thursday. The Poughkeepsie Gun Club is now in a flourishing condition. We have one of the best grounds and finest appointments in the State. Regular weekly shoot is held every Thursday, and we would be pleased to have visiting sportsmen join us at any time. To all such our latch string is ever hanging outward. Scores: Events: 123 45 6 7.8 910 Shot Targets: + 10 10 10 10 155p 25 25 25 at. Broke, RAV ECs setts see tie ete tt aaoee Qo: ile =o Beant a 95 Tl Tallman ..,... ; 610. 20 24 80 66 Winans, 1.. es [i ay Qt acy ac 2120... 100 7 Henne) "icc aU see pA = 24 20 60 48 NLOCEORM ae tye snes be 9 6 1819. 70 46 Sp Piri dr es ie Ls Se ee ge mee es Se Seas 510 Oe 95 53 IDG athe APA Re pee Be. aoe Ae 8 22, 22. 60 48 Gorhamie bea see dedc cere sisteee act can Hacer SF i” 30 22, RGIS SCLIN Aen aioe tes sh esl ERP aoan epg Nee a 60 51 Marshall) 3: ofo eae a ee tnt 5 6 2171917 110 60 REICH AT seco meea tebe enn io gate due oll : 15 3 Liebert Bee ean er ire eee ar eee 15 33 ~ 50 a Claymark, 5: retry en ‘ . 21 48 2: 50 29 SNANIWEH. Dover Sportsmea’s Association. Dover, N. H., June 6.—We, the Dover Sportsman’s Associa- tion, held our usual weekly practice shoot at our grounds, and had quite an enjoyable time. The presence of the ladies made it more enjoyable still. - Our scores were not very creditable, and I think the gentlemen who took part would not care to see their names in print. We have had quite a number of forest fires in our vicinity, and the atmosphere was full of smoke, and the targets disappeared almost before we could shoot. I inclose a clipping from the Somersworth Free Press, a local paper, that I think is worthy of republication: < “On holidays, when young men may be seen around in baseball clothes with bats slung over their shoulders, there may be seen in this city men, young and old, with gun cases, all moving as though by a common impulse. They are going to the grounds of one of the gun clubs to try their hands at shooting. Now shooting with the shotgun or rifle is excellent sport. It calls for a clear hed, steady nerves and good vision. One who would be a good shot must be a careful, systematic man, who takes time to learn all about his weapons and his ammunition. The hit-or- miss, happy-go-lucky sort of a fellow never can make an expert user of the gun or rifle. The qualities of mind and body which go to make a man a good shot, make him also a good, orderly citizen. Dover has some good gun clubs, and some experts, who can be always relicd upon to render a good account of them- selves.” D. W. Haram, Sec’y. n Pittsfield ys, Dalton, Mountain View, Pittsfield, Mass., June 6—Dalton Rod and Gun Club vs. Pittsfield Rod and Gun Ciub match, held on Sat- urday, June 6, at Dalton, eleven men on a team, 25 blue racks to each man. The Dalton men made a very good showing, considering the fact that they have been organized but a short time. H. S. Sid- way was high gun for the day and broke 24 out of 25 in the match. Pittsfield (25)—J. H. Wood 13, Dr. Hubbell 12, Tracy 17, Joe Shearer 17, Sidway 24, Henry 18, Graves 17, A. Wood 8, Ben Smith 14, Dr. Treasdo 18, Dr. Woodruff 14; total 167. Dalton (25)—Flansburgh 18, Bartlett 13, Claressy 18, Groesbeck 14, R, Silvernail 10, Messinger 16, Martin 17, Shedd 17, Pierce 10, A. Silvernail 17, Veats 8; total 1538. Pittsfield won by 14. Trap at Milwaukee. MILWAUKEE, Wis., has any number of good gun clubs, both rifle and shotgun, and the weekly meetings are well attended, yet of late years those who shoot at regular tournaments do not compare with former years. Being a holiday (Decoration Day) there should have been more than fourteen men out to encourage the south side boys in their attempt to give a tournament. The fol- lowing day more shooters came, both from the city’and through- out the State. Dering and Kaufman, two well-known rivals, were present the second day, neither shooting up to form. But the wind does have a sweep on the hill, where the boys shoot. The scores: First Day. Events: ule ae oo bocce oe ds SHOE Targets 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 at. Broke. tee eae tees pker, Sate OS bh, Fe : 90 61 -» 111012 9111010 ihey, 120 87 ~- 144.11 13 13 11 11:10 11 13 13 151) 121 2 Is. 1040 12° 9 12°10 2b 2. 120 86 71410 91113101013 9 150 106 Furheide-. 3.2.52. ss. betlee 2 LS he DW i 2p i Ue 120 87 Vatrag Serna ikcce Ripert ROS IZA So 105 76 ‘Tem Bizoty tea aeeae, nett flO oe 60 33 SPEEDECKe Soe eee se sees 10 SU BWBUNUU4113 10 118 Miller ..3.. SF PRA SES aWaP23 Ts RS 60 47 Lem rye dade Sr S NCES Oe pore se se Ae 10 8 ae 30 18 acd dee res egy eee tt See ete ee NiO 8 &. 60 37 ta (hyskle A: : 10 8. y 30 18 Ebenry) | ariics beesa desea se 111415131415 15 14 | 1200 Hi Second Day. Events: Mea A: Sage Yl eS SS SU Ta Ca a Be Shot Targets: 15 15 15 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 at. Broke. Dering BI 3 GF 2S a 5) 8 Kaufman 21412 6 6 8 7101010 510 135 110 Gropper 13 712 8 710 566.. = 105 T ibe Soe eee a aes TIE eB Ry ive ewe er we Ra ee)! Dard: vee. piece dee ee LL TG SALT Se neh Re bk cB, 125 =—-100 Hensler i Oost sh, be tas x 115 92 Nats tere BRA AAS NY Wo eS ST tS Sis SHUOVER dente. ae Se 6 be aa A od 185 68 EOE oh Serres oe SHAS ‘Get Do kbe otis ie. fee les 80 ees Setar reeR annie rer SEY tien iy sabins 98 Bashi oni aee ee LUE OS. Tet rie Sete ee eae ee Pee eee he 45 27 Sorith Ss Se eeesae 1 Sh F810 910 ids 95 72 Busi ee oreiies 121418 9 810 910. sare 95 85 Kiaenaites tae Seae Sa ee es 30 7 (gpl hieot past ye A a TS 10. 9 a 40 25 1) CON Se eae ee ae ah, SoS Bare Us DG? 85, 80 53 SLCC Toaakiel: Lateledeetn de i a ele pels 40 19 T M Drought.. Soe ae ae 40 3 DB, Maines Atos ag sss ace Soe By: 40 30 IMEOTES ac ce Pastas s we ee cl Se oH a ee 40 33 Memphis Gun Club, Mempnis, Tenn., may be safely put down now as gaining . ground as a shooting city; whether the high price of cotton makes yet the latest big gathering prosperous times I will not here say, of shooters would indicate same. The Lucy Gun Club held their opening shoot May 27, and as they were in for a good time, a barbecue was added. They were sociably inclined, and members of other clubs, viz., the Mem- phis, Bluit City and Shelby, turned out and assisted in the shoot- ing and eating. Abe Frank was the handicapper,.and did his. work well. He shot well himself, and was high gun. How the good things did disappear when dinner was announced. All present voted the Lacy Club the prince of ee The scores: Events: ee ed 8 56 7 8 910 11 121314 Shot Targets 15 15 15 15 15 25 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 at. Broke Bratko % Ponce 12 12 si 3 11 2415 141413121314 9 -220 189 Edrington ... 6 8 ae 10 14 13 11 13 12 15 11 «11 «12 220 153 Joyner .....2.. 10 12/14.13 10 22 14.12 13 12 11 th Le. 190 154 Weaver <..<.. 8.11.10 13 13 221011 611 8121310 220 158 Dunean ..... 5 14 11 13.12 5 151271121311 912 220 183 Girard See 12 11 14131019. eee 100 79 Williams .... 12 91212112014 910 610151012 220 162 Hawkins .... 7101110 6171110 H121011 712 220, 145 Cockle *...... Meee Solve (Oe ATS bt See Soll TT 220 = 126 N Cockle Scary SelOleg dhe cee ae eee ee ee 100 55 Grobkw sauce. 6 610 91122 210 6 Sili3.. 190 - 114 oldeky reese HO SATO S22 12, SelO LF AD Ad. 220-163 Mallory ...... Rte fieGies, Set AI 62a hh SS 1G 220 =104 Hawkins iO SS FT 9IS OS: Fld. 9 1140 220 140 Henderson ..12 7 7 7 811181211 101112 8 9 220 8=—-:138 Thayer {it Bogs) A Se it 9: 2 rh se, a Oe 43 D Mallory.... 7 710 6.. 16 9779109... 175 97 DrvArderson’ .-oo@ - "1th ofl. es thee beet. Peeoe 5d a2 ByEOTNe, eect Ole: phere Wa tintildt aes tsps. Re 5d 24 O’ Leary 13-920 -9- 121474. 95°92. 154 108 Youke a See. se iH 9°33. te. 75 46 Cetin ys IIIS | EF ees ce EN cipro oe 3 50 30 VTS ee ee ee ee MC! Cee a ee See 30 16 WESTERN TRAP. Cuicaco, Ill, June 6—Mr. Max Hensler, runner-up in the Grand American Handicap, is in town to-day, after an extended trip through the-West. Mr. Hensler thinks that the Cincinnati shoot next week ought to run 150 entries, and believes that the open conditions, everybody 16 yards, will bring out nearly every- body in the country. In the past the experts believed in any- thing but handicaps, but so great is the number of first-raters among the amateurs much protection as anyone else. P Mr. Hensler was down at San Antonio last winter, and tells me that since he has talked with Col. Guessaz and others about the possibilities of a big open-for-all shoot at San Antnio next win- ter, everybody to go on the 16-yard line. There seems to be an impression that a big event of this kind could be made a suc- cess in the South, Times are still good, money fairly plenty, and - travel, therefore, easy and general. San Antonio could easily take care of a large number of shooters. 4 E. Howuesr. HartFrorp Buiitpinc, Chicago, Il. Trap at Colorado Srrin2s, CoLtorADO Springs, Col—John W. Garrett has nat shot much since he returned from St. Joseph and Kansas City, but on Fri- day, May 29, he got up a crowd. Though the wind was blowing very strong, he fired his usual string of 400 and over. Shooters East read of s0 many good scores made out here that they will be surprised at the 85 per cent. one inclosed, viz: Shot. at. Broke. Av. at. Broke. Av. Shot. Sarkeltes. | ssa 425 364 85.6 Nicolai ....... 100 yal 71. Sanderson .... 250 168 60-2)- Murray ...2.2: 50 23 45. Lawton ....... 250 208 mstee Ve uistatis eriane 50 31 62. Rimmer ...... 17 104 69:4 Gadsby ....... 50 34 68. McFarland 175 93 Ss) “BRrch e008. 25 12 48. meyhent S..5ce6 50 93 Gan. Wire! esses 5h 24 38» 72: PCM aes «tee ges 125 63 50.4 Monroe ...... 25 2 4. Meredith ..... 100 fae ys A Challenge. WuncuHester, N. H., June 1.—I should like to shoot a match at 100 blue rock targets, thrown from magautrap, with any man that is a-resident of the State of New Hampshire, for a sum that will cover the expense of such shoot. I am shooting for the sport of the game. I would be glad to meet some of my State: shots in a-friendly shoot. — L. R. Netson, to-day that the professionals need about as 476 FOREST AND STREAM. [June 13, 1903. IN NEW JERSEY. Rahway Gun Club, Rahway, N. J., May 30.—The Rahway Gun Club had a very fine shoot at the opening of their new grounds, situated on West- field avenue, on the line of the Elizabeth, Westfield & Rahway trolley. The grounds are very fine. Great interest is taken in the club, and the boys can be found at the traps every Satur- day. No. 1, handicap, 25 targets, three prizes: Housman, 7 1011011111110010011101111—25 RSI ae Aah aneeasesnt rence tence 1111111110119111110111111—25 COSC JDiSeu dss cadn kh saleaws stares s vente 0010111111010110111011111—23 MGIATLEN, Danie thre Peper at ant Lie ok kent 1011100101011011100110111—21 SVRATE argo emen os Sethi eetee acca eters ele aren 1010010011101111110010011—23 ARG ESS CEN SS a Pee wales cthialepce'aieece (ee 0000000000000000000000111—13 AGUS SCL see oWe tc. en tyagtal lalate sss ses pe RMI: 0111111101111101101001101—22 VVCATS Gita, EE oryty te» geparaliilatstetel pete Yenc bch ee Naan 0011001011111110111111111—24 Vett, y Re ci mack ere KE Be I}, EID 1111100110111111101111110—25 AV Viet se GPE aN, eel Uti re elk anion Pt 0110101011111110111101010—21 Cash ey) HE WeH a nfs ella sipnes tot, ase cetse tae tie be 0111100001100001010010010—17 CERT dat ef eb tories eR eL Lanett tate 10111.01010110111111111001—25 OD Cha iret fa tee ti GMb a8 daa race DAS 0110011010111110110110110—28 Pea eS esha te hae ooaee has pene a heat 1001111010111100101011100—24 Rapters. OG. o55244.0soe tel on seneinsp pss ona taed 0101110011110111011111011—24 PIO TIS ay setae inks eae Dee ee ek 1000191111111110111000110—22 PNOWEDSO ASN: Soutas cca sere shall serene 1001011011010010101101111— 1111110111011101111111111—25 . 0111011010101101011110011—21 1111011111111011101111110—25 Lovett, 8 Johnson, 5 .... Jettman, 4 Shoot-off: Jettman first, Lovett second, Housman third. IEousimans essescus 0111111001— 9 Acken, 2 .......... 0100011110— 7 ACSASIT LAN Ser ety ose» 0011110111— 8 Lovett, 1........... 1110111101— 9 Vett, Ped hace ee 1011101000— 7 Jettman, 1....,..,. 1111111111—10 Shoot-oft for second: TEPOuSmatis (2s... weet OOLGO—S~ MOVE SL Ss aia deh ae 11111—5 Second event, 15 targets, handicap, three prizes: Housman, 3...111111111000001—13 Vett, 2 ....... 100111011111010—12 Gaskill, 1...... 110001111110111—12 Gibson, 2 ..... 111111011011111—14 Browne, 2..... 11111011010110_13 Wilson, 3 ....110101110010011—12 LGvett oooh. 111011111111110—14 Yettman, -.100111110111110—12 Tooker, 4..... 101111011010100—13. Manhkin, 4...010010100001001— 9 osteras\£ 100111111010111—13 Lovett 10, Gibson 9, Tooker 11, Way, 2 Shoot-off at 10 targets: Union Gun Club. Rutherford, N. J., June 1.—Find inclosed scores of shoot held on May 320. sa No. 7 was a prize shoot with handicap. Win- ners and prizes were: J. Hall, umbrella; G. Piercy, silver bread dish; J, Sealey, jardiniere; W. Pierson, rug; C. Axford, hammock; C. Wise, silver cream holder; L. Lane, porch rocker; S. R. Mac- Clements, fancy clock; H. Von Lengerke, glass pitcher; W. J. Fredericks, fishing rod; F. Van Tassel, fruit knives; T. Gempp, pictures; F. Axford, rug; B. Abbott, picture; P. Jeanneret, salad dish. . Events 1S A Ge OOS Targets 15 10 15 10 15 10 25 15 15 10 10 20 rete ae Dae ee Or he Oa appre oat 9 8181012 82415 .. 9 718 MES ESL, meacketee nated mene ee peat s SE be suet yeh Poa pg? ts Se Sean Ue A a A FEL alle i Mote ran ne east neces eae Gh EF FONE oPcuiss ok Ung. esheets SUF nah oe Secret it Kenta Otte MAU MS a se 8i has 6 Pail, De wshorew tik eee teks ab eau eee BOS AAO eben ke F axtord, 1 eee a eee eet ty ee ST ie ee bea ae Deas: Wiss fan satseeeetetoeen ol TG ey eae, ee Masetind Me eri ek Mika ste tee Slack, gents a 8 81110 2314... 5 5 12 MORI TNA SMO A iy36 loos eos 3 te reer Le Eee: ee aoe ESE C Dia ecclce cee lect tt tac cine me wan cee a (ey 7: er H Von Lengerke, MAT G US: thee onn ee ol (iecueeae Piersons nee eo) eo ate Ce roch Mare Mace. tare ete (Eferc ont ieels § soe eens ANA ALAARRAH Bl aes yt IR 8-19) 9 ee BPRCETICKS AMA a § dap rsa ndeess scat ceea ies! te Sieben 22. ah vache Mac@tenisnts: LOG scr wmacadsesecee fone (eel onan ase 27) we 10 Le ooh ee PTSTUUSETLS, Wate. «pAb sch aepe Rine! whee Cone cee Peels ew Sees, ot Wet MISTS CITC ue een et ee Lena ees ee ic ls suciny Cie mein se aces aD Se: Sate JETS ach bbol > EOE eh! y Pah ay See iy wr Ae ee ce cL) Series [eg hee ele ee EN hy Sormomort ron beet mp bebe ste oe eer Ss Le at | H v Tip MICU PERE Roce nee perese ne bent e hres 5. . a The figures after the names denote the Kadicianehy in eee No. NG C. B, Axrorp. North River Gun Club, Epcewater, N. J., June 6.—We will have the Wanderers with us on Saturday, June 13, and expect to have a large time. Shoot- ing will begin at 1:30. The scores made at the shooting of the North River Gun Club shoot to-day are appended: Events: ih pee ee a eT ope Targets: 1b 15 15 15 15 15 15 1b Bigihiaie io pncae cite t as sad psp eee ip ee PTs) % Lr Tae "Sates Were ete ek Pcs Ge tagtinatirccins ens ies eae ane aie THE abate Bak te Se ge anh iM FoburstTo ee hah Sencrtinodtoo ones. a eee 18° = 12 It 1k 1 34 a0 GUA DEE eid trace tener aces sere ee brane eed 14 13 12 12 18 14 14 14 WicdSS esi wastes arera-sitig start tig ec nigurin ie eee Sal): Soke O° GRD Oy EG: GIS Srsenaran det esersdctre e tance a Tt) 42: AS 12. 2 11> 10. 10 BR Vdeath aaeernda ey icteeceirrs ryt sa 100 GS te 1 eS wee olf INEWIEIPIS nate cee ge ds ballcied sa. Hebei NSH Gt 8 4 iy ey Betty Wipers eta eecoiisnaeteastase oe he ie eld abil 8 9 8 AAD ISE TIES Mute escldlnis serie eeniem eet tise trecreecan taas O M1 #8 ie” Te Sos UES Bd ee fogs ea reheintcld vote alenasa Ss pisces pee 1A Fe Ke Ske tye) RPCCy ise epee aos teatate aie iets neste eis choco sie Mie ena 10 10 10 s 5 PES Ut rely Wyee pece F yee APPAR ES Otro eit GOOD Fo MSS i: ATUSGONS nse op eseiees, palsirsie hme te tide deren LL, PSP elena RSG CLE RE eater ict akan gaschisnmabne cohinire Petes | ee dite) a ich tte ee Perea APRS Rey oe sey en, WET E Laie eee base oem reeled MeL aete yao ae Ae li *Re-entry. a “ Jas. R. Merritt, Sec’y. Emerald Gun Club, AFTER many years of shooting at “Old Dexter Park,” the Emer- ald Gun Club moved to new shooting grounds, a short distance from Newark, where they held forth until Tuesday last, when it was decided at a meeting of the board of directors to hold all future club contests on the grounds of John H. Outwater, Hack- ensack River Bridge, Carlstadt, N. J. Owing to the change the attendance was not up to the general average, although sixteen members faced the score. Dr. Hudson was the lucky one in the club contest, and the only one to kill ten straight, although hard pushed by Billy Sands. Treasurer John Moore, Snipe Shooter Short and Black Powder Corbett, who scored nine each; Schorty, Commodore Karl, Catton, Colquitt, the Orange man Fischer and Capt. Dryer trailed in third place, with eight kills. The birds were a fast lot, espe- cially Corbett’s fifth, on which he made a grandstand second. Following the club event, a five-bird sweep, club handicap, was won by Catton, Voetringer and Short shooting along for birds only. The scores: a7 a 02229191*2— § aL Reman 28 0112212100— 7 SS TK ARB yore is 28 2222922012— 9 Dr Hudson 28 1111121122—10 | bald ies, cessing aces ey 25 1*2112229+— 8 JT MOOre” fone. cece eee ee notes easnasetenan 28 0221111111.. 9 J S Henry 25 «=: 1111022010.. 7 Ube SH crit eset Wa ortcne ote nig laretanseed) sages treyealpen eee toa 28 1210112121— 9 (Ge WPafelthatits7d @ Ob PSAMeABOr SB aeeocogscc nats: 6 28 2211110000— 6 Wr attoite. sen diedess sep sgaly faces eae eins 6 28 0212112110— 8 AYE A Gioly oft tay en niet nthe ew 71 ARR OAS 6 25 2211202221— 9 TL. W Colquitt .:.....seseeer ere cersseeeeeee i 80 0212012222— 8 A A SchoOverling <2. - SBisehers seeks vanes) Sees one 11220—4 SChHorivge oor tudun cel duces AUA0—4s Saris. (28S eee eee eet 22*22—4 ISAO PASTS sun ys. ty asec ald ore Koieritemmee nee Saas pee ee 22111—5 Reierson, Boal Pah ek aie *0220—2 V oehringer, BS... ee A AIQ0—4 Hausman, PA Bor tA 10001—2 Hudson, BSC Ada Taare nes 212*0—3 Carteret Gun Club. Grorcr §. McApin was in rare form on Decoration Day, and did some remarkable shooting at the Carteret Gun Club grounds, Westfield, N, J., the occasion being the closing shoot of the season. The shooting started with a handicap, miss and out, which he won on the fifth round. McAlpin’s first miss was his sixty-third bird, and the only one out of the 127 shot at during the day, killing the next sixty-five straight. ‘The first cup was won by McAlpin in a miss and out on the fourteenth round. The next event was at ten birds, then miss and out handicap, in which Norton won out on the thirtieth bird, Mall missing his twenty- third and McAlpin losing his thirtieth. J. S. S. Remsen, of Babylon, L. IL. retired in the ninth round, In the next event, a miss and out, all at 32 yards, McAlpin won from Hall on the twenty-second bird. The Decoration Day Cup came next, at 10 birds, then miss and out, which was also won by McAlpin on the thirteenth bird, The closing event of the day was for a special cup, miss and out, in which Hall and McAlpin shot to the thirtieth round, Hall losing his last bird. McAlpin’s record for the day was three cups and six out of seven events. Scores follow: No. 1, handicap, miss and out; No. 2, 5 birds, then miss and out; No. 3, cup event, 10 birds, then miss and out, 26 yards, 1 miss as a kill, 26, 27 and 28 yards, one no bird; No. 4, all at 32 yards; No. 5, Decoration Day cup, 10 birds, and miss and out, 27-yard men or less, one no bird; No. 6, special cup, handicap, miss and out, McAlpin, 30%.. 61329221330 TFinletter, 27.... -. 8 8 9 116 Norton, 25.,... 41220 11217 Remsen, als... .. a. if 4 921 ELUTE 20s wears 213 21 21 6 29 ON LONG ISLAND. Fulton Gun Club, Brooklyn, N. Y., June 7.—The next shoot will be on June 21, on which day a team race with the North River Gun Club will be begun. The scores follow: Events: ee ode AC GGs 7% Se GOS Targets: 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 16 15 15 20 * BidtvardS-) 2, 20h teacsseaes Rubee ates ibaa Gl aia ebb IR Bea BS a - 3 FTCAT TES ares ele oats abe eee ae ibPibe baht Mpekthakpae le arm ges INGO Sor alas arena tsantats ate ate easem are eaten 110121111 8 911 . 12 8 IVTISSETetves bist oc nmaltlchomameaeeeeers AZ; YUBA PO MTOr CAPS. AL wes 16 6 Reynolds) ghee ote tr Brassica att TO GET LO ST CTT tema mete 2 Walteelerwes cage dette heathen seit 100-9: (Seer ses. 2 st SA VIECIONCLS | sautpialalatssatelalelpitis aieetaise aleiateieis CPRe. yore ay . *Five pairs. A, A. SCHOVERLING, Freeport Gun Club. Freeport, L. I., June 5.—The medal shoot of the Freeport Gun Club was won by Mr. T. Rider. The conditions were 25 targets, class shooting. The scores: T. Rider, 25; C. T. Sprague, 16; F. C. Willis, 23; F. Egner, 16; T. Bedell, 18; F. Gildersleeve, 23; R. Conklin, 13; B. Lott, 21; Paterson, 19; E, Vreelin, 12. Two sweeps and a miss and out were also shot. Trap at Kansas City. Blue River Shooting Park will for all time have the record of the greatest Jive-bird tournament ever known. So far it has the largest target tournament also, to its credit, but will pessibly be overtopped. Since there are two shooting parks adjoining each other, there has been considerably more target shooting than usual. The reason: Something in sight to shoot for. Bob Elliott knows what the boys like—the real stuff, the stuff that buys breadstuff. One hundred plunks was very generous on his part, So the shoot has been going on since May 12, the condi- tions being that each man could shoot at six strings of 25 targets and then select the four best to make up a total. Fach shooter eould shoot as many strings as he desired. The scores made are not so large as you would expect them to be. The reason is, Elliott throws a hard target, at least 60yds. or better. Dr. Plank, W. H. McGee and Ed O’Brien had a score of 88 and looked good to win, but a young man who comes from the Dixon shooting family got his ginger up and went them all two better. The weather conditions were such that neither of the others could even duplicate their former scores. Considering the conditions under which Dixon shot, seldom has his 22, 22, 23, 23 been beaten. ‘The following is a partial list of the scores made during this prize shoot, each event being at 25 targets: Events: eae gee Cee tis ye SE) Dr are a vtne SBE eel ect 23 24 92 HM 23 2 MW 19 IS NET welder snaAnonot a Tag cnoiobud 23 22 21 22 17 22 20 19 18 O'Brien .ystscsp oh abaden ooimare! 24 20 23 21 dS 22 19 14 19 SG Ward! ceed an saputens Neelcne mare 19 19 15 19 24 20 20 19 18 TROdGES tiscee ern cr esr ernetecnensse iE AU Sy Pie te Fr EG eStuckeriaceassmecrey sheets 93°92 17 18 20 15 22 92 18 Conbbixcheak eae h oe en Us che eee nee 23 19 BO 18 22 22 92 98 BB PU Gockrolluehagain te sanaseenmee ce eae pe Shr Pal Wil Gite RGU: Gyasye, 6:4, baselalaiaiele\alepetblaty slermivee yia1¥ 20) 19) 239 Ah Davis ....-: Petite ae nen REIN 14 20 18 21 22 16 22 20 20 TsEOH Svat teheteae ne stinis detaoatene 20 17 20 20 18 20 22 20 ‘20 Cami BSll ate cc mee tealeeui a bree saris 16 22 16 19 19 18 19 20 19 J Gunninger ......-..-sessseeeeeee 18: 18 21 17 19 Live Birds. Decoration Day brought out a delegation of the Kansas City boys, which was augmented by the addition of Hodges, of Olathe,. Kans.; Ed O’Brien, from the same, now flooded country; Cun- ningham, of St. Joe, Mo., and Dixon, of Joplin, Mo. In all there were fourteen men ae essayed to slay 15 birds straight. When you read the scores you w ill see who killed them all and who did not get in the money. So much for Bob’s Kansas City The scores: drivers. Some of them are going yet no doubt. Fifteen live birds, $7.50 entrance, four moneys: Cockrell ......: 221122299292022 14 Norton ........ 120100121110111—11 Beach .....+::: 102201121212011 12. Cunningham . .222222200222222—13 Soward ...ee.+ 902210210000010— 8 Kirby ....,..-. 1112002102110w Hodges «-+++-+ 112202120220222 12 Clayton ....... 0122222(00020221—10 Bramhall ....- 99919102202220212 Plank ......... 12112222110122214 @' Briett 26s 022220022122122 12 Pearcy ......«- 222122020220022—11 Gottlieb ....... 992911222112222 15 Dixon ......... 022100110220122—10 Gallatin Gun Club, Gatiatrin, Tenn.—A rain which fell steadily for three days be- fore our shoot cut the attendance down very much lower than we had reason to expect it. We had promises of some forty out of town shooters that they would be with us, but the rain kept all but a dozen of them away. Under the circumstances, we feel that we have reason to rejoice in any of them coming, and feel very grateful toward all who did so. The first fiye events were shot in a rain, but in the afternoon the sun came out. Five events at 15, 5 at 20, and a noyelty match at 25 targets made up the regular programme of 200 targets, and after that an extra event at 25 targets made 225 for the day. Green with 162 out of 175 was high gun for the day on the pro- gramme. Lyles and Legler with 151 each were tied for second: Nashville team No. 1 won the cup given to three-man team, the 174 targets of the regular programme going to the make up of this event. : The following out-of-town shooters were on hand: Messrs. Fite, Lyles, Legler, and Carter, of Nashville, Tenn.; Mr. Gordon, of Mobile, Ala.; Mr. Polk, of Franklin, Ten.; Messrs. Babb and McMinn, of Spring Hill, Tenn.; Mr. Fletcher, of New York; Messrs. Martin and Harris, of Nashville, and Mr. Crockett, The seores: Events: 28 45 67 8 $1011 ‘Targets: 15 20 15 20 15 20 15 20 15 20 25 Broke Eife Be, tenet SNS OCS G Sees 11 19 138 13 13 17 1415 1015.. 139 LLVWIEET UE hehemeechitie cake areas 14 18 12.19 14131517131619 170 Ata wecoew He PAW ay ie 1416181813816 14171416 20 QTL [Gjorshoyet heer Ay ate coe Ball pel galas obs oe 7 CAA ELOME OF aiatige erie ets seestae Bie OF ue A Bae dele hate 39 Garters hen anaes qa ace aden AL ye pial tae asaya 123 Pic: 5 i atyoa neues whonoe saree 141610181411 91113817. 128 Wramtitile: reveite ease delet 9161012 9161114111618 142 GUESTS Maite nn beeen tage poe 15 18 1519 12 2013191516 24 186 Bright .... 1315 9151115 10141319 22. 156 Murphree 111510 912101113 111815 185 Brown J2 41 9 1L 815 13 141015 7% 118 Harris ..., 141411 15 1114 8141016. 127 Hickman 10 138 10 17 18 14 915 11 15 i 144 RAD EIUe thereto sites een tes 1011 816141711 161112. 126 Catt iene nae os cts becuse ce 13.18 15 17 11 17 13 15 10 12)... 141 EVTSLY Wee. o Ga ewts oboe, ce eet tana 12 18 13 16 1112 9 13 1013 ay 138 MGV merry Pet ioe cles stunts 12 17 10 16 13 12 10 15 10 20 . 135 OCAV SEL Gee ae fee clidcle.cctete th tsa gh et ine ter eye 13 E38 8151114. TT ISECIGI seis AA Meee Reeves ve Cee: eitee te eicne: g 8 Shoot for cup: Nashville No. 1—Fite 139, Taytes 151, Legler 151; total 441. Gallatin No. 1—Green 162, Bright 184, Carr 141; total 487, Nashville No. 2—Carter 123, Polk 128, Martin 124; total 375. Gallatin No. 2—Murphree 120, Brown 118, Hickman 127; total 865. Witt G. Harris, Sec’y. The Establishment of Government Proof House, FRoM a correspondent we have received the following sound and pertinent communication; The discussion of government testing of firearms in various publicaticns has brought before the people a subject that has not heretcfore been giyen the serious consideration it deserves. Foreign nations have enacted laws for the protection of their people against the sale of unsafe firearms, the United Kingdom of Great Britain being among the first to provide this safeguard against careless or unscrupulous manufacturers, they insisting that all firearms offered for sale must bear the government proof house test stamp, or the stamp of some other government proof house, whose testing has been approved by the British Govern- ment, and thus our English cousins guarantee that all firearms offered for sale are safe. This is not done at the expense of the government, but a charge is made for each arm tested, and they require two tests; one very severe for the unfinished arm, and the second for the finished product. This costs about 12 cents per arm, and is borne by the manufacturer, or must be added to the cost of the goods. On firearms imported into Great Britain, which are subject to two tests, the strain is severe, especially on shotguns, as the first test given the English guns in the rough is given the American finished product, and after the barrel is turned down many of the finished guns will not stand the test, neither would the finished English guns stand this first test. American rifles invariably stand both tests, but it adds material- ly to the cost to be obliged to have all firearms, after being re- ceived by the English dealer, unpacked, tested and then repacked and returned. This could be done much cheaper at home, be- sides it would give the American product a reputation abroad that could not otherwise be obtained. But the greatest benefit would be to the users of the fire- arms in our own country. They would be protected against de- fective goods sent into this country by foreign manufacturers, which will not stand the proof house test, also be insured against inferior goods of home manufacture, and this applies especially to the lower priced goods that reach a class of people that are not expert or competent to judge of quality. There is now at the United States Armory at Springfield, Mass., a proof house for the testing of government rifles made there, and this could be enlarged and used as the Birmingham Proof House, and by making a cost charge for the testing it would not be an expense to this government, and at the same time would be a protection to the people of the United States, the same as estab- lished by other governments, and this government will establish sooner or later, lf every user of firearms will take this subject up with the senators, representatives or army officers of his acquaintance, it would result in the prompt enactment of laws for the protection of the American people and the American manufacturer. Trap in Mississippi. Vireksnurc, Miss., May 31.—Shooting matters in our city have been rather quiet, as is usually the case ‘after our tournaments, but all of our local shots are looking forward with pleasure to the tournament to be given by the Caddo Gun Club at Shreveport, a., June 15, 16 and 17, under the auspices of the Mississippi Val- ey ‘rapshooters’ Association. This club gives $1,100 added money—first day 100 targets, $10 entrance, $100 added, and $500 added each day, June 16 and 17. I predict that this tournament will equal, if not surpass, the Grand American, Our shooters will begin to get in line next week, and we expect to send the following delegation to the Shreveport shoot: Miller, Hayes, Pinkston, Fletcher, Adams, Dinkins, Cameron, Henry, Robertson, Kent and Bradfield. While we are not top-notchers, TY think some of us will be heard from at Shreveport. Anyway, if we cannot shoot we will take pleasure in paying the Queen City a visit, and help along the poor ammunition companies—they need it. f < Uncle Tommy Devine and Maurice Kaufman have started the ball rolling in our sister city, Jackson, Miss., haying succeeded in having a gun club organized there. That clever shot and excellent entertainer, Abe Frank, of Memphis, Tenn., the man who trained Brady, writes me that Memphis will hold their tournament July 8 and 4, under the auspices of the Mississippi Valley Trapshooters’ Association. Abe promises all who visit them a fine time in July. The Memphis tournament should be a corker, as the dates are well selected, just preceding the Arkansas State shoot. J. J. Brapriecp, Sec’y Miss. Valley Trapshooters’ Ass’n. AIL communications intended for Forest anp Srream should always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co.,. New York, and not to-any individual connected with the paper. FOREST AND STREAM. A WEEKLY J ourNaL or THE Rop anp Gun. ~- Copyricut, 1998 By Forest snp STREAM PUBLISHING Co. Terms, $4a Year. 10 Crs, a Copy. Six MonrTus, $2. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 19038. VOL. LX.—No, 25, __ No. 846 BroApway, New York. We, who were with blessed Francis, and have written these things, bear testimony that many times we have heard him say: “Tf I were to speak to the Emperor, I would, supplicating and persuading him, tell him for the love of God and me to make a special law that fo man shotuld take of kill sister Larks, nor do them atiy harm. ‘Likewise, that all the Podestas of the towns, atid the Lods of castles and villages, should be bourid evety year oi Christmas day to coinpel meft to throw wheat and other grains outside the cities arid castles, that out sister Latks may have something to eat, and also the other birds, on a day of stich solemnity.’—The Mirror of Perfection. A BLOODHOUND EPISODE. Tue current discussion of the use of bloodhounds as man-trackers recalls a bloodhound episode of American history, which at the time commanded-wide attention and aroused intense feeling. This was the employment of bloodhounds for trailing Indians in the Seminole War. ~ It was in July of 1838, when. the war had been in progress for four years, and to the baffled troops appeared likely to continue along the same lines for 400 years longer. Gen. Zachary Taylor, in command of the army, wrote to the Secretary of War a letter favoring the use of bloodhounds. The dogs, he said, would afford “the only means of ridding the country of the Indians, who are now broken up into small parties that take shelter in swamp and hammocks as the army approaches, making it impossible for us to follow or overtake them without the aid of such auxiliaries. I wish it distinctly under- stood,” he added, “that my object in employing dogs is only to ascertain where the Indians can be found, not to worry, them.” Secretary. Poinsett approved the plan, saying in his indorsement: “I have always been of opinion that dogs ought to be employed in this warfare to protect the army from surprises and ambuscades and to track the Indian to his lurking place; but supposed if the General believed them to be necessary he would not hesitate to take measures to procure them. The cold-blooded and inhu- man murdets lately perpetrated upon helpless men and children by these ruthless savages render it expedient that every possible means should be resorted to in order to protect the people of Florida, and to enable the United States forces to follow and capture or destroy the savage and unrelenting foe.” Gen. Taylor was therefore authorized to procure such numbers of dogs as he might judge necessary, it being expressly understood that they were to be “employed to track and discover the Indians, not to worry or destroy them.” Action on the part of the Government went no further than this. Gen. Taylor took no steps to provide himself with the dogs. In the meanwhile, however, the people of Florida had determined to make use of bloodhounds. The popular feeling of the Territory was that the Indians were deserving of extermination, and any possible means to achieve this end might be legitimately employed. The Florida Legislature authorized the importation of-a pack of bloodhounds from Cuba. In such a resort to the Spaniard for man-tracking dogs, history was repeating itself. A half century before, in 1795, the British authorities in Jamaica had introduced from Cuba into that island a large number of these dogs to hunt down the Maroons, who for a century and a half had been carrying on a guerilla warfare. The Spanish dogs had a reputation for ferocity all through the West Indian islands, and the Maroons were so terrified by the menace of them that they lost no time in coming to terms. The Cuban dogs had promptly ended the war in Jamaica, but this was a part of history which was not to repeat itself in Florida. Col, Fitzpatrick, of the Florida militia, was dispatched to Havana and thence returned to St. Augustine, in Jan- uary of 1840, bringing a kennel of thirty-three blood- hounds which he had procured at a cost of $5,226.76, or $151.72 for each dog. These certainly were war prices for hounds. With the dogs came five experienced Spaniards engaged to handle them in the field, for they did not understand commands given in the English language. Upon their arrival the dogs were divided into smaller packs and assigned to various army posts, Calves were procured and driven along on the scouting expeditions, to ~ be slaughtered on the spot in order that the dogs might have the fresh blood and meat which were as essential to their interior economy as is water to the boiler of a locomotive. The employment of the dogs aroused intense excite- ment, and the Northern and Southern papers alike were filled with denunciations of the Government. The matter was brought before Congress and the Hon. Henry A. Wise, then a Representative from Virginia (afterward Governor), introduced a resolution in Congress demand- ing to know whether “the general Government had been a participator in so infamous a mode of exterminating human creatures.” In response, Secretary Poinsett transmitted the corre- spondence with Gen. Taylor already quoted, and stated that the General had taken no measures to carry into effect his own recommendation, and the department had never sitice renewed the subject. Shortly afterward he wrote to General Taylor noting the importation of the bloodhounds by the Florida authorities, and again enjoin- ing: “In the event of these dogs being employed by any officer under your command that their use be confined altogether to tracking the Indians; and in order to in- sure this and to prevent the possibility of their injuring any person whatever, that they be muzzled when in the field and held with a leash while following the track of the enemy.” : Any solicitude as to the safety of the Seminoles at the fangs of the bloodhounds appears to have been uncalled for. The late Major Merrill, who served in the Seminole War, has more than once told us that while the Cuban dogs were valiant trencher-hounds and performed a use- ful service as camp scavengers, they were entirely useless as Seminole trackers, They had been trained to trail negroes in Cuba, but refused to take any notice of the tracks of the Indians; and the fugitive negroes, who con- stituted so large a part of the people the troops were hunting, having been apprised of the use of the hounds, took good care to keep out of that part of Florida. There were, it is true, various newspaper items which, by mention of the dogs, fomented the popular clamor against them as allies in war. It was reported, for in- stance, that Lieut. Sanderson’s scouting party had been surrounded and among the killed were three of the dogs and their trainer. Then the New York Herald reported “the bloodhounds lately received from Cuba have been subjected to many experiments, the results of which have been very satisfactory. ‘They follow a trail twenty-four hours old with rapidity and accuracy.” Despite this the dogs were useless; the sole authentic record of their hav- ing accomplished anything being contained in a report by Maj. Bailey, who, with a party of dragoons and one bloodhound “scented out forty Indians” and killed six of them, The contingents of Cuban bloodhounds, Spanish dog trainers and commissary calves accomplished nothing ; the Cuban man-tracker episode ended im a fiasco. The Seminole War went on for years afterward; when it was eventually brought to a close the bloodhounds had no part in the result. A HUNDRED YEARS. Tue Hundred Year Club of this city held its annual dinner last week. ‘The club’s purpose is to devise ways and means by which its members may live to the ripe old age of one hundred years. Among the speakers at the dinner who celebrated the therapeutic value and the de- light of vacations as elements of modern life, Mr. L. F. Brown discoursed of vacations in a tent. From the stand- point of a long and rich experience as a nature lover and practical camper, he spoke so pleasingly and eloquently as to carry the conviction that if tent life by the rivers and in the mountains may not insure the extreme longevity desired by the club, it is yet certain to enhance the joy of living for whatever term of life each one may. be allotted. And to live happily while we do live is much more to be desired than to achieve the centenarian mark. Many men, perhaps most men, would not wish to live one hundred years. The impressions gathered from ob- servation of the extremely aged are not as a rule cheerful nor alluring. It was only a day or two after the Hundred Year Club’s banquet that a feeble and tottering old man, brought before one of the city magistrates on a charge of vagrancy, declared to the judge that he was 106 years old, and had no home nor anyone to care for him, and could only beg to be committed to the workhouse, where he had already spent many terms. We do not suppose that the average valetudinarian, in the Hundred Year Club or out of it, is apprehensive that a hundred years of life may bring to him any such measure of deprivation and help- lessness. Most men who are ambitious to live one hun- dred years have no thought of poverty to terrify them; but there are other features of the centenarian’s lot against which the most ample means and the most careful fore- thought cannot make provision. As the span of human life is now measured, he who attains a hundred years is an exception to the rule and long outlives his fellows. Old age means isolation, and isolation means loneliness. Relatives, friends, associates have passed on. The rela- tionships which make life worth living have been sun- dered by the inexorable hand of time. The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. The prospect is not alluring. Much more sensible than “striving for the attainment of the hundredth year is to make our own the old motto Dum vivimus vivamus—to live while we live; and to get the most of life as we go along, doing the work at hand, meeting the duties of the hour and not neglecting Mr. Brown’s injunction to get our share of the joys of vacations in a tent. SNAP SHOTS. Tue notes by Coahoma on the use of man-tracking degs, the memory of “A Day at Waverly,” signed Hie-on, and the record of “Three Hunts” by Tripod, are three papers in this number which have added interest because of a circumstance of their authorship. Coahoma, it need not be said, is one of our oldest contributors, and the other writers are his sons. This representation of two generations of a family of sportsmen in a single number of a sportsmen’s journal is a happy conjunction well de- serving of note. It illustrates not only the enduring qualities of those field recreations which are shared by generation after generation, but as well the continued favor in which the Forest AND STREAM is held, and the secure place it holds. The American team to compete for the Palma trophy at Bisley sailed for England last week. Capt. Bruce re- ports that the marksmen are in much better form than the team of last year, who were defeated by a narrow mar- gin, and he expresses confidence that the United States may receive back again the coveted emblem. The contest will take place at Bisley on July 11, and so many com- petitors will participate that the winning of the trophy will mean an extremely creditable performance, sd Tue death of Salem George Le Valley, of Buffalo, re- moves one of the best known and most highly regarded business men in western New York, and one who-for nearly a quarter century had held a popular place among sportsmen. Mr, Le Valley’s sporting goods store in Buf- falo was a favorite gathering place for shooters and fishermen, and Mr. Le Valley’s winning personality won for him the close friendship of an ever-widening circle. & Tue imported Adirondack moose are showing a quite unexpected tameness and confidence in the midst of the encroaching civilization of the North Woods. The moose, in fact, are not nearly so particular as were the conven- tional pioneers of Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone type, who moved on when other settlers trespassed within ten miles of them. This tameness is an admirable quality of moose in the Adirondacks, where the race is destined not to afford sport for the hunter, but interest and entertain- ment for the summer visitor. The North Woods moose, as an ornamental adjunct of the forest, will fill a sphere in life entirely different from that of its fellows in Maine and Canada. ® THE report of the Rensselaer County Rod and Gun Club, on another page, is an admirable demonstration of the benefits to the community which may be secured by an association of sportsmen who are in earnest. President McLaren and his fellow members have taken practical steps to better the local fish and game conditions, and the re- sults are substantial. Hardly second in importance to the actual restocking of fields and waters is the improved public sentiment in support of the right use of game and fish resources. The Rensselaer Club manifestly has the merited support of the community. It is a pleasure to print such a showing, 480 FOREST AND STREAM. [JUNE 20, 1003. The Sportsman Tourist. —— Across Cibiria. (Continued.) So many have been the Polish exiles to Cibiria, that they have succeeded in perpetuating the name of their country and applying it to almost half the Asiatic continent. For from the Pacific Ocean to the Ural mountains, you will hear of Greater Poland—an eloquent tribute to the “efficacy” of the Czar— who didn’t prove bomb-proof—who issued an ukase in the “60's, “blotting forever the name of Polska from the map of Europe!” As an illustration of the evil influence of the church in Cibiria, the following will suffice: I often heard the poor benighted mujiks referring to exiles as “social- istas”—just as if the latter were so many desperate criminals. Now, as the peasants cannot read—scatce one of them! such is the illiteracy—they had learnt all they knew about socialism from their village priests, who (neither understanding anything about socialism) had been instructed by their “metropolitan” to in- veigh against the “something called socialism” as a sort of “frightful ogre” threatening the peace of the land. In vain I would tell, briefly, some of the tenets of socialism: as public ownership, direct production and consumption, a single tax, etc., etc.; and that many of its aims had nothing to do with politics, But it was no use trying to enlighten, except among some of the politicals. Every village has its mir (Asiatic, meaning elder or chief). who is seconded by a kaudikat. There is an annual yoting election by the shock-headed mujiks —the only golos (lit., voicing), they do in their lives. The results of this communal administration are ap- parently nil—since the mujiks have no ambition to better themselves or their villages; in fact, usually the annual election is an excuse for a drunken bout. Here is an example of the depraved military system of Russia, and how it has become engrafted on the people’s mind: If a woman can give birth, during her married life, to twelve sons, and show that they have all “done time” as soldiers (five years’ compulsory military service, of course), she receives the “Czar’s gold medal.” Just think of it—a woman aspiring to receive a luker-medal for having had twelve sons brought up as “murder-machines!” And there are quite. a num- ber of peasant women who, in years gone by, have actually gotten out the “round dozen,” seen them con- scripted, and received “distinction’s worthless - badge” (as Ingersoll was wont to have it) in the shape of an ill-gained gold medal. ; Poor benighted human rabbit-warren breeders! The lot of exiles has improved greatly in Cibiria during the last dozen years (except, apparently, in the extreme northeast). The Kennan-Century exposures did a deal of good, as I have pointed out at length in previous travel articles. The whole of Russiadom, from the Pacific to the Baltic, is the “best” example extant of the curse of protection. The Russian manufacturers clamor for a high tariff, not with a view of monopolizing home mar- kets, but so as to force their dear and shoddily-made goods on the consumers. The poorer classes prefer foreign-made goods, because they know them to be superior, and are willing to pay more for the inoctrani articles; so the only way to “correct” the consumers is to pile on a tariff which will make the ultra-frontier goods prohibitable. All working classes in Russia are probably the worst paid in Europe, and this is true also of the profes- sions. Here are some instances: Printer, 8 rubles weekly; mechanical engineer, 20 rubles; shoemaker, 6 rubles; baker, 7 rubles; roadmaster, 8 rubles; railroad navvy, 3 rubles; tailor, 6 rubles; apothecary, Io rubles; newspaper reporter, 10 rubles; woman stenographer, 5 to 6 rubles; physician, 25 rubles; rubber factory em- ploye, 7 rubles, and so on through all the callings at similar poverty-stricken wages. An agricultural laborer would receive, at most, I ruble weekly, with free pig- sty and feed. Now, as the purchasing power of a ruble is but equal to what half a dollar will buy in America, it fol- lows the Russ only earns just enough to live on. The official classes have “troubles of their own” in the problem of existence; but the poor classes! These poorer folk constitute the mass of the Slaf nation, and their lot is a dog’s struggle for existence. Things are bad enough in Italy’s sunny south, but then the dago has a genial climate, cheap wine and luscious fruits galore for a song. In Slafdom, the mujik scarce knows wine or fruit or things sweet; while his climate is for six months a Dante’s frigic inferno. Poor byrreps!—(a Slaf slang word introduced from the southern Bulgars and meaning a “singularly un- fortunate person’). As you travel over the country for two years, you see the reign of hopeless poverty and the curse of protection on every hand. It is an empire of poverty! What will the end be? A repeat of the Gallic days of 1793! I naturally took care, during two years of touring over Russian territory, not to criticise too keenly matters political Russian. I was not afraid of my opinions, nor afraid to express them, but I did fear being misrepresented. That is where the chief danger lies—in being misrepresented, and having your own well-defined and well-expressed views distorted when repeated by an ignorant or corrupt official “on the make.” So, when asked a pointed question like, “Which do you consider the best government for this country —a republic or an autocracy?”—my guarded reply was: “T have an opinion, but not being a Russian grazdanin (citizen), do not care to express it. It is none of my business.” The man who ought to have an opinion, but says he has none, is either a fool, a har, or a coward. In a vast country like Cibiria, in which you could sink about three of oir United States, there are less - x = ew than a score of newspapers. Only the exiles and high official and well-to-do merchant classes know how to read. Every paper is ridiculously censored: the cen- sor considers himself a somebody of great importance in Cibiria, and does not fail to show his hand, But, he has got to earn his salary (which is abottt 50 rubles monthly), and must, of course, show that he is doing “something.” Of course his wage is insufficient: it is equivalent to $25 of our money, but will only pur- chase what $18 or $15 will’ with us. So the censor makes a little honest money “on the quiet” by inform- ing the redaktors or publishers he will be less capri- cious with his forbidding blue pencil if he is placated with a stipulated monthly allowance. So the redaktor or izdatel will allow him all or part of what it would cost per month to re-arrange or re-set matter that would otherwise have been blue-penciled. The news printed is always belated. Thus, I. was at the town of Nijni-Ydinck,. Central Cibiria, when, on a Monday evening, the Boctochnoe Obozpenie, a semi- weekly of Irkutsk, came with the news of McKinley’s election. Of course the result was known in America on the previous Tuesday night—so the news had taken six days for the cable and telegram to reach the heart of Cibiria. Just think of it—in the whole of Cibiria (about three times bigger than our own republic) there is not a single outing publication of the type in which these lines appear! Concentrated Provisions for Sportsmen, It may easily be conceived that “roughing it” in Cibiria with concentrated or condensed provisions, would put the same to a very severe test. Here are a few results: There is scarce any nutrition in extract of beef—consider it only as a stimulant. Calves’ foot jelly is neither a stimulant nor nutritious. Beans are not worth carrying: they are just good enough to keep off.starvation, and even then care must be taken to previously mash or bite through each bean. Potatoes, also, are scarce worth carrying: they may give a sensa- tion of fullness, but that is not the kind of “nutrition” you want. Porridges are scarce worth the making: they will give you a blown-out feeling, quickly followed by so dissatisfied a sensation, you come to pronounce porridges, gruels, and the like a disgusting diet. Still, they are better than starvation. Nothing like, in place of the above, beefsteak and onions, ham and eggs, liver and bacon. Nothing like living well and comfortably when traveling. It is silly to impose on yourself polar-circle discomforts. The concentrated soups are worth little—too much of the element of mystery in them (like in German sausage)! The best plan is to carry along the material for your own soups.’ Commensurate with weight, evaporated turtle (unsalted) will enable you to make your own turtle soup; sun-dried evaporated oysters (50 cents per pound) will yield a good oyster stew, but require half a dozen hours’ soaking in pretty warm water before cooking, to soften them. Dried cream is most useful for reconstituting into liquid cream; dried eggs should not be subjected to a heat, in cooking, exceeding 140 deg. Fahr., or they coagu- late. Crackers or biscuits are an unsatisfactory, indigesti- ble, too-dry diet. Take along your own flour and have your own hot rolls daily. : Beware of coffee essences! Take along your own ground coffee, properly tinned. No correct coffee es- sence has yet been produced: they all have the dissatis- fying, “washed-out” flat taste. Avoid canned, bottled and jarred goods. They all represent idle weight to 75 to 85 per cent. of water. Saccharin is a most unsatisfactory substitute for sugar—yet a couple of ounces of the crystal (not powder) will be useful. A Visit to Tolstoi. I made a visit to Tolstoi, at his domain at Iaznia- noliana, south of Mockba. The sojourn lasted three days, and the mornings were devoted to short walks over his estate, and the discussion of topics, abstract and general. Being assigned a room entirely to myself, next to that occupied by citizen Thick (for in the Russian lan- guage, Tolstoi means thick), I naturally saw a good deal of him, and the many aspects of his character. This also furnished the writer with copy for his “Tols- toi Among His Books,’ which appeared in the Man- hattan Bookseller for June, ’99—an article that was widely credited in both hemispheres. “You ought to write the account of your visit to Tolstoi for one of the Sunday papers,” said my old friend Munro, the elocutionist, at his Brooklyn home. “Try the Journal or the World. They'll only be too glad to get it! Try it!” So IJ did try. The Journal said no. The World also said no. “But who is this Tolstoi, anyway?” said the World reader—“Prize fighter?” How’s that for the “latest” in jaundice journalism? It appears that many Sunday papers employ what are termed “readers,” who, at $5 to $7.50 per week, read over and decide on the “merits” of copy sent in. Jt stands to reason that in such “illumined minds” ar- ticles of the “secret doings of the divorce court” and “mysteries of the matrimonial agency” stand a much better chance of acceptance than would an epoch-mak- ing brief from Herbert Spencer or a brainy sociologic study from Krapotkin. Tolstoi a Sportsman of the Old School. Tolstoi is an old soldier and an old sportsman. He has no martial scars; but he has a serious one received in the domain of sport (?). He showed me the cica- trix on his scalp, inflicted by a bruin. He had tripped in backing from and after having wounded the bear; instantly the enraged animal was upon him, paws on breast, and evidently determined to chew up the pros- trate hunter’s face. Tolstoi vividly related to me how he instinctively tried to force his chin on to his breast, so as to prevent the bear getting much hold-surface on his face, and the bear’s teeth sloughed over the fore- head and got a grip on the scalp, tearing it, and mak- ing work for a life-long scar. At this critical moment ey ‘orchestral. violin tuning-up. Tolstoi’s companion had come up and plugged bruin for good. Even in Cibiria it is an open question among sports- men whether it is best to go off alone or in pairs. The more successful trappers and Indians almost in- variably go to hunt alone—one of their arguments being, that two are liable to get in each other’s way. One noted Russian sportsman—Prince Obolenski— who invited me to stay in his big white house a couple of days, said one thing he disliked in life was to go off with a whole crowd of people composing the average “shooting party.” A Ventriloqutal Sportsman, I possess the faculty of ventriloquism to a remark- able degree, but never cultivated it publicly, which would be entirely incompatible with a professional ca- reer; so confined myself to developing the. gift into ventriloquizing my favorite instrumental music—the violin family. This, for my own diversion “at home and abroad,” But it has often proved “an introduc- tion sweet and gentle’ when among family circles in distant climes, like Cibiria and Russia. JI would ac- company Tolstoi as he played the piano, but the veti- triloquial tuning-up would convulse him with laughter —as it has many another private little audience. For it is as necessary for me to briefly “tune up” (ventrilo- quially), to get into pitch or trim, as it is with a regu- larly appointed orchestra. The ventriloquial effect is ridiculously, proyokingly, an effective take-off of the i -. L, GopEan. Three Hunts. 12 a aa “Wuat’s that about a moose?” 2 jee seoens shot another one to-night, but he denies it!” “Kill him any deader than he did that one last night?” ; “Now, who told you I shot that dog last night?” put in Mr. W. “I asked Young not to tell you fellows about that!” “Who said anything about shooting a dog?’ asked another. Young, Hewitt, Owens and Williams had come from several corners of the earth, and met at Mr. Buford’s place in the Mississippi Bottom country. Here Mr. Collier joined the party, and they pitched camp on the bank of a lake several miles within the forest on the edge of which Buford lives. Another lake, a mile from camp, was wider and had banks less steep. On this one the boys had launched two dugouts and head-lighted for ’coons, Now a ’coon’s eye is different from a moose’s eye, and if what Williams saw from under his lamp didn’t look lke a ’coon, perhaps he took it to be a moose. In any event, he fired, and the pair of eyes faded from IN THE MISSISSIPPI COON COUNTRY, his vision, while plaintive yelps and fleeting footsteps proclaimed to the ears of Young, well versed in art of woodcraft, the fact that Williams had shot something —not a ’coon nor a moose! “No, he didn’t kill him dead. This one yelped, too!” The next night on the lake was uneventful. The writer had joined the party, and was given a place in the boat with Young and Collier. From half a mile away Williams could be heard explaining to the occu- pants of the other boat how it was that what he shot was not a ’coon. As a result of the efforts of both boats’ parties, several ’coons were taken to camp, and their pelts saved by the gentleman with an automo- bile, to make into a robe. Thus do automobiles not only accomplish death by accident for their operators, but tempt them to the killing of even many unob- trusive and harmless raccoons, to insure the area of pelt needed for an auto robe. It is thought by some sportsmen to be wrong to kil] mnany *coons and throw their carcasses away, for a frivolous conceit. Rain the following morning spoiled the deer drive. Dinner was Brunswick stew, well peppered. With the warmth thereof to cheer me, an afternoon's turn was Jonze zo, 1903,] FOREST AND STREAM. 481 ss to LEAs el a ee CAMP LIFE IN MISSISSIPPI. taken through a well recommended turkey range. But the rain came down briskly, and the low hanging clouds made a gloom under the foliage that it was hard to see turkeys in. The lone turkey that was en- countered had seen me first, and was slinking off with dripping feathers, a picture of humility, when discov- ered. He was too quick for a shot. The party had killed five or six deer before the last one was brought in by Anderson, the negro, who owns the hounds, on the day following the rain, You can see Anderson in the picture, standing triumphantly over his buck, The head and horns look heavy, and proved to be so, on a five-mile portage. They were sent to the taxidermist. All of the pictures are of this hunt. The big fish is an “alligator gar” shot in the lake. II. The night train west put me at the “Hotel Town” by 10 P. M., and an east bound train was. taken next morning, to retrace the last four miles traveled I reached Purnell Switch by an hour before daylight, trudged down the track to the turning-off place, and there built a fire and made bacon and coffee. Breakfast over, the coffee pot and grub were put into a hollow log, and a start was made, taking a course east of north through the wet, open woods. It was now full light and nature was astir. A violent altercation in a distant treetop indicated ‘Vvarmints” fighting. Hastening that way I was in time to see a ball of fur-coated matter fall through space and strike the ground with the prehistoric thud. Wait- ing quietly a short time, a ’coon was discovered com- ing almost directly toward me, with his thoughts on the past. He passed within ten feet, when I wheeled and gave chase, nudging him on the back with my gun muzzle before he got into a brier thicket. Turning fo resume my tramp, the enemy was seen in pursuit— another large ’coon on the trail of the first. This one, also, was given a foot race_and his tail brushed: with the gun barrel. A few minutes later the squirrels came out to break- fast, and there was much loud discussion among them. Your squirrel is a very positive and incontrovertible debater. Fresh deer tracks were here and there, and gave promise of a possible shot, but the deer was not seen, although the forenoon was spent in a cautious vigil. The deer was either too early for me, or I was too late for him—which means “six of one and half a dozen of the other”’ At noon the camp had been reached, namely, the hollow log where the coffee pot was stored. Culinary operations again set in, and after dinner the squirrels were resorted to. Fiye were killed, three being with successive hits. The gun was a .38 carbine, of short bore for close shooting, and some of the squirrels were not hit in the head. ‘Nightfall found me back at the railroad, and the four miles back to the hotel town were soon walked on the cross-ties. . . Next morning the early train was again taken back to the hunting grounds, breakfast cooked and another still-hunt made for the deer. The sign was plentiful over the ground covered, and under an oak tree was evidence that a buck had breakfasted within an hour or two past; but again he was too early. During the afternoon two squirrels were added to~ yesterday's bunch, and soon the train came that goes back from the big trees to the other world. II. Quite early in the morning Dr. Burkhalter was at the engine and I at the wheel of Doc’s 16-foot gaso- line launch. Right good speed was made up _the Yazoo, thence up Yalobusha to Dodd’s Ferry. Pro- visions and bedding were in the little skiff towed along- side, excepting that the cooked bread and meat were in a tin box, which had been set on the muffler. Of a sudden, there: was an explosion, followed by escaping steam. Doc jumped to the engine and I stood alert to dodge flying pieces of gasoline launch, because it was evident that she had “blown up.” The trouble was only that the stopper had blown out of the coffee bottle, from the heat oi the muffler. oe. At Dodd’s Mr. Allen joined us, and his, skiff also was taken in tow. i a As a sharp bend was turned, a flock of geese-were met, flying low, and a scuffle after guns followed by a volley, brought down two geese. Each man killed both geese, That is the only way it could be settled. Late in the afternoon as deer was startled from am- bush as we ran close in shore, but was missed by a rifle bullet and a load of duck shot. At sundown we unloaded the plunder at a vacant cabin in the little clearing at Pugh’s, bargained with the good “old timey” negro woman, “Aunt Nancy,” in a nearby cabin, to cook for us, and ran on up stream a mile, and out through a bayou into the “back water.” Here were some squirrels, and mallards in plenty, but the ducks were impossible to be reached. A wood duck, a teal and some squirrels were bagged. After Aunt Nancy’s sumptuous supper the bed was made down on the floor of our cabin and the big wood fire roared and crackled. At this hour the hunter taught of Mitchell and Hough, sees many pictures through the smoke wreaths and in the firelight. The Great Spirit has painted them there in successive array—the pictures of happy hunt- THE ALLIGATOR GAR, ing grounds of the past and future. There are those where is set in hallowed tints every chase of the past, some with good reward, others with toil and hardship followed by failure. But in those of the iuture, there are no failures painted. Set over against each past disappointment is brought out clear and surely a trail that leads over rugged-and broken ground, and at its end is a reward of success full worth the toiling. These things are only given by the Great Spirit to his forest children, who know the hunting grounds and have wandered upon them tirelessly and seen what he has painted on lake and woodland for those who will look. They are not for the children of books and cities. . The bed that we slept upon would not have been soft at Diggs where the Spirit of the Woods is not known to be. It was sunrise of a day that had been made by the Spirit of the Woods, and there was sign of deer and turkeys to gladden the hunter’s heart. A strange chat- tering noise could not easily be distinguished at a dis- tance as proceeding irom a turkey fight, but they were in plain view after a cautious detour was made of half an hour’s duration. Several gobblers were making life uncomfortable for a weak brother—a strange contra- diction to the brave and lordly bearing of the gobbler when on dress parade—but the germ of the “all bark and no bite’ man probably evoluted through turkey and all. These fellows were making a very successful fight. The other one was getting entirely the worst of it. There was a log located just right for an ambush shot, with a possibility of killing all of the victors and missing the vanquished. Good progress had been made toward it, when a small and intrusive turkey saw a twig moved by me, and tripped back nearly half of the intervening distance from the flock to gaze at the spot where I was. I waited some time for this turkey to move away, until finally it got to seeing too much, and I had to abandon the idea of a shot at the bunch of gobblers, and fired the buckshot (a great mistake) at the intruder. He was wounded, but escaped. While trying to yelp one of the scattered flock out of a distant treetop an hour later, I heard a deer whistle, to windward, beyond a thicket. Later still, when I moved for a better view of the turkey, there came that light sound ot the hoof strokes of running deer, and a glimpse was caught of three, as they passed a distant | opening in the brush. A snap shot at the last was a miss. Soon afterward Mr. Allen joined me, and a turkey fell before his gun, The noon hour was spent at camp, and the afternoon in the same ground as the morning. One turkey was added to the bag. Next day the start homeward was made. Two “drives” were made of long, narrow peninsulas in the river bank, by one of the party getting ashore and waiting until the boat had run down to the lower end of the “drive,” then walking noisily down toward them. On one of these a deer was jumped, when the driver had come even with him on the opposite side of the peninsula, giving him an opportunity to run back the wrong ‘way. Only a glimpse of him was had through the thick brush, A few more squirrels were killed. Doc’s launch is a beauty, and he promised to take me again, TRIPOD. MISSISSIPPI. A Day at Waverly. SHE was visiting her old Southern home again, after a residence of several years in the East. I had known her for only a short while, when, one night, I remarked to my room-mate: “G, B., she likes to hunt, and we are going out together some day to try the quail.” “Ah!” he responded, warmly, “she’s a girl after my own heart!’ And I echoed the sentiment. Waverly is a typical ante-bellum Southern home, of which few are left in this section. It is still beautiful to him of an esthetic temperament, but there are many signs of a pristine glory now existing only in the history of our “before-the war’ South—a South the splendor and the hospitality of whose homes will be sung as long as poet wields pen. The hospitality is still there, but where are the deer parks and fish ponds? Where the magnifi- cent libraries and paintings? Where the dashing steeds and yelping packs? Where the luxurious ease of living? The answer is too well known. Pre-eminent among these was Waverly, now almost the only ante-bellum home left in the county, the others hay- ing yielded, one by one, to the fire demon. But the glory of Waverly has not entirely passed, for, in the cosy sitting room, upon the broad, vine-covered verandas or beneath the shade of the live oaks and pines upon the spacious lawn, it is still the delight of the family to entertain their friends, and still the delight of those fortunate enough to be so regarded to enjoy their bounteous hospitality. _ The train was slightly belated, but I reached Waverly in time to join the family at breakfast. My time had been so taken up throughout the season that I had found only one opportunity of testing my new Remington ejector, and while I was eager to do some execution with it, I was inclined to think that the time would be more profitably spent in shooting robins and waxwings about the hills than in the pursuit of the wary Bob White with a member of the gentler sex who was more accustomed to ballroom floors than to water-soaked corn and cotton fields; but she said “the quail first,” and ever womart has her way. Although we were some eight or nine miles from the nearest point on the Mississippi River, yet the water was at a high stage, and had backed up into the fields until there was only a strip about a quarter of a mile wide be- tween it and the foot of the hills, there being, no levees along this part of the river on the Mississippi side. We had left Prince, the young dog, at home, taking with us Beulah, an old stager, but before we turned off from the railroad Prince came bounding up, having “broken jail,” so we had to include him in our outfit. Near the water’s edge the dogs nosed a covey, but got jealous of each other and crowded them so closely that they flushed before we were within good range. My companion was always on deck and needed no instrtiction as to when to shoot, but there was little hope of stopping one of this covey, on ac- count of the long range at which she had to take them. One bird came closer, giving me a cross shot, and I brought him down in the overflow water and he was re- trieved by Beulah. It was impossible to follow up this covey, as they crossed the intervening water and entered the woods. The second covey were feeding in the corn stubble and somewhat scattered. Again the dogs got excited and we had only chance shots. I bagged a bird, but the other gun only feathered one, which was good, for who would expect an inexperienced girl to kill quail on the wing? But wait. The third covey was roaded beautifully by Beulah, and Prince backed her up, the two making a pic- ture that would delight the heart of any sportsman. But when they arose all we got was feathers and the painful knowledge that a broken leg was dangling from one poor bird. This was bad. Could it be that I was rattled by the feminine presence? Perhaps. But one wary old fellow who had thought to evade us, being a little apart from the main bunch, had stuck to his cover and “laid low.” Alas for him that he did not take wing with the others, for Beulah’s excellent nose told her that there was more in that little clump of weeds than the spirit of the departed. I waited for Miss B. to shoot, and as the bird kept on, let him have my long-range barrel with good effect. “See, 1 have wiped your eye.” Byt J 482 FOREST AND STREAM. _JtnE 20, 1003. NN ee) felt ashamed for even the suggestion of a boast. I walked up another stray bird from this covey that the dogs had overlooked, and he was added to our bag. Down below the gin, by the long wagon bridge, Beulah came to a beautiful point on the edge of the cotton field. Her nose was toward a bunch of broom-sedge, and she was in the open field as rigid and motionless as an image of stone, her left fore foot gracefully uplifted. We stood for a moment contemplating the picture in admiration, then hastened to her. When the birds arose, two guns spoke. Each said only one word, and two Bob Whites lay on their backs in the cotton. She would not believe that she had a hand in the execution, but I had shot only once, so there was no doubt. Soon we saw a dove alight between the cotton rows, and walked him up. This time only one gun was fired. It was not mine. The dove was brought in by Prince. Another covey was found in a switch cane brake on the hillside, a hard place in which to shoot. After they were scattered one flushed in front of her and flew over her head. She wheeled and fired just as he was about to disappear over a knoll, changing his horizontal to a downward course. “Bully for you!” I shouted. I hope she will forgive me; I could not help it. Prince came to a stand in the switch cane, examined something and then went on. I could see that it had speckles on it, and thought it was either a dead sapsucker or a king snake. The latter it proved, only there were two of them. It was quite a warm day for early March, but they seemed to have little energy, and Jet me pick them up without making much resistance. Each was about three feet long. We were nearing the house and - our hunt was about over, so I concluded to take them up and let the ladies have a look at them, after which they were liberated. (I am a son of Coahoma.) On our way to the house a rabbit and a robin were added to our bag, the latter by my companion’s gun. When our pockets were emptied there were seven quail, a dove, a rabbit and a robin, and what an appetite we had for dinner! HiE-On, MIsssssIPPi, The Fire Fiend in Maine. NEVER, sitice the terrible fire of Miramichi, nearly eighty years ago, has Maine experienced so terrible a scene of devastation as the past two weeks has witnessed. All over the State the conflagration has raged, from northern Aroostook to Washington county, southward to Castine, and westward from northern Somerset and Franklin counties to the very outermost boundaries of the State. Immense tracts of fine standing timber have been destroyed, farm buildings, and in several sections whole villages have gone down before the fiery tempest that no human power could quell. The causes for this wholesale destruction are not hard to find. For fifty-one days we have had no rain what- ever, unless we except a few light local showers that scarcely wet the surface of the ground. An unheard of thing at this season, when our rivers are usually swollen to overflowing, and our special danger is from possible freshets, while a drouth in spring is something unheard of before in our well watered State. Every one at all familiar with our Maine woods knows that the soil in its dusky recesses where the sun never shines, is composed of layer upon layer of decomposed pine needles, the deposit of uncounted centuries, some- times two or three feet in depth, and when dry making a perfect fire-trap. The few unquenched coals of a deserted camp-fire, even the unburned end of a cigar carelessly flung upon the ground during a dry season will keep alight, and burn underground sometimes for weeks un- seen and unsuspected, feeling its evil way in the darkness until some chance opening gives it the opportunity to spring forth, full armed, like some devouring monster, upon the helpless growth above. In the spring this “duff,” as it is called, is usually so saturated with the rains and melting snows that there is little chance for fire to run in it to any distance, but now, under the influence of the dry, warm atmosphere, it has become like tinder, ready to catch and carry the smallest spark, whether from the farmer’s burning brush pile or from a passing locomotive. With the discarded tops of trees left by lumbermen, and themselves extremely dry and resinous, it only needed the high winds of the last week to fan the fires here and there into a conflagration that for extent and fierceness has no parallel in the ex- perience of the oldest inhabitant of the State. Here in the vicinity of Moosehead Lake the fires, while close at our doors, have, by almost superhuman exertions on the part of the inhabitants, been kept at bay, so that no buildings have been destroyed, but in some of the adjoin- ing towns many have been made homeless in a few hours by its furious assaults, In Shirley, a small village a few miles below us on the B. & A. road, the fire approached so near that the inhabitants fled for their lives, with the burning breath of the tempest scorching their very faces. But when all hope of saving the town was over, suddenly the wind changed, the flames leaped to the right and were off in another direction, leaving the astonished people to return to the smoke-blackened but unburned homes. that they had never expected again to enter. Dreadful and widespreal is the devastation of the for- ests, which it will take a century’s growth to restore, but the timber lands of our State are owned largely by rich corporations to whom the loss, great as it is, will not in most cases spell ruin. It is the individual mill owner and his employes thus thrown out of work, and the home- less farmers, who have seen the patient toil of years go up in smoke and flame, upon whom this blow will fall most heavily. It is pitiful to see old men and women, worn with the cares and burdens of a life of hard work and pinching economy, who, in the morning sat in cheer- ful contentment beneath the roof that they had spent so many toilsome years to rear as a home for their old age, find themselves at night homeless, shelterless, and stripped of everything but the bare acres that even the fire was powerless to destroy. : “Nothing but rain, a steady, soaking rain of several days can save us!” That was the cry upon every lip, and anxious eyes watched day and night for some sign of that longed-for friend. But the June skies were cloudless, and the sun shone down pitilessly upon those scenes of desolation until on Monday night, the 8th, the clouds that had been all day long tantalizing us with alternate promises and disappointments, really began to pour their hoarded treas- uires upon the scorched bosom of the earth. Never was there sweeter music than the patter of those blessed drops upon the shingled roofs of those who, for days, had lived in constant peril from the fires upon either hand, and far and wide, in city home and outlying farm- house, went up one glad united cry of thanksgiving for this priceless gift from the very hand.of God Himself. It seemed as if the dumb earth itself sent up its wordless thanks for this great deliverance, as every blade of grass and humble herb lifted up its head and looked heaven- ward as it drank in the grateful moisture. It had been a race, men said, between the wind and the rain for the life of the State, and, thank God! the rain had won. It will take many years to heal the wounds that we have received in this terrible encounter with the fiercest of all the elements, but it has taught us a lesson in regard to the importance of strangling a forest fire at its birth, before it grows a giant that no human power can wrestle with. And hereafter, it is safe to say that not a voice in all the State, from the northern boundary of Aroostook to Casco Bay, will be raised in protest against the appropriation made by our Legislature of 1903 to pro- vide fire wardens to protect those forest lands that are at once our pride and one of the chief sources of our pros- perity as a people. H. G. Rowe. GREENVILLE, Moosehead Lake, Me,, June 9. Shooting and Fishing on the Hudson Tue Hudson River, several hundred years ago, must have been an ideal hunting ground for the sportsman, and an enticing and beautiful resort for the angler, Deer and bear were undoubtedly plentiful in the-forests bordering its shores, and the drumming of the old cock partridge on the mountain sides was a sound as familiar then as the blasting in a rock quarry is to-day. Many ducks fed and bred in the marshes and creeks extending up the river from Croton to Albany, while the water probably teemed with that gamiest of fish, the striped bass. But as civilization gradually spread itself along the beautiful shores of the noble river, and as men with rods and guns increased, the game and fish commenced rapidly to disappear, until now only the faintest remnant remains. Although both ducks and bass are far from numer- ous, we have spent many a pleasant day on the broad bosom of the Hudson; Croton Point Cove and Haver- straw Bay more than once have been the scene of an erase scull after a flock of “coot,’’ ruddy, or black ucks. With our 37-foot steam launch and duck boat towing astern, guns, ammunition and fishing tackle on board, we would sally forth bright October mornings, the Vetéran, myself, Al and Ben, for a good day’s outing on the river. The latter was our engineer, and al- Ways proved a-constant source of fun and amusement. He was a small man, bent and shriveled by age, for he had seen seventy summers or more, yet a better engi- neer never pulled open the throttle of an engine. He was clean, neat and careful about all his work, and ever ready to go out for a cruise at any time of day. Poor old Ben, he has now passed over a river greater and broader than the one on which he spent so many of his last days doing the two things he loved best to do on earth: run an engine and fish. When we.went ducking we took the fishing tackle with us, so that if luck was not in our favor we could try our hand at the bass, perch and porgies. .When we went fishing we took our guns and cartridges and towed the duck beat,in.case we should come upon a flock of wild fowl, and so we were always prepared for anything that would turn up. One clear, mellow. morning in the fall we started out with lunch basket added to the outfit and ready to make a day of it on the river. “Everything on board, Al?” asked the Veteran, when our belongings tiad been stowed away in the easy little Buttercup. ey gg eae: ; =. “All right, go‘ahead, Ben.” The bells jingled and churning the ‘water into foam,.we backed out from the dock and turning areund, headed for the reef off Cro- ton Point. The-river was calm and mirror-like, except where, here and there, a gentle breeze stirred the smooth surface. The mountains colored in rich brown, red and yellow, sent long, deep reflections into the water, and distant sounds came distinctly to the ear, as on one of those clear, transparent March days. The air was fresh and cool while we were in motion, but come to a standstill, and the warm breath of summer could yet be felt. About half way over to-the reef we espied a lonely sea-crow some distance ahead of the boat. “You might, as well go after him,” said the Veteran, “seeing you have never shot a specimen of this" beautiful chicken-billed water fowl. Come, come, Al, he’ll be half a mile down the river if you don’t hurry. up a little.’ Al nervously pulled the duck boat along- side as we came to a stop, while I got in and crouched behind the screen. Swiftly we sped toward the unsus- pecting old ‘mud hen,” for Al was a good sculler and soon had me within easy range of our prospective quarry. “Took out, Al,’ I said, as we approached nearer and nearer. “In another minute we'll run him down and I want to have the fun of shooting him.” “Scare him,” answered Al; “maybe he'll fly.” “Shoo!” I cried, waving my arms, for we were right on top of the senseless creature. I knew the Veteran was laughing over the performance, and I was bound to get even with the sea-crow. Finally he arose from the water and flew and half flapped off, until about thirty yards away he was met by a charge of No. 7 shot, which abruptly ended his career. The launch steamed down, picked us up, and we steered for the reef. Picking out a good place near the lower end, we Jet go anchor, set the camp stools in the stern and commenced to bait up our bass rods. This task was one I far from relished, for we used great big sand worms that were wiggling, squirming creatures, not very pleasant to put on a hook. How- ‘ever, it had to be done, so here goes, and after several ‘struggles I fastened a nice fat one on securely and cast the tempting lure over the stern. j Ben was toosting on a camp stool, busily engage4 in casting out his line and haultug it in again. Sud- denly he gave a jerk, and swearing softly to himsell, reeled in a plump sea porgy. Whenever Ben fished and was especially pleased or displeased with his catch, he would give vent to his feelings with a low, muttered: oath, much to our amusement. : The perch and porgies bit well, but no bass had* taken hold as yet. A pair of either of the former. put up a good fight and often deceives the angler, who thinks he has a bass. After we had been here a couple- of hours, the fish stopped biting and the Veteran or- dered a move. We pulled up the anchor and started for the Farms, in Haverstraw Bay, which was another’ good fishing ground, alg The Hudson is certainly a beautiful river, and in many parts retains something of its old wildness. One of the most picturesque stretches is Haverstraw Bay, bor-! dered on the east by Croton Point and low, rolling’ hills, and on the west by high, rugged mountains. Reaching the Farms, which, by the way, is the name’ given to a large oyster bed situated near the .center’ of the bay, we let go the anchor and brought out our fishing tackle again, . “Here goes for a bass,” said the Veteran, putting a dainty morsel of shedder crab on his hook, and throw-, ing out a long’ cast. “That ought to fetch one,” he added. And so it did, for a few minutes later, instead of reeling in the old-timed porgy or perch, a brilliant, silvery pound bass came swinging into the boat. “That’s a fine one,’ said Ben. ‘‘Mebbe there’s more. around. Al, hand'me them sand worms; I guess I'll! try both kinds o’ bait ter once,’ yy To watch Ben fish was as good as a play, and this’ time, after arranging his tackle with the utmost care, he stood up on the seat and gave a terrific cast, send- ing the bait flying through the air. Plunk! it struck the- water. “Now I’m ready fer ye,” he said, pulling ’ ' ‘up the camp stool and sitting down with a grunt of con-_ tentment. Watching out of the corner of my eye, I suddenly saw his line jerked sharply, and then Ben commenced reel- ing in at a great rate. “I got ye this time,’ he mut- tered, betwen soit curses of excitement. “Al, let’s have the net,” he continued. “Oh, pshaw! Ben,” said Al, dis- paragingly, “that’s no bass.” And to the former’s dis- comfort and my disgust, Al’s statement proved true, for instead of a bright, shining bass he brought in a huge, wriggling eel. Ben turned to Al as he pulled the squirming, yellow creature over the gunwale of the launch. a, “Hand me them pipe tongs, Al, please,” he said to that worthy, who promptly fished out a pair of villain- ous-looking iron tongs. “This is the rig for these fel- lers,” he said, making a fruitless grab at his unwel- come catch. “I’ll squeeze ye,” he muttered, and open- ing the tongs wider, snatched again for the wily eel’s head. Finally, after several unsuccessful attempts and a good deal of quiet swearing to himself, Ben managed to seize him firmly, and soon gave him the coup de grace. It was now nearly noon, but still the fish kept on bit- ing, and now and again some one would catch a small bass. Something tugged at my line and then com- menced shaking it like a dog shakes a stick. I knew what this meant, u'.d after reeling in the big two-pound ee! I turned him over to Ben for further care, Lunch time at hand, we made a good meal of boiled hard-shelled crabs, and five or six of these sweet and delicious shellfish combined with fresh home-made bread and butter, greatly relieves the hungry angler’s appetite. _ Toward the middle of the afternoon we put the fish- ‘ing tackle away and steamed down the river. Half way ‘between the Farms and the Point the Veteran discov- ‘ered a flock of ducks ahead, and with the aid of the glasses distinguished them to be nine fat little ruddies idancing and bobbing on the water. “We'll both go ‘after these,” he said to me, as the launch stopped, and Al pulled the duck boat alongside. “You sit well for- ‘ward and I’ll get in behind you.” When we were all arranged in the boat we slipped under the stern of the Buttercup and made for the unsuspecting flock. “My goodness!” said Al suddenly. “Here comes a steamboat up behind us and there’s a rowboat ahead that’s going to get right between us and those ducks,” the continued excitedly. “Well, get to work, Al, and scull harder,” answered ithe Veteran. “Maybe we can beat them yet.” Al puffed and panted as he sent the duck boat surging -along, but we crossed the rowboat’s bow, and the steamer was still a good distance behind. “You take a sitting shot,” whispered the Veteran, “and then-we'll © give them three barrels when they get up.” About forty yards from the ducks he said, “Now give it to them,” and raising up I fired, knocking two over, while -the remaining seven arose with a whirr from _ the water. Bang, bang! and five came tumbling out of the air to the Veteran’s right and left, while | managed to bring one down with my left barrel. Eight ruddy ducks lay floating on the water, but the ninth eluded our parting salute and skimmed away. “Those are the first good ducks we have killed in some time,” said the. Veteran, and we were all very much elated over our success, for such an opportunity was a rare one. The launch came along and we con- tinued on our way. Beyond the Point Al, who had been keeping a lookout for ducks, pointed to the left and said, “Just look at that for a bunch of ducks!” And there appeared what looked like a flock of twenty or thirty big coot. “Hush!” said Al nervously, “they'll hear that bell sure if you ring it.” : “Well,” answered the Veteran, laughing at Al’s ex- treme caution in not frightening the flock, “Ducks as wild as that had better get up and clear out, for nobody will get near them. You go after these,” he said, turn- ing to me, and needless to say I promptly obeyed the order, : Al kept telling me not to get excited as we neared the ducks, and when my heart was fairly thumping with that malady, I heard him say in the most disgusted voice behind me, “Oh, pshaw! they ain’t any ducks at all, only net corks.” <- * Dla 5 of FF “What?” I said, raising up and peering over the’ screen. Sure enough there was a large bunch of corks ‘ cay Wake Y : f | 1 t ey June 20, 1903.] ‘ .) — bobbing serenely on the water, The net had parted somewhere, and they all had drifted together, so at a distance they represented exactly a flock of ducks. How the’ Veteran laughed over the joke when the Buttercup steamed up and how mortified and cha- grined Al and I felt dver the whole performance. _ “But I was sure they were ducks myself,’ said the Veteran, after guying Al on the bell-ringing episode, | THe Aprironpatks, Jie &, and until we came closer they looked just like a bunch ‘of coot. Anyway, we'll take a sail.down the river and maybe you'll get another chance at some real ucks. - For a couple of miles we continued south, and then turning, came up the river near the east shore. “What “are those?’ asked Al, all at once. : “Three black ducks,” answered the Veteran. prompt- ly, for he can always tell what species a duck is, even if half a mile distant, “‘Now is your chance,’ he said, turning to me, “so go ahead,” Pushing off the duck boat, we were soon moving up quickly with the tide on the “duskies,” who all ap- peared asleep; very different from their usual wide awake mood. About-thirty or forty yards distant I kneeled up in the boat and gave them the right-hand barrel in the water. Only one succumbed to the shot, but I was lucky in knocking down a second bird out of the air as he jumped, while the third, unscathed, sped off like a bullet. f They were a nice, plump pair, and the first black ducks, excepting one, [ had ever killed. Boarding the launch, we headed toward shore, for it was growing late and the air chilly. Our bag consisted of eight ruddy ducks, a pair of black ducks, one sea-crow and a pail full of perch, porgies, small bass, eels and crabs. Such little trips on the river are very pleasant, and, although this day was an especially lucky one, the. fascination of cruising about in search of game and: fish never decreases. And then, October is the sports- man’s month, and whether it be fruitful or not, 1 am sure is always looked forward to and enjoyed by those who love to fish and shoot. CAMILLA. Adirondack Notes. Tre forest fires have not been overstated in the daily papers I have seen. Smoke like a pall of darkness has many days overhung the lakes so that one could not see a half mile distinctly—sometimes not a quarter. Some- times a yellow cast was given to everything, as though all nature had a bad attack of jaundice. One day last week burned leaves filled the air and fell like snowflakes. They were crisped, not crumbled, and had come for miles upon the wind. Yesterday as people returned from church they noticed that the air was delightfully clear; all felt that the long-wished-for change had come, and toward night a little rain fell; several showers came during the night; more this morning, and glad thankfulness seems written on every face one meets. Many believe that a large number of the fires have been accidental, but that another large number have been pur- posely set. One case was stated to the writer as a sample and as follows: ‘The poor people of a certain community cut wood on State land-last winter and were fined for it. Partly to “get even” and partly to earn money to make up the fines by fighting fire, the poachers were believed to have set the fires. I have heard men say, “Fighting fire is good business. It is twenty cents.an hour and found from the time you leave home till you get back again. It is an observed fact that some sets of men work hard and earnestly while other sets “sojer’ as if to keep up the job. One such set was promptly discharged by the fire warden when he learned the facts. A gentleman reported to me the following which came © under his observation in the vicinity of North Creek. A preserve and club house being in danger, a man was sent to hire help and fight the fire. Next day a hotel lounger was heard to say: “I would have gone with that man if I had known it, but 1 would have wanted $5 a day in ad- vance. And when I got there, do you know what I would have done? I would not have fought the fires, but set more.” He explained his position by finding fault with “the rich men who buy up our lands and then won't let us hunt on them,” This is the spirit of ignorant prejudice akin to that governing so many strikes. I cannot believe it is so widespread here as among the labor unions, for many of the Adirondackers share the nobility of their native hills, Where the spirit described is found it is most likely to be—as among the labor unions—in a for- eign importation. Fishing has been unusually good, I am told, in both Jake and stream. Poor places have so improved that one can scarcely go amiss for a fair day’s sport. Cedar River, in particular, has afforded many good catches of trout. Game is said to have wintered well. The elk given by Mr, Whitney have been seen frequently, and deer are said te be abundant. Some fishermen are already planning to return for the fall hunting. A recent tour of inspection showed much more “sign” than previous years on the + same ground. An Old Trick Well Done. Recently when driving along a mountain road a brood of ducklings were surprised in the ditch by the road. The mother, a sheldrake, immediately took the road ahead of the team, and so thoroughly simulated a broken leg that at first I thought it was reality. A broken wing also seemed in evidence. I was familiar with the partridge trick, but did not know ducks were up to the same one; hence I was more easily deceived. After leading us, as she supposed, a dozen rods or more and around a turn in the road away from her brood, the old duck suddenly recovered, took wing, and describing a wide circle, re- turned to her little ones. It was certainly well done and worthy the mother instinct which prompted it. Speaking of the occurrence to a Utica gentleman one day, le said he once had a similar experience. Coming suddenly on a brood of sheldrakes ina pond hole the mother skittered as if with broken wing all over the surface of the water, making a great splashing until her ducklings were hidden, and then, calmly perching in full view, looked around as if to say: “I haven’t any ducks.” The Utica man had never heard anything like it till I told him*my experience, Is such practice common among ducks? JT am not a duck hunter, but would like to know, Lael ) FOREST AND STREAM. Please give my compliments to Mr. Emerson Carney, whose articles I enjoy, and thank him for his explanation (in your last issue) about the absence of deciduous trees from his hunting grounds. My observations of deer have been in the Adirondacks, where deciduous trees abound, also undergrowth of many kinds. No doubt this largely accounts for the difference in our experience. JUVENAL, Xx dlatuyal History. i Experiments with Chickens. Lditor Forest and Stream: _ 1 take it that your esteemed correspondent Hermit is desirous of the fullest light upon the subject that he has agitated in your coumns, and it is, therefore, with no intention of baiting him that I indulge in further criticism of his outgivings. In your issue of June 6 he extends ironical congratulations to Mr. E, P. Jaques “because of his peculiar breed of chicks ‘that will pick up crumbs as soon as they are out of the shell,” and intimates further that they are the only chicks in the world that do so. I admit that these Kansas chicks are marvels of precocity, but I am sen- sible that young America is little trammeléd by tradi- tion, that it is disposed to hold itself independent of precedent, and chicks as well as children, in the in- vigorating air of the Western prairie, may be stimu- lated into an exceptional forwardness of development. Be that as it may, the evidence is conclusive that the young of the feathered tribe possess, upon their entry into the world, a stock of inherited instincts amply qualifying them for the battle of life. _ Nigh half a century ago Douglas Spalding, an Eng- lish investigator, subjected the young of various crea- tures to a minute and painstaking course of observa- tion and experiment, the results of which he subse- quently published. Prior tc such expositio:n it was a belief current among inte gent people tliat chicks picked up crumbs and followed the call of the mother ° immediately upon their leaving the shell. He experi- mented with over fifty chicks, “but he states not one upon emergence was in a condition to manifest an acquaintance with the qualities of the outer world, On leaving the shell they are wet and helpless, they strug- gle with their legs, wings and necks, but are unable to. stand or hold up their heads. Soon, however, they may be distinctly seen and felt pressing against and endeavoring to keep in contact with any warm object. They advance very rapidly. I have seen them hold up their heads well, pick at objects and attempt to dress their wings when only four or five hours old.” To de- termine that the chicks acquire their power of inter- preting instinctively what they see and hear, Spalding States “as soon as the little prisomers had begun to break their way out I removed a piece-of the shell, and. before they had opened their eyes, drew over their heads little hoods, which, being furnished with an elastic thread at the lower end, fitted close around their necks.” In some cases the material was thick enough to impose total darkness upen the wearers; in other instances it was semi-transparent. In this state of obyious blindness they were kept from one to three days. When unhooded the chicks’ behavior was. con- clusive against the theory that the perception of dis- tance and direction by the eye ate the result of experi- ence or of associations formed ih the outset .of each individual life. Often the chicks, at the end of two min-' utes, followed with their eyes the movemenits of .crawl- ing insects. would peck at some minute speck, and appeared to possess an innate perception of distance, for, as a rule, they seemed to hit the object, however small, at which they struck. Without any opportunity of imitation, when kept quite isolated from their kind, :chicks ‘be- gan to scrape when from two to six days old. In view of Hermit’s adverse contention, I submit. the follow- ing account of one of Spalding’s experiments: A chick that was unhooded when three days old remained for six minutes chirping and looking about, at the end of that time it followed with its head and eyes the movements of a fly twelve inches distant, at ten minutes it made a peck at its toes, and the next instant it made a vigorous dash at the fly, which had come within reach of its neck, and seized and swal- lowed it at the first stroke. For seven minutes more it sat calling and looking about it, when a ,hive bee coming sufficiently near, was seized at a dart, and thrown some distance much disabled. For twenty min- uates it sat upom the spot where its eyes had been un- veiled, without attempting to walk a step. It was then placed on rough ground within sight and call of a hen cating for a brood of its own age. After standing chirping for about a minute, it started off for the hen, displaying as keen a perception of the nature and quali- ties of the outer world as it was ever likely to possess in after life. It never required to knock its head against a stone to discover that there was no road that way. It leaped over the smaller obstacles that lay in its path and ran around the larger, reaching the mother in as nearly a straight line as the nature of the ground would permit. ‘This, let it be remembered, was the first time that it had ever walked by sight. Hermit should not shut his eyes to the undeniable fact that the young of all animal kind begin life fully equipped to cope with its exigencies. Nature and care are, of course, essential, but the appearance of maternal instruction proves nothing, it affords no evidence that a subsequent behavior of the young conforming to such teaching is a result thereof. So long as similar mani- festations are spontaneously evolved, it must be con- ceded that the so-called schooling is a metre stimulation of dormant: faculties into active’ being: For instance, Hermit entertains the readers ‘of ForEst anp STREAM with a graphic recital of his ‘boyish observatu-n of a mother cat's apparently sedulous' effortto teach “her kittens how to catch and kill micé,-and assumes that such instruction is a necessary featuresof feline train- In from two to fifteen .minuties they — 488 ing. No weightier authority on this point can be duced than Darwin, who says; “Let any one * * give a mouse to a kitten taken early from its mother and which has never seen one and observe how soon the kitten growls with hair erect.” Anyone can make this conclusive experiment, bearing in mind that the kitten chosen should be of proper stock. Some. cats eagerly take to. mousing, others manifest entire indif-. ference to the sport. Of-course. in a wild state, the lat- ter would be speedily eliminated, but they exist because- man’s arbitrary selection is not that of nature. A,.H. Gouraup. ad- * Brookiyn, N, ¥- The Whippoorwill’s Cry. Wirramsport, Pa, June 12,—EHditor Forest and Stream: ‘Though Mr, L. F. Brown appears to be certain that only the female whippoorwill, and not the male, is the singer of the night, | will state my own experience to the contrary. For fifty years I have lived in a locality which, within a ‘few hundred yards, is bordered by mountainous woods. In these woods we .ean hear this bird from May to August, and occasionally to September, and not only a few at a time, but himdreds of them during warm nights. Many were the whippoorwills I collected during a num- ber of years as specimens for ornithological friends, who would exchange with me for other desirable specimens. My method to secure the bird has always been to fol- low up the bird, guided by its song, and though it was ' generally too dark in the woods to see the bird on a log, low limb, stone or on the ground, the white markings on ' throat and tail of the male singer made it possible for me to see the rising bird, which my quiek snapshot gen- erally brought to the ground. A small piece of sperm candle helped me to find the bird with the white mark- ' ings and prevented me from reaching into the ready fangs ofa possible rattlesnake. In every instance the rising bird was a male, as a female could not be seen, except when it appeared on a limb out- lined against the sky and near the place where the male was in song; it then uttered a short call, but one at a time. The above statement is my experience, ‘but I would not say that the female does not sing, or cannot sing. The female oriole will answer the call of the male with notes often nearly as full of music as those of its mate. The female of the hooded warbler will answer the song of the male almost constantly, except when sitting on its nest, but the song consists of a few notes only. AuGusr Kocu, What Beavers Can Do. Capt, GEorcE VAN FeEtson, secretary of the Tourilli Fish and Game Club, whose territory lies in the Lake St. John country, Saguenay, Quebec, makes a remarkable statement about the rayages of beavers in his annual re- port for 1903. Speaking of the unprecedented increase of these animals on the club property, he says: “This year the increase has become alarming, and to- day innumerable lakes, streams, and rivers have been dammed by these hard-working and interesting animals. I may note a few remarkable cases, such as the damming of Lake George. This large sheet of water, twelve miles i: circumference, has been raised four feet above its ordi- nary level. Tourill River has been dammed at three dif- ferent points, at one place over 120 feet wide. On the west branch and many other points small streams ‘have been dammed and our trails swamped. A large number of small lakes heretofore offering excellent feeding grounds for caribou now present glistening sheets . of water in lieu of long erass.” The editors of Forrst Anp STREAM beg to acknowledge in behalf of Mr. Charles Hallock, and at his request, a re- peated imvitation from the honorary president (Com. G. U. Gregory) and Secretary Van Felson, to be the club’s guest this season. From all accounts the fishing and shooting on this exceptional preserve is not surpassed on earth, and only egyaled in the mystical happy hunting grounds, —t- Gane Bag and Gun Sie Ae Proprietors of shooting sesorts will find it profitable to advertise them in Forrsr aup Syrzau. Take the Boy Along. Editor Forest end Stream: It is raining. Six days ago occurred the most disas- trous flood that was ever known on the upper Cotton- wood. Bridges are torn out and none of the roads are passable more than a mile or so in any direction. Rail- roads are at a standstill with no mails or news from any- where. It has rained all spring to that extent that farmers could do little toward putting in crops, and that little is now washed away. Since the flood it has-rained six solid days and nights a cold drizzle, with the temperature at 44 above zero. e have a yague suspicion that other parts of the world are more or less afflicted, but we have not heard from our nearest neighbor for four days. Put to our ut- most for something to do, we decided to write Forest AND STREAM of an event in the hunting line that occurred some months ago. We had heard grass plover were ripe, and had been threatening them for-some time. The extreme northwest corner of Marion county runs into the high, rocky and rough divide between the headwaters of the Cottonwood River and the Smoky Hill River. These hilly lands are reserved for cattle ranges and are fenced into very large pastures and’ are otherwise as nature left them, Tr these Pastures the grass plover come in spring and fall as uf old. Wolves congregate here in increased numbers fol- lowing: the herds. But to the grass plover. Lee is my boy, now fifteen years old. It h fortune to be among the wild game more than most men uot to shoot—for it has been years sifce-I have shot to amount to anything, and years have intervened between as been my - 484 each of my grand shooting festiyals—but I have been among the game more and on more different fields than most men. Since Lee has been big enough to be interested in wild game I have regretted very mucli that I could not have him with me, but it never happened that way until a short time ago, We had been noticing: and watching for the plover, and when rumors of them began to be heard we were on the alert. Driving to one of the largest pas- tures in the raggedest part of the hills we had a fine ride amid splendid and far extended views; but, contrary to our expectations, we found no plover. It was very pleasant, though, and we felt no keen disappointment. Cattle were grazing on a thousand hills with far reach- ing levels between. With only a slight change in color and form it would have been the scene of forty-five years ago over again. At last we came to one of the water holes made by damming a ravine and catching the rain. While we sat looking a pair of bluewing teal dropped into the pond, Directing Lee how to proceed to get under the dam, where he could walk within fair range without being seen, I sat in the wagon and watched the game. The ducks that stop long in Kansas learn to watch the dam and at the first appearance of a hat above the bank they are off. This pair were on the alert, and they were off at the first glint of white felt above the level. They are too late, though; two puffs of smoke and they are both down as neatly as if a veteran had wielded the gun. Lee was very proud, and seemed to rate the hunt a great success. It was his first pair and fourth and fifth wild duck. Some years earlier he had spent a goad deai of his time in drawing, being almost self-taught, having taken only a few lessons from a country teacher. For the last few years he has done but little at it. When we got home he overhauled his effects for crayon paper, but found none except such as had been used. Selecting a piece of this and turning the blank side he hung up the pair of teal and drew them on it, natural size. We think the effort very creditable, and as soon as the mail opens will send you the original along with this letter. Yes, take the boy along if circumstances are favorable. Since writing the above we have learned that the flood was indeed of wide extent, and has left its hundreds homeless, which you had doubtless learned long before. E. P. JAQUES. DiRHam, Kansas, June 2. The “Platform Plank” in the Field. Looxtne backward over lengthening years no friend- ships are recalled that are warmer, more firmly cemented, nor more highly prized than those formed and shared in the brotherhood of sportsmen. é A day beside the rippling trout brook with rod and creel in early springtime, a day upon the distant salmon river beneath northern skies, a day afield with bird dog and gun in autumn, a day in the wilderness in the deep snows of winter after big game—these are the tests of manhood, the furnace that separates the dross of appear- ance and pretense from the real gold of sterling worth. Friendships begotten of such conditions are true and lasting, an unending fund of pride and delight, and they are not the exclusive possession of millionaires and those of classical education and unlimited opportunities, as too many are apt to think. Many there are in the humbler walks of life whose ears are attuned to the grand Te Deum of Nature, who square their conduct by the Golden Rule, and whose quiet lives and unpretentious influence for good are the salvation and uplifting of society and the country. The great army of sportsmen numbers recruits from all classes and walks of life, and worthiness is the only test and password. Sportsmen’s literature, their periodical publications and helpful legislation for the protection and propagation of game—fur, fin and feather—wrought by their instrumentaliy will attest their present high ideals and irresistible influence and strength. The leaves in the diary of Time need be turned back- ward but a few short years before the enunciation and promulgation of the Platform Plank is discovered—that startling innovation in the ethics of sportsmanship—and the pessimism with which it was greeted and discussed. That it was necessary and timely now goes without saying; and that it has been crystallized into law in so smany States is a compliment to its authors and to the great body of sportsmen of-our country who so quickly apprehended its wisdom and benefit, and who were so instrumental in the halls of legislation as to place it upon the statute books and give it all the force and effect of salutary law. This, with the further upbuilding of healthy public sentiment and helpful legislation, promises much for the future for the preservation and propagation of well nigh extinct species as well as teaching lessons of manliness and forbearance in destruction and slaughter. Even though it were practical, selfishness is still too dominant in the world to warrant an appeal to sportsmen to individually apply, in an accentuated form, the principle of the Platform Plank to themselves by accepting and being faithful to another, viz., killing fish and game for sport shall be prohibited at all times. Nevertheless, the tendency of the times is in this direction, and a little later it may seem no more revolutionary nor restrictive of individual rights than much that preceded it. May the day not come when greater zest and higher pleasure will follow from observation and study and be more alluring and satisfying than now reward the strength to endure and the skill to destroy, even though a plethoric game bag attests both? Such was the result of a day’s outing during the open season of last auitttimn which I will briefly relate, hoping that others may be induced to follow our example with the same or greater measure of benefit and pleasure. It is my good fortune to number among my friends a man who enjoyed excellent early opportunities which he turned to good account—a man grown old and honored in prominent public station and civic life—a man whose love for outdoor life has grown and strengthened with his years, We had planned with pleasant anticipations based upon many former experiences along the hillsides and in the runs of central Massachusetts, for a day with the lordly grouse. ‘ The day arrived, the air was tempered by the frosts of autumn, the haze of the Indian summer was in the air, all nature was arrayed in her most gorgeous hues. Our route lay northward from the heart of the Common- —=-- oo wate ee F FOREST AND STREAM. wealth toward the historic Ransom Rock near Wachusett Mountain, where captives were ransomed from the In- dians in colonial days. Arrived at a farm-house we were warmly welcomed and our team cared for. Massachusetts for the most part is rolling land, hill and valley breaking the monotony and adding a charm to the landscape. Where we had chosen to spend our day a hill of con- siderable height lifts its summit high above the surround- ing country, and its top is crowned by naked rock and a few pine trees which grow out of the crevasses, where they seem like giant sentinels on guard. Stretching away to the eastward were the gently sloping and well tilled acres of the farmer whose courtesy we were enjoying. Near the base of the hill on this side were a few acres in a basin-shaped depression forming a kind of bog, which was overgrown with a dense growth of scrub pine, white birches, wild apple trees, and grape vines—an ideal place for the king of game birds which we sought. Between this and the summit and extending around its base half way on either side was cleared mowing and pasture land. On the opposite or western slope of the hill, and extend- ing for miles beyond, there is a tumbling, foaming trout brook and abundant good covert for birds extending away in every direction beyond. Years of experience had taught us how to work the covert with greatest success. To shoot in the dense growth of the marshy basin on the eastern slope is next to impossible, and the birds when started always fly out over the cleared land around the base of the hill, affording an excellent shot for a man properly stationed. Working the covert from north to south the birds fly around the southern base of the hill, and vice versa, the gunner hay- ing choice of an incomer or tail shot, when only a tyro need score a miss. For a time it was a debated question who would beat the covert and who would do the shooting. My friend at last was prevailed to go to the accustomed place on the southern slope directly in the line of flight, and when he had done so I started in with the dog. I had ad- vanced but a few yards when a beautiful point greeted my sight. I was so enmeshed that it was impossible to shoot, and calling out “Point” to my friend, I ordered the dog on. A sound as of muffled thunder broke the stillness, and stooping to the earth I saw a magnificent cock bird making a bee-line toward my friend, as if to enter the muzzle of his gun. In a moment he had passed as swift as a flash, when the gunner wheeled around, ap- parently keeping the bird covered with his gun, as if he preferred a tail shot. Another moment and the bird had vanished, and there was no sound of gun to destroy his lite or salute his passage! What could be the matter? He soon called for and asked me to come to him. I was soon at his side, and in answer to my inquiry as to what was the matter, with impressive earnestness he made this paradoxical reply: “T could—and I couldn’t!” I noticed that he was deeply moved and I made no further inquiry. few moments passed and then these words of Shake- speare fell from his lips: “Like a dull actor now I haye forgot my part; and I am out.” Addressing me by name he continued: “How could 1? That innocent bird that never knew human care! That innocent bird that never did me or any other person harm! That innocent bird for whom the heavenly Father provides! * * * From this emi- nence just look around! Feast your eyes upon this wreath of gorgeous coloring that Rembrandt never equaled! What a panorama in the mellow autumn sunshine! Where all is beautiful, stillness and peace shall man alone mar and do the deed of destruction? * * * I could— and I couldn’t!” For a time there was nothing said; conversation was out of place and words would be but discord. The moments were impressive. “T hope you will pardon me and not think me over sen- timental or childish,” he finally said. “I have enjoyed my days in the field for many years, and, as you know, have killed a reasonablé number of birds, but it don’t seem as if I would ever want to kill another. But don’t let my feelings interfere with your pleasure. I will take the dog and beat the covert and send the birds to you.” To this I demurred, when it was mutually agreed that we should withdraw the cartridges from our guns and continue our day’s pleasure, enjoy the outing, and sec how many birds we could put up and get a fair shot al with a fair probability that we might reduce them to pos- session did we choose to. With this understanding I returned to the covert and soon after sent seven other birds within easy range of my friend’s gun. We then climbed to the rocky summit where for a time, seated upon the craggy rocks, we en- joyed the tempered sunshine, the exhilarating air, and the wealth of coloring which extended away in all directions until lost in the dim distance, where the faint undulating outline of the hills touched the horizon. The time and place were more suggestive of silence and musing than conversation, and recalled these lines of Emerson, the sage of Concord: “Hast thou named all the birds without a gun? Loved the wood rose and left it on the stalk? * At rich men’s tables eaten bread and pulse? Unarmed, faced danger with a heart of trust? *‘And loved so well a high behavior, ~ In man or maid, that thou, from speech refrained, Nobility more nobly to repay? Oh, be my friend and teach me to be thine!” The noon hour was drawing nigh and we returned to. the farm-house to eat our lunch. Here we were ushered into the old-fashioned dining room with its great fire- place and brass-topped andirons, and the hospitality of a thrifty New England farmer was urged upon us and it was thankfully accepted and highly appreciated. We returned to the covert beyond the hill in the after- noon, where we espied a wily fox nosing along the, ground in a small cleared space, evidently in search of mice. For some time we enjoyed his graceful move- ments, his attitudinizing and posing, when, alarmed by a whistle, he vanished as if shot from a gun into the covert beyond. Gray squirrels dodged about to opposite sides of trees, and when one of us remained behind they soon == - ~- = -—— -- =e = tinue to be well rewarded for their efforts. [JuNE 20, 1903. sought safety in the top of some projecting limb or in a sudden dash to adjacent trees. During the afternoon our dog did good work and made staunch point on eight birds which would have given us fair shots, but we did not trouble them. Beside the trout brook wild clematis grew in riotous profusion, and the blue-fringed gentian and the cardinal flower appeared more beautiful in contrast, but mindful of Emerson’s lines we did not disturb them in their envir- onment. The hours of the shortened day were soon num- bered, and we returned to our homes; and the day spent when we could and didn’t, remains a delightful reminis- cence. Gro. McALEEr. WoRrCESTER, Mass. : Massachusetts Fish and Game. Boston, June 13,—Editor Forest and Stream: The clouds of smoke and dust which have hung like a pall over New England for many weeks have been dissi- pated, and in their stead the mists and rains have come, Treviying vegetation, bringing smiles to nature’s face and gladness to the hearts of men. Anglers have special reason to share in the universal! rejoicing; for not only were the streams drying up, but many ponds and small lakes were becoming so low as. to forebode bad luck to fishermen. Our friends in the hill and mountain towns of the western counties, who: had abandoned their favorite pastime, have again takem down their rods and report some very good catches, especially in Berkshire, where, they tell us, they are getting better sport than at any time this season. Prob- ably some of the stream fish have been caught in shoal places and have lacked sufficient water to sustain life,. but when a drought is not continued long enough to destroy trout and is followed by a good rain, then is. just the time to get full creels. The experience of our friends in western Massachusetts will have a counter- part in other sections of our State and in other States. Some of your readers will be glad to learn that Lake Onota, Pittsfield, is now open to fishing three days of each week, Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, The executive committee of the Massachusetts Cen- tral Committee has just issued a report on the legis— lative work of the past winter, in which they character— ize the making permanent the anti-sale law on par- tridge and woodcock as “the most important piece of legislation in the interest of the protection of birds: ever enacted in the history of game legislation in Massachusetts.” Your readers will recall the fact, as set forth in the columns of Forrest anD SrREAM, while the fight was on three years ago, that a permanent en- actment was urged then, but that it was fought desper- ately in the committee; also, that even with the three years’ limitation it had to be fought at every stage of its progress and came quite near being lost in the Senate. This year the committee on fish and game reported unanimously in its favor, and in its progress through the two houses there was not once a call for a yea and nay vote. So much for the change in public sentiment as reflected in the action of our Legislature. No one knows better than you, Mr. Editor, the influ- ence which the Boston market has wielded on legisla- tion in years gone by. In the Forest Anp STREAM platform of 1894, which the writer has had in his pos- session these nine years, you say, “That which stands in the way of the present prohibition of the sale of game in the larger cities is the magnitude of the com- mercial interests involved.” _ The “Campaign of Educatign,” to which you refer in that document, has been effectively conducted in our State, and the community is learning “the true place of wild game in the economy of the civilization of the ‘ present.” ; _ In my humble opinion no one agency has done more in developing this public sentiment than your paper, which, as just compensation for its courageous and in- telligent advocacy of right principles, should be found in the household of every true sportsman. But with all the assistance we have received from your columns, it has been a long and an up-hill struggle, so long and so arduous as to discourage utterly some of the soldiers that enlisted under the banner of protection in days gone by. Others have kept their faces ever to the front, and are now reaping the rewards of a well-earned victory in seeing the principles they have advocated triumphant in many States of the Union, and so generally approved that the might of the general Government may now be invoked in their defense. Three events in the memorable struggle in behalf of ie birds in Massachusetts, briefly stated, are as fol- OWS: I. The meeting in 1898, when J. M. Stevenson, of Pittsfield, as a member of the Legislative Committee, - said the first thing for sportsmen to do was to get together and harmonize their differences. 2. The convention of sportsmen’s and farmers’ clubs called the same year by the Massachusetts Fish and Game Protective Association. - . 3. The convention of Dec, 14, 1800, in which 60 dif- ferent organizations were represented, and which de-, clared in opposition to the sale of game and proceeded to form a central committee of clubs, with an execu- tive committee to attend to legislative work, The prime mover in securing the different meetings, which have been of so much advantage to the cause of pro- tection, was the State Association, but the numerous clubs and societies scattered over the State that have “put a shoulder to the wheel,” have like reason to be proud of the results which have been achieved by sportsmen “getting together and harmonizing their differences.” We have a right to hope that the unani- mity of sentiment which now exists among the sports- men of Massachusetts, will be of long continuance. : E. S. Beach, Esq., Boston, who has just returned from Mooseluckmeguntic, tells me he saw there thir- teen 9-pound salmon at one time that had been taken from the lake, which goes to show that fishermen con-. A 7-pound salmon is credited to ex-Goy. Rollins—known the coun- _ try over as New Hampshire’s “Home Week” governor —and Miss Mary Skillings, of the Governor’s party, captured one of 5 pounds. — —- S97 JuNE 20, 1903.] FOREST AND STREAM. 485 a Mr. H. C. Kennedy, Brooklyn, is arranging Camp Bijou for the arrival of Mrs. Kennedy and their two ‘daughters. Mr. Henry H. Roeloffs, of Philadelphia, ‘with a party of five, is in his camp, Flosroe, at the ‘Narrows above Haines Landing. Several old-timers yet remain and are getting a good number of fish on Rangeley Lake. Writing to the Boston Herald of to-day regarding fires, Capt. F. C. Barker says: “It is to be regretted that erroneous reports should have been sent from this vicinity, for while the forests have suffered, it was not any of the woods sections frequented by the summer visitor to the lakes, except the near vicinity of Camp Bemis, and above this point the forest is not marred.” The Round Mountain Lake camps that were burned (three of them) early in the spring, have been rebuilt and have a good number of guests, among them Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Messenger. son and others from Win- chester, Mass. This lake is at a high altitude, and as the writer can testify from personal acquaintance, the camps are delightfully situated. I passed a few days there very pleasantly in the days of the man who built them, that veteran woodsman (once at Tim Pond), Kennedy Smith. They are twelve miles by buckboard road from Eustis. Twenty years ago the writer went from Eustis, 17 miles, to King and Bartlett lakes, which were opened this year, May 20. They can be reached now from Atteau Lake. Mr. Henry Seymour, with several friends from New York, is getting good luck on the lakes and on Spencer stream. Ii the fishing on the stream is what it used to be one can get the limit in an hour’s fishing in a certain pool I know. I am in receipt of a letter to-day from Mr. A. B. F. Kinney, written from Greenville Junction, Me., in which he writes: “The fire stories from here have been very much exaggerated. At all events they are all out now. I have been coming here for 25 years and never saw the fishing any better than it is now. Speckled trout are taking the fly fine, and to catch all the lakers by trolling is no trick at all. * * * I have not seen the sun for two days.” its , Grand Lake stream is now open to fly-fishing, and is furnishing good sport to a good number of anglers, who average from 6 to 12.daily, from 2% to 3% pounds in weight. The burning of the fine club house of the Englewood Club, with the surrounding forests, is great- ly regretted by the members, and they have the sympa- thy of all Boston sportsmen. Ex-Mayor Henry E. Cobb, of Newton, one of the members, lost his fine summer home at Musquash, N. B., and he has gone there to do what he can to relieve the distress of the inhabitants of that vicinity. ; ; Mr. Danforth informs me that Warren I. Hixon, of Lynn, recently took from Dan Hole Pond, N, H., a 13-pound and an 8%-pound salmon, and his companion, Mr. George E. Hanscom, of Malden, took one of 7 and one of 5 pounds. Mr. Frank B. Moore, of New- ton Highlands, has taken from Newfound Lake salm 4 of 5 and 6 pounds, and a 4-pound trout. : CENTRAL. Fire Made with a Gun. Editor Forest and Stream: Mr. Hough, in the current number, gives me the ‘first information of the fate of Mr. Egan, the railroad officer, who was lost in Montana last November; since ‘he was first reported to be lost. I have often thought ‘that when the snow had left this spring his body would — ibe found at the bottom of one of those ravines that cross that country in every direction. I have been in the country and I cannot call to mind now any place an the West, and I know the whole of the West pretty well, where a worse place could be found to get lost in. Had Mr. Egan, when he found himself lost, got up ‘on as high a point as he could find and then started ‘a fire, one that would give plenty of smoke, he no ‘doubt would be alive to-day. Some of the parties who ‘were out looking for him probably passed within a ‘mile of where his body lay frozen under the snow, for ihe no doubt froze to death. I remember a similar case that happened many years ‘ago: A party of us mounted men were out-in what is now Stonewall county, Texas, on a hunt and scout; ‘and while we were lying over a day in camp a number ‘of men went off in different directions on foot to hunt. A norther came up late in the afternoon, and at dark ‘when all the men should have been back, one of them \was still missing. It began to snow; but only enough. snow fell to ‘whiten the ground; but it would be of no use for us to ‘try to find that man after night. We kept up a good ‘signal fire all night, but he did not come in, and early the next morning four of us, all that in our lieutenant’s opinion could be sent without any danger of us get- ting lost in our turn, were sent out, each man by him- self, to hunt up the missing man, we going mounted. I had gone nearly six miles trom camp directly to- ward the Double Mountains, when just ahead of me, up on the top of a rocky ridge, I noticed a gray wolf acting rather curiously. He seemed to be interested in something down on the other side of the ridge. I sent a shot at him, but missed him, and he left. Climb- ing up to where the woli had been, I found my man. ‘He lay just below me and between this ridge and a higher one. He had fallen down off irom where I stood now late the last night, he told me; then had laid here ever since. He was not hurt much when I came to examine him. He had found himself lost late the evening before, then had wandered around until he had fallen here. He was still half frozen and did not have energy enough left to get up and hunt the camp. “Why did you not start a fire last night?” I asked, “Had you put one on the side of that hill up there, we could have seen it and then found you. The camp is in sight of this hill.” He had no matches, he said. “Vou did not need any; you had a gun and pistol. Now let me start one for you,” I had matches, but did not use them. I took the greasy rag I used for a gun stopper, then taking a small piece of paper folded both and thrust them in under a small log; then holding my pistol with the muzzle a few inches away from this stuff, I fired into it just.once, then blew on it, and had a fire without matches. After I had got the man warmed up a little, I put him on my horse, and we went home. Mr. Egan may not have had any matches, either, but he was too old a hunter to need them; he no doubt knew of this trick, and had he not been stunned from a fall, could have used it. I had not supposed that there was a man living who was in the habit of using a gun, but would know how to start a fire this way. I found men right in that camp, though, who did not know it, or at least had never thought of it. CaABIA BLANCO, A Close Time Incident. Ricurorp, Vt., May 26.—Editor Forest and Stream: Recently while out for a constitutional stroll over the hills near this village, accompanied by a couple of young setters, Bruce and Grouse, and our irrepressible fox ter- rier, Bob, I passed through a small piece of woods with all of the dogs close in-to-heel when a hen partridge (ruffed grouse) jumped tp from almost under my feet with a great whir-r-r and boom, at the same time scatter- ing in all directions her numerous brood of young chicks. Bob immediately gave chase after the fluttering mother bird, while the chicks (some of them had landed on their backs) picked themselves up, and, instead of trying to hide, young partridge fashion, they ran up to my feet as for protection. I picked one of them up and it nestled itself in a confiding way in my hand and looked up to my face with a fearless bright little eye. After holding it for a moment, I replaced it on the ground and turned my head to look at the dogs. Bruce, who is field broken, had dropped to flush when the old bird rose, and Grouse, a litter brother of Bruce (unbroken and having had no field work) was giving an object lesson of what heredi- tary instinct will teach a well bred setter to do under such circumstances. He was standing at a stanch point, with his nose down within a foot of one of the chicks, which was sitting quietly on a large dead leaf. After watching them for a few moments, I backed away from the spot and called to the dogs to come-to-heel. Bruce obeyed, but Grouse held his point immovable. After call- ing to him several times I walked up to him and placed my hand on his back. He was as rigid as a piece of marble. I rubbed him down a few times and calling him a good fellow, took him up in my arms and moved away from the spot. As soon as he was away from the scent he relaxed, and as I dropped him to the ground he showed by his actions that he knew that he had done a good thing, and that he had discovered a new source of pleasure —hitherto an unknown pleasure. There were a dozen or more of those chicks and there can be no doubt that the nest where they were hatched was “nder a small evergreen bush from under which the cld bird jumped. The chicks must have been newly hatched or they would not have been so tame and unso- phisticated, as my former experience has been that when young grouse are disturbed, they will quickly secrete themselves under the dead leaves or some other con- venient cover. I went on in the direction taken by the old bird and soon found Bob under some second growth hemlocks, where he seemed to think that his game had treed. Call- ing him to heel, we went out into the cleared pasture, so as to not further disturb that interesting family, though We may soon pay them another visit with a camera. STANSTEAD, Sport’s Fatal Point. JerFerson Barracks, Mo., June 11.—Edttor Forest and Siream: Observing the inclosed article in my St. Louis ‘Republic of a day or two since, and thinking you might find something of interest therein, I take the liberty of forwarding it. Please be careful to keep it separate from articles discussing the “Intelligence of Wild Animals,” as I do not wish to complicate that discussion by furnishing a basis to the possible theory that the quail Jured this set- ter to his destrtiction by giving scent at the instant he was on the track and the car in sight. Wm. F, Frynn. Because Sport, an Irish setter dog, belonging to M. A. Klein, of No. 2807 Accomac street, was too tenacious on a point, he lost his life, and judgment for $200 was en- tered yesterday in Judge Taylor's division of the Circuit Court against the St. Louis Transit Company for the dog’s death. = On May 23, 1902, Sport discovered some birds on the street near his master’s home, and imemdiately assumed ‘the attitude taken by hunting dogs when they discover game. When a bird is sighted the dog stops, and remaits standing with one of his fore paws raised and his eyes fixed on the bird. This is called pointing. Sport, like many other hunting dogs, was very stanch on point, or hard to be made to leave his position until the game had been disposed of. Unfortunately for Sport, two things occurred in his case. One was that when he sighted the birds he was on the car track. The other was that a California avenue car was bearing down upon him. Sport either did not see the car, or, seeing it, heeded it not. The remainder of Sport’s life was contained in the fol- lowing questions put by Attorney J. Carter Carstens to the motorman : ; “Did you not hear a grinding and breaking of bones?” Klein brought suit in Justice Hanley’s court for dam- ages about two months after Sport’s remains had been laid to rest. A change of venue was taken to Justice Walkers court, which is now presided over by Justice Griffin. From there it was taken to Justice Billhartz’s court and back to Justice Griffin’s court and then back to Justice Spaulding’s court, where it was tried. Klein placed Sport’s value at $300 and asked for $200 punitive damages in addition, The evidence did not war- rant punitive damages, and Attorney Carstens amended by eliminating the claim for punitive compensation. The jury, however, returned a verdict for $450 and the Transit Company appealed. The evidence showed that Sport possessed other admir- able qualities beside being a stanch pointer. One of these was his ability to play on the piano. At the behest of his master’s wife he would take a position before the instrument and pound on the keys with his paws and howl in accompaniment. He appeared to enjoy the melody or medley, and there was no doubt but that it was enjoyed by the children of the neighbor- hood, who would gather on the pavement to hear him. A Moose Transaction. JAmes McQuarters, a constable at Glasston, was ar- rested several days ago on a warrant charging him with having protected game in his possession, and before Justice Ball, at St. Thomas, was fined $so. The arrest of McQuarters is a sequel to the moose kill- ing episode at Glasston some time ago, when Farmer Raedel was arrested on a charge of killing a moose. _ Raedel lives some distance from Glasston, and it appears that before the moose was killed McQuarters and a party of four Glasston men started in pursuit of the animal, which had been discovered in a grove near Glasston. Before they reached the Raedel place, his mooseship had been killed. McQuarters is charged with representing to the farmer that he represented the game warden and had authority from him to take the carcass of the moose or to collect $50 from him. Farmer Raedel did not feel like giving up the money, so decided to give McQuarters the hide, the head and part of the meat. Naturally the party returned to Glasston well satisfied with the trip, even if Farmer Raedel-had got the shot at the moose. Mr. Rac- del was not entirely satisfied, and he took a statement in writing from McQuarters in which it was stated that he, McQuarters, represented the game warden and that Rae- del was exonerated from all blame in connection with the killing. When he was arrested later for killing the moose he showed this document, and it was on his statement that Game Warden C. A. Hale swore out the warrant for the arrest of McQuarters on a charge of having portions of the moose in his possession. Violators of the State game laws have begun to realize that the law is to be observed in the northern district of the State, and in his efforts to enforce the laws Mr. Hale will haye the assistance of every true sportsman in the State—Grand Forks (N. D.) Herald. Sea and River LHishing. peal | Proprietors of fishing resorts will find it profitable to advertise them in Forest AND STREAM. Canoel and Camp Life Along the Delaware River. t 4 7 Rie 7 - ———— Xil—The Two Harps. “He has discovered beneath him the wonderfullest Earth, with her winter snowstorms and her summer spice-airs, and himself, most wonderful of all, standing there.’’—Carlyle. “Nature ceases to be the mirror of man, only to make man its mirror.”—Article on Landscape, Edinburgh Review, January, 1901. THE seven disciples who went a-fishing and cast their’ nets all night without success, found their Master whei morning came; and then obtained over one hundred and fifty large fish. There is a vital sense in which like ex- periences may be had by the true angler, right along the Delaware. We have taken five large bass this motning in the Benekill channel of the river at the Water Gap, and from near the submerged log at the foot of the island just above Susque- hanna Bridge. The sport was very fine; but as we smoke after noon-day luncheon beside the shore spring, and note all the views of clouds and hills, water, foliage and wild roses, we realize anew that our greatest pleasure springs from contemplation of the novel and attractive environ- ment. This feeling leads to a long conversation, which I submit without giving its actual dialogue. There is a “fine and beautiful alliance’ between the scale and variation of thought, feeling and emotion which dwell and reign in the hearts and souls of men, and the change, fantasy, grace and mystery of the moods and aspects in Nature. Life as mystic as the spirit man feels within himself, dwells in the leaf he may pluck and crush; and departs when death broods over and claims it as its green changes to gold, and the gold changes to brown of vegetable mould. ‘ This truth is carried out into the whole world. There was gladness and laughter in the landscape here at sun- tise. Now, at noon-day, happiness, contentment, satisfied being, aré well defined by nature’s aspects as we smoke on the shore. And it is eye-niusic! The hatmonies waked by a really great orchestra, as they tise, die away, float and live softly in unexpected strains and phrases, now straying in rills apart, then gathering volume until the stormy melody pulsates through and shatters all the air, have countless moods in them—the glee of dancers, the calm fire of golden sunsets, the joy of bridals, the madness and lust of conquest— myriads of mystic impressions and feelings of which the soul is capable, yet which were never expressed in words, and never can be! Yet they are summoned when the baton of Thomas or Gericke, wand-like, directs the action of a hundred skilled performers, and uses their power 1n unity. Tinkling lyres as of underground rivulets; bellow- ing of storms! From the magic realms of harmony, un- seetl sotind-birds soar, circle, beat their wings on anyil and drum, and hover like butterflies over violins, flutes and oboes! Calls of cornets, boom of artillery, fainting flutter of foliage, music of Howing water, lark-calls so far away that their cadences seem delicate and fine as the breath you breathe! The little human brain directing the hand that wields the baton, sttmmons at will the whole forces of Nature—the riyers, the mountains, the winds! It is really the playing of a giant harp. Now, if an unplayed harp, tuned in proper chords, is set amid the musicians, the harp-strings will vibrate and sound in sympathy with the general being of the har- monies from all the instruments. Its soul, waked to life, is being. played pon, and gives glad. loving answer 486 to the concourse of sweet sounds. It is the divinity in harmonies trembling along the harp-wires, and through all the air. 7 ; It ceases; the performers stand motionless, while the master soloist now sweeps the harp-strings; and they give © back their loving answer to violin, drum, oboe, cymbal, cornet, flute and clarionet—all having waked in them the faint, trembling, echoing vibrations of the harp-song, We say “Fine music is very sweet and beautiful.” Why? Because the human soul is not only endowed with a sense of beauty of sound, but is itself a harp tuned more or less perfectly—sometimes dulled and apathetic, some- times exquisitely sensitive. The music borne through the mere instruments beats pon and wakes to life countless mystic strings in the soul-harp, blessing with their har- monies, refining, ennobling, purifying in proportion as man knows and is swayed! I repeat, many and many of these soul-notes can never be described in words; yet they sing, regnant, swaying, with sure control, in our in- most souls, when finest music not only floods our ears, but our hearts. Quite as powerful, mystic and exquisite, is the music of the eye, or as Wordsworth calls it, the eye-harvest. Here on the Delaware we are with a sight orchestra, forever playing lovely symphonies. Infinite change and gradation in mysteries of distance, fantasy and grace of varied and divided motion, enchantments of hues that change, blend and part again! Exquisite lines of curvature, and tender- est finish on rocks and hills! Clouds, crests, pinnacles, leafage and its shadows, boughs, “weeds,” flowers; glories of sunlight, dreamy Jandscapes asleep under afternoon sunshine, fairy glints from stars where water flows or falls in showers of tossed pearls—these are some of the “moods” and “effects,” interwoven, divine, which are forever summoned in sight-harmonies by the baton of creative intelligence—the Master of the Looms. Vital thoughts, but not new ones! Others have often stated them far better than the writer, and freed from turgid dross and all offensive grandiloquence. _ And far more powerfully and in richer measure than the sound-harmonies-waked-by human players upon 1n- struments that, at best, are not perfect, the perpetual sight-_ harmonies play upon the -soul-harp, especially when its owner stands where fhey may beat upon it in rich abundance. More, nature forever sound in woods, waters, skies, birds, winds! This brings -us to the curious fact that none know the absolute verity of all this better than those who are dis- posed to call such thoughts mere rhapsody, and that suci critics are usually the work-weary, office-burned, practical men who are forced to starve the soul in business slavery. and chase of the elusive dollar, and yet who flee during vacations to freedom, outdoor life, leisure, recreation, and the novelty of wild and sylvan environment. But I have yet to see one of these critics who will scoff at such thoughts as he actually listens to and sees Nature’s or- chestras, and as their harmonies wake the soul-harp to sympathetic response. : ; But there is a sense in which the soul-harp is never still. After all, the strings must often vibrate to chords waked by itself. Hate, love, jealousy, revenge, pique, melancholy, triumph, admiration, ecstasy, and a hundred. other moods, and still a thousand nameless others that are often scarcely recognized or traceable by one’s self, forever sway us; although often lying dormant until roused; and there is not one of these moods and feelings, however mystic or inexpressible in words, that nature cannot show in synonym and duplicate through her in- finite manifestations. ‘ . Tempests rage, rills sing with baby murmurings, light- ning blasts, the hawk swoops upon the thrush in full song, and cruel claws end the singer’s life even while blue sky smiles and sunshine blesses the thorn-blossoms, below which the fledglings of that thrush are doomed to wail, hunger, starve and die. Fidelity in the forget-me-not blooms, love in violets looking up to their sister blue of the sky; joyousness of the robin’s chirp, sure self-poise of the soaring eagle, swift cruelty as he drops upon and bears away the rabbit to feed his brats in some cairn along a cliff! And the sadness of gray landscape, heart- broken sorrow as in the night-notes of the mourning dove: strength and loveliness of wide summer fields and forest_ astir under brisk winds, dolce far niente of sunny after- noons brooding over all, mystic ecstasy of dreaming as of moonlit waves and sleeping forests; hints from the un- knowable, as of starbeams softly falling into the eye after a pure, steadfast, inconceivably swift journey of thousands of years; and reaching out for help in difficulty and in- tense desire that has transformed itself into possibility; as of elm and hemlock roots winding far over and be- tween crevices of rocks to reach earth and water! In all this nature has a soul! She gathers the sunbeams out of the east and brings sweetness of light. She glories in majestic tyranny of waves, pathos of still, white moun- tain peaks, says. her vesper prayers in her own sum- moned evening twilight, rejoices in the rosy tints of hol- lows beneath the curved crests of her snow-drifts, up- holds, sways, and bends with.grace in wind-tried boughs, and symbolizes destruction in the conflagration and dying glories of sunset clouds! Again I insist, all this is sternest fact. No wonder that the Psalmist declared: “Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge.” But there is a further and curious truth. Man is the glass of nature, and, by inversion, nature is the glass of man. It is not.always true, as Bryant states, that nature steals into man’s “darker musings with a mild and heal- ing sympathy that takes away their sharpness ere he is aware.” Note the sadness in the “Ode to the Nightingale” by Keats, and “In a Drear-nighted December” by Shelley. Men often find their depression deepened by contemplation of nature. “Over her face their own shadows fall—grass, thicket, white hawthorn, fading violets and frozen tree, ice-bound stream, sea-wave and weed and sand are inter- penetrated with.the lassitude, the melancholy and the fevered exhaustion of life, where hope, passion, and the desire of the heart, soul and mind are sinking on the ebb- tide of the ocean whose further shores are the land of the unknown.” ee ae Sight to behold and know something of all this will come to the angler as the years pass, and more quickly if he also camps. His tent is his tabernacle. The paddle is his sail, the dimples waked by its gashes are smiles to him from the water, and its drops are dew to his heart, adds harmonies of FOREST AND STREAM. The lancewood or bamboo rod is not merely an instru- ment to be used in landing a black bass, salmon or trout. Used rightly, it is, far more, the wand by which he un- folds nature’s scrolls, and reveals “the boundless store of charms” which she yields to her votary. Tent, paddle, canoe, rods and reels, the far-reaching views and hills, the song of flowing water and novel sequence and current of events, compel and bless change of thought, with their endless new topics for contemplation and perception. I am aware that, to some, this will seem like an attempt tc be abstruse and mere weak analysis—lacking interest, and out of place in these columns. But the subject itself is of vital import to every sportsman. Alas, my feeble, perhaps self-conscious pen, may have chosen words for it that seem to strut and pose. May far better writers deal with this subject. My only excuse for it here is love, and sincere wish to make others love. We get practical proof. of the truth of much of what has preceded in the simple happenings of the morning. Last night my chum yielded to temptation and “went bull poutin’” with some young men who live at the Gap. He was on the river until after midnight, and then helped to SLEEPING LATE, fry the bullheads in the kitchen of the station hotel. Pie, cheese, doughnuts, hot biscuits, coffee; then a cigar, and finally a pipe in his room here at the Glenwood. This morning he is “a wreck”’—hilious, moody, silent, “wuss’1’ snappin’ turtle!” as his repulsed boy friend complains. “How -d’ye feel?” I ask him, as he sits on the front porch. ' “Tike that,’ he replies, waving his hand toward the rain-sodden meadows and dripping trees and the dun, weeping clouds, a sadness of dreary landscape full of moaning gusts and depression. “Jes’ like that!” he repeats. “It’s a sombre morning inside o’ me, too, An’ don’t you come round Jecturin’ me. Let me alone!” Moods of a bilious soul and a dark wet day in unison. Comedy ! But at the other end of the porch sits a man on whom a dread disease has settled. A hunted, hopeless, resigned DELAWARE RIVER BASS. look in his hollow eyes! It is a sombre day indeed with him, and the landscape typifies his darkness, Tragedy! An hour Jater! Bursts of sunshine, great patches of blue sky, gloriaus colors on and through driving clouds; drying foliage, renewing bird songs! A mile away the long line of maples that edge a forest change from green te gray, and affect the whole aspect of the landscape as the wind lifts the leaves and shows their silvery under sides. Nature is “cheering up!” So are my two friends. After dinner! - Silver palaces upreared in the blue abyss _ along the horizons! Dry leafage, almost clear sky; and quails and robins are calling. My chum sits in the same potch chair, admiring the wide view. “How d’ ye feel now?” I ask again. “Tike that landscape! Git on yer old rig and come on, Bass’ll bite good after the rain!” Comedy again! At the other end of the porch the slow pathos of a life ebbing away continues; but the stricken man’s face has brightened. Hope has returned to those eyes, shining through resigned acceptance. His voice is cheery. “How beautiful the world is! better. If I do go, maybe I shall live in palaces something like those silver ones in the sky beyond that mountain.” And so the days and nights pass along the Delaware, full of incident. A moonlight row by our whole party of five, the college boy and his best girl especially hypnotized, for they are in “that new world which is the old.” The inevitable river angling, with its lunch at noonday at the Benekill spring, and a long hour with our cigars as we lie on the grass with our coats for pillows, and the pale The doctor just tells me I am t ' [JUNE 20, 1903. ee el moon of full daylight swings westward! My comrade : mourns over his nearing departure, but begins to long for the strenuous city life. “D’ye see that mountain over there?” “Do I? It fills all that part of the sky.” “Well, it’s not a real mountain, but a mighty big hill. I’ve got courage like that to draw on now! Let’s steal some blankets, pack ’em on a horse, an’ go up there an’ sleep on the ground.” “Done !”” And so in the next number I shall try to tell of hills; but the constant and crushing sense of impotence to really describe is very disheartening. Only sincere desire to induce others to go a-fishing and a-camping and see the actual nature-beauties, prompts a continuance of this series. : _No words, especially my poor words, can do more than hint at their loveliness and grace. The eye should look for ttself, not merely through foggy, pitifully inadeqitate word-pictures by another. How. poor a substitute for the actual scenes is this spreading of black ink on white paper! For “the smell of flowering clover, the sounds of winds in poplar boughs, the touch of sun-warm turf as we lie on it, bring us nearer far to Earth than all the mental images of the blurred pink and gray-green sum- mer meadows behind high-hedged lanes—nearer than any verse which tells of the rustle and stir of leaves, or of the sheep-cropped downs.” Go yourself! See the moss-tapestried nooks, hear the voices of the river, and witness at first hand and not by proxy “the infinite gradations of daylight and twilight and darkness, the countless variations of cloud-forms and cloud-colors, the tinted outlines of hills and mountains, the lights and shadows that wing their way over plains and fields, the phantom and fleeting panoramas of water reflections.” For these cannot be really translated (not even impressions of them) by the deftest painters with pigments or with words. Before the actual scenes, out with the wide world of nature, you will vividly see not only her loveliness, but, far more vital, you will behold the loveliness in these visible thoughts of the Supreme Artist who planned and brought them into being. You will learn to know the infinite divinity in nature, as well as her infinite beauties of hue, motion, sound, form, life and mystery, and love her more and more. It would seem that representative nature-lovers and sportsmen would not be ashamed of that love, nor of stating it as the principal well-spring of their enjoyments while angling or camping. Yet at a recent meeting and banquet of many hundreds of American nature-lovers and sportsmen, presided over and managed by men of wide reputation, the most successful speaker was a min- ister and doctor of divinity. It was a great occasion, and a great opportunity; but it was not utilized by any speaker. How Burroughs (our only John!), Thoreau, Emerson, Hamerton, Ruskin, Jordan or Lowell would have pictured in earnest, loving words, the nobility and refining influences of the camp, and the delights of the pastime loved by Izaak Walton! But this speaker’s most successful passage was a story about a fisherman who said that whisky was a sure specific for snake-bite, but that it was hecessary for an angler to have the whisky in him “before he was bit!” : L. F. Brown. Fifteen Hours with a Salmon. GUERETITE, Me., June 7.—Editor Forest and Stream: Up here, where 5-pound trout come in every day, where a lake trout has to touch ro pounds to be a “big un,” there was something doing yesterday. Mr. Edward Spaeth hooked a landlocked salmon, and from that time until the fish was in the net, was just fifteen hours and five minutes. Out all night till broad daylight; got home with the fish in the morning. At 3:15 P. M. he struck, and all night that 744-pound devil jumped, ran, sulked, got under the boat, jumped clean and clear over the paddles, and jumped out of water twenty-six times. The guide said he traveled twenty-five miles during the night. The tackle was an A-1 6%4-ounce split bamboo and all else in proportion. Another fish in the same lake jumped squarely into the boat, caught the hook on a coat and fell off in the boat. The record for weight for this lake is: rod and line, 19% pounds; net (by fish commission), 23%. A 7-pound square tail was taken the same day by another of the same party, Judge Coult, Newark, N. J. These are facts; I will swear to them, Pink EncE. Hartrorp, Conn., June 9—Editor Forest and Stream: Have just returned from Cumming’s camps, Cross Lake, Maine. On Sunday Dr. French sent you an account of how Edward Spaeth, of Newark, held on to” a landlocked salmon for over fifteen hours before land- ing him. Dr. French wrote out the account Sunday night, and then read it to our party. I told him that I thought his story was a little too short, and that a fuller account would be more interesting to fishermen and perhaps give credence to an almost improbable story. Mr. Spaeth, Mr. Coult and myself were trolling with live bait at the upper end of Salmon Lake (Mud Lake). I noticed that Mr. Spaeth had hooked something, and a moment later saw a salmon go up into the air. J told my guide that it looked like 4 big one, fully 15 or 20 pounds. I then looked at my watch and noted that the time was 3:15. I kept on trolling near Mr. Spaeth until about 6:30, when I went down to the lower end of the lake, and then returned to the camp. After sup-— per Dr. French, Mr. Coult and myself played dummy whist until about midnight, expecting that Mr. Spaeth © would come in almost any moment. At last we became alarmed, and about one sent two guides up to the lake. : They got back about half past two, reported that Mr. Spaeth was still holding his fish and that it had leaped three times while they -were there. : I left the camp the following morning shortly before six, and a half hour latér met Mr. Spaeth and his guide coming into the thoroughfare between Salmon and Cross lakes. I asked him when he had taken in the fish, and he said only a mew minutes before. He opened his box and showed me the salmon. It was an unusually long and. clipper-built fish, fully as long as an ordinary 15-pound salmon. The hook was still i eis Ve ya! VG J bar 904.7 FOREST - AND STREAM. ' 487 hands. , _At the request of Dr. French, Mr. Coult atid 1 éét- tified to the length of time it took Mr. Spaeth to get his “fish in the net, and as I am already accused of bringing back some rather unusual fish stories from the State of Maine, I am more than anxious to have the facts correctly stated. It is also worth knowing that Mr. Coult, of our party, caught a 714-poutd squaré tail iti Square Lake, and also brought in a 16-poutid landlocked salimoi from Salmon Lake. It took him a little over an hotir atid forty-five minutes to latid the salmoii. . Jonny B, Ltncér. CHICAGO AND THE WEST. The Saginaw Crowd in Camp, _Cuicaco, June 5—The Saginaw Crowd had the pret- tiest camp last week which they have eyer made on any fishing trip, and perhaps a prettier was never pitched on any stream, The three big house tents belonging to Mr. Davis, Mr. Mershon and Mr, Harvey were in line, close up to the bank of a great pool on as lovely a little trout rivet as ever rippled out of doors. On another cornet of a hig quadraigie the camp men had their wall tetit. Ti the cente® stood the diritig hail, tnade with a bls cativas fly for root aiid wattleé evergreen boughs for sides. Add to this the cook's shelter, not to mention two admirable fires, ofie for cooking and oné for lounging, and you have a caiiip which, as typical of toderii arigling at its best, could hardly be sutpassed. Had the weather been as decent as everything and everybody else, the wéek of_the Sagitiaw Crowd in catiip would have bees ideal. Eveti ii spite of the weather, these doughty fishermén pre- vailed, as | ami sute many Of théir frietids in Saginaw at testify after receiving some of thelr baskets of ish, The persotinel of the party this trip was good, of eourse, but above all thitgs transient and uncertain, Mr. C. H, Davis, as owner of this wildeértiéss preserve, was commander-in-chief, as was the case last year. He went early and stayed late, and so did George Mor- ley, who was not of the party last year. Mr. Mershon was in at the beginning of the camp, but was obliged to leaye a day beiore de pence, Mr. James Peter, of Sapitiaw, another Crowditeé, arid a wietitber of the first fishing trip last yeaf, went home with Mr. Mershon a day early. Mr. Thomas Harvey, a ttew mieniber for a trout trip, went hottie on Sunday, after three days in camp. Mr. Graham H. Harris, of Chicago, atid miy- self, after cotisiderable telegraphing, managed to get into camp by Sunday noon, but were obliged to leave’ on Wednesday morning. In spite of all this confusion, the Saginaw machine ran as smoothly as ever. Martin, the camp cook, was most excellent good. We had George King and George Higgins and little Harry King and another teamster or so to help keep things moving, and lastly, Harry, the long-time camp man of the Saginaw Crowd, was on hand once more, in spite of his late threats to desert civic life altogether and go tO a university. Out of the whole force present there was not one who could not cast a fly upon Occasion or eat a dozen trout at a sitting, should necessity demand it of him, As to the trout, they were there, any quantity of then, thousands and hundreds of thousands of them. In imy two days’ fishing I suppose I took something like 300 trout. Mr. Davis, in one day, put 39 in his basket, and threw away 115, Of course I can’t say that nearly all of these trout were real trout. They were little fellows of the 6-inch class, just below the State limit of seven inches, and in some cases not more than 4 inches long. The stream was literally swarming with them, and they constituted themselves an angling Tluis= ance. It was actually wearying to be releasing these little fellows from the hooks all the time. We resorted to big flies and to different styles of fishing, but the little anes would not be denied. Unless some cataclysm of nature or pot-fishing ensues, this stream ought to be in splendid shape for next year. This is not to say that there were no big trout taken on the trip. On the contrary, we caught larger fish this time than we ever did before. Mr, Mershon had one trout which went over 15 inches, the largest we had ever yet taken on any of these wild Michigan streams. Not to be outdone, Mr. Davis, on the very day that Mr. Mershon started away, came into camp with a still jarger trout, one measuring 1634 inches. Of 12 and 1 inch trout we had any number. Our total number 1+ fish for the trip, all rods combined, was about 400, fothing very extraordinary in the way of fishing, but Wilite enough for comfort and sport. The showing was Some 50 fish behind that of last year, when not quite so much total time’ was put in at fishing. This discrep- ancy, which was not regretted by any gye in particular, was fio doubt due to the unfavorable weather condi- tiotis of the past week, The wind was northeast and east every day, while the boys were in camp, while part of the time it was so cold that ice froze more ~ than half ati inch thick it the water pail at night. ‘After a short expefietice with Mr. Harris, to show him sOftiething of the streati, ty first day was put in with Mr. Mershoii ott the wildest and most inaccessible part of the rivér, where it rutis through a very heavy and inaccéssible swatiip. We drove up the river more thati eight files froiti camp, skirted a heavy virgin hem- loci forést arid at last foutid the cache, where two little boats Weré hidden, Ove of these, a canvas crait, we put togéthér, atid Mr. Mershoni aiid I started down stream through the wilderiéss, taking turtis in the boat, on the ride-and-tie principle. Ii this way, sitice we were able to travel much more rapidly iH the boat, we managed to #@t through the eight miles or so of ittaccessible country iti tliti€ to get to the team before dark, Gites King. having mieaiititte driven back and touched the stream at the other end of the cedar swamp. Even with the boat we found it a full day’s fishing, and toward the close we were obliged to hurry over some of the bést water at a time when the trout were rising fairly well, Earlier itt the day we did not do much, for the yang was froti the east atid so high that one could hardly keep a fly out of the treetops. There 4ré times when the trout are coming fairly well, when I coiiceive the iotion that I am quite a fly- fishérman, thén agiti there are timies when the trout are not disposed to rise, moré especially times when I am out with Mr. Mershon, that I revise tity opifiion of my own prowess. Thé first titie we ever wert through this wainp together, my coifipanion gaye me a good trimming up, and he repeated this dose upon the pres- ent occasion. His basket had somethittg like a dozen ea fish when we came to check up, and all I could claitti was five. We had, however, almost without ex- séptioti, beautiful fish, aid I shall remember for a long tittie the battles 1 had with some of my biggest ones. Twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fiiteet) inches—these are all god miéasureintents for Michigati wild streams, and the sh were beautiful, clean specimens, dark-backed and highly ¢olored. J have never seer fishing any more ifiterestii® thati we had in this swamip, and regret that I could not havé just oe Hore go at them, as I think iow I haye mastered iiiy tHoré expert companion’s secret. 1 would slip down oni hit quietly with the boat, when it was itty turn to drop dowti stream, and catch him standing up to his waist in the water, with not a ripple about him, his ari close at his side and his line ridiculously short. We fished together for a while, and I was laying out a line shorter than I thought ficeessaty. “You can’t catch a trout on that long a line’ said Mr. Mershon, and I presume he was right. My whole experience on this trip was that tf you Watit to catch trout you don’t want to try any long distance casting. It is more in the wading than in the edstitig, very tiuch more indeed. The man who wades dowii streain atid casts as he walks is not going to get very ate trout. just after the edge of the wide series of ripples, and fio big trout is going to take it. I got nearly a couple of dozen Hicé frout of my last day’s fishing and did it oti 4 line iiot tiuch tore than twenty feet in extent. I made it a rulé ii going into any likely water, to stop perfectly still and to wait until the ripples had all sub- sided atid until the water was clear of all discoloration; then I would begin my casting. Ji I raised a good trout and did not heok him, I was careful not to slap back in again in the sate place, but would cast some- Where else for a minute or two, and then try him again, efideayoring to place the fly gently just above the place where I had seen him rise. This method I found successful. The short line allows one to keep his tip well up and makes him far more certain of hooking a rising fish. The line is always straight, and a fly ean be handled yery much more delicately than it can on a Jong line by any fisherman, no matter how expert. It was the short line and the light fly and the careful wading which ‘got the big trout for the lucky ones in the cedar swamp. Mr. Mershon was not alone in this art, for Mr. Davis, who spied out a hidden path along the stream and fished lower reaches on the same day that Mr. Mershon and I were higher up, came out with a simply splendid basket of fish, some seventeen in all, not a baby in the lot, and eyery one of them more like Quebec and Mich- igan in size: Mr. Davis said that he caught nearly all of his trout, either while crouching down on his knees or while getting as low down as he could into the water. Yet these big trout, according to my companions, are not really very wild, which is contrary to the supposi- tion of most folk. The truth is, no man can under- stand the brook trout, which is the most mysterious being in the waters under the earth. or instance, Mr. Mershon caught his biggest trout in less than three mintites after | had dropped down across a deep hole in the boat. He says that a trout is easily frightened, but that he does not remember it very long. The re- sults of our fishing seem to bear out these conclusions, At any rate, we certainly got trout, and big ones and plenty of them. Every night, when the different parties came into camp, the catches were laid out on a board, so that all might have a look, and it was agreed that in size the take this year surpassed anything which the Saginaw Crowd had hitherto had in any of their Michigan trips, It may be seen that the occasion was one of great re- joicing, therefore, and the only regrets were those oc- casioned by the weather and by the broken nature of the companionship in camp. There were two species of flies very abundant on the river, one the large, gray drake, similar to what we call the sand fly here in Chicago, or the shad fly or soldier fly of other parts of the country—the fellow with the upright wings and the long up-curved tail and soft body. Another species was a small four- winged fellow, which hatched out in countless thousands of an evening or early in the day, if the water. con- tinued cool.’ We found a large queen-of-the-waters the best duplicate for the big gray drake, and the Cahill tied on No. 10 alinost a perfect imitation of the smaller fly. Queen-of-the-waters and Cahill were per- haps the best killing flies used on the trip, McGinty His fly lights just before or - did not seem to do so well as usual, although it killed a great many handsome fish, Silver-bodied Montreal, the Alexandria, even silver-doctor and other gaudy flies sometimes raised fish, and these patterns were usually fished in large hooks, it being the universal desire to get tid of the small fry. In my own lagt day's fish- ing, in which I killed a nice basket within the space of an hour and a half, I found queen and Cahill to be the favorites, the latter, perhaps, taking three-fourths of the honors over the next best fly, a slate-winged professor. The stream seemed to demand a fly with some yellow in it, most of the time. Green was no good. Indeed, I never have found green to be a very serviceable color in a trout fly, although many scoff at this proposition, citing the grizzly-king as a pro- nounced example to the contrary. We didn’t find grizzly-king of any use on this trip. Queen, McGinty, professor and Cahill probably did most of the busi- ness, althought hat-bands at night time showed that many scores of other flies had been diligently em- ployed. What a sight, by the way, is an angler’s hat, bristling with its many-colored flies, I came home in such a hurry that I hadn’t time to remove my own “discards” from my hat band, and when I came to un- packing the hat at home it seemed so pleasantly rem- iniscent that I just hung it up the way it was, ready to begin all over again. A review of the doings of the Saginaw Crowd on this trip seemed to show that’ Mr. Davis was consistent high hook. On the different days that he fished he took, according to my notes, 23, 42, 27, 22, 15, and 12. His last basket of 15 was a very fine one indeed, and that on the day previous, 22, was the best basket of the trip, his fish being splendid ones on_ that occasion. Mr. Mershon fished one day less than Mr, Davis, tak- ing, respectively, 9, 20, 40 and 13 fish, Mr. Morley came next with 12, 15, 21,8 and 8 Mr. Harvey fished two days, his basket being 7 and 5. Mr. Peter fished four days and took 7, 3, 5, and 7 fish. Mr. Harris, fish- ing two and a half days, took 11, 9, 19 fish. To my own rod I had 11, 8 and 21 on the different fishings, George King, head guide, took 13 handsome fish one day, and Harry, the camp major domo, broke away one evening long enough to catch 17 beauties, and I think had some trout the evening previous. The totals to the different rods foot up, as Mr. Davis’ accurate records show: Mr. Davis 138, Mr. Mershon 82, Mr. Morley 69, Mr. Harvey 12, M. Peter 22, Mr. Harris 39, myself 40; George King 13, Harry 17. It should be remembered that the different rods fished different lengths of time, and it should always, of course, be noted that no one in the Saginaw Crowd was ever known to care whether the next fellow caught more fish than himself or not, although each may be counted upon to do his best throughout the day. As to the little fish, the sentiment was altogether against crowding the limit. The Saginaw Crowd needs no game warden, for, as one of their members remarked, “T expect any one of us is a better game warden than the State could hire to watch us.” It was a great pleasure to be with these gentlemen once more in what I take to be the wildest portion left of this southern peninsula of Michigan, and on one ot the best streams now remaining. I do not think a pleasanter angling trip could have been enjoyed by any man, no matter how fortunate or happily situated. Trolley to Fox Lake. Mention is frequently made in these columas of the Fox Lake chain, much patronized by the Chicago ang- ling public. Good railroad access is had to-day at sev- eral different points on the Fox Lake waters, but the question is now on the establishment of a trolley line, which shall extend out Milwaukee Avenue, this city, and run clear through to a point on Fox Lake, not yet de- termined. In order to obtain this it is necessary to get a franchise from the Chicago City Council, but this once granted the enterprise itself in all reasonable likelihood is destined to be completed within the next year or so. Some Tarpon, Mr. Oswald Von Lengerke writes this week that he had landed one tarpon of 140 pounds at Aransas Pass and that the sport was good, ; E. Hovucs. HagrtFrorD Buitpinc, Chicago, Ill. Acid Killing Trout in Sullivan County. New Yor, April 27—There is on a Sullivan county creek with which I am familiar, a means of depopt- lating the stream of which the law should take cog- nizance and stop. I refer to the practice of the acetate factories discharging their sludge or waste fluids into it, thereby killing thousands of trout. It is a common occur- rence to see fine trout and even eels floating on the sur- face of the water, poisoned by the sludge. During the past few years numerous cans of fry and yearlings have been emptied into the creek, but this re- stocking cannot counteract the effect of the wholesale poisoning. Can it not be stopped? Fiy-FIsHeEr. A Beaverkill Trout. A srown trout weighing five pounds and four ounces was caught on the Beaverkill fishing preserve near Beaverkill, N. Y., recently by Alex Voorhees. For an hour Mr. Voorhees fought the fish, which resisted all his efforts to land it and he was finally forced to kill it by striking it across the back with a club. This is probably the largest trout ever caught on the Beaverkill, with one exception, which was captured by E. F. Davidson several years ago and weighed five pounds and seven ounces. The trout was taken to Binghamton by W. S. Van Ostrom.— Ensign, The Florida season for turtle-ege hunting is now at hand, The Florida Times-Union reports that two hunters patrolled the North Beach at St. Augustine the other night and found ten nests, taking from them nearly a thousand eggs. They were disposed of readily this motn- ing, the hunters realizing ten cents a dozen for them. 488 FOREST AND>STREAM. {Tune 20, 1903. Maine Fishing. Bancor, Me., June 13—Editor Forest and Stream: Early in the ‘present week there were several smart showers, in some cases amounting to storms almost, so that the fires were subdued and put out on the surface, although without a good downpour the flames might readily be fanned into activity by a good wind; but here in Bangor it began to rain-last night and, at this writ- ing, is coming down in a good, steady, wholesome drenching that is welcomed by everybody, It is very interesting to note that not a single sports- men’s resort has been burned out during all these dis- astrous fires, although hundreds of thousands of dol- lars’ worth of valuable timber has been burned. Some private camps, situated in isolated localities, with no persons at hand to watch for fire and extinguish it be- for it gained great headway, have been burned; but the presence on timberland of a registered sportsmen’s camp, under the direction of a man whose whole liv- ing was tied up there, and who had agreed in his lease to look out for fires on the tract under his care. had a very important bearing on the lack of loss to those townships and section so occupied; and in the camp-owner the landowners had on the spot, all the time, one who would look faithfully after their mutual interests, and not only warn his guests against care- lessness in fires, but put out any blaze that might start. Among the queer things to be recorded against the last Legislature, was not only the taking away of all protection from the big game of the State—so far as appropriating money for its protection goes—but the establishing of a bounty on hedge hogs, or as the statute has it, “porcupines, so-called.’ This bounty. although small, being, in fact, only 25 cents, has proved a stimulus to a great number of young fellows not yet arrived at years of discretion, and a swarm of those improvident, impecunious, careless and reckless men, who have for generations formed the bulk of the army oi pot-hunters against whom game protective legislation has been aimed. Too poor or unwilling to spend a cent for. non-in- flammable wadding for their guns, they have used cot- ton batting, old wasps’ nests and other wadding equally combustible, and the result has been a fire, starting aiter they passed that way, and, of course, not their fault, for they didn’t set it and knew nothing of it. Could it be brought home to. them there is no law that defines the kind of wadding to be used in hunting, and the stimulus of 25 cents encourages them to keep on, Hedge hogs may be clubbed by an active man, and it is reported that one man, during the worst of the drought, actually set fire to a tree to burn out two hedge hogs in its branches, and caused one of the most extensive of the fires. And then some of those unfor- tunate landowners, robbed of the profits of years of investment. ttirn around and lay the blame on fisher- men, who “must have been careless about their fires.” It is estimated that it will cost Maine this year from $40,000 to $50,000 in bounties on these little animals— and she couldn’t afford to pay $25,000 to keep wardens patrolling the game regions to protect the game, and incidentally to protect the forests. It has been a cost- ly lesson; it is to be honed it has been learned so well that another session will see proper protection given to Maine’s big game, One of the successful trips reported lately was that of James A. Boardman and Everett-C. Rich, of this city, who were stopping at the former's camp at Schoodic Lake, a few miles above Brownville. went to Camp Moosehorns on Northwest Pond, where they spent the night. and started in good season the next morning for Cedar Pond, a little trout pond lying among the hills, but literally alive with trout. That afternoon they caught enotigh for supper, and later went out upon the pond and fished, catching Ito in what time remained; although when they stopped fish- ing it was so dark they could not see the tips of their rods—and the trout were biting as freely as ever. It was great sport, such as they seldom enjoy. On their way home they took in Little Jo Mary Lake, staying there over night, and saw a whole family of moose and more deer than they managed to keep a record of. The bull was an enormous fellow, and Mr. Boardman stood and watched him for 25 minues by his watch before he moved away. The writer had the pleasaure of meeting, at the sta- tion in this city Thursday evening, Edward Spaeth, of Newark, N. J., who had such a remarkable fight with a landlocked salmon in the Fish River system of lakes. Mr. Spaeth and Judge Coult, of Newark, went to Square Lake in a party, arranged by President Cram, of the Bangor & Aroostook, and all the members of the party vouch for the truth of the story, which has been sent in detail to Forrest anp STREAM by another correspondent. Mr. Spaeth does admit, however, that if he knew that fish was going to fight from 3:10 P. M. to 6:15 A. M., he doubts if he would have been willing to see the fight out—‘but,” he concluded, “St does very well for once, just for a novelty.’ And, by the way, Judge Coult carried off Aroostook county records when he landed a big 7%-pound square-tailed trout, which, if it had been fat instead of almost a racer, would have weighed 10 pounds. This trout and his tIo- pound salmon he is having mounted, so that doubters may see the proof. Judge L. B, Coult, Judge Brown, Edward A. Barrows and Samuel P. Colt, of Providence, have returned from Hunt’s Kidney Pond camps, where they had grand fishing in Kidney and adjacent ponds for ten days. A Mr. Parsons and two friends from Boston came out at the same time from the same place, and reported an abundance of success, never having en- joyed hetter fishing.. E. B. Burgess, of Somerville, and C. H. Smith, of Cambridge, have just gone home after a great outing of three weeks in the St. Croix system, going and re- turning by way of Grand Lake stream. They enjoyed their trip immensely and had great sport in all the various lakes they visited. At Grand Lake they catght fish on the troll, and going up the system found splen- did sport with the fly in Dobsis Lake, where they took 8 salmon in an afternoon off the boat landing at Pine Point. One day they went to Fifth Lake stream, on They the Machias system, and caught all the trout they wanted. In Pleasant Lake they cornered several deer swimming in the water, and had a lot of fun with them, making them tow them about, heading them off and otherwise amusing themselves with two old bucks that, they say, were perfectly immense. It was a great trip. OQ. H. Pfersdorf and P. J. Claussen, of Chicago, and E. D. and G. S. Pettengill, of Portland, returned yes- terday from Long Pond in the Katahdin Tron Works region, where they had put in several days of fun. Trout were plenty, salmon, too, bit well in Long Pond, and they simply caught all they wanted to. W. R. Hunnewell, of Pittsfield, is a good deal of a pioneer, and is ever trying some new place where he won't have to contend with the “other fellow.” This week he took a couple of days off, joined Ed. Duplisse, of Kingman, and G. R. Weatherbee, of Lee, and the three went to Madagascal Lake, a small lake that empties into the famous Passadumkeag stream, In the lake are soine big trout, as well as perch and pickerel, for they caught some there; but when one can secure, in such a small stream, trout weighing 2% pounds, the possibilities of the lake proper make one want to stay and see what he can do. They took 14 trout in one day’s fishing, all good size. Swan Lake every year furnishes some splendid fish- ing, particularly since it was stocked with salmon by the State and supplied with smelts for their food. The first of this week there were several anglers on the lake and a lot of fish taken, the number being estimated at between 50 and 75 salmon during Sunday and Mon- day. Augustin Colburne, of Belfast, is said to be high line, having caught 8. Fred LeFrancis and wife, of Cambridge, Mass., have returned from a trip to Deer Island, Moosehead Lake, where they had the best fishing of their lives. Mr. LeFrancis says that he never saw such fly-fishing at Moosehead as he enjoyed during stay of almost three weeks. Big fish and lots of them was the rule, the June weather bringing them right up. E. M. Hersey, of this city; J. R. Glover, C. O. Montgomery and W. G. Alden, of Camden, are others who have lately re- turned from Deer Island after successful visits. J. K. Manning, of Medford, Mass., one of the most enthusiastic members of the club, owning Castle Har- mony on the shore of Moose Pond, has been at the Castle for a visit, entertaining George B. Warren and wife, of San Francisco, Cal. Mr. Warren was for over twenty years the manager of the Palace Hotel, and is spending the season at Intervale. He caught two sal- mon of good size, while Mr. Manning established a new record, taking a 64 pounder, the largest salmon ever caught in Moose Pond. Mr. Manning immediately forwarded the fish to his brother in Boston, who is president of the Union Club. F. M. Montell and F. M. Montell, Jr., of Montclair, N. J., were in the city to-day on their way home from Chairback Mt. camps, from which point they visited West Chairback, the Wilders and other ponds, besides fishing on Long Pond, where they took some very nice fish. They fished only with the fly, and caught some splendid strings, running in weight to 2 pounds. J. W. Whelpley, of Washington, D. C., John F, Rus- sell, of New York City, and C. P. Russell, of Green- field, Mass., have returned from an outing at Kineo, where they had a fine time and caught a lot of trout. Several of their trout were large ones, some running as high as 3% pounds, while the togue they captured looked very large to them; but they observed that the fishermen there thought they were not so big after all. Such things go by comparisons, and when fisher- men have been bringing in great numbers of fish weighing from 10 to 20 pounds, some about every day, anything under the lesser weight seems small. Reports from Kineo are that Thomas J. ODonohue, Jr., who is there with his father for the stmmer, is making that expert angler hustle to keep ahead of “Tommie,” as he has been called by Kineo visitors for so many years. The other day he brought in a 434- pound square tail trout, and is looking for a bigger one before he goes back to his desk in New York. George H. Rimbach, W. H. Mitchell, Albert D. and R. Rogers, of Boston, are out from Moosehead Lake, where they caught in their week’s stay 125 pounds of fish, including a silver laker that weighed g pounds and 4 ounces. They caught several that weighed between 4 and 6 pounds, and trout as large as 4 pounds. Fred S. Parker, of Bedford, Mass., and family. ac- companied by his partner, S. F. Hanson, and his wife, have been doing some great fishing on the Kineo, which Mr. Parker has chartered for his entire stay. One day they were fishing, Mr. Parker being off with the fly rod and the others using bait, and at noon it developed that just 84 trout and togue had been taken, an enormous catch for so short a time. When he learned the true state of affairs Mr. Parker forbade anyone from leaving the steamer again that day with a baited hook, but told them they might cast with -the fly all they wanted to. Their forenoon’s catch was the biggest of the week by any party for an entire day. W. H, Wesson and party, of Springfield, ates the members of which were given in a previous letter, have left the Moodies for home, after a delightful outing of between two and three weeks, Not the least of their fun was, when, with excitement at fever heat, they cast off from the Greenville wharf the lines of the steamer Eulalia, Mr. Wesson’s new boat, and starting several rods behind the Rebecca, beat her a half mile to Deer Island. Talk is still “cheap” betwen the rival crews, and a hot race is looked for before the summer is over. Charles C. Emerson, of Bangor, had a successful, al- though brief visit, to Kineo, fishing one day and catch- ing some nice ones, including a 3%4-pound trout and a 7-pound togue. Arthur J. Bigelow, of Worcester, Mass., who is at the Outlet, and who is one of the most successful ang- lers coming to-that resort, is taking all he cares to each day, of good size, saving only for the table the large fish and returning to the water those he cannot use. James S. Murphy, Benjamin F. Wild and William W. Spring have gone home to Boston after a success- ful visit at Kineo, taking in the week over 80 trout and togue of goad size, over half being at least up to the 3-pound notch, E, S. Farmer, of Arlington, Mass., came down from Moosehead the other evening, after such a trip as would make some anglers green with envy. He went to Pittston Farms, and beginning his trip in a canoe, ended it on a tote sled. The fishing was so good that he simply got sick of catching trout, as he told the writer, and when all under a fair size were thrown back, he was forced to stop, because they could not use any more. HERBERT W. ROWE. Rensselaer County Rod and Gun Club. THE president’s report of the work of the Rensselaer County Rod and Gun Club runs as follows: —. As president, I wish to report the following work ac- complished by the various committees during the year ending May 31: At the request of the Legislative Committee, Assembly- man Reynolds introduced a bill making the close season on woodcock, grouse and quail in this county from De- cember I to September 30, which was passed and signed by the Governor. This law, with the squirrel law passed at the previous session of the Legislature, makes the season for fall shooting (squirrel, grouse, woodcock and quail) uniform throughout the county. During the last open season several wild deer were shot in the county and it was deemed advisable to protect them for a term of years if possible. State Protector Pond, at the request of the club, had the Dennison bill amended so as to include Rensselaer county, which was also passed and signed, and prohibits the killing of deer for five years. Through the efforts of Special Protector Ferguson and members of the club, the following convictions were made and fines collected for violations of the game laws: | J. Carroll, catching bass during close season, $20; Emerson Holsapple, illegal shooting of squirrels, $18.90; Christian Lapp, snaring grouse, $43.40. Efforts were made last October to prevent the snaring of grouse. Protector Ferguson and two other members were sent through the county. While but one conviction was made, numerous illegal devices were destroyed. Eighteen shipments of fish have been received and planted during the past year from the State and United States Commissions: Fry. Finger- Year- lings. lings. Blacksibass a2. Shei aes 2s ee 500 Perchatpike™ ta). sais teats enantiene 300,000 Weeetiel oe; aHAOIe eee yt ahd 4,500 4,000 TODA EEOLI puree ote tune ae erate 18,000 300,000 23,000 4,000 Since the opening of the season this year brown trout have been caught weighing over a pound each, and rain- bow trout of three-quarters of a pound weight from streams stocked two years ago. Catches of brook trout which have never been known to have been equalled in the history of the streams have been made from waters stocked with these fish by the clu Fish have been planted near the following localities dur- ing the past year: Petersbirg, Berlin, Center Berlin, South Berlin, East Nassau, North and East Greenbush, Poestenkill, Grafton and Sand Lake. Four pairs more of Mongolian pheasants were received from the State Commission in March of this year. The pheasants liberated last year are known to have wintered well and to have hatched young last season. Applications have been granted for a large number of fingerling fish to be received this fall and for a goodly number of pheasants for next season. The thanks of the club are due the State and United States Commissions for their help in the work, State Protector Pond for his assistance, and to Senator Barnes, Assemblymen Reynolds, Chambers and McCarthy for their work in behalf of fish and game legislation. . R. McLaren, President. Fish Killed by Lightning. Arpany, N. Y¥., June 15.—Editor Forest and Stream: The foreman of the Caledonia hatchery reports to the Commission ‘that during a storm which prevailed on the afternoon of the 8th inst., lightning struck in one of the large rearing ponds on the hatchery premises and destroyed a number of the fish. The pond contained brown trout, and a number of the hatchery employes who were loading the State fish car at the time witnessed the incident. They examined the pond at once and found cight of the fish, ranging from one to six pounds in weight, lying on their sides in the water, apparently stunned. The foreman, in his report, says: “I found the fish turned on their sides and apparently unable to right - themselves. It did not kill them outright, as some of them are alive to-day (June 11), but they lay on their sides in the bottom of the pond. I opened some of them and found the air bladder burst as the result of the shock, * * A number of years ago the same thing hap- pened to a pond of brook trout here, and affected most all of them the same way. At that time I opened about thirty of the fish and found the same condition as in the present case.” This brief account of an actual occurrence at one of the State hatcheries may be of interest to some of your readers. Joun D. Wuisu, Secretary, Forest, Fish and Game Commission. A Greenwood Lake Muscalonge. THE statement made in a local paper some days ago. to the effect that a fish had been caught at Greenwood Lake, the head of which weighs six pounds, was received with incredulity by local anglers. None of the fish known to inhabit Greehwood Lake attain such a size, but never- theless the story is true. The fish was a muscallonge and was caught by Julius Munsch who was for a long time in the employ of the Arnold Brothers dye works. The head of the fish, which is at present being mounted by Mr. _ Andrew Booth, the well-known taxidermist, of Marshall street, weighed six pounds; the fish itself weighed twenty- eight pounds and in length it measured fifty-eight inches. JUNE 20, 1903.] FOREST AND STREAM. 4389 For a fish of that size and species it put up very little fight. Mr. Munsch says it took the hook ravenously, but after two or three strong pulls came in very quietly. As far as is known only two muscallonge were ever put into Greenwood Lake. About four years ago Fish and Game Protector Riley on one of his trips to Lake Erie for fish, brought back two muscallonge, each weighing about ten pounds. One of them died on the way, but the other was lively enough when he reached Greenwood Lake and made a dash for deep water as soon as released. On one of his subsequent trips, Mr. Riley brought another muscallonge, this one weighing eight pounds; this fish was also put into Greenwood Lake. It is evident that Mr. Munsch caught one of these fish, but the other is probably still in the lake. The fish that was caught had evidently increased its weight from eight or ten pounds to twenty- eight in four yeats, which seems to indicate that muscal- longe would do well in Greenwood Lake as far as grow- ing qualities are concerned, being just the reverse of pike and pickerel, which have been agetavatingly small in the leke for a number of years. Mr. Munsch’s catch might serve as a hint for the Fish and Game Commission, for if muscallonge will thrive in Greenwood Lake they ought to be put there next fall, so that by spring they will be ready to spawn. The muscallonge belongs to the same species as the pickerel, looks very much like a pickerel, only that its sides are not barred and it has no scales on its gill-covers. Its addition to the fauna of New Jersev would be enthusiastically welcomed by every angler here. —Paterson (N. J.) Chronicle, June 14. The Canadian Forest Fires. The heavy rains of the past week have drowned out all the smouldering embers of the forest fires, and it is grati- fying to know that the damage caused by them, so far as northern Canada is concerned, is much less than at first reported. Some valuable timber lands were burned, in addition to the fishing camps already mentioned, but much of the land over which the flames swept had been pre- viously burned, and the beauty of Lake Edward and the Jeannotte and. of the lakes of the Laurentide Club has not been marred by the destroying element. The rain, which lasted for several days, and has been quite heavy, was warmly welcomed by anglers, especially those upon the salmon strearns, which, on account of the long drought, were becoming too low for good fishing even be- fore some of the fishermen reached their preserves. Most of the North Shore fishermen who had not previously left for their salmon rivers took passage on the 13th inst. from Quebec. : Anglers who were prevented by the fires from reaching their camps in the Ottawa, Gatineau, St. Maurice and Lake St. John districts are now passing through here almost daily, the rush being almost all on at once. There has been but very little spring fishing done here this year, but, fortunately for devotees of the sport, the trout waters of the north are getting into fine shape after the recent rains, and reports of good catches may be looked for during the next two or three weeks. The first ouananiche of the season to rise to the fly in the Grand Discharge of Lake St. John were taken last Saturday. This is about the usual time. I have but lit- tle information as to the condition of the water, but do not expect the fishing there to be at its best until about the 20th or 25th of the month. In my next letter I hope to be able to speak definitely of the character of the sport furnished by the waters of the Discharge. the reports which have already reached me of the catches made by the bait fishermen, it would appear as if the ouananiche were particularly plentiful this year. Friends of the fish will be glad to hear that another large lot of fry has been successfully hatched this season in the Rober- val hatchery and will be planted in the fall. E, T. D. CG Che Hennel. Fixtures. , Conn., Agricultural Society’s show. ork.—Annual! show of Ladies’ Kennel Associa- Oct. 6-9.—Danbu Nov. 3-6.—New tion of America. Noy. 9.—Fourteenth annual beagle trials of the National Beagle Club of America. Charles R. Stevenson, Sec’y. Man-Tracking Teast Editor Forest and Stream: The inquiries of M. de Varigny in your issue of June 6 will, I fancy, find few answers, if the information re- quired must be with bloodhounds as a breed. The blood- hound, unless I am mistaken, is numerically weaker than almost any other breed of dogs. But as M.de Varigny doubtless wishes information of the practical use of dogs in tracking men, I gladly give the facts of my own ex- perience. In many of the Southern States there are packs of foxhotinds which have been trained to follow human scent only, The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Com- pany, with which I was connected in 1889 and 1890, leased from the State of Alabama most of its convicts and worked them in its mines. One of the provisions of the lease was that for every convict that got away a cash ’ penalty was to be paid the State. As these convicts were housed in wooden buildings and went to and from their work in'a wooden alleyway connecting their quarters with the mine, escape was not impossible, and was sometimes tried. To lessen the chance of escape, however, the com- pany kept a pack of hounds—ioxhounds in reality, but blocdhounds according to the newspaper headlines. Should a prisoner succeed in breaking out the hounds wete put on his trail, and generally the man was retaken. It was not always so, however. One hot July day I re- member receiving a telephone message that six of the most desperate men, two of them murderers, had escaped, and that if I wished to join in the chase to come at once. In the time it took to notify the proper mine officials, find the handler of the hounds, and all get together a couple of hours had gone by, - The day was exceedingly hot and the hounds out of condition from lack of work. For fifteen miles or so we followed up hill and down dale, through woods and across clearings. The heat told. One by one the dogs gave out, and crawled into: the shade or lay down in a brook; the Froin- hotses were spent, one had dropped dead, the others stood panting and trembling on their legs, their hearts thump- ing loudly. We had captured one man, but 1t was impos- sible to keep on after the others, for neither hounds nor horses had it in them. Within a few months the remain- ing five had been retaken near their old haunts. One of them said that when we gave up the chase they were all lying in a clump of trees on a hillside not over a quarter of a mile away, themselves exhausted, watching us. __ Once a dating robbery took place in the city of Bir- mingham in the early morning. Our hounds were taken to the spot shortly afterward and followed the scent down a street and up a back alley to a house. A negro came out, surrendered himself, and confessed the crime. Upon another occasion these keen-nosed dogs led to a capture which had a bloody climax. A deputy sheriff at- tempted to arrest a negro between the mines and Bir- mingham. Drawing his revolver he ordered the negro te throw up his hands.* In reply the negro fired two bar- rels of buckshot into the deputy’s breast, killing him in- stantly. It took some time for the news to reach Birming- ham. When it did, the sheriff and a dozen of his deputies repaited to the scene of the murder, each armed with a Winchester rifle. They borrowed our hounds and put them on the track of the fugitive. He was run down, and when the posse arrived they found that he had taken refuge from the hounds by climbing a tree. To quote from the paper of the following morning, “He refused to surrender and was riddled with bullets.” Once or twice a week, except in the very hot weather, the hounds were put through a practice run. For this purpose a “trusty” was given a start of an hour or two, and then the hounds were put on his trail. Preferring this sort of thing to mining coal, the man generally did his best, so that some of these practice rtins were both far and fast. At the finish the man would be found up a tree, for the hounds, with heated blood and under the excite- ment of the chase, would have attacked him. After they had rested and cooled off he could come down with i1m- unity, - With what I have seen of man-hunting with hounds, I am very much impressed, and the wonder to me is that they are not more generally used in the running down and detection of criminals. Their training should be similar to that of fox or drag hounds, only they should never be trained on any track but that of a man. MARSHALL Bonn. New York City. Editor Forest and Stream: : In your June 6 number J notice a letter from Henry de Varigny asking for information about the use of “bleod- hounds” in the pursuit of criminals in the United States. I believe I can say with confidence that there has never been a single “bloodhound” used for such a purpose in this country. The sheriff of the adjoining county purchased several years ago a “bloodhound” puppy, a photograph of which I saw, but I did not see the dog, It was entirely unlike any other hound I ever saw, and was regarded as a great curiosity. I do not know what became of the puppy, but suppose it died, or was disposed of. I presume there have been very few specimens of “bloodhounds” in the United States at any time, notwithstanding the everyday use of that term by newspaper reporters. In ante-bellum times it was the custom to have in many neighborhoods in the Southern States a pack of “nigger dogs,” usually owned by some man of low social standing, that were used to pursue negro slaves who ran away from the plantations and took refuge in the woods for a season. These packs were always composed of the com- mon foxhounds of the country, that were specially trained to trail negroes. These dogs had very little viciousness in their disposition, and the pursuers usually found the pack baying the fugitive, he, perhaps, sitting ou a fence or stump. At the present time there are similar packs, usually of a few dogs. only, in most of the counties in this part of Mississippi that are used in the pursuit of fugitive criminals. The Mississippi State convicts are employed in the cul- tivation of cotton plantations, most of which are now owned by the State. On these plantations are main- tained packs of hounds—by State authority, I suppose— to pursue fugitive convicts; and it may be presumed that systematic attention is given to selecting and training the dogs. A letter addressed to Penitentiary Warden J. J. Henry, Jackson, Mississippi, should procure the information sought by M. de Varigny. CoAHOMA. Myers Farts, Wash. June 12—kHditor Forest and Stream: In your isste of June 6, Mr. Henry de Varigny wishes to be informed relative to bloodhounds. In Washington I do not believe there is any law authorizing or prohibiting the use of bloodhounds. In the State penitentiary near Walla Walla, bloodhounds are kept for the purpose of following runaway prisoners, and have been successfully used in overtaking prisoners in some instances. The bloodhounds of the institution were utilized in the pursuit of Merrill and Tracy, the noted Oregon outlaws, about a year ago, and did some effective stunts in followmg these two desperadoes.* To baffle the hounds Tracy secured a quantiy of pepper with which he peppered his tracks and thus temporarily prevented the successful working of these intelligent canines. Té Mr. Henry de Varigny will address the superin- tendent of that institution, I am satisfied he will be given all the information of which the officers are in posses- sion. A, MEACHEN. Among the recent additions to the mammal collection of the Biological Survey are a cougar from the desert region bordering the Lower Colorado, below Yuma, Ari- zona, presented by Herbert Brown; and a large gray fox from New Hampshire, presented by Abbott H. Thayer. Both of these animals appear to be new. All communications intended for Forest anp Stream should always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., New York, and not to any individual connected with the paper. Hachting. . ————2——_ Yachting Fixtures for 1903. Members of race committee will confer a favor by sending notice of errors or omissions in the following list, and also changes which may be made in the future. : JUNE. 17. Beverly, open sweepstake, Monument Beach, 17. Larchmont, races for 90-footers, Larchmont. 17. Boston, Y. R. A., off Point Allerton, open. 17. Dorchester, open, Dorchester Bay. 18-19. New Rochelle, club, New Rochelle. 19. Eastern, special, open, Marblehead. 19. Indian Harbor, 90-footers, Greenwich. 20. Southern, Baldwin and Walker cups, New Orleans. 20. Beverly, club, Monument Beach. 20. Keystone, club, Woodmere, L. I. 20. Brooklyn, Y. R. A. of Gravesend Bay- © 20. Corinthian, first championship, Marblehead. Fe 2). Seawanhaka Corinthian, 90-footers, Oyster Bay. ‘ 20. Atlantic, club, Sea Gate. ' , 20 Columbia, motor boat race, Am. P. B. A., Hudson River. 20. New Rochelle, Y. R. A. of L. I. Sound, annual. 20. Chicago, handicap, Lake Michigan. 20. Royal Canadian, club, Toronto. 21. Old Mill, club, Jamaica Bay, . 21. Gloucester, N, J., annual, Delaware River, 25-26-27; Seawanhaka Corinthian, Y. R. A. of L. I. Sound, annual and specials. 27 South Boston, club, City Point. 27 New York, special race for 90-footers, Newport. 27 Boston, club, Marblehead. 27. Beverly, club, Monument Beach. ; 27. St. Paul, cruise, rendezvous St, Paul, Minn. 27 Chicago, special. Lake Michigan. 27. Royal Canadian, club, Toronto. 27. New York C. C., Y. R. A. of Gravesend Bay. 30. New York, special race for 90-footers, Newport- 30. Royal Canadian, L. §S. S. A. regatta, Oakville. 29-July 2. Manhasset Bay cup races, L. I. Sound. For Cruising Yachtsmen. Wit the purpose of stimulating the interest in ertis- ing, and the keeping of a detailed log by cruising yachtsmen during the season of 1903, the publishers of Forest AND STREAM Offer prizes for the best stories of cruises submitted to be published in Forest AND StrREAM. It is believed that these will form not only entertaining records of pleasant summer days spent afloat along our coasts and waterways, but will furnish information of practical value to other yachtsmen mak- ‘ing subsequent cruises on the same waters. Prizes will be awarded to the three best stories as fol- lows: First prize, $75.00. Second prize, $50.00. Third prize, $25.00. Contributions are invited under the following condi- tions: t, The cruise must be made in waters of the United States or Canada in the season of 1903. 2. The cruise must be made in a sailing yacht, power to be used only as an auxiliary, if at all. 3. The story must be prefaced by a description of the boat. Cruises should be treated in as interesting and readable a way as possible, but should be practical and contain all possible information and data that would be of value to men going over the same route. A descrip- tion of the handling of the ship in all weathers will be regarded very favorably in making awards, and it is suggested to writers that an accurate account be ‘kept ef all incidents happening while under way. 4. Photographs of the boat and of the country passed through, not smaller than 4x5, should, if possible, ac- company each story, and they will be considered in making the awards. 5. An outline chart of the trip drawn on white paper in black ink (no coloring pigment to be used) should also be sent in. ) 6. Competitors should avoid the use of slang or in- correct nautical expressions in their stories, as it will count against them in awarding the prizes. : 7. The story should contain about seven thousand words, written on one side of the paper only, and must be received at the office of the Forest and Stream Pub- lishing Company, 346 Broadway, New York City, on or before Nov. 15, 1903. Tue two Shamrocks, the steam yacht Erin and the tug Cruiser, making up Sir Thomas Lipton’s fleet, arrived in New York early on Sunday morning, June 14, fifteen days and twenty-three hours out from Gourock. The fleet pre- sented quite a formidable array as it moved slowly up the harbor, and it was given a noisy welcome by all the craft it passed. Quarantine was reached before ten o'clock, and after presenting a clean bill of health the boats moved on te Tompkinsville, where they came to anchor. The fleet covered 3,644 miles from Gourock to Sandy Hook, via the Azores, in 15 days 23 hours. Some rough weather was experienced off the coast of Ireland and on the Friday before arrival encountered a severe south- easterly gale. The following was taken from Erin’s log: Mavens suet Go arock, 9 he Wen eee eed on aes ahee fonicee eres May 29—52deg. 54min. N. Lat... 5deg. 48min. W. Long...... 200 May 30—5S0deg. 13min. N. Lat...10deg. 35min. W. Long...... 200 May 31—47deg. Imin. N. Lat...l5deg. 55min. W. Long...... 285 June 1—43deg. 59min. N. Lat...2ideg. W. Long...... 280 June 2—40deg. 48min. N. Lat...25deg. 2imin. W. Long...... 284 ites ——Arhived sbavaleug Amit Lehr. NE, oc. coi e 236 une, A—SatledseAmP mV pasts le -eises cena eubnee spe enesasae cone June 5—38deg. 25min. N. Lat...32deg. 40min. W. Long...... 194 June 6—38deg. 18min. N. Lat...37deg. 37min. W. Long...... 2384 June 7—s8deg. 10min. N. Lat...42deg. 39min. W. Long...... 238 June 8—38deg. 02min. N. Lat—47deg. 2imin. W. Long...... 23a June 9—37deg. 50min. N. Lat...52deg. Ifmin. W. Long...... 229 June 10—38deg. 02min. N. Lat...57deg. 0@min. W. Long...... U8 June 11—38deg. 20min. N. Lat...6ldeg. 09min. W. Long.....- 195 June 12—39deg. 02min. N. Lat...65deg. 54min. W-. Long...... 225 June 13—Aldeg. 03min. N. Lat...69deg. 59min. W. Long...... 195 June J4—Asrived Sandy, Hook, 6 A. “Moo... cc lb. eecekes 185 On al! four boats there are 156 men, 59 on Erin, 41 on each of the Shamrocks, and 15 on the Cruiser. Monday morning Shamrock I. and Shamrock IIT. were taken to Erin Basin, where they will be overhauled and put in racing condition. Their steel spars, which arrived some days ago, are now at the basin. Mr. L. J. Callanan’s centerboard schooner Estelle cap- sized on Long Island Sound on Monday, June 15. The owner was on board with several friends, and they were watching the yachts racing in the New York Y. C. re- so, Ho as FOREST AND STREAM. [June 20, 1003. gatta. Start. Captain’s Island and were headed for the mark off Lloyd’s Neck. It was blowing fresh at the time from the northeast, and Estelle had working topsails set and a jib topsail. An extra heavy puff laid the boat out and her miyain sheet was eased off to relieve her; the sail got in the water, however, and the weight rolled het over. All hands were on deck at the time of the accident, and they crawled Wp on the port side as she went over. Mr. Calla- man, his guests and the crew were taken off the yacht by ‘a st@arm yacht that was in the vicinity. Estelle was towed §nt® Cold Spring Harbor and moored off Abram’s yard. She will be raised and refitted. Estelle is an old-fashioned craft of a type that was com- mon in this country thirty years ago. She was built at South Norwalk in 1874 by Mr. J. Richards. She is a centerboard boat with a cabin house. The yacht is ot.2ft. over all, 78.5ft. waterline, 22.8ft. breadth and 7ft. draft. Atlantic Y. C. SEA GATE, NEW YORK BAY, Tuesday, June 9. _ The thirty-seventh annual regatta of the Atlantic Y. C. was scheduled to take place on Tuesday, June 9, ver courses in the lower bay. A thick fog made it in- advisable t send the yachts over the outside courses, and redweed the list of starters from upwards of thirty, which had entered, down to ten of all classes. The start was scheduled for 11 A. M. Chairman Wenry J. Gielow, of the Regatta Committee, waited un- til 2 P. M. in hopes that conditions might improve. The heavy haze cleared from Gravesend Bay enough to allow the race to be begun, but new courses had to be decided upon. Yachts of all classes were sent from the start off Sea Gate to a stake boat anchored off Fort Hamilton, thence to Crayen Shoal buoy, and home. This dis- tance of approximately 4 miles, was covered three times by boats in classes above P and twice by all others. Mr. W. H. Childs’ sloop Umbrina made a good im- pression on her initial appearance. She went up a elass and beat Ondawa and Nymph handily. Umbrina led the fleet of larger boats at the finish of the contest. Bagheera had no competitor and scored a sailover. ‘the raceabout Vagabond defeated Corona. and. Picka- ninny scored a victory over Scalawag (ex-Budget). The latter fouled the stake boat at the finish, and was disqualified. The preparatory signal was sounded at 2 P. M. from the Regatta Committee tug. Five minutes later the first division was sent away, The others followed at 5m. intervals. The wind was blowing. E. by S. This grave the boats a.run to the mark off Fort Hamilton, a close-hauled board to. the Craven Shoal buoy and another windward leg home, All marks were left to ‘port. The next event of the Atlantic Y. C. will be held on Saturday, June 20. It will be a regatta for classes M and below, over the shorter courses. The start will be => I at 3 P. M. Summaries of the annual regatta follow: Finish. Elapsed. Schooners—Class. C—Start 2:05. Poste ley los Ga AM As to on opts ch wines lors a eee 5 00 45 2 55 45 Schooners—Class F—Start 2:05. Kiwassa, Shaen @¢ Rusch...) 0... 02.00 4 42 55 2 37 55 Sloops—Class K—Start 2:10. Umbrina, W. H. Childs.. 03 Ondawa, H. J. Roberts... Nymph, W. H. Towen.. Sloops—Class M—Start 2:15. Jagheera, Hendon Chubb...................... 4 07 10 1 52 10 Sloops—Class P—Start 2:20. Vueabond, “DL. A. Vernon. .2... o2.cse-ses4-40 s434 12 28 1 52 28 Gdronag ie A. Berges: es. Sia bas eaesssehe ue aad 415 33 1 55 33 Sloops—Class R—Start 2:25. Pickaminny, 15) WH, Bsa Wiek cakes ee se eis vane 4 25 00 2 00 00 Scdlawap, FS.) Tattdlowdeiiieis asesesss ocean ot Disqualified. The winners were Kiwassa, Umbrina, Vagabond, Pickininny and Bagheera, Brooklyn Y. C. BENSONHURST, GRAVESEND BAY, Saturday, June 13. The forty-sixth annual regatta of the Brooklyn Y. C. vas held on Saturday, June 13, over the regular courses of the Y. R. A. of Gravesend Bay. Nineteen craft en- tered the event, all but three of which finished. A stc- cession of thunder and hailstorms caused the start to le postponed from 12 M., the time originally sched- uled, to 3:15 in the afternoon. A good breeze was blowing at noon time. The thunder soon disposed of this, however, and the re- «atta was started in a wind of about 4-knot strength, which fell to a flat calm when one round of the courses had been completed. It returned from a new direction, ynd with freshening force after craft had been in the doldrums about half an hour. The feature of the day was the struggle between the 30-footers Bagheera and Boptain. Bagheera is the At- lantic Y. C. challenger for the Manhasset Bay cup for 30-footers. Boptail is a Herreshoff creation, and made her initial appearance in the Brooklyn Y. C. regatta. After a close race Bobtail won by 35s. She is a cen- terboard boat, while the Chubb craft has a keel. The special class M boats Surprise, Kangaroo and Bess thought the race had been called off after the first round and withdrew. Bonito was the only one of the class to sail the full course. The breeze was blowing from the S. E. at the start. This gave the smaller craft, which twice covered an in- side triangular course of 4 miles, a reach to the mark off Fort Hamilton, a long windward leg to a stake boat off Coney Island Point, and a broad reach home to the start off the Brooklyn Y. C. The starters above class P went twice over a triangle of 6 miles. The breeze at the start gave them a reach to Craven Shoal buoy, a close hauled leg to buoy No. 12 off Coney Island . Point, and a reach home. All marks were left to port. ’ The calm caught most of the racers just after the first round had been completed. The new wind came put of the southwest. This gave the smaller boats a Estelle had been entered for the race, but did not’ The racing yachts had turned the mark off Great- reach from Fort Hamilton to Coney Island Point and a run home. The larger starters had a reach to buoy No. 12 and a run home, The Regatta Committee of the Brooklyn Y. C.-con- sists of Messrs. George E. Reiners, Chairman; Robert. P. Orr and Arthur T, Wells. Vice-Com. Fontaine placed his schooner Sunshine at the disposal of the committee as judges’ boat. The summary follows: Sloops—Class M—Start 3:20. , inish. epee Bobtail, E. F. Luckenbach.........4.. wie Med 5 52 46 2 32 46 Bagheera, Hendon Chubb.................0.005 5 28 21 2 33 21 Class M—Special—Start 3:20. Bonito, ‘Haviland Brosieaasciecse wddie ne ane 6 16 49 2 56 49 Surprise, D APEGHES sonra tase aad Did not finish. Kangaroo, C. H. Humphreys..........-..++40+ Did not finish. Bess, «Sydnty- (Grats. ee ced eae Did not finish. Sloops—Class P—Start 3:25. Vagabond, “T) A. Werriens 22062 sehacsstesee tees 5 23 45 1 68 45 Ogeemah, Brophy & Mackay............s000005 5 21 41 2 04 41 Karmay Jay (Stskite sc Suaicesaeescssteeanes 5 29 5b 2 04 55 Cockatoo, W.- A. Barstow..........sssensseesas 5 30 08 2 05 08 Sloops—Class R—Start, 3:40. Scalawagh, GB. 9) Mada wnen cl sk eh as a maneseeras 5 32 19 1 52 19 Pickaniviny, de. bs Boway est teaen ts obra bees 5 34 53 1 54 53 Catboats—Class V—Start 3:45. Martha M., Richard Moore 30 08 1 45 08 oozie, C. D, Durkee............0005 5 36 46 1 45 46 Rascal, D. G,. Whitlock.. 5 31 51 1 46 51 Delede, A. E. Hotson 5 32 52 1 47 52 Millies BH, AIRS rert hie oh. cs ck colegio ete 5 387 51 1 62°51 Marine and Field Class—Start 3:50. Stinger, Ay By “Glappines.cssncesendevebnnns sees 5 36 32 1 46 32 Kelpie: < We. 0G CBtowiitna ss sclesy nthe aehteohets 5 37 06 1 47 06 The winners were: Bobtail, Bonito, Vagabond, Scalawag, Martha M. and Stinger. Larchmont Y. C. LARCHMONT, LONG ISLAND SOUND, Saturday, June 13. The spring regatta of the Larchmont Y. C. was sailed on Saturday, June 13. The large boats were con- spicuous by their absence. There were no schooners on hand, and the three English cutters in class I were the biggest boats in the race. A nice breeze that held all day made the contests most interesting. At the start the wind was S. W., but when the boats were on the second round it worked around to S. by E. All the boats sailed twice over triangular courses. with the first mark due E. from the starting line. This made the first leg a broad reach, the second leg a close fetch and the third leg a run. The Regatta Committee, which consisted of Messrs. Charles P. Tower, Chairman; Frank Hardy and How- ell C. Perrin, were on the towboat Unique. The prepa- ratory signal was given at 11:30, and the boats in class IT started five minutes after. Eelin was first away well in the lead with Isolde second and Hester last. All three carried club topsails, and Eelin set her balloon jib topsail, while Isolde and Hester stuck to reach- ing jib topsails, and balloon staysails. On the first leg Isolde and Hester got in a luffing match, and Eelin secured a good lead, while this was going on. Hester got a little the best of the luffng match. At the end of the first round the boats were timed as follows: Eeelin 1:41:12; Hester 1:41:35; Isolde 1:44:20. Hes- ter crossed the line first. but Eelin gets the race on time allowance and Isolde comes in for second place. The 43-footers were the next boats to start, Effort and Challenge being regularly entered in this class, but the Canada’s Cup challenger Irondequoit ~also sailed over the course with them. Effort was splen- didly sailed by Messrs. Addison and Wilmer Hanan, and she won handily, beating Irondequoit about 7m. Effort got the best start, and from that time on kept increasing her lead. Challenge met with a slight ac- cident before the start, and she withdrew on the sec- ond leg of the second round. Leda got away in lead in her class. She was sailed by her owner, Mr. Stephen H. Mason, Jr., and she gave Spasm a bad beating. Anoatok was so far behind at the end of the first round that she withdrew. In the yawl class Tern was first away and had mat- ters her own way all through the race. Although she allowed her competitors, Escape and Sakana, quite a little time, she won the race easily. The three boats in the 3oft. class put up a pretty race. Alert, smartly sailed by Mr. James Alker, won by over 4m. For Alert to beat Oiseau by such a wide margin caused considerable surprise, for it was generally be- lieved the racing between these two boats would be very close, and the difference would be a matter of seconds rather than minutes. Hope and Haze, the one-design 25-footers designed by Mr. C. F. Herreshoff, met in their first race. Hope won and Haze withdrew. 4] There were three starters in class P, Snapper winning by over 2m. from Firefly, after_a good race. Five raceabouts started, and Jolly Tar won by 1Is.— a very close decision—Jolly Tar protested Mavis for fouling her near the finish line. There was another close race in the Larchmont atit. class, Adelaide winning by 35s. Four of the New Rochelle one-design boats started, and Mr. Philip Howard’s Caper won out with Ace sec- ond. In the Manhasset Bay one-design class, Lamb- kin beat the other three boats badly. . Gosling had no competitor in class W. Skidoo beat Gloria in the Lark class by over 5m. Gazabo took a walkover in class Q. Sloops—Class I—60 to 70 Feet Racite Length—Course 30 Miles— Start 11 Finish. Elapsed. Hester, Cleveland H. Dodge............. na CHEM 8 23 11 3 48 11 Weliti edt. les Rodewalld Vi.kiveeakordrienifso sven 3 24 58 3 49 58 Teoldey. Pe Me eH ovites scp ceewekb ban thie vretone: 3 27 16 3 52 16 Corrected time: Isolde, 3.46.19; Eelin, not measured. Sloops—Class L—36 to 48 Feet Baca Length—Course 22 Miles— Start 11: Effort; ik, M, ‘Sniithe so iceensss ae ¥idicdcodd My eer ds Sit 2 55 57 Challenge, W. T. Foote......-..:s0.0. Le Make Disabled. Irondequoit, Thomas B, Pritchard............. Time not taken. Sloops—Class M—30 to 36 Feet eciae Length—Course 22 Miles— yf ‘ Start 11:45. | ; Spasmi, Ge): Wingsesee neces sceerte rece csercere 316 41 3 31 41 Heda, S. H.. Mason. iaiices servers “ae atiheir me ++--3 O1 55 3 16 55 Anoatok, Ws. 6) (Brokawis ois soci veerecruneece. Did not finish. Yawls—Class M—30 to 36 Et i ed Length—Course 23 Miles— a: 245. Tern, John Hyslop..cecryeececesseceterecereese 8 18 0 3 33 40» : 7 Escape, George Matthews .icccsiccsiscuecsseeed 41 36 3.56 36 Solana A. H MeCRARe hee CER eRE Corrected time: Escape 348.61 Saksna, 34btd, oy Sloops—Class N—26 to 30 Pease Lefigth—Coutse 22 Miles= Alert. A, H. AIR Ets 25 an dente eek conte made eilets 3 21 15 Oiseau, H. L. Maxwell lc bb? 355 57 Flosshilde, W. D. Hetirtet... 2... ic. pe rees 3 38 28 3 48 28 -Foot One-Desigh Class—Course 22 Miles—Start 11:50. _ ‘Hopé,- Adrian’ dseliti mtcwessaues pees iees bee eae . 38.56 50 Haze, Anderson Daita.......::.1.5.c00---- :...Did fot firtish. Sloops—Class P—2i to 25 Feet Racing Lerigth—Coutse il Miles— af ; Start 1:55 Lucille, Pe Wali TO Wisled ane 1 0 - aa 30 onapper, 5 = CV cebu webb iedstvbbesserctes Firefly, S. P. Granbetty FRA pasa Mire CaP 6H. 2 Hf 00 2 of Raceabouts—2l-foot Ciass—Cotitse 11 Milés—Start 11:58 Rogue, A. B. Alley Se uote Oya seta me ee 7 : a 4 Mavis, Gy Tire, 3) 22.52 iica ite g i ancee 2 06 0 dolly Tar, Ss. Howlan re eee 5 9 05 5! ascal, aes a 3 06 Ot Grasshopper, H. Pryof....:.scccacsssecaseeenee 2 08 58 Larchmont 21-foot Class—Course 11 Miles—Start 11:55. Adelatdes joil. s.wyerosmeeaansy chien eke 241 09 Dorothy, L.°G. Spence.........0.: ode ee eee elliare 21 44 New Rochelle 18-footers—Course 11 Miles— Start, 12:00. Caper, P. L. Howard............ Tea uy, Petite os 299-7 2 92 11 Knave, R. N. Bavier........ ey wha ee Yee 99495 9 94 35 Ace, A. Baviet.......035 eee ene rat er A ere 9 24 19 224 15 Bilgan AY GM etstre trope. cules bene eten a ae 3 25 39 2 25 35 Manhasset Bay 18-footers—Cotrse 11 Miles—Statt 12:00, Rab, OVE rnAenthtneeh Sede c sens satane eee 20 2 20 19 Palcon, ih, UB. Gales, mh asaroneses tgascttuan acters 3 30 2 30 5) WW isb-tos seen CAIs il Of) eA RW 7 ea ee p Re Cree biter 2 28 49 2 28 49 aribkine -S. Wale oachies: Cer ePninet yes ee Shs 2 22 27 Dee Catboats—Class W—18 Feet Racing Length—Course 11 Miles— Start, 12:05. ; Gosling, Moe ierativ. - le osee teec este eh ene Did not finish. Lark Class—Course 514 Miles—Start, 12:05. Glorta® ps eee Sec coe eee ee ee ea eeas aoa 1 42 39. al 3g SERIA. oi Sige Waals ry MeeeG Gee saad reL ETS Swine 2b er 1 37 19 1 32 19 Wellow, Jacket Qinccs.s te tloveslsenmactey bits eave 1 45 19 49 19 Class O—Sloops—18 to 21 Feet—Course 11 Miles—Start 12:00. Gazabo, 2H Pe Vatierorse: tenes een aense erie 2 41 37 2 41 37 The winners were: Eelin, Effort, Leda, Tern, Alert, Hope, Snapper, Jolly Tar, Adelaide, Caper, Lambkin, Skidoo and Gazabo. New York Y. G. 7 | NEW YORK LOWER BAY, ‘ Thursday, June rr. The three 90-footers—Columbia, Constitution and Re- liance—were able to get a race on Thursday, June 11, after three postponements. The wind was light and the sea was very smooth except for a gentle swell. The course was fifteen miles to windward and return. The start was scheduled for 11:30, and the steam yacht Privateer, with the Regatta Committee on board, was cn hand at that hour. Postponement signals were hoisted oti the committee boat and the start was set for 12 o'clock. Promptly at noon the preparatory signal was made. All the yachts carried the same canvas—club topsails set over tainsails and baby jib topsails over the headsails. Con- stitution’s club topsail was much smaller than the ones carried on the other two boats, and she would, in all probability, have done better with a larger sail. In the maneuvering for the start, Rhodes and Barr stuck to- gether as in the earlier races, while Columbia kept away and was well out of the trouble. The start was a fine one, all three of the boats crossing within half a minute. Con- stitution crossed in the weather berth, but not far enough in the lead to cut Reliance’s wind. Columbia crossed to leeward of both the other boats. The boats were timed as follows at the start: Constitution, 12:16:01; Reliance, 12:16:18, and Columbia, 12:16:32. : Columbia was giving Reliance her back wind, and Re- liance was in turn doing the same to Constitution, and as a result Columbia drew ahead a little. Constitution was put on the port tack first, in order to get away from. Reliance, but the new boat also took the port tack and a few seconds later Columbia followed them. After hold- ing the port tack for some twenty minutes, Columbia was’ again put on the starboard tack. Columbia had not been able to point with Reliance, and that boat had in the meantime worked out ahead and to windward of Constitu- tion, as she was pointing better and footing faster. Re- liance and Constitution held the port tack and held a southerly course while Columbia on the starboard tack stood to the east. When Reliance and Constitution did take the starboard tack they were favored by having the wind shift a bit to the south: This shift placed Columbia at a disadvantage, and she had to make a longer hitch to make the mark. Reliance gained on Constitution steadily, and she had a big jump on her when they were nearing the mark. Re- liance doused her baby jib topsail and set her ballooner as she came up to the mark. The boats were timed at the mark as follows: Reliance, 2:26:07; Constitution, 2:31:01; Columbia, 2:37:05. On the 15-mile beat to wind- ward, Reliance had beaten Constitution 5m. 11s., and Co- lumbia tom. 44s. After rounding, spinnakers were set and guyed well for- ward, but the boats had to keep well to the north of their true course in order to keep them drawing, as the wind had gone to S. S. E. Reliance’s big spinnaker was taken in when about one-third the way to the finish line and set a smaller one in place of it. When Reliance was about half way to the finish line she took in her spinnaker and headed for the lightship. Constitution took in her spin- naker also, and soon after Columbia did the same thing. While spinnakers were being carried, Reliance seemed to get away from Constitution a little, but as soon as they were taken in Constitution came up on the new boat again. The times taken as the boats finished were: Re- liance, 4:06:01; Constitution, 4:11:36; Columbia, 4:19:09. On the 15-milé run Reliance had beaten Con- stitution 41s. and Columbia 2m. tos. The summary follows: Start. Finish. Elapsed, Reliance ...... Senay ate'ey scteeasterclas . 12 16.18 4 06 01 3)49 43 Constitution .....++-+ Sasser JPA 411 36 3 55 35 Cohimib rae ries see atest aes esoes 12 16 32 41909 - 402 387 Reliance beat Constitution 5m. 52s, and Columbia 12m. 54s. GLEN COVE, LONG ISLAND SOUND, Monday, June 15. There were only six starters in the Glen Cove races of the New York Y. C. that were sailed on Monday, June 15. Not aay boats site entered, for the race, and the bad weather kent some who were! Present from, starting. ras ol - JuNE 20, 1903.] FOREST AND STREAM. 491 The thtee go-footers stayed at their moorings all day. It was the frequent raitt squalls and not the wind that kept them from going out, for they did not want to get their sails wet. Club members saw the race from the steamer Cepheus, and the Regatta Committee were on board the steam yacht Privateer. At half-past twelve, course signals were displayed from the committee boat. The short course ~ had been selected, the first leg of which is 4% miles, N. E, by N., the second leg 4% miles S. E,, and the third leg 6 miles W. half S, The wind was strong from the N, N. E. At 12:45 the preparatory signal was given, and the sloops were started ten minutes later. Isolde was first over the line, but to leeward, and Eelin crossed in the weather berth. It was a beat to the first mark, a reach to the second mark, and a broad reach to the finish line. Effort was first away, in her class and won the race easily. Ariel and Katrina met in the schooner class, and the former boat won. She was sailed by Captain Hank Haff, and after getting the best of the start led all over _ the course. The summary: Sloops—Class I. Start. Finish, Elapsed SGIGE Haniadieeeete bb tasscr sees 12 55 04 3 02 26 2 07 22 Bielifineen one veeeret sale tN ue Ge ete 12 55 36 2 59 12 2 03 36 Sloops—Class L. TEXEWOPAP! 2s oo ORR epoca a arenes RA 12 55 45 § 12 34 216 49 Sieg wRTS es) Wee Aeon qaueo corse 12 56 13 3 41 31 2 45 18 Schooners. PATTGLE eee ee ted aoe etme ire sie cs.ere 05 3: 38 06 15 2 00 41 SRPAT TAT IAe ee eater ccc siete tle rt onte 1 05 19 3 10 34 2 04 15 The winners were Eelin, Effort and Ariel. Effort is the only one of the boats that has been meastired, and so the allowance cannot be figured out until this is done. Annual Cruise of the Goodenough. Story Submitted in “‘Forest and Stream” Cruising Competition. BY FRANK F, FRISBEE, DETROIT, MICH. Though we felt very tired, the reveille was enough to rouse us the next morning, and we got out or deck to find a beautiful morning. There is one charm of cruising in these waters, you are absolutely away from people and free to appear in any old deshabille, so our attire in the early morning was convenient for a tub, you know, as the Englishman would say, and while the water of Lake Superior is a little cool for bath- ing, that in the bay was not bad. The morning breeze came from the south and was fair for us to sail back down the bay, retracing in part © our course. Sail was got on the yacht, and we glided “away toward the Harmony River. The wind veered more to the west and freshened, then lulled, but the Skipper had his weather eye open and said that it would blow fresh in the afternoon, so if we left the yacht we must make sure that she would not go ashore, So we got out our extra big anchor, buoyed it and putting it in the small boat led it off to the wind- ward, making up our minds that it was better to be sure than sorry. The holding ground was none too good, and our Skipper is careful. After some discussion, Ed decided he would go up the Harmony with the Skipper and Prof. The small boat took us ashore and up the river a good half- mile, and then we had to leave it. The Harmony is a beautiful trout stream, being deep enough to insure good fishing, but not too deep for wading in most --places. It runs through a dense forest, but is net as rough and rocky as the Chippewa, or as large, but is more of a river than Stoppel’s Creek. The Harmony had not been run for some time, and therefore there were a good many nice pools and hid- ing places for trout. We did not have to go far to catch all the trout we wanted, and we took plenty of time to enjoy the beautiful stream. Our creels held twenty-eight trout, when we re- turned to the yacht, and several two-pound trout were in the catch. We had seen plenty of signs of deer, moose and caribou, up all the rivers, but had not seen any game but ruffed grouse (partridge). We never molested anything in the way of game, it being the close season. When we returned to the yacht Percy had quite a tale to relate about a fine buck some In- dians had driven into the lake and which he had chased with a small, boat. A TYPICAL LAKE SCHOONER, “Tf it had not been the close season we would have had venison a-plenty,” quoth Percy. The Indians.do not have to observe the laws in re- gard to game, and they often kill deer and caribou near us. They offered us fine caribou antlers in the velvet at low prices. We were back at the yacht early, and as a light breeze was blowing our way, we got up both hooks and sailed away for the fish station, as we needed jce, and having wes ae et) of trout, we warited to send some to friends at the 00. After we got sail on, our breeze freshened and we made fine time. The Professor tried to make a photo- graph of the catch of the day, but the yacht heeled so, it was hard work; however, the result showed well enough to give an idea of the catch. We had wind enough to enable us to make the station by eight P. M., sailing nearly six miles per hour, The next day we had a change in the weather, which had been perfect and a cold rain accompanied by high northwest winds, made us stick very close to the yacht’s cabin. A good fire in the galley stove made us very comfortable and cards and magazines made the time pass quickly. The wind howled when we put our heads out of the companionway in the morning, and we could see the sea tumbling high outside. It was very cool and little flurries of snow came early in the day. Not bad for the eleventh of August. When the steamer Dixon came in we received an ad- dition to our crew. Doctor D., of Cincinnati, who had made a cruise with us before, came up. The Doctor re- ported a heavy sea and a good many seasick passengers. Doc. had not gotten his sea-legs and looked a little pale about the gills. We joked him about it, but he thought some of the rest of the crew might have yielded tribute to Neptune, had we been outside instead of in our snug berth. As we had had considerable river fishing, we decided to try the reefs the next day, the storm having subsided. The reefs can only be fished when there is no wind, or wind from off shore, as a little wind from off the lake soon kicks up a sea that makes it impossible to stay on the reefs. If it blows hard and we get caught out, it means go ashore and take to the beach, which is not easy, to say the least. We seldom take the yacht out of the harbor, but go to the reefs in the small boats. If we anchor off the reefs, it means that we must stand watch at night, as it would not do to be caught napping out there on a lee shore. We took two small boats and rowed the six miles out to Pancake Shoals, which are celebrated for the great trout fishing to be found there. All days are not great days on the reefs, but if one keeps going, they are bound to get them some time. The signs will come right at last. We generally stick to it and our cruise of ’02 gave us several fine days on the shoals, We had to go ashore two days and spend the day in watching the waves roll in on the rocky shore, and the surf break over the flat rocks, which in places are within a few inches of the surface and extend for rods. We fished another day in a driving rain storm and another day had to beach one of the boats and take to the woods to get back to the harbor, but these are only incidents and in detail would not in- terest the general reader. We always take our camera out on the reefs and when the sea drives us ashore, we get snaps that show better than we can write what the shore looks like and the trout we catch. We took plenty of fish and were able to remember our friends below when the Dixon called for the fish cars on her trip down. SHIP CANAL FROM DECK OF YACHT, SAULT STE. MARIE, About eight miles from the fish station there is a nar- row channel between the main land and Batchewana Island (see chart). There is a spot that the crew of the Goodenough call the Bosshole. Here the water is 40 to 50 feet deep and a huge clay bank drops off from eight feet of water, with nearly, if not quite vertical sides. Here the bass congregate and swim along seeking food. Toward this channel one afternoon the Goodenough was sailing, but the wind failed just before we got to our anchorage and as a rocky reef juts out from the island, we had to get out the sweeps to get away from it, as a very strong current sets out, or in, from the upper to lower bay. By dint of hard work we managed to sweep the yacht through the cuf, and getting her just over the clay bank, let go our hook. Here we can fish right from the deck, as the bass will come up and get under the yacht, evidently seeking the shade. We find the boss very capricious here and at times they will not be tempted to bite, though we can see them plainly in the crystal waters. Large northern pike are also taken here, but we do not usually fish for them, however. They sometimes take our bass bait. Then we hang them up. They are very gamey and on a light rod give fairly good sport. After a day or two of loafing and easy fishing, we de- cided we wanted something more strenuous, and as from this anchorage we generally fish the Batchewana river, which is only a mile or so away, we decided. to put in a day up the stream. The row from the yacht to the end of easy boat navigation, on the Batchewana, is about six miles. We could take the yacht up the river if it was not for a bar that extends from the mouth of the river om a considerable distance, but we find it better to anchor where we do than to try to hang on where we would get the full force of any wind blowing up the bay. Four of the crew took two small boats and made an early start for the Batchewana. We did not attempt to teke both small boats very far beyond the point we can row to, but pulled one up some of the lower rapid water. The Skipper sought one of his pet pools and proceeded to whip it in his usual successful manner. Ed. fished up the stream and Doc. and the Professor flew up the creek, bound for the falls. , Batchewana is the chief river that flows into the bay’ and is a noble stream. A boat can be taken right to» the falls, by poling and towing over some of the riffles. Flowing into the Batchewana is a very pretty little trout stream where one can always get a good catch of small trout, and where the Professor generally takes some photographs of some very picturesque little falls. About four miles above the small boat landing are the first falls of the Batchewana. These falls are of more volume than those of the Chippewa, but the height of land is less. Above these: falls some miles is a deep caiton and the main falls of the river, which are much more grand and rugged. It is a little too much of a trip to try to make the upper falls and back in one day, so if one wishes to visit them, the way is to camp at the first falls and make the trip to the second falls the next day. We did not go above the first falls on this cruise. There are numerous deep pools, fed by cold springs below the first falls, where lurk very large trout. We have taken them up to four pounds, but this year the Skipper could not beat three and one-half pounds, and he was high rod. WHALEBACKS LOCKING THROUGH POE LOCK “S00”—LETTING IN THE WATER. The trip up the Batchewana is a beautiful one, as the river in places flows through rocky walls that are nearly precipitous. Then again it rushes over the rocks with foam-crested waves, and anon descends into deep, black, silent pools, shaded at the edges by the dark fir and spruce of the north woods, flecked there and there by bright dashes of color made by the mountain ash and the turning leaves of the maple. The silvery sheen of the white birch streaks the dark-green here and there, while in the damp shade, where some spring gushes forth, great beds of ferns are seen. [TO BE CONTINUED. ] Columbia Y. C. CHICAGO TO INDIAN HARBOR, Saturday, June 6. Iroquois, designed, owned and built by Mr. Henry R. Davies, a member of the Columbia Y. C., defeated the crack fin Vencedor, by 6m. 30s. on the run from Chicago to Indian Harbor. The race was the first of a series of three from Chicago to Indiana Harbor, a 15-knot course. Wind was due north—making race a spin- naker and balloon jib run. The fleet presented a fine sight for those on guest boat. There are two time prizes for the series—to be awarded to yachts in A and B classes—that have the greatest number of points in its class. The points en to- day’s race follow: : Points. RGGNOIS Tore: as ylenitee oe OU NG VA So eiaseceey Lannie 42.9 IMenGedoninumonnsss snore Sos Geri vatecin sm Gen unlnn i 28.6 NARTODS Wend gneaean ebb Soy WL EWS a ee ape ete gb 14.3 Columbia Wi zane nontan ek acces eel Olan SileaniiveLhicwan. spent ates a ‘i ae pic bestila! os eieticer cs ae eae 75 Nicapeetc(a| Sa MMW € Res Se ey yele 25 A CLASSES Class 1A. P Finish Elapsed. Corrected. INGA mage agetot= eiaistela o's ls a AH cs sit ele ee 4 30 00 2 25 00 2 25 00 MENGE Otaweisn sha eon tine soe eee 4 23 00 2 18 00 Beals th , Class 2A. Er OCMOISHMES cm net A cea retest hia 30 45 2-25 45 2 08 37 ; Class 3A. Golimibidseee ues eee eek een ee 51 46 2 46 46 2 21 29 dB ge hore rane perp etek sta HEM LA a 30 00 3 26 00 fe, Sec teat Class 4A. NASIOTI AS ee eh ee ce ihe 4 53 00 2 48 00 2 15.54 ; 21-foot Cabin Class. Piivateen Semrercett encgsa, o6 de tat. 5 04 10 3 00 50 2 34 54 B CLASSES. Schooners and Yawls. Poxtethee crores enn nel 4 37 00 2 37 00 2 29 46 POTIIGEL woeoe ss ee ne 4 49 05 2 49 00 2 38 25 j Class 2B. NeaDrre tice tues enrtrnt etter 4 37 42 2 37 42 2 29 49 AEA RG ah Be ert ee a ote ite etree 4 40 11 2 40 11 2 22 26 The schedule of races of the Quantuck Y. C., of Suffolk county, has been arranged by the Regatta Committee and is as follows: First challenge race, Saturday, July 11; ‘second challenge race, Saturday, August 1; third chal- lenge race, Saturday, August 22. There are also to be ladies’ regattas, the first to be held on Friday, July 24, and the second on Friday, August 28. i The racing dates of the Associated Clubs are as fol- lows: Westhampton Country Club, July 18, August 1s; asssociation race, and September 5; Shinnecock Y. C., July regatta, and August 29; Moriches Y. C., July 11, August 1, August 22, and September 7, association race, 492 FOREST:>AND STREAM. [June 20, 1903. Mottrisania Y. C. The eighth annual open regatta was sailed on June 14 in a good southeast wind varied with hard rain squalls toward the finish. The steamer Mount Morris was char- tered by the club to carry its members and guests over the course, which was off South Brother Island. The judges were: Mr. C. S. Ogden, Stuyvesant Y. C.; Mr. L. Sands, Knickerbocker Y. C.; Mr. Geo. R. Schroeder, Sr., Mor- risania Y. C. Class A—Cabin Sloops—20ft. and over—Start, 12:10. Finish, Corrected. Gornelia, J... Galor. Sscke eee tice ee rgencd “3 04 26 2 54 26 Musidore. Ji@htt Waloticss.cs-sscbuse teu swebenne 3 15 10 3 03 06 Class B—Cabin Sloops—Over 25ft. and under 30. Water: Jail mis MDGING wee cu net a sueeeer pine wee 5 29 380 5 19 30 Toit Ge JS “WabeS iis osc auet teense eee senna Withdrew. BPindchleeys Basten t setts. bee tb poses aan stele 2 58 55 2 46 04 Gonnies "Ge GOlwetler..t...2-- vee seee en any neces Did not finish. Saracen, dt) (RIGED DEN: ccc. 5 eek ee eass vs emeetana Did not finish. STSie ge). Battros BUGS ra. Bi simnm at oeeueeuss see 6 18 30 459 21 Class C—Cabin Sloops—25ft. and under. Pearls W. MGS Tange n beets. 2S iis aeaeenes 2 40 10 2 25 10 Anitise%. Giooclrate tsa ss oars sey teat thee 2 47 16 2 35 30 Marne. tis: (istel air cbs oceandg cele tite tiem abet 3 00 55 2 43 33 Gertrude, Curtis and Morstadt ................ 2 39 10 2 18 10 Ida, P. (GP Schumacher 26... ss sons eee Did not finish. Class D—Open Sloops—20ft. and over, *Pearl Louise, T. A. Goodenough 1 57 20 1 37 20 Eleanor, J. McGregor........... 1 59 45 1 37 &2 Ene: Ha, maicetteces reseccese 2 03 10 1 40 38 eres Rs tG. Wen, Parc te arose sds thei dakn 2 02 00 L 39°02 *Protested. Class E—Open Sloops—Under 20it. Dottie Dean, Geo. H. Lansing..... severe 2 06 07 1 40 20 Phidias, . Kirchoff.......... +o el 58 55 eno ieics Sea Gull, G. Grassely......... 2 03 00 1 33 35 Imp, D. J. Reynolds......... : és 1 54 30 1 29 30 Class F—Cabin Cats—25it. and over. Ketrma, 2, ie Willys ele Mies tne eeasewess Did not finish. 4*Carnation, PP. Hamburger. .......:c.s.sececne 5 34 50 ee = Whileaway, W. Cartwright.................... 4 05 10 3 55 10 Class G—Cabin Cats—Under 25ft. and over 20. Wave, EF. Delamater........<0res+-+0eee pts 2 51 40 2 29 40 Deans; J. “S\WIMers G0 si5<. see ees ee tn Gewese aD 2 29 40 Yankee Girl, Chapman Bros.......-.-.+eceeeee Did not finish, Ammic «Gy, Ji eConstancer 208s ears ae cess «=.» 2 49 00 2 31 4 Class I—Open Cats—Over- 20ft, PVG SEL, Gril Ore eobarn <=). Soc. tse opp eatLtE ae Bins Aeon etl SEALED. osetia hein seek ae 2 05 55 1 42 57 Patan Bap Put lere tetas wank: feast sacle eres e ean Did not finish. Marguerite, W. D. Robinson................5 2 04 10 1-40 36 WWE awisg BV VSRAGIE YU Bie iclas ctl Ccieicje cicltietnciele web ee 2 05 45 1 44 48 Class K—Open Cats—20ft. and under. Goyal Sy) Gsies ae. whoward. .i.ih.1i.cccee ects ee 1 54 00 1 29 00 Only- Daughter, W. Lynch,......-:.2-4,.-++ Capsized, Willie Bh ees UM eG Earn 0 ess eo oc icce te ccus 1 56 17 1 26 56 Hobo, UNE UMeAlister: ec ncaccctsectecee tees 158 10 1 27 22 FiGcenirtide, loreteLarkine ancjasnyssesnepek ees ~ ce be Sta vis MV Serge oa MRC ALe Liat wee mec anlttate prides eco 2 27 40 1 55 51 Ryans -APiarshalte. oe ent epy spew erect 1 51 00 a tr Class L—Special Racing Class—Cabin Sloops—26ft. and under. 5 Mirahty. WG, Sey isan Ferny. Jas yn eee eee eee ate 2148 1 58 28 Brides We eletitasod-taharss stats as st be erenne Withdrew. SUEPLISes ss Meath ee Meee ee INA Gla ta 2 87 30 2 22 20 BEG heir SCR TAGIA: call oicet lt elclaa’ lalate ticcth curren 2 43.25 2.25.39 +Disqualified. ‘ Winners: Class A, Cornelia; Class B, Pinochle; Class C, Gertrude; Class D, Zetes; Class E, Imp (subject to remeasurement) ; Class F, Whileaway; Class G, Wave; Class I, Marguerite; Class K, Willie B.; Class L, Firefly. YACHTING NEWS NOTES. For advertising relating to this department see pages ii and iii. Commodore J. F. McGuire, of the Columbia Y. C., of Chicago, has had a boat built by the Kehoe Boat and Motor Company, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, for the. defense of the Lipton cup. She is 35ft. t1%4in. over all, 20ft. gin. waterline, toft. 6in. breadth, and 2ft. 2in. draft. She will carry 969 square feet of sail. The yacht will be known as the Hoosier. mee Mr. Hollis Burgess, in conjunction with Messrs. Gardner & Cox, has chartered the schooner Mayflower, owned by Mr. William Amory Gardner, of Groton, Mass., to Mr. Ernest B. Dahlgren, of New York. RR E The steam yacht built by the Geo, Lawley & Son Corp., | South Boston. from designs by Mr. A. S. Chesebrough for Mr. Charles G. Emery, was launched on Thursday, June 11, She is r45ft. over all, r17ft. waterline, 17ft. breadth and 7it. draft. The yacht has been named Calu- met. She will be used mainly on the St. Lawrence River and will have a speed of 18% miles. men R The schooner built by the Geo. Lawley & Son Corp. from designs made by Mr. Fred Lawley for Mr. John M. Richmond, of Providence, R. I., was launched on June 2. She will be known-as Velmore. The yacht is 83ft. over all, 51ft. waterline, 16ft. breadth and roft. 6in, draft. Her sail area is about 3,300 square feet. Re R The American-built schooner Lasca arrived at New York on June to, thirty-two days out from Southampton. The run from Southampton to the Azores was made in five days, and from that time on bad weather was encoun- tered. ed Mr. Frank Bowne Jones has chartered the steam yacht Reba for Mr. Nathaniel Witherell to Mr. William R. Proctor and the steam yacht Viking for the month of July for Mr. Franklin Haines to Mr, Henry S. Jeanes. Mr, Jones has made the following sales: Sloop Onward cold by Mr. A. S. Chesebrough to Mr. S. E, Vernon; sloop Mary Jane sold by Mr. Wm. B. Lloyd to Mr. M. S. Bentham; raceabout Scamp sold by Mr, Allan H. Pirie to Mr. Henry L. Maxwell; raceabout Indian sold by Mr. Henry L. Maxwell to Mr. Allan H. Pirie; race- about Viper sold-by Mr. Andrew B. Newcombe to Mr. Wm. R. Thorsen, and the knockabout Lucille sold by Mr. H. H. Landon to Mr. Leonard L. Weyand. RRR ‘Secretary George A. Cormack, of the New York Y. C.., has announced that Mr. James Gordon Bennett presented the club with a challenge cup valued at $2,500: for compe- tition between steam yachts. Mr. Bennett offers a cash prize of $2,500 in addition to the cup to go to the winner of the first race. The trophy is to be known as the Lysestrata cup. The following conditions govern the reces held for the cup: This cup is open to the competition of steam yachts be- lenging to the New York Y. C. and to steam yachts properly enrolled in any foreign yacht club, The winning yacht shall hold the cup as a challenge cup, to become the property of an owner of a winning yacht in two contests, to be held in successive years at New York a week before’ or after the June regatta, or when the America’s Cup is sailed for; at Newport, R. L, U. S. A., during the squadron cruise of the New York Y¥. C.; at Nice, France, in the month of April, or at Cowes, England, during the regatta week. In these com- petitions there shall be no handicap or time allowance. The entrance is limited to yachts above 150 net tons in size, American yacht measurement. ‘The course is to be not less than fifty nautical miles in length and in water of a depth that will not impair the speed of vessels, the selection of this course to be left with the Regatta Com- mittee of the club actually in possession of the cup. The yacht holding the cup shall decide the place where the next competition is to be held. Challengers shall give six months’ notice, in writing, to the owner of the yacht and the secretary of the club holding the cup. The yachts are to steam in ordinary cruising trim, with the actual amount of coal and stores, and all boats must be carried except power launches, which may be omitted at the discretion of the owners. The Regatta Committee shall have power to postpone a race if the weather conditions be, in its opinion, unsuit- able, and in case of all protests its decision shall be final. RR ER The officers and committees of the newly organized Bay Side Y. C. are as follows: Com., G, Waldo Smith; Vice-Com., Charles M. Gould; Rear-Com., W. W. Cole; Treas., Hugh L. Weber; Sec’y, William H. Johns; Fleet Surgeon, Dr. C. B. Story; Legal Adviser, Elmer G. Story; Meas., George H. Petit. Board of Governors—Judge Cornell, W, W. Cole, John Taylor, Howland Leavitt, Charles L. Willard and Fleet Captain Bayard Foulke. Racing Committee—Harry T. Weeks, Theodosius Foulke and Otto Muller. House Committee—Charles K. Sayer, Charles E. Colman, Brion Foulke, Wilfred Scott, William H. Johns, Charles F. Smith. The burgee of the club is a blue ground, with a chevron of white and a crimson ball. The club is to build a house on the shore of Little Neck Bay. Some thirty boats are enrolled in the fleet. HR eR The officers of the Westhampton Country Club Yacht Squadron are as follows: Com., Foster Crampton; Vice- Com., Walter H, Martin; Fleet Captain, Philip L. Gill; Meas., Griswold Dunson, 2d. The club’s racing schedule follows : Saturday, July 18—Club Regatta. Saturday, August 15—Association regatta. Saturday, September 5—Open regatta. Ganoeing. Red Dragon’ C. C. Editor Forest and Stream: The spring regatta of the Red Dragon C. C. took place over the club paddling course on Saturday, June 13. The Delaware River at this point runs nearly northeast, and the wind on Saturday afternoon was strong and squally from the southeast. The club house is of the west bank of the river, with the finish line immediately in front. The racing conditions may therefore be better imagined than described, especially as the tide started to run down before the races were half over. The races.and their results were as follows: Event No. 1—Half mile tandem, double blades: J. C. Maclister and Paul S. McMichael (Red Dragon C. C.), first; Jno. Conrad (Lakanoo Boat Club, Burlington, N.. . J.), and C. S. Osmond (Yapewi Aquatic Club, Borden- town, N. J.), second; T. W. Cook and H. E. Davis (Red Dragon C, C.), third; W. H. Logan, Jr., and M. D. Wilt (Red Dragon C, C.), fourth; E. D, Hill and E. D. Hem- ingway (Red Dragon C. C.), fifth. Event No. 2—Hand Paddling, too yards: First heat— C. S. Osmond, Y. A. C., first; E. D. Hemingway, R. D. C. C., second; W. H. Logan, Jr., R. D. C. C, third; H. E. Davis, R, D. C. C., fourth. Second heat—John Con- ard, L. B. C., first; J. C. Maclister, R. D. C. C., second; P. S. McMichael, R. D. C. C, third. Final heat—John Conard, L B. C., first; E. D, Hemingway, R. D. C. C, second; C. S. Osmond, Y, A. C., third; J. C. Maclister, Om Ccenstorrune Event No. 3—Tail-end race, single blades: ‘This race, contrary to the usual custom, was paddled .against the wind, as the wind was so strong that none of the canoes would go in any direction but round and round, wien headed down the wind. T. W. Cook, R. D. C. C.,, first; H. E. Davis, R. D. C. C., second; J. C. Maclister, R. D. C. C., third; Jno. Conard, L. B. C, fourth; M. D. Wilt, R. D.C. C, fifth; E. D. Hemingway, R. D. C. C., sixth. Event No. 4—One man, half mile, double blades: M. D. Wilt, R. D. C. C., first; T. Rice Davis, L. B. C., second; J. C. Maclister, R. D. C. C., third. ; Event No. 5—One man, single blade, quarter mile— Open to R. D. C. C. members only: H. E, Davis, first; P. S. McMichael, second; W. H. Logan, Jr., third. Event No. 6—Tilting tournament: H. E. Davis, lancer, and E. D. Hemingway, paddler (R. D. C. C.), won; against P. S. McMichael, lancer, and H. E. Blumner, paddler (R. D. C. C.). Event No, 7—Swimming too yards: C. S. Osmond, Y. A. C, first; Newlin D. Davis, second; H, E. Davis did not finish. There was to have been a mixed tandem double-blade race, but on account of the weather conditions and the scarcity of women’s bathing suits, it was called off. The officials were: Joseph Edward Murray, Judge at Finish; H. W. Fleischman, Starter; Omar Shallcross, Timer and Clerk of the Course. The duties of Mr. Shallcross as timer were discontinued after the first race, as the high wind and rough sea would have made the results absolutely valueless for comparison. . He was therefore appointed a life-saving crew, and did good service in that capacity. ae oe There have been canoe races paddled in worse weather, but only once, and that was at the Stave Island meet of the A, C, A. in ’98, when the Regatta Committee waited two days for decent weather to run off the paddling tro- phy race, and then put it on probably because it was too rough to run off sailing races. On Saturday afternoon all the Red Dragons used the big open canyas-covered cruising canoes, except in the half-mile double-blade race, in which regular 16ft. by 3o0in. fifty-pound racers were used. ; This was perhaps the most exciting race of the day. There was enough tide running against the wind to kick up a nasty sea for the light racers, and when they started down the wind it was more like a sleigh hide or a coast on a toboggan than anything else. They would be caught by a big wave, and with the forward half of the boats clean out of water would shoot ahead yards at a time, and when the wave dropped from under would be almost out of sight in the trough until picked up by another wave to repeat the performance. Tt was spott, but it wasn’t exactly racing, and there was no time to bail until the finish. After the races supper was served, and most of the hundred or more guests stayed for a dance or two in the cyening, and thus finished out one of the best regattas the Red Dragons ever had. M. D. Wirt. New York C, C. BENSONHURST, GRAVESEND BAY, Saturday, June 13. The thirty-third annual spring regatta of the New York C. C. was held on the afternoon of Saturday, June 13, over courses in front of the club anchorage on Gravesend Bay, The events were open to. members of the A. C. A. The light wind that prevailed in the late afternoon was exactly suited to canoe races, and each contest was well waged. A large number of ladies were in attend- ance viewing the sports in the afternoon and later din- ner at the club house. In the evening prizes won dur- ing the day were presented. The summary and win- ners of the different events follows: Record Sailing—Decked Canoes—Start 3:45. G. W. McTaggart......... 4 D4 alison eriatard) ee so eaters 4 27 00 Record Sailing—Oper Canoes—Start 3:55. Ril pe bosterenesrepsaeaae 4: 7110) “AsD MS iBooles thier ne eke 4 24 50 H., CEL eM GrtOhaea ssn eee 4 2430 William Yelland, Jr...... 4 28 00 Special Class—Open Canoes—Start 3:55. HH. SoStevene 2 veers 421300 Nie Canmalie 4. oe eit 4 25 15 Open Canoe Paddling—Double Blades—Start 4:47. G. W. McTagegart......... 44900 W. V. Robinson.........- 4 49 30 George Morrisey.........- AAG 20 — Ele iy ollard® sho ames 4 50 15 Open Canoe Paddling—Single Blades—Start 4:58. William Inslee ........... 50000 A. M. Poole............... 5 00 40 George Morrisey ........- B00 02) Wisk Carnralim ee cu weese sar 5 00 50 Open Canoe Paddling—Single Blades—Tandem—Start 5:12. McTaggart and Kennard.5 13 00 Pollard and Morrisey..... 5 13 12 Boell & Roberts, K.C.C....5 13 03° Carmalt and Poole....... 5 13 1h Robinson and Jennings...5 13 07 Tail End Race. A, MA. (Poole... scene. Not timed. William Inslee........ Not timed. C. F. Boeil, K. C. C..Nottimed. L, B. Jennings....... Not timed. The A. C. A. Meet. To the Members of the A. C. A. The affairs of the present administration pertaining to the annual meet at Sugar Island, August 7 to 21, inclu- sive, are rapidly progressing, the outlook is very encour- aging for a large attendance and a successful meet. The “Year Book and Camp Circular” will be forwarded to members sometime between July 1 and 15. The administration is in need of a camp bugler, and it is desirous to obtain one from our members; volunteers are herewith petitioned. J will be gratified to receive word from any of our members to the effect that we will not find it necessary to go outside of our Association for a bugler. NATHANIEL S. Hyatt, Commodore. A.-C, A. Membership. Mr. Edwin Lemoine Somerville has been proposed for membership to the Atlantic Division of the A. C. A, Messrs. Ralph C. Porter, Frederick Leonard Adams and John Neilson have been proposed for membership to the Atlantic Division of the A. C. A. Rifle Range and Gallery. Fixtures. June 18-20.—St. Louis, Mo.—Tournament under auspices of — Central Shooting Bund. Horace Kephardt, Sec’y. July 6-7—New Hayen, Conn.—South New Engiand Schuetzen Bund annual schuetzenfest, under the auSpices of the Independent German Rifle Company. H. C. Young, Sec’y. : The United States Revolver Association, New Yorx, N. Y., June 15.—The date of the international match between France and America has now been definitely fixed for the latter part of June, the Frenchmen proposing the 27th or the 29th inst. On account of not being able to use the Wal- nut Hill range on Sunday for preliminary shooting, the Execu- tive Committee of the U. S. R. A. has proposed the 30th as the date of the match. ‘This, no doubt, will be acceptable to the French committee. If-so, the candidates for the American team are requested to assemble at the Walnut Hill tange of the Massa- chusetts Rifle Association, near Woburn, Boston, Mass., on June 26, for preliminary practice and to accustom themselves ta the range. There will be three days of preliminary shooting, June 26, 27 and 29. The team will be selected from the candidates on the evening of June 29. All the first-class revolver and pistol shots in the United States who can possibly arrange to be present, are invited and urged to participate in the preliminary shooting and be available for the American team on the days named. Special arrangements will be made in Boston for the accommodation of visiting marksmen on this occasion. The conditions of the match are as follows: Fifteen men on a side; 60 shots per man at 50 yards, on the Standard American June 20, i903.] target, 8-inch bullseye; any six-shot revolver; riaximuin length of barrel, 12% inches; maximum weight of barrel, 254 pounds; minimum trigger pull, 2% pounds; any open sights; any ammuni- tion. Sighting shots allowed before beginning the ‘score. _A. L. A. HiMMELWRicnHT. The American Palma Team, Tur American team, to compete for the Palma trophy at Bis- ley, sailed last week on the Cunarder Lucania. The party of Americans was made up of Col. L. C. Bruce, Old Guard, New York, who will act as captain; Adjutant-Col. J. H. Wells, Seven- ty-first Regiment, New York; Lieut. Albert S. Jones, secretary New Jersey Rifle Association; Quartermaster-Lieut. J. G. Ewing, National Guard, South Carolina; Capt. H. M. Bell, Second Regi- ment, New Jersey; Lieut. BE. Y. Breeze, Lieut. Kellogg, K, V. V. Casey, Seventy-first Regiment, New York; Private George Cook, First Regiment, District of Columbia; Sergt. George Doyle, Seventy-first Regiment, New York; Lieut. Thomas Holcomb, Jz., United States Marine Corps; Sergt. J. H. Keough, Sixth Regiment, Massachusetts; Private H. H. Leizear, Sixth Regi- ment, Pennsylvania; Private Daniel C. Meyer and Corporal W. B. Short, Seventh Regiment, New York; Capt. W. B. Martin, Second Regiment, New Jersey; Private S. B. Wetherald, First Regiment, District of Columbia; Corporal C. B. Winder, Sixth Regiment, Ohio; Lieut. A. E. Wells and Lieut.-Col. J. H. Wells, Seyenty-first Regiment, New York. Private Meyer failed to make a place on the team during the competitions, but during the spring and winter did some very fine shooting, and on the strength of this was taken along. The competition at Bisley will be held on July 11. Six men teams will compete, representing France, Austria, Switzerland, Great Britain, Australia and the United States. Cincinnati Rifle Association, _ Crycinnari, O.—At our regular. meeting on June 7 the follow- ing scores were made. The conditions were good, except a tricky fish-tail wind from 5 to 7 o’clock. Shooting 200yds., off- hand, 25-ring target: © Gindele ....... 224 217 216 215 208 Bruns ........ 213 203 201 201 188 Odelly ose. 223 220.219 209 205 Hofman ...... 211 211 205 196 192 Payne ccssccese 223 219 218 216 216 Hofer ......... 208 203 203 198 188 Nestler -....5.. 221 216 216 211 208 Tux .....-:.5- 202 198 189 181 179 Strickmeier....221 213 208 208 206 Mreitag ....... 195 195 193 191 188 Trounstine ....220 212 202 191177 Drube ....... 194 193 181 178 176 Roberts ......- 215 208 208 207 204 Uckotter ...... 185 181 176 174 174 Honor target: Gindele 65, Odell 69, Payne 67, Nestler 69, Strick- meier 60, Trounstine 67, Roberts 68, Bruns 56, Hofman 67, Hofer 69, Lux 52, Freitag 53, Drube 57, Uckotter 67. Tue British American states that “the Austrian minister in Washington announces that in May an international shooting match for young men employing army rifles and ammunition will be held under the auspices of the Egyetemi Athbetikai Club at Budapest. This is to be the first competition of the kind ever held. The first prize will be 5,000 kroner and a gold medal. There will also be second and third prizes of less yalue. Any young man born since Jan. 1, 1880, will be eligible. It is an- nounced that any person wishing to take part is to communicate with the committee in charge of the competition at Budapest, inclosing a certificate of his birth.” ‘ The name of the club is very significant, and will bear a lot of earnest study, and 5,000 kroner, though yague, is interesting, The experts, born in 1800 will have difficulty to qualify. j ~ Grapshooting. ———— If you want your shoot to be announced here send a notice like the following: Fixtures. *June 17-18.—McKeesport, Pa., tournament. June 1718—Wilkes-Barre, Pa,—E. L. Klipple tournament. June 18—West Chester, Pa., Gun Club’s all-day target shoot. _ June 28-25.—Grand Rapids, Mich,—Consolidated Sportsmen’s Association’s second annual target tournament; $1,000 added. A. B. Richmond, Sec’y. June 2425.—Rutherford, N, J.—Interstate Association tourna- ment under the auspices of the Union Gun Club. *June 24-25.—New Castle, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. James Atkinson, Sec’y. June 25.—York County target shoot, under auspices of the Glen Rock, Pa., Gun Club. Allen M. Seitz, Sec’y. July 1.—Annual tournament of the Sherbrooke, Que., Gun Club. C. HH. Foss, Sec’y. July 3-4——Memphis, Tenn., Gun Club’s two days’ shoot. A. H. Frank, Sec’y. . ' July 4.—Napoleon, Ohio, Sportsmen’s Association all-day shoot. A. Bradley, Jr., Sec’y. : July 4—Ilion, N. Y.—All-day tournament of the Remington Gun Club. ; July 4.—Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Gun Club shoot. July 4.—Towanda, Pa,, Gun Club’s annual tournament. W. F. Dittrich, Sec’y. July 4—Concord, Staten Island.—All-day target shoot of the Richmond Gun Club. Special handicap, 100 targets, for $10 in gold. Albert A. Schoverling, See’y. ‘July 4.—Altoona Rod and Gun Club. Targets. G. G. Zeth, secretary, Altoona, Pa. July 4.—All-day shoot of the Haverhill (Mass.) Gun Club. S. G Miller, secretary. July 4—Dover, N. H., Sportsman’s- Association’s Holiday shoot. D. W. Hallam, secretary. July 4.—Topsham, Me.—All-day tournament of the Riverside Shooting Club. Fred W. Atkinson, Sec’y. *July 7-8.—Ligonier, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. J. O’H. Denny, Sec’y. i fc July 8-9.—Huntsville, Ala.—The Interstate Association’s tourna- ment, under the auspices of the Huntsville Gun Club. E. R. Matthews, Sec’y. 4 July 8-10.—Arkansas State Sporismen’s Associction’s thirteenth annual meeting and tournament, under the auspices of the Jones- boro, Ark., Gun Club, of which Matthews is Sec’y-Treas. **July, second week.—Memphis, Tenn., Gun Club’s tournament. July 14-16—The Americus, Ga., second annual interstate tarzet tournament. H, S. McCleskey, ec’y. July 15.—Charlottesville, Va—Shoot of the University of Vir- ginia. G. L. Bruftey, Sec’y. . July 20-22.—Winnipeg, Can.—Seventh annual trapshooting tourna- ment of the Winnipeg Industrial Exhibition Assiciation. F. W. Heubach, Gen’l Mer. *July 21-22—Beaver Falls, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. W. R. Keefer, Sec’y. ; _ July 30-Aug. 1.—La Crosse, Wis.—The Interstate Association’s tournament, under the auspices of the La Crosse and Viroqua gun clubs. John M. Moore, sec’y, *Aug. 5-6.—Brownsville, Pa., Rod and Gun Club’s tournament. Aug. 12-15.—Toronto, Ont.—Annual tournament of the Dominion Trapshooting and Game Protective Association. A, W. Throop, Sec’y-Treas., Ottawa, Can. . Aug. 18-20.—Grand Rapids, Mich.—Second annual target tourna- ment of the Consolidated Sportsmen’s Association of Grand Rapids; $1,000 added. A. B. Richmond, Sec’y. ug. 19-20.—Ottawa, Ilk—The Interstate Association’s tourna- ment, under the auspices of the Rainmakers’ Gun Club. “Paul A. | Selember, Sec’y. ' The scores te be shot between 8 A. M. and 6 P. M. Farwell; moistening the cup. FOREST: AND- STREAM. ~ *Aug. 19-20.—Millyale, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. Wm. Buss- ler, Sec’y. Aug. 26-27.—New Bethlehem, Pa.—Crescent Gun Club’s annual tournament. Dr. R. E. Dinger, Mer, , Aug, 25-28.—Lake Okoboji, la.—Annual Indian tournament. Frank C. Riehl, Chief Scribe. F Raper 1-2.—Irwin, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. John Withero, ec’y, A : Sept. 2-8.—Akron, O.—The Interstate Association’s tournament, under the auspices of the Akron Gun Club, Wagoner, Sec’y. : Sept. 7.—Fall tournament of the Springfield, Mass., Shooting Club. C. L. Kites, Sec’y. *Sept. 9-10.—Enterprise zun Club tournament. *Sept. 15-16—Ligonier, Pa,, Gun Club’s tournament. J. O’H. Denny, Sec’y. He *Sept. 28-24.—Scottdale, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. R. §. Deniker, Sec’y. ; , Sept, 28-29.—Louisville, Ky.—First day, State championship at targets; second day, State championship at live birds. E30 Phelps, Jr., Sec’y, *Oct. 6-7.—Allegheny, Pa—North Side Gun Club’s tournament. . L. B. Fleming, Sec’y: Oct. 8-9—Dalton, Ohio, Gun Club’s fifth annual tournament. H, Santmyer, m’g’r. Oct. 14-17.—West Baden, Ind., Gun Club tournament; $500 added. Saturdays,—Chicago.—Garfield Gun Club; grounds W_ Fifty- second avenue and Monroe street. Dr, J. W. Meek, Sec’y. *Member of Western Pennsylvania Trapshooters’ Chas. G. Grubb, Sec’y, 507 Wood street, Pittsburg. **Members of Mississippi Valley Trapshooters’ and Game Pro- tective Association. J. J. Bradfield, Sec’y, Vicksburg, Miss. League. DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. Club secretaries are invited to send their scores for publication in these columns, also any news notes they may care to have published. Mail all such matter to Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 346 Broadway, New York. Forest AND STREAM goes to press on TUES- DAY OF EACH WEEK. Keep in mind that the Interstate Association will give a tourna- ment for the Union Gun Club on June 24 and 25. The secretary, Mr. A. Bradley, Jr., informs us that the Napo- leon, Ohio, Sportsmen’s Association will hold an all-day shoot on July 4 & Dr. R. KE. Dinger, the manager, informs us that the annual tournament of the Crescent Gun Club will be held at New Beth- Tehem, Pa., on Aug. 26-27. The Trenton, N. J., Shooting Association will hold a shoot on July 4, commencing at 10 o’clock. A merchandise event will be a feature of the competition. 4 We are informed that Messrs. H. M. Clark and Max Witz, of Indiana, made a match at Cincinnati last week, to be shot at Fort Wayne, Ind., the side bet being $100, 2 Mr. Bert B. Adams, Sec’y-Treas. of the Limited Gun Club, Indianapolis, Ind., informs us that the tournament fixed to take place June 25-26 by his club, has been postponed, and that the new dates have not yet been determined. BR Mr. S. M, Van Allen cleared up nearly all the prizes of a special nature in the New York State event last week. He won the championship medal of the Association, high average in the State events, and the New York City cup. & On June 10, the second day. of the Soo Gun Club tournament, in the main event, the Interstate Championship trophy, Mr. R. R. Barber, of Paullina, Ia., proved victorious. There were nine ties, the final being miss-and-out, Mr. Barber winning at the 17th target. R 3 Mr, Chas, G. Grubb, of Pittsburg, Pa., writes us as follows: “The Ruftsdale Rod and Gun Club, Ruftsdale, Pa., have trans- ferred their September date to the Scottdale Gun Club, of Scott- dale, Pa., and tournament will be held Sept. 28 and 24 at the latter place.” ¥ The Mount Kisco, N. Y., Gun Club will hold a two days’ shooting tournament on July 5 and 4. The programme will be issued about June 20. Guns and ammunition sent care of the manager, Mr. A. Betti, will be delivered on the grounds free of charge, z Mr. A. A, Schoverling, 302-304 Broadway, New York, writes us as follows: ‘The team race, Fulton Gun Club vs. the North River Gun Club, will be held on the grounds of the Fulton Club, commencing at 1 o’clock. There’ also will be some special prize contests. Eyery shooter welcome.” 4 Last week at Batavia, N, Y., the Holland Gun Club was or- ganized at the office of Sheriff Clark, the following officers being chosen: President, Sheriff Clark; First Vice-President, F. M. Second Vice-President, Albert J. Squires; Secretary, Albert M. Steele; Treasurer, H. M. Johnson; Field Captain, Harry L. Ames. & At the sixth tournament of the Western Pennsylvania Trap- shooters’ League, held at Rufisdale, Pa., June 10 and 11, R. S. Deniker was high average for the two days with a total of 333 out of 350, a 95 per cent. performance. In the four-man team race, 50 targets per man, five teams contested, with scores as fellows: Millvale 183, North Side and Ruffisdale 179, Ligonier Ja5, Irwin 147. B Mr. A. A. Schoverling, the club manager, writes us as follows: “The Richmond Gun Club will hold a live-bird shoot on June 20 at 2 P. M. A special match, three men of the Aquehonga Gun Chib, of Tottenville, S. I., against three men of the Richmond Gun Club. Conditions, 25 birds per man, 75 to each team. Sweepstakes to follow if time permits. To be held on the East Side Gun Club grounds in Newark.” Only two teams contested for the famous Dean Richmond trephy at Ossining on Friday of last week, the Baldwinsville and Ossining teams, the former winning by a score of 125 to 123. The four-man team race had four entries, two of Ossining, one professional team, and a team of the Brooklyn Gun Club, the members of which were Banks, 24, Brigham (Dr. Martin) 23, Floyd 22, and Hopkins 22. This team won with the excellent total of 91, The Baldwinsville team duly solemnized the win by livered on the grounds. 498 In the competition for high averages at the New York State shoot at Ossining, last week, in the open events the first five were: J. Mowell Hawkins 440 out of 480; J. T. Skelly 484; H. Stewart 433; N, Apgar 480; Mr, Byer 427. In the State events 5. M. Van ~ Allen was high with 184 out of 200. He won the amateur cham- pionship of the Association, first tying with F. Kelsey with a score of 93 out of 100, them winning in the shoot-off with a score of 24 to 21, _ ’ ® The Altoona, Pa., Rod and Gun Club’s programme for July 4, provides ten events at 15 and 20 targets alternately, $1.50 and $2 entrance, $17.50 for the programme. Purses will be divided ac- cording to the Rose system. ‘Targets, 2 cents. Practice events, July 8. Lunch served in the club house. High gun, $7; low gun $3. Guns shipped prepaid to the secretary, Mr. G. G. Zeth, will be delivered on the grounds free. Messrs. Crosby, Elliott, Banks, Fulford, Keller and other famous experts will attend; they will shoot for targets only. td July 1 has been fixed upon for the annual tournament of the Sherbrooke, Que.,, Gun Club. The programme provides twelve events at 1b and 20 targets, $1.50 and $2 entrance, and No. 6, a five-man team race, $10 per team. the division of the moneys. Merchandise prizes will be offered. Shooting commences at 8:30. Free lunch will be served. Guns and ammunition shipped to the secretary, C. H. Foss, will be de- There are three special prizes, one for high average, one for lowest average and one for longest run. BERNARD WATERS. The Rose system will govern Northumberland Tournament. Tue annual spring tournament of the Northumberland County Sportsmen’s Association was held on June 9, 10 and 11, at Sun- bury, Pa. 52 Hawley 9 71278 8 51115 17. 112 Gotloharlesy 4 sceisceeece staan ot 471116 6 9 8121523 111 FLAnuiS? = Sink hae geeabe ce tee ae aCe ttle Writes ON: 20 EF OSS. Peretti omaha ee eee TS Gy is ate) 5 P 20 eessler Meee A cee ronne ime alte ae 7Til2 4 0 F 25 PeiGxeLls Walser umena en eek) bh. Ar lag ig SE Oar 16 [RUSTING Be ob Reh b ner Sana A See no es ee 2S 21 RINGS EE ne bole dalalsleges leo 0, eM A ee ARS WS SP Bee LS eas 4 4 UCC Mast tgtcstets te ricci Nee aes me Le Gigoeeres ny 6 PROHMET: PPE Sh. s snare nats adeie Soom eee hae NLM is ee 8 (ron ete ee tee geen anette, be cae pe OE 11 17 20 48. QTLESS AS seen acini ate pee eee Ree eine, oe Poke eos 0 le FeGhibaCHa wk seh sage Ren hag ANE ee, oe ie ae <2) 22 Third Day, June 11, The competition to-day was at live birds. The scores: Ievent No. 1, 10 birds, entrance $10: Savidees on. stiir sete 2102220220—% Troxell ...:<.s....-. 0*20221122--.7 Vanhorn ............ D222 709 Spicer wasn ens) ea t222 09202098 Hliawleyeseer deo 2222222022—9 Howell ............: 0220121122—s Event No. 2, miss-and-out race, entrance $1: Derk 0, Howell 5, Savidge 11, Troxell 1, Spicer 7, Jones 0, Hawley 8, Rogers 12.. The match was won by ‘Rogers, who shot 12 without missing. Event No. 3, 7 birds, entrance $5: Howell 7, Savidge 6, ‘Jones 6, Hawley 2. The Sportsmen’s Association cleared about one hundred dollars from the three days’ tournament, which was a succéss in every way. Much enthusiasm was shown and arrangements are being made to hold-a tournament in the fall, at which there will be a still larger crowd of shooters. The 11 15 181311 2015141214 160 138 EP Ca Wainer. nie 2.45% 1915.12) (10.2015, Sis. 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The special events were two in number, the L. C. Smith trophy, which comprised events 6, 7 and 8—20, 15 and 15 targets, respectively—$7 entrance, for a guaranteed purse of $500; all surplus added, Provision was made for 42 high guns, scaled from $50 to first to $7.50 to last. The first $7 to $70 surplus was used to create from one to ten moneys for low guns at $7 each, Messrs. R. Trimble, C. A. Young and C. W. ‘Phellis tied on 48, though Trimble, being a non-resident, was ineligible. In the shoot-off at 25 targets, Young won with a score of 24. Phellis was 23. The Sportsman’s Review trophy was for two-man teams, 25 targets per man, $1 per team entrance, optional sweep, $2.50 per man, 40, 30, 20 and 10 per cent.; trophy went to the member of the O. T. S. L. making the highest score. The Columbus Rod and Gun Club, represented by Messrs, Young and Rhoads proved to be the victor with a team total of 47. The scores in this event follow:: | oe RHOAdS Fesessaseass peers 24 BAS MED ERUSSE] sietertipieseislg ciel er iele 16 MOUTH) cscs taielcletetieg rene 23AT J K Williams... ..+.00%+-.- 18—34 Kainttgke “inet os net ear ee 23 TEMS EE hore eis rises cee ns 24 PREETI GE RSA RA onde aati 2346 Faran ........ na dee waeeeediaip 17—41 PADICES Me octane re eet pet na 21 Walltarns .fua east same ic 0 Van ‘N€SS) iscccsnaeess nee DAA LTT Tt pace | Sete nop retained ee tee 18—38 Shennan. passa peeaeeess se saaa Wiis bars lars onncegteraete ec areas 17 Walters -2.iicissscaaeseres PB—AB Saffold ....cpeeseeeeeensneee 16—33 D ‘A Schnieder..........-- 24 Seer etuede cee eee cet ee tee 21 RJ Wilson. ..--- 2.200 , 20-6 “Gitton 2: eed ne 2 Phellisy \A.xjutieveet = daa sai ne Vaasa catitaas seaetas see b es 23 PAETICK 4c-ctearhd sors hehe so 5as QR Ak SORA arbre ceraieeasinte seer 9—32 BH Snowncisec rs cscecvcces 22 Pie STB aN aye a Ah seats ache PA 18 Dicker 2331244 ese tesc ai eae CAL petite Wise atint cites stereos 21—39 Shaw ..s.sise05 Ros piste iaierait.5 21 Daudt. -s..s.s40. hemlet rAl GUiyy eee ie eeweainatete 2142 C Warner .,.sssecsseeeeees 18—38 Squire Taylor ......+.-.000: 22 Harris .....,++. eR tee 7 Re shies ori LOee saul annie ....20—42 Medico ...... F996 50e000Re 16—33 AV Andie tes eon i eroes 20 Rien uae egal oa eesee el 1b aD AMC ee ak Ate s ae Oloa cess 2242 Heikes ...... OR ey sie 22—38 Gartibell™ (ees pave ol ta eens 20 Sto ik ia alaieNas cos be seals 22 SGMMierse seceesre OTN some oe 16—36 Arndt ........ Paci sean sede aele 19—41 Wasner tates arc caveat o Peer 21 Bradley. aeia alesse eee 20—41 Phellis was high gun for the day, scoring 150 out of 160, The competition was conducted at a lively, continuous rate, and a large number of targets were thrown, It willbe kept in mind that Nos. 6, 7 and 8 are the Smith trophy. The scores: Events: Loaes. 4 sbelb: ee Seed S10) OE Targets 1515151515 2015151515 at, Broke Gambellecseence see oe aed 11 11 12 14 1417 10 12:10 12 155 123 SQMier hiss sie ae oe etree 11 13 11:12 11:18 13:13 11 13 155 126 Alkire’ Seciss stastesen ete 14 13 18 11 14 19 13 14 15 18 155 139 RhOadS: ppecesaseeen crest oe 13 14 14 12 12 17 12 14 14 12 155 184 WOU Si iis epteiete onset reese 14 14 14 15 15 19 14 15 14 14 155 148 Don. Minto .-....-:2-:::. 14 11 11 14 12 15 12 14 10 18 155 126 Walliams .cseegeccisevans 10 12 13 12 10 14 14 16 13 11 155 124 RC ee cep noch: ence secnnaed 10 11 14 10 18 15 14 12 10 12 155 121 Jones: Li ded Meeker 101513 9 71611 7 913 15 110 ITE Saiielnc 0 casero s ee 13.913 11 151712 81512 155 124 DENG Cos Pole MEE Ecco) 9 14 13 12 10 11 10 13 13 13 155 118 WAN as sarge atete oe siapeis treteaie 12 13 14 15 11:17 12 13 13.11 155 131 15 Ternerteh oe ne, A AA plc 12 141214111414 9 911 155 12 ‘Captairm f.kienews- > op ee re CD fe De a ae 15 54 NVE cyan ssediseredeb eens 14 14 12:12 11 15 10 12 13 13 155 126 IRVan deine hes co cera ee eel 13 12 13 14 13 19 12 10 13 14 155 133 iit age esses. oe 11 1313 9138 15.12 13 13 14 155 126 Galois cenit seetns soe 1121211151510 913 9 155 119 F E Mallory.........-..- 14 15 14 12 1117 15 141414 155 142 S ‘[ Mallory......-..::-. 12 12 12 13 11 16 12 10 11:18 155 122 Atleinson™ oemnsee feeeeaes 12151315141915111415 155 148 Watson Weaesannsttesee sat 13 14 14 15 18 17 14 14 14 14 155 142 Stariclifi ituegsesue temed 15121214121815111514 155 138 Wagoner ..-...ssereerees 13.181318121914121513 155 1387 Bech saanies eke lessee ans 101001 81111 8 9 8 7 155 93 irddley. Sessler Lee = 10 14 13 14 12 15 10 11 12 12 155 123 Russell Pieces ccs = sar TPs Rit ben 8 ON Ee memey vB lew RE Lt a Dn Bray tease, Slee = tas TAT “spay SG RG RE eS ee 75 AT PO Ward iiss aon een 13 13 11 15 14 18 14 14 14 14 155 140 — Meadérs: cites ssgerrce = 410 1211 18121413181412 155 124 German .. 18 141414151814131314 155 142 Hughes .14141414121915131515 155 145 Waters .sccccsesceeeceeee 20 151216 12 2013141415 165 145 June JJ, Third Day. ~ fad ee Ee toate 20, 1903. _ =. | a E M Stout . - 1414131018 1812121213 155 131 Hensler - 1513 1513131714151414 165 148 BEY PAg a 40 be . 151413 15141814151415 165 147 (SEC Ld| AAR Bee oe .13141415141914141514 155 146 Ltn he Se Se .. 141312 1414 2015131515 155 145 « Uist ene a Ree eee .13.1812141115 13 914101 165 -: 133 RenCets Bases oats. ceca oe 14141414151914151414 155 147 LUE GIA Gio) AORN eS IU 5,5. eee 2 ee aes eek eee 15 10 Soc Us ae See ee 14141410141715121213 155 135 Wave ston ae ee ee 14 14 13 12 12:16 14 13 14 12 155 134 (err cz v0 On eee ee. gi -TaF A io y s 155 125 Medios taatts so 5,c85 wa gine 1015 1313181210 614 9 165 115 AAGHGW is at test tse ee eres TMD ee ae sil spe 75 47 WHE Te Relliseetecus ceases: 10 9:9 7121712 91013 165 108 Pringle. son. peaeteeete o 12141514141914151415 155 146 Fela) | Peete ese oeetene retest 14 12 15 15 13 19 13 12 13 14 155 140 Galeb: heiaesbestins sits toe 138 1112151517 612 15 15 155 181 J. Le Wards ninin. sels cietlerateiats IGNSS 10a) te 75 62 RIT, Walsontisssenaee nse 13 181313 1016111013 8 155 4120 K JB Tohsonivel te see 1011 15 18 121815111312 155 180 Buckeye owes teen tee 11 15 10 10 12 16 11 11 11 14 155 121 Keaintick .0icss.sese> ,... 1413 14 15 14 16 14141414 155 142 GIVE deve rete satiiettoeeerte 14 13 13:1212 1813131342 155 133 Le Compté ¢22.2304.0%3% 13 13 1413131514131412 155 140 Wie bin ytiemeewe ota skeet: 18 1418 14141813121514 155 140 WR, Tvetrelal ligase ras IS td T4 A IGG 91s I54d2 355 199 Wabash aldaeck decom dae 18101111131610 71312 155 116 JK Walhams: 22. 2.02..2 121040 Th e120, 105 79. Cirait, BAe fades o er ee nek Bo on ee ee ce 75 68 end © vasaaas saa teases 14111313141015121013 155 184 Aly S50) yg We AR eR AP ARS 11S. Pessoa es S08 “ba 08: EleeMes@ lark nen sce esc 13 14 15 12 15 20 15 13 14 11 155 142 WE DIES: anes piste eiciisiatetohets 14 13 14 13 14 19 13 15 14 14 155 143 ROTIS gl leet elvis 29 bine te eeene 11 15 13 12 13 17 10 12 13 12 155 128 Pie NG RSID cata saree 14 13 18 14 14 18 14 13 13 12 155 138 Patrick pee assay cates 121114141518138141315 155 139 ST ees eee eee 101011 13131712131213 155 124 GIy hs dics chee see sO TRIB ea ee eae ee 105 90 Gyoss Soeshes tence eeebeees 12 13 18 12 14 11 10 10 11 14 155 120 bes 22 Coll re rae er et 10 912 9131613111411 155 118 ctetelchoribsry w pP Mery eens 13 12 10 12 10 11 12 12 10 10 155 12 J C Thompson.......... 12 12 14 138 18 16 13 15 14 14 155 137 Comtion srhe4ttiisde ts 15141315151514131414 155 142 Patbersom, Fi. ..basA seas 10 F412 13-9518 S9ekb Isa 15s. 113 RES (Oa Mpi ene ennteeiee s A410 AZT AS sae be dO 105 83 ER Wr Warners ieee sem DUELS a 0 oe ee es i oe Oo 82 Squire elawlor ses swage. 13 12 14 11 12 16 10 13 11 12 155 124 IDGgike: AP AMe dBase Sey So: 911012121317 914 811 155 120 LOM si itor ie seed oot dbIoo9 13 12 14 12 14 17 14 13 13 13 155 135 likey ALR PARP Basse hor ae eC 15 1413 15141913141213 155 142 RGR Wate weiineek wa Up catia: 10 12 11 13 121714 $1213 155 123 DSH Snyder oo c-ee eke 12 1112 13 1218121412310 155 96 Scott 6. be sae tei ee Cee 710 8 92214 9 6 813 155 113 SauUiMiyer meerc oe ecek wes 1312 9101216131010 8 155 i118 Wig Shafer 2c s oostes oe 1212 A OLE oe ate eee 15 59 PNdtile Mei Pes NT 10 10 1112 14 .. te Salem oy GOSH yee nde eae tiets 15 141215142015151315 155 148 GBETED sunset soe sti 15 1514183151915141514 155 149 PEA TUL bd, Ltt et tte hata 9 14 15 15 14 15 20 15 13 15 14 155 150 JEVS att 4 AC HALL SEE Ene Ft 15141514151914121515 155 148 Letesyrs gs; ees SBE AS BSA oe 15 15 1413 15 19 13 15 15 14 155 148 Sy Pel ARGien eee see ee cuueees 8 TW tMis sah "s aAss-) 3109 SSTLO VW itera eee ee ate oldcialete 1215 1115141614121212 155 133 Syriite) Cl) ee 1011131213161111 811 155 116 ID ieee Pe a 1313 1413141915131112 155 187 EVO Giles tc cttatae pares s ase arene 138 12 12 13 1417 10 8 1010 155 119 (eehone seme AG emotes 11 12 14 13 15 17 13 10 11:13 155 129 PLOVMDELS ES» digeca onan an 12121118181918121018 155 128 Wane, how cee re teeta eis 1413 1218141615101211 155 130 Donal dete gssds eee nee= bie i Sb a ee vi5) 60 GWBY Shider2) ene. Qe1A= Oates sie d beoe nee 45 33 CHANG yak ese adel as > 1410 el iene axa. eeuciomes 15 60 TREGPL 95 54 G59 256 10, Seer lee Mee) 2 75 38 Carey DP bg Sele ae ee ee vi) 53 Irwin a Fs Be be es Beeps Ss Be i NS 88 Ackley Rela le AS ee ae 1b 59 Calleeaes , 13513510 tae. +. 1212 105 83 Tetzel , BAG BTA. cotescom lle 16 63 Granny .. Tbe 9810 8a Savana aera tees 15 46 Sampson .. 13 12 10 12 12 13 14 14 13 11 155 124 A W Kirby . 15 11 13 15 14 15 14 14 14 13 155 138 Cain . 12131213141812111314 155 133 Nash 121015111017 9 91100 155 115 Price § alas. 1018 12181316131115 8 -155 124 Griffith ...... .» 141415 14141815141215 155 145 GRO yeu ss: Rae: >» 1514 1414141515151312 (155. . 146 AOU UES et Rae eS nee ore a 13 14 12 14 14 20 14 15 13 15 155 144 Gh Sewn Aco ssbbe et: 15 18 14 14 11 15 13 15 15 15 155 140 HOa os peace voce neces scafret 1212 1414141812141415 155 139 Graham foes be pee bee 1413 11.14141712111515 155 4136 (En aE ep bys! Sha. 2 ee ae ISAS G14 SS See ne 15 59 Boh ls eS tae RABE 9R 1311 10 7-71 1550 LOL Dick? 4 oe eh ale keen tes 101212111812 8 910 9 155 106 Toramene rey, scbhens shoe 710 91110 8.4-9 -8 155 88 JG et Bet Ot Boor cri cK Uw NI en Se eA A ee Bee OD 58 Rike> RTT eee ee 13 13 13 13 14.16 13 11.13.12 -=:455 8 =©6131 Pe OB Gilberts spose tenses 10 12 14 12 1315.13 171443 .155 8127 Title eee ee ee eae ce eat ee a ea Epa ay Nt 31 Nes Gy peace terete tee ee ee et Comets Pee 50 33 Parkeredtik aerators teeta tt «ob bat ele EL at eae ee 50 36 brhant eascccateses st setee eae pe Ce SITE eh Sak 50 25 | Bianca one Mongarveneey ty it oe cet ob ay 14 13 ‘BO © The last day’s interest was well sustained, and there was a 1arge number of shooters in the different events. The Ohio Trap- shooters’ League Grand International, at 100 targets, for the championship of the world at l6yds., entrance $14, for a guaran- teed purse of $1,000, and all surplus added was shot to-day. This was won by Mr. Charles Spencer, of St. Louis, with a score of 97. Griffiths, Heikes and Crosby tied for second with 95. club house after the event President John B. Mosby presented Spencer with a fine gold watch, the gift of the Cincinnati Gun Club. In the: Mr. Spencer replied in happy and fitting terms. Events: 6 to 10 inclusive comprised the championship event. was_ divided for 42 high gums, scaled from $100 to first to $15 to last. Eyents: Dae A. iG: bee eek _ ‘Targets: 15 15 15 15 15 20 20 20 20 20 GamMDelli musa wlemie ence cetele 12 13 11 11 11 18 15 16 17 15 SQUICE FAs: es esses 9 13 11 11 12 16 17 16 17 18 AUSTEN nado a teen sae en wey 10 13 11 14 13 19 18 18 18 17 Rhoads htpsey yen eae on: 14 13 13 14 15 16 19 16 17 18 VO mist See orks. ceeetseeae ied 14 14 12 15 15 18 17 18 19 19 Don Minto ........ veevee 10121212 7161116 14 14 AWallianis: Soae.ee seu cae 8 11 13 11 12 13 16 13 16 16 Gerifitthie cade eles as 12 14 13 15 14 19 18 20 19 19 IER) TO aytea eetentatate chenoeeteenlele 12 814 9101419 15 14 15 B JONES asus ceeneth ese eee 91014 8141214131215 - Dreihs . . 12 11 13 15 14 16 19 14 16 19 Rader .. 111112 8101619 16 12 16 Willie 8 12 13 12:12 19 10 11 15 14 Herman lh Pte alta (ei dish fis et Simpson . 810 910 14 14 14 13 18 14 Nye +. 713-10) (9° Suet aS Ryan 12 11 14 13 14 15 14 14 1617 Linn - 8121013 11 4d 14 16 12 12 Garlow 3,.-2. G10. SxS ariieg! 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RS ae Ate ae at an = CPECS trates steers aelcls Are TEAR ee 7 SSeS abetber steuoces. te 1 i a ee 13 14 12 11 17 a8 oe Holding’. Cl Ek eee 42141013 141615171618 175 145 The second special event of the programme was the five-man team race for the Shooting and Fishing trophy, entrance $1 per man, 30 singles and 10 pairs. The team of the Cincinnati Gun Club No. 1 scored 184 and were victorious. The stiff wind had its ’ effect on the scores: Cincinnati No. 1. Akron Gambel a Ie Mate oa Seay! A\Weteteyilete a3 $5seegomecee tn 38 STISTGSE oroheenin dereoneoe 41 THT Syd hg ddt abe? re 17 ONMOIISTS Oe eee age ona EL eaey Bn a ee] ae Sites ne tissell sce ufeee ete ee Matice Le. Net JES 32-184 J K Williams............. 30—150 Buckeye, of Daves .. Cincinnati No. 2. Garlow ...... ..30 IDES Sy ico wasbosoborrect Buckeye ..... 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Rurrs Dark, Pa., June 12—The sixth tournament of the West- ern Pennsylvania Trap Shooters’ League was held here under the auspices of the Ruffs Dale Rod and Gun Club. The at- tendance was good, about seventy-five shooters faced the traps and 10,000 targets were thrown in the two days. Bessemer, of Millvale, and Deniker, of Ruffs Dale, tied for high gun for the first day, with but 8 misses out of 176 targets. Deniker, however, pulled ahead the second day, and finished high for the two days, with 383 out of 350, or 95 per cent. through the tournament. ~ Interest the second day centered in the four-man team race, 50 targets to a man. It was a good, hot race from start to finish. Five teams were entered in the contest, first honor go- ang to the Millvale team, with the score of 183; North Side and WRuffs Dale tied for second place, with.179; Ligonier third, with 255, and Irwin fourth, with 147. Deniker, of Ruffs Dale, made the highest individual score in the race, with 49 out of 50. Lewis Lautenslager, of Pittsburg, acted as referee, and every one was well satisfied with his usual prompt, positive decisions. Chas. G. Grubb, of Pittsburg, secretary of the League, was on hand bright and early with his famous “Grubb Score Cards.” Just a word should be said here concerning the desirability of a correct and indisputable record, such as is given by these cards. They are being rapidly adopted by all the, clubs of the League. H. D, Hasson, secretary of the club, ran the “sheet,’? and James Stickle looked after the refreshments. Following are the scores: First Day, June 10, Events i ese Soe she OS: dual ‘Targets 16 20 15 20 15 20 15 20 15 20 ORE TINTS le Pauuels Aas alead . 14 19 93° 20 15 19 35 20 13° 18 MEAG Lhe. aati ceciadeae oF ve = Eitan 1B SET orto walbs ee 1S ATE Thetis 1G Stemming ae lye. 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TY 6 a Ae PV AITEDS vaein, one tetiacttne tannin oe ey 9 A SUR) Tin. 2 oe Sm ee rege ea nic! 4 i 5 INTIS wads dacstiasichinch ase gamc ston excrete bee hs WEN OS tee eee ee we ataily tt dalals enn ge 12 18 13 14 H W Frost a Gee be Events 7 § 99 10 Targets 15 20 15 20 Deniker 15 19 14 20 Kelsey 138 19 14 16 Andrews Udi ote dt Low 9 16 9 18 NOG cicon 1217) 10) 16 alte Poetry arenes 4 c5 hve ete ii EF Swearer ies ite MBS gi) RAY eRe Lahaa ais we see 20 11 19 14 18 IBESSEMIERD set ietee et ware wees 14°19 10,49 15 47 13 18 15 19 (Pontetract tens tanyscccseeecs ce spd: Wee 19s 10D TS cle hele ID ]espvektr- 74 AA AA HA AAA RRA ER RR 14 14 6 17,12 "G6 11 14 9) 18 GOERS Bxt.t pee aro in tare arly iS 18) DSssbigeeis: AS, 412 1S 5 BLCMIN LH, oo. ee as wae ov oniere tee 12 17 14, 18 73 18 15 19 18 15 ETOSEAUEE 5 ee et ties bles ca eae Te lies lGeelb wld 1s eGoell 17 Sloan eee et cnet ent eee ee caaw el aie ae eg aie de 1S S13" 15 7 Nd) Caetano erp t, 1 ibrbioe ct: te 19.15 17 12 : PPO Gee Sees StS takes seein oe bH ibe ay ak 8 Wourhertyertco.enoiaccheegeeeceus 11.14 8 re TOT OYE ee neces pen a Stott e We Soy se she aliy ave SEE abe Gibe ahl FMCG ye onlin. nines ageaaates ace 14,16 24 19 15 17 18 17 14 46 BrazelwWopd? bisss paces cc wetter 12-4, 1S AS. 1a 8. 14 14 11 18 IBTOW Tad tes. 02csees ieee toons ates Sad pose Gab Ti eeseS ais SREP Rage ty Wath Wa Lacerta ne Sot eee tee ihe wit MY lei) this Ste nie whe cake CIICOL Ee Oe oats sex ace ae ee er UC RIGS tis 2 at PNCE. waseRs Ad ph haces pe Hceeaty Ste BE URS ES ey ce aa Kel les soso5 £53 iiteterc ces om ee tae ol ieee lets: ate PS sy Sa FEN OM PSOE rentiss « Uvcaecin inet oe ae Ash BA 5 iia Reis Walle ett i! NWVESENE eee hice cle eat eens 66. sort Bt) es shee Aa aE Ye 18 eg Bs Hasson, Sec’y. WESTERN TRAP. Kentucky Gun Club Shoot Postponed. Cuicaco, Ill., June 10.—Advice just at hand from Phelps, Jr., secretary of the Kentucky Gun Club, of Ky., gives notice of the postponement of the State ship target shoot as below: “LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 8.—At a meeting of the governors of the Kentucky Gun Club, it was decided not to hold their cham- pionship shoot at targets on the Fourth of July, as has been the custom heretofore, but to hold a two days’ tournament on Sept. 28 and 29, the first day to be devoted to the championship of the State at targets; the second day for the State championship at live birds. It was thought best to have these two champion- ships decided at one meeting, thus making it more convenient for the yisiting shooters from throughout the State. It was further decided this year to make the championship at live birds, 50 birds per man; the championship at targets, 100 birds per man, believing this to be a better and more satisfactory test in events of this importance. Very handsome sterling silver cups will be presented to the winner of each of these championships without conditions. “We take this means of advising the shooters throughout the State of this change in date. A full programme will be mailed to each later. Cheap railroad rates will prevail at this time, it being the week of the horse show.” Mat J.-S: Louisville, champion- - E. Hoves. Hartrorp Buitpine, Chicago, Ill. Garfield Gun Club, Curcaeo, Ill, June 6—The appended scores were made on our grounds to-day on the occasion of the seventh and last trophy shoot of the first series. The entire club will be reclassified before next shoot. Pollard won Class A trophy on 24; Barnard won Class B on 22, and Wilson won Class € on 18. 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J Hyland, 16..........:00000+ : 14 15 18 14 15 : . 22 GEteh Ets fe eee lieaceedotener te es ao oe a aS 18 13 TOS ain eRe A, Pa ith ta et at vey ried 1 ase iad 23 18 16 18 16 15 18 18 17 20 Kenowitoty Fo 2065.d 5 caceleste samen > a 1h PCO rey sla a Washburn osc eesccscccssnsencn o a a aN John Henry .....-..ssseenseee- PAA IS Sis HS ne ies Miss Holland ......s++eeseee: Peal aes el deal oe a7) ies Barlow (otitis -taeriseeaeee a ie whe SBP aly Ae ty GB ‘Hubbell, i one ae ee AAP et ee pce ee IBISBEEE Kee etaeeieder cpa trirh eta p AS ree ay We ey ae ae June 10, Second Day. J The weather was warm and pleasant. Straight scores were not numerous. The list of entries was noticeably larger than on the first day. About seventy-four contestants participated in the different sweepstakes. As on the first day, there were eight open events, besides the No, 1, merchandise shoot. ts: ; ty DBA GN GP Ke ES es ey 9 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Beftiveotvesvecetoes.« ahbueketsatnteas . 13 16 14 16 18 15 18 18 18 Whitehouse ....--..- Sale ee Ae 18 16 16 16 16 14 17 17 11 Wrashhturt 132) ~ 43 125 395 Vita Watt ie velo re. a tote sane yea net eraa ys 124 138 133 395 Kirkover 136 128 128 292 INGOGIIS | «cdc cect eee ania entropies 8S 1236 124 130- 390 *Stevens 122 13: 130 386 Weller .::.-- 131 121 119 Eval Meagher 117 129 121 B67 *Doremus 108 90 11 309 * Professionals. The York County target shoot under the auspices of the Glen Rock, Pa, Gun Club, is open auly to the shooters of York county. There were twelve events on the programme, at 10 and 16 targets, 50 and 7 cents entrance, a total of 150 targets, with a total of $7.50 entrance. Extra events will be arranged to suit the contestapts. June 25, FOREST AND STREAM. South Dakota State Tournament. Vermittion, S. D., June 5.—The sixteenth annual tournament of the South Dakota State Sportsmen’s Association, held at Vermillion under the auspices of the Vermillion Gun Club, was the largest and most successful tournament ever held in this State. To Mr. H. G. Taylor, manager and president of the association, and Mr. C. B. Adams, who kindly offered his services as secre- tary, is largely due the credit for the success of the tournament, There also were present Max Hensler, the young man who won second place at the G..A. H., and M. F. Sharp, who arrived a little late, having been water bound at Kansas City by the flood. Thursday evening, June 4, the association held their annual meeting in the parlors of the Waldorf, and elected the follow- ing officers: H. G. Taylor, president; A. L. Johnson, vice-presi- dent; John Corey, secretary; L. F. Drey, treasurer. The next an- nual tournament and meeting will be held at Watertown, S. D. Mr. H. G. Taylor won general high average for the two days’ shoot, Mr. A. L. Shaw won the C. H. Arland silver cup trophy in a 25-bird event. The following are the scores for the tournament: June 4, First Day. Events: it Sees Gh diet ee ER BO) Targets: 15 15 20 15 25 15 15 20 1515 Broke pkedthnsvoyall es See geet tact ener 13 13 13 13 18 11 11 13 14 13 114 GIES! Pe ere red as es ee ele 181118 15 22 413171418 128 SOG einer austuss lease Haney the 14 14 18 15 21 12 14 16 13 13 129 Sean eee eee ae One vere Ry. 141418 18 .. 11 919 1315 126 SSAC AY BIS sap obeBaeaB cue MW Bile tse 1 H “Taylor SSSKASS EBB BC SEH OS oe, Jo 12 19 15 23 12 14 18 1415 3 ELGG Chere een tas i} pale se es By ib a By ahl 113 JOSSEAS + +. Sega ede se Wace 14 O15 LoS Ss 2" iy ede D Nelson ... 15 13 1713 2013 14111014 120 L Nelson . 112 16 13.19 12°12 15 12 12 114 J Nelson 1011 161017 912 1412 13 107 ID Yerartolle 5 HBR ORM CH BOE SURG an ae oe 14 13 18 12 .. 15 13 18 14 14 13 WMG SIGNE STI OLE Silesia iedetsvapeiela tees ei 13 1418 14 221413191214 13 (yuyrecetino Su Te he ea Ra ait 12 12 18 14 -: 12 12 16 14 12 122 PELERVOTFATIO Rag tt pewtee echoes aes 3 816 12 .. 10 12 18 13 13 110 Gtaye Vile ss esas eer Pea ruet an iey 10:10:19 9 5. 1 12 16 13 99 109 SieaMianiee Gb scomaropp ss Hess eonK 12:12:15 15 .. 12 18 19 14 13 125 ab bisabaeuatertont- cobs Bcaces 14 15 18 15 23 14 14 19 15 12 136 ARE Ractoti sl Setlactnat seat ky 167 Mey Ae aes aie alia .. 1210 14 13 22 8 10 11 14 12 104 ay Ee a eae 54 Jalshstacteat le erates 1241215101910 .. .. 12 (Gronterts Hol earn anicceee eee ee. 13 914 810. 1a Lk by SU BOB roe beer see i 15 12 15 10 23 14 1 14. 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MOSMAn erence mecmemey mle par rosa stqece ANU ys 2 Woy Sanel Kelle ae BOHN AO RRA GOS SOS SOO0G Go cece SO ol (ih 2 June 5, Second Day. Teyents: iy a ee ee imeem Ctallt Targets: 15 15 20 15 15 20 15 15 2015 15 Broke. 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Day Way: H G Taylor .... 134 169 303 Crahan .:......... eli sills ry SARC © Go St SR Dees fae 14. 3007 Dreys . 7g eee sa lsYs = yal L Mikkleson = i} 164 295 Johnson .........; 114 154 268 Sigenmimees esses. WH) ANS unl IRieeparcin, Hee a 110 150 260 iDEiotaky | pee =. TSE AGP e293" IDA Nielsom 0 24 120 155 275 jitcvacsce Se ple Sire Oe 12S Tht Wkoe Nelson 124 .; 4 151 265 SV tHKOREL Pane oe 125 59 284 J WNelsom .....2... OG TAQ 24 IDR CAYG 2500. sj eorttemicie aBEAS ADA SUEAL Cire array 109 «140 »=-247 State Championships Shaw) 2.2. ae 22222791212 10 Smith .............; 1101001102— 6& Thinnest OAsdee sa 02021212228 J Hi Spatz ......... 2221221212 10 SWYTay is 62 Ae Mec 21I2012212—- 9 Russell . 2.22.32... OL0111*112— 7 Raviloteeett cesoe ets *221212022— 8 Mikkleson ......... 1*10122210— 7 I Dyo\atsy me aR AANA AAAS AAA 0011101202— 6 Slocum ............ 1112212122—10 GWayne (iat eceseys 2012222012— 3 De Nelsore seen ens 1112211111—10 [Beticyn deas ses te ae 022*200122— Bio pingss a. eee, 2021111422— 8 Foncgmeee mines vane Liftitii1—19 Coyire AP Oe Fetes 1200001221— §& ADS ORNs oe So 121211212110 Stefani ............- 2110120201— 7 Shoot-off of State PpemaviOne aD SHAW hacdttaas heeneae bt tee L22P— be OP ALZ onto ec eae eevee 121110 —5 Vesey oa er se 20 Sib SSileiniens 445 45ane cele 120 —2 ibe tspmize ehopecsss Ugeet 1112210—6. ID Nelson ~.............. 0 KILLMORE. Rochester Rod and Gun Club, Rocuester, June 6—Herewith scores of Rochester Rod and Gun Club shoot: The Bonbright cup series is finished. This series started: on April 1, with the other handicap shoot for club prizes (Winchester repeating shotgun, ete.), and ended June 3. . won the cup with a total secre of 223 out of a possible 2h; shooting as serafeli man, at fiffeen singles and five ach yian shot at five pairs and had his extra allowance or handicap on the singles. Phe club prize handicap series will continue until September 1, pairs. 497 and the contestant winning most points to take first prize, a Winchester repeating shotgun. Shoots are held each Wednes- day and the winner scores one point; handicaps range from scratch, which is twenty-five targets up to thirty-five, if any one breaks more than twenty-five out of his allowance it counts as a tie with any one breaking just twenty-five, in other words, a shooter having thirty-five to shoot at, and breaking twenty-seven or twenty-eight, can only tie with a scartch man who has only twenty-five to shoot at, should he break them all. On May 21 we had an interesting team race with Morris, Dalley, Marvin, of Baldwinsville, and Meagher, of Syra- cuse, a four man team. One-hundred targets per man. Syracuse: Maryin 86, Morris 92, Dalley, 85, Meagher 90, Team total 253; Rochester: Keishner 93, Bonbright 89, Stewart 97, Newton 88, Team total 367. A silver cup was donated by Mr. G. D. Bonbright. The handi- caps ranged from fifteen singles to fiye pairs up to twenty-five Messrs. singles and five pairs. Total scores on seties to win cup. Scores of cup shoot, June 5: ; 7 FUG Wicliste aise tiaratatelers 24 24.23 25—96 White .......+-.: 2 21 19 23—85 Bonbright ....... 23 24 24 23-94 Newton ........; 22 23 20 19—84 Byerg eer eer niente 25 22 24 21-92 Adkin .........55 22 22 22 22—88 Kersiner Sa.uue-s 24 25 25 22—96 Clark .........000. 19 18 23 12—72 Shoot-off: ShGWALE “sant oesepe 24 25 24 2598 Bonbright ....... 24 22 25 24—95 MG setae 45 ads- 24 23 23 25—95 a Bonbright shot in the squad for company. Conditions require that Stewart be called upon to again defend _ his medal, should any challenges be received. Bonbright Cup. Scores of June 3: UMASS Scored. S’gles. Doub. euler Doub. T’l. UNG ESNTLA BAe ste ares teapsl cine ababepe tact corer 16 5 9 23 Calselikihon Be SPAS. 144 20h a7 Bh ny eee 18 5 15 6 ral (Claw pS Ub Le ede 6 ee 22, 5 16 4 22 Raed giateant oddm Acer eee: sua cise ae a 19 5 13 7 20 SSEAGhY? U HAO aE. ceva ooo 2 16 5 15 6 2k FSUGWAl ase ELE e See en Teen 15 5 15 7 221 SiIGGiia cheer ereneretiemee eye esate 25 5 10 A 14 *Stewart wins cup. Club prizes: ; Allowed. See Allowed. Scored. Bonbright ...... 25 ste: Feira vee sere. 28 22 King pudbe tee: aT 53 igeledierie sen. 29 20 AGlarlgyont ne eee 32 25 Shoemaker ...... 25 16 I GLSie EEE Renee ces 28 12 Stewart) f.y.seeee 25 23 \Oabivinbarss Seabees 26 22 *Clark wins point. STEWART. Boston Gun Club, Boston, Mass., June 10.—The regtilar Wednesday matinee of the Boston Gun Club was held at Wellington to-day, a chilly and misty day doing its best to dampen the enthuiasm of every one present. Jt could not however, and as the events passed off each one seemed to add in interest over the previous one. Many outside visitors were present, Mr. Tisdale, of St. Louis, taking a hand in the game, and while not up to usual standard, made very creditable scores. The club also had for guests a few ladies not yet quite enthusiastic enough to shoot, but later, when the proper time comes, will no doubt take a hand in the sport, and secure all He pleasures that can be derived from this pas- time, Gleason’s 24, in the prize match, shows that the Doctor is get- ting used to his 18-yard mark, and present indications point to a longer distance mark in the near future. What he will do when the new gun comes along no one can guess. “Spencer and Barry also made yery creditable scores, the former shooting from the 18-yard mark, and the latter from 16 yards. Other scores as follows: Events: eid be Gee tS eel Oat 12 Dareetss) 10 10 5p 15 10 15 5p 10 15 5p 10 25 iratilkt eel Sar, sae Hck Jateen OE ORE HOUT US OP Goa Soe Teas ae Tees LOS Aa epee ee Tenn Ana hee 9 Ge OTe QO Soe te Fo ee VViGocirie sel femtee ney asiens Selb Rave ete 6 8 813 612 6 710.. 9 eit: Le mel tesa cert tate ame mrt nean 6 5: GUl0s Sal 09.2, 2 Ct Wawiler wales veces eee FAROE poh h fi mi Tae SR EN La ho a Mase: el Gute eats che tse ne eae ee GMESoeras WORE CIE Y, el tenet ec Vallis Gates eens ne Ope Ord mio So tlt ts St es aeeee 15 Tisdale, cease aboot es 4s a ie geen Bell, Sr en ee Se OE tee Spencer, By oe ees ty toutes Tie Win ne Wit rote alert acai arate oe Sel Re Lien deeoe at vfalsGe ed eoO Gleason, LARS peal ctytatet tes ra oe eee Oe tee BS 14510 ey ele eee oe NiowellS: Gace. Ae Be aes SURE eal ey ee Merchandise match, distance handicap: Gledcore | Sanse eELEU Len oi ates 191197111111110 Td 11 1 14 11—34 Spencer, ios Hote eee ate Aen EAnA 117111111111011 = 10 10 10 10 11—20 VAT ellen ck chen eee etre meee WI10L0111010110 = 1.:« 10-11 «11 « 11-20 Frank, TERS Ge 6 Se pap coh oc int btn e O11011100171110 = 11 11 10 11 11-19 Wright, st Finale Scien Sas we aaa a ath 111117111110101 ~=—10 11: 10 10 1019 Bell, 18..... RB dacydddarcntasdanee 101017111111111 1010 10 10 00—1s MWio odin Ham S Stites terete eee 111111011111001 11 00 10 11 10—18 Rarkctrss pel Gijed eet onl tcl eee 111001101111011 =611:00 11:10 1118 Waywtler: ol Gisest teeta ia hee es 11.0011011011001 OL 11 00 00 11—14 eer lO aas: Bete be HusteoGE soy 11010011 0011101 00 10 00 00 11—12 Williams, 16 111012011111001 W —i Louisville (Ky.) Shooting Items. HEREWITH are scores made at a little shoot held on the Jeffer- son County Gun. Club grounds. We now have at least two good clubs, and have room for more. You will notice that Mr, Le Compte is the boss of us all with the scatter gun. His 95 is hard to excel. Mr. Miller made 92 and Bingham 91. There was a challenge cup connected with this shoot, and Mr. Le Compte will be required to defend same, as Mr. C. B. Sample will shoot him a match at 50 targets June 20. The score: Events: Ae ss orbs oh ESeue Sin ot Targets 10 15 10 15 10 15 10 15 at. Broke. lostakedareerey Cece ee, |aooe HERD RACE 915 9131013 9 13 100 91 Sip lege beeper ee ates. seen Teale 1 9 15. 943 100 84 IE, IP WSHtaEe Oa mye ses So a 7111014 712 941 100 $1 Beanie U.cuLen ema een 10131014 9151014 100 95 OM sitoniemaal 28 he etic ne cape ee § 5 610 510 6 9 160 39 Burkhart SOs tee Remo a eo eren] Sacra 714 614 6 910 8 100 74 VET ILerevee oe) toe sel ee eae e 7151015. 915 9 12 100 92. Booker GAO AL Te Boa ee 60 46 Phelps $101013 9111010 100 81 TOYOdS Pl Aber mreaeterery Perey end si 4-713 712 9°99 100 79 Sudduth HOME AEG AN Ae 60 45 Carrety 714 613 710 100 77 Boomer - Penick ae 10 80 3 Gordon 10 71IbA014 9 44 100 87 1 PSOE A pee ore noeresaae ViGiuL VEPn@ Ghai say 85 67 VETS STIPE Tiare ateiare sy a) beni naia waist os ee 8 a ta eee 8) TRCUG) 65 36 Birch Brook Gun Club, Lynn, Mass., June 8—The Birch Brook Gun Club held its regular shoot Saturday, June 6, but owing to delays in the run- ning of cars, some of the shooters did not arrive till late, so that there was not so much shooting done as common. Hilliard was high man, making two straight 10s in practice and 27 out of 20m in. the merchandise event. Riley was close to the leaders. iercaites tL SoR 45 Ge “Bvents: aan fetaG. et ‘Vargets: 30 50 15 10 10 10 15 ‘Vargets: 30 50 16 10 10 10 15 Hilliard ..... 27421210 91014 Straw ......, 2136 9 9... 61 Yelmah ...-. a et ae Be To nia a4 8 5. di Rand) . 12 15 19 13 12 15 15 13 18 12 14 18 176 Braderick. Fett beem er tiearen 13 15 20 15 13 20 15 13 20 15 14 20 193 Peterson .i see tekst etete 14 14 18 12 12 18 13 1419 11 15 17 177 aT REs er eee ee eee teeta ans 11 13 20 11 13 19 14 14 19 12 14 17 177 Ra SPele cas oe ene aee 13 11 16 18 141713 1415 9 11 15 161 IB Ciel pases seidiie atte ss sae 213 15 11 11 19 12 13 16 11 15 16 164 ar Ber) sr bieuies leg clsatd: sane 14 14 18 15 15 20 15 12 20 14 13 19 189 Bneckloth 1.52.5 02seea ne) Ti 14 20 14 12 17 13 13 20 15 15 18 182 AP RUGSTOT © vse s « at.ednsa-t-- 13 13 19 12 10 16 12141611 9 16 161 Gallieoit. 2... ssiaesesee rs eye A bgt a a ee ae 1S afoot PPR ere coon err 14 14 20 13 13 16 14 15 19 14 15 20 187 Uh omeenoerr re soon rte st: 13 13 138 14 1249 15 1117 11 13 18 169 DR REIRITEATIN wisi vty acbrets ot has SIPAFIL ie act ear) oF ie ty en tia oe ck aan Wy eesechmender.s55 cet ar 7. 9-17 1410 13 135 BAG 5 eas net Townsend ... 0c. eceaere> 121118 151418131315 141319 175 (Guido Oa and aoe ore itag 14 15 18 12 13 18 13 10 16 14 15 18 176 ers no ceswasesss 18 10171413 191413151211 16 167 4 ; ick 14 13 1 MeDonaid Dees aie «ee. 13:18 17 ta ie 1141115121315 168 Driesbach ...+..ssseeecess 13 12 16 coe ef 89 88 2e 28 wae Beh Oe nd Os) een GERM VASE Ot inbamyeneinipabese Lah (3 Hughes .......ccceeenees 111313 11111511181512 816 149 SLATLOTC Ms Gah SETA REC Lc afd 15 1419141217131519141517 184 Cannot Ahiadaret,oty, Walveds 12101212 915 Gl222...... so SSP alramtarqoe asians ee atdciate 151216181117 151517141319 177 Iaah gate 25 ass SANS PR RR Ar TUL Eee: ee ee eee = 5%, : 1. Peo ed eters hoes ie 18 13 18 18 141218151219 177 MEL LEAE sad rele te udtoe ae et weer arn elas Bras “ates Beater Bee ca Orist bettas hare ely trie wags dae as 14 12 15 1411 19181118131418 172 Nangle ...... PO eT cece: 16 area ao Cite Week une Conia wisi. SSPE EN te: AEs Ge US eee ae thy fester Mekhi 9.) ora eina ta ds-ees seme oe AOSD es os eee elas are Wthein wee cist e nies ens wan re eee bare cee EARP Maat ble TORU gem ceweed tietyce tse ote ; CE cae meat ie SP hg oy ws OD Gt erie rece s seccadaecraeren mire rites te, thoy Me ; SADIE eee sytrclsaeh clas pier a cere Steely eeeth ke: qh IRGRDESs aites bho ita aeeeiees aa bea ht eegigt exe mere: coats elec won PAS EES ct hk sane eae eat ee er eisret ty tay) halt nae PURETEr. Nias.nassiaeey shee een 7 ee heed hz Ps ie ae Os re meer Shoot-off, miss-and-out, Interstate trophy: GA BIER. aie Coie gh cas tea at amb k ons atclslalatity etafers toss 111191111110 —i1 El afr Sapeaies ati ate lhl fale aaa t gets Brera! ctevsvale abstesstetstcts -. 1110 —3 RITITLL Metoneen aioe etre CoM eatee eisai erctareeta cota 11111111111111110—_16 GOnVETSe Res cote sone onaenaees Dideihecae es tae eee ee MLULLO —_ MS TACGHICKE Wifi islainiecaccleltatiantiste detained + mam alee) 176 169 524 Braderick ............ ses 185 193 192 570 Reterson g:..acctsssaans ae 188 177 181 541 HITAOSE Giatre dele ee) ua keas Brey htt) 177 179 525 SiehiNorddl Seo \oknaabeB ices 169 184 169 522 TRIS ase sere eotekeoer Aus ou bp, 161 157 473 ere DELin meee erotic dered ainterscsisinnel sw ataate ereostaces 180 189 188 5oT Tee! th OB) GAR secade baer doce Out G i so8 166 164 171 501 IEA bsp dod be AAS oct iey OORCneASeeae Seco: 168 169 169 506 Tralee) (UP EG ad ben doneee aad Aon ase bode 182 183 195 560 ites gattartdl PAPA Seer grep cae Ari Oot 165 175 177 517 (GEig tom NOR HOLPH A bobo: eieriey cc ane 176 176 180 532 (Grttabatetal 45es4H JHbebocbonpecenneriann aaa 159 167 145 471 SDotdal pan se neat eres ber exo nD 169 165 164 498 Tenia meena teeecaes tae sdaersane bes riete cats 148 160 135 443 THESES AR snenonpanniirecentee ce eer etn tots: 168 159 171 498 HELOUTL, ich ee mneatake estan paaveenuaee arene a 176 187 184 547 Rochester is Defiant. Tue following is taken from the Rochester (N. Y.) Express, of June 6. The editor undoubtedly meant well, but on some points he is inaccurate. For instance, there was no championship of the United States last year. Performances on certain grounds under certain weather conditions, are not to be justly compared to per- formances on other grounds under certain other weather condi- tions, differences of backgrounds, target flights, etc: “Tn its arguments for the bill preventing the use of live birds in gun club tournaments, the Post-Express has insisted that quite as much pleasure was to be obtained from the use of clay pigeons, and that there was opportunity for a still greater display of skill “with no cruelty, no useless slaughter of God’s creatures, and no demoralizing influence upon the community. It is a pleasure to record the fact that the sportsmen of Rochester have fallen in cordially with the new order of things, that they are not using live birds, and that their tournaments with clay pigeons as the targets have been in the highest degree enjoyable and successful. The amount of skill that has been developed here is really re- markable. There was a contest yesterday for the championship of the county, Harry M. Stewart being required to defend the trophy recently won. He broke 96 birds out of 100, and Kershner tied him, while another competitor broke 94, and a fourth 92. In the shoot-off Stewart won with 98 out of 100. This was most extraor- dinary; out of 200 targets, thrown at unknown angles, he broke 194, “Few men ever lived who could do as well as this. Last year the championship of the United States was won with a score of 94 out of 100, which was beaten six times on the Roches- ter grounds yesterday. This year, at the Grand American, after a whole week of shooting, the best record was 95 out of 100. The Rochester gunners, therefore, are to be congratulated upon the remarkable skill they have developed. If there are gunners in other cities who think they can shoot, let them come on; Rochester is ready for them! ‘The city now stands, in the trap- shooting world, where it stood years ago, in the days of live- bird contests, practically in a class by itself. Bemidji Tournament. Brmipjt, Minn.—The Bemidji tournament, held June 5 and 6, had pleasant weather conditions. June Ds First Day. The day was favorable for big scores. Hirschy was high with 171 out of 175, breaking the last 107 straight from the 16, 18 and 20yd. marks. The last 70 were from 20yds. The scores: Events 1234567 8 91011 Targets 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 25 Broke. Ballack pave heehee pererteceere 12 1412 138 15 138 1414141324 151 EDUYe An! s hettahrcsere Be erehaarerdate 15 13 1415 11 111215111323 153 J_W Dewey.......... peewee 13 1213 15151313151418 24 160 H S Dewey.,..... Saliediot ea .. 111213 15101213 14121522 149 asSelll ep et use tee eeee eee 141412131315 91114 918 142 IRHOMA ts entoti Loess nate 11 12 14138 141415141515 22 159 MeUapeariamanerstee i aes +» 141115181415 1114141320 154 NIAPLIN ean Utes lier «11 91113 14111810121118 133 DD itiical teres eerie fate chaste 810131211 1381418121021 147 NU benrl lita 7 eg EO NARBAAE EY anc fey a ole “en eta oe 58 9 G14 “se. lebiiehin SaeE RDB RR Ee Neslaweee 141415 1414151515151525 171 ‘stavanagike sa9Aa ote Feccteveeens J4 12 13 14 15 15 12 15 14 14 24 162 TETRIS S Gcusr.coeice mre eaters 15 15 13 1413 1231312111319 151 PET EUSGI cage ies cenke Pontes 15 15 14 14 151314151512 20 162 PITIE A erie siaiaseinsamtelsialnals 13 15 123 1414151118131021 162 SUVS ir atges den saci oan ee Tee eae eran Pee cry ere aco June 6, Second Day. There was harder shootitig oh the secotid day, owitig to a sttotig wind. Mr. B. O. Seymour, of Grand Forks, was high for the two days in the amateur contingent, He made a run of 64 from the 16, 18 and 20yd. marks. H. C. Hirschy was high for both days, losing but 9 targets. ‘ j The attendance was disappointing as to numbers. The visitors were all pleased with the kind of hospitable treatment they re- ceived from the members of the local club, and next year’s shoot will be much more largely attended. Events a EA eee tse die Ye Se RENT) Targets 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 Broke. SEAT Pa Satthet ota a Se es knee EAR 111315 14151010181213 125 SIEGE Salcutsansene sry peace -- 1311141413 1415101418 131 JTW Dewey... 13 15 15 12 141511151413 137 HS Dewey.. SRAM TEM Or ae ee See nae Ballock ...... 12 12 1415 121018121314 197 Rhoda is.eees 141211 12131312141212 1924 McTaggart .. 13 10 12:14 1112141414138 195 Dunealf ..... 111512111118 9141412 ‘190 LITSClW rg wet sau eviie: i lekao teers 141515 14151415157515 145 SLAG ETL) 0 ne ater Sa pw ee 14141415151514181415 143 LAG peal tein peeews pin snitte 13 13 1411 1011141212318 194 IRS GERD SOS OR RABAAAI itp eee 1213141115 914111114 198 IDR 9G pg @4.ihe tn de sie mee 4 111210 9 9 15 12 10 14 12 112 ENGI Gaon felndc cadeata teehee eee 1215138 14151315141412 135 FRAISSED Oe ote eh teat ee 121512 $811 911131410 113 Total for two days: Story 284, J. W. Dewey 297, Ballock 278, Rhoda 283, McTaggart 279, Duncalf 267, Hirschy 316, Seymour 305, Hale 275, Ferguson 290, Duis 264, Russel 253. The general manager, Mr. F. W. Heubach, writes us as follows: “Will you kindly give notice in your trapshooting tournament fixtures of our seventh annual tournament, to be held Monday, Tuesday arid Wednesday, July 20, 21 and 22, in Exhibition grounds at Winnipeg. We hope you will agai, as you did last year, atfafige to cover ott tourhamerit, for I think I may say that it is the most impottarit meet of trap shots in the West, The manage- ment will again be in the hands of our Mr. Holland, who has successfully conducted our last five toutnaments. H. C. Hirschy, so well and favotably known among all trap shots, will manage the office.” PUBLISHERS’ DEPARTMENT. Reduced Rates to Atlanta. _Pennsylvania_ Railroad will sell account of the national conven- tisn Baptist Young People’s Union of America at Atlanta, Ga., July 9 to 12, round trip tickets on July 6, 7, 8 and 9, good iS saa until July 15 at rate of single fare for the round trip, plus $1. By depositing tickets with special agent at Atlanta, Ga., on or before July 15 and payment of fee of 50 cents, extension of final limit may be obtained to reach original starting point not later than Aug. 15.—Adv. New Brunswick Guide, The writer would be glad to recommend his guide to one of the best» sections for moose in New Brunswick, who will be at liberty about Oct. 15, to any one who is looking for a first-class chance to get a big set of antlers this fall. This is the place where our party saw twenty moose last season, and where the writer is returning thereto in September. Any information desired will be given by addressing Box 970, Pittsfield, Mass. Newfoundland, Newfoundland scenery, fishing, hunting and other attractions for sportsman and tourist are set forth in a special page advertisement this week. Mr. Morine will.send on request specific information about the country and the means of getting there. Messrs. J. H. Lau & Co., New York, inform us that all the following won with Ballistite: Mr. S. M. Van Allen at New York State shoot, Ossining, N. Y., June 8 to 11, inclusive, won the New York State Championship, the Individual Championship, the diamond medal, and the Frederick Potter amateur gold medal. First average, June 9, won by Mr. Borden. The Jacob Ruppert silver cup, won by Dr. Weller, using his Reblé ejector hammerless gun, on 25 straight. Mr. Glover finished second in State Cham- pionship races. At Owensburg, Ky., May, 29 and 30, Mr. R. W. Bingham won first high average; De Long Miller won second, both amateurs. At Louisville, Ky., June 6, first, second, third, fourth and fifth at the Jefferson County Gun Club, in the open to all challenge cup, 100-bird race. Mr. Le Compte, first with 95 out of the 100, eighteen entries. High general average at the Cincinnati shoot June 9 to 11 was won by W. R. Crosby. He alsa won the 50-target race, with 50 straight, alone, in addition to which he made the longest straight run recorded during the entire tournament. Mr, Crosby, as usual, used 44 grains of E. C. No, 1. The Stevens Arms Company, of Chicopee Falls, have sent us a handsome catalogue of the Stevens-Duryea automobile. Those interested in automobiling should send for their descriptive and illustrated catalogue; it contains much of interest to lovers of life on the road. t The Hudson River Day Line of steamers have just issued a souvenir book of the Hudson River, fully describing the historical points of interest, with superb illustrations of those pretty shores in single and double-page effects. These books can be obtained of F. B. Hibbard, G. P. A., Desbrosses street, New York, on re- receipt of 15 cents. Chas. J. Godfrey, of No. 4 Warren street, _New York, has just published a new 64-page catalogue that is of interest to fishermen, hunters and campers. Another booklet contains specialties in fishing tackle, while still another applies to war relics. All are very complete in detail, Among the new advertisements this week appears that of the = National Specialty Company, 13 West Twenty-seventh street. Fo] EST AND STREA A WEEKLY J ourNaL or tHE Rop anp Gun. — CopvricHT, 1908 BY FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING Co. Terms, 4 a Year. 10 Crs, A Copy. Six Monrtus, $2. The Forest AND STREAM is the recognized medium of entertain- ‘ment, instruction and information between American sportsmen, The editors invite communications on the subjects to which its pages are devoted. Anonymous communications will not be re- garded. While it is intended to give wide latitude in discussion of current topics, the editors are not responsible for the views of correspondents. Subscriptions may begin at any time. Terms: For single copies, $4 per year, $2 for six months. For club rates and full particulars respecting subscriptions, see prospectus on page ili, SSS ee SOME CAMP-FIRE RULES. Wirn the coming of the camping season and the build- ing of carmp-fires throughout the land, it is not untimely to repeat certain cautionary rules given before in these columns as a code of conduct with respect to the camp- fire: Never build a fire where its flame can communicate to grass or brush or branches of trees. Never build a fire where the sparks can be carried to brush or trees, or leaves or grass. Never build a fire without first noting the lay of the land with respect to controlling it after it is kindled. Never leave camp for the day with the fire to burn un- attended, Extinguish it thoroughly. Under no circumstances, when moving camp, leave the fire to burn or smoulder. Put it out. To extinguish a fire built upon the ground where there is turf, the roots of trees or other vegetable matter in the soil, pour water upon it until the ground is thoroughly soaked; then dig around about and well outside the cir- cumference, throwing the earth in toward the center, and then wet it down again. ; ; THE STATE COLLEGE OF FORESTRY. Gov. Opett having vetoed the appropriation for the support of the State Collegé of Forestry, the Trustees of Cornell University have of necessity suspended the college work. The Governor’s action is assumed to have been based upon an adverse report made by a special committee of the Legislature, which visited the college forests last year and inspected the experimental work there con- ducted. The suspension is greatly to be deplored, and intelligent persons who are cognizant of the nature of the work Cornell was accomplishing will hope for its early resumption. The Governor’s action was most ill advised. The State College of Forestry was performing service of ipealculable value for the future, of such importance, in- deed, that the State could not afford to save the $10,000 concerned in this item of the appropriation bill. The citi- zens of New York will not forever pursue the present policy with respect to the State forests. They will not content themselyes with the simple constitutional pro- b:bition of hands off. The State will some time practice fcrestry.. Before that time can come there must be men trained in forestry and there must be knowledge of fores- iry principles and methods as applied to the conditions existing jn the Adirondacks and the Catskills. The foresters may be educated only at such schools as that of Cornell, and the knowledge can be dequired only by such experimental work as that which has been begun at the State experimental forest in the Adirondacks. To cut - off summatily State support from these institutions which had been established by the State is a most inexpedient and tmbusiness-like step. It also amounts to a breach of good faith on the part of the State with Cornell Uni- versity and the instructors and students of the State Col- lege of Forestry. Tue principle of responsibility for the wrong use of sporting firearms is gaining recognition. Michigan has come into line with a measure to punish the negligent or careless shooting of human beings by persons in ptr- suit of game. The new law declares that whoever “while hunting shall negligently or carelessly shoot or wound or kill a human being shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of not more than ten years or bya finenot ex- ceeding $1,000; and it is made the duty of the prosecut- ine officer and sheriff in the county where the shooting takes place forthwith to investigate and prosecute. When it is considered that within the past few years the shoot- ing casualties in this country have run into the hundreds, the marvel is that a law like that of Michigan does not NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1908. prevail in every State wherein hunting is practiced. Other Legislattires may well follow the example thus set and put the seal of public condemnation on this “careless” and “accidental” shooting, by chatacterizing it properly as of criminal nature. Rifles and shotguns are instru- ments of death; that every Tom, Dick or Harry should have free license to get out with these implements and disport himself to the undoing of his fellow men, and should. be let off only with condolences and regrets, will one of these days be recognized in its true light as the grotesque complaisance of a thoughtless age. When we begin to think, we shall devise some way to put a limit to the roll of maimings and deaths in the woods. ie Tus is an era of New Thought, with capital N and capital T. News stands display magazines devoted to its promulgation and temples are dedicated to its teachings. In its printed expositions the New Thought is. ex- pressed in smoothly flowing diction, which is yet-most . deceptive; for while-upon not too attentive reading it ap- pears to be full of significance, its meaning grows dubious and elusive and baffling the more carefully it is studied. Take, for example, a patagraph in a current New Thought periodical which seems to have a bearing on certain phases of natural history: “Ye who is true to the law of his being is inspired. His utterances find wings, and favoring currents, and sustenance, and breath in the Omnipresence, so that their mission is accom- plished, and their work sure, and their life sustained; and they set up a vibrating response in the element or substance of Being, which goes on forever and forever. No life is quite so dark, no animal quite so ferocious, no serpent quite so venomous, no weed | quite so poisonous, ‘after a true word has been sent forth to create the attuning influence in the Essence of Being, as it would have been without it. Thus is the gospel preached to every creature.” Applying this specifically and practically to the amelioration of the ferocity of the grizzly, the venom of the rattlesnake and the poison of the poison ivy, what does jt mean? And can pages and volumes of “true words sent forth” ever take the place of a magazine rifle for the grizzly, a club for the rattler and an ax for the ivy? The truth is that the New Thought is neither new nor thought; and it exercises as much influence upon brute and human as does the Aurora Borealis at which men marvel and of which they wonder what and why. BR Awonc the curiosities of the game laws as they come to us from the several Legislatures of 1903 is an extraor- dinary promulgation by Arkansas. Most States are con- tent to concern themselves only with the regulation of things within their own borders. But Arkansas is ambi- tious to give law to the entire Union. She has adopted a drastic measure, which is nothing less than the follow- ing section contained in the new game law: “Section 4. It shall be unlawful for any person who-is a non-resident of the State of Arkansas to shoot, hunt, fish or trap at any season of the year.” The application of the law, it will be observed, is not limited to the State of Arkansas; it is general, compre- hensive and all-embracing. It applies to the Quatawam- kedgwick and the Kalamazoo as well as to the White and the Washita. In the name of several millions of people outside the bounds of Arkansas, and hitherto be- lievying themselves beyond its jurisdiction, we protest, flout the authorities of Arkansas to their face, and de- clare that we shall still hunt and fish, subject only to the lews of the several States wherein we live or pay non- resident license fees. e WueEn some members of the Crescent Athletic Club of Brooklyn were playing golf the other Sunday afternoon they missed a golf ball, and called in a policeman to seize and search a small boy suspected of having stolen it. The policeman did not find the ball, but did*bring out a bean- shooter and a dead robin; and he was moved to say: “A boy who would rob the nest and kill the birds with a bean-shooter ought to have his damned head shot off.” This so shocked one of the Sunday golf players that he set off post haste and with what appears to have been malignant officiousness, fo inform the Police Commis- sionet of the offense; and in the course of time the officer was put on trial and reprimanded for the extra-official characterization of the nest-robber’s head. His plea in extenttation was that the robin killer needed a vigorous rebuke for his lasting admonition, and the language em- ployed was not stronger than the peculiar exigency of the { VOL, LX.—No, 26. No, 846 Broapway, New York, ease demanded. His notion appears to have been that there are circumstances which warrant the use of the word even by officials on duty. In this he unquestionably had ‘for authority and examplar the revered Father of His Country, who, despite his solemn injunction to the Continental Army not to swear, did himself not hesitate to vent his feeling in the word “damn” when occasion wrung it from him. This is not to say that Washing- ton was profane. For while the courts have held diverse- ly on the subject—one of the District of Columbia decid- ing that “damn” was not profanity if provoked by the local street car service, the Supreme Court of Massa- chusetts, on the other hand, having sustained the lower courts in their decisions that the word “damned,” applied to a tascal, was profane language under the law of Mis- sissippithe general consensus of judicial opinion is that there is no profanity in the use of the word unless the name of the Deity is involved. Nevertheless the expres- sion is not nice, is certainly unbecoming in a policeman, and officers who. so forget themselves in the presence of Sunday golf players must expect to be reprimanded.. _R ; Amonc the curiosities which come to us from Albany this year is this new clause in the minnow law: “Min- nows shall not be taken within one hundred feet of any dock, pier, or boat landing stricture along the Saint Law- rence River without the consent of the owner on which the same is built.” The intent of the regulation is to free the owners of docks and landings from annoyance by minnow netters in their close proximity. The peculiar wording implies that it is the custom on the St. Lawrence to sink the owner and make a caisson of him for supporting his dam, pier cr boat landing; and to secure evidence under this law it would doubtless be necessary to dig up the sunken owner and produce him in evidence to prove that the structure came within the protection of the statute as one having an owner on which the same it was built. This, aside, however, the dock minnow regulation is one which has no place in the fish law. The purpose of the fish law is to protect fish, and it may regulate their tak- ing only with reference to such protection. ‘The St. Lawrence dock regtilations belong properly to the local town authorities, and should be left to them, “By nature we nearly resemble one another; condition separates tS very far.” Thus Confucius; and he might have been writing about men and men in their relation to the robin. If we of this vast country differ in our atti- tude toward the bird it is in large measure because con- ditions Separate us very far. If the Northern man had been born and raised in the South he would have ac- quired views. which are diametrically opposed to those his Northern environment has given him; and so with the Southerner had he been ofthe North. Those diverse sentiments, the criticisms, protests, defenses and discus sions which are colored and determined in large measure by the geographical and_ sectional conditions which ‘separate the participants so “very far,’ have ever a wel- come place in ottir columns; and they are sometimes all the more interesting because they illustrate so well the common proneness to judge from one’s own personal standpoint, without making allowance for that, of the’ other party to the discussion. R . Forest CoMMISSIONER Rtnc, of Maine, says that no sporting camp was destroyed by the forest fires in that State, and that not a single deer has been reported killed by the conflagrations. The New York Commissioners report that the extent of devastation by fire in the Adiron- dacks has been exaggerated. The eighth annual report of the Chief Fire Warden of Minnesota shows that out of twenty-eight forest and prairie fires which occurred in that State in 1903, only one was ascribed to the careless- ness of a fisherman and two to that of hunters. Ne Now that the mosquito has been revealed by science as the purveyor in ordinary of malaria to the human race, the term fly medicine as descriptive of insect repellant tekes on a new and vastly more significant meaning. It is, in fact, a medicine of far greater usefulness than sim- ply to avert the transitory irritation and smart of the sting; it means the prevention of malaria poisoning and deserves recognition in the pharmacopecia, 500 FOREST AND STREAM. [JUNE 27, 1903. Che Sportsman Tourist. —— An Ascent of Mount Aetna. [We are indebted to Dr. A, J. Woodcock, of Byron, Ill., for the following letter describing Maj. Woodcock’s second ascent of 7&tna. The account of the first ascent was published in our issue of May 30. A third ascent will be related in an issue to follow.] Unirep States Consurate, Catania, Sicily, July 14, 1884.—Dr. A. J, Woodcock, Byron, Illinois—My Dear Son: There is much to see and learn in this island. Every foot of it is interesting with story, romance and history. The cities of Syracuse, Terranova and Lecata are in my district, which comprises the south- west third of the island. I have been to the top of Mt. tna. A young German, Augustus Melhop. came to me with a letter of recommend from the U. S. Con- sul at Palermo. He was engaged by the China Gov- ernment to contract for warships with Germany for the war with France. His home is in Pekin, China, where he has lived for 14 years. Thus employed by China, he became very wealthy. He urged me to go with him to JEtna. With reluctance I consented. It was yet too early in the season to make the trip. The best time is in August or September. I induced Charley Worth- ington -(an English friend) to accompany us. We set out on the 27th of May at 5 P. M., going by catriage from Catania to Nicolosi, a place of some 4,000 inhabitants. It was a delightful ride of 10 miles. The town is situated at the base of Mount Rossi, an an- cient crater. In 1669 these same red mountains vomited forth a river of lava that flooded the country, swept over Catania (nearly destroying it) and rolled into the sea near the lighthouse. The people were greatly alarmed. The lava gradually approached the town. Slight shocks of earthquake were frequent. Black cin- ders rained down. Many of the inhabitants fled with their household goods. Terror was depicted in every face. A company of men passing up and down through the streets of the city bearing upon their shoulders large, heavy statues. of Saints Antonio and Michael, the patron saints of the town. A crowd followed them, shouting “Vivas” to the saints (Life! Life!!). Images of the Madonna were placed in the doorways of the churches surrounded by burning tapers, and men, women and children upon their knees, implored the mother of Jesus to importune her Son to stretch forth his hand and save their town from the fiery flood. The road wound upward through groves of orange, lemon, olive and fig. Rich vineyards clothed the hill- sides with green. Pretty villas, peasant cottages, shrines, old churches and two villages dotted the way- side. After the eruption this stretch of country was a desolate waste. The industry of the past 200 years has removed much of the lava, piling it up into walls and terraces and with it paving streets and building houses and cities. Much of it remains, blackened, cor- rugated, ragged, thrown into all conceivable shapes and as hard as granite. The soil formed from its disin- tegrated particles is the richest in the world. Mosses and lichens creep over this lava and paint upon it glowing colors, and this makes picturesque its other- wise unsightly hideousness. The prickly pear springs up everywhere among the lava wastes, attaining a lieight of 4 to 10 feet. Their broad, green leaves (like the shields of a Roman phalanx) guard from view much that is desolate and sunseemly. The cacti were in bloom at the time of our visit, their bright green, fleshy leaves being covered with large yellow blossoms. Their luscious fruit forms an important part of the food of the people. We reached Nicolosi at 8 P. M., had a dish of mac- caroni, made up a party of 14 (guides included) for the ascent, and were ready for the road in an hour. I, be- ing a colonel, was given my choice of the mules. I took the plump, coal black one that had fire in his eyes. It took two men to hold him while I mounted. He then reared, bucked, jumped and struck the ground stiff-iegged (changing ends as he did so), but did not faze my seat in the saddle. He finally acknowledged me his master, and away we went through the town on the run, the troop following, dogs barking, boys shout- ing and the whole populace out with craning necks watching the departure of the wild foreigners. It was 9 o’clock when we left Nicolosi. There was no moon. The milky way, in silver luster, streaked its broad band across the heavens. We traveled by the light of the stars. Lava, contorted, twisted, splintered, was piled up everywhere, and in all manner of fantastic shapes. Our guides had lighted their lanterns to insure our following the serpentine path over the rugged rocks. Silyatore, a six-footer, approached too near my mule’s rear guns. He kicked out with both feet, giving the guide, Antonio Mazzalio, a center shot in the breast. A fall and a groan told the result. The little party for a moment seemed paralyzed with hor- ror: I dismounted, ran to the fallen man and found him insensible and bleeding. On examination I found the blood came from a lava cut on the head. I poured a generous horn of brandy down his throat. This re- vived him, and he commenced to groan furiously and swear dire vengeance in choice Italian against the mule. We bathed his rapidly swelling breast with brandy, lifted him on the mlue that we called Snail, and resumed our upward march, the accident having de- tained us about half an hour. JI had been calling my mount *Bucephalus, but after this performance I bor- rowed the name which your inventive genius originated for one of your horses, and called him Satan. After a time we reached the lower edge of the tem- perate zone of the mountain. Trees began to appear, soon we were in the midst of a chestnut forest. Here and there was a field of wheat or rye. Though lava was everywhere prevalent, its horrid desolation had been broken into by the leveling hand of time and by the industrious peasantry. About midnight we reached *The horse that Alexander the Great rode; no other than he could ride him, Casa del Bosco (the house of the forest). The guide sounded a blast upon his Alpine horn, which set the dogs baying within. Soon we heard the bolt of the door slide back, and a man half dressed appeared and — gave us welcome. By this time we had got into a colder climate. A fine fire was soon roaring in the huge fireplace. I think that I never enjoyed anything more than its bright, genial warmth, After an hour’s rest we left our disabled guide, and resumed the ascent. The black mule was full of pluck and energy. He led the van. The rest of the troop gave us a wide berth. In an hour we reached the frigid zone. No shrub or tree was visible. The most intense sterility pre- vailed. Patches of snow began to appear, and it soon became intensely cold. About 3 o’clock the snow be- came so piled up our mules could not advance. We left them with the muleteers and commenced the climb on foot. Now came the tug of war. The snow during the day had thawed somewhat, and a thin crust had formed, but not sufficiently strong to bear us. About every step we would break through, sinking above our knees. Thus we wallowed upward for two mortal hours. My lungs could hardly pump enough of the rarified air to oxygenize my blood. I have seldom experienced such fatigue. We finally reached Casa del Inglese (Eng- lish House), where I sank down completely exhausted. This house is situated at the foot of the cone (or crater). It was built about 100 years ago. It has since been repaired and a main building added by the Gov- ernment. It has a dome, and at certain times is used as an observatory. After a few moments’ rest we were up to witness the effects of sunrise. Long flashes of rosy light from the Calabrian Mountains were burnish- ing the eastern heavens. Soon the golden chariot of the day king became visible above the snowclad peaks. The whole eastern coast of the island was visible. Taormina, Aci Reale, Catania and Syracuse and the other sea towns were spots on the shore far below. The sea of a purple hue changed to rose color as the sun ascended. The rose-colored hues fled before the rising sun, and a sea of emerald remained flashing and sparkling in the ‘morning light. The southern portion of the peninsula of Italy, ridged with the variegated peaks of the Calabrian range, was a beautiful picture with the sea on either side. We glanced up through the Strait of Messina, past Scylla and Charybdis, to the blue sea beyond. After a time spent in wonder and admiration of that beautiful panorama, we retired to the English House to cold fowl and almost frozen soup and coffee. The guide had started a small fire of char- coal in the grate, but this was only an aggravation, Our teeth rattled time to the music of Jack Frost. The cone still towered above us a thousand feet. With our sharp-pointed alpenstocks we commenced the ascent. We passed a huge cavern, from which steam was rushing in clouds. We kept our eyes upon the sum- mit, bearing down with our sticks and resting after each two or three steps. We encountered wet cinders, patches of snow melting upon the heated soil and slipped back almost as fast as we climbed. We finally reached the top. The wind was blowing furiously and freezingly cold. We had been one and one-half hours in our struggle up this monster crater. I threw my- self flat upon the ground with my head over the rim, and took a look down into what the Sicilians call the mouth of hell. A vast column of steam was shooting up into the heavens. This was so impregnated with sulphurous fumes I was obliged to keep several thick- nesses of my shawl over my mouth and nose to prevent strangulation. Occasionally a blast of wind would drive back the steam, allowing me to see far down into this horrid inferno. The crater itself is three miles in cir- cumference. The inner side of the rim was variegated with colors of red, orange and yellow from, the sul- phur fumes. A Milton or a Dante could not do justice to the terrific grandeur of the scene. According to the ancient Greeks and Romans this is the workshop of Vulcan, where he forges his thunderbolts for Jove. I could not see the old fellow, but the rumbling sound I heard far down in those black depths must have been he grumbling at his work. We had grand views to the northwest. We looked down upon Stromboli. This little giant seemed to be in angry mood. He was blow- ing off his wrath in huge columns of smoke that rolled heayenward, like an immense tree with branching top. We saw the whole of the Lipari group of islands. Three or four other craters were in eruption, but were pigmies by the side of Stromboli. We looked far away upon the sea to the southwest toward Africa. Had the skies been clear we would have seen Malta in the dis- tance, and viewed the sea laving the entire coast of this triangular island. The rim upon which we stood is over two miles high. We were above the clouds. A thunderstorm gathered below us. We looked down upon the inky black clouds charged with electricity, upon the lightning flashing in chains of livid light, and heard the crashing peals away below us. This sight alone paid for all fatigue and exposure undergone. After our descent of the crater we stopped for an hour in Casa Inglese. Our beds were straw and hard, but our sleep was sound though not satisfying. We had been 24 hours without rest. After this short nap we again commenced the descent. The afternoon sun had warmed the air. The snow was thawing, and we no longer suffered. with the cold. We found our mules where we had left them. By the help of three men I got upon the back of the black one, and away he trotted down over the most terrible break-neck places. Putnam’s ride down the stone steps at Horsenesk was nothing compared to mine. He had his enemy in his rear, I had mine under me, Of- course I beat the other fellows to Casa del Rossi. We rested and slept there for two hours, Charley upon the ground under a chestnut tree, I upon the cot of a mountaineer. Again we were off, the black mule trotting into Nicolosi long before the rest. I announced their coming and ordered supper. We found the guide better, but very sore, In our descent we saw the River Simeta glittering a silver thread from its source many miles to its exit into the sea, We reached Catania at 8 P. M., a used-up set of fellows. As ever I am Your affectionate father, ALBERT Woopcock. oo we = Soe = r Trailing the Summer Trout. In the heart of the New Brunswick wilderness, on the northern branch of the Little Southwest Miramichi River, lies Miramichi Lake. Nearly forty miles as the crow flies from Boiestown, the nearest lumbering settle~ ment, and more than thirty miles from the nearest farm, it lies in the midst of a region known only to the lumber- man, the trapper, and the sportsman. This vast woaod- land, like a rich fabric, is spangled with countless lakes and shot with the silver thread of streams in many of which no line has ever been wet. It is an ideal angler’s country; and it was this feature above all others that made this land of the Miramichi the goal of our annual piscatorial pilgrimage. _* The ceremony of “going in” is mtich the same in all the wild regions of eastern North America. You go by rail as far as you can and then possibly you may postpone for a brief space the inevitable by the use of horses. But it you are bound for the heart of things, you must resort at last to one of two modes of conveyance, the canoe or your two feet. To reach the Miramichi country from the south, one must tramp; and tramp we did for over forty miles of trail and tote road, stumbling over windfalls, slipping about in mud holes, bitten by gnats and mos- quitoes, but happy, for we tasted trout the first night, and after the evening pipe and camp-fire chat we turned in to sleep on beds redolent of balsam. We were in the woods. The next morning is memorable because it brought us the sight of our first deer. We had just mounted a steep hill beyond the camp, when Harry, our chief guide, whose eyes’ were everywhere, exclaimed: “Look!” About twenty yards from the trail stood a young buck, with horns in the velvet, gazing at us curiously. For several minutes he stood there, motionless, except for an occa- sional nervous twitch of the tail. He seemed to know that it was the close season, for when at last he decided to leave us, he did so with long, slow bounds, in unhur- ried grace, All along the trail we continued to see numerous tracks of moose and deer, crossed here and there by those of caribou or bears. The moose tracks were far the most numerous, for this is first and foremost a fine moose country. Harry said that they seem to like the old tote roads, where the ground is comparatively smooth and the brush does not interfere with their progress. The softer ground was always stamped deep with the imprint of their sharp hoofs. Thus has man’s highway become a game trail. Our course was northerly, closely paralleling the boundary line between the counties of Northumberland and York. Our progress was slow, never over fifteen miles a day, for we varied the portaging, as they call it in that country, by fishing here and there, or by such little diversions as the chase of a porcupine or the inspection of a flock of wild ducklings, and we never failed to see a deer or a moose every day. Three days of such tramping brought us to Harry’s home camp, which was to be our headquarters for the better part of our stay. This home camp, situated near the west end of Miramichi Lake, is ensconced in a long deserted lumber camp, or rather in the only remaining building; for the rest have fallen to ruin. It consists of two large log cabins, one for habitation and the other for storage, separated by a narrow passage, which is, however, roofed over, so that even a heavy fall of snow cannot obstruct communication. Each cabin is about twenty-five feet square, and they are almost wholly the work of the ax—the roof, the floors, even the doors and tables being made of planks of balsam fir hewn or split from the log. Here Harry has collected all the articles an angler or hunter can possibly need. Besides the inevitable ax, there are saws, hammers, tools of all sorts, a veritable battery of rifles and shotguns, a large number of traps (for Harry turns trapper in the winter months), snow- shoes, sledges, blankets, a large iron cooking stove, and a plentiful supply of the woodsman’s food staples—flour, pork, beans, tea and sugar. There is even a shelf loaded with light literature brought in by successive parties of sportsmen and another of medicines from the same source. Altogether it is the most completely appointed camp I have ever seen. Primarily a hunter’s camp, it is intended for cold weather, and is perfectly adapted to this purpose, but in summer I prefer to sleep out in the air, and therefore I like some of Harry’s smaller open camps better. For Harry is a sort of camping trust. According to the etiquette of New Brunswick guides, each man has a territory which he regards as his own, and, if he deserves ii, this claim is respected. Harry’s particular territory is a district about twenty miles square, within which he has a score of camps ranging in size from this central hostelry, in which a dozen men could be comfortably ac- ccommodated, to a mere open lean-to for four men. Each is always supplied with a few cooking utensils, some food, and often with blankets. If a lake or river is near, there is usually a canoe within easy reach. It is evident that much toil and no small expense have been lavished on all this equipment, which is so complete that, should the visit- ing sportsman prove unsuccessful in one locality (which is unlikely), or should he be of a roving disposition, he has but to move on to new scenes, where he will find his house always ready. Such is this little kingdom of four hundred square miles, and over all the inhabitants of its woods and waters Harry is undisputed lord. We lost no time in setting about our quest for the summer trout. For the summer trout cannot be taken, like his relative of the spring months, from any and every part of lake or stream. When the heat of July comes, he withdraws, if he is more than a fingerling, to some spot of coolness, and he must be trailed hither as truly as four- footed game is trailed on land, and the task is the more difficult and exciting because he leaves no hoof marks printed in the soft ground. But even though it was July, and a superheated July at that, we had some hope that a few of the big fellows might still be found lingering in their spring haunts, and so the next morning after our arrival at the home camp we took the large canoe and headed down the lake for the mouth of Pocket Lake Stream. Pushing out from the mouth of the little spring brook near camp we came suddenly upon the home of Mother Loon, who was engaged in keeping her eggs as warm as their resting place of water-soaked moss would allow. She was taken wholly by surprise, and with a locomotive- June 2%, 1903.) FOREST AND STREAM. 501 en eT ee ee ———————————=_ like hoot she went rushing away across the lake, half swimming, half flying, and leaving a wake like that of a steamboat. After we had examined her brownish eggs and the island nest, which was a curiosity, for these birds do not often build so pretentious a structure, I photo _ graphed the whole from the bow of the canoe. A We could now see a wide stretch of the lake, which is seven or eight miles long, from one to two miles wide, and full of islands. It is absolutely surrounded by forests whose trees, often “bearded with moss,” gnarled and twisted by myriads of winter storms, presented on all sides that ragged outline seen only in the undefiled wil- derness. The wildness of the scene was enhanced by the sight of a moose far away on the opposite shore and the cries of the loons weirdly in keeping with the spirit of those lovely lakes. Long reaches of the shore are ren- dered hideous by the dead trees standing like exhumed skeletons, a perpetual reproach to the lumbermen whose dam at the outlet of the lake has caused all this destruc- tion. As we lolled back easily in the canoe, drinking in the wild beauty of the scene, while the gtides sent our little craft swiftly along, Harry’s sudden low exclamation, “Moose!” directed our eyes toward the neighboring shore, near which, in the shallow water, stood a young cow feeding with such relish on the lily stems that she did not perceive our noiseless approach, The wind was in our fayor, and Harry whispered: “Get out your camera. I'll see if we can get near enough for a picture.” d Thereupon, camera in hand, I stood up behind Tom in the bow, while Harry’s absolutely noiseless paddle sent us nearer and nearer to the moose. A hundred yards, fifty yards, seventy-five feet, and still she did not see us. THE HOME OF THE LOON, Then suddenly divining our approach, she lifted her head, a Jong lily stem hanging from one corner of her mouth to the water, her ears cocked up in surprise rather than terror. At the same moment Harry, who is a famous moose caller, began to talk to her in her own language, uttering an indescribale grunting whine, the cry of the baby moose. This was too much for her, and there she sat on her haunches in three feet of water, motionless as a statue, a victim of feminine curiosity, until we were within twenty-five feet of her. And in this attitude I should haye caught her with the camera, but . IL was standing up in a tottlish canoe, holding the camera with one hand and trying simultaneously to manage focus and bulb with the other; the sun was bright, and, try as I would, I could not see her image in the finder until she had turned and was plunging for the shore. Then, calling to Tom to lean back out of range, I pressed the bulb with the partial results you see. The rifle is a far easier weapon to handle successfully than the camera. But I was nearly forgetting our trout. Pocket Lake Stream yielded us a few and Squaw Barren Pool a score or more, but not one would have weighed more than half a pound, It was clear that we must trail the big fellows in earnest. And so, waiting until evening, we glided stealthily into the channel by which a spring brook found its way through the marsh grass into the lake and cast our flies gently upon the surface of the black water. Presto! we were both fast to pound trout in a twinkling. The result of an hour’s sport in the darkness, amid the buzz of countless mosquitoes, was a string of fourteen nice fish, six or eight of which weighed well over a pound apiece. We had received our cue—springholes and even- ing fishing, and thereafter, although we caught none of the three and four-pounders for which the region is famous, we never failed of good sport. 7h. Gee * * * * * “How tame everything is!” - So spoke Charlie one evening as we sat about the fire smoking the postprandial pipe, and, although perhaps a trifle ambiguous, the remark was literally true in the sense intended. The rabbits, oblivious of our presence, calmly munched their food within a dozen yards of the cabin. A woodchuck lived under the floor and was at no pains to conceal his exits and entrances from us. The grouse were so tame that they merely walked away when we tried to touch them. Moose birds or “gorbies” (Canada jays) would almost alight upon our hands, although Harry contended with considerable probability that in their case this total lack of fear was not the result of unsuspecting gentleness, but of impudent curiosity. So it was with the red squirrels, the chipmunks, and even with the deer and young moose. None of these have learned to dread, the man with the gun, for the few men with guns who enter that country are in search of larger game, It is this fearlessness which constitutes a chief pleasure of the genuine wilderness; you touch elbows, so to speak, with the woods folk. . [ must hasten over most of the events of our week at the home camp—how I photographed a beaver’s house (but forgot to draw the slide), and a caribou (but took another picture on the same plate) ; how we made a trip of two days to the forks of the Miramichi in quest ot salmon, but were disappointed because all the salmon had gone down to the North Pole Branch in quest of cool water. Eyen our sojourn on the Crooked Deadwater, where we saw eight moose in one evening, and almost saw a bear, are, in Kiplingian phrase, “another story.” But I must tell, albeit briefly, of the last expedition before our enforced departure from the woods, The trail to Moose Lake leads through miles of forest never touched by the ax. The lake itself, nearly round and abotit a mile in diameter, is walled in by lofty forested hills. No unsightly dead wood mars the beauty of its shores, and the mirror-like surface gives back the perfect image of spruce and pine and hemlock, with here and there the softer outline and brighter colors of the birches and maples that have crowded among their pointed- crowned sisters. Our little picture affords but a faint idea of the perfect beauty of this lonely tarn. Trouting on Moose Lake in the early evening is the reverse of effort. You paddle where you will, cast your flies, and the trout come up by twos and threes at every cast. A half hour’s sport brought us all the fish we needed for breakfast, but we were not fated to enjoy them, for when Tom went to the canoe next morning to get them, not a fish was to be found. We soon saw the thief eying us triumphantly from behind a log—a mink, who had spent all his working hours during the night storing away our trout in nooks and crannies along the shore. So for once we had a troutless breakfast. Thus we lived for twenty happy days, absorbing health from the balsam-scented air, growing sturdy with health- ful tramping and paddling, and eating with enormous ap- petites. Trout and game were everywhere, and it is sig- nificant of the country that, on our way to Fredericton, almost the last thing we saw before our train entered the city was a deer leaping from a field into the neighboring woods. A. W. Foods. Ossininc, N. Y., June 19—Editor Forest and Stream: In the article, by L. Lodian, entitled “Across Cibiria,” appearing in your issue of June 20, the writer gives the results of his experience with concentrated and other foods, My experience during two winters in Alaska, where I traveled some 2,000 miles on foot, packing my out- fit on my back or hauling it on a sled, confirms the opinions expressed by Mr. Lodian with the exception of the values of beans, potatoes and fresh meat. When engaged in hard labor, such as packing or hauling a sled in a temperature of from 30 to 50 de- grees Fahrenheit below zero, animal heat is the first consideration in food. Let an inexperienced person start out in the morn- ing aiter a hearty breakfast, and in four or four and a half hours he will commence to feel cold and weak, but not necessarily hungry. By five hours he will some- times scarcely have sufficient strength to carry his pack or haul his load, and still not feel the need of food by means of his appetite, and in whatever portion of his body the circulation of the blood is defective that por- tion will become chilled to the bone. With the major- ity of persons the feet suffer first. With others the circulation in the feet is good, but that in the hands and fore arms is defective, and if such a person con- tinues to work much longer without food, the chances are that his hands will become so benumbed that he will haye great difficulty in starting a fire. li, however, after four or four and a half hours’ work the traveler stops, builds a fire, warms up some beans and flapjacks, fries a few slices of bacon and boils some tea or coffee (yes, they boil tea in that climate) and eats the same standing or crouching over his fire, it will put new life in him, and he will feel almost as strong as at the beginning of the day. He will have no trouble in eating all he cooks, even though the sensation of hunger is scarcely apparent to him. Where such an amount of food is necessary in order to sustain heat and strength, the subject of eating be- comes as important as firing a locomotive. After the day’s work is done there is a tendency to devour an enormous quantity of food at the evening meal. This sometimes induces nausea or indigestion through over- loading the stomach. In such cases the remedy is to divide the eyening meal into two—a fairly plentiful dinner at the usual time, and a warm lunch before re- tiring. In this manner sufficient food can be digested each day to supply the waste of heat and tissue due to the extreme cold and hard work. Regarding the value of beans as an article of diet, the pioneers of Alaska considered them as possessing the greatest nourishment per pound of any article ob- tainable in that country. Dried king salmon, perhaps, is superior, but it is scarce and not relished by white men as a steady diet. My own experience with various foods is as follows: Beans, with plenty of grease or a little bacon or pork, and flapjacks cooked in bacon fat, will sustain warmth and vigor for four or four and a half hours while working in a temperature of 25 to 35 degrees Fahrenheit below zero. Evaporated potatoes, with a liberal allowance of but- ter or bacon fat, are nearly as sustaining as beans. Beefsteak. moose and caribou meat, etc. (the etc. in- cludes horse meat), will not sustain heat for much more than two and a half or three hours, Soups and oatmeal digest quickly, and are only to be recommended for an evening meal. Extract of beef makes an appetizing drink and good stock for soups and stews. Do not try to eat it spread on bread like butter—it will induce thirst and perhaps cause illness. Flapjacks and crullers are nutritious and lasting. Cornmeal mush fried in slices, with lard or bacon fat, is also good. ian s . Among drinks chocolate or cocoa is the most stimu- lating and invigorating. Alcoholic liquors are worse than useless, except to relieve stiffness of the muscles after the day’s work is done. With the limited menu obtainable in such a country scurvy frequently makes its appearance, As a pre- ventiye, some make a strong infusion of spruce leaves and cottonwood (poplar) bark and take a good drink thereof twice a week. While this may be beneficial as a preventive, it is not considered of much value as a remedy after the disease has obtained a hold. Fresh meat, fruit and vegetables are all good preventives or remedies, but the article in which the inhabitants of. Alaska have the most confidence is fresh potatoes. In the early days the commercial companies retained a small supply of these during the winter and sold them only on presentation of a physician’s prescription or other good evidence that they were required as medi- cine, Epw. F. BAL. Blatuyal History. — i Horse Hair fed Glass Snakes. Editor Forest and Stream: I was much interested in the article entitled, “Erro- neous Beliefs” which appeared some time ago; but it contained two statements which I beg permission to revise. First. “How prevalent is the belief that horse hairs turn to snakes! There is no other foundation for this error than the resemblance of the so-called hairsnake (gordius) to a common horse hair,” I do not believe in horse hairs metamorphosing into snakes (no true naturalist could be so absurd) and I also am acquainted with the wonderful gordius; but there is another, commoner, and much more pardonable cause of the popular superstition mentioned: Certain waters swarm with invisible but very active living creatures, and if a horsehair be placed upon the surface of such water, floating, and left there undisturbed a number of hours, in calm weather, it will soon be found: wriggling about, and exhibiting every appearance of a live snake—a snake in misery at that. It may actually show a head at one end—or even at each end! The reason is that the hair possesses a sort of magnetic power, and attracts the tiny creatures to it in great numbers, and securely retains them. They may slip along its sides, in either direction, with ease, but cannot break away, until a great knot of them collect at either or both ends. It is very difficult for those at the ends to get back to the sides, consequently the “heads” are quite likely to keep growing larger! They are amazingly powerful creatures, and exceedingly vora- cious and restless, and their furious efforts to regain their liberty causes the compound “snake” to writhe and squirm constantly—sometimes actually moving endwise, as if possessing a real intelligent head of its own! To insure the success of the experiment, better have the water in a tub, and allow no frogs or other visible creatures to enter; but do not cover (unless with screen), as a lack of air sometimes engenders a chemical change in the water, producing a new and very different set of animalcules (which, of course, were there before, but undeveloped). Second. “Many persons believe that there is a- glass snake, or joint snake, which may be broken to fragments when struck but can rejoint itself and live. This may come from the fact that a certain lizard (Ophiosaurus ventralis) readily loses its tail, and while the body escapes the caudal member wriggles and attracts the attention of the pursuer.” There are several varieties of lizards that do as described. Nevertheless the joint snake is a reality, and, though not common, is still so plentiful (here, for in- stance, in the mountain region of Arkansas) that I won- der how any naturalist can doubt its very existence! I have seen several, each three feet or more in length (saw two or three in one year). They are striped in light colors, such as so blend together at a distance as to pro- duce the general effect of a yellowish gray; are glossy, shiny, hard and stiff looking (yet very swift in a plunge for liberty), and feel cold, hard, metallic to the touch. When frightened in a place where they cannot escape and struck carefully, so as not to kill or wound, they begin to unjoint. And if you keep whipping them they do not stop at one or two sections, but may continue until only the head and neck (has a snake a neck?) are left at the intelligent end. Now, “here comes” the part of their description that seems almost incredible, even after you have seen it your- self—there is no real breakage, but each section is jointed on to its mate by a_sort of knob-and-socket arrangement (the socket haying apparently the power to expand and contract) that is too wonderful for this pen to describe. at present. J hope to discover the mystery hereafter. And although the snake can easily “flop off” his joints himself, he is not a tender creature like the lizard, but is very strong, and you would be astonished at the strength required to forcibly pull him apart. Now, as he is neatly jointed, the sections coming apart clean, hard and bloodlessly, and “Nature makes no mis- takes,” if philosophers are to be believed, a man may be excused for believing the jointing is for an important purpose, The question is—What purpose? This, I admit, I am unable to answer, even to my own satisfaction. That the snake can and does unjoint I know. That he can rejoint I doubt—but I am not at all certain—even after two separate experiments. In the first case I left the pieces in a field. Next morning they had mysteriously disappeared. “Oh, that’s nothing—eaten by buzzard or something!” But another snake (a common sort), killed about the same time the glass snake was unjointed, had not yet been disturbed. In the second trial I turned a tub over the joints on a tight floor. The succeeding day the joints were still apart, lifeless, and covered with ants. Perhaps I had allowed the dogs to fatally wound the rep- tile before unjointing it, = — =, Aba ieee Lice 502 FOREST AND STREAM. [JUNE 27, 1003. I dislike to kill or injure this variety of snake, as it is harmless, timid, and lives upon insects and mice, seldom coming out into the light of day. I believe this is the first careful description of the joint snake ever written, so I hope Forest AND STREAM will find space for at least this portion of my communication. D. R. MorrHew. [In this connection see on this page Mr. Hay’s notes on the glass snake.] Our Batrachians and Reptiles.—IV. Born the batrachians and reptiles, being cold-blooded animals, avoid the colder regions of the earth, but while the former begin their existence in the water, and, as a class, prefer the cool shadows and darkness, the latter come into being on land and love the light and warmth of sunshine. While it is true that the crocodiles and turtles return to the water and pass the greater portion of their lives in it, the other, and by far the largest, group of reptiles, to which belong the lizards and the snakes, with but few exceptions find the conditions neces- sary for their existence on dry land. In this great group the lizards are the lowest, in that they are most like the earliest reptiles, and with them we can best begin the con- sideration of the class. Taking such a species as the little Anolis, or so-called chameleon of the Southern States, we will find it to fit very well our ideas of what a lizard should be. Its body, which reaches a length of about six inches, is cylindrical and provided with a slender tail and two pairs of legs. The conical head is borne on a distinct neck. The skin is covered everywhere, except on the crown and sides of the head, with small overlapping scales, and the toes end in’ sharp claws. ‘The eyes are furnished with eyelids, the ears are discernible as small holes just at the back of the head, and the tip of the tongue is only slightly notched in front. In short, it may be taken, so far as its external characteristics go, as.a typical lizard. The habits of this little creature are most interesting, and have: been made the subject of some study. In the South, where they abound, they are to be seen throughout the day running with almost lightning-like swiftness among the vegetation in search of food. When on such Fig. 1.—Anolis, the so-called Chameleon of theSouthern States ~* (after Lutkin). aquest they do notvhesitate to enter human habitations, and in the houses of lighter construction a number may be seen at a time datting about over the walls, for, by a peculiar construction=of their feet, they can adhere to a perpendicular surfacé, Anyone who would watch such an assemblage would at: once be amazed by the wonderful control exercised. by¥-the Anolis over its personal appear-~ ance, The same individual would often be seen to change its-color, varying from light pea-green through dark olive to a lustrous: bronzy brown. These changes may be effected as the animali'moves from place to place to more perfectly harmonize it with its surroundings, or they may reflect the feelings and-desires of their owner. The food of this creature consists of insects, among which flies seem to be the favorite. Eggs are laid during the early summer in some crevice and from these, in a short time, the -young emerge and enter at once into the activities of life... The parents’ bestow no care upon them, and they must shift for themselves. It is the exception among the lower vertebrates to find a species which possesses even the rudiments of parental affection, but certain observers have testified that the common brown or pine-tree lizard Sceloporus un- dulatus) is such an animal. It is distributed from New Jersey to Oregon and south to Texas, and is represented, therefore, over the greater portion of the United States. Ii differs considerably from the Anolis in form, although it still retains the lizard shape. The head is rather broad and flat, and the nose is rounded. The body is covered with coarse scales, each of which has an elevated ridge down its center, and is prolonged into a point behind. The color is olive or brownish, sometimes almost black, and is variegated by undulating cross bands of darker color, so as to cause it to resemble very closely the bark of the irees or, the stones on which it lives. The under surface is whitish, but on the throat of the adult there is usually a large patch of metallic blue or green. It is most com- mon in situations where pine trees abound and for this reason has been given its common name. Its food con- sists of insects, in search of which it diligently explores the surface of the ground and clambers about among the branches ,of the smaller trees. In the latter place it also seeks security when pursued. The capture of one of these creatures in good condition is no very easy matter, for, ~ — = ~ added to its swift movements, it has developed to a marked degree the habit which many other lizards possess of snapping off its tail when closely pursued. This appendage is broken off, not between two of the_ver- tebras, but directly across the middle of one of the bones, and, when severed, thrashes about among the leaves so as to distract the pursuer while its former owner makes an escape. The tailless lizard quickly recovers from its self-inflicted injury and proceeds to grow a new tail, a process which may be repeated several times. The eggs of the pine-tree lizard are said to be laid in the sand, probably in little groups. They are deposited about June I and hatch in about ten days. They are long and nar- SSN slender stream of blood when they are roughly handled. It is popularly supposed that this red fluid comes from the animal’s mouth, but recent observations have shown that the jet springs from the corner of the eye. No ex- planation of this fact can be given, for the blood is not it! any way disagreeable, and it is not known whether it is a means of defense or simply an involuntary bursting of a blood vessel due to fright or anger. Neither is it known how generally the habit prevails. It is said that in its natural haunts the horned toad brings forth its young alive, some three or four at a time. In captivity, how- “ ever, eges are frequently laid, but, so far as the writer is aware, these do not hatch. Fig: 2.—The Pine Tree Lizard. row and covered with a white, tough, leathery skin. The parent makes no attempt to incubate them, but when the young emerge they are treated with the utmost gentleness by the adults, and may often be seen in company with them. Among the uninformed people of country districts this lizard, and most others as well, is supposed to be venomous, but the idea is entirely erroneous. Even when captured it seldom makes an attempt at defense, and when it does, its bite cannot break even the most tender skin. It quickly becomes tame and makes a most inter- esting pet. ; While speaking of this subject it would not be amiss to mention our common blue-tailed lizard, or skink, which is well known to most lovers of the woods. In rural dis- tricts it is known as the “scorpion,” a name which is inapplicable in every way, and which has doubtless done much to give to the animal its reputation of being very Fig. 3.—Horned Toad. venomous. It is perfectly harmless, and instead of being in any way injurious, is an efficient aid to man in remov- ing large numbers of disagreeable insects. On the hot plains and in the desert regions of the West “and South are found numerous species of lizards which represent the extreme development of the pine-tree lizard type. These are the horned toads, so called from their flat, ‘toad-like bodies and the more or less perfect armature of large pointed scales and spines which are scattered over the back or arranged in rows on the sides and top of the head. Their odd appearance at once attracts at- tention, and, as they are not capable of running with speed, they are often captured and kept as pets. 4m con- finement, however, they often refuse to eat, and “slowly starve to death, but if by gentle treatment they can once be induced to take food they devour large numbers of fl'es and other small insects, and may occasionally drink Living in the territory inhabited by the horned toad are many other kinds of lizards, but these we must pass by without mention, excepting only the large, uncouth Heloderma, or Gila monster, a species noteworthy as be- ing the only lizard in the world which seems to deserve its reputation of being yenomous. It occurs from southern Utah through New Mexico and Arizona to a point well within Mexico. Further to the south and west there is a second species, but of its habits we can say nothing. The Heloderma is a large, thick-bodied, short- legged animal, slow of motion, and of a most repulsive appearance. In length it may exceed eighteen inches,. but specimens are usually a foot or less in length. The head is nearly flat above and somewhat triangular in outline, the sides gradually sloping to the rounded nose. Its color is black with large cross bands or blotches of yellow, and the scales which cover the back and sides are coarse and rounded, so as to give the animal something of the appearance of a piece of bead work. Very little is known about the habits of this ungainly lizard, for its reputation is such that those who most often see it think of nothing but how to exterminate it. For years it has been regarded as a most deadly reptile, but there is now good reason to believe that the facts are not quite as bad as has been supposed. A great many living specimens haye been sent to investigators in various parts of the world, who, after having made careful ex- periments with the Heloderma’s saliva, report, some, to the effect that it contains a violent poison, and others that it is perfectly harmless. It is quite possible that this difference of opinion is due to the fact that, as the lizard has no specialized poison fangs, it sometimes fails to introduce its venom into the wound, which in such a case would be no more dangerous than a bad scratch. There is, however, an abundance of proof to the effect that, under some conditions, at least, this lizard can inflict a dangerous bite, and on this account it should be handled with great care or avoided altogether. Another type of lizard which occurs in many parts of the old and new worlds but is represented in our country only by five or six species are the Geckos, so called from the noise made by some of the species. In the United States one species is found in Florida and the others in Texas, New Mexico and southern Cali- fornia. In general form and appearance they bear a rather close resemblance to the Anolis, but there are no large plates on the top of the head and the eyelids are rudimentary or altogether absent! In most of the Geckos the pupil of the eye is a narrow vertical slit, a character which points strongly to nocturnal habits. Most species, also, have the ends of the toes provided with peculiar ad- hesive pads, by means of which they are able to run up such perpendicular surfaces as the trunks of trees, bricle Fig. 4—The Heloderma. a little milk. When teased or suddenly frightened they flatten their bodies, arch their backs, and turn their horns forward like a horned mammal at. bay ard. await the at- tack. This mode of defense is the one which they prob- ably adopt in nature when no safe retreat is-at hand, and- one can imagine that it is very effective, not only from the ugly appearance which they present, but from the fact that the horns would offer a very serious obstacle in swallowing the animal. Professor Cope mentions find- ing a dead rattlesnake which had been killed by attempt- ing to swallow one of these lizards, whose sharp horns had penetrated the cesophagus and were sticking out on each side of the snake’s neck. Another curious action on the part of some horned toads is that of squirting out a walls, or even the plastered wall of a room. Next to nothing is known of the life history of any American Gecko, although they are very attractive little lizards, well worthy of the naturalist’s attention. : Turning now from the typical lizards to forms which might easily be mistaken for serpents, and which are commonly known as such, we will consider first the Ophisaurus, or glass snake. This animal is found more— or less abundantly in the southeastern United States from Virginia to Indiana, and south to Florida and Texas. In form it is decidedly like a snake; the body is long and slender, sometimes reaching a length of three feet, and there is no trace of limbs. It may at once be recognized as a lizard, however, by the Jower jaw, the eyelids and the —— ee that the reptile can crawl away as sound as ever. june 27, 1903.] Hae ea FOREST AND STREAM. 308 external ear opening, and if the observer feels inclined to _ do a little dissecting a rudimentary set of shoulder bones will be found a short distance behind the head. In color it is yellowish, with brown longitudinal lines, Wherever it is found it has attracted a great deal of attention from the fact that when pursued or struck with a stick the whole animal appears to break up into short pieces. Along with this knowledge, which has given it the name of glass snake or joint snake, there goes the idea that these pieces have the power of reuniting themselves, ae 1 22) sat ; een 2 q j fpenitttey, fh : ae | of, Z a= aN MG See ae ee) Y 2 rat i 7 a ~~» i y ¢) 2, %, £ Allowing our boat to rest quiet we kept close watch on the mother, who took the opportunity to spring clear of the water and fly to the little one, In a moment the feeble and tired duckling was snugly ensconced upon its mother’s back, and with a gladsome quacking, faintly answered by the peeping of the rest of the brood, she once more led the aquatic procession, and in a few moments was within the welcome rushes and we saw them no more. ; It certainly was an impressive sight, the devotion of that wild bird to its young, facing what would at other en aaa Pig, 5—The Blind-worm. ©. P. Hay, who has written of this species, says: “As regards the liability of the animal to break into pieces on being struck or handled, there can be no doubt. Two- ‘thirds or more of the glass snake is tail, It is a well known fact that many lizards on being seized drop their tail in order to free themselves or to deceive the pursuer. The tail thus lost may be reproduced. When occasion appears to demand the sacrifice, the glass snake sunders its tail into a number of wriggling pieces, and while the astonished observer stands viewing the wreck, the head and body hastens to a place of safety. In order that all these pieces might unite again to form a sound lizard, they would have to be fitted together in the proper order and with the ends turned in the right direction; the half dozen or more conical muscular masses which project from the ends of the pieces would have to be interdigi- tated accurately; the neryes and blood vessels would need to come into juxtaposition; and then all the torn surfaces unite by ‘immediate union’ so quickly and effectively that the animal can betake itself fo its business. Some ob- servers say they have seen the thing done, but before Scientific men will believe the assertion, it will have to be well corroborated.” The glass snake is said to live in dry, rather than damp, situations, and spends a great deal of its time below the surface of the ground and about the roots of trees. It is sometimes plowed up by the farmer, but is most often seen as it crawls about in grassy places in search of food. It appears very early in the spring-and remains until late in autumn. Its diet is apparently quite varied, as Prof. Cope mentions taking from the stomach of a specimen from Florida “three ground spiders, a grasshopper, a cricket, a cockroach, a beetle and a lepidopterous larva, and a small snail. Its intestine was packed with the remains of beetles.” Nothing definite is known about its breeding habit, but like most other lizards it probably lays its eggs in the ground. Even more unlike the typical lizards than the glass snake is the so-called blind worm, or Rhineura, of Florida. This creature is adapted for a subterranean Jife, and passes practically its whole existence under ground. In appearance it resembles a large earthworm, being white in color and with the thin scales arranged in rings en- circling the body. Like the earthworm, also, it is able to progress with facility backward as well as forward. Its eyes are concealed beneath the skin, the mouth is smaii, and there is no external trace of ears. The limbs have entirely disappeared, and even the shoulder bones are very rudimentary. When thrown out of its burrow, the blind worm is said to progress by undulating its body vertically instead of horizontally. Its food probably con- sists of small insects and worms, but of this we know lit- tle, and about its reproductive habits we have no informa- tion whatever. The blind worm is especially interesting to the zoologist because it is, of all our lizards, the most snake-like in its skeleton, and frem it we can pass easily to that more dreaded but nevertheless interesting group. W. P. Hay. A Motherly Mallard. My friend Nolan, down from Gull Lake, tells the fol- lowing: We were out on the Jake rowing, when from the rushes emerged a mallard surrounded by a brood cf tmy balls of feather, heading the way the mother headed across an arm of the lake, When they were too far away from their hiding place to turn back we closed in upon them, drawing closer and closer; and with every stroke of eur oars the mother bird quacked encouragingly to her Grood to hurry along, the little ones giving out plaintive peeps that no doubt went deep into the heart of the mother bird. Wondering whether on close approach the mother bird would abandon her brood, we rowed until alongside of her, when she could easily have been dispatched with an oar, but with one eye upon us and the other upon her brood, she swam along in the lead, simply unmindful of the danger to herselt. : By this time the little ones began to string out until they formed a thin, feathery peeping line behind the mother. There was one little fellow who could not keep up and who was a yard or more behind the end of the line, and who struggled and peeped bravely but slowly and weakly along. Upon him was the attention of the mother engaged. Her yoice seemed directed toward him and her gaze, as she turned her head, concentrated upon him. Her eyes showed just such love and solicitude as one could see in the face of a young mother watching her child in a trying illness. It was such a sight as one but seldom has the opportunity to witness, "just in time to save the town.” times have meant death to it, for the sake of its little ones. I don’t know just where this may fit in in “The Intelligence of Wild Things,” but it certainly does come in under the head of maternal solicitude and devotion even unto death. CHARLES CRISTADORO. Sr. Pau, Minn, Game Bag and Gan. —_g——_ Proprietors of shooting resorts will find it profitable to advertise them in Forgst anp STREAM, The Fire-Bug. Editor Forest and Stream: There are few beings more despicable than the fire- bug. The fire-bug, the poisoner, the anarchist—the an- archist a gentleman compared with the other two! He strikes openly, and sacrifices life and liberty in the act. The fire-bug is a lower criminal than the poisoner, be- cause the latter usually makes sure of his victim. The fire-bug creeps silently forth and strikes secretly at a whole community. Not only does he destroy the woods and wild animal life therein, but homes, towns and human life as well. Who is there that breathes, with one atom of honor, manliness or humanity in his heart, can applaud the hellish work of the fire-bug? “The opportunity has come for the woodsmen who liave only one way in which to reach the preserve owners, and they are taking advantage of it.’ If these words amount to anything, they mean that beings in human shape have committed arson, and perhaps murder. If Mr, Spears personally knows of a single instance where the woods have been fired, has he done his duty as a law-abiding American citizen and reported the same to the criminal authorities? If not, I, as a law-abiding American citizen, wish to call the attention of those authorities to Mr. Spears’ article, “Adirondack Ruin,” in TOREST AND STREAM issue of June 13. It is their duty to inquire into what Mr. Spears intimates in that article. “At Raquette Lake fires were only got under control How many human lives might have been lost but for this fact!’ The opinion of every man worthy of the name can be only honest and indignant condemnation of “men” who “will go through the woods, fire in hand, and spread it broadcast where it will do the most damage.” Thank God, the great and important State of New York has no law on its statute books which permits an act so despicably villainous and cowardly! Beasts of this stripe should be condemned to instantaneous oblivion. The lives of innocent men, women and children must not be put in jeopardy because some degenerate wishes to pay an unlawful grudge. Preserve owners legitimately acquire land and strive to perpetuate the forests and the game. And every sane man knows that this can only be done lawfully. The “woodsman” who criminally burns the forests and game simply perpetuates crime. Outside his own worthless mind he is worse than good for nothing! “Of course my personal feelings in this matter are very strong, as ate the feelings of all the other backwoodsmen, in fact.” Mr. Spears does not state positively in what way his “feelings” “are yery strong.” According to the daily papers human lives were sacrificed in some of the forest fires. Not the lives of millionaire preserve owners, mind you. Not a preserve owner has perished that I have read of. If one single life has been lost in the Adiron- dacks in flames started by depraved fire-fiends, tet us hope that the criminal. authorities of New York State will leave no stone unturned until the guilty perpetrators of the deed are at rest—in the electric chair. There should be no room in this broad land for the assassin, be he mil- lionaire or pauper, who silently skulks forth with fire and murder in his heart to scatter broadcast conflagration, desolation and death. * The right to buy and sell land has been lawfully recog- nized by ciyilized communities for centuries. It will con- tinue to be so recognized, despite the criminal actions of an insignificant minority of squatters, tramps and fire- bugs. These are simply allowed to roam over other people’s property by the unwritten law of courtesy, and have not the morality, modesty nor decency to appre- ciate the favor. Tt is a blessed satisfaction to know that in our good land the inhuman monstetfs who go silently forth “fire in hand and spread it broadcast where it will do the most damage,” are but a small per cent, even of our criminal ciement. I do not believe that the population of our _ Prisons and jails would tolerate, without protest, such a fiend in their midst! But, candidly, the majority of people will not give thess fire-setting yarns credence, The fires have been too gen- eral and far-reaching to have been started with criminal intent. Not only have they burned in the Adirondacks, but in every State in New England, as well as in Canada, and in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and on Long Island. In many cases they undoubtedly originated from loco- motives. In other cases carelessness was the cause. But the principal cause of their fierceness was the extreme drought. There are few people with one iota of reason will believe they were the work of the criminal fire-bug, Wi11am H. Avis. Higuwoodp, Conn., June 17, CHICAGO AND THE WEST. Full Particulars of Mr, Egan’s Death, Cuicaco, Ill., June 13—Last week mention was made of the finding of the body of Mr. B. F. Egan, the Great Northern RR. official, who was lost below Kalis- pell, Mont,, last winter. Since the time of the above writing I have received a letter from Mr, H. W. Os- born, of St. Paul, a friend and associate of Mr. Egan, and what Mr. Osborn says, together with the useful warning to all other hunters who may perhaps find themselves in circumstances similar to those which proved fatal to Mr. Egan, seems to warrant further mention of this noted Western incident, so deplotable in all its features. Mr. Osborn sends a newspaper clipping, taken from a local paper, which, with his letter, follows: “I write particularly to-day to enclose you an article from one of the Kalispell papers, concerning the find- ing of the remains of my old friend, Ben Egan, who was lost last November. It was a very distressing and pathetic affair, and I have watched for this all winter long. I did not know but that you would like the item, which I enclose, as it has its moral, never to get ex- | cited when you are lost, but to sit down and build a fire and by all means hang on to your rifle, ‘a cannot understand how a man of Mr. Egan’s ex- perience and nerye could lose his compass and his rifle and meet with such a dreary and unfortunate end, with everything on his person to take care of himself.’ The article, from the Kalispell Inter-Lake, says: “The body was found about a mile from the railroad, and something less than two miles from Belton, The place was about a mile and a half from where Mr. Egan was last seen by Dr. H. E. Houston. The body was face downward, lying at full length under a fir tree, some of the lower branches of which had been pressed down. One arm was extended along the body and the other was partly under it. The head was lying on a small log, and the temple had struck on a small projection made by a broken limb. Everything indi- cated that the unfortunate man had fallen, completely exhausted, and stunned by the fall against the log, had peea rendered unconscious, freezing to death where he ay. “When the special reached Belton the party went to the spot where the body was found, and a coroner’s jury was empaneled from those present. A careful ex- amination of the body was made by Drs. MacDonald and Lamb, and no sign of wound or bruise, other than that on the head caused by the fall upon the log, was to be discovered. It was the more carefully made for the reason that many people had held the belief that he had been accidentally killed by some other hunter, - or possibly by the accidental discharge of his own rifle. “His rifle and compass were both missing. The compass, it is thought, he may have dropped in the snow and was unable to find it, and finding the rifle a burden, thtew it away. The face of his watch had been removed, ‘and placed in his vest pocket, presumably that he might know what time it was by feeling the hands. Im his pockets were found two or three dozen matches, and he was carrying a full box of shells for his rifle and a number of loose ones. “Mr. Doody and others familiar with the ground, think it is beyond question that death came to Mr. Egan the first night he was missing. The morning after his’disappearance Mr. Doody had gone through the woods, making a circle around the place where the body was found Monday, and at that time not a foot- print or trace was discovered, showing that he had not been moving toward morning, It is supposed that he became bewildered, and lost control of himself, as men often do When lost in the woods, and instead of stopping at one place until morning kept going until completely exhatisted. Then when he fell he was ren- dered unconscious and never recovered. It is possible, however, that he was trying to reach the railroad, the general direction of which he could have known from the fact that an engine was kept running up and down the track all the night of his disappearance, sounding the whistle to guide him, if he was within hearing dis- tance, and uninjured. “The body was brought to Kalispell Monday night. The verdict of the coroner’s jury was as above. “On the afternoon of November 4 last, Mr. Egan and Drs. H. E. and R. Houston left Kalispell in Mr. Egan’s car to hunt deer between Coram and Belton. stopped near Lake Five, intending to hunt until even- ing, and then reach the car at Belton. They pianned to meet at a bridge on the track, deciding on a sign that would tell any of the party whether any of them had gone on to Belton, and how many. After going into the woods a short distance Dr. H. E. Houston and Mr. Egan separated, and the latter was seen no more. The Houstons hunted until dark and then left the signs agreed on on the bridge and went on to Bel- ton. A blinding snowstorm started in, making the darkness more intense. When Egan did not come to Belton there was some uneasiness, but no great anxiety, as it was thought the worst that could happen would be that he would have to stay out all night. As he They BO4 was an experienced man in the woods it was not thought for a moment that he would undertake to travel if he was uncertain of his directions. An engine was sent out along the track, and kept up a whistling all night at intervals, The next morning a party was out early looking for him, and when no trace was found word was sent to Kalispell, and in a day or two a large number of men were in the woods, and the search was kept up until the great depth of snow made it neces- sary to abandon all search until spring. “Following his disappearance, many theories were advanced to account for it. The one most generally accepted was that he had either accidentally shot him- self, or that he had met with an accident by falling over a cliff, or into the water. Many believed, how- ever, that he had been shot by some careless hunter mistaking him for a deer, and that no report had been made. ‘The discovery of the body, with no sign of accident upon it, ends all such ideas, and is a great re- lief to all his friends, and especially to the Drs. Hous- ton, who have felt that some unjust suspicion was ‘directed toward them.” One Beat. Under date of June 14, J. W. Schultz writes from St, Mary’s Lake, Montana, that the Pulitzer party have got- ten one bear and expect to get two or three more. They had not visited their baits for some time, on account of a strong north wind. I get no word from Jack Monroe, who is out with Mr. Pinchot. Raising Quail. Mr. John J. Swoboda, well known in Chicago as a practicer of the art of strong-arm, writes: “I would like information on quail raising. Do you know of any book. which contains this information? Anything you can tell me will be much appreciated.” I don’t know of anything which is devoted exclusively to this one topic, but perhaps something in the Forest AND STREAM lists may be of service. Can any reader answer Mr. Swoboda specifically? Wild Turkeys Come High, There was a time soon after the opening of Oklahoma and adjoining districts of the Indian Nations when wild turkeys were a drug in the Chicago market. That such is no longer the case, and that, indeed, the wild turkey is practically out of the question on a market basis in these days, may be witnessed by the experience of a Chicago lady, who last winter wanted to surprise her husband on his birthday, and who thought it would be a good thing to serve a wild turkey on the table. Diligent inquiry in the market disclosed the fact that she could get one wild turkey at the tidy price of $27. As this turkey was not purchased, it may still be subject to pro- posals from those anxious to surprise a husband. I think the latter gentleman would most likely be sur- prised if he had to pay the bill. E. Houc#, Hartrorp Buitpine, Chicago, Ill. The Gun and the Geese. “Cap” wanted to kill a goose—a real Canada honker— as he lived in a locality where this noble bird was the largest game in the sportsman’s list. He had dallied with all the smaller game and was acknowledged to be ‘the best shot in town at the traps, either live birds or targets. He talked the matter over during the winter with his friends at sporting headquarters in one of the village stores, and finally, when March rolled around, he was quite ready to accept an invitation to accompany a friend, who is an “expert amateur” wildfowler, on a trip to Pelican Point. Years ago this had been a noted place for geese, and it was thought “Cap” might realize his dreams of slaying a goose. , On their arrival at the beach they were met by friends from the life-saving stations, themselves old gunners, and one of them, noting the gun carried by “Cap,” made sport of the 8-pound weapon as an instrument for acquiring possession of honkers, “Well, well, ‘Cap!’ You don’t mean to say you expect to kill a goose with that pop- gun?” said one old bayman, whose early education on geese began with a gun weighing fully twenty-five pounds. “Why didn’t ye bring an air rifle or a beanshooter’ he continued. “Cap,” thinking of the many pigeons that had succumbed to the “popgun” when well on their way to the boundary line, laughed and said he only wanted a chance to show them what it could do. In due time “Cap” found himself in a comfortable blind of heaped-up seaweed and reeds, with a nice flock of decoys placed at his suggestion rather closer than the judgment of his companion would dictate. Geese in fair numbers were in the bay, but none would come near the ‘point, and finally his companion left the blind, saying he would take a cruise around the marsh and try to get a duck from some pond hole. Left to himself, with the warm sun shining down in his face and no signs of the coveted game coming his way, he first grew drowsy and then——. . His companion, who was now vigorously tramping the meadow and keeping a watchful eye on the open bay and the point he had left, finally saw seven geese Swing in and set their wings for the decoys. He flattened him- self down, saw the geese light, and waited to hear the crack of the two heavy loads of nitro, meanwhile calling himself pet names for having left the blind. Minute after minute passed, and still nothing happened, and the geese finally were seen to rise and wing their way slowly up the bay. Hastening back to the blind, he asked, in rather vigorous language, what was wrong. With a somewhat hysterical laugh, “Cap” explained matters. “T was asleep, and I dreamed I heard geese a-honkin’. I woke up and poked my head over the top of the blind, and, by darn! there they were, right in among the stools. Well, ha! ha! first I looked at the geese and then at the gun, then at the geese and again at the gun, and each time I looked at ihe gun it seemed to get smaller and smaller and the geese, ha! ha! seemed to be getting larger and larger; so I thought it was no use to shoot. Ha! ha!” On their return they were met by the old bayman. “No luck, eh? Didn’t I tell ye that gun was too small for such work?” said he. To this day if you wish to see a FOREST AND STREAM. broad and rather sheepish grin illumine “Cap’s” face, you have only to ask him what size gun he prefers for bagging geese, : OCEAN, Mlassachusetts Game. Boston, June 20.—Editor Forest and Stream: Ignor- ance of the law is never recognized in court as a valid excuse for its infraction. The kind-hearted Judge Pet- tengill, of Malden, recently deceased, felt obliged to impose on Collins, who ignorantly shot a doe, the fine expressly provided by the statite, $100. The judge sympathized with the culprit to such an extent as to start a contribution for payment of the fine, and thus got him out of jail. Collins claimed that he was not aware that the killing was illegal, and yet he was not an illiterate man. The State Association had for many years sought to make such an occurrence impossible, by sending out copies of game and fish laws printed on cloth for posting in conspicuous places, postoffices, railroad stations, stores, factories, etc. These are sent out free of expense to all who apply to the secretary for them, and he has just received the posters for 1903, which he will be glad to send to all persons willing to take the trouble to see them put up. He has also had the bird laws printed in the Italian language. These will be particularly useful in the neighborhoods where Italian laborers are employed in work on railroads, highways, in factories, ete. Many of these men know no language but their native tongue, and they are very destructive to bird life. In addition to the work done in informing the public by the asso- ciation, the commissioners have done a similar work for several years past. The newspapers have frequent- ly given timely notice of the dates when close time be- gins or ends. But in spite of all that has been done by associations, commissioners, game wardens and the press there are persons now and then found violating - game Jaws through ignorance. Every sportsman, all lovers of birds and believers in protective laws, can do something for the cause by extending a knowledge of the laws. The pocket manual, or “abstracts” of the Jaws, is in course of preparation and will be ready for free distribution in a few days. CENTRAL, Vermont Notes. BuRLINGTON, Vt., June 20—Editor Forest and Stream: Once more the residents of the Champlain Valley can fill their lungs with pure air, thanks to the late rains that have put out the fires all around and dispelled the pall of smoke that hung over them like a fog for the past month. Fires were on every hand, and the dam- age done to standing timber and to the sugar bushes that the Vermont farmer depends so much upon for his income, was enormous, Shooting promises to be of the best this fall. Par- tridges are numerous, and so far the season has been very favorable to their breeding. Deer are seen in this section frequently, and seem to be increasing in numbers. Recently a large buck came into the city, and after traversing several of the principal streets, nar- rowly escaped a collision with a trolley car, to the great wonderment of the passengers. Two small fawns with a doe were seen last week within two miles of the city limits. What Burlington people consider to be one of the city’s chief attractions are the large number of gray squirrels that abound there. The city is abun- dantly supplied with trees, and in the residential sec- tion there are few trees that do not contain one or more grays for tenants. So tame are they that they will take food from the hand of the passerby. In 1902 the State Legislature enacted a bounty of 30 cents on each hedgehog killed, as they were considered a serious menace to growing timber. Evidently a crusade against the “porky” has begun, for over 6,000 bounties have been paid since the law was enacted. In some sections of the State they are found in abundance, and now the farmer’s boy and the up-country trapper find the heretofore worthless animal a ready source of pin money. The State Auditor also reported that there have been killed within the State during the past year 49 bears, 74 lynx and 5,015 foxes. The last few years has witnessed a change for the good in Vermont game conditions. VERMONTER. Meadow Larks and Robins. Burrato, N. Y., June 20—Editor Forest and Stream: In Forest AND STREAM of June 6, Coahoma defends the Reverend Craig for shooting meadow larks on the ground that they are considered legitimate sport in the South, and in the June 20 number Hie-on says, in speaking of shooting, “that the time would be more profitably spent in shooting robins and waxwings about the hills,” etc. Is this the sentiment of Forrst AND STREAM readers and sportsmen? I am glad I have received a different educa- tion from its valuable columns, and am sorry that in this late date that any degree whatever of sportsmanship should attach to the shooting of these birds. It seems like a crime against nature to kill a robin, at least—although it may be from the different point of view. We in the North have a deep-seated affection for them, and I had rather never use a gun again than to kill such harm- less birds—especially for the sake of practice and just to be killing something—for dead they are useless, Dix Mont. Wild Pigeons Reported. Green Bay, Wis., June 20.—Editor Forest and Stream: The other morning when coming in from a drive in the country I saw a male wild pigeon, I made absolutely sure that there was no mistake, as I got within thirty-five or forty feet of the bird and noted him carefully, and when I got home I took a good look at a mounted wild pigeon again to assure myself, and I can take an oath that the bird was a genuine wild pigeon. T also was told by a friend, who is an old sportsman, that he saw three wild pigeons near this same place a few weeks ago, and a single bird directly across the bay at Oak Point. I reported seeing a flock of pigeons a few years ago and at that time several other parties reported them. I trust they will increase so we can see a few flocks again. A. G, HoLMEs. ‘about the sea except the tale of some fisherman whose [June 27, i903. Sea and River ishing. —_—j—— | Proprietors of fishing resorts will find it profitable to advertise them in Forrest AND STREAM. } Canoe “and -Chpip lie oaate eae ae Delaware River. | iat A aaa | XUI.—On the Hills at the Water Gap.—Stones, Rocks | and Mlosses, “No human capacity ever saw the whole of a thing; but we may see more and more of it the longer we look.’—Ruskin. “Then, tired to watch the current play, He turned his weary eyes away To where the bank opposing showed Its huge square cliffs through shaggy wood. One, prominent above the rest, Reared to the sun its pale gray breast. Around its broken summit grew The hazel rude and sable yew; A thousand varied lichens dyed Its waste and weather-beaten side; And round its rugged basis lay, By time and thunder rent away, Fragments that from its frontlet torn, . Were mantled now by yerdant thorn.” —Scott. THE best pleasures of the sportsman are not found in the actual catching and killing of fish, and shooting and killing game. The last few drops of wild, aboriginal 4 Hlood can never be taken from him by civilized life; hut he will Jearn to joy, more and more, in camping and canoeing, as well as fishing and shooting. Few sports- men are now willing to be known as mere catchers of | fish or killers of wild animals and birds. Their outdoor | life is the real attraction. The time is near when the sporting publication will be quite as much an authority on landscape and water views, foliage, clouds, mosses, birds and flowers, as it is on angling or hunting, Even now our foremost sportsmen, to whom we look as best exponents of sport, are the nature-lovers, the “rhapso- dists” who see and humbly confess that there is more in | eyen a blade of grass than they can ever know, and who pity the “realism” that can only see a tree with the eye | ef the lumberman, and a rock merely from the standpoint | of the stone-mason or qularry-owner. Doctor Johnson declared that nothing could be written | “haul” had been disregarded, and that of his neighbor had been sold. Carlyle detested word-pictures. “Every puny whipster insists on drawing forth his pencil and painting © you a scene.” Yet Hamerton’s “Landscape” and Ruskin’s — “Modern Painters” are more worthy of being prized than Walten’s “Compleat Angler;” and the nature ballads and poems of Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley and Tennyson are - as precious as catalogues of animals. Practical “realism,” and nature beauty quite as real, cannot be separated. The acre of each will be ridiculous if they scoff at the other. This statement is forced on the “fools” that are so often laughed at as Christopher North was, by men who cannot really see or hear—who are mere shooters or ; fishermen, and not blessed with sight. I had rather see | a sportsman watching the split back of the grub and the emergence and immediate flight of the dragon fly, than to witness the joy of some mere fisherman whose de-~ light comes solely from his new-found possession of a five-pound bass. These words do not apply to the critics who berate” those false and blind pretenders to sight who call nature beautiful when they really cannot see. This whole sub-— ject will clarify, for nature and sport have always been and will remain inseparable; and the world will continue to welcome any writer who tries, in a proper spirit, to tell of what nature has revealed to him. These thoughts come as I hesitate to write further about the Delaware and its fair landscapes here at the Gap. To the summer angler few scenes could be more at- tractive. Take the view from the porch of the Gap House | or the Glenwood, stretching far over the island formed by the main stream and the Benekill, to the hills leagues + away. It is superb. ; ia Another very fine view can be had from the’ Far-View House on the Jersey side. Its interest in-— creases as we go down the path to the river, and over the spot where stamping on the grass” brings hollow answers which show the existence there | of a cave of unknown size, that an hours work } with a spade would open. And it is finer yet from the boat as we anchor a thousand feet above the ferry land- | ing, and admire the colors of the lichens on that high, steep incline of rocks crowned with forest. : All this is accessible without effort, and can be enjoyed by the invalid and dawdler as well as the camper and climber. But when, tired with the fishing, the angler and canoe- ist chooses to become a climber, and especially if he walks | over the roughest places to look, he will find dozens of spots where not a half dozen people go during a summer. The hills at the Gap are not real mountaims. Mount Minsi, on the Pennsylvania side, is only 1,400 feet high; yet the view down the valley, while different, is quite as attractive as the Grindelwald, Mt. Blane, or our own Marshall Pass. Besides, it is near, and can be reached without the week-long, exhausting effort which, in the case of the amateur climber of the Matterhorn, will prob- ably put him in bed a couple of days, and make his’ muscles roar their sore protest for a week. Even the exertion of traversing the hill paths at the | Gap is avoided by nearly all the summer “birds of | passage.” Yet the view of Eureka Creek, the shelf of rcck known as Lover’s Leap, the forest along Moss _ Ledge, and the features known as Caldeno Fall, Lake Lenape, Hunters’ Spring, Moss Cascade, Diana’s Bath | and Council Rock, will richly repay careful study. And when, after a forenoon’s effort, the climber reaches the | summit, and sees the silent Delaware so far below that | it seems a thing apart, he will be glad he has taken that hard walk, ; June 27, 1903.] _ When we cross the river and climb Mount Tammany, on the Jersey side, the visitors are fewer yet. During a whole season scarcely a dozen people clamber over the rock-falls that lie below the face of its precipice; and not a hundred care to reach its crest. Only some of the attractive features of that hill which May interest casual readers will be mentioned here. Recreation, not study, is what they seek. Ome glance at Such terms as “old red sandstone formation” or “rock- period,” and the reader here would skip, or shut the book, A long, hard climb up to and over the rock-falls below the face of Mt. Tammany, with their purple and ashy gray, the edges of the dislodged, broken fragments choked mi weeds or painted with countless lichens. Here, the “stones are newly fractured; their hue is ditferent from the pale brown and white of the boulders that fringe the shores of the river, and are full of water-made curves. These cliff stones are sections of parallel strata, split, then broken, and seem like thick blocks of irregularly sawed planks. These strata can be seen all oyer the face Gf the cliff, and running parallel to the slope of the hill’s river side, every fissure steeply inclined; and over all this slow disintegration fall sharp-edged shadows from sec- tions not dislodged, but will be made more insecure by the wedge of frost and icé—solemn, impending, iron- Spirited, distinct, yet with strange, untraceable harmonies Gi color, and all looking down on the thousands of tons of sister parts already lying prone, two hundred feet and more below. Not one horizontal line of rock or shadow or color, but knife-like cleavage! My comrade calls ita “melancholy of ruin.” When the night-cap mists are being shaken from its head, that pealx is full of aerial perspective. and can seein more unsubstantial than the cloud-domes a mile above it. How many centuries ago did the river force its way ‘through the now vanished wall that must have been a thousand feet high, and left these headlands, like crouch- ing lions, overlooking the valley below? How many sun- vises has this cliff witnessed; how long has its lengthened shadow been cast eastward at each clear sunset? If we so admire, write about and paint the unsubstantial fist, mocking clouds and odors, and gloom and moving foliage of a forest, why not pick up one of the stones and see whether the old bard was right in saying there ure “sermons” in it? It is just a “darnick,” a mere rock. We observe its curved, rounded outlines and surfaces, and realize that it is a tiny hill. The mosses that have gathered in a “patch” on its upper surface are really a finy forest. The silvery excrescences are lichens. It has been rounded through centuries by the action of water- flow, of by ice tinder which it has been tortured, clasped and beaten, Vhink of the influences that have placed it here—what flowers must have blossomed beside it, and the ferns, noble trees, shadows, animal and bird life around it, all “in league with the stones of the field!” Steadfastness of strength, wild, rigid, silent, powerful! Now fracture it with the hammer, In its inmost beimy slept exquisite lines of curvature. Just an adamantine, Obscure pariah of the earth; yet see how, through all its 'stubbornness of strength, the colors and lines unduls:e¢ im ripples and waves-—not simply on its substance as in Ieke waves, but through its fibers! This is at once tre fact and the poetry of the racks, and their pathos! “They which at first seemed strengthened beyond the dread of any violence or change, are yet also ordained to bear upon them the symbol of a perpettal fear: the tremer which fades from the soft lake and glistening river, is sealed to all eternity upon the rock; and while things that pass visibly from birth to death may sometimes forget their feebleness, the mountains are made to possess a perpetual memorial of their infancy.” Storm-beaten, lichen-adorned, with creeping stains in exudations of mineral ingredients, it lies unnoticed, interesting, a moun- tain in miniature. Another laborious ascent ot the hill to its crest at the precipice, where we eat our sandwich luncheon and “set- dle down” on convenient spots to smoke and waich the ileaeue on league of panorama to the east—fields and woods in patches, dots of white houses, dim mystery of distance, and the river lost far this side of the sky-line. Back of us, the abruptly terminated ridge guides the river im an adamantine channel. No transient, downfalling wave as of water, but the fixed, upreared rock-wave and elevation of land ordained to give motion to water, For “the sweet winding yalley with peeping cliffs on either side, the light, irregular wandering of broken streamlets, the knolis and slopes covered with rounded woods, and fhe narrow ravines, carpeted with green sward,” all “owe whatever they have of simple beauty” to the sturdy, up- Gieaved rocks, Unique redundance of happy vegetable life over all the slopes whose trees and brush gtiard and retain the moisture which feeds their mosses. And such mosses! Wiildernesses of them on the rocks! They do not change the roclk-form, but gather in little forests “like small cushions of velvet made of mixed threads of dark ruby sik and gold rounded over more subdued films of white and gray, with lightly crisped and curled edges like hoar frost on fallen leaves; and minute clusters of upright orange stalks with pointed caps, and fibers of dark green and gold; and faint purple passing into black, all woven together and following with unimaginable fineness of gentle growth, the undulation of the stone they cherish, until it is chareed with color so that it can receive no more; and instead of looking rugged or cold or stern, or anything that a rock is held to be at heart, it seems to be clothed with a soit, dark leopard skin embroidered with arabesque of purple and silver’? And there the ehipmunk adds his own soft markings of yellow and brown and black as he fills the wild air with his scolding, jerky “chickarecece!” scofing at you while his very body joins in lithe, quick protest at your presence in his do- main. And there the mountain liltes nod, and violets cling fa fern-haunted banks below umbers m decaying logs. Over all the repose and spell of sweet daylight, and the Security and seclusion of wild birds -building in the ‘boughs. All probably to pass unnoticed, yet certainly not “wasting its Sweetness.” There is no little nook in all Europe whose glamour of wild beauty can be a greater Alps. colors, ordained decoration, foreseen harmonies, mani- festly for our discovery and delight as unintruding - day’s take. joy to the thousands who secamper through the lower. Loveliest beneficences and refinements in tenderest. FOREST AND STREAM. guests! Seemingly all wild chance, full of such marvelous details as would torment and humiliate any painter—filled with creative thought, governed by tenderest yet most in- exorable law! ® And as one gives it long, concerttrated attention, there come crowding upon him strange recognitions of newly seen excellence—quickening pleasures of present-born in- sight. Its hypnotism makes my comrade throw away his cigar—the air is too pure to be polluted by tobacco smoke. He looks far down at the new aspects of the river’ from this vantage point, and growls: “There's where I lost my big fish. Wonder where he is now. Curious! Hooking a big fish makes an angler feel a sense of ownership, even though the fish gets away. Then he looks up and down the valley and gives me a lecture on banks and mysteries of near and distant masses of thick foliage—on leaf montitnents, leaves motionless, leaves a-flutter in gales. I grow tired of these terms of FINISH OF ROCKS BY NATURE, “orave tenderness” of color in distant blue and purple of fields and rock upheavals, the “peace” that broods over Focono Mountain, twenty miles distant, and the changing hues along its slopes and plateau. “Flow frosty it must be up here on a blue winter ni—” Istop him. “Enough, and more than enough.” He per- sists! “And what a revelation when these hills flame in scar- et and gold of autumn colors, and shower down a yellow storm of scurrying leaves into the river!” I start down the steep path, stirferted. A man can only hold “so much.” But I cannot too strongly recommend the reader to visit those hills—to climb and study them— their clothed heights, their falls of waste rock, their un- redeemed decay, the clear distances, the clouds that coil and die along them, and the low voice of the river below, over which come the faint, sleepy tinklings of the cow- hells, and the hoots of locomotives winding along cliffs and sending up their lazy columns of thin, blue smoke. L. F. Brown. Angling in Newfoundland. THE regular angling season in St. John’s opened on Empire Day, May 24. On that day hundreds of trouters availed themselves of the excursion rates offered by the reilway company. Although the season was backward, and the day not best suited for fishing, yet various parties reported for ten dozen and upward as the result of their These trout of course are our native brown or mud trout, and are faken in the lakes and ponds near the railway line. The sea trout and salmon do not run till later. The number of American sportsmen who visit us has increased largely of late, and the outlook is.that the num- bers this season will be greater than ever. This would be a drawback if the number of fish and salmon rivers were small, but from the peculiar formation of the island the lakes, ponds and rivers form a large part of its-surface, and thousands upon thousands of anglers can get good fishing streams without interfering with each other. In fact, there are thousands of lakes and rivers in the island that have never yet wet a hook, and have yielded fish to no man since the last of the Beothic aborigines camped beside them and levied their toll. With the increasing numbers of British and American sportsmen the traveling facilities are being brought up to date, Good guides, com- fortable boarding houses, and luxurious railway accom- modation are further inducements to, visitors. All these may now be had at very reasonable rates. The principal salmon and sea trout rivers are being looked after by wardens more carefully now than eyer, as the Fisheries Department is beginning to realize that it is profitable to encourage the ever-increasing numbers of visitors. An- ciher great advantage offered to British and American sportsmen is tat the salmon and sea trout fishing is abso- lutely free from all restrictions. There are no preserves and no fee or license is necessary for the visitor to fish in any lake or stream in the island. The climate in July, August and September is ideal—mild, bracing and health- giving. The Fisheries Department have reorganized the fishery wardens, and the rivers are now in better condi- tion than ever. In the official reports sent in to the de- partment by the wardens the number and weight of fish -catight are recorded. The warden’s report for last year for one stream, the Grand River, Codroy, contains, among thirty others, the following record of salmon caught: Number. Weight. Average. Total. Pounds. - Pounds. Pounds. H. FE. Sir Cavendish Boyle, Governor of Newfoundland 20 8 to 12 10 142 ID eG Rieke ee eee eonrces tory 31 16 7 to 30 12 192 Pee Danway, pyaapet eres ape alt 8 to 14 1 187 IVE Tittle’ a ees 14 7 to 18 i 154 AT. Winter..... 2-235 aoe 18 8 to 12 10 180 Wik Taha WAe Ba sae ogeapenes 25 § to 12 10 250 Total numbet of salmon taken, 420; weight, 2,889 pounds; average weight, 7 pounds. About thirty salmon taken by others, names unknown, also a large number of erilse and sea trout, numbers and weight not recorded. Hon. Gathorne Hardy. ftom June 18 to July 7, 1900, caught 58 salmon, including 34 grilse, ranging from 8 to 22 pounds. These aré only random cullings frem the official reports. of Grand River; other rivers show like good fishing. There are latger salmon caught than the average in the foregoing tables, Major Yardly, an officer BOS in the British army, who spent some time here last year, writing in the London Field of April 4, tells in a graphic description of the fishing and shooting enjoyed by him during his sojourn in Newfoundland. As usual he lost “the big fellow,” but nevertheless had royal sport. He Says : “My record last summer on Harty’s Brook, which I made my headquarters, was, from the end of June to second week in August, sixty salmon, total weight about 300 pounds; the majority of these were grilse, my largest fish being 14 pounds. Nearly all the fish that I caught over ten pounds were marked by the nets. Undoubtedly there are bigger fish, but they are the exception. One day I played a fish for forty minutes that I saw a good deal of and estimated at thirty pounds, but the hook giving I lost it, A neighboring rod landed a salmon that was three ounces only under thirty pounds; other rods also killed fish over twenty pounds. My friend fishing with me made a bag very similar to.my own. In addition we caught many white trout up to four pounds and brown trout up to three potinds, although Harry’s Brook is not a good trout river; also we did not specially fish for. trout, and these were by chance caught on otr salmon flies. Some of my best days would consist of six salmon and qany trout. This is a fair example of the sport that is to - be had, and I was certainly unlucky not to, get bigger fish, Knowing this river I should be sure of a larger bag on it another year.” The flies appear to have tormented the Major, as the remedies he brought were not of much avail. Local anglers use a simple mixture of oil tinctured with car- bolic acid; sixteen parts sweet or olive oil and one part carbolic acid. This makes a good remedy for flies. The acid is a little disagreeable in odor, but it consoles the victim to know that distasteful as it is to him, it is more so to the flies. The oil soothes the skin and keeps it ftom burning and cracking in the sun, Enough mixture’to last the trip may be procured from any druggist for a few cents. C CHICAGO AND THE WEST. Chicago Fly-Casting Club. Cuicaco, June 16, 1903.—The following are records made at the last meet of the Chicago Fly-Casting Club: May 23. May 23. June 6. Acc’y Bait Delicacy, & Del’cy, Casting, Bait; Per Cent. Per Cent. Per Cent. 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HCE SASS tC sees He, alta cule ao ee Haslet gees Bae 96 3-10 94 2-6 NE REGO Nee Wd Sheehan e dace be adgnecs on 97 2-10 a RGISGR PLP omnis coi mtcte eee etree met pies 89 5-10 i INGRHSE Pa Rohcaubontidine echciraatuLeae ane, An 93 6-10 87 5-6 NBYSojehal! MRE AR Sete aeetboty oericbetece batt, tn ir 92 5-6 Bass, The bass fishers are still going out, patiently and faith- fully, but they are not doing very much business. ‘The truth seems to be that this is a poor season for bass so far. The best reports have come in from Lauderdale Lake, Wis., where, I hear, that last week three anglers in parts of three days took 153 fish. ‘This story, however, is so lacking in confirmation that I do not offer it as authentic. Mr. Byron E. Veatch, of Chicago, starts to-day for’ Prescott, Minnesota, from which point he has received advices that the small-mouths are running on the rip raps and that fair sport is likely to be had. I should think that the water was entirely too high for good fishing on the Mississippi River, but perhaps it may have fallen at this time at points so high up as Prescott, which is only about thirty miles below St. Paul. Mr. Veatch says he got his information from a former boatman who knows what he is talking about. He was outfitting for fly- fishing to-day. Reports from Fifield Chain, Wis., on the Wisconsin Central Railroad, run to the effect that very good bass fishing has been the rule for the past ten days. .Muscallunge. The biggest muscallunge of which I have heard in the month of June was taken on the Mason Chain, out of Fifield, and weighed 25 pounds. A number of smaller ‘lunge have been taken there. Trout. I heard to-day that they are having a big run of luck on the Prairie River again this week, some beautiful trout being taken by the parties at Dudley’s, Miller’s and Bates’. This stream seems to be unusually freakish this year and would seem to be losing its reputation as an early water. Pickerel, One gentleman who went bass fishing on the Kanka- kee River, out of Shelby, on the Monon, did not meet with very good success with the bass, but caught twenty- six pickerel, all of them small, most of,them about 1% pounds apiece. Cooking Pickerel. A friend writes me from Lake Minnetonka: “When [ was in Chicago I forgot the object of my visit to you, and that was to thank you for putting the ignorant public on to the proper method of dressing a pickerel. I read your article a couple of years ago, and have profited by it greatly. We never knew that the despised pickerel was worth skinning before, but since IT learned your methods we have never thrown one of them: away, and-have had the best fish dinners and breakfasts we ever had at Minnetonka. Itis surely the only proper way to handle those fish.” ; As this refers to matter printed some time ago, I might add that our correspondent probably has in mind 506 7 rer the method of preparing a pickerel practiced by Mr. Carrington Phelps, of Lake Minnetonka. This is to take a pickerel, preferably one of 5 or 6 pounds, and to skin the fish, then removing the flesh from the back- bone and ribs in the form of two long steaks, which are nearly boneless. These pickerel tenderloins are then broiled after proper seasoning. If the cooking is done out of doors, the fire employed should be made of sound, dry ironwood, burned down to a hed of glowing coals from which ho smoke issues. Summer Fly-Fishiog for Trout. Last week some comment was made upon the grub or larve of some of the caddis flies, which latter are familiar to all fly-fishermen for trout. Germane to this is the following comment by Mr. H. G. Cutliffe, who writes in the Fishing Gazette of London, and whose hints may perhaps be of service in summer fly- fishing for trout as practiced by American anglers un- der conditions practically simlar to those of the Old World: “T find much spoken about the natural fly and its ‘imitation, but little about the insect before arrived at its maturity. How seldom does one imitate the larva or pupa of the several insects! Many of them must necessarily be often washed into the water and de- voured by the trout; and if looked into, these will be found more like some of the hackle flies I use than are any flies in their perfect state. I never have at- tempted to imitate them, trusting to my stretcher sim- ply as something to rouse the fish and attract him, with some idea of its being eatable. I never use a winged fly on a rapid stream for a bob, excepting the March-brown, and this only in March. A winged fly washed by the water looks more like a little roll of the dung of a rat than a fly—for the force of the cur- rent washes the wings close round the hook. For a stretcher, as I have said, always select a smart, gaudy hackle fly. The brighter the weather the more gaudy the stretcher fly; and in June or July, sometimes I use a fly made with a body of orange-colored worsted, ribbed down with yellow silk, to make it last the longer, and a hackle of a light yellow red, such as one can only get from a smart little bantam cock. This fly I have found very destructive. In low and bright water. with these bright, gaudy flies, I find one need be very quick with the rod in fishing; the sport becomes dashing, one must work the flies quickly in the water, for from their greater conspicuity they are the more quickly seen, and will be the more quickly refused if one let them be still in the water. The instant they pitch they will be darted at, and as quickly must the fish be struck. It is just this dash that I so much like in bright water fishing—one never sees the trout so lively or quick or agile as they are on a hot bright day in July; and though this quickness or vivacity may be by some con- sidered an obstacle to sport, it is, in truth, a very in- centive to it.” It is quite probable that the dark flies, black hackle, etc., are taken in the spring by trout as the larve, and not the winged form of the fly on which they feed, the wet fly looking like the black case or “stick bait,” Good Bass, Cuicaco, Ll., June 16.—A 5!4-pound black bass is re- ported frpm Fox Lake, Wisconsin, this week. ‘The deputy game wardens from Madison who have been tn- dertaking to seine out the worthless fishes, dog fish, gars, etc., from Fox Lake waters, seem to have got about everything there was going except the fish they wanted. The dog fish and gars took to the weeds, but large quan- tities of black bass, pike, etc., were dug out by the war- dens, of course to be returned to the water. The sight was very encouraging to local anglers, who have been having rather bad luck the last few weeks during the cold weather. Mr. Hotchkiss renews his invitation to come up and-help. him destroy these black bass, which make life in that neighborhood dangerous when they go strictly on the feed. E. HoueH. HartForp Burrpine, Chicago, Iii. Massachusetts Fishermen. Your correspondent yesterday received a call from Mr. E. H. Richards, of Woburn, who reports a very pleasant fishing vacation at Bemis. He was away for two weeks and says he got about 100 trout and salmon. He found the “Archer” (?) spinner a favorite lure, and says it is the same device as the so-called New York spinner, which is reported to have been a favorite at Lake Auburn this year. Mr. Richards says he ob- served while at Bemis that there seemed to be fewer anglers remaining there than heretofore, more of them going. further. The extension of the rails to Oquossoc has no doubt some tendency to make that the objective point for many. He went on an exploring tour to the new Barker and other points on the lake, but said he found the sport at Bemis “good enough” for him, Mr. W. H. Maxwell, an Eliot street merchant, gave me to-day a glowing account of his recent trip to Lake Cabbossecontee, Me, There were five in the party, and he says they caught chiefly bass. In one day the catch tan as high as 120 fish. They drove in from Hallowell by team, six miles, and fished at the “Outlet” chiefly. I hear that Col. C. E. Billings, of Hartford, has gone to Billy Soule’s again this year, and has taken along a hunting knife of his own make—the handle made of a buck’s foot of a deer shot by Billy. On the blade is the inscription: “Designed by C.-E. Billings, of Hart- ford, Conn., for Captain Billy Soule, the mighty hunter of Cupsuptic Lake, Me.” Dr. G. W. Field, of the Institute of Technology and the Sharon Biological Farm, Sharon, Mass., tells me the brook running through the farm has yielded some good trout this spring, and while no shooting is al- lowed, the brook is not posted. The doctor is en- . thusiastic in promoting a knowledge of both plant and animal life. The farm contains 300 acres and is about 22 miles from Boston. The town is noted for its won- derfully salubrious climate. ' The Pittsburg Eagle, June 10, under the heading of Gt. Barrington items, says: “Dr. Stockwell, of New Marlboro, took a 3%4-pound trout in Konkapot River _pickerel which had fooled us the day previous. FOREST AND STREAM. on Monday, and it is to be mounted by Henry Rudge, taxidermist.” This is a wonderful fish for Massa- chusetts waters. The writer has no knowledge of one larger having been caught in our State. The largest square-tailed brook trout taken in Massachusetts that have seen was taken in the Frog-foot Reservoir, Wareham, by the late Dr. J. T. Stetson, of Boston, a few years ago, and weighed 234 pounds. Representative Knight, of Townsend, Mass, tells me that within a week he has seen seven deer together at one time in his town. I have not the slightest doubt of what he says, although it seems almost incredible. I am personally acquainted with that section of the State and know there are large tracts of woods, both pine and hard wood, and there are several fine trout brooks which Mr. Knight proposes to have stocked by the State. If they can raise 3%4-pound trout in Berkshire, there is no reason why they should not in other counties. A reliable friend of mine said he saw a 2%4-pound salter or sea trout caught in a Gloucester pond, on exhibition in a Boston fish market Thursday. During the dry period as well as since, there have been many fine strings of trout taken from Maine streams, in the Rangeley country, Dead River region; in fact, we may say all over the State where anglers go. Commissioner Wentworth has recently put three men into court for illegal fishing at Wyndham, Vt., for which they were convicted, and he is now on track of men who are not obeying the lobster law. streams in the Pemigewasset Valley are reported at their best, but probably in Mad River, Compton, sport will be better in a couple of weeks. CENTRAL. Mr. Spaeth’s Pickerel. Jersry City, N. J., June 20.—Editor Forest and Stream: T note with much interest the contribution in last week's issue by Dr. French and Mr. John B. Lunger relative to the 734-pound salmon landed by Mr. Edward Spaeth after fifteen hours of-battle, beginning in the afternoon and eliding in the morning of the day following. I made the acquaintance of Mr. Spaeth last summer at Brown's Inn, Newfoundland, New Jersey, and since our meeting have awaited an opportunity to heap a few coals of fire on his head, for while at the place mentioned he captured a fish in which I thought I had even more than a qualified interest. The article by Mr. Lunger is in- dorsed by Mr, Spaeth and I write for the benefit of the last-named gentleman and primarily to add my testimony to his prowess on other fish besides the kingly salmon, and help him out among the few readers of Forest AND STREAM who may be so ungracious as to take the salmon story cum grano salis. A few miles from the hotel at Newfoundland lies a body of water known as Green Lake, which has long been .a favorite stamping ground of the angler. On a certain day in mid-summer I had been fishing the lake in- dustriously and had not been very well rewarded. There is one particular spot located near the boat landing where more fish have been taken than at any other point, It lies off the lily pads near the south side of the lake, and is marked by a large fence rail, to which the citizen first on the premises is wont to tie his boat. On the day in question the lake was very calm and objects could be seen at the bottom. At mid-afternoon we came to anchor at this spot and had not been there very long before I observed a large pickerel-at the bottom and started in to tempt him from the water. I played tag with all kinds of bait for an hour or more, but could not get a strike, and finally left the spot and started for the hotel. As pickerel of late years have seldom been caught in the lake, I did not feel very well satisfied over the fact that this monster had gone unscathed, but found conso- lation in the thought that we would return later in the week and make a further effort to capture the fish. On reaching the hotel that evening Mr. Spaeth and Judge Coult had arrived for a few days’ fishing. In con- versation with the first-named gentleman that evening, -and in an unguarded moment, I told him about this pickerel and my qualified interest in it, and also told him that I expected soon to reduce it to possession. Mr. Spaeth seemed very mttch interested, and the next morn- ing I found that the two gentlemen had made an early start for Green Lake and had taken with them an impor- tation of shiners from a pond near the hotel, At that time I did not know the.amount of pluck and endurance wrapped up in Mr. Spaeth, as exemplified by his fight with the salmon, and did not for a moment doubt that my pickerel would safely withstand all efforts to capture him. In the evening, however, the gentlemen returned, and on inquiry as to the catch, they produced the identical Now, I ain sure it was the same pickerel, for it was caught at the spot I have mentioned, and the lake contains very few members of the Hsox family; in fact, the number caught each season does not average over a dozen. The superior skill of Mr, Spaeth, and that alone, brought about the capture, and I am sure the aforesaid importation of shiners had nothing to do with it. The fish had already been weighed and according to Mr. Spaeth tipped the scales at four pounds. It certainly was a splendid specimen and looked even larger as it lay in their basket garnished by some four or five infant small-mouth black bass, and as the little darlings of the bass family had hardly cut their fins, it reminded one very much of Gulliver and the Lilliputians. ’ Knowing that such a noble fish was not captured with- out incident, I finally drew out the story, Judge Coult assisting. If my memory serves me correctly it was prac- tically as follows: At exactly 2:15 o’clock in the after- noon the pickerel took one of the imported shiners; pre- cisely fifteen minutes was allowed in gorging the bait, and at 2:30 the fish was hooked and Mr. Spaeth began to play him. Just one and three-quarter hours later, at 4:15 P. M. by Judge Coult’s watch, the fish was brought to the landing net.. During this long interval, when fight- ing for his life, the imp of four pounds ran, dove, slid under the boat and sulked, made fourteen distinct and separate lunges toward the lily pads and nine desperate efforts to connect with the fence rail to which the boat Trout. - Fish Commission station, Wood’s Hole, Mass., July 21 [Tune 27, 1903. While weighing but four pounds the pickerel was more takishly built than usual; in fact, was of the torpedo boat variety. Mr, Spaeth has heen singularly fortunate in hookin and landing within a year two such remarkable fish as the clipper-built salmon and the torpedo-boat pickerel, and should certainly be satisfied with these honors for sume time to come. It will be hoped that he will soon give us the story of the salmon from his own pen, and perchance get his com- rade and whist partner, Judge Coult, to add a brief. If he should disclaim some of the facts that I have given, his action will be due to modesty alone, for I have en- deavored to tell the truth, KENNETH FowLer. Amphibious Trout. Tr is not safe at all times to tell another man’s story— especially if it be a fish story. Some people do not know the meaning and import of quotation marks, and as my article in the Forest Anp STREAM on “Wild Trout I Have Met” has been freely copied in the public prints, I find T have established myself in the minds of my friends and the public generally as a man who intimately associates fish and mendacity. And yet everything in that article beyond the pale of in- verted commas was literally and absolutely truthful. Moral—Don’t tell another man’s fish story, no matter how good it may be. _As to Mr. Roxbury’s suggestion of “jacking” the first big wary and flouting trout that I meet, I can hardly agree with him as to the propriety of such a course. It certainly would be a low down trick on that trout and would, if the fish were so captured, add but questionable laurels to the brow of the captor. Fool a trout, if you can, in open daylight, and when hooked and fairly fought and landed exclaim, “Old fellow, I fooled you that time.” But in the darkness, after having landed a big fellow by means of bullseye lantern and worm, what answer could we make were the trout to exclaim: “You have me, I'll admit, but you couldn’t do that in the day time.” To espy a floating clod of earth and grass coming gently down stream and to throw one’s worm (let us be honest with ourselves—we all of us have descended to the lowly worm and agile hopper at times, let us roll our eyes in holy horror as we may when worm and trout are men- tioned in the same breath) across the same, the wriggling bait showing just below the sod and thus tempt a post- graduate trout and land him, is simply a case of tact and. strategy on the part of the fisherman, My friend Country- man played this trick on a two-pound brook trout, and Countryman is a sportsman in the cleanest acéeptation of the term from the ground up. When Countryman gets fullof rheumatism, wheezy from asthma and can fish no more, he’ll smoke his pipe under his vine and fig tree and tell that story of how he fooled that trout to his grand- children as one of the great feats of and during his long life. But I know if he had taken that hyper-educated trout by means of a bullseye lantern in the dead of night, when shadows and noise are swallowed in the darkness, he would not tell about it. CHARLES CRISTADORO. St. Paut, June 12. Trout Mortality in the Adirondacks. Editor Forest and Stream: Answering the interrogatories of Geo. L. Brown in a jate issue of the Forest AND Stream, “what killed the brown trout in the Bouquet River at the burning of Euba Mills in the Adirondacks June 3, 1903, was it extreme heat, lye, lime, oil, or fright?” Three of the causes sug- gested can be eliminated with the stroke of a pen—“lime, oil and iright.” What would produce “lime and oil” at a fire along a stream of pure, uncontaminated mountain water 1,000 feet above tide? And if fright would kill the trout, there would not one be living to-day in all the Adirondack lakes and rivers. They have heard blood- curdling fishing lies enough to exterminate the entire species. Then the cause must be looked for in the two other queries—“heat and lye.” It is inferred that there. was a pond of some capacity at the mill, and a dam, that ihe fire was so intense that it not only burned the mill and its accumulation of waste and debris, but also burned the dam and drained the pond. These dead fish found down the stream from the mill were at home at the dam, either just above it or just below and under the mill. They were probably partially landlocked in a shallow pool from natural causes, and partially from burning timbers of the mills falling into the stream, choking its flow. Thus the great quantities of ashes, coals and burning wood so suddenly precipitated into the water, accom- panied by intense heat, generated the alkaline salts (lye) in such quantities as first to stupefy and then to kill the fish before they were able to reach fresh water. It was not heat, nor heated water that killed—heat was only an auxiliary in quickly producing the deadly alkaline salt that did kill. This seems to the writer the most reason- able explanation or cause that can be given*for the killing of the brown trout at the burning of the Euba Mills. American Fisheries Society. AppLeTon, Wis., June 4.—The annual meeting of the American Fisheries Societies will be held at the U. S. 22 and 23, 1903. The objects of this society are “to pro- mote the cause of fishculture; to gather and diffuse infor- mation bearing upon its practical success, and upon all matters relating to the fisheries, the uniting and encourag- ing of all the interests of fishculture and the fisheries, an the treatment of all questions regarding fish, of a scien- tific and economic nature.” The opportunities for advancing these objects wer never better than at the present time, and the place o the annual meeting presents unusual facilities for observ ing the practical work of marine fishculture and biological investigations. : Geo. F, PEAszopy, ee Be Sere ee Secretary, a - June 27, 1903.} FOREST->AND STREAM. BO7 The Greenwood Lake Muscalonge. Lockport, N. Y., June 19.—Editor Forest and Stream: The muscalonge reported in this week’s issue of Forest AND STREAM taken from Greenwood Lake must have been a monstrosity, or, in fishing parlance of fifty years ago, “a slinky.” I remember more years ago than the above taking from the St. Lawrence River a “pickerel” (pike) with a large head and long lank body which the oarsman called a “slinky,” and which came to boat more like a stick than a fish, A fish of the species of Esox nobilior measuring fiity- eight inches should weigh at least fifty pounds. In November, 1899, you published a picture from a - photograph (1 sent you) of a muscalonge measuring 49 inches in length and 23% inches around the middle which weighed 42% pounds. This was a fine proportioned speci- men, the head, including the gill covers, was one-fourth the length of the fish. I am not an angler, but am always interested in pisca- torial matters. I have lived in Lockport nearly forty-one years, and never, until last Tuesday, June 16, the first day of the open season on black bass, put a line in Niagara county waters. I caught one fish, a rock bass, and that was taken on the Erie county side of Tonawanda Creek. I did most of the rowing of the boat. I am too lazy to © fish. J. L. Davison. San Francisco Fly-Casting Club. Medal Contest—Saturday, contest No. 7, held at Stow Lake June 13. Wind, S. W.; weather, windy. Event Event Event o. 1, No. 2, No. 4, Distance, Accuracy, ———Event No. 8.—— _ Lure Feet, Percent, Acc.% Del.% Net% Casting % W._E. Brooks.. 110 86 88.4 86.8 87.6 A A. Jones ........ 105 88.4 89.4 83.4 86.4 85.9 I. H. Reed...., ... 85.8 89.8 80 84.10 ee Cc. R. Kenniff... 114 86 86 85.10 85.11 98.1 T. W-Brotherton 128 87.4 88.4 86.8 87.6 93.7 G. C. Edwards. 99, 90,4 90.4 85.10 §8.1 96.1 Sunday, contest No. 7, held at Stow Lake June 14. Wind, S. W.; weather, fair. Co Kan SOU E's, Bele 88.4 89.8 84.2 86.11 96 T. W. Brotherton136 88 90.4 85 87.8 97.4 Dr. W. Brooks.. 114 | 81.4 88.4 75.10 82.1 a H. ©. Golcher.. 133 90 85.4 82.6 $3.11 laity lkeviagee Sees 108 86.4 85.8 80 82.10 A. M. Blade..., 105 YS 81.4 73.4 774 ar C. R. Kenniff.. 116 89.4 86.8 86.8 86.8 98.6 J. B. Kenniff... 133 88.8 92 88.4 90.2 Ra Dr. C, Stephens ... 75.4 81.4 68.4 74,1 Time to go Fishing. Ewoueu is more than a million, and the Floridian who cultivates contentment is richer than Pierpont Morgan, and happier than King Edward. Ape When the phosphate boom was in its infancy, the lamented John Dunn paid one of these home-loying peo- ple $16,000 for a tract he had tried in vain to sell for five hundred. The sum conveyed only a vague impres- sion to the recipient—he wanted the cash in hand. “Don’t do that,” said Mr. Dunn; leave it in the bank and tell me what you want.’ He wanted another farm of sixty acres with a house on it—the whole to cost a few hundred. “What else?” “Can I have a horse and saddle and bridle2” “Certainly.” “And a rifle?” “Yes.” “And some provisions?” “Yes.” His eyes began to bulge. “And a keg o’ whiskey?” “Yes.” There was a pause. “What eise?” “Ohy’ said the rich, “give me $50 for the old woman to buy things for herself and the children.” “All right.’ He turned to walk away. “What else?” “Is there more yet?” “Yes.” “Well, give me a plug ©’ tobacco and set me down where the fish will bite all day and you can have the rest.”— Florida Times-Union. Ouananiche at the Grand Discharge. Mr. W. M. Donaxpson, of Harrisburg, Pa., has the year’s record fish for Lake St. John, a ouananiche weigh- ing five pounds. length 28 inches. It is the largest taken in five years. The rod used weighed 534 ounces; it re- quired forty-five minutes to land the fish, which jumped ont of water eight times. It was caught below the Grand Discharge in Lake St. John. Colorado Bass. GREELEY, Colo., June 18—Some good catches of Jarge- mouthed black bass are being made at Windsor Lake, Windsor, Colo. ‘This lake, which covers 240 acres, has been well stocked with black bass by Vernon McKelvey, of Greeley, Colo., and has already become quite a popular fishing resort of the West. xX. This was Different. The shades of night were falling fast When I hooked a noble fish at last. My pliant rod had something to do, As I played that ‘‘devil” the dark night through. But when morning lit the eastern haze __ tl And this noble salmon was exposed to my gaze, ; I woke up. Consul A..L. M. Gottschalk writes from San Juan del Norte. Nicaragua, in regard to the use of shark fins for industrial purposes in the United States, He says: “Sharks exist in large numbers on this coast. The Nicaraguan fishery laws seem to permit of their being caught as vermin. A ntsmber of persons here believe that they could deal with the United States in shark fins or in shark backbones and skins. The former are used ex- tensively in some countries in the making of walking canes; the latter are made into a leather employed for sword grips and fancy articles. Large quantities of these products could be sent to the United States were there a market for them.” Two bull buffalo calves have been caught out of the Yellowstone National Park wild herd on Pelican Creek and brought to the tame bunch at the Springs. There were three calves in the wild herd: Five calves have-also been dropped in the Springs bunch, with more to come, he Aennel. —~g— Fixtures, Oct. 6-9.—Danbury, Conn., Agricultural Society’s show. ; Noy. 3-6.—New Bop contra’ show of Ladies’ Kennel Associa- tion of America. : 3 Nov. 9—Fourteenth annual beagle trials of the National Beagle Club of America. Charles R. Stevenson, Sec’y. Man-Trailing Dogs. PortLanp, Ind..—Editor Forest and Stream: We have had bloodhounds in this town for some years, and my observations may answer in part the inquiries of your ~ Paris correspondent. They are kept here solely for the purpose of trailing human beings, and are trained for the work while young. The dogs are of small build, somewhat larger than a water spaniel, with short hair and long ears. The resemble our oldtime ’coon hound in all particulars except stature. They were wotked here in pairs, and when about half grown were trained by some one of their keepers sprinting off a short dis- tance and hiding. Then they were put on the trail and encouraged by their trainer until they found the game. From play at first, the chase becomes to them a mat- ter of business, as they grow in age and experience. Officially, I think the courts hold their evidence gen- erally only circumstantial. Once they are put upon the right trail, it is necessary for the pursued to get off the earth, literally, and there is no question as to their value in furnishing clues under favorable circum- stances. The following is a brief account of an actual occur- rence.; few years ago a widow living alone in the northeastern part of this city, was ote day found mur- dered in her home. Before a couple of young blood- hounds, owned by members of the fire department, could be put on the trail, several hundred people had tramped in and out of the house. However, foot prints were found in a truck Jot at the side of the house. The prints were those of a small man and of a large-footed man. The tracks had been made after a light shower that had fallen some time in the evening; and here the dogs gave tongue and trailed around the stave yards and out to North Meridian street a quarter of a mile, where they lost the scent in the street. They ran the trail a second time with the same result, then were brought uptown, and while going toward the crossing of two railroads, gave tongue at the back of a brick block, where the weeds were trampled down under the shadow of a high board fence. From this point they ran south and west across the railroads into an old wooded brushy cemetery, then turned east, re- crossing the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad, through a lumber yard, then south across a street, through a sawmill yard, through the backyard of a small resi- dence, and right over a wood pile, then circling east, stopped at a dwelling for a moment, then took up the trail again, ran it to the coal sheds on the Lake Erie & Western Railroad, and lost the trail on the railroad track. . Now for the sequel: Where the dogs stopped at a doorstep before proceeding to the railroad, where the trail ended, lived a small man, quiet in manner, plain in dress, with few if any associates. He was con- sidered a cripple, as he carried his left arm in a sling, but was looked on with suspicion on account of certain - petty thefts that were laid at his door. The police brought him to headquarters, but could get no evidence from him. However, they were not satisfied with his manner and his evasive answers and called again to see him. His aunt, who was mistress of the house, said in reply to their inquiry, that he was upstairs in his room, and she would go up and call him. The officers stepped inside as she started up the stairs. Hearing an unusual noise in his room, they hurried up, to find he had cut his throat with a razor, and was breathing his last. A freight train had left the coal sheds about ir P. M; the night of the murder, going west. A man was arrested in the central part of the State and tried for the murder. It was proven that he had told a friend the day before that there was an old lady living alone up the road and that he was going up to “pull a peach.” He had no money before the murder, but quite a sum after. He was sent to the pen. I went to the scene of the murder about 4 P. M., and to my eye a plain panorama opened before ine. The old lady had brought kindling and laid it on her little box stove, then possibly had been attracted out of doors by some unusual noise. She had stepped on a narrow board walk that ran from the front around east and north of the house, and was standing on the bare, damp earth facing to the north, where the yard was covered with small fruit trees. A small man had slipped up to her right side or back of her, seized her by the throat and attempted to throw her backward. In his efforts to do so he had set his right foot out in front of her, pressing and twisting his shoe into the yielding earth, nearly an inch in depth. There was a smear on the ground between the walk and the house, and there was mud on the old lady’s dress, where her hip struck the ground. She had then been taken into the house, either before or after she was dead. One carpet slipper was on a foot, I picked the other up from the grotnd in front of where she had stood in the soft earth, “il A small man attacked her, a small man ran from the place. The dogs trailed him to where a small man lived. A small man cut his throat when the officers called. A large man was with a small man. The dogs trailed them together past where a small man lived and to where he could board a freight train. A large man was apprehended in another town, arrested, con- victed and sent to State’s prison. The dogs did not convict either, but they pointed the way. G. W. CunnINGHAM. PorTLAND, Ind. Editor Forest and Stream: - ' have read with much interest:the different accounts of man-tracking dogs in the current number, the more so as among the many different dogs that I have had from time to time I once owned a “bloodhound”—or at least a dog that came as near being one as do most of the dogs of the South pointed out to me as being bloodhounds. This dog of mine.seemed to be a cross between a fox- hound and a bulldog. I got him from a Mexican who had been out west of Fort Chadbourne, Texas, on a prospecting trip, but had found no silver or any thing else. He wanted five dollars for his dog, but I finally got the dog for a dollar, buying him probably just because he happened to be a dog, I had as much use for a dog of this kind just then as a wagon has for five wheels. The dog had never had a name, so I named him Jeff, and after he had killed all the cats he could find (I never knew him to hunt anything else but cats), he put in the most of his time eating and sleeping. He was about the laziest dog I have ever seen; but was a good watch dog at night, and in the field we used him on picket. He would lie at the sentry’s feet at night and no‘ Indian would be likely to crawl up and put a knife in that sentty, as I have known to be done more than once. I had owned Jeff nearly two years when one night two general prisoners, who were serving out sentences in the guard house, made their escape, taking a carbine with them. The next morning I was sent for by the officer ol the day and found him ready to hunt the men, but he was at a loss to know just where to begin, and asked if [ thought Jeff could track them. “I can try him, sir,” I said. “JI have never known him to track anything except cats, though.” I called Jeff, then got a pair of red stockings that one of the men had left in the prison room, and, taking Jeff out on the prairie in the direction we thought the men had left, I gave the dog a smell of the stockings and told him to hunt them. He began running around in a circle, and soon struck their trail and went off on it. J followed Jefé at a gallpp, the mounted men coming after me. The dog Jed us across the prairies parallel with the road but half a mile away from it, and after he had gone eight miles he turned to the left and led ts into the road just where the men had taken it. We could see their tracks here in the dust. He kept on down the road to where a creek crossed it, then turned down the creek, and, after he had gone a mile, stopped in front of a lot of bushes and began to bark. A shot was fired out of the bushes at us, -Calling Jeff in I got ready to shoot if any more shots should come, but.one of the men came out, and, holding up his hands, came down to me. Vhen the mounted party com- ing up (for Jeff and I had left them far in the rear), the other man who had the gun surrendered, and we took them home. I was criticized afterwards by the men at the post for hunting white men with a dog; but these men were, of the class who, had they been citizens instead of soldiers, would have put in the most of their time in some prison, so I did not lose any sleep on account of haying hunted them with a dog. Had I refused to do it, I would have been tried for it myself. I kept Jeff a few months after this, then gave him. to two boys who were going to Utah. I had too many dogs just then, and Jeff was the one I could best spare. CABIA BLANCO. achting. , 5 ——_—_ Yachting Fixtures for 1903. Members of race committee will confer a favor by sending notice of errors or omissions in the following list, and also changes whick may be made in the future. JUNE. 25-26-27. Seawanhaka Corinthian, Y. R. A. of L. I. Sound, annual _and specials. : 27. South Boston, club, City Point. = 27, New York, special race for 90-footers, Newport. 27. Boston, club, Marblehead. 27. Beverly, club, Monument Beach. 27. St. Paul, cruise, rendezvous St. Paul, Minn, 27. Chicago, special. Lake Michigan. 27. Royal Canadian, club, Toronto, 27. New York C. C., . A. of Gravesend Bay, 80. New York, special race for 90-footers, Newport. 30. Royal Canadian, L. S. S. A. regatta, Oakville. 29-July 2. Manhasset Bay cup races, L. I. Sound. For Cruising Yachtsmen. WitH the purpose of stimulating the interest in cruis- ing, and the keeping of a detailed log by cruising yachtsmen during the season of 1903, the publishers .of ForREST AND STREAM offer prizes for the best stories of cruises submitted to be published in Forest AND Stream. It is believed that these will form not only entertaining records of pleasant summer days spent afloat along our coasts and waterways, but will furnish information of practical value to other yachtsmen mak- ing subsequent cruises on the same waters. Oh: Prizes will be awarded to the three best-stories as fol- ows: First prize, $75.00. Second prize, $50.00. Third prize, $25.00. Contributions are invited under the following condi- tions: 1. The cruise must be made in waters of the United States or Canada in the season of 1903. 2. The cruise must be made in a sailing yacht, power to be used only as an auxiliary, if at all. ~3. The story must be prefaced by a description of the boat.- Crnises should be treated in as interesting and readable a way as possible, but should be practical and contain all possible information and data that would-be of value to men going over the same route. A descrip- tion of the handling of the ship in all weathers will be regarded very favorably in making awards, and it is stiggested to writers that an accurate account be kept of all incidents happening while under way. 4. Photographs of the boat and of the country passed through, not smaller than 4x5, should, if possible, ac- company each story, and they will be considered in making the awards. -s. An outline chart of the trip drawn on white paper in black ink (no coloring pigment to be’ used) should also be sent in, 508 FOREST AND>STREAM. [JUNE 27, 1903. 6. Competitors should avoid the use of slang or in- correct nautical expressions in their stories, as it will count against them in awarding the prizes. 7. The story should contain about seven thousand words, written on one side of the paper only, and must be received at the office of the Forest and Stream Pub- lishing Company, 346 Broadway, New York City, on or before Nov. 15, 1903. On Wednesday of last week the two Shamrocks were warped into the big dock at Erie Basin. The new boat was blocked up in accordance with a plan furnished by Mr. William Fife, the designer, but as this was found to be incorrect, she was floated outside the pontoon and the mistake was corrected. Shamrock I. lies at the upper end of the dock, while Shamrock ITI. is at the lower end, near the pontoon. It took some time to readjust the keel blocks on which the third Shamrock was to rest, and in consequence the boats were not finally exposed to view until Thursday morning. Shamrock I.’s mast was stepped, and her other spars were put in place before she went into the dock. As soon as the water was pumped out of the dock the crews- went to work on their respective boats. Staging was slung over the sides and. the work of smoothing the bottoms preparatory to paint- ing was begun. The old boat’s bottom being of bronze, it was only necessary to rub it down. The new chal- lenger’s bottom is covered with a white enamel paint, and while it is difficult to apply it gives a very hard sur- face which is susceptible of a very fine finish. The wet weather has delayed the work somewhat, but nevertheless good progress has been made. Shamrock I.’s spars have been painted and her standing and running gear has been overhauled and set up. The bowsprit has been put in place on Shamrock III, and the mast will be stepped as soon as she goes out of the dock on Tuesday. All her spars and some spare gear came over on the Anchor Line steamer Columbia. The spars that arrived on Etruria scme time ago are not the ones she will use over here, and are only for emergency. It is expected that both boats will have a trial off Sandy Hook on Saturday. Shamrock III. Ever since Sir Thomas Lipton’s new challenger, Sham- rock III, was launched, glowing accounts of her great beauty and wonderful speed have been published. On this side of the water there has been the delightful feeling of uncertainty as to the outcome of the races this year. While there is less real interest in the coming matches than in many years past, still there was a very general sentiment that the Cup was in great danger of being lost. Shamrock III, demonstrated her ability to defeat the first Shamrock in any kind of wind and weather in the trials on the other side, and it was conceded that the new boat was twelve minutes faster over the Cup course than the old. This in itself aroused our fears, and perhaps without reason, for this conveys but little, as it is not known whether Shamrock IJ. is faster or slower than she was when she met Columbia in 1899. In order to be in Co- lumbia’s class she would’ have to be quite a little smarter than she was four years ago. On the other hand, we are a little at sea as to Reliance’s superiority over Columbia, for while the former boat has been able to beat Columbia with greatest ease in light and moderate winds, still it is certain that Columbia is not sailing as she did two years ago when she was in Barr’s hands. Granting this to be the case, the fact remains that Reliance is a marvelous craft, and those who have followed the trials of the three boats up to the present time are satisfied that she is al- most invincible. The arrival of the new challenger was looked forward tu with great interest, and even under her stumpy jury rig she won over all who saw her by her remarkably hand- some and shippy appearance. The reports on this score which had seemed so extravagant were not exaggerated; still, on second look, there was nothing remarkable about the boat and nothing that would account for the amazing speed she had shown. Perhaps there might be something striking about the boat’s underbody that would account for her splendid performances, and consequently every- body looked forward to seeing the boat in the dry dock. When the two Shamrocks did go into the big graving dock at Erie Basin and the water was slowly pumped out the new boat was watched with much curiosity. Only a fair idea of the boat’s underbody could be gained from the top of the dock (no one except those directly connected with the yard and the boats themselves was allowed to go down in the dock), but such as the view was, those who saw her were satisfied that, barring accidents, the Cup would remain another year in the States. Nevertheless, the new boat is far and away the handsomest and most formidable craft that has ever come after the Cup. We are still of the opinion, however, that Constitution could safely defend the Cup against Sham- rock IIT. : Shamrock II. lay in a cradle hardly a stone’s throw from the other two Shamrocks in the dry dock. Sham- rock II. has been here ever since her defeat in 1901, and as the hull, with the exception of the lower part of the fin, was exposed to view, it offered an interesting oppor- tunity for comparison. It is quite apparent that Mr. Fife’s idea as to what kind of a boat is best adapted to win races off Sandy Hook in our stimmer weather are wholly different from those held by Mr, Herreshoff, for Shamrock III. and Reliance are unlike in almost every particular. These two great de- signers have worked along opposite lines, and their latest productions are wider apart in design than any of the challengers and defenders have been of late years. This fact alone will add more interest to the races and should make them more conclusive. In the main, Shamrock III. has longer overhangs, more beam and less freeboard than her two predecessors. She suggests Defender rather more than any of our Cup boats, for she seems to have all the good qualities of that fine vessel. Her displacement is heavy, and she has rather more than Reliance. i It is difficult to judge of these vessels’ dimensions, but it is believed that she is about r4oft. long over all. Re- ports from the other side gave her breadth as 22ft., or thereabouts; in reality it is rather more than that, and it is nearly 25ft, and perhaps more, The draft is yery close to 20ft.; while the overhangs are long they are well bal- anced and only serve to carry out the fore and aft lines of the boat fairly. The stern post rakes rather more than Shamrock II.’s does, but it is not an immoderate rake for a Fife boat. The point of greatest draft is just at the heel of the stern post. The fin is a little shorter than Reliance’s, 1f any- thing, and the bottom line of the lead shows a marked rise from the heel of the stern post to the point where it begins to sweep upward to where the fin joins the hull proper, which is just about under the mast step. The lead is bulbed out at the bottom in a very pronounced fashion, which gets the bulk of the weight down as low as possible. Aft the keel is only the thickness of the stern post, but it is wide and blunt at the forward end. Her midship section is different from those seen in the earlier boats. It has considerable dead rise and a deep, easy bilge that is carried well forward and aft. The topside shows a slight flare and the garboards are fuller than would be expected. She has less lateral plane than Reliance, and should be very quick in stays. Owing to her deeper section, Shamrock IJII.’s bow and buttock lines will not be so flat as Reliance’s, but, like the diagonals, are full easy curves. The sheer is quite marked, and is very graceful. The boat is strikingly fair and well mod- eled and precludes criticism and is the work of a great artist. The construction of the boat is very fine. The frames and plating are of nickel steel and the hull has been worked down so smooth that not a rivet head or a mark of any description shows. The lead—and there must be nearly a hundred tons of it—is covered by the steel plat- ing. The rudder is of wood, and in all probability makes the boat easier to steer than if it were of metal, as it is lighter and more buoyant. The boat steers with a wheel, which is small, and the gear controlling the rudder must be very powerful and compact, for the wheel box is small. There is no rail except for a small wooden strip some two feet in from the edge, which follows the contour of the deck line fore and aft just high enough to give a foot- held to those moying about to leeward when the boat is heeled down. , From the size of the spars which the boat will carry, her rig will be a little larger than the first Shamrock’s. The pole mast (for the mast and topmast are all in one) is constructed very much the same as the steel spars used on the American boats. Eight angle irons act as longi- tudinal stiffeners, and there are steel collars inside placed about ten feet apart. The plating on the mast is nine thirty seconds of an inch thick. From the partners to the step the mast buries less than ten feet. Shamrock III. should heel easilyand her flaring side cught to give her very fair sailing lines. Her overhangs are not so flat as Reliance’s, and she will not gain length so quickly as that boat will. She should move through the water with yery little fuss, and no doubt will prove an excellent sea boat. Her strongest point will be on windward work and she will be most dangerous in a light breeze and a jump of a sea. In all probability Reliance will have to allow her some time owing to her larger rig, but she can well afford to pay for that, as it will more than compensate for the time she will have to allow, par- ticularly in light winds. Shamrock III. is not only the best boat that has ever come after the Cup, but her early arrival on this side and the constant racing she will have with the first Shamrock,. will put her in better condition to meet the defender than any of the other challengers have been. She'is sure to make a good showing, and the races next August ought to be more interesting than they have been heretofore. Seawanhaka Cup Trial Races, BY A. HENRY HIGGINSON, As is doubtless known to the readers of Forest AND STREAM, the Royal St. Lawence Y. C. which has its home on the borders of Lake St. Louis, at Dorval, accepted this year the challenge of Manchester Y. C., of Man- chester, Mass. The agreement entered into by the two clubs has been given in full in this paper, and it only remains now for the Manchester Y. C. to send two or more boats to Canada, where their final representative will be decided upon. In their preliminary trials, which were held at Manchester, five boats competed: Frontenac, owned by Charles De Hart Brower; Atalanta, owned by Edgar F. Lynn; Dulce, owned by Egbert Moxham; Vampire, owned by H. D. Tudor, et al.; and Kolutoo, owned by A. Henry Higginson, et al. Atalanta was designed and built by Wyckoff Bros., of Clinton, Conn. She is a heavily built, heavily rigged boat of moderate beam, with short high overhangs about equally divided between bow and stern. She has a heavy iron centerboard weighing 450 pounds. Everything about the boat is too heavy. Brass hand rails, brass bow chocks, heavy shrouds and heavy manilla halliards are not in place on a racing machine. The boat’s model is a year or two behind the times and she has not the slightest trace of the scow about her. Her sails are by McClellan, of Fall River, and can only be said to set fairly. Atalanta was sailed in her races by her owner, E, F. Lynn, with C. Le M. Smith, Wm. Woods, and Schuyler Horn as his crew. Dulce, owned by Egbert Moxham, was designed by her owner. She is a heavy centerboard boat with very hard bilges and short over- hangs. Unlike the other four, she is fitted with bilge- boards instead of a centerboard, and by means of a winch the weather one of these boards is always up, and the lee one down, Her sail plan shows a very short gaff and a rather long boom on the mainsail. The sails made by Wilson and Silsby are good as far as cut goes, although the Wilson fullness comes near to being baggy, but the material out of which they are made is so hope- lessly heayy that the boat is very badly handicapped by them. She, too, is very heavily rigged, which handicaps her a good deal. signer, and Mr. Moxham deserves great credit for the sportsmanlike manner in which he sails his boat. No matter how far behind he may be, he never withdraws, but keeps on pluckily to the finish line. It is the kind of spirit which wins 3a the end, and I expect some day to see Mr, Moxham_in a faster boat of his own design which will sometimes at any rate get the gun. With him as his crew are Messrs. Chase, Ward and Burnham. ¢ She is the first effort of her young de- Frontenac is owned by Charles De Hart Brower, Jr., of New York, and was designed for him last year by Gus Amundson, of White Bear Lake, Minnesota. She is a scow of pronounced type and a moderate beam, which is carried far aft and forward. She has a fairly hard round bilge, and her bow is well rounded off. She is, to my mind, too heayily built to sail to best advantage, and her rigging and gear generally could be quite a bit lighter, but she is a good all round boat. Last year she was one of the aspirants to go to Canada, and this year she is a good bit taster. vantage of knowing his boat well, and of having had the experience of one year’s racing in her. She has a low road suit of excellent sails made by Wilson and Silsby. She is sailed in her races by Mr. Chas. De H. Brower, Jr., with Messrs. C. De H. Brower, Sr., Willis Put- nam and Hadenburg as his crew. ~ The two Manchester boats were both designed by Burgess and Packard, and one of them, Vampire, was built by Elisha Hinds at Gloucester, and the other, Ko- Iutoo, by The David Fenton Company, of Manchester. Vampire is a long, low-bowed scow with a very long for- ward and a very short after overhang. Her bilges at her entrance ate very hard, flaring gradually more and more till amidships it is very pronounced. There is very little dead rise to this boat and her bow ends in two oblique transoms converging to a point. When under sail she uses almost every foot of her length, and on a reach is very fast. Kolutoo is a quite different boat, and is more like the Canadian boats than anything built in the United States during the past two years in many ways. She has fair easy lines and her sections show a good bit of dead rise, and considerable flare. She is drawn in at the bow to a fairly sharp entrance, and at the stern some- what. Unlike any other boat in the fleet, her hull is covered with canvas, and in consequence her surface is somewhat the smoothest of the lot. Both boats have two peculiarities in common. The first one of them is that their stern transoms haye been hollowed out, which makes the sterns look like the open part of a sugar scoop. The idea in this is to gain weight, and to make an easy exit in sail- ing. The other peculiarity is that the deck forward of the mast looks like a pitched roof, the ridge pole of which runs from the mast to the bow. The idea in this innova- tion is to gain strength, and to raise the area of the fore triangle, which is measured from the deck. Both boats are lightly rigged and both have excellent suits of sails made by Cousens & Pratt of lighter material than any in the fleet.. The sail plans are identical, and are high and narrow. Vampire is sailed by her manager, Mr. Frank Burgess, with H. D. Tudor, Joseph Lovering, and G. D. Boardman for crew; while Kolutoo has Reginald Board- man at the stick, with A. Henry Higginson, R. D. Boardman, and James Jackson to help him. In one other respect these two boats differ from the others: Instead of having metal boards they have wooden ones, with 130 pounds of lead in the lower corner. I append a table of dimensions below for comparison: Over all. L.W.L. Ex. Beam. Beam, L.W.L. Ft.In. Ft.In, Ft.In, Ft.In NEA DOT Gee capers 41 00 27 00 8 00 07 TCO THE GG. we cette? es 39 00 26 06 8 04 7 08 Uwopradesteie: Aya sees 38 02 25 05 8 03 7 06 WMRIEIT IE. Of 36 00 25 06 7 03 7 00 Diakte. Site ee Fry 36 00 24 04 9 00 8 i First Race, Wednesday, June 10. At noon the prospects for a successtul race were very poor, and a thick fog hung over Salem Bay, while the wind was very light and fickle. About one o’clock, how- ever, the fog lifted a little, and the wind came in from the southeast, and though very light, it held true throughout the race. At 1:15 Ventura, the steam yacht which was to act as judges’ boat during the series, came out and took up her position off West Manchester. The mark boats were set out, and the signals displayed for course No. 12, which was a broad reach to Bow- ditch’s Ledge, a beat to buoy No. 3, off the southwest end of Baker’s Island and a fairly close reach in. Dulce, owned by Egbert Moxham, was the first of the quintette to poke her nose into the outer harbor, in tow of the launch Patrol. A few minutes later Vampire, Atalanta and Frontenac came out under their own sail. They carried full mainsails and No. 1 jibs. Dulce hoisted her mainsail and a No. 1 jib, and cast off from her launch about 1:25. Frontenac had on a new suit of sails, made for light wéather, by Car- penter, of Chicago. They are higher and narrower than Wilson’s suit, and though made of lighter material, do not seem to set well at all. Atalanta had on a suit of sails built by McClellan, of Fall River, and they did not seem to set over well. In marked contrast to these three suits of sails were those of Vampire, made by Cousens and Pratt, which set to perfection. At 1:35 Kolutoo came out of the harbor in tow of her steam tender. She had on sails which, like those of Vam- pire, were made by Cousens and Pratt, and which set equally well. All the boats except Dulce were black-leaded to the rail. The breeze was very, very light, and as the boats sailed about near the line, they seemed to move in a very listless fashion. However, at 1:55 the preparatory gun fired, and ten boats be- gan maneuvering for the start. Kolutoo hung round the leeward end of the line, while Dulce, Atalanta and Frontenac remained near the middle. Vampire was on the extreme windward end of it. All the boats carried balloon jibs in stops, as the first leg was a very broad reach. When the starting gun went, Frontenac was first over, with Kolutoo, which had come up close-hauled along the line, on her weather quarter. To leeward Vampire was away in the lead of the other two. All except Kolutoo had broken out their balloon jibs, but she. and Frontenac had a bit of a luffing match, while Mr. Brower has the great ad-- . the other three were reaching off for the leeward mark, ~ Kolutoo, after having luffed with Frontenac 300 yards out to windward, squared off, broke out her ballooner and set her spinnaker to port, and went through Fronte- nac’s lee. It was so thick that all five boats soon found that they had got too far to windward, and all set their spinnakers for a few minutes. The boats passed the western end of Misery Island in the following order: Vampire, Kolutoo, Atalanta, Frontenac and Dulce. At 2:57:02 Vampire hauled around Bowditch’s Ledge with Kolutoo 58s. astern. The other three turned in the same order in which they had passed Misery Island. Once in the wind the two Manchester boats dropped crossing Vampire’s bow. JuNE 27, 1903.] FOREST AND STREAM.: BO9 the others very fast, and the fight was narrowed down to the two Burgess boats: Kolutoo had gained quite a bit during the last part of the first leg, and shortly after rounding Bowditch’s Ledge she tacked to star- board, Vampire promptly followed, and the two stood to the westward for a few- minutes. Kolutoo tacked to port again first, followed some minutes later by Vampire. Both boats stood on this tack for about fif- ‘teen minutes, and then Kolutoo tacked to starboard again, forcing Vampire to follow suit, when they came together. Vampire stood on this tack for some min- utes, while Kolutoo tacked to port again almost 1m- mediately, and continued to stand in till she tacked for the mark off Baker’s Island. This time she crossed -Vampire’s bow, and kept off round the mark at 2:59:06, followed by Vampire at 3:00:57. Once off for the mark, Vampire set her balloon jib, while Kolutoo re- mained content with her working jib. The reach was quite close, and I do not think Vampire’s balloon jib did her any good. At any rate, Kolutoo drew grad- ually away and came across the line at 3:20:04, Vam- pire followed at 3:22:21, while Frontenac crossed at 3:28:00, and Atalanta at 3:30:32. Dulce finished 30m. astern. The course was to have been sailed twice round, but owing to the light air and thick fog, the judges called the race off for the day. It was a most unsatisfactory race, although it proved pretty conclu- sively the merits of the two Burgess boats in the ex- tremely light air which existed. No official times were given out, Second and Thitd Races, Thursday, June fl. About the same conditions existed early Thursday morning, and everyone despaired of gettmg a good race. But at 12 o’clock it began to rain, and the rain killed the fog. At 1 o’clock it was quite clear, and a light breeze was coming in from the southeast. At 1:30 the judges’ boat took up her position off West Manchester. Dulce came out in tow of the launch Patrol, while Frontenac, Atalanta, Vampire and Ko- lutoo came out in tow of the latter’s tender. At 1:45 the signal for course 12 was displayed, the same that was sailed on Wednesday, the wind being in just the same direction and of rather greater strength. At 1:55 the preparatory gun was fired, and at 2 o’clock the starting gun went. Kolutoo was first across the line, and broke out her ballooner at once. Atalanta came next with Dulce, Vampire and Frontenac in the order named. Kolutoo set her spinnaker to port soon after crossing the line, an example which was followed by Vampire and Atalanta. Frontenac and Dulce were content to use their balloon jibs only. Kolutoo held her lead over Vampire, and both dropped the two Long Island boats fast. Dulce was hopelessly out of it. Off the western end of Misery Island the spinnakers came in and both boats reached off to Bowditch’s Ledge under ballooners. On this trial Vampire seemed to gain a bit, and when the boats hauled on the wind for the next mark, she was only a little astern of Kolutoo. Both boats stood on the port tack till Hardy’s Rocks were reached, and then Kolutoo tacked to starboard, She soon tacked to port again and stood on this way under Baker’s Island, when she tacked for the mark and rounded it. Vam- pire had stood along on the starboard tack far longer than Kolutoo, and when she finally came about and stood for the mark, it could be seen that she had lost quite a bit. On the reach in no light sails were car- ried. The judges stopped the race at the end of the first round, but signaled to the boats to wait around to see if the breeze did not come up a little. Start, 2:10. Finish, Elapsed. Tegerkirnasaye Ws SSS Ack rege Msp a ce deogcion 105 Sages 3 14 34 1 04 34 Pica Les Pb Gbchisc eee «| did Nelae ese be err her erry. 3 18 34 1 08 34 TRITON (ELE peop eor sy Abee MOR PRE TA RRA SAAS SSO 0S5555 3 24 40 1 14 40 PN Ee LT TARE es ae otahifeta Stee /slalqisijqje sco'ssn Zio'es interes, © 2 3 22 41 112 41 BIO EA LES emis meee rele eal sie [ele is tel bids] [oles dl ste’s sv mesavele’aledebo bee rie 3 aT 44 1 27 44 Half an hour after the judges signaled the boats to sail twice around a short course, i. e., to Prides Rock buoy, thence to Saul’s Rock buoy, thence to finish line, and repeat; making a run, a beat anda reach, as the wind then held southeast. Mr. Boardman had Kolutoo first over the line, with Dulce, Vampire, Frontenac and Ata- Janta in the order named. All boats broke out spin- nakers to port, and the crew of the Moxham boat dropped theirs in the water just after crossing the line, and Jet the other three by her. Kolutoo and Vampire had on their working jibs, while the others all had bal- looners set. Off Beverly Farms a northeast breeze came off from the land, and all the spinnakers came in, and the boats gybed over to starboard, and reached for the mark, quite fast in the freshening breeze. On thg reach to Saul’s, Vampire passed Atalanta and gainf@l a great deal on Kolutoo. Frontenac, too, reached by Atalanta, and started after the leaders. Dulce was far behind the other four. On the beat in to the stake boat the order remained the same, and the boats finished the first round as follows: Kolutoo, Vampire, Frontenac, Atalanta. On the reach to Prides Rock no light sails were carried, and the order of turning was: Kolutoo, Vampire, Frontenac, Atalanta. On the reach to Saul’s, Vampire almost caught Kolu- too, and Frontenac was very close on the leaders. Kolutoo hauled around the mark and stood for a few minutes on the port tack. The others did the same. Vampire was the first to tack to starboard, followed instantly by Kolutoo. Frontenac stood on till she was directly behind Kolutoo, and then tacked, but she could not point with the Manchester boat, and dropped gradually to leeward. Vampire was the first to tack for the mark, and she was followed almost at once by Kolutoo, while Frontenac kept on to windward of the two, and tacked on Vampire’s weather quarter. The three boats were all fetching the line, and Vampire was given a rap full and sent through Kolutoo’s lee. The latter was bothered somewhat by a sloop, which was anchored directly in her course, and she had to be pinched a bit in order to weather her, while Vampire, with a good move on, went to leeward; but Mr. Bur- gess, who was sailing Vampire, should have full credit for the manner in which he sailed his boat, and his good: judgment in tacking when he did. Once by the sloop, Kolutoo was given a hard full again, and gained fast on Vampire, but it was too late, and the scow crossed some 5{t. in advance, Frontenac was about five lengths behind, and Atalanta quite a bit astern. Start, 3:54: Vampire . 5 04 15 110.15 Kolutoo . i 10 16 Frontenac ‘ wv Fs sai} Atalanta .. Teh Dulce So far the laurels have gone to the two Burgess boats, Kolutoo having two firsts and one second, Vam- pire two seconds and one first, Frontenac two thirds and one fourth, and Atalanta two fourths and one third to their credit. Friday, June 12. The prospects this morning were not much more encouraging than before; rain and half a gale from the S. E. are not conditions conducive to racing small rac- ing machines. At 1 o'clock Messrs. Brower, Lynn and Moxham, the owners of Frontenac, Atalanta and Dulce, met Messrs. Burgess and Higginson, the managers of the ‘two’ Manchester boats, and all five men agreed in thinking that the weather conditions made it unwise to go out. The committee were notified of this fact, and fully concurred in the decision of the yacht owners. I went out into the harbor myself in Kolutoo’s launch, and the wind blew about as hard as I have ever seen it blow here in summer. The sea was so high that I was afraid the launch would have been swamped if we had staid out long. No Seawanhaka boat could ever have come to windward under the conditions. Fourth Race, Saturday, June 13, A heavy lump of a sea, left over from Friday’s gale; a hazy, wet day, and a stiff southeast wind which came and went in puffs of varying strength, were. the condi- tions which greeted us on Saturday morning. They looked so unfavorable that the crowd gathered at the boat yard, where the boats all lay, had pretty well given up the idea of racing, when the judges’ boat came down the river at 10:30 A, M., and the commit- tee in charge announced that a start would be made off Beverly Farms at 11:30. Accofdingly, sails were hoisted on all the boats, and at 11 o’clock Vampire poked her sharp snout out of the harbor. She was under whole sail and seemed to travel very fast, al- though she lay over badly in the puffs. Frontenac was next out under a single reefed mainsail, and No. 2 jibs, and she was closely followed by Atalanta, with the same sails on, and Dulce with whole mainsail and No. 1 jib. Last of all came Kolutoo with two reefs in her mainsail and-a No. 2 jib. All five boats jogged down to the starting lines off the western end ot Misery Island, and a few minutes before the start, Vampire went up under the lee of the island and tucked in two reets. To balance this she set a No. 3 jib. In this sail the boats began maneuvering for the start. Mr. Board- man sailing Kolutoo, got away in the lead just to wind- ward of Frontenac, who was close behind. Both boats were on the starboard tack, while Vampire, Atalanta and Dulce crossed in the order named on the port. Kolutoo tacked to port within 2m. after crossing the line, and Frontenac fully aware that this was the boat she had to beat, tacked at once, on her. Kolutoo had just the right sail, and she seemed to take far more kindly to the rough sea than Frontenac. She pointed higher, footed faster and drew away from the Amundson scow, which did not seem to be mak-= ing good weather of it. Ten minutes on this tack sufficed for her to gain a good lead, and then she came about again and started in toward Little Misery Island. Frontenac followed, and as the wind had lightened a bit, shook out her reef, and put on a No. 1 jib. But in spite of this, Kolutoo gained steadily on her, and when she gybed around the mark at Baker’s Island had a lead of over a minute and a half. with Dulce third, Vampire fourth and Atalanta last. The course was a windward and leeward one; a beat out and a run back, twice around. With booms to starboard and spinnakers to port, the boats ran back to the stake boat. Kolutoo had otf her No. 2 spin- naker, and during the run down shook out one of her two reefs. She continued to gain steadily on Frontenac. Vampire had shaken to whole sail running to windward, and now with her No. 1 spinnaker on, caught up a bit on Frontenac, passing Dulce just after rounding the mark. Atalanta also shook out to whole sail, but was hopelessly out of it. The boats rounded the stake boat at the end of the first round as follows: eR ie tee an es late'h ew slelaig Galanos oS oP She bes USO} TOW were Rec oee A BOOS EAD e OTN Cer addy. stylet ies nsole 12 30 12 le onizongie KASS SABA BS eR AS Tap ee Aalantae Sei doeeices clacs se 12 32 50 Witkin: - 2 SEP bE ORDER Sabie 12, 28 25 The thrash out to windward the second time was a repetition of the first. Kolutoo gained steadily, while Vampire picked up a bit on Frontenac. The sea: was very lumpy, and the Burgess boat, under easy sail, made far the best weather of it. The times at Baker’s Island the second time were: ' KOlULOO) sedated rege dda PAS “AN a Dil Ces $i late beocne weeer eee 1 00 30 rOntensc es an as sai Reese eA ai) wind etae ARS Pera woe 1 01 50 Wan pincunasemennae tae ae oe 12 54 50 Once round the mark, Kolutoo’s crew cracked on their No. 1 spinnaker and lengthened out her lead on the field, while Vampire made a hard but futile effort to catch Frontenac. The boats were timed at the finish as follows: Start, 11:45. AE GUIEO Ogle apteewns mice REE Beebe sep cee at: 1 01 18 116 18 OI PEA Chine ante ie ete ie ame pean e arr ai tee 1 05 41 120 41 Wetwamiie) {SEEPS a= sheen we eet eae ae 1 07 40 1 22 40 IBN Oh PS a rian ae rae t Weoe Ora aster 1 14 49 1 29 49 ‘Atalarita® tkek tases se rere re rer rer ousted ana ends 1 15 11 1 30 11 This victory stamps Kolutoo as being a very fast all-round boat. Her ability to make good time in a light to moderate wind had never been questioned, but this win in a reefing breeze and a sea, On a short course of only six miles, comes aS a surprise even to her managers. lt only goes to prove that a sharp bowed boat can be built which will get the best of the scows in most weathers. To-day’s race was in conditions which gave the constructions and rigging of the boats a severe test, and also gave the crews a chance to. show what they could do in handling them. Fifth Race, Monday, June 15, Gray days, damp days and foggy days seem to be the Frontenac followed fate of the Manchester Y, C. Sometimes they get wind, but more often none. Monday, June 15, was no exception to the rule. It was a cold, raw day, and a north wind with an inclination toward the west, came in puffs across Cape Anne. Down at the yard of the Dayid Fenton Co., where all the boats lie, there was work enough going on. The two Manchester boats were hauled up side by side, and each had a couple of men working on their bottoms. They are an interest- ing comparison, Vampire with her long, straight side and flat bottom, and Kolutoo with her fair, beautiful sections showing a good deal of dead rise and clean lines from stem to stern. About noon both boats were launched, and at one o’clock all went out under short sail. Frontenac was first out with three reefs in her low rig, which had been put on, and she seemed. to have about sail enough, Mr. Burgess, however, thought in her mainsail and a No. 3 jib. Dulce went out with whole mainsail-on anda No, 1 jib on her stem, while Kolutoo wore three reefs and carried a No. 3 jib. Out- side it was blowing very hard from the northeast, tlie wind increasing with every puff. About 3 o'clock the committee decided to send the boats over a short course, merely to see what they would do under the conditions, which were harder than they are likely to meet with in Canada. Signals were accordingly set to send the boats on a reach to Saul’s Rock, another reach to the. northwestern end of Misery Island and a beat to the finish line. It was a very short course, only two miles, but it gave the committee a chance to see all they wanted to. At 3:15 the preparatory gun- went, and at 3:20 the boats crossed the line in a bunch. Vam- pire was a length in the lead, with Dulce up on her weather quarter. Just astern was Kolutoo and Fronte- nac. to set anything for so short a distance. Vampire, with her two reefs, held her lead over Dulce, while the latter with her whole sail on and standing up like a house, was going far better than heretofore. Kolutoo and Frontenac were just astern, and all four boats gybed round Saul’s' Rock within a few seconds of each other. Vampire came within an ace of capsizing as she gybed around the mark, and had it not been for the quick action taken by one of her crew, who stood on her centerboard, she would have done so. Of course this contretemps stopped her a bit, and Dulce made a little gain. But she had hard luck, for just before reaching the second mark the snap hook on her jib halliards broke, and the jib came down with a rush. This let Kolutoo and Frontenac by, and it was a good . differently, and Vampire went out with only two reefs ~ No light sails were set, it was blowing too hard. minute before the jib was drawing again. Once on the’ wind the four cockle shells felt its full force, and there were times when it seemed as if they would surely capsize. Vampire, in particular, had a good deal too much sail, and was badly knocked down. Kolutoo be- Faved better than the others, and came to windward fast and well. She went by Vampire with seeming ease and took the lead, which she held to the finish. Fron- tenac got by Vampire and into second place, but she’ never was near enough to Kolutoo to worry her. The times are as follows: Start, 3:20. KS GIItOO) Mewads sade talsacnects vacates $95 cise eee re re 3 44 23 () 24 23 Frontenac .5 44 38 0 24 38 Weipa tay-)elfeldiciieceles 3 44 45 0 24 45 DURE ARES oP RRR RAE AR SRN OR ele Ts he ao ay 8 td ere 3 44 46 0 24 46 On Tuesday morning the judges announced that there had been racing enough for them to make up their minds as to the qualities of the boats. Kolutoo had proven herself very fast in all kinds of weather and had clearly earned the right to go to Canada. The western boats had demonstrated their ability to go fast"in a breeze, but Vampire, the other Burgess boat, had been far faster in light airs and almost as good in a breeze. - For these reasons Kolutoo and Vampire will go to Dorval together in July, and will tune up against each’ other there. meet the Canadians, unless certain alterations now be# ing made on Vampire improve her greatly. case, which ever boat goes in the crew will be that of Kolutoo with the exception of Frank Burgess, who fills Mr. Jackson’s place on Kolutoo. Tlie best of feel- ing existed between all the crews, and at a dimer given Tuesday night at the Essex Country Club to the losing crews by the Kolutoo’s crew, everyone joined in singing the praises of Kolutoo and drank to her success. The final toast was given by Mr. Brower of the Frontenac, “To Kolutoo, and may she come back with a broom at her masthead and the cup in her cockpit.” The Canada’s Cup Defender. “Toronto, June 13.—Strathcona has been under camvas twice to date, and while her actual trial races have not yet commenced, yachtsmen are already beginning to form definite opinions of her. She was sailed down from her launching place, Oakville, Ont., on June 6, under a pair of -jibs and a mainsail belonging to the Watson cutter Vivia. Uhe total area of these three sails was less than that of her own proper mainsail, but she handled beautifully under ihe pocket handkerchiefs, picking up way at the slightest breath of air and threshing to windward in excellent style when the breeze freshened. She worked a full five miles to windward under her jury rig Sunday morning in one hour. She was quick in stays, coming from full to full in thirteen seconds and carrying her way well, with no perceptible diminution of speed either in luffing or paying off. She steered easily and made her turns in short compass, Strathcona spent the week at the Royal Canadian Y- C. moorings, fitting out, but was not able to sail entirely under her own canyas on Saturday. The reason for this was that her Toronto suit, despite all promises and warn- ings, was not ready. Her English suit, manufactured by Lapthorne and Ratsey, had been ready for some time, but on the advice of her designer, A. E. Payne, it was decided to delay bending it, until Mr, Ratsey himself arrived to superintend the job. He will visit Toronto the last week in June. Strathcona accordingly took her promised trial spin under her own Toronto-made headsails and a cut-down mainsail of Gloria’s, a well-made English sail, but one. Kolutoo is expected to be the boat td! tu In any * B10. FOREST -AND STREAM; [June 27, 1903. which did not fit her well, being too Jow in the clew and having too much of a goosewing in the leach, as well as being 18in. short on the hoist, head, and foot. There was no racing, although Strathcona was in company with two cf the R. C. Y. C. flyers for some time. The sail indicated nathing of speed, but a great deal as regards ability. The new boat stood up like the traditional church, and traveled like the traditional scared cat. She was stiffer than either ot her companions. It was blowing fresh, but in com- paratively smooth water she kept her lee rail out. She could easily have carried a working topsail, but con- * tented herself with the three lower pieces, the sail the other boats were carrying. The way she parted the water was marvelous. While tearing along at ten miles an hour she plowed up a big feather under her bobstay, and carried a wisp of spray at her run; but there was no such thing as a quartering sea, with all its heavy drag of water, and more marvelous still, no wake. Once she parts the water she seems to be done with it. Strathcona’s companions were Vreda,a larger Watson- designed cutter of great speed, although built in 1888; and Gloria, the English racer, built for the Coupe de France, which she won in the Mediterranean five years ago. Gloria is ten feet longer on the waterline, than Strathcona, and carries 1,100 feet more sail, and she is a thorough racer, Vreda is a smaller boat, but still longer on the waterline than Strathcona. While there was no racing the three sailed out of the Eastern Gap in succession, and their time negotiating the half mile stretch of pier was: Entet Leave. Elapsed. 2 44 20 2 50 40 0 06 20 2 45 20 2 50 00 0 04 40 2 46 40 2 52 00 0 05 20 Which shows the new boat is no dead one, even when pitted against larger craft and under makeshift canvas CuHarites H. SNIDER. Corinthian Y. C. ee a STAMFORD, LONG ISLAND SOUND, Saturday, June 13. The second race given by the Corinthian Y. C., for auxiliaries and launches was held off Stamford on Sat- urday, June 13. Mr. W. P. Hatch, owner of Hartford, protested Sally. It is said the latter boat was not properly entered. The summary: Auxiliary Power Yachts. Vitesse, W. LL. Bradley.......cessccececcree ces erenesessecees 0 52 40 Hiawatha, Brant & Dayton..........cceseseseeeee ee ereeees 0 53 30 Launches not over 21t. and over 17ft. Sally, Oi, Smitha, sag oe ois peg wee ee os haiilaee ameniny leeane 0.59 50 Flartford, We Bi Hates as ee eceacie ewe oboe hanes timacesem 1 00 00 Spray, M. O. Dibble.......c.-ceseree cere tees cee e ester teeees 1 03 20 Pawnee, F. A. L. Sneckner......-:c0eee tence eee e ete ceeee 1 04 45 Stewart, H. L. Stewart.........5--cseeee ewer cece een neers ewes 1 07 25 Launches, 17ft. and Under. Bateau, W. Selleck...............ceseesctsegereeecrenseneenes 0 40 00 Katherine, W. F. Gillespic............-2002c cesses eee e eee 0 40 07 The winners were Vitesse, Sally and Bateau. Saturday, June 20. The third of the series races for attxiliaries and launches was held on Saturday, June 20. Heavy rain made things wet and uncomfortable, but the unpleas- ant weather did not keep any of the boats entered from starting. Classes L and M sailed twice over the Gang- way buoy course, while boats in Class N went around once, a distance of four and one-half miles. The sum- mary: Class L—Launches not over 26ft. and over 21it. Palmer, Thomas F. Smiith..........sceescseeersssececeereess 0 56 30 JRolus, R. Hy Gillespie... 2.2... sc. cee cece specs eneuetcccecess 0 56 45 Hartford, W. P: Hatch .... 2.0... c cece cece eet seep ee ye ec eeees 0 57 387 Class N—Launches 17ft. and Under. ° Bateau, W. Selleck... 2.62 ose Sek sis cubis bay bee ewe nee 0 39 22 Katherine, W. F. Gillespie........... see e teeter teste cece 0 39 35 Leslie, George Scrobogna......-...esceseeee rete teeerenenere 0 39 40 Class M—Special—Launches not over 26ft. and over 21ft. Sovereign, James D. Smith..........c:eee eee ee eee ee eee neeeee 03 23 Spray, M. Ov Dibble... .iiccccctseccsscwcenewetyecesassccers 1 06 20 Owl, MceMunn & Seeley..cccicscsce cence ence en ennnnrstrsceee 1 12 10 Genevieve, John Wilson.......csssesseeeeee eee eeeeeness +++ 18 10 Chief, Wallace Burr... 222... tetcccssisee tev erecnscees Did not finish. The winners were Palmer, Bateau and Sovereign. On Saturday, June 27, a special race will be sailed between Palmer, Hartford and AZolus, as each of the boats has one of the three races in other classes. The cup winners are Vitesse and Bateau. Larchmont Y. C. LARCHMONT, LONG ISLAND SOUND, Wednesday, June 17. Reliance met with her first accident when she lost her topmast, in the race given by the Larchmont Y. C. on Wednesday, June 17. The mishap occurred just after the start and, fortunately, no one was injured. There was a very light breeze at the time, and the acci- dent was probably caused by the lowering of the jib when the balloon jib was drawing, thus allowing all the strain to come on the topmast. In these big boats great care has to be exercised in distributing the strain equally on the mast and not to allow any undue pres- sure to be brought to bear in any one place. After Reliance withdrew the race was almost devoid of interest, for Constitution had matters all her own way and she beat Columbia handily. In the morning there was no wind, and the prospects for a race. were not good. All three boats, however, came to the starting line, and just after one o'clock the Regatta Committee signaled the course. The boats were to be sent twice around a fifteen- mile triangle. The first leg was six miles east, three-quarters north; the second leg six miles southwest, five-eighths west, and the third leg three miles north northwest. At 1:30 the warning whistle was heard, and the prepa- ratory was given at 1:40. The boats were sent away at 1:45. At this time there was a light S. W. breeze. In the maneuvering before the start Reliance had gotten badly pocketed, but Capt. Barr was equal to the occasion, and luffed sharply across Columbia's stern and across Constitution into the weather berth. Balloon jib topsails and staysails were broken out, and the boats were headed for the first mark. Reliance lost her topmast just after the start, and her ballooner went into the water. The club of her jack yard topsail broke off at the end of the gaff, and that sail hung by some gear on the port side of the mainsail. Sunbeam ranged alongside and the boat was taken to City Island, where her spare topmast was put in place. Constitution and Columbia ran out of the breeze soon after Reliance broke down, and they drifted along in the tide pretty close together. The boats began to feel a little S. E. breeze, and the balloon sails were doused, and small jib topsails and work staysails were set in their place. Another change was soon made on both boats, and small reaching jib topsails were set in place of the babies. Constitution caught some fay- orable puff, and had all the luck, but Columbia at last worked into some breeze and came up on the Belmont boat in good shape. First one boat worked into the lead and then the other. At last Constitution caught a fair southerly breeze, and sheets were promptly eased off, and she ran down for the mark, leaving Columbia, which had her sheets too flat, in a prohiounced manner. Below are the times the boats rounded the first mark. Gonstiidtions -\5 ti. mre ocean 3 16 33 Columbia Constitution gained rm. 59s. on this leg. The boats were able to lay their course for the sec- ond mark, and the southerly breeze had increased to about seven or eight knots in strength. Both boats carried baby jib topsails, At the second mark the times were: (COMStTURGMS Fi fac sly erietey SOG RIS RESIRalE) AGA obeanet ccc, 3 56 44 Constitution gained 30s. on this leg. After rounding Constitution broke out her spin- naker and got away from Columbia a little. A balloon jib was set on Columbia, and her spinnaker was not set until it was found that her ballooner would not draw. The boats were timed at the end of the first round as follows: Constitution .:........... 414 45 “Columbia ..cseeees ces ceee 417 21 Constitution gained 43s. on this leg. The first leg of the second round was a reach, with booms to port. Constitution set a reaching jib topsail, while a balloon jib was set on Columbia, which did her more harm than good. The times at the first mark were: Ganstitittons Pye. eee 4 48 48 Columbia Constitution gained 2m. 4s. on this leg. Owing to a shift in the wind the second leg was most- ly a beat. The breeze was very light, but Constitution continued to increase her lead. Before the second mark was reached the breeze picked up a little, and the boats rounded as follows: KCGTSUTtHEROTE Pete tee menies ass 5 48 56 Columbia Constitution gained 2m. 55s. on this leg. Spinnakers were set on both boats to port, after rounding, and they were timed at the finish as follows: (ConsituhiotLy . +... +sqee+ss jpea GME% E Creiibesehoptem yd seme $4 Sok oy 6 23 53 Constitution gained 2m. gs. on this leg. The summary: Start. Finish. Elapsed. Sroyeiaistielotn fee Re ect 1 47 28 6 14 15 4 27 15 [Col brine Re Shen fer one Soc e Mek cae htc: 1 46 52 6 23 53 4 37 01 Ua henngoh eRe ee eee ee cone oe aoe 1 47 10 Disabled. stitution beat Columbia 9m. 46s., but as Constitution was handicapped 28s. at the start, she really beat Co- lumbia Iom. 14s. Indian Harbor Y. C. GREENWICH, LONG ISLAND SOUND, Friday, June 19. Constitution made a splendid showing in the trace held by the Indian Harbor Y. C., off. Greenwich, on Friday, June 19. While Reliance beat Constitution 1m. and 50s. actual time, the result of the race is still in doubt, for the measurements of the two boats are not known, but it is believed that Reliance will have to al- low Constitution about 2m. time in a thirty-mile race. Columbia was outclassed from the start and never fig- ured in the race. It was a most unsatisfactory day for a race, as the wind was light and fluky and heavy showers made mat- ters more uncomfortable. Mr. Frank Bowne Jones and the other members of the Regatta Committee were on the towboat E. S. At- wood. In the morning it rained hard, and when it did stop there was no breeze. About noon time a little breeze sprung up from the E. by S., and at 12:30 the course was signaled from the committee boat. This was from a mark off Great Captain’s Island, ten miles E. by S. % S. to a mark off Eaton’s Neck; five miles N. to a mark off Green’s Ledge Light and ten miles W. by S. 34 S. to the mark off Great Captain’s Island. At 12:40 the warning signal was heard, and the boats were started five minutes later. Barr outjockeyed Rhodes at the start, and when Reliance was apparently in a bad place under Constitution’s lee, the new boat was luffed across Constitution’s stern, and, as she had good headway on, soon established an overlap, and was able to cross in the weather berth. The boats were timed as follows: peeeliehi Ces Tere be open aL 12 46 07 Columbia COtIstetitlOMy Geca cee re at 12 46 10 The first leg was a beat, and the boats broke out small jib topsails. Reliance had taken Constitution’s wind and drew away from her at once. Columbia was ‘ put on the port tack just after she crossed, but the other two boats held on the starboard tack in toward the Connecticut shore. Reliance was the first to take the port tack, and Constitution followed soon after. About half an hour after the start Reliance was again put on the starboard tack, and she drew down on Con- stitution. When they wete well together Constitu- tion came about on the starboard tack, and as soon as she did so Reliance again took the port tack. After making a short hitch Constitution came about and fol- lowed Reliance. When the new boat tacked she was able to cross Constitution’s bows. The two boats now worked. along under the Long Island shore. About two o’clock the wind veered around to the north of east. On Reliance a larger jib topsail had been sub- stituted for the smaller one, and the change in the wind allowed the boats to lay their course for the mark. Constitution was now in the lead, but the wind headed them, and they were forced to tack again. Re- liance was favored by a nice S, E. slant that drew out of Huntington Bay, and she ran up on Constitution and overtook her before she lost the puff. As the boats came down on the weather mark Constitution was a little ahead, but Reliance was to windward. They were timed as follows: GOnstitition 3.32 .aeye1.an 2 44 0 ja .. Reet @e 20 «ed Lhe ies 44 rH aay teas RAS heal ree Constitution beat Reliance 8s, and Columbia 22m. 18s. _ on this leg. ; It was a broad reach to the second mark, and Con- stitution broke out her balloon jib topsail after round- ing, while on Reliance a reaching jib topsail was set. Reliance bore down on Constitution, and killed her wind, and in this way she pulled ahead. After Re- liance passed Constitution the latter boat began to luff, and Reliance followed suit. Constitution gybed over and so did Reliance, and then she had another luffing match to secure the weather berth agin. The wind had been hauling back and forth, and then a brisk shower came up. This took away what little breeze there was, and when the wind did come up it was from the south, and spinnakers were set to port and they were catried until the boats were a mile or so from the mark, when they were taken in on both boats. After taking in spinnakers the two boats again gybed and set balloon jib topsails. Constitution seemed to. draw up on the new boat, and when well down on the mark they both gybed again and doused their big bal- loon jib topsails. Columbia made a big gain on this leg, as she kept right on her course, while the other boats were indulging in luffng matches. The follow- ing times were taken at the second mark: eliasCe wast ener Er akin 3 a af Columbia Ce ears Reliance beat Constitution 1m. 38s. and Columbia 11m. 36s. on this leg. 7 The last leg was a close fetch, as the wind was S. S. W. It was now blowing quite fresh and small jib topsails were carried. The boats made fast time up to the finish line, although the breeze let up a little toward the end. The boats finished as follows: Consiniion e tose psee reper 45217 Columbia IR CIKET (clea ee up Pye ee eee se 4 50 24 Reliance beat Constitution 20s. and Columbia 2m. 3s._on this leg. Constitution flew a protest flag as she crossed the finish line. The summary follows: ‘ Start. Finish. Elapsed. Reliance Pete oe steeper cts 8 12 46 07 4 50 24 4 04 17 CoOnstiuHOomtesenss nested ence eescres 12 46 10 4 52 17. 4 06 07 Golttantbine are secee cneetapate peter 12 46 52 5 03 46 4 16 54 Reliance beat Constitution Im. Sos. and Columbia I2m. 37s. actual time. New Rochelle Y. C. NEW ROCHELLE, LONG ISLAND SOUND, Saturday, June 20. There were twenty-six starters in the annual regatta of the New Rochelle Y. C. that was held on Satur- day, June 20. The boats encountered all sorts of wind and weather during the race, for the breeze chopped all around the compass, and two rain squalls were passed through. The larger boats covered a nine-mile triangle twice. The start was made off Echo Bay, and it was a beat to the first mark off Scotch Caps, then a broad reach to a mark off Oak Point, and then a reach back to the starting line. The little boats covered a smaller tri- angle. They also started off Echo Bay, and then to and around the black buoy off Hen and Chickens, then to and around the striped buoy to the northeast of Execu- tion Reef and thence to the starting line. At the start the breeze was fresh from the N. N. E. The Regatta Committee was on the steamer Glen Cove, and the preparatory signal was given at twelve o'clock. Ten minutes later the boats in the 36ft. class were sent away. Leda was first over the line, with Floss- hilde just on her weather quarter. Flosshilde ordi- narily sails in the 3o0ft. class, but as Leda had no com- petitor, she went up a class to give her a race. Leda ran away from Flosshilde, and the boats were so far apart that the race was quite devoid of interest. At 12:15 the 30-footers were started, and Mimosa got away in the lead, with Oiseau, Alerion, Alert and Hope following in the order named. Alert was cleverly sailed by Mr. Edward M. MacLellan, and at the end of the first round she was over a minute ahead of Oiseau, the second boat. Hope had no competitor in the 25ft. waterline one- design class, and she took a sail over. She was badly beaten by the boats in the class above, although they are about the same waterline length. Rogue got the start in the raceabout class, Mavis, Jolly Tar and Grasshopper following in the order named. Grasshopper was ahead at the end of the first round, but Jolly Tar won by over a minute. Dorothy got the start in the Larchmont atft. one- design class, but at the end of the first round Adelaide was leading by nearly three minutes. On the second round she increased her lead and took the race by a substantial margin. Firefly led the 25ft. sloops over the line, Wyntje being second. Lucille, Snapper and Arbeeka crossed in the order named. Snapper led at the end of the first round and won the race. Mr. P. Williams, owner of Lucille, protested Firefly, asking for a remeasure- ment. Snapper was also protested for fouling the mark at the start, but as she crossed the line after the foul was committed the protest was not allowed. At 12:30 Gazabo and Jeebi started with the former in the lead. Gazabo was still ahead at the end of the first round, but Jeebi won out. Boats in the New Rochelle and Manhasset Bay one- design classes were started at 12:35. They got away in the order named—Ace, Lambkin, Falcon, Caper, Knave and Arizona. Knave led the New Rochelle boats, and Lambkin the Manhasset Bay boats at the end of the first round. Caper made the best time over the short course, and Leda over the long one. On the second time around the breeze shifted to the southward, and it was blowing quite hard at the finish. The summaries follow: pa c JUNE 27, 1903.] Sloops—36ft. Class—Start, 12:10. Finish. Elapsed. Corrected. Iueda,-S. He Mason, Sire... keeee 3 22 44 3 12 44 3 12 44 Flosshilde, W. D. Haven......... Shey et 3 27 37 3 26 43 Sloops—30ft. Class—Start, 12:15. Oiseau, H. L. Maxwell........... 3 39 04 3 24 04 3 23 54 Alerion, A. H. Alker.............. 3.37 55 3 22 56 3 22) 08 Adert, Jt W. Alketzcosqsecinccsn. 3 34 OL 3 19 01 319 01 Mimosa, Ty ih. Park. o5.0. cere. -3 38 08 3 2a 08 3 23 07 1 Special—25ft. Class—Start, 12:15. iiopes GO) olselin eiyucesess EEE ere 3 5L 04 rie ee: cena Raceabouts—Start, 12;20. Grasshopper, H. L. Pryer........ 3 54 14 5 34 14 3 34 14 Rogue, A: B. Alley.....-....20:- 3 56 06 3 36 06 3 36 06 WIENS LOR ILS BEM alee pee oe ape) notoes 3 53 04 3 33 04 3 33 04 Jolly Tar, S. Wainwright......... 3 51 47 3 31 47 3 31 47 Larchmont—21ft. Gee ag ae rom Rohs Adelaide, J. J. Dwyer............ } 2 oe Dorothy, i Te. Spence.......... 4 01 41 3 41 41 3 41 41 Sloops—25ft. Class—Start, 12:25. Shellalleaeonnollve vo... t-.-> Disqualified. Arbeeka, J. B. Walker.......-.... Disabled. Wyntje, IN. H. Clark.........:-.. 414 45 3 49 55 ry Lucille, P. Williams ...........-.+ 4 14 21 3 49 41 : Firefly,.S. P. Granberry ........- 411 51 3 46 51 P Snapper, F. S. Page.............. 3 59 48 3 25 12 Wh . Sloops—21ft. eae 2 a bes ie 146.6 Gazabo, wide sie sVilelie oc es eee BY yeaa PAY TRS RS} SB rOWwileee 45 katy 2 14 54 1 44 21 1352 New Rochelle—One-Design Class—Start, 12:30. Caper, P. Li. Howard......-.+,-.+ 219 17 1 1 4417 Knave, R. M. Bavier............. 219 54 1 44 54 1 44 54 Ace, Anna Bavier .............-5+ 2 20 07 1 45 07 1 45 07 Manhasset Bay—One-Design Class—Start, 12:80. Lambkin, S. WwW. Roach Hee cea 221 38 14638 - 1 4638 Falcon, Cole and Stevens........ 2°23) 29 1 48 29 1 48 29 Arizona, G. A. Corry...-reres++> 2 23 54 1 48 54 1 48 54 The winners were Leda, Alert, Hope, Jolly Tar, Ade- laide, Snapper, Jeebi, Caper and Lambkin, Columbia Y. C. AMERICAN POWER BOAT ASSOCIATION, HUDSON RIVER, N. Y. Saturday, June 20. The American Power Boat Association held its first open race under the auspices of the Columbia Y. C., on Saturday, June 20. The regatta was a success in every way, and five classes filled. Fifteen boats started and all finished. L The event was admirably managed by the officers of the Association, consisting of Messrs. W. H. Ketchum and J. H. McIntosh, Columbia Y. C.; Mr. A. By Gale; Manhagset Bay Y. C.; Mr. Henry J. Gielow, of the Atlantic Y. C., being represented by Mr. C. C. Smith. At 2:30 the preparatory signal was given. There was but little air at the time, and the water was smooth. The tide was running flood. The course was from an imaginary line, off the club house, West HKighty-sixth street, to a mark off One Hundred and Forty-fifth street, thence to another mark off Sixtieth street, then back to the finish line, off the club house, a distance of eight miles. The two outer marks were placed on the edge of the channel over on the Jersey shore. Boats in class B started at 2:35. Gazelle was first over the line with Witaco just on her starboard quarter. Gazelle rounded the southerly mark, off Sixtieth street, several lengths in the lead, and crossed the finish line 3m. 12s. ahead of Witaco, but loses the race on cor- rected time, as she has to concede Witaco several min- utes, owing to her greater length and more poweriul motor. At 2:40 the four starters in class C were sent away. Senta was a little ahead at the start, with Queen Bess, Isolde and Chic following in the order named. Queen Bess soon pulled into first place, and made a big gain on the second leg under the Jersey shore. She beat Senta, the second boat, by a good margin. Chic was a close third. Gertrude had things her own way in class D, and finished over 5m. ahead of Lutuhezi, but the latter boat won the race easily on time allowance. In class K Privateer finished 3m. ahead of Taurus, but being a larger boat with more power, was beaten on corrected time by Taurus. A close race was seen in class L between Nepthus and Constant. These boats lost their competitors, Carmen and Anita, and had it neck and neck all over the course. Nepthus finished ahead by 8s., but Con- stant got the race on time. There were many present at the club house, and the members and their guests were able to watch the races from the wide varandas without getting wet, for it rained at intervals during the afternoon. The summary follows: Class B—40 to 50ft.—Start, 2:35. inis Elapsed. Corrected. Gazelle, W. G. McCrea..... Rotman 223 33 0 48 33 1, Paes Witaco, W. T. Colbron............ 3 39 45 0 51 45 0 51 45 Class C—82 to 40ft.—Start, 2:40. Senta, F. G. Meade................ 3 24 15 1.02 15 1 02 15 ueen Bess, Richard Stearns...... 3 35 50 0 54 10 0 54 58 hic, Whitney Lyon............... 34155 - 101 55 1 02 57 Isabelle, H. R. Haddock.......... 3 43 32 103 32 1 07 40 Class D—26 to ee Se ar “a eat Lutuhezi, W. Luttgen.............. I Gatride, GR: Bronson. :.-sse.-- 3 50 55 1 05 55 116 10 Class K—21 to 26it—Start, 2:50. Taurus, J. H. Hanan..............- 3 57 40 1 07 00 1 07 40 Sagamore, H. B. Bonner........ «28 98 00 1 08 00 1 14 03 Privateer, R. A. C. Smith.......-. 3 54 00 1 04 00 1 12 05 iat Take aT ae oe, - _ Nepthus, H. R. Sutphen........... ‘ 1 13 12 27 1 Cosmen, Coca. Starbucks, 1 14onm 420 15 1 25 15 1 34 97 Constant, R. Pi Hart........2...5: 4 08 20 113 20 1 25 12 Anita, Alfred Carr.....-.-+.+-0.+.5: 4 22 20 1 37 20 1 37 20 The winners were Witaco, Queen Bess, Lutuhezi, Taurus and Constant. Seawanhaka-Corinthian Y. C. OYSTER BAY, LONG ISLAND SOUND, - Saturday, June 20. On Saturday, June 20, the three big boats, Reliance, Constitution and Columbia, sailed a race off Oyster Bay for a prize, offered by the Seawanhaka-Corinthian YEG, _ The day broke cloudy and threatening and it rained off and on. ' Mr. Johnston de Forest, chairman of the Regatta Committee, was aboard the committee boat, E. S. At- wood, together with the other members of the com- mittee, The starting line was about a mile east of the FOREST AND_ STREAM. eS buoy, off Center Island Point, and the course was three miles N. N. W., thence four miles E. by N. 4 N. and thence four and three-quarter miles S. W. by S. This triangle of eleven and three-quarter miles was covered twice, making a total distance of twenty-three and one- half miles. When the warning signal was given at 12:15. there was a five-knot N. E. breeze blowing. All three boats had been towed up to Oyster Bay. At 12:25 the warn- ing signal was heard. There was less jockeying at the start than there has been in the previous races. All the boats had medium sized jack yard topsails set. Reliance crossed in the weather berth with Columbia under her lee, but ahead. A reaching jib topsail was broken out on Reliance and she soon took Columbia's wind and pulled ahead. Columbia was carrying only a small jib topsail. Constitution got a poor start, and had she gotten away better she would have been much nearer Reliance at the finish than she was. The follow- ing times were taken as the boats crossed: Bt Se 12 30 21 Constitution BM a Seen me 12 30 22 Tt was a reach to the first mark, and booms were well off to port. Constitution, with a reaching jib top- sail set, soon overhauled Columbia, but that boat kept luffing out and would not allow the Belmont boat to pass her. While the luffing match was going on be- tween the two older boats, Reliance was fast getting away from them. When Columbia and Constitution squared away they had to ease sheets well off to run down to the mark. The boats were timed there as fol- lows: Columbia Reliance Rocke opeptetet slick itlorareey 12 49 21 “oe aoarec OSE 12 51 32 Reliance beat Constitution 1m. 59s. and Columbia 2m. 12s. on this-leg. The second leg was a beat, and after luffing around the mark Reliance and Constitution held the starboard tack in toward the Connecticut shore. About 5 minutes after rounding they were put on the port tack. This tack was held until Reliance could fetch the mark, and as soon as she tacked Constitution followed. Colum- bia had not done so well by holding the starboard tack, and the other two boats had been favored a little. At this mark the times were: Relinncer < dqreyme cnt ct ene tee leloe Molimbiae i ethinte mete 1 28 35 Constitution, s4s).4.4444= 1 24 34 Reliance gained 44s. on Constitution and 5m. gs. on Columbia on this leg. It was another reach, with the wind abeam, back to the starting line. Reliance and Columbia set reaching jib topsails, while Constitution kept on under her baby for some time, when she took it in and set a reaching jib topsail. The breeze, which was working around to the south, increased in strength. Reliance caught the freshening breeze first, and heeled well down made good time and drew away from Constitution still further. At the home mark at the end of the first round, the boats were timed as follows: Sense iege § Sew aicieraly 1 48 09 Columbia vee ase eeuee 1 52 38 Reliance had gained 1m. tos. on Constitution and 1m. 26s. on Columbia on this leg. The shift in the wind made the first leg of the second round a run, and after gybing over booms were eased off to port, and spinnakers were set to starboard. Co- lumbia’s crew handled their sails quicker than did the men on the other two boats, and Reliance’s men were the slowest .of the lot. When some distance from the mark spinnakers were taken in, and on Reliance and Columbia baby jib topsails were set in place of the reaching jib topsails. The breeze let up quite a bit on this leg, and Constitution had pulled up on Reliance. The times at the mark were: Reliance: 6: prrrrrerressee.e Oeibs sta Golnmiia aetecs eases. hee 2 26 30 Gonshitittiote essen eens 20 02 Reliance Constitution ............. 12 51 36 Columbia Constitution had gained 1m. 2s. on Reliance and 1m. szs. on Columbia on this leg. The boats again had a beat to the second mark, Reliance and Constitution made the mark by a short leg to port and a long leg to starboard, while Columbia did just the opposite, and took a long leg to port and greatly benefited by so doing, for she struck a fresher and more favorable breeze. The boats were timed as follows when rounding the second mark: ; Columbia Columbia had gained 2m. 59s. on Reliance and 3m. 55s. on Constitution on this leg. The boats now had a close reach on the port tack to the finish line. Reliance, under a baby jib topsail, miade fast time in the freshening breeze. When a short distance from the finish line the wind again lightened up considerably. The times at the finish were: . (Constitution Geese ee Sal Ale GOLUM bide eee cece bia nees.e 3 24 04 Right ath Gear elle rletielsislataealaast 3 16 34 The summary follows: 1 Start Finish. Elapsed. GH ATIC asses aeciea aes aero a Aete se 12 30 22 3 16 34 2 46 12 Gortstititione teense tera reeset. 12 30 58 3 21 27 2 50 29 Coral hrn iiseh ota A ES Woe ddedcird seat 12 30 21 3 24 04 2 53 43 Reliance beat Constitution 4m. 17s. and Columbia 7m, 31s. -Atlantic Y. C. SEA GATE,‘NEW YORK BAY, Saturday, June 20. The Atlantic Y. C. held races for classes M and un- der on the afternoon of Saturday, June 20, over the shorter courses. The feature of the event was the struggle among the go-iooters, in which were entered Bagheera and Bobtail, the craft which will represent Gravesend Bay in the races for the Manhasset Bay challenge cup, and the WHerreshoffi boat Vivian II. (ex-Onward), recently purchased by Mr. S. E. Vernon. Onward arrived off the Atlantic Y. C. anchorage ‘on Tuesday last from Bristol, R. I. She carries a double head rig, while Bagheera and Bobtail are provided with Bil a single jib. The next day after reaching Sea Gate she was renamed Vivian II. : Vivian II. signalized her initial appearance by defeat- ing Bagheera 43s., after twice covering a triangular course of 734 nautical miles. Bobtail had difficulty with her rudder, and:was forced to withdraw. The Vernon sloop has to give time to Bagheera, and the exact re- sult of the race cannot be told until the craft are measured. It was an exciting race from Start to finish. At the end of the first round Bagheera led by 1m. 50s. The end oi the first round Bagheera led by tm. and 5s. The course was from the starting line off Sea Gate to West Bank Light, leaving the same on the starboard hand, thence to Craven Shoal bell buoy and home. The first two legs were broad reaches. The last one well tested the windward ability of the competitors. In sloop class P, Vagabond sailed well and finished 3m. 5s. ahead of Cockatoo, and 5m. 58s. before the yawl Kate. By a common agreement among the owners, the yawl was to get an allowance of 6m. for the six-mile course. This enabled her to win out by 2s. Scalawag won in class R. Wraith, the only entry in class Q, had trouble with her centerboard, and had to be towed back to the club anchorage. Boats under class M sailed the regular Atlantic Y. C. course, with the start off Sea Gate and marks at Fort Hamilton and Ulmer Park. It was covered twice. The first lez was a broad reach, the second full of windward work, and the third a reach to the home mark. Rain fell in torrents throughout the race. A good breeze from E. S. E. blew steadily from start to finish and more than made up for the wet conditions, The summaries follow: Sloops—Class M—Start, 3:10. Finish, lapsed. MivianoWihy as. \Wernom..: ose sae tse een ere EO eR 5. Bagheera, Hendon Chubb......................5 36 03 2 26 03 Bobtail sb Haluuekertbacitum si necesns sere eee Disabled. Boats subject to time allowance when measured. i Sloops—Class P—Start, 3:15. Magabonds ai) Arse Wennoit cody. os suerte cate ne Set 4 32 05 117 05 Cockatoo, (Wa, An carstowy wens cit) siti daspne t 35 40 1 20 40 Kate, yawl, J. S. Negus........ Ub bear pier eee 4 38 05 1 23 03 Other owners gave Kate 6m. time allowance. Her corrected time, 1.17.03. , Sloops—Class QO—Start, 3:20. Wraith; ‘Galvin’ TRompkins: 20-2208 2325445455 Disabled. Sloops—Class R—Start, 3:20. SWGalaywae, wl oy me tC teenie iene ie serie cere enn ins 4 46 48 1 26 48 TeitelSpatom aie BDL. Inlce IWohi A tia dhe SUPE s ,..4 51 40 1 31 40 Constance; HSS Prentice. -sea.cnnerw ence Did not finish. The winners were: Vivian II., Kate and Scalawag. Brooklyn Y. C. Y. R, A, OF GRAVESEND BAY, Saturday, June 20. The second regatta of the Y. R. A. of Gravesend Bay was held on the afternoon of Saturday, June 20, under the auspices of the Brooklyn Y. C. The heavy rain that fell during the greater part of the contest kept the number of starters down to fifteen, all but three of which finished. The wind held steady E. S. E. throughout the race. Boats sailing the inside courses had a broad reach from the start off the Brooklyn Y. C. to the stake boat, off Sea Gate. Another broad reach took them to the Fort Hamilton mark and several windward boards brought them home again. The course was covered twice. Bonito and Kangaroo were the only craft going over the outside courses to finish the race. These boats had a reach out to Coney Island Point, some windward work to Red Can Buoy No. 2, a reach to Craven Shoal buoy and a close-hauled leg home. In class P, Ogeemah had Karma for a competitor. The latter withdrew after the first round. Spots re- versed the usual order of things and defeated Trouble. Class V, for open catboats, was very interesting, Boozie Winning out after a close struggle. Kelpie and Esper- ance fought for honors in the Marine and Field one- design class. At the end of the first round the eventual winners led their respective classes. Six members of the Atlantic Y. C., which withdrew from the Association early this year, have applied for membership in clubs now affiliated with the organiza- tion. This action will bring together all the best rac- ing talent on Grayesend Bay and insure the best of competition. An interesting working of the different measurement rules now in force is illustrated in comparing the sloops Ogeemah and Trouble. The former was de- signed by Mr. John R. Brophy this year under the re- Strictions in vogue ot Long Island Sound. It also conforms well to the rule of the New York Y. C. Under both regulations Ogeemah would sail in class Q and Trouble (a class O boat) would have to give it time allowance. In the racing on Gravesend Bay, under the old rule (half the square root of the sail area plus the load waterline length), Ogeemah is obliged to go to the peu of class P, while Trouble competes with class Q crait. ; The summaries follow: Sloops—Class M—Special—Siart, 3:18. Finish. Elapsed. UF OTLEO gull at AT UPTO Sa Weelesessys acess sree se 5 IT 2 159 sa Kangaroo, C. H. Humphreys............ — 5 26 53 3 08-53 Auxiliary Yawl—Class N—Special—Start, 3:18. Lontayvestietoreye ys.) ude... oP ubbnnnn .--,Did not finish. Sloops—Class P—Start, 3:21. Ogeemah, Brophy & Mackay:....3..00)....500. 4 50 04 1 29 04 Narva lis, Gt eB rskinin,. aren cna ssenne Riper hose Did not finish. Sloops—Class Q—Start, 3:24. Dobtss i s eAdlertonseon pensar eee nines Tronblem sw a “Lie Chrliisateryne seer a ee Boozie, C. D Rascal, D. Martha M., Richard Moore Ea Corrected time, Boozie, 1.34.00; Martha M., 1.36.20. Marine and Field Class—Start, 3:36. KEL pie; Ws) Ke BEOWI Sowa swuienses Cnsnenere tes 5 15 30 1 39 30 Esperance sles Awe Fharitlton iiiasdseisact oceans 5 15 55 1 39 55 Oningwe We wes PeNCe ee teow jee scales. 5 21 22 1 45 22 Jig-a-Jig, Ferguson & MHutcheson............. 5 23 40 1 47 40 Stin care Ne Pauly wee se tics eho cece eeere od Did not finish. The winners were Bonito, Ogeemah, Spots, Boozie and Kelpie, i B12 7 FOREST:>AND STREAM. [Juwe 27, 1903. ag... Boston Y. C. HULL, MASS., Wednesday, June 17. c The Y. R, A. race of the Boston Y. C. was sailed off the Hull station on Wednesday, June 17, in a moderate breeze, E. S. W. In the 25ft. class there were two entries, Chewink III. and Calypso. Sally VII. was around, but entered the handicap class, while Great Haste was not ready to race and stayed out. Chewink III. and Calypso started together and the Calypso, sailing wide, appeared to pull ahead on the beat to windward, but Chewink III. was sailing much nearer the wind, and the consequence was that she turned the weather mark in the lead, and she kept it to the finish. Two boats showed up in the 22ft. class. Opitsah V. got the start and opened out a lead, which she kept to the finish. ‘These two are practically cne-design boats. The 18-footers had the greatést number of entries. They were all in a bunch at the start, and on the beat to the first mark the Domino opened up a lead. She held this until they had started on the second round of the course, when she overtook the mark, and Question went into first place, holding it to the finish. In the first handicap class Sally VII. had things all her own way, and this was the case with Darthea in the second handi- czp class. The summary: Class D—25-Footers—Start, 2:30—Prizes, $20 and $10. ; Elapsed. Cheyvink VE teats e Maco mm Der Iitenwa awn wee enue ss 1 34 33 CalynSoe he We CSS tErtoriies » eon seailts al sels stlceilei estas 1 36 04 Chewink wins by 1m, ls. Class E—22-Footers—Start, 2:35—Prizes, 318 and $9, US die Vie wn leet ele glee IO STELC GR cic cemteea ten sis ae pote 1 43 32 Med ric. erberte isle cVVLILee Jess crcs fochhicsiceieat tate nce 1 44 59 Opitsah V. wins by 1m. 27s. Class I—18-Footers—Start, 2:45—Prizes, $12, $7, $5 and a cup to the winner. OieESHOnE Ie BRLeniny SEUULMb aL saeniellie ry cereime cee deereas ante 1 52 35 Mammoy Gr Woe Mele Sores ce wei ls tals ninale wadateeaione Sas f5 1 52 50 AP ripe ANF Sctezul IB count td fetes yates Sas Skeet Sep Cur ee 1 53 08 INURE Oa 1G ak CITC OS Og yee eget eee ai 1 53 20 Macatee ERNE OSEAN: (tele be CREEE salcisle bine Ot amctiate ieee teem 1 54 36 Waite, 6 ee. sGrop Sea tmerats tedden = cob ce, serine: emir 1 57 02 Mass Lodestys iss) De Ge eLNdbens as teste nepae cece eee ce ae 1 57 54 Patnicn: Ale Wt baila ys. 2 sue. citi tuteieg ech eens katie ye ee 1 58 03 COLT Locate ret beer ENO Fy Clea, larstetaiolersucs wo vetivn wicvols Oaivea viv cissls olatety 1 58 15 Nraliay Wee es Wigadlst a8 Se oe Saeeale ces See oka 2 00 26 koe she, TSA Pe eye ovo (beyeee eee Pees S98 Se Shaan on 2 02 06 Question wins from Domino by im. 15s. First Handicap Class—Start at 2:55. Elapsed. Corrected. Salty “Vile Ee Percival ines oe + ele ste sale otun Li 1 36 37 Kama Wie An earned! 22.5 Sores Sates cutee 15119 1 41 37 Evel ett, eed RIN GRIM G9 53 os oscs aceon ds oils 1 49 11 1 44 20 Man ervay oVWialtet WSN AM SH ute abo s as «00 3i1e ciate 'steisys 2 11 00 1 51 36 Sally VII. wins from Kiuna, yawl, by 5m. Second Handicap Class—Start, 3:05. Warthes, H.. Bo Tambert Wetin csc stecteaen at 151 35 1 51 35 EA Lhe ee Soule Ra ee Ce cre Renee 2 14 02 2 00 36 Clarice, Walter Burgess ...........0..sss000s- 2 14 54 2 OL 28 Darthea, wins from Gobbo by 9m. Is. Beverly Y. C. BUZZARD S BAY, MASS., Wednesday, June 17. The open sweepstakes race of the Beverly Y. C. was seiled in a moderate N. E. breeze on Wednesday, June 17. In the 30-footers, Quakeress I]. and Mashnee got away in the lead, but Pontiac worked the tide and wind and pulled out into first place, which she held to the finish. Pontiac and Quakeress were protested for not covering the whole course. In the 21ft. class, Barnacle went into the lead from the start and was never headed. In the fourth class, cats, Howard won a good race from the new Huckins 17-footer Sergius by 18 seconds. In the 15ft. class Peacock sailed a good race and won by 1m. 28s. The summary: 30-Footers. Pees Pontiac, Philip Beebe .......eecssseeeeeneeen ences ceeceenes Praxilla, Tahoe Parkinson, Jr...-..eesceeee see eeenersseccees 2 58 b4 Quakeress II., W. F. Harrison.......-csesrersseserseseees 2 54 36 Mashnee, R. W. Emmons, 2d........-scceecereseeecessees 2 56 51 Young Miss, D. L. Whittemore..........-sseceesseressees 3 OL 05 Natos, Chas. H. Taylor, Jriccssceeeseeec cn renerecceeeceees 3 02 30 Evelyn, John Hitchcock .....-..+-sccceeeeeneeerscssersee es 3 03 46 Gamecock, Louis Bacon .....cseeeeeser eee ente en enssesecess 3 03 b4 Zingara, E. M. Farnsworth.,...--..es+ceceererersteeterees 3 07 31 21-Footers. Barnacle, W. E, C. Eustis.......scecesccecenenrererercnsees 212 04 Terrapin, L. S, Dabney 217 a8 Radiant, E. C. Baker........seccrececserecsesccserscereerre 218 12 Quakeress, W. F. Harrison -..+-0seceeeeeerernceesserenes 2 23 31 ; Fourth Class Cats. Howard, H. O. Miller,........ccesesereecreeereesccces sseee 1 48 30 Sergius, W. F. Cox..scceccnnseccerenencereenscansccoses wee» 1 48 48 Hod, H. B. Holmes .....sceeeeeseceeeeeeeeeeessees ésieaeets 1 54 383 15-Footers. Peacock, R. Winsor .ssccececeessesecctecersceteccessesees sb yea Spider, H. M. Stone.....-....+-- aon cure cbicn eek ison e 1 48 47 Ranzo, M. H. Richardson, Jr...---22.+eseeeeeeesesesesenes 1 48 55 Teazer, Mrs. R. W. Emmons, 2d.....++++++++eeereresntees 1 49 25 Jub Jub, H, Stockton......--ccccceesresereereeensteerertees 1 49 43 Flickamarro, the Misses Emmoms.......:ss+eerseeserereres 1 50 10 Fiddler, Miss C. M. Dabney,....---senssseseeceescees 1 57 47 Saturday, June 20. A club race of the Beverly Y. C. was sailed in Buz- zards’ Bay on Saturday, June 20, in a whole-sail S. E. breeze. In the one-design 30-footers Mashnee was away first at the start, and was never headed; winning by 1m. 16s. In the 21ft. class Barnacle won by 23s. from Jack - Rabbit. Jack Rabbit is a new boat, not yet tuned, and may be looked for to give a good account of herself later. In the fourth class, cats, Alison II. won handily. Spider won by a safe margin in the 15ft. class. The summary: Class A—a0-footers. Mashnee, R. W. Emmons, 2d..-...22s+ssesreesenr cere esenes 216 25 Quakeress II., W. F. Harrisom...-++-+rseeesssvererseeeees 217 41 Notos, C. H. Taylor, Jr.sesceeeree terse cert ret nnent ces sens 2 21 VW Young Miss, D. L. Whittemore,....-.seseeeseeeeeeraeseees 2 21 25 Pontiac, C. Philip Beebe.....-...seeeeene es screr ence teense 2 21 39 Arabian, Robert Winsor, Jr..sssssseccee settee seer ercr cess 2 28 25 Evelyn, John Hitchcock ...--ssseseerseressssssereeeesees , 223 41 Class C—21-Footers. Barnacle, W. E. C. Eustis......+-+e+.seeceseenssc seers renee 2 15 OL Jack Rabbit, Joshua Crane, Jr. 2) 24 ‘Terrapin, L. W. Dabney....... 2 15 29 Radiant, Mrs. E. C. Baker......... 2 16 30 Quakeress, W. F. Harrison....-.++...++ ‘ 2 16 36 Fourth Class—Cats. Alison II., S. B. McLeod ...:.-.essseeeeeeee Renieeeanaews ee 102 37 — Sergius, W. F. Cox... csc ceseeteeee reece seen eer erte eres spoil AST Hod, H. B. Holmes ....iiseeseieesecttee rr neeseeceeee ee ae 113 09 Howard, H. O. Miller . 2... sseceessseseerer ere eecrecseeee . 118 44 15ft. Class. Spider, H. M. Stone ..eseeesseesseeeeteceten yee eeterecces 1 05 46 Teazer, Mrs. R. W. EEmmons........-+ isstienet ee seeavereeeee 1 07 29 Ranzo, M. A. Richardson, DAM AS ante oul ees ase 1 09 02 Flickamarro, Misses Emmons ......... PERN ee) i descdcne WeLOwlO Fly, Miss C. M, Williams..........s00.005 Paterna: HORTA 110 87 Fiddler, Miss C,"M. Dabney.i:.. e025 fe ees moatickek & Croats ae olealUges Corinthian Y. C. MARBLEHEAD, MASS., Saturday, June 20. The opening race of the Corinthian Y. C. was sailed off Marblehead Saturday afternoon, June 20, in a mod- erate S. E. wind, with a choppy sea. In the 25ft. class the three new boats, Chewink III., Sally VII. and Great Haste lined up at the start. Great Haste was first over, with Chewink IIT, on her weather quarter and Sally VII. astern of Chewink. Great Haste led to the first mark and hauled for the beat to windward, while Chewink III. and Sally VII. split. Chewink soon came around after Great Haste and the pair worked short tacks all the way out. Chewink got the best of this work and turned the windward mark in the lead and held it to the finish. Sally VII. and Great Haste had a scrap for second place. Sally VII. turned the second mark inside Great Haste and led her to the finish line. In the 22-footers, Opitsah V. was away first but in the leeward position, but she sailed fast enough to cross Medric at the first mark, and from that out she held the lead. Baggera was the only entry in the 21ft. class. In the 18-footers Arrow got the best of the start and led easily to the finish. In the handicap knockabouts Suzanne came in first but lost to Ruth on time allowance. The summary: 25it— Restricted, , Elapsed Cheewink JIT, Fl -G. Macomber, Jressinccccscacsasascove 1 14 21 Sally eV eee Berciyaleeneeeoe ita neene nn sewee ami kevane » 1 14 50 Great Easter ols A othrop,ed tataminesenacuubeeis aneeer ts 11617 22ft.—Restricted. PICSAH Vee oP able ates ed aon HO Sue tatesisiesralemiercisle faite Sea 1 21 53 WMedbicy sEberhert: WWhite po wardteraphs cures usta adeacvnnent cates A 23:22 Raceabouts. Bageerd, Rs “Go eRobbinsansias oe cee. ce meant nse tee ed enerae 1 25 27 18ft. Knockabouts. : Agro, (eA Board tiaties eee ct gat pee tense age nates ees 1 06 50 Rattlers Ac AD) Wilmyint weet tease tesa teri fetes Bienes 1 09 08 Malian sR? ia Wid OS Metis tics crete et create ae ene eon eee 1 09 55 Mastin on, fine SPs eesti vents te ep eRe 1 12 25 SBVAEC; eh Ams UGAMDEICG ees cei woth oi i Uetetnetmcan ca vey lyin cea 1 12 30 Handicap—Knockabouts. Elapsed. Corrected. Rt woke p Sa VCE LO Oke nseakern cats ceeehiceree clu 1 09 08 1 05 47 Susaniwe,. bo Brewsteren suet ssn kaaee ae ets 1 07 15 1.07 15 FeO KITITVELS SV trains tq ss ose ae y bee ess Did not finish, Dabster, Jamaica Bay Y. C. Y. R.A. OF JAMAICA BAY, Sunday, June 14. The Jamaica Bay Y. C. held its first race on Sunday, June 14. A large number of boats had been entered, but the bad weather kept most of them from stafting. There was a good sailing breeze from the S. by E., but it rained hard the greater part of the day. A postponement was considered, but the owners of the boats that turned up voted to sail the race, so the pre- patatory signal was given at 3 o’clock. All the boats car- ried full sail, and the course was from a mark off the club dock to the red spar buoy off Blockhouse Point, thence to a stake boat in Broad Channel, and back to the starting line. There were races for launches and they were sent away first, they went over the course twice, and of the seven starters only three finished, Osceola being disabled, while Ethel, Gussie and Lottie N. withdrew. The knockabouts and sloops: were started at 3:15. Kis- met got the start and she was followed by Folly, Dolly and Jennie. It was a reach to the first mark, and all crossed on the port tack. Folly and Jennie passed Kis- met, but she finally regained first place, only to lose it again to Jennie. Folly went aground and withdrew. Diana got the start in her class and beat Klyo and Irene handily. The summary follows: Sloops or Knockabouts—Start, 3:15:00. Finish. Elapsed. Se STUELM vats arrose eres area, aperele spt ame wae sta tra state. ererere ae 4 54 25 1 38 52 ADL Lacey SEER AEB eC IECOer Ab Lecco ered Beli bbe © Debob5 eaiihtee AER ee Se boa: Rats Sasa oud oyabe crs 4 53 22 1 39 55 Tere ANG gah EYE AA EP RRR AGAR AAA aaa RES SaaS Disabled. Cabin Cats—Classes F, G and H—Start, 3:20:00. HLS OF Ppt eter noe en eae eh Rhee ate eeee Meter eet ehe 5 14 12 1 54 12 IPenel Waterss cians -. 0 10 26: 1 50 26 TY TATIA® 0. sca tapiteredssissioie eth es sade Riese wie micdin terse ... 510 00 1 41 00 Open Cats—Over 22ft. and Under 25ft.—Class K—Start, 3:30:00. Seishin va ve ss ets cud sates itt meee nae teretased 4 59 35 1 09 55 IMGtGOr st AN" hidae gals re ACARI A AAAN CAR Gee nite ce lyeatlse We alee rents) Open Cats—Under 20ft. and Over 17ft.—Start, 3:35:00. BAL Cy RA eens ene oe rth ner te dae et eee a etietl el 0) 1 44 10 WaSLOTLE eee Sewer neh gn Costttenecurieisisaee me iar te iets 5 15 05 1 44 05 lebeharae CHO DhlS ES8M ry Jain Pars toh okaciot A 5 07 30 1 32 30 ‘Ararat | sci cpie a eeteidnetiodn ea eset ee ae sist 5 09 36 1 34 35 Bigicle< eG cee ene hende te alti aashenssa ee atic gous Open Cats—Under 17ft.—Start, 3:35:00. IBS ei eae 8 bacon riba poe er ao spyc oa 5 09 27 1 34 27 Gc tele etter sae ie SSA S SHIM ry HER ttt re ar 5 04 85 A 3 Wiola 5 koe PRC geen ben biaita as weed eee ee Withdrew. The winners were: Jennie, Diana, Selfish, Harry C. Miner and Free. Wollaston Y. C. QUINCY, MASS., Wednesday, June 17. A handicap race of the Wollaston Y. C. was sailed in Quincy Bay on Wednesday, June 17, in a moderate S. E. breeze. There were 14 starters, well bunched at the line. Wawenock went into the lead soon after the start, and held it to the finish, winning handily on both actual and corrected times, The summary : Darthea wins from Gobbo by 9m. Is. Wawenock, Coombs & Seymour ...........-. if 0 54 Snohomits; ©. iC. “Blakes witha veins erat ete 1 20°53 0 59 42 Sheila, L. FP. ElewitSon -s... <2. iea.5 enteh hath 1 21 22 1. 01 29 Pocahontas, F.C. Merrill........2.4-7 Hiaonie: 116 27 1 O01 34 Theodora, F. Burgess ...2..cscenecsr sts gue 1 21 50 1 05 07 West Wind, W. M. Chase........... Ly pene 1 43 05 1 11 62 Seagull, E. L. Hallett ...... a Sdadhd: ree eeistts 1 44 44 113 45 BNRGIES SH TDR ESR Rano coqsons | POCA ocd eae 1 32 21 117 21 Brant, J> A. Benno.<-s5..3¢ Be AAT Aigo oon dae 13937, . 11730 No Name, J. Smith........ TE ahs 5 a gegetond 1 44 30 1 18 27 Careless Horse, C. JOmeS.....sccpereee scene ee 1 44 40 118 57 Premier, (S. Hayden (4..stacceeess acre cane: LOE De 119 12 Edith W., Fred Jacobs;....-...2teicererntreen td 56 00 123523", Ttuna, James Pitts ....0scsvssscssestieeeereees Withdrawn, + a ar) yr Columbia Y. C. CHICAGO TO MICHIGAN CIty. «© | Saturday, June 13. The annual cruising race from Chicago to Michigan City was held by the Columbia Y. C, on Saturday, June 13. _ ‘Twenty-six boats started in the run and Vencedor fin- ished first with the schooner Alice second. At the start the wind was fresh from the N, W., but lightened up to- ward the finish, so that the boats were nearly becalmed. The different classes were sent away at five minute intervals between 12 and 1 o’clock, and for a time they’ were well bunched. Vencedor soon pulled into first place and was never headed. Commodore McGuire’s new 21-footer Hoosier showed up remarkably well and had no difficulty in. beating La Rita. The summaries follow: Class 1A—Start, 1:00. Finish. Elapsed. Soneiet Vencedor waka have eee Be lee ese 5 56 05 4°56 05 4 50 15 NEVA, ver cee Mlulnte ene neha 6 45 00 - 5 45 00 5 45 00 , Class 2A—Start, 12:40. UP TSRS RECON. Borie ore tino ntiandectes: 6 46 35 6 06 35 5 30 05 NGS) He SBOE AHH Seee aHbeod dee ke 7 17 00 6 37 00 5 54 87 THOT BHO TES saree ee leinels cote eerie eee 70800 - 6 2800 6 28 00 . Class 8A—Start, 12:25. Columibiag iirer.. cfs teeu cue nee 16 30 6 51 30 5 57 385 TT iS2 Wei ate aminn onnihee sicew ie nnigahige f 7 40 10 715 10 6 22 57 Class 4A—Start, 12:15. VE AIOL Seek amleiene eierena are Sey eres 7 27 45 7 12 45 6 08 40 SATS etka 505 se 354 Seba ne eee 7 26 00 711 00 7 11 00 WSL OW’ Ss 5 05s attains tte ate ee 7 40 00 7 25 00 716 42 21ft. Cabin Class. : Outlaw 7 06 30 6 31 30 5 34 16 Privateer . .7 13 45 6 38 45 5 40 381 Hoosier 7 57 10 7 22 10 6 23 39 habits 7 10 55 6 35 55 6 35 55 : Class 1B—Schooners and Yachts. ATIGE -le- pen coh Ri Se enuboassats 6 17 00 5 17 00 5 07 28 Naina client tos ere eer ae 7 27 10 6 42 10 6 17 28 Gladiatitiire se. see sae eene sen tenes 7 51 30 7 41 30 7 00 30 ' Class 2B—Start, 12:30. WHZaT CU wihine cesta Hitscts ue Ae sher ce Dice 7 15 00 6 45 00 6 07 02 Jeanettie MESS Peet ee eee ASEe LS Pt tyr 7 02 30 6 32 30 6 14 28 Paelinidais: Gon Rsonnct beer nad 6 51 00 6 21 00 6 21 00 No lehas eget CNP RRR E RET ict hope nie eh 7 09 00 6 39 00 6 39 00 Clara eiBe hats eh t sree coed hotduta ie Did not finish. : 7 Class 3B—Start, 12:20. ; Nicos UN ds RANHAAAA GAN SASS SCAR BAS I08 6 55 00 6 35 00 5. 48 36 Kathleen Gicinha.eengaaswses teeny ene 7 1T 45 6 57 45 6 08.51 Class 4B—Start, 12:00. Jeon ® sarare che ber coe Selene aes ee 7 46 30 7.46 30 6 36 25 NEARIED 4 bei chal tore h enter coe np ree Did not finish. Eastern Y. C. MARBLEHEAD, MASS., Saturday, June 20. The opening ‘special race of the Eastern Y. C. was sailed off Marblehead on Saturday, June 20, in a very light S. E. breeze. In the 25ft. class Chewink III. got the best of the start and led Great Haste all around the course. In the 22-footers, Opitsah V. went over the starting line in the weather berth and was never headed. In the 2tft. class Dabster sailed a walkover. In the 18- footers Question got the best of the start and led all around the cotirse. The summary: Class D—25-Footers—Start, 10:25—Course, 1144 Miles—Prize, $30. f +e Elapsed. Cheéwinls ley Gi Macomber, | itse nu sem meee poker las 2 11 38 "Great Haste, I. K. Lothrop, Jr:....:.....+: PPP eerie oh ets 2 2 16 39 ME feel ear toa ot bono aheminaig vonteair aoc ae eee edy 2 25 05 Chewink III. wins from Great Haste by 5m. Is. Class E—22-Footers—Start, 10:30—Course, 114% Miles—P. ues $0 Qpitsah Vi, S. Hi-and . T. Foster. 2-1... .c sit ennses ens 4 Medric, Herbert White Aapritotenedeocs seeeeensereneseces 2. 2 23 33 Opitsah wins by: 1m. 15 ; Class R_21-Footers—Start, 10:35—Course, 814 Miles—Prize for two starters only, $25. Wabster, taticis: wikigmery glist urasib cients fou eas 1 58 22 Class I—18-Footers—Start, 10:40—Course, 814 Miles—Prizes, $20, $10 and $5. ’ Questions Jy Hise ratite hey eee ne tee ener ark eee oat cRsae 1 51 26 Miss. UMfodestv, MB SiR eritan. cv ace ede ree see a ener epee 1 55 08 WE tebe Wel APs RES. GAG Eka, SRRALARMARS RAGA Rn AnR oda bobehuoondss 1 56 08 Myrmidon, Caleb; Porimg ... veces tecsenesyeserevseuerersns 1 58 50 AMicilal Varies Sts mwlae VWI OCS a feel bib iueewces cones ST EL PD 1.59.35 Crowe) laanibiatecitveleLLO ODED pass sre mip pet teved atpterstnatpterater station .. 2 01 50 INVitme ose Se Netervivesnei priate ees SENT ee Sy eV eee Aerts issctetey Withdraws. Cear titi te veperesayestiaseturetare ptytork ie ate tpesbath ma WARM S sini sense se RIO UPS Disqualified, Question wins from Miss, Modesty by 3m. 42s. Lynn Y. C,. LYNN, MASS., Wednesday, June 17. A handicap race of the Lynn Y. C. was sailed in Lynn Harbor on Wednesday, June 17, in a light to moderate easterly breeze. The dory Louise and the 25-footer Luella sailed a dead heat, but Louise won on time allow- ance. The summary: Louise, Hammond Brothers 1 04 2 1 01 30 Spur ok) Po Badger s.2.e, .-- 11041 | LOL 41 Isabelle, C. E. Hodgdon nrirelabyest 1 02 81 Alice 1a.) Ve Horgan. Sp. ces sneer ens pends lar eral omelg Surge, D. A, Lannan 1 11 32 1 08 32 Odd Fellow, G. G. S. Buttrick........-. Hie BY 09249% aa R 49 Tetellay ee le Crate yraa ge ale sretsle-n.clancte else apaticiere 1 04 20 1 04 20 Helen, Twombly Brothers.,,........-.ess.- v.. 1 07 40 1 04 40 East Gloucester Y. C, GLOUCESTER, MASS., Wednesday, June 17. The opening race of the East Gloucester Y. C. was sailed on Wednesday, June 17, in a moderate S. E. breeze. In the first class the Herreshoff 25-footer, Onda, was first over the line, followed by Alethea and Seboomook. Onda found the breeze to her liking and was never headed. In the second class Celinda got the start and held the lead until the course was about half sailed, when the Hobgoblin went to the front and stayed there to the finish, winning by 30s. The summary: First Class. Sour 9 ~— - - _. »Blagsed ‘Onda, John Greenough .......5.+.33- Dye Sit en amines ye ka 1 02 40 Seeboomook, B. A. Smith .......ei.e.s Via bacp hy Sestctaress tvioee Sete Uh sGRy AAD) Alethea, B. Hi. Colby ....... ees nee = ey tink tees LORS Tats Second Class. ‘ Hobrobling @fi Grarweyeins snes cere cdaa nen eee ade LLP Let _ Celinda, Scott Parker ....,... Wi Ae APRA Fo Tis Bianpsae Corrected. June 27, 1903.) Manhasset Bay Challenge Cup. The sailing instructions covering the match races for the Manhasset Bay challenge cup are as follows: ; Date of Races,—The races of the match will be sailed oe Monday, June 29; Tuesday, June 30, and Wednesday, uly I. . _ In the event of failure to race on any of the dates scheduled, for any reason deemed sufficient by the com- mittee, or in event of a tie, the series shall be continued daily thereafter, Saturday and Sunday excepted, until the match is won. . Starting Signals.—The starting signals shall be as fol- lows: 1:00 P. M., preparatory, hoisting of the blue Peter on the committee boat; 1:05 P, M., warning, hoisting of a red ball:'1:10 P. M., start, dropping of the red ball. Postponement.—Should it be deemed advisable to post- pone the start, the giving of the above signals will be deferred for fifteen minute intervals. Finish Signal—The committee boat will carry a red ball when establishing the finish line. Reversed Courses.—lf deemed desirable to order any course sailed in a reverse direction, the code signal “B” will be hoisted on the committee boat, ten minutes before the giving of the preparatory signal and attention called thereto by three sharp blasts of the whistle. Where a cotitse is reversed, all marks shall be left on the port hand. — Recall Signal—If necessary to recall any yacht, the burgee of the club she represents will be displayed on the committee boat and attention called thereto by three sharp blasts of the whistle. ‘ - co Signals —“Race off for the day,” code signal In case of fog the committee boat will give three sharp blasts of the whistle at intervals of not less than two minutes, i Attention will be called to all signals by the firing of a gun or the blowing of the whistle aboard the committee boat, but it should be borne in mind that the flags ana balls constitute the signals, the gun or whistle being in- tended merely to call attention thereto. Starts and Courses.—The first race of the match will be sailed over a windward and leeward course, the second over a triangular course, and the third over a windward and leéward course. Each race shall be resailed tntil finished, over the course indicated. The traces will be started off the black and red buoy to the northward and eastward of Execution Light, ex- cept where the windward and leeward course cannot be laid from this point, in which event the committee will establish a starting point as near as possible to said buoy. The starting and finishing line will be between a white flag on the committee boat and a stake boat flying the club burgee. same The windward and leeward course, will be laid to a mark down the Sound, four nautical miles to windward or leeward of the starting point, and shall be sailed twice over, the marks to be left on the starboard hand. The compass bearings (magnetic) will be announced before the hoisting of the preparatory signal. The stakeboat at the turn on this course will display two blue balls. The triangular course will be from the starting point to the red spar buoy off Scotch Caps, thence to the Larch- mont Y. C.. white spar buoy off Red Springs Point in Hempstead Bay thence to the starting point, the course to be-sailed over twice. All marks to be left on the star- beard hand. - Time Limit—For a race of the match to count as such, one of the yachts competing must cross the finish line within five hours after starting signal is given for such Trace. Rules.—The match will be sailed under the rules of the Yacht Racing Association of Long Island Sound, except as modified herein and in the Declaration of Trust gov- erning matches for the cup. The representatives of clubs entered for the match are requested and expected to be- come fully conversant with the requirements set forth in the Declaration of Trust. High Tide.—It will be high tide at Execution Rock on Monday, June 29, at 2:45 P. M.; Tuesday, June 30, at 3:28 P. M.; Wednesday, July 1, at 4:28 P. M. STUYVESANT WAINWRIGHT, Chairman. Louts M. CLarK, Watter C. Kerr, Match Committee. June,22, 1903. The names of the boats, their owners and numbers, and-the clubs that will be represented in the races are as follows : Indian Harbor Y. C., Oiseau, N, 132; H. L. Maxwell. Shelter Island Y. C., Marion, N, to, C. P. and T. W. Brigham. j Atlantic Y. C., Bagherra, N, 42; Hendon Chubb. New York A. C., Flosshilde, N, 60; W. D. Hennen. Larchmont Y. C., Empronzi, N, 6; Roy A. Rainey. American Y- C., Mimosa, N, 26; Trenor L. Park. Bensonhurst Y. C., Bobtail, N, 45; E. F. Luckenback. Manhasset Bay Y. C., Alert, N, 1; James W. Alker. In order that the members of the Manhasset Bay Y. C. and the members of challenging clubs may witness the races for the cup, a steamer has been chartered. She will leave New Rochelle dock at to A. M. and club dock at Port Washington at 12:15 P. M. each race day. The entertainment committee announces that many well known professionals having volunteered their services, an entertainment will be provided each evening after the race. German Sailcloth tn South America. Consut B. H. Warner, of Leipzig, May 26, 1903, says: _“German sail and awning cloth manufacturers of this city are making strong efforts to secure South American trade. A prominent sail manufacturer has just informed me that he has succeeded in establishing regular traffic with South American countries, and that he hopes before long to do the samme in Cuba.” Mr. Frank F. Stanley, of Boston, has sold the yawl Narkeeta, through the agency of Mr. Stanley M. Sea- man, to Dr. H. A, Hare, of Philadelphia. “FOREST AND STREAM. Quincy Y. C. QUINCY, MASS., Wednesday, June 17. The second handicap race of the Quincy Y. C. was sailed in Hull Bay on Wednesday, June 17, in a three-reef breeze, E, S. E. In the first class the old 21-footer Usona and Marvel sailed a very close race, Usona winning by 16s. In the second handicap Gayeap had the whole field te herself, Polasis withdrawing. A close race was sailed between the bor.s in the one-design class, Marjorie win- ning by less than a minute. The summary: First Class. Elapsed Usona, A. TL. Linco... ys cece eee een ee peer e seen sees 2 09 23 Marvel, A. A, Lin2sln..... 6. ccc cece cece eee eee tenets 2 09 39 Meda Jap CHG COWS Lo eee ee deen ee mene tees 2 14 59 Ateestes, Gi Hy Wiles, is. sissy yes RAM heer Se rcheen 2 16 06 Hustler, Whittemore and Robbins.......+.++.-+.+s sewers 2 16 20 Moondyne, W. Hl. Shaw........ccceee eee e secre eer e rte seats 2 22 49 (OR Ca Gi Vale Sr on ooemstors nL ee ey ae A Withdrawn, Goblin: HE. PL Ricker: ness te Si gtd cs arene em es Withdrawn. - Second Class. , Gayeap, C. FL WHiMe.. 2c cence eee ee ee eens toile ries 11915 Polaris, Harry Crane ........ PA Ate AREER Ty Rapbibe cir Withdrawn. One-Design Class. Marjorie A., Mr. Bennett 0 43 a Ethel Si, Mite Swifts: 2... cece cae een vy yeeros ee ts Cohasset Y. C. COHASSET, MASS,, Saturday, June 20. A club race of the Cohasset Y. C. was sailed in a stiff S. E. breeze on Saturday, June 20. In the knockabout class Delta won, and in the handicap class Willie won exsily. The summary: : 21ft. Knockabouts. Elapsed Delta, R. B. Williams... ¢.:seee senses eter rarest erences 1 26 39 Remora, Courtney Crocker 20... pees sevseeses eran ecencens 1 27 25 Harelda, Alanson Bigelow, Jr.,....-..:seeees eee eeceeer es 1 28 04 Handicap Class. Willie, H. B. Cousens ‘ 0 59 05 , Sheldon Ripley ... Undine, Gilbert Tower Mintatuer Y. C. EAST BOSTON, MASS., Wednesday, June 17. A race of model yachts was given by the Miniature Y. C. on Wednesday, June 17, at Breed’s Island Pond, East Boston, Mass. The summary: Twenty-eight-inch class—Now Then, J. P. McLaren, first; Fern, J. H. Young, second; Bostonian, John Black, third. -Thirty-six-inch class—Dolphin, A. Sampson, first. The other six boats which started in this class were disquali- fied on account of not finishing within the time limit. -Forty-inch class—Crescent, B. C. Tedford, first; Post Boy, J. E. Wetmore, second; Eagle, J. H. Young, third. __ YACHTING NEWS NOTES. iis j —— ~ For advertising relating to this department see pages ii and iii, Mr. Frank N. Tandy, the yacht broker, has given up his Boston office, and will now make his headquarters in New York, at 52 Broadway. | Ree Mr. Charles W. Holtz has had a steam yacht built at A. Hansen’s yard, City Island, from designs made by Mr. M. Hubbe. The yacht has been named Fulconis. She is Soft. over all, 65ft. waterline, 14ft. Gin. breadth and ait. 6in. draft. eee The officers of the Hempstead Bay Y. C., of Free- port, L. I, are as follows: Com., Charles H. Southard; Vice-Com., John H. Carl; Rear Com., Frederick K, Walsh; Regatta Com., Robert W. Nix, Chairman; Joseph Rollins and A. B. Wallace; House Com., Will- iam P. Miller, Chairman. The events for the season will be the opening re- gatta on Saturday, July 11; the annual cruise. from Aug. 3 to Aug. 8; ladies’ day, Wednesday, Aug. 19; the open regatta, Saturday, Sept. 5. RR E Khama, the British-built cutter owned by Mr. Sey- mour J. Hyde, arrived in New York on June 22 from Scotland. Khama had a crew of eight men and was com- manded by Captain W. Cockburn. She started from Port Bannatyne, Scotland, on May 18 and for the first two days experienced very nasty weather and had to run for shelter to Porth Howth, Ireland. She stayed there two days, and on May 24 again started out and had calm weather until June 5, when she encountered showers which were followed by a light southwest gale. On June 9 she ran into an easterly gale and had her mainsail blown away. Calms and gales were experieced all the way over. The yacht will be towed to City Island, where she will be overhauled and put in racing shape. Khama will be run with an English crew. RRR Thorella II]., the new Seawanhaka cup defender, which, there is very little doubt, will defend the cup this year, has something that no other boat which has competed for the big cup ever owned. She has two rudders. Otherwise the new boat, Thorella II., as Mr. Finley has called her, in commemoration of Thorella I., which was also built for the defence oi the cup, is built much upon the general lines of last year’s boat. The two rudder idea was about the limit of the ideas which Messrs. George Herrick Duggan and Fred. Shearwood have been able to conjure up in the at- tempt to improve upon their former Seawanhaka cre- ations without resorting to revolutionary measures. Mr. Duggan, now manager of the Dominion Iron and Steel Company, has. been so busy, the designing and all the work in connection with Thorella Il. has fallen upon the shoulders of Mr. Shearwood. The latter gentleman’s illness prevented more than one boat from being built this season. 518 — Vice-Com. Finley’s boat was the first ordered, and, therefore, was the only one built. Mr. Finley has al- ways shown such an active personal interest in the Seawanhaka cup races and has spent so much time and money in connection with them, that it is sincerely hoped Thorella II. will be found speedy enough ta be selected as the defender this year. Her past work gives every hope that she will. The appearance of the two rudders is extremely odd, and they are of bright brass. The posts above the deck are connected with bars and hinged crossbars, and from the center of the latter extends the real tiller. The new boat was built for light winds, which is quite a departure from the boats of the past, while it is understood that Kolutoo and Vampire have been built for heavy winds. . Strange to say, in the past the United States boats have mostly been built for light weather and the Canadian boats for heavy weather. Thorella IL, which is now having preliminary trials with Trident and Osma and Blackbird, last year’s boats, is of about the same dimensions as Jrident. She has bilge boards, and the principal difference between her and last year’s boats are: She has less freeboard. She has less beam. She weighs about 400 pounds less. As to her sail area, it will be the same as last year, and her spars will be but very little different-—Mont- real Star, Canoeing. —op—— A. C. A. Membership. eee ase have applied for membership to the Eastern Division—W. W. Morrison, Wm. A. Phin- ney, W. R. Bliss, G. H. Abbott, H. M. Colby, H, W. Spaulding, Don W. Osgood, W. R. Wescott, W. C, Colby, R. D. Reed, Lester P. Horne, B. F. Welch, H. G. Clough, Clinton Phelps, F. L. Chase, Guy B. True, Manchester, N. H.; F. LeRoy Pratt, Winchester, Mass.; Harry Merriam, Edgar Frost, F. W. Biery, Jr., Wilfred Cyr, Joseph Prince, Earle Allen, Carl G. Weiss, H. L. Backus, E. A. Johnson, Wilbur Cross, Deane B. Small, Lawrence, Mass.; F, L. Angus, Alex. Ritchie, Andover, Mass.; Chas. G. Newcomb, Frank Gibbs, Ralph P., Hayes, E. L. Tufts, Jr, H. E. Boardman, Medford, Mass.; J. A. Garland, Somerville, Mass.; T. G. Beggs, Jr., F. J. Babcock, Woburn, Mass.; Harry L. Dadman, Worcester, Mass.; B. E. Phillips, Jr., Dedham, Mass.; Edwin 7. Samuels, Hyde Park, Mass.; H. Willard Hiss, Baltimore, Md.; R. A. Garrison, Newton, Mass. Atlantic Division.—Elmer B. Ayres, Rifle Range and Gallery. Fixtures, July 6-7.—New Haven, Conn.—South New Engiand Schuetzen Bund annual schuetzenfest, under the auspices of the Independent German Rifle Company. H.C. Young, Sec’y. 7% Ittel—Loder, Concerning the match between Mr. Louis P. Ittel, of Alle- gheny, and Mr. John S. Loder, of Denver, Col., mention of which was made in FOREST AND STREAM of June 6, Mr. Charles G. Grubb, who had desposited $1,000 with Mr. W. 5S. Brown, of Pittsburg, for the match, received a reply from Mr. Loder, of which the following is a copy: PitrspurG, Pa., June 18—Mr. Chas. Grubb, Dear Sir: I re? gret very much to inform you that opposition on the part of my business associates will prevent my meeting Mr. Ittel at the present time, and pulling off the shoot, which had been contem- plated. Possibly within the next 60 days I can so shape my business as to permit of my meeting the gentleman, but at this juncture there is too much at stake to permit of the contest going on. I regret the situation more than I can say, but you can readily appreciate my position when I again assure you that my business interests would very materially suffer and my position be jeopardized. ‘ Trusting this explanation may be satisfactory, and that I may have the pleasure of meeting the gentleman later on, I remain, Yours truly, (Signed) Joun S. LopeEr. Grapshooting. ——6—— If you want your shoot to be announced bere send a notice Itke the following: Fixtures. *June 2425.—New Castle, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. James Atkinson, Sec’y. ' ° June 25.—York County target shoot, under auspices of the Glen Rock, Pa., Gun Club, Allen M. Seitz, Sec’y. July 1—Annual tournament of the Sherbrooke, Que., Gun Club. C. H. Foss, Sec’y. July 1.—Bolivar, N. Y., Gun Club’s fourth annual tournament. Je FeiGaresisecty: ‘ July 2.—Reckville Conn., Gun Club tournament. July 3-4—Memphis, Tenn., Gun Club’s two days’ shoot. A. H. Frank, Sec’y. July 4.—Napoleon, Ohio, Sportsmen’s Association all-day shoot. A, Bradley, Jr., Sec’y. July 4.—Ilhon, N. Y.—All-day tournament-of the Remington Gun Club. July 4.—Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Gun Club shoot. July 4.—Towanda, Pa., Gun Club’s annual tournament. W. F. Dittrich, Sec’y. July 4.—Concord, Staten Island.—All-day target shoot of the Richmond Gun Club. Special handicap, 100 targets, for $10 in gold. Albert A. Schoverling, See’y. July 4.—Altoona Rod and Gun Club. G. G. Zeth, secretary, Altoona, Pa. July 4—All-day shoot of the Haverhill (Mass.) Gun Club. S. G. Miller, secretary. } July 4.—Analostan Gun Club’s third annual merchandise prize tournament. H. Hunter, Sec’y, 1228 Twenty-ninth street, Washingtor, 1D ees a ee Y uly 4,—Dovyer, 4 +, sportsman’s Association’s MHolid sn pe ae Halen sncrer aye a iy Bn uly 4.—Topsham, e.—All-day tournament of the Riversid Shooting Club. Fred W. Atkinson, Sec’y. Be 3 ‘July 7-8.—Ligonier, Pa., Gun Club’s tournament. J. O’H, Denny, Sec’y. Targets. 514 FOREST. AND STREAM. {Jung 27, 1603. DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. Mr. B. D. Nobles, the secretary, informs us that the Olean, WN. Y¥., Gun Club will hold a sweepstake shoot on July 10, : R Owing ta presstire on our columns this week several important trap reports are necessarily postponed for publication in our next ® Mr. G, F. Brucker, of Omaha, Neb., celebrated as a trap shot of great skill, sailed for Europe on the Konigin Luise on Thurs- day of Jast week, R The president, Mr. W. T. Nash, informs us that the Indian- apolis, Ind., Gun Club will give its opening or dedication tour- nament on Sept. 15-17. issue, R Mr. Elmer E. Shaner, secretary-manager of the Interstate Asso- ciation, informs us that dates for the Ottawa, UL, tournament have been changed to Aug. 12 and 13, in place of Aug. 19 and 20. 4 In the team race of the Fulton Gun Club and the North River Gun Club, held in Brooklyn recently, the Fulton club won by a score of i21 to 106. There were five men on a side, and each shot at 25 targets. 4 The prizes at the New London, la., tournament last week were The attendance was fair and industrious, This club will numerous and valuable. The report of it is elsewhere in our trap columns. hold another tournament on Oct. 28 and 24, 4 The Warm Springs handicap, 25 live birds, $25, was won by Mr. Joseph Hightower, after a shoot-off with Mr. H. C. Ether- idge, each of whom killed 25 straight in the main event, In the shoot-off, miss-and-out, Etheridge missed his seventh, . At the tournament of the \W, P. T. 5. L., held at McKeesport, Pa., June 16-17, Mr. J, A. R. Elliott was high average for the two days, breaking 333 out of 350 in the professional ciass. In the amateur class Mr. James T. Atkinson, of New Castle, Pa., won high average with 326 out of 350, x Mr. John M. Lily, president of the National Gun Club, Indian- apolis, Ind., tarried a few moments with his friends in the gun district, New York, on Wednesday of last week while en route with his wife and daughter to Europe. They sailed on the Kénigin Luise on Thursday, for a long stay abroad. 4 The all-day shcot of the Trenton Shooting Association, July 4, ecmmences at 10 o’clock. The merchandise events, four in num- ber, will be shot in the morning; entrance, price of targets only. There is a Remington hammerless gun, a Winchester rifle and other merchandise prizes for the afternoon competition. R Mr. E. H. Tripp, of Indianapolis, Ind., was a visitor in New York on Thursday of last week. His chief purpose was to see Mrs. Tripp safely on board the steamship Menominee for London. Notwithstanding his limited time, Mr. Tripp spared a few moments for a call on his many friends in the gun colony on x Noted shooters in the gun district of New York this week were Messrs. W. R. Crosby, E. D. Fulford, Fred Quimby. Mr. Elmer E. Shaner, secretary-manager of the Interstate Association, ar- rived on Sunday evening last, and took up the matter of pre- liminary arrangements for the Interstate tournament at Ruther- ford, N. J. » At the tournament of the Denver, Colo., Trap Club, last week Mr, J. W. Garrett won the Great Western Handicap. He broke 94 out of 100 targets from the 2lyd. mark in this event. The high averages were as follows: JFirst, Hirschy, 455; second, D. Timberlake; third, Garrett and G. Timberlake; fourth, Hughes; fifth, McMillan; sixth, Riehl and Yonkman. & Mr. John S. Wright, the energetic manager of the Brooklyn Gun Club, informs us that he has changed the scene of club action to new grounds not far from the old grounds at the terminus of Kings County Elevated, Brooklyn. He will hold an informal shoot on Saturday of this week, and later will hold an old-fashioned house warming. He contemplates giving a tournament with a hard-boiled egg at eyery shot. R The Analostan Rod and Gun Club, of Washington, D. C., will. hold its third annual prize tournament on Analostan Island, July 4. There are eight programme events: 10, 15, 20 and 26: targets. Shooting commences at 10 o’clock. In the merchandise: events, the prizes go to the high guns. In the sweéepstake events. the moneys are divided 40, 30, 20 and 10 per cent. Lunch and refreshments served on the grounds. W. H. Hunter, Sec’y, 1228 Twenty-ninth street, N. W. Broadway. Mr. W. A. Baker, Griffin, Ga., won high average at the Inter- state Association tournament, given for the Meriwether Gun Club, at Warm Springs, Ga., last week. He scored a total of 312 out of 95) shot at. He shot from the 20yd. mark. The trade repre- sentatives, excepting Mr, Lemcke, shot from the l6yd. mark for high average only. Mr, J. Mowell Hawkins was high for the two days with 324 out of 350. xR Mr. Edward Banks has donated the L. C. Smith gun won by him at the recent New York State shoot to the Wanderers, under the conditions that it be contested for in a series of eight shoots on eight separate days, 25 targets, handicap allowance, four best scores to count. Entrance fees go to the club on whose grounds the shoot is held respectively. The first coritest was scheduled to take place on the grounds of the North River Gun Club at Edgewater last Saturday. if *, Mr. Walter Willson Watrous died at Atlantic City, N. J., on June 21, from a complication of kidney diseases. He was forty- three years old. 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Saepnceennatn sine eee Jb Ste mr ine sare er! rari rc rl PRENPUSOM taecie cece: seen esis Gee es co aR wy nee re : PATO TW ee tetas dai leeeiet stairs tiem OA eS os Oe Ay ten Oe) ere ee LP eae sees ooh a noaeless ote beet ine abe eos Prd ee et eee Pe They Dasa epee samen 1519 14171417171213 7 145 G Montgomery ......-c++-++s+: 1b 181617 .. .. .. . ws oe ing J Marston ....... reorpiac eG o> te At At 21 20 13 1112 6 June 17, Second Day. The shooters felt the heat considerably to-day, and a few targets were lost, as the shooters got perspiration in the eye— ‘earning bread by the sweat of their brow,” as it were. During the aiter- FOREST AND?STREAM, A strong quartette were Maurice Kaufman, of Wew Orleans; Wallace Miller, of Austin, Tex.; Luther I. Wade, Nacogdoches, Yex., and J. S. French, of Cincinnati, O. Other trade repre- sentatives were F, A. Faurote, of Dallas, Tex.; Louis Williams, Nashyille, Tenn,; T. A. Divine, Memphis, Tenn., and Arthur Saucier, of New Orleans, La.; L. 2. Lawrence, of New York; J. E. Carroll and Charles Spicer. The boys all either shot well or talked well, and helped the management, and were a jolly lot of good fellows. The interesting events for the day were the Peters cup for three-man teams and the 25 target event for the Peters gun. The cup was won by the Shreveport club with the fine score of 73 out of 75; and the high score for the gun by Mr. Mercer, 25. During the evening there was a happy gathering at the hotel. The cups were presented and then filled with wine and passed around. people for the donation. bow. The next shoot will be at Memphis July 3 and 4. The scores: Mr. Kaufman was called and made his Iivents: 1b ee a Wn ey ee Targets 20 20 20 20 25 25 20 20 2010 Broke, LES ii npedtoceatnd ths OobSObbODEe 17 19 19 16 19 24 18 16 19 10 1i7 tric Len eeietncctaahs tice neha s os 19 18 18 17 25 24192019 9 188 ETS re aes ea clin 4) prpt oie 19 15 16 17 22 21 iG 15 17 8 167 NLNTEDD Vee sete LER cl Antes Sse ce 19 20 2017 23 2415 18 18 9 183 ici tl a -eeuareg re eptaioh bites etahita alelas 2019 19 19 25 241719 19 9 190 ISSuEtiaeM PA corinne corner oe 18 19 18 19 22 23 16 18 18 8 178 Ts (UY Bexcemcepeeee peters 9 Stee tutor 17 15 17 20 20 21 1517... .. wee MSWIENICE bared tech cease nese ss 1618 1717 2119 13 1518 8 162 ISTE met lad as cere aanar nella es (Ug PO aN Bee oe sale WARS Die tact ldcides selelaciaeine je alele sis abs 19161518 1718141612 8 153 IMT FSC Te eee aa sada te pelea dei lere 18 20 15 16 22 2118 1818 8 174 PIEATRALS Me gree tates s ck ean cits 19 18 20 17 24 24191819 8 186 SCH SR ACU: Sees e naltd esis peieiciee 17 19 16 19 23 22 19 18 14 10 176 PLAT CL MEE LPL ee eh cde ees alsle lila a atalate 16 18 17 13 22: 211619 1510 167 Wierce racemes bem ce obiepetanss Sete ete 17 15.19 17 25 25171919 9 185 As PAGKSOT beanie dusts ecinis smccens 1718 17 1616 22161715 9 163 ENA CIS OL tala vtets sentinel dee cit pte 19 15 19 18 22 24161918 9 179 ELGAR Poe apecs tn emtiachis dasa eae 18 19 16 16 22 25 24 18 16 10 174 We KOS eee ... 1818 1817 25 21131919 8 177 Atchinson . 20 19 14 17 24 221917 19 8 179 Fletcher .. . 1718 17 17 24 22191819 9 180 Mathews . 16 15 12.16 22:23 111919 9 162 Livingston ..+ 20 18 20 16 24 20191919. 9 184 AGRE riteta bette selene eatert sre apes ees Pee 19 151715 22 2017161710 168 Wioxstd hoe eRe ee oe on totontrs 16 17 17 16 21 22 18 12 11 10 160 Ua Gl eae WA tanta eres aetna 19 16 19 18 24 22 20181910 185 nile Ueno b bore terete 14 14 13-16 21 17 17 13 .. -: mo MOEA TPC see's atelgrale ancr# 09-4 steer ees 1bAS 1517 2023171717 8 162 DlcHturichvere|ine winiiectere nes same 1616171819 2119 2017 9 172 AIDE; SAEKTITS?). deep ebbe locas 14 16 18 13 22 22171416 9 4161 Uy EZ ois 5a BRB RE OEO ee 5 Sie 19.18 17 18 18 23 20171810 178 SUEIIENNERE. 0S AP AAAS 554855 Gane 18 15 17 19 23 2316181710 176 PAMLA TOS 7 te ee oa tere eee saat nee 18 16 19 18 24 22181619 § 178 MictGateheorms taaseet re ten eden aa 13 14 15 17 221917 2013 9 159 Leib eel) pre Ae ned aos Ge- Seat IEA, RS be a OW ET SHER tle Sess cane ts oer es 19 19 20 19 24 21 20201810 190 Witeeeonioyal 2 fee! Santos Swe ee 171718 18 21 23191418 9 174 Bite Ook eyes ee aoe Pe 18 18 19 16 22 21181819 7 176 Oe Man oe etal ean Bor be meee 15 10-15 13 2120151616 7 148 SREnCEr eee RY eniaes « cate. 1818141519 22171818 7 166 AROMHAIGNCETL Fone eee ienleldala race 18 19 20 19 21 2319 2019 9 186 IMDGScian PEE? hela hie crete ct ouiee 19 19 1518 20 22172017 7 174 ERE Wood wardl enc. eter seat 141316191714191675 6 149 VIG ONGe los 5 shoes sieth-ele suite cladcinegeds 171715101618131115 7 139 iclsere Fe eine te eae 1711 14111819161416 8 142 AUC LADEN atlases he PEC 1918 1518 22 2119151710 174 INiteysd Oe Ser temnnoiat ra Coe 19 1413 19 2019 1819 20 8 169 COP Ket Are do testy.) sueee ee 19181717 2120141614 9 165 Chand et Gasca nclawle no orelatee eerste 15 16 18 16 21 21171316 3 4156 Ouiripcen. es Sere ngebe 14 15 15 18 20 15 2019 14 6 156 Ae RHPA Tinisc es cae eee et eens PMG 13 22"20 MOMs a2 b= AAT [ieseiaione vi, She Beebe es ee MeSean 15 16 15 20 2218 161515 7 159 IBIQ EEG eae phcttincaacdassees Babe 18151716 201517191810 165 EOE TC MET be ence mht pete terete 161715 92018151316 6 145 ECTS Wty eRe lr. Bole emneans 17161719 19 22181517 9 169 IREATC ONE aes feu tines oe canta ine 14 15 1416 20 21151919 9 162 Een. ee heen 2 ee 19 18 18 10 24 2418 201910 189 PCULOCUED! Rel Monlja. twee A cota ck 19 161617 2018131914 9 161 Lier Se ee ia ecg 20 20 17 20 24 23 18 191810 189 CRBS Oy pron es ah oe viet elton bis 19 19 17 19 28 21161920 7 4180 Ge Varctontennreisesnen tans 18 20 17 15 21 23181719 8 176 eakins) ish. See Ter ree 18 12 17 1419 221315 6 7 144 Se Marston me VE oT Mearns bsdictaratajetnle felt ciciniuiaieinls 18 141619 20 20 20181918 182 port, Pa.; A. Stohr, T, C. Kreiner, Bolivar, N, Y, Mr, J, F, and they made a good team, SHersieileel Gan eitcesie aetna iteaitss 42) GeO LRN ctelld eine iaeinl lei Care is the secretary. Bi6 FOREST AND STREAM. By Pati [Junk 27, 103. New London, Ia., Tournament. New Lonnon, Ia., June 18.—The New London Gun Club’s three- day handicap tournament closed to-day. The programme was liberal and the attendance should have been double what it was. Dr, C. E. Cook spared no pains nor work to make all in at tendance enjoy their visit in New London, The grounds are as fine as any in the State. A good substantial club house has just been completed. A large sun-shade was put up just.east of the club house, which gave the spectators pro- tection from the sun and a good view of the shooting from both The programme called for eight 15 and four 20 target events each day, with $5 added to each event. Money was divided 40, 30, 20 and 10 per cent, beside a 50-target handicap each day divided Rose system, five moneys. A cup went to high man, In the regular events the sliding handicap was used, limit 14 to 22yds, Thus, each contestant when making a straight score shall be obliged to step back lyd. Should he score straight in next event he shall stil further handicap himself lyd, Should he, after haying made straight score, fail in next event, he shall step up lyd., but at no time can he exceed his 3yd. limit. A gold watch given to first high average, and silver trophies to second, third and fourth high guns. To low man shooting entire programme, $60, A gold watch for longest run in regular events. 20 15, 15°20) WBroke: (Srl ehi pets cto eiilae kaaaden eee tea) erp 96 TEE ee fii ictsls ca. peer 3,3 Seche She ep 14 18 15 14 19 95 Budd servo selsch 86 cbs ae Cate fog beth ts bie Gh wen keep h(t] 95 Burnside li 19 14 14 20 91 Ee es PRC Chine delotae ache ieb be: 18 19 14 14 18 90 Marshall 13 18 14 14 20 92 Burmister 13) 155 eo as 82 Reigttiy Oia nS Seger, ss -ccFuice eos dos 14 18 13,13 18 90 NG boll Fore tS OR i ter oe een 15 20 11) ts 19 93 Lake fois a hee ee Dewey De Ls Me a Baer 14 18 13 14 17 89 aarti on eit eteank pate arte bre Stee ecco Fees KY es pel Wr 88 Hileite aie denn ttcecaneaeweteet ees ences ll 18 14 15 19 88 Nichols Hoe TRUP Sia Wa aly 94 McBride di 16 12 14 14 82 15 Dac ban be one aad 4 ir3q-tot bane wee eens eal daly, 79 Gi atet et, ARS AR Are Deemed eae i ta 155 107 2 17 82 Gilbert 50, Klein 46, Budd 47, Burnside Dove 45, Cook 48, Fifty-target handicap: 48, Marshall 49, Burmister 44, Ross 42, Averages. 1st A 2d reek 3d Ea Total. Wenitlclg -t,. Pia Foes ctehe es pte Tea An eer ie 189 95 469 Cooler seria atett cid Peete eatin dtinn teeteten tea 184 18g ~ 96 468 Sir tee Mr Ve eet er LA ey eee 183 188 95 466 ISR SCORN SL eee Se Ie Bo bec leben Meet fo 174 186 94 454 AGT tye oe ear baste Peete erst aay aeemctehie 178 185 90 453 Marshall 182 92 451 Burnside 180 91 447 183 88 443 180 89 432 168 82 424 Dee Le cae p55 ai.d abe omeueasieve alee ten 166 93 414 BDI anene te Lene trash cope stay aa 157 81 413 HAWKEYE, West Chester Gun Club. West Cuesrer, Pa,, June 18—The West Chester Gun Club held, as previously advertised, its opening shoot on its new grounds, which proved a success. It was 11 A, M. when the ball was set rolling, and the crack of the guns did not cease until 6 P. M. In that time there were tised 3,770 targets. The average entrance was about twenty-seven. The highest in any event was forty-four, Hisher, of Philadelphia, had high score: Sanford, of the same place, next, with Bennett, of the home club, third. We had visitors from Atlantic City, Pittsburg, Oxford, Wyo- ming, Del., and from nearly all the neatby places, and to them all we extend our thanks, for it is the shooters who Stay that make a successful event. 185 targets. The programme provided a total of Appended find scores: Events: £2345 6 7 8 9 10 Targets: 10 15 10 15 10 15 20 10 2010 Broke. IS Sits. fen icone reer ee 118 815 91318 816 9 4119 RAGS: Snoddys eet eee eee Sl ORG eel. if lee 106 SP iors NEE Or 912 811101618 81510 116 NE ea E i au he RONES Pee rag eA 4 (ere ites hi Gestnalinbe se he} aired SOL aes ae pier eaten eeteeace 912 811 S8ili7 914 8 107 VISTULPR Viv teehee Seema ie, ee rene 13101314 711 8 76 VV AETUTE FLITE ors bie afte Ue seer or eel 145-9 tee Bell oe 9 38 85 BGO) ise pe ae tale water eve ce ieee ee 1018101318 910 7 90, IVICRIUTES LOLI. fun opeeereniree iene ames b 4 8 910 2 7.. 45 Capt Sit Gla! tw. emote neice ee at erene male 915 71417 816 10 96 LGHIEGTY Pia seeet enh ene et 911101316 2 3. 64 PATE VENIS( guint elo fete tntie else seh asta nae 8 8 Sis d4 Si) . 70 aU hall gee pare ee peed eC te 181018101418 914 9 110 How, Ossi Fells 40 chee 76 St DAW ee 54 ee OS ORs 73 Pa Ee Rae eye 75 BOS So ae 44 i lee od eae erg 67 é ORL ON Se GPE 5 57 INEETSEET 014 ce eeNe nr cetdn orice (ge Cen Soil ke A 0} Wee aly eee 76 Malia WF Panera ntact, htt Fe a oe BO SW a DT 78 BEG eee INO EEE Nh eins DS ee ne Adee a eee al HEDouGOTIMEn MLeeehnens wate ueeee ig ES ie Abe vi ts) 56 Fron tic at Re Res oe ae SA eA: (te heb alan es Loess Pi 38 SCL eES ae ee sak Le eee 811 614 8 13 12 10 11 93 let ea ire rere eh at acts HO) net 36 IFae Se GUL reek ie a 14. tn “pe 14 ERO INESE Peete cee tater anyother lk 10. 8. eh wee 24 PALE et ohedubeaahy aes eet any 8i4 91) 14 Be Pcgits 45 bya s 3.4 kent eerer ree na mm 12 10.10 17 7 2) 2: 56 Gry se hte ee atd ehh ie eee ee ne Lele Ese Seeee ee yy 38 Cardwell ih rh 66 isk ima Vere Moerat et Gn bean KARA OLE cease 36 Harvey 614 9 19 Ba‘dwin Mare yarn ts 16 Feet OF oa nre hs Cia toa eis Ae 3: 8 G Smith .. Ga, «6 32 igelenat Seven 28 PITH et cteeies bette ase ene eee ee etal Mie tae th 25 1 Torito et en oon Leta tot, tote tet 35 Waters art a 6 Jackson oath 22 MATIC; Mache s shiciy ae sh ve eeeena ie ae ee, on Nemcie on, Boas 4 Broomall Ce eA eh 12 MaConkle syste pete: cect ome beers 41415 6.. 39 WiiohagoLsikal (res ea pees oa he el ee pL ae S08 17 Pele lle cliaty eG Bees Rats eeeeeee: mremen mare rs 5 Noe Oe 14 SECIS Wa YS. Cert re armen imme Ten ky Mt is Jem 12 erga bis 12 Mohs se yt RE R eee e Mov hicce Clee otecomees 11 056 18 VEGAS Dire erty ves, ete OMEN fei eye ett Boats ears 18 ary 13 OUTS, FB GE Aan oat penetra otis ofere eek, aaa ime 5 SIMGdiy) Gheesiages paws semen buntnr pe cor eabenre ae rae Gieea 6 Renmineton BAN assrcdep sunt saebac setee Skibo ets 48.. 4 F, H, Eacuus, Sec’y. ON LONG ISLAND. Fulton Gun Club, Brooklyn, N. Y., June 21,—Eyent No. 13 was of special interest. It was the team race between teams of the Fulton Gun Club and the North River Gun Club, 25 targets per man, six men to a team. The home team won with a score of 121 to 106. The scores follow: Events: A 2 eat cde (Can Oren eG el emia Targets: Usb SFist ite aksy Ay WER. ap aes) NSfol nope i544 SEL estat eis IBY SGP ahie Sey Gk ae ap ae ae ae ahh DATE YT oP Nees eee BL F- eieae whl Vulk 3. wedeDC bec lamellae ee ee ee WRG LG Aroe ine or Ri iy oe AUS Reese Us aed Sl SL a eT Gp Rieyvncldss -seterreceenen 1G as SPH bead wld 3 aGP 3 lt ae Clowere ps ete eee tek Can. MMos be, ee bod et hgh. Es A SchoOverlinte: j.ecanl. 6 11 14 12 1A) 12) 0: 9 AO 12e JUENGt=S Dy AR an RA RAR GE SE 11 9 De Oo ty 9) 6 Getter [esa aees a eee 18 10 ash Me ahah 10 12 13 IN OtGis oi lenegers se nen use ee ES ei AG te ko ee ELearrGarns ene ssag race ate Shawn cag reean Rests © ea ale nlm non, ease tS livshiechvehse hore ete eter A ree ae SA aye ales ale 3c, ae ue hoy) Sal AVEO tee Aver Sea nee aha Rpg eee i ee Merril ligarse 2a token resets 10 10 1 Sthevi lS ee a eae eee, 38.4 Vosselman .... a peds Jed ol Or 5 OT eR Miss ea Be Ae ete IVE CCEP wre es lee FS wees WANs EM fete aetna es ee em a Ly Schneider SRE pea MR Rs el! Bip ace yh OE INN is AACA SOM SNM af gs ti es et eee og SH tte per, Wa Sos tale alent tatehatahy aap hs, wae aah ili!” “Iie 12 (. 10-18 Messenden” Stes py..5 sss oe RL eel es, nies 10