' ¥i : Saresia tan etS r ity bt ’ raf aiden inane ii eet? . 4 ‘ J rane ; wheat iy ce rere _ vr c a Pe ey nenred eaten tere See ce : gar be nS wee ere a ey ele ns Poem wpe meet ; ee par rere. phen oS powervene rare ite . can Sy eet nl ae SSeS: cs ~ ’ 265 State Game Parks .......-:0cecesctete entero eee 221. Be GOS ces ba sple Bane eaters Pat am 384. 403 RUS NS emer ce raat at Aquarium, Balan eStehesschent tes Gage oa eee eee 507 I a Sa ear Bo Cana A ta Nee SvereD MEISE ttn wr aro oceyt 295) 4p 283 EUs 2 See Pugin Fae ARES PRG eee a Audubon, Birds of America .......+.0+eeseeeees 503 Praited estates: Tish) Cotnumissionis sas 200i Auduboni Mas! Bradiond says. ne toe nce 84 Re re gece reat tnt ure kei Sebel Audubon Portraits .........eer segs ee cece eres ees 24 ates andr DGBABOY S ethd ae isabo kare y gL Barnyard Plumage ....---s++sesseese sees reer eres 383 PSO RUNS cnr NOUS ssonah ye cat sha eb aaeesaches FEN A ties Mars BR oe eee oy AEs Race ad.) atene BSS "Oa a pas aa SY tt Pals pet Suc aialewnas uid stave ate ay eeeer ees 104 Wellowstone Park Rules......5..c.cccees eee eenes 201 CNG RTI ye og ena SS Sel cece" 506 Wellowstone Park Stage Robbery............... 144 peers eh dhe INT Raman Ghacaanontions 204 Birds of Riverside .......-.sceee eee reece eee eeees 84 SPORTSMAN TOURIST. Buffalo Breeding .........:+:es-+eeee seers sere 63 Alaska and the Yukon... : RAL aa@aa aan aan at 262 | Buffalo, White and Wood............-- ng outed BE Alaska Undians. ........-.-4... A nttnndidsodaeade iis 493) Canadian Northwest .....-.-.:20.+:22 es teewe tree 823 eh sbo ran teres sea tnne coach LOBAECitizene Bitd (agar ieees- teen vaapneeioe Coongsb du catlonmererr ernie iach ERE BErLEeE.. 424 @Gonminstivcrm wat clone een tr ste 344, 383 (Greyoynesou Ineevl your IGonsbehs i Aiad saan ene noone soc 24 (Gero, aisy Wolo See Cooc cotae sco sdobeetoa4s 443 lByeae phat Vibes (Geass sagsnajgosored coe oem 364 lDxesh Ialayretsy Ibpeyelierel yh yak penenc ones wane 303 IBSirieeiiiveya (SOONE no aco dace condos saad aoe 183, 245 teyed or eee eer h Se ht PAP PAA ABEL OOO EEE REL 403 oreh. LOMUTmM ttt e eres ieee a Aci Cane cetet 424 IExotic Species, Introduction ............. acre PRE! (GGose mercial: puce damental nena seiner ener 508 (Grrtonbisten star | ISAS non San ach panna nec osanoncsace ede 225 Grouse Nest) Miy Hirstijci te. i.see telecon danas 348 Grousesot) thes eraiier Chen used Seen etapeteryer aes oe 166 IBS obs NGneeabOy EN A347 3458 oem ae oc gan occ OAs 425 Mockingbird in Massachusetts ...........-...... 45 Mlcoxelkersayesoniraral anne Witceseavongt 255 an conahoue sue eiseen, 84 Moose, Curious Freak........ Eat densioca ae A 364 Witoveedl Syne shoe | Binbin Sse pysparatton: bee ete 145 WMaoyarsnechat SSeS ONES Lub oees shaved beers cee dcos 344 IMIoLIStes colle in Calan epee oe Et eee cee ate eB ene 64 INGOT Way Villd Sluttes: = 5 ene neteits anne BP eee enron 166 Taken Weheetoyesn So oe oocdpot Bhar poco odabanesuiar 104 ine eoialce wltditishy Vere sain eee ee aoe eee . 104 Rotltnyes Breedinp ipimst sn Oese. rhe ee en ener 283 IRegonpetoyetsn aeacak Whhqal (OzKexes4- yee Gann paces adauraee! Redheaded Duck Pood Fey Seema cedadaiais en tunc 24 Ieeel Syapsiedereslh, WiMb Mes 6 em o¢ ocoepuaus wgobosde 463 Rooster pAicephaloinsees sass Peat ner Hens sae 145 Seal, Ae pales eras nee ap ee Te ey Oe oe ae 44 Sresibboter (CroyelGhantopich, hag sn aeeeGho sin scosodnseassete 425 Siaronyellvere IDetel oF too den sen aac tose d sop es 283 Smell, Sense of..... ee 104. 183, 204, 225, 246 Srakest i! oe .. Sane oss Sap Ane 203, 225, 283, 323 Saiincels Red? liye cote eta ee ee eae ae oe 443 Squirrels and Birds’ Nests.:.-........ aha bo, St 104 Sxyeultenwusy euaqdl (Syonmneriwelks fee Aa 4 Watsshtos rey ied WMGY AERO Ded oo nett SA est ees carers 463 Velllowstarne- crank SSeS. aa sae Nase te ctte Gjeeyey eo 484 GAME BAG AND GUN. Adinondack Deen AeLet-Aen wee ee aha ReE ee eees 26 Adirondack. Weer skint Pascoe een brennan 205 Adirondack Deer Killed in 1896................. 368 NVR SRS IBAH RET 1 A ee err oh Opa ot bBo oi) 426 a\idleayotsaies (Gains (Crovbhatoee aac aee gon nee eis 26 IBETSGt past ee Serer, siete eter ah Se oie me tie ing Bree a 287 IGE einen ou kB AAAs RAGE BBS DHASO ETO 486 Bear Grease for Winter ..........0.. esse seer eee 146 fala TGs CNasertiewesn aan, !atogeastnanashtuse us 466 Sonu: AWW everovate eS a Bg diate. root ioaeanoakee 227 (oyna A TEMES War ARR BENE SESH DONO aon onCdbecescp a0 266 Ganada “Goose SWOObINe: 9 Ayaaeis peasant eer 186 @aribome the: PROWMIMN es ye es eemues ec etsitee sees seni 463 Glradwicks: eos iene see nee Ree EL EE.se 87 Chicken Shooting with the Apostles .......... 445 (Giinnthere = Aan occu BABA S Ao Sdaunaransnds ba ohes 6 Colorado leleosisvaver TUS pee esoyeonoasgen eed SLRS ; Crooked IDYenval WWRIIESP opp ApGApnoocgsecuubtoseedens 408 CA oe oe ant eM LS oo oe ned aaa 484 iDYsor VAGnSseanis Ase ess ongnbdasiebrontnonppes so 125 Deer, Heavy ee es Indy Ale ieee ele Rn ners 2 See EEE 425 Rartridses at eWihite ssaicemn aeeae see eee tec 185 DERGb Oy estouses sa seiO a cd ak UCiCIN AG AR EAASS AR ANAGR face 427 Pheasantsn tor Vito Un tenner hE Een bert nnmaaene 309 Pheasants in Massachusetts ........;......2--5- 388 Pheasants: im uN ewe lensevae 4 ponent atte eens 510 Pheasants in Ohio ........-ccececseseeeeuers 26, 167 PITeaSanitsmiiyheXa Saas eee eer rea ye ene 226 Pioneer Daye a hlcimasanen ts Seen weed 329, 367, 428 Pottergeb Otred® A. eeepc sete errr bee ts 187 Prairie Chickens, Meniyes Coutitya sneiiee eee 510 IPreseqvier OO eSHONs shits caeelcawely «aes unneisae waa, O10: Reminiscences of an Old Sportsman...... 306, 326, 344, 364, 443, 464, 485 Rhode Island Association ...................... 188 TESTES Grose, [Skrsoneever’ see mo noose oe - a0 soe ees 467 Ruffed Grouse, Illustration .........+.++5.+- +3010: Scotlands tstal kerr Geyer tae Fe ROR Ets 365 -_ Es — Page. “THIS poo Danese sO Dp oa oon gr bs DODO eNO OOOO 268 hooting Casualties ........-...eseee etree rere 407 hooting Positions ......--..1ssseeeeeeeeeeteeee 387 Pada, Cruise Of o..5.--.sees cance mee ssudite tee ecee 25 Mipe Punt’? 2.2... sees edness ee reenete tte tenes 188 owshoe Forms ......... soci Frain re etidedordnde 45 PEt eens A nee sete ne menet et siNnos 429 ortsman, Evolution............--nspesee seers 304 portsmanship Made Easy ......-.1+++++eesrrees B24 pottsmen, Two in One beenreerestesteees 126, 167 quirrel Hunt in Southampton ...........++++++: 246 airrel, Red iti. s pees ees essen ree eee nee 425 quirrel Shooting ......-sessese ese eee e sete eres 447 quirrels in Central New York.............+-+-+ 426 PME [ouiise Gamer Mark etSmirsemsrrsicys stews cere sree 465 @al, Illustration ......4.2.s.cse eee ees sere eteee 510 ‘exas Weer Hunters ......--. cesses ce ee eee e ene 305 exas Ranch, Night on .............s-syserese es 204 Phanksgiving Quail .........s. pees eens ete eee 467 iger Hunt in Costa Rica ..-..-...0ssseereee ree 287 Fown Visit ...... mye 8 BEER Ae eects dt aaa 486 Tramp and Camp ......-...esererr steerer sec eees 285 Purkeys, Brace Bier. Cont a ee ote I SALLE 385 BeeerirOrite GOMES... 5st sp stese tees tee vince = crea ale 287 Mermont Weer von... seen ees c eet tewe cere tseee 346 hiiebabe Mckee) 2a AB oooh a oeoneUr onan anne dounet 206 Greinia Quail Law ..-----+2+-++ seer ees 309, 328 “TEASER Tee IF Ob HEE Oe Ee ENy 4. 5ROE 488 Woodcock’s Winter Home .................---- 364 “Nanas HAAS ORE OG Ae OOUr emda eae ara 403 Wellowstone ezrictce Peta leas specu tra rasateisteaisreteeor = 268 Nellowstone Park Stage Robbery ...........-.- 147 Paper ee ECE NCES Sg ety nea cS slelsle's 225, 267 SEA AND RIVER, “uebuayanapzcole TENE Gt bs tee ealeany Haga aA Oooo Ce mes 12 2 Dieptertt Shay 4WOIEY BUS onc deer scbenboumoomaae seat bt 147 \gepateseins), TAI m7 5S 5 As 4a heey eee moreso gcse kid 310 Alligator, Cartb.......6::ee sees eee eeeeeeee ter stas 452 Wtivord, Thomas (Gi... 2266s sey ee oe ees 369 American Fisheries Society .........-.. IPAS BPAS sal Mita sy Tite eee AM re, eet Sooo cea 389, 410, 430, 450 Arkansas Pearl Industry. ..........ssisiiasssdees 190 Bass Depletion .......+....s.22 esses sees sees sess 429 Bass Fishing, What I Know About ........- *..490 Bass Fly-Fishing in New England............. 112 Reasse ihe MASSACHUSELES: . 6.2. hn eneriat ene 90 Weatscoatth News lonpland |) = ost ogs 52k etna ee efor 171 Doreen ine e VAGOUIVI A Seat teen Lerner Poe eS 150 MES. TERETE RSE Eo aie yn SA AP Oe 452 Basswood Bass for Count Fishermen........... 252 erectile ic OU) Aamir ns letersi iabsleiisicrtegn om oh rele aels stoke 150 (lng Taide: VOSA ecb bpuD nena ea pASOaaae 211 Cc eySed? UMRRIS h 4. 64 pn OAR aS Oa au Ce ace 273 PEROT AD MUCK Gm ei peg p Re srersrelated oteatersvelsts 44a eee ds 88 MPRA A LINSTEO IM, era bear 2 Satals s spolarsiel Sols pe coheed ote 349 “Tet Ba\ebe ais 2 a eS oo 148 ani Forest and Stream 2.0.4.4 c..ces ss eee 208, 229 Cpe Buebieetg Seabed bbe tec mate Mens pw awe mere ere ee ara 48, 110 ‘tinea bese 1D Abi Sy = Jhaee dhe bheose aang manatee 28 PEPRGRES USO IG MO MCRT A we eels Sir aces sa preens we + 110 ‘Counts JBBI Tis deap” Woe See nd AO ARD AM Bas Nene 273 Chicago Fly-Casting Tournament .......... 151, 170 Keroests| Hishine. Info. thes. iiss cece eyedt de orete 70 er V OR SEE TOUT a. hat TA date retek s oles fn ee 161 RMOITTCERCUE NNIATETS: cto sea a cch «hl ec lelejemiclepreiaine we 210 Mbp seote ot. Glaines Plats ccna. spss conn hah bebes ee 412 Pela wants IUVET ASS: ogee 46 fe4e cts, fo0 oe ete See! 289 _D Fina Noh S| JE cree eine ns 368 BMT MENSTUMEY Wardle Sy !515\ sais eo op ealne eae 90 Biches WH GOdmStPDly on ne nodes. eters Pes: : 110 Fish Commission and Commercial Fishermen. .411 BET s WHIMS Vise opts eel ele es eeensan nant ete 169 STE TE, SSonsoodgulaodc Raa lala tae ae 368 Pish Protection and Fish Production .......... 271 pMen JI Have Fished With: BulehVe—ay eSatterth waite, .,.,..-2ees!sdaccu, 11 SSL Vig ema HIDE V aie oan sored ver ate, 26 OMNG id ee Flementussyay -sulete vane cece 46 Pel MVE PG) PeMMIGSON «yy Ap euehteeat sts pas 69 SNLVITI.—George Tweddle ......2..+-........ 89 Oro, Me INaSIe Fetus. onc oh chal 149 Exams Werichatday. + ons. .2 nese 189, 210 Dah ree ee VV TLD UTAREE EL eres ae ae 209 Ee lee allotton ene sll penne neee PERS Eit.—G. W. Sears (Nessmuk).......... 249 TEM Can OED IS een oes iat, Sw ONE, at Naan 290 Ve PEE Ss yen ues es ee MEE Ae 311 ee ae Viel terse eee eas ee 348 PENAL ealtiraniineesiess ay ect eR 472 Waicrida Shore Wishing 0.26... ..e.. cose 130, 211 Fly-easting Tournament ......9, 71, 111, 151, 170, 190, 228, 272 Brand Lake Fishing: .+,,-\.<+s.20c50.s8sse00--.. 211 Grayling Days 20.0.0... cesses eeenes esses eee ees 272 Bete, Er EE oo e544 34 tian ocelgo Soa Maver 109 Hemlock Lake .,........... feet ER RA ORS A | 291 ie Bok, Fish and Line -...,......-,c...e05...--. 101 INDEX. Page. IEIGGHES Suotecats ay ohh pootn hina Jue egcuceeDenear ac 270 Towa Outing Center .......5scseeee seen erste sees 150 Kingfishers 1.2... ccc s cence eee e nse ceseeeenteces 88 Lake Champlain .........2..s see eee c eee teers 49 Lake George Sunapee Trout ...,....---++-++++: 148 JESGERS -4 Ad AH id bu hg pete ood on eee io eee 210 Madawaska Trout .......-..seeveteepoesecseren ent 211 Massachusetts ASSOciation .3....-..-eeeee ener ees 411 Merrimac Valley Memories ..........+-e++-2002- 292 Michigan Pines, Amid .......-..s:eeseeereee rene 300 Minnesota Center 2.02.0... cence sec ceee crete ees 190 Minnesota Fishing .........:ssssrese cere teense eee 49 Minnesota Waters .........ecseeeee eer setsr cece 170 IMEISSOUPIp SOEREATIIS! Gooey pe otinees seb aillnsns tsire + 1018 431 Mullets on the Hook ......... esses esse eee: 252 Muscalonge in Minnesota.......:----sseeeeeeeee 27 Why ABest KORA Copcancaea phoned cdgnos. guaseodopiad 310 Wicjareitebet 502 Re ose Sog0nee ans pyuuesnonomiaod 31, 130 RSE S OST? Ce i ares uch be Obbomm eo 313 INK Tekbietetsle Weert: Sune c be ybcosqomnde anegos Bal Newfoundland Attractions ........-.,...+..+-.- 148 New Jersey Coast Fishing .............-.. 112, 331 New ietseyasea ebishing) ese ter error csr eee 210 Wwe IMbesatetor JAN bheS: os Secocaans sop ecudnies andr 210 North G@arohina WBAtKeGSe re vn ess eeimrde a 369 North Carolina Sea Fishing .................... 432 ISkonmee MSyeoysel Iisebeake® 40 Sh oece ciahoneee sd 7 COuksl (Chorkeremie (GUMNtY, Lencass ian wees adn OH bros Soe 207 (Ohoteeuitco. Tieavvoues Wee Goodapede code ouopdoe- cor 171 Our Camping Ground (Poetry) .........,...-.. 249 Baite carb Stim saris. Lik tered ett) eit saeag. seco Pennsylvania Association ..........0..++.+..-5. 312 (Etesavoisyahienon tee (Cforomhoabisphevsl oO ae con oponauc oes 250 Pennsylvania Fish Commission ................ 211 Tpisdeli WHEE cen psoeepdiaa sdos ke Atoka 7 irtorsneayr (or IBeuncdentAbhoaees Ak ak auc ene oe 169 LEYouisiopav yoni re) JEvusihty IaleRmelnteny Gee dec oame nga: a5 oe 350 ies reine tee UES Goer eh bab S Sho DG oe Seo me 190, 490 Potemacshiversbollati Ones insee esta 22s 252 Public Fish in Private Waters .............:-.5 29 Rainbow-Brown Trout Hybrid.................. 151 TWINS Aa he ABE AS SAR SA Sobdocobe co aneeegss= at 31 Rods. EWE epanttine: TuM. we pes sees outta 513 Senlkintavar cL Uae hatn Solio ron Ot a, e dens sae pea 28 PSSGainosn, IBIERETES = aL eee dia eeacuia RARE SAS See 49 Salmons, News (Renobscot far. -cadesen eres 49 Salmon on the Sacramento .-..... 2525.02.04... 49 Spikt (foe JEROME Yeo ok boddnce gebere ed obeead eood 452 Sharks in Long Island Watets ....-............ 153 SS iriikenom Vics meeensae en ni ore ae ee ee eee se eee 452 Sucewate., Dey At Eee pate ra at Poo udGen noo os na UG 88 SMe eMbesh= Wael onnmeeqhssiieiues scree 12 Swowelje ghee Aghoysionst URBANO. eee cota gogedhosagun AT3 j ote Lawrences Anpletsie 2.) 9.58... eens 152 pot Wawrence (Raven Bishisto ey, ees: ore meee 109 Bickers eas SerOUinsDeSulOy Cisse Lane be weenie 128 Suckers on Missoni SUPCATINSIN oe fereecese ee kat 10 ssibanalanye dfuiGjarba¥er| veirorn> Epre sooo oouconeaanh otecnd 188 SULA G WIIMPEES HT. eo eer ay wen stele ek aoe etd i512 ackle onk the Wiest. Coasty ......... .assiosdse 152 Manponweine alexas. ya -nwsnc neste. oo 207, 210 ave Me ryme el ineriGea MVL Mics slp carecacrie tte ap ce ee ara 252 Terrapin, Fane: EET’ RYS 1) pur eceee Oto ey 369 Bomahavie glanced eee prea eer seems oy Oe, Me 252 Trout, Rainbow, Experiences ................-- 6 ‘Unigeyehe WT Sypiiaos (GOMES oo AD cele ees bee 251 CNtichesemlclonieleia erat soca ae ee ey TG, MVC tIE SRG etme eee ata top ae Pee Onan ets, 111, 150 AVRIL “IS eoysys Feat. WERE. Ke oadaoncntel tenn ess aee 90) \Vivlettven ahiMsy, (Cesmcapnaeeigain ee. Aad aden 111 Winnepesaukee Fishing ......... 0... eeccseec-e 152 Wow grmilen ke Wit sy renee tae ate, 8) ee: 28 KENNEL, A NIEOLON A TUT G i 8 Comes: AACS Dyee Hl AA gic Meee ht 293 AY ee (Eee ee at, eee ee 72, 231, 274, 392, 437, 516 ne NENG Go ORE SON Nl aneh pee een im Sa 91 Mlabama Wreld Wrials Club... 320.4 acne 274, 516 Myrotsrresosl Psyavantsil (Cihbley Sag canes bonne 93 Tesh oyoyal YU I UEP ES Sees fh 5 ashpeeteodele Soc e 412 Jugrayer dian See i nana ees Boe SEB SA AAAS Cana 453 Brunswick Fur Club .......... 191, 232, 293, 350, 475 (Catarteberen Vera otsl ACI we eon gopeol ade cp aniei se 352 Gente) Butphe sClui eee Ie "B38, 372, 434 Champion Field Trial Association ............. 453 Ghesapeakel Bava orse cress Reh ee scones eso 91 Gii@aros andu the Wiest. Werle cue ss one. e ese ahs 414 @ontinental (Gligh) f22.25$ o4yse: 114, 131, 154, 212, 352 IDVAGHATE RMS heh et Png o kot hanes sae Pe ee. 213 MOGcemrse cart satis se Seat ee, a ik ae 491, 515 Dog Show Stock Company ................-.... 453 Dirck ats Waves ist eo tile tee teary. oa re .! 214, 253 DO bse dole oee Avon eet teeter ve yo, 214 Dorsey Potiticers hee een odaseyn as tee. oy 414 Editorial Mare’s Nest ........... Bonnet ates ide 92 TDA oe be Cc. HELE CHORE AE a5 ae 352, 378, 412, 414, Field Trial Judging .......... 131, 154, 171, 191, Fox Hunt, North Carolina ............. ' 432 293 ee n— eee Hera boa Hit he Scantling Page. Hoosier Beagle Clith . 0.2: ssasese epee ee bene 414 TlowGe SUI cdonnage Sas se soc eodOs Mootools sennnde 414 Hounds in British Isles ...........-eseeseeess Eyal TAROT; UNO ORE) 4. Coon sae veson:tecued snmp ohoo sed 473 International Field Trials Club ....92, 414, 484, 474 Tesesot bie OMI) oe Sebortr a uccosdietncada soe 50 GHEE) SE eda age bray ates pgoco0das ia DCO ON OulaEy 12, 49 Kansas Gity Bield “Grials..7-...--.. 21s. seee es 492 Tester Ae Pearle: Death Oternsnspecssss2sseeser 414 Manitoba Field Trials Club.......... 113; 173, 231 Metropolitan Kennel Club ............ 382, 852, 372 Missouri Field Trials Association.............. 492 nikeatesi WDisfShecaccbeasaadecoopoonohcood ae sur ores 32 IT NEG) tka WME)” Ne 50, 282, 314, 351, 392, 413 Tue Doves: er wtoyemocee ea ieee Arig Acordes 253 INfleeIO Hiaiel AMMCHER ALA bo codebecos sceuneecodnts ed 231 National Beagle Club............ 172, 332, 32, 516 National Fox Hunters’ Asgociation........ 313, 437 New England Beagle Club:............... Bis Dl New England Kennel Club............. Seb HCUEE 302 Northwestern Field TMAE MES AGI pte etcad op Sho ocho e 253 Theirs ee yrs IDVORS GORE Oey ct See conddistanbore 92, 392 (Qiavlabrewal feaaveyy Tibiolsitines AAR eA eee eoaeeane odoodn 172 TETiiitin iahalleys Wee S654) HOOD oO O06 DOD Cor DORR CER BRE, 13 Pointers as Wrorkinan: 222s iee eee 2 ess 131 Iovnmnasie WOME, puuoooadaadariedeoded on ReO DO od ur: 516 (Olepicasainners: soe MDS A ee pn eB ooabesAnut os 154 NSRNDRES, ond Ate te A LER ORD OBGERA Coad bODodogens 114 Srillhve navel AMIEUbOEKS ark negates dou orece nus cumin oe 475 Schooling Dog..,...31, 72, 118, 158, 173, 191, 273, 293, 318, 332 Sincere: 1OYoves MBB EWI Sane Wowie ho boner, Gs Betied 6 72 SOne UB Mumact alts atk acer Adogs Sooo Ot oCeod 381 SqHinge LOS HITE CT REN fae ot) erie ead tera te 437 Swope, SMavenmeice VDYeinel vO oe Beppe ho taan ape seess 274 Trespassing ............. et eR DY BE coed Ar ash: 314 Witione bial! rials! (Clitbecssrer uaraeee dase sass 414 TOG Se ISR) 5 4euns sinebecamenond Obbee shal MapoER el7s WeEwolehe (ot econ: ID Xoyece tes ue les prtveore sear Pace: cgraeood 90 Western Massachusetts Fox Club.......... 332, 413 WiOLGESbeia Hilti GOmipaty gen, gee. jee eerie ee eee 371 NVOLOIGHE ET Te eietnet |: Aan Leenn Ata ti aaet sore YACHTING, ([Uustrated articles marked thus *.) ANcbatnhewebooe owe ob bdudowddod 354*, 374%, 394*, 415* ENTS TGui ats "spe Ale son SOK boob Anton oboodetoe 93 American Y. C. Knockabouts....314, 336, 397, 419 PNT he BSS SAK Bere std GAO BODEN occa aL AN AOS ok eect tre Le Be DE ae, Cn 2A A Dee 257 Nt ETaT lee ACs SN eo aang ain tree Fees Heachet bores 14 P\oreeE pS ANE REO LEO BR fat Det npdopadepo ach orm obo 135 Brand’s Challenge ......255, 276, 314, 315, 378, 418, 438, 476, 493 IRATE peor nae. hastens 6 ead cdemonen ae. Wes 397 Gohkasset SGlass) esi rhs ere atts pacts care rf eee 317 Cruises: DUTTA Fone Maa RES A tbe oe afi pe Pi ineih hs Mey os 25 . West Coast of Biorida ectibal pentatonic t 2 316* Cythera AP AN AAS YOON eI SE apes ree Serre oe 454 Detender—Construction ........354*, 374%, 394, 415 IDS g Whe he! ab a ered ee Lee Reto & Baie 93 Hits reel iter ee cee Stacie 373, 393*, 495 AEtSbheeaver Tears PaaS eis Nee Recty age oe eee ee Pree 197 Il koravernemiE sarah: Ve-ohnives Cora, Ry Ren Ames ey er 457, 476 1DroybibbentgueWilheeS ko Rb oahiber eee An Pao bar ons Oe 241 (Cibetaveztiaeh ANE ecw 15 Aga R Poe 325 Sieber 52, 134%, 495 Goslincys Pre gene So PUREE lc. .6 fis. ers Jeu hb Great. akesmees emi nuegiee oh ess nae esata, 4d bnidecard mn schoottets Wpee nt 5) nee 56, 117 Beatin tel NAS ele cee eee Eo ae SO ay irr te Fs 417 ESET el een eRPI TTS EV CHART eee cee oe 96, 117 Knockabouts. (2.2 nom. sales 94, 299, 336, 4938, 494 RUBY Ste Done Ae ean ae 13543 155* [4aSGde Succ A st ee he La PF ho, , allie 317 ILyoxayer IES Geert iSrenssatal As WR. WU aL Aeacoaynacenaue 494 Massachusetts Y. R. A....232, 275, 276, 337, 353, 437, 477, 493 Measurement ...... 95, 157, 215, 255, 353, 377, 415, 477 INIGT Ga chee as See Pee eee Or hth e ty uy 95% Ufa rite Si aut Me R Ret fe eS SSA ART Rep ies 2 275 North American Y. R. U....262, 275, 298, 373, 396, 492 GQnawar d-cpy pee yee eB ea couse sue 299* One-Design Classes ........ 194, 215, 255, 276, 336, 513, 516 Obituary: : Basclordemiiranictvitan eee eee OAC aU e: §, Geea a 37 BaylvaaCapt, sblentye Pi tap,2,.4; 5.0m) at 215, 300 (Cocleren Oy den amen saps tea): et nee ik eee iB 2555) Nites TIDE Ce TE. ot Bs ABR 5 Cae Ad A Se ed 355 Jeune: SNH ain AAne dort = OQnAiae ey SAA ASSAF & 132 PROD LOU Ge ica tet..8 ere tt.) seieatee he 315 Racing Rules, Amendments......,.,............ 376 REDUDLICN tuts Seen EE eee, Vee Mehl eae 8 439 Ravin sides) phic s whe teeven etree n eneeke mee? Let etl 276 RGOSECU MUSA TER Is Vn oe sneered LON iS aac pelt 217 SU Td 6 AACS OOEE BOOT Eee ene en 454% 3 Page. 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PNAMOTIGATT fe Melt et ea aed teh rat pra tat etstete 55, 176, 255 American, (Newburyport a... ci erese ns. +t aa coesiese 195 INTO: ooboonn oe cheenopSucdtiniethpocoogan hoi 516 PASEL A TED LCi etyalo lois © stecavqsetclent stata cpcke go atara a abe tevouchcteets 16, 56 ibyeyereresn (Crogesetny Wes (Coan ce span commbsor ce cues oned 477 Beverly ...... 54, 133, 175, 195, 216, 256, 315, 317, 495 Tsloxeor AGIA = Lt —————; BA HOOKING A BIG RENDHORSE WITH GRAB-HOOK ON THE SHOALS, fest it during bad weather; for farmers in this region only indulge in fishing, if at all, during the planting season, when it is too wet for farm work. We arrived on Saturday afternoon, and with us came an old-fashioned April downfall, putting plowing for the farmer and bass fishing for myself quite out of the question. The miller told me that the next day would bring crowds of natives to the mill, and I might witness a big fish for suckers and join initif I would. Now, sucker fishing had always been beneath my notice, but as everything else was out of Ree and I had to wait until the river cleared up be- ore there was hope for bass, I did the best thing under the circumstances, and fell into the sport gracefully. With the morning, and, indeed, that very evening, wagon- loads of noisy countrymen began to assemble, fixed their camps and secured places for their dip nets, These nets are constructed as follows: A square net, about 5ft. each way and very baggy in the center, 1s suspended to four prongs ‘of hickory wood fastened into a: block, which works in a slot at the endofalong pole. The one managing the dip net lowers it to the bottom of the stream in some eddy near the bank; aiter few moments it is quickly raised, and often hasa number of fish struggling within. I have known as high as nine suckers, averaging 2lbs. each to be caught at one dip. It is quite a load and about all one man can lift out, espe- cially when the entire weight comes at the further end of a long pole. We had a specially reserved place directly underneath the mill, where the water eddied around, and beyond which the ascending fish could go no further, By daylight the river bank on either side was lined with dip-nets. The river banks for some distance below the mill were walled up with rock, and formed an excellent place for dipping. Then, it so happened that, this spring, the apron of the dam had been washed away, and if was quite impossible for fish to go higher. So here they congregated in great numbers, and fell easy prey to their destroyers. Thousands of fish crowded themselves below the dam, and all day long the busy dip-nets were raised and lowered, casting the struggling suckers on the rocks above. ’ For some hours I became quite interested in catching, after this fashion, the abundant fish. Now and then the dip-net would bring out a great, flopping redhorse that would tip the scales at 6 or 7lbs. Then a school of sunfish, or perch, would become entangled in its meshes, We even caught crappies and catfish, and a few—though a very few— bass were brought out. The hogsuckers that chanced to come up were thrown away; so were the hickory shad, a pretty but worthless fish. On one occasion I got a gar clear of the water, but it was only momentary, for he shot his slim length through the meshes in a jiffy. Before very many hours I had more fish than the miller’s family and his neighbors knew what to do with, and sur- rendered the net to one of the many spectators so he might catch himself a ‘‘mess.”’ Wandering along past the row of dip-nets down to the ford, I came upon a crowd of men geining _ Provided with a 60ft. seine, and wading up to their waists, they dragged out quantities of fish upon the shore. Further down, there were scores of men and boys on the high banks overhanging the shoals, dragging for redhorse. They had long cane poles, with about 2ft. of line at the end, attached to which was a grab hook, made by tying three ordinary hooks to- gether at angles from each other and welding them by means of melted lead, thus forming a sinker and grab hook at the same time. This they would drag over the bottom of the stream; and so plentiful were the fish that every few drags would hook one. This was quite exciling, and differed largely from the wholesale slaughter going on around. For though the suckers are not a game fish by any means, yet when a grab-hook fastens into an 8lb, redhorse, he makes it pretty lively for the man at the other end of the pole. Along with the grab-hook men were others wading out in the ~ stream, armed with gigs—long poles ‘provided with a three- pronged spear at their ends. These men, though not able to see in the muddy water, were neyertheless reaping a har- vest by merely plunging their weapon on this side and that side, often missing, but now and then securing a prize. There was one party with tramme) nets, though they had to keep it pretty quiet, and another with old-fashioned hoop nets. They say, but I never come in contact with such pro- ceedings, that yery often those who haye no nets or traps and lack skill or patience for the grab-hook or gig, use giant powder or dynamite to get a mess of suckers, as well as other fish. Each man and party were using that mode which they happened to possess or found best to their taste, but all bent on the same purpose. Outside of these were another set of loungers, who, either caring nothing for the sport or not being provided, stood ready to beg or buy, and sometimes to stea], the coveted mess. Toward night the white corn juice whisky, which is dis- tilled in this section, began to get in its work; and as night drew on and the many camp fires lit up the river, the air resounded with drunken yells and shouts, while boozy coun- try Jakes reeled around, threatening every moment to tumble into the river or the camp-fires. When one set of men grew tired working a net or seine, another crowd took their place, and the fun went merrily on all night long. Eyen the erab- hooks, gigs, trammel nets and traps worked ag well in the dark as in the day, You sce, shoals are not very plentiful, often many miles intervenes between them; and as the fish will not stay long, no time is lost catching them. As fast as one parly secured a load they departed; and the next day found many new faces, but all at the same work. For two or three days the fun was fast and furious. How many fish met their fate I have no means of estimating, but certainly thousands. As this scene was repeated at nearly every shoal on the river, as well as on every other stream in this part of the State, hundreds of thousands of fish certainly perished in a few days. As the river ran down and cleared up we knew the fish would soon take their departure, and since the sport was short-lived to us, and having assumed more the aspect of a wholesale slaughter than anything else, we looked forward to their going, since with them would depart the rough, noisy and too often drunken crowd. ‘The day before, which I think was Weduesday, following our arrival on Saturday, had been the best day of any for dipping, Our live-boxes were overflowing with white and yellow suckers and red- horse. Next morning, however, John Sanders, who had been running a hoop net along the Sanders shoals a mile below. came up to the mill and reported the suckers gone. Which, indeed, they were. He had caught but three that night, against 140 the preceding night. His traps were all set mouths down stream to capture the fish as they ascended, but they were no longer coming up. A day more and not a sucker would be caught on the shoals, only a few lingered now. Only six or eight fish were dipped up at the mill, where many hundred had been caught the day before. By noon not a countryman was to be seen anywhere save in the fields. Yet the sucker fishing was not entirely over. There were a certain few proud possessors of fish traps, who had been biding their time until now. These fish traps, which now come in for their share of the plunder, are con- structed about as follows: A low «dam is built in the shape of a Y, the apex poinling down stream. At thisangle of the dam the water escapes over a slightly inclined upward shoot constructed of long boards closely laid at the base, but grad- ually widening at the tip, so that some of the water escaping through the cracks will reduce the weight on the shooi’s extremity, At the end of this shvot, and underneath it, standing with its sides well above water, is a wooden frame- work made of slats, fitted together close enough to prevent the escape of fish On either side, but open at the top, and per- mitting the easy outflow of the water as it tumbles in from above. Asthe suckers descend the stream fhe low dam obstructs their passage, they are carried by the current to the apex of the angle and thus over the shoot into the cage below, from which there is no escape. Fish travel at night, and often of a morning these traps are found to contain many hundred pounds of fish of all kinds, but at this season largely suckers. Following in the wake of the suckers and feeding upon their spawn or roe, come the game fish, An unusually large migration of the suckers always guarantees an ample supply of the others. Game fish in our rivers are endeavored to be protected by law, yet I know, to my positive knowledge, that no heed whatever is paid to the law, Fish of all kinds are Tuthlessly destroyed in their spawnibg season, just when they should be most jealously protected. They are netted, shot and blown up by giant powder and dynamite. And while the suckers are looked upon in disdain by sportsmen GIGGING SUCKERS, and lovers of bass and trout fishing, and therefore permitted to be destroyed by hundreds of thousands, they are slowly thereby exterminating the game fish. Nature has made a wise provision; the despised sucker, feeding upon the yese- tation and refuse in the muddy river bottom, provides, in the shape of its roe and young, food for the gamefish, These two widely different families must dwell or die together. A full-grown sucker will deposit over 300,000 eggs, You can soon see what an immense amount of eggs and young must be eaten by other fish, when you stop to consider that a is} ve ae ry ‘\/ = ) \ i Wii | ik << eee wSSS Loss S— £} SSS Sk WSS A NATIVES WATCHING THE SEINHRS SHINING BELOW THE DAM, million or more suckers ascended the James this spring, at a very low estimate. But each year sees the crop of suckers, as well as all other fish in our streams, grow less and less, and if our Legislature and courts are not awakened to some cold, hard facts very soon, these streams will be depleted. WituraAm H. Jonson, Gone Fishing. Mr. W. A. Horstneron, of the Page Fence Company, left New York June 26 for a six week’s absence, to be de- voted to rest and recreation. Mr. Hoisington’sheadquartirs will be at his home in Adrian, Mich,, where, parenthetically, it may be stated the bass fishing is excellent; but several weeks of the time will be spent in camp in company with Mr. W..N. Swift, also of the Page Company, at Gull Lake, Kalamazoo county, Mich,, where both gentlemen have pur- chased cottage sites. Fishing near New York. A CORRESPONDENT in Forked River, N, J., writes that the blue fishing at that point at present is excellent, and that some weakfish and striped bags are also being taken. A gentleman who spent two days at Greenwood Lake this week caught an Oswego bass weighing 5lbs, and a small-. mouth of 441bs. weight. B. FOREST AND STREAM. 11 MEN | HAVE FISHED WITH. XLIV:—Franklin Satterthwalte. FRANK was the kennel editor of Fornst anp STREAM when I first met him, some seventeen years ago, as an en- thusiastic sportsman who favored the gun more than the rod. He was tall, broad-shouldered and strong, with a pleasant face, on which he wore a full, but not long beard. We be- came well acquainted, and one day he said: ‘‘A friend of mine keeps a hotel on Greenwood Lake, and wants me to come up and have a few days’ black bass fishing. He says they are biting good, now. Will you go up there for a few days?” Beyond a knowledge that the lake had a reputation for black bass, was only a short distance from New York city, and lay partly in New Jersey and partly in New York, I knew nothing of it; but we went. ‘The “hotel” was one of seyeral similar houses built of light boards and standing on piles—eyidently made for summer use only—and could prob- ably accommodate a dozen people, if they were not too par- ticular. Frank introduced me to the landlord, whom I will call Bill—not that that was his name, but merely to be able to refer to him. Bill would not impress one as-a model land- Jord—he was too familiar and aggressive. He wore great cowhide boots, which echoed on the thin board floor of the “office,” which was destitute of all covering except dirt. Tt was evening, and June was young. Supper over, Bill and his family soon retired, but Frank and I were not used to such early hours, and we we sat and admired the night in ignorance of the fact that these people who went to bed with the fowls got up with them, and made no attempt to stifle their noises after it was ‘‘timeto get up.” We were at the northern end of the lake, and a light, southern breeze kept the mogquitoes off the piazza, if any were about, Frogs piped, croaked and gurgled in a marsh, a whippoorwill reit- erated its complaint on the hill, and an occasional owl chal- Jenged some other owl, and we were enjoying life with feet on the railing of the porch and chairs tilted back when a single stroke of the clock warned us that if was technically morning, and time for bed. Tt seemed but a few minutes when we were aroused by a series of bumps and a clatter that would have awakened all of the famous seven sleepers, and I sat up in bed and rubbed my eyes. It was daylight, and a glance at Frank's bed showed him to be aroused, ‘What is it?” Lasked, ‘What has happened?” : ‘Tt’s Bill going downstairs in his boots, that’s all; at first T thought it was an earthquake.” ; We heard him go out of the back door and down two or three steps; the clock struck 4, and then all was quiet and peaceful again and we slept. How long one sleeps he can never tell, but it seemed to be about five minutes when Bill hailed from the back yard: ‘‘John, get up and milk the cows, it’s most 5 o’clock, an’ you’ve got a lot of things to do before you go out on the lake.” We dozed again, and then John’s boots were so much in evidence on the resounding stair that I missed something Frank said. He may have been saying his prayers; I only caught a word or two. Again silence reigned and eyelids closed in that blessed peaceful- ness which comes just before consciousness is lost, and then ithe dreadful voice of Bill again broke in on us from below. This time he bellowed: *‘Mayre-e-e! Come down and get breakfast, it’s about 6 o’clock,” Mary went down; we heard her, although apparently she did not wear cowhide boots. Frank merely grunted, and I was too sleepy to care to express any views on what we afterward concluded was an outrage on men who were paying for sleep but not getting it, so off L dozed again, and the next thing we heard was a clumping of boots coming up the stair and then a pounding on our door, Bill called: “Hey! You fellers, ain’t you goin’ to get up to- day? Breakfast’s ready,” We were both on the floor at the first alarm, and as Bill opened the door a trifle my shoe struck scross the crack, which was not wide enough to let it through to its destina- tion, A small pilcher from Frank crashed on a panel, and Bill closed the door and clumped down, step by step, to the main floor. “Sorry I didn’t have a pistol,” said Frank; “but the little pitcher was the only thing at hand and I gave him the best [ had, There’s no use in trying to get any pe sleep this morning, so we might as well dress and go own.’ “Brank,~ said I, ‘let us go to some other hotel, where our chances of sleep will be better and the landlord will not dictate to us the proper hour for rising, and where he does not wear 6lb. cowhide boots, nor play checkers with them on bare floors over our heads. Then, if he has a way of calling his help at daylight without our knowledge, we may be happy during our stay.” “There’s no such place on the lake,” said Frank, ‘‘except at the club, and we have no inyitations to go there. Let's go down to breakfast and say nothing, go out on the lake and fish, lay off in the middle of the day, fish in the evening, and then, when we are not angry, we will talk to Bill like a Dutch uncle. We will not feel so much like killing him then, and | think I see murder in your eye. What d’ye say ~ to that?” “You are a philosopher, Frank; nothing-we can do will restore our lost sleep; but if we can partially civilize Bill so that he will either not wear boots or will leave them on the back porch, and get him to use other means than bawling to arouse his household at unseemly hours, it will be a good deed. Better than killing him, but I have doubts of success in these experiments. We will try, but must not let him bully us a little bit.” ’ The ham and eggs, potatoes, bread and coffee were dis- posed of without any reference to the annoyances, and John appeared, He was to row the boat. By some distortion of language the men who do this on Greenwood Lake are called “‘guides’’; we have no word equivalent to the English ‘“gillie,” but we need it. Bill came to the landing, and learning that we wanted some baits to use if the bass wouldn’t rise to the fly, he put in the boat a box of live frogs, a can of live minnows and a box of helgramite larvee, Dobson’s, in moss, and away we went. Frank had fished the lake before, and told the boatman where to go, and as We cast we took two good bass with a green and gold fly, and three with a frog. These fish we unhooked and let go, and John was displeased, and said that if we didn’t want the fish we might give them to him. Hedid not understand the thing at all, and after we had pulled up ashore for a dunch and a midday siesta, he said to me in an injured tone: “When gentlemen catch fish they don’t want they give em to me an’ I sell em, but you let ‘em go, an’ they don’t do nobody no good,” “John,” said I, picking his meaning from the wreck of grammar, ‘“‘when I] catch a fish it is mine, to do with as 1 please. When I hire you to row this boat for the day, and choose to lay off from noon until two hours before sundown you have no cause of complaint. The fish are mine, your time is mine, and if [ want to.let you off for a few hours I do so, and if we wish to let a bass off until we come again, it is the same thing.” After lunch Frank and I went upon a hill where there was a chance for air and shade, to smoke, chat and possibly regain a small portion of the sleep which had been robbed from us, and after getting settled under a broad tree, close to the eastern edge of its shade where we might stay for some hours, Frank said: ‘“‘These yokels exasperate me as much as they do you, but I think they afford me more amusement than you get out of them. You've been angry all day be- cause you didn’t get enough sleep, and in this spirit you let all the bass go when you knew that John wanted them. It would be a safe wager that you don’t always refuse to give a portion of your catch to your guide or your boatman, in addition to his pay, come now! I challenge you to deny Tt? P ‘Tt’s a safe challenge. Ordinarily 1 give the boatman all the fish I don’t want to keep, but there is no reason why he should demand them. I pay for his seryices, and that ends the business transaction. I paid for a whole mess of sleep last night, which I didn’t get and J don’t like it, and when we get quieted down after dinner to-night Bill will learn that I didn’t like it. 1 did not come here to be told when I should sleep nor when I should rise, nor did you, and I will have no more of it if I have to buy a tent and camp out. In that case there will be no thin-carpeted stairs for men with cowhide boots to tramp up and down on in the obnoxious hours of the morning.” Frank raised himself on his elbow, and refilling his pipe naively asked: ‘‘What are the obnoxious hours of the morn- ing?” The question brought up a family reminiscence and I re- plied: ‘‘You only ask this question in order to draw me out on the question of early rising, and I will tell you frankly that I usually avoid the unnecessarily early-rising crank and, from what J know of your habits, you do the same. The early-rising’ man thinks that he is a model for all mankind, and that’s the aggravating part of him. He misses the most glorious part of the day, that from sundown to midnight, and to that no man could object if he didn’t brag of it. Like the man who is neyer sea-sick, or who lies about it, his brag that he is a superior man is annoying. The early riser goes to bed with the chickens, and that would be all right if he did not boast about the hour that he got up in the morning. Tl tell you, Frank, a personal yarn about early rising: my father always went to bed with the crows and got up with them, When I was 2 school-boy he would pull the clothes from my bed at 8 A. M., spank me and say: ‘What! not up yet! Why, I’ve been up four hours.’ And so it went, but he took an afternoon nap and Kept on bragging about his early rising,” Frank listened to this and said: “I could never see why rising early should make a man ‘healthy, wealthy and wise.’ My work has kept me at it night and day, but the beauties of the night cannot be ignored; what did your father do when he became older?” “Kept the same thing going, and the same brag about it. I fail to see why a man should boast about meeting the day at an early hour, as long as he gets a certain amount of sleep, but, after many years absence from home, father found me in bed about 8 in the morning, and with a tone of regret said: ‘I don’t see that you’ve improved any in the matter of getting up, now that youareaman.’ ‘No, father,’ said J, ‘during six years in the West and three in the army I mastered most of the vices of civilization except early rising, but [never could catch on to that.’ He gave up hope of reforming me then and there.” We rested and slept until the afternoon was well gone, when we went to the boat and called John. Frank tried a Dobson and took one small fish, while [ changed flies for an hour and gave itup. Then we tried the live minnows and took eleven fair fish, and it was dark, We gave the fish to Bill and I told him that we wanted them for breakfast, or a part of them, and also that we wanted them skinned. “Why do you want them skinned?” Frank asked. “To get rid of the muddy, weedy flavor which fresh-water fish that live in weedy lakes always have in the summer. [ don’t regard the black bass as a good table fish at any time of year, but it is sure to be flavored with weeds now, just.as the water is. yen the yellow perch, a much better table fish at all times, is better for being skinned in summer,” | Our dinner was the same as the breakfast, except tea was served instead of coffee, Frank protested in this wise: “When I was up here Jast fall, woodcock shooting, Bill, you fed me on ham and eggs until I was ashamed to look a hog or a, hen in the face, and to-morrow night I want a steak, chops, or a roast of beef or lamb, for ’m not going to live on ham and eggs, nor fish, either.’ Bill looked at me and asked: epos?’ “Yes, I like ham and eggs, but I think as Frank does, there is a limit to the liking, I don’t want them for dinner at any time, but can use them for breakfast about twice a week, if the ham is not too hard and salt, and the eggs are fresh. Your eggs are very good.” ‘This last as a smoother. “Well, 1 declare,” said Bill, ‘‘some of you city fellers is queer. Now, give me plenty of ham and eggs and I don’t want no meat.”” This was a phase of vegetarianism new to us, and one that we often referred to in atter years. As we smoked on the piazza Frank remarked: ‘This land- lord isa skin. He'll charge us $2 50 per day for board, $2 for the boatman, who gets a little more than half of thut, and 50 cents per day for the*boat, making $7,50 per day for both, and he will feed us on ham and eggs all the time, if we will stand it. I know him, and I propose to make him feed us decently or we will go somewhere else, although I don’t know that there is anything better here.” “I think you haye his exact measure,” I[ replied, ‘‘and as I followed your advice this morning and said nothing to him while 1 was angry, I propose to talk to him now, on the sub- ject of unnecessary noises in the morning. Call him out “Don’t you like ham and . oere and I'll lay the law down to him.” Bill came out and sat down, I began my discourse with: “Bill, 1 am yery sorry that my shoe didn’t kill you this morning, as I intended it should, but we will be prepared for you to-morrow morning, and if we miss killing you again we will patronize some other hotel. I probably got three hours’ good sleep before you came thundering down the stairs with your big boots about 4 o’clock,” “Well,” he replied, “‘what be I a-goin’ to dew? I’ve got to get up an’ feed Lhe stock an’ get ready for the day’s work. I should think you'd want to get up, anyway, an” enjoy the mornin’ fishin’—many of ‘em do—an’ get out on the lake as s00n as they can see; that’s the time to catch the most fish,” “That, Bill,” I replied, ‘isa matter of individual taste, but we don’t want to catch the most fish. We want toenjoy life after our own fashion, and that is to fish four or five hours a day and sit half the night out of doors, and get up when it suits us. If you consult the comfort of your guests you will leave those boots in the cow-shed and wear slippers in the house, and devise some means to get your servants up, and down, without bawling underour windows. You should know this without having 4 guest explain it, We will fish at such times as we choose, or not at all; but we will not submit to beawakened at daylight by your boots, or any other noises.”’ Bill made no reply; he was evidently shrinking all his thought on the rights of guests and landlords, and after a pause, Frank asked him to the rear to look after the cleaning of the fish, and I sat alone as the echoes of his boots had died away. Minutes passed; a flying squirrel ran across the baleony rail, and over my shoes before it scurried away in alarm. The moon burst from behind a cloud, and the frogs -became silent for a moment until they found there was no cause for alarm, and J had forgotten Frank, Bill, and all other human beings, when suddenly Frank returned. “Well?” “Tt’s all right. As I told you, he isa skin; but, like all of his class, he only wants to know how far he can flay a man. At present we are his only guests, and he will play us to the limit if he can; but you put it to him squarely, and while we stop here we will be allowed to remain undisturbed till 8, unless we order breakfast before; and we will not have ham and eggs more than twice a week for breakfast, and fish not more than three times with dinner, as I told Bill before. I told him that we would stay abouta week, and that we were both journalists who might write up his hotel unfavorably. He took off his boots in the kitchen, and said that there was no good reason for wearing them up and down stairs, and so you got in your work to good advantage.” A faint creak on the stair told that Bill had left his boots below. Iwas not flushed with victory, but just felt that calm self-appreciation which one feels when otners acknowl- edge that his point hasbeen carried. Wesat, talked, smoked and kept silent as ourhumors prompted, After an unusually long fit of contemplation of the moonlight on the water, Frank asked: ‘How do you like this place? Not for the fishing, the cuisine, nor the dormitory which we have, but the lake and its surroundings I mean; and as a place to enjoy life in the open, fishing, shooting, or simply sitting on a piazza and looking at the lake?” ‘Tt is grand,” I replied; ‘‘and if our landlord reforms most ot his bad habits, 1 will enjoy another outing here, mainly during the hours from sundown to midnight, on this piazza, watching the moon on the water and listening to the voices of the night. I love to fish and sometimes to shoot; but to me the grandest enjoyment is an inland lake on a moonlight night, when the air is vocal with voices that are never heard at any other time.” After a few whilfs at his pipe in a contemplative sort of way, Frank said: ‘‘You seem to be extra poetical to-night; suppose we get off some verses that will amuse us by record- ing our thoughts on this night, writing the lines alternately. How does it strike you?” “You mean for one of us to write a line and the other to follow; is that it?” ‘Ves; like a composite poem. You write a line and then Vil follow. Do you catch on?” “Yes, I have the idea and think there is some humor in it; but as this is your own suggestion it seems to me that you should write the first line.” We squabbled over this question of precedence for a while, and then one of us, which one fame will never know, wrote a line and passed it to his friend. In 1ts complete form the “poem,” written.on the shore of Greenwood Lake that June evening, was as follows: - *Tis cool on Bill’s piazza, where the voices of the night Are mingled with the whispers of the bass; The snoring of the hired man fills the rabbits with affright, And the owls sing, “Don’t blow out the gas.”’ The moonbeams kiss the bullfrogs, who lament unto the moon, That Bill’s bocts resound upon the stair ; The kitchen-maid rejoices that morning comes too soon, And the skeeters cause the pollywogs to swear. Right here on Bill’s piazza it is pleasant now to sit, And listen to the singing of the rats; While we gaze out on the lake, where the festive mermaids flit As they chase the tuneful, iridescent bats. 7 In autumn it is pleasant to hear the chestnut burr, And in spring to hear the young trees as they shoot; The maiden clubs the milch cows when they toss a horn at her, As we wake in morn at sound of Bill’s big boot. The first line was all right, but the man who wrote the second one started in the direction of levity, and there was no hope of holding the verses up to the standard; but it served to pass half an hour pleasantly, and that is what we were out for, One day as we were on our way: to the: place of our after- noon siesta we saw a man lying in the sun by the roadside. “Some old tramp,” said Frank; but the man began to toss and roll over, as in agony, and we ran tc him. It was Charles F, Murphy, of Newark, N. J., the man who made the first complete split-bamboo rod, and he was merely able to say ‘buttermilk,’ and I diagnosed his case at once, and from my creel drew a vial of Jamaica ginger, or similar remedy, and gave him a generous dose. He lived, and said that some miles back he had stopped at a farmhouse and had absorbed a quart of buttermilk, but would hereafter abstain from its use, Said he: ‘‘Boys, you have saved my life, sure, I couldn’t have lived another hour in such pain; I couldn’t walk, and I dropped my rods somewhere, in my agony, but T can’t tell where.” We found the package of rods, and took him to our rest- ing place, where, with frequent interruptions from Frank, who was disposed to jolly his old friend on his buttermilk spree, I heard the story of the evolution of the spiit-bamboo rod from the man who first made it. Some other time I may tell it. Frank’s suggestions were like this: “Murph, never mind about rod-making; we all know about that; tell Fred about the time you whipped Awful Gardiner when you didn’t know that he was a heavy-weight prize-fighter; that’ll be more exciting.” ‘Never mind that,” Murphy said, “Orville Gardiner is all right, he’s reformed now and is a decent man; let me tell how the first rod of this kind was made; you see Sam Phil- lipps, out at Easton, Pa, began to use a natural Calcutta bam- boo cane for a fishing rod, as far back as 1848, but—” “Tell us about the fight, Murph., Fred wants io hear how you, a little, slim, skinny duffer who weighed about 125lbs. cleaned up ‘Awful’ Gardinér’ That is a story that is of historical and ethnological interest, and —” “Frank, will you please keep still?” I asked. “You are wrong in saying that I would prefer to hear about the fight, Let Murphy go on about the buililing of the rod and I will assume that the big prize-fighter was drunk and assaulted the little man, and came to grief; not an unusual case, but the first split-bamboo rod is a thing that is made but once,” And so IT heard the story- When the heat and glare of the June day had passed we invited Murphy to fish with us. We found the boat all right, and John dead drunk init. We pulled the boat ashore, broad side, dumped John out, and proceeded to fish As we fished I told the story of how Frank Endicott’s boatman, on Green- Wood hake, got drunk and tried to bail out the perforated bait can which hung outside the boat so that he could find a minnow; and Murphy declared that John was the man, for he was there with Endicott and Harry Pritchard at the time. We took turns rowing that afternoon, and bad fair fishing, but we all rebelled in unison against having John as a boat- man any longer. Then it turned out that John was a rela- tive of Bill’s, or he owned the boat, and we must employ him or nobody, No outsider could be hired to row the boats at this hotel. Here was a labor trust which confronted the capitalists. We held a council of war and decided to row our own boat—we were paying for the boat, and would not have John asa gift. The fact was that the boatman had little to do; we drifted and cast, or anchored and east, and when we had to row, the distance was short. This stroke made us independent, and we had beaten Bill at every extor- tionate point, so far, and we rejoiced thereat. That night, on the piazza, we three cussed and discussed Bill and his wife’s brother John, the cook, chambermaid, and all-the ap- purtenances of the ‘‘hotel” to our complete satisfaction. Bill was simply a brute who looked upon a guest as a hyena looks upon a bone; we all agreed to that, and more, we felt relief in having a common opinion. So far it was well, but it has been said that he who laughs last laughs best, and it was at our final settlement where Bill’s laugh came in. His bill was: 200 heleramites @ 2 HT ane Rae ieee REN TE an mi 50 MINNOWS G 8 CENTS ...ceeecsacecscseveees Pett a!) 40 frogs @ 5 cents,..... fe’prare: ufb{e'u) et eve's oseveie ove le W S)ai a minyeisiers 2.00 Potalids saccccensc postr aust Meaeetralterse se peeves 45.00 Frank read the items and then said: ‘How about all this bait? We couldn’t have used that amount, not by a long shot. That’s out of the question.” “But you took them,” said Bill; ‘John counted ’em all in before you started, didn’t you, John?” John nodded assent and Frank asked what I thought of the matter. My idea was to pay for the amount of bait that we had used, as we had not ordered the extravagant amount put up. Wethen had John count out what was left and found that we had used fifteen helgramites, ten minnows and four frogs. These we paid for, and Frank said: “It is lucky that Bill did not see the contents of your fiy- book or he would have charged us for them; let us laugh now.” ' Franklin Satterthwaite wasa genial sportsman, well posted on matters relating to the sun and the kennel. He died at his home in Newark, in 1888, at the age of forty-six. Frep Ma rer, IN THE ADIRONDACKS. Nzw York June 23.—Hditor Forest and Stream: A party consisting of Messrs. Yale, Nelson, Brooks and Redner went fishing to the Adirondacks last week. We took the train at the Grand Central Depot, and went to Port Henry on Lake Champlain via theD & H.R. R. A drive of thirty five miles over a fairly good road hrought us to the Boreas River, where we put up at the Sand Pond Hotel, which is run by one of the oldest pioneer loggers in the mountains—a man who remembers when the woods were filled with wolves and ‘‘nainters.” *, Arriving at the hotel, Mr. Nelson made a bee-line for the kitchen to try and hurry the dinner, as he was near starved, while Yale got out his fine trout tackle and began arranging his Stony Point flies, which he swears by, whileI dug worms for the crowd. Finishing a dinner which we all relished after a six-hour drive through the invigorating mountain air, we went down to Sand Pond and fished with varied success until evening. Just as the shade of night had drawn her sable mantle lightly over the mountain tops and kissed her finger-tips to the fast- fading sun, Yale, who was in the boat with me, suggested to try trolling. It was the work of a moment to change his fly leader for a small troll, and the trolling began. We rowed about half way around the pond, when Yale suddenly ex- claimed: ‘‘Hold on, John! I’m foul of a stump!” I brought the boat, which was scarcely moving, toasudden stop. But Yale’s reel still hummed likea buzz saw. ‘Stop her, John!” he shouted, ‘‘my line is near run out and will soon part!” Just then the line slackened a little, and when Yale, who handled the ree] equal to Ike Walton, tightened up the line; there was a ripple on the surface of the water for an instant, and then, great guns! the biggest trout I ever saw broke water, and rising about 2ft., fell back with a splash equal to & porpoise, There was great excitement in our boat the next few min- utes. The fish sounded, and came to the surface like a black bass, trying to disladge the hook; again he sounded and again _ he ran, and Yale was with him all the time, Itold Yale that I would like to see him get the fish up near the boat, and then lose it. ‘That would be too bad,” said he, ‘‘L would not lose it for anything; why, he weighs 6 or 7lbs.” He worked adroitly with the fish for about forty minutes, and finally reeled it up close to the boat. I reached with the landing-net to take in the prize, but somehow the net struck against the hook, the leader parted, and away went ourtrout Yale looked at me in a I’ll-throw-you over- board manner, and I feared for an instant that he would carry the looks into execution. But he broke into a hearty laugh, and simply said 1t was too bad. We rowed around the pond six times afterward, and did not get a single strike. Next morning Brooks and Nelson went to Wolf Pond, a small feeder about a mile from the hotel. They fished there a couple of hours, and caught forty trout; they then started for the house. When they came near the clearing, Nelson says that Brooks, who was walking ahead and humming his favorite song, suddenly exclaimed ‘‘I see my finish!’ and dropping hig rod and fish, started on a 2:40 gait toward a house at the other edge of theclearing, shedding his coat and hat as he ran. 2 4 Orne: A few minutes after Brooks reached the house, Nelson saw him, accompanied by the occupant of the house and a Win-- chester, hurrying towards him. ‘'What’s the matter, Brooks?” asked Nelson when they came up to him, “Are you crazy?” ‘‘I’m all right,” said Brooks, ‘‘there’s motive In my madness. I saw a bear, and want this man to shoot him,” Nelson turned, and the trio started to bang the bear. When they had gone about i100yds. in the forest; Brooks pointed out the bear. The trained eyes of the man of the woods saw at a glance that Brooks’ bear was nothing but a big black stump partly covered by a cedar bough. Yale and myself fished down Clear Pond and caught fifty. nice trout. d741bs, : Next day we went to Mim Ville, where there is pretty good fishing. Nelson and I went down to Bartlett, Pond Stream to try our luck, We had fished down stream prob- ably a quarter-mile, when Nelson, who was some distance below me, commenced to yell like an Indian on the war- path. J hurried down to him, thinking he was cornered by one of Brooks’s bears, But it was no bear; it was a trout, and a beauty that tipped the scales at 2i1bs, the biggest fish caught, The rain came down go heavily then that we were obliged to give up the sport. We then went back to look for Brooks and Yale, who we found in the Hotel de Hayes with a dozen natives. Hach one told the best place to catch trout, and one wanted to sell some to Brooks, who indignantly refused to buy, saying that he always caught bis fish Of course we all have our pri- vate opinion about what Brooks would do if he chanced to meet a lone fisherman with a nice string of fish. Noyrce, In all we caught 163 trout; aggregate weight Smelt and Trout, Cuicaao, Jane 14,—Hditor Forest and Stream: J have read with much pleasure an article in the June 5 number of the Forest AND STRAAM, entitled, ‘‘Are Smelt a menace?” by Bainbridge Bishop, and I think that the sooner these ideas are carried out the trout and landlocked salmon fishing will be much better. I agree with Mr. Bishop, that the large smelt are scavengers, and that they are a menace to small trout. I have just returned from a trip to Swan Lake, near Bel- fast, Me., which isa natural trout pond, and which has been stocked with landlocked salmon, This lake is only seven miles from the sea coast, and smelts have run up the river and become landlocked. The smelts grow to a very large size, some cven weighing a pound or more. I have fished in this lake every vear (with one exception) for the past seven years, and the fishing seems to get poorer every year. There have been large quantities of young trout and quite a lot of landlocked salmon put in during the past. five or six years, and the fishing ought certainly to grow better, I can’t ac- count for it in any other way except that the smelt eat up the young trout. Mr. Fred H, Francis, of Belfast, Me., who is a close ob- server, and one of the best known fishermen in that part of the State, fully believes.in thistheory, He is a firm believer in the pond, and thinks that it would make one of the best trout ponds in the State if all the largesmelt were taken out every season when. they run up the brooks to spawn. _ I think that the State Fish Commission are not alive to this fact, and that the sooner they realize and remedy it the sooner their expectations of good fishing will be a fact. J. A. GAMMANS. Hditor Forest and Stream: J was on the point of writing you to defend the fresh- water smelt against the imaginary fears of Mr. Bainbridge Bishop, when | read Commissioner Stanley’s letter, and it only needs to be said that I fully indorse it. The only ob- jection to the smelt is, that they furnish so much food for the trout and salmon that the angler does not find it so easy to Jure them with live hait, but when the trout are in search of flies, I do not think the smelt are any obstacle. The heavy rains aud long continued cold weather made early fishing in most of the New England waters poor, but I hear it is picking up very well lately, though June has been very cool so far. The weather records in Boston yesterday showed the thermomoter 20° lower for the day than it was on June 21 last year. The result of so much rain is that all our brooks are much fuller than they have been for years, and the prospect is encouraging for a good supply of trout next year. One word more about the smelt, Besides the Maine waters mentioned by Mr, Stanley, they are also indigenous in Lake Winnepesauke, and from them they were obtained to stock our other New Hampshire lakes, and it is a noted fact that the winninish, fed on them, grow much larger than they do in Grand Lake stream, where smelt did not exist, and from which we got our parent stock. The same difference is also noticeable in Sebago Lake, where the smelt were aboriginal. I was very glad to see Mr. Cheney’s illustrations of the difference between pike, pickerel and muscalonge, and hope to see them called by the right name some day, as well as the pike perch, who now figures as a wall-eyed pike and a jack salmon. Why not take the French name, and call him a Sandre. Von W. CHARLESTON, N. H. American Fisheries Society. Agr the Detroit meeting of the American Fisheries Society a resolution was adopted authorizing the chairman to appoint one represeutative member of the Society in each State bor- dering on the Great Lakes, to form a commission to bring about, if possible, the enactment of uniform fishing laws in all the lake States. ; Omaha was selected for the next meeting, which will be held in July, 1898. The following officers were elected: President, W. L. May, Nebraska; Vice-President, George I. Peabody, Wisconsin; Recording Secretary, Herschel Whit- taker, Michigan; Corresponding Secretary, J. E. Gunekel, Ohio; Treasurer, 1 1D) Huntingdon, New York. Hxecutive Committee: James A. Dale, Pennsylvania; EH, Ti. Bryant, . Wisconsin; A. N Cheney, New York; J. W, Titecomb, Ver- mont; J. L. Penton, Michigan; F. N. Clark, Michigan; Pro- fessor 8. A Forbes, Iinois. A Fishcultural Opportunity. Ws invite notice to the card signed “Fishoulturist” in our advertising columns. The advertiser is known to us to be a fishculturist of rare accomplishments, thoroughly competent to fill any position in connection with the work, FOREST AND STREAM, _ Gamyp-Sfire Slicherings. —— [Juny 3, 1897, “That reminds me,” Asbury Park’s Champion. AsBuRY PARK, N. J.—Perhaps there are no more cosmo- politan people on earth than the angling fraternity, Occa- sionally a boor is found among them, but if is a most rare occurrence; and then it is not the real Simon Pure angler such as work hard at desk or profession all day, and haunt the rivers and bays at night, giving up their needed rest for © the sport they love so well; but rather the man who has an abundance of leisure, and who uses fishing as a time killer. A. yisit to our piers at evening or early morning now is full of interest, The regulars are nearly all here, and making good use of their time. The relaxation from business cares puts all hands in great good humor, and woe betide the angler who catches a worthless specimen, misses a strike, or fouls his cast; he at once becomes the butt of an endless run of good-natured badinage until he redeems himself by some exploit, or passes the cigars. One evening recently an indi- vidual, Janky in form and laconic in speech, a stranger to all of us, was lounging lazily upon one of the benches, spinning yarns of wondrous catches in Southern waters, when some one ventured the remark that they must have been ‘‘whales,” Quick came the rejoinder in most contemptuous tones, ‘‘Humph! we were baitin’ with whales.” In recognition of his talents the boys have posted the following placard on the pier: ‘‘Ananias Jonah, champion fish liar of the world, is now with us, and the old gang is not in it,” LronarD Hoi. Che Kennel, FIXTURES. FIELD TRIALS, Sept. 1—Continental Field Trials Club’s chicken trials, Morris, Man.” Sept. 6, - Manitoba Field Trials Club, Morris, Man. Woe? —.—Northwestern Wield Tria! Club’s Champion Stake, Morris, an. Oct, 25.—Brunswick Fur Clnb’s ninth annual trials. Nov. 1.—Dixie Red Wox Club’s third annual meet. Waverly, Miss. Nov. 1.—New England Beagie Club’s trials, Oxford, Mass. Noy. 2.—Monongahela Valley Game and Wish Protective Associ-« ation’s trials, Greene county. Pa, Noy. 8.— Union Field Trials Club’s trials, Carlisle, Ind. Noy. 9.—Central Beagle Club’s trials, Sharpsburg, Pa. Nov. 15,—E& F. T. Club's trials, Newton, N. C, Noy. 16,—International Wield Trials Club’s eighth annual trials, Chatham, Ont. Noy. 22.—U.5 F. T. Club’s autumn trials. 1898, Jan. 10.—U. 8. F. T Club’s winter trials, West Point, Miss. Jan. 17.—Continental F. T. Club’s trials, New Albany, Miss, AS TO THE JUDGES, Ow the part of a few pointer men there seems to be an un- dercurrent of dissatisfaction with most of the judges who have been engaged to officiate at the trials of this year, added to which is a feeling of- resentment as expressed by unfriendly words and the withholding available support which would otherwise be given. The ground of complaint of the men aforesaid is that the judges are all pronounced setter men, and that they therefore are prejudiced, uncon- sciously prejudiced, against the pointers, and that they haye prejudgmenis in favor of the setter. More specifically, last year some of the competing pointers suffered injustice, unin- tentional injustice, at the hands of the judges, as shown b the fact that some of the owners of some of the defeated pointers disapproved of the judges’ decisions, and-were sus- tained in their opinions thereon by the opinions of a handler or some handlers. Incidentally, it may be mentioned that there is no grievance relative to any competition in which the pointers were winners though the judges were the same so-called setter men. A win under those judges was yalued and made much of, notwith- standing vheir unfortunate failing of having opinions offjtheir own. The pointers made an excellent showing in the competition and records of the past year, and it is safe to presume thal the judges in that relation were wise, im- partial, accomplished, learned and fit for the high trust re- posed in them; their unfitness begins with good dogs, be- loved of their ownersand nevertheless losers, Still the defect of a dog and a grieved human heart are often coincident, for which the judge is often considered responsible. The inefti- ciency of the dog and the prejudice of the owner are rarely considered, Where there are winners there must be losers, and there are good and bad of both. The worst bad loser is he whose grievance is founded on hearsay, the sympathy of of a friend or two, disappointed hopes and unalterable pre- disposition in favor of his own wares, whether the same be valuable or worthless, The hopelessly wrong kicker is bad enough at best, but it is deplorable when he gives expression to his disapproval by malicious words and acts Let us consider the absurdity of the position of the few pointer men who disapprove of the setter men, so called, and the setter judges, so called. They refuse to participate in the trials because they do not like the judges, alleging that they favor the setters. Furthermore, tor the same reason, they will exert themselves to keep others from entering. At the outset, it may safely be laid down as a fact that such men are much more valuable when absent in every way from the trials than when present. Their few dollars of entry fees are trifling in the way of g90d when compared with their surly nature and malicious acts when they do not receive what they consider adequate return for the money in- -yested- But returning to setter men and setter judges, so-called, The records show that the pointers were not discriminated against. All the best judges consider the work, not the dog. To the judge it isimmaterial what the breed of thedog is, whether he be pointer or setter. The pointer gets his deserts, not be- cause he is a pointer, but because he is a competitor; the same with setters. It is absurd to allege that men of the ex- perience, broadness of view and scrupulous honesty of the best jadges should be swayed by the relatively puerile issue as to whether a pointer did the best work because he was a pointer, or a setter did the best work because he was a setter, There is a juvenility about the grievance in question which makes if unworthy to be cherished by grown men, And yet it is an old, old story, this stealthy, insidious en- mity of the setter man to the pointer’s interests. Under the circumstances, it would seem to be fitting that the pointer men would do something specially for themselyes, The Juty 8, 1897.) dreadful setter then so far have done most of the work, as- sumed most of the responsibility, and sustained most of the odium which came from the disgruntled few. It is an easy matter to let others do the work, and then find fault with results. The work and responsibility are free to all alike. Tf the so-called setter men do not do the work to suit, it would seem a wise and beneficient course for the disgruntled to shake up and do something for themselves. As to the pointer judges who should have been engaged during the coming season, it may be asked, who are they? Who are the pointer judges, anyway? Any man who would declare himself a pointer judge would be unfit toact. A true judge is he who judges the competitors on the work done. He is not a pointer or setter judge; he is impartial and alike to both, The judges engaged this year are not setter men in the sense of being officially prejudiced in favor of setters. The only reason for the assertion on the part of the few disgruntled pointer men is the grasping after a col- orable pretext to justify a bad position, The fame and value of their dogs are from the bene- fits of field trials. 'To withhold their support does not harm the clubs. If the clubs were destroyed it would not harm the members, for they are merely an incident to them, a means of pleasant diversion during a few days of each year. Most of the judges accept under pressure the arduous position of judge, and they do not care a hang which dog wins, whether the same be setter or pointer. Often they serve without com- pensation, and in return for several days of the closest and most fatiguing labor, their sole remuneration is the hostility of some gentlemen whose sportsmanship and love of the do consist of a tout ensemble of stud fees, puppy sales an Tevenue in general. Pitti Sing. Winnieed, Man.—I noticed in the English Field a short time ago, an article alluding to the celebrated dogs of Eng- land. Tutsham Tip, Woodhill Beta and Woodhill Bruce were particularly mentioned, and the fact was commented upon that a sister of the above celebrated dogs had gone to America and had made a splendid record, but unfortunately the strain (on this continent) had not been perpetuated. The allusion was to Pitti Sing who, ten years azo, won her first aged stake, and a puppy of hers winning first in the Derby of the Irish setter field trials the same year, and second in an English Derby stake. Seven years ago this remarkable bitch ran in the four-hour heat race at Lexington, N. C. Mr. W. W. Titus wrote me at the time that at the conclusion of the week’s running, and at the end of the final heat of four hours, she was just ag fame as when she started. Years ago I put her away to end her days in the kennel, but as she seemed with increasing years and no work to be getting skittish, I bred her this spring, and yesterday she had a litter of healthy puppies. There may be instances of a similar nature; but I haye bred hundreds of dogs, yet this is the most remarkable case that has come under my notice personally, or that I have heard of. Tuos, JOHNSON, POINTS AND FLUSHES. Under date of June 24, Mr G. B. Borradaile, honorary secre- tary of the Manitoba Field Trials Club, writes us as follows: “To permit dogs being brought into Manitoba to compete in the M. F. T. Olub’s ‘Derby’ and ‘All-Age’ stakes, free of duty, they must be first entered in either of the above stakes before they will be allowed to pass the Customs Port of Hntry without paying duty. Our weather seems to be from Teports received from the country, just the kind required for raising Jarge broods of prairie chickens. From nearly every part of Manitoba and the territories most favorable reports are reaching me of their numbers, etc. Present indications point to our club’s trialg being a success.” Wheeling. Communications for this department are requested. Anything on the bicycle in its relation to the sportsman iz particularly desirable - WHEELING NOTES. _ Iv was only nineteen years ago last March that the first bicycle of domestic manufacture was sold in this country, The winner of the recent Chicago road race was a man fifty-one years of age. He covered mile after mile at a 2:40 gait, and effectually demonstrated that the younger genera- tion was not in it with ‘‘Papa” Smedley. Mr. David King, Jr., of New York, has found a very practical use for the tricycle in shore bird shooting. He covers the frame of his machine with a grass screen and wheels slowly along in his perambulating blind to various feeding grounds of the birds, thus securiog more shots, and at closer range, than those who rely upon stationary blinds other means of approach. During the late Greco-Turkish wur a number of the news- paper correspondents used bicycles on the scene of the hos- alities. In an interview given an English paper, Wilfred Pollock, who claims the honor of being the first war corre- pondent who has been through a campaign mounted on a heel instead of a horse, gives some interesting facts. He ays that the Greek roads are my no means impassable for bicycles. To quote from the interview: “Sometimes [ had to get off and walk a mile or two; ometimes it was I that did the carrying and not the machine, ot this was seldom and never for any great distance. On e other hand the zigzag cuttings up the many mountain asses are so well graded that it is quite possible to ride up hem if the surface be good and the wind friendly, _ “Riding down—and my machine had no brake—one had © remember that the corners of these twists are not banked, nd the Knud, as they call it in India, often offers many tundred feet of sheer drop.” urther on Mr, Pollock says: ‘‘By this time my success in utstripping: other correspondents in the several races to tele- Taph offices was becoming notorious, and bicycles became hte common adornments of the carriages in which my col- es chiefly traveled. * * * Not only did the bicycle move much faster, even on the Greek roads, than even the ek horse or carriage, but to sling it on to a train or mer was the work of a moment, and a horse is by ne means so easily manipulated. On three most important oc- casions my material reached England at least a whole day in front of that sent by any other English correspondent, thanks to the bicycle every time.” On general principles it would seem that oil would prove a good surface lubricant to reduce the friction of the chain over the sprockets. There is 4 serious objection to its use for this purpose, however, in the fact that with the ordinary ad- justment it makes the chain slip on the teeth and clang in a way that effectually destroys the peace of mind of the rider Wheelmen who have failed to wipe the oil from their chains after lubticating the joints frequently imagine that something serious is the matter with the bicycle from the noise that it makes, and’ sometimes they send it to the tepair shop, when, as a matter of fact, all that it needs is rub- bing with a cloth to dry the chain, and then a little graphite or other prepared surface lubricant on the inner side. The excessive use of oilis never to be advised. A few drops over each béaring is sufficient at any one time for all practical purposes, and any oil which escapes should be carefully wiped off, An overflow of oil collects dust and spoils the appearance of the wheel, and is also open to a yet more serious objection - 1n that it is a great cause of loosened nuts and the resultant accidents. In the case of screwed on sprockets, oil has been known to loosen the check nut, which has a left-hand screw, and then the simple act of back-pedaling unscrews the sprocket itself. ‘The loosened chain jumps the sprockets, and a gen- eral smashup may result. There has been a great demand this year for the so-called anatomical saddles, and the old front-and-back-supported soft saddle has fallen off in popularity correspondingly, The old saddles were comfortable when ihe rider was well broken in to their use, and they insured a firmer seat than many of the more recent contrivances, but they were wrong physiologically, and had to go. Saddles on similar model are made over wooden or metal frames so as not to sag at the sides, while sacdles with double points of support, provided with pads for the pelvic bones, represent the most advanced type. It is worth noting that the initiative for this movement came almost exclusively from the riders themselves, and that the manufacturers of bicycles and saddles were slow to take it up. Three years ago it was not uncommon to see wheel- men riding saddles embodying the features so generally recommended at present, that had been constructed or adapted by altering the old-style saddles to meet their views. The demand for such saddles was very marked before a single prominent manufacturer took up their construction. Connecticut Legislation. . _ Tue Connecticut General Assembly has adjourned, after a notable session from the cyclist’s standpoint. Although at one time the indications pointed to-action inimical to the wheelmen, in the end things were cleared up satisfactorily and both the measure imposing a tax upon bicycles and that requiring a lighted lamp to be affixed to wheels after night- fall, regardless of roads or conditions, were defeated. Instead, several wise measures have been passed, notably the general bicycle law which goes into effect July 15 and Supersedes the numerous and conflicting local ordinances and by-laws of towns, cities and boroughs. This general law limits the speed of bicycles in thickly settled sections to ten miles an hour. Bells are required, and must be sounded on approaching within a reasonable distance of any person, Riding on the sidewalks is prohibited and liable to punish- ment by a fine not exceeding $20, but the word ‘‘sidewalk” does not apply to cross walks nor unimproved foot-paths. Among other measures passed by the Legislature aftecting bicyclists are laws imposing penalties for the theft of wheels, for throwing into the highway tacks, glass, crockery, scrap one or wire, and for willfully or maliciously injuring bicycle paths. __A new section deals with the amount of road to be given wheelmen by drivers of vehicles, which provides for ‘‘a fair opportunity to pass,’ though not necessarily one-half the traveled path. Another section, which is aimed at that class of riders who put wheeling into disrepute and are at the same time a menace to the pleasure and safety of other cyclists, provides a fine not exceeding $500 or imprisonment up to six months for any bicycle rider, who having run against and injured any person on the highway does not stop, render aid, and give his name and address. dachting. As the yachting journal of America, the ForasT AND STREAM 1s the recognized medium of communication between the maker of yachts- men’s supplies and the yachting public. Its value for advertising has been demonstrated by patrons who have employed its columns continuously for years. Copies of the FOREST AND STREAM race report blanks, for recording ° and reporting racrs, will be sent to all clubs requesting them. The racing and measurement rules of the Yach Racing Union of Long Island Sound (the Seawanhaka rule, with allowance tables) can be had of Thompson & Co , 55 Dey street, New York; price 10 cents per copy. The handbook of ‘Yacht Flag Htiquette” can be had of Rehm d: Co., 157 Fulton street, New York; price 10 cenis per copy. YACHT RACING FIXTURES 1897, THE following list of fixtures has been compiled from man y different sources, some of them not official, and it may contain some errors, Ww esta! te ele to eee ole of coecudus and additions. ces of the Soun -R. U. sre marked with the letter S: th the Massachusetts Y. R. A, with the letuer M: Pr PaS OF JULY. is Apaicns Pelne cruise, New ceatle, N.B, - Royal St. Lawrence club, all classes, Dorval Lake, St. Louis, 1, Royal Canadian Queen's cup, Toronto Lake, Ontario. s M3. Jeffries, off Jeffries Point, Hast Boston. 3. Cohasset, club; 15-footer, 4th cham , Cohasset, 3-4-5, Cor. San trancisco, cruise Martiez, Vallejo San Francisco, 3, Roy, St, Lawrence, 2'ift. class, Dorval, Lake St, Louis, 6, American, Ist club, Newburyport, 18 3. Fox Lake, club, Mineola Club, Fox Take, Il. 3. Royal Nova Scotia, handicap, 3-rating class, Halifax. 3. Beverly, 2d open sweeps. Wen vmet, Buzzard’s Bay 3-4-5. American, cruise to Boston, Newburyport. 3-10. Brooklyn, annu;?) cruise, L. I. Sound. 34-5. Buffalo, Lake Erie: Larchmont, annual, L I. Sound. : Cohasset, club, 15-footers, 5th char . Cohasset. Burgess, open, Marblehead. Mass , Bay, 7 Fox Lake, club, Dr. Brophy’s Cottage, Fox Lake, Il Lake Michigan, Y. R. A. annual, Racine, Liave Michigan: 5, Beverly, 2d cham., Wenaumet, Bugzard’s Bay: 5, Wollaston, cup and club cruise, Boston Harbor. 5, Cor. Marblehead, club, Massychusetts Bay. M 5. City_of Boston, regatta, off Marine Park, %. Roy. St. Lawrence, 20ft. class, Dorval, Lake St. Lonis. 8, Absequan, open, Cricket Bay, Atlantic City: ‘ § 10. Riverside, annual race for 25; 20 and 15ft, classes of sloops i : all classes of catboats. ; 10. Roy. Canadian; Ist and 27ft. classes, Toronto, Lake Gatario, 10; Queen City, 27ft class, Toronto, ake Ontario, 10, Cohasset, club, 15 footers; 6th cham,, Cohasset. 10. Roy. St. Lawrence, 20 and 15ft. classes. Dorval, Lake St. Louis: 10, Royal Nova Scotia, open, all classes, Halifex: 10. Burgess, 2d cham,, Marblehead, Mass. Bay. 10-11. Cor,, San Francisco, cruise, San Mateo, San Francisco; 12, Miramichi, Adams cup, Chatham, N. B. 5 12-16. Seawanhaka Cor., trial races for 20ft. class of sloops. 18 Tamnnton, ladies’ day, Taunton, Mass. 12-18. Rhode Island, anrual cruise, Narragansett Bay. 13. Fall River, ladies’ day, Mount Hope Bay. M17. Winthrop, off Winthrop. 17. Cor. Marblehead, Ist cham., Mass Bay. 17. Queen City, 20ft. class, Toronto, Lake Ontario. 1%. Winthrop, open, Winthrop, Boston Harbor, 17. Columbia; annual club, Chicago, Lake Michigan. 17. Cohasset, club, 15-footers, 7th cham., Cohasset. 17, Rhode Island, annual club, Potter's Cove, Narragansett Bay. 17, Fox Lake, club, Hast Side, Fox Lake, Ill. 1%, American, 2d club, Newburyport. 17, Wollaston, club, Boston Harbor. 17. Pewaukée, interlake, Pewaukee Lake, Wis. 17. Royal Noya Scotia, knockabout class, Halifax. 17, Roy. St. Lawrence, A, 30, 25 and 20ft. classes, Dorval, Lake St. SV OT GET or Louis. , M 19-20-21-22-23. Manchester series, off Manchester, 24. Brooklyn, special, New York Bay. 24, American, cruise to Annisquam, Newburyport, 24, Winthrop, evening race, Winthrop, Bos‘on Harbor. 24, Absequan, Cricket and 15ft. classes, Atlantic City, Absecon Bay, 24. Queen City, 16ft. class. Toronto, Lake Ontario, 24, Burgess, ladies’ race, Marblehead, Massachusetts Bay. 24, Roy, Canadian, 27f., 22ft. and skiff classes, Toronto, Lake Ontario, 24. Cohasset, club, 15-footers, 8h cham , Cohasset. 24. Roy. St. Lawrence, 20ft. class, Doryal, Lake St. Louis. 24, Royal Nova Scotia, Wenonah cup, open, Halitax 24. Beverly, 3d open sweeps, Wenaumet, Buzzard’s Bay. 25, Winthrop, cruise, to Nahant, Winthrop Boston Harbor. 5 28. Seat special race for 51, 30 and 20ft. classes of cutters and sloops._ M31, Revere, Lynn Bay. 31. Gravesend Bay, cruise, New York Bay. 31. Cohasset, club, 15-footers, 9th cham., Cohasset. 31. Royal Nova Scotia, squadron cruise, Halifax. 31, Fox Lake, club, Dr. Tooker’s Cottage, Fox Lake, II. S$ 31. Indian Harbor, annual, all classes except cabin catboats. S 31. Sea Chiff, special, 30 and 25ft. classes, cabin eatboats July 3l-Aug, 1. Cor. San Francisco, cruise, Vallejo, San Francisco. JULY. Y. R. U, of Long Island Sound Racing Circuit: 3. Saturday. New Rochelle, annual regatta, for all classes 6, Tuesday, American, annual regatta, for all classes. . %. Wednesday. Riverside, annual race for schooners and all clagses of sloops 30ft. and over. Atlantic ¥, @.. cruise, Long Island Sound: 5. Rendezvous, Larchmont. 6, American, regatta, Milton Point. 7. Riverside, regatta, Riverside. 8 ist squadron run, Riverside to Black Rock. 9, 2d squadron run, Black Rock to, Morris Cove 10. 3d squadron run, Morris Cove to New London. 11. Informal run, New London to Shelter Island. 12. Race,off Shelter Island. Inter-Lake Y. R. A, Weet, Put-In Bay, Lake Erie: 5, Rendezvous, Put In Bay. 6. 52ft., 42ft. and 387ft. classes. 7. 32ft. and 27£1, classes, catboats and launches, 8. Open, cup held by Zeima, Lake ¥. &. A. Circuit, Lake Ontario; 15. Cobourg. 19. Kingston. 23. Charlotte. 27. Hamilton, 31. Niagara, Larchmont Race Week, Larchmont, Long Island Sound: 17, Open, all classes. 19, Special classes. 20. Rowing and launch races, water sports, 21, Open, all classes, 22. Smaller classes. 23, Schooners and smaller classes, 24, Open all ecla-ses. AUGUST, 2. New York, cruise, rendezvous Glen Cove. M2 Burgess, Marblehead, Mass. Bay. ’ SS aye St. Lawrence, 20ft. class, trial races, Dorval, Lake St, ouis. M3. Beverly, Marblehead, Mass Bay. S 4. New Rochelle, special classes, 43fb. and under, 4-5-6 Cor. Marblehead, midsummer series, Massachusetts Bay. 5-6-7. Taunton, cruise to Newport, Taunton, Mass. 6, Absequan, invitation race, Aulantic Ciy 7. Cor. Marblehead, open, Massachusetts Bay. 7. Buifalo, club, Lake Erie. 87. Hempstead Harbor Club, annual, classes 43ft. and under, M 7. Corinthian, off Marblehead. 7, Queen City, 22ft. class, Toronto, Lake Ontario. 7. Beverly, 3d cham., Wenaumet, Buzzard’s Bay. 7. Wollaston, ladies’ day, Boston Harbor. 7. Cohasset, club, 15-footers, 10th cham., Cohasset. 7. Roy. Canadian, Ist and 3ift. classes, Toronto, Lake Ontario. 7. Fox Lake, club, Island Fox Lake, Ill 7-3. Winthrop, cruise to Marblehead, Winthrop, Roston Harbor, 7-'4 Cor. San Francisco, summer cruise, San Francisco. 7. Royal Nova-Scotia, knockabout class, Halifax. 10. Winthrop, evening race, Boston Harbor. 11, Taunton, ladies’ day, Taun‘on, Mass. 12. Miramich, Stewart pennant, Oak Point race, M 13, East Gloucester, Gloucester Harbor. M 14. Sguam, Annisquam., $ 14 Horseshoe Harbor, club, annua], clas:es i6ft. and under. 14, Cor, Marblehead, 2d cham., Massachusetis Bay. id, Brooklyn, special, New York Bay. 14. Queen City, 16ft. class, Toronto, Lake Ontario. 14, Winthrop, 2d cham., Winthrop, Boston Harbor. 14. Beverly, 4th cham., Wenaumet, Buzzard’s Bay. id. Cobasset, club, 15-fouters, 11th cham , Cohassett, 14, Wollaston, cup, Boston Harbor, 14, Fox Lake, club, East side, Fox Lake, Ill. i4 Royal Nova Scotia, open, handicap, Halifax. 14-41, Roy. St. Lawrence, 20ft. class, Seawanhaka cup races, Doryal, Lake St Louis. M 17. American, Newburyport S 18, American, special, classes 43ft, and under 19. Winthrop, cruise to Weymouth, Winthiop, Boston Harbor. M 1£-.0-21 Qniney, series, Hull Bay, Boston Harbor, 5 21. Huguenot, annual, classes 48ft. and under. 21 Roy. Canadian, 27ft , 22ft. and skiff classes, Toronto, Lake On- tario. 21. Roy. St. Lawrence, club, all classes, Dorval, Lake St. Louis. #l. Beverly, A. M., Van Rensselacr cup, Marion, Buzzard’s Bay. P, M., 2d open. 21. Taunton, ist cham., Taunton, Mass, 21. Cohasset, club, 15-footers, 12th cham., Cohasset. 21. Queen City, 20fc. class, Toronto, Lake Ontario. 21, Royal Nova Scotia, knockabout class, Halifax. 21. Burgess, 3d cham., Marblehead, Mars Bay. 23, Absequan, open, Atlantic City, Thoronghfare. 28, Rhode Island, annual open, Pawtuxet, Narragansett Bay. 24, Minnetonka, Interlake races, Lake Minnetonka. 25 Fall River, open, Mount Hope Bay, 8 25. Corinthian Fleet, special, 51, 30 and 20ft. classes. M 26. Duxbury, Plymouth Bay, %6, Taunton, open, Taunton, Mass. 14 FOREST AND STREAM. [Juny &, 1867. M 27, Kingston, Plymouth Bay. 28. Cor. Marblehead, 3d cham., Massachusetts Bay. 28. Buffalo, 27ff. and smaller classes, Lake Hrie. 28. Gravesend Say, cruise, New York Bay. 2s. Brooklyn, special, New York Bay. M 28. Plymouth, Plymouth Bay. 28. Queen City, 27ft. class, Toronto, Lake Ontario. 88, Vohasset, club, 15-footers, 13th cham , Cohasset. 28. Royal Nova Scotia. open, handicap, Halifax. 28, 3d cham., Winthrop, Boston Harbor. $ 28. Huntington. annual, classes 5ift_ and under, 28-29. Gor., San Francisco, cruise, McNear’s, San Francisco. M30. Cape Cod, Provincetown Harbor. M 31, Wellfleet, Wellfleet Harbor. THE completion of the first steam pilot boat in the present year of grace, 1897, marks another epoch in the history of naval design. The history of the American, and especially the New York, pilot boat is very similar to that of the American yacht. At one time, nearly half a century ago, both were renowned for their speed and other good qualities, which placed them far ahead of the vessels of all other nations. The fame of the schooner yacht America, practi- cally a modified pilot boat, was almost equaled. by that of Mary Taylor and the other famous pilot boats designed by George Steers. The models of these vessels, yacht and pilot boat alike, were copied by foreign builders in both new and old vessels. The reputation so well earned by George Steers and his contemporaries was by 00 means upheld by their im- Mediate successors, and for many years the American pilot boat shared with the American shoal sloop and schooner the hearty condemnation of impartial experts. There was in the later boats no trace whatever of the ability, ingenuity and individuality that characterized the America and other craft of her day, but om the other hand, builders were con- tent with a blind copying of stereotyped features, with no better guide than prejudice and tradition. The same methods which produced the old centerboard sloop or schooner, shoal, wide, badly ballasted and wretched] rigged, produced the regular New York pilot boat. Bot were lamentably deficient in the essentials of a good ship, and yet both were considered by their builders and owners as the most perfect craft of their kind ever floated. Boston gaye way in course of time to the advance of improvement, and her pilot fleet was greatly improyed through the efforts of the late D. J. Lawlor, who hasleft a fitting monument in the pilot boat Hesper No. 5; but New York clung to the last to the old models of both yacht and pilot boat. It is now twelve years since the change came in yachting and the designer was finally recognized in his true place, so long accorded to the builder. For fourteen years before, from 1871 to 1885, the first American designer, Mr, A. Cary Smith, had been turning out vessels far superior to those of the rule-o’ thumb builders; Vindex, White Cap, Madcap, In- trepid, Norna, Fortuna, and the most famous of all, the sloop Mischief, all from his board, had borne testimony to the value of technical training and systematic work in de- signing; but it was not until the great success of Puritan, the work of another designer, that American yachtsmen as a class recognized the two distinct functions of designing and building, and did due honor to an American designer. The innumerable successes of American designers in the field of sailing yachts from that day to this has settled the matter forever, and to the advantage of both parties; a new profes- sion, of yacht designing, has sprung up, and at thesame time the builders have prospered far more than under the old system. Tt is not a little surprising that the success of the different big schooner yachts should never have induced the pilots to go to the same source for a design; but such is the case, As long as wooden pilot schooners were in vogue about New York no attempt whatever was made to improve the very defective models, or to bring them back to the high standard established by George Steers. Vessel after vessel ywas built a ue same ancient model, and with the same stereotyped aults. The day of the sailing pilot schooner passed in due time, the old fleet giving way to steel and steam, as was inevitable, and with it came a change of policy on the part of the own- ers, the New York and New Jersey pilots. In the natural order of things it would have been a matter of course for them to intrust the production of the new craft to some firm renowned for the construction of tugboats, car-floats orsteam canal barges, leaving the design to take care of itself. Far’ from this being the case, however, the pilots have shown them- selves fully up to the times, in that from the inception of the first definite idea of a new vessel they have placed the matter entirely in the hands of a competent naval architect. Long before it was known who was to build the vessel, all details of the design were decided upon in conferences with Mr. A. Cary Smith, the exact conditions of the proposed work, about New York Harbor and outside Sandy Hook, being laid before him. Thecomplete plans and specifications were prepared by Mr. Smith before bids were asked from the different builders. ; While only practical work at sea can test the exact merits of the new craft, she has thus far in her trial trips more than met the expectations of her designer and owners, and there is every reason to anticipate that she will prove a com- plete success. The fight for the recognition of the designer as notonly equal to but preceding the builder, was. first begun in the FOREST AND STREAM nearly twenty years ago. Slow and discourag- ing as the progress was for many years, we have at last had the satisfaction of seeing full honor accorded to the designer of sailing vessels, while one of the leading yacht designers has won, in his first attempts, a wonderful triumph over the yule-o’-thumb builders in the production of the great Sound steamers Peck and Lowell. ow the pilots have fallen in line on the side of the designer. Itis not too much to hope that before many years the yacht designer will be as fully recognized in the field of steam as of sail in this country, as he has long been in Europe; and that the process of produc- ing a steam yacht by altering and patching up old blueprints, and of building the engines from the old junk of the pattern loft, will give place to such exact and systematic methods as are recognized as essential in the case of sailing yachts. THE racing of the past week has added little to the num- bers or reputation of the, new 20ft. class. The Seawanhaka CG, Y. C. race on June 26 found but five boats at the line— Shark, Skate, Arauca, Keneu and Asthore. The Crane boats, Pioneer, Momo and Al-Anka, had not arrived, in fact, the former had not been shipped, and it is reported that she will not come to New York, Arauca, William Williard Howard’s new boat, arrived at Oyster Bay on Friday night by rail from Clayton, on the St. Lawrence. She was hastily launched and rigged, starting in the race at noon next day. A few minutes of pounding in the moderate sea smashed and wrung her hull go badly that it is very doubtful whether she can be made serviceable for smooth-water sailing, and she can never be made safein a little sea. Her beam of 10ft., with canoe planking and a heavy steel board, account for her speedy dissolution. The honors on Saturday went to the new Huntington boat Skate, another freak of most extreme type, in a breeze and sea she repeated the performances under similar conditions of the old. Question, beating the fin-keel Shark very badly, At the same time it is doubtiul whether she will be an eyen all-round boat, fast in light weather, such as usually pre- vails in the Sound races. Yhe other Huntington boat, Keneu, gave up,.as did Asthore. In Monday’s race only Shark and Asthore started, The P 1? - aa : former sailed very fast, judged by larger boats sailing the same course, while Asthore was beaten 7 minutes, The com= ing week will see several additions to the fleet, and presum- ably more regular racing as a class. IT is reported that a movement is now under way among the numerous small yacht clubs of Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois for the formation of an association on the lines of those existing in other parts of the country, THE winner of the Emperor’s cup in the race from Dover to Heli oland was the yaw] Hreda, formerly Constance, de- signed by Dixon Kemp and built by A. E. Payne in 1885 for C. W. Prescott-Westcar. The Swedish Jubilee Regatta. ROYAL SWEDISH Y. 0. Stockholm, July 7-1h. THE programme for the regatta of the Royal Swedish Y. GC. is as follows: July 7.—Meeting of yachts at Stockholm; at 8 o’clock P.M, supper at Hasselbacken, price 5 kr. a head, July 8.—Sailing of the yachts for Sandhamn; in the even- ing reception in the new club house at Sandhamn; to this re- ception will be invited members of the Royal Swedish Y. C., residing outside of Stockholm, as well as all on board of the racing yachts present members of recognized foreign yacht eles and of Swedish yacht clubs stationed outside Stock- olm. July 9.—Race on the Kauholm fiord, about 4 miles from Sandhamn, for classes 2-6; the racing course about 10 miles, will be sailed twice round by classes 2-4, and once by classes 5-6; after the race a trip to Saltsjabaden will eventually be arranged. July 10.—Race for the Jubilee cup of His Majesty, King Oscar II,, open to yachts not exceeding 2.5 rating with a waterline length not exceeding 7.20 meters; the racing course is 10 miles, and will be sailed once round. ; July 11.—(@) Race at sea outside of Sandhamn, open to yachts belonging to classes 1-2; special races for yachts built prior to 1890; the racing course 20 miles, will be sailed once. (b) Race on the Kauholm fiord for classes 3-6; special race for yachts built prior to 1890 and belonging to class 3; the racing course will be sailed twice round by classes 3-4, and once by classes 5-6, July 12.—Race at sea outside of Sandhamn for all classes, (a) Classes 1-3 will race on an outer course of 20 miles, which will be sailed twice round by Class 1 and once by classes 2:3. (pb) Classes 4-6 will race over an inner course of 5 miles, which will be sailed twice round. July 18,—Mainly the same sort of races as on July 11, but no special races for “senior yachts,” towing of the yachts up to Stockholm in the evening. July 14.—At 11 o’clock in the forenoon race for small coast traders. Raslagsskutor outside of Saltsjabaden. At 5o’clock in the afternoon banquet, with distribution of prizes at Has- selbacken under the presidence of His Majesty King Oscar IL.; to this banquet will beinvited, besides other guests of honor, owners of all Norwegian and foreign yachts having partaken in the races. Other members of recognized yacht clubs and naval officers are entitled to partake in the banquet for a price of 80kr. each person. GENERAL RULES. The races are to be arranged, sailed and decided in accord= ance with the sailing rules, rating rules and time allowance tables of the Royal Swedish Y. 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The interest of the day centered on this event, being a race of 10 birds, ties on 10 to be shot miss and-out. Im this event there were thirteen who broke 10 straight and lined up to settle the championsbip. All except S. A. Smith, of Hartley, Ia., and Charlie Hamilton, of the Soo Gun Club, were out on the first 6 birds From then on Smith and Hamilton both shot brilliantly, but on the 15h bird Hamilton mise ; Smith powdered his and won the medal on a score of 25 straight. ° On this day Mrs. Geo. R. Slocum, of Springhar, Tae., attended the tournament and showed herself to be an expert with the shotgun. The gun club, in appreciation of Mrs. Slocum’s presence and the good work done at the traps, presented her with a beautiful bouquet Scores of Second Day. Eveuts: 12345678 Shot at. Broke. 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Ae ey oy ibmabl eh elie McNamara, ARH pe Ki) Seer vd Mrs Slocum... Shot at. Broke, 18 FOREST AND STREAM. [JuLy 3, 189%. Pennsylvania’s State Shoot. Neynr to our knowledge has the Pennsylvania State Sportsmen’s ‘Association held a. shont the equal of that which closed last week at Oil City. June 22-25 deta pace for future tournaments of the Asso- ciation that most sun clubs will find it hard to compete with. Hav- ing heen personally connected with the Pennsylvania State Sports- men’s Association for a, matter of five or six years, we can well recall the efforts made from yearto year by John A. Wilson, of Franklin, Pa,, to induce the delegates at each successive annual meeting of the Association to give the shoot 10 his portion of the country across the Alleghenies. His efforts were finally crowned with success at Harrisburg last ye-r, the shoot going to the Oil City Gun Club. The suecess of that shoot has been the most thorongh vindication Mr. Wilsou could desire in behalf of western Pennsylvania. The choice of Qil City for 1897 was no error on the part of the delegates at the meeting of 1896, : A PICTURESQUE LOCATION, A. picturesque location bad been chosen for the scene of the State shoot. We had been prepared during our 130 miles’ run up the Alle- gheny River from Pittsburg, in the cars of the Allegheny River Rail- way, for something choice in the way of Scenery around Oil City. The Allezheny River, whose course the railway follows from point to point, flows throurh somes of the most beautiful mountain scenery it has ever been our lot to seein this or any other country. We had also been told by Mr. H. ©. Reeser, Secretary of the Oil City Gun Chub, in letters written prior to the State shoot, something about the character of the country in which his club was going to hold the shoot. But even with the above warnings we were scarcely prepared for the reality Electric street cars which bore the sign of ‘Hill and Park,” carried us about two miles southwest of the city, following the course of the river. The line then left the river and turned more to the south, fol- lowing a valley that marks a sharp turn in the river. After covering auother mile aud a half the track crosses a road that runs at right- angles to auother road which has left the main road down by the river and followed the course of the valley. The signpost at this cross- roads reads: ‘314 Miles te Oil City,’ pointing dowo the valley the wayi we have some. The other hands point sbout east and west. The one pointing east, across the car track, reads: “Salem, 2 Miles;” the other, pointing west. says: ‘“Wranklin, 5 Miles.** But the shooting vrounds are not here. We haye to go about another mile and 4 haif, still right in the heart of the woods, and with an arch of trees meet- ing over the car track. before we leave the cars and dive down into the yalley. which forks at this point Here. right in the fork, with mountains and woods on all sides, and with the strongest suggestions of ruffed grouse and woodcock on everv hand, were located the shoot- ing grounds. ‘‘Deep Hollow” is, we believe, the name given to ths spot. A VERY HARD BACEGROUND. Under such conditions as regards location, the extremely hard nature of the background can well be imagined. A few weeks ago there was only a small open space in the woods af this poimt. The elub went to work and cleared additional space sufficient to run two sets of live bird traps, the 50yds. boundary line on each set of traps being right at the edge of the woods. These woods are not very dense, although there is plenty of undergrowth, and at first sight, be- fore a target was thrown, one could scarcely realize how extremely hard it was goine to be to locate accurately the whirling bluerocks. The trouble chiefiy l>y in the brilliant suo that shone all the time through the leaves of the trees which clothed the slopes of the moun- tains in front of the traps, causing the green of the leaves to assume a yellowish tint that matched very well with the yellow circles on the bluerocks. Against such a background if was next to impossible to see the sight on one’s gun and find out where one was holding when the referee decided “‘lost’’—as he yery often did. Fred Gilberfi gave us a good, but brief, description of the back- ground. We arrived in Oil City, accompanied by Capt. Money, Billy Wolstereroft, James Schmeck and Whiting, in time for dinner on Monday, Juue 21. Going up to the dining room of the Arlington Hotel, headquarters for shooters. we found several shooters ab work with the knifeand fork, among-them the members of the Indian squad. In the course of conversation we asked Gilbert what the background was like. His reply was as follows: ‘It’s all right; there’s none of that nasty blue sky to bother a person.” And there wasn't. CAPITAL ACCOMMODATIONS FOR SHOOTERS. The arrangements at the ground for the accommodation of the shooters were capital. A club house, with an atuple cashier’s office, held guns, shells, coats, ett. Gunracks at the scores of the two ma- pautraps were also well tenanted. Benches and chairs were every- where in profusion, and the irees of the woods at the back of the scores gave much desired shelter from the burning rays of the flerce June sun that were only slightly tempered by a gentle breeze that swept up the yalley on the left of the opening, crossing the traps from left to right. There were tents, too, in sufficient numbers to give oue the idea ofa camp meeting. Milt and Wanda had their te- pee; J. M Carson, the local gundealer, had a large tent in which he kept shells for sale; and, be it noted, he did a good business in that line. There were other tents, too, but we cannot recall any other special ones, except the dining tent, in which Mr. W H. Loots, as- sisted by a most courteous and willing brigade of helpers, dispensed one of the yery best meals we have sat down to, served in a similar al fresco style. Mr. Loots, his assistants, his gallons of ice cream, quarts of strawberries, cases of well iced ‘soft stuff’ (for “hard stuf’ was very fitly barred). and his 50-cent dinners, must be numbered among the list of attractions at the State shoot of 1897. Under the management and direction of Elmer Shaner the club was scarcely likely to be lacking in the matter of help; nor was ib. The following list of the help employed on the target days will show that the club did not allow the expenditure of a few dollars to stand in its way when the success of the shoot might depend on the extra outlay for additional help. Im the cashier's office were W. H. Magee, cashier; assistant cashier, Philip Engelsperger; compiler of scores, Alf. P. Pope; assistant compiler of scores, Chas. Moyer; squad hustler. J. B. Deegan. For the State events on magautrap No.1 there were two or three referees: the puller was Wm. Watterson; trappers, Chas. Huff and Tom Lynch; scorers: blackboard, Pope, Jr.; manifold, Sherrick; messenger, Cook. On the No. 2 magautrap for the open events the officials were: Referee, W. J. McCrickart; puller, Jos. Hutf; trappers, Fred Lynch and John Frye; blackboard, Wal- ter Wolf; manifold, Russel Lay. The trio of water boys, who were kept very busy filling up the buckets with fresh, cold, spring water, were Bernard Hlert, Joseph Lynch and Ellis Soles, The above makes— a big list of help, but all were needed, and all helped to smooth out any kinks that might temporarily arise. THE CLUB INCURRED GREAT EXPENSH, In making arrangements for this shoot the club incurred great ex- pense. Its own grounds, nearer the city, were felt to be totally un- fitted for so big a shoot as this one promised to he. It therefore looked around and chose the site mentioned, putting up the clob house specially for this occasion. It also went to the expeuse of put- ting up. a pigeon-coop capable of holding some 3,000 birds, close to the grounds. This coop alone cost the club $200 in cold, hard dollars. The club house, too. although we did nop learn what its cost was, could not be far behind the above figures. ‘And all this expense was incurred in all probability for just this one ‘shoot. Mr. J. B. Smithman, the gentleman who owns the street car system, all the ground surrounding the place where the shoot was held, and also Smithman’s Park, anew pleasure resort about half a mile from the shooting grounds, intends to add to the attractions at this end of his car line by turning the valley where the shoot was held into a lake about a mile in length, by building a dam at the western outlet. From this it will be gathered that, should the Oil City Gun Club at some future date give another shoot (and it is to be hoped that it will do so), it is scarcely likely that such shoot would be held where so many bluerocks were smashed last week. Taking into consideration also the $200 added money, added by the Oil City Gun Club, and also taking into account the outlay for build- ings and the help to run the shoot, it is hard to see how the club could hope to come out even, Weecould not figure it out at all, and were, therefore, clad to learn from Mr. Reeser on Friday, June 23, that two residents of Oil City had approached him and had asked to be per- witied to aid by means of checks if the club ran behind the game; and these two gentlemen were not members of the club, so far as we could learn. AN UNUSUAL NUMBER OF SPECTATORS ON HAND. A special feature of this shoot was the large attendance of specta= tors present at the grounds every day of the tournament, They came early and they stayed Jate, watching even the target shooting with a degree of interest we have never seen equaled anywhere before. Ordinarily 2 corporal’s guard is about what turns out to look at the boys break targets, the bulk of the crowd showing up when live birds were to be trapped and shotat But at Oil City it was different from anything we have noted before. Ladies and gentlemen, the former praciug the tournament with their presence in large numbers, came out all days alike and took a most active interest in all thatwas going on, watebing the blnerocks being smashed and scanning the score board with an interest that was evidenced by the closeness with which they? ollowed the proceedings. This not f00 much to say that every member of the home club did his best to make the shootrun smoothly. The officers of the club are: President, L. L. Graham; Vice-President, A, Smedley; Secre- tary, H. C. Reeser; Treasurer, H, ©. Dorworth, Directors: F. 38. Bates, C.°H. Lay, Jr., and @.'T. McClintock, All the above, together with many of the rank and file, were always on hand to look after the comfort of their guests At thé Arlington and the other hotels of the city, everything was fone to make the visitors feel at home. In short, the shoot was a great social success; and the social fea - tures of such gatherings mean far more than most people and most clubs properly appreciate, TWO MAGAUTRAPS WERE USED. Paul North being unable to attend the shoot through sickness at home, Charlie North, his brother, was on hand to look after the ma- gautraps if they got balky, something that only happened rarely. When such a thing did occur, the ery went up: ‘‘North, North,” and a figure was seen trotting off to fhe refractory machine with a movement of the pedal extremities that made Charlie North a dead ringer for the better known Paul of that ilk; knickerbockers, bicycle stockings, pneumatic calves and all. So much has been said about the background that the scores will scarcely excite any comment; but it must also be borne in mind that the magautraps were throwing the targets far and fast all the time, On the preparatory afternoon the targets flew as we have never seen them fy from any trap more than once or twice previously. And during the entire shoot there would be occasions when the targets got to going as far as was consistent with our notions of what constitutes the limit. But it was interesting shooting, and nobody was safe until the last target of his string had been broken. One was never out until the bell on the blackboard had rung, Nos, 1and 5 were hard po- sitions to get through safely. From No. 1 there would sometimes come a succession of stinging left-quarterers, that would tax the best skill of either Rolla or Fred Gilbert. At No.5 there would be some rizht- quarterers that beat the best of them; while as for straightaways— they were overshot time and time agam It was corking hard shoot- ing, but it was decidedly interesting. And it was the same for all, No excuses, STATE REPRESENTATION, The long list of shooters in the State eyents will best tell who was on hand. Philadelphia, Reading, Harrisburg and Pittsburg were all well represented, the Philadelphia contingenb making a clean sweep of all the trophies in the target events, Harrisburg took the individual champiouship at live birds, Brewster winning it after a shoot-off with holder, Jos. Thurman, Jr. Pittsburg took the team champion- ship trophy at live birds, the Herron Hill Guu Club's trio, A, H. King, W. 8. King and J. G. Messner, each making a clean score of 15 birds, Meadville, Newcastle, Franklin, Oil City, and several other cities were also weli represented in the Stata events, but the bulk of the contestants in these ayents came from the four large cities above mentioned. FROM OUTSIDE THE STATE. _ From outside the State came several of the most noted ecracker- jacks in the country: MeMurchy, Heikes, Budd, Grimm, Powers, Gil- bert, Brewer, Van Dyke, Glover, Fulford, Dickey, Crosby, Fanning, Winston, Trimble, H. G Wheeler, Hood, etc.; if that contingent isn’t watm company, what is? Gilbert, although our list of general averages shows him tied with Heikes for first average, really carried off the honors by four targets, as be broke 49 out of 50 in the H.C handicap against 45 broken by Heikes. As, however, we have neyer taken handicaps into account in figuring averages, the results should stand as shown in the table of general averages given elsewhere. Like all the rest, Gilbert would fall off temporarily in his work, and then again he made some bril- liant runs, showing that, as the boys put it, he is “pointing the best of any of them.” _ The trade representatives, many of whom are included in the above list of crackerjacks, also included Capt. A. W. Money and Gus B. Greiff, both representing the American HE. ©. and Schultze Powder Company, Limited; Milt Lindsley and Mrs. Lindsley, King’s Smoke- less and Peters’ Cartridge Company; L D. Thomas, of the Laflin & Rand W-A Powder Company; U. M. GC. Thomas, of the 0 M. ©. Com- pany, who only showed up for the live bird events; A. G, Courtney, of the Remington Arms Company; Dan Lefeyer, of the Lefeyer Arms Company; H.H, Knickern, representing the firm of Schoverling, Daly & Gales; A. W. Du Bray, of the Parker Gun Company; George A. Mosher, of the Syracuse 4rms Company, who was unfortunately coved home by a wire on June 24, announcing the death of a near relative. Among the crackerjacks were the representatives of the following firms: W_R. A. Co., Rolla Heikes and Ferd. Van Dyke; Harvey Mc- Murchy, L. ©. Smith (Hunter Arms Co.), Syracuse, N Y.; Budd, Grimm and Gilbert, a strong Du Pont-Hazard trio; Ralph Trimble, Du Pont Smokeless; Sim Glover, Parker gun and Schultze powder; Fulford, Remington gun and Schultze powder; O. R. Dickey, Parker gun and B. C. powder; Winston, Austin’s 147 load; Jack Fanning and Gold Dust; H G Wheeler, King’s Smokeless; Billy Crosby, of the Baker Gun Co,, Batavia, N. Y.; Jack Brewer, Francotte gun and Schultze. As we shall have to review the shoot in comparative detail, it will be better, perhaps, to proceed with that portion of the report with- out furtber prelude. STATE EVENTS, The target programme of State events was as follows. Wirst day: Three 15-target events; the Wolstencroftt trophy contest for the indi- vidual championship of the State, 50 targets per man; the American Wood Powder trophy for 3 men teams; and a 50-target event, handi- cap allowance, for a Parker gun. Second day: Three 15-target 6yents; a 50-target event, handicap allowance, for a Remington gun; and the contests for the Reading and the Harrisburg trophies for 5- men and 6-men teams, respectively. THE 15-TARGET EVENTS. Below will be fcund a table giving the averages made by those who shot in the 15-target events, sixty-one shooters in all taking part in these events: Events; 123 46 6 Targets: 16 16 15 16 18 15 Shot at. broke, Ay. W 4H Wolstencroft.....,..., 13 15 11 18 12 14 90 78 86.6 CH Lay...... veorspair regen Ah Leela el sel td 90 74 82.2 A SMCGIEY ...c0seeeeeesveese 18:11 12 13 10 15 90 Gh 8212 AERP ODO ioc uted pmnmsa pares 12 13 12:11 18 12 90 73 61.1 TISGandS Geuadarsegecees ee Lielellelaere 90 72 80 PSCHMECK, ccccsvweceovecss JO Ue 1d 12 12 9 90 71 78. SP Life... pe ceeeeeseseaeses LLIB 11 =«°~«(90 71 78.8 H Brewster. ..ccccsseeereecer 10°12 13 1211 12 90 70 77 GUESS. ca cereniecesrsecevesey 11 1018 12° 9 14 90 69 76.6 PNT vdteeees seed LOseeter ta 40) 90 68 75.5 B Harrison, ....sceceeesees-, 101212 9 13 12 90 68 75.5 ER HIBOLH 5c cores cvs bo beb Ee etanbe Ugle44 holt 90 67 44 eS EQUA. ieeinitinnp mnwee y/ocemareMilpeeeL cel () ofl ceeL OAL 90 66 73.3 BS Bates, ssccceucsvtrvecess 10 11 121094 9 90 66 133 OLVECi sy phveseyeas cad ntnech ie Mee llel ede abt 90 66 42,2 J SHaAaDELr...cevceceeccsveene 1011 9 10 12 13 $0 65 7228 LD Thomas..,cssececeessen 1 7 8 O11 14 $0 64 41.1 Dr Alexander...cccsesssese 13 81012 9 12 90 64 1.1 W H Burnham,,.......s.... 18 8 81d 911 90 62 68 8 W THUPMAN, ,.cccevesesseees § 911 13 11 10 90 62 68.8 (TAIT speittasee ss (asdsenetesnins DELO GLO OSD ELO. 90 62 68.8 Ny@. wee Le pectia somerset OadU Sl ORTL be 90 61 67,7 J A Wilson, § 10 10 18 10° 6 90 57 63.3 HM Fuller, .11 91011 9 5 90 55 61,1 Marlowe... pala pe pn ee ata | 50 54 60 W R Ritter......... 1210 9 & 9 6 90 53 58.8 J OPH Denny .vvereevencsesss 9 B12 9 G 8 50 52 57.7 COKOYs, caatnas ewes csbehes hts; lied Oghorlionys fe 78 52 69.3 BiG ROSSi cde sees ne seen tae 912.1110 ., tS 51 68 Gikaitiz hie aaarices avedae me elG: WEeBorOleiest ys) 41 54.6 ME CGundaleii teasers askadin epee oo leetoeg 60 45 "5 JD DinsSMore.,:cssssseseess «» 101210 7 .. 40 ag 65 Aj TEA anEVAyeqaeereinacece saat ppd ehabl tip os 60 43 55 WES ICINE ry tes cisgsinntiesiae ebay Rema aeee ell alt eley 45 40 88.8 AO StOVeENSON.....5ses0c00. +. «ss +s 1d 1813 45 39 86.6 Brenalitiesnhisnn sees keen tees 212 11 45 85 Veave L L Graham,.....ssssseses5 le 9 18 sere 45 a4 75,5 W WN Stevenson .esesenereass os ve «» 14 O11 45 34 75.5 J C DiMSMOre,.....eeeveeecs oe av ee 11 1210 45 Bia 73.3 SAS ahh Suro eemntgames is foe 4 10 11 12 45 a8 73.8 FERBOWSIE pdeusuliewe sages oeLa! 0 beeen Es 455 ipa 71,1 FusseltOM. ..cccteeeesseeeees as ss ws 121010 45 32 “11 LTT dere er ee neato at cco: tla Pet) 45 32 71,1 EY CORGESER yn antrinie ene t) nae ern 45 31 €3.8 HG DOrworth saseusveeneune os os as 81211 45 al 68.8 Fee eT Pe eee ee a omy ake bre SF 45 al 638.8 WNT ee SS MOP o eect a kbke MELE 45 30 66.6 ISA FODTSOM os nike tnnuisuphe tse eh ase clad 0 45 28 62.2 RSV SiWohT a Ate seuciy op bo co tsh ect alll 45 28 62.2 RSV cranes f fine aloe 0 45 27 60 CH Miller ee Sy 45 26 57.7 Cartwright.... hele he - 45 21 46,6 Boardman ...... Hebel 45 20 Ad 4 Jessup ..-... ~y8eitra t272 Srtethtr awa frees! 45 17 37.7 Gen MeO lintackyiecccenerern (edn eb a entiaee 45 16 35.5 Bulbter ..........« POS COD STON CM OC A mls hah Lh 30 18 60 INGxVLOTT lees aiciete eerniceainetnal ontrncd LOM eee 30 17 56,6 WWISUTO ETS ey sine welartiane aonsienianl oe ome ny 30 17 56.6 GEES icles folate amarante oo aoe ale el, SLD nana a0 17 56,6 McPherson...... eo omeee yikes aie alah oO oe 30 16 53,3 Kennedy, wirssesavscvevsacts re ores 212... 30 14 46.6 JP Frazier. ,........-0100001010010010001000100 THE WOLSTENGROFPT TROPHY. Harry Thurman, of the Keystone Shooting League, the Inde ent Gun Clib of Philadelphia. the Winzohocking Gun Club, the Ger- mantown Gun Club, and goodness knows how many other clubs, is now the champion of Pennsylvania at targets. He won the William Wolstencroft & Sons’ trophy on June 22 by breaking 45 out of 50, a score that is far better than it looks on paper. Whiting, of Pittsburg, and Brewster, of Harrisburg, were second and third with 43 and 41 respectively. This event was, of course, a scratch eyent. The scores made in the race will be found under the head of No. 1in the tabla that follows. Nos. 2and 3 were the Parker and the Remington handi- caps, respectively: : Events: 1 2* 3t HON AIO) cones seaaccoesxstaecadan gan eueeey 37 = 6—43 83— 2—35 Fullor (10),,..00.2-:-+: diddced badeud tdasee eo 32— 4—36 40— 6—46 Brewster (5):.ssccscesevescnssesyrevssenss 41 40—4—44 88 — 240 Whiting (10)..,., peeeetecerectsneeace 45, 36— 642 89-10—49 Pein) Rs See erste irene Scie eee Sea Te Js Si Niihyer Cae orb EtesroreereT Er oe fli 36 ©48— 1—44 Landis (4). ....0+-55 wit saosreSeep aE PPP oh 38 88 8=64 1 — 4— 45 WH Wolstencroft (2). .csceesseressrsnens Bt © 45 45 43— 2—45 POPGAG), uakereergecespaateckenteOgaeddtiepde Slade) Seed GTAH AINE Lawes nese nnreces ise rreei ietlcreod vbeietihe ons eh med SChHineck ON Verse berees rer ees eres eRERE SOD 35— 3—38 a meee Shaaber (6).cccssesessserssvesvevsesssees OF B7— 4-41 Bw Ritter’.....-. Hainiena daacladisa deadeaia Coat BON CdR ana— et Aeon ios HarrikGn (6)). sv oprgs cat peusobep6pass PFET gSON Esa -4— She a0 S48 TDN GIAO pone sce aan Cia ean aan eee, sl— 1-32 35— 4-39 Alexander... scceusss SP eee see eee ete e es 33 36— 8—89 ee oe as Camila pcaniscnes rsd aagceeaectiii eae | i —eOe asa y GATe@SH: (Ore bak Cocsccs caaed seckaen ad ewes 41— 4—45 44 44 COED Tay A heensets Geet ed eoemand pad nde ere 29— 433 4|— 4—45 NGA), desire anesens dascea rps ppa meses SL i= o— Some ot —anhe ods Duncan (10). scssisessesessceens ve BY 19-423 30— 6-36 5S P Life (7)., . 39 ?G— 4—43 39— 3—42 McClintock. 830 R= 8=BF a Wilson (10) , 33 da— 5—40 Ba— (—44 Smedley (7) 33 d1— 3-ad 42— 5-47 Reeser... pets) e7— f—83 ends Newton,. ay 31— 3—34 Ais sate pnavcmes sada ps at @acsnaaroin stapes od Rb— 4—29 hp Ee BOE Pits airasatsacteyae sp-poeeee AES TE cate 37 — 4-41 ral 32 MGtZ(G)inaerersulyy eel ONG diel ol via tatat oipiot aia visti ative nate 3°— 2—35 33— t—3 BOWOW sad cctacd scatenteneesdsumeedeanad ated i3s— 8-26. ve ae IV ORS) Scud saenndnasacaaacde sdusawaddpenne 43— 2—45 39— 2-41 IBEILAS 5.5 mens itslnia Ppebecne Loan eacoeeos enon An 37— 4—41 bey ote oA COKC Ye iia cesceceucccutersccsmeraenersce 44 40— 5—45 Pie ets GALthelt, We cccesnrtbebbcrtensckrtesrperscnial) MCC s=2U é RESSLLT UC Ziheeotine) eta tavavavore aisteven a avevavevaravavetetire>aVal ria ich rena 18— 4—22 Ae MArON SS) fi caa ge Od shave wstcadaaacase camaate tad a38— 5—38. 388—7—45 HOSSs | detinicaw nay cohsaa ik caena aie nanos kane 29— 3—a82 peter: WVOmMINF CA) iev-pedcratcudeed ccantentase o¢ 31 w 29 -w W N Stevenson (6) 36— 3-39 40—5—45 OMe H eRe 4 A (Stevenson (0)..... Sree eeeeeweeeeeeeee ce a3— 2—d5 46 46 CODEC, Five ya ak eens p9a7 Fo bere Ferner 2%— 5-22 Bee weet CAEEM ies (lO cise aeaaiucadaeebenee’ La 3i— 3—37—_ is 4 — BAB TEUSSELEOMN(A), canctivvevepticcieundencange9¢ 40— §—45 a8 — 3—41 Starr..... TEERE COR tCrereccereutiee over) fe 33 — 6—39 aoe DIOL VOL Mie cio a casas wisietiayaerorsle eyeleieiersielsis PT ate 4u— 1—43 ay ee ETP Oth (By Si iibeecsevgessescscreerapewaye s+ pe ee re 34— 5—a9 Jessop (7)...... ateiaraa) Suafaaraa dea ama ntbvs ceeieatiora wet hive dias d4— 5—39 Allen (7),..... WEEMTTTTETRPLELELC ERE ATE RTE Wr, ote) oor a8— §—44 Murphy (8)..... nee Bf ety ee 40 ~ 5—d5, Johnson (0) ..,..ceaeae ee 46 46 OBrIen (rive -- Th ot a ai— 4-40 Lashells (7)....... at} nn. ee 26 Ww Gem (10),,.... ‘ oS on 31— 4—38 ACE Bing G)i ic cesescssceransssueeserees. ot eS 4d2— 2-dd Wats AINA oe cada ta d ded dai yten hein keene rE re, ann 42— 3—45 * No.2 was the Parker Gun Handicap. In this event 45 was the ‘highest possible,” and, as will bs seen frem the scores, thera were six ties on that number, among them being W. H. Wolsteucroft, one of thescratch men. On the shoot-off Guess won the gun. ‘The handi- caps were as below: Wolstencroft, Thurman aud Landis scratch, Denny 7, Fuller 7, Brewster 4, Wilson 8, Burnham 5, Pope 5, L. D. Thomas 2, Shaaber 4, Ritter 2, Harrison 4, Whiting f, Schmeck 4, Alexander 4, Cam 6, Reeser 10, Lay 5, Nye 5, Duncan 7, Guess i, Mar- lowe 8, Bates 6,5, P. Lite 4, Smedley 5, Born 4, Cakey 5, Ross 7, Cart- right 7, Kuntz 10, Oliver 5, W. N. Stevenson 6, A.C. Stevenson 4, Col- bert 7, Miller 7, J.P. ¥.7, H. F. Brown 5, McClintock 10, Newton 7, Starr 7, Husselton 7, Dorworth 4, Motz 4. + No. 3 was the Remington Gon Handicap, In this eyent45 was again the highest possible, unless more than that number was broken by some sbooter out of his first 50 targets. A C. Stevenson and H, A. Johnson both broke 46 out of their 50, and thus raised the highest possible one point, There were seyen ties for the gun: Johnson, Stevenson, Fuller, Burnham, C, H. Miller, Cam and Whiting, Qn the shoot-off at 25 targets, with ~roportionate reductions in their handi- caps, Fuller and Cam both made highest possibles again. On the se- cond shoot-off Fuller won with a highest possible to Cam’s 23. The figures in brackets after each man’s name shows his handicap in this event. AMERICAN WOOD POWDER CO.’S TROPHY, Milt Lindsley and Wanda were forcibly reminded of old times ou June 22, the date set for the 3-men team race for the American Wood Powder Co.’s trophy. The conditions of the race are 26 singles and 5 pairs. The Keystone Shooting League’s team won thé race with a Score of 82, the Independents. of Reading, being second, Below are the details of this race: Keystone Shooting League. W 4H Wolstencroft.,.0111111111111111111111110 =~ 11:11 «00 10 11—30 H Thurman,,.v,-..«.1111111110101110111111100 01 11 10 11 01—27 Al Landis,..ee.e¢e++-O110111111110110111010100 11 00 11 10 10—25—82 Independent, of Reading, J Shaaber. ccc seeeeee2!110121110101111111111011_ ~—s 11:10:10 10 10-27 W BH Ritter... .....00++1011101111011111100110111 00 11 10 10 10—23 B Harrison. .....««+«-1110110110110111111111001 = 11: 10 11 «11 11—28—78 Herron Hill. J Whiting, 4. ey eee --0111111011010000110011111 10 10 10 00 10—20 BOrm), ¢.. 6. eeeee e+ ees 0011101010111011011111111 10 00 11 10 10—23 J OH Denny,,,,.....1111011111101111111100112 = 10 10 10 00 11—27—70 Independent, of Philadelphia. W WN Stevenson,.,,,,1010111001101111011110111 11 00 10 10 11—24 A © Stevenson,,..,...1011111011001111111111110 10 10 00 00 10—23 § P Life, ......00006e>1100110010111111011011100 10 10 10 10 11—22—69 Franklin Gun Club, 0 00 00 11 10 10—11 N@WtOD eevee es sean. 000000001011000100100000 00 10 00 10 00O— 7 JA Wilson,,........1110101011111000111110010 = 00: 11: 10 00 10—20—88 THE READING TROPHY FOR 5-MEN TEAMS, The Reading trophy for 5-men teams was another trophy that went back to Philadelphia to grace the sideboard of the Keystone Shoot- ing League. The conditions were 25 targets, unknown angles; below are the details: Keystone Shooting League. W BA Wolstencroft,..,...50....¢2+-+552011191111011111111111110—23 A C St6venson.,...,......... cebeebaees 1191111031111011111111110—22 BH DAanGIB ., yee cece ee tne een g reece es sey OLIIIOIIIIIII101I11111 11 —22 W W Stevenson. ,,,.......2,55++, e+. ~-2010010001111111111111110—18 Taye Banh) drE 8 om iP ra He ey re yo ae 1111014111110111010111011—20—105 Independent Gun Club, of Reading. W A Ritter .ccccccecceeees (ceeceee «4 1010111101111111110011111—20 B Harrisod ...cccccceuuycucvseceeceeesdd11191110111111101001111—21 J Shaaber,..... pe eudeeeeeeeeeeseees es 0011111101010111011010011—16 J Sehneek 6.6.5 cc ccc ceca ee case eee eee es OL01001011111100101100111—15 SP Life. ..ccyceceeucececesecseaseeess LOLIIOIIIIIIIIIIIIIIOIIII—22— 94 Herron Hill Gun Club. W S King. civics ssaecescee ren eeee eee ee -O101101111101101111101111—19 AH Rang. . cccccueneeee cece cane ea eee eO2110091111111 11111001111 —22 DT WIGS. ccc cece eee ese ns eee aneees 1010171110011000101111011 16 Boum... ss ceeseenen.oneseuesersauas sss 1101001010011011101000110—13 S§ McPherson.........000--.00.00005-.00701111111111011100011 10-17 87 Meadville Gun Club. Rrid@r sce ce ceueuvsseceveeseeeee es eee 1001111111011011001T10N1—18 BegOtt i ccccecccseeeeeeseeeseeesee ses eO110101110111110010011100—15 PYe@Matt.cccscssesecnesccesesssuepeuss sL11101911111111012011 1111 —22 LashellS. ...ccceeeceee eee eeeee eee eee L111111111010111000000110—16 TOVEPMAD, . ss cece eeeereseeseeee sess es 0001100111100010101011101—18— 84 THE HARRISBURG TROPHY FOR §-MEN THAMS, Only two teams entered for this contest—the Independent Gun Club, of Reading, and the Herron Hill Gun Club, of Pittsburg. The former team won, Philadelphia thus making a clean sweep of all the trophies offered for annual competilion at targets: Independent Gun Club, of Philadelphia. W H Wolstencroft.,,. 1911011111110171110111111—22 HA Langiss ..esencccen. tan -0111111110111110111010111— 21. A C St0vensOn, y.seecesseeneees «<1111111110110111111111110—22 J Shaaber....sicessasereeeeeeeeeeeese LL2O1TI111111100111111911—22 W WN Stevenson, .aseccvevesserecevess ttdIIIIIIIIIIIITINIIIIOl— 24 H THurman,,.ccscssecesesesceesseee eA 0LOU10IL00I1II0INIIIIIII—19 130, pend —— OT ae JuLy 8, 1897.] FOREST AND STREAM. 19 Herron Hill Gun Club. Free WwW 8 King POOR ee FOS EH Beco eee eee ee ©49101019111411110111111111—22 AA King oie sicpeeeeeceececseceoansen LOLI IIT 111191111110 —28 JD OPH Dendy. ccc sseeesseceee sees sess 1011011111011001110000000—13 Bort. .ycccceceesceoesseeeceevesd vee eetL11111011010010101001001 —15 DT Whitit, ....cceenececeeeeeseweesn yee e2101110100111011111011110—18 PUCMINE 0. vee reeeeen yy ereceoese seer y 1L101110100111011111011110—15—106 : OPEN EVENTS. A good idea of the difficulty experienced hy the shooters in locating the biuerocks may be gathered from a #lance at the following table of scores. Gilbert was high with 91.5, Glover following him closely wilh 89.6; Heikes and Fulford were tied forthird place with 69 per cent. exactly, Now look ati the names of the shooters that follow the four above-named in order of merit and then judge whether the game was an easy one or not! OPEN EVENTS, JUNB 22. Events: 12346678 : Targets: 20 20 20 20 #5 20 20 20 Shotat. Broke. Av. Gilbert,...c0e.0.<---- 19 15 16:19 24 20 18 20 165 151 91.5 Glover,, 17 20 17 18 23 18 19 16 165 148 69.6 Heikes., 19 18 17 14 22 18 19 20 165 147 89 Fulford 17 18 18 18 20 18 19 19 165 147 89 Orosby,... 17 19 14 20 21 1% 19 18 165 145 87,8 Bre@wer..cevevevnsere lO 19 19 16 24 17 16 18 165 144 67.2 Van Dyké....ssee4s 19 18 18 16 18 19 15 19 165 142 86 Trimble, ..esscsseeee 1917 19 19 21:17 15 16 165 142 &6 Buddyssascagecceases (6-48 08°17 22°10 19:15 1E5 141 85.4 POWArGS,.s00000++.- 1417 17 17 23:18 18 17 165 141 85,4 Redwitf..cseseseees 18 18 18 17 19 15 17 19 165 141 85.4 POWETSecsceccveesees 19.17 16 17 19 18 17 17 165 139 84,2 Dickey.....,.---..,. 16 20 15 19 19 16 16 17 165 138 83.6 Grimm ....scceseceee 14 18 16 17 19 19 16 18 165 137 €3 MeMurchy,.,,.,...,. 16 17 18 15 18 16 19 17 165 136 82,4 Fanning, .....e0++2s 16 17 16 17 19 18 16 17 165 136 82.4 Winston, ..se.eee0e-) 25 18 14 17 28 19 15 15 165 136 82,4 Hood ...cscceveaeees: 14 12 16 16.18 15 17 16 165 124 75.1 MOnGY.accercserssse. 19 14 1217 15 15 18 17 165 121 (3,3 Wilson. ..eceesersv., 14 16 6 16 18 10 12 14 165 1¢6 64,2 Burkhardt........... 1611 8 81810 14 18 145 98 69.3 Wheeler, ...ccccseaee -, 19:18 17 20 18 17 15 145 119 83 Leroy ceseccyeeseene « 19°16 17 20 16 15 16 145 118 81.3 Defever.....ceseeee. »» 16 10 15 22 14 14 19 145 107 3.0 Denby .yvcieesreeces 17 12 12 12 1813 14 ,, 145 93 64,1 Burnhatm..,,..ec0055 «» 12-17 ., 201416 .. 105 79 75,2 HE PIGK eee eeieek seth h Voelles., .. 13 15 10 100 61 61 Wantlieesnusieees Core eo ae LITO NG 100 43 43 Mindaleyee si eseanay ted Loo TDenc ehh aren a Le 85 66 77.6 Dorsworth,,.....,,, 51616... 18... ..., 85 65 96.4 Shaaber .\....--.-.. 10 15 16 14 .. 2... a, 80 fil 63.7 TAMdiss irdvsppresmee tt dee oo Fae mat eed 65 5a ts«éSS FIALrisOW.s,epereceee ys -- 16.4... 18 16 ,, 60 50 83.3 AUG Stevengpolliecee 4 oe al 22 sa 2) 18.16 60 44 73.8 TEE eG OMG Sets ces St CUR wiry ne try scien! Fy 60 36 60 OEM cdae ree maton nea LLne eT pists ses €0 31 51.6 BMT ere: cealacteaniemslle selenide lal ws cate cree scinass 40 29 72.5 Wolstencroft...c.. +. &S., +, 18... ., » 40 26 65 The following also shot in one event only, with the following result: No, 1: Thurman 14. No. 2: Brewster 13, Hoy 8. No. 4: Gokey 14, Born 17, Oliver 14, Brown 18, Motz 13. No. 5: Bort 17, W. M. Stevenson 14, L, D, Thomas 11. No, 6: Smedley 18. . Fifty shooters took part in to-day’s events, On the second day forty nine shooters took part inthe open events, the scores of which are given in the table below. In addition to the five races given, there was also a 50-target handicap race for a cup presented by fhe American WH. C. & Svhultze Powder Co., Ltd.; as the race did not fignre in the general averages, it is kept separate and follows the table. . It will be noticed that the boys were rapidly getting on to the back- round, seyen men having averages of 90 per cent. or better. Heikes fed to-day with 93 per cent., Budd and Brewer tying for second and er cent. each. Trimble was fourth with 91.5; third places on a 92,3 I 1 Landis tying for the next three places with Gilbert, Van Dyke an just 90 per cent, each. ' : OPEN EVENTS, JUNE 23, Hyents: 1Z23465 Targets: 20 20 20 20 60 Shotat. Broke, Ay. HeiRES....csecvcsesesseeevesss 19 19 20 18 45 130 121 93 Budd). Wiwubeseatessssssissee 2919 18 20 44 180 120 92.3 Brewer, ..ccsceesscseectecesss 19 18 20 18 45 1380 120 92.3 Trimble... ieeccescsstvacereess 19 20 17 18 45 130 119 91.5 GHIBGTE... ececeerccasvercseess 18°18 17 20 44 180 117 90 Van Dyke... csesseeeanecsuses 18 16 19 19 45 130 117 90. Landis ....csectccceeeeeessess 19:18 19 15 46 130 117 90 MeMurchy «.,:.:cseekeuencees 20 18 18 17 48 130 116 89.1 Hoots sae ssa versestenneraas JUSlOMSet i 43 130 116 89.1 Winston ....c..cceseccaeseese 20 19 17 19 41 180 116 89.1 GUAM eehedidsmnstersrtean Leto 1oegrds 120 115 88.4 HILOrMy vena hesresot ot innsend hodGelG 16.49 130 115 88.4 OrOsbyiveescecupsenceenccnees 17 15.19 19 44 130 lid. 87.6 FanDin®, cevevererceeseesssees 10 18 19 16 45 130 114 87,6 WHEEIEr. ca rereccserepeeveyas 18 18 19 15 44 130 114 87.6 GOVERN, 1) hye Lulellnes recone ee 20191 10017642 130 113 86,9 POWETS, ..ccewesdsee ssssecsss 19:16 18 17 42 130 111 85,3 Dickey. ceveceseecseas eases, 15 14 19 19 44 130 111 85,3 WS Ring. seccsseesvsciueess 18:17 15 18 41 120 109 83,8 BOWards..ecveccerssysrserrae 19 14 16 18 40 130 106 81.5 Mareyanidercivvcen feribemrciad, tor ty 188 120 102 78,4 GietOy, (cal ebarssebeectesbeasy JO to 170638 120 101 77.6 OUI ee eee helebinhiean orietoel ato 40 110 91 82.7 PREM WINE! PIZAL 2 69 TO Cu epee A OP Pe a ares BP a tts Ar rae Pars rOckeMN lasttleseevsrceess oe, Ole. 08! pe ds ft Pete tee Wee ISEAKCIE Ee IP een aa ere oo oe LU SUS USE TIE CL Pep We OA Se (OM eit als: Seek eM a otra ee ie Vf: Sennen etd qd tia ee (i Oh ey EES art EE eed Meer ered Teter beep per theet re eet er CUT p RST 8 TN et i eset Scott. attweterres+c> Te Fas ieee epee eal: PETE Sh ter aA ie iB INGISOTIP OS ata etslblacmcet cell ateremem aur tOn 0 OUksans ihe imental. DOUPAM GEE sek awieeen nee ckiaeeet ont elie fins! CobES 4 a Aven ne epee eee eevee awaweee 8 aa«¢ * ee ae as oe ae Bolt 4 . ete COST TOMOE 16 er, Katie rey a] hu 8 7H 4 6 6 Haverhill Gun Club, HAVERHILL, Mass., June *7.—At the regular weekly practice shoot of the Haverhill Gun Club on Saturday afternoon. June 26, the follow- ing scores were made: Hvents1,2 and 3 were at regular angles, all of the remainder at unknown ape_gles. Events; 128 4 6 6 7 8 91011 12 18 1h 16 Targets: 10 19 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 15 10 ee N yaiiatctstsnakaciecks took (eater t Ol te We Re BAe O Pol oes Dep rrieet iaicone eres tech Meee Oe PR DR ial. Fouls eeistan Gh NESVED SMa Cia Ae os OMROU ean dauleate Mina. Os Owed bail CORNE Lan hee Rac aie cena ee, WU mente enSoed 22 sl Org eee mies [holed i ayheaat Se petit cee kr aE tee (Udi Scare to GaN ORG tetas AIO CULT a Ae OE EEC, paces peeetin hth ory tte offre eye wie GP AE OE. An ae MUL Ar es detssclevivtes pice giaece tahe » 8 64636567 8 8 7 714 6 Na Rika teh A ONE era oe Geek Ache Me ee fe tet ie oh! bo ey SPYAZUes vessuccececienscres tu es ks 34 46 as : Ti Oesa ens Gro. F. Stevens, Sec’y-Treas. There was so much championship talk last week at the Oil City shoot that the inexperienced thought that a match would actually be made, The pow-wow was finally broken up when Will Park and Edwards came up with a barrow to carry off any one who had been talked to death. ‘There were so many applicants for assistance that more ambulances were: pressed into service. : Western Traps. WEST RN ILLINOIS TRAP-SHOOTERS’ LEAGUE, Cxrcaco., Ill , June 19.—The Western Illinois Trap-Shooters’ League was organized at Galesburg, Ill:; Saturday June 12. after a conver- tion of delegates from the gun clubs at Galesburg, Kewanee, Nepon- set, Rock Island, Canton, Pekin and Peoria. B. E. Baker, of Kewanee, was elected President; R, H, Lamb, of Kewanee, Secrétary and Treasurer: H. R. Harries, of Galesburg, Captain. Monthly meets will be held in the towns above mentioned, in alternation, the first tournament going to Monmouth, June 24, at which time and place the organization of the League will be completed, This movenient is of importance enough to merit attention, The avowed purpose of the organization is to protect amateur shooters who feel that they have no chance in open tournaments where they are asked to com- pete upon even footing with professionals. Jf professionals are allowed to enler the League shoots they are to be subject to handi- cap, same to be determined by a committee to be Ghosen later. GARDEN CITY, OF CHICAGO, _ The following scores have thus far been made in the season compe- tition of Garden City Gun Club for the season prize, the Donnelly gold watch, The conditions are at 25 targets, under handicap. April May May May May June June M4 a oa a2) 20 Dee Mear(]14) Mawcsceseutwebespatreen mt fe 2 rie aL ty: tt Talo Wee mecter tins iineree idem Std on ri ve ws ae Fehrman (16),.cssscsssevveveers 19 te fr ait on ue : PACNITICHECIC Sea oer ka Tee treet evil mn: on Ae: Ouran 1G Bichards (1G) ystesyesoaeieewnsede) Gere kim Wa Wie s - RUBE (Ss Viceeoetarrertocctcnpe (Reo B90 vi es 4a0) 18 ‘Hellman (ie)ntesaeeest ane saeee) GN) ee ce a! eset ee FE Adams (18),.cccsvesscesersss 18 16 4, a ath} as : ANAUCIS) Nan ettetop nnaaieenine aan asenain ae 22 te o a 5 GoOldSMith (14), veeseusneeveveves ae ae 19 Pst 19 aA 45 ATHDOLE (15) penceancepeaaeh rates aa “ * 13 * 21 2K yey QE ar So RE te: ey te SS Slice Gb peeeaehy homerparspet te | ee 6 a 4 Murphy (15). ...ssesc0ss , Ane os ie lee 28 Antoine (17) .cssees “3 3 md i 20 An " S McHil (14)...... Net ¢: : Eh) W McGil (15). ....45 a ie 2 eel Halligan (15)..... eine at : “ip 22 922 Dr Parkhurst (16),, ae hese. fe ay ; s 20 ia ISleimnimarti(S) oe ctn-estdaee yee, yl At E ch ie te eg) Gilleemie (VE) Massie sel mide eee en nes cela Kimball (15) .,..,..0..sssyer0ee oe ' eee rk Planvigan (14)... ecyssseenegeey pe ee ee ee ee Beidenway (14).,..<....+: vewerh ye oy be be “" as 12 Tn the ciub merchandise events at 29 targe s, ihe folloWing scores have been made in the respective classes, A, B, 0 and D, on the dates respectively shown: i : April May May May May dune June 24. 1, Bw er 7RO! 5. 12. TELA OO AOR mtiuwiocieriiee ish ore 94 7 agli eel AEN OKITT GEL cleaie ureter aalstadems sien strlen Uh ni °f we 1 6...) «6«s«10 Aerial Levey ( (2) feavecaterare' var urarsloaleeppel Cin acts Ce TSO 14 REY Ae ea asinine nese eine an On Samed Sane One Gas marke Adamy! (A) tatiesmerves cei: UCM uy os far SwIea dD) se cactus naam os,s as Rott ‘- i ag Goldsmith (C).....cscsesessuees on ve le ee “ SALON a Cr) haa adiornie nie-ere-a acteristic te a st ele alin Murpby (C) ....s. Sie Bow: | ae : oy 9° Ian: Ford (D)..,..4 ondgtseetieg Mor as es OF ire 210) Hellman (D),. Se cement ta Bs “ 5 13 14 Antoine (A),. autchwe eP a ie Wipe nt Baker (C)..... Bo. oF Ae 26 12 “ ay ate S McHil (D) . Juindae Jc re s uy 13 i!) W McHil (B).....4« titers a a = ab 9° lh Hanliparn(B)i.cehtineuven eateries 50 ae ite 5 1S Sela Re DEL GC) eres cen eeureree steeanie 3 “= ae eg ul A Kleinman (A)... ,ccseseeveees oe “2 , = Rio ty ie ga UE eecnnnentecegce. UL aa Ze AS a4 ite 5 Gillespie (D)...ccsseeeseereyecee oe eo éF te Ne vif 10 TALL Ys.cuv sspeisanwevecsesnucena ad se ae oe ee ae + Beidenwey..rccevsvrescsevesees ve ns > i Ay kt} In the 15 birds club merchandise events, gun below elbow until bird is clearly in the air, the following scores have been made on the dates above given, 1 April May May May May June June 24, ES pe Ae yah lees THAVICCD) trans eassnupeenuaeeenes 6 oo 7 2 9 A DESMIths tindtetivresastesses 9 as be oF : or, ae TH Ow (C)i ss isateetaticeseasaecle one 9 Corl EELS OVENS DE vets bee a bt shim alt Fe yc | ly ee Hellman (D) ,.csacccceveuenses 4 6 ew Sane ne i) Adams (A) ....cccsssceasieerees Ll 11 10 a a ms ve Brabed (OD) wagsanntrnteoneres ao 4 8 7 eee oe urphey (C).... -- - hte +s + Amberg (C)... ae as aa wh 10 i) 9 Goldsmith (C ~ a Ay tn 10 5 “a Parker (C)... ves ve ne et ns = Jefferson (B) a ve ie rir) 4 10 ne S$ MeHil(D)... vi iy os Lf at eae W McHil (Byer vivcssetetasesacne a0 aa Pe nt i oC mene Halligan (B)...vscetseccensaneas ae Ar 1" cs ri 1 we Bupyon (D) .-ceccssisee cesetes as a Pa an AD “ 4 a NC eerste fee os Ce SY Bh Ford (D)s.ccnunnacseverepecccss as ate = ; os xy 6 A Kleinman (A). ..cccsssesseces ot nn on ne Ar dr! 11 Gillespie (D) weveccsecesessessen oe Ay Mee tks ae ae! vi AT KANKAKGE, On the second day of the tournament of the Kankakee Gun Club the following scores were made, Ruble, of Chicago (Garden City Club), being high average man with 164 out of 170 targets shot ab. is near- est competitor was T. 1 Magruder, of Kankakee. who shot a gait of 90.17 per cent. Abe Kleinman, of Chicago, and J. H. Mackie, of Cin- cinnati, were tied on third, 90 11 Hise cent, Scores: ’ Twenty targets: Mackie, 20; Magruder and Antoine, 19 each; Giles, Patterson and Ruble, 18 each. . ' Twenty targets: Thompson, Ruble and Fortier, 20 each; Antoine and Magruder, 19 each; Kleinman, Mackie, Giles and Slow, 18 each. Ten targets: Magruder, Ruble, Antoine, Thompson, Mackie and Slow, 10 each; Willey, Wells and Patterson, 9 each; Fortier, Giles and Kleinman, & each, ‘ Twenty target: Magruder, Kleinman and Thompson, 30 each; Ruble, Antoine and Willey, 19 each; Mackie and Giles, 18 each. f Twenty targets: Ruble and Wells, 20 each; Thompson, Antoine and Willey, 19 each; Magruder, Kleinman and Mackie, 18 each, Twenty targets: Kleinman and Ruble, 20 each; Willey, 19; Slow and Park, 18 each. 4 . Twenty targets: Patterson and Ruble, 19 each; Antoine, Willey, Park and Kleinman, 18 each; Magruder, Phompson and Slow, 17 ach Twenty targets: Ruble and Mackie, 20 each; Magruder, 19; Klein- man, Thompson, Giles and siow, 1Beach Twenty targeis: Magruder, Parkand Kleinman, 19 each; Thomp- son, Ruble and Mackie, 18 each; Fortier, |6. CLARION SHOOT, The gun club of Clarion, la., held a pleasant amateur shoot Jast week—two days—with an attendance of about twenty-five, The affair was voted success‘ul, and a second shoot will be held next Sep- tember. Several fhooters were present from Iowa Falis, and there weré visitors also from Ackley, Dayton and La Verne, The tourna. mient was considered to be one of the best amateur affairs ever held in upper lowa CHIPPEWA FALLS SHOOT. Chippewa Falls Gun Glub, of Chippewa Falls, Wis., held a littl» practice June 12, with following scores: W_H. Dorland 11,8, L Rid- dell 8, M. A. Poznanski6é, H W, Martin §, R. EB. Chinn 15, ¥. G Mar- tin 11,.f, Hanzlik 7, E. B. Chinn 19, P. T Favell 7, J. H, Stanley 6. FOX RIVER THIRD ANNUAL, The third annual tournament of the Fox River Hunting and Fish- ing club will be held at Oshkosh, July 14 and 135. Preyionsly these shoots have besn open to all. but this year the bars are up, and the clubs desired will be invited as follows: Waupaca, Weyauwega,Neenah, Menasha, Appleton, Kaukauna, Fond du Lac, Rosendale, Eldorado, Omro and SW inantonne. LINCOLN, OF NEBRASKA, Lincoln Gun Club, of Lincoln, Neb., has secured desirable club grounds on © street, near the city, and will fit up the place with moc- ern improvements, LEWISTON, OF MONTANA. Lewiston Gun Club, of Lewiston, Mont, has gone into trap with vigor this month. At the club shoot last held the following were among the scores: Kane 16, Weaver16, Wright 14, Lehman 20, Hooper 7, Kearney 19, Croft 8, Hobensack 15, JAMESTOWN, OF DAKOTA. The Jamestown Gun Club, of Jamestown, N D., held its weekly shoot June 12, with the following results, at 25 targets: Jobp Qlark 71, Pahized, Judge Perry Carnegan £0, Martin and Haas 19, Con Donnelly 18,Marion Nash- old and Sheriff Severn 16, Dr. Rankin and Pierce Blewett 15, Will Mil- ler 12, Geo. Game 9, L B, Niemeyer 8, W. H. Coggeshall 3, “TO REVIVE Efforts are beirg madeto revive the gun club of Watertown, NY. it is proposed to set the membership fee at $5, with no annual dues, Targets will be shot at 1 cent, MINERAL SPRINGS SHOOT. A tournament will be held at Indiana Mineral Springs, Warren county, Ind , Aug. 4-5, itis hoped, with more than local attendance. Address H. Ll. Kramer, manager. NEPONSET SHOOT, Zimmerman, of Monmouth, won first average in Neponset, Ill., tournament Jast week; A. T, Kellogg, of Kewanee, second ayerage, only 2 birds behind, - LAUDERDALE SHOOT. Green Lake and Hilburn gun elubs held a friendly shoot abt the grounds of the Sterlingworth Hotel, near Lauderdale Lakes, Wis., last week, a lively time and good sport being enjoyed. CLUB ORGANIZATIONS AND ELECTIONS, Kewanee Gun Club, of Illinois, last weelk elected as officers Dr. §. J. Sharp, President; A, 1, Kellogg, Secretary and Treasurer; H WB, Baker, Captain, The club was shown to bein flourishing condition, The Belvidere Gun Club, of Belvidere, Ill., was organized June 14, with a large membership. It will hold a series of eight shoots this season for a gold medal indicative of the club championship. The Salina Gun Club, of Salina, Kan,, has been organized by a number of amateurs who do not wish to shoot in the professional class. The club has seyenteen members enrolled, and has elected the ~ ' following officers: President, J. F. Olling; Secretary, Ray Harvey; Treasurer, M. B. Steyenson One club shoot has been held. The Ideal Gun Club, of St, Paul, Minn., elected this year’s officers as follows; President, © N. Turner; Secretary, Charles Young; Treasurer Frank Novotny, All members of gun clubs of either St. Paul or Minneapolis wi 1 be free to shoot in the Ideal club shoots. The Jubilee Gun Club, of Salt Lake, Utah, was recently organized with the following officers: President C. E McCormick; Vice Presi- dent, Harry Edwards; Secretary, D: E, Brockbank; Treasurer, J. Wash, Young. The Board of Directors are Méssrs. D. H, Parry, a Ty Dr. George H, Hilerbeck, M. B. Bradley, John 4, Maw, W: M. Brown, H.E Crooksand J N. Sharp _ , The Mason City Gun Club, of Mason City, Ia., has been newly ot- J. 0, Sherwin being ehoseh president. he Grinnell, Ia,, Gun Club has been organized with ‘the following officers: President, George Houghton; Vice-President, W. lL. How- land: Secretary and Treasurer, Fred Gard Directors are Messrs. M. C.. Timmerman, G. F. Thayer and W. W. Berry. he Stanley Gun Club, of Stanley. Wis , has been organized with the following membersh'p: Messrs. D. J. Kean. B. Graham, J-mes Wocelka, T. Hagan, B B# Shilis. A. T Birdsall, L @, Chapman, L G. Moon, R. G. Palmer and W. H. Bridgman, EK. Houvea 1206 Borcs Buiupine, Chicago, Do Not Wish to Compete. Dutury, Minn., June 11 —Kditor Forest and Stream: An article which recently appeared in the Sportsman's Review states that Mrs. D. H Dey recently refused to shoot a match with Mrs, W, P &hat- tuck, of Minneapolis, althongh Mrs, Shattuck had made a trip to Duluth to attend a tournament wi'h the object of shooting a watch with Mr’. Day, This article does Mrs. Day a great injustice. She neéver refused to shoot a match with Mrs. Shattuck. Mrs, Shattuck has not been in Duluth for threes. years, and there has not been a tour- nament given in-Doluth this year, Mrs, Shattuck isa yery warm friend of Mrs. Day's, and we doubt very much if anything could in- duce them to shoot an individual match. They ars both excellent shots, and each is as much interested in the other's success at the wraps asin her own. They both shoot L C Smith ejector euns, Haz- zard’s Blue Ribbon powder in Winchester shells, and two more en- thusiastic woman shots it would be hard to find. But they are both amateurs in the strict sense of the word, and neither one will ever Pe an individual match with any one under any consideration whatever. ' . . euswers ta Correspondents, No notice taken of anonymous communications E. K_, Davenport, Ia,—The Nessmuk hatchet is made by Colclessor Bros , Kl Dorado, Pa. J.D P., New Orleans, La , desires the address of some one from whom he can secure the spawn orstock of parch for Southern waters. 5. W. 2. New York.—Isee on the bill of fare in restaurants, ‘'dos birds.’ Will you kindly inform me what a doe bird is? Ans,—The doe bird is the Eskimo curlew (Vumenius borealis), also called the jack curlew, and short-billed curlew. Jtis one of thestnaller cutlews, and is found all along the eastern part of North Atherica, breedibe in the Arctic regions and migtating solith to the solitharn extremity of South Ametica, : A, B.5., Littleton, N. HT haye a part beagle and part foxhound dog, five years old, that was taken sick Sunday last, He has difficulty in using his bind parts. When going up or down stairs he will whine and cry out with pain His kidneys and bowels seem all right; eyes clear; appetite zood; is in most pain when walking; does not flinch from pressure along the spine. He is a valuable dog and has always run excessively. Please prescribe. Answer. Give the following Mixture: BS BOP SAC Y a aauad eepaeetd ees ees? presse yersianees SUBS oe SUNTHE ts Siauaaceehueeee eee Boece ee a ees oe pereven anna igVl q ad ba bwee ‘ peas Mix. Give one tablespoonful three times a day. SSS PUBLISHERS’ DEPARTMENT. Fishing Tackle at the Brussels Exhibition. Tue Belgian Times and News, in commenting upon the exhibit of Messrs. Alleock & Co,, Redditch, Mng ,at the Brussels Exhibition, says: ‘Among the many novelties inthis stand may be mentioned their lnminous float, composed of sulphate of calcium, admirable for night fishing; Coxon’s Simplex wheel, which is run on such fine bear- ings that oné small shot will take out 30yds. of lineit necessary ; Green's Spiral bait; their duplex salmon reel, the advantage of which is that the reel will revolve when the salmon is running without the banale- plate moving, and by a slight turn of the collar round thé handle any amount of break power can be applied; their patent twisted wire gimp for salmon and séa-fishing, which is rust-proof, and will bear uw dead weight of 60lbs, The firm has also the patent for the famous Finland tackle, and the Celluloid bait inveuted by Baron Paul Teher- kasoif, head of the Russian Fisheries. At his lash visit to the British section, King Leopold spent a considerable time at Mr Alicock’s stand, and took great interest in their various exhibits —Ady, A New Repeating Shotgun. A NEw Winchester repeating shotgun, to be known as the Model of 1897, is ready forthe market. This gun is built upon lines similar to the popular and efficient model of 1693, having the old form of sliding tore-end, breech block, carrier block, ete.; but in otber respects important wodifications have been made,m both action and the length and drop of the stock. The frameis closed at the top and provision mude for the side ejection of shells, a feature which adds greatly to the strength of the trame ard also permits, without dan- ger of jamming, the use of either 25g or 34in, shells New cartridge guides, double extractors, firing pin lock and action slide lock re- lease are features of the new gun, The latier permils uperibg the gun with the hammer at full ¢ock and using as single loader if desired. The stock of this gun is 441n. longer than the model of 1893, and has 14in. Jess drop at the hee!.—adv, t Ball Bearing Rowlaecks,. For smoothness and ease of working, no piyot is to be compared to that provided with ball bearings. Friction is‘reduced to a minimum and poiseis obviated. The ball bearing principle has reréeutly been successfully applied to rowlocks by J RK, Edwards, P. O, Box 305, Buffalo, N. ¥., who is now prepared tg supply owners of the better grade of pleasure boatsi—Ady, - . . FOREST AND STREAM. A WEEKLY JOURNAL OF THE ROD AND GUN. Terms, $4 A YuAR. 10 Crs. A Copy. t Six Montus, $2. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1897. } VOL. XLVIX.—No. 2. No. 346 Broapway, New York, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. AtTTENTION is directed to the new form of address labels on the wrappers of subscribers’ copies, The label shows the date of the close of the term for which the subscription is paid. The receipt of the paper with such dated address label constitutes the subscriber’s receipt for money sent to us for anew or renewed subscription. Wnless specially requested to do so, we do not send separate receipts. Subscribers are asked to note on the wrapper the date of expira- tion of subscription; and to remit promptly for renewal, that delays may be avoided. : For prospectus and advertising rates see page iii, Sir Henry Wotton—a man with whom I have often fished and conversed, a man whose foreign employments in the service of this nation, and whose experience, learning, wit, and cheerfulness, made his company to be esteemed one of the de- | lights of mankind: this man, whose very appro- bation of angling were sufficient to convince any modest censurer of it, this man was also a most deat lover and a frequent practiser of the art of angling; of which he would say: “’Twas an em- ployment for his idle time, which was then not idly spent; for angling was, after tedious study, a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a mod- erator of passions, a procurer of contentedness”; and “that it begat habits of peace and patience in those that professed and practised it.” Indeed, my friend, you will find angling to be like the virtue ot humility, which has a calmness of spirit, and a world of other blessings attending upon it. Sir, this was the saying of that learned man, Walton, AUDUBON BIRD PLATES. In our present issue is given the sixth of the series of half-tone reproductions of Audubon’s famous bird portraits, from the rare first edition. It is of the Redhead Duck. The list of plates already printed and to come includes: Tue Brack Duck, Sept. 26, 1896. Tue Prarrig CHicken, Oct. 24. Tue CanvasBack Ducr, Noy. 21. Tus Wittow Prarmican, Dec. 19. Tue American Gotpren Pioyer, F eb. 27, 1897. Tur RepHEAp Duck, July 10. Tre SHoverier Duck. _ Tur Pureie SANDPIPER. GOVERNMENT GAME RESTORATION. Conaressman Joun F. Lacey, of Iowa, has introduced in the House of Representatives a bill, H. R. 3589, to extend the powers and duties of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries to include game birds and other wild birds useful to man. The text of the measure is as fol- lows: Be it enaéted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries shall hereafter be known and designated as the United States Commission of Fish, Fisheries and Birds, The duties and powers of said Commission are hereby en- larged so as to include the propagation, distribution, transportation, introduction and restoration of game birds and other wild birds use- ful toman, For such purposes they may purchase, or cause to be captured. such game birds and other wild birds as they may require therefor, subject, howeyer, to the laws of the various States and Ter- Titories in which they may conduct such operations. The object and purpose of this actis to aidin the restoration of such birds in those parts of the United States adapted thereto, where the same have become scarce or extinct, and also to aid in the introduc- tion of new and valuable varieties or species of American or foreign birds in localities where they have not heretofore existed. Said Commission shall from time to time collect and publish useful information as to the propagation, uses and preservation of such birds. And the said Commission shall make and publish all needful rules and regulations for carrying out the purposes of this act. and shall expend for said purposes such sums as Congress may appropriate therefor. This proposition submitted to the National Government is in line with the development of game protection and game restoration in this country as conducted by the several States, and it is only one more step in adyance. A Jong time was required for the individual States, one after another, to learn that game protection was one of the pub- lic interests with which the official machinery of adminis- tration might concern itself. First came the enactment of laws for the protection of game, but when these had been given. a place on the statute books, the State folded its responsibility of State fish commissioners. arms in complacent consciousness of having done its whole duty. Then followed an awakening to the realization of the hard facts of the matter, that there is nothing automatic in the nature of working of a game law, that it will not enforce itself, but to be of any account must be enforced by those whose business it is to put it into action; and that there must be wardens. The second step was the provision of a State game protec- tive force. This system, which is now so common, was an altogether novel idea within the last quarter of a century. With its adoption came the enlargement of the scope of They were now entrusted with the duty of protecting game, as well as of breeding fish; and finally in some States appropria tions have been made to supply the fish and game com_ missions with means to import and propagate game birds, just as they have introduced and bred fish. Thusin Ohio, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and elsewhere, the commissions have imported Mongolian pheasants, caper. calzie and other species. As to the State commissions, it may now be said that the propriety and public advantage of their activity in the field of game replenishment has fixed recognition. The individual States having thus come to devoting their funds to the propagation of game, it was to be ex- pected that the National Government should be called upon for a like enlargement of the duties of the National Fish Commission. If it is expedient for that Commission to concern itself with the distribution of trout and black bass and other fish to the public waters of the several States, logic would seem to show that no less is it ex- pedient for the Government to distribute to the depleted game covers of the country the new or old species of game with which these may restocked. If it is desirable to in- troduce into this country foreign game birds, experiments in this direction would be more likely to succeed, if under- taken on a scale within the means of the Government than if they were left to the puny efforts of individuals or asso- ciations. Those who have followed the very interesting plan developed by Mr. W. G. Yan Name for the establishment of Government game preserves in the several States, will recognize that the measure of Mr. Lacey is directly in keeping with the proposed reserve system; for if the Gov- ernment is to propagate game and restock game covers, it will be necessary for it to establish game breeding stations similar to the fish breeding stations which it has acquired in various localities. To secure possession of desirable tracts \of territory, and to preserye them rigorously as breeding grounds, would be carrying out in effect the pro- visions of this measure; and if the work of the Commis- sion should go no further than this, even then, for the considerations which have been so well pointed out by Mr. Van Name, its game breeding work would be of un- told value and profit to the country at large. SNAP SHOTS. In many of the States of the South there isa well- defined prejudice against camping parties of hunters from abroad. In numerous sections where no other general re- strictions are enforced relative to the taking of game, stringent laws forbid camp-hunting by non-residents, These regulations have an extremely ungracious air, and appear sadly to belie that all peryading Southern hospital- ity so characteristic of this country. They are abundantly justified, however, by the circumstances which have driven the residents to such recourse. The discrimination is not aimed against sportsmen, but against the market-hunters, who. haye so generally and so disastrously invaded the game districts of the South and the Southwest. They camp in a favorable locality, hunt assiduously, shipping their game'to-St. Louis and other great markets, and re- main on the land so long as sufficient game is left to make their stay worth while. The county non-resident laws have been adopted as supplying the only system of relief for sections so imposed upon. In Arkansas a law was enacted at the last session, relative to Lafayette, Miller and Desha counties, which forbids camp hunting under heavy penalties, and makes the mere art of camping in the woods with dogs and guns sufficient evidence to convict. In spirit and intent such regulations are designed only to prevent market hunting; they have their origin in no antipathy to outsiders. The non-resident sportsman, going indiyidually or in a party, will find perfect freedom ‘Tree sparrows, 2. to camp as long as he pleases and to hunt to his heart’s content, provided only that he will take the precaution to introduce himself to some responsible citizen of the coun- try and assure him of his purpose of hunting forsport only. Under these circumstances he will be looked upon as that citizen’s guest, and so the guest of the country so far as hunting privileges are concerned; and thus he will make renewed proof of Arkansas hospitality, where hospitality is deserved and not abused. Our reference last week to the farmers of Long Island and Vermont, who complain of the depredations of deer upon their crops, may be supplemented with wails of like tenor from West Virginia. John Crook, of Middle Bridge, has made complaint to the authorities of that county about the deer and wild turkeys destroying his crops, He says that if the authorities will not take steps to prevent them from trespassing on his property he will have to kill them in self-defense, in spite of the law to the contrary. Other farmers have declared their intention to make similar complaints. They say the ravages of the deer and turkeys are as bad as the army worm. The correspondent who sends us this note says that he has known Mr. Crook from boyhood, and he can vouch for his truthfulness and trust- worthiness. The good things of life are unequally dis- tributed when amid all the cries of game scarcity are voiced the woes of those who are thus over, supplied. Deer hunters who would like to com- bine philanthropy and fun should make a note of Mr Crook’s plight, and go to the succor when the open season races around, ON BOSTON STREETS. A LARGE opportunity presents itself to the patriot of Bos- ton who has the pluck and spunk so improve it; and there is a monument in store for him on the Commonalong with those of other public benefactors, if only he shall perform the service of the hour. The Great and General Court of the Commonwealth has decreed that whoever has in his possession the body or feathers of any protected bird, or _wears such feathers for the purpose of dress’ or ornament, shall be punished by a fine of $10. That means that woman must stop wearing birds’ feathers on her hat; and the public-spirited ornithologist who shall take up his station on Washington street of an afternoon to note the bird-bedecked headgear as it passes in review, and to halt, detain, arrest and mulctthe bearers of tabooed bedizenment is the citizen for whom his fellows are to erect the monu- ment. That the harvest is ripe for the sickle, or that. the game supply is abundant, may be deduced from the list of native birds observed in a similar situation by a New York orni- thologist. Some time ago Mr. Frank M. Chapman, of the American Museum of Natural History, sent to the Forrsr AND STREAM a list of native birds which he had seen on the heads of ladies in New York streets during two late afternoon walks: Robins, 4. Swallow-tailed flycatcher, 1 Brown thrush, 1. Kingbird, 1. Bluebirds, 3. Kingfisher, 1. Blackburnian warbler, 1. Blackpoll warblers, 3. Wilson’s black-capped fiycatchers, 3, Scarlet tanagers, 3. White-bellied swallow, 1. Bohemian waxwing, 1. Waxwings, 23. Great northern shrike, 1. Pine grosbeak, 1. Snow buntings, 15. Pileated woodpecker, 1. Red-headed woodpeckers, 2. Golden-winged woodpeckers, 21. Acadian owl, 1. Carolina dove, 1. Rufted grouse, 2. Pinnated grouse, 1, Quail, 16. Helmet quail, 2. Sanderlings, 5. Big yellowlegs, 1. Green heron, 1, Virginia rail, 1. Laughing gull, 1. Common terns, 21. Black tern, 1, Grebes, 7. White-throated sparrow, 1. Bobolink, 1. Meadow-larks, 2. Baltimore orioles, 9. Purple grackles, 5. Bluejays, 5. Not all of these come under the Massachusetts law, but most of them areincluded. We shall watch with much gen- uine interest to note the actual working of the new statute; and to determine whether this placing of songbird-feather hat adornments under the ban of the law will effect what appeals to sentiment and sense have failed to accomplish. A bill similar in provision was passed by the late session of the New York Legislature, but failed of the Governor’s signature, for the reason, as given out by his private secre- tary, that the measure was not approved by the Commig- sioners of Fisheries, Game and Forest, A Li Jouny 10, 1897.) FOREST AND STREAM. 23 Che Sportsman Conrist. SHEEP AND SNOWSHOES.—III. A Winter Hunt on the Summit of the Rockles. Al-so-pom-stan. On the morning of our first day in camp, while the others of us were still curled up in their frost-rimmed blankets, O-to-ko-mi crawled out of his bed and poked his head out of the door. O-to-k0-mi had promised Joe Kipp that he would do his best on this hunt. He would go through snow “up tashere,” signifying up to his waist. He was, a8 he publicly declared, yery “skoon-a-taps” (strong), and he was going to get sheep or get reasons, or words to that effect. It is very likely that he was as anxious for good hunting as any of the rest of us, as this early prospect- ing on his part would seem to betoken. But when O-to- ko-mi poked his head out through the lodge flap he with- drew it again with a single exclamation which covered the case very fully. “Ai-so-pom-stan!” said O-to-k6-mi. By which he signified that, to his disgust, the big cow moose was again at her regular task of waving her ears and mak- ing the wind blow. When we turned out of the lodge that morning the pros- pect was alike a brilliant and a gloomy one. Back of us the sharp sun was shining and all was a blinding sea of white. Ahead of us, up in the mountains where we wanted to hunt, there were black masses of storm clouds running, alternated with great flying wreaths of driven white mist. From Rising Wolf Mountain to his mate across the valley there reached, in the glinting, glittering, unspeakably brilliant snow mist, a vast, magnificent bow of all the colors, as rare and strangely beautiful sight as may come into many lives. Through the sheets of blind- ing light upon the one hand, and through the mist and clouds and flying scud of the storm upon the other hand, there appeared, standing or looming or peering out here and there, peaks and pinnacles and cut-faced elidis, all capped with bare rocks, with ice or with glittering snow. We were in a yery trap of the mountains. Our road had led us into the lower end of this vast basin, out of which the Two Medicine Creek flows; and now, having come down off the high bare ridge which had made it possible for us to get so far with our team, we were at the head of navigation, on foot in the Rockies. And the Rockies were here, playing a wild game of their own, as they have a way of doing in the winter, and caring no whit for us or our intentions. Ah! what a spectacle it was—how grand the spectacle, how very small the ones who witnessed it! Never was amphitheater more imposing than this curved- in valley, with its walls of black-covered and ice-capped mountains. The prospect for a hunt did not seem very favorable, for it must be remembered that on days when the wind blows thus the wise hunter does not. care to go into the moun- tains. The cold is very intense, and moreover the blind- ing snow prevents him from seeing his game, though it may not prevent it from scenting him if by chance he comes ignorantly toocloseupon itin thestorm. Knowing that he is apt to scare more game than he sees, the hunter who sees Ai-so-pom-stan wagging her ears will hide in camp. He knows that the mountain ram, even though not approached very closely, may take fright and start to traveling clear out of the country, perhaps managing to get ten or fifteen miles away, even over the deep snow of win- ter; a distance which would mean entire loss to the hunter, who cannot hunt so far as that from camp on snowshoes in the mountains, We were all tired from the long day’s work of yesterday, and there was something of a disposition to rest in camp. Boak was obliged to start out for home with the team, to return later for us, as he had not feed enough to last yery long, and as there was no shelter for the horses nor chance for them to range, The snow was belly-deep to them in the valley where we were camped. Our lodge, when we got down to bed rock, was buried so far in the snow that.a man standing at the door would show only about half the length of his body above the snow to one looking on from a little distance. The horses had been brought around to a place of partial shelter the night before, wallowing through the snow as best they could to a point a few yards away from the lake shore and out of the cutting wind, They were tired almost to death by the wearying pull of the preceding day, but Boak thought that as the oad would now be light, he could manage to get back to the settlement without trouble. Hunter Powell, O-to-k0- miand myself concluded to go with Boak a part of the way, leaving him at the crown of the bare ridge and Swinging back in a search for our suppositious bear den, ° in which I had a lively interest, as 1 thought maybe my long-lost grizzly Was in there. McChesney also concluded to get out and stretch his legs; so we all four went down ‘with Boak as far as John Monroe’s camp at the lower end of the lake. Here we put on our snowshoes for the long, steep climb up to the top of the ridge, which we found to be very much worse than it had appeared in coming down. We learned also what had been the cause of Boak’s delay the evening previous, when we had lost him fora couple of hours, Half way up the hill was a soft snowdrift about 10ft. deep, and in this the team promptly got stalled again going up with the empty sled. They fell down in the snow, after plunging till they were exhausted, and so they lay, with only a part of their backs visible, and their legs doubled under them in we knew not what sort of shape. They threw their heads out on the snow to rest as best they could, as they lay wearily moaning as though they were heartily sick of the whole business, and censidered it all come to a final end so far as they themselves were concerned, Not so Boak. Here rose tothe occasion all the resources, all the skill, all the genius of the real Western teamster. Not for a minute did he worry about the result, though a tenderfoot might have been disposed to think the team lost and only to be abandoned. Boak ordered us to hold the sled from running back down hill. He cut down a few projecting little trees that bothered him. He fished out a Jong log chain, and going on up the hill many yards, over the steep pitch at which the team was stalled, he trailed this outin the snow. Then he had us ease back the sled a bit, and unhooking the horses after long effort, he appealed to their sense of Western honor in terms of such force and effectiveness that, miracle to say, they scrambled and A plunged and climbed indomitably forward until they topped the rise, and so at length lay panting again in the snow, but beyond the worst of it. Then Boak patiently hitched - them to the end of his long chain, and swearing yery im- partially alike at us and the horses, he heayed the whole outfit over the drift and on to the rise, where all was safe—as safety might so be charitably expressed; though still a pretty coil lay ahead for any teamster. “Oh, I told you, all you want is plenty of faith,” said Boak, as he gathered his reins after this little episode. So saying, he began to converse again in competent profanity. I think I neyer knew a man to swear so constantly, so un- consciously, and yet with such uniform accuracy as Boak did. No matter what the surroundings, Boak swore just the same; and he must have been a very finical sort of person who could have taken the least offense at it. For my part, I liked it; itsounded so cheerful and so like the old times. The Hast isa most doleful place to live in, — After we had reached the top of the bare ridge, over which we had come into our valley, we found above us still another higher ridge, which made off upto a sort of junction with a high bare mountain. Hunter Powell,who was with us, said that our bear den was somewhere just near the timber line, along this upper ridge some two miles toward the mountain. Wetherefore began the long and difficult climb up to the top of this second ridge. _McChes- ney was now getting his first hard experience with the shoes, and, like all beginners, was “fighting his shoes,” as the saying goes, and stopping often to arrange his straps. We were all of us yet a little soft and untrained, so the work seemed hard. Two weeks later we would have taken the same work without a thought of it. We were well tired when we got up to the spot where Hunter Powell began. to look out for his bear den, We were then almost directly above our camp on Two Medicine Lake, and looked down on the lake, on whose surface the figures of our friends below seemed very small, We had a sample of mountain snowshoeing that morn- ing. The snow was deep and yery soft, and the country over which Powell took us was chopped across by dozens of sharp coulees, each 100ft. or more in depth, with sides so sharp that the snow would barely hang on the banks. Once we cut a trail along such a bank for 50yds., the shoes sinking in so that we were waist deep in the snow, only to find ourselves at the foot of a second rise, with a pitch as steep as a house roof. It took us nearly ap hour of hard work to get up out of that hole and on top of the hill above it, and when we had done so we were all about ex- hausted with the scrambling climb up the sides. In this work it was not snowshoeing so much as wallowing and crawling through the snow. The ascent was too steep to walk up, the shoes slipping back when the angle got be- yond a certain point, and of course the snow was far too deep and soft to hold one up without the shoes. We pulled ourselves along as best we could by means of boughs and tree trunks, this being in the -heavy forest. In this work I was surprised to see how well the old, worthless- looking, fall-down pair of snowshoes worn. by Powell did their work, These shoes he had picked up at old John Monroe’s camp as we passed. They. were a Cree-model shoe,made with a spliced bow of willow (since a decent piece of hardwood for bows was not to be obtained) and the web- bing was ofthe most spasmodic and unpremeditated pattern ever was. Theseshoes were longish and narrow,with a sharp, upturned toe, and the webbing spaces were of an average over an inch across, Yet they seemed to hold upa man well enough for the purposes of travel, not sinking down so very far, and when it came to the recover, the pulling of the foot out of the snow for the- forward step, the chief virtue of their make was apparent. The wide meshes let the snow slip readily through, and the foot raised no~ weight with it, the shoe coming free and riding easily over the snow at the forward step. These shoes were made, of course, by Mme. Monroe, and the conclusion was forced on one that the lady knew her business, These snowshoes I coyeted for my private collection of such gear, and old John Monroe promised to send me on that pair and also a pair of “squaw shoes” made by the same hand, as soon as his season’s trapping was over, though as yet they have not arrived. Mme. Monroe complained that she could get no wood for making snowshoe bows. In making these shoes she worked with no tool but a big knife, and the crogs- pieces were lashed on with rawhide, each cross-piece being split and turned back at the end, so that a piece was offered as a sort of leg for the lashings to bind against the side of the bow, no mortise being possible with such tools as were at hand. This readiness to meet the difficulties of the case gave these shoes their chief value in my eyes, showing as it did the manner in which the native peoples overcame the environment that beset them, using only such means as lay immediately about them, We plunged and wallowed about on tep of the ends of the many coulees that ran back into the mountains from the lake, growing pretty tired from our struggles with the snow, which was of course far worse in the sheltered forest grounds than upon the high and open ridges, and finally Powell concluded that he could not find the place where he expected to discoyer his bear den. He said he had never come upon that bit of country from that direction, and moreover, had not been there in the winter time, the snow making an entire change in the appearance of the country. While Powell, McChesney and myself were plunging about in the deep coulees, O-to-k6-mi was shrewdly faring ahead somewhat above us, on the high ground and hard snow. He said he was following a track, but I have a notion that he was sharp enough not to want to get down into those gullies. At any rate, he overtook us after a while, and told Powell he didn’t think there was any game up in that country, and thought we might as well go home. He pointed to the high, bare mountain which seemed to arise at the further end of our bare ridge, above the edge of the timber line, and intimated that the sheep were over on that mountain, and that he had found them there in earlier hunts, When 0-to-ko-mi pointed down the hill to the camp and started across lots in that direction, McChesney and I concluded to follow him in, as it was now well on in the afternoon, and we did not think Powell was going to find his bear den. Powell, however, remained behind, and prosecuted further his search for the locality in question. It was an awful country, that over which O-to-k6-mi laid out his air line to camp, and the Indian bit the trail with a speed and determination which made McChesney and me sweat copiously, though it wasnearly all down-hill going. It had looked only a mile at the outside to camp from the top of the ridge at timber line, but when we had gone a mile and a half or two miles, and asked O to-k6-mi if it was still mile to camp, he answered indifferently, “Don’ know, mebbe so.” His English was not very extensive, and his countenance was no index whatever to his thoughts. As a pace-maker he had qualities to recommend him to ath- letic managers, one of which was his mercilessness on those who followed. He carried us into camp fairly on a gallop. I made signs to ask him if he was tired, but he shook his head vigorously and grinned pleasantly. I figured that if I did that sort of mountain work every day for a couple of weeks, I would either be dead or in mighty fine condition, Yet Schultz was so discouraging as to say to us that in our day’s work, covering perhaps eight miles in all, we had done no sort of climbing at all compared to what we would have to do if we got any sheep. This was true, too, as we learned later; but at the time if sounded very heartless, We saw no game sign that day, except one deer track and the old trail of a lynx. Powell came down the hill to camp about an hour after we did, and said he had not found the exact place he was looking for, but had found a place something like it. This was a round hole in the snow, with frost spears around the edge, as though the breath of some animal had congealed there. There was apparently a brush heap or tree top covered up by the snow at that point, and it had all the ear marks of a bear den, At least so said Billy and Schultz, and all those who should have known. I did not yet relinquish hope that we had found my grizzly, and we made plans how we should get him out of there without any unnecessary sacri- fice of yaluable human life. Schultz thought we could build a fire and drag it with a rope over the opening of the hole, thus being far enough away to get a chance at the bear before it gota chance at us. Billy said it would be a good plan to take a pole and stir up the bear, but. it was not decided who was going to be the pole-bearer in such a case. It was commonly agreed that at this time of year the bear would be pretty lively, and wouldn’t need much coaxing'to come out and show himself. Powell agreed to go up the hill next day and show us the place, if any of us wanted to try for the bear. This day closed windy and stormy, and as the air was very keen and we were all pretty tired, at least those who had been traveling, we were not sorry to gather around the lodge fire that night and rest and talk. This to me was one of the pleasantest and most unique features of the trip, the nightly symposium about the lodge fire. Always the tales turned to the old West, the old times on the front, the days and ways that are now gone. And we had talent of unusual excellence in this matter, too. There is no better posted man on Indian lore and Indian ways than Schultz, who has lived among the tribes on the wild- est frontier for some twenty years, while as for Billy Jack- son, he could make a hit in many an audience at story- telling, if he should preserve his style of the lodge fire talks. Billy has been an army scout ever since he was sixteen years of age, and has served under the best and the most of the leading generals who have done the In- dian fighting in the West. He has been in the Northwest mounted police, in all branches of the. scouting work in the U.S. army, and has besides traded and hunted and projected around on his own hook all over the border when not engaged in regular warfare. Billy has retained all through his checkered life a good apprehension of the salient points of things, and is moreoyer blessed with a strong sense of humor, and a remarkable faculty of im- itation, so that he makes a story-teller of more than ordi- nary interest for an evening about the fire, when the snow is whistling over the lodge top and the coyotes are singing on the hill sides near by. It was worth a farm to hear Billy tell of the bloody British officer of commissary who audited the mess accounts of the Northwest police up in Alberta, or some other country of her Majesty the Queen. Billy, it seems, was mess steward, and he had a notion that nothing was too good for his outfit, in which he dif- fered from the officer in charge. “Oh, I s’y,” the latter said one day (according to Billy), “I s’y, ye know, w’at in the bloody blazes do ye mean by hordering twenty pounds of buns? Buns! buns fer the men, w’y, ye know, w’at hall this means, Hi really cawn’t comprehend, I cawn’t really, e know, now.” Billy explained to him after a time that the 20lbs. of “buns” was intended to be 20lbs. of beans, which latter have always been held legitimate food for mounted scouts in Indian service. This left the com- missary man somewhat mollified, and no longer anxious lest the squad was living on food a touch too high for it’ We asked O-to-k6-mi to tell us a story in his fashion, one of the stories of his people, and this he did at some length, Schultz interpreting while he washed the dishes. O-to- k6-mi told a strange and fabulous tale of a poor old man and poor old woman who were oppressed by their son-in- law, but who one day were saved ina singular way. The old man hid in a quiver a clot of blood from a buffalo the son-in-law had killed, and this clot of blood grew into a child, when it was boiled in the kettle. The child told the old man to tie him in turn to each lodge pole, all the way around the lodge, and by the time this was done the child had grown to be a full-sized man. This man turned out to be a hero, who righted the wrongs of the old people, and killed off oppressors of all sorts, and behaved himself very admirably indeed all around. He killed all the bad _bears, but left a few bears for the future (“So you men can dig them out of the holes,” interpolated O-to-ké-mi, with a touch of native humor), and he killed all the big, bad snakes, but left a few good little snakes so there should not be an entire dearth of snakes on the earth. More- over, he killed the spirit of a big, wicked hill, “that was a sort of person,” and which poisoned the air with its breath, and which swallowed up the people in great num- bers. This hero was named Clot-of- Blood, from his origin, and after this evil spirit had swallowed him, he cut out the heart of the wicked being and so destroyed it. It took O-to-k6-mi three-quarters of an hour to tell this story, which reached us through the interpreter, and he related it with a great deal of gravity and a good many flourishes, Schultz told us that this was one of the oldest of the folk stories of the Blackfeet. It is told at length in the “Black- foot Lodge Tales” by Mr. Grinnell, more graphically than one would be apt to tell it from remembrance, but it was a pleasure to hear it again, actually told in the smoke of a Blackfoot lodge and by one of the people who have devised it and handed it down. This story of O-to-kd-mi’s began entertainingly. “Once, inthe Sweet Grass Hills,” said he, when he began the story. And lo! the Sweet Grass Hills, full of all their hero stories, all their mysticism, all their 24 FOREST AND STREAM. (Jury 10, 1897. records of the days gone by, lay within a few days’ journey from where we then encamped, and fully visible from our prairies, lying high and bold upon the further boundary of that high cup of the mountains which is now the home of the Blackfeet people. Q-to-k6-mi, as I have said, told his story in Piegan, and held his usual discourse in that tongue; but he had a sort of understanding of English as well as Blackfoot, which was perhaps as well, considering the polyglot medium of communication in vogue in the camp. Schultz would be ac Blackfoot to O-to-k0-mi with one hand and English to Billy with the other. Billy speaks English, French, Piegan, Cree, Sioux and,I think he said, also the Crow language. At times, when busy talking with O-to-k6-mi and myself at the same time, he would get his linguistic wires crossed, somewhat after the fashion of old John Monroe, though more intelligibly. Once, I remember, he said something to O-to-k6-mi which sounded like “Hz. sin- u-sak, na cook ti—to grease the pan with.” In response to this, O-to-k0-mi handed him a bit of bacon rind which was lying near by on his side of the fire. By this I inferred that Billy had asked for this piece of bacon rind, though I do not know how near I have come to the Blackfoot pho- netics of it. Another story, I remember, Billy told us that first night around the lodge fire, a story of war and heroism whose scene was laid not far away, and whose time was within the memory of the narrator. “There is a high rocky hill,” said Billy, “a sort of fortress, on the top of a big rise of land some sixty miles northwest of Fort Keogh, and this place is called to-day the Crow Rock. One time I was riding by this place with two Sioux Indians [I think he said their names were Round Wooden Shield and Lone Standing Bull], and these Indians told me the story of the Crow Rock. “They said that some years ago there were some Crows camped not far from the place where a good’ big body of Sioux were hunting, and some of the Crows lay in wait and shot two Sioux boys who came by them in the grass. Others of the Sioux gave the alarm, and it was easy to see _ that there would be a movement for revenge at once. Ag the old men of the Crows knew they were very much out- numbered, and as there was no place on that flat prairie country where a fight could be made with any chance of success, the chiefs of the Crow party hurriedly called their people together and ordered a swift retreat. There was only one place, as they said, where there was any hope that they would be able to make a fight, and that was many miles away, at this natural fort which now is called the Crow Rock. The chiefs ordered eyery member to mount at onceand make for that rock as fast as they could ride, not stopping on the way, but using every effort to reach the place before the Sioux, who were sure to follow in full foree as soon as their men could be notified. I think one or two persons of the party did not obey orders, but rode on across the country and so escaped, but the bulk of the party kept together, and by riding late into the night made the cover of this stronghold. Here they felt tolerably safe for the time. “The next day the Sioux, who had followed hot on the trail, came into sight of their enemy, rounded up in this stone fort. The Sioux made efforts to. drive the Crows out but failed. The Crows only laughed at them and taunted them, telling them to come on up and try to take them out. They also fired down at the Sioux and shot a few of their warriors. Yet the Sioux could inflict no loss on the Crows, for they could not see a face at the cracks in the a while the Crows could peer out in safety and shoot at them. “There was with that party of Sioux a young warrior by the name of The Little Assinaboine, a good fighter, and a man who was not afraid. This man said: ‘It is all useless for us to stand down here around the foot of this rock, for we will never drive the Crows out in that way. The way to do is to charge up the hill and get right in under the walls, then we will be close to the Crows, and we can get over the walls and kill them in a hurry.’” : “This sounded all very well, but there were few of the Sioux who cared to risk a run up the long face of the hill, exposed to the rifles of the Crows. The Little Assinaboine, however, started up the hill on ahead, crawling from one rock to another, keeping under coyer the best he could, and soon he was followed in this way by other young men, who crawled with him as high up the hill as they could go under cover. Then The Little Assinaboine ran ont from cover and started for the next rock which would shield him, this being still a little higher up the hill; and the others did this also. At last there was no more possi- bility of cover from where they lay, clear up to the edge of the rock walls behind which the Crows were lying. Then The Little Assinaboine called out to the men to follow him, and he started out in the open and ran as hard as he could up the long, bare front of the hill, till at length he was directly under the shelter of the walls, and, luckily, unhit by any of the shots fired at him. Others of the party seeing that he was not killed, after awhile began to run up to him also. Meantime he was calling to the Crows inside and putting his rifle up to the cracks in the rocks and firing through at the Crows. When a number of the Sionx had joined him at last, he said: ‘Now let us go over the wall, and when we are inside we can kill them all the more easily,’ So they scaled the walls and jumped down in among the Crows and began to shoot and fight with clubs and knives. It was not long until every one of the Crows was killed—thirty-one in all. Thus the place got its name of the Crow Rock. “The Sioux always remembered the bravery of this young man, The Little Assinaboine, and in order to show their appreciation of his courage, and to point out plainly what a feat he had done in leading the party that stormed the hill, they got long, flat stones—white stones—and they laid them up the hill, in the footprints of The Little Assin- aboine, where he ran up thehill. I haveseen these stones, and it may be that they are there even yet.” K. Hoves. 1206 Boyer Buriprne, Chicago. North Carolina Long Close Term. Higunanps, N. 0.—Hadiier Forest and Stream: Law of North Carolina for Macon and Clay counties prohibits hunting with a dog or gun, or killing deer for five years from March, 1897, when law was enacted. H. St#waRt. dlatmal History. NOTES ON THE COTTON-TEAL OF INDIA. Mr. F Fryy, B. A., F. Z. §. of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, India, has very recently sent me a copy of his paper, published in the proceedings of that Society, on the gait of the cotton-teal duck of that country, and its subject matter is 80 interesting that I felt a few comments upon it would not altogether be out of place in the columns of ForEsT anD STREAM. : Naturalists for a long time past have regarded the cotton- teal or goose-teal (lVetiopus coromandeliamus) as a very remarkable bird, as it was generally believed upon the very best of authority that it could not stand or walk like other wild ducks. Now a wild duck that could neither stand nor walk was certainly a novelty among wildfowl in any avifauna It seems that as early as 1844 the eminent naturalist G. R. Gray, said in his ‘‘Genera of Birds,” that this species was ‘‘totally incapable of standing or walking upon the ground, but invariably flutters along it in a strange scuffling manner, like a wounded bird.” Mr. Gould, however, in his famous ‘Birds of Australia,” figured this fowl as standing up, and for this he was criti- cised by Blyth, in his catalogue of the birds in the Museum. of the Asiatic Society 1849). Dr. Jerdon followed suit with a contrary opinion, and stated in his ‘‘Birds of India” that the cotton teal always squat after walking a short distance. Blyth also attacked Jerdou, saying he was in error, and that the teals in question could only squat, creep and shuffle when on the ground. Even as late as 1881 the distinguished Mr. Hume, in his ‘‘Game Birds and Wildfowl of India,” said the birds could not walk at all, and when they scrambled about on land their Jes were never visible below their bodies. Tn other words, it has long been believed among naturalists that they had a teal duck in India possessing little or no powers of terrestrial locomotion, and in this important feature differed from all other known ducks in the world. Now, Mr. Finn in his observations has completely upset this theory for us, and that in the most conclusive manner pos- sible. He bas kept many cotton-teal ducks in confinement for the very purpose of studying their gait, and has, more- over, exhibited before the Asiatic Society living specimens of this bird taken inthe wild state. A fine male bird walked for several yards as soon as it was let out of its cage. Mr. Finn attributes the error of Blyth and others to the fact that their observations were made upon market-purchased speci- mens, and these from cruel treatment were so frightened and crippled that they could not walk. ‘They have never been noticed by any naturalist to stand upon one leg as other teals do; but they are fine swimmers and divers, and more- over, have a remarkable power of climbing up wire netting. When they normally leave the water in nature they often perch upon trees and buildings. It may be said in conclusion, however, that nevertheless, this teal does exhibit a certain weakness in its legs when on land, and this limitation of power is due to inheritance, as doubtless for a long time the circumstances of its life have been of such a nature as not to demand any exercise of it. Dr. R. W. SHUFELDT. Wasuineton, D. €., July 1. THE RED-HEADED DUCK.* (Fuligula ferina, STEPHENS.) At New Orleans, this bird is commonly known by the name of ‘‘Dos Gris.” It arrives there in great flocks, about November 1, and departs late in April, or in the beginning of May. On the lakes Borgne, St. John, and Ponchar- train, it is very abundant, keeping im large flocks, separate from the other species. In that part of the country its food consists of small fishes, in pursuit of which it is seen con- stantly diving. It is caught in different sorts of nets, and easily kept in confinement, feeding greedily on Indian corn, whether entire or crushed by the millstone. In 1816, many thousands of these ducks, as well as others of different species, were caught in nets by a Frenchman, who usually sent them alive to market in cages from the narrows of the Lakes, especially from those called ‘“‘La pointe aux herbes,” and the ‘‘Isle aux pins.” So many of them, however, were procured by this man, that he after a while gave up sending them alive, on account of the great difficulty he encountered in procuring a suflficiént number of cages for their accom- modation. : : Although Dr. Richardson informs us that this species breeds ‘‘in all parts of the fur-countries, from the fiftieth parallel to their most northern limits,” I saw none of these birds during the spring and summer months which I spent ou the coast of Labrador. I was equally unsuccessful in my search for it in Newfoundland. Indeed, I have never ob- served it eastward of the State of Massachusetts, although from thence it is more and more abundant the farther south you proceed, until you reach the tributaries of the Missis- sippi. Beyond the mouths of that river these birds are rarely seen; and when I was there in April, 1837, none were observed by my party or myself after we had left the south- west Pass on our way westward. In the Texas none were even heard of. From these circumstances I have inferred that, along with several other species, the red-headed duck reaches the Middle and Southern States by passing overland or following our great streams, such as the Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi, westward, and the North River and otbers, eastward, both in its yernal and autumnal migrations. This T am the more inclined to believe, on account of the great numbers which on such occasions I haye seen in ponds in the States of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky. I found it abundant in the marshes near St. Augustine, in East Florida, on November 8, 1881, when the young males of that year had the breast and lower neck mottled with brown and blackish feathers; and yet whilst at General Hernandez’s in that district, on December 20, they were in almost perfect plumage. At this latter period they were shy, and kept in company with mallards, American widgeons, scaup ducks, and spoonbills, generally in shallow fresh- water ponds, at some distance from the seashore. Tn South Carolina these ducks are now much more abundant than they were twenty years ago, especially on the Santee River, where my friend Dr. Samuel Wilson has shot many of them, as well as of the canvas-back species. The red-headed duck may be said to be equally fond of salt and fresh water, and is found in abundance, during its * From Audubon’s “Ornithological Biography,” being the text to accompany the plates. stay with us, on the Chesapeake Bay, especially in the month of March, when it associates with the canyae-back and other ducks, and is offered for sale in the Baltimore markets in great numbers. There I have seen them sold at 75 cents the pair, which was lower by 25 cents than their price at New Orleans in April, 1837. Although they dive much and toa great depth, while in our bays and estuaries, yet when in the shallow ponds of the interior, they are seen dabbling in the mud along the shores, much in the manner of the mallard; and on occa- sionally shooting them there, 1 have found their stomachs crammed with young tadpoles and small water-lizards, as well as blades of the grasses growing around the banks. Nay, on several occasions I haye found pretty large acorns and beech-nuts in their throats, as well as snails, entire or broken, and fragments of the shells of various small unios, together with much gravel. , in confinement they do not exhibit that dezree of awk- wardness attributed to them when on land. lit is true that the habitual shortening of the neck detracts from their beauty, so that in this state they cannot be said to present graceful appearance; yet their aspect has always been pleas- ing to my sight. Their notes are rough and coarse, and bear less resemblance to the cries of those species which are peculiar to fresh water than those of any other' of their tribe. Their flight is performed in a hurried manner, and they start from the water pell-mell; yet they can continue very long on wing, and the motion of their pinions, especi- ally at night, produces a clear whistling sound. The fine pair from which I made the two figures in the plate were given me by my friend Daniel Webster, Heq., of Boston, Mass., whose talents and accomplishments are too well known to require any eulogium from me, The flesh of this bird is generally esteemed, insomuch that many persons know no difference between it and that of the canvas-back duck, for which it is not unfrequently sold; but 1 look upon it as far inferior to that of many other ducks. Individuals of both sexes yary much in size. On comparing American with European skins, I am unable to perceive any difference of color or proportions indicative of specific distinction. : Ravages by Collectors. | Tu immense destruction of birds for millinery purposes, if continued, will have the effect of depleting the North American continent of insectivorous birds in a few years, and the consequent increase of noxious insects detrimental to fruit growing and agriculture. The question is, what is the remedy, and how toapply it? What, with lazy, loafing bird- catchers, the schoolboys and their toy guns, and many of the so-called scientific collectors, the constantly decreasing num- bers of our beautiful feathered songsters is a matter of pub- lic importance, Copies of the insectivorous bird act should be displayed in every class and schoolroom, and teachers in- structed to impress upon their pupils the reasons why bird nests should not be robbed or molested, The destruction caused by collectors can be illustrated by the conduct of a wellknown newspaper man of Buffalo, who, with his friends on a Sunday recently, while on an egg-collecting tour, was arrested by the Ontario game warden and his col- lection of eggs confiscated. In the collection there were fifty-four eggs of one species. Many of these egos were in a state of incubation, and worthless for scientific purposes. Ladies have it in their power to a great extent to make the traffic in bird skins unprofitable, by refusing to wear or pur- chase millinery having birds or feathers for trimming. RANGER. Camp-Lire Hlicherings. “That reminds me,” HOW'!I KILLED MY FIRST BUFFALO. Away back in the year 1872, when I was a sixteen-year- old boy living in northeastern Kansas, and at a time when there were thousands of buffalo roaming over the plains of the western part of the State, two. bachelor, homesteader friends invited me to accompany them buffalo hunting. The invitation was gladly accepted, and we started in mid- September. We had a good strong wagon, well provisioned, also all the necessaries of a complete camping outfit. Our team, however, was sure but very slow, for our wagon was” drawn by a large yoke of oxen, the property of one of the settlers with us. Weled two small horses, to be used in the chase, under the saddle, when we should come to the buffalo. How well I remember the days we jogged slowly along over the undulating Kansas prairies. After we had traveled 150 miles we came to the short, curly buffalo grass, which barely covered the ground, This grass was burned to a red- dish-brown by the sun shining irom a sky with never a cloud. And that sky, which seemed of hammered brass, produced a sun which would melt the heart of any but en- thusiastic hunters. And so we journeyed on, making from eighteen to twenty-five miles a day, camping at night beside one of the numerous timberless creeks that flow into the Re- publican River. We met several hunters coming back, all loaded with buf- falo meat and hides. This kept our courage up, and in- creased our anxiety toreach the range among the buffalo. We saw plenty of small game; also numerous bands of ante- lope, to which we paid little attention. We were after the great American bison, and bison we would have. How slow Pete and Jerry—our- oxen—wagged along, IL need hardly tell you. It seemed as though the nearer we got to the buffalo the slower they became. Every known means of increasing their speed was tried, without avail. We had traveled two days without road or trail, and thought it about time to see something of the game we were after. We were approaching the headwaters of the Sappa Creek. For nearly a halfa day we had seen hoof prints and the fresh droppings of buffalo. After making a ~ three-mile turn and getting back to the creek we met a hunter who told us that the buffalo were all around us, and that it was very strange we bad seen none in the last ten miles we had traveled. We pitched our camp at dark in a sheltered bend of the creek, turned our oxen loose to graze, picketed the horses near, and, tired hunters that we were, cooked and ate our supper and lay down to dream of the next day’s hunt, which should result in tons of meat and piles of hides. Before we slept it was decided that each one should strike out with his rifle as early as he pleased, to try to get some of the strays from the main herd, now only a few miles away. Juuy 10, 1897, | FOREST AND STREAM. 28 SSS —————— a eee During the night we were awakened by the thunder of thousands of hoofs upon the hard ground, as the buffalo were startled by wolves or hunters. With anxiety we waited for the first gray streak of coming dawn; and at last as I saw the darkness begin to roll back, I arose, took my rifle and Joaded with enough cartridges to ammunition a Spanish regiment, started due south from camp, following up the bed of a wide ravine, in which the blue stem grass was thick and high. I argued that the buffalo were looking for good feed, and there I should find them. After advancing slowly up the ravine 300 or 400yds., I saw not over T5yds. away, in the uncertain light before day, the dusky forms of two of the giant game 1 was after. I crouched down, advanced a few feet to a slight hummock, across which I rested my rifle, waited until the nearest buffalo turned his broadside to me, then took deliberate aim behind the foreshoulder and fired. He fell to his knees, his nose struck the ground, then he rolled on his side, His mate ran away, snorting and blow- ing. I had frequently been cautioned by old hunters never to approach a wounded buifalo, so while I waited what a crowd of thoughts came to me; the joy and pride with which IT would return to camp and report to my comrades the kill- ing of this big fellow; this I thought of in less time than it takes to tell it. And so I advanced toward my prize, now quite still in death. As I came near I observed a white spot on the upper side. AsI walked around to the head I saw a white stripe in the face, and there was a recognition. It came to me asa bolt from a clear sky—I saw and felt it all—I had shot and killed Jerry, our nigh ox. This was my first buffalo but not the last. W. J. Raynor. CoLoRADo, Game Bag and Gun. THE GRUISE OF THE SINDA. Last year the writer told a brief tale, under the caption of “Ducks on the Gulf Coast,” of his little adventures on a winter hunt in the South, and intimated that he would like a companion for a similar trip, to be made the winter of 96- 97. The result was indeed gratifying, for replies came ad- dressed in care of FOREST AND STREAM from nearly every State and the maritime provinces. Evidently all were from practical gunners, but some had queer notions. One New Brunswick man—no doubt a good hunter in his own coun- try—wanted to bring his birch, ‘‘the finest hunting craft in the world ® J think I that he has done right, Being so extremely faticuing, the first lessons should be short and simple, After a time the mental training will pro- duce mental strength and stamina, and long lessons can then be given without distress to the pupil. The powers of the mind are then so well in play that the most difficult parts of the training are learned with greater ease than were the sim- ple beginnings. In these traits of the puppy, as they relate to the matter of learning, they are not unlike those displayed by the child in its first similar attempts. Study is foreign to every instinct of the young, child or puppy, and, if study it must, the result ig weariness, confusion of ideas to a greater or less degree and a pronounced dislike to studying at all, And yet, the studies of the child are for hisown per- sonal gain and advantage in life, while the puppy 1s required to learn things which will be applied solely to the advantage of his master When a Jesson of any difficulty is ended, all further at- tempts at it should also be ended till such a time as the next lesson begins. If the trainer commands the dog to do some- thing under circumstances wherein he cannot enforce obedi- ence, and the dog then escapes or succeeds in disobeying, a troublesome factor is thereby introduced; for it being to his own profit he learns the adyantange of disobedience to him- self and generally refuses afterward whenever he can do xo, sometimes permanently, but at least until such time as dis- cipline has become habitual, Some of the lessons, therefore, need to be given in a room or other inclosure from which the dog cannot escape, as will be fully described in proper place. During the months of the pupil’s puppyhood, before formal training begins, a few of the more simple orders may be taught, such as “Come in” and “‘Go on.” The latter is taught easily by associating it with the act of freeing the puppy from his kennel, or by taking himon a chain into the fields, then unchaining him and at the same time giving him the order, “‘Go on.” He would ‘‘go on” then whether the order was given or not, and this is the reason why the order is so easy to teach and why it may be taught when the pupil is still a tender puppy. By associating it with the act of going on, the puppy soon learns its meaning, and if he is good for anything he takes unbounded pleasure in a com- mand which denotes that he is at liberty to romp at his own free will, “Come in” is not so easy to teach as is **Goon.” The will of the teacher as made known by this order comes in conflict with the will ofthe dog. The latter is rarely-inclined to give up the pleasure of free romping or taking his pleasure in his own way, 80 concerning the command ‘‘Come in!” force is sometimes necessary to secure the required obedience. Still, force should not be applied till the formal training begins. It doesn’t matter whether the puppy obeys perfectly or not before that time. However, it is necessary to teach thorough obedience to the order when the proper time has come for it. No slovenly or reluctant response to the command should be tolerated. The dog should be required to come in promptly and directly, and a pat on the head and a kind word when he does so will result in his coming in cheerfully if he has any amiability in his nature. And yet, easy as it is to teach a dog to come in promptly to command by voice or whistle, there are few orders so commonly disobeyed. At field trials where one would expect to see the greatest per- fection in the matter of obedience, but where one doesn’t see anything of the kind, it often is a most laborious task fora handler to get control of his dog in a heat or at the end of it, and many find it necessary to keep their dogs on chain con- stantly to prevent them from breaking away at such times as they desire them to cease work. All this shows rank neglect of the necessary discipline. The handlers of such dogs have been satisfied to get them to come in after such fashion as it could be done each time in any sort of slip-shod way, and neglected the more troublesome but efficient method of teaching the command specially till it was thoroughly estab- lished. If the dog is self-willed or sulky oz over-eager in his enthu- siasm, he may require some punishment to make him come in promptly. Most trainers punish the dog in the field with the whip for disobeying this order, and thereby increase instead of lessen the trouble; for, if, when the dog comes in to order he receives a whipping, he will come in still more reluctantly the next time, when he fancies that to obey isan act which endsin pain. Itis quite a stupid expecta- tion on the part of a trainer that, after whipping a dog for not coming im with the desired degree of obedience, he will come in with greater promptness the next time, with a pos- sible whipping in store as areward for coming in at all, With some amateurs the whip is the first and last appeal. How dogs perform even so well as they do under such stupid treatment is a source of wonder, yet they, in time, seem to learn what is desired and what is the proper act to adopt to avoid punishment, if the trainer is not too severe or too muddled or too inconsistent to permit of any fixed method. If force is necessary, nothing is better for the purpose than a spike-collar, ‘The punishment, when the collar is used, is applied to the dog when he is in the act of disobedience and away from his handler. He associates it then with ihe act of disobedience. When he comes in and is whipped, he associates such punishment with the act of obedience. When he comes in from the punishment of the collar the trainer can pet and praise him, and thus distinctly indicate With the whip, this is impossible. The collar, thus, is distinctly associated with the act of dis- obedience; the whip, with the act of obedience. As may be readily anticipated, the one is promptly effective, establishes ‘intelligent obedience, and is lasting in its effects; the other is confusing, inflicts pain with no intelligent cause for it, and never accomplishes what is desired in the finished man- ner necessary for good performance. If the dog will not come in with the promptness necessary, put the collar onhisneck. Tie 20 or 30yds. of rope toit. The dog may attempt to run away. Let him have his flurry at the end of the rope till he becomes convinced that he cannot escape. Make no attempt to teach anything till he has become quite reconciled to the collar being on his neck and till he has given up struggling, This may require two or three different lessons more or less in itself, At length when the collar has ceased to alarm him, give the order, ‘‘Come in,” and pull him in with the rope at the same time, Bring him quite up to within reach of the hand and pat and praise him as if he had done a fine thing of his own motion, and wait till he has recovered hiscomposure. A proper calmness and deliberation adds much to the efficacy of the lesson. Hurry and unnecessary violence do much to retard the pur- pose of the trainer in this and all other branches; the trainer then should walk away to the length of the rope and repeat the order, and the act of pulling the dog in, In a short time the latter will observe that he is punished when away from his tramer and he will follow him closely so that he cannot walk away from him. This should not be permitted. The oo FOREST AND STREAM. (Juny 10, 1897 trainer can correct it by driving a short peg in the ground aud tying the dog to it, 2 or 3ft. of the rope nearest the col- lar being used for the purpose. When the trainer orders the dog to come in, he pulls on the rope thereby pulling the pin from the ground, and if the dog obeys he thus is not pun- ished; for the pin being pulled out he cannot be punished by pulling on ataut rope, and if he disobeys the trainer pulls him in a8 before. This is continued till the dog will obey promptly and till obedience has become habitual. When the collar is taken off, a number of lessons should be piven in 4 room or inclosure where the dog cannot escape. So long as he shows the slightest hesitation to obey or incli- nation to escape, so long should the lessons be persisted in. At length obedience will become a habit, and the dog will not have the slightest inclination to disobey. Next, the les- sons should be given in the open field, If there should be any disinclination at first to obey promptly in the field, the collar should be applied in the same manner, Once this train- ing is thoroughly done, it is permanent, and amply compen- sates for the little extra trouble required to do it right. The reluctant and imperfect obedience given to noisy or- ders to come in are in painful contrast to the prompt, quiet obedience given to the lightest notes of the whistle or lowest tones of the yoice which the dog can hear, when he is thor- oughly trained to come in with the aid of the collar, Modern Dogs. A new edition of ‘‘Modern Dogs of Great Britain and Ireland,” by Mr. Rawdon B. Lee, is recently from the press, Sporting dogs have two volumes devoted to them, a total of 751 pages. The different breeds are illustrated by the masterly art of Mr. Arthur Wardle. The work contains a yast fund of valuable information concerning the past and present of each breed. There is not a line which is not either interesting or instructive, and oftenestit is both, The author’s aim is to tell about dogs, and not to fill a certain space. Besides the description of the physical characteristics of each breed, and the scale of points so formidable in ap- pearance and yet co little in worth, much interesting histor- ical information is given concerning each breed, and thedo- - ings of the most distinguished performers in the competitions of bench and field. POINTS AND FLUSHES. . The date of closing the Derby entries of the Manitoba Field Trials Club has been extended to July 12. Joseph D. Shotwell, paying teller of the Bowery Savings Bank, New York, died on Sunday last at Orange, N J. The immediate cause of death was upoplexy, though he had been ill a long while. He was an officer of the Collie Club many years. George Laick died recently at Tarrytown, N. Y. le was famous as a beagle man, and he did much to advance the general recognition of the beagle as a sterling and pleasing worker afield. Aheeling. Communications for this department are requested. Anything on the bicycle in its relation to the sportsman is-particularly desirable WHEELING NOTES. iy New England and the older parts of the country aban- doned railroads are sometimes found. The road-beds of these railroads are constructed with gradients that would furnish luxuriant riding for cyclists used to the ordinary carriage road, and, in many cases, a good surface can be applied at a very slight expense, thus making model cycle paths. The abandoned railroad of the Reading Iron Company, leading from Danville, Pa., to Cherry Valley. will be so utilized, and when finished will prove a model path in every respect. In Paterson, N, J,, the street sprinklers are notified that they will lose their jobs if they do not leave well enough alone and goon sprinkling and re-sprinkling till the streets are muddy. Street sprinklers have long been in the habit of sprinkling not wisely but too well, but it has remained for the present cycling era to put astop fo the waste of city water and a condition of the streets which is only in degree legs undesirable than dust. The Paterson authorities also show their level heads by ruling that streets must not be sprinkled on damp days or other days when there is no wind and dust, and by making provision for unsprinkled strips at the sides for the use of wheelmen and wheéelwomen. The cycle path between Port Jefferson and Patchogue, Long Island, has been completed, The path is fifteen miles in length, and crosses the island at about the center from the Sound to the sea. Port Jefferson 1s opposite Bridgeport, Conn,, and the path will be the means of introducing Con- necticut riders to the good roads and other attractions of the south side of Long Island. Cold baths are good in moderation, but they should never be taken immediately after a fatiguing ride. The greater the exertion the greater the waste of tissue which must be gotten rid of by the pores of the skin. A cold bath closes fhe pores and puts a check upon this relief, whereas a warm bath would have had a beneficial effect in freeing the system of the collected impurities. Aftera cold bath the heart is depended upon to bring about a reaction. When the heart is tired by the effects of a long ride it may not be strong enough to bring about this reaction, and the blood and waste material may not be brought to the surface. Internal con- gestion follows, with various unpleasant complications which in some cases have been known to culminate fatally. If the wheelman has any doubts as to the propriety of taking a cold bath after exhausting exercise he may decide by testing the rate of his pulse. If this is normal cold water may be used, but otherwise it would be very injudicious to risk the shock. As a rule, cold baths are advisable only when the cyclist’s vilality is at the maximuin, while at other times tepid or warm baths are to be advised, with perhaps a cold sponge or shower bath at the end as a stimulant and preventive of cold. The League of American Wheelmen was organized at Newport, R. |, Memorial Day, 1880, and is therefore some- thing over seventeen years old. It has now more than 80,000 members, well organized and capably officered, and is a power in the land for the good of the sport which it repre- sents, Wheelmen in general owe much to the L. A. W., and they can most fittingly acknowledge the obligation by sending in their applications for membership and subscribing to its principles. To meet the demand of angling wheelmen, Messrs. Abbey & Imbrie, New York, have put upon the market a special bicycle fishing rod. ‘The red is made to fit within the dia- mond of the bicycle, and is provided with an extremely neat and well adapted carrying case, which is strapped to the frame at three points. The case contains aroomy pocket, which will hold a 100yd. multiplying reel or bait box or any small articles an angler may wish to carry. Bait and fly- rods are made in five pieces, of lancewood or split-bamboo. Many bicycle riders with Spartan-like fortitude deny themselves a drink when parched with thirst. They argue that when one once begins to drink on a hot day he must keep it up, for the more he drinks, the thirstier he becomes, his last state is worse than his first. But it is possible to have too much of a good thing even in abstinence. Thirst, when the wheelman rides with his mouth closed, is an indication of a demand on the part of nature to replenish an exhausted supply, and when the demand is sufficiently pressing, head- aches and other indications of impaired vitality are likely to follow the refusal to heed it. Dr. Lucas Championiére, of Paris, an eminent authority, recommends, during exercise, as much drink as the cyclist can comfortably swallow, butnosolidfood, During violent exercise the stomach is generally not in fit condition to re- ceive food, and the rider should always rest before eating. But with drinking it is different. Here the waste in hot weather is enormous, and il is very essential that the supply be frequently replenished Of course, sweet drinks and stimulants are not recommended, and it is advisable to sip rather than hastily swallow the liquid. A good many years ago some popular proverb compiler devised the couplet beginning, “If wishes were horses beg- gars would ride.” It was very well known that wishes were not horses and that beggars did not ride, and the truth of the couplet being so apparent, it had a remarkable ron. All this was before the days of selling bicycles on the in- stallment plan. Nowadays if wishes are not horses, they may be bicyles, and the beggars ride as well as the best of us.. Cases where people are too poor to pay rent and put their landlord off because ‘‘Pa has to pay for his new bicycle,” are common enough, and it is well known that such people will submit to being evicted rather than give up their highly-prized wheels, The ease with which a bicycle may be secured is illus- trated by the story of- a Hartford man who hadn’t even enough ready money to pay the first instalment, He had, however, credit at his grocer’s; so he went there and bought a barrel of flour, some sugar and other’standard articles ‘‘on tick,” sold them for spot cash to the first purchaser, and thus raised money for the initial payment on his wheel. The poor man rides while his creditor walks. Reverse the wisdom of one age and you haye made a prophecy that will see its fulfillment in the next. Users of a certain style of spring seat-post complain that the nut which holds the spring in position has a tendency to work down and fal! into the tubing of thebicycle. This can be remedied by fitting a hollowed cork tightly into the post below the nut. A fortune of comfortable proportions awaits the man who invents a practical and economical nut Jock. ‘There is avast field for such an invention among the railroads, bicycle build- ers and manufacturers of all kinds of vehicles and rolling stock, Although numerous patents have been taken out for self-locking nuts, nothing practical seems to have been per- fected that will stand the vibration and jarring incident to travel ; To be successful the mechanism must be simplicity itself, and at the same time compact and neat. dachting. As the yachting journal of America, the FoREST AND STREAM 1s the recognized medium of communication between the maker of yachts- men's supplies and the yachting public. Its value for advertising has been demonstrated by patrons who have employed its columns continuously for years. THE YACHT RACING UNION OF LONG ISLAND SOUND. Racing Clircult. June 26 to July 7. Stamford Y. C. Annual Regatta. STAMFORD, CONN.—LONG ISLAND SOUND, Monday, June 28, The second race of the circuit was that of the Stamford Y. C., its annual regatta, on Monday. The course was a 10-mile triangle on the Sound, starting off Stamford Harbor, the AasehiD: Halcyon, steam yacht, Com. Howard C. Smith, car- rying the regatta committes and marking the weather end of the line. There was plenty of wind, a good thimble- header breeze from S.W., making a beat over the first leg, with a reach over each of the other two, with sheets slack- ened and balloon jibtopsails set on the second leg, and sheets in on the third. None of the schooners were present, the largest yachts being Wasp and Syce, in the same class, Wasp allowing 3m. 50s. over the 20 miles, two rounds of the triangle. Surprise sailed alone, there being little lifein the 86ft. class this year, though it is one in which theolder boats have not yet been outbuilt. Surprise is only a good deep centerboard boat, with large cabin bouse and comparatively heavy construction; nothing of the freak or machine order to scare off the ordinary good all-round boat; but thus far she has found no one to meet her, The thirties mustered a new recruit, Carolina, this being her first race this season; but Musme and Veda were absent, the former haying sprung her mast on ae Only two twenties were present, Shark and Asthore, Mr. Howard, owner of Arauca, sailing as crew of the former, The smallest starterin the race was a decided novelty, even in this era of freaks. She was apparently an ordinary lap-strake rowboat, quite open, but rigged with one sail, a big jib, after which she was christened—Jib. Her mast was quite long and stepped against the transom, stayed to a bumpkin over the stern and a couple of outriggers on each - her mast but finished. The cabin cat Lizzie V uarter. She carried a bowsprit about 3ft. outboard, from the end of which to the masthead was a wire stay. On this stay a single triangular sail was set, with a boom on its foot. The rig was in form a lateen, but oi course set in a very dif- ferent manner. If it has any merit at all, this race failed to disclose it, but then the boat was so small and so mucb out- classed by a 20ft. cat, the winner, that no comparison was possible As in Saturday’s race, three of the thirties each carried a lady, Mrs, Duryea sailing on Vaquero III. and Miss Helen Benedict on Hera. = The start was made- at noon, with the Y, R. U. intervals, so that the larger yachts started on the third gun, there being no schooners, at 12:10, Wasp cut the line first, after some preliminary dodging, but Syce had her weather, how- ever, the smaller boat soon dropped astern and then went on starboard tack, out into the Sound, Wasp tacking to wind- ward of her. The thirties made a good start at 12:15, Hera, getting to windward of Vaquero as they both luffed sharp around the flagship. Quantuck started alonein her class, but after she had been gone some time the launch Levanter steamed up and stopped on the line with Vaquero [. in tow. They ran on out of the way of the smaller boats, just cross- ing, and finally sail was made on Vaquero and she started in chase of Quantuck. ' All started on port tack, and, the tide being half ebb, worked the Connecticut shore. Wasp gained on Syce from the start. After rounding the first mark sheets were eased to port and balloon jibtopsails set for the run to the second mark, off Lloyd’s Neck, where they jibed and stood in on port tack to the line. The larger boats, sailing twenty miles, were timed on the first round: WASP biases nese Berrien 180 55 Wa WA. .cncvrscencees seeel D4 26 Sire HAN oe wt bine athe Pyiettel ov) 29) (Carola yay ess pantera yl 57 11 Aquero Tl] ,....cs.eeeseresd D2 34 SUPPLise..,...seespeerssveceel 59 34 Hera ...:, os. 53 Pueeeeerrttere Wasp sailed the same course as on the first round, up shore, but Syce tried a cast for luck, standing across the Sound un- til off Center Island, and then tacking for the mark. She gained or lost little, being beaten about 6m. on each round. The finish of the fleet was timed: Win or LOS. ,..cccseeereeese 43 40 REKPISE ON a avlediiaetataens seit 2 b213 Ep Onnnonn sees seeeeeee O09 59 Vaquero Li .ciseesceeee vieee2 40 07 The instructions were not entirely clear as to the direction of crossing the finish line, and quite a number of the yachts crossed it wrongly, but the results were not affected, The official times were: cuUTTERS—60FT. CLASS. Start, 12:10: ength, Hlapsed, Corrected, Wasp, HB. F, Lippitt... ....0 curses renes 54.97 2 43 51 2 43 Syce, F. M. HOyt........ce cece sees ee D086 2 56 46 2 52 56 CUTTERS—s6PT. GLASS. Surprise, H. D; Baird, ...........0055+- 31.00 3 24 21 3 24 21 SPECIAL—a0FT, CLASS. Start, 12°15: Hera, R N Billis.......... Weare iclale atave »» 30,00 3 11 44 ie Vaquero II , H. B. Duryea,........ , 30.00 3 09 46 sf Wa Wa, James Stillman..... cevceeees 80.00 3 17 45 en Carolina, Pembroke Jones.,........-., 30.00 3 20 20 he SLOOPS—S0ir CLASS. Start, 12:15: Ninvita, FP, A, Dingee......c.eseveersees 28.00 2 08 52 2 08 62 Madrine, Walter Werguson ,..... vy eee 20.97 2 00 85 1 59 38 Pyxie, W. Hi. Eldridge..,,,... ’ 26.53 2 03 33 ‘2 01 40 Penelope, T. V. Ketchum.............. “ 2 06 05 2 0s ol SLOOPS -25PT, CLASS. Start, 2:20: uantuck, H. L. Delafield............- 24.63 1 59 40 1 59 40 aquero I., W. G. Brokaw........... 22,96 2 20 07 2 17 38 SLOOPS—20FT, CLASS. Start, 12:25; Asthore, P. T, Dodge...... 02. 0202000.20,00 2 01 44 oe Shark, Hoyt & Rouse ........c.csese:- 20,00 1 58 15 re CABIN CATS—830FT. CLASS Start, 12:20: Dosoris 11., G. P. Vail.......... ie eenpieg uD 1 62-21 1 52 21 Volsung, J & H. L. De FPorest.........- 28,59 1 49 59 1 48 56 CABIN CATS—25PT, CLASS. Start, 12:20: Win or Lose, J. S, Appleby... ....e.00-.23.75 2 23 40 2 22 09 Hthel; W.T, Bergen... fo... cp... .cnceesse 21.68 2 10 08 2 05 17 OPEN CATS—A5FT. GLASS, Start, 12:30: Nutmeg.,.......5 Head sities siararatatee eee Oe Withdrew Jib, Wi Te Bradley ian cssicccecenns sso. veld 04 2.46 49 2,868 51 Gosbird, R. N. Nevins ........e2eeneue 17,85 Withdrew, P. K. Pigeon, T. J, Pritchard.........- 20,00 2 22 13 22218 The regatta committee included Messrs. E. Bruggerhoft, S. W. Smith and A. H. Scofield. Indian Harbor Y. C.—Special Face, GREENWICH CONN.—INDIAN HARBOR, Tuesday, June 29. THE Indian Harbor Y. C., which on Saturday opened its new club house, at Greenwich, sailed a special race on June 29 for the 30ft. special class, the 25 and 20ft. open sloop classes, tae 51ft. yawl class and the 30ft. and 25ft. cabin cat classes. The courses were: ‘ For Special 30ft. L,W.L, Class, Cabin Sloops and Yawl Class.—A. Across the starting line indicated by the commit- tee boat and a stake boat anchored in the harbor off the club house, to the red spar buoy on Carmel Reef, S.W. 14 W.1 mile; to the red spar buoy off the western end of Great Cap- tain’s Island, S. by W. % of a mile; to a white spar buoy with the letter L painted thereon, $.5,H, 47 Wi, 214 miles: to ' the gas buoy off the eastern end of Little Captain’s Island, N % KE, 284 miles; to and around the stake boat at the start- ing line, N.W. 4 N.1mile. Course to be sailed over twice. Distance, 16 nautical miles, i For 30ft. Class of Cabin Catboats and 25ft. Class of Open Sloops.—B. Across the same starting line, to the red spar buoy on Carmel Reef, 8.W. 34 W.1 mile; to the red spar buoy off the western end of Great Captain’s Island, S. by W. % of a mile; to the gas buoy off the eastern end of Little Captain’s Island, E.N.E. 18% miles; to and around the stake- boat at the starting line, N.W.1¢ N.1 mile. Course to be sailed over three times. Distance, 18!¢ nautical miles. For 25ft. Class of Cabin Catboats and 20ft. Class of Open sloops.—B. Course to be sailed over twice. Distance, 9 nautical miles. All buoys and marks are to be left to port, except the gas can buoy on Jones’s Rocks, which is to be left tostarboard. The line is to be crossed from east to west, both at the start and at the finish. ; The start was made at 1 o’clock,in a moderate H,S.H. wind. Theonly new yacht entered was Kit, a Hanley cat- boat of extreme type, this being her first race; she sprung ., of New York Bay, also started. The fleet reached broad off to the first mark, beat across to the second, and reached home. The times were: SLOOPS—A0FT, CLASS, SPECTAL, Start, 1;05; ; ength, Corrected, Elapsed, HPCE AH, eS tee nate -astadaleaeee eae econ 2 27 38 Vaquero, H. B. Duryea.....eeecnesss+-50,00 227 12 Veda, CO. Vanderbilt, JT... ..cc0s0 eve ee. 00.00 2 28 48 a Paint Wa Wa, J. Stillman, pi.cccccces eevee ss d0.00 2.27 80 Hotere VAWL CLASS Start, 1:05: Fidelio, J. Kennedy Tod,,.......0:00:2.00,46 2 36 50 2 56 50 Jouy 10, 1897.] : FOREST AND STREAM. CABIN CATS - 30FT, CLASS, Start, 1:10: ; Lizzie V., W. P. Vreeland, ...:...c01.+29,96 Disabled. Dosoris\IL., G P. Vail... ..cccseee nee Bd, 00 2 56 40 2 56 00 Rita DP INDUUNS Hii ives as ceead tases nO 00 2 49 5) 2 49 59 Volsung, De Forrest Bros..............28.70 2 46 52 2 44 53 SLOOPS—25FT, CLASS. Start, 1:10: Vaquero Ll, W G. Brokaw.....ccsscees aoe 8 01 02 3 01 02 Quantuck, J F. Delafield........... 3 26 00 3 26 00 CATBOATS—25PT. CLASS. Start, 1:15: Presto, H. R. Hatfleld..,.....,eeenreeys pase 2 08 31 2 06 12 Hthel; WS. BELEN. oi cecevensesenccvers) wate 2 08 20 2 08 44 WIRED, als MCLUMEUE cmevecinecenn aan enleat Seine 2 22 30 2 20 28 Mary 8.,B.B. Hall, ,.....ceeeeeee 2 20 58 2 20 38 SLOOPS—20FT. CLASS. Start, 1:15: Asthore, P.T, Dodge. .scersseeneeave> 20.00 1 64 55 Maree. Shard, Hoyt & Rouse. ...ccsec0 wveeee 20,00 1 50 17 oe ee ae The race was managed by Messrs. F'. S. Doremus, Richard Outwater and C. HE. McManus. Corinthian Fleet—Annual Regatta. NEW ROCHELLE—HARRISON S ISLAND Wednesday, June 380. THE annual regatta of the Corinthian Fleet of New Rochelle was sailed on June 80 in a reefing breeze from N.W., the yachts carrying from oneto three reefs, As on the preceding days of the circuit, the weather was all that parla: be asked—clear and bright, with a warm summer sun and enough wind to temper the atmosphere. The course was a triangle of 14 miles, for all classes, from off Echo Bay around the West Buoy on Execution Reef and then around Matinnicock and home. The start was made at 2;07, the capsize of the lee markboat on the line causing delay after the committee launch was all ready. Some of the yachts were reefing at the time, and the start was slow and the yachts well strung out, At the same time it was a most picturesque sight, every boat crossing under full headway with sheets well off to port. There was wind and to spare, and spinakers were set with Irish reefs in. The new 20ft. class showed four starters; the two Hunting- ton boats Skate and Kenue, Shark, and the Crane boat Al Anka, The latter sailed over in the morning from Oyster Bay with a crew of three Boston yachtsmen aboard. She left behind her younger sister Momo, with Mr. Crane him- self, the bowsprit of Momo haying been broken in shipping her. Al Ankais about as ugly as anything in the class, her bow being a semicircle on deck, and the upper strake being ' vertical and about 6in.deep, like the end of aferryboat or the stern of an ordinary steam launch or tug. She is something like El Heirie, but by no means so good-looking. Her stern is cut off square, asin El Heirie. ‘he workmanship is very good, and she shows handsome mahogany sides and bright pine decks. Her mainsail is cross-cut, She steers with a double-ended tiller like a letter Y. She was badly handi- capped at the start, but won very easily. The fleet ran across the three-mile leg to Execution Buoy with spinakers to starboard, then jibed and ran for the Matinnicock mark. At the jibe Norota struck the little Keneu squarely amidships on the port side, cutting her down to the waterline and dismasting her, sothat she was towed in a wreck by the steam yacht Hmmeline, Norota also giving up. After rounding Matinnicock the 30-footers laid a straight course for the finish, but the twenties fetched to leeward and were obliged to tack. Al Anka was in the lead, with Shark second, Skate had more wind than she wanted and stopped under the end of Huckleberry Island to tiein a third reef, finally beating home without ajib, The official times were: SCHOONERS. jf Start 2:12: Finish. Elapsed. Corrected. VIL aes be eesede bed saeupsaniire tte eras PEG OVOK; CUTTERS —51FT, CLASS. Start 2:12: WARY AUS inode deel aan cad senndntiesen 10 19 1 58 19 1 58.19 NOPOte. cc ccctaeeesesecerereesseesess Did not finish. Disabled. CUTTERS —45FT. CLASS. Start 2:12: Ty Dike eapecvidecs wetearscrsvivrcerss 2 c0: 00 2 14 50 2 14 59 SLOOPS—d6FT, CLASS. Start 2:12: TWiHIght, cece vevees seevsecensraree: 4 40 11 231 11 2 24 33 SULPLISO. .ceeegeeeesseereesssesssesee 8 OU 5B 1 46 56 1 46 56 SPECIAL J0PT. CLASS. Start 2:12: ITS Aaa aacant COOnGAUAAGeotbietits care) or 4 05 59 Mads LEDGER Wee ceeitet ci tian aalelehuertetateoa eet elite ea ela'ee sinyioe az 3 59 53 Lege eiyy AVIGTIE Moan, telcioreichaittviniehralolaln/eelnielpleleGieasse ibs) ta Maid 4 02 55 Eas RVGACTITERON DLA BG mult empties eee earurstiy ie onsale 3 56 19 bap ee SLOOPS—25FT. CLASS. Start 2:17: Quantuck, .verecvenvesverssrevessenest 42 10 2 25 10 2 25 10 SI DALLOW Spnsiter reyes saree cerca Ol tA DISC. OPEN SLOOPS—25FT, GLASS, Start 2:17: A ELODIGUD leis piplela’slauyiegtslesiacleltiaivisiats)els)Yi wipe eae teak 2 04 45 2 04 48 VA QUIEIORD rrr yr eeieletemetels nace ienan petecnee 2 15 58 2 15 53 OPEN SLOOPS —20FT, CLASS. Sbart 2:17: ; PAL UITLGA oon wala asic egisveeeineitrisls rae verea teckel 212 14 amt ay SICHLEM, A clacislevewlvieiveteisivieies ele aca: tied aaae 2 81 42 ety ay PUTALIC sy avanvaihisey'esinteeateersie/eOpneennn tit C0 217 00 Hs KGnOW severe steserrevercrereensres Disabled. CABIN CATS—d0PT. CLASS, Start 2:17- VOISUDE, cpus vvevenvseeusersces crest Go Bo 2 16 43 2 1417 DOROLIN ee wedaes cach ecene vc el ins tem net cele. 2.21 17 221 17 i OABIN CATS —25FT. CLASS, Start 2:17: HGE serves tshiantsiglien tpeesivliaemerrs ss Clee 2 44 22 2 39 42 PATIO TIONG) eye eislateteleealale om ear etenyets 44116 2 27-16 227 16 GYACE, cceeesrepeeeesverryseeesseers Did not finish, OPEN CATBOATS —Z0FT, CLASS, Btart 2:17: Minnetonka, ,.,.yecsccuserrsrevecesesd OO 22 2 42 22 2 42 22 Horseshoe Harbor Club.—Annual Regaita. LARCHMONT—LONG ISLAND SOUND, Thursday, July 1. THE Horseshoe Harbor Club, located in the snug little bight to the westward of Pagoda Point, Larchmont, held its annual sailing regattaon July1. The course was a 5-mile triangle from off Horseshoe Harbor to the striped buoy off Whortleberry Island, then to the striped buoy on the east end of Execution Reef and home, sailed three times by the larger and twice by the smaller yachts, The wind was 5.5. W., a moderate breeze over most of the course, but fall- ing light at the finish. The official times were: SPECIAL 30FT. CLASS. = apsed. Corrected. Vaquero III., H. B. Duryea., 2 39 tir = Veaa, ©. Vanderbilt, Jr.. 2 41 12 aie ae Hera, R. N. Ellis.......,.08 2 40 55 oO es Carolina, Pembroke Jones, vevenvacee 48 10 ‘oH Ey Musme, JM. Macdonough,,,,....5+55 SLOOPS —25FT CLASS, Quantuck, J. L. Delafield,..,., vacreresesbeeees DO AD + $s Vaquerol, W. G. Brokaw,.,,.,..+c0+rrseeeseee+:Did not finish, SLOOPS—20FT CLASS. Shark, H.C. Rouses, cee. -vers+pesvsspeessectsrecl OO OD ee ABIN GATS -30FT. CLASS. aoe 3 58 48 3 55 35 hel By dy BOVZersecscesoresssscvoreverssssssy ps 8.0000 stadia Win or Lose, J.8, Appleby ....,,,.,+<«+se++++ss» Did not finish, OPEN CATS—25FT. OLASS. 2 18 56 Punch, N. A Clark. ii. syeervevveseeersecsvs & 1990 Ondawa, Howard Lambden,,,....:.seessssseee0s 2 19 10 8) 88). pp. OPEN CATS—20FT, CLASS. Minnetonka, A, B. Alley .,.ccuraveseteveserveeecs 224200 ae oe SorakWe ElOlliy aln) wes catia cme veaehivinewbre sees 0-0 2 20 17 indi of venteves 2 86 45 2 35 00 Spindrift, B. C. Lockitt..,...ccesceee - é Caprice. F. F. Proctor, J? i... scsesereeseeereees+> Did not finish, {Don’t Think, H. C. Pryor........cssesseseeees++ Did not finish. The winners were Vaquero IIJ., Quantuck, Shark, Vol- sung, Hthel, Punch and Sora. The regatta committee included Messrs. L. S. Knevals; F’. 5. Lowell and W. Haight, New Rochelle Y. C. Annual Regatta. NEW ROCHELLE—LONG ISLAND SOUND. Saturday, July 3. THE New Rochelle Y. C. finished up the racing week with its annual regatta, turning out a fleet of fifty yachts, from 51ft. down to 15ft. racing length. Out of the fifteen classes represented, six had five or more starters, a very good show- ing; in the special 30ft. class and the open and cabin cat Glasses there were some very interesting contests. The 20ft, class had but three starters, Shark and the two Crane boats, Al Anka and Momo, the latter sailing her first race. Neither Skate, Keneu, Asthore, Montauk, Arauca were present, Volsung had a new rival in the Hanley catboat Kit, a craft of more extreme type, with fuller body and higher freeboard. Minnetonka, the Dyer 21-footer of 1895, sailed as a cat, as she has done in previous races this year, The courses were two triangles, the longer from off the mouth of Hcho Bay to the Gangway Buoy, thence to the Old Hen Buoy and home, 73¢ miles; the shorter from the same line to the red buoy off Hen and Chickens, thence to the striped buoy off Execution Reef and home, 414 miles. The wind was light from the Hast, giving a beat on the first leg to the little fellows, while the larger ones had a long and short tack on the second leg of their course, along the shore by Sands Point, The start was made at 12:32, but as there were no schooners the second division crossed at 12;42, Syce and Banshee, the others following. __ Third Division, 12:47—Hera, Surprise, Wa Wa, Acushla Musme, Pontiac, Carolina, Wahneta, Twilight and Veda, Fourth Division, 12:52—Houri, Vaquero, Volsung, Kit, Quantuck, Agawam, Onaway, Dorothy, Dosoris II,, Jester (yawl), Ola, Celia, Sparrow. Fifth Division, 12;57—Hthel, Presto, Momo, Shark, Ida E., Al Anka, Melita, Emma §., Ondawa, Grace, Uno, Punch, Edwina, Sequel, Colleen, Stranger. / Sixth Division, 1:02—Sora, Starling, Minnetonka, Addie, Dorothy, Laura Lee. The yachts of the fifth division, Hthel, Presto, Momo, Shark and Al Anka, were tangled up on the line, the wind being very light at the moment. There was enough breeze outside the harbor to move the paents at a fair speed and to make a picturesque, if only mildly exciting race. The day was as clear and bright as one could wish, with perfectly smooth water over the Sound. The first round was timed: Kitienniis ss Saftd darn somone ee OS LOOM LILOMY ssculwitu peices css cece icen de VOISUUP = ttn bureccttnetnens Coe. SEQUEI Ol Usagi seve .2 80 00 DOsSOris Lye aeeeetinuee sree 00) MUSMHOH Sy cigc celles ..2 80 45 Dorothy......setseesss+-s0e% 10 80 Shark.,..... pistes ...2 31 15 ALANEA. cc ccceceeeeseesee. 2 15.30 Caprice.......... ..2 382 58 Jester ...... Sie vwlsmeiteas -2-2-16°00) SUPDPTISA..10..0) 2 1 ,2 383 00 OnaWway...essssas aeeesee 1% 20 Acushla.... «2 B4 25 MOTO Lae pratelene ti eceeneeole oo .m BT 54 Hotitieraaencs: sebeeteenaeedo OO 2 88 15 WAQUCLON, (0 niceses .2 20 40 " .2 88 28 2 21 35 Starling...., 2 39 30 .u2% 22 30 Sparrow...., ..2 89 30 22515 Dorothy... ..2 40 05 ..2 27 20 Banshee.,.., .2 41 00 .2 27 35 Dora... 2 41 84 .2 27 45 Melita....,., 20d 42 25 seeere ot 00 Agawam,,, : eee Ao AU SOLACE ae cinivslienesieas veers 44-45 On the first leg of the second round Kit, after turning almost even with Volsung, stood off shore, while Volsung, Dorothy and Dosoris II, held the other tack close in by Premium Point. These three lost the wind while Kit caught a light breeze and madea lead of some seven minutes on Volsung; the latter, however, finally caught and passed her, Al Anka had led her class from the start, finishing the round with a good lead on Momo, Shark being hopelessly astern. Anka, finally beating her. The second round was timed: SYGOE epee sse sa bhbnt feces coeduRee 6 HOD cnr ce eeaaaranicnc ce. PONLMAC a sasebee nse gssses GU0Gs tees SRR R Rew ewe Dee eee EVGTaN Sia sty pebes tits rssh re Goo 40 . 4 23 50 Minnetonka, 401 45 4 25 35 Wa Wa.,..... 4 04 30 .. 4 26 18 Musme,.. .. 4 05 08 .. 427 51 Momo,, 4 O07 54 . 428 03 Surprise, . 4 03 26 4 37 08 Carolina ..... 4 08 40 4 39 06 Alanka...... 4 09 15 4 43 52 4 I] 58 SEDOODEOPESE. Tih ts! . 412 15 sansccegonses 4 OF 55 . 412 20 tictvove. 4 53 14 412 40 . 4 58 29 aavendugse 4 12 50 4 53 38 ONAWaAy Thies psdecadee . 415 Ol . 4 55 24 Dorothy. ..ss0ce0s sevse 415 16 seer. 455 56 Vaquero Tiisseres , 4 15 32 renseceseryaces 4 58 38 Dosoris TD, cecsesseeeesees 4 16 41 The wind being light, the third round, provided for in the 51ft., 25ft. and 20ft. cutter and sloop classes, and the30ft. and 25ft. cat classes, was omitted. The official times were: CUTTERS—5IFT. CLASS. Length. MWlapsed. Corrected, Banshee, Henry Doscher,.....0..:.5..43,50 3 44 18 3 20 21 SyCe oie MWHOY fe, ncck eri eaiinecs era O0. 00 3 04 29 3 04 29 CUTTERS—43FT, CLASS. Pontiac, H. Hamlin, Jr.........c0000.. 40.70 3 11 17 31117 Waneta, J. Fallert. ...ccecsccseveeesess 40.38 3 40 51 3 40 34 SLOOPS—36FT. CLASS, Surprise, James Baird. .,......ce00006.04.68 3 21 36 3 21 36 Acushia, H. W. Haman ....ce.sceese 5s 434.00 325 15 mee SLOOPS—30FT. CLASS. Twilight, E. DLambden........cc.0000..00.00 4 11 38 4 11 38 SPECIAL 30FT. CLASS. ‘ Hera, RK. Ni, WIS. cosae aeissecvcessns 350,00 3 05 48 Pas. Wa Wa, J A. Stillman. .....:0c0000 40.30.00 317 30 i Musme, J B. MacDonough,,..........d0.00 3 18 03 fag ed Carolina, Pembroke Jones..........+..30.00 3 21 40 cee Veda, C, Vanderbilt, Ir .........00....80.00 Did not finish, CABIN SLOOPS AND YAWLS—25FT, CLASS. Jester, BH, H. Robinson.,.,....00.00094.24.80 3 45 03 8 45 03 Ola, F. W. Smedly...ccccecesnecsenessetd.00 Not timed, Sparrow, R. W. Jackson, ,,.ssseseseea 25.00 4 00 55 3 68 03 Quantuck, J. L. Delafield,..........,..24,.63 8 51 52 3 51 31 SLOOPS —25FT. CLASS, Houri, BE. B. Hart, Iv... pccsecaneveves 22.99 3 26 10 3 26 10 Vaquero, W. G. Brokaw, .ivisesesee 122.99 3 23 32 3 23 32 Celia, W.S, Gould, ,....2--- cece eens s eeu Did not finish. CABIN CATS—30FT. CLASS, Volsung, De Forest Bros,,..c.eenese025, 00 3 20 20 3 18 28 SA Lge Ca else ED PLULIUC ee coat wel rn einine ure peewee Os 3 20 50 3 20 50 Onaway, S. T. Pirie... .eyveeenssesune 820,48 3 23 01 317 40 Dorothy, C. F. Garzelere....sseeeense 2,01 3 23 16 3 21 15 Dosoris IT., G. P. Vail... .ccccsevevens oeeds00 3 24 41 3 24 07 CABIN GCATS—25FT, CLASS. Ethel, F. J, Bergen. .......ceraceceesee2l. Od 3 43 59 3 49 83 Grace, J. FP. Lambden,,....ccsesssesve ane 3 56 29 an is Melita, O. H. Chellborg.....c.eecenes +2940 3 58 56 3 57 16 Presto, H. R. Hatfield, ,......cceeseve e020. 00 3 31 03 3 81 02 OPEN SLOOPS—20FT. CLASS. Shark, Rouse & Hoyt,.,,..cceececevees 20,00 3 22 29 A Al Anka, C. H. Crane... ,.eeceesees0s20,00 8 12 15 mr, SF Momo, H.M. Crame.... 2.0... ecee sees ss 20.00 310 54 pee OPEN SLOOPS—l15FT. CLASS, Laura Lee, FP. § Ray..............--.,15.00 Did not: finish, OPEN CATS —25FT. GLASS. Emma §,, B. F. Saxton,,,,-..... saree yea. 00 Did not finish, Ondawa, H. Lambden,........ceuseee+ 20.91 3 58 24 3 55 53 Colleen, J, H. Jackson..... ssesceeeeescz 00 3.28 35 3 28 35 On the windward leg Momo crept up and passed Al: Punch, M. H, Clark. ..ccessceteses es 00 020.50 3 56 14 3 52 48 Edwina, J. N. Gould,...ccarsevevrsesseel.44 § 54 58 3 58 32 Sequel, C)-A, Moyet. ..cccscttaccsssses veas 3 42 06 Mes ot Rnd RGBAViCr acs teas seulste ste iee ett che Not timed, OPEN CATsS—20PT. CLASS Starling, BE. F. De Levante, .....0.100.+19,60 2 50 55 2 50 34 Sora, W. Hoey, JP. i.caceesuceetacecesst9,65 2 538 15 2 52 44 Minnetonka, A. B, Alley.......---.. a1 19,88 2 59 45 2 59 35 Ida K., ©. W VoOltz. ccscesuacnsessavesal0,92 3 09 58 3 09 58 Dorothy, J. H, Sanborn,,........++...-19.57 2 52 18 2 51 42 SPECIAL CLASS CATS. Addié, W. L, DiaZ.,..sccseerrevee reece 240.00 3 26 50 3 26 50 Dorothy, W. R. Berth.,......... Bare 19.00 Did not finish. SPECIAL ENOCKABOUT CLASS, Agawam, Dunbar Wright....,,,.......22.%4 3 56 88 3 56 38 The winners were: 51ft. class, Syce; 48ft. class, Pontiac; 36ft. class, Surprise; special 80-footers, Hera first, Wa Wa second; 30ft. class, Twilight; 25ft. class, Jester; 25ft, class, Vaquero I.; cabin cats, 30ft. class, Onaway first, Volsung second; 20ft. class, Momo; cabin cats, 25ft. class, Hthel; cabin cats, 20ft, class, Addie; open cats, 25ft. class, Colleen first, Bench second; open cats, 20ft. class, Starling first, Dorothy second, The race was managed by the regatta committee, Messrs. Chas. P. Tower, P. A. Meyrowitz, J. R. Thomas, J. C. Lip- encott and A, P, Weston. The steamer Isabel starting trom New York carried a number of club members and guests over the course. Hobe Sound Y. C. HOBE SOUND, Fla,, June 28,—The Queen had a jubilee last week, so we took advantage of the excuse for a holiday and had a yacht race. The start was made in a gale from N.H,, which lulled soon after the first buoy was rounded, and, shifting to the east, made it a free reach to the second buoy and a luff back to the line, [twas anybody’s race among the four that lived through the gale, there being only 5ft. between the first two to cross the line, and less than two Minutes between the first and last in the five miles, The times were as follows: Start, 3:30 Ist buoy. 2d buoy, Finish. Corrected. GILT ine avtenetelreiies tn camisneOU aU) 4 10 45 4 23 26 0 43 05 SUFOZIC, sicveeusseneens ed OF 40 4 10 55 423 26146 0 48 0514 Wand. vi srstecersarsse.0 DL 20 411 05° 4 24 47 0 46 28 Wenonah, ..s.ccccrceces-d 48 80 4 10 40 4 25 15 0 47 07 Francis, ........e..5....an aground, Lorraine, ..s.acscas0ss.- Disabled, Mary Boise. .ces es e0as-Capsized,. Fairweather,...........Disabled. Juanita, ......00000.050. Withdrawn, The Hobe Sound Y. C, isa new organization, and is offi- cered as follows; Com., R, H. Sergeantson; Vice-Com., C. R. Sergeantson; Purser, H. D. McVean; Meas., C. S. Smith. We sailed our second race yesterday in a fair sailing breeze and managed to get all the boats around the course without an accident and in pretty fair time. The course is straight away and return, as the Indian River, at Hobe Sound, is only three-fourths of a mile wide. -We have the southeast trade wind at this season and our course is laid so we get a beat for one and one-half miles, a run for two and one-half miles and a beat back to the line, one mile. In all five miles, The result of yesterday’s race is as follows: FIRST CLASS, Start 2:35 P, M, Elapsed. Corrected, IWANOE ccaioreaunnid Cnet etgeeece be bese beece capelmcorne 0 51 08 ATUT ee ae ghee se dle hoam wa ednleandet EERERT OL SDA eC ULOS ST 0 58 44 SDLOPIG dewrctelelowy walrneeaiteils aoevehanenee 0 53 58 0 53 58 NPANCIS Maeetccroneonmene ELEUEHs dee Revere ee eOROG Oe 0 54 25 WENONADE Rrra qscnieeccdore ether ee seassteeon eco OD 0 59 42 SECOND CLASS. Start 2:33 P, M. Orraines Oy PS 22 ee beets hannade crores ena eaer 020d) 0 59 25 DUAN eee s Maas ee Unset eee teats tateeieeel LOLs 1 13 01 The next race will be sailed on July 10. 4 * H. D. McVHAN, Purser. Winthrop Y. C.—First Sweepstakes, , WINTHROP—BOSTON HARBOR. Saturday, June 26. THE Winthrop Y. C. sailed two races on June 26, one in the afternoon, the first club sweepstakes, and one in the evening for the 15-footers. The afternoon race was sailed in a fresh N.W. breeze, the yachts being reefed. The times were: 5 Length. Elapsed. Corrected. Whisper, W. H. Stimpson, ..,..,...+..20.02 ‘1 04 39 0 37 56 Almay, ©, Al HOMry: (ojeei es becca tenes 420208 1 0% 13 0 48 34 Hrycina, B. A. COOK sucess secesssoeee0:20.06 1 09 45 0 46 66 Alert, J. R. Hodder... cs iss cccees se 90020006 Disabled. The 15footers also had to reef to the same breeze, their times being: Length. Elapsed. Bloyads Me Garaner ccs saunhseannaesattesterse reece ie etos 00 0 31 58 Black Cat, L. P. Harrington, ......ceeceuseeee eves 15,00 0 35 0A Della, Jr., Mr. Kelley.........seceeee ees Sonetienie ess Pers 0 41 O01 The judges were: Samuel McConnell, Harry Dangel, John McConnell, Jr., Edward 8. Sears. The club has arranged a series of sweepstakes races in the second class, as follows: To be sailed according to the regu- lations of the club, over the regular courses. Nos. 1 and 2: Saturday, July 3,3 P. M.; Saturday, July 10, 3 P, M,; Satur- day, July 24, 3 P. M.; Saturday, July 31,3 P.M. Additional dates may be announced later. An entry fee of $1 will be charged, to be paid to the chair- man of the regatta committee on Friday preceding each race. The winner is to have one-half of the total money, second and third prizes in proportion of three-fifths and two- fifths of the remainder. The regatta committee will add a sufficient sum to the entry fees to guarantee the cash prizes to be at least $5 for first, $3 for second and $2 for third. Vice-Com. A. W. Chesterton has offered a prize cup for the winner of the highest percentage in these races. Gravesend Bay Y. C. Handicap Race. BATH BEACH—GRAYVESEND BAY. Sunday, June 27. THE Gravesend Bay Y. C. sailed a handicap race as a part of its cruise to Atlantic Highlands: The handicaps were made up on the basis of the known performances of the yachts, by the regatta committee. The race was sailed from Ulmer Park to Atlantic Highlands in a strong N,W. wind, the times being: ; Finish, Corrected. HSI GYO1y Ee sg pewsiers sv pu aielagsisis sieleieielsls siesoesianetereaiU0 12 23 00 Kelpie.......5 einelsicieine 12 44 00 12 28 00 Gael ... ; veel2 59 30 12 36 00 MOA Gill etutscnnimsiienesuitas back eels -.- 1 03 00 12 34 20 Leila ,,, ties ate , Disqualified. Louise .... 12 57 30 12 27 30 Acorn... , 12 59 00 12 21 00 Hector , BI OEISOC ED OOL , Did not finish, RROSBIIG i erase peice eet. ie 1 10 00 12 30 00 Martha M.,,.,,. 12 59 20 12 14 20 Priscilla....... sbhe8 . 102 40 12 17 40 ISabelsicsisna sence ANS eieisiae - Did not finish, FATIOM, voiisn naveae ened ihn cemicaee re tence cleccementeUceclO 12-17 10 Hamilton Yachting. THE Royal Hamilton Y. C. sailed a race on June 26 for the 27ft. class, Kestrel defeating Hiawatha, and winning the Marguerite cup. Intherace for the Greening cup, Koko won from Rosemary and Scallawag. The Bridgeport Y. C.. a new organization, opened its chee ees on Junel9. The club’s station is on Black Rock arbor. 84 FOREST AND STREAM. ~~ 3 [Tote io, 1907. Akista. FIN-KEEL 36-FOOTER. WE are indebted to the designer and owner, Mr. George Hill, measurer of the Atlantic Y. C., for the accompanying pias of the new sloop Akista, built during the past winter y the Crosby Cathboat & Yacht Building Co., of South t Brooklyn. Though now sailing in all of the races of her class about New York, the yacht was designed primarily for cruising, and is the result of an attempt to obtain large ac- commodation ina yacht of moderate waterline, small and easily handled rig, reasonable speed and moderate cost. The first thing determined upon was the main cabin, around which the hull was designed according to the following prin- ciples: Minimum wetted surface’ in proportion to displace- ment; absolutely no angles in any of the lines along which —— i water passes; improved form in the way of increased length and fineness and decreased beam with the increase of heel; practical symmetry of entrance and run, both carried out so as to preserve the form under all conditions. The original idea of such.a yacht may be said to have come from an appre- ciation of what the fin-keel 30-footers have missed being. he form resulting from these principles gives a hull of strong and simple construction, great internal capacity, and with a material increase of useful length when heeled to her ordinary sailing angle. The floor is perfectly flat, making the level lines square across the keel at both ends, the top- sides are straight and vertical, the two flat surfaces, topsides and floor, being joined by acurve of circular sweep. The resulting form is easily and strongly built. The lines of the ~ yacht, when heeled toa moderate angle, are very long, fair and easy, and it is expected that she will do her best work when thus heeled. The dimensions are: — Mens thsover Alles hacc: spac sale nen at nee 5Oft INV GS eee pert Del, peels olor 30ft. Overhang DOwWiles s:25 s) ose kber vinaeetag aoe 10ft SheMet. «ele Cine eee ee ee 10ft SOA MI CRURCTIC. sry toe os atereerena tee ere 10ft. 3in DWV eM hnstles ac Soy, Oalc ta Ap hnastee 9ft. 10in Wratthwlleonliye vies se aueanw ele eee aft. nll) ses Tae yeh A EE (fet er Eat 6ft. 6in Least freeboard...........00ceeeeseneeces 2ft. Yin BHeer SPOWAR AiA pcod hoes eral ba oe hela ee 1f stern........ SHOU ERE atid ttso an et 4in. Misplacenient... so. esheets 17,0001 bs Ballast, all in fin and bulb....... .....-- ; Ratio, ballast to displacement........... 37 per cent, Area, midship section ; 16.25sq. ft. 35.52sq. ft. 56.32sq. ft. 8.16sq, ft. DO GAC Le haynes Set sisetee caesar 160.00sq. ft. Fore side of stem at L.W,.L. to.......... C.L.R... 150,00ft. (Cates spe 150.00ft. IMAInSail Paredes evs .sus chi y-tagi se esos 1,000.00sq. ft. ile ees stele Shiner ec oe urea els 250.00sq. ft. Mopar are: «cb cane nictsyasceerint area ees 1,250.00sq. ft. _ ‘ Sail area as measured........ ee ieee 1,560.00sq, ft. bt | AN Tae erinye NES Hs 5K ae Sagan a sa bons a sod 34, 75ft. TET. apie a Mast, from stem at L.W.L.............. bft. it ic || deck to truck... ia... =: 53ft, Zin. a ri ti wi Bowsprit, beyond stem at L.W.L....... 15ft. ii z PS OOS IN ee Oe ee epee epee aes 40ft. 6in. it ul ie lt 3 The fin, flanges and bulb areof iron, in onecasting, the de- {i} ili al Ay tails being very fully shown in the drawings. The bulb i Hh bs | z weighs 2,250ibs., the fin 2,9001bs., the flanges 950lbs., and the ti a Ne ffl sa) fillets 200lbs. The keel is of yellow pine, 3x12in. amidships, i i Wit |i i a in one length from scarf of stem to transom, with oak stem. Ii ae He Abie. | | sided 5in. The transom, of yellow pine, is 13-l4in. thick, {i i | secured tothe keel by two 2in, knees. The frames are of oak, i! i | 4 steamed and bent, sided 2in. and moulded 1gin., spaced iH 1 a 12in. and dove-tailed into the keel. At the partners are three j q if i ; QD frames sided 4in. ; all {fits {11 HR Se The garboards are of yellow pine, in single lengths, 1/gin. ; ft 1 K < thick, and the planking is of 1}4in. cedar, with oak sheer- ip] | strake and planksheer. A deep fioor timber is carried on ~ ya }' } 144in. x 6in. yellow pine, in single lengths. he fiat floor and straight sides of the design give a large H ‘ amount of internal space, and practically all of it in a useful ‘4 form, the fioor of the cabin is of course worked as close as ii possible to the keel and bottom, leaving no stowage space , 4 below, but this floor is very wide and the cabin has 6ft. 3in. | headroom. The forecastle has plenty of space, and though | is this is due to length rather than height; there is headroom etl i under the fore end of the trunk, which extends over the fore- Wi castle. The main cabin is 12ft. 6in. long, divisible by por- tieres into four rooms. Abaft itis a toilet room and W. C. to port, and a small room to starboard, each having a berth partly extending aft alongside the cockpit. The cockpit is very deep, although the floor is well above the waterline. Under the floor is a copper tank of 125 gallons capacity. The steering gear is peculiar for a sailing yacht; a vertical thwartship tiller, keyed to a horizontal shaft, with an arm on thé after end of the shaft. This arm operates the tiller lines, led over sheaves to the tiller arm on the rudder. The rig is peculiar both in form and detail, with a leg-o’- mutton mainsail and single jib, supplemented with a reach- ing jib-topsail. The mastis of rectangular section, 5x9in. in the partners, and tapering to the head. The cap is a \ every framein the middle of the vessel. The clamps are i if ° <== bronze casting carrying four sheaves, for main halyard, two === spinaker halyards and topsail halyard. These are all of = = exible wire rope. The other details of the metalwork are Tf plainly shown in the drawings. The boom is rectangular, ee Zin. x 6in. at the largest part. The rail plan and details of joo jronwork will follow next week. is Minnetonka Y. C. LAKE MINNETONKA, Saturday, June 19. = THE race of the Minnetonka Y. C. on June19 was sailed in % a very light breeze from the West, the times being: FIRST CLASS SLOOPS, Is Start. Finish. Elapsed. Corrected, j WiIZATd....ceses Area. 0 80 5 43 a8 2 33 02 2 32 00 , Bre@Ze...uscecssvcscecce 3 11 0 5 46 02 2 34 57 2.33 11 ' Hel @OssACK Seda c eels dele sieens 3 15 00 5 50 11 2 35 11 2 85 11 —_- Mantal. vesnn sss = hae: 3 14 21 5 51 03 2 36 42 2 34 26 acl TVEFITTOBI LE eo vp clavate station less 3 14 38 5 53 34 2 38 56 23) 25 ! k GNATIOULLE. clureviet wiles sass 3 15 00 5 53 41 2 38 41 2 37 02 | E SECOND CLASS SLOOPS. ——— as Tomahawk...scc-ssses:: 3 00 26 6 23 43 3 23 OT 3 21 21° {, Beatrice). .c.ccsanses eed 00 35 6 20 18 3.19 42 3 19 42 re Sallie,..... a castsreneesso WD U0 6 20 32 3 15 32 3 11 39 SMALL SLOOPS— ONE-RATERS. GIadrene.,,....cseeesese 2 55 00 5 49 05 2 54 05 2 54 05 i ..2 55 00 5 52 35 2 57 35 2 57 3b 2 55 00 6 03 46 3 08 46 3 08 46 ..2 55 00 inf oe pen) ale eae a é FIRST CLASS CATBOATS, ATUL ein clas reetnrcens sale % 00 04 5 55 36 2 55 22 2 55 22 Pinafore........ . 3 O1 39 2 amass ast "3 05 00 ag eriben Answer failed to cross the line at the finish, having been struck by a squall near the line and narrowly missing a cap- size. ¢ ; Varuna, the winner in the cat class, is ten years old, while Katrina is a new Petersen boat and Pinafore is alsoa new crait. — Katrina. ...sesre SN Juny 10, 1997.) I FOREST AND STREAM. a | t H t — | = al : ' | i 3 | 4 ss | \S og "| BS) = ts eal 2 iS a 2 & | a I = a & —p——§_|: a 3 y. & : : S s $ r { 1 § i er see Z At Saclu73s & @ slopes us 07 2 AKISTA, 1897, ? Cruising Fin-Keel designed by George Hill, Esq., and built by the Crosby Catboat and Yacht Building Co. 38 Larchmont Y. ©. Annual Regatta. [LARCHMONT—LONG ISLAND SOUND. Monday, July 5. THE Larchmont Y. C. was this year successful in every de- tail of its annual regatta, which proved to be the most inter- esting event of the season. ‘The club succeeded in securing as a special attraction both Vigilant.and Navahoe, while the owner of Emerald again started her against Colonia. Nearly all of the many smaller classes were well filled. The day was perfect for such a function asa big annual regatta, there was wind enough to make a lively race, and the beat ashore made the club steamer a pleasant refuge for the ladies. Many steam and sailing yachts were under way to add to the spectacle. The race was started at 11:30, the divisions-being timed: 11:30:35; Navahoe, Cutters, Class G., 11:30—Vigilant, 11:31:44, Schooners, 11:35—Amorita, 11:35:20; Colonia, 11:35:27; Kim- erald, 11:36:04. Schooners, Special Class in Cruising Trim, 11:40—Sachem. Cutters, 60ft. Class, 11:45—Hclipse, Sayonara. Cutters, 51ft. Class, 11:50—Syce, Awa and Sistae. Cutters, 43ft. Class, 11:55—Norota. Cutters, Sloops and Yawls, 36ft. Class, 12:00—Surprise, Acushla, Sakana, Fidelio, Jester, Pawnee. Special 30-Footers and 30ft. Sloops, 12:05—Hera, Musme, Wa Wa, Vaquero III., Carolina, Veda, Skimmaug. Sloops, 25ft. Class, 12:10—Quantuck, Houri, Vaquero I., Celia, Agawam. Sloops, 20ft. Class, 12:15—Skate, Shark, Al Anka, Momo and Montauk. Cabin Cats, 30ft. Class, 12:20—Volsung, Dorothy, Kit, On- away, Dosoris IT. Cabin Cats, 25ft. Class, 12:25—Willada, Punch, Colleen, Harrietta III., Edwina, Hthel, Presto, Grace, Ada, Yankee Girl. Cabin Cats, 20ft. Class, 12:30—Ione, Sterling, Dorothy and Minnetonka. The wind was S.W., moderate, with smooth water. The usttal club triangles were sailed, to the eastward marks first, a reach on starboard tack. The first round was timed: Vaquero I,....... on boon Gob dll GHG ISHAEE) se are SEEMS Sotiggue ctoonety sone ISOS Son iscricancoonoopned. 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Riptareetatecsineaterp tere 1 57 01 Navahoe., 186 58 Sakama.,.......sesees0eee..1 5K 06 Emerald. 1 37 33 Dorothy, Hedman dootncan metal aby alee INQE OLA eee ete u steak USB \e iy UNICVEINO) Arnon notte soba uno till Gt) Adrienne,....... 13905 Ada........ AY ella sertelate veeee 10 01 AWA. ...00e Bo ORG Pare eante le 4 22025 Skimmian oes esas ents eal onc apie RS D, Soe pecan mepeitteie led Seu A CADE COs aiile watt letales deletoretetal ier oie ame ANSON AL Sitar ota Apidae BA@by FUG seep heebhnGaascnqay) UOcly Colleen,,.... ee eter pelea OE AVONOLA MT ny her) it Sem OE OoTEOS Presto. ... bkhacnonih eeialths WOO NeW KAr sareeoaseatmeunane ee ae seecreed 08 16 seseeeesd 12 23 ersaces od 20 45 stvenceseSeca 49 Heaeeatnee OL cOLnD Do op Vow wom oo pore & RSmcwo SEACES accra. sliternosesiecies 22056 Yankee Girl........ EROMIGIES Tie tari sateletssierecentarsracee® 222.18 Starling. .....cc.00s QUaBLUCKI ty satirist SOO CRA CL) TIGIEY aac dndebleebetts BueAOS ..3 20 15 Killbieeectert semen ieviencens\caititeeucs 228 36 Norot@.......e0cca0s DOGGY. save onssas ens saicse so 4+ DOTOUMY:, dceesckece IVA GUCTOWN irncaie vigpeatamy ene iareate et 24006 Colonia........... IVE OTULO: cfs gp egsntiaesstozats tieseks APES NGIIEV ME edad ana Volsung,.. snocesorsar 2 25 26 % AEGAN Kat i. csiasanasas 3 26 06 Sharksipee oahccldeate nen ccrestsate 2 37 16 ; IDOSOEISS Ear stes ante plaiteeets 2 28 39 OTD eT Key arccatate ala: viajeyanerereeatesete = 2 31 5b Melia irra tee sda.e wieseaae nerepe et 2 39 33 OUEWAY ares ane sisie .2 39 37 HILO ilrsiaslercare:meitslerne oc 2 54 34 Colleen,........ opr oedaoopeds Bowel Prest0. vccecees 20% 56 48 SVC Cresent ents ays Bae alee Harrietta IIf,....... .2 58 13 AGENT anh oononnne 2 58 45 AUDEN Fe Re Sncganbod 3 00 55 IFS acre Anne noadaeeouncans: UNC ESTE) HOWwind....ceceaes Ccenreronitscdes tegen IG} Caprice.,., sreseees 3 06 48 Wideli Grace...... ete seeeees. 3 OF 59 Skimmang.,,.. ae The final times were: FIRST CLASS CUTTERS, Se 09 oD ri) 23 no Q3 0 11 Length. Elapsed, Corrected. Vigilant, Percy Chubb.,..ccssesesseses seve R58 40. 3 58 40 Navahoe, R. P. Carroll..... Pitbkerohhh cass 4 02 42 4 02 42 SCHOONERS - SPECIAL Colonia, C A. Postley,...........000. 93.13 2451 35 3 51 35 Emerald, J R. Maxwell .....:.......- 91.07 3 55 21 3 54 07 Amorita, W. G. Brokaw.............. . 90,00 4 08 33 4 06 38 SCHOONERS—CRUISING TRIM. Sachem Heals “Adams, ber. sb aeaylptinem 90.61 Not timed. CUTTERS—6(FT. CLASS. Eclipse, L. J. Callanan............ 66. 05,15 Not timed. Sayonara, John Hall...... .......... 54.06 Not timed, CUTTERS—5IJFT, CLASS. GyicemiieM Hoyt seca an 50,86 38 07 17 3 07 17 Awa, A. De W. Cochran,...........+..46,78 3 40 09 38 55 24 Sistae, John Rhodes,.......--- ...-- .45.29 3 42 02 3 35 22 CUTTERS—48FT. CLASS. Norota, D. B Burnham.... .... pee AEs 41.64 3 25 45 3 25 45 : SLOOPS—36PT, CLASS. Surprise, James Baird.,....,.......+...84.68 3 37 50 3 87 50 Acushla, H. W. Hanan ,.,......-..-- 82.94 3 40 27 3 36 49 YAWLS. Pawnee, PF. Alexander... ......0000000+42.52 8 45 00 3 45 00 Sakana, Oliver Adams, ......+0.00020..02.15 3 57 07 3 38 49 Fidelio. Robert BE. Tod.,,........0000..33.46 4 07 47 3 46 26 Jester, EH. H. Robinson.,,......... 20 26,67 Not timed. SPECIAL 80FT, CLASS. Musme, J. M. Macdonougb....,.,,.., 30.00 3 36 44 3 36 44 Vaguero IIl.. H. B. Duryea......,.....30.00 3 29 58 3 29 58 Hera. R. N. Hllis........ Ze coneee e000 3 23 08 3 33 08 Wa Wa, J A. Stillman ,,. 80,00 3 37 39 3 87 39 Carolina, Pembroke Jon ...30,00 3 38 48 3 38 48 Vedar ©, Wandenbilty Jira: +. ses ose. 30,00 3 34 25 8 34 25 SLOOPS—30FT, CLASS. SS RGIMTITTL ATA a to tettata, sustatorslalsee satis aotchuiree ce ietretr tla ae 4 15 11 415 11 - SLOOPS—25 FT, CLASS. Agawam. Dunbar Wright,...,..... 12 ee, 16 2 48 45 2 45 38 Vaquero 1, W. G. Brokaw....ec.e..025-22.96 2 14 Of 2 11 21 Quantuck, J. L. Delafield,............-24.63 2 12 29 2 12 29 FIOMER KE WELAM Dees ealsiees came ae en eer 21218 2 09 39 Celia WS Schue'zen Club, J. D. Heise won the fourth class medal ‘for keeps.”’ The scores—20 shots (German ring target) were as follows: Champion Glass: A, H. Pape, 432 rings. First Class: H. J, Wicker 424, Second Class: C, F. Rust, 380, Third Class: O. Lemcke, 395 Fourth Class: J, D. Heise, 369 (for good), Best First Shot: C. Thierbach, 23. Best Last Shot: A. H. Pape, 23. ROEEL. _ Calumet Heights Riflemen. CuHicaco, June 27,—The Olass A and Class B rifle contests at the Calumet Heights Gun Clib’s ranges to day we e shotin clear atmos- Brera with a light wind across the range. The following scores were made: Glass A, 200yds , any caliber rifle, standard target, off hand: No.1. No 2. : Harlan. 1068665 5 4 & 3 58 4°95 7% 5 # 310 4 57 ooth oh ey) Nii Sas eS se! ee: nigtets siya -qletyrarulee/strinyat eels Paterson. dees bs eS) 2) 8) 14) f= 389 3 5 238 2 410 % 1-87 Norecon. > D4 dt 41 3 2 B84 2 6 4 2 2 8 25 1 10—i2 Metcalfe, 405 7 4 4 3 0.3. 1—29 0014 83 8 5 6 6—29 Class B, 100yds,, 22?-caliber rifl>, off hand, Creedmoor target: Mrs Schmidt.,...,.,..44423443384 §5 Mrs Marshall.,,.,,,.8220048482—23 Mrs Chamberlain, ,.,25333443 22—33 Parry. Scheutzen Bund of North America, Cxicaco, Ill,, June 26.—At Joliet, Ill., on June 24, began the four days’ tournament of the Central Sheutzen Bund of North Americas, the following rities represented: Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit Cin- ciunati, Cleveland, Peru, Peoria, St. Louis, Davenport, Dubuque, Winona, Lyons, La Crosse and Washingtcn, Minn. The shooting on the first day was for the Kehr prize, a souvenir badge to all ee | 200 points, distance 200yds .! EH Schmidt, of Milwaukee, captured the first prize; Alderman Joseph Braun, Jr., of Joliet, second, and Fritz Roth, of Chicago, third. Among those present are: A. J. Vandusen, of Winona; Val Sank, of Peru; William Ott, of La Crosse; M. Gindele, of Cincinnati; George Zugeufuss, of Winona: M. Gray, of Chicago; BH. Berg, of Davenport; Dave Hertein, of Worthington, Minn.; Ed Burger, of Daveoport; George Schnieidt, of Chicago; L, Schweighofer, of St. Lonis; B Richter and John and Stephen Meunier, of Milwaukee, E H. 1206 Boyox Buripine, Chicago. Grap-Shaating. Leading dealers in sportsmen's supplies have advertised in our eolumne continuously for almost a quarter century. If you want your shoot to be announced here send In notice Iike the following: FIXTURES. July 14-15.— New Haven, Conn.—Tournament of the Interstate As - ociation, under the auspices of the New Haven Gun Club. Wm. H. Hazel,Sec'y. — July <0-22.—Ping Biurr, Ark.—Seventh annual tournament of the Arkansas State Sportsmen’s Association, Added money announced later. Paul R Litzke, Sec’y, Little Rock, Ark. July 20-23._Cimar Laks, Ia.—First aunual Indian Welf shoot. Three days targets; one day livebirds. $500added. For programmes and particulars write fo C. M. Grimm, Clear Lake, Ta. July 21-22 —CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind.—Tournamient of the Trap-Shoot- ers’ Paashus of Iudiana, under the auspices of the Crawfordsville Gun Club. Chas, E Lacey, Sec’y. July 22.—Muapvinie, Pa.—Fourth tournament of the Pennsylvania and Ohio Border Gun League. Geo, H. Jones, Sec’y, July (ast week).—MircHet1, 8. D.--Tournament ofthe W.J Healey Hardware Company. 4 July 27-8.—Bay Ciry, Mich,—Tournament of the Miehigan Trap- Shooters’ League. W.H Brady, Sec'y, Detroit, Mich, July 28-29.:—DunuTH, Minn.—Annual tournament of the Central Gun Club G@ C Maxfield, Sec’y. Aug. 4-5.— Lewiston, Me.—Tournament of the Interstate Associa- tion, under the auspices of the Androscoggin Gun Club, ' Aug. 4-5.—InpranaA MiveRAL Sprines, Ind.—Indiana Mineral Springs tournament. Ben O Bush, Manager. : , Aup. 17-19.—Toronto, Canada.—Tournament of the R. A. McCready Co., Ltd. Targets, $1,000 guaranteed. Opentoall. Write for pro- grammes. Aug, 18-19.—Warsaw, Ind.—Tournament of the Lake City Gun Club. W. A. Wineberer, Sec’y. Ang. 19—WAnreEn, O.— Fifth toursament of the Pennsylvania and Ohio Border Gun Lesgue, Geo. H. Jones, Sec’y. Aug. 25-26,—MonTrPgevigr, Vt.—Tournament of the Interstate Asso- ciation, under the auspices of the Montpelier Gun Chub. Sept 6.—Mrriprmn, Conn.—Third unnual Labor Day tournament of the Parker Gun Club. Sept 14-16 —Kansas Crry, Mo—Tournament of the Schmelzer Arms Co, Merchandise and amateurs. Sept. 14-16 —Das Moines, Ia.—Tournament of the Capital Gun Club. §. C. Quimby, Sec’y. Sept. 15-16.—Porrsmoutra, N. H.—Tournament of the Interstate Association, under the auspices of the Portsmouth Gun Club. Sept. 28-29. Inpranaports, Ind,—Tournament of the Trap-Sbooters’ League of Indisna, under the auspices of the Limited Gun Club. Royal Robinson, Sec’y. Oct. 68.—-NeweurRGH, N. ¥.—Annualfall tournament of the West Newburgh Gunand Rifle Association. First two days, targets; third day, live birds. $50 average money to three high guns in all pro- gramme target events. Open to all. Oct. 13-14, GresyspurG, Ind-—Shooting tournamentof the Greens- burg Gun Club Web, Woodfill, Sec’y. 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 printed. Ties in all events are considered as divided unless otherwise reported. Mail all such matter to Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 346 Broadway, New York. The New Jerséy State Sportsmen’s Association, or more correctly speaking, The New Jersey State Association for the Protection of Fish and Game, will hold its annual meeting at Taylor’s hotel, Jersey City,2P M., July 18. The committee appointed to disentangle the muddle of reorganizing this old New Jersey body of trap shoo‘ers has done a: lot of work, and will report at the meeting of July 13 with 2 brand-new constitution and by-laws, and a brand new set of up-to- date trap-shooting rules Itis also practically certain that a State shoot will be held the latter part of September of this year, and that the same shoot will be held not many miles from Elizabeth. The choice of Elizabeth for such a rendezvous would be a capital move on the part of the association, as the railroad and trolley car facilities cf that city can searcely be beaten. Clubs desirous of joining the association should lose no time in sending in their names to the secre- tary of the association, Mr Colin R, Wise, of Passaic, N. J. The an- nual dues will be merely 4 nominal sum, and the benefits to the trap- shooters of the State to be derived from a reallive organization are very large in comparison to the fees for either clubs or individual members, And the association will not, we learn, start absolutely penniless, as old outstanding accounts to the credit of the association are, we understand, to be paid in full. Mr.E. C. Maxfield, secretary of the Central Gun Club, of Duluth, Minn,, writes us under date of June 22, as follows: ‘The Central Gun Club, of Duluth, will hold its fifth annual tournament on July 28 and 29, 1897, at Duluth, Mian. This will be a strictly amateur tournament and professionals and manufacturers’ agents will be barred from shooting for any of the money or prizes, though if they wish to show cff their gups and ammunition they will be allowed to doso by simply paying for their birds. The Rose system, four moneys will be used, and there will be a large and valuable list of average prizes given, Programmes will be ready about July 12 and will bes mailed upon ap- plication. This shoot will be one of the largest ever given in the No: thwest and will be well worth attending.” The secretary of the Stevens House Gun Olub, of Lake Placid, N-Y., Mr. A. H, Kallies, writes us that “the Stevens House Gun Club opened its season of 1:97 on Tuesday last. June 29 Ten members of the club gathered on the grounds to inaugurate the season, which lasts uutil Oct. 15. Some fine scores were made, C. A. Stevens and A, H Kallies rumping straight in a*5 targeteyent. The club. which was organized expressly fi r the benefit of the sportsmen visiting the Ad- irondacks, will be pleased to entertain all shooters on its grounds. The grounds are located on beautiful Lake Placid, only three min- utes’ walk from the ‘Big’ Stevens House. The club would be pleased to arrange a few team matches with other hotel clubs or nearby gun clubs.” Louis Schortemeier bas been striking his gait of late on live birds, In four contests recently at the club shoots of the Jeannette Gun Club, of New York, a club that holds its shoots at Guttenburg race track, he scored three winsfor the Class A badge, winning it out- right, His distance was 28yds., and in his three wins he scored, in- cluding shoot-offs, 31 out of 32 shot at. Schorby shoots a 12-gauge Smith, with Whitworth steel barrels. His load is 50grs. of American HE CG. No lina din. U. M.C, Trap shell, wadded as follows: one V. L. & D, Field wad, one 34 V L. & D, 119% felt wad, 14in, U M. © felt wad, 44in. pink edge, and one thin black edge; he uses 14oz. of Tatbam’s No, 744 chilled shot in the right barrel, the same amount of Tatbam’s No. 7 chilled in the left barrel, Tom Keller is home again affer a successful trip in the West. Tom has disguised himself by removing the hairs from his upper lip, and gives as his reason for doing so, the fact that Bourke Cockrane hay ing attained a certain amount of notorjety by shaving off his mus- tache, and that he and Bourke, etc, etc. But Tee Kay had much of other matters to talk about; chiefiy, and perbaps naturally, the suc- cess that has attended the efforts of those who are using his firm's powder—King’s Smokeless—in so many of the big shoots of recent date. “And Jook what I did at Sioux City!’ says Tom; and thereat his bosom swelled until he measured full 58io. The Brooklyn (N. Y.) Gun Club will hold another handicap shoot for a gold watch, 50 targets, handicap allowance of extra targets, $250 entrance (including targets), The date chosen for the shoot is July 21,a Wednesday, one of the best days of the week to geta good crowd together. The Brooklyn ¢Jub’s grounds are conveniently lo- cated at the terminus of the King’s County Wlevated RB, R., in Brook- lyn, access to the grounds being thus very easy indeed. : L. CG. Parker, ‘the brother of W. F. Parker,’ and W. F. Parker, “the brother of L. C. Parker,” both members of the firm of Parker Bros., were present at the third tournament of the QGonnecticut Trap-Shoorers’ League, held at Bridgeport, June 30. Like all the others who were present at that shoot, they did nov find the targets easy. although Will Parker ran straight in the 15 target extra shot after the programme had been complered. And his was the only straight, too- : We learn from Mr. Geo. F Day. secretary of the Uxbridge, Mass , Gun Club, that: ‘The Uxbridge Gun Glub’s challenge to the Worces- ter Sportsmen’s Club, the Rhode Island Trap Shooting Association, and the Woonsocket Gun Club for a team race of sigot men each has been accepted. The shoot will beheld at Uxbridgeon July 17. We ropose to hold quite a bournament on that date, one of the principal eatures being a merchandise event,” Trap-shooters are accustomed to hear much about the skill of Mre, Frank Butler (Annie Oakley), Mrs, M. F. Lindsley (Wanda), Mrs. Day and Mrs. Shattuck, inthe use of the shotgiin at the traps; and with- out question all these ladies are capable of doing some excellent work in this line, putting to shame the efforts of many a great, big, strong man. But very few ever hear anything about one of the best lady shootersin the country—Misskay—that is, Miss Kirkwood, of Bostov, one of the members of the Boston Gun Club. Any one who has kept an eye on the svores made by this club willhave noticed that the scores of Misskay are away up all the time. Jim Hlliott’s wide-open challenge has caused a lot of talk among trap-shooters in general, particularly among the rank and file, and our Cincinnati correspondent, Both Hyés, voices what seems to us the populir sentiment in regard to Elliott’s letter. While we don’t be- ieve in using strong language to belittle one trophy or another, we feel like patting Jim on the back for his challenge to any shooter who has championship aspirations, or who thinks himself a champion, Money talks, and Jim’s $100 is up. Who is going to be the first to cover it? Don’t all speak at once, bub—we know you won’t do that, The fourth contest of the Pennsylyania and Ohio Border Gun Club League will be held at Meadville, Pa., July 22-23. The Meadville Gun Club has arranged a two days’ programme for the occasion, all events being at targets. These gatherings of the P.& O.B.G. ¢. League are always well attended, and with two sets of traps in posi- tion, there should be plenty of shooting forall. The purses will be divided under the old system, 40. 30, 20 and 10. Shells should be sent in care of F, G. Prenatt, secretary of the club, All arrangements for the Interstate Agsociation’s tournament at Lewiston, Me., Aug. 4-5, under the auspices of the Androscoggin Gun Club, will be completed in a few days, aud the programme will shortly be in the hands of the printer. The Interstate shoot at Port- land last August was one of the best on the circuit, and the one at Lewiston this year promises to be its equal in every respect. S. A. Tucker’s new corduroy shooting coat is causing him some anxiety. It is beginning to show some signs of having been worn, and has forced a sigh from Tucker as he said: “I’m afraid it won't last as lone as my other coat." When asked how loug the ‘‘otber coat” had lasted, he said, ““Twenty-seven years!’ Then we agreed that Tucker was probably correct in his surmise. The Pekin, Ill., Guo Club will hold its sixth annual tournament, July 13-14 The annual tournaments of this club, which is one of the best equipped clubs in the State of Illinois outside of Chicago, have always been popular gatherings, and this year, with an increased amount ef added money and prizes on the list, the Pekin tournament promises to be a rattling good shoot, Holly wood and Elkwood Park, both prominent shooting grounds in the imsnediate vicinity of Long Branch, N. J, have issued pro- grammes for the'summer season, The Hollywood Futurity, on July 10, is about the most important sweepstake event of the summer sea- son, and will surely attract a large number of entries. The team race between the Bergen County Gun Club, of Hacken™ sack, N, J., and the Endeavor Gun Club. of Jersey City, shot on Sat- urday, June 26, on the grounds of the Hackensack Club, was won by the Endeavors with a score of 192 to 186, The list of tournaments for Kastern shooters is fast dwindling down to the elimination points, but July 14-15, as New Haven, Conn ; Aug, 4-5, at Lewiston, Me, and Aug, 26-27 at Montpelier, Vt., still remain to make the trap-shooters’ hearts glad. i Owing to Monday of this week being a national holiday, ForEst AnD StrrAM's trap columns are rather handicapped, as no work will be done on that day, and the paper will goto press on Tuesday afternoon the same as usual The next shoot of the Michigan Trap-Shooters’ League will be held at Bay City, July 27-28. The August tournament will be held under the auspices of the Kalamazoo Trap-Shooting Club Juuy 6. EDWARD BANEs, Mountain State Gun Club. PARKERSBURG, W. Va , June 26 —I beg to herewith hand you scores made to-day at Parkersburg, W. Va, at’ bluerocks and live birds. The Mountain State Gun Club, of the aboye place, gave an all-day shoot which was a success from start to finish. Among those who participated from out of town were: EH. O. Bower, L. M. Gorham and Curt I Hall, Sistersville, W. Va.; C. H. Verges, Lowell, O., and George Alford, Marietta, O. Everything passed off nicely, and all expressed themselves as having a grand good time, As will be seen fromscores inclosed, EK. O Bower captured high average at targets, breaking 45 out of his last 50, while C. H. Verges carried off the honors at live birds by killing the 5 straight. There is a Movement on foot to organize a State sportsmen’s asso- ciation at an early date and hold a state shoot early in September, Hid. O. Bower, secretary Sistersville Rod and Gun Club, of Sisters- yille, is in correspondence with the several clubs throughout the State, and something definite may be looked for in the near future. “The West Virgnia State Sportsmen's Association’? will sound “kinder’’ good, thank you. TARGET SCORES. Events: 12345 6%7 8 910 Targets: 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 25 25 Shot at. Broke. Avy 27 ME Gonhamyy nse lOdceleo1lsI0) Sele. 5 55 q E O Bower.....,.-.. 11 1413 1011141013 2424 170 144 84.7 G@ Alford............ 12 12 11 14 13 10 12 13 18 22 170 137 80 EGR MaANGtye, ocsta sehr aORIIU CSrrie . ieeon oat ne "5 638 Tf ReGlark fits ee lela le OTS tds poe Cy 105 81 wits FE Mallory ,,..,,,, 11 12.13.13 11 10 12 13 24 23 170 142 83.5 CH Verges........ . 11 12 11 18 12-9 1 11 18 .., 145 108 COMI As ENTE aes gteodtials th Bekih ys eee a 15 51 68 sb LOR AT Ret fia ON OE Mire he ete a ein 45 22 48649 HUMMCCIRGT Stas Pevelsratniersu. stein Gel cet lane 95 76 80 Twenty-five live birds, $10 entrance: JW Mallory. ccna sense sees seeenennees O812221012121112111211 11e—22 EO Bower, ..eas-5s ‘ Pur Acid 2220102202222021112202212—20 GuATfordieeyenay we etc . -2021021101112122110112122—21 ReClarky Jeesca seen Dec enenumncnnnsseses 1122202122201 201112111212—22 WH Mallory... .cccecenee .0121202122021111123112222—22 ee rs id OB VErgZOS. cw nescueeasecenanssopeaesaees 21211111221 211222912297 12 —95 COS Halls cscs scceveenesetesnaveneee seve cee l 1200101221 1001020220112 —17 Le MGorbam,...cccaseseneeane eetaeee se se -0O00221120122111022011221—19 SECRETARY. Calumet Heights Gun Club. CuicaGo, Ill,, June 26. The regular weekly contest of the Calumet Heights Gun Club was held to-day, The weather, though warm, was most perfect, and while some sought pleasure in gathering bouquets of wild flowers in the woods, there being a great variety of the same in bloom, others enjoyed themselyes by bathing in the lake The scores made at the traps were as below: Paterson (A)... ,.0cescscscessessess => - + e-44101111101111111411111111—23 Booth (A) .,..:.. “incurtrhr rece fPatieee ss 1111111110111011111111111—23 Turtle (A)... cg eeeescesp ee ye eee © eevee ees 1010101111101110111110101—18 Mescalfe (A)... poe. senepeeceeecespesesee + «1111101001 011010101110110—16 Norcom (B) ...,..... sacttclay AN GeoAeeeonaone 111110100101(100110010101—14 Gruby (B) .....+.0+e Asc seceepeee ee ee ess eL110101011011111111111101—20 Harlam(GOpy pee naaettes ADOT A0 veeee ees 2110111100101911111101101—19 Chamberlain (C),...,.c.caseceeesecees ++. 101001101111101100110100i—15 likey yefrr ehh BA CA roster enintcs © peunten 1101011110001111110000011—15 We (Ci)e8 oe oo are soe lok Saas patente 0101111011010100091001011 13 Paterson wcn in class A, Gruby in class 8, and Harlin in class C. Sweeps w: re shot as Follows: Eyents: 123 4 6 -Events; 1i2s4 5 Targets: 15 15 10 140 26 Targets: 15 15 10 100 25 Paterson... .......+ 12° 8 4°73 ,,. Chamberlin......:. GSB Gees eles BOOUMS ce eet sbi oe 11 11 “i Wilder heetaa sat eat 7 i vy Harland isk ee ial =sp 1} EU tl ee ritsstatotet coe ci alee Go aabes Metcalfe......... 1013 4 55 GHUDy i sovneces Cisteacmrte ch sapeie Morgau...... ¢hbnhe 6 4 6. as » Guy Chamberlin.. ..... 3 NOrOtdishictests, BZ IG 72), Jake lek pe el ee a ®& No 1 was at 15 targets, unknown angles for practice; No. 2 was 15 Parrr, Iroquois Rifle and Gun Club. PittspurG, Pa July 1. The fourth monthly shoot of the Iroquois Rifie and Gun Club, of this city, was not very largely attended, only eight shooters taking part in the nine events on the programme, The scores made were as below: Eyents: DY (2 ro OG. SD Targets: 10 10 15 I5 15 15 20 1d 15 BORD 2 ietrenectte cums See rare tON ot eos OP: Sion ts 12 McRKugley- ise. teeer = SATION Vem b bes IiNC iGwe ahaes fi : ADT See net cenecsanat ee nintasntas peeostst asses) pie. 6s8 8. 0. id) 21 at 3 fh 2 ANT Gre mor nt Peet EAE DOO DODD Lore tin ma Aro Sil Ee ahs ange SS TG Hat te erecei ar eee 8 8 18 14 9 44 16 12 12 fe 2D eS he Sie yin Pee 10 i ii ty os ts 15 TGs ananenccene Fiche OEE Ee Ms leah 2 ] J. Morz. 38 FOREST AND STREAM. | [Sune 10, 1897. Connecticut, Trap-Shooters’ League. THE BRIDGEPORT SHOOT, Ir fine weather, xood fellowship, plenty of shooting, and"plenty of free lunch and free liquidating materials| go to make a shoot a suc- cess, then the Bridgeport shoot of the Connecticut Trap-Shoot- ers’ League, on June 20 wasa dandy, Wor the weather was fine after a wet nizht, and the shade of the large tent, loaned by the U. M. @. Co. for the occasion, was most uncommonly grateful and comforting ; so also were the ice-cold bottles of ginger ale, ‘tsass,”’ lemon soda, etc., not to mention the comestibles. In short the club left nothing to be desired in that direction, and if fewer straights were broken than usual, nobody seemed to mind much; the shoot was realiy one of those old-time, good-natured shoots when a man wasn’t all the time hunting up the cashier to see how much he had coming to him, Straights were scarce. that’s a fact; but then the targets were . thrown far and fast, all five traps being screwed up to throw the tar- sets.a full 55yds,, and low at that. Sometimes the targets looked to be going a mile in ten seconds, and maybe some did, for ciphers were no strangers to even the best of them there, Bluerock traps and em- wire targets were used, and the combination seemed to agree well. The pull was the only weak point in the whole thing, and that was something that could be forgotten and forgiven in the general excel- lence of everything else, A THREATENING MORNING KEPT AWAY SHOOTERS. The heavy rain on the previous night, and the threatening condi- tion of the weather in the early hours of June 30, kept away many who would otherwise haye been on the grounds. Friend Bristol and his New Haven brigade, minus their president, M, H. Clark, were all on band at the opening of the shoot. The same can be said of the Meriden division, which included Messrs. W.F. and L. C. Parker, S. A. Tucker, lL. J. Gaines, J. R. Hull and Holcomb. O. R. Dickey was also.on hand from Boston fo assist the Meriden Club to whip the crack team from New Haven. Bridgeport turned out well, too, and supported the home club in great shape. There was V.A Blakeslee, the secretary, and U.M. C. Thomas, both of them with their hands full of work, and their heads full of schemes to make their guests feel at home, J.D. Kingsbury as cashier, and George Thorpe as assistant cashier, were both eminently the right men in the right place. Whit Rennison and I. J. Tuck, as pullers, did their duty, but found the pulling apparatus all they could attend to. (The puller, too, was located in one end of the club house. and was considerably ata, disadvantage owing to the amount of talking that took place in his vicinity.) WHERE WERE WINDSOR LOCKS AND HARTFORD? A very frequent query was: ‘‘Where are Windsor Locks and Hart- ford?’ Tt was quite a disappointment to the home club that these two clubs did notshow upat all. Nota member of either club, so faras we are aware, was on the grounds during the day. We had thought that you couldn’t keep Messrs. Videon and Cutler, both of Windsor Locks, away from a shoot with an Avenue A police officer’s night stick, but we found out our error on June 30. They were missed sorely; and they, likewise, missed a most pleasant day’s sport YS till there were plenty of shooters, as the scores given below will tell. New Haven put in two teams and Bridgeport entered two teams, while Meriden had a crackerjack sort of asquad to put up against the others. This squad lost the teamrace on the first 20 tar- gets shot at, by losing 31 out of 120 shot at; on the unknown angles they lost.only 17; but then the wind was not blowing so strongly as when they shot at the known angles. And the wind did make some difference, it came down across the traps from right to left. and took rigbtquarterers under its wing, carrying them over the slight rise to the left of the travs ata pace that almost baffled the best of them to get the “proper Jead”’ on such swift targets. Goose eggs were ‘‘a plenty,” as some people we wot of can testify to. NEW YORE WAS REPRESENTED, Hd Taylor. of the Laflin & Rand W-A Powder Company: Capt. A, W. Money. of the American E. C, and» Schultze Powder Company, Limited; Ferd Van Dyke, of the Winchester Repeating Arms Com- pany, and the representative of the best department in this paper (?) were all on hand from New York city to take in and to be taken in. J. A. H. Dressel, Esq . of the U. M, C. Company, took time enough to steal away from business and come down to watch the work done by No 3 primers in the Smokeless shell. Of course there was lots of fun outside that of making goose eggs; and really the Jast item got beyond a joke, that of making ciphers; it became painful; and when Will Parker made astraight 15 in an extra shot after the programme had been finished, there was quite a sigh of relief. And talking about fun at a shooting match: How much better it is to have a few well matured trap-shooters acting like @ parcel of schoolboys just out of school, than to have them sitting around. silent as mutes, ‘‘chewing the champiqnshiprag over again,” or cussing the Rose system. THE SCORES TELL THE TALE. How everybody shot must be left for the scores to tell, but in look- ing over these same scores be merciful, and remember that it was awfully hot, that the targets were thrown far, fast and low, and that there was quite a wind blowing during a part of the day at least The individual totals made in the team race will be found in the table of scores given below, the team race being event No. 50n the programme 20 known angles and 20 unknown angles), The team totals were: New Haven No. 1. 197: Parker Gun Club, of Meriden, 192: Bridgeport No. 1, 174; Bridgeport No. 2 and New Haven No. 2, 145 each, The table of scores referred to above runs as follows: Byents: 123 46 6% 8 910 Targets: 10 10 15 15 40 15 15 10 15 10 10 68 18 12 38 11 14 9 15 7 rer o i os 9 10 15 18 388 12 12 6 om. Cues lt EO! gee Fy 9 § 13 18 36 22 12558 13) 8 9 Y 14 12: 82 14 12 4 14 9 8 9 138 10 32 14 10 6 10 9 5 7 9 14 14 8 10 12 9 18 8 N Money...... 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Halligan 13, McHie 12, Goldsmith 12, Parker 10, Southard 8, Levi 6, Murphy 3, Finsted 2, _ Donnelly prize shoot, 25 targets per man, handicap rise: A Kleinman (18)... c.seceveeeeseeeeeay se +++ 1111011001110101111101111—19 J Ruble (18)... 0 cceecey: seeeeeeeeenses ce ees e1011401111111111111110111—22 FALed EAHA SAS) Aototale ws ieletrietelatel Sees use risleem peter eto 0111111101001111001101011—17 Parker (14). .csccuvcusescceeuueeuecescyeeues1110110110001111111011010 —17 Halligan (15)... ervnnesvse ss peeeeeeevesoee + 1110101110110111111111111—21 W MCHie (15), cveveesecuueceseeeeeesseeee 1101001000100100001101000— 9 Goldsmith (14), ..ccecseureveeeeeeeee sence e+ 1010111100111110111111101—19 Southard (18). cscccceseeeenewneeseeeeee eee ©L111001100011110110011101—16 Adams (16) ..ccsseecvereeseccevessevesss ees 1001000001011101011111111—15 Hellman (14) .cccscceseccceeneseeseeeees eo LL10111111111011101111111—21 LOvi (14), occ aecccccsasenes wensaeveeceoaverrt101010010110110101001101—14 Finsted Reese eee ea eat ee 9 z EC’Y. EUREKA GUN CLUB. June 26.—The Hureka Gun Club’s weekly shoot was well atiended to-day. ‘The scores in the medal race (25 targets per nian) were as follows: Olass A: Ed Steck 23, Glover 23, Stannard 2?,.Lord 22, Miller 22, Goodrich 20, H, f. Carson 19, Dr, Carver 18, J. Rehm 16. Class B: Houston 23, Cornwell 21, Lewis 21, Keller 21, J. L, Jones 19, Spreyne 17, @ Murrow 15, Dr. Liddy 12. Class C: Robbins 23, A. G. Walters 21, Bisbee 19, Meart 16, Morgan 15, R. B, Carson 15, Neta 12. “ GARFIELD GUN CLUB, June 26.—The Garfield Gun Chib’s weekly shoot was held this after- noon, There was a good attendance of members, and some capital scores wers made, Comley, comparatively a new man at the Traps, won the trophy shoot with 24 out of 25, as below: SUCK civissnceeneeeeseceyeveceenecsess eee 1110111901101011111001110—18 LOGUMP Hea an sk eaa nse trseerereee ences s1000011010100010010101111—12 RICDALGS cv seceeeecneceeseeesesees anes ees eee L001111111110111101111101—20 FWehrman...seeseeess eee 1111111110111111111111011—28 Kuss.... +» 11111111011101011110w —i16 setter asses panes SHAW uv evdaseensanteens + o0e.1110111011011111111101111—22 DESMIBrice tine eae ey ae va eaees ©0000011001111111110100111—15 Cs Peers ei veeeae eden eyes » 6 1411111111114101111110101—22 Workman 2 » «0110141101111110011111111_20 Bowers ' »»0111111111011111010010111—19 — Graham ....... covey ee ee o1411491119000111111111111—22 Neal.... teeeeeeecensseeeee se LL11101110111101111111011—21 Weenseaeennees GOMMMCY ya iscssveecensegeeveces eves veces ys t120019111111111111111101—24 Baird .,,., teenepeacee geenedceeeesvesye ss 0100100111100110110010011—13 H(Graleresiiveiecness yee vvin vi peveae tree 1141111110110011111000111—19 Hato, wpee caceeeteseteeeceessseyeveesnes ss 0111101010001100010001110—12 YOUNG. .cssaecicateceesveueeeeeereeeeee ese 1 0101111111011011111111110—20 SUBIPGD s eyoctttmaree ies + Foc Ps vasa eee e+ 0101111111101011011001111—18 IGKS; 435.04 ses ean) tevereeessccuees ooo ¢1111111011111111111101101—22 Meru, tavt ttinit arias manereees seen eeees es 0101110171101001101111010 —16 RUSSCM ce ecacteeceepeeeeeeeererenseess ses +0100110110110000010011010—11 Michigan Trap-Shooters’ League. Drrrorr, Mich., June 80.—The two days’ tournament of the Michi- gan Trap-Shooters’ League, which was held at the Rusch House prounds, Jefferson avenue, yesterday and to-day, was very well at- tended, and some good scores were made, despite the stiff wind that blew on the first day. First Day, June 29. Among those who took part inthe shoot were: J, L Head, Peru, Ind.: ©C_W. Walton, Grand Rapids; A. G. North, W.. H. Osmun, A. Webb, H. Matthews, W. Gould, Pontiac; R. Merrill, C. W. Boursfield, Bay City: B. O. Bush, H. Waruf, Kalamazoo; George Scheiffier. J. W. Cowell, F. Pixley, G. Scott. W. M. Thompson, Jackson; Geo. Spross, Toledo: F. A. Snow, Cleveland; Thos. H. Graham, Sault Ste. Marie: Frank Stotts, Windsor. F. A Snow, of Cleveland, with a total of 112 out of 120 birds, led the day’s shooting with an average of .993 per cent. Thos. H, Graham, of Sault Ste. Marie, was second with 179 out of 195 targets, an average of 917 per cent. The team race, open to Michigan teams of three men, each man shooting at 50 birds, was won by the River Rouge Gun Club. This is the second time the River Rouge men have won the team race, and one more winning will entitle each man of the team to a diamond utton. In the E, C. Handicap. for a silver tropby, W. M. Thompscen, of Jackson, with an allowance of 3 birds, made a score of 48, and won the event. It must be won twice, however, to entitle the winner to ownerehip of the trophy. Thomas H. Graham, of Sault Ste. Marie, and Wood, of Detroit, both scratch men, scored 47 each, and Parker, also scratch man, killed 45 birds. SCORES OF JUNE 29, Events: 12346566 %7 8 910 Targets: 1515 1515 251515501515 Shotat. Ay. Parker. ..scssseseeecee, 14 12 10 14 22 14 12 45 13 15 195 861 ROss......... 11:18 12 10 .. 12 12 .. 12 12 145 648 Waruf..... 5 15 14 20 11 12 38 15 14 195 861 118 7 8 8011 14 195 610 324 14 12 47 15 14 195 917 124 9 11 44 14 12 195 835 3.912 § 48 1215 195 801 2 20 14 11 38 14 13 195 «789 219 91042., .. 165 6775 0... 1041 .. 12 15 145 606 9 .. 10 7 45 13 12 175 137 Webb..... Sodio Tee ie ras Bel de eben, oe in 50 620 WOU eewtten ats es pete «- 1112 41 9 23 14 11 47 14 14 195 850 Renick....... Seta 11 11 11 12°18 15 15 87 12 11 195 189 SIPEGSS neces ae. e eee is.) 12 13 11 TH |) 1893 .. 14.18 120 850 SnOwi..ssess ataniceatts 13:15 13 14 .. 15 14 .. 14 14 120 933 OSBMUD... ii cic sceeed 13°72 1010 19 11 8 42 92 |, 180 761 USF Targa myst ge ere MTT 8 eR ee Th oe 90 744 Gould........ negsangsy Wh keels Lee Tethad oot 3 110 609 Matthews..,........... 8 9 $ 101810 ,, 42 > 150 700 Brady: Peicdiaues ants. 10 JOU4 119 11 42 18 4, 165 787 Scheiffler..... aellectees LO told, 14ente 06 oh oro 130 Pixl6y)....i.: runes Seal Oo Onl snd eno 130 600 et arg 3 or Atte int eee eee Ge RAM Ptcins | tinh k bee 125 703 North,,.... dramas oar a zt i z He 105 800 SCott ...ss0s5 eet aod te 912 7 16 11 115 669 IMAMICS Se eee aie ears ; hj 135 755 MMOrr iL eevaisatarehaytenied. ce 13 135 ,700 Manele. \.cease swede se, 120 791 Cowell.,.......- ASPbure oe 4g 40 650 Tale ae tr eweseeet eee ; ¥ 80 575 Of daycare ysereroret et) oe a 45 Ti H Cabanaw,....,....0. soe OIA y 30 433 RtObtsr ityecssbyts oe tiny an 30 338 JETS CBS er IO ceGDSGG Gd mn 50 660 Second Day, June 80. The weather today was much more favorable, and as a conse- quence scores ruled higher. It was very hot indeed, and although rain threatened once or twice, the threats amounted to nothing. The main events to-day were the championship medal contest and the shoot for the King’s Smokeless trophy. Thomas H Graham, of Sault Ste. Marie, captured the echampion- ship medal for experts, the highest average for the two days’ shoot- ing. his average being 913, and narrowly escaped winning the King trophy. In the latter event he was beaten out by an amateur, Klein, of Detroit, whose previous record for the day did not indicate cham- pionship form. However, he killed 25 birds straight and won the shoot-off for the tie, Mr, Graham also haying killed 25. It will be necessary for Mr: Klein to win the trophy again before he can own it, In the shoot-off Mr, Klein had a handicap of 5 points, while Mr. Graham shot from scrateh, Parker, of Detroit, won the second prize for average shooting with a percentage of .875, and Waruf, of Kalamazoo, third, with 4 per- centage of 853 The winners of the other medals in the champion- ship contest were as follows; Marks, Detroit, semi-expert; Brady, Detroit, amateur, SCORES OF JUNE 30. 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Monday of this week, July 5, was a day on which nearly svery club in the vicinity of this city held a shoot. This plan of holding shoots on every holiday prevents large attendances at any one grounds, and it would seem better if three or more gun clubs got together and drew lots for the different holidays at the beginning of each season, The club that drew Washington’s Birthday would entertain the mem- bers of the other clubs on that date, and the club that drew Decora- tion Day would take tts turn at entertaming visitors on that date, and s0 on, This would insure each club having atleast one good re-uvion on its grounds during the season. | Echoes from Deep Hollow. Sim Glover is now satisfied that he can kill live birds, and states openly that he will win the Star cup at the Missouri State shoot in 1898 without the slightest shadow of adoubt. As Sim putgit: ‘There isn’t anybody down there can beat my combination; Parker gun, Schultzs powder and myself.” And Neep Hollow sends back an echo that sounds like “Quite right. quite rizht!” The list of champions at the Oil City shoot was quite imposing: John L. Brewer, champion of the world, etc., ete,; Simon Glover, Kansas City Star champion; Charlie Grimm, cast iron champion- Charlie Budd, Du Pont champion; Rolla O. Heikes, champion of the world at targets; Fred Gilbert, ex-champion at targets and ex-Du Pont champion; ©. D, Fulford, whose work in the past has made him worthy of championship. honors, and who can still make them all hustle to beat him; ©. R. Dickey, Grand American Handicap cham- pion of 1896; John L. 147 Winston, the expert rules champion; Ferd Van Dyke, 14 reversed order champion (he, Heikes and Charlie Young tied for the Schmelzer trophy at San Antonio in January last); Harvey MeMurchy, who is 8, champion although he doesn’t claim to be one; Elmer Shaner, champion tournament manager; Brother Bill MeCrick- art, champion squad hustler, referee, etc.; Gold DustWanning, cham- pion seal shot of the Pacific Slope; Col. A. G, Courtney, champion raconteur of the circuit, and hosts of other. Of the four 25s in the Oil City Special, one shot a Parker and the other three L C. Smith guns. The fortunate quartette were: Sim Glover, Parker, 3!4drs. Schultze and 1%4oz. 7 in a Trap shell; Harvey MeMurchey, &. C. Smith and powder (Harvey won't tell his powder); Charlie Grimm, L, C. Smith, a4drs. Du Pont and 114402. 7 in & Smokeless shell; Jack Fanning, L. ©. Smith gun, 50ers, Gold Dust. Iigoz, (in Acme and Leader shells, There were five 245, and two of these shot Parker fguns, the other three shooting L. C. Smiths. Two of the five used Du Pont, two Schultze, and one (Wheeler) King’s Smokeless. John A, Wilson, of Franklin, Pa., was very proud of his néw Gash- more, Mr. Wilson has certainly gotten a very fine gun; it looks well, is superbly finished. and when held right does the busiuess. Wilson says his main trouble is the “holding right.” President Graham and Secretary Harry Reeser very wisely gave up trying to do two things at the same time—entertain the visitors and shoot, There was a certain amount of self-denial in their putting away their guns, for both of them love to shoot, and can do good work when attending to that business alone. Harry Thurman, better known as “Father Time’ or “Shooting- Blouse Thurman,” won the individual championship of the State at targets with King’s Smokeless. Harry Shoop (Brewster) won the pee bind championship of the State with 2!4drs. of Du Pont in a Trap shell. Minge is the name under which J, A. Flick, of Ravenna. O., now comes to the score. We don’t know a keener shot than Mr. Plick, and the way he plumps his second barrel into a fast bird is almost more than we can understand, seeing that he has but one arm. Business interests kept him at Ravenna until too late for the targets, but he turned up in time to try his luck in the Oil Gity Special, The strain of shooting every week and shooting hard all the tima showed itself yery plainly in some of the crackerjacks, Gilbert and Heikes in particular looked very weary, and many a round 0 may be traced to “that tired feeling.”” HEyerybody who has shot all day and tried hard all the time (and you must try hard all the time if you want to make good scores) knows just how tired they felt when the day is over; multiply that one day by four, and add in two days for traveling, and imagine how you'd feel after a week of it; then pro- ceed and figure ont how you'd feel after aboutten such weeks, Chief Moon-in-the-face and Dago Chief don’t seem to feel it much, but then they’re just bundles of knots, at least Moon-in-the-face is. If you don’t believe this, utter an Indian war cry in his hearing and then say “‘sood-bye” to your scalp, for he’ll have it sure. Captain Money shot very well indeed at live birds, and we doubt whether he ever shot any better in his life than he did at Oil City. He shot at 53 birds during the two days, and scored 52 of them. He used a Smith gun and 49grs, of Schultze ina Trap shell. The tough part of the whole thing was that his single lost bird was dropped in the Oil City Special when straights were what counted, One of the most pleasing features of the whole shoot was the way in which the residents of Oil City rose to the occasion and graced the shoot with their presence, And we understand that these same resgi- dents were also well pleased on their part with the shoot and the quality of the men who came tothe tournament, Tt seems to haye been a popular idea in that section of the country that gentlemen were scarce at tournaments. When they came to Deep Hollow they found that the reverse was the order, and that a nicer lot of men couldn’t be gotten together anywhere in this or any other country, They also found that it was nor all business by any means, Tn fact, the State shoot at Oil City has done a great deal to boom trap shoot- ing in that section of the country. Judging from the setters and pointers we saw in Oil City there must be some good ruffed grouse shooting in the mountains near the city. Deep Hollow and the woods thatlined the street car tracks to Smithman’s Park looked very “birdy, and it isa fact that some young grousé had a narrow escape of being run over by one of the cars on its trip to the grounds early on the second day of the shoot. Talking of dogs, Elmer Shaner was presented at this shoot with a handsome Gordon setter dog by the president of the State Associa- tion, J. OH. Denny. The dog was a beauty, and Elmer was tickled mightily with the present, but was much worried at having forgotten the dog’s name. One evening, after falling asleep while copying scores, he blurted out: “It’s Rupert!” ‘‘What’s Rupert?” said we innocently. ‘‘Why, my dog’s name, of course.’’ And he actually looked hurt to think that we'd forgotten he owned a dog. EpWARD BANKS. Lake City Gun Club, Manpison. Wis , June 23 —The two days’ tournament of the Lake City Gun Club closed to-day. A total of 24 shooters took part in the programme events on the first day, but only 15 were present on the second day. Below will be found tables giving the records made on both of the days mentioned above: First Day, June 22. Eyents 1284656 6% 8 9101112 Targets 10 15 10 11 10 15 10 20 12 10 15 10 SFORESLTIPZELEUILN siuiy cit a iesectea/bsboars anise resets 8 9 7 9 5614 81910 810 9 M Johnson,, Dal) eos oR e9a1 oe Ones J O’Brien 514 6 7 911 712 98 9,, O Sutherland, ill 4 7 7111017 ., 812 6 J WHEGIGE, Fis mabbasshthaaieertane ero sSaeteteononl4 OP eon 1h PSED BUA ss aisacvessppeeamssteaases Miell) BONRD) ad 1 enya msn Cicheedy W Waddington,.,cccsscsseerseas (12 5 °% &8 9D Bld % 6 9 4 SUMS RCRD Ra Goepoormmnureemrmnn ve Get BP) tah ke Ti ete As BLE Boers CTA IO Trin alee) ie SP Te we EL CAPTEN iiatnesatts sacs yataneensas CULSemetne tat. See el a ey ees HRtHErey. fpo0ceastveabassabkt sce utine le SH OUMUnTSaTOMEL sGuhat on J W Foster,..... Pee mene eed, Ty! ede apeulin en: (bh ob (i COE Eh Ann EOD PEON ee Mise etre of iy unemene ha hatte W Hobbins....., oeteeneepenrie, ry th Li Cor etet all alee hth COWS S ws ROR Onnneetemo norm erns. eff a iee peers peter UR Eber int ortionts siemens verre ise, Uk ay Wrap OE ee Ot sti REPRO acheter mscopeeie Weeoe Pye Tih Si Cie. DASHUMATE Me eink cutieitaan ice tea sents Dero EEE ren he Siler wens NOM ol tidsl mone grne pre ea eerie ierrency ve Tie Garvuetere je a NOP TV ELS O20) Shige et pent rt Pere or tet tet tert sebagueeyeetitt Wee hg" LONGUE RES" Sone or nen noun ouotT th. Hee re Oe eu re Hee SHA Geb) Be ie Ua No a SORE R aes eters = yelp oiery et eae ey 8 Pa RWS SOWA gate spe senca nee eee ele Ae hes eae BE yg No. 4 was at 5 singles and 3 pairs; No. 9 at 6 pairs, Second Day, June 28. Events: 12346 678 9101112 Targets: 10.15 10 10 10:15 10 20 12 10:15 10 Bingngsitis cccssssicsaseticeevicy tess SOMO MeOe elon Mo ldelie sg. doe ay, FI GUBIDS tata snbalaajemasanacleeesis ees eerie 0) 8ON wilt s Gielen) eral ont WADED. wcssssntinanateme this siinerict oko, eed) Bolded 1s. TTL HIWEHUCE ieee ieseliddacecseyes ©2) cm Oniian ak) Bam oesmesias VIMMEIS(SIN ie lense clessacahiny ae OPO nea a EOL fetches atmos Rilshete lee srr mn tie ae PT PRU AD whe teh, fee imeee bape Mayer, .sss.s5 Sell Phas Oe 2e ye) ede. ere Morris .. (13 8 8 914 815 8 7s... Ertberg.... TOS. CSS 10v ae Fe eo oes Foster ....:: 710 910 911 811 8 6 8 Mixner.,.,.. 914 910 913 916 81010.. Fauerbach...iseess 3.3... rh pean sed Shorea ee mt LAI cute treet ener es eaten bernie eae e mak Sie ae Oa en me 1A Re aa ore tte cocAt entre rhe Mite Ay ae tin SanGersone Bee swaveet ties) rips pie th Sat 36 aay No. 4 was ab 5 pairs; No. 9 at 6 pairs. Cc, A, Maver, Mr. 8, C. Quimby, secretary of the Capital Gun Club, of Des Moines, Ta., writes us that his club will hold a tournament Sept. 14-16, the week of the Iowa State fair, the shoot eras place on the fair grounds. My. Quimby adds: "The elub will add large moneys and merchandise prizes. Programmes will be sent out about Sept. 1,” Jury 10, 1997. | FOREST AND STREAM. 39 South Dakota State Sportsmen’s Association. Fanco. S. D.. June 20.—The third annual tournament of the South Dakota State Sportsmen’s Association, held here June 16-17, was fully as successful as that of 1896, which was a record breaker among e Northwestern shoots last season, Quite a number of familiar aces were missed aie year, but many new ones took their places and were stayers until the last gun was fired. There were forty-five entries the first day and forty-two the second day in the regular ‘Shaffer and Kirlin, from Montevideo; events, P . Among those in attendance were T. H. Keller, representing King’s mokeless and the Peters cartridges: Dr. D. H. Day, of the Western Weld and Stream Both these gentlemen assisted the Management jn various ways, and made many friends among the shooters. only shooter from the Twin Cities was Hirschy (Robin Hood), who never fails to attend a Fargo tournament There were Boenig, Mc- ae McQuat and Strutton from Minto; Irysh; Mares, Harrold Stur- geon from Wheatland; Dr. Spratley, Flynn, Hill and the Thielmans father and son—from St. Cloud; Corry and Grassick, from Buxton; icAndrews, Ellsworth, Wis ; Jones, Atwaler: Nelson, and Warren, Duluth—the Minnesota State champions for °95 and °96; Trent, of Wadena, and Taber, of Pork Rapids; Main, of Canada; the Dowey Bros. and Agern, from Wergus Falls; Gakey and Coulter, Dawson, N. D,; Ducke, Larrabee, N D ; O'Shaughnersey and Baldwin, Bismarck; Blewett and Dr. Rankin, Jamestown, N. D ; Wells, Grand Forks: ; The high wind that the shooters faced the first day kept the scores down. The Fargo team were hanjicapped by having hard work pre- yious to and during the tournament, and their shooting was more un- even than usual. Much interest was manifested in the State event, d the contest was close and exciting. The wmner was congratu- ated by the shooters, and T. K was especially pleased that the event was won with King’s Smokeless. = At the annual meeting of the Association for the election of officers the following gentlemen were chosen: President, J. W. Boenig. Minto; First Vice-President, J.J Gokey, Dawson; Second Vice-Presi- dent, 5. N. Corry, Buxton; Secretary, W. W. Smith, Fargo; Treas- urer, H. ©. Magill, Fargo. The retiring president, 0. E. Robbins, the founder of the Association, during the meeting urged the members to select officers from new localities, and by so doipg arouse interest to adopt new methods and secure an increased membership. The officers elected are well and favorably known tothe sportsmen of the entire State, and the Association’s interests will be well cared for during their term of office. SCORES OF JUNE 16. Below will be found a table of the open events shot to-day, the programme calling for just 100 targets. The totals of those who shot in ajl events are carried out, thus giving their average per cent. : ‘ Events: 123467 Hyents: 123467 Targets: 16 20 15 20 15 15 Ay. Targets: 15 20 15 20 16 15 Ay. Shaffer,,... 8 9 518 8 9 52 Hunter..... 138 91215 912 70 Wilson... 914 811 611 59 Puillips,....11 1512171310 78 neier.,,,. 13 1214161310 78 ‘Trent....... 14181218138 9 84 Thielman ., 13111141814 62 ‘Taber.,..., 91410191312 77 Mares.,.... 47 611 7.. .. Shell...,.... 11 1812.16 13 13) 43 Boeing...... 10 18 12 14 11 11 7 Warren,.., 10/5 7151012 69 Reutchler., 11172 910.:.,. .. Jones,,.....1018 815 9 9 64 Stratton,... 10 9 915 511 59 Ducke,,,.., 1113811138 911 8 Trysh.....s. 6221116 ,.10 .. Kirlin,..... 1814 91511 9 “@1 JW D....:. 61710161210 71 O’Shaug- MeOuat,,... 10 15 11 141212 74 nessy..... 183161018 9 8 69 MecKay..... 8181815 810 72 Baldwin,.,. 1115 811 5 9 49 MeAndrew.. 411 81111 8 .. MHarrold....10 9 912 5.. Gory........ 6121012 5 8 58 Rankin.,... 8141118..., .. Grassick... 912 6 7 6 3 48 Bleuett..... 91011 12.... .. Robbins,.,. 11 111171318 84 Sturgeon... 11138 1017 1010 11 Smith...... 8 9 91412213 65 Main,...... 9141116 8 9 67 Garpenter,, 10151317 910 74 Wells.,..... 12 12 11 14 iter Guptill,..... 1119 9171315 84 Keller...... 1215 9 11 14 13 74. Hill,........ 18 18 11 1712 14 85 Robin Hood 12 16 1418 13 15 88 Morrissey... 1012 713.,.. .. Roberts....,1012.... 8 7 .. Agern....,. 91210141213 70 Coulter,,.,. 716111012 6 62 Osgood,.... 81712161815 81 Gokey,,....1214 818 8 9 69 The $10 given to all guns making the eight highest averages was divided by Robin Hood 88, Hill 85, Robbins, Guptill and Trent &4 each, Shell 83, Theilman 8¢, Osgood 81, Rainser and Phillips 78 each, Taber 47, Shaffer and Grassick each received $5 for the two lowest aver- ages *No, 5 on the programms was a team race—four-men teams, 25 tar- gets per man, $6 per team, $100 guaranteed. The conditions speci- fied “four men from any regularly organized gun club to constitute a team,’ TheSt Cloud team won with Fargo close up. St. Cloud: W, Thielman 20, Hill 28, Osgood 18, Spratley 18—79. Wheatland: Irysh 16, Sturgeon 15, Harrold 15, Mares 10—56. Fargo: Robbins 22, Smith 19, Carpenter 18, Guptill 19-78. Minto: Boeing 16, McOuat 18, McKay 21, Siratton 21—76, The Fargo Gun Club wou the team shoot in 1895 and wou again in 1896, when eleven teams contested. This year some of the team did not shoot up to their usual average. SCORES OF JUNE 17. The programme for the second day contained five events, the four given below and the State championship. The totals of those who shot at the 75 targets in events 8, 9, 10 and 12 are given below; Events: 891012 Eyents. 8 91012 _ Targets; 15152025 T1 ‘Targets: 15 15 20 25 T'l Main ccicccvervesss 981014 ., 5. GOSSOY...-ereseees, 1615 1617 G2 Wilsod,..,,.0.es,2 181113817 54 O’Shaughnessy..,. 183141719 63 Rainser...:..,..+.. @141315 $9 Robin Hood.,,,.,, 913 18 23 63 Stratton,,......06. 9121319 58 Trent..,..,cere00.- 14 14 18 22 68 MeAndrew...:.c0» 11 31215 42 Taber. .,cccevseses 9 1217 22 60 Goreyseeseesesvsees 9 G 710 32 Shell... ccvceuuee 11 111719 58 Grassickiiisss.a. 9 4 9 7 26 Warren. ....is0000 12 1b 22 .. Boeing. vecesneneee 12 11 14 21 58 Day,...,scccessees. 1411 15 18 58 MeOat.icicceecsse 20121319. 53. Hill... chic aees 121219 20 63 MecKay.......:60.) 12 91619 56 Duck,,,........... 181813817 56 Phillipps.,., . 18 11 18 21-63 Kirlin.......,..... 11 91318 51 Hunter... 9121218 51 Coulter...,........ 12 712420 51 Agerm,,..., eT G18 PSL \Clark: il aseesese 9 0) 8. Le Rentschler , 6 8 9 9 382 Osgood,,...:.- cee 1811 1819 61 Wells..... 9 71019 45 Carruga,.,........ 81014.. ., Robbins, . 91017 24 60 Thielman......... 14121619 62 Smith.,.... . 11121617 56 Morton,.,, (OMS eRe Ey arse Carpentier. . . 11121716 56 Rusk. HOU Pee Guptill,........... 11 12 20 21 64 Thorne,. seceee 1413817 16 60 Roberts,........... 11 10:12 we Keller. oc. .ccsccces-14 1219 22 67 eV Vasteeieet pas esuedOedO dn LODO. Baldwiri i Gasaatanse etl con = The $40 given to all guns making the eight highest averages was di- yided by Trent 68, Guptill 64, Phillips, O'Shaughnessy, Robin Hood and Hill 68, Thielman and Gokey 62, Osgood 41, Thorne, Taber and Robbins 60, Day, Shell and Boeing 58, Duck, J W.D, Carpenter, Smith and McKay 56. Grassick with 26 and Cory with 22 were each paid $5 for two low averages. : THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP. Event No. 11, the State championsbip event, was open only to mem- berg of the Association The member winning first place receives the State gold badge, to bold until the next annual tournament, when he shall receive 50 per cent. of the entrance money in the championship event; 60 bluerocks per man, no handicap: Roberts 34, Carpenter 37, Smith 38, Robbins 42, Guptill 41, Main 30, McKay 42, O'Shaughnessy 40, Gokey 41, McOuat 25, Corey 27, Grassie 21. Wells 44, Boeing 35, Duck 31. Robbins and \ieKay were high men with 42 each, and shot off the tie at 50 targets, with the following result: Robbins 44, McKay 42, Robbins won by two birds, and is the State champion for 1897. FARGO. Pine Bluff Gun Club. Pine BuurF, Ark., June 17.—Below you will find score made by our Jocal shooters this afternoon. The grounds and traps haye been undergoing repairs, and the targets (for the first time) were thrown from traps arrapged on the Sergeant system. This was something - new to most of our shooters and accounts for the scores being below the average: W B Sorrells. .cccce cece eee eeeee ee yee ee L11001101111111011101119111111—25 DrHE Williams, yee. ¢eeeeeeesee eee -+001111111000010111000000001110—14 AL BH Marlin co. .seceseveneseneeeseseye +111111001100010001001010010010—14 DH M@nM ii veceeesseysrseeeeeeee eye ee -001101110000011110010001000011—13 W S Harris .iscereeveeeevesenee cress « 6010000101110010000000000000011— 8 M CCleveland. ..55.5sseeesecs eee ees «001001001000001010000011000001— 8 100000000100000000— 3 Gzar Browster,scesereseeeseepecnnns Dl Edgar B rie ‘E, A, Howenn, See'y. The. Ogden Gun Club. Oanen, Ill, June .22.—The shoot given to-day by the Ogden Gun Clnb was a decided success, there being present about forty shooters. Some exceedingly fine scores were made, as the wind, especially in the morning, made the targets jump around ata lively rate. There were shooters present from the following Illinois towns: Leverett, Thomasboro, Mayview, Sidney, Urbana, Champaign, Savoy, Tolono, Danville, Soloman, DeWitt, St. Joe, Mansfield and Penfield; also J. H, Mackie, representing the Peters’ Cartridge Co, and the King Pow- der Co,, of Cincinnati, O.; he shot in fine form, losing only 10 birds out of 166; and there was nota question of doubt as to the ones he hit being broken. 7 A feature which added to the enjoyment of the shoot was the din- her given by the ladies of the Chris.ian church, of Ogden. J. R. Wat- kins, the getiial editor of the Ogden Courier, was squad hustler, and seemed to be able to take cai'e of that part, although he did not get a chance to show his shooting ability. Tyson and Miller, visiting shooters, both shot in good form after the first tworounds. Mr. Gere, of Urbana, Was the liicky man to draw the bicycle in that event. The King Powder Co, and the Peters’ Cartridge Co.'s event had the most entries, there being thirty-one entries. The success of the shoot Was due t6 the efforts of Mr. McKinley, as he worked hard all day during the shoot. Iam sure the club will have a much Jarger crowd next year, owing to the royal Manner in which the shooters were freated by all the members of the Ogden club. Below find the scores _of the shoot. Hyents; 12834566 78 910111213 Targets: 10 10 15 10 10 10 10 /0 10 16 20 10 15 Mackiovssccscessenreseeeevevess 9 9131010 910101015 1% 9 34 FO ROT SOM RA Uiy ay ett ne (An Stet see el te de Mibl oli” os Py SRS Oe EH aman, th aide tate Kee wep Keb me 8: phe ber tee eral, CH Ee antideraenetermckes, 10) S145 Gals 6 910 91516 912 SUGIOMV Arie slsbitetnccm cules Ue or taeemehe Vee Ga) a eel Gee Jee EMOTO Dacmrriean atte orcas rstentwwier fe dback ol vOMe uae! ta eT UL Ey anise Wiel ST) ES Hip aeteeeeeTE OE CUP ER iy Ric Dyes sere. bRveoCt bn drt as £30 TU AIp EL Ino r eeREeiticd Losec IMSHeethamcn LP (giMek stat] amen 77% V1) TOSIMIGHEY SAA ck sae tee ce ena eee WM ie code. hire TYSOD,..s.-sesserssacere vseeee 91013 9 9 710 8 91517 8 14 ITIL Posen eae ec eee eEet er) Dart sions ade eer Lael on Oty EEILOMM Sept en Tee ry SoD Ea tate moi Harel he COM) ulacl ya, les WG yl Gee ey ate ined Slvcalre sesinsaitets mers tre retee coh CA ee re Walton..... efiate ths tia eel Que GER led 7 81117 712 Cepia teh cay ee ele eas da Pease ree ll Peele Lue ate yep eats Chee! ROHAPSECivaller ye bisbi bere eee fehl. RPO pe 81014 9138 OIRETCIVAL SLA LC et ante ee SLND len Tear ge oo OP ee Dalam le INGHIGES Rs rae ee hres conan MUaals ul ste thay Gabe ta edo. Ga, Daniels.,, et ie liasteas OE es De Watkins., fertile. is, afm! E en mobo BI Waterson.. (ip Tie tesa kt ele Rha Jess Waterson. fortes Iai be itsi5 ts tel 4 C A Percival, BeoL1O SSeS else ee GellelGol, te CO Long Uf te ee Oe PT Seo t geen M Lennington , ener, terre me iy (ebapstedleeemtl Vila Bate ci OU le WHS GH Ss vernaatieabneatanas ote emt east tthe, Cyan gots GCG ROUSE caine nadine. seceeaiena Gen Mis pee Pe ns od Sood pa ho ato le IIT LD Op lest rept erie ee MORI LIOTIT chy ORL mame tbe te Ty pre Sa tel ie eet oe NOMEMBEHOr nk ess oe ee, aan Leena. ake yee enteee site paeee Ullet DULY ET eee eee rietty Arak inc ayata ataraeaiten tee enemas whjac nan Our -Cuitm, welt os IV ee es ee te ey a nedte at °8. 8°10 10) 19 1417-10-12 GENO Or dead taudacsstetbeneuuie et dU eo Soe Gn See toll De sale ATAUMN PA paduclewarens Seam oe Deh Peta A -tuerraie | ure osc so tener) tia BCT HUA en eepen uae sariaars Cece ine CimiGeepiaee? migokouns ta, (at Wills si kanie Pry rere) bb eke eae es’ 65 cy tapes as 5 ar ee 8 eb oe ee oe McPhetren,............... erepee “ . 4 Eek ttt a ee Brennan ..............5 HHAEEE res 5 : 8 Teh Gouden si aedilce yacstsadeee: cin seta: cietteat as pie Doom cc aerarn ite WONLErHtr cone gerbes): reeaeaon eaten ablcsnineanerr sc LUm sas) etde lone te NGC ACD cic eree loa elatele balceiehialareleibia lw clgaewSitere ies wie 6 WO hee ult bare eas Beston Gun Club, WELLINGTON, Mass , June 23.—The Boston Gun Club’s day arrived, aS usual, and the customary complement of shooters were at Welling- ton this afternoon, together with a very impressive wind. The latter bad considerable effect on the scores, the bést in the match being 18, while not a solitary straight put in its appearance during the after- noon. Otherwise the breeze was a most welcome visitor, for the general temperature was of a heated character; so much so that the different events were partaken of in a leisurely tashion guile in keep- ing with the rapidly rising thermometer. Summary as follows: Events: 12 3 4 6 6 7 8 9 10411 Targets: Jo 10 6 10 16 10 Jo i0 10 10 Browd....... Fem Sessa ee a eae ale Ck ae Se nin) eee, WOKE ae See vac ONCLOS Mom soars 61 -GaaR Ghadwick,.......... ee eae 4) Onde Aeehs 6S Ibe oh NYS Nate aelplesaaibieicnics Moms Some GMeEL Ses Hea ns ge 660 a9 IS BULOM OER en nl siuiing chee che «the 5 OM Grae Adin, valyate, rlgeuPRo lau & BIT GISCHE NeeeisebbeR eine eeeice tice means -7o\ ue em OR Soerc tt or Sue OL ame, WVVsi Clibeercrerccieeite reche witch visiinies aatsE Well Cle Nine 4am Oa Gar a stoner, BDGNGERU keerevulsecsncckreeit es le OtelIE gy, fe FQ eae Ee Fy fowTesy sa edahoodadoacea ee pe pee died certhe ah Wity Gi RE BE NVIB Eis TIC oven cit eiduieleieleleletere Feces’ tiiiece Mion me San SUING oli cua -IeNnare. 0 otlarc FUDTULE 1S steterm atetetniere coeraetely elaiee aici ne asta merci oe See ee YEA G ASA mene inonepheoore iad fd ope aoe. US fae ees ae _ Hyents 1, 4, 5, 7 and 11, known angles; 2, 6 and 8, unknown; 3, pairs? 9, miss-and-out; 10, reverse pull. Merchandise match, #5 targets, 15 known, 10 unknown, distance handicap: Spencer (18) ...ceeeeeeeeee eee ee, LOLLI0111110011—11 0011111110—7—18 Miskay (17)... ..ceessee0 eee eee se e210100110111111—11 0011101111—7—18 Horace (16)...... miata des staee «+,011011110101001— 9 1111001111—8—17 Woodruff (17)..... 2.2... ae ,101111101101001—10 0111111100 —7—17 Brown (15),,.,....... Dies tateteteteistart 001010111100100— 7 _ 2101011011—7—14 Wild (19) oc .e. nee ceeees ee eye ee O11110000111100— 8 1001000101—4— 12 Benton (14) .....sscscsc+ec eee, 001000111000101— 6 0100100110—4—10 Nickole (15). ..,...e¢eee0+eeeee- C11000110100100— 6 11101 —4—10 Chadwick (16) ........+.- sees -000100001100001— 4 1001100010—4— 8 Sturgis (14),......ce0eeee+e¢e804+000100010001010— 4 0000100001—2 — 6 WHittle (15)... .s0creccesssseees 001010001000111— 6 ~—.......... . —6 Measure (15).,,cseseeseees «eee 000001100010001— 4 0000000000—0— 4 Boston. Pawtuxet Gun Club Pawruxnt, R, I., June 26.—Asa contrast to last Saturday, to-day was decidedly windy and notatall favorable for high scores, bus still three men beat their records all the same. W. H. Sheldon, in addition to breaking 25 straight in the club shoot, also ran 25 straight in practice. Messrs, Armstrovg and Bain were the others who broke their previous bests on record, In shooting at and breaking his 50 straight, Sheldon used a Smith gun and Walsrode powder. Scores were: W H Sheldon (0)..,....,+ yoo y -442091111919111111111111 —25 RC Root (8) ..scccvrese +»«~+1100110010111011100111101111 —19 W Mooney (3)......-. -0001100111110001101101011111 #—17 F Arnold (8) ...,-..5+ -1110100010110110011101101011 —17 § D Greene, Jr,,(0)....-.- -1101011101110101111111111 —20 AGW Bare (5) citieresies + sminents e+ 210171111111110110101101111110 —24 Repeater (1)...cccceeseeeeeeseeseee21000011011110001111000U001110011—16 J ArMStrong ().ecescceeeees oye eee10111011101111110001011111111111—25 Kenyon (7).isccveesveves © svssss.-10100000100110000000001010111001—11 A Hawkins (4)... .ccceceeereeeeseee2L1010100100011101100110110101 —16 Mathewson (7), ..eeseereeeerne se eee.01001000001110000110 BlacKMer®. ...,cevecceeerereee ss ens + 110010001100100 E Cary (0)... ycuevevernoreseeceeees 0 1110001111001101111011011 — Te W Thorne (7), .eeeeeevevesevsaenses «10011001010110111001001000011111—17 * Guest. Pawtuxrr, Catchpole Gun Club. Woxcort, N. J, June 23, The following scores were made to day by a of the Catchpole Gun Club, all events being at unknown angles: Events: 123 Kyents: 123 Targets: 20 1020 8636 Targets: 20 10 20 Woster..... Sorat ehide Lint CP Of Cope eee brew bey wyteear ot « 16 813 Wadsworth. ..ecccesssass 18 715 Olmstead:.......-......-60 ao fom IDES Wablfeetess saannewdw as to) 10elG. COnATCs 8s Se, 6 13 Seaman ,.c-sesvesseveserss 20 8 16 Marlin Gun Club. MARLIn, Tex., June 25 —The following scores were made to-day by members of the Marlin Gun Club: 20 targets, known traps and angles: Turner.,,.11111111111111111111—20 Emery..,..01111110101101110100—13 Weesee ...11101110111111011010—15 Sheep.....,01111000000101100110— 9 Oltorf.,.,.11111101101011010101—14. Fountain, ,111101001011000 —s C W Rush,10111111011110010110—14 Spencer,,,11000101110100000000— 7 Ross,.,,-,21101001111011101010—18 B. R. Exery, Bison Gun Club. Burr4.o, N. ¥ , June 24 —Several members of the Bison Gun Club, of this city, were present this afternoon at the grounds of the club, Walden avenue and City Line, In the badge shoot Brandy won the Class A badge; 3:¢ and Maek tied in Class B, and Appel won in Class ©, Scores in all the events shot were as below: Events: 12383845678 Hvents: 12345678 Targets: 20 15 20 2615 2515 10 ‘Targets: 20 15 20 25 15 25 J6 10 Mackz.is.. 12. 9:19:24, 815... .. Bauman... 1.17 ..912.197,. .. Foxie..... 18 ., 17 18 11 2818 8. 333..... .-. .. 114 ..1019 18 MHTSOTE Gs slits) stall Doe a leetely MIUSPCR a acim tbalaoye va dees Gs Ditton..,,, ., 1012 ., 8 1410 13g helele Ry A de a oe pe el ee Danser.... ., 1015 .; 415.8 4 Vine pavelbiets . S16 is 8 AOBIIGR viel vp pedal tue deelon ae ns SM OUEGHE Yann lay A phase ee Appel,.... 9..1316 918,, ,. Collins. We) ons Fopy Mery Hes OS ay Lentner.... 410 Coa OEMmAtie ee Seeaa lie ep LE Francis..., 18 16 1420 8 22 sa ag June 26.—T wo liye-bird eyents were shot to-day ou the grounds of the Bison Gun Club, The scores in these events were: No. 1. No. 2. BAUMAN... cp eceseneeeseeaessesenneeacen ss L11212112101212 —14 21101—4' Mignereyscecttivcaceeeae ee oeeeeeakrakea babe Pee | sce, FOXIG is saateceaveesawedceseanedsesa veneastPl111122202121—14 eisai DittOn 2. cca e secede ete gee eens e eet e ens e ns L03132200122222—13 21121—5? Erdneis sie etuicteede te Hneee tae} yes, 122212221222100 13 3 ,,,., Knmers fy ancien utneee PPE ON tarassad 211011221201110—12 Ss, ., Mack....., severe rergrrsyyyseeer ey 212101611222012—12 ope epecseerserreysrecrseseess sree sOlogl@l 1@102122—11 DAUSEL,...0cceueersseersyysseeassveseses stele) 2200121200—11 11203—4' Kauftmat. ..cssceeeeesesseseeepyrreeses eL10010111100011— 9 211215 HASLER Srrcirig sete iene atelstcieteraetala eevetess clctutereiersintiacistem cintstatelarets 22201—4' EGHE ST ioleleepitveamerislering stata tie pave lsinea sinter nes Wied wee stares 01221—4 C. H. Weruin, Sec’y. Team Race at Newburgh, N. Y. Neweures, N, ¥., June 26 —Fiye-men teams, representing the Glen- wood, the Marlboro, the West Newburgh and the Peekskill Gun clubs, took part to day in a race, 25 targets per man, on the grounds of the Glenwood Gun Club, of this place. All targets were thrown from a magautrap, and a high wind that blew all the time made good scores hafd tomake. The result of the race was: Glenwood 96. West New- burgh $3, Marlboro 90, and Peekskill 87, Detailed scores follow: Glenwood Gun Club, DICKS OH ee i, sarace canard apis) ate sinle ,0111111111113911111111110 —23 Stanbrough, ..,..ccccsceeereneeee yee ye 1011011110111411919111111—22 Henderson, ....ssccsceeepesoscecsseees otLL1111010111110011111001—19 HOM case cce sha Vaaad ee eat Srisandiclalciewtesterns 1101101100111101101111110—18 MOP Elyse eariegadces ey dea oonadats ssesiod 0001011010001110101101111—14—96 West Newburgh Gun Club, ADPZAL. cece evensccsensesssrvececvecece st l11119111111110101111110—22 Wood...... COT ROOD EI NaE Ie eeeee peewee £111111111011111011111010—21 File. epee ccn seen eeeseresseeeeeses canes 4110101111010011011111111—19 Tiel ye neice ee deewe ceeevevevavessveees se1100011111110010111110011—17 THIS ONSOI, we lyaiyelstclanirnirtente etic .... .1000001711101101000111101—14 —93 Marlboro Gun Club, waoveaeeneeesse ¢£011111011111111110110110—20 . .1101110111001101111111101—19 . .1111101011101010110111101—18 eee eee e01I11111111110010001111100 —18 poeseaees- «--2+1001011011110111010011100 —15 - 90. Peekskill Gun Club. ELaIStGd prs acsasts sess bee ha sc ol eee 2100101311110111111111111—2% MASON viccccsesscescseeseenseeeeeres +» e4100011111101111011101011—18 DAV wale. duldae siatatde alas} < davies cece «+» +0000111011100111111101111—17 HOPtot sss seseeseeeeeeeeeeseenenesv eee -O111001111110101010110011—16 Bveringhim, ,..,,.csecceveeeereeeesee ee 1001000011111011110110101—15 —87° W. M. STANBROUGH. F Covert... Cook County Trap-Shooters’ League. CxiIcaco, Ill., June 19.—The second monthly shoot of the Cook County Trap Shooters’ League was held Saturday, June 19, on the grounds of the Calumet Heights Club, at Calumet Heights, Ind, Only two clubshad enough members out to enter teams for the trophies. These two were the Garfields and the home team, each - having fourteen men present. Of the remainiag six competitors, four were from the Eureka, one from Garden City and one from Cicero. The threatening weather during the forenoon no doubt kept a larger number away, who o:herwise would haye been present. SCORE OF LEAGUE SHOOT, Garfield, Class Az Shaw 23, Kuss 24, Richards 21, Paterson 22, Gra- ham 21, Neal 28; 134- Calumet Heights, Class B: Booth 21, Young 21, Houston 22, Lam- phere 24, Turtle 16, Marshall 16; 120, Calumet Heights, Class C: Norcom 22, Harlan 15, Chamberlain 13, Bordker 14, Greely 20, Schmidt 18; 102. ; The others who shot were as follows: Garden City: Ruble (A) 25. Hureka: Steck (A) 23, Glover (A) 23, Ferguson (B) 24, Morgan (0) 18. Garfield: Edgar (A) 21, Von Lengerke (A) 16, Fehrman (A) 18, Hicks (A) 17, Bowers (B).24, Palmer (B) 14, Russell (C) 9, Eaton (C) 9. Cicero: Barnard (C) 12. Calumet Heights: Metcalfe (B) 13, Whitman (B) 11. At Watson’s Park. CHICAGO, Ill., June 24—A number of Milwaukee shooters had a shoot at liye birds this afternoon at Watson’s Park, Burnside Cross- ing. O. von Lengerke, L; Goodrich and A. C. Paterson, three Chicago shooters, took part in the shootalso, Scores were: *Vou Lenyerke...... Saab pretences pee eases 12 Pee ee eee 2202222022271 182 —22 DhHostSHheawr sey cer ee Relaeieatn neste ++ 2ee.2021111012001020111120102-17 THeOMAVIMNAS, 134 bats vas raletean hee ee ~ « 1112202020122211112121211—2 4 J EH Bush..... bg Gth ase tahoe retried veuee ee es 1022102120 —7 JB Dos....., beih terry Heine sighne Dieses tae 1122000212000021116001221—15 W GEIng...,..+.+5 at saveneones oe 6 00112102222220202129 —i4 H Vose ceeangoonn 3 Toc .2121101012111011000220100—16 E Silverman,..,.., . 2201222221 102821021021020—18 *L, Goodrich ,., wes 61211112220 —8 *A C Patterson.,, suave eet PL12121 2020 —9 H Vose,.... Sot eating fo bosha fadhonl lame eaees| tty BE SilVerman 2... cece eres eae ease nonce sy oy pe QOLZ2110222 —10 JB Doe.,..... siidsiece.evacas) string bre eNessleleir A 8 ae , 1022 4 * Chicago men. RAVELRIGG. Portsmouth Gun Club. PortsmouTH, N. H., June 19.—The first of a series of medal shoots was held on the Portsmouth Gun Club’s ground this afternoon. The series will be continued weekly until Sept. 25. The shooters ara divided into three classes, each man shooting at 15 targets in his respective class. Three medals, one for each class, will be awarded io the shooter making the largest number of wins in the series. Below are the scores of to-day’s contest, Noone winning in class A H. Philbrick in class B, and Menim in class C. : Class A: Noone 13, Frizzell 11, Nenick 11, J. Weston 10. Class B: H Philbrick 12, W. Philbrick 11, Brown 9, Lewis 8 Weston 7. : ; Class C: Menim 8, Dow 7, Charlsen 6, Roper 5, Dennett 1, Hussey 1. W.J, PHILBRICE, Sec’y. Cameron Gun Club, Cameron, Texas, June 26.—The Cameron Gun Club was organized on June 23 with the following list of charter members: G, O. Averitt, FP, A. Black, John Cammer, H. Palm, C. F, Bakér. S. G, Boyles, F. L. Evans and M L, Worcester. The club held its first target shoot on Friday afternoon, Jie 25, the club event being at 16 targets per man, Below are the scores: Cammer 14, Boyles 12, Black 11, Averitt 11, Worcester 11, Baker 8, Palm 7, #yans 4. Three yisitors were present and shot along: MeSord. 10, Gillespie 9, Johnson 3. After the shoot the following officers were elected for the ensuing twelve months: President, G. C, Averitt; Vice-President, C F. Baker: Secretary-Treasurer, 8. G. Boyles, 5. G. Boynus, See’y. Z Worcester vs. Uxbridge. WorcsstER, Mass., June 26.—The second team race between the Worcester Sportsmen’s Club and the Uxbridge Gun Chib was decided to day on the grounds at North Worcester, The home team wou easily with a score of 275 to 246. A strong wind interfered materially with the making of good scores, I'he scores in the team race were; Worcester Sportsmen’s Club: Snell 38, Forehand 47, Kenerson 37 ins a6, Smith Ba, Walls 3 83, Rugg 3l, Roach 31—275, : xbridze Gun Club: Day 45, Noyes 34, Forde 32, John: 2 : bank 31, Whiting 29, Rawson 29. Mansfield 24-246, ao eee Several other events were shor during the afternoon, the attend- ance of shooters being very good. In the L. C. Smith trophy event Forehand was the winner, VY. D. Keyerson, Sec’y, 40 FOREST AND STREAM. [Juny 10, 1897, ; . 1 IN NEW JERSEY. THE ENDEAVORS WIN AT HACKENSACK, June 26,—The second team race of a series of three arranged be- tween the Endeavor Gun Club, of Jersey City, and the Bergen County Gun Club, of Hackensack, was decided this afternoon on the grounds of the latter club near the depot of the N. Y.,Sus. & Western R, KR, at Hackensack Both teams werefairly representative of the cluh, but each was minus one or two men who would have made a good showing. As it was, the race was 4 very close one, and when Carl von Lengerke the captain of the Endeavors, went to the score with Hildreth as his opponent, both being the last men on the respective teams, the Ber- gen County men were 4 in the lead, Carl, however, was in form and broke 24 out of his 25, while Hildreth fell off his shooting and dropped 11 out of his 25. The Endeavors thus won by 6 breaks. The detailed scores of the race were as below: Endeayot Gun Club, CO yon Lengerke. ..c.c0ceceeeceene eee eeL111119111011191111111111—24 B) Conlins f..¢0ccccs.ceceeeceeeeee eee oet1111I1110111111111111311—24 EL Banks, .cecsceccssesececnevesenseeeesL111211999081111111111011—23 JS Dustin. .6..0ccccccceeceeeseceeeeeed 101001101111111110111111—21 GH Piereyiccicsccccee ceeneeeeas oe ee OL01101111111101111111100—19 Dr De Wolfe. ..cccccceseceeenseeeree ss 4111191100011101101111110—19 Ed Taylor ....... sae hopes » .0101110011010110101111111—17 CW McPeek,,.......05 .»-1101000111110110010111111—17 Ee Pierey 22 eis eawanaeees -1011102110100100101110101—15 AR Strader ...,.....- seeeeeeesecess» 0010010111111001100101001—13 —192 Bergen County Gun Club. W Sinnock, 0.52.26 cece es sees yy eee ee LOLTIT1II1111111111011110—22 M Herrington, ...45-s¢enceseenee eeceas o1211111111111001111001111—21 COVED... occ eee ete cecseseseeee ee oe oO111101111011110111011111—20 Griffiths ..... Ae Sete E neler eierelelalalsie ee eee e4110011111011110111101111 - 20 RSV, ,..,.:ceeveereeseveeeescoe eer LO11011011111111100111111—20 J_RA@YMONG....eceeeeccege sees veces L001111111111101110110101—19 HP Wessenden.....es.cseceyeevere ey «+ 4100011111110111101011111—19 G Ricardo...... vevveereesryereepenesy OLO1111111011010110100101—16 T W THOMAS. cp ecsccserereesnenaver ye et] 1IQ11000110100110001111—15 J Hildreth,.,., sssevreseecesererrve= 0110101011101011000011011—14 186 THE #. GC. OUP. This same afternoon the FE. C. cup monthly contest was shot off, Dr. De Wolfe scoring his second for the cup, Herrington chasing him to the finish. This race isa handicap affair, an allowance of extra tar- gets to shoot at being awarded by a handicapping committee of the club. The allowances were shot off in the team race to save time, both Herrington and De Wolfe making highest possibles of 50 each, Wood, who was not on a team, had to break 9 out of his allowance of 10 to give him a highest possible. As he dropped his 1st and 8d targets of his allowance, he withdrew, having no chance to tie for the cup, On the shoot-off at 25 targets each, De Wolfe won with 24 out of 25, losing his 2d target: while Herrington Jost his 2d, 11th and 19th targets, going out with 22 out of 25. The full scores in the cup race were: De Wolfe (4) 51, Herrington (5) 52, Raymond (12) 49. 0. von Lengerkse (4) 48, H. P. Fessenden (9) 48, Banks (0) 43, Collins (4) 43, McePeek (8) 43, Soyder (11) 42, Taylor (5) 41, Wood (10) 41, Sinnock (0) 40, Dustin (3) 40, Thomas (8) 40, Iu. Piercy (5) 40, Coles (8) 39, Warner (14) 39, G. H, Piercy (4) 88, Hildreth (8) 36, H. Blauvelt (12) 36, Stern (15) 46, Strader (8) 84, Everett (14) 26, Crawford (14) 26. 5 Coles, Warner, H. Blauvelt, Stern, Hverett and Crawford did not shoot out their allowances. AT ELKEWOOD PARK, June 26.—There was plenty of shooting to-day at Elkwood Park, but the attendance was only light. The main evyeot, No. 5, the Jubilee Handicap, 20 birds, $20, had only five entries. Of this number Phil Daly, Jr., was high with 19. The list of eyents shot were as below: Nos. 1 and 2, $5 miss-and-outs; Nos. 3,4, 6,8 and 9 were 10 birds, $10 The detailed scores, together with each man’s handicap in yards, follow: Noi. No.2 No, 3. No. 4. No 6. Dolan (29).. erenee | lt 02001221 21202221202 (29) 02220 Ballard (29) w.yO 2222 112222112 0010 (80) 221211222 Toland (28).... ...0 210 00220212 0212211100 (27) 2000 Daly (29). ...ceeyeeeeuee00- 1211 22001111 _ 22220022110 (29) 2022202 BAVC eds die aicirs a lelnteleiote Rialvtall elais’elgiclsletsultsteiotestthebrieiene (08) ULL * No.5: Jubilee Handicap. No. 7. No. 8. Ballard (29),.....-.01222221011121201222 (81), ,222200 0002212220 Toland (28),... «.+.22111222202221 022222 (2%), .232212210 0220210120 Daly (29). + see. «++ s-11122211222011121122 (29). .1121211212 = 2102212210 Claney (27),......-000202010010200100 (26) ,. 1120000 Pears! Dolan (29), ...000+--2101202101120 (80), .2122211120 00112100 MArryatt, .ccccucccaccecceccerseesererseees (26).01120011110 1111121212 No, 9 was another 10-bird race. Itresulted thus: Ballard (81) 10, Daly (81) 9, Dolan (29) 3 out of 5, Toland (2646) 2 ont of 4, : CLIMAX GUN CLUB. : June #3.—The Climax Gun Olub, of Plainfield, held its monthly shoot this afternoon. The attendance was. quite small, only four members taking part in the club event. Scores in this event were: Manning (1).c-.eesevesereeee eee s41411011111011101111111011 —22 Brantingham (1), ...000e0e%++ 600+! 0111101011110111011111111 —21 Lister (10). v.sesaeocceerecssvress , 010011110001 11111101001100010011011—20 Dan bYLs) caisson vwwives vwuwieeiyieltis'ne 101111110010111000111001111001 —19 D. Daxsy, Sec’y. Oneida County Sportsmen’s Association. Urica, N. Y., June 19.—The prize this week was won by J, W. Ful- ford, who scored 24 out of 25 in the club shoot at 15 singles, expert rules, and 5 pairs. The prize was a silver cup, donated by C. R. Mizner. The detailed scores of to-day’s events were as below: J W Pulford (0),...... s0e0o400911911110111 11 11 11 10 11 —24 J Pfeiffer (8) ....¢e¢e0e00602.101101711111111 10 10 11 11 11—20-+-3—23 Brunner (4)...... .101111111110111 10 10 11 11 00—194-4—25 J G Kilbourne (1). ©111101110111111 -10 10 11 11 11—21-+-1—29 Marks (8),...-.: 10 11 11 11 10—19-+-8—22 C R Mizner (4).. 10 10 GO 10 10—18-+-4—22 E Fairehilds (3) -11 10 01 10 01—18+-8—21 Wheeler (3) .....- 11 00 11 11 11—18-+-3—¥1 Bennett (4) .ccsssvecscstee 10 10 10 10 10-—17--4—27 JG Deck (1) .ccceecesceeeee+201401111110110 - 10 10 10 11 11—-194-1—2 DaAvitlSOn (2). pc0ceee0r¢e¢eee-001110001111101 11 10 01 11 11—18-++-2 —20 BL Gates (0)...... - = Fae toes An oh ons Hall sesecceeceysteseeceea cesses Se 01 ESO ER, Sey UIST designe ne anmanaee ecly ee peeette pF ore oe ss ee ae ee No.9 wasatspairg, CU Goup Dyst. ON LONG ISLAND. HELL GATH GUN CLUB, June 22.—There was an excellent turnout of the members of the Hell Gate Gun Club this afternoon at Dexter Park. The occasion was the regular monthly shoot of the club at 10 live birds per man. Four straight scores were made: Hugene Doeinck, John H. Voss, Fred Frostel and Henry Forster The club handicaps its members in these shoots for yearly prizes under a double system of yards and points. Below are the scores made: Thirty yards rise, 7 points: Hugene Doeinck, ,, .2232221221—10 Twenty-eight yards, 7 points: John H Voss..,,....2211122111—10 Wm Sands... sca... eeesde2222— 9 Fred Frostel,.,,,...1111111221—10 HB Payntar........,..c%l0e2121— 9 Peter Garms........ 1101221122— 9 Phil Woelfel.,,,,,,,.0221100021— 6 Twenty-sight yards, 616 points: Emil Steffens..,,....112211110i— 9 LT Muench,,.,,,,,.1112002922— 8 Twenty-eight, 6 points: Henry Forster,,,.,.2112122121—10 Ernest Metz......... 112110%820— 7 Jobn Sehlicht..,.,: .2212111102— 9 J P Darmefelser, .. ,,0002122102— 6 LH Smith.....,..,..012112l1el1— 8 John Kreeb,.....,...0002100122— 5 Conrad Weber..... 0211020212— 7 Twenty-eight yards, 544 points: © Schaefer,..., .....1221012281—8 Jac Himmelsbach, _,0202101010— 5 B Regan, ......e+e..-,0110112200—6 E Peterson,........2, 0112222012—8 Twenty-eight yards, 5 points: C Lang... ..cseeeeess.1002111210—7 © Rabenstein,...,.,..2100100001—4 A Knodel.,.......-...220201220e—6 Twenty-six yards, 444 points: J NOWMAD, vicseee ceed 2202012218 L Stelzel.....,....,,-.1010010292—6 Twenty-six yards, 4 points: J Kessler. ........+0, .2021012210—7 F W Richter,,....,...1e20021222—7 M Stern... cccsssss«..0200120010—4 FALCON GUN CLUB. June 2h.—Fiye members of the Falcon Gun Club took part this. afternoon in the club’s monthly live-bird shoot at Dexter Park. C. M. Meyer scored all his birds, but, the shoot being under ‘‘Falcon Gun Club Rules,” which provide that a second-barrel kill only scores half a point, his total of points was only 8. Moller made 6 points, Bohling 544, and J. N. Meyer and Von Staden 5 points each, Scores were: CM Meyer......,...2111111112—10 JN Meyer.......... ,1110200210— 4 J Moller..........,..0011001111— 6 H Von Staden.,.,,,.1101000221— 6 J Bohling............1210010110— 6 NEW UTRECHT GUN CLUB June 26.—The semi-monthly target shoot of the New Utrecht Gun Club was held this afternoon at the Dyker Meadow grounds. W. H. ASCE safe won the club shoot in Glass A, ©, C. Fleet winning in Class . Scores: Class A; W. H. Thompson 23, J. Gaughen 22, D. Deacon 20, W, A. Thompson 19, D, C. Bennert 16. Class B: C. C. Pleet (shot at 27) 18, D O’Brien (shot at 25) 15 In the Bennett cup shoot Gaughen won with 22 out of 25. Scores in this event were: Gaughen (A) 22,W. H Thompson (A)21, F. A. Thomp-+ son (A) 20, D, Deacon (A) 18, Dr, O’Brien (B, 27 targets) 18, C. C. Fleet (B, 27 targets) 14, G. Osterhout (guest) 18. Four sweeps were shot, all at 10 targets, and all at unknown angles, with the results given below: J TIDE, 62s yee seen -1200002100—4 E Marquardt,........2000120002—4 BGaV . veesaeneeess+ 00100001013 GE Breit,......++++» 0102000000—2 Hyvents: 123 4 Hyents: L234 W H Thompson,.,,... 8 % 4 6 DC Bennett,.......... 8 6 8, F A Thompson,....... 6 7 7 8 Dr O’Brien,,............ 6 9 4 CC Heo tees Oe 6b Deacon yw stesssee! 8 8 BLY J Gaughen ,....+.0... 7 & 6,. Osterhont,.,,. 8 GW. Poon, Sec, Mr. Gates and the Rose System, PEHEKSKILL, N, Y.—Hditor Forest and Stream: Ihave read with in- terest in a late issue of ForgstT anp StReEAM the letter of Mr. Gates, of Utica. on the Rose system, and I venture to say that if all those who, ' like Mr. Gates, feeling that they can “shoot some,” should fetinto a class tournament where there were no coniributing members, that shoot would be short-lived. Witness the late State shoot The ‘sWolves” were not satisfied with devouring each other, but must also feast upon the ‘‘Lambs.’’ Why? Because “there was more money in it,’ as quoted in your report last week. That is, notwithstanding the entry fee for events was one-half of the former, the list was larger and the number of 75 per cent. men who were willing to be shorn was greater, Hence the descent of the ‘Wolves. The change in the manner of dividing the purses in fayor of these same ‘Wolves,’ and no doubt, at their request, was not right to say the least, The Rose system, as published in the programme, should have been adhered to, or if entries were fewer than expected, the moneys could have been made five and four. The argument of Mr, Gates appears to be based entirely upon a plan for the element of luck to drop into a convenient place ‘‘all alone” and thereby ‘“‘make expenses*’ Jt is true that we are a gambling nation. We gamble whether we shall draw the next breath; ramble ou the prospects of another meal; we take chances of life, prosperity in business, health and many other things necessarily. The Rosesys- tem does away, to a certain extent, with this eternal gamble, and to my mind, therefore, is one of its best features, There are many professional men who, like myself, shoot at the trap for the relaxation from business, and the recreation the diver- sion brings. : In no sense of the word do we go into it for profit financially, Naturally, therefore, we cannot and do not ever expect to classify ourselyes as experts. We should like to attend afew tournaments a day atatime. It brings us into many new and pleasing acquaint- ances aud makes sometimes strong friendships. Incidentally we shoot a little, neyer getting our money back and satisfied if we draw down eyen a little, Under the Rose plan we can occasionally help to pay expenses and are content financially and feel that the outlay has not been too great to prohibit a repetition and a subsequent meetinz of old faces in new places. If the Rose system handicaps the es pert and fayors the weaker shot it is no more than all handicaps do in all other sports. Bicycling, billiards, yachting, etc,, all have their handicap races, why uot trap- shooting. In event No. 6 of the ‘‘Lambs” on the third day, in which I had the pleasure to participate, there were twelve entries at $1 each. Purse of ‘$12, divided 40, 20, 20, 10, resulted as follows: One man broke straight and received $4 80, six broke 14 and divided $3.60, 60 cents each; two scored 13 and divided $2.40, sach getting twice as much as the las; two with 12 each received same as those who scored 14. There is certainly no one who will be frank enough to claim that this was a fair division of the purse. In the absence of anything better than the Rose system, and until s0mé wise Man can invent an improvement in the matter, we are certainly bound to accept it as the best we have to date. P. H. Mason. Androscoggin Gun Club. Lewiston, Me., June 24.—The following scores were made to-day by members of the Androscogem Guo Club: Merchandise shoot, 25 targets per man, handicapallowance: Joslyn, 20-15—25; Strickland, 15--10—25; Haskell, 14-10—24; Hastman, 13+ 10—23; O, P. Keyes, 124+10—22; Cain, Doten, Murrow and Bean, 21; L, Keyes, 15+5—20; Godfrey 19, Taylor 14. The scores for the Doten challenge cup were as below: , DOteD sy sccaanveveurevuvness+- pepspaesssss 0111101110011141111011111—20 MOrrOW.ssscvceencneee: ceseesesecseesey--©0111000011101111111111101—18 CAI .. psc ccceseenenveversevner sa peieee ete. 1111111011010001011111011—18 FN AON alec ouwreelslupiel terstoleleeate rate tee tees 0111101110101110101001011—16 Ly ROYe@S. osc ceawncncnewcevvvenns ctenbseesy . -0000011110111101111111100—16 O P KeyeS.e.ccerseceeseeevererceess veces L010110110010100101110101—14 GOdETEY...csccceneseeeeesensevecseeesee e+» 1100)01111111010111100011—37 Haskell , pecety) vvevecvesesessereeesees 0110101100011100110001011—313 Taylor ... ee eecaus epegepesseewsecee es 000110111101111010111111 17 Fastma Veuuvnvuceeseevergyyy eee ¢e1010111101101100110001101—15 Alley.., wa vueeeveverery s+ «yy 20100010000111000111111101—13 JOSIYD cc asceeusanes eveveye ee eee + 2111011100111000101100110—15 Sandwich Gun Club, SanpwicH, Mass., June 26.—The Sandwich, Mass,, Gun Club held their regular weekly shoot this afternoon. As only four members put im an appearance, by dividing shells we had thirty-eight apiece, so we shot at 38 bluerocks per man, unknown angles; G Haines, ..¢cceeeeucey see ¢ eee L0000219111111019111711110111111111111— 34 EB Haines,. eee 00111102101110011111111007111011111110—28 § Jones,... \ ce .10001111101101100111100111111111111010_27 W Procter. ..e.ceeecseceee4«-01001111001011100109010010010110101001 —18 G. H Hanes, Sec’y. Bland Ballard, of Louisville, Ky., has returned to the Jersey coast for the summer months, and is just as busily engaged as eyer bowling over live birds from the Hikwood Park traps. Ballard is shooting very well (as he always does), and will render a 200d accountof himself at both Hollywood and Rlkwood Park before he goes into winter quar- ters at Louisville ; Fort Smith Gun Club. Fort Surre, Ark,, June 24.—The following scores were made by the Fort Smith Gun Club at a practice shoot to-day. The targets were thrown from threes bluerock trops arranged on the “Sergeant sys- tem.”? Some of the targets were crackajacks, sailing gaily along for 5 or 80yds. They were a little too swift for some of the boys, but they will get on to them after awhile, Scores: - Shot Per , at. Broke, cent. DIS Yen eee a | fl J Eehols,,..... 78 59 "8 Shot Per at, Broke. cent, F Baptiste,.......75 45 60 JS Miller....,....50 26 50 HEPayne..,..,..60 2 48 J Matthews..,,..100 6 76 $WAMartin..,..)50 17 24 JUHA eaa eer eo” sole RUB ee CGaisCycl en, anata daa) an ed Gene NOTES. Duley was suffering from asick headache, but managed to lead the gang. The boys suggested that he had better stay sick all the time. Will Echols said, ‘‘Oo-e, see ’em go,” when the first bird left th trap and darted over into a cornfield, ’ “Ain’tshe a daisy? Best system I ever shof under,” said little Joe. Leach missed his first bird and then ran 16 straight—the largest run of the day, i Messrs. Martin and Boyd shot on a wager of something less than a hundred. They both expressed themselves as determined to break *em all next time. Baptist says he is going to get him a new $500 gun and then, oh then! look out for buck rabbits. | )Eldin says something way down under his breath when he misses a target. The boys have been wondering what it is. Perhaps he is calling on his mascot, Then again perhaps he isn’t, The chib shoots every Thursday evening, SHORETARY, ~- Soo Gun Club, Sioux Ciry, Ta, June 17.—Below are the scores made by the mem- bers of the Soo Gun Club this afternoon, the occasion being t fourth of the series of handicap medal shoots. The event was shot over the magautrap, and some of the boys showed a marked im- provement since the hard practice during the foo Gun GClub’s bi tournament last week, With the assistance of a handicap, Otte made a possible 100 per cent , and will wear the medal until the next shoot, July 8: Handi- Brees cap, Tota BYGUin gant anem ethene ar 11101111101111101 10111010 0 1 MGVOrn an ye ds sey as- 1011011011101110001111101 17 3 y GeiSOTe. oc e ase ee ees oe. 0000010001110000100010101 8 12 bP Hamilton ...,.........1111011010010001000100110 12 0 12 Boyds seue Ss as bi hs 10111011110114011001011110 1% 5 22 Campbell.,.......,...-1000011111111110011101111 18 3 21 Harris. .... i aytererh ««.0001001110010111001100101 12 5 Ie 1 Dunean ...............1011011010000101110111110 15 7 2 Obtten........eceeee 5s -1111111011111111110110011 21 7 2 Hawman,....,........0100111100100101010111100 18 7 2 Hunter. ...............01110011110110011000001 01 13 {f 20 Keefe... iccccy ces ees o41100011101110000101310101 15 d 19 Powell ..........4.--..0011001100001110011110110. 18 0 138 McNamara...........«.1101011000011001011100101 13 0 13 Boyer. ....0000ses00«-1110001010010001010000010 9 9 18 Grandy .......,.......0010110010110101111011010 14 8 Re BLvuE Burp. Missoula Rod and Gun Club, MissounA, Mont., June 20 —Below are the scores of members of the Missoula Rod and Gun Club, made at their regular shoot to-day. The attendance was smaller than usual, owing to the fact that a few of ourmembers were in attendance ab the tournament of the North- west Sportsman’s Association: H W Thompson,.,.....-.+.,-- peseeey eee es) 101111101000000011 0000110— RE Rodgers, ..-..22:2022225 ve eeeeee reece ee-L101110111911100111000011— J Horbes........ peeeeereeavsey pastors eves -L101111001001010010101111—1 MR Rutherford,..,.. ee tage eeeee ee es ee0111100110111101110000010—1 R, E Rodgers wins gold medal, and J. Forbes wins silyer medal. June 27 —Below are the seores made to-day by members of th Missoula Rod and Gun Club. Eddy won the gold medal, and Menard the silver medal: BATH. ceiccoms sncccatgeeacun get nvs pees stitet iil 001101111 i O—22 CE Flowers,. - « «+ «1011111111100001100101111—17 J A Forbes... J PMenard,,.,...... M KR Rutherford,.....se.s SEVIS MCHCOD sincadcuenievadedevauetuadsis , »1110110011101110101111010—1 ee» e.1110111000001111011101100— yaceses 1000110101010000001101000— 9 W. E. GRAwaM, Sec'y. Omaha Gun Club. OmanA, Neb,, June 19 —The foliowing scores were made to-day at the regular weekly shoot of the Omaha Gun Club: Loomis 19,Whitener19, Hughes 19,'vownsend 19, Dickey 19, Johannis 19, Kenyon 18, Randlette 18, Parmelee 18, Eklab 17, Bates 17, Brucker 16, Squirrel 16, Carmichael 16, Searle 15, Kyote 14, June 26.—Below are the scores made to-day by members of th Omaha Gum Club; Squirrel, ..11101111111111111011—18 Parmelee. .11111010111111110111—17 Krug, .....21112112111010101111—18 Townsend .10111000111101114111—1 Latshan, ,,01111101111111111111—18 Ca?’micha701111010111011111010—14 Loomis, ,.,11111011111111011111—18 Whitner , .11111111101011011001—15 Brucker, , ,01111111110331111411-18 Wiroes...,.11111010001011110170—13 Kenyon ,,,01111111111111111101—18 Jobannis, ,11000011011001111011 12 Bates,....-11111111110011111111—18 Kyote,... .11110101010101111110—i4 Ekalb,,,, .41711011111111111110—18 W.D KeENyon, See’y. Answers to Correspondents, No notice taken of anonymous communications G, R. V., Indianapolis, nd.—Please give me the record weight of small-mouth black bass caughtin river or brook. Ans. We haye no record relative to river fish, The largest small month bass taken from a lake of which we have record weighed 10ibs, c. M. P, Kittery, Me,—1. Can you tell me whether it injures a full- choked gun to use cut shells init? 2. Also the correct merhod of cut- ting the shells. Ans. 1, We think there is risk of injuring the choke and would not advise the practice. 2, Cutthe shell between wads so that it just holds together, PUBLISHERS’ DEPARTMENT. In Southern Mountains. SPECIAL RATES FROM ALL POINTS ON SOUTHERN RAILWAYS VENTION OF INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN WORKERS BLACK MOUNTAIN, N. 0., JULY 15 To AUG. 5. For the Christian Work and Bible Study Assembly of the Inter- national Christian Workers’ Association, held on the grounds of the Mountain Refreat, at Black Mountain, N. 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CONCERNING A SUMMER DELUSION. ‘Raztus and hydrophobia, the former denoting the mad- ess attributed to the dog, the latter a form of the disease onveyed to man by inoculation from a rabid dog’s bite, nd both diseases of such frightful virulence that their yery names inspire mankind with a feeling of horror; 10old an exceedingly peculiar position in the realm of medical science, inasmuch as many physicians maintain that both diseases are so rare that they practically have 10 existence, while others strenuously maintain that they do not exist at all. And yet, institutions devoted specially o the treatment of ‘these diseases have a constantly in- easing Pitronage, and seem to flourish financially. The laily press has its annual run of mad-dog stories. Indeed, he summer season would be shorn of some of its most press is concerned, if rabies and hydrophobia were myths. he policeman in search of heroism, the reporter in earch of a story, the crowd in search of excitement, and he vulgar craving s0 common to humanity to see some- hing killed, would lose much in the way of opportunity if mad dogs could be discovered no longer. The common gnorance which prevails in respect to all that pertains to liseases of the dog, and to rabies in particular, added to which is the fear of it which dominates all other emotions, 84 condition favorable for the ready acceptance of any tory whose subject is a mad dog. | Nearly all physicians hold that most of the cases tributed to the inoculation from the bite. of a rabid dog e€ mimetic or the result of suggestion. The fact of the ixistence of simulated diseases, caused by dread, imagin- ry symptoms and expectant attack, is well established. All authorities on the subject agree that this disease is iO more preyalent in summer than in winter. It is strict- y infectious, and can be transmitted only by inoculation. he common belief that it develops spontaneously is an rror. However, the summer heat does harmfully affect ne dog betimes, producing attacks of vertigo, apoplexy, Qpilepsy and forms of craziness, as it does man under simi- circumstances; yet whatever may be the real disease ‘ith which a dog is affected, itis almost to a certainty di- mosed as rabies by the first observer, who without fail rises the cry of “Mad dog!” and begins the sensation. en suffer more from neryous attacks in summer than in inter, yet the dog is subject to greater hardships conse- went to the heat'than is man; for his body is closer to the arth, and, therefore, is exposed to the full intensity of the sflected heat; and let him need water ever so badly, there # little and often no provision for him to satisfy his thirst _the streets of a great city, Lolling, panting, suffering ad faint, he must toil along till he finds water by acci- pnt. If he should show any frenzy, his death is certain n the instant. There isa vulgar belief that the dogdays are so-called ith special reference to the predisposition of the dogs to ) mad within that period. Ihe name has no reference to ve dogs directly or indirectly. It simply denotes the Itry part of the summer, from a part of July toa part of eptember, and originated in a belief of the ancients that le conjunction of the rising of the dog star with the rising * the sun caused the oppressive heat of summer, and the n sequent maladies, Losing its original dentine with e lapse of ages, it Was an easy matter to transfer as per- aning to the dog the name and all the ill it boded. tis undoubtedly true that rabies and hydrophobia ex- t, but so rare is either disease that few physicians have ireadfully delightful news features, so far as the daily seen a case. The cases of the newspaper sensations are not rabies. Most of the so-called hydtophobia cases in man are simulated—the result of neryous dread. The newspaper mad dog is always highly excited and frothing at the mouth. The really mad dog trots along slowly, oblivious to external. objects unless they obstruct his moyement, when he snaps at the animal or object and restimes his way. The mad dog does not froth at the mouth; the discharge is thick, ropy, tough, and harass- ing to the dog, for he endeavors to remove it with his paws or to relieve it by plunging his head in water. The common belief is that the mad dog is afraid of water, On the contrary, he is not afraid. Heseeks it and drinks a great deal, unless, as in some cases, the muscles of the ' throat become paralyzed. He rarely barks, or whines, or yelps. His yoice has changed to a tone peculiar to rabies, and he uses it in a hoarse, croupy howl which is easily recognized by anyone who has once heardit. The disease may be weeks in developing, and when it reaches a cer- tain stage the dog seeks relief in wandering far from home. He does not attack maliciously. Ina frenzy at being an- noyed or interrupted, he snaps and goes on. President John Haines, of the Society for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Animals, has performed a public service by opportunely stating the truth in this matter, through the medium of the public press and through the Society’s excellent publication Our Animal Friends, Asa result of the recent hydrophobic scare in England, some stringent regulations have been imposed on the im- portation of dogs from the United States, though such act would seem to be deficient in common sense, as the dis- ease exists and has existed in England from time imme- morial. There is no record of any rabid animal ever hav- ing been exported from Ameirca to England, hence the precaution is groundless. Much valuable information will be gathered relative to this subject between this time and the next quarterly meeting of the American Kennel Club, by a committee composed of eminent specialists, and the public may then learn definitely whether the disease is rare or mythical. THH RHETURN TO SAVAGERY. Tis is a phrase frequently employed about those _per- sons who enjoy going into camp, lounging about in their most ragged clothes, and rejoicing in the independence of entire freedom from the conventions by which most of us are bound amid home surroundings. The form of words is expressive and true. Nothing is more attractive than to throw off for a little while the trammels of our daily life to get rid of the tight clothing that we commonly wear’ and to substitute for a white shirt, with its stiff collar, one of flannel that is soft and loose. At such times we like to work hard with our bodies, and to let our heads rest; to make the skin of our knees and hands hard and callous by long contact with saddle or paddle or rope or axe; to do in a month of summer or autumn more hard” physical labor than we perform in the remaining eleven months of the year. We enjoy this because in doing these things we measurably return to natural conditions, and because the contrast between these occupations and those of: our usual life is sharp. A woods vacation is a true and genuine vacation from conyentionalities. Weare likely to. imagine that it is only the Gailized man who has this feeling, but this is scarcely true. There are in this country a quarter of a million’ people, many of whom have just emerged from a condition of savagery, and who are making their way with slow and painful steps toward civilization and self-support. Under these changed canditions they live like the white man—wear “store clothes,” dwell in frame houses, sit in chairs, sleep in beds and eat at the table with knives and forks. But many of the older Indians recall a time in their lives, when in warm weather clothing was a superfluity seldom thought of. when the small boys in summer were clad in a string about the waist, and a belt with a breechclout constituted the wearing apparel of the men. The people remember those bygone days with pleasure, and even Indians who are well advanced toward civilization, who have comfort- able houses, and farm and raise stock, and have begun to accumulate property, sometimes long fora return to the old-time life. So every summer, about the Fourth of July —the whité'man’s great medicine day—they are likely to move away from their houses and to go into camp, just as they used to do. The horses are turned out to feed on the hills, and the lodges are pitched in a circle, with the larger home of the head chief in the center. As of old, the wonien go td the creek for water; or, outside the lodge; they ply the axe on some tough log. The children play about the lodges or splash in the stream, and at night the dogs howl at the moon from the hilltops. Again, as of old, one hears the feast shout; the droning voice of the old crier, as he pro- claims the order of the camp or exhorts the young men to do what they ought to do; or the tapping of drum by a doctor or a party of dancers. If the crier is seen in his march about the camp, it will be found that he has cast aside for the time his hat, coat, shoes and trousers, and luxuriates in garments which con- sist of little besides the human skin. If one goes into a lodge where some old men are gathered, they will be seen to have discarded all modern clothing, and to be sit- ting cross-legged about the fire, either entirely naked, or wearing the old-time leggings or moccasins, but at all events, stripped of the garb which they always assume when they visit the agency, and which has, in fact, become the dress of ceremony. Even during this luxurious period of camp life the white man’s clothing is donned again if a feast or a council is called. Oddly enough the younger generation—those young men and boys who have been born since the new order of things came about, and since the white man’s dress be- came the usual one—do not revert to the primitive cus- toms of their ancestors in respect to clhthing. They still wear, even during this season of relaxation, boots and spurs and trousers and coats, so that in the same home where the father sits naked by the lodge fire, the grown- up son near him is completely clad, and by his side lies his wide-brimmed cowboy hat. . Human nature is everywhere the same, and though the Jong civilized man is, in time, a little further distant from things purely primitive than is his changing red. brother, he still enjoys the return to such conditions, though not with tke pure delight felt by the old Indian, who once a year, for a short time, lives again as ane really used to live when he was a boy. SNAP: SHOTS. Wasit Andrew Lang who wrote ofa wary old trout, fished for by all the experts for years with every device and lure and stratagem known to the honest angler, and circum- yenting all their wiles, only to fall victim atlast to a tickler or guddler, or some other inhuman fisher dolt? Something like it has just happened in Columbia county, New York, where some years ago a planting of brown trout was made in the Harlemyille stream, a brook tributary to the Phil- mont reservoir. . Fora long time one of the fish, a mon- ster of such prodigious size as to turn fishermen as green with envy as the banks from which they beheld him, had been known to haunt a certain pool, to which ambitious anglers of two States had resorted, time,and again, to drag him forth. For all of them the old fellow proved too wary; or, if it came to a test of strength, too strong for their fancy tackle. He had made a record of many seasons of broken tips and parted leaders; but his time came. A few days ago Benjamin Snyder with stout pole and cable yanked-him out. ‘The hero who had so often come out ahead in a fair-play contest with foes worthy of his best dodges, yielded at the end to the unequal odds of catch as catch can with a. bean-pole. He measured seventeen inches around, and twenty HORE in pene and yolnes ten and a-half pounds. Ls “ae ( Persons interested in stocking presérves ‘with foreign game birds have encountered an obstacle existing in the present tariff law which forbids the importation. of such eggs. This clause was putin the Act of1894 at the sug- gestion of Senator Lodge, who represented that the eggs of canvas back ducks were being largely imported into this country. The Senator was led to this view doubtless by. the fanciful storythen current that millions of duck eggs were being imported from the northern regions of this con- tinent for use in the manufacture of albumen. The pur. pose of the Act was esteemed a most commendable one and the prohibition eminently wise, until the Forest anp Srream demonstrated that no such duck egg industry ex- isted. In the tariff bill now under consideration the clause with respect to.the importation of birds’ eggs has been changed, so that the eges of birds which are not edi- ble are put on the free list. This has been done at the suggestion of Senators Hoar and Lodge, who declare it to be their desire to protect the eggs ofthe singing birds. The provision should be modified further to admit of the free importation of eggs of game birds, > se ~ Che Sportsman Canrist. SHEEP AND SNOWSHOES.—IV. A Winter Hunt on the Summit of the Rockles. Investigating the Bear Den. Our second day in camp proyed, for a wonder, to be fair and warm, differing in this respect from almost every other day on the whole trip. Had we known then what we found out later, we would all have gone sheep hunting that day; but we felt that as we were now well into our hunt- ing country, and were practically sure of getting game, we could afford to take our time to if. It was decided to let O-to-k6-mi go out on the mountain where we expected to find our sheep and make a little prospecting trip, Schultz telling him to kill a sheep for meat if he was able to do go. Schultz and McChesney concluded to stay in camp that day, the latter being somewhat tired from his hard work of the day before, they announcing their intention of try- ing to catch a mess of fish through the ice. That bear den up in the mountains was still troubling me a great deal, so unter Powell, Billy Jackson and myself concluded to go up and exterminate the grizzly. When we three started up the mountain side through the timber we had the benefit of the trail broken by our party the day before, but found it a steep and wearying climb none the less. Along toward noon we came to tlie country where Powell had located the suspicious-looking hole in the snow, and finally he stopped and pointed out the spot to us. We then stopped talking, and were as uiet as we could be while making our investigations, illy looked curiously at the hole and announced that, so far as he could see, it was a mighty good prospect for a bear den. The snow all around was 5 to 8ft. deep; yet here was this round hole, some Gin. across, leading down into a black and cayernous interior, from which came a faint mist of steam as ofsome warm body down below. Billy told us to loosen the straps of our snowshoes and get ready to shin up a tree if anything sudden happened before we were ready. Then, arrogating to himself the post of danger, he cutalong pole and prepared to poke out his majesty,ifhe happened to be at home. There was a sharp, little depression in the snow which fell off into the head of a deep coulee, and the whole of the sup- posed den was about half-way up the bank of snow which lined this depression. Across the hollow, a distance of some 6 or Syds., there rosea high drift of snow. Powell and I stood on this drift, with our rifles ready for action, “and Billy stuck his rifle in the snow, where he could grasp it at once, in case there should be need, Our plan of campaign was that as soon as anything was heard from inside the den, Billy was to grab his rifle and throw him- self down the snow-bank into the hollow, rolling clear of the bear if it came out. Hunter and I were to open fire on sight, and it certainly seemed as though with two .45-70s we could blow the head off of any bear before it could much more than get out of the snow. If we did not suc- ceed in doing this, and if the bear charged us, Billy was to open on the flank of the bear as soon as he could get up out of the snow far enough to shoot. I don’t think there wasagreat deal of danger in this plan, unless it might have been for Billy, who might have been caught before he could get away from in front of the hole, in case the bear had charged very-rapidly out of the den. What actually happened, however, was that the bear did not charge rapidly, and, in fact, did not charge at all. And indeed I shall have to admit that there was no bear ’ atall. Billy prodded in the snow for a time with his long pole, and finally stuck his face down to the hole in the snow and called, “Come out of here, you hibernating son- SF ae There was noresponse. Then he proceeded to dig down the sides of the big cave which we found existed under the whole of the snowdrift at that point. We found that the snow was melted clear to the ground over.a space some feet im extent, and when we cut down the front of this cavern we could see a black hole running in under a fallen treetop. It was a most likely looking place for a bear, but we were finally forced to conclude that the snow must have been melted by warm steam or gases coming up from, a piece of hot ground on the mountain side. No one has ever heard of any geysers or hot ground formation in this part of the mountains so far as I know, but we cer- tainly discovered some such thing in our hunt for our grizzly. I was keenly disappointed at this, for we had all felt pretty certain that a genuine bear den had been dis- - covered. Had there been a grizzly actually sleeping there inthe snow, there might have been a good story for some one or other to tell. When we started down from the mountain side we could see Schultz and McChesney far out on the lake, looking like little dots. By the time we got down to the camp they also had come in, and we,got a bite to eat. The fishermen had succeeded in taking eighteen trout, some of them: regular beauties, s0 we were promised an addition to our bill of fare for the evening. The Two Medicine Lake is simply alive with trout in the summer time, and prettier trout water one neyer saw than this lake and the stréam that runs into it. _ Along late in the afternoon Schultz and McChesney con- cluded to take a walk through the woods beyond the head of the lake,in the direction taken by O-to-k6-mi that morning. Schultz told me that he had geen a marten trail a few hundred yards above the camp, so I decided to put out a deadfall and see what I could do about getting a little fur, I built my trap by cutting a hole in the side of a big pine tree, thus making a little house for the bait, 30 that the snow would not drift and cover up the bait. Below the bait house I cut a notch in the tree trunk on which I rested my bed log, and adjusted the fall log so that it covered up all the bait house, excepting a hole big enough for a marten to go in. I spent a great deal of time on the architecture of this trap, and. was very proud of it, but I may say that nothing ever came near it ex- cepting some big-footed rabbits, who seemed to have looked at it with considerable curiosity. Prospect for M eat. While I was working at my marten trap I heard three shots fired over in the direction which had been taken by Schultzand McChesney. I supposed that they were firing at grouse,as the shots did not seem to be more than aiile away. Aiter awhile they came back down the trail and I asked if they had been shooting. “No, sir,” said Schultz, FOREST AND STREAM. “that was Charlie Rose, hammering sheep!” At this we all felt very exultant, for we knew that O-to-ko-mi would not shoot at anything but big game, and we felt morally sure that we would have meat in camp that night. We waited with impatience for his return, meantime all repairing to the lodge and getting ready for a big supper, for which we had acquired very competent appetites. When O-to-k6-mi came into camp no one said anything to him nor expressed any interest in his success, Hecame in and sat down by the fire, and after a wait of some min- utes, in which due gravity had been shown by all, he at length told in fragments the story of his day. ‘“Oo-0-mah,” said he, “there,” pointing to the mountains from which he had just descended, “plenty sh’ip.” “How many?” asked Schultz, And Charlie replied that he had seen several bands of sheep, and had counted seventy-three sheep in all! This, provided that he really understood Hnglish numerals, was certainly a most extra- ordinary showing. Such a quantity of mountain sheep as that is rarely seen by all the hunters on the longest hunt in any part of the country. At that moment each of us in his heart felt that he would certainly kill a sheep, and that without any difficulty. It being contrary to etiquette to manifest. any curiosity as to the number of sheep O-to- ko-mi himself had killed, it was some time before the fact transpired that he had not killed any at all! This he ad- mitted with a very crestfallen air, and Schultz told us not to guy him about it, as he was feeling very badly over his poor marksmanship. In the morning Billy Jackson had counted him out thirteen cartridges. ‘Here, Charlie,” he said, “Tl give you a lucky number, and I want you to kill thirteen sheep, at least.” O-to-kd-mi had to admit that he had fired away all his cartridges, and had only comehome because he had nothing more to shoot with. _ “Mat aks nama!” said O-to-kd-mi with emphasis, mean- ing thereby that his gun was no good. Now, it happened that on this hunt I had given O-to-k6-mi my ,30-30 Win- chester, reserving for myself the .45-70, which I thought would be better for affairs at the bear den in case we ‘found a bear. This .30-30, as I haye earlier stated, had a Lyman rear sight on the tang, and this sight was perhaps eleyated when the gun was given to Charlie, or else he' thought that he would be obliged to use it. At any rate, he seems not to have known how to turn it back so that he could use the open sights which would then be left on the rifle, O-to-ko-mi had never before used a Lyman sight, and from what he said, it is likely that he had got. the aperture of the sight full of snow, or else was trying to sight over the top of it. He said that he could not see through that kind of a sight, and expressed his contempt in general for that sort of an outfit. He expressed by signs his convictions that if he had had along “O muk-stm-nama’ (the big gun), meaning my .45-70, he would have killed “plenty sh’ip.” As we all knew him to be a good shot and a good hunter, we understood that the fault had been simply his lack of familiarity with the little rifle, and we ‘did not poke any fun at him, since he felt so sore over the matter. He told us that on the next day he would take us to the sheep, and that we could probably get -all we wanted without any trouble. When we asked him how far he had gone, he replied vaguely that he had “been far,” and rubbed his legs significantly,, We learned after- ward that he, had traveled clear across the top of the mountain and down on the Cut Bank side. By this he must haye gone a distance of fifteen miles or more across country. Lodge-flre Cookery. We had no sheep meat for supper that night, but really, we did not needit. billy Jackson took hold of the posi- tion of chef for that evening and proceeded to cook a meal big enough for about twice our number, had that number not inéluded trencher talent of so pronounced a type. Billy Jackson would be. lost in camp without a Dutch oven, but once provided with one of those comfortable utensils he can do all sorts of wonderful things around a lodge-fire. Billy’s theory seems to be that it makes no difference what | you put into one of these cast-iron pots, it is bound! to be good when it comes out. In the bottom of the pot helaid, this time, a structure of crackers, over which he put two or three layers of fresh trout, Then he built on top of this a superstructure of beans, pork, tomatoes, beef, macaroni, and everything else he could get his hands on, throwing in a little salt, pepper, Worcestershire sauce, etc., for luck, as he went along. Billy was busy talking all the time he was constructing this imposing dish, and he never seemed to give any thought about the amount of galt, pepper or anything else he was throwing into the pot, but there must have been method in-his madness, for out of the charmed Dutch oven arose nothing but the most savory odors and proceeded nothing but the most toothsome morsels. While the big stew was simmering the coffee-pot was.like- wise at work upon another corner of the fire. Presently they. both were taken off the fire, and with some curiosity I interviewed Billy’s pot pourr?, more especially as to the trout, whi¢h I was confident most be ruined by the sum- mary process which had been served uponthem. Yet, to my surprise, the trout were not spoiled at all, but, on the contrary, were exeellent. They were not baked, nor boiled, no fried trout, but steamed trout, and anyone who thinks they were not good must be one who was not there - to help dispose of them. They came out of the pot very little disfigured, but cooked thoroughly and ready to fall apart atthe touch. Weate them all up, and ate up every- thing there was in the pot, and drank an unconscionable. lot of coffee, as hunters in camp will do, and then lay back happy around the lodge-fire, nearly all the party hunting for pipe and tobacco. Q-to-k6-mi became more communicative after a time and told us of his hunt, Then we began to tell each other about others of our hunts, and so the evening sped away. Billy Jackson was, as usual, called upon to tell a story of his early days,and described to us how he was once enter- tained at an Arickaree village when he was returning to Lincoln after the disastrous defeat of Custer at the field which bears his name. Schultz gave us still further descriptions of Indian life and Indian lore, and we were well on toward midnight before we realized how late it was, Then there wasa hurried scramble into the bags, for we had concluded that we must make an early start on the morrow, which was to be the first day of our general sheep hunt. There was a yery comfortable feeling in camp that we were oyer the worst of our experiences and now upon the point of success in the quest upon which we had come go far. E, Hover. 1206 Bevcr Bumpine, Chicago. Nearly every morning a dense fog bank hangs over the bay . but cheerful, but when it clears away the view is very strik. [Jony 17, 1897. A TRIP TO EASTPORT AND THE | _ MAINE WOODS, | We had talked about it, read about it, and dreamed about it, but where to Epend our summer vacalion we did not — know. Maps too numerous to mention were carefully stud- — ied and laid aside. Of summer resorts we found many, and the picturesque mountain regions were not overlooked by anny eas : ed ————, who was to be my companion, was an en- thusiastic sportsman. He had made many trips to the Maine woods, where so many stories about marvelous catches of — fish and prodigious bags of game have originated. It was through his influence that I consented to go Hast, We had another week before vacation, and during that time we were — kept busy getting things in readiness for the trip.: Our fish- ing rods were once more taken from the attic and‘freed from — their dusty coats. The guns, which had-been laid away for — many months, were disturbed from their quiet resting-place — and given a general cleaning up, Two cameras, with seve- © ral doz2n plates, completed our outfit. On the morning of Aug. 4, two sleepy fellows could have been seen at the railroad station anxiously waiting for the incoming train. We lost no time here, as the train arrived — on scheduled time, and less than two hours after leaving Newburyport we arrived in Boston. We made quick time across the city to Commercial wharf, where we boarded the — commodious steamer Cumberland. After waiting patiently for neatly two hours we felt: re- lieved when the captain came to the forward deck and cried out: “‘All ashore that’s going a-horel” Five minutes later the ponderous engines began their fifty-two hours of contin- uous Jabor, and the boat moved slowly out of the dock. The wharves then appeared to twist and turn and move rapidly away. The people who but a moment ago were closely gathered around their friends, appeared now like mere dots as they wended their way homeward. As we moved out to sea, the high buildings of the big city disap- peared from yiew one by one, until nothing could be seen save the gilded dome of the State House as it flashed back — the rays of the morning sun. We were due at Eastport at 12:30 next day, and promptly at that time the lines from our boat were cast ashore at this famous seaport. As the steamer moves slowly along coming up the bay it gives one an excellent opportunity to view the water front, lined with its fleet of vessels, The first thing that impresses a stranger, via nostrils, is the herring and sardine industries, whose packing houses line the river front for nearly a mile. As we neared the wharf many types of humanity could be’ seen, which were interesting to look upon, to say the least; and as the gangplank was lowered into position they formed a line on either side and watched the crowd with keen inter- est as they moved slowly ashore. Wandering up from the wharf through the main street the evidence of the great fire of 1887 is omnipresent in the new structures bearing that date, the last one erected being the handsome new Government building, built entirely of gran- ite at a cost of $125,000. Throughout the town many quaint old homesteads remain to keep alive the memory of the past. Brick sidewalks and edgestones are something unknown to the pcople of Bast- port. Go where you wish, you will find nothing but plank-) walks, which in many places are elevated high above the street. The street life here resembles that of any other sea: port, where the old fishermen, with rounded backs, gather on ihe street corners and discuss the catches of the past and present. As one walks around admiring the fine buildings they | hardly realize that they are on an island; but if they take the} pains to climb to the top ot the hill back of the town, they} will soon discover that they are surrounded by water, and from this place all the matchless beauties of the quaddy'| region unfold themselves as at no other point, Looking north- ward, the St, Uroix River and Chamcock Mountains are geen far below. Hastward, the fair bosom of Quoddy Bay set with iis hundred isles. Southward across to Campobello and: old’ ocein, and still further to Grand Manan, that lifts its purple! walls along the horizon until blended out of view. Boarding the stanch little steamer that plies between Hast- on a bigh wharf overlooking Chamcock Bay. utes’ walk brought us to the top of the hill, and from there’ all the beauties of the surrounding country could te seen to advantage. In every direction hills and wooded knolls res their heads above the forest. Miniature Jakes and rivers flash back the light of the sun, and slone walls appear like’ strings of beads in their winding course over the hill tops. If there ever was a place especially designed to enrapture the artist and lovers of nature, 1t surely must be North Lubec. It is possible that nature, when laying out her do- mains here below, may have made a more beautiful spot but it is doubtful. The air, far sweeter than any we hadi ever breathed before, filled the lungs with a morning brace that makes one wish it could be bottled for future use which lasts nearly all the forenoon; the air heing damp and heavy, it, of course, makes the surroundings look anything ing. Asthe sun creeps up, the heayy mist, which hangé like a bridal veil, moves, ghost-like, among the thickly cov ered banks and islands, rising higher and higher, in obedi ence to the warm rays, till lost to view in the upper ether, Time passed very rapidly here in gunning, fishing anc boating. Plenty of game birds could be seen at any time ix their flight to the numerous islands in the lower bay. Trou were found quite plentiful, but a trifle small. The brooks were very low, and the muddy shores made it almost impos] sible to get near the edges. For miles around the shores were cut up with deer tracks, and in many places it was evi dent that they had no little difficulty in freeing themselve# from the treacherous mud while trying to quench theij thirst. Four days had now passed since our arrival a! Lubec, and fora change we decided to go further dowy stream and visit the Passamaquoddy tribe of Indians and learn something about the larger game. Next morning w# were up bright and early and on our way down stream he fore sunrise, : The tide was flowing at a rapid rate, and it required bul little labor at the oars to carry us along by the thickly wooded shores with startling rapidity. Wearrived at thi Juny 17, 1897.) FOREST AND STREAM. 43 —_—_w SS ww little village before the sun had fairly cleared the distant hilltops. Herewe found everything in its quietude. Two or three of the Indians, with guns, were seen hurrying toward the dense forest, but they paid no attention tous. We said nothing, but watched them as they passed over the distant hilltop and wondered what specimen of the fur or feathered tribe would accompany them on their return home. A few minutes later a score or more made their appearance, which made the village present quite an animated scene. They were large muscular fellows, with high cheekbones and dis- torted faces, Their costumes differed but very little in ornamentation. A dirty flannel shirt, dilapidated trousers and seal-skin moccasins form the daily apparel of a large proportion of “us, we could have almost realized that we were in the Ice- landic region. We tried to gain admittance to several of the shanties, but found out that it was no easy matter todo so. Following the narrow path which led down through the valley to our boat, we came to another path which crossed in an opposite direction. We followed this path, and it brought us to the top of a rocky knoll, and from here we saw away out at the foot of a great hill, where the crows and chickadees call all the year round, a dilapidated shanty, which looked as if it had passed its usefulness many years ago. On going nearer we saw smoke rising from the canted chimney on the op- posite side. ‘‘Surely, it must be serving as ashelter for some one,” said Ned, as he glanced at the coils of black smoke CAMP ON THE BANKS OF COBSCOOK BAY, them, While strolling around the village we came across a group of wickerware makers sitting upon the ground busily engaged at their work. This was a subject that I had been wanting fora long time, and not many minutes passed before our cameras were in position and ready for a picture, but they were an inquisitive set, and of course dropped their work quickly and gathered around us, Being unable to speak their language we could not explain what we were about todo. The more that was said to them the more stupid they seemed to grow. Getting impatient we began packing up our cameras, and this seemed to have the desired effect, as they returned to their places at onee. We placed our cameras in position again only to find them crowding around us once more. After a long time the older ones seemed to understand what we wanted them to do, and after consulting with the others they walked lazily away. But then it was with no little difficulty that they were induced to return to their places again. Fr the first time we realized that it was no easy task to obtain pictures of picturesque people in the backwoods; they are most apt of all to regard any attempt to photograph them as an attempt on their lives; this is especially so with the younger class who, when a camera is pointed at. them, run about with the agility of a squirrel seeking a place of safety. The few who did consent to have their pictures taken. proved so wooden-headed that it was difficult to get them to pose properly. A snap-shot was taken, however, and then the trouble began. Evidently they had never before been visited by the camera fiend, as they are entirely ignorant of the camera and of course knew nothing about the time required to produce a finished picture. Gathering around us they begau to clamor in an excited manner and wanted to see the picture which they had now found out something about. They insisted on having a copy at once. Explanations were out of the question, of course, and the predicament became anything but humorous. Promising them a copy at some future day we departed in time to look up some more scenes of Indian life. The fact that more than three-fourths of the population are full-blooded Indians is enough of itself to account for much of the picturesqueness of customs and costumes. They are expert basket makers, and all sorts of things are skillfully made from the hammered ash, and so gayly colored that it would drive a peacock to suicide to look at them. Canoe building is another occupation which many of them engage in before the hunting season commences, We saw a dozen fine canoes at different places which were receiving the finishing touches. These Indians are fine _ workmen, and witha few strips of birch bark and a little pitch, both of which are gathered in the forest, they will mold out a canoe of which any one would feel proud to be the owner. An Indian would not bea true red man if he did not care for hunting, while they depend largely on canoe and basket making for a living. Yet they do not by any means let it imterfere with their hunting. A close watch is kept on the shores of the river and the borders of the woods around them, where deer, moose and bear make frequent calls. During the hunting season it is seldom that their tables are found without fresh venison. If the num- ber of hides which are seen stretched on the doors of their shanties drying in the sun is anything to go by, then they must have been well rewarded for their long tramps in the forest. The farmers in that vicinity seldom have any trouble from these Indians, in fact they owe a great deal to them for thinning out the skunks and foxes, who have no peaare for the prize fowls that wear blue ribbons at the airs. Among the treasures of the Passamaquoddy Indians, it is said, is a letter from George Washington, written from his army on the banks of the Delaware, Dec. 24, 1776, in which he expresses his pleasure that the Passamaquoddies had accepted the chain of friendship he sent them the preceding February. Harly in the afternoon the wind suddenly changed to the eastward and blew with great force, the cold, damp wind penetrating our thin clothing until we became almost chilled through. Had it not been for the green branches swaying and twisting above our heads and the fresh meadows below rising high in the air. Whether enemies or friends we were going to find out, and in another minute we were wending our way quietly along the narrow path that led through a little patch of vegetables which seemed to be struggling hard for existence. “Who is going to rap at the door?” Ned asked, in a whisper, as if all the wildcats and bears around had taken possession of this old house and were lying in wait for their victims. These foolish thoughts soon came to an end, and we had now arrived at the door. In response to a vigorous rap an old Indian half-opened the door and peered out; then the door was opened wide, and we received an invitation to enter, Although the room was filled with musty air, we were glad to gain admittance to this strange dwelling, where kitchen, dining-room and parlor were all one. After findin g each of us a comfortable seat, which was nicely covered with deerskins, he introduced himself as Sopahel Selmo, chief of the Passamaquoddy tribe, he haying held that position for several years. On looking around, the first sight to meet our eyes was the huge black fireplace on the opposite side of the room, built entirely of turf and clay, forming a very tude affair. From a large birch log coils of bluish-black smoke were constantly rising. Embers were smoldering on the meal with him. Although extremely hungry, we did not have the courage to accept the invitation to dine in that style, The biscuits had a knotty appearance, and looked as though they might make one feel a trifle heavy-laden if they ate one; and as we were taking no chances in this lonely region, we thought best to hold out till we arrived at Lubec, In a little room adjacent was his cot, a rude affair which hardly cleared the floor. At the head of his bed stood a roughly made table, covered with cups and dippers, from which came a strong odor of pennyroyal and other herbs, These herbs, with tobacco, he uses freely, and to which he attributes his long life and continued good health. Time had passed rapidly in this interesting little room, and as we arose to go he grasped our hands and bid us farewell. He stood in his doorway and watched us until we disap- peared from view behind the hills, perhaps neyer to meet again. “The return trip was by no means an easy one, as it required two hours of constant labor at the oars before we saw even the faint glimmer of Lubec light, which was situated at the narrows nearly three miles away. We reached Lubec, however, at a late hour, but knowing more about Indian life than we ever knew before. Orvis P. Goup. ON THE EDGE OF THE GRAN CHACO, TOLD BY WILLIAM KINGSBURY TO WILLIAM H, AVIS. (Concluded from page 4.) We had been at Juan’s for nearly a month, when, one day, Juan, Rubio and I decided to pay a visit to a large tacamar, or artificial lake, a fewmilesaway. The tacamar had been formed by building a rude dam of logs and earth across an arm of the river, to provide drinking water for the cattle when the river was low. It was nearly a mile in length, and half a mile wide. A succulent growth of grass surrounded it. On account of its extreme richness, this grass attracted thousands of head of cattle, whose con- tinuous feeding kept it cropped short, thus making easy traveling through it on horseback. Upon reaching the edge of the tacamar, we stopped to gaze upon a scene which I can never forget. Directly in front of us, and for about half a mile on either hand, was gathered more game of all varieties than I had ever looked upon before. Hundreds, yes thousands, of geese, ducks and swans literally hid the surface of the lake a short dis- tance from shore, while scurrying here and there near the shore could be seen countless hordes of nutrias (similar to our muskrats, but larger). There were also multitudes of jacares (alligators) which, in all directions, lay on the water and on the shore, basking in the sun. Cranes and storks of all varieties, some of them as tall as men and of all conceivable colors, strutted solemnly about; while huge turtles poked their heads out of the water here and there, or took their lumbering way along the shore near the water’s edge. We watched this scene of animation for some little while before we went down to the shore of the tacamar. On our way, we found there was almost as much animal life in the grass as there was on the water. I shot several nutrias from horseback and Juan killed a couple of jacares; he also caught and turned two large turtles on their backs on the shore. I thought I would get a few geese. Selecting a large bunch that was feeding near the shore some distance from me, I worked my way through the grass in their direction. Although I was not cautious in my approach, the geese appeared not to notice me, Singling out a large, fine bird, not over 30yds. away, I fired and he rolled over, The flock did not rise as I had expected, but simply stopped feeding and began to swim SOPAHEL SHLMO, CHIEF OF PASSAMAQUODDY TRIBE, the large, flat stone in front, while the old black kettle was steaming away its cheerful notes from the crane above. Upon a threadworn mat, which was his household luxury, lay a large black dog, which for days and weeks at a time is his only companion, In the corners and on the shelves many quaint and curious articles were to be seen. Weapons of fear- ful and wonderful pattern filled the room. A gunof ancient model stood against the wall, and this weapon he values highly forits shooting qualities. Dried apple of a coppery hue hung in graceful festoons from the smoke-colored beams above. A stock of sea-bird wings were drying on pegs over the fire-place, showing that many members of the feathered tribe had fallen a prey to the skill of this lone hunter. Probably there are cobwebs there to-day which were man- sions of cheerful spiders when he took possession a half cen- tury ago. From an opening at the back of the fire-place, which Selmo called his oven, a pan of steaming hot biscuits were taken; these, with a dish of black molasses, were placed on a table, and an invitation given us to sit down and enjoy leisurely away. I killed eight, still they did not offer to _ rise. I now stopped, as it would have been wasteful slaughter to continue shooting them. The water was not over 2 or 3it. deep; so I waded my horse in and picked up my birds. While I was shooting geese, Juan and Rubio were not idle. They took the dogs with them, and, setting ont through the grass, soon started a gama fawn. After con- siderable of a chase, the dogs ran the fawn down, but be- fore they could injure it Juan and Rubio dashed among them and captured the animal alive. Rubio decided to take it home for a pet for his little girl. The afternoon was gloriously beautiful and there was good promise of a fine evening, We decided to camp on the outskirts ofa heavy monte. About sundown Rubio introduced us to a bountiful hunter’s repast, He proved his ability to roast a goose to perfection. The evening around the fire was one long to be remem- bered. 3 Barrows:,...| 23 | 2) 214) | 428 —— Phelps’......| 20 40 French ,.....| #5 5 |- 214 |10 70 28 Blue Ribbon.| 19 —s Liddiard.,,,,| 20 120 Worthen..,./ 22) 1] 214 | 2144 112 Ward,,......| 18 = — & cents over Rosle Add amount over,,,.,...> 08 60 00 In the above example the ratio points are 5, 2 and 2 to 1, Now take the same event under the same system of division, but change the ratio points to 5, 4, and 3 to 2: | a) 93s | 8 WINNERS. 8 a|43 2 | 98 a| oe | Pys sah Barrett..,.,./ 25 | 5 | $1 8% | $9 35 32)60.00(1,.87 Colvin. ,,.,..| 75 5 | 187 9 35 32 Morris..,..../ 20 | 5 | 1 87 9 35 — French ,.....| 25} 5| 1 87 9 35 280 Yucker .....,| 24 | 4) 187 { 48 256 Fanning...,,| 28 | 3 | 187 5 61 —- Barrows ....| 28 | 3) 1 87 5 61 240 Worthen,,,.| 2%) 2| 1 87 3 ue 224 an = 16 cents over, 60 00 Notice the equable graduation of moneys to targets broken. TWnder the Rose system (four moneys, ratio 5, 3,2 and 1) wegzet the following proportions: if aes targets broken pays 14 as much as 23. 23 targets broken pays 44 aS much ag 24. 24 targets broken pays,4, aS much as 25. Under the change of ratio to 5, 4,3 and 2, note the difference: 22 targets broken pays 74 8s Much as 23. 28 targets broken pays 34 as much as 24, 24 targets broken pays 4, as much as 25, A The proportion of money is manifestly more in keeping with the comparative merits of the scores under a system which pays two- fifths as much for 22 as for 25, thanit is when five times as much is paid for a straight as for 22. . Would respectfully suggest the following changes to the Interstate “Association> : 2 moneys—ratio 3 to 2. 3 moneys—ratio 4, 3 to 2. 4moneys—ratio 5, 4, 3 to 2. 5 moneys—ratio 6, 5, 4, 3 to 2. 6 moneys—ratio 7, 6, 5, 4, 3 to 2. ’ Take the same sample event used above, and make a comparison between the scheduled ratio of 8,5, 4, 2to1 (five moneys, Rose sys- tem) and the suggested change Then I think no further argument will be necessary to convince the average shooter that the Rose sys- tem can be improved upon: Points, Points, ' Rose Proposed Proposed Winners. Score. System. Change. Rose System. Changes. BANESH ] | ‘olorin e Morris by aano 8 6 [oor eees $9.46 each........$7.50 each, Freneh 8 6) Tucker......24 5 5 6.10 6.25 Fanning L298 3 4 w....3.66each.,,.....,,5,00 each. Barrows | 3 4) Worthen .,.22 2 3 2.44 3.75 ae 1 2 icke f 3 UMa {+l 4 Bb evecseseeel-B2 O8CD., +. 4...42.50 each, Standish | 1 2 | 49 48 W. E, P. A New Hind of a Handicap. THE general purpose of a handicap is to equalize as far as possible the chances of both novices and experts, The idea is to give the novice a chance to beat the expert once in a while. Buta new system of handicappmg has been brought out that casts all others into the shade, This system enables the novice occasionally to tie the expert, but never allows him a chance to beal out his superior, save under the most exceptional circumstances, which might occur once ina decade. The system is. this (it was used at the Boiling Springs shoot on July . 7): The highest possible in any match is the greatest number of tar- gets broken by any contestant in that match; in other words, “the high man sets the paces.” All who break less than rhe “high man” are allowed as many extra targets to shoot at as constitute the differ- ence between their scores and that of the high man. Wor instance; The “high man” breaks 48 out of 50. then 48 is the highest possible. Those who broke 47, 46, 44,42 and 39, would shoot at 1, 2,4, 6 and 9 extra targets, respectively. ; Now figure how it works, The 48 man is, according to the above figures, 2 96 per cent, shot; the 39 man is only a 78 per cent. man. The Jatteris allowed 9 extra targets to shoot at, out of which his ayer- age score would be about 7; but he has to break them all to even tie the high man—the crackerjack. Suppose he does tie him, and the tie is shot off at 25 targets.each, same system of handicapping, What then? The 96 per cent. man wil? break 24 or 23, while the poor novice breaks in the neighborhood of 20, and has to break his 3 or 4 extra tar- gets to fe the expert. Multiply the aboye examples as often as you will; it all comes down to one thing: The winner will be found in the ranks of the expert, while the novice simply walks up and pays for his targets, but has absolutely cnly one chance in a million of win- ning; the expert must either drop dead, burst his gun, or be otherwise incapaciated from proceeding with the game, if the novice is to have a show under this system, . 4th of July. . + Juny 17, 1897.) ‘straight, while Adams droppéd 1.- Paul thus won the cup. IN NEW JERSEY. = BOILING SPRINGS GUN CLUB. July 8 —The regular weekly shoot of the Boiling Springs Gun Club, of Rutherford, held this afternoon, was poorly attended, chiefly owing to the yery hot weather and the general exodus from the city for the Only six members of the club were present; these, to- gether with two guests, Donley Deacon of the New Utreeht Gun (lub, and Marshall Herrington, of the W—A Powder Co,, and F, Sinnock, of the Forester Gun Club of Newark, made up the total of niaé shooters who took part in the events shot this afternoon, The weather was decidedly warm, and a slackness was consequently apparent in the way in which the eyents were shot off. It was too hot to move sea idly. With scarcely a breath of wind stirring, good scores were only to be expected. In the club race Paul, with a handicap allowance of 4 extra Larzets to shoot at, scored 49, and was tied by Platt Adams with a handicap allowance of 8. On the shoot off at 10 targets, each Missed 3 and tied again; they shot off at 5 more, Paul Se r. De Wolfe again shot well up, scoring 46 out of his first 59 targets. De- tailed scores in this race were: Club handicap; Paul (4), ..005 ROR OER — d—4) P Adams (8), .11110111111111111111010111111111110011101111111101— 43 JOO11111 —49 W_& Huck (0) 10111211112111111117111111001111111111111111111111 —A7 HB Banks ...¢,.11111111112011111111111111111101111112171110111111 3 =—47 De Wolfe (2), ELE SO LES Ae OTL OL 2p 47 1 ea *M Herrington01110111111111111111111111010011110111110111011111 —42 *W Sinnock, , ..11110111011110001111101111111111011110111111111111 = —41 +1) Deacon. , ..01110111110911111111011111110010110111111110111111 —40 Lewis (15) ,,,.01110111110010010010010111101100101110101111011011 —32 01€011010110101 — §8—40 *Guests. , Several small sweeps were als> shot, all at unknown angles, with the exception of No. 5, which was at 5 pairs. Scores: Events: 123 45678 Events: 12 346567 8 Targets: 10 15 1015 1015 25 25 Targets: 10 15 10 15 10 15 24 24 Banks,.... 1015 1018 6112123 Ds Wolfe.. 8 14 .. 18 7 14 21 18 Mick wehbe ae wee. Doncony,.. al VETss jee Berrington 911 618 510 :. 20 Huber,.... 6.,,.. 6 2 614 10 BINMGCK ORD. Gy Leee lw MLCMUIS: pace sey tulit: tPelehth nt Adams,.,. 1018 811 718%... July 7—The first shoot for the silyer tea service, donated by the Boiling Springs Gun Club, was decided this afternoon on the club’s grounds at Rutherford. The shoot had not been well advertised, so {he attendance was not up to what might have been expected. The conditions of the contest are as follows: 50 targets, handicap allow- ance, entrance price of the targets; shoots held on the firsé and third Wednesdays of every month until the end of the year, the tea service becoming the property of the shooter who has most wins to his credit; open to all. The system of handicapping adopted at to-day’s shoot was one suggested by J. 147 L. Winston. Itran thus: The high score on the first 50 targets constituted the highest possible, all who broke less than that highest possible out.of their first 50 targets receiving an allowance of extra targets to shoot at equal in number to the differ- ence between their scores and that highest possible, For instance, Van Dyke broke 48 ont of his 50, and 48 was thus the highest possible; Winston, with 47 out of 50, and Banks, with 46 out of the same num- ber, shot at 1 and 2 extra targets, respectively; breaking their allow- ances, they were credited with highest possibles. Huck only broke 42 out of his 50, so had to break 6 straight to get ioto the first tie. Chris Wright, with a score of 44, broke 4 straight and was in the tie. Collins, B. James and Greiff, who had 5,10 and 14 extra targets to shoot at, being the difference, respectively, between their respective scores of 43, 38 and 84 out of 59 and the highest possible, dropped out early in shooting off their allowances. This left five still] in the tie. It was shot off under similar con- ditions as to handicap, but at 25 targets. Van Dyke and Banks broke 24 each and thus set the highest possible; 147 broke 23 and his allowance of 1 extra; Huck broke 20 out of 25 and completed his highest possible by breaking his allowance of 4 extras. Wright only broke 19 and lost the first target in his allowance of 5. " With four still in the tie it was agreed to shoot off at 15 targets, with similar conditions as to handicap. Van Dyke and Winston broke 14 and were high; Banks broke 13 and his allowance of 1; Huck fell down toll and lost his first allowance target. This left three tied for the service, and it was agreed to shoot off the tie on 15 tar- ets, no allowance, high gun to count the win for to-day’s shoot, van Dyke won by breaking 15 straight, with 147 1 behind, and Banks bringing up the rear with 13. There can beno question but that Van Dyke fully deserved his win; his record for the 1U5 shot at in this race was 101 breaks. In addi ion to this great average he shot at 35 targets, one man up, expert rules, breaking 33; his percentage for the 140 targets shot at during the afternoon was 95.7, ] The detailed scores in the tea service contest were as fullows: F Van Dyke, .12111111111111111111111111111011111101111111111111 | —4g V4T ogee eee een ee 24L00011011111111101111011111111111111111110111110—417 1 EBanks,.... ATMOMMNOA MOM W H Huck,.. AAONOUONTHONoOO—e © Wright... MUOMIMH ts uiIONN LTT TH00 Tors nat IO aa B Collins, .,.,.10011141101101100110111111111114411111211111111111 43 B James’... goon olornniannisatenotinitioossio.outtt 38 GB Greif, ,.L11111111141001011001100010111¢0101511111110111000—34 : — 0—3¢4 Practice sweeps were shot as follows; Hyents: 123 46 6 %7 $8 91011 Targets: 10 10 16 10 15 26 10 10 10 10 10 eth ae apiece) ese eee ee Pe Einidkoniccianiedente es teline aes gel Une Ss amie Ube ni Sis IR OLIV S See cibleewnevecerhonae hin ee ae 10 Pe ase we e oe ae os WATtDYKCisercuraidenermetanee 29) slQuele. ah i ee ere fie ty T40, ccc cen cpecevcsssesncevcesi= 10 9 10 9 14 24 a, =. ee ve er WIight,..csccetnreressscceees 9 ‘ LOD aoe Lee ithe ect DAMES si freee anpesrerescinsaen pe Beef ch ae Be ee ee a es ARES ESE Te REL Coe TRIO. Tes 0. ae ae Pa Tilosuetne rtetn sunisileban ie Hore it Adal tele tS we. Oe iG) WlanOyearares peanrabanhuveseteatn sf Pre eneUlcsane;) eG (Ole co. iheaad Nos. 1, 2, 3,10 and 11 were at expert rules; Nos 4,5 and 6 at un- known angles; No. 7, 5 pairs; Nos, § and 9, reyersed order, Two miss and outs were also shot during the afternoon. The first was shotin this manner; All stood at No. 1 score and shot at a tar- get thrown from No.5 trap, regular angles, use of both barrels. Chris. Wright was the winnerin the 4th round Scores were: Wright 4, Winston 3, Collins, Van Dyke and Banksieach, No.2 was shot with all standing at No. 5 score, the targets being thrown from No, 1 trap, regular angles. Banks was the winner in the 6th round. Scores; Banks 6, Winston 6, Wright 3, Collins (re-entry) 2, Van Dyke J, Uollins (first chance) 0. — WALSRODE GUN CLUB i July 6.—Ten members of the Walsrode Gun Club gathered at the club's grounds, at Varnum street, today and shot a number of 10- target sweeps. Nos. 1,2 and 4% were at known angles; Nos. 4 and 9 at unknown augles, and Nos. 5, 6,7 and 8 were English snipe events. A friendly match at.10 pairs and 10 singles was also shos between J. Schiiling and H, Reinhardt, The_scores: Events; 1 23 4 5 Reinhardt. ..scsensssesensesacs GOCrPEL: veseccweweversercprsasgrsetes Faber vapevewevpocvcewsedns ses penance Farrelly vcpecsssssunerressreseseppeces Franke peti ee assesr veers reread: opees AUZUSL. cesepeceeee evbteenecssencenns Schleicher. ,....ce:seceveevessmorecce> VOUNE. cereeesssnsueeeeverrersseosenas Wis “BUsSkink, ,psaceevursrreisinvisesy ani UNG, .....sseeeeveee-10 00 11 10 0 So ppbauneteeasdeeracut 01 01 01 0 a 7 8 9 oOo ie We oO OT or J 2 -) Ipacn * e . eo * PAIK OVMA AA Orc: OF HE OF STOO GO ret co Or =F; OS 00 00 10 1111111110 —1 10 il 1111111111—20 H, REINHARDT, Sec’y. , AT ELEWOOD PARE. July 7.—The gold medal shoot of the Central Gun Club was held here to-day, four shooters participating. Two miss and-out eveuts, $a entry, were also shot, The scores: So ae IOS Oa om oo non wostoc oo == oe OTe Coo: o> OO 2 = =v Ty dE. (29). sssceeveevveveveeee22e2i22211-10 L212 DR price Occ cclcccceccceccee BOO 7 = «GB 0 Arthur (s Versveteererterecpens eye QUO2011101— 5 0 0. 110—2 H Price (25) eee esegeeeeeeeey ee OOILOLIOIO— 4 10-1 0 —0 Marks (27). POEREREREEE RE RTC e eee ees 0 —0 121—3 July 9.—The futurily preliminary, at 15 birds, $10 entry, was shot to-day, Kling won-first money alone, while four men tied for FOREST AND STREAM. second place. In the shoot-off for second money Bradley won with 6 straight kills. Hyent No, 2 was at 15 birds, $15 entry, Murphy wiv- ning with a clean score. Bradley beat out Dolan and Winston for second place, No.3, 4and 5 were miss-and-outs, $5 entry. Scores: No.1, Preliminary Futurity. Ties. No, 2, Ties, Kling (27) ...214221122121122—15 21012012120w —8 Bradley. (27), 20212211222122114 112112—6 112211011112121—14 izl1—4 Daly (29)... .20222 2221212212 -14 2110 —3 1101012112w — 8 Murphy (80) .220122222221121 14 121210—5 212211222111212—15 Winston (30).2212222 2222212014 222220—5 20222212222222214 2220—3 Harrison (28) 012112110111112 13 2011021100w —6 Dolan (29) ,,1111011120~w —S8 141112221220112-14 0 —0 Hoey (29)... 0202212) 7w —5 22222012222220w —12 No. 3. No. 4. No. 5, Murphy (80) .ccssscsscesassseeeeellO —2 2112120 —6 0 —0 Daly (29)....- Poniata aay ie 10 —1 22122210 —7 212222—6 Hoey (29)... os .22222—5 220 —2 20 —1 Bradley (2%)... 10 =0 0 —0 11110 —4 Dolan (29)...sseecesnes Guasnerel0! —3 21222211—8 20. — Witston (80), ..evecnvevecerryessaeeee—D 22222222—8 222220—5 KUM g (28). ceveseeresresvesvessvsl0 —I 0 —0 221120—5 Harrison (29) .yevevavuerscsassssllel0—4 2110 —3 220 —2 July 6.—Below are the scores made to-day by members of the North Hudson Rod and Gun Club on the Secaucus Polo Grounds, the ovca- sion being the monthly shoot of theclub, Hvyent No, 1 wasat 12 live birds; No. 2at10 targets. Scores; atat iy) No, 1, rts H THOULOb, cere cee saeccneners cess OOLOIZ012111— 8 1001001000— 3 FL Heflich ccc cccccegesenseneescees eo 011202122112—10 1111000101— 6 HA Marms....... eeeeeeeeet11100011001— 7 1111000011 — 6 R Asehbach...,, seve ee201121111228—10 0001010000— 2 L Diefenbach, 000112111010 — 7 0001100001— 3 SLASUGLGi atte siclalsied-ties aisle ole 100021020100 — 5 0000001000— 1 .110122121001— 9 0111010111— 7 .100012030100— 4 0010100001— 3 Louts F, ScHILLInGER, See’y. CLIMAX GUN CLUE, July 7.—The Climax Gun Club, of Plainfield, held its regular monthly shoot this afternoon af its new grounds on the Crescent Oval. Only four members were present, the scores made being as H Grasdort ss vise eeecessrereees A SCHOLL weeuunsuneuevenier sed below: j Lister (10), ,cerseeeveveeeserseee« -0000101100111111111110111011011111—25 Keller (0)... .c.cceseeaeeseeeeeeee-L110111111110011111111011 —23 Williams (2) ..cceavnueceevsevee ss 110011111110100111131011111 —21 Smith (0)... 2... eeeeecdbeecee ees e0+00111111010111100101111011« —18 CHATHAM GAME AND FISH PROTECTIVE ASTOCIATION July §.—The special ‘Fourth of July” shoot held cn the grounds of tke Chatham Wish and Game Protective Association, Chatham, N, J., to-day, was thoroughly enjoyed by quite a large contingent of the club members and their friends. The shoot lasted from about 10:30 in the morning until late in the afternoon. All of the participants, while oppressed by the terribly hot weather, passed a most enjoyable day ab the traps, Scores were as follows; EKyents: 12838465 6 7 89101112 Targets: 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 15 10 10 10 PAE ECE Sad ACAD AA een ere hed DR My Ot Be ue. Stucrh te iets oF HINGIw, dadeeesnrcckccarere: retirees ins. ROL ire tote. hea tmctonde ad OWI epee nants mrireeee OND. ed eee nee sis elect ee [MAREOME tense eters rer eRe ee Stata aan ey amt omariimy cei IRRAPC EAS taeRe teeta chore et MOM ot. Tin titiee ree ew Pe: PATS SIE a ceaee Kae ELD EVER ES ee De COeO MO an tatete Soci es OPER Mednee ern siap Ret ss Sper oth ees Ciel tekits LU tie Auer co, Wain ns 3 CLOUUA ne erhs later ie tenses nad orb ene allel eer a niet: eStcen Lil els(hGGl, Sore cieereenet riggs 4c Ue Petite 2 Tieeiy ali) Moe ye or ODA eet hated hnbatee enh seam ie eos. oe dG Berd 7, (GACTIRO TE ated it tate eae cee hen 4: TORT aero. eee. THOMASON......cccesecseees pis ag yet 9 ke I eA a ret Geomrat ea. renecuns ree Hee cep eer LE Ue ath Se Bie ary a Von Lengerke,, cub hhee ACh oop te ae SUN (ORD HE eae ee Milleie eee. Gumuotds tte sprite ate affea ts we (IF ety es DACKSONeteeeeet er taatam sors oe hs Ne thee OR Ve Ti aoa we ae Small..,...cev. 5 Nos. i, 2 and 8 were at known traps and angles. all the others at un- known angles, Bupp, Sec'y. FORESTER GUN CLUB. July 5.—The following scores were made to-day on the grounds of the Forester Gun Club, of Newark: Events; 1234656%78 Targets: 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 35 Byrd ...... 15 19:20 ., ., «. »» «» WSmith,. .. ., ., 151619 13 20 D Fleming, 10101412 9 9 714 Tarlton.... ...... 8%, 12 8 19 JJOUSS HOw GHleenria tebe an OWOllne iy Yahi pets cold c2e bee ta Cummins.. ,, .. .. 1616141112 Backus... ., .. .... 1013 14 21 H. B, Winans, Sec’y. Eyents: 1234656378 Targets: 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 25 AT ELKWOOD PARK July 3,—The special event at 50 birds, scheduled for to-day, failed to fill, but there was some excellent shooting witnessed by quite a numerous crowd of spectators. Tnefeiture of the day was Hdzar Murpby’s run of 58 straight, a ruo that is remarkable under any con- ditions, but is the more astonishing in this case as it is about five months since Murphy did any shooting at the trap. Event No. 5 was also a feature, the five contestants scoring all their birds. Below are the detailed scores of the events decided to-day: No. 1, No. 2. No. 3, J L Winston (30)_,............122.0 2222121 2212 BOSAN Een B Ballard (30)..c.sceeveeeeeee 00 22221222120 20 oe P Daly: (80)... sascccecsesessssLec1120 2220 222222121229 EG Murpby (80).,.,.......,.,1111222 42111224221 11221111122? P Murphy (30) ...scccseseeees Pel2110 20 212222122210 : No. 4. No. 5. Tie. No. 6. P Murpby,., .2221212222 (29), 2112212122 (31), .11222e (29), 026222298 DAs. cece e0ce 2111222122 (29), ,1222122211 (31), .2e (29), 2199229209 EG Murpby,.12120 29), 1112121222 (31), 212211 (.946)211021222 ( Ballard..,..,.2221222210 (29), 1222222222 (31),.21228 (29). 21283: Winstons oii iscescooee (29), 2212281211 (B1)a1tayg 072s *1PeReeL2L The seventh eyent was at 15 birds, $15, and resulted thus: Daly (30) and Ballard (29) 14, Edgar Murphy (2914) 13, Doctor (29) 8. THE OPENING DAY AT HOLLYWOOD. July 5.—The opening day of the season of 1897 atthe Hollywood traps was marked by a good attendance and warm, bright weather with breeze enough to make the birds good. Edgar Murphy, who is shooting in excellent form just now, won the Overture prize with 15 straight, and took first money, whith amounted to $72. Winston who had his 14th bird drop dead out of bounds; and Bland Ballard,who lost his 5th bird, divided second and third money —$35—with 14 each In the Independence handicap, another 15-bird event, Daly, Patten and Murphy tied on 13 each, The tie was shot off at 3 birds Daly winning, as shown in the sceres below: : Independence Handicap, (29), .22022222 202112213 (26), 2022221292229 9 73 (29), .0222222 2200 (BU), .@202222222192%—9 19 (80), .022211021122232_ 13 (28), .20102122 2210 Overture Prize. P Daly, Jr (29)........222020222222222 13 W RB Patten (27), .....222<0 220202222212 FB Hey (28). 0a cen ews 1208222 2222029 J 147 Winston (29), ., 2222222 22222302 —14 HG Murphy (30),... .2¢2212.2122%222—15 Capt Money (30)...,.421112-0121102i—13 A L Tying (29) ........2012022 /10 EB Ballard (28)... ..06822202121222222—14 ee gelenta ASUOSUINE cictepswireriby Eb Ebslbias9 dsies¢ (26), .2.00120100 In addition to the above two big races, there were three miss. o> aus $5 Soprano R wee pesulted aS follows: Sescand 0. 1; Winston apt, Money, Patten, Daly and A. Loeni 1, Murphy 0. f : ) y denig 2, Hoey Hie oO, 4 Winston, Daly and Patten 3, Murpby, Money and Loening 2, oey 1, No.3: Winston and Hoey 13, Capt. Money 11, Dr Know] and Murphy 4, Ballard 3, Gaynor 3, N.E. Money if omits Daly Tie. 222 202 Haverhill Gun Club. HAY5SRHILE, Mass., July 11.—Below [ hand you scores made at the regular Saturday afternoon practice shoot of the Haverhill Gun Club Saturday, July 10. : Only a few of the members were present, although the day was un- deniavle, from @ trap-shooting point of view, quite in contrast with last Monday, the day we held our tournament, , Events: Targets: 6 7 8 910 15 10 10 10 10 5 io Leighton.........+. WeOB er Gr DMO Elon Tak kA Dr Sherman..........2006 weg Al Oe St Hi Goa ay ag BUOVEDS. ..Usp¢siedsensreverrersse 2 8 oT WO Fal 9 9 |. BROLER ep asutasWbDiwervesneey G O82 95 OT fg, oT) oh 58 4G DIMGK Ope emat aya rneuwecs senccesne NOI eg OT) Bee mie) Vea <8 HeOUnecseeue ha sedcbote rs ceeee me mee Ts) eee ST EAT ET ih sere mE AAPEPRE DE tok SGMMRN WiSm in thE Stee a Dodren se scat aie Amen? ee teat See ee iy oe, es per vents 3, 4and 7 were at unknown angles: event 5 was at regular angles, reverse pull; event 10 was at all straightaways, and the re mainder at regular angles. Gro. F, Srxyans, Sec’y-Treas, B89 Trap Around Buffalo. BISON GUN CLUB, Borraro, N. ¥., July 1.—Io the elab shoot of the Bison Gun Club, of this city, at Walden avenue and City line, fiftteén members were present. In the badge contest, Cooper won in Class A, Mack in Class B, and Salesman in Class C, All events were at unknown angles, No, 6 being at 5 pairs. Scores were: Events: 1234656 Targets: 16 20 15 25 15 10 Mignerey.,...... 13 12 ,, 21 12 6 Hyents: "1234656 Targets: 15 20 15 25 15 10 WYGIS OM ris tvttiits Maes cent LBs oe ary ROXICL. Jcc.ueeve 121811 20:12) 9 Viney)... Be 42 Oy FS . IT 12°24 2, B33 yy seae 1» 15 15 14 16 18 ,, SRLBSS hg. aK Gy ssaedctansk tk cee peol V7 95) 1910 9 Kanufiman,,.......10 614,, ,, 11610 6 Zoeller..ivii.. 1 17178 4... 42314 9 Bauman,,.,..,.. 101913 ,, 14 9 AUDUBON GUN CLUB. July 3.—The winners in the badge event, No. 3 on the programme, at the Audubon Gun Club’s weekly shoot, held this afternoon, were: Class A, H. C, Burkhardt; Olass B, P. G. Meyers; Class C, F. Sauer, Bee 5 was at 7 pairs, L. W. Bennett winning first money on 10. ¢ ores: ' Events: 1283466 7 # 4&Events: 1234656 % Targets: 40 15 25 15 1h 15 15 Targets: 10 15 25 15 th 16 15 CS Burkhardt 71020 7 91018 UWStory.... ....11 % 7 6., A Forrester., 713 20 5 4.,12 JE Lodge,,...,. 15 6 7.:.. HCBurkhardt 714.24 9 4 8., EPReynolds..,.,11.. 7 7., LW Bennett. 710211110., .. O'’Brian.,..,. .. .. 1814 612., Jacobs......., 5101511 6 6,. JA Kennedy, ,, ,. 12... 6 5.. BUPOISGIAE septal Obey le cle teee PRIN ULOID Nee nn am em ton eek Gs aah WREAWiete cacy eel aide ee Peasland ses vides. ante. OP aisha) ee G MeArthur., ,, 102211 918 .. WEGarbe .. .. .... 6s cs us ICON lcs en POD LOA ee er ao iey eae, Bl eNO Ti aoe Peet aT; BIOSs.,,,.., 1. «+» 1611 %., ., McCarney..., 6111410 8 12 10 A Coombs,,..., ..12 6.,..,.. G@OMiller.,.. 7101411 8 12,, July 5,—At to-day’s ‘Fourth of July’’ shoot, F. D. Kelsey won first average with 135 out of 150; Hammond was second with 126; G. S. Lewis third with 124, and Dick Swiveller fourth with 122. Scores: Events: 12 3 4'58 G@ % 8 9 10 Targets: 16 15 10 15 20 16 10 15 30 15 CS Burkhardt,..... Wake hisses eee Onl tol eles shal delby sO NSIS yce satin bie Dee een eee do ae Oe ae Gs Ae “On Taoet Ge ots Hammond.....,ssceee E 13 10 12 15 14 7 14 18 18 K C Burkhardt,.,.. 10 10 13816 11 #Y 9 15 10 Swiveller........, 138 #9 138 16 15 5 15 15 413 E N McCarney ...-.. i Oe ei. ceases ODBC cinisistt netruree ue tanto Agee Gpsite “1.8 14a v.20 i ae ReMECKO nae iy indeed Weare tee Be IAI g) La oes : WicOd Duryinns siasesene tbe a diet ae eLodeLG: eT Abe Gi soddcu ec DEMEI He waineiainiameia sive aaa rete IP ae ae aC aR OO) Seal GTS wisi ete tsweutetescecsercaeee fl 4d cde Tal if) dae oy “d'5h oie HM Jobnson,,,........5 ielore towel LO Be) ae face een | ey MallSini 4 acing Mieonduntmentimetareue tensa, ol a lOeee Uf eh. Cres On ET Marshalliactescoutateysereecel oll 6 Pelge Wek) meee Ome WiRItIA AEC center teu eral os 8 en... Joe yea nmn ae ait St ASB AC Ree tsa cence ne aloes 31022 8 6. ub ans Greeleyc csi... arate aren e(acarars atateraep a Loris aes oti Wests Chamberlainyiuieewaeseswressss Delis 4.5 8) U8 8) 88m g -4 na Bt CARON hiv sm calfti ae Mrieg 44, ccpl Uae. sarees eee aA eres yy SGAMId eat apinctee eee Rotor ARIEL eB R abe Ts SC wie Ee ai Hamlampusiiiees leis ae te sessseeys OU 1’ 8210 619... 6 6 5 9 9 98 Mor cH nes cotematuaeieeivetation ss ma teLOl tect aye penne eee WORE USiirinen attnmyeiotentaaiteceees uel ale oe Lane len Ge ae eee One men eS An Go ont ee OCOROC OnE nanty wc Us) AS (oeestolty op wat pelle teeny Hae i Parti Orange Gun Club. Oranece, Mass., July 8.—The tournament of the Orange Gun Club was successfully brought off to-day. The shooters came from Bos- ton, Worcester, Leominster, Beechertown and Athol. Some ¥#,500 targets were thrown, and everything ran smoothly. The scores: Events: 123 45 6 7 8 9*11 12 13 14 151817 18 19 Targets: 10 10 10 10 10 10 15 10 10 15 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 Leroy... . 8 9 & 914 810 15 810 910 7 7 710 STALE aly oleate stele Pre teliesy Ulmer Mets mpre iD tok (eh CPO, i) he eile Lite, hn IBTIFDBUES Cheeses 0 + sGucc oy fetedlO, hlees -6 at ooh 0 8 IRICEN clereh iit vers aOnkS. tere AOc 1a 08 ian thle “Saye (AG ons sunent RO WOES et essynn Oe We 4° (694s BSIZ Sh, BO: tee ae MAOMIPSOM eles 8. Geet o O10 OS 7 tO Se he es FATIGER tek oleerik = ele veeitaliset spe Ciplmee en eiNIn) tyeaer iy) ONES ONG. -SuLOmLOn "a LEE a ee SR GT 7 on Me ere, Go ee er aaa Oe ts lap n een sadampes 1G Mi de TT Woe peal ay ye yy el Tee ee i BY aa ETL AL ciigtvdeaie nda Wie octoas Mawtlie sda tap hameiaa tee TRESS hole En he SHAY weessatenr eco: Olen DO pe yet Le oy ie 8. RIO: BE Ae alse d euvivent—nt nelecient Ran dae tiie Price fe Os cOLUe Re ah MeSSENREL Ty Cospsu seine ppl senor amebelne! SON aa helGaIGEL | fe (GMes LRT en oer eee Ree ee Weal bos Ui sop Melle NLRs, on FCAT Tes pialelp lanl aR g Race Pea a ae Ons Te) en ee ate aE 9 UTE a Se ene tees Si SERS Co et RETRO Fe Eo RO TOV images geese dimssastwe sls wack) stn soils LO alae Rae hs, PBA C Vinee cielo ance ional ec caaece Fink tae ORE: A Ran eek, #., BriesickG smehicitreasemas lochs tlm te: iae ao 5 n Dei 3 * Hxtras. Eureka Gun Club. CurcAgo, Ill., July 10.—The regular shoot of the Hureka Gun Club was held here to-day. Ail events were ab 26 sineles, except No. 3, which was at 15 singles and 5 pairs. Scorse: Events: 123465 6 Hvents: 1234656 Prickett... ...,. ., .. 18 18 19 18 Stannard,....... 23 16 21 .. 23 21 WM Smith,......12 9.,10..., ORG seneniertememcUe eee fn ela Houston...,..... 15 ., 14 18 23 18 JL Jones....... 16 .. 18 .. 14 16 Speyne...,...... .. 16 14... 19... StecK..,..:ese0005 ». GU 19 ., 22 18 IROLTOP gy srteuiendenite nO mae DLL: Ss Dizon, pe errrerss oa lO ee Leela HESS nopecsnaiean es ae A reel JS Pet .. 1319 L Goodrich,,,.., ... Dr Morton. ...c0. .. . PLO wenterstnel ee ' Darlington.,.... .. .. .. 12 28 16 HM GUL oe A A Dr Miller, See ewe be ee ee The FOREST 4ND STREAM 7s put to press each week on Tuesday Correspondence intended for publication should reach us at the latestby Monday, and as much earlier as practicable. 60 FOREST AND STREAM. [juny 17, 1897. Hot Weather and a Hot Shoot at Little Rock. -LirthE Rock, ark., July 6.—The attendance at the shoot here yes- terday reminded one very forcibly of the good old days of ’92, when the sport of trap shooting was booming and all the shoots were well attended. The shoot of to-day brought together one of the old-time crowds. Forty-eight shocters participated, which exceeded anything in the way of attendance since the State shoot here in “95. ; This is 4 great showing, when you take into consideration the fact that none but residents of the State were present, Only one short year ago it would have been a difficult mauler to have gotten two squads to a shoot here, no matter what the inducements might have been But things have changed now, and the revival of this great abort of ours is very gratifying, and also seems to be of the sialible ind. The programme that had been arranged for the day was certainly a very liberal one. The feature of the day was the four-men team race, for the purse of $100. with an entrance fee of only price of the _ birds. Then there were also five 15 target events, with $10 added to each. As stated above, the interest ce: tered in the team race, and ten teams were entered; no less than six of these belotging to Little Rock. two represented Pine Bluff, and one each from Hot Springs and Fort Smith, The purse of $100 was cut into thrés moneys 30, $30 and $20. This was a hot contest, and it was nip-and tuck between Little Rock, Fert Smith and Het Springs, and finally resulted in Little Rock team No i winning first and Fort Smith second, while Hot Springs took third ‘The scores were very poor, and some of those teams who promised to attend, but stayed away, will now realize what a good thing they overlooked by staying away. Memphis was to have been represented, but failed 10 materialize. They could very readily muster several teams that could beat 78, butif they would have been equal to the emergency on this occasion is another thing Conner Jed the Little Rock team with 21, Matthews was high for Wt. Smith with 22, Dobhins and Hughes led the Hot Springs team with a like score. The high score dn the Pine Bluff team was made by Clements, 21. he remaining teams were never factors in the race. It ismore than likely that Hot Springs would have walked off with first money, ouly for Rix’s gun going wrong, which began suapping, and he was compelled to shoot the other barrel, which changed the trigger pull, and it was then that he lost 5 of his last § birds. The scores of the first four teams are given in detail, while the others have been condensed, The scores Made in the sweeps are given in tabulated form. Nos.1and 2 are extras, while the remaining five are the programme events, to each of which $10 was added. Clements was high man for the day with 84.6 per cent., Dickinson $26, Matthews and Hughes $0.7, Forster, Woodson and Connor 8). The purses to the sweeps were divided, Rose system, four moneys, and the following points were paid for the respective positions: 7, 5, 4, 3. ; There were only two straight scores made during the day, one of these by young Matthews, of Fort Smith. and the other by Conner, a local shooter. The following also participated in the sweeps, but as tbey shot in but one event their name does not appear in the table: Rose, Kerr. Nichols, Irwin, Overstreet, Schare, Beaver, Hickman ana Lenow. Of all of these Lenow was the only one to get in for money; he scored 12 in the fifth event, Two cents were charged for targets. and a lunch was served gratis to the shooters. The weather was clear and red-hot: . Little Rock No. 1. JOFO 0S sepa nD COD aCe OCCT) CDOOUDOLIS OS 0111110111401111111011111—21 Dickinson..... peu wevevnasy ances eee L600111111111111111011101—20 Alexander..... 2 SoD SoLOCnSROOTaDagS 01171100101111110111110111—19 Woodson ,........3. (Sobre godedhorses Je 0111011111100101111111100—1s—78 Fort Smith, NM atGHOWSs5 spas dhe 40 ple WOR sic clemc lode ae + 1011111111111001111111111—22 SEAGHTONS Siem nether ale bs Ps bi a Rob 'atghe tie = a 1111111110011111001101110—19 GACH eae se ses es SoU chaAlieesnioss 1011111100011001111111011—18 UDALL yieis cietelileteaia.p Simidentels s/o laws cine) lets otal 1010100111111110011011011—17—%6 Hot Springs. ODDING crores bisleieib ie dele oes pails letecte 1111111111110111101111110—22 FAUBHES. iy inerieive yes veenecere cree ce APO 1111011011111 —2y HAI Lcrmeeran elie ste eleleieleteistatsiviceimetteeninicieioterce 1111101110011111101011000—17 ge aeeeeeccee es» -0110101111001010011011010—14—75 Hine Bluff No. 1. : DIGIIGTELS Th iatelalsfeieivivisieiaisl vv csianisistvlois yates . .0110117110111111110111111— 21 COl@S.. ceuneescunveccsueseeererevevesys 2111111000910111010111111—18 VOY oc cece ken censeeeenrr ye eene ye e0110100111011011011910111—17 Sorrells..... (omega eee ene sedans se 110101010100C001111111111—16 — 72 The scores of the other teams were as follows: Little Rock No, 2— Thibault 20, Pemberton 18, Phillips 16, Schaer 16 -70: Litule Rock No.~ 5—Irwin 21, Reaves 18, Overstreet 16. Rose 14-69; West End—Sisco 19, Wade 16, MeUulloch 15, Kirk 14—64; Little Rock No 3—Nichols 21, Forster 19, Miles 18, Charles Alexander 6—64; Pine Blufl No. 2—Boyetn 18, Williams 16, Howell 12, Fergus 9—55; Liltle Rock No, 4—De Guire 16, Boyd 18, Lenow 13, Hickman 11—52. Pau R. LiraKs. Collings,,..., Oneida County vs. Richfield Springs. RICHFIELD SPRINGS, July 10.—Hditor Forest and Stream: The se- cond of a series of three matches between the Oneida County Sports- man’s Asssociation and the Richfield Springs Gun Club was shot here the 7th, The conditions were nine men toa team, 25 birds per man, The 0. C.S. A. won by the narrow margin of three targets. This makes the series stand one each, as Richfield won the first one at Utica. Four sweeps of 15 targets each, and two at 5 pairs were shot during the afternoon, The scores were good considering the condi- tions, which were quite hard, the targets being thrown about 60yds. - against a very tryiug background. Mr. M. EB Barker, with a Lefever gunand HE C. powder, was high average, .923. The scores in the team shoot were as follows: Utica. Richfield Springs. G@tES coca ccevevecsesseces 19 MEDMAT Fo. Cates snnooseae DCO EW kk greater eee Barland ys Os chuse ests penmesde ASE TRDEE chapetatctors onto ielsta eta iste tere LE Caney...... Hedin hip seat oe pre Brunner... ...ceres fe eee DUEL BAe ces E ean Events 1, 4,6, 8,12 and 13, known angles; 2,5 and 7, unknown} 11 Same, use of both barrels; 4 and 10, pairs; 9, reverse pull. Fifth contest in prize series, 25 targets, 15 known, 10-unknown: dis- tance handicap: : Chadwick (i6yds.)............011110011160111—10 1111111111—10—20 1111101011— §8—20 Miskay (17),...cceeeee---+c0es10111101110111—12 Pate. G1G) ze cedars eal se eewe + 210111111010111—12 0301111111— 8—20 Woodruff (17)..... syeye) aaah brs ;101011101110001— 9 1111111111—10—19 Winters 8)i cons se selies bee ale 01101111101Uu170—10 » | 11117011111— 9—19 SHE SIAN( To) Saas ne ee renee 011110111110111—12 © 7 0011001111— 6-18 Brown (15). .......0:- +. aaeee, 0110(0110111111—11 1110110001— b—17 Williams (15) ...... .«...110111010101001— 9 1110191111— 8—i7 Wuloer (16).... ...20111100110111]—11 1101001100— 5—16 Spencer (18).... ~ eee 211101001101101—10 1110011010— 6—16 Bannone (loin se awian eee edie 1011100060111001— § 0110100u00— 3—11 Banks (14)......00.- sete wee 110010)00010000— 5 100,001110— 5—10 MGR GIS (6) wees tee Serta 01001110)0111lU0— 9 Rinne cipleties July 7—Though Monday was quite generally devoted to trap- shooting in this vicinity, eleven found sufficient interest to draw them to the Boston Gun Club grounds ab Wellington, but two days later, when the sixth serial prize shoot took place. On a warm day such as this proved to be, Wellingtonis considered an ideal place, being fairly cool and comfortable when Boston is: sweltering, so it is not strange that those who are well aware of this fact should flee the city on Wednesday afcernoon, but it is strange that all should go equipped with a heat generating justrument; mm other words, a double-barreled shotgun. This is where the fun comes in, however, and very shortiy after train arrival each and ali are eager for the fray. To day the participants seemed to possess a mania for shooting pairs, and no less than three events were ofthis description, On other days, when the gun keeps cool of itself, three pairs make a score, but to day nothing less than five satisfied a shooter, and those who had teft their Heikes at home did not need to be reminded of the facil. Complete scores as follows: Events: 12346 67 8 9101112 Targets: 10 10 10 10 10 15 10 10 10 10 10 10 BrOwWar, oe Po aehce ese ccacede ete eRe el) ium Oar D wlll ey Oh GO = Seno Sets SHEE] aa os-Caleielniavete cleoclaclan atte wg OND matali OS Loui fmecemec a Of rh iA WAS yoo caine ager ee pra a ne ae we Oe ye OM] Ste Mein ie ait (et ae ne A acer cone t) 8 SB Sa et bees Chadwick,, 0 VID De Ba OL Eb estiew aes OSFOOd...s5.000s a Bag sou, Sea APRN eae oe BantOD.....005 hoody fecn® Me es Some a ae CE ies, woh ses 2S IPRT Ch Rocca eshte agement outine. Gebivse ey) UR i ure. 96 9 3 ELOMACC valerate tabahjel(Walnee «cs =a) nie CR SSL ery SLU adds Ree rite NICEOIS Pe bela reaitien bakisaistasisieatsech ot Stee ee Owl Sa elles inate: saa, SPENCELr..cccscr avon Weralce du ralertatclae cafe elelaahs ereeacerRehale oe LUIS rSs (hae Cael Eyents 1, 5 and 6, known angles; 2,7 and 11, unknown; 3 and 10, re- verse pull; 4,8 and 12, pairs; 9, expert rules, unknown traps and angles. Morchantise mateh, 25 targets, 15 known, 10 unknown; distance handicap: i Paine (16)....,.,+% Rane is veeeee-111111111010111—13 7101111111— 9—22 Spencer (18), .,... esses SBBr Les 101111111111101—18 1111110110— b—21 Sheffield (15)....., aa Baste ees 110111101111111—13 1110110101— 7—20 Chadwick (1G) ive ess cesses ssaeee 100101111111011 —11 1111111011— 9—20 IBIGK1ES4Uh) ees pe nas tore ..111111111011170—14 1101001001— 5—19 Horace (16), ..cc0pese renee ~ «.101011110011111—11 0111101111— 8—19 Brown (15)... 101111101101101—11 —-0111001111— 7—18 Benton (14) .....sseees 5 . .011111011011110 —11 1101101010— 6—17 Miskay (17)... .005 vy eueewers -111110101713111—138 0111000100— 4 -17 NickKOls (15)....neeveeegeereee+HIIIMNOMIII—13 = =Withdrew. Osgocd (14)...cceveeeer «reves OUL00101U111011— 8 Withdrew. : Boston. Missoula Rod and Gun Club. MissovunA, Mont., July 6.—Enclosed please find scores of two shoots held on July 4 and 5. We had a fair attendance considermg the holiday and some good shooting was done, especially that of R BH, Rodgers, who occasionally gets his shooting jacket on, and shows the boys what he can do when he tries, ' We also had a beginner in R. Hammond, who is only about fifteen years old, and had never shot ata bluerock before. We think he did very well in getting 18 out of 25, and he promises lo make a good shot, Scores of July 4: No. 1, Club Shoot. No. 2, Practice. RE Rodgers, ,......+.4411111111111101100111111—22 110111 1111—9 H A Hurlbut..,...,...10110101000111110111010J0—14_ =—Ss—i«wsss, 4 H W_Thompso , 0010100 140111110110001110—14 ae oh R.A Wddy....... ey ee A11U101110111010111110111—19 1011111111—9 W EB Graham,,.......,0101111009111011101111111—18 OB Flowers,,........0011010000101011100010110—11 TT MeLeod.,.......¢+201001101111011100001000—12 J A Worbes...... yeee- 1101011101111110111010010—17 Dr Mills,,........ ..., , 000000000101U000IC000L000— 2 MR Rutherford.......10L01011101C0.00000101100— 9 Seores of July 5, No. 1: ie = AW Thompson... ve peed uueneesueeveeeausy 011401 111101111011111101—20 Dr MillS, ..ccucereseyereetesetes seeeveeees 0101100100100011011100000—10 W/E Graham vsiececesesseeeenseereeesseey 0£01010111000111011111010—16 TT MCLGOd, :ececoverressssese seas: seaes++V000110001100100001301100— 8 1111111010—8 0001001100 32 VOU1000111—4 1111001010—6 0U0000)101—2 ereeeenoee BA Bddy. ccccsnsccceceseseessees cpeceeee es 1L11011011110111111111100—19 M RB Rucberford. yee yeeee cere sseees s+ --¥100000011001011001000001— 8 No 2: ReA. HG dyy ce ees an ene ies cece cseneesyeweeeees «LL0111111110111011011111—21 MR Rutherford... cccesecseeseeseees +++, 0001000011000110011000000— 8 TT MGLEOM. covet rnp eprsmaeneaees ts vee ese +010105000001101011111 0000 —10 HW Thonipson...... baweteetesayeeeertets »L010110001111C00111110101—15 Be Nammonds ig sent eensam ee eet sort on 0000111111010011100011100—18 ~~. 2100110001011011011101111—16 WE Graham.,,.,+-,-- W, © GRAwAM, Sec’y. Oneida County Sportsmen’s Association. Unica, N. Y., July 3.—The regular weekly shoot of the Oneida Gounty Sportsmen’s Association was held this afternoon, eleven members taking part in the club event, This event resulted in a tie between Marks (4) and Chas. Brunner (4) with 24 each. E D_ Ful- ford from seratch ran 15 straight in the expert rules, and then lost the last target in each of his last two pairs, finishing with 23 out of 25, Scores were: . Club shoot, 15 singles, expert rules, and 5 pairs: Marks (3)...acueveessese ve s2:210119201111111 = «10 df 11 «10 10—2144-8—94 Chas Brunner (4),..e..-+-.-OU1111111111111 11: 11:«10:11 00—20-+4—24 BD Fulford (0),....eeeee+--111210111111111 ~~ 11:11:11: 10 10 —23 OR Mizner (4). .csee.-0e ¢+.111111101110010 = 11 10 11 11 1019-4423 J Pfeiffer (8).c. ~ “They are omnivorous. The timber is full of wild ani- mals, such as coons, ground hogs, rabbits and squirrels, and they are anxious to catch fhem, We do uot kill these ani- tals off, but leave them for the beavers.” Picture, if you can, this innocent rodent, a full-fledged fiesh eater, chasing squirrels through the trees, and pouncing on ground hogs, rabbits, ete. Photographing in the Paddock. _ Mr. John M. Corbett looks after a herd of thirteen fallow, deer, which also occupy the buffalo inclosure. Two of these deer at present have fawns, and are hiding in the woods near the summit of the hil] in the middle of the inclosure. The others were resting in plain sight under some apple trees in The Goodnight Buffalo Herd. The third, largest herd of buffalo in captivity is that be- longing to Charles Goodnight in the Texas ‘‘Pan Handle.” Mr. Goodnight, who is one of the largest cattle owners in the State, has a game preserve on his ranch surrounded by an 8ft. fence, in which are confined a number of elk, ante- lope and deer of different species, besides the buffalo. Wnder date of Aug. 238 last, our Petty, Tex , correspond- ent wrote: “Mr. Goodnight started the buffalo herd in June, 1878, by roping young calves from among the few wild ones that were left at that time near hisranch. ‘This was done at the suggestion of Mrs. Goodnight.. “There are now forty full-blood buffalo in this herd, with a THE HERD. one corner of the paddock at ihe time of my visit. Mr. Cor- bett thought it would be a good plan to try a photograph of the deer, so in company we walked over toward them. On the way we passed the buifalo, who eyed us unconcernedly. The deer, however, were built on a different plan, and though they allowed Corbett to go up to them, and took corn from his hand, they would not permit me to get within 1OOft. of them. For half an hour we tried unsuccessfully to outwit them, but they were always on the lookout, and just as we thought our ruse on the point of succeeding, off they would ‘scamper out of range. ae Corbett had pet names for the various deer, and addressed them in the most endearing terms when he was trying to edge them over to toward the spot where the camera was located. The next moment, however, he would be ‘‘dom- ming”’ the “‘little divils” for their contrariness. Buffalo Characteristics. When photographing the buffalo, Morisson took a position on the opposite side of the herd to keep them from moving away in that direction too fast, and between us we could manage them very well. Morisson separated McKinley from the others so that I could photograph him independently, and presently the big animal, who was feeling very lazy and sleepy, Jaid down. Watching my chance, 1 walked up to within 15ft. of him, directly in front, before he opened his eyes and saw me. He blinked once or twice, as if he could not understand exactly what had happened, and then lowered | One horn and shook his ponderous head at me. Finiling that Lsiood my ground, he presently rolled on his side three succes-’ sive limes as a preliminary to getting up, and having finally gained his feet, turned in the other direction and walked away. materialize, We wanted to get a better background for the herd, and so began driving them slowly over toward the spot that had been determined on. As they walked, some of the animals hooked at and drove others out of their way. Occasionally they grunted, making a sound very muck more like the grunt of a pig than the tone of domestic cattle. On coming to a fringe of small trees that grew along what, had formerly been the line of an old stone wall, all the buf- falo suddeniy, and with the same impulse, broke into a gal- lop and dashed through this slight obstruction. Reaching the other side they resumed the slow walk at which they had previously been proceeding. This seemed an indication of the old wild nature, and Jater, when a deer or some other animal dislodged a small stone on the hillside above them, they exhibited the same alarm, and for a mo- ment dashed off in a momentary panic. When we first found the buffalo they were lying down, chewing the cud. They got on their feet when we approached too close, and the exercise seemed (o stimulate the appetite of the calyes, for forthwith they began rooting around for dinner, butting their mothers underneath with a vigor that would have driven the oid beasts crazy if they had been at all tick- lish. I got a picture of one of these suckling calves, and noted that when the old cow turned my way her look was rather ominous. Later this cow got tired of our fooling, and low- ering her head ran full tilt at Billy asif she intended, by the combined butt and boost, to send him into the next county. Billy, howeyer, had not reared her for nothing, and he knew just how to handle her. At the moment when I was looking to see him shoot over the trees, he stooped, and then Taising suddenly, waved his arms about his head, with the result of turning the cow. A little later she charged him again, but he was used to this, and no fatality resulted. As a whole, the buffalo were very tame, and personally I had less compunction in going close to them than I should have felt with a like number of domestic cattle—bulls and cows—in a barnyard, J. B. BuRNyaAM. The photograph taken at this time, unfortunately, did not | number of half and three-quarter bloods. Four have been _lost by various accidents, and twelve head have been sold at an average of a little over $300 each. Those sold were the oldest cows and oldest bulls. Mr. Goodnight still has for sale four very large bulls, which will weigh about 2,000lbs. each.” In addition to the full-blood buffalo, Mr. Goodnight has a herd of Hereford crosses. : J. G McNair.» Mr. J. G. McNair, president of the McNair Fruit and Land Company, of St. Louis, has ten full-blood buffalo, . four bulls and six cows, aged from one to twelve years, on his ranch at St. Elmo, Oregon county, Mo. John H. Starin. Mr. John H. Starin has thirteen buffalo at Glen Island, N. Y., including four calves. Of these, seven are said to be the domestic cow. We have never had cross with the domestic male and the female bison. Ti is the opinion of some that a half-breed will not breed; but this is a mistake, as most of our half-breed cows are the most regular breeders we have on the ranch. Our buffalo run at large on the range with our other cattle, and show no inclination to leave the range. They are easily handled; that is to say, they can be driven any place by horsemen, ae We secured the nucleus of this herd in 1882 by catching calves in the northwestern part of this State. D. FP. Cariin. alatnyal History. NOTES ON BUFFALO BREEDING. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Philadelphia, June13.—Itis a fact of much interest, with a direct bearing on the principle of inheritance, that of the herbivorous mammals native to the plains and mountains west of the Missouri River, the only ones which appear to thrive in captivity in the Hast are the elk and the buffalo—both of which, but a few generations back, included the Atlantic slope in their range. Few wild species adapt themselves as well to domestica- tion as does the buffalo; none require less care. Even shelters do not seem requisite to their comfort, as, with free access to dry sheds, the whole herd, bulls, cows and calves, usually lie out in the open through the worst of winter storms. They are coarse and hearty feeders, and common hay, with a free allowance of fresh grass during the season, will suffice to keep them in good condition. They take readily to corn-stalk fodder also, but this is not always easily obtained, nor cheap; and the quantity of litter made by it is objectionable when cleanliness of inclosures is im- portant. The limited area of the pens which can be afforded by the * zodlogical garden of ordinary extent does not offer the same favorable conditions to these large animals as may be had in larger preserves, but in our gardens they have done well for many years; have bred freely, and the young have in no case required care other than that of the mother; nor has there yet been an instance where aid was needed by the mother in parturition. Probably the best results may be reached in breeding, by keeping but one bull at a time in the inclosure with the cows; the keeping of a straight pedigree is simplified, and the combats are avoided which are sure to take place if more than one bull is present. Any number of bulls, un- accompanied by cows, may usually be kept together with little breach of the peace. The species is not naturally vicious, and the bulls are, in fact, much less so than those of many domestic breeds; a cow with a young calf is, how- ever, to be avoided, except by those with whom she is upon terms of acquaintance. i I am disposed to believe that in the end the best results will be obtained by not allowing the cow to meet the male until she is three years old. The tendency of domestication with all wild animals is toward defective nutrition, and con- sequently to lessened vitality, and the economy in metabolism resulting from sparing the young female, while still engaged in building’ up her own tissues, from the further drain of gestation, is probably more than repaid in later life. The profound influence which domestication exerts upon the generative functions of wild animals is so well known that it ig not surprising that the period of the year during which births occur is much enlarged. In our gardens calves have been dropped as early as April 10, and as late as Oct. 24, though the greatest number of ~ births take place in July and August. As appears to DOMESTIC full blood, and six the result of crosses with domestic cattle. Recently Mr. Starin exchanged bulls with the Philadelphia Zoological Gardens. D. Es Carlin. 4 Lesiis, 8. D., July 10.—Hditor Forest and Stream: Our herd of buffalo consists of about thirty head of yearlings and upward. At present I am unable to say what the increase has been this spring, Besides these thirty head of full-blood buffalo, we have about fifty head of mixed bloods. We get these mixed bloods through a cross with the buffalo bull and FELICITY, be the case with most species which breed in zodlogical col- lections, the male births much outnumber the female; in our gardens nineteen males having been bred to nine of the other Sex; an apparent result of domestication which may be ex- plained by those who believe themselves to possess the secret of sex causation, but concerning which the wise biologist will at preseat content himself with merely stating the facts. In these brief notes, put together in unavoidable haste, I feel disposed to sound two notes of waning to those inter- ested in the future of the buffalo. Inthe first place, inbreed- 64 FOREST AND STREAM. tdoLy 24, 1897. ing is a danger real and impending, There is reason to be- lieve that the buffalo is peculiarly subject to its evils, and | these evils are probably present within a much wider range— always, be it understood, under the artificial conditions of cantivity—than is commonly believed. The ftatiatics pub- lished within a year past in Formsr AND STREAM, regarding the herd of aurochs in the Grodno forest, gave rise to no pleasant reflections in one who realizes the small numerical circle which will inclose the, survivors of our American species, and seriously raises the question whether, all told, there are enough left to recruit and perpetuate the race, eyen with the best of protection from incidental dangers and with the exchanges of blood which should be made at ‘east every two years, between herds as distinct in strain as may be had. In the second place, there should be an end of crossing the buffalo with domestic races; euriosity in this direction has had its fullest claim gratified. 1t has been pretty well shown that no commercial gain has followed upon the many experiments which haye been made—a certain and lament- able resull of which, however, has been the placing of a more ot less concealed hybrid strain in very many of the buffalo now seattered through the country. ARTHUR ERwWIN Brown. Another Singing Mouse. Mr. Houea wrote a short time ago about the singing mouse, and I see that another contributor ecknowledges having heard the mysterious little songster. I also am led. to confess to a similar experience, though I have hestitated about mentioning the fact. when J was quite asmall boy at home, how night after night we heard the strangesound, and finally we caught the liftle - fellow in a live trap and kept him for several weeks. He seemed, as I now recollect, to have had a little scale of four or five notes that he ran up and down for a couple of min- utes at a time, and his captivity apparently had no bad effect on his musical ability; but we hoys fed him invjudiciously and he died. W. KR. Hann. Porcupine in New York. New Yor Stare Museum, Albany, N. Y., July 12.— Editor Forest dnd Stream: On Saturday last a full-grown porcupine was killed at McKownville. just outside the city limits. As it is the first specimen from New York State which has been brought to my attention during the past seven years, I have thought it might be of interest to your readers 1o mote the fact. F. J. H. Merrit, Director. Che Sportsman Conrist. THE CHESTNUT RIDGE AND ALONG ITS FOOT,.—III. Tw earlier times, before the encroachments of civilization had destroyed or driven away the fish, the Conemaugh teemed with such species as seem to be native to the slreams of western Pennsylvania. Avgling was then always iu season, and there was no week day, when the river was not frozen over, that men were not to be seen at favorite spots trolling the waters in search of their scaly inhabitants. In front of my native yillage was a broad slackwater, which extended a mile in Jength, being a part of the navigation system which had been constructed by the State; and just below the town wasadam, A deep pool which lay immediately below this dam was 2 famous fishing stound, and particularly in time of a moderate freshet every accessible inch around the edge of this pool was occupied with fishing poles and dip-nets es thick as the ‘‘quills upon the fretful porcupine,” There were weeks when, 1 think, tons of fish must have been carried away from the ‘‘breast of the dam.” Another favorite and famous pool was about a quarter of a mile below, and this was called Jack Reed’s Hole. of boys who would have been at a loss to give the geographi- cal position of Hudson’s Bay or Long Island Sound could locate Jack Reed’s Hole to a nicety. It was a calm, deep eddy with a riffle of stones at the lower side, and seemed to be full of fish. JT well remember the first fish ever I caught was at Jack Reed’s Hole. I went down there one summer afternoon, just after a warm shower, in company with my father. When we get there we found other people there as usual. On the way down I picked up a discarded hoop pole in the street. ‘To this I lied a piece of string which I hap- pened to have in my pocket—what boy ever happened to be without a piece of string in his pocket? and to this I tied a bent pin fora heok, This was my fishing outfit. Upon this hock 1 impaled an unhappy wor, and, more playing than ‘fishing, IT was whipping the hook into the water, when all at once, to my amazement and almost consternation, I drew out a fine large fish, a sucker (Catoslamus communis), a fish the eating of which is, as Dr, Jackson remarks, “‘not much un- like the mastication of a pincushion.” Anyhow, that.was for me the ereatestfish in the world, asd I doubt if the sur- prise of the creature when it discovered itself suddenly . leveled on the dry sand was any greater than mine to see it there. I presume the fish weighed a couple of pounds; to my exciled imagination it was a 15 pounder at least. What added to, the great tiiumph of the occasion was that my father, with his elezant bamboo rod, his sea-grass line, his fine barbed hook, ana his shining brass reel, did not so much as get ‘'a bite.” Great was my glory as I entered the town with my wonderful fish. Good reason have I to remember Jack Reed’s Hole, Some men, says Shakespeare, are born great, some achieve sreatnéss, and some have greatness thrust upon them, Jack Reed figures among the latter. While milliens of other - men, his cotemporaries, have passed away and their names are forgotten, he, perhaps these fifty years in his graye, seems destined to enjoy at least a local immortality. Who Jack Reed was I have never been able to find out. I be- lieve he was a fisherman who frequented the shores of the Conemaugh, and to whom this pool, that has for three- score years borne his name, wasafayorile spot. IW ifty years ago there were to be seen the ruins of 4 cabin in a small field on the plateau above the river bank at this point. 1 imagine this to have been the home of this man, It must have been a residence in the first quarter of the present century; I know, a8 a matter of fact, that fifty years ago Jack Reed Was as much of a myth as he is to-day; as early as the year 1840 the pool in question was called by the name it has ever since borne, but Jack Reed himself had already vanished from the scene and left no other memorial of himself be- hind. I wonder if in that land of shadows into which he Iremember it very distinctly, | Scores - has long since fled, he knows, and if it is any gratification to him to kuow, ibat his name is still uttered in the old famuliar places, and in connection with the quiet river eddy into which he had so often cast the alluring bait. An animal formerly fonnd in great abundance in the Jarger streams of western Pennsylvania, though very rarely on the eastern side of the Alleghenies, is the large aquatic salamander, or water newt, zenerally called the alligator. It was very abundant in the Conemaugh, and was the special pest. of the angler. Its scientific name is the Protonopsis gigantea. Der. Jackson, whose valuable work ‘‘The Moun- tain,’' T mentioned in a former paper, and who is to be re garded as our Pennsylvanian Thoreau, thus describes the creature in his unique way: ‘‘This enormous newt, which sometimes attaius to 80in. or nearly 3it., lives entirely in the water, eating fish, worms, shell-fish, ete. It is one of the most revolting creatures in existence, resembling Milton’s sin; its sprawling, flabby, slimy, and almost amorphic out- lines suggesting some ‘fortuitous concourse of atoms’ presided over by the genius of deformity and_ dis- gust, rather than the clearly demarked structure of a regularly- organized animal. Theeuphonious name of hellbender, which is commorly applied to this newt, seems exceedingly appro- priate. It is constantly seizing the boy-angler’s hook, and when Janded with gaping mouth and wicked gestures, is generally left in the quiet possession of rod, line, hook and all, the terror-stricken lad retreating with precipitation and fear from what he calls the ‘poison alligator.’ The Proton- opsis follows the streams of the western side of the mountain as hich up as there are any considerable volumes of water. It is almost confined to Western waters; aboutding in streams which contain the soft-shelled turtles. and seeming, like that animal, to have an origival natural affinity for that region.” Of this ugly customer, I helped toslay thirty individuals one morning, that were fcund on anight line in the Allesbeny, 1 would say that not a fish was on the line. The Doctor adds, that the Allegheny mountain range ‘“being the eastern line of the great central North American zodlogical region, would geem to exhibit some actual limits to the general dif- fusion of some of the reptiles and fishes at least.” ‘ “Oh, the gallant fisher’s Jife, Tt is the bést of any! Tis full of pleasure, void of strife, And *tis beloved by many.” Thus sings Piscator in ‘‘Walton,” whereupon good Venator speaks up: ‘‘Well sung, master; this day’s fortuue and pleas- ure, aud this night’s company and song, do all make me more and more in love with angling.” Innocent recreation, healthy thoughts, the sound mind in the sotind body so de- sirable, constitute in part the reward of the angler. The man who hved longest of all moderns—Henry Jenkins, who died at 169—was a fisherman to the last, and when above 100 years old he was “‘able to swim across rapid rivers.” He was 2 Yorkshireman, and. possibly, of kin to that other old Yorkshire sportsman who, when he was about to die, on being asked by the clergyman if he had any confession to make, or if there was anything he wished to say that would give his mind relief, after some little deliberation, feebly re- plied that ‘“‘he believed, if he had his life to live nver again, he would fish less with flies and more with bait,” Our game Jaws have been enacted none too soon. In earlier times, as I well recollect, an unceasing war of exter- mination was carried on against the finny tribe; and hook, gun, sledgehammer, gigging-fork, seine, dip-net, set-uet, sweep net, nightline, and every other possible engine of de- struction was employed against the poor victim whose only fault: was that he was a fish, The modern pot- hunter and bird-butcher had his rival and counterpart in the fish fiend of earlier years. Of all these methods of piscatory warfare, the most picturesque was gigging fish by the light of a torch, On a different scale, it was the same thing in principle as the salmon spearing described in ‘‘Redgauntlet.” Th2 giggers, threadipy their way through the shallow stream, each holding a blaz- ing torch above his head and poising in his right hand the long-shafted fish spear, called a gig, explored the waters carefully as they proceeded, and ever and anon the swiftly descending trident dispatched another unsuspecting victim, This species of sport was carried on only after nightfall. A more cruel and destructive method was that of “‘sledging,” which consisted in thumping the large stones that lay along in the water with a heavy hammer, thus stuoning and kill- ing whatever creatures might be secreted below. So far as I know, these methods of fish killing, which are to be classed in point of sportmansbip with the hounding and clubbing to death of deer in the water, areno longer practiced in civilized communities. To the practical man the question may occur, What is the use of these old-world stories and discussions? Why not let the dead bury the dead? There is no great use init at all This, think, must be admitted; and yet there is a class of persona, especially as they decline toward the sere and yel- low leaf, to whom memory is everything, and the remin- iscences of earliet years are more precious than the stock quotations and political diatribes of the present hour. “iife’s vain delusions are gone by, Its idle hope3 are o’er; Yet age remembers with a sigh The days that are no more.” TT. J. CHAPMAN. PITTSBURG, Pa, Advertisement, July 5, 1660. (es" A Smooth Black Dog, less than a Greyhound, with white under his breast, Belonging to the King’s Majesty, was taken from Whitehall, the eighteenth day of this instant, June, or thereabouts. If any one can give notice to John Ellis, one of his Majesties servants, or to His Majesties Back Stairs, shall be well rewarded for their labor. ~ A Few Days Later. (> We must call upon you again fora Black Dog, be- tween a Greyhound anda Spaniel, no white about him— onely 8 streak on his Breast, and Tayl a little bobbed. It is lis Majesties own Dog, and doubtless was stolen, for the Dog was not born or bred in England, and would never for- sale hig master. Whosoever findes him, may acquaint any at Whitehall, for the Doge was better known at Court than those who: stole him. ill they never leave robbing his Majesty? Must he not keep a Dog? This Dog’s place (though better than some imagine) is the only place which nobody offers to beg, PACIFIC ISLANDS. 1V.—Juan Fernandez. Wuo has not read, or at least heard of, Robinson Crusoe? Among my childhood memories none are more distinct than the pleasant hours I. spent with Robinson Crusoe and his man Friday. And so, when in 1860 we neared the island of Juan Fernandez, I seemed to feel that I was now on the borders of Wonderland. I formed one of the crew of a small bark which, several ‘months before, had left the States, drifted down across the line, foundered around Cape Horn, and was now headed north with the whole Paciiice before her. We were a motley crew: Yaukee, English, Irish, Scotch, e(c., with Portuguese and Kanaka thrown in to make weight, Among us were some who were simply sailors, who were sailing for their bread and butter, and were no better nor worse than the majority of their class. One or two there were who had left their country for their country’s good. Some who had adopted the life for a life’s work, aud some who were there because they had to go somewhere and bad little or no choice. But we wire a fair crew, as they goa, with a fair share of sentiment, some cducation and plenty of common sense. Among us were two Dutchmen. Dutchy was short, slight and quarrelsome. Big John was broad of face and immense of body and limits, with an ever-happy smile on his broad face. Neither were of much account as sailors, but as sources of amusement they wereinvaluable. Big” John would sometimes get melancholy and mope for an hour or two by himself; at such times 1t was always best to leave him alone. As we neared Juan his ‘thinking spells’ as he galled them, were more frequent, and before we left the island we knew the reason, But while I am telling of the crew, we have lifted the island above the horizon and are making preparations io come to anchor, The island shows a bold front of rock generally bare and ragged, but with here and there litule patches of green, Wesweep along close to some high and almost perpendicular bluffs, and see, looking like flies upon a wall, several goats scrambling along the face of the rock, where it appears impossible for anything 1o get a foothold. Scou we open out the harbor, and some houses are seen near the water, where there is a small space of open land, with narrow ravines runving back into the hills, One after another the sails are clewed up, and as we scramble aloft and out*on the yards, all eyes are turned languidly to the patches of bright green turt which look so inviting after our long and tedious tumble on blue water. It was Saturday when we dropped our anchor, Our pur- pose was wood and water; but nothing was done except to snug theship that day. On the morrow all hands were to go ashore. Do you happen to know what that means to men who have been months off soundings? , We were full of anticipations for to-morrow ; how weeyed that rocky sbore; how we ransacked our memories to recall ‘the story of Robinson Crusoe (we all believed it) and belieyed we were looking at the lonely island where he spent so many years, - . Would that we could carry the faith of childhood through life. We were all children, to besure. Many of us were we)l along toward the meridian, but sailors are all children. To-morrow came at last, and, like a crowd of school-boys, we manned the boat and pulled ashore. We found a rocky beach; above and nearby was.a small plateau of a few acres, occupied by the houses of the people. Leading back from the houses was a rude path, which, following a rayine, ran on and out of sight up the mountain. On the left of the village lay the ruins of an old fort. Be- yond, still to the left, were a number of oven-like caves, cut out of the rock, and said to have been prisons for the con- victs when Juan was a penal colony. Several rusty cauvnonu were lying half buried in the ground. Sume round shot and other relics were speculated over, and we had exhausted the resources of that place, What next? for we must have some fun ‘Some of the natives mentioned horses; that was enough, for, though a sailor is the poorest horseman in the world, he is always ready to ride. _ Then began a hullabaloo. The horses were half wild ponies, and it tuok an immense amount of yelling, running and.shouting before enough animals were collected for our party. And then the real fun began. The ponies were wild, and determined not to be mounted, Four or five na: tives would gather around a pony, while one man held him with a lasso; after several rushes they would manage to git hold, some around the neck, snme of the mane, whi'e one would twist the rope, trying to choke the poor brute into submission, All this time Jack would be dancing about trying to take command of his new craft.- Many got on, but few stayed there; for, while a man may beable to jockey ayardarm ina gale of wind, it’s another thing to ridea wild horse. After mounting, the real trouble began; every one of those disreputable horses seemed bound to go every way but tue right one. We wanted to go up the mountain; they wanted to go for the beach, into the busbes and up the sides of per- pendicular rocks; but by perseverance and the liberal use of the whip some few of us managed to get a mile or so up the mountain. Our ride down was easy enough. All one had to do was to hold on; the horses scemed to be crazy to get back to the beach. It was fun alive to see a sailor hanging on by tooth and nail, while the half wild pony came tearing down the steep mountain path. Through bushes, over rocks and gulfs, hat- Jess, with hair streaming in the wind, Jack came down in two or three minutes, where it had taken an hour to climb, When it. came time to go on board the ship we mustered al the landing—all but Big John. No one could remember where they had seen him last. One thing only was certain; he was not there. We called, we waited, but he never came, and when we left the island we left without Big John. For a week or more we were busy gettiog wood and water, ‘The wood we cut and backed to the boats, The water was an éasier job. We towed the casks ashore, rolled them one by one under a wooden spout leading from the spring, and when all were full towed them back and hoisted in and stowed down. Every day our boat’s crew would go fishing. Fish were plentiful, and no time did we come home empty-handed, One day we went for crawfish. Wemade some nets. The base of the net was a large hoop some 4ft. in diameter; over this we worked rope yarn io meshes of 2in. orso. Then slinging the net over the side, we balasted it with rock, baited it with fish, and slacked away till the net was resling on the bottom. Then when the crawfish were gathered fo- the bait, it was proposed to pull up the net very gently until it was at the top of the water and flop ihe crawfish into the Jory 24, 1897.) FOREST AND STREAM. 65 boat. The theory was all right, but in practice it didn’t ‘work worth a cent. , For every crawfish that climbed on to our net there would be three or four conger eels from 3 to 6ff. long. We gotone big eel into the boat. ; He was about Sft. long and as big asa man’s leg, and when he decided to take charge of the boat, every man promptly got overboard and his msjesty had pos- session. Finally, one man reached over the gunwale with a hatchet and chopped the monster into two pieces, and we took possession of the boat once more. But we didn’t fish for crawtish with a net any more, We had a Kanaka in the boat who said he could catch — crawish. Off went his clotbes, and balancing himself on the gunwale he watched fora fish. The water was about 12ft, deep and very clear. Soon he made a plunge, snd ina few seconds came to the surface with a large crawfish. The crawfish here is about the size of a Jobster and shaped like one, but without the large claws. Upon seeing the Kangka come up with his prize, Dick, a Massachusetts Yankee, said he could do as well; so oyer he went, ard between the two we had crawfish enough for all hands, One day the mate went goat hunting; he brought home two, they looked very gcod, but when cooked were tao strong to be eaten. We afterward captured one alive which we made a pet of for a year, and finally left at Chatham Island (one of the Galipagos) with a copper collar on his neck, containing the ship’s name. Altogether we passed the time very pleasantly, fiching along the shore, bunting goats in the hills, or tramping for sandal wood on the mountains. Peaches and a small wild tomato were the only fruit we were able to get, but of fresh eges, chickens and beef we had our fi'l. And when we ilJed our topsail and turned from the land, we all said “Good-bye, Big John,” for he had not come back. TABPON. ALONG THE POTOMAC —V. In one of my communications I promised to give a de- tailed description in vindication of our action in disposing of certain corn thieves. The source of the trouble was as follows: Dr, Smith, the proprietor of the plantation, em- bracing the pocoson within its bounds, had a field ofabout 200 acres planted in corn, in fine condition, promising an abundant yield, as it was perfectly deyeloped in growth and undergoing the process of maturing under the rays of the autumn sun, when the marauders entered it night after night, destroying great quantities, thereby blasting the expectations of the proprietor. Several attempts had been made to capture, or preyent the nocturfial visitors from committing further depredations; but all efforts had been ineffectual, The destruction was so great it had become a serious matter with the proprietor in reference to the food supply. For corn was the staple crop and was indispensable for the horses, cattle and hogs. Then there were the slaves, fifty to seventy-five, on this plantation, for whom the proprietor had to provide food and clothing. This was a great responsibility resting upon the slave- holders, consequently they were vitally interested in the protection of their crops. Consequently we had carte blanche to hunt, gun and fish, when and where one wished. We frequently availed of the privilege to indulge in night hunting, as well as other field sports, and had made two or three of such hunts,in that identical field, which were complete failures, although we found ample evidence of the recent presence of the marauders on each occasion of our visits. Such a repetition of failures we had never before experienced, and concluded to yisit the locality in dayhght and discover, if possible, the cause of our failure, and to adopt a plan of campaign with the view of retriey- ing our reputation as huntsmen, Therefore, my two usual. companions, Nathan Kell and Joseph Elliott and myself, proceeded to investigate. We crossed the creek at our usual p'ace and followed its banks about one mile, which brought us to the cornfield. It extended from the banks of the river running parallel with the creek on one side, and the pocoson on the other, to a wooded ridge about a half mile distant. On the side of the field next to the pocoson there was a vacant strip of land about i00yds. in width, too wet for cultivation, across which the ma-_ tauders crossed to gain access to the object of their plundering operations. Therefore, we found that by ap- proaching from the direction we invariably used, we must necessarily enter the field from the side which placed the objects of the hunt between us and their place of concealinent with an open line of retreat. Therefore, the catise of our previous failures were obvious, and we determined to avoid in future failure from similar causes, Before leaving the plantation we saw Lewis, one of the colored plantation hands, who was considered an authority in woodcraft by all young aspirants for the honors of the chase. Lewis had often accompanied us on nocturnal hunts, and after telling him of our previous experience, we wished to get his opinion on the case, which we con- sidered of the greatest importance. He said: “I heerd dem dogs ebery time you was in dat cornfele, but neber heerd’em tree. I knowed dem dogs was fooled. You kan’t ketch dem yarmints widout you git ’twe’n dem and dere hollers were da sleep all day wid one eye open. Dat’s my ‘pinion.” We then suggested to cross the creek on the fol- lowing nightin a boat with our dogs, and enter the field from the strip of wet ground separating the cornfield from the swamp containing the hollow trees. “Dat ’il'do,” said Lewis, “and ile be dare wid you.” . According to agreement we embarked with our three dogs,and in due time the bow of our boat touched the sandy beach at thedesired point; the river end of the open strip alluded to, where we found Lewis with his dog quietl y awaitingstis. His dog was secured with a stout cord tied around the neck, then brought forward and a half-hitch taken around the jaws; and Lewis peremptorily insisted that ours must be secured in the same manner, to prevent premature tongueing before we reached the point he con- sidered absolutely essential, to frustrate the exceedingly Vigilant and crafty objects of our quest. After securing our dogs satisfactory to Lewis, who assumed the position of leader (to which we willingly assented), and after receiv- ing a peremptory order to keep quiet, we set out on the war path in Indian file, Lewis leading. After proceeding a considerable distance he directed us to halt and keep quiet until we heard his dog tongueing, then to let ours loose, He then yanished through the silent gloom as stealthily as an Indian. Weremained as quiet as possible under the circumstances, as the dogs were tugging and straining to relieve themselves from restraint, as they evidently scented phe game, which, doubtless, had passed over the ground ‘their blood-curdling, discordant notes. where we stood within a few hours, While exerting our- selves to the utmost to restrain their frantic efforts, we heatd the welcome signal notes from Dandy, the dog of Lewis. It required but a few seconds to release ours, whose music joined the chorus, Above the din and turmoll of the unrelenting notes of the dogs in full ery, the stentorian voice of Lewis could be heard encouraging the pursuit: “Were is you, Dandy? Let me hyarfum you. Dat’s right, speak to um,” In addition to the clamor and turmoil inseparable from the chase, all those gloomy, inharmonious birds of night aroused from their lethargy and joined the chorus with Notwithstanding the weird and hideous sounds which filled the surround- ing gloom, we pursued the chase oblivious to all other objects. The game made desperate efforts to escape, but they were cut off from their usual route to their hollow trees; ahd, as if knowing that it was inevitable death to take refuge in a tree without a cavity, they attempted stratagem, by running in small streams to break the trail. But their pursuers were too close, and so their last and desperate resort was to take refuge in a tree, with the dogs dangerously close to their hindquarters as they ascended. This was the tree spoken of in my article, and the ring- tailed marauders were the ones that were lynched. They made a judicious selection, for it was a difficult tree to climb. { was generally the climber on these nocturnal hunts, but on this occasion I was disabled during the chase; in running, a large thorn pierced the side of my foot through a thin part of my shoe, therefore I was the last one to artive. As I limped up to the tree, around which the dogs were frantic, Lewis remarked, “Dere’s more dan one coon up dat tree; dere’s more den two; my dog had one a-gwWyih’, and.w’en your dogs cum up dere, every one had one wid hits. Sum of their obercotes will he peneine on the end of my ¢abin ’fore to-morro’, mine I tell y’u. In the meantime Nathan Kell was climbing the tree, while I was performing the duties of.astronomer, or astrol- oger of the hunt. No doubt the idea of astronomer to acoon hunt will be read with a smile of derision. Nevertheless, it’s a position which frequently prevents the escape ot the game. A raccoon seldom hides in a crotch, but goes to the extreme end of a branch, and manages, with the assistance of the leaves, to make it difficult to spot him. Then the above functionary walks around outside the Spreading limbs of the tree intently observing its upper branches. If he discoyera a suspicious clump of leaves or a dark spot, he obtains a position which places the object of his sus- picion in the line of his vision and a star in the firma- ment, thereby he can nearly always ascertain if his gus- picions are correct. After the climber had reached near the top of the tree, he announced the discovery of one. Lewis immediately took hold of his dog, and after ascertaining upon which side to expect him, said, “Shake him down.” In a few moments the vibration of the branch sent him plunging through the outer branches. Dandy was there to receive him when he touched terra firma. They all joined in the fray, and as they were specially trained coon dogs, he was disposed of in short order. The climber shouted, “Look out for another,’ “Let her come.” It came, crushing down yery close to the site of its comrade’s disaster. This fellow was an immense animal for that species, and held the dogs at bay a considerable time; and when they did attack he made a terrible fight, and the contest would have been doubtful if the dogs had not been Lee ce len 0 14 20 Montauk,,... eMisaae fas cdntPtnret tt he ve Genet pewn _ Not timed. After a poor start, Momo had worked along, until now she was second boat, and the most dangerous rival of the apparently invincible Skate. ‘The latter, however, had lugged sail entirely too long, and the time had come when she was compelled to reef. She hammered along over the seas for some fifteen minutes and then had to luff up and tie in. Her sister boat, Keneu, had long since come down to three reefs, and even then had all the wind she wanted. Skate tookin a couple of tucks, losing so much time that Momo, pegging along steadily to windward, was nearly up with her. She had on board only her working jib, a large sail, with no means of reefing it. No great time was required to show that the boat would not work to windward under a double-reefed mainsail and no headsail, and Mr. Dresser was sent forward and spent a bad quarter of an hour on the extreme bow in the effort to set the jib with an Trish reef in, just enough to pay her head off and make it possible to steer her. The result was a bag that enabled her to lay a course, but at the same time held her back, Mean- while, at 2:20, Al Anka caused some excitement among the spectators by capsizing, her crew sliding out to windward and standing on the centerboard until they pried her up and got her on her course. She sailed on for about twelve min- utes, when over she went again, and to stay. yy Rogue...... ah oes re Fens 07. Wslanderst 2 joicesshelorses rata. D 86 20 15 Rogue reported fouling the channel buoy on the last round and lost her points for this round. f Tee standing of the boats in points in the series is now as ollows: IAVOL Beloterivacsartcunee tate ee ..253 Islander...., chewed carne bre tener oe GlEHO Wen seace cheer Cearee plea WLI eau eli) Sig a neemeiponries worl ROPUGHontennoe es Taw else satiety PLUGS NIE EPe th, Papa ee erie ene staged 44 The new flagship of the club, Glencairn IL., as Com. Ross has decided to call her, was launched on July 11 by her builders, the Yacht Company of Canada. She was com- pleted within twenty-seven days from the time the contract was signed, complete with all fittings, mast and gaff, and as during this time a good deal of work was done on the racing fleet this is fairly good work, Glencairn IT. looks a deal like her immediate predecessors, but her deck is flatter aft, and shéis the first of Mr. Duggan’s boats with a perfectly flat stern, which dogs not improve her looks. Her fittings and rig are exactly those of Avoca, The last race for the 15-footer series was also sailed and was won by Titania. The times were aa follows: TUL Era dearsts hs 5 stasteaetes peace cece ky tvash, of Se een VION Cy oly tarerakeh atctcdereeltchavete oatel fei CERT ADItAsscssccssesnesetenacesD OF 40 The Sinking of Tomahawk. 1 THE steel 40-footer Tomahawk, designed by Burgess in _1889 for H D, Morgan and built by Piepgrass, foundered on July 17. The details are given as follows in 4 despatch to the Boston Globe: HIGHLAND LigHt, July 17.—Harly this morning, tn a strong sonuthwester, the cutter yacht Tomahawk went down off Highland Light. She was formerly owned by B. W. Crowninshield, of Marblehead, Captain and owner, Albert P. Newell, with a crew com- posed of George N, Saunders and Lyle Goodwin, transferred their personal effects to the yawl and pulled away from the sinking craft, just in time to avoid being swamped in the suction as the yacht lurched and went down. When their vessel so suddenly dropped ont of sight they were five miles from shoreand Highland Light bore west, A nasty and choppy sea tossed their frail boat about, and it required constant watchfulness and skill to prevent capsiz- ing. Something of the task of gaining the shore may ba judged from the fact that they were from3 A. M, to 3:30 P, M, in tov- ering a distance of five miles, pulling steadily atthe oars. Capt. Newell says: “We had beet ona cruise’ to the east- ward, and left Yarmouth, N. S., a week ago, jogging up the north shore without mishap of any kind, Yesterday we worked across the bay and pulled up for Provincetown, leay- ing there at midnight. “After rounding Race Point, and when off Highland light, we found the yacht settling rapidly in the water. We lost no time in getting the yawl over, and after putting in our effects we Jumped in ourselves, and none too soon, for the craft fetched a lurch and went down head foremost. ‘That pull of five miles to shore was the worst experience Tever had in all my seafearing life. We expected every minute the frail shell would throw us out, in her mad toss- ing. We were assisted in landing through the surf by sutf man Dyer and Capt. J. H. Rich, of the Pamet River life- saving station, who treated us very kindly.” New Orleans Yachting. THE racing season of the Southern Y. C., of New Orleans is in active progress, and on June 19 the Walker cup and Sully cup events will be sailed, In 1889 Mr. J. M. Bourg won a handsome piece of plate with his sloop Stella, and he has now just offered this plate to the club again to be put in competition. The directory, in examining this plute, dis- covered that it had a singular historical value, having been offered by the club so early as 1854. It was therefore thought to be too valuable to go on further as a prize, and it was de cided to frame and keep it permanently in the club house of the Southern Y. C. The following letter was therefore sent to Mr, Bourg, which serves well to show the traditions to which this old cup is entitled. . ; “NEW ORLEANS, La., June 12, 1897—J, M. Bowrg, Esq., City: DEAR Stk—In accord with the regulations of the Southern Y.C. the salyer which you have presented for competition in a class to be selected by the organization has been laid before the governing committee. I am instructed to say that they have taken the liberty of refusing to offer it as a prize, for the reason that it is of too much historic value to be put to such a purpose. They propose, with your sanction, to accord it a prominent place in the club house. “The Southern Y,C. has been in existence for ueeny halfa century. In America it is second in age to thé’New York Y. C. The date on your trophy, together with the club’s in- scription, shows that it was won over our course in 1864, when the organization was but a few years old. A valuable relic already, it will not be many years before it will be- come an heirloom which will serve to perpetuate traditions which would otherwise be forgotten. “We expect it to be the home stake, around which will be resailed many of the old-time craft which {it will recall to the memory of the survivors of their crews. | “Presenting the thanks of the Southern Y, C,, 1 am yours very truly L, D. SAMPSERLL, Secretary. ‘By order of Com, J. W. Glenny,"’ H. Houas. Jony 24, 189%7,] New York Y. C. Annual Cruise. A REGULAR meeting of the New York Y. C. was held on July 15 at the downtown Delmonieo’s, Com. Morgan presid- ing. The following members were elected; John W, Cox, John G. Elliott, Richard A. Johnson, EK. Burgess Warren, Darwin Almy, Rev. F. Langdon Humphreys, Philip T. Dodge, Colgate Hoyt, Charles Smithers, Effingham Town- send Irvin, William K, Vanderbilt, Jr., H. H. Rogers, John W. Masury, Stephen ©. Hunter, Harrison B. Moore, Jr, Commander James M. Forsyth, U. 8. N.; Stephen S$. Palmer, Charles Sooysmith, Henry C. Eno, Goold H. Redmond, Ernest Iselin, Commander Charles H. Davis, U.S N.; Alex- ander Van Rensselaer, John E, Cowden, J. De Courcy Treland, Julian Stevens Ulman. The regatta committee presented a report on the pro- gramme for the coming annual cruise, for which the follow- ing general order has been issued: PLAGSHIP CORSAIR. i NEw YORK YACHT CLUB. GENERAL ORDER NO, 2 Monday, Aug. 2, 1897.—The squadron will rendezvous at Glen Cove, L. L., in the morning, leaying that day for Hunt- ington Harbor. Atil A. M, there will be a meeting of cap- tains on board the flagship. R AA On the same day a race will be sailed, finishing off Hunt- ington Bay. . A. t The programme for the cruise, weather permitting, will be as follows: i Tnesday, Aug. 3, Huntington Bay to New London, Wednesday, Aug, 4, New London to Newport. Thursday, Ang. 5, race off Newport for Goelet cups. Saturday, Aug. 7, race for Commodore’s cups to Owl’s Head or vicinity. _ / After the race for the Commodore’s cups, the fleet will pro- ceed to Bar Harbor, where a meeting of the captains will be held on board the flagship to decide upon further action. During the cruise there will be the usual races for the Ow] and Gamecock colors, and a race for naphtha launches. The regatta committee will furnish details for the runs from port to port, and for all other racing events. | Captains are requested to provide their vessels with the N. Y. Y. C. night signal, also to send to the Commodore a list of the names of their guests, ¢ . During the cruise ths Commodore will be pleased to re- ceive informally the captains and their guests on board the Hagship any evening while in the harbor, from 8:30 to 11 As it is very important that the regatta committee should know to what extent they can depend on yachts accompany- ing the squadron to Owl’s Head, captains are urged to send notice of their intentions to the regatta committee with as little delay as possible. By order of the Commodore. : J. BEAVOR WEBB, Fleet Captain. JuLY 12. The following letter was read: J. O, Barron, W. Barton Hopkins and J, Frederic Tams, Regatta Committee New York Y. 0. ’ GENTLEMEN—It gives me great pleasure to offer the follow- ing cups, to be raced for during the coming cruise by the sailing vessels of the squadron that have not h-uled out to clean since the beginning of the cruise; 1. A cup cf the yalue of $2,000 for the winning schooner in Classes A, B and C. ‘ 2, A cup valued at $1,000 for the winning schooner in Olasses D and F. 68, A cup of the value of $1,000 for the winning sloop in Class G. — 4, A cup of the value of $1,000 for the winning sloop in Classes H, J, K, L and M. : The course to be from Vineyard Haven to the vicinity of Owl’s Head, to be sailed in eruising trim, with the regular time allowance of the New York Y.C., in accordance with its rules, and under such conditions as may be formulated_ by the regatta committee. J. PIERPONT MORGAN, The following additional] prizes have heen offered: By Vice-Com. Lewis Cass Ledyard—A cup for schooners and acup for single-masters and yawls, to -be raced for at Glen Cove, Aug. 2, open to yachts in cruising trim. By Rear-Com. August Belmont—A cup for the single- masted vessel or yawl winning the greatest number of runs, all suiling as one class, during the cruise; also a cup for a special class of 80-footers, owned by members, two or more to start; also a cup for second boat if four or more start. By ex-Com. . M. Brown—A cup for the schooner winning ive greatest number of runs, all schooners sailing in one class. The regatta committee offers cups for schooners and single- masted vessels re:pectively In & race from Saddle Back Ledge Light to Bar Harbor, with special handicap time allowance. 4 F Royal St. Lawrence Y. ©. Ross Cup. DORVAL—LAKT ST LCUIS, : Saturday, July 3. THE seventh race of the Ross series for the 20-footers came off on the afternoon of Saturday July 3. There was a very light air from the eastward, and the boats were sent off from the port course, which involved a spinaker run to the Valois buoy against the current. What wind there was seemed to die out entirely in the bay, and it made the race a very slow one indeed, the boats taking about one hour for each round The start was made at 3:45, and Glenowen got away with ma lead, with Millie second and Avoca third. Millie and Glenowen hung close to each other all the way up, and Millie got the buoy and took the lead. On the reach she widened out the distance between her and Glenowen a little, and on the windward work there was a little more air stirring and Glenowen gained on her. At the finish of the first round there was only ten seconds between them. Avoca crept up and passed Rogue on the windward work, and took third place. The finish of the first round was as follows: / IMGIG> Sewers rehieeei i heamaatin halts ROBUGTE Sac tetit ey menee ef) DONOD GICENOWED, ceecece s+ cerenesd G1 21 Slander: wiic ii veyeyveecesc0 Ol 27 TAN OGA eran veeegis sts soccer Be BL On the second round Millie set her spinaker to port and Glenowen set hers to starboard, Millie handling her sails a little more smartly of the two, and the two hoats went up the course almost together. Millie again got the buoy, and on the reach across to the outer buoy Millie drew away a little. After rounding the buoy the two leaders tacked close in shore, and at the end of the first leg Glenowen was able to cross Millie’s bow, and she held this lead to the finish line. The result of the second rownd was as follows: GICNOWED ..ccescverrvenses 0 SSNS ROPUC 6 seveesevcente seseve6 OL 17 MAUTG. .Neccecwks naan ns “i ie: te TslANder.. veveeeveersseeees6 08 87 -++.0 08 Us i The result of the race and of the series to datein points is as follows: Total pots” . in Series, ES OWE. cer cislbda be gigi g eta b Md dicfein Bhs) swam ena enaaege sD P INGUNIG. cn ences Heleess bGb hod Sad COS Saou iiegse iF 51 PATCH! ls cinuaeleieivatieae aes pe Cli sevasabacshitt sce cphgeerle 113 PESOP AVES, Pera hale nterb.s 6.4.0 usta ala coe tshie' cot [ala'e O0 mS S d.seelbilly LU. 83 BICEP svyeeceresesvenieerr} Te} ytie ss) prrtyyertere i FOREST AND STREAM. Northwestern International Yachting Association. NEW WHATCOM, WASH —PUGET’S SOUND. Saturday, July 8. THE sixth annual regatta of the Northwestern Interna- tional Yachting Association was sailed on July 3 off New Whatcom in # reefing breeze. The small number of starters isdueto the fact that many yachts from a distance were stormbound by @ heavy gale that prevailed for several days preceding the race, The times were: / A GLASS - 36 TO SOFT. Course, 18 nautical miles, one-third windward Rating. Start. Fivish. Hlapsed. Corrected. _ Myth,........36 00 3 04 09 - 6 16 44 31241 3 13 08 Jubilee..,....386.01 8 04 00 6 89 45 3 35 48 3.3, 59 Ariadne.,,.. 4% 02 8 04 10 6 40 57 8% 86 A? 3B 44 12 Thomas ,,..,36,10 3 04 00 6 49 23 345 23 3 45 23 B CLASS— 25 To 36FT. Course, 12 nautical miles, one-third windward. Hornet....... 26,05 3 14 30 5 dh 54 2 32 24 2 3) 24 ProgresS.....5 case 3 14 30 6 16 36 3 62 06 ode 4: Rambler ,,...25,0 B14 30 Did not finish, O GLASS—20 TO 25FT, Course, 12 oautical miles, one third windward. Ariadne. ,....24,03 3 24 30 § 55 32 2 31 02 | Garland v.00. seve B 24 3) 6 13 5 2 49 05 . Kawbler ..... sees 3 24 20 6 35 10 8 10 40 : D GLASS —15 To 2( FT. Course, 6 nautical miles. ove third windward. Nelie Diivc ccs 707. 3B 34 30 6 (6 32 1 38 13 - Dolphio.,,.,.15,09 3 34 30 6 20 O1 1 45 al Hobe Sound Y. C. HOBE SOUND, FLA. Sunday, July 11. = THE Hobe Sound Y. C. sailed the first of its series for the . prize pennants on July 11. The start was in a very Jight wind, and the yachts got away well together at 3:30 P’ M. for second class and 3:33 P, M. for first class yachts. Shortly after the start a heavy rain and wind squall struck, which forced all the second vlass and some of the first class to quit. The five miles were sailed as follows, and the points on the series follow: FIRST CLASS Elapsed. Corrected, Points. Guill....., ripiate rere I Te ee eS 1 16 22 1 15 05 5 Hrancis,..... megedtepn temas eet Smelt ary sisisics 1 22 42 1 20 00 4 Wenonarmnrateceres te: 533 agg te AUIS 1.29 39 1 £0 25 a BOROPIG? Mey eie ee cules SOnnO BORO pAoH ...-. Withdrew. 0 Br NCE Bs a OCR MICE Gn OCDOREtIA EACrnG ., Withdrew. 0 SECOND GLASS LOLTAIDOer osu hee resi rds oe eee Withdrew. 0 Juanita , Disabled, 0 GHEVMES ee eens 2 . Disabled. 0 Mary Biacires desu seth tinatcewie. boned nOtestart, 0 YACHTING NEWS NOTES. Margarita IL, steam yacht, A. J. Drexel, arrived at New York on July 14 from Queenstown, with her owner on board. During the spring she has cruised in the Mediterranean and Huropean waters. ; Ganocing. AMERICAN GANOE ASSOCIATION, 1896-97. Commodore, John N. MacKendrick, Galt, Canada. Sec’y-Treas , John R Blake. Galt, Canada. Librarian, W. P. Stephens, Bayonne, N. J. ’ PURSERS, Atlantic Division, H. W, Fleischman, 1611 N 2ist 8t., Phila., Pa. Central Division, Laurence C. Woodworth, Gouverneur, N. Y. Eastern Division, &. J, Burrage, West Newton, Mass. Northern Division, Francis H. Macnes, Kingston, Canada. Annuai dues, $1; initiation fee, $1. - WESTERN CANOE ASSOCIATION, 1895-96, Commodore, C. F. Pennewell, Detroit, Mich. Vice-Commodore, Nat. H. Cook, Chicago, Ill. Rear-Commodore, E. H. Holmes, Milwaukee, Wis. Sec’y-Treas., W.D Stearns, Detroit, Mich. Executive Committee: R. M Lamp, Madison, Wis.; C. J. Steadmsen, Cincinnati, O:; F. W. Dickens, Milwaukee, Wis. The Wawhewawa Canoe Association. THE Wawbewawa Canoe Association is rapidly gaining the distinction of being the most active canoeing organization in the Hastern Division of the A.C. A. The members cele- brated Independence Day by adding two more splendid vic- tories to their already long list. They not only won the war canoe championstip of the New England Amateur Rowing Association for 1897 in the Boston regatta, but also sent a crew to Springfield, where they took first honors in the war canoe eyent of the Connecticut Valley Amateur Rowing As- sociation regatta. At the Hastern Division meets of the A. C. A, during the past few years the Wawbewawas have carried their colors well to the front. The Association was organized in 1874, and has already won the war canoe cham- pionship three times in the A. C, A. and twice in the N H. A, R. A., as well as the Connecticut Valley championship At the canoe meets held in Lowell, Worcester and Taw- rence during the last three years, the Wawbes have each time won the single-blade and tandem single-blade eyents. The club four race also went to the Wawbewawas in 1895 and 1896, and in the former year Messrs. Burrage, Hall, Forsaith and Ashenden won the club four championship of the A. C. A. at Bluff Point. - The club has recently been incorporated under Massachu- setts laws, and the members are now enjoying the privileges of a handsome club house erected last spring on the banks of the picturesque Charles in Auburndale. The limit of membership is fifty, and already there is a long waiting list, The officers of the club are as follows: Capt., Louis §, Drake; Purser, Francis J. Burrage; Sec’y, Wm. V. Forsaith, Des Moines C. C, CuiIcAGco, Ill., June 26.—At Des Moines, Ia., there is a deep dam across the Des Moines River, and above the dam extends a pond of still water some miles in extent, not un- suitable for thé purposes of fishing or canoeing. For years this backwaterihas been utilized by the water-lovers of the city, though nothing has been done toward the organization of a canoeing body, Yet for many years Des Moines has boasted an enthusiast in canoe matters, a gentleman by the name of Tacitus Hussey, commonly known as Tac Hussey. Mr. Hussey has been a regular and devoted disciple of the tiny craft, and his penchant for the sport has made him in the past an object of interest and curiosity in the staid Western city. Mr. Hussey has paddled away faithfully and industriously, talking canoeing, acting canoeing, and npon occasion even writing poetry about canoeing. Finally his enthusiasm has become contagious, and has spread to others of the community. Vhis week a canoe club was organized at Des Moines, with a membership of about forty. Most of these are beginuers, but their intentions appear to be of the 77 right sort, and there is all the hope in the world that a good body of canoeists will be the outcome of the movement. following are the names ofsomeofthe new members: Com., Tacitus Hussey; Vice-Com., Hal Stapp; Purser, Will Hey- wood; Sec’y, Edgar Pritchard; J. H Locke, John Mott, Guy Talbott, Harry Posner, J. Younker, A. W. Liddell, Levi Guss, HK, l. Chandler, C_M. Stewart, Fred Stapp, J. Craw- ford, Frank Clarkson, John Clarkson, Mark ‘Teetor, W-- Stutz, L H. Stutz, George Warfield, C. H. Kahler, Harry Keyser, C. A. Rawson, Will Jackson, H, Ullrich, Raymond Windsor. EH. Houen. Canoe Cruising aud Camping: THE new hook just issued by the Forest and Stream Pub- lishing Co. under the above title comes most opportunely at the season, when canoe cruises are in order. The author. Perry D, Frazer, is a cruising canoeist of long experience and thorcughly familiar with the canoe and all its accessories, the‘gun, the fishing outfit, the camera and thetent. How to use all of these in the enjoyment of a cheap, wholesome and healthful outing is told in a plainand practical manner, the book being intended for the novice and young canoeist. The canoe, camping outfit, clothing, etc., are described in detail, aud the author’s advice in their selection and use is full and reliable. The book will be found well worth the at- tention of even experienced canoeists. The W. C. A. Meet. AT Delavan Lake, Wis., preparations for the Angust meet of the W. C. A. are going on, Secretary Huntington has arranged with the Highland Hotel for board for the tars who will bein attendance, and space has been secured for the tents of those who will camp out, . The triangular course has been staked out—a half mile to the leg—opposite High- land. Thesailing will bein view of the hotel guests at dif- ferent parts of the lake. ; E. Hoven. A. C. A. Membership. APPLICATIONS for membership may be made to the purser of the division in which the applicant resides on blanks fur- nished by purser, the applicant becoming a member provided no objection be made within fourteen days after his name has been officially published in the FoREST AND STREAM. CENTRAL DIVISION. . Name. Residence. Club, J. Fred Hammond....... Canton; Ni Yoo. scenes .eae eo C, Hurd Gaines........ .Canton, N. Y.....-.. EA RAS —_—— NORTHERN DIVISION. “4 H. ©. Gildersleeve........ Kingston, Ont...Kingston Y C. RS. Kinghorn.......... Montreal........ Pointe Claire BC, © W.H. Montgomery......Peterboro....... Peterbero C, C, Watlie Aillen® ses, 2 eee 9 Peterboro ....... Peterboro C. C, Rifle Range and Gallery. Cincinnati Rifle Scores. CinemnyAti, O,, July 11.—The following scores were made by the members of the Cincinnati Rifle Association to.day at their range, Four Mile House. Reading Road, Conditions: 2(0yds., off-hand, at the Standard target, 7-ring black The annual election of officers occurred to-day, and the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: J. F. Trounstine. Presi- dent; J, Strickmier, Vice President: A. Drube, Secretary; H Uckotter, Treasurer; Mat, Gindele, Captain; EH D. Payne; Lieutenant. Gindele, 10 9 6 910 810 910 9-9) 8 510 9 7 81010 9 787 10 $10 7 810 9 7 6 9-84 810 7 9 7 9 8 910 7-84 Payne 7 ™ 8 71010 810 & 10-85 5 9 7 8 9 9 7 6 10 10-80 710 % 8 6 8 9 8 9 8+8) 7 7 9 7 9 610 & 7 10—80 Hasenzahl. 1910 8 8 8 56 0 710 7-82 810 910 51010 4 810 84 5 7 8 8 7 810 9 7 8-%7 68 8 8 6 9 9 410 6—"7 Nestler. 8 8 9 7 710 9 8 5 9-80 1019 8 9 4 710 7% 7 7-79 > 8 5 6% 8 & 9 7 9-72 ? * > 610 8 8 % T 7-72 Drube ! . 88 968 9 6 8 8 7-77 58 68 9% 94% 7 6-72 8 8 510 5 6 7 & 7 8—%0 84566 7 8 5 7 7-68 Topf. it 6 65 8 6 49 4 8 7—63 10 6 719 4 8 8 8 5-5t 5 45 75 8 8 6 4 8—55 45583 8 7 7 4 5 5—54 Trounstine. 56 7 79 7 5 810 8 8—T4 819 6 510 5 7 6 T- 71 877% 9 6 47 7 7 6—68 _ 9210 9647 8 5 7-67 Strickmier 1910 8 8 9 6 5 5 7 6-74 10 7 5 6 7 810 7 4 6-70 7 7 6910 5 7 8 8 38—70 67 710 6 6 1 810 8—69 ' Uckotter, 710 6 8 6 6 5 6 6 7-b7 7 8 4 810 6 4 5 9 6-635 6 8 8 6 5 410 4 4 8-3 6544749 7 8 6—t0 Brumback. 710 9 68 8 6 5 2 6 67 968449 8 6 6 6—66 685677 6 9 5 9 6-65 85 667 6 8 7 7 5-65 Speth. 279 7 § 9 8 8 9 10—77 10 68 6 8 6 8 5 8—% 5 6% 7 7 t 7 9 8 4-67 Luz. 5 @ 5 810 4 510 6 3—62 6778 7 %7 6 6 & 4-60 Gy ta) es by oh a, (Hl Eas 1 Bi SiGird oD 48 8 4—54 Calumet Heights Riflemen. Cxidaqo, July 11.—The rifis contests at the range of the Calumet Heights Gun Club were won by Mr. Harlan and Mrs, Schmidt, in their respective classes, Mr. Dayis, in a practice shoot atring of 10 shots, made the score 43 points, <0Uyds. range, off-hand, standard target, as follows; JORG adn Sanur pada oe ssased 1.9 2 O16 BS 4 B10S58 Medal contest, 10 shots, Amerian standard target, 200yds.; DEW AA ey es kag de ex een eOnoor 9038444415 8 9 iivassegabeaess 10 of sO) ug 4> Me Mn e2) 3p 2030 eta behest se Mine ne Se OPlOD Or ean xs ou neds tad BY BE ay re ph 4 SL SESE) a ev elsls\stala ORs eae Or Hier (hm heey MeETcHlEG ey oh ihick sade planet wee ole Ned 4, AL ef 98 Ladies, 10 shots, off-hand, 100yds.: ; Mrs Chamberlain, ...ccssyesseeeeserss 1 2 38 0 0 8 3B 2 B 2—19 Mrs Schmidt....,ccsceserstesttsivssee 8 2 8 38 4 8 BS 4 Bo 8-41 Mrs Marshali,,..sssstvserottresesses, © 8 & § 8 4 38 B 2 40 PATTI, Grap-Shooting. Leading dealers in sportsmen's supplies have advertised in our columns continuously for almost @ quarter century. {f you want your shoot to be announced here send in notice like the following: FIXTURES. July 24.— Uxpriper, Mass.—Tournament of the Uxbridge Gun Club. ° George F. Day, Sec’y. July (ast week).—Miroue.., 8. D.—-Tournamenbofthe W. J. Healey Hardware Company. july 27-28,—BaAy Cary, Mich.—Tournament of the Michigan Trap- Stlooters’ League. W.H Brady, S:c*y, Detroit, Wich. July- 28-29.—DounuTH, Mion - Annual tournament of the Central Gun Cinb. G C Maxfield, Sec’y July 29.—DrexPeR PARK L I.—Merchandise shoot of the Emerald Gun Ulnb, Liye birds. Open to all. 78 FOREST AND STREAM. [Jury 24, 1897. Aug. 4-5.—LEwiston, Me.—Tournament of the Interstate Associa-_ tion, under the auspices of the Androscoggin Gun Club. Aug. 4-5,—Inprana MinerRat Sprines, Ind. —Iindiana Mineral Springs tontnament. ' Ben O, Bush, Manager. _ Ang 1i.— Hackensack, N, J.—Fifth contest for the Recreation cup. E. A. Jackson, Sec’*y. Aug. 17-19.—Toronto, Canada.—Tournament of the R. A. McCready Co,., Ltd. Targets. $1,000 guaranteed. Opentoall. Write for pro-- grammes. : Aug, 18-19,—Warsaw, Ind.—Tournament of the Lake City Gun Club, W. A. Wineberer, Sec’y: Aug. 19.—WarrReEn, 0,—Fifth tournament of the Pennsylvania and Ohio Border Gun League. Geo. H, Jones, Sec*y- Aug, 25-26.—MonrTeenuiar, Vt.—Tournament of the Interstate Asso- elation, under the auspices of the Montpelier Gun Club. Sept 6.—Mrripen, Connu,—Third wnnual Labor Day tournament of the Parker Gun Chub. ‘Sept. 6,—Marton, N. J —Annual Labor Day tournament of the Eudeavyor Gun Club. A. R Strader, Sec’y. Sept. 7-10.—DutrRoi7, Mich.—Jack Parker's annual tournament. Sept. 14-16 Kansas Crry. Mo,—Tournament of the Schmelzer Arms Co, Merchandise and amateurs. Sept. 14-16 —Drs Morves, Ia.—Tournament of the Capital Gun Club. -8. C. Quimby. Sec’y, Sept. 15-16.—Porrsmoury, N. H.—Tournament of the Interstate Association, under the auspices of the Portsmouth Gun Club. Sept. 28-29, InpraAnApouts, Ind,—Tournament of the Trap-Shooters’ League of Indiana, under the auspices of the Limited Gun Club, Royal Robinson, Sec’y. Sept, 28-Oct. 1— ————_____—_:__ Annual tournament of the New Jersey State Sportsmen’s Association. First two days, targets; last two days, live hirds. W.H. Huck. Rutherford, N, J. Oct, 6-8.—-NeweureH, N. Y.—Annual fall tournament of the West Newburgh Gunand Rifle Association. Hirst two days, targets; third day, live birds. $50 average money to three high guns in all pro- gramme target events. Open to all, Oct. 13-14.—GReEnseurG, Ind-—Shooting tournament of the Greens- burg Gun Glib. Web. Woodfill, Sec’y. DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. Club secretaries are invited to send their. scores Jor publication in these calumns, also any news notes they may care to have printed. Ties in all events are considered as divided unless otherwise reported. Mail all such matter to Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 346 Broadway, New York. Someé people take no stock in the marvelous properties that are concealed beneath the soft fur that covers the bony part of the leg of a cotton-tail! —But there are some that'do. For instance, Fred Gil- bert carries with him the most disreputable-looking rabbit foot we have éver seen; but, disreputable as it is undoubtedly in appearance, it’s a “peach,” according to Fred.in all other respects. And W. P. Mussey. in our issue of July 10, tells, under the head of ‘New Muscal- longe Waters,” how John Harkell’s rabbit foot. although ‘partly eaten and somewhat odorous,’ worked wonders in the *lunge-pro- ducing line. We also could tell of a certain forefoot of a Mississippi swamp rabbit that is a power iu itself. But a clineher for the unbe- lievers comes from the Oil City shoot. The dramatis persone are Rolla Heikes and C.W.Budd. Charlie has a hindfootof a snow- ‘white jack rabbit in his right-hand hip pocket all the time, and Rolla managed to Recure it somehow, and sped off up the trail and through the brush, with Budd in hot pursuit. Rolla did outrun Charlie, and the latter returned disconsolate. ‘+All my luck’s gone!’ Then Rolia appeared and mendaciously told Charlie that he’dlostthefoot ‘It must have fallen out of my pocket as] ran through the brush.” said he. They set off together to look for it, but of course it couldn’t be found, as it was then reposing in Holla’s left shoe! Now comes the climax, Budd was calledto the score for the first 25 targets in the %. GC. cup race; he went to the score, but all broken up; he started hadly. and actually missed something like five or six targets straight. How many more he would have missed had not Rolla handed him the foot just then, itis hard to say; the fact remains, however, that he finished that string of 25 with only one more miss to his credit. From the above it will be gathered that a graveyard rabbit is nota sine qua nov in the foot-producing lite; any old foot “ll do. Jim Elliott has done just what we have always been hoping some- body would do, yet scarcely expecting that our hopes would be realized. He has challenged Charlie Budd for the Du Pont trophy, Charlie Grimm for the Cast Tron, and Sim Glover for the Kansas City Star, and has put up the necessary forfeit to bind each challenge. This insures a considerable awakening of interest in live-bird trap- shooting citcles. and has put 4 pleasing qvietus upon all the windy talk we have had to wade through recently. What a delicious con- trast was the method pursued by Fred Gilbert in challenging Holla Heikes for the E, C. championship eup. There was no preliminary talk, and everything was arranged in Jess than twenty lines jn any newspaper. When people renily want a match there is absolutely no difficulty atallin the matter with so many championship cups foing the rounds of trap shoeting circles. And by the way, when is the tie for the “‘reversed order championship” between Heikes, Van Dyke and Charlie Young to be decided? Wouldn’t the shoot-off be an attraction at Jack Parker’s shoot next September? The fifth contest for the Recreation cup will be held at the Bergen County Gun Club’s grounds, Wednesday, Aug. 11. at 2 P.M. This cup represents the amateur championship of the clubs of New Jer- sey, all amateur members of such clubs being eligible to compete for the same, The conditions are 100 targets per man, 50 at known angles and 50 at unknown angles, entrance price of the targets, with an optional sweepstake on each 24 targets. In addition ta the contest _ ahove mentioned, there will only be two more competitions for the eup (in October and December) before the trophy becomes the property of the shooter who has won if the greatest number of times in the seven contests that will have been held with the com- pletion of the shoot in December. At present the score stands: Remsen and Sinnock, two wins each out of the four contests. In this race all are at scratch, aud the cup goes to the high man; the club donates $5 to the second high gun and $2 to the third high gun, Entries can be made up to the end of the first ronnd of 25 targets. Yale Dolan, of the Riverton Gun Club, celebrated the Fourth of ‘July at; Hurlingham (on July 5, of course), and divided £164, the purse in the July £4 Handicap sweepstukes, with A. W. Blyth, There were thirty-six entries, Mr. Dolan standing at 29}4yds , Mr. Blyth at 28yds, On July 6, at the Gun Club, Mr. Dolan, on tne yds. mark, divided £47 with Count Robiano, who was placed at 27yds. The conditions of this event were; £3 entrance, handicap, oue barrel only, There were nineteen subscribers, of whom only three managed to score4 straight, hese were the two above mentioned and M, Journu, the great French shot, who was placed at a3yds.. a tremendous handicap, when it is cousidered that he had only the use of one barrel and was shooting at true bluerocks. M,Journu minissed bis 5th bird, and Dolan and the Couut agreed to divide if either killed their birds. Count Robiana killed, relieving Mr, Dolan of any further anxiety. So far as we can Jearn from the columns of the London Field, ©. H. Mackay, of the'Carteret Club, was the only American who took part in the. programmes carried out at Hurlingham and the Gun Olub during the International Week, which ended on Saturday, July 3, Mr Mackay’s record for the week compares very favorably with that of many better known men who competed during the week, This is his record: Won first prize, £100, and cup, value £25, in Blyds, rise sweepstakes (thirty-seven competitors), at Hurlingham Club, on Tuesday; won second prize £60, m 32yds. rise sweepstakes (40 competitors), af Gun Club, on Saturday. [n the event on Saturday Mr,-Mackay tied with Mr. R. M Hawker, an Australian, with 7 straight. On the shoot off Mr, Mackay lost his first bird, “Tn view ofthe number of letters we have recently received on the subject, it may nor be amiss to state that we always hold thatthe term “amateur.” which appsars-so frequently in tournament pro- prammes of the preseut day, includes all who are not “profes- sionals.’ Our definition of what constitutes a ‘professional has always been as follows: ‘Any person who makes his livelihood in whole or in part by shooting at the trap; thatis, any person who re- eeives a salary or remuneration in cash from a firm of manufac- turers of sporting goods for shooting a certain make of gun, a cer- tain brand of powder, or a certain shell, for the purpose of showing the merits cf the same, is a professional trap-shooter. Also; Any person who shoots exhibition matches for gate receipts, or who re- ceiyes pay for taking part in the same, is a professional trap- shooter.”? Per contra, all who donot come under the above heading are amateurs. ' G. W. Sergeant, of Joplin, Mo., must be. thoroughly puzzled as to how his nanie is really spelled. When he writes to us he always signs it “Sergeant, but when other people refer to the system of three traps designed by the Joplin shooter, they generally call it the ‘ Sar- _géenisystem.”’ We remember well how, #t the Pittsburg tournament Jas¢ June, Sergeant told us that he didn’t know whether is wouldn’t save Him trouble if he just took to the phonetic spelling of his'name. Perhaps he has dene sv, but to date he has not notified us of auy change, so we spell it still “Sergeant.** And thenameot the “bicycle trap” is magautrap, not marpantrap, Maugau trap, nor anything elss but magantrap; the word means magazine automatic trap, the itali- cizad letters forming the compound word, with the emphasis on the ‘mag.”” Now will you be good? J = The decision of the New Jersey State Sportsmen’s Association (for that is now the title of the reorganized body) to hold a tournament Sept, 28-Oct. 1, is an excellent ons. The tournament will help to gal- yauize new life into New Jérsey trap-shooting circles, and will be well attended if the programme is made an attractive one, With Jess than ten weeks for preparation, the committee having the tour- nament in charge has commenced work at once. We feel a special pridé in this reorganization business, FoREST anp STRBAM having done more than all the other sportsmen’s papers put together, to try to give the State of New Jersey a State Association worthy of the name. By the time this issue appears on the news stands, § Murray street will no Jonger be the address of Von Lengerke & Deimold. The handsome store at the corner of Broadway and Pearl street, 318 Broadway, the ground floor of the building that was the home of HorESst AND StRHEAM for many years, is where the firm of V. L. & D, has now hung out its shingle. In this store the firm will have ample room and light to make a good display of its Francotte guns, besides leaving plenty of space for John Wright's department (fishing tackle) and Carl’s department, the Humber bicycle. The New Utrecht Gun Club, of Brooklyn, N. Y., shot a race with the Brooklyn Gun Club on July 10, at the Brooklyn Club's grounds, and met defeat by only 2 breaks, the scores standing 158 to 140 in favor of the home team. The last team race at targets that we re- member the New Utrecht Gun Club to have taken part in, was a match with the Boiling Springs Gun Club, of Rutherford, N. J, in 1896. On that occasion, if we remember right, the teams were twenty-one men 4 side, the shoot being held at Rutherford. Tn that race, with 525 targets for each team to shoot at, the New Utrechts were unlucky enough to jose by just 2 breaks! On Wednesday of this week, July 21, the Riverton Gun Club, of Philade)phia, will hold its ‘‘first invitation target shoot.’’ This de- parture of the Riverton Club from the beaten paths of its past history tells very forcibly of the growth in popularity attained by target shooting Hitberto the Riverton Gun Club has been a live-bird club only, at least so far as we have ever learned, and has always had the reputation for furnishing fast birds and fast grounds. It was at Riverton that Yale Dolan recently made the great run of 84 consecu- tive kills on the last 84 birds in a match with L. Finletter. The team race shot at Marion, N. J., on Saturday last, July 17, be- - tween the Endeayor Gun Clib, of Jersey City, and the Bergen County Gun Ciub, of Hackensack, N. J., resulted in a victory for the Endea- vyors. The victory was rather in the nature of a surprise, the Bergen county team being a strong one on paper, and favorites before the Start. The weather was very warm, but favorable for target shooting, wind being conspicuous by its absence. From Montpelier, Vt., we learn that the programme of the coming Interstate tournament ab that city is about ready for distribution, The local gun club is going to add $200 to the purses, and will spare no efforts to make the shoot a pleasant one for all its guests. Any- body desiring a programme or other information relating to the. shoot, should wrife to Geo. B. Waltou, secretary of the gun club, Montpelier, Vt. The dates for the tournament are August 25-26. Last week we gave a short notice of a new idea in handicaps, show- ingits weak points. Inits issue of the 17th inst, a cotemporary also gives an account of the same system from the pen of i's father or godfather, and makes a request that some one would call its attention - to any weak points in the system. We take pleasure, therefore, in directing ourcotemporary’s attention to what we wrote on the sub- ° jectlast week, As an outcome of the Interstate tournament at New Haven, Conn., and the visit of John L. Winston to Boston, Mass., a mateh at expert rules was shot between Winston and Dickey on Saturday last, July 17. We do not know what the scores were, but a telegram from Win- ston to a friend of his in Néw York winds up with the following: “Beat Dickey easily.” This week there are two good shoots in progress in different parts of the country, and under different conditions. The Indian Woit shoot is open-to-all, no handicap and nobody barred: the Arkansas State Sportsmen's Association’s tournament, at Pine Bluff, is also open-to-all, but professionals must shoot into first or second money or be out of a place. Jack Parker writes us that he will hold his annual tournament at Detroit, Mich.. Sept. 7-10, As Jack is always fiying us something novel in the line of programmes, we shall look eagerly tor the ad- vance copies of his issuetor 1897. tHe will probably get a line on some of the details for the same at the Indian Wolf shoot at Clear Lake this week, Preparations for the Emerald Gun Club’s merchandise Jive-bird shoot, at Dexter Park, July 29, are going merrily along. From pres- ent indications there will be a good day’s sport at this Long Island resort on the above date. Proprietor Lippack promises to furnish extra good birds for the occasion. On Friday of this week, July 23, the Catchpole Gun Club. of Wol- ecott, N, Y., will hold its ‘rst midsummer tournament” on the baseball park and shooting grounds at Woicott. Targets will be thrown at 114 cents each. Purses divided in the old style—40,30, 20 and 10 per cent, It is confidently expected that the Interstate shoot at Lewiston, Me. Aug, 4-5. will be as popular as the Portland, Me., shoot last Aupust; and that’s saying a great deal, for the Portland shoot was one of the best on the Interstate circuit for 1896. JuLy 21. Epwarp Bags. New Jersey State Sportsmen’s Association. Tn our last issue we told briefly the business transacted at the meet- ing of the New Jersey State Sportsmen's Association, held at Taylor’s Hotel, Jersey City, Tuesday, July 13. At that meeting the committee on constitution and by-laws re- ported and havaed in a draft of a constitution and by-laws, with a recommendation that the same be adopted. The meeting showed its confidence mm the capabilities of that committee by adopting the result of its work without having a line of either the constitution or the by-laws read to it, In order that eyery member of the Associa- tion may know just what was adopted, we giye below the constitu- tion and by-laws in full: CONSTITUTION. ARTICUE I. This organization shall be called the New Jersey State Sportsmen's Association. i ARTICLE 11. This Association isformed for the purpose of seciring and main- taining proper legislation for the protection and propagation of wild birds, Zame fish and gameé animals, throughout the State, for the vigorous enforcement of game laws, and for the promotion of kindly intercourse and generous emulation among sportsmen at the trap. ARTICLE -I1. Srction 1. This Association shall be composed of al! regularly organized clubs within the State of New Jersey, that have becn duly elected to membership, and each club shall be entitled to three dele- Plates to represent them at all meetings; proxies to count as dele- ates. B Srcrron 2. Individuals may become members of this Association as ' provided for in Article IV., Section 3. ARTICLE IV. Seorron 1, Any club desiring membership in this Association shall present to the secretary or any officer of the Association a written application signed by its. president and seerstary, setling forth the name of the club, date of its organization, names of its officers and delegates and the number of mémbers comprising it, which shall be acted upon at any nieeting of the executive committee. ; Srmcrion 2. No shooter will be considered eligible to compete torany prize offered by this Association, except he be an individual membec of this Association ora bona fide member of a club or association that is also a member of this Association, and he shall have been a member of said club or association and a resident of the State one month prior to the date fixed for the State shoot. : SmoTrion 3 Any individual, a resident of the State and not a member ot a club which is a member of this Association, wishing to become a member can make application for membership to any member of the executive committes accompanied by the initiation fee of $1, thereby becoming eligible to compete for individual prizes upon the approba- tion of said committee, Sxcrtion 4. The membership fee for clubs shall be §2.and the annual dues $1—individual dues $1, payable at any time previous to the an- nual tournament. : ARTICLE VY. Secrton i. The officsrs of this Association shall be a president, three vice-presidents, secretary, treasurer and a board of seven di- _rectors, which shall include the president and secretary, four of said board to constitute 3 quorum, Srotion 2 Th officers shall be elected by balloh ab the annaal meeting, held the evening of the first day of the annual tournament, The officers then elected shall respectively hold office until the close of the next annual couyention or until their successors are respects vely elected, SECTION 3. Any vacancy in éither of the offices may be filled by ap- pointment by the president. ARTICLE: VI. Section 1. Ti shall be the duty of the president to preside af all meetings and to call extra meetings whenever he shall deem it neces- sary. He shall have no vote, except on equal divisions, when he shall have the casting vote, and shall appoins all commithees unless other- wise orderad. SEcTIon 2. It shall be the duty of the vice-presidents in order to perferm the duties of the président in his absence, SECTION 3. If Shall be the duty of the secrétary to keep an accurate record of all the proceedings of this Association in a book; to natify clubs and individuais of their election, to issue notices of meetings, to take charge of all communications, to reply thereto in accordance with such instructions as he may receive from the Association and to keep a record thereof in a book, and he'shall deliver to his shecessor in office all books or other property belonging to the Association in his possession. Secrion 4. The treasurer shall receive and hold all the funds of the Association, and shall disburse the same by check as he may bs authorized to do by a vote of the Association or by order of the presi- dent. He shall keep a correct and detailed account in a book of all moneys recived and disbursed by him, which book shall at all times be open to the inspection of any of the officérs of the Association, or any committes duly authorized therefor, and he shall report at each annual meeting a full statement in detail of all receipts and dishurse- ments during the year. The treasurer, upon entering his office. shall execute a bond to the Association in the sum of $500 with sureties to be approyed by the president, interest on said bond to be paid by the Association as compensation for the services of such tréasurér, He shall deposit all moneys received by him in any National bank and credit all interest accruing upon such deposit to the Association, ARTICLE YIL. Section 1, The annual meeting of the Association shall be held at such time and place as may be designated from year to year. SECTION 2: Special meetings way be called by the president, pro- vided that at least one month’s notice of such meeting shal! be given, by depositing writteo or printed notices thereof in the post-office, directed to the secretary of ¢ach club as well as to individual mem- bers at their respective places of business or residence. Suuety 3, Any meeting May be adjourned from time to time by vote, ; ARTICLE VIII. Five clubs shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of busi- ness, but a smaller number present at any adjourned or recnlarly called meeting may adjourn to any specified day. ARTICLE IX, No delegate shall be admitted into the Association unless he shall have handed orforwarded to the secretary a certificate of his elec- tion or nomination, signed by the president or secretary of the club he may represent. - ARTICLE X. Immediately after the election of officers at the annual meeting, the president.elect shall appoint two committees of five delegates each, who shall constitute respectively the executive committee and the legislative committes, who shall hold office for one year, or until their successors are appointed, : ARTICLE XI. Section 1. The executive committee shall have charge of all busi- ness matters not otherwise provided for in this constitution. SECTION X. The legislative committee shall have charge of -all mat- ters relating to the fish and game laws of the State, as well as to any legislation which concerns the best interest of this Association, ARTICLE XIT. All proposed alterations, additions and amendments to the consti- tution and by-laws shall be submitted in writing to the executive com- mittee, atleast one month before the annual meeting, and shall be by said committee reported at said annual meeting with its opinion thereon; and no such alterations, additions or amendments shall be adopted unless it shall have been so proposed and reported, nor nn- Jass two-thirds of all the members present ab such annual meeting Shall vote in favor of such alterations, additions or amendments. ARTICLE XTIT. _ In the case of individual members attending meetings, each such individual member shall be entitled to one vote, the Same being regu- larly qualified members, BY-LAWS. Section 1, The order of business at all meetings shall be as follows: 1. BHolleall. 2. Reading minutes of previous meeting. 3. Reports of committees, 4, Proposal and election of newclubs and members. 5. Unfinished business. 6. New-business. 7. Election of officers. SsctTion 2, No member shall be allowed to discuss any question un- der debate without rising and addressing the chair. Section 3. No member shall speak more than twice on any one ques- tion nor more than five minutes at any one time, unléss by unanimous consent. Section 4. Every member Vg at shall be required to vote on all questions, unless he is directly or personally interested or excused by tne yote of a majority of the members present. Srotion 5, Any member belonging to this Association behaving in an ungentlemanly or unsportsmaulike manner may, by a vote of two-. thirds of the members present, be expelled, Section 6 AU charges against any member or club must be sub- milted in writing, and notice of such charges furnished such member or club so charged, who shall be entitled to submit a written de- tense. Section 7. No outside shooting whatever shull be permitted within the inclosure where the trap-shooting takes place. nor shall there be any contests for money on the grounds of the Association during the days advertised for the annual contests, until the termination of the eonvention, other than such as haye been advertised to take place on such days in the usual announcement of prizes, j Section &. Any change of rules of shooting that may be made, shall not apply unless one month's notice has been given to the different members of the association. . Section 9 No person shall be permit ed to contend for prizes who js not eligible aceording to the cunstitution Section 10 No betting of money, either on indiyidnal skill or on the result ot matches, will be allowed on the ground where the shooting by members is taking place, - . : The Interstate Association at Portsmouth, N. H. By one of those peculiar accidents which will occur ih even the best regulated newspaper offices, we overlooked in our issueof July 10 the, interstate tourbament to bs given at Portsmouth, N. H., sepo 15-16. We, therefore, take pleasure in giyin= space to the followme com- munication from Mr. W- I. Philbrick, secretary of the Portsmouth Gun Club, dated July 17: “To the issue of Formst AND STREAM OF July 101 find in Drivers and Twisters the following: “Che list of tournaments for eastern sbooters is fast dwindling down to the elimination points, but July 14-15 at New Haven, Conn.. Aug. 4-5 at Lewiston, Me., and Aug ‘fi-27 at Mont- pelier, Vt., still remain to make the trap-shooter’s hearts glad.” “Why do you omit Portsmouth, Sept. 16-16? Weare still on the map; please do not wipe us off entirely; we haye kept our place in the list of ixtures, and it seems strange we were not included in your remarks above quoted. ; “Our progranime is nearly completed, and will be ready when galled for by Manager Shaner. We have engaged the Bieyela Park for our shoot. it being more convenient than our shooting grounds for the occasion, and affording a tine backgronnd. It is easy of access from the hotels and depot, and provides ample accommoda- tions of all kinds forthe purpose, such as, covered grand stands, ete., with dance pavilion, which we shall possibly utilize, to give the boys agooid time on the evening of the J5th. And we hope, if proper arrangements ¢an be made, to haye exhibition shooting on that eyen- ing, by electric light. hes . "We also expeeh Miss Kirkwood, the skillful lady shooter of Boston, to Ge presenr. I was much pleased to read your comphmentary refer- énce to ber, as she fully deserves it all. ‘Portsmouth is a pleasant little town hy the sea, and all who yisit it once are glad to come again. Weshould be more than pleased to entertain our favorite trap editor of Forest AND STREAM, could it be possible for him to be with usin September. — ; + “Please do not overlook us again, as every indication points to our haying some fine sport on the allotted dates, and giving al! who attend a grand good time.” At Watson’s Park, Curcacgo, IN. July 14.—In a match at 50 live birds per man, shot to- day at watson’s Park, Burnside Crossing, HW. H. Niel defeated Dr, Frothingham by two birds, scoring 46 to 44, as below: ELH NCI, ccesvetes peeee ness cen ens s e202112122222202021222 1202 —22 Saviucnianens 3) FrOthim Gham, cy. yy reece rece ny nace eae RelR211 122008 = ERP ig tae te y 1222112011112) 2121221211224 —44 RAVELRIG. , - Iuny 24, 1897.) The New Haven interstate, Fom data furnished us, we learn that the Tnterstate Association’s tournament, at New Hayen, Conn , July 14-15, held tmder the aus- ices of (he New Haven Gun Club, was the best shoot held by that ssociation this year, in point of entries atleast A general average bntry list of about thirty-five for the twenty programme events shot oh the two days, isa tecord hard to beat nowadays, unless there is something very subslantial in the way of added money. We had heen looking forward to this shoot, feeling sure that it would be a ood oné, as Pap Soo OH is having quite a boom iu the New Eng- aven club a popular one with the shooters. July sun k : Pounde. of the New Hayen Gun Club, July 14=15, Under the circtm Stances, we will haye to do the best we tan with the data furnished tis by some of those who were there, and give a report of the shoot based on suth information, We also had along talk with Manager Shaner on Friday afternoon, July 16, and to him we are indebted for any details of the tournament, BAD WEATBER TO START WITH. Of course, with so much bad weather to contend with; an early start was not to be tholight of, the first gun being fired at 10 o’clock; eb with siich a late start. 6,240 ates were thrown during the day. he trappers worked under great difficulties, beihg literally flooded fut in the trap house which, by the way, is one of the best houses we have ever seen, In order to get arolind among the traps to put them in working order, and to keep them going right, Manager Shaner had to wear hipbeots (waders), the water being some zbsft. deep in the pit; when ‘he traps were taken upon Friday morning there was still some 6 or 8ib. of water covering the floorof the pit The trappers during the tournament took off their sloes and socks, rolled their trousers up, and saton inverted empty barrels while they did their work. The surroundings of the club house and grounds are so low and swampy that all attempts to drain the water from the pit were useless. ’ The club, however, looked well after the comfort of its guests, an awning fully covering the score and the approach thereto from the club house. TheJjarge tent of the Interstate Association was also pitched alongside the heuse, and afforded ample protection from the rays of the sun, that made up on the two days of the sHoot for its absence on the previous twodays. With the Gondilions as they were, if was no easy matier to get things ready fur a starteven at 10 A. M.; but a good bistls worked wonders, and, once started, the shoot moved smoothly and rapidly, the squads showing remarkable promptness in getting to the score. A large quantity of benches and chairs afforded seats for those who were watching the shooting or waiting their turns to go to the score. THE CORPS OF OFFICIALS, In the cashier's office were the following: Cashier, W. 4H. Hazel; assistant cashier, John Gould; clerk, W.C; Baldwin. Having had the pleasure of taking part in two tournaments on these grounds during the past six months, we can safely say that Mr. Hazel and bis assist- ants did their work most satisfactorily The referees were M. H. Clark, president of the club, and Frank Potter, who alternated in per- forming one of the most thankless tasks man ever undertoak. The puller was T. Cook, while the trappers were in charge of Hugene Cook, the head trapper of the club From the personal experience referred to above, we can echo the sentiments of those whom we have conversed with on the subject, and say that the refereeing, pull- tog gud trapping was as good as it could be. ; While speaking bighly of the capabilities of his help, Mv, Shaner was lJoudin praise of the scoring; these are his own words: ‘The scoring was of the very best, and fewer mistakes were made than at any other ‘ournament lever attended. The manifold scorerdeseryes especial mention, asl had to change but one target on his sheets in the two days.” The officials referred to were; Blackboard, Wm Merritt; Manifold, W. C, Foote. Pn For throwihg the targets, the Iuterstate Association’s seb of five expert hluerock traps were used, the mayauirap being only put in commission for exhibiiion purposes; it atiracted lots of attention, being guile a voyelty in that section of the country. Bluerock tar- pets, of course, were used, these being fhe only targets ever thrown at loterstate tcurnaments TRADE STRONGLY REPESENTED. The tradé was strongly represented at this shaot. Here is a list Saas us: Parker Bros., of Meriden. Conn., represented by L. C. arker, W. F, Parker, J. R Hull, L J. Games, $8. A, Tucker and 0. R Dickey (all members of the Parker Guu Club); the Winchester Re- peating Arms Co. was represented by Irby Bennett, Ferd Van Dyke, Prank Pot er and B. W: Claridge; J. LL (147) Winston, Austin Pow- det Co., Cleveland, 0.; Capt A. W. Money and N. &, Money, Amer!- ean B.C & Schultze Powder Co, Lid; B. D: Fulford, Remington fun. Sebultze powder and U.M, © shelli Capt. J. A. H. Dressler and U. M. CG. Thooias, of the U MC. Co ji W, L. Colville) Dick Swiveller) and J.S Wanning, Gold Dust Powder Co.; Wd Taylor and M, Gerring- ton, Lafiin & Rand's W-A powder? H. G. Wheeler, King’s Smokeless, AMONG THE SPECTATORS were also Mr, Lyon, of Parker Bros., and Mr. Clark, the advertising Agent of the W.R A. Co, Although mentioned in ihe ranks of trade representatives, neither Qapt. Dressel, president of the Interstate Asso¢iation, nor Irby Bennett, vice-president of the Association, took any active part in the shooting; both, however, as usual, did ther share toward entertaining the shooters. Talking about spectators, weunderstand that there was quite a large number of onlookers every day, showing the interest vinced in the shoot by the cilizens of New Haven, ~ First Day, July 14. Up to. 7 A. M. on this day the prospects for a shoot were by means attering. For thirty-six hotirs previously raiu had been coming down in torrents to the tune of about 4in and everything was awash Manaper Shaner had about made up his mind to postpone the shoot for a day when, at the hour stated above, the rain ceased, and every- thing came out bright and lovely. Aiter that there was uo further trouble, save while the last squad in the last event on this day were shooting their scores, , ; As a whole, scores were hot up to the average on this day, allhough Wan Dyke, Dickey, Leroy and Wheeler did good work, especially tbe first wamed. break in the help. From what Mr, Shaner says, however, it appears that the help didn’t need any breaking in. Commencing at 10 each morning, and with an interval for lunch, the total of 12,620 targets thrown on the two days shows that the shoot must have been run very systematically. With only one set of LADS: such trapping is decidedly above the average for the time con- sumed. Jack Wanning shot in good form.on the second day of the shoot. He lost 20 targets on the first day, but only 16 on the second; a total of 36 out of 359 shot at, an average of nearly 90 per cent. He also. came very close to dividing first and second money in the extra event at 50 targets, expert rules, on the evening of the last day. He lost one target out of his last five, or he would have landed with 44, tying Dickey, who won first with that total. Briefly, “Sharkey, the Gold Dust man,” was right in it. Fulford lost only 33 targets out of 350 shot at, his best average being made on the last day—9% per cent. On that day he lost only 14 targets, 7 of themin the first three events! On the first day he ~ lost 19 targets, dropping 7 of them in the last two events. J. 147 L, Winston shot a grent gait on the second day, breaking 163 out of 175, and coming within 1 of landing high average for the day with Diekey and Mills. Curiously enough, out of the 12 targets he lost on this day, 5 were dropped in event No.6, a 20-target event at known traps and angles! EDWARD BANES Boston Gun Club: WELLINGTON, Mass., July 14.—The second last Boston Gun Club shoot at Wellington, Wednesday, July 14, while hardly so well at- tended for various reasons, was no exception to the general run of these gatherings as regards pleasurable practice augmented by zood- natured rivalry. The successful shoots held on these grounds for three years past, with no other basis than practice, pure and simple, furnish ample proof that monetary consideration is not an actual necessity in copjunction with trap-shooting, and the shooter who is of the opinion that trap events minus the alluring sweep lack interest and excitement, would be speedily convinced to the coutrary upon attending one of these shoots, where many are found deriving pleas - ure and anticipation from the mere handling and successful a ming ~ of guns, In the hundreds of practice days now gone before, no place or doen has ever been found for the ubiquitous quarter, dime or nickel. To-day, few being present on account of showery weather, odd events received much attention, and after the usual known, un- known, reverse and pair events, a suggestion was made for one man up, unknown traps. Tworounds were thus shot off, affording excel lent practice for the quickening of eye and hand. The principal interest centered in the match, however, as next Wednesday brings the final contest and decides who is who. But 3 targets separate first and second position, Miskay having 8 and Spencer, who won the last series, 62 out of possible 100, Scores as follows: Events: Targets: 1 tt) LOM anredapadinacdas BENUGH A yeperaravey nese at NICKOIS.. .,00,ssceewessys 4 Willis... ccevevereeere 6 OAS iyi aie en wes daeenisicns ie PPHUCCIOEUPea ene stim mul BIBI or vee cis ta eieeeee vuued aee UADC ioe n betanee se tii erie Oran . hes Witrc oS ak "oP en ae wh op ce ae Events 1, 3, 7, 6, 10, 15 and 16 were known angles; 2,8 and 12, un- Snowy: 4 and 9, reverse pull; 5 and 11, pairs; 13 and 14, unknown, five Taps. Seventh contest, prize series, 25 targets, 15 known and 10 unknown angles, distance handicap: Spencer (18). .....5..e0e0ses000s-211111011011011—12 Miskay (17) vsccecsceeseuseese4e,110111110111111—13 Benton (14) .......see0eee0s000s101011111100110—10 Williams (15). .....000.eseee000+4011100100111010— 8 Brown (15) ..aceecssseccesss+0¢e110010010001100— 6 Nickols (15). ....0.2sc0000e0+s22-101001010111100— 8 1111111110—9 —21 1011710111—8—21 1100000011—4 —14 1100110101 —6 -14 01100011116 —12 2 hee aro nee Missoula Rod and Gun Club. Missouva, Mont., July 11.—Medal: known traps, unknown angles: EC Mix,,., S weewesetineederyyececevess « +1010100001001101000011111—14 Dr Mills......550cceccunsssesecess seve sees + 0000010000000000010010000 — 2 TDD Meo... cine seenee esse cere vere reas «-0111000101101001010010011—12 JP MOMArs cs ceeseesteasseecceeeeeee sees 111011110111110101111111— 20 RA Hddy occ cceee anes aeeseesee neces ss e21100011001011111111110010—16 J POPbD@S. oon cae ee eens segeg es ccteereres sass 0010011 100010111101001100—12 BRE Rodgers...... tem eee 1101111101911111111101011 22 K E Rodgers wins gold medal; J. P. Menard wins silver medal. Following are a few practices events: Doubles: ; RA Eddy,....,--.00 11 11 11 10-7 RE Rodgers,,,,--11 11 01 11 11—9 singles: EC Mix. ve eeeneveees1101001111—7 RA Hddy.........+---1011111011—8 TT McLeod ..,.,,. ..1110110001—6 is ¥ Rodgers,,.......--1110101111—8 T J PMenard,,,,...11 10 10 11 11-8 t E Rodgers.....,..,--1101111111—9 CO MIE eee pce yee 11111000—7 J PMenard,...,,,....1110010111—7 T McLeod...,....,,011001100 —4 W. E. Granam, Sec’y. Hingham Gun Club. HineGHam, Mass, July 10—The scores given below were made to day by some members of the Hingham Gun Club. The event was a handicap of 50 targets, allowance of misses as breaks: Howe ... -11111110111111011001111111000111111010111010101111—384 3 —41 Hend’rson11111111111110111010119111111111111111111111111111 Allison, ,,.12111171101111010111111111119111111111031411111011—46-4. 349 Warrar, , ,.11111001101011111110111011101111011111111111111111—4- Maynard ,,01000100000000110000011.111100010001110110100011010 15—85 80 ON LONG ISLAND. BROOKLYN GUN CLUB, July 10,—The team race between the Brooklyn Gun Club and the New Utrecht Gun Club, of Brooklyn, took place this afternoon on the grounds of the Brooklyn Gun Club, Enfield street and City line. The intention originally was to shoot 10-men teams, but the New Utrechts could not muster enough to make up the list; so cight men to a team, 25 targets per man, unknown angles, was the order of things. The weather was extremely hot: far too hot, in fact, for any one to dis- play any energy in breaking targets. The wind was from the south- east, and there was plenty of it; but, unfortunately for the shooters and spectators, the big cow baru of the dairy attached to the farm on which the grounds of the club are located, shut off every atom of breeze that would otherwise have made life better worth living, Out in the field, just where the targets flew, there was plenty of breeze; there was no question of that, as the targets dipped, scooted, soared and curved from the magautrap in a Manner calculated to exasperate any individual who was perspiring in the complete calm that pre- yailed at the score, ; Tt was hard shooting, and Cornelius Furgueson’s 23 outiof 25 was an excellent piece of work, and remarkable from the fact that he does not shoot, or even profess to shoot, targets more than about once or twice in a season. Platt Adams had his éye with him, too, and was a good second to his chief. The result of the team race was very close, only 2 targets separating the teams atthe finish. The closing rounds of the race were extremely interesting. Thesquads lined up as follows: No. 1 squad—Halsted, Mason and Dain versus Gaughen, Furgueson and Adams; No. 2squad—hl, Piercy, Herrington and Carl ven Leugerke versus Dudley, Deacon and F. A. Thompson; No. 3 squad—Banks and Remsen versus O’Brien and G. Piercy. The race was divided up into a10-targeb event. and a 15 target event, it being too warm to permit of a longer race than 15 at one time When No.3 squad came to thescore for the last 15 targets, the Brooklyns were 3 breaks behind. The first 5 targets of the series re- sulted in a tie, O'Brien and Banks each losing a target; in the next 5, Piercy lost 3 and O’Brien 1, as against Remsen’s 2 and Banks’s 1; this left the Brooklyns still 2 behind and only 5more rounds to shoot. O’Brien lost his 2ist and 22d, but Remsen’sloss of his 22d left the New Utrechts stilll ahead. All broke their 23d targets, but in the r4th round both O’Brien and Piercy lost, Remsen also losing his tat- get; the scores were thus a tie with one more target each to shoot at The New Utrecht representatives losing their 25th targets, and the Brooklyn men breaking theirs, the victory rested with the bome team by almost as narrow a margin as possible, one teamtowin. The detailed scores were: Brooklyn Gun Club. E Banks. vecssssyse -1111110110111011111011111—21 er M Herrington, ....c.seeesesoeeeesereeetl11011111101101010111111—20 JS REMSCM 25 ceveeeserseeseeccer ees -OL11100111111111011010101—18 C Von Lengerke....ccvveceesseees- «»-1001111111011111111001010 —18 PH MASOOD... vec ey eee weer eeeesee ye «-LOL0100TT 114111011001111—18 HP Dain,...,. peceseureepeverervegse++20110111110100111111 1010—18 T, Pierey. oe pepe ese vcceseyerrere ese yeO110100011001111101111101 -17 J BoHalsted ce seveyinvereseess ress »- 0001010011111000000100101—10—_140 New Utrecht Gun Club. C Fergueson, ...eseccseceeseveeeeeey oetL11101111111111111111011—28 P Adams..,. eccceeeeceey eee eee «Ql10110110111111111011111—21 J Gaughen, Mrs eee ec ceeere0111141011101101111011011—19 D Deacon,..., praewsenproveggavenes sss 2011101111101011011111101—19 FA THOMPpSOU,..,4ccceesy cee ec eee es e-1011011011001101100001111—15 CB DUGIGY. ccc cccesscceecee eet eee eee © 1011111110010101110010001—14 G PICrcy..cccceeenceeseenessese cess ++1001010100111110100111100—14 Dr O'BTICD, cc cyyeeeeseyeeseeeee cece ee 1007001010011111110100100—13—138 NEW UTRECHT GUN CLUB. July 17,—The semi-monthly shoot of the New Utrecht Gun Club was held at Dyker Meadow this afternoon. Inthe club shoot W H. Thompson was the winner in Class A, Dr. O’Brien in Class B. Platt Adams won @ heat for the Bennett cup with 24 out of 25. Scores: Club shoot, Bennett cup, Thomapson(A)1111111011111001111111111—22 1111110101111101010111111—20 Adams (A).. ,1110101011111110001411110 18 1011111111111111111111111—24 Greiff (A)... 1011100000101001111010110—13 1111111000011111111101111—20 George (A), ,.0000010111100010100011000—*9 10100101 Gaughen (A),.11111110110011110 1101110 Pr O' Brien(B)1011011010106101110110011—15 111000100 * Dr Adams. ,0100011111111111111110110—19 1110910100101110111111111—18 Sweepstake events were shot as below: Events: 12383465 6 Hivents: 123466 P Adams..:i::: 6 810! 5 G6 6 BHGeotge.. ... 9 6 3 B85 ,, J Gaughen...:,.. 7 8 4 910 9 DrAdams.,,,... 5 8 8 5 5.,, Dr O’Brien...... 8 4 5., 6 6 WHThompson, 9 6.,... : Nos, land 2 at unknown angles; Nos, 3 and 4at5 pairs; Nos. 5 and 6 at expert rules. The next club shoots will be held Aug, 7 and Aug 21, but the next contest for the Bennett cup will not be held until Sept. 4 G. E. Poot, See’y, IN NEW JERSEY. ENDEAVOR VS. BERGEN COUNTY, July 17,—The Endeavor Gun Club administered a third defeat to the Bergen County Gun Club of Hackensack, this ‘afternoon. The shoot took place at Marion, N, J , on the grounds of the Endeaver Gun Club, Conditions of the race were: Ten-men teams, 25 targets per man, unknown angles, For the Endeavors there were two 24s and three 23s, while Remsen was high for the Bergen County team with 22. The scores show that the Hudeayors won by 18 breaks, with 4 team percentage of 81,2; the percentage of the Bergen County team was 73.2. The day was very warm, with only a slight breeze blowing. Detailed scorés of the team race were as below: Bergen County Gun Club, Van Dyke. ceveveeveeyseesetses sees ees0101101111110011110010110—16 Ricardo... rye bcccaeccecess 6011101114 1101111001110110 -18 Conklin .... Frere nee eee 0000011010111111010010010—12 Capt Money, SV 19109101.1144141410111111101 21 RAV MONG,-,vocede cece: suucsuevacauasOO111141111 110101011 1111120 Van Kuren.cecveresecceerestesee cen 60101111111011101001100001—15 Biauveit.vcecseveceverterreecesoesee eee 1410011011111111110111101—20 REMSED. ,cpcevereceeveesees cree seecne »L11111111100101111111111 22 SinnOCkK, .sccscveccveceuceesceseseenee 1411010101111111011111111—21 Herrington ..csccsveveceeey sree seeees od 011101119110111010111111—20—185 Endeavor Gun Club. BaDkSsscanssseereveccensegeersscssevneLDLI1OU1T1ITIIAIIIII1I1I114 - 24 DUSti0 ccccscccccecevenceessuane ces coe 1069101111110011111011011—17 May lO. sssneneaeesoevreeetogeceesceensAOLIIII IIIT GoMiNS pe cccccevceueeeeseveeeeeeese, ¢¢¢2101111191010111111111111—28 Welles ..icssecateavestecssecerceesnees LLO1111110110011191117111—21 Strader sisccccacccceeereesyeeueseyens o1O11111110111111111111111—23 L Piercy... pucneecveyresoeceeesees :4l11100111911111111011111—23 HUGHES... .cccccecurcerecesesssepep ee rstt11011000111010010001011—14 Ovon Lengerke, ...c0.cceey ees ve ones -1111000110011111010111111—17 Smith oye yccccceceesseesyseeeeerenes 0L00111111100111011100111—17—203 Sweepstakes, all at unknown angles, were shot as below: HKyvents: 12834656 Hyents: 1234656 Targets: 15 15 20 15 25 25 “Targets: 15 15 20 15 25 25 Van Dyke,..,...1513.,.. .... Blanvelt...ciuu. ....14 9., ,, Money...:es...+. 1018 16 13 21 20 Dustin........... .. .. 1812 .. 17 Williams .,,.... 21 ., 10 919 ,, Jackson,,,,..1.....,12 9... 14 Sinnock......... 18 14 14.14 21 ,. OVD eeesteees we oe 171424 .. ‘Raymond......, 18 11 14 10 22 21 Welles.....1.... », », 17 12 28 17 Remsen... 91214 12.,,., L Piercy, Be Mayle cscascwen 22 ce ce ce oe oe RUSSCM seus ww Banks. :crstoevne 1414,.,.., .. Leader, ae Herrington.,.... 10 11 .. 14 21 20 Hughes...ieiieee ve > Collins thas et ae Oe IB Loe Fk ANAIG Ey ores ces coy) deena oe (20 ay Strader.,.csse... 18 «. 1612 20 ., Epywarp Banks, Haverhill Gun Club. HAVERHILL, Mass., July 17.—Below you will find scores made this afternoon by the few members of the Haverhill Gun Club who still recollect that there is such a thing in existence here, and that the weekly practice shoot is held on Saturday afternoons: Hyents: 12845 67 8 9101112 Targets: 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10.1010 SPIAPe..ccsssssesessrsssstsrvensy @ 2 43 466 4 7 8 5 G6 MCKINTION; seluuseaaaenaeetaae: A eek a aeraes Shavers tet tio retdt Pek eee hana ns ee net ety eee cea 2 aie IGELU CI ee OMIT Rp nqpyltrglcreey er netrerseg rari nti eees vice Ae sen Marie ae Co LER Utoh ives SIA tt) RW tet eile eee Tyee ROseoe a 1 ste tant pee el obeeske oe DWAR DVGce La conan ieee ia cael hl Te ae 2 ake Duden peek (OVRa) (eee roa eecce tah tara GUN vi Pekin tore SiOiIV Es; g Eyents 1 and 2 were at regular angles; event 5 was at regular an~ glés, but with traps pulled m reverse order; the remaining events were all at unknown angles, G. F, Stevens, See’y-Treas, FOREST AND STREAM. The Sherbrooke Tournament, _ SHERBROOKE, Can., July 10.—It was a lovely day, July 1. It always is when we want to shoot. Given a fine day and forty jolly sports- men, and you have a great combination. Almost all our visitors arrived the night before and were on the erounds in good time,so that the shooting commenced promptly. The programme was divided into two parts, thestraightsweeps being shot Sergeant system, the extra series of slow events of one man up on another set of traps. The regular series went smoothly and entries were Jarge, but the extras dragged, Hntries were slow, the traps too easy. Next time we shall do differently. The Sergeant system gave satisfaction to most, but was the cause of several hitches and some “balls up.” Weshall probably continue it among ourselves, but for a tournament it does not seem to be equally fair to those who have not seen it before. ' Owing to the civic celebration which went on all day in town, ib was difficult to get workers for the different departments, and the ex- penses were greater than usual. However, we congratuiate ourselyes on the smoothness with which the shoot went off, the club being par- ticularly happy in the kind, good-nature of all present. We were particularly pleased by the attendance from the United States, and hope to See more from American clubs next time. J. H. Cameron, representing the Winchester Arms Co,, is an old friend of the olub’s, and Has done good work for his firm among the Canadians. B. HW Norton. of the Hazard Powder Co., was among us for the first time, and his shells in N. G, Bray’s Pieper sun made the longest straight of the day, 28. E. ©. Ellsworth, representing the Gold Dust Powder, has several backers in Canada, and some of his scores showed there was nothing wrong with his load, No. 6 was a teain match between the Sutton Junction Club, which has held the cup three times running; Waterloo and Sherbrooke, five men, 20 targets each. Waterloo was one man short, so shot 25 each. This event was the closest we have ever had and caused great inter- est. At the close Sutton Junction stood 73, Sherbrooke 73, Waterloo 69. The first shoot-off, 25 targets, resulted in another tie at 22. Second shoot-off gave Sherbrooke the match by 1 target. An individual challenge cup was inaugurated, for which five en- tered, 20 known, 20 unknown, 45 pairs: Craig, Sherbrooke, 39; West over, of Sutton Junction, 37; Cameron, Montreal, 45; Wootton, Mon- treal, 32; Haton, Montreal, 32 Ibis expected that future challenges for this cup will be frequent and productive of some interesting matches. In the aggregate (100 targets) the winners were: Craig, 86; Barrett, Montpelier, 85; Fisk, Montpelier, 85; J. E. Macfarlane, Waterloo, 79; O. C. Selby, Sutton Junction, 78; H. BH, Colvin, Burlington, 78; A. W. Westover, Sutton Junction, 78; W, L, Cameron, Montreal, 75. Statistics being of interest to most trap-shooters, the following was compiled by some kind friend; Of guns, 9 were Winchesters, 7 Green- ers, 3 Smiths, 38 Parkers, 2 Lefevers, 1 each Remington, Pieper, Need- ham, forehand. Clayborough, Ithaca and Loomis. Of shells, #9 used Winchester, 6U, M. C., 1 Peters. Twenty-two used E. C. powder, 5 Hazard, « Goid Dust,2$.S and1 King’s. Black powder was entirely absent, although not baured, Among those present were: A. W, Westover, J. D. Clark, H. B, Hibbard and _O. ©, Selby, Sutton Junction; J. B. Goodhere, Rock Island; C. M. Hull, J. D. Macfarlane, Dr. Clark and D. Ashton,Water- loo: Geo. B. Walton, Dr. Fisk and C, O. Barrett, Montpelier, Vt.; Dr, H. E. Colvin, Burlington, Vt,; B. G Hllsworth, Cambridge, Vt.; W. L Cameron, Wootten and H, ©. Raton, Montreal; W.H, Hobbs, Magog; B. H. Norton and J. H Cameron, New York city; J. G. Walton, N W. Walley, J. F. Monkhill, C. D. White, W.G Bray, F. Loomis, T, M. Craig, C. G. Thompson, etc. Events; 123465 6 7 $ 91011121314 Targets: 10 15 20 10 15 20 10 15 20 10 15 20 10 15 AW Westoyer,..e.csee0ees S1818 61115 B1215 81418 .,., JB Goodhue, ...cssesrereeee 6 810 6 815 710 9 BSIBIS 812 JG Walton...ssccsessccveree (1018 71114 912 ., 8 10 6... IN NGA ITE Vis hectare cee cele ined aegtdles pel UN Ley an crane cai taaeeee sa /tiua WME Olapkes ey CI eater kbs OP OS Dal Tn aL RUDI Lonlcill rye coast occenye ceue mene) Sac e OSLORU(s wielOse wer earn: CM Hall,....+5-+ pana) ae Giln ah eotst (ib aS are Ee fear tin OD White,.....c5seccsecaery 81817 61115 6129138 8 915 812 J H Cameron,...05 odd Om Doe bere at. 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HOME BRHOW c ekececsanue ese 08 le dG “1S 8 VAL Gib 2 WeHDHoObOSitcecvcrdccecne: DiGi 6 tie a 4510 1%. “G oi. ea JD Macfarlane,,.... ...... 81813 71214101416 7111510 7 Dr Clark, ,.esacs-vecvevesaes 89 D914 G6 818 5 7.. 5 510 6 4 HU GGOMHAy yh ne ene preety) eid G sda UUme Me uLOMo ln ey peasants TM Craig.,.scccsssesseeseee 91818 81413 71818 B11 14 7 10 HE Hibbard. ..secvessssueee 21017 4 815 5 2,, A O CSE. .ccseseresceesene. @ 814 51213 9119 G1I213 4,, CG Thompson ,.,.ccescees- ss se 10 511 ,, T1115 5 812 7 D ASHEON occa rccscveesseeae ss oe 48 Haas 18 a9 079: ely, ply Mid oc Vey» -be TOMDUNCHO LAR MAN Cee ek ery Ceabs tens me ae) PER edie Beet e\niy!e Mab klaly ovis TEL eee eee eee Srryhes Geet elec cy mie ree set See Pee The extra series used up only some 1,500 targets. Barrett, of Mont- pelier, aud Bray, of Sherbrooke, had a hard ficht for first place in one of the miss-and-outs, Barrett missing his 20th and Bray his 19th, The former also took two firsts in miss-and-outs with 10 not out. -Fred Loomis, of Sherbrooke, got. five doubles, all but his last. In- comers proved too easy, one-third of the number breaking them all, in spite of the fact that our game generally goes the other way. Both programmes were finished at 7 P. M., and as the busses were waiting no extras were shot, ; ! ; ae! ; In the evening the visitors enjoyed the illuminations, which were especially fine in the residential parts of the city, as were the fire- works on the river. Tn conclusion, not a word was heard from anybody about the old style of class shooting. It is dead in the Province of Quebec. From programmes received from two Ontario clubs, we see that they are still in the dark, but we hope to hear soon that the Rose system is universal, GC, H. Foss, Sec’y. Soo Gun Club. Sroux Crry, Ia., July 8:—Below are the scores made to-day by members of the Soo Gun Club, the oceasion being the fifth of the series of medal shoots held over the magautrap. Wells, Tenuey, Harris and Gray tied on highest possibles (25), and on the shoot-off, . peores: Se ie Broke, H'de’p. Total. Campbell. ..eccceee eee ee +0011111111011111111100110—19 a 19 Meyer, scceeeseeesseccessLLt1110111100011111111111—21 * 21 WeISscsveeneeest ve eeeeee 1211110101011011101100111—18 12 D5 TONDY ...0ecceeseeereees = 1100000010101001001100000— 8 17 oO DUnCAN, ves yecceeeeee sues 1000111111101111011010001— 16 9 18 OULD. ieveceeeeseeceeee+1111001110111101111111111—21 be 24 FIALri8,..cepeeecseeseees e411211117111101011101110—21 5 on TMS. ccceev veers cesses s0+-1110001111101000110101101—15 9 Od BOzer. .eceevevvcyeucreeeet100111011111000110011011—16 8 94 FlamiltOn, .sece¢cceeee eee !111100100111110101110111 —18 5 a3 Powell, ..cceeyeersssss«:0011001100001010011000111—11 4 15 GAY sscces cscs ee oeeeceecebhL1101011110100111111110 —19 iz on Geiser, ..ceseureecesses v= 000000100000000010011110— 6 9 15 Chapman*,.....,,++5++« .0011101101000010011100111—13 13 8 HIAWIOAD. seeceesseseee++101000001111011110017 ,001—14 4 18 Hunter... cececveeecseees 0114101110101100003111011—15 4 19 BLUE Roce, [* Chapman’s score—handicap allowance and total—are given as they appeared in the score furnished us —Wornsr ANDSOREAM | Sandwich Gun Club. SanpwicH, Mass , July 10.—The regular weekly shoot of the Sand- wich Gun Club was held to-day. A strong northeast wind was blow- ing tight in the facés of the shooters, making the shooting quite difficult, as the following Scores will show, Conditions, 25 bluerocks er man, unknown angles: ; a FE AaineS. heen ey ects ecru ee nnn yy soe eee ss L000010111111110011010101— 16 FEW Haines veecvecsssenetsseceseene ees --:0001101110111601600100001—11 W BR Procter. ..c.cceeseessiveeeesceae sees e+L011100000010110000110110—11 S MCAT. cc. ce eeccecnereseseneerees ees e +0100010000101090010011000— 7 G. H. Hanus, See’y. Missouri State Amateur Shooting Association. Livre Rooxr, Ark,, July 14.—This enterprising Association is again in the field, as its seventh annual meeting and tournament will beheld at Paris, Mo. July 27 to 2%, To'encourage as large an attendance as possible the local cinb, under whose auspices the tournament will be held, will add $320 in cash tothe purses. __ The firshb day’s programme consists of six 20-target events, $2 en- trance, and $15 added to cach. There are also two live-bird events | [JuLy 24, 1897, scheduled for this day, No. 7 being a miss-and-out, $1 entrance, birds. extra. while No. 3 is a 10-hird event, with an entrance fee of $7.50, | On the second day there are nine events on the programme, six of | these again being 20-target events, with $2 entrance and $15 added. No, Gis the two-men team race for the L €. Smith cup, The condi- tions in this event are 25 targets per man, entrance 5 per team, $25 added, 50 per cent. going to the present holders of the cup and the balance being divided 30, 25. 20,15 and 10 psrcent. No, Sis a5 live- bird event, entrance $3.50; No, 9a 10 live-bird eyent, $7.50 entrance; this event is for the State medal. There is $25 in this event also, and the purse is divided precisely as in the L. C. Smith cup event. The Smith cup is at present held by Wilmot and Bates, who won it on a score of 46, Wilmot scoring #4 and Bates 22. Wilmot is alao the posaessey of the State medal at live birds, winning it on a score of 30 straight The third day’s programme is an exact repetition of the first. Six 20-target events with the uswal entrance fee and added money, and two live bird events; one a 1 miss-and-out and the other a 10-bird sweep. entrance $7.5), | The annual meeting of the Association will be held at the Court House Tuesday evening at 8:30 P. M, Mr. Thos, FE. Hurd is secretary. The added money in this shoot has been judiciously distributed, and cannot fail to please those who attend As there has been no shoot of any consequence in the West lately, this shoot is creating ~ guite a stirin Western trap circles. In fact, this and the big Schmel- zer shoot will most |likely be the principal attractions for the Western shooter—unless that much-talked-of amateur tournament materializes at St Louis. ' The latest reports from Kansas Cily are to the effect that there will be one of the old time gatherings of producers at the Schmelzer shoot in September, Pau R, LitZkE. Western Traps. — CALUMET HEIGHTS GUN CLUB, July 11.—The weather to-day was partially cloudy ia the morning, but cleared up in the afrernoon. ‘Tnere was a high north wind blow- ing directly in the faces of the shooters, making the targets skyward sereamers. The attendance at the traps of the Calumet Heights Gun eels ee light on account of this being the week after the holiday of uly 4. ~ In the club shoot, Booth was winner in Olass A. and Harlan the winner in Class C. In Class B, Norcom and Marshall tied on 19 each; on the shoot-off at 5 targets, Norcomi won, with 5to0 4, Scores: , Club shoot for class medals, 25 targets, unknown angles: BOOth (A), cccsespennevneesnseveeness ove es s LOOUD11111111111101111111—22 Lamphere (A). ccsacsveeneseeseesseeseeseeee1111111101000111011011111—20 Paterson (A), csceessenvuseeeresseeee eee ss ee)t101011111110101111111 11—20 Metical (A) vesesesenseeeeteneversseces eos s+l101101011010101101111101—16 NOrcon (B) vpavecveruseeewsssveenesseees se -O211111011011011101101111 —19 Marsha'l (B)..cccceesnensveseceeeeeesere ese -2011141000111110111110011—19 Greeley (B).wvecessuseneanneeenseceusuccess -G011001 00101101011010101—13 LATING) Ieee udaeermans sites trey e rer tas 1111111010111111101011111—21 Schmidt (C) ....... peace ees ess-0111111110100001111001101—16 Several small sweeps were also shot, with the results given in the table below, Of the ten sweeps shot, No, 1 was at known traps, un- known angles; Nos. 2, 6,7,8 9 and 10 were ab unknown traps and angles; Nos. 3 and 4 at reversed pull; No. 5 at 5 pairs, unknown traps aud angles: caus eter eeee Hyents: 123 465 6% $ 98 10 Targets: 15 10 10 10 10 10 10 io 10 10 BOGiH aceite citome Oma eal) fie CSCO Scns Reales See ee Paterson) siiivetirant eciedarernie ia. IG) OST Be Bo Geed Gs Hatlannsinls matehenhhitanenseetee Ou lowe ipo fe) GB See rene COamney NStc alton snseneaaecue bia aens Ty 1b a A See ule telat bac pe weet v ie amen UA Mi OR eT Sy a ISKdGOsNE PEE Ne eRe serra pe Mie sb Gch Sa aE ie WY A(T Bye MEATS Sei rcetaaae atone acess ET ore he ana LAMpPhAreyaissanyastuasnewuesae 20 Coe ve be (Se Ge wt iui (GTR GIE seman saant ae estan atin iiesiine iting Sanh) eA a Saree Aira tre Ghee ee Mer TAeER ede ete wei Ri oy) 4 a PATTI The International Week in London. Tux international week at Hurlingham and the Gun Club clased on Saturday, July 3. The London Field of July 10 gives the following statistics, which will be of interest to American pigeon shooters, |) The Mr. U. H, Mackay referred tois a member of fhe Carteret Gun lub: “Ta the different contests durmg the week no fewer than twyelye kinds of powders or their combinations were used last year the | majority shot with WC, and Sehuitze powder, but on this oceasion the former explosive was little in favor. Since last year Ballistite | and Amberite powders have become very popular, and over two- )) thirds of the prizes have been won with the aid of these explosives, | Amberite powder heads the list with £1,814 10s. yon, Ballistite coming next with £1199. The balance of the prizes were won by the follow- | ing powders: Walsrode, £562 10s,; Schultze, £276 10s.; H. C., £88 10s.; Schultze and Ballistite, £56 10s , and French, 8S. and J, £6, “Appended in tabular form is asummary of theresults obtained by | the various kinds of powder, or their combinations, in the thirteen | advertised events last week: Powders, 1897. Ballistite.., Schultze... Amiberite.. Walsrode.... E Killed. 482 or 774 per cent. 456 or 74146 per cent, | 416 or 765, per cent. 181 or 80°,, per cent, wo Ben plates, BIRR R SRD TOT Oe wa ede f8or66 per cant. Prench, 8. And Jiiccsctessecsyevess 61 51 or 833, per cent, Wrench, Diascteerittteriadaens: 80 35 0r 771, per cent, Amberite and Schultze.,...,:.:.0. 39 27 or 693), per cent, | French, S,...... a iieecrdest 38 a0 0r72 per cent, Schultze and blacks, ssseaceerees 26 17 or 655,, per cent, | Schultze and Ballistite............. 18 15 or 8834 per cent, Shotgun Rifleite.....csceesnsnenenee 7 4 6 871. per cent..! Totaly. . .cireewnece mah hehemats ooao 1,782 “Owing to the slight falling off in the number of competitors, over 500 less birds were shot at in thirteen events than was the case last year, but the percentage of birds killed throughout the week (7614) showed little difference. The principal prize winners (inclusive of the value of cups and gun), and their total score in the advertised events, | are as follows: Mr. T. Taylor (Purdey), A., kills 51 out of 58, £420* Mr. Orchardson (Churchill), B., 56 out of 67, £400; Mr. Turner-Tarner) | (Reilly), A., 25 out of 30, £370; Mr. Kenrick (Purdey), W., 42 out of 51, £285; Mr. St. James (Boss) B., 20 out of 23, £225; Baron de Pallaridt (Holland), W., 56 ont of 66, £211; Mr. C. H. Mackay (Churchill), A. 88 kills out of 47, £185," PUBLISHERS’ DEPARTMENT. Visitors to Lincoln Park in. Chicago Winn be delighted with the souyenir book of this beantiful spot now being distributed by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company. It is a magnificent publication of 96 pages, full to over- flowing with delicious halftone pictures of one of Creation's mast charming places of resort for citizens of the Great Republic, No stranger visiting Chicago should be without a copy of the “‘Sou- | venir of Lincoln Park.’ It can only be procured by inclosine twenty - five (25) cents, in coin or postage stamps, to Geo. H. 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For prospectus and advertising rates see page iii. No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant, as the life of a well-governed angler; fot when the lawyer is swallowed up with busi- ness, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds Sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of straw- berries: “ Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did”; and so, if I might be judge, “God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.” Isaak Walton, Che Forest and Stream’s Platform Plank. “The sale of game should be prohibited at all seasons.” NAILS DRIVEN IN 1897.—No. VIII. IOWA. Game and Fish Act of 1897,—%ec. 14. No person shall at any time, or at any place within, this State, trap, shoot or kill for traffic any pinnated grouse or prairie chicken, wood= cock, quail, ruffed grouse or pheasant. THE SHNSE OF SMELL. An interesting article under this caption has recently appeared in the London Stock-Keeper and has been copied in several papers in this country. Being written, as is supposed, by Mr. John Arthur Chambers, it may be imagined that it deals chiefly, with the sense of smell in dogs. Attention is called to the different ways in which dogs of different breeds use their eyes and their noses in the attempt to recognize friends and acquaintances, and it is justly concluded that the evidence given to the mind by smell is much more conclusive to the animal than that furnished by sight. It isalso stated—and very truly—that it is doubtful whether one breed of dogs can be said to ‘smell better than another, but that the way in which a dog uses his nose depends largely on his education—that )is to Say, on how much he has been accustomed to use it and to dependuponit. The familiar statement is made that pigs have been used for finding game, and mention is made of the well-known instance where a herd of cattle was used by Col. Pollock to chase and kill a tiger. Hixamples of the confidence which the dog feels in the evidence of his nose are often seen. If a dog loses his master and then finds him again, he recognizes him by the eye and is glad; but the first thing he does is to push his nose against him and smell him, so as to be really certain of the fact which his eyes had led him to believe. | It is natural that we should regard the sense of smell as more highly developed in the dog than in other animals, but this belief is founded purely on the fact that we see a very great deal of the dog and very little of other animals. For uncounted generations man has used the dog asa hunting companion, and no doubt long before history began to be written, stories of the dog’s wonderful nose were passed about from man to man. But the savage is well acquainted with many things in nature of which the civilized man is hopelessly ignorant. He depended for sustenance and support upon his skill with primitive arms, to use which it was necessary that he should approach very close to his intended prey. To do this he was forced to match his wits against the keen senses of these wild creatures, and he early learned that of all these senses, the keenest and the most trusted was that of smell. The wild animal might see him, and look for a long time without being able to determine what the hunter was, but ifit smelt him it was never for 2 moment in doubt of its danger, and at once sought safety in flight. Two motives affecting two widely differing classes of animals would influence the development of the sense of smell. On the one hand, the carnivors, eager for food, -depending for existence on their ability to capture animals of rapid flight, use the sense of smell to follow them up, and by persistent and long-continued pursuit at last over- take and destroy them. On the other, the grass-eating mammals depend for protection from enemies chiefly on this sense of smell, and so soon as a whiff of the tainted air is brought to their nostrils they seek safety in flight, putting as great a distance as possible between themselves and the spot where the suspicious odor was observed. Motives stronger than these two cannot be imagined, since in each case life itself may depend on the sense in ques- tion. To Indians and to many old white hunters it is well known that deer and moose when feeding commonly travel up the wind, looking for danger ahead of them and trusting to the rapidity of their movements to outstrip any- thing that may be following directly on their trail. It is equally well known that when about to lie down both the species named are very likely to turn about, go a short distance down the wind, and then lie down, using both eyes and ears to cover their back trail. It is for this reason that the practiced still-hunter who pursues these animals does not keep on the track, but follows along to the leeward of it, making a series of wide sweeps or loops, and going to the trail only often enough to see that it is still before him, Many other examples of this keenness of scent will occur to the man who has done much hunting. From our perch on a mountain side we have seen a black-tail buck, frightened by a companion who was hunting a mile or two away, come racing over the prairie with head held high, apparently thinking only of the danger behind him, but when he reached the trail over which we had passed two or three hours before, he stopped suddenly, lowered his nose to the ground and smelt the tracks, and then turned at right angles to his former course, and continued his flight. In the same way in years gone by, bands of buffalo, frightened and running, have been seen to suddenly stop on reaching the trail left by several footmen who had passed over the prairie, and to refuse to cross it, but to run off another way. Some of our readers no doubt have had such a painful experience as was recently related to us, where a hunter who, having put out a bait for a bear, had walked around it early in the day, to see if it had been visited during the night, and then at evening, while watch- ing, saw the bear come boldly toward the bait until it had reached his tracks, then turn and slouch carelessly along them for a few yards, and then run like a race horse toward cover. The patient, tireless pursuit of the wolf on the track of a deer has so often been dilated on, that it needs no more than mention. We all know that the odor given out by a flock of sheep or a herd of cattle can be detected even by the human ' nose at some distance, and in the same way the practiced hunter, as well as his dog, can oflen recognize the odor of certain game animals, such as elk, bear, white goat and, in old times, the buffalo herd, long after the animals have passed. No doubt the nose of the savage, like his other senses, are much keener than those of civilized man, be- cause more constantly in use, — In writing about the sense of smell, we who are able to write are discussing something of which we know, and can know but little, yet it is certainly well that our few crude and imperfect observations should be set down. THE NEW YORK ZOO. NotwitHstanpine the dullness and the heat of this sum- mer season, the interest felt in the New York Zodlogical Society does not abate. Up to last spring, when the city authorities set aside for its uses 261 acres in South Bronx Park, no special effort had been made by the board of managers to secure members, as the carrying ont of the Society’s plans depended on the consent of the Sinking Fund Commission, and it was not certain how these offi- cials would act. Since then, however, reports of the Society’s progress and statements of its plans have been sent out in some numbers to citizens of New York. The results of the dis- tribution of this literature haye been very gratifying to the managers, and the Society now has three founders, ten _ patrons, sixty-four life members, and 307 annual mem- bers. Of these, two patrons, eighteen life members and 160 annual members have been added to the list since June 10. The life membership fee is $200, the patrons’ $1,000, and the founders’ $5,000, Applications for mem- bership are still being received. The building plans for the park are now being prepared by Messrs. Heins and LaFarge, the official architects, and it is expected that these buildings will be the most com- plete of any in the world, for they will contain all the good features of the most modern zodlogical gardens of Europe and this country. . Not long since, the director of the Society laid before the executive committee a proposition and detailed plan for an exhibition of oil paintings of American wild animals, to be held next autumn, and it is probable that the sug- gestion then advanced will be carried out, and that the prizes and the conditions of such an exhibition will be announced before long. Judging from what has already been accomplished, i t seems altogether probable that in the autumn, when the summer travelers have returned to the city, the member- ship of the Society will largely increase, and that consider- able additional subscriptions tothe $100,000 fund, which is required before work on the ground can be begun by the city, will be received. It is understood that a considerable share of this fund has already been raised. Thus, if all goes well, it may happen that work on the Society’s park,may begin this autumn, in which case the end of the year 1898 may see some portion of the park occupied by collections and open to the public. GAMH FOR GAME PARKS. To stock a game preserve in a game country is a com- paratively simple undertaking: build a fence so constructed as to let the game in and not to let it out again, and there you have it. Preserve projectors in districts remote from the base of natural supply, however, are finding it more difficult year by year to secure a stock because of the more rigid restrictions against the capture and export of live game. While it is highly expedient that the taking of wild elk and deer for preserve purposes should be held within very close bounds and should be regulated very carefully by the game protective officials, we believe that. as much latitude should be allowed as may be consistent with keeping up the native stock. The man who wishes — to export a band of wild deer for his game park. outside of the State is quite as worthy of consideration as the hunter who seeks merely to kill the lawful number of wild deer within the State. Maine has recently made an appreciated concession in this respect. Formerly it was there forbidden to take live deer for export. The law was not always observed; there is reason to believe that numerous deer which were alleged to have come from Canada had, in fact, surreptitiously been captured across the line in Maine. Now this is changed. The new law provides that the “Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and Game are authorized to grant permission to take moose, caribou, deer and birds for park purposes in this State, under such rules and regulations and conditions as they shall establish.” This concession will be welcomed by the owners of game parks in the East, and we may de- pend upon the Commissioners to make such rules ag will keep the export of live game within the proper bounds. In our issue of July 3 we referred to a shipment of live elk from Wyoming, and expressed a suspicion that these might haye been some of the elk illegally held in captiy- ity on the Moose Head Ranch in Jackson’s Hole. Weare glad to be advised by the Wyoming authorities that none of the elk referred to in ourarticle as having been trapped in the snows of last winter on this ranch have been sent out of the State. The Wyoming law makes admirable provision for just such a case as this. The railroads are forbidden to accept for shipment, and in practice they refuse to accept, live game unless accompanied by a permit from the State game warden, It would be impossible, therefore, for the Moose Head Ranch elk to be exported so long as the officials maintain their present determined at- titude, which we are advised is that “the State will take the necessary legal steps to secure the release of the elk im question, independently of the county authorities, and will exhaust all legal resources in the effort to protect the game of the State, as well from capture and shipment as frona wanton destruction or illegal hunting.” We suggested last week that electric-shock systems of fishing would be put under the head of tabooed appliances. This has already been done in lowa, where the new law classes electricity with dynamite and other prohibited agencies. . 82 FOREST AND STREAM. [Juuy 34, 1897. The Sportsman Gonrist LOST IN THE WOODS OF BRITISH GUIANA. Or course the old woodsman, like the red Indian, never loses himself; he may lose his camp, as the Indian may lose his wigwam, but he can always turn to himself for counsel where to find it. Nevertheless, the loss even of one’s camp may, under certain circumstances, prove a serious inconvenience, as I found to my cost lately. I had been sick, I was ten days down with pneumonia, and had left my bed only a few days when I was again prostrated with fever. Guiana fevers enjoy quite a repu- tation for the vigor of their attack, and I must confess that when mine left me after a fortnight’s tussle, it didn’t leave very much of my former self. I began to rally, however, and a few days later, when my host started on an official tour, I decided to take my gun and go out to look for some- thing for the pot. Iwas lightly equipped, for I had no intention of going far or of staying long. I took no com- pass, for I intended to follow the bank of a creek which emptied itselfinto the river close to the camp; no matches, for I was not yet reconciled to my pipe; and the weather being fine and warm, my clothing was limited to a suit of flannel underwear and a pair of linen pants. It was pleasant to get into the woods again, and I strolled along the bank of the ereek, or rather along the high hank overhanging the ravine through which the creek flowed, for a couple of miles, when I turned to my right in search of heavier timber and lighter undergrowth. A spot was soon found where I could command a view of the surface for from 10 to 30yds, or more all around, and here I took up position between two big trees standing at 10ft. apart. Presently atush of wind heralded a storm, the sky was overcast, and a shower came down at the rate of an inch an hour. I found shelter for my gun and partial shelter for myself between the buttresses of one of the big trees while the rain lasted, which was about halfan hour, when I again took up my old position, with eyes and ears alert. After a while I heard the faint rustle of a leaf behind me, and wheeling round I saw an accourie (a species of guinea pig weighing 12 or 14lbs.) at about 5yds. from me. We eyed each other irresolutely for an instant when he sped, and my eame to my shoulder. He found cover at 15yds., buf I had him in line and drew trigger as he dis- appeared, and walking forward I found him lying quite dead. Picking him up and tying his legs together with a piece of creeper, I slung him over my shoulder, and decided to make the best of my way homeward and get into dry clothes, for the high trees kept dripping and the under- growth, which I had to brush through, was saturated, I felt elated at finding that hand and eye were still true, and stepped out briskly, although I was soon so thor- oughly wetted that the water dripped off the bottoms of my pants. After going about two or three miles, it occurred to me that I ought to be near camp, and I first swerved and then wheeled to my right to strike the edge of the ravine. I struck it in halfa mile. There was no sign of the river, and the accourie by this time weighed fully 20Ibs.; but I plodded on another two or three miles as briskly as I could. . By-and-by the bed of the ravine appeared to be rising, and going down to it I found that I was near its source in a broad, swampy depression. As I returned to the rise, feeling pretty well done up, the sun came out, marking 5 o’clock, and showing me that my course was north of west, whereas it should have been south of east. After shooting the accourie I had started forward instead of backward! I crawled around awhile in search of a hol- low tree, but the approach of another shower warned me to take the best immediately available. This was a mora, whose broad, spreading buttresses thad divided, leaving a assage through under the base of the trunk, which was about 10ft. from the ground. Here I took shelter from the rain, but saw at once that I could neither lie down nor even sit with any comfort! The space between the but- tresses was interlaced with their small branches rising a few inches above ground. Here was a dilemma! Just after a severe attack of pneumonia, and saturated with rain and perspiration, to be exposed without fire to the damp, chilly night air. I tried to sit, using the accourie for a seat, and the buttresses for a support for my back; but it was very uncomfortable, and I had to stand the greater part of the night, threshing myself with my arms occasionally to keep up the circulation. So the night assed, 7 With the dawn came a light drizzling rain which lasted an hour or more, when the sky cleared. The sun was not visible, but its light was occasionally reflected through openings on some tree in the west, and I started to make as nearly an easterly course as I could forthe river. The Guiana forests are not easy to steer through without a compass. There are no landmarks to guide one; the dense, high forest limits the vision to 50yds. at most. The sun is rarely visible until near noonday, when it is so nearly ver- tical that turning in any direction and throwing your head back, the sun appears before you. Fortunately I had seen a map of the country, and knew that I was in an angle between two rivers: the Mazaruni, flowing approximately from west to east aud the Puruni entering it from the north. I was west of the Puruni, and to the best of my judgment three or four miles north of the camp, which I estimated at eight or nine miles distance. I could hardly go astray if I could see the sun before noon. The Puruni was to the east, the Mazaruni to the south. The sun s00n made its appearance, and leaving the accourie behind me, I struck out on 2 due easterly course, designing to come out above camp and follow the river down. ‘The sun was soon hidden again, and after numer- ous detours to avoid tangled creepers and undergrowth, I lost my course, and paused in an open space to determine the point at which the light was strongest, resting the stock of my gun on the ground. AsI turned to proceed I saw the shadow of my barrels reflected on a wet leaf. Here was a wrinkle. Gee N@VBHOG yesaesyrsesenseevale 19 20 Ave, 14 1897,} Fortunately the wind held and then freshened, so that the fleet was able to make thelong run before dark, itt spite of the late start, The finish was timed: WAPHANG) sc dsbirevaccaaraseno- Oded Hildegard, srssvervseiaeess0 05 O6 COONS sip ecesecesccasseeas 8 00 33 Emerald, ciscievestaveeeanes 02 40 NAVEHOS, cess cciesaceesesd 09 45 Marguerite... ..c.ccescssus.8 23 08 ATMOTIEG, seriveeatveweecass 0 24 18 HACHEM ys usnriasnteseas sO 10 TrOQUOIS, ...tusscesavesacee 0 2) 15 FAINCT Tata aehvmemnas ease eke WASDoc Prataisabcnsas dedspie Queen Mab eecece eektes aied: i HIT 79 S3888 os San Wayward, Syce, Vencedor and Norota not timed, Minerva lost her topmast. The regatta committee issued the following concerning the race for the Vice-Commodore’s cups: i The race for the Vice-Commodore’s cups, postponed on Aug, 2, will take place on the port at the same time, over run from New London to New- the same course, and with the same starting signals as the squadron run. All yachts crossing the line at the start will be considered as entered for the Vice-Commodore’s cups, and for the squad- ron run cups as well. The Rear-Commodore’s cups for 30- footers will be raced for on a day to be named later. [Signed] . New Lonpon Harpor, Aug 3, THE REGATTA COMMITTEE, Third, Day—Second Squadron Run. NEW LONDON TO NEWPORT. Wednesday, Aug. h. On Wednesday morning there was a moderate S.W, wind, and thestart was made ofi § usual finish well up Newport arah’s Ledge. In place of the Harbor off the Dumplings, it was decided to finishofi Brenton’s Reef Lightship. The start was unofficially timed: VEST esse nreteticneeegienae LO Ol -Ob Navahoe,,,. Vigilant,.,. Vencedor,, Gloriana........ Garmitarrndiskiekhees VITA ieesbntenersmes vay set). 02°25 Queen Mab) ......cccecss,.10 02 29 DY COsndarpsnvergsaages sos 10: C4L09 . 10 G4 52 sree ypeerrresesere Iroquois .10 07 19 Trverseeece Fenella.....es 10 07 19 SA TEL ita itriatvte veuaes10 09 31 Colonia... weve. «20 09 33 NOrotan. isc sccawesesess-. 10 02 30 IAP peeenehewie aed 10 02.56 Katonah. ......ecceusss.. 10 03 04 BAYONATS.. cca yee yey ee LO 03 17 Kestrel. .,.,.....1...-,----10 03 46 Volunteer joined the fleet at New London, but did not start with the racing division. They stood out to Race Rock and then eased sheets and set spinakers to starboard. Colonia and Hmerald fell in together, and Navahoe and Vigilant were also in for a duel. The big new schooner Hildegarde, which had made sail for the first time on Mon- day afternoon, was in trouble soon after the start, her spin- aker halyards breaking when the sail was mastheaded and dropping into the water, the crew having hard work to re- cover it. The yachts were soon scattered over miles of water. Off Watch Hill Navahoe and Vigilant luffed far out to the south’ard, where they were fortunate in finding more wind, the others following. Spinakers were set to starboard again off Point Judith, the wind being more to the south’ard, and they ran up for the finish, the times being: ¢ SCHOONHRS —CLASS B, .. 10 10 (3 1 Start. Finish, Elapsed. Corrected WIGIOUMTE bi seweet.as sess 600009 42 2 43 24 4 34 1L 4 34 11 HWmerald,...ccceeerveyeelO 09 35 241 57 4 32 22 4 30 51 Sachem,..,.cceeveeeeesel0 10 00 3 19 44 5 09 44 5 OT 51 SCHOONERS— GLASS C, ATIC). pecrecreceeeveresl0 UD UL 4 18 3U 6 09 29 6 09 29 Margpuerite,..savsseees+,10 10 00 3B YT 55 5 27 65 5 27 55 Troquois.,,...s00eye0e2+10 06 50 4 03 58 5 57 08 5 56 U4 : SCHOONERS CLASS F, Gevalia sivceveeueesss 10 UG 44 4 49 37 6 33 10 6 33 10 FenellaysccaecseccvnereelO 06 27 4 48 20 6 41 46 6 38 04 : CUTTERS— CLASS G, Vigilant.....vsveeeeveeeL0 01 50 x OF 04 4 05 14 ' 405 14 Wavahoe, pecds cee aes el 02 09 2 15 50 413 41 410 05 CUTTERS—CLASS J, WASD .icasneneesneeeeeslO UO 34 4 46 10 5 45 36 5 45 36 Carmil@,...ceceeesese +10 01 46 3 32 27 5 $1 47. o 1 47 Gloriana...scesseceene 10 01 37 4 01 27 5 09 50 5 58 31 SAYODATA .yieeseeseeeee lO 02 49 250 12 5 46 46 6 45 17 CUTTERS - GLASS K. BY CS cactsscstaaenes nar lO U3. 30 % 5U 12 5 46 36 5 42 36 Kestrel, .ccanceseseeeeeel0 03 10 4 55 47 6 62 47 6 47 52 GOSSOOD, . cccseneeneeeslO 04 02 4 55 43 6 51 41 6 44 55 DVI . ccc ve etenceeeess 10 OL 66 4.20 13 6 18 17 6 10 54 Choctaw. ...ccc.ase8ee210 03 31 5 02 18 6 59 a7 5 50 18 Vencedor. ..c.cieeeeses-10 01 12 4 44 38 6 43 26 Not meas, CUTTERS- CLASS L F , NOVOtA, .cceeecceessees 10 U2 00 420 35 6 18 36 Not meas, Katonab, .cscssweseesan lO 02 £9 4 33 15 6 30 36 Not meas, a MIXED CLASS, . Hildegarde....ceceeess+10 10 Ou 8 37 51 5 2751 Not meag, AMoOrita,..caveecercsae10 O58 55 3 26 17 Sree Queen Mab... ........2.10 01 53 3 20°58 5 19 05 =) baka Emerald wins the Vice-Commodore’s cup for schooners and Vigilant that for cutters, the corrected time for the single- stickers being: WiGADt..cceeecewesrenee cst OF 14 GOSSOOD, ere vesaeeresssaad D3 31 WAVAHOG iti etesarsuseceup.* 0 Ob. UVIEA.. te ccnssuevaresansd 19°30 WaSDi iw seuseeees teseneed O1 18 Choctaw ......,sene0eces..D 58 34 Carmita,...ccess sesered 47 19 Vencedor,.........s6,., NOt Meas, Gloriana .... soneneee 0 14 18° NOFOta ss evaseeemeenss.D OB 07 Lay OnATAS, ey i 59 Heifers raters ane meas, Syce..... rienee.-t OD 12 Queen Mab,,..........,NOt meas, WSOSUrGl ced capasaseeaanessd D6 28 a At Newport the entire day had been given up.to the annual féte—wattr sports, processions, illuminations, ete.—the yachtsmen coming in for a good part of the entertainment, Fourth Day—Goelet Cups. OFF NEWPORT. Thursiay, Aug. 5. Thursday morning brought a change of weather—a strong N.E, wind and rain, The first event of the day was a colli- sion in the harbor, the steam yacht Wild Duck, J. M. Forbes running into the steam yacht Susquehanna, and afterward into the steam yacht Almy. The latter was so badly dam- aged in bulwarks, ladder, steering gear, etc,, that she was obliged to return to New York for repairs. Although the start was set for 10:30, off Brenton’s Reef Lightship, as usual ib was 11 o’clock betore the Corsair set the signals for a start at 11:30, Colonia, Vigilant and Navahoe were ready for the race, but Emerald remained in theharbor. Navahoe dropped a hand overboard as she went out, but her dinghy was promptly launched and he was picked up. The signals were set for the Block Island course and the preparatory sounded at 12;10, the cutters being started at 12:15. Vigilant, under mainsail and jib, crossed at 12:18:22, with boom to starboard, and Navahoe, with jib and foresail set and boom to port, crossed at 12:19:48. Vigilant was on the wrong jibe and shoved her boom to port after a few minutes, both setting working topsails. Navahoe set her spinaker at 12:27, but Vigilant luffed out across Navahoe’s hows before setting hers at 12:32. Colonia, the only schooner starting, was sent away at 12:20, eeetine ae 12:21:40, Thetug Luckenback had run ahead to set the Block Island mark, but the two boats were traveling very fast, with such a breeze astern and there was little time left. Unfortunately after being set the mark capsized, and the tug dropped another, but to leeward. Vigilant, heading for the first mark, had to take in her spinaker and jibe over, haying thus overstood the new mark, and by this maneuver Navahoe, just astern of her, was enabled to turn first, the times being: : NavabOGatereselFexte enc oetl 40 09 VIRMANG fp Seonerdsonein cancel 40 30 The next leg of 18 miles, to the West Island mark, was to windward, with plenty of wind and a lively sea, just the conditions to stir the soul of a true racing yachtsman after three days of drift or light weather. To be sure, it Was rain- ing and the decks were wet and sloppy, but for big boats like the modern 90-footers it was mere child’s play. Navahoe had torn the clew of her topsail when it was first sent up, and now she shifted to a new one with advantage. The two broke tacks for a long time, and when they came together near the mark Vigilant had to cross under Navahoe’s stern, and the latter at once swung about on her weather quarter. The times at the West Island mark were: Navahoe...ccceceeevesesceys4 OF 35 Vigilant ....cceveveerecseveed C8 £5 Navahoe broke outa balloon jibtopsail as she rounded, while Vigilant set her No, 1 jibtopsail. The six miles to the finish witnessed some lively fighting. With her smaller headsail, Vigilant was better fitted for a lufiing match, and she kept at it until she finally went by Navahos to wind- ward at 4:23, The race was not won yet, however, as Nava- hoe hung close to her quarter and-kept her lufling in turn. Though she managed to get clear and to finish in the lead, she failed to save her time, and was beaten by imin. 1sec. elapsed time, and 4min. 2lsec. corrected time. The official summary was: CUTTEE» - Start. Fu ish. Elapsed. Corrected, Navahoe..seesseessseyerde 19 98 4 4113 4 21 2h 4 18 05 Vigilant, ...0.4+-ss000.-12 18 <2 440 48 4 22 £6 4 22 26 SCHLONERS Colonia, cecssce> seeer-22 21 40 4 54 25 4 32 45 4 32 45 The question has been raised whether Colonia, having sailed alone, is entitled to the prize, Rule IV. reading: ‘At least two yachts must start in a class to entitle a yacht to a rize, 3 After the race there was some complaint on the part of certain yachts that they really wished to start but had not received sufficient notice to enabie them to get under way in time, Sixth Day, Fourth Squadron Run. NEWPORT TO VINEYARD HAVEN. Friday, Aug 6 Friday morning brought clear weather and a breeze light enough for the most timid of yachtsmen, though still from N.E. The start for the Vineyard was made at 10;40, many of the yachts being late in getting out of the harbor, Nava- hoe was handicapped 28m. and Hildegarde was even later. A few of the yachts set balloon jibtopsails, the wind being well on the port bows, most of them being content with smaller headsails. Colonia carried her balloon maintopmast staysail, Queen Mab led for some time, but as the breeze freshened the larger boats passed her. About noon the wind fell and then a new breeze came in from the south, putting the leaders to leeward and astern and shaking up the whole fleet in a way that made the results of no meaning at all. Booms were jibed to port and spinukers set to star- board and the race virtually recommenced on a new basis. The yachts ran quickly through Vineyard Sound with spinakers set and finished in good season, the times being: SCHCONERS. Start, > Kioish Elapsed. Corrected, Golonia ,ccsscseccnacveel 40 38 4 50 40 6 03 02 6 03 02 Bimerald,.ccessssnverassl0 49 44 4 52 00 6 03 16 6 42 20 ASi€l] .ccues aasecccesss10 46 44 Did not finish, Marguerite...sccccres.510 50 CO 5 04 52 6 14 52 6 14 52 TIPSQUOIS, cs esecseessanesl0 50 00 5 46 25 6 56 28 6 55 24 Gevali@. ......eese00...-10 50 CO 5 57 20 7 07 20 7 07% £0 Fenella..ccssccisances 10 47 25 6 20 16 7 32 51 7 24 47 CUTTERS, Vigilant..ccccveseeseee.10 45 00 4 44 40 5 69 40 5 59 40 Navahoe.....i.ss.0e..-10 45 00 5 00 12 6 15 12 6 11 57 WASP ..sceescsvecsoces 10 41 22 5 08 48 6 x7 08 6 27 56 CALMITA. 62, sevee. 10 42 £0 & 61 23 7 19 03 7 18 53 Gloriana, ...5,6+5.+--.--10 43 10 5 13 44 631 34 689 15 Sayonara ..............10 41 34 4 56 <7 6 14 53 6 13 24 SYCO..cseetieas ceeee, el 45 00 5 34 138 ‘6 49 13 6 49 13 WOSSICH. i iacseusssesee, JO 41 05 5 29 18 6 48 13 6 46 55 Kestrel.,.....,.005.--.-10 45 OU Did not finish; disabled. Vencedor ..............10 44 46 5 44 d4 6 59 57 6 95 12 GOSSOOD, ceeeeseeseeeey- 10 41 55 Not timed. CUTTERS. NOrota ..sascscvseeees.10 45 00 6 14 49 7&9 49 7 29 49 TATIS ...cccnveevereeeerel0 4310 - 6 28:15 7 40 05 Not Meas. Katonah. ..ceccsreseves 10 42 40 6 31 46 6 49 06 Not Meas, MIXBD CLASS. Hildegarde,.....,+4+..10 50 ww 5 <6 31 63631 Not Meas, AMIOTIUA.. cc ccrereereveet0 EV 00 4 59 49 6 69 49 Not Meas. Queen Mab ,,.s0+seeee210 40 43 6 04 06 6 24 U6 Not Meas, Emerald wins from Colonia by 1m. 1?s.; Gevalia wins from Fenella by 1m. 273 ; Marguerite wins from froquois by 40m, 32s.; Vigilanc ‘wins from Navahoe by 12m. 17s. Kestrel lost her topmast off the Sakonnet River and put back to Newport. Sixth and Seventh Days—Commodore's Cups. VINEYARD HAVEN TO BAR HARBOR. , Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 7-8. A lay day at the Vineyard, often two, has been the rule of the New York Y. C. for years, but this year the main object is to go as fast and as far as possible, and so the suilormen who turned in tired after the run of Hriday were up bright and early on Saturday, at least those of them who proposed to face the long race around the Caps. The list of starters, twenty-two in all, was as follows: Cutters—Vigilant, Percy Chubb; Navahoe, Royal Phelps Carroll; Queen Mab, N. UL. Francis; Gloriana, Josiah M. Lasel; Sayonara, Dr. J. M. Woodbury, and Wasp, H. F, Lip- pitt. Schooners—Colonia, Clarence A. Postley; Hmerald, J. Rogers Maxwell; Iroquois, H, C. Rouse; Amorita, W. Gould Brokaw; Gevalia, Howard W. Coates; Fenella, Charles Lane Poor; Marguerite, Henry W. Lamb; Fortuna, H. 8. Hovey; Hildegurde, George W. Weld; Sachem, John G. Moore; Alert, C. A. Griscom; Viking, James D. Smith; Varuna, Messrs, Rives and Sturgie; Crusader, 8. lL. Husted, Jr.; Montauk, Vice-Com., Lewis Cass Ledyard, and Columbia. Of these all but four finished. The origina] programme was changed, ue course being extended to Baker’s Island, making 210 miles. The start was given at 10:00 off Hast Chop Light, Wasp going over first in a light N.W. wind that soon died away and left the fleet drifting. Some of the yachts dropped their kedges, and Intrepid, under charter to C. Oliver Iselin, went on the Hedge Fence, but worked oft unaided before the tug Kate Jones coulda reach her. This tug and two others were provided by the club to give assistance to the yachts in case of need. Shortly after the start Fortuna and Queen Mab drifted to- gether, but cleared without injury. About noon a light 3.8.E. breeze camein and started the race, though at a slow pace at first. ‘the breeze increased, however, and after the Cross Rip Lightship was passed it shifted to S.W. The Shoals were passed in perfectly clear weather and smooth water, and save for the light weight of wind at times the conditions were ideal for this dangerous and troublesome course. Wasp led for a long time, but was passed by Emerald between Cross Rip and the Handkerchief, the order then being: Emerald, Wasp, Col- onia, Vigilant, Marguerite, Navahoe, Amorita, Queen Mab and Hildegarde, with the others well astern. Daring the _ hight the wind was light S.W. and spinakers were carried to port. The wind fell fora time in the morning, but fresh- ened again, stillS.W: Vigilant, Colonia, Navahoe and Em- erald, the leaders, shifted about from first to fourth place through the day, but Vigilant finally led the fieet in. After she had finished between Baker’s [sland and the flagship, the Corsair shifted her position, making a slight difference in the timing against the other boats, Over an hour elapsed Mr. Sears’s new Herreshoff boat Hazard won in before her mates came up, Colonia first, then Navahoe, Em- brald and Hildegarde. ‘The official times were: SCHOONBRS—CLASSES A, BAND 0. Start, Finish. Hlapsed. Aug. % A.M, Aug. 8, P. M. Colonia... .cecscovsereeeeesssnessn lO 10 10 4 42 22 30 82 22 EMErald ....esececeeseseseresssaeesl0 10 10 4 §1 18 30 41 18 Hildegarde, 1... ..ccceeerseereseslO 10 10 5 11 40 41 01 40 MArguerite,..scecve-susesseseesse10 10 10 6 28 56 82 18 56 OTC Be ect eee oaks ceed attae era Line Olt 6 51 33 32 01 38 SACHEM seedeveld coe sseareenescess 10 10 10 71116 33 O01 16 TEGO GREE Ha hicetent errr aae te URUn el 2 7 2315 23 15 03 Montauk... .cccesseccccesvensssst0 10 00 7 29 07 33.19 07 NIGH relabiy eel wcvind wee ei vieierwneedlen PeU0 8 34 40 84 24 40 COLUMDIS,,..c0eyseeeeesensas as +010 10 00 10 13 30 =6 08 30: CruSader,:.....seeressccctecsess:. 10 10 00 10 22 10 36 12 10 VII NE OM anche ientiabuetintreel Oa OSOD 10 41 00 i6 51 00 VARI san ts ole. Qoeeg Beart ct 10 10 00 10 58 20 46 43 29 Corrected-timé: Colonia 2C:32:22; Emerald 80:3 :43. Colonia wins: by 21sec. : SCHOONKRS—CGLASSES D AND F ASTGLILE preneniecs cepeeeee oe nee eno Oskod b 46 09 #8 87 18) GEVAlA i ealiehis piles cs rennenenetes LO OL00 10 14 55 36 04 55 Wena. isis liisesecsvasscavecinrard@ 10 00 1 05 00 *#.8 55 00) * Aug. 9. : CUTTERS - CLASS 1, Vipilant. i.e eceieceerservevesssaeal0 05 UO 3 59 28 29 54 28) Navahoe,,...... .. jdpeidcacnpe sae WET En 4 44 17 30 29 17, Corrected time: Vigilant, 29:51:24; Navahoe, 30:20:52. CUTTERS - GLASS 2. QWECD MEDI: se veveis waedan ties ins +,.10 05 00 G 22 30 da 17 30) AWS Dereon et pint ce reaioniene ime snd OL 06 7 21:0 34 20.15 GOGIAN ay pene rin aan (ete teeeeds Gel O10a.00 9 11 00 35 16 00) S@YONATA .. 6... cesses Sl Ea 10 05 00 8 51 10 4 46 10) Beverly Y. ©. 25lst Regatta. THE 251st regatta of the Beverly Y. C. was sailed at Mar. blehead Aug. 3, being the first open race of this year. The. bad luck the club had in 795 and 796, of having’ dead calms on its open race days, fortunately is over, and there was a good southerly breeze. The race was forall the classes in the Y, R. A. of Massa- chusetts, and there was class of 17 to 21 catboats, and a, handicap class of the older knockabouts in addition, In the regular knockabout class there were seven starters,, though Cock Robin did not start, her owner being fabsent., x : E this class, and the Maia won in the handicap knockabout class, Hmma C,, Little Peter and Asahi had a hot fight in first, class. Emma C. *beating Little Peter 93. Asahi led to, windward, but the others passed her running, In second class open boats Hoodlum had it all her own way, she passed all the first class boats who started five minutes before her, and was the first over the home line, There were six good boats in the second cabin class. Pri- vateer won on allowance, though Susie and Muriel made better actual time, the course for these boats was a triangle of 10 miles. The other classes sailed 614 miles with a good beat, there WEEP five starters in each class, viz.: third, fourth and aat classes. Alison won in the cat class on allowance by 20s., though Cleopatra and Omene beat her on actual time. Ben My Chree won in third class, with Perhaps and Mephisto in second and third places, and Vitesse was first in fourth class, with Fantasy and Alpine as second and third. . The following boats took the first prizes of $20 each: Haz- ard, Maia, Hmma C,, Privateer, Hoodlum, Alison, Ben My Chree and Vitesse, Seconds of $10 by Mongoose, Mayona, Little Peter, Muriel, Cleopatra, Perhaps and Fantasy. Third prizes of $5 each were won by Fly, Water Lily, Asahi, Rex, Omene, Mephisto and Alpine. Judges: F, Hlliot Cabot and Walter Lloyd Jeffries, KOCKAROUT CLASS, Langth, Elapsed. Corrected. Hazard) EES MOSCARS jnisvesescsasadve Gene 146 45 6 Bee Mongoose, A. D. Erving .,..ccccssssees sore 1 47 20 bo ah Fly, W, O. Gay. cc clesescuses 1 47 29 ry: Cockatoo, C, 8. Haton.,,.... A 1 48 10 ate AA Gosling. North & Clark. ..cccccecess, es sacs 1 48 25 Pieislivele Sally TIL, L. BF, Percival. s.cesscecssnss sans 1 50 28 ply ea Jacobin, T. EH Jacobs... .ccsssecesseses sane 1 51 20 whe HANDICAP KNOCKAROUTS. Maia, Hvers HW, Paine....isceceeeeseeee cove 1 56 21 1 53 51 Mayona, ©, O, Stearns. ........,ce00e00 2 1 58 35 1 54 05 Water Lily, C. F. Lyman,. 1 54 49 1 &4 5y. Dorothy, F Brewster,.,... 1 57 40 1 65 10 Come, J.S Lawrence,,,.... 1 58 42 1 55 12 Verona, C. B. Tucker,......,.5. 7 2 02 20 1 59 20 FIRST CLASS, Emma C,, P, A. Coupel....c0...0.0000.4%.06 1 33 40 1 04 10. Little Peter. J J. Moebs,,... 1 37 02 1 04 19) Asahi, H. V. R. Thayer, Jr. 1 34 05 1 05 50, Hifreaa, B. T. Hall.........0. 1 35 01 1 66 55, Eugenia, J. 5. Palmer,,.,.., 24, 1 42 17 1 09 2%; Beatrice, John Cayanagh.,. veee 24.1146 1 48 07 1 12 03: SEGOND CLASS—CAHIN, Privateer, A. FE Schaff.,.......cce0000021.09 1 37 18 1 O01 19 Murisl, H. N. Newt. ...cccsavenecaesestds10 1 36 47 1 08 24 Rex, J B Farrell,..... 23, 1 38 13 1 04 Qu Clara, W D. Turner,, 3, 1 42 21 1 09 O4 Nettie, Walter Burgess 3. 1 43 42 11019 Susie, JP. Cole. sc... ccesseceeensnes 02%8,05 1 36 47 111 25 SECOND CLASS— OPEN. Hoodlum, G. H. Higginson and Board- LEN ener op rep timahobhes: nenier eae) 1 26 03 0 51 58 Snipe IL, R. D. Boardman ,...........21.0244 1 88 18 1 01 89 Satanic, D. H. Follett, Jr.......cc00000041.06 Disabled. GAT CLASS. Alison, H. KH. Wowle,.:..css.ese0s.--- 19.08 1 21 43 0 54 21 Cleopatra, H. M. Faxon.......sse0eceel¥1l 119 53 0 54 47 Omeme, W. P, Parker. ..ccc.ceeesseen e191 1 20 5: 0 55 48 Koorali, R. C. Robbins... ....csseseere 0220.10 1 23 35 0 59 24 Heeria, R. BP. Tucker ...cia seaeaceeeva cl. 04 1.25 48 1 v1 10 THIRD CLASS. Ben My Chree, W. H. Stuart, Jri.,,...17.07 1 Qi 43 1 07 20 Perhaps, J, EH Robingon..........0000-19,11 1 26 25 1 14 18 Mephisto, J, R Schweppe. ......,..ye2lh.10 1 44 OL 1 20 06 Sarracuos, A, W. Hrickson...,....se0ersd? 1 1 34 41 1 21 24 Arab, W. BF, SCOth...... cccsecesssease 19,11 1 35 41 1 23 29 IRTH GLASS. Vitesse, C. D Mower,.... sqoc ee 1 23 387 0 53 28 Fantasy, Wm Allerton,,,. severen. 10,0344 1 24 25 0 55 57 Alpine, C, J. Blethen .........., ae aeee el, WU 1 465 07 U 56 47 Circe shal Lixeon yan derensiisedeste 3 1 26 06 0 57 22 Sphynx, Arthur Kieth. .......cc0..e0ye 1 28 59 1 00 49 Hobe Sound Y. C. HOBE SOUND, F'la,, Aug. 2.—The fourth race of the prize series of the Hobe Sound Y. OC, was sailed to-day in a light. S.E. breeze. The race was slow, with nothing to relieve the, . monotony except the fine windward of Gull on the last leg, where she worked from third place to first. ’ The series is very even, the points being: FIRST CLASS, SECOND CLASS, GoM iiashihsiverpasticey pune tes one, a JIMBMTLEAS Se eretinaisinit tee slven'ny ¢snceasSt WeDOTAN coesecceceseeessenereescd LOTPAIG....ccacceeesscucyatecscesd, RAMOS nesssped ssireatteategseanG: FULD Gs Seance cadieddecsy Wiantlinte ite tribecdtesececvasenenss® Mary B SMUOPIG Has catedeppetios Pht dss ses sGmeVicllIe, acti Pree ab ceunate een Oy Following is the result of to-day’s race: FIRST CLAS&S, vaeed res S ee ekeersse eines ey anes U) Wlapsed, Corrected|. EO Soon ercad bore perpen hey ary inci ecesdancrew pee netnele 2 10 06. UMA CIN eaten sieetinnn tina tee wine eae e oe Ninel aelde mate ee Ge ait 2 18.26; WICH ONANS Si peasnsiticuiscuiae Pea suiines ccaneheeeeneaes ase 217 64) WADDG cc eenermsieaensscievns coe beg reareceeeraccracti82 26 2 82 36, SPLOZlG, occ cucsneescassessavessssverevevssvssseease Withdraw, SECOND GLASS. LOLTAINO ys serrcecearanstarryveteenrssseersesaenccl) 1207 1 1207; UUMIACa eye auaeeanatdaserbe hee aah iceoeteceder eT eOU 1 21 08 RUDY) Fs od dtdvanaedeea ees seseeverevssssnsasneyesW ibhdrew, Mary B f Saver rtpeesesaupesegccccscoscerssesseyssees: WILDdreW, H. D, McVean, Purser, 134 FOREST AND. STREAM. [Aue. 14, 1897. SEAWANHAKA INTERNATIONAL CHAL- —_ LENGE CUP, Trial Races for Defense. {[DORVAL— LAKE 87. LOUIS. Aug. 2, § and 5. Tam third contest for the Seawanhaka International cup has transferred the racing to entirely new waters, compara- tively unknown to the yachtsmen of the Atlantic coast. As a@ strictly international contest, these races between the yachtsmen of the St. Lawrence and those of Long Island Sound areon quite a different footing from those of 1895, when one of the participants was a representative of the Thames and Solent racing; but if anything is lost in this re- spect, it is fully made up by the competition between the sailors on salt and those on fresh water. In water sports, at least, political lines are very lightly drawn on the Lakes and the St. Lawrence; neither shore can boast of a distinctive national type in yachts, sailing boats or canoes; in both yachting and canoeing, as in the Lake Y. R. A. and the American Canoe Association, perfect harmony and commu- nity of interests exist, the two national ensigns always fly side by side, and when differences arise at times, the discus- sions are always on other than politica) lines, . i. The interest in the present races lies only to a limited ex- tent in thefact that the defender of the cup is a Canadian club. What is of much more importance is that this club is @ purely local one, completely shut off by distance and natural barriers from the yachting centers of both salt and fresh water, with no renowned designers, builders or sail- makers, to whom it could look for aid, and thrown com- pletely upon its own resources in every way. That under such circumstances it challenged the Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., crested a fine trial fleet of 15-footers, and won the cup in a most creditable manner, is enough of itself to attract universal attention to the defense which it is now making of the international trophy. The Royal St, Lawrence Y. C. was organized as the St. Lawrence Y. C. in 1888 by a few residents of Montreal, who were interested in yachting, and accustomed to sailing on Lake St. Louis and theadjacent waters. Among the leaders were Messrs. Duggan, Hamilton, Greene, Clouston and Davidson, still active in the club. In 1891 the club was in- corporated, and in 1894 it was granted an Admiralty war- rant, authorizing it to prefix the word “Royal” to its name, and to fly the blue ensign over its fleet. Starting under many difficulties, with a mixed fleet of old yachts, no racing rules, and strong prejudices in fayor of the old length rules and sandbag methods that prevailed in New York twenty years ago, the club from the first adopted a high standard and a progressive policy, and it has ever since lived up tothem. The racing rules first adopted as & compromise were by degreesimproved, until the rules of the Lake Y. R. A., identical with those of the Seawanhaka and other coast clubs, were adopted in foto. The fleet was gradually divided into systematized classes, which were strengthened by new yachts, Asin many Canadian organizations, the question of fin- ances has always been an important one, and the building up of the fleet has been slow as compared with some of the younger coast clubs. At the same time the work, both in designing and sailing, has been purely Corinthian, and the club has proved an ex- cellent training-school for the young yachtsmen of Montreal. At first the young club had no station of its own, and ac- cepted the hospitality of the Valois Boat Club; the races were held at Valois, Dorval, Lachine, Pointe Claire and other places on the north shore of Lake St. Louis, the mem- bers of the yacht club at that time belonging also to one or the other of the boating clubs of these localities, which clubs were, ten years ago, in a very prosperous condition. Finally the club secured a permanent location and house on the shore at Dorval, just above the island of that name. Here it has gone on from year to year, with a fairly good fleet of yachts from 30ft. downward, the older yachts being improved from time to time and new ones added. Its isolated position has protected it from the invasion of costly racing machines, and, though a few Burgess boats were built forits members at the time when Mr. Burgess first became known abroad, there has never been such com- petition as to induce the introduction of the modern racing machine. Tf the development has been slow under these conditions, on the other hand the club has suffered nothing from rapid outbuilding, and it has enjoyed regular and sustained racing of a popular sort for years. At the present time it has a membership of over 400, with a handsome property at Dorval, its winter headquarters being at Montreal. The question of a better club house has been discussed for several years, and this year, of necessity, in view of the international races, it has been settled by the erection of a large and well appointed house at the edge of the lake. Owing to various delays—in particular the wet weather of last spring—the house is now barely completed, and will be by no means in exhibition order, but the club has spared no effort to entertain the expected visitors from the States. / Beautiful as it is, with its picturesque green shores and blue waters, Lake St. Louis is by no means an ideal yacht- ing ground, the bottom is too painfully near the top, and also is far too liberally strewn with boulders, rolled about into new positions by the ice each winter. While the lake isin the main but an expansion of the great St. Lawrence River, it is at the same time the point of junction of the Ottawa River, whose two mouths come in above and below Isle Perrot, the latter just above Pointe Claire, The double result is a switt and variable current and various sand bars of more or less permanent shape. While deep water can be found in the channels and good courses can be-laid ont, the entire north shore of the lake, off Pointe Claire, Valois and Dorval, is very shoal. This is the case immediately in front of the club house, where a pier runs out for several hundred feet with a depth of little overafathom at theend. Asa matter of convenience, the regular club races are started off this pier, the buoy forming one angle of a triangle, but this coursé is by no means free from shoals and rocks, especially just about the starting line. ; The anchorage of the fleet is directly off the club house, the shoaler boats lying inshore under the lee of this pier, but Many of the boats are kept by their owners at different points about the lake. A railway leads from the water into a very large shed with a high arched roof, built several years ago for the storage of yachts and for building, The lawn between theroad and the house is laid off in tennis courts, and there are stables for teams, ‘I'he shore on either side of the club property is covered with summer houses, the a homes of residents of Montreal, twelve miles distant y train. At the time of the Spruce-Hithelwynn races the Royal St. Lawrence ¥. C. had nothing of the half-rater type in its fleet; the racing was mainly in the 25ft., 30ft. and “A’’ Class (over 30ft.). There was a 16ft. class, with some centerboard and some fin-keel boats, but all of these were of the cruiser rather than the racer type, and in model, construction, fit- tings and rig very far below the standard of Spruce Till. Ethelwynn and Trilby. When the club came to look at the cold, hard facts before it after the very prompt acceptance of its hasty if not rash challenge to the Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., the outlook was rather discouraging. ‘Nhe successful defenders of the cup were at least a season ahead in experience, and they had, in addition to the Herreshofis, competent designers, both amateur and professional, many skillful builders and sail- makers, and almost everything needed in the way of fittings, In addition to this, while the challenger was practically lim- ited by circumstances to such boats as the club itself could produce, the defender was sure of a large outside attendance at its trial races. There was in all Canada no professional designer, no con- cern similar to the Herreshofis, to turn out a complete chal- lenger, and there was not about Montreal one competent boat builder or sailmaker, while the canvas, wire, cordage and fittings for the modern racing machines were not to be had short of the States, which national pride forbade, or of England, with delay and inconvenience in importing the in- numerable small trifles needed on a racing 15-footer. In what at first appeared to be a serious emergency, the club had only itself to rely on, but the members came to the front in a most spirited manner. The main work of design- ing fell naturally upon Mr. Duggan, a particularly clever amateur designer, a very skillful boat handler, posted in a general way, as far as distance admitted, with the general current of designing work in the States and England; and with an experience in designing which, if limited in scope to pretty much one local type, such as Valda and Xania, cov- ered many years of combiied work at the drawing board in winter and the helm insummer. Closely associated with Mr. Duggan, was his first mate, Mr. Shearwood, the two being mechanical engineers and in the same firm, mates in numerous canoe races about the lakefor years, swinging the single blade in tandem races and winnin £ many prizes; and also shipmates in Valda, Xania and other racing yachts, Mr. Shearwood’s work, as lieutenant to Mr. Duggan, began as calculator and assistant draftsman in the winter, and continued as ‘‘crew’’ through the races, both on Lake St. 2077, FLEET, ROYAL ST. Mr. Duggan, Mr. Shearwood making all the calculations, a ‘very extensive task, as it was carried out in eight orten de- signs, some merely studies. He also helped with the draft- ing. Mr, Poe-took charge of the blocks and fittings in the Montreal shop, with the business part of the Doryal shop, and the practical management of the latter was in Mr, Wicksteed’s hands, All details of design, construction and fitting up were constantly discussed by the four throughout the fall, winter and spring.. Mr. Wicksteed gave his entire time to his part of the work, but the other three were also engaged very fully by their regular occupations, with which cups, challenges and yacht races haye nothing whatever to do. The work of designing was carried on with the utmost thoroughness and system; every set of lines was carefully drawn, not only in the usual upright position, but the necessary levei and diagonal lines were plotted with the hull inclined to the average sailing angle, and calculations of dis- placement and centers made for this position. Stability cal- culations were also made, and every désign which was built from was studied as thoroughly as possible on paper and by figures. When it came to the question of materials, every block, shackle and fastening was tested to the breaking pout at the shops of the Dominion Bridge Co., of which Mr. uggan is superintendent. In connection with the actual building of the hulls, it is interesting to note that the small but efficient force of the shop did not include one profes- sional boat builder, the best mechanic of the lot being a pat- tern-maker and millwright, who was taught to build boats by Mr. Wicksteed, The company was fortunate in securing the services of an excellent rigger and all-around man, 4 Norwegian sailor, The new boats built in the club for the 20ft. class are as follows: LAWRENCE ¥, C., 1897, Length Overhang, I Name. Owner. Designer. Builder. overall. L.W.L. Bow. Stern. Beam. Draft. S.A. Gleneairn I1.,.....Com. James Ross,.,... wr G. H. Duggan,,.... Yacht Co, of Canada....32.2 17.4 fea) ard 8,1 64in. $e AVOCA....22: vase GH, Duggan.......s+s.ee..,@. H. Duggan.,..., Yacht Co. of Canada....383.14 16.9 8.6 %,10 8.4 5iin. 473 Glenowen......... Shirley Dayidson ef al....... G. H, Duggan,,..., Yacht Co. of Canada. ...33.8 17.1 8.2 8.6 ada 6i4in 483 Rogue .,,.........-Allun, Almon and Riddell....G. H, Duggan,,..,. Yacht Co. of Canada,,,.31.1 Tite Yuu 6.5 9 5i4in 488 Tslander,,.........A. Hamilton ef al,........0.5 G. H. Duggan.,.,.. Yacht Co. of Canada,,,,32.8 LON ET ES SUL, blein 416 Maida..... Anan Young & Wallace... ...G. H. Duggan,...... Yacht Co. of Canada,,...... act th whe ss 5lgiu 498 Millie. .,....4+-.+..8ev, Hy. Kittson.,. ...Geo, A. Kittson, feel ener Serriiieiniasere cdl Ta, bse SBT we atetc 496 Lalagé.,,......+--d- B. Abbott......... + PGuEhbertfess.. (se CULRDErbs eis ese cnsa reese. es. 3 shea 9 5ft. eA Bonshaw.....+7---Milius JArTVIS...c.+seccreee AM®milius Jaryis.....H. FP. Hodgson.,..ssyarsees oF bide 7 din on Louis and Long Island Sound. With these two was Mr. Poe, an old member of the club, a canoeist and yachtsman, and manager of a machine shop, that of the Linotype Co., engaged in a high class of work, the construction of type- setting machines. While the questions of design and con- struction were regularly debated by the three from the start Mr. Poe’s special task was the designing and construction of the metal work and fittings. While the practical details of the work were malnly in the hands of these three gentlemen, the other members of the club were not idle; a fleet of sixteen of the new yachts were ordered, crews selected, and all possible arrangements were made for the thorough working up and trial of the fleet. The details of the construction and racing of the 15ft. class were given last year in the FOREST AND STREAM, and need not be repeated now; as every yachtsman knows, the efforts of the club and its members met with that success which they so well deserved; the result being that this year the club was placed in a defensive position, and under the neces- sity of creating an entirely new fleet of larger yachts. While the conditions were much less trying than in 1895-6, there were, nevertheless, serious difficulties. In the matter of design, both in construction as well as form, Mr. Duggan had shown himself, in Glencairn, decidedly the master of his opponents in the States, but there was still no one to build the boats or to make the sails, The 15-footers were either built at a distance—in Toronto or Brockyille—or by work- men sent to Montreal from the former place, both methods being unsatisfactory when extreme light construction was desired. The club had for several years tried, without suc- cess, to find a good builder who would lease its ways and shop and build on the premises. Most of our readers are familiar with the designs and writings of Mr. H. K. Wick- steed, of Cobourg, Canada, an old canoeist, cruiser, single- hander and a very skillful designer of cruising craft, Mr. Wicksteed, by profession a civil engineer and an expert in railway work, was idle last summer, and, besides attending the international races at Oyster Bay, he gratified his pen- chant for amateur work by building several smal] yachts at Cobourg. Being intimately acquainted with Mr. Poe, who originally hailed from Cobourg, and with the other Dorval men, he finally decided to undertake the building of the new fleet, he and Mr. Poe, under the name of the Yacht Company of Canada, taking a lease of the grounds and shed, and start- ing in to build yachts and make the fittings. nder this new arrangement the four—all purely amateurs —worked together in the production of the 20-footers, with results that would show. creditably beside the output of any concern on either side of the Atlantic, when the use, quality and cost are all considered. ‘ , The main work of the designing or planning, was left to CHART oF Course A. 4897. a Li DIenL PT With differences in dimensions, as shown in the above table, and the accompanying differences in model, the new boats may all be classed as of the type of Glencairn I., Mr. Duggan’s final 15-footer of last year, the winner of the cup. With a range of beam of from 7ft. in Islander to 9ft. in Rogue, the difference in midship section was necessarily very great, and with the experience of last season and the differ- ences necessitated by the change to a larger class, with less sail and a crew of three, many changes were made from the - original Glencairn, but still the leading characteristics were retained. The general appearance of the two leading boats of the Duggan fleet, Glencairn II. and Avoca, is well shown in the photos, The underwater body shows a flat and wide floor, the flat carried fore and aft from bow to transom, this flat floor being joined to a strongly flaring topside by a round bilge that is approximately a quarter of a circle. This gen- eral form of section, carried as far fore and aft as possible, the round of the bilge being plainly visible in Glencairn II within a couple of feet of the stemhead, is the leading motive of the design; but as the result of careful drawings and calculations in the first place, backed by trial of the pre- vious boats in the case of Glencairn IL, each design has a distinct individuality of its own, and oneis in no way a mere chance change from another. Naturally the most interest- ing of the fleet is the new Glencairn, and a deseription of her will answer nearly enough for the others, Her sheer plan above water is well shown in the photos, the stem is carried out to a good length, thus avoiding 4 bowsprit and giving a better chance to work in shifting headsails; the line of keel runs down quite straight, with no indication of a hollow about the fore end of the L.W.L, to “cheat the rule,” and it sweeps into a slight curve under the middle of the boat, rising BeAr in a straight line to the transom. The height of deck at the stemhead is 1ft. Tin.; at the lowest point lit, 2in., and at the transom 1ft. 4in., thus sheer,, : The transom in Glencairn is square and vertical, made thus because the time did not admit of the working out of something more elaborate. In Avoca, the transom has a slight round, but so slightas to be unnoticed at a short dis- tance, and itis really no more sightly than thatof Glencairn. — Glenowen has the best transom of the lot, tucked in on deck and with a good sweep and on a rake; Islander is similarly finished. The very peculiar counter seen an Glencairn I, last © year has not been repeated on any of the new boats. One marked feature of the fieet is the turtleback deck, Glénecairn and Ayoca having each a crown of 7in, at the mast, In the former boat some care has been taken todisguise this, and with good results; though extreme, it is not unsightly, Vators BAY ! ! giving a rather high side and a handsome and shipshaps | | al 7 FOREST AND STREAM. = GLENCATRN II. Mr. Duggan at the helm, Mr, Shearwood forward, and Mr. Paton on starboard side. and the sheer of the hull is not materially impaired by it. Bach deck beam was laid out in the original drawing, all being faired by buttock lines, In Avoca this was not done, but the deck was run in by eye, and with rather disastrous results so far as appearance goes, Thecrown amidships is of a peculiar sweep; In fact, an ellipse, flat in the middle, where eut by the cockpit, and with an excessive curvature in the side deck. Notwo heams are of the same sweep, not one is either straight or of a true circular sweep; but outside of this they look to include every curve of the conic sections, The fore and aft lines of the deck wander down, up, and down again, with a flat place forward of the mast, a very high tur- tleback amidships, and a flat near the rudder head. This effect has been exaggerated by some changes of form which have taken place in the course of much hard sailing. While by no means adding to the shipshape appearance of the boats, this high crown is really an admirable feature, taahaas them to float high if entirely capsized, and with the well out of water. When carefully managed, as in Glencairn II., there is very little to be said against it on the score of looks. It is, of course, a disadvantage in working about the deck, unless the boat is greatly heeled, Di Tn connection with this last feature, it must be considered that all of these boats have open cockpits about 6ft. long and 4ft. wide, with only a light grating on the floors along each ‘side of the centerboard trunk. Atthe same time they have no bulkheads, but are entirely open from end toend. The experience thus far in the few capsizes that have occurred shows that there is little or no danger of taking water below, the hull fioating very high and with the coaming well clear of the water. The shallow, suspended cockpit, seen in all of the New York boats which pretend to anything more than a perfectly flush and closed deck, isnot found in any of the Duggan craft. ‘Taking these six boats as compared with the New York fleet, Momo—with a moderate freeboard and a shallow cock- pit—being the best, and Skate—with no freeboard and a flush deck save for the cheesebox in which the light sails were stowed—being the worst, there is simply no compari- son in the matter of convenience and general use apart from Speed in cup racing. While the New York boats, as they stand, are mere racing machines and fit only forskillful rac- ing men, the Montreal boats are really little ships, of quite as good a type as is at all consistent with a shallow hull be- low water and an absence of fixed ballast. During the races : both Islander and Rogue—the latter not in the trials, though having scored second in points in the series of ten races for the Ross prizes—were out on the course, each with one or two men and four or five girls aboard, as though they were big catboats instead of mere racing machines, their main use. Glenowen sailed the whole series of trial races, hut on the day of the special matches between Glencairn and Avoca, Mr. Davidson had her out with several ladies aboard, knock- ing around the course very comfortably, One of the boats in constant attendance at the trials was the 15-footer Anita, designed by Mr. Duggan last year for Mr. Eadie, and still Traced in the 15ft. class, of the same general dimensions and type as Glencairn I. Young Mr. Eadie had her out all the ated eulling her single-handed or with a couple of ladies aboard, _ After the victory of Glencairn over El] Heirie last year, and of Momo, a compromise between the two types, over Skate and Keneu this year, it would certainly seem that the typs From photo by Wm. Nottman « Son, Montreal. developed by Mr. Duggan, of yacht-like form, w'th good freeboard and considerable bulk of topsides, and with open cockpit, is not only faster as a racing craft than the slab type, from Question to Hl Heirie, with low freeboard, no sheer and a flush deck; but that it is well adapted to general uses of which the latter isin no way capable. It is not for- gotten that Glencairn I. had a shoal and watertight cockpit; and it is not yet a certainty that the compromise, Momo, may not show a decided advantage in speed over Glencairn AVOCA, 1385 IL.; but we have very little doubt that a further comparison of the two types through a prolonged series of races will show that while the slab type with flush deck is fit only for racing, the new Duggan boats while quite as fast in racing, are as good fora certain general use, especially about Lake St. Louis, as anything of a similar draft can be. It is very evi- dent that, save for one defect, every boat of the six can be used for an indefinite time in the future as a most con- venient and speedy sailing boat, just as the 15-footer Anita now is, on a much smaller scale. The one weak point of these boats from other than a racing, standard, is the construction; but as this was planned solely from considerations of speed, and as it is amply strong enough for the present season, in spite of the large number of races sailed, they are open to no criticism on this account, The construction is certainly excellent and most ingenious in its-details. Asin Glencairn I., there is no keel, the garboards meeting, with but a light batten, 3in. inside. There is a good keelson, the centerboard trunk carried well forward and aft. The shiplap planking used in Glencairn I. has been abandoned in favor of the ribband carvel, with some original details. The planking is but 34in, thick (in Avoca it is but 5-16in.) and about 5in. wide. Both planking and Reoring are of British Columbia cedar. With a very full middle body and comparatively small ends to cover, a peculiar system has been followed. The bottom planks all run fore and ait, ' practically of the same width from end to end, and parallel with the garboards. The planks of the topsides run around the boat from stem to transom in the usual manner. The outer planks of the bottom are necessarily short gores, the last onestraight on the inner edge and witha circular sweep on the outer, where it meets the lower plank of the topsides. Planked in the usual way, with a regular diminish of each plank from midships to each end, there would be an exces- sive sweep to almost eyery plank, to cover the hard bilge and straight bottom and flaring topsides. As itis, not only are the planks nearly straight, but many of them are of par- allel width, saving a great deal of time in spiling off and getting outthe stuff, as well as in fitting and fastening. The ribbands are about in. square, and of course there is one inside of each seam, The frames are all steamed, about 4 by 14in , spaced about 6in., and are set down into the rib- ands. After the moulds are notched. and set up, the rib- bands are run over them; then the ribbands are jogged out to receive the frames, and the latter are bent in and fastened. . With the framework thus completed, it is a comparatively rapid and simple job to get out the garboards and other planks, to fit them and fasten to the frames and ribbands, a “chair nail,’’ of iron, similar to one of the old-fashioned “cigar box nails,’’ but larger, being used. ; The interior of the hullis stiffened by strong cross-floors under the mast, and by diagonal braces all over. In connection with the cross floors, one serious defect de- veloped in all of the early boats. In order to avoid the cut- ting of these floors, the edge keelson, a prolongation of the eenterboard trunk, and the backbone of the boat, was stopped short of the mast to allow the floors to cross. This proved to be a serious mistake, the great strain on the mast forcing down floors, bottom and deck. It was effectually remedied, however, by building in a couple of deeper floors at the partners, carried up as frames on the sides; in one boat the mast is actually hung on cantilevers from the fore end of the centerboard trunk, thus relieving the bottom be- low the step of much of the original strain, In Glencairn II. the keelson has been carried well forward, crossing over the floors, and the mast stepped on top of it, making a very Pe support and avoiding all straining of bottom and eck. The centerboards of most of the boats are of rectangular shape, and built up; two pieces of sheet steel riveted to- gether at the edges, and spaced about lin. apart through the middle by wood blocks, then the lower portion is filled with shot or melted lead until a weight of 200 to 2501bs. is obtained. The metal triple blocks, by which the boards are easily handled by one man, are works of art in their way, the in- yeution of Mr. Poe. They are very small and light, but amply strong for the work, and fitted with roller bearings of steel rod. They were specially designed for this use, and have proved most successful. In one or two boats, plain steel plate boards, 1gin. thick, haye been used. The deck fittings are very convenient and serviceable; there is hardly a coaming to the cockpit, but a strip about lin, high runs from its fore end nearly out to the stern, forming a needed brace for the feet on the after deck. The ends. of: the cockpit each have a similar strip. This strip was some 3in. high in the first boats, but was cut down, as the height proved unnecessary: Just abaft the mast are two flaring pieces about 3in. high, meeting at an angle and throwing off all water that may come over the bows, though the users of the boats unite in saying that the decks arenever wetina sea, Abaft the stemhead in the center of the deck, is a strip GLENCATIRN II. Fromjphoto by Wm. Nottman & Son, Montreal. 186 FOREST AND STREAM. [Ace, 14, 1897, about 2ft. long, lin. wide and 2in, high, with several belay- ing pins through it to be used as riding bitts, for stowing headsails and any similar use. On each side of the deck, abaft this strip, is an inch strip as a hold for the feet. The entire bottom and topsidesare polished until they Jook like a new stove with the Canada Paint Co.'s special graphite preparation, The surface thus obtained is very hard and smooth as far as the roughing up of the new wood goes, and whatever may be thought of the lubricating qualities of wet - graphite, the paint seems to answer admirably. In putting it on the hands of the workmen are apt to bestow a liberal coat on the deck, and with its lubricating qualities added to the high crown, all deck work is made most dangerous. The rudders are approximately rectangular and slightly balanced, and very small in area; that, of Avoca, a very pow- erful craft, is just’ lin. wider and deeper than the rudder of the 15 footer El Heirie. It was entirely too small in strong winds, and that of Glencairn IJ. was made larger. The boats have wood tillers about 3ft. long, each with a jointed piece or ‘‘dog’s leg.” ; A yery neat and shipshape detail of the deck fitting is the pinrail about the mast, to which all halyards lead. The spars, made in the shop, are all hollow and of very light proportions, the masts being barely 4in. diameter in the partners and with but 3gin. shells, Several have failed, but thoge which have been carefully handled have stood through the season; the limit of reduced size and weight has probably been reached, but it seems to be only # question of careful and skillful handling to hold them safely. The rigging is of a fine grade of steel wire rope imported from Hngland; it is very well disposed about the masthead, with a single shroud from the top and runners led well aft. The chainplates are of steel, 1 by “%in., and spliced into eachis a piece of wire ‘rope about lft. long. Between this leg and the shroud is the lanyard, of rope, no turnbuckles being used on the boats. The blocks were all designed and made by Mr, Poe, with a very complete outfit of special shackles and otber fittings. The weakest point of the whole outfit, and the one in which the New York boat is unquestionably superior, is the canvasing. Montreal boasts of nosailmaker up to this work, and though the local man—Sonne, who has made the sails for the fleet—has done the best possible, his work hy no means compares with that of the New York and Boston makers—men who have long been experts at theart, Both Mr. Duggan in Montreal and Mr. Jarvis in Toronto, have cut their sails, of necessity. The sails of Glencairn and Bon- shaw were made from the same piece of Union silk, imported by Mr. Jarvis. Both Glencairn and Avoca are now swing- ing crosscut mainsails—very fair sails, but not up to those of Momo, ; During the season Mr, Duggan has had every possible op- portunity to try Avoca, and he was fully satisfied with her performance as compared with the rest of the fleet, and also with Gleneairn I., Sothis, Xania and other of his older boats. She proved to have an excess of stability for match sailing— more than was needed with only a moderately heavy crew. Tt was at Com. Ross’ suggestion that the new Glencairn was planned, he wishing to leave nothing undone that was possible to insure success, and believing that Mr. Duggan could improve on Avoca as he had done last year in Glen- cairn I. on Sothis. Inthe new boat, with substantially the ‘ame sheer plan, the beam was reduced about 4in., the bilge -was eased off, the whole section being thrown into a little -younder and fairer curve, and the fore and aft lines were changed, a fair sweep being maintained from end to end, but with the bilge carried out almost to the stem, making a per- ceptible hard spot there. The design, as a whole, in spite of all fullness, is fairer and more pleasing than Avoca, and it is undoubtedly superior; though Avoca still showed very well in comparison with the finer boat off the wind in light weather in the final extra races. The only Montreal boat of outside design in the trial races was Millie, the work of an amateur member of the club, the Rev, Henry Kittson. Mr. Kittson last year designed the 15- footer Missie, and she was built quite heavily for general use: however, she made a very good showing in the races, taking the second prize in the Ross series, This year Mr. Kittson went up to the 20ft. class, and made a design for a racer, the boat being built at his home by a couple of boat builders from Toronto. She has a high freeboard, a short and full fore overhang, an oval stern on a rather long and fine counter, and her topsides are bright. The jibis high and narrow, with a club on the foot. One of the fleet, which has done little in the races, is the Toronto boat Lalagé, designed and built by Cuthbert, She is of shallow body, but carried down into a wooden fin with a lead bulb, through which a centerboard drops, the draft of keel being 3ft. ‘The middle body and fore end are well formed, and, though not a racer, she should make a very good sailing boat, but her counter is carried out to an extravagant length and width, 5ft. across the sternpiece, and very flat. Viola, another new boat of the class, sailed only in the first Traces. ¥t looked at one time as though a number of outside boats would he sent to Montreal for the trial races, but only one appeared, Bonshaw, owned and sailed by Com, milius Jarvis, Royal Canadian Y. C. of Toronto, who last year sailed Canada in her international races with Vencedor. Bonshaw is of the scow type, but quite unlike the New York boats. She was built by Hodgson, at Toronto, from a modi- fication by Com, Jarvis of a design, as published, of Mr, Lin- ton Hope’s Flying Scud, so successful last spring in the Mediterranean. “he design was lengthened considerably, with the same beam. The bottom is perfectly flat, the sides are nearly vertical, with a right angle between them and the bottom, but instead of being almost parallel, they havea strong sweep, the deck being pointed forward and oval aft. The planking is but }/in, thick, but the frames, spaced about 12in , are all trusses, while the hull is liberally trussed fore and aft; a cat could hardly chase a rat through the maze of light struts and braces below, She has a large plate board and shoal cockpit, and is steered with a long tiller of steel tubing. The rig is peculiar, having the mast well aft and a very large fore triangle, by. means of which she was enabled toset a big spinaker, very long on the foot, giving her an odd appearance down wind. Theboom and gaff were hollow and the mast solid, she had lost her first hollow mast in a col- lision when first under way at Toronto, and the solid one was hastily prepared. Mr. Jarvis was at a serious disadvan- tage, as the boat was finished so latein theseason that he had no opportunity whatever to try her alongside of other craft and to get her into shape or to becomeacquainted with her peculiarities. Hven considering that inexpensive woods have been used in places of mahogany and Spanish cedar, the cost of these boats is astonishingly low, $500 complete for racing, a8 compared with $1,000 to $1,500 for the New York boats. ; : f All of this year’s. fleet are rigged with the ordinary gaff mainsail, and most of them hayeaclub on the foot of the jib. While Momo has the lofty and narrow rig now popular in Boston, the Montreal boats have a lower and broader rig. Ag the result of the ten races of the Ross series only Glen- cairn, Avoca, Millie, Glenowen, of the club fleet, with Bon- shaw, were present to start in thetrial races. Neither Viola nor Lalagé were up to the fleet in speed; Islander, a yery fair aud taking boat in model and rigged with the other Duggan boate, had not shown such speed as might be expected from her; and though Rogue had done very well in the Ross series, there was no chance of her being chosen in the face of Avoca and Glencairn, and Messrs. Almen and Riddell were hoth needed on the racecommittee. Theentriesfor theraces ere: WBonshaw—Skipper, Aimilius Jarvis; crew, J.S, MeMurray and Temple McMurrich, j -to the point marked 2 on the chart. Glencairn Il.—Skipper, G, H, Duggan; crew, F.. W. Shear- wood and J. Paton. Avoca—»kipper, H. K, Wickstead; crew, Arthur Hamilton and Harold Hadie, : Millie—Skipper, Vincent Pelletier; crew, Arthur H. Her- sey and EF. W. Gross. Glenowen—Skipper, Shirley Davidson; crew, L. Davidson and J. Whyte. The courses for the club races, as already stated, lie just off the club pier, the longer course being shown on the ac- companying chart, In order to avoid the shoals, rocks and sand bars, the courses for the international races, which will be determined this week hy the club and Mr. Crane, will be up the Jake and somewhere off Pointe Claire, starting about four miles from the club house, The courses for the trial races were laid in these waters, the starting line being close From this point a mile leg was laid off, the mark just west of Pointe Claire, the next Jeg, of one and one third miles, ran S. W., and then a mile leg closed the triangle. It was decided to sail a large number of very short races, not more than three and one- third miles, as eliminating fiukes, poor starts, etc., and giv- ing a better test of the actual merits of the boats. This tri- angle was sailed, with marks on port or starboard hand, ac- cording to the wind, and a windward or leeward course was laid out according tothe direction of the wind at the time. The result of this experiment, rather a novel one, in that it gave Glencairn a chance to make a record of six firsts for six starts in one day, was generally satisfactory, all who took part in or witnessed the races were unanimous in the opin- ion that it was the best method yet tried of making a thor- ough test. Of course, the running off~of so many short races would not be practicable with a fleet of fifteen to twenty boats, but with half a dozen there was no trouble in getting all together at once after the finish for a new start. '’ In the different races of the 15-footersin previous years there bas been a time limit of five hours for the regular course, twelvénauticalmiles At a meeting of the sailing committee of the club on the evening of the first trial race, Mr. Crane being present, a suggestion from him of a shorter time limit, in view of the greatly increased speed of the 20-footers over the 15-footers, was discussed, and it was unanimously de- cided to make the limit four instead of five hours, and in the same proportion for the shorter courses of the trial races. Mr, C. H. Crane was on hand for the first of the races, about the course much of the time in one of the other boats. Mr, Stackpole and Mr. Shaw, who will be the third member of the crew of Momo, came up on Wednesday. First Day. Monday, Aug. 2. FIRST TRIAL. Monday morning brought hot’ weather and little wind, what there was being from S.W. The steam yacht Dama had been placed at the disposal of the club by her owner, W. Barclay Stephens, and it was arranged that she should call at the club honse early in the morning for the committee, guests and luncheon. She was down the river, and the locks are closed on Sunday, She started early on Monday morn- ing, but was delayed for some hours in the locks. In her absence, the naphtha launch Gadabout came to the aid of the committee, and they ran up in her to start the first race. Meanwhile a number of ladies were left at the SA eee ae while others waited at Pointe Claire for the yacht. The first race was called at 11 A. M., with the preparatory at 11:10, andthe start at 11:15. The wind was lightS. W., veering to W., with smooth water. The triangular course was used, with all marks to port. Millie was first away, with Avoca second, Bonshaw, Glencairn and Glenowen. They could ay their course for the Pointe Claire mark, and they moved along slowly in a falling wind, Glencairn soon taking the lead, Both she and Bonshaw set balloon jibs for ashort time. The Pointe Claire mark was timed: Glencairn,,....., sessuvs.eell 31 03 -Glenowen.....,.. nests has 11 34 30 AVOCA, esey cere attests seell 32.03 Bonsbaw...oscovereeeaseertl 36 OL IMO eeepc tates bicrk en sae 11 33 11 It was a reach on the other tack to the second mark, with ~ the same light breeze, the times being: Glencairn siccwsccecssees 11 53 25 Glenowen...acscerssesetes ii 54 40 AVOCA). .4+5 eimagueekgenkan 11 53 45 Bonshaw...... tseeceeeees LL 57 47 Millie®.. ¢sakkie Millie, in third place, was hidden by another yacht’ and could not be timed at the buoy, They jibed and set spin- Sa: to port, running in with the current, the final times elng: Finish ap ee Points. GIONCAIBM scan tcamaeretesvirgrsseedes Gekbe ae 12 11 34 0 56 34 R AMO CHa 2 Os cus taampataesyatnialeiasacaseme yeneainaanliiaiiiag 121217 0 57 17 vi GICNOWEN, .cecscsserstcaseerssesvsyesseseel® 1d 20 0 58 20 6 Millie... caaescene ae stoners sevenyeyye Le 14 28 0 59 28 5 TGnShaw findat cctvrevverveeresgreenasess;le-l0tc0 1 00 20 4 SECOND TRIAL The second race was af once called over the windward- leeward course, with marks to starboard, the wind being still light from S.W. The start was given at 12:35:45, Glen- owel going over first, with Bonshaw, Glencairn, Millie and Avoca in order. They drifted out slowly to the windward murk, Glenowen always io the lead, and were timed: GIONOWED. cc cecceeiereeverest 11 00 Bonshaw. wvesseeseressevevst 16 12 AMO CHER i sees. sveveel 14 04 Millie...,.. soe ibe Apron ih ues Glencairn,,.. css. Be eee sees 1 14 36 They ran home very slowly, and Glenowen was nearly 6m. over the time limit of 50m. for the two-mile course, The race was not counted, but the times were taken: : Finish Elapsed, GION OWED coccedenst sso sasacctescenQetnuenes auseus 1 31 35 0 55 50 BOnSHaWesee ces h Fes dea poaa se sicaniires terevespnrsl Bo oO 0 50 53 ‘AVOCHUbEeTev hE LEASES ba aaa wks Riele seeveveneet 86 09 1 00 24 GIGNGRILIN aa reed Uae a Rete ce eee eeabeisteene dire toes etpramend essciteh ne 1 00 27 Millie, ...sevees bedsisess4gadya ty BPS ace eteee sel ak Od 1 04 17 While the races were going on the ladies were waiting im- patiently at the club house, where the club steward was ready with a bountiful luncheon packed up for the commit- tee boat. About noon the Dama camein view clear of Dor- yal Island, but ran up to the course and anchored instead of coming in to the club house. She was finally notified, and returned for the ladies and the luncheon, reaching the line about 2 o’clock. She was at once boarded by the famished crews, who had been broiling since early morning with noth- ing to eat or drink. After luncheon, at 4:45, an attempt was made to start another race, but there was no wind. Second Day. Tuesday, Aug, 8. THIRD TRIAL, Tyesday morning found the wind still about 8.W., with the sky overcast and cooler weather, The Dama was off the club house in good season and started for the course with Avoca, Millie, Glencairn, Glenowen and Bonshaw in tow. With a moderate breeze from S,5.W. at the line, it was de- cided to sail the triangle with all marks to starboard, the first leg being thus dead towindward. The first whistle was given at 10;38, the second at 10:39 and the start at 10:44, The five boats were grouped about the buoy and four went over promptly, Glencairn to windward of Glenowen, then Avoca and Millie. Bonshaw was about 30s. late at the fine. Avoca footed off through the lee of the fieet, but Glencairn from the start worked out to windward and was soon ahead of Glenowen, thesecond boat. Bonshaw footed very fast, but at all times she sagged to leeward, Tho weather mark was timed: ~ —— ~ Glemeairn....,,2..0-000++-11 02 20 Millie....,, inriehoce etn ee esis ih GICNOWED ..,,,ecesaesseeertl 03 02 BONSHAW.....0ccnesteaenerdd Oo CO AVOCA... iccuceness Peete. ii 04 14 _On this leg the wind was moderate and there was a little sea, The second lex was a free reach, with booms to starboard, - to the Point Claire buoy. They set balloon jibs and ran oft very fast, Bonshaw passing Millie. The Point Claire buoy was turned: Glencairn..s.csccceccavaseetl 1050 Bonshaw....scceccesssee-ell 14 10 Glenowen..... PPE eee ate ee WEEE hoeeE eI fons tee, 16 02. AVOGA, -c.isiiic Pr outers ys 11 13 £0 The last reach was quickly made, the only incident being the finish of Avoca and Bonshaw, the latter almost catching Ayoca at the mark, but failing to secure her overlap, Mr. Wicksteed luffing out and cutting off Bonshaw, and then bearing away sharp to get bythe buoyfirst, The final times were: : _3 Finish. Elapsed, Points, Mleneairm . 8 Ae 11 17 51 0 33 51 Glenowen 11 19 15 0 3315 va Avoca wall 2078 0 36 a6 6 Bonshaw wn wi2ll 20 43 0 36 42 5 MiNi seca) stad cbewdiettaneete tetas 11 21 49 0 37 49 4 FOURTH TRIAL Very few minutes’ grace were given before the crews were ordered to repeat the same course, and the start was given at 11:30. The four home boats were at the line too soon and reaching along, when the leeward one luffed, and put herself as well as the others oyer before the whistle. Bonshaw crossed properly and was well on her way, but when the other four were recalled she came back as well, and a new start was made at 11:40. A good start was made this time, the order being Glenowen, Bonshaw, Millie, Glencairn, Avoea, all on starboard tack, with Millieto windward. Glen- cairn soon tacked toclear her wind, aud Avoca followed. With a lighter breeze than in the first race, Glencairn again gained on the fleet, the first mark being timed: i Glencairn .......0020s seos-ll 59 21 Bonshaw......e The selection of Glencairn followed these trials as a mat- ter of course, and she was hauled inside the boom that night atthe club house, being stripped of her spars next morning, and hanled into the shed for final rubbing down and polish- ing. Momoand Al Anka did not arrive from Ogdensburgh until Friday afternoon, L. Y. KR. A. Races. HAMILTON—LAKE ONT:RIO. Thursday, July 29. CouRsE, to leeward 2%¢ miles and return; weather show- ery; wind moderate and shifting; no time allowance; 4° PT, CLASS—20 MILES, Start Finish, PAU LGMn sitaareati stents Gat cada ten ecs oan hersiasesthslsee strc Os? 1 26 20 ALG AIIVEL tie krk emsainin) ele royalocssd.4)4 ees eeslal ie ra Helge Listelete sis staat OU ZOU 1 26 45 3)FT, CLASS—20 MILES (THE en oserenomer otebchrs penn op aetnbabonrpan bai a(t) 1 45 40 WAVIE. Fee staslnessderens sarees ..,10 50 00 1 47 38 TWO GUGD rie uaemersie afer Ss=. ents e Me phareloc: Meatees ats 10 50 00 Did not finish. 32PT, CLASS —15 MILKS. HY Ate em ahha tient tienen eniatrutsess teder celestety bOOuUy 1 22 40 IRA sotfeeulbetes ens mesetiees trae hhh se ad nenbernen cL OUL ti) 1 28 3) MDG ROG ivarajarsectaiyasee el erseriaben a fia? Wey lev crdandnenenUULuD 1 33 (8 NSH GV tiaueceeecssecn comapae se Seay site ode cee eeUOMuE 158 15 SAV GRU Rae niireed fe twp etiseset eset Pbk dees saWie veal OLED 2 01 00 Winners: 42ft. class, Aggie first; ¥7ft. class, Dinah first, Vivia sec- ond; 22ft. class, Hya first, Nadia second, Dorothy third, ¥ 2iPT, CLASS—15 MILES. Start. Finish, Seu Leen IE eis oMIR RIE ctide liam einisisl ses oatsietviomalersivve Loar] Ons) 1 47 50 Hiawatha.... psa Unters E210) ex0dG inhale sen eree nyse ayer oesrs eeeeedl 10 00 3 12 00 NIGP sett a es oer histones visas dt 10 00 4 03 00 Kestrel ... aus eae Es Ga S{S( EME Battius mebiakm apne ees’ sane ate Did not finish. These last three crossed the starting line leaving buoy to port instead of starboard. Hiawatha and Mirage sailed an extra round to correct their mistake. 2:92, CLASS—10 MILES, Start. Finish, RROSGUIATY IGG beees dauuieeiase en hes ee sree nee .,11 20 09 12 50 30 Ko Ko...... : 6 Je avert 20.00 1 ul) 00 Pedro... .ss0s Ws 11 2) 60 1 03 30 Scalawag,.., «11 20 00 1 04 49 Fanétta........-- MOUTHS HSS Gar HSE. .. .Did not finish. SPEC(AL SCHOONER RACE—TRIANGULAR COURSE—3sv MILES Start. Tura. Vinish, OTIGe Re teecsliw thd ss tas sanseeeesned2 00 00 2 58 25 6 17 35 dele eA a sew WH irs... 22,00) CO Did not finish, Winners: 27ft class, Sylvia first, Hiawatha second, Mirage third; 22fb. class, Rosemaryn first, Ko Ko second, Pedro third, Sshooner Oriole wins Jubilee gold medal) offered by Royal Canadian Y. C. W. Q. Phillips, Association timekeeper. TORONTO—LAKE ONTARIO, Monday, Aug. 2. Course, triangular, 15 miles; weather, fine; light winds; no time allowance; postponed from July 27; 42FT, CLASS -15 MILES. Start. Finish. TABU Areal ok Ralteidn aad satnulgediaeeswincedeleareee-sisreasse tle 0-0 5 05 05 APBIC sso stb heb bb eee sep entenessr— tig leer es «11 00 00 5 31 20 a7FT cLAss-15 MILES DIRE Sune aia sareeeitereri ales wcteeenper eagle DOu0) 5 63 30 MaUIAes as ianndhanhawssubawusdtbenueyse cieaeeiens yet tUeUD 5 43 20 MEd OLLGN AL heb er eis ree eens ieee ny bolder raw yO TOt Amisha - : 827. CLasS—15 MILES, INGQIA Tey Desi? Phy Tb Op mE Cres ch ob 68.70 %6e,2 vs». tl 20.00 5 52 29 27PT. GLASS —15 MILES. IKGSDFGIs wt tae 60400005086 o> Peet Oe bes aennreinsee ss tl 000 5 38 80 VANUAAG Atascosa ty panned; canasusieepeiamen ted HO nO) 5 3) 28 FG WAtHA ya sascktsenscentuchinecsseecueeussscaeetl a0 €0 5 4! ig WAN Gis) passcunsssasnevsererrevsssvvonveranspacslh a0 00 5 56 00 _22pT, cLASS—10 MILES. 1 40 70 2 34 50: 2 KOKO Te ee ene ne near nETEniNS Subp Aree esau sane doe AUR 35 40” Porte Lee een te Me ee epebg Pal bre ey? yhapeedl aU C00 2 40 05) HIGUUNTOWMP ie teeUnee cenultttinine creubnenice ns piel Gnu 254 15 KSI fii TO natenpeetacetiien orl ctineun teaeaon Repro rececene 13 ler: C0)ek tt) 256 00 Prize winners; 4°ft. class, Felma; 37ft. class, Dinah first, Vivia sec- ond: 32ft. class, Nadia (sail over): 27ft_ciass, Kes rel first. Sylvia sec— ond. Hiawatha third; 22ft.class, Hoid first, Ko Ko second, Pedro third,, Frou Frou fourth W, Q. Phillips, Association timekeeper. The weather which followed the circuit was by no means good. The Toronto regatta had to be postponed from July 27, as it was blowing hard from the east, and many regular steamers would not leave the harbor. As Priscilla could not return later the special schooner race with Oriole was sailed at Hamilton. At Niagara there was a fresh breeze, making good racing, hut it carried away the lake huoy placed out the night before, and the race could not be finished. There is no club there and the facilities for laying an open lake course were altogether inadequate, . The new rule doing away with time allowance in class racing to yachts within 1 per cent. of the upper limit of their class has aholished it almost entirely. In the 22ft. class there is no time allowance in any case. W. Q. PHILLIPS. The 30-Footers at Newport. On Aug. 2a race was sailed over a 15-mile triangular course in a light S.W. wind, the times being: tlapsed.: Hera, KR. N. Bilis ..... weeaeet 2 , 4 45 10) Puck, E D. Morgan..... Pee 0 245 5% Maia, Mr. Jennings... ,.. ... presse 48 58) Dorothy 1h) HP, Whitaey i. ed kee enacts wetees nee peu, .,.. Did net finish, Fsperanza. A. S. Van Winkle seseseas Did not finish. Vaquero Ill.,H B. Duryea,.,,,.., Wa Wa, J. A, Stillman...................+cseseseeeeeees+Did not finish, Two of the 15-footers also sailed a race, as follows: Blapsed, Ilead, R, Gerry........ Min boouct hence, eae hee Dalbeaew erent UD ee reaivess Gunter ah hina nberE eT heap eT OU) Trio, F C Havemeyer,..... Another race was sailed next day over the Dyer’s Island course, a sweepstakes, in a fresh S.W. wind, the times being: Klavsed, Vaquero I1f., H. B. Duryea,,.........:;. SEFTON cr ACAD E a) Drom yo Minute te UW Hitneyoes seeeeee teen tten tite eee ole Od) RW WVBR ecAn Ul) Tater a riidteecelsieiibermtilietiete seas vesssere Ll 40 Hera, KR. N. Hillis _.,,_-..-. WU eee oni thetic ren tiorin ci anes 12 43 Esperanza, A. S. Van Winkle. .....,eccucsvenecerts pttsncsecaee 14:02 Bucky aD MMor SA puns waeiealdeteviclslelieietlelellebely ele es Wiles recat oni Maia, Mr. Jenpings....... So AihentacASdoroce -sansass et bilebuioigarpins) n Maia was dismasted. On Aug. 4 the boats started in a strong S.W. wind and a sea for a beat out to Point Judith and back, for acup offered by Mr. Stillman, owner of Wa Wa, The times were: Elapsed. Vaquero lil.,H B Duryea .,........ fete terete tcl Bio ielelvleleleneet sonic Dorothy Il ,H. P. Whitney... .ccsecscesessvcee vesvvreve reser end OO OF Esperanzt, A.S, Van Witklo ...ccceecsennsssueecreuserercess4 Ol 2% LG Carter eH gs nia) stets Ba cs mew eliotn eterna Lene ea alatktaieta ieee OOO -How to See the Races. : THE third series of races for the Seawanhaka International Cup will be sailed on Lake St. Louis, near Montreal, begin- ning on Saturday, Aug. 14, and continuing each week day until one of the competitors shall have won three vaces. The ~ contest promises to beclose and exciting, and well worth the trip to the St. Lawrence. ‘The club station is at Dorval, twelve miles from Montreal, a small village with no hotel; but visitors can spend the night in Montreal and go out by train to Lachine, eight miles, where the steamer Duchess of York will start every morning to follow the races, The steamer is chartered by the Royal St. Lawrence Y. C., and tickets may be obtained by visitors from the States, the price being $1.50 for Saturday, $1.25 each for the other days, or $4 for the series. i A. ©. A, Membership. APPLICATIONS for membership may be made to the purser of the division in which the applicant resides on blanks fur- nished by purser, the applicant becoming a member provided no objection be made within fourteen days after his name has been officially published in the FOREST AND STREAM. CENTRAL DIVISION. Name. Residence. Club. J. M, Studebaker, Jr....South Bend, Ind...,.Crescent Surf- NORTHERN DIVISION. James H. Gage.......... Kingston, Ont..... o_o EASTERN DIVISION. George A. Mirick ....... Chelsea, Mass,.....:.. a Trap--Shooting. Leading dealers in sportsmen’s supplies have advertised in our columns continuously for almost a quarter century. If you want your shoot to be announced hera send in notice like the following: FIXTURES. Avg. 13.—Rocuestrer, N, Y.—Touinament of the Rochester Rod and Gun Club ‘Targets, Aug 14 —RocHestmr. N Y.—Hlliott.Glover match for the Kansas City Star cup. Also all-day shoot at live birds, under the manage- ment of Sim Glover. Aug. 17.—Winpsor Locks, Copn.- Fourth toursament of the Con- necticut Trap-Shooters’ League, under the auspices of the Windsor Locks Guu Club. Aug, 18-19.—Warsaw, Ind.—Tournament of the Lake City Gun Club. W. A, Wineberer, Sec’y. Aug, 24-25—Burrano, N. Y.—Tournament of the Bison Gun Club. Targets ©. H. Werlin, Sec’y, 1634 Broadway, Buffalo. Aug. 25-26.—MonTPELIER, Vt-—Tourpament of the Interstate Asso- ciation, under the auspices of the Montpelier Gun Club. $200 added money. Aug. 26—'7—WArtEriLoo, Out.—Tournament of the Ontario Rod and Gub Club League. W J. Marshall, Sec’y-Treas. Aug. 26-27.—Many, La.—Tournament of the Many and Robeline Guo Olubs ; anes 2£8.—HAv CLARE, Wis.—Elliott-Budd match for the Du Poni rophy. Aug. 31-Sept. 2.- Sutton, Neb,—Tournament of the Sutton Guo Club. $'50 added monéy, as well as merchandise prizes. EH, H, Hair- grove, Sec’y. Sept. 1.— HAVERHILL, Mass.— Third shoct of the Massachusetts State Shooung Associalion, under the auspices of the Haverhill Gun Club, Sepc 6.—Meripen, Coun.—Third annual Labor Day tournament of the Parker Gun Club, Sept. 6 —Marton, N. J —Annual Labor Day tournament of the Endeavor Gun Club. A. R ttrader, Sec’y. Sept 7-10,—De rorr. Mich.—Jack Parker's annual tournament. Sept. §-9.—Terre Haute. Ind. -lournament of the Trap-Shooters' League of Indiana, vuder the auspices of the Terre Haute Gun Ciub. Sept. 11-12.-————, La.—Tournament of the Many and Hobelire Guo Clubs, Sepb 14-16 —Kansdés Crry, Mo —Tournament of the Schmelzer Arms Co. Merchandise and amateurs. f Sept. 14-16 —Dus Moines, la,—Tournament of the Capital Gyo Club, 8, C, Quimby, Sec’y. ; 1388 FOREST AND: STREAM. [Ave. 14, 1897. Sa a ee ee eee eee Sept. 15-16.—Portsmours, N. H.—Tournament of the Interstate Association, under the auspices of the Portsmouth Gun Club. 3 Sept, 15-16.—ParkmrssurG, W. Va,—Tourmament of the Mountain State Gun Club. State and open events, Chas. E, Morrison, Sec'y. Sept. 21-23 —MircHEt, 8. Di—Tournament of the W. J. Healey Hardware Co. 7, Sept. 28-29,—InDIANAPOLIS. Ind.—Tournament of the Trap-Shooters’ League of Indigna, under the auspices of the Limited Gun Club. Royal Robinson, See’y. * Sept. 25-Oct, 1.—Passaic, N. J—Annual tournament of the New Jersey State Sportsmen's Association at Clifton racetrack. First two paves Meir last two days, live birds. W. H. Huck, Sec7y, Ruther- ord, N. Oct. 6-8.--NewnurcsH, N. ¥Y.—Annua) fall tournament of the West Newburgh Guu and Rifle Association. First two days, targets; third day, live birds. $50 average money to thres high guns in all pro- pramme target events. Open to all, Oct. 13-14.—Grennspure, Ind.—Shooting tournament of the Greens- bure Gon Club. Web. Woodfill, Sec*y. Oct, 22-23.—Huntineton, Ind.—-Tournament of the Trap-Shooters’ League of Indiana; under the auspices of the Erie Gun Club. 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 printed. Ties in all events are considered as divided uniless otherwise reported. Mail all such matter to Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 346 Broadway, New York, Phil Dumbreyer, late manager of the Carteret Club’s grounds at Bayonne, N. J., has leased those grounds for his own use, since the removal of the Carteret Club to Garden City. L. I. Mr, Lumbreyer has started in to give shooters in the vicinity of New York city some grounds where they can go in less than an hour, and shoot matches or practice with all the comfort and quiet that attaches to a propri- etary club, The conveniences for shooters at the old Oarteret erounds are not to be sneezed at. as they are strictly first class, and that means a great deal to shooters. Target shooting will also bea specialty at ‘‘Phil’s grounds,” as these grounds will shortly be very generally called. The simplest way toreach them from this city is by a Bayonne trolley from the Pennsylvania station, Jersey City, getting off at Nineteenth street, Bayonne, and walking two. blacks down toward Newark Bay The trip can also be easily made by Jer- sey Central trains to West Hiehth street. where hacks can be found to drive one to the grounds for a small sum. Lumbreyer will always have plenty of live birds on hand, and a wire or letter to him, ad- dressed Bergen Point, N. J , will ensure everything being ready when needed, Attached to the grounds is a school of instruction for be- ginners, and others who want to correct certain fanlts and improve their shooting. The instructor is none other than Jack Brewer. and when it comes to handling a gun easily, gracefully and with effect, Brewer should surely be able to give very valuable pointers. We received the programme for the fifth tournament of the Penn- sylvania and Ohio Border Gun League too late for notice in our issue of Aug. 7. Any mention we make of it now would be useless so far as advertisement of the shoot is concerned; the shoot takes place on Thursday of this week, Aug. 12, at Warren, O., under the auspices of the local gun club. The programme is, however, rather an unusual one. and it might interest the managers of other leagues to know just what the P. & O. Border Gun Club League does in this line, A 10- and two i5-target events start the programme, entrance fees being at the usual rate of 10 cents per target. No. 4 is a 25-target handicap race for a model "97 Winchester repeating shotgun. No. 5is a 15-tar- get event. No, 6 is the League team contest, 25 targets per man, Nos. 7 and 8 are handicaps, 40 targets per man, the prizes being re- spectively a Parker eun and an L. ©. Smith gun. In No, 4 there is an optional sweep of $2, and in Nos. 7 and 8 thereis an optional sweep on each 20 targets of $2. The programme is faulty in- that it omits any mention what the entrance is for either of three handicap events, neither does it state how the moneys in the ordinary 10- and 15-target events are to bedivided. It does, however, make the following state- ment: ‘The club reserves the right to place a handicap in the sweep- stake eyents.** Trap-shooting is not such a very new sportin this country after all, yetitis a fact that the reports of eyents at the traps which appear in 99 out of every 100 daily papers are peculiarly weak, and that the salient points of the match or sweepstake are generally either missed entirely or only slurred ever. Trap-shooting is now about as popular @ sport a8 any, save horse racing and baseball, and has as mady de- votees as any other, savethe two mentioned above Yetany sort of a reporter is usually considered enough for a shoot. unless itis some- thing like the Grand American Handicap or a society mafch at one of the swell clubs. And why isit that in reports of yacht racesa boat can be said to luff. gybe, set her spinaker to starboard, etc., without the words being quoted? And in golf rep%rts, the writer uses the word iron, cleek, putting, etc., withont the use of quotation marks? But take a report of a shoot and a whole lot of quotation marks are thrown in haphazard, thus: “drivers ‘’ ‘‘miss-and-outs,” ‘“quarterers,” etc. These words are just as well understood by those who read the reports as the term ‘‘out-curve’is in @ baseball re- port, yet you never see that word quoted. Capt. Money made what we believe to be a new record on Wednes- day of last week, Auge, 4. On that date he went to the Riverton Gun Club, having to defend his title to two trophies. Each of these matches was a 100-targetrace: be also shot for the club trophy, an- other 100-targetrace. In addition to this total of 300 targets, he shot at another 265 during the day in sweeps and in practice, making a total of 565 targets for the day The three trophies he shot for were three guns, and he holds the title to each one of them, winning both the matches and the club shoot. Ordinarily £65 targets would satisfy anybody for a week or so; but Oapt Money was on hand at Boiling Springs on Saturday afternoon, Aug. 7, and did rather more than his share in breakins targets. As a result of the 565 targets in one day, he said that his shoulder was ‘ta little sore’; butit didn’tseem to bother him at all on Saturday. Mr. H. A. Jackson, secretary of the Bergen County Gun Club, of Hackensack, N. J., asks us to make the following announcement: “The regular monthly handicap contest for the EK. C. cup of the Bergen County Gun Club will take place on the grounds of that club at Hackensack, N. J., on Saturday, Aug. 21. Theconditions are 50 targets, uuknown angles. Handicap to consist of extra birds to shoot af, 15 being the maximum. This cup is open to members and friends of the above club, and must be shot for until won three times by one person. Entrance, price of birds. At the conclusion of the cup shoot there willbe a team race between the Endeavor Gun Club and the Bergen County Gun Club, ten men on each side, 25 targets per mau,” The Ontario Rod and Gun Club League’s shoot on Aug, 26-27, at Waterloo, Ont., may have the effect of keeping a few Canadians from attending the Interstate shootat Montpelier, and for that reason the clashing of dates, the Moutnelier shoot being set for Aug. 25-26, is to be deprecated, The Montpelier dates have been in the fixture col- umns of afl the sportsmen’s papers for some months, and a little care in selection of dates by the Ontario RK. and G. C. L. would have avoided any clashing. The Montpelier shoot is, however, all right anyway, aud, according to our way of looking at things, will be an- other success for the Interstate Association to brag about in its an- nual review. The club is a popular one, and there is plenty of trap- shooting enthusiasm in Vermont and neighboring States, We hbave received the following note for publicatien: ‘‘The Chatham, N. J., Fish and Game Protective Association will hold a target shoot on their grounds on Saturday, Aug. 14. The principal event will be a handicap sweep for a new Winchester repeating shot- gun, 1897 model. This prize is offered by the club, and will be con- tested for without any charge for entrance other than the regular charge for targets, namely, 2 cents each. A consolation prize will be offered for the second highest score, A good deal of interest has been shown of late in target shooting at this club, the fine grounds being largely answerable for this, A large contingent of the local trap-shooters is expected to participate in this event.” In our report of the Gilbert Heikes mateh for the target champion ship of the United States, a grave error was made by the compositor who Sebup the type inthe unknown angles. The totals were carried out correctly, and the targets lost by Gilbert, his 39th and 41st, were also Shown correctly in the score. The mistake was in Heikes’s score, where his total shows 47, but the lost targets are made but two in number, apd are also placed in the wrong position, Heikes lost his %ch, 17th and 20th targets, just as stated in our report, which said; ‘‘Heikes commenced with a loss of 3 out of his first 20, finishing atrongly with 30 straight.”” In all other respects the detailed scores are perfectly accurate. Mr. Gharles BE. Morrison, secretary-treasurer of the Mountain State Gun Club. of Parkersburg. W. Va., sends us the following notice: “On the eveuing of Sept. 14 a meeting of the representatives of the several gun clubs of West Virginia will be held here for the organiza- tion of a State Association, election of officers, adoption of constitu- tion and by-laws, ete .ete, On Sept. 15 and 16 following said meeting, the Mountain State Gun Club will give a bluerock target tournament, with both State and open events. Our club has recently put in a magautrap, and also has-a full set of expert traps, so will be able to please all who may attend our shoot.” : ; Charlie Young, of Springfield, 0., has made a record for the season of 1897 that it will be hard for anyone ta take from him. On J uly 30, at the grounds of the Springfield Gun Club. he made the great run of 151 straight, unknown angles. Altogether he shot at 175 targets, los- ing his 8th, 13th, 2ist and 173d,a remarkable piece of shooting. Our correspondent does not state whether the shooting was practice work or not, but we conclude thatit was. About two years ago (it was on Thursday, Sept. 26, 1895,) Captain Bartlett made a precisely similar run of 151. straight, on the third day of the Rochester, N, ¥, Rod and Gun Club Stournament. Capt. Bartlett's run, however, was ‘‘unfin- ished,” being made on the last 151 targets on the programme, The events were scheduled as follows: 20, 20, 20, 50, 20, 25, 20,20. Bart- lett's scores were: 19, 17,19, 50, 20, 25, 20,20. Ele lost the fourth tar- getin event No.3. Bartlett did not continue his rum, as he had to shoot Jack Parkera 100 target race for the Schmelzer trophy before it got too darktosee The Schmelzer trophy crops up again im connec- lion with this rim of Young's, as he is at present ‘one-third reversed order champion,” Rolla Heikes and Ferd Van Dyke respectively own- ing the other two-thirds interest in the Schmelzer trophy. On the same day that Bartlett made his long run, BH. C. Meyers, of the Rochester Club. mad6aron of 129 straight, Young’s load was 3drs, E, C.,. 13402, 4% chilled shot, U.M. © factory-loaded ammunition, pn etl sas shell. We understand that he was using a gun of his own make, Tuesday next, Aug. 1%, willbe a gala day at the grounds of the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Gun Club The main event, which will bestarted at 2P.M., prompt, wiil be a 30-target handicap for a gold watch, $2.50 entrance. John Wright will be on hand to boss things, while Hddie Morehouse will turn the crank that churns out targets from the club’s magautrap The grounds are easily reached from’ New York and vicinity, being located at the terminus of the King’s County Ble- vated, in Brooklyn, Liberty avenue and Enfield street, 30 minutes run from the Brooklyn end of the bridge, or 35 minutes from the ferry terminus at Fulton street, Brooklyn. Owing to the clashing of dates between the Hlliott-Glover and the Elliott-Budd matches, Charlis Budd has named Aug. ¥8, 2 P. M,, and the grounds of the Hau Claire, Wis,, Gun Club, as the date, time and place for the match, instead of Aug 14, aspreviously stated in Budd's acceptance of Hlioth’s challenge. The Hiliott-Gloyer match will come off at Rochester, N. Y.,on Saturday next, Aug.14,at2P.,M. ‘There will be an all-day live bird shoot as well; and onthe day previous, Aug 13,4 tournament at targets willbe held under the auspices of the Rochester, N. Y., Rod and Gun Olub. The Lewiston, Me., interstate shoot was another success to beadded to the list of those made by the Interstate Association this season. An average ot over thirty-one entries on the first day, and of over twenty five on the second day, are figures that must be counted as extremely flattering. It should be remembered that there was no added money to attract shoofers; it was simply a shoot under the auspices of the Androscoggin Gun Club, but managed and run by the Interstate Association. Dr, Gagnon seems to haye struck somewhat of a snag in the matches he has made recently. In his match with D. J. Bradley at Hlkwood Park, on Monday, Aug, 2, he met defeat by the score of 95 to 84, Again, in his match with Wred Hoey at the Hollywood grounds on the next day, he also lost by a wide margin. The conditions of this racé were 50 birds psr man, Hoey to stand at 3lyds., Gagnon at 30, Hoey conceding him two misses as kills; 2lyds. (Holly wood) bound- ary. Hoey scored 44 to the Doctor's 37, The W. J. Healey Hardware Co., of Mitchell, S. D , writes us under date of Aug. 3asfollows: ‘‘Our shooting tournament, the dates of which have heretofore conflicled with other tournaments, will be held in this city this fall, Sept. 21, 22 and 28. The list of prizes and eyents will be out soon, and will include many valuable prizes: and the shoot will, no doubt, aitract a large number of sportsmen,” We are informed by Mr. I, W. Cumberland, of Kokomo, Ind., secretary-treasurer of the Trap-Shooters’ League ot Indiana, that the League has granted to the Hrie Gun Club, of Huntington, Ind,, a sanction for a tournament on Oct. 22-28. Wurther information in re- gard to this tournament may be obtained by addressing Mr. J. L. Brown, secretary of the Erie Gun Club. At the Central Gun Club’s tournament at Deluth, Minn., Hirch, of St. Paul, won first average with 225 ont of 250, Bennett. of St. Paul, and C.K Robbins, of Fargo, tied for second and third with 221 breaks, Wilson, of St. Cloud, was fourth with 212, Dr, Day, of Duluth, being fifth with 210, Mrs. Shattuck, of Minneapolis, Jed the ladies with 182 out of 250; the Duchess was next with 163, Mrs. Johnson, of Minne- apolis, being third with 154. Aman very seldom knows when he is well off. One week ago we were feeling very sore that we could not be present at the Lewiston shoot, threats having passed between Rich Hunnewell and ourselves that we would do each other up attargets, As Rich stands third on the list of general averages with something like 92 per cent, to his credit, fate was perhaps not so unpropitious after all. The fifth contest for the Recreation cup takes place at the Bergen County Gun Club’s grounds, Hackensack, N J,, Wednesday of this week, Aug.11. Both Sinnock and Remsen will be on hand without a doubt, each having two wins to their credit. with only thrae more contests forthe cup tobe accounted for. The man winning it the greatest number of times out of the seven shoots is to become the owner of this handsome trophy. Frank Hall wou the third heat for the silver tea service, donated by the Boiling Springs Gun Club for competition on the first and third Wednesdays of every month. The ‘147 handicap” was brushed aside, and a return was made fo the old system of extra targets to shoot at. Hall shot very strongly,and had no trouble in scoring a £0 straight with.the aid of 6 handicap. He broke 22 out of each 25, and 4 on his handicap allowance, with one target tospare. Ferd Van Dyke has two wins to his credit, Jack Winston may use this for advertising purposes without any extra charge. On Thursday last a passenger on the Fall River line jumped overboard, according to the daily papers. Some of the other passengers saw him jump, and informed the captain. Search was made to find out who was missing, and it was found the oceupant of stateroom 147 was the man who had jumped into the Sound. It is proposed to make a special feature of a 25-bird race on the fourth day of the tournament of the New Jersey State Sportsmen’s Axgsociation at Clifton race track, Passaic, N. J., Sept. 28-Oct. 1. The race will be 25 live birds, $25, birds extra, with at least $300 zuaran- teed to the three high guns. The tournament will be two days at targets and two days ab live birds. We learn from Hikwood Park that, on account of the Horse Show at Hollywood this week, the shoot for the cup presented by Mr. Max Bleiman has been postponed until Friday, Ang 20. On Saturday, Aug, 14, there will be special handicaps, with conditions made on the grounds to suit shooters, The Trap-Shooters’ League of Indiana has granted fo tbe Terre Haute, Ind., Gun Club a sanction for a tournament, to be held under the auspices of that club, Sept. &9. Mr. Albert Neukom, secretary of the Terre Haute Gun Club, will gladly supply any furlher information. The Many aud Robeline, La , un elubs have joined forces and will give joint shoots on Aug. 26-27 and Sept. 11-12. ‘Trap-shooting is said to be on the boom in Louisiana this year, and both these tournaments are likely to be well patronized, Aue. 10, EpwarD BANKS. Western Traps. IN MINNESOTA. Cxuicaco, Ill., Aug. 7.—The following scores were made at last week’s shoot of the Minneapolis Gun Club. There was a good turn- out of members and visitors: Val Blatz badge, 15 singles; Maybe 8, Whitcomb 11, A. Richter 15, Marshall 11, Bush 10, Neely 14, Nelson 7, Noslen 6, Paegel 10, Sully 9, Biffton 7, staples 9. 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AtSan Antonio, Tex., Aug. 1, members of the San Antonio Gun Club made the following scores: Regular medal shoot, 30 targéts; Shields 20, Grossmann 21, Wilkins 17, McCormack 22, Marx 22. France 21, Vollbrecht 25, Epp 1’, Prescott 18, Thiele 26. Thiele wonin first class, pp in second and Marz in third class. IN OHIO. At Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 2, the Cleveland Gun Club held its quarter annual shoot for the country badge, the latter being won by Chic. with 25 straight on the shoot-off, The badge carries the title of champion of Tiacuyahoga county. Scores: Thomas 43, Williams 48, Johnson 42, Redwing 38, Doolittle 37, Maclk 43, Chic 48, Grant 47, Snow, 47. Chic won in the shoot-off as follows: WHATS ices seeeeeereneeneseseureeenes ee ohLId991119 111101110111111— 23 CHIC Mead sanasecyeudsameyinaged i sass anes hs eT) Sir i eee IN SOUTH DAKOTA. The Sioux Falls Gun Club, of Sioux Falls, 8. D., had a good atten- dance at its last club shoot Aug. 8, the shooting being at live birds and targets with the following results, At 18 live birds the scores were as follows: - Hutchinson 13, Burgess 9, Brown 13, Ray Hutchinson 11, De(tood 11, Snyder 7, Marson 5. In the second event targets wereused. The score, out of a possible 25: Hutehinson 18, Burgess 19, Brown 15, Ray Hutchinson 14, Suyder 6, DeGood1l, Walking match; Burgess 16, De Good 11. IN MONTANA. The Rod and Gun Club, of Butte, Mont,, at its last shoot, Aug, 3, had a pleasant meeting. Walker won the medal for the third time. Scores, 26 bluerocks: Walker 24, Christensen 22, Wright 22, Morse 21, J. Trudgeon 19, Smith 18, Spargo 18, Nichols 16, Westphal 16, W. Trud- geon 15, Jenkins 11, TN KANSAS-~ At Salina, Kan,, members of the Salina Shooting Club made the fol- lowing scores at its last weekly shoot: Ollinger 9, Gates12, Stevenson 13, Cravens 7, Gemmill 10. At the last weekly shootof the Hutchison Gun Club, of Hutchison, Kan., B. HE, Allison made top score, 21 out of 25; Will Allen next with 20. Next week Will Allen and T. A Bavington, of Lyous| shoota match at 50 bluerocks, IN LOUISIANA. At Thibodaux, La., on Aug. 2, the Lafourche Guo Club held a little shoot with the following results: 4 Twenty-five targets: A. Perrin 21, F. Sureau 21, John Leche 20, §. Foret 19, ©. Caillouet 19,C R Beattie 18, H Riviere 17, A. J, Clement ee denn Guardia 15, Henry Lejeune 14, Thomas Riviere 13, H. Le anc la. The City Park Gun Club, of New Orleans, La,, is in a prosperous condition, and Jast week admitted twenty-six members, makirg its membership to day fifty-five. It is holding regular shoots at bats and targets, and bids fair to become the representative shooting organization of that city. DULUTH SHOOT, At Duluth, Minn., the fifth annual shoot of the Central Gun Club was brought toa successful close last week, Nine events were run off the first day. The Jay Anderson évent, No.7, wilh $10 added money, went to Catamaran, Bennett and Hirschy, all of St. Paul, who scored straight kills of 15 birds. The Jadies’ event was won by Wojeck with a straizht kill of 10 birds. A ladies’ special was won by the Duchess and Mrs, Sbattuck, of Minneapolis, with scores of 7 6ach, and Mrs. Johnson, of Minneapolis, with 6 birds killed, The merchandise prize event was a tie between Nelson, of Duluth, Hirschy and Leonard, of St Paul, and Hill, of St. Cloud, all grounding 19 ont. of 20 birds The four drew cuts, and Hill, of St. Cloud, won out. The special prize given for the highest average for the day was won by Hirsehy, of St. Paul, who killed 113 birds out of a possible 125. The other high averages of the day were as follows: Robbins, of Fargo, and Bennett, of Sb. Paul, 110; Nelson, of Duluth, Hill, of St. Clond, and Warren, of Duluth, 104; Holt, of St. Paul, 103; Catamaran, of St. Paul, 102; Shat- tuck, of Minneapolis, 102; Wilson, of Sb. Cloud, 101; Wojeck, of Duluth, 101. The tournament will be continued ab 8:30 to-morrow morning. ‘Three ladies participating are Mrs.S.8. Johnson and Mrs. W. P. Shattuck, of Minneapolis, and Mrs.D. H Day, of Duluth, Among those present from outside the city are: H. 0, Lawrence, Dr. Lyons, f. Novetney, H. 0. RRC John Burkhardt, GC. Thompson, Paul H. Gotzain, D. F. McLure, of St. Paul; W: P. Shattuck, §. 8. Johnson, J G. Parker, of Minneapolis; Dr. Harwood, of Tower; C. E Robbins, of | Fargo; H, B, Jewell, of Wabasha; Thomas O’Shaugnessy, of Bis- marck; FP. BE, Ebner, of Aitkin; H.8 Hill, W Thielman, A L Gramh, De. W H. Spratty and Ff. B, Flynn, of St. Cloud; Phil Murray, L. E. Towne, W. H. Bean and BH. M Conrad, of Stillwater: P. HK: Hanson and P. J. Boland, of Superior; J. A, Duncan, of Chippewa Falls; ant C C. Williams, of Sault Ste. Marie. On the second day the most important events were the 6th and 7th. The 6th was worth a guaranteed purse of $50 to the winners, and in the 7uh twelye cans of Gold Dust powder went to the twelve highest | guns. The 6th eyent resulted ia a tie between Murray, Bennett, Nov- oiney and Wilson. A!l four succeeded in grounding 19 birds out of a | possible 20. The twelve high scores in the 7th syent were tmade by | Robbins with 15, Hill, Wilson, Ransier, Wojeck, Phillips, Hirchy, Ben- nett, Bean, all with 14 birds; Wallace, Loud and Hard, with 14 birds, | The special prizes offered for the highest averages for the entire | two days’ shooting went to Hirchy, of St. Paul, who was high, with | 225 out of a possible 250; Bennett. of St, Paul, 221; Robbins, of Wargo, | 221; Wilson, of St. Cloud, 212; and Dr. Day, of Duluth, 210. Thespe- | cial prize offered for the highest ayerage score made by the ladies was won by Mrs. Shattuck, of Minneapolis, who scored 182 birds out of a possible 250. Tne Duchess was second with 163, and Mrs. John- | son, of Minneapolis, was third with 154, CALUMET HEIGHTS GUN CLUB, | At last week’s shoot of Calumet Heights Club, the club medal coutest was won by Patti with 24in Class A. Ths weather was warm and the turnout of members rather light. A strong southeast wind made the targets low and hard, but Patti seemed to have his eye on them. Bathing was indulged in by many of the ladies and children who come each week to spend a few days at this pleasant country elub Scores: a. Medal contest, 25 targets—Class A: Patti 24, Metcalfe 20, Young 19, Booth 17. £ Class B: Norcom 17. { Class ©: Morgan 15, Schnaidt 14. - j Fifteen targers, known traps, unknown angles: Booth 15, Patti 13, Norcom 12, Young 12, Metcalfe 11, Schmidt 11, ; Fifteen targets, unknown traps and angles: Patti il, Metcalfe 11, Booth 10, Morgan 10, Norcom 8, Young 7,Schmidtd, — Five pairs. vuknown traps and angles: Booth 6, Patti 5, Metcalfe 5, Morgan 4, Youne 4, Norcom 2, Schmid 1. j The members haye formed two classes for rifle shacting, the men being in Class A and the women in Olass B. The scores: . Medal contest, 10 shots— Class A: Metcalfe 47, Schmidt 47; Patti 39, Davis 37 Greeley 32, Norcom 24, Glass B: Mrs. Chamberlain 28, Mrs. Sehmidt 37, Mrs. Morgan 4a, Mrs. Young 31, Miss M. Bird 21, Mrs. Bird 20, Miss Bird 19. \ 1206 Boyce Burnpine, Chicago. i, Hover. ON LONG ISLAND. NEW UTRECHT GUN CLUB. Aug. 7.—Warren H. Thompson wou the Class A badgein the weekly club shoot of the New Utrecht Gun Club, held this afternoon at Dyker Meadow. Dr. O’Brien was the winner in Olass B, not haying a com- etitor. Scores: H Thompson (A). isceccessseesseenevens et lII10II111111111111110—23, D Deacon (A). .eeceeseaneeesnseeeseeaeeeeeedt11011110111110101111300—19 P Adams (A).....- saneu( cise eeeeevesseeee¢l11101111101110111100001—18) Dr HW O’Brien (B)...... veveueeeey acess e~1111011101101000011111100—16 ‘A few sweeps ab 10 targets, all at unknown angles, were also shor, with the following results; Eyents; 234656 6% # £2Byrents; 23465667 Adams .vsveures 6 710 8 “an EA ere af 6 8 g 6 4 ; : h On, 7 6-4, te ad = eorge Cee =a a6 Meee ae GE. Poon, Seer Ava. *14,71897,] FOREST AND STREAM ~- 1859 Lewiston’s Interstate. ONCE more, owing to force of circumstances, or ornare more correctly speaking this time. owing the exigencies of business, we were unable to attend the Lewiston Interstate, an event we had been looking forward to with high hopes for a leasant time. Not being present, therefore, we eve to do the best we can with notes supplied us by one who was there, and who generally knows what he is talking about, The shoot was held on Aug, 4-5, under the aus- i of the Androscoggin Gun Club, of Lewiston, e. The grounds are among the best in the count) i loca’ : six minutes’ walk from the street car line. walk was the only drawback to the location that could be found. Large awnings were erected over the score and the place where the gun racks were placed. Asfor the other arrangements, Manager Shaner says: ‘They were about the most complete Lever saw.” . The cfficials were: Cashier, Prof J. H. Moody; Referee, Peter Rondeau; Puller, Hd Lyons; Black- board scorer, Allen Pratt; Manifold scorer, Frank Reade. Rich, Hunnewell, says our authority, was Taajor'domo, and was here, there and everywhere all the time, and managed to solve the problem of working and shooting successfully; he won third average in mighty hot ee Mr. H. E. Doten, of the jocal club, who shot under the hame of Herbert, also deserves special mention for the work he did. In fact, the manager of the In- terstate Association says that this shoot was one of the softest snaps he has ever hadin his career as Manager. — : The programme was not exactly one that might be expected to draw a crowd of experts, but they were there; at least some of them. No one could hope to make any money; there was none added to the purses, and all events were at Inown traps and angles, 15-target events, four moneys, $1.50 entrance. The presence of so many really first- class shots and the average pumber of entries on the two days, goes to show that a pleasant time and a 200d shoot, rather than money making, was the main idea of those who attended the Lewiston shoot. Of course there were several who went for busi- ness purposes. Hereis a list of trade representa- tives: O. R. Dickey, 8. A. Tucker, W. F. Parker and LC, Parker, Parker Bros,; Noel E. Money, secretary of the American EH. C. and Schultze Pow- der Co,; Ferd Van Dyke, Winchester and W-A; U. M. ©. Thomas, ofthe U. M. C. Co }H. P. Collins, of the Du Pont Powder Co.; B. H, Norton, of the Hazard Powder Co.; E. D. Fulford, Remington gun and Schultze powder. _ With known angles some high scores were made, and straights were very numerous. In event No. 9 on the second day, squad No, 8—Fulford, Dickey W, FP. Parker, Leroy, Puck and Tucker—were greeted with a round of applause for their totals of two #58 and four 14s, 86 out of 90. GENERAL AVERAGES, The table of general averages shows that fifteen men shot through the entire programme of 300 shots, 150 perday. Dickey leads the van with 94 per cent. as his general Chel og toh that being his average for each day also, as will be seen by refer- ence to the scores for each day. Noel Money also broke the same on the second day that he did on the first day, finishing each time 3 breaks behind Dickey, with 188 out of 150. His nea average is, therefore, the same as each of his daily aver- ages—o2 percent Rich Hunnewell was third, only one target behind, while Leroy was one target be- hind him; their respective averages were 91 6 and 9),3.. Ferd Van Dyke came next with 90.6 per cent., his first day’s scores having given the others too much leeway for him to make up altogether. Puck phowatl up well with 89.3 per cent, and so did W. F. Parker with 89 percent. Fulford tied with Parker, but his percentage at this style of shooting shows that he was not in his true form. Tucker and Doten (Herbert) both fell down on the second day, but Pint C. made a Garrison finish, and came having a sky background. They are just beyond the Maine State Fair grounds, close to taking Herbert’s scalp. The figures given below tell the tale of the general averages. Ist day. 2Rdday. Shotat. Broke. Av. Dickey.,...-¥4l 141 300 282 94 Money.,.+-« i 8 188 i 276 92 Hunnewell. 188 137 800 275 91.6 Leroy,,..+.. 136 188 800 274 91.8 Van Dyke.. 134 188 300 272 90.6 Puck....... 184 184 800 268 89.3 Fulford..... 181 136 800 267 89 W F Parker 1286 131 800 267 89 Tucker..... 132 127 800 259 t6.8 Herbert... 134 122 800 256 85.3 UMG,..... 28 131 300 252 B4 Rowe...oer 120 800 232 77.8 LO Parker, 116 96 8 212 70.6 Colling,....-. 97 99 300 196 65.3 Norton,.... 73 54 300 127 42.8 Berry and Cobb each missed a couple of events on the first day, but shot through the programme on the second day. Their averages for the 270 shot at were respectively 68.1 and 87. Wyman missed three events on the first day, but shot at 955 targets altogether, breaking 217, an average of 85 per cent. First Day, Aug. 4. Forty-three shooters took partin to-day’s events, there being an average entry list of 31.4 for the ten events. The highest number of entries was recorded in No 9, when thirty-seven shooters faced the traps; the lowest was in No, 6 -twenty- six, Dickey was high, with 141 breaks out of 150 shot at, all events being at 15 targets each. Next to him, bunched in 4 tie for the next three places, came Noel phoney Rich Hunnewell and Wilkes with 188 each; W, F Parker and Leroy tied for fifth and sixth places with 136 breaks. Van Dyke, Herbert and Puck were all a tie for the next three laces with an average of 89.3, each having broken a4 targets. Tucker and Chisholm tied for tenth and eleventh places, while Fulford comes along alone in twelfth place, far below where he right- fully belongs. ‘The table given below shows the scores made by each man, and the percentages of breaks made by every shooter: SCORES OF AuG, 4. Events: 12346566 %78 910 Ay. O R Dickey....., 12 1415 18 14 1415 15 1415 94 WN E Money....., 18 14 14 15 12 14 15 141215 92 R Aunnewell.... 15 13 18 15 1413 16 13 1413 92 Wilkes,,........ 138 14 14 15 14 18 1413 13 15 492 W F Parker.,... 11 138 12 15 14 14 141415 i4 90.6 B Leroy ...,.... 15 14 13 14 15 1412131818 90.6 F Van Dyke,.., 18 18 18 14 14 15 12 1418 138 89.8 Herbert.,.....;, 1414 1414121212 1414 14 89.3 Puck............ 12 14 12 12 1414 14131514 89:3 SA Tucker..,., 1515 15 14 18 183 12 10 138 12 88 H eChisholm.,,., 18 12 14 15 18 15 11 11 15 13 88 ® D Fulford.,,. 912111418 15 15141513 87,3 MC. .ceseeees 19:10 11 11 15 12 12 14 9 14 Adams...,, «4. 12 1112 14 1015 10 11 18 12 80 LOC Parker..,... 712 161510101813 12 9 77.3 Rowe ..escesecss 11 12 11 12121311 91210 74.6 Cain....,.ccseeee IL11 141413811 101311 8 74.6 Williams,,,,,... 1118 7 818 811121114 72 G Collins, .,. <6. 91415 61110 811 9 68 HPCollins,..... 8 31312 71011 91212 64.6 BHNorton.... 103 6 1 811 98 & 9 48.6 Berry .....seacee 1414141313 ., 14... 1418 90,8 QObD. ccseccceess 181215 1512 ,. 1115 ., 12 87.5 Dexter. ..sscscee 910 10 18 7 9 11 ee we 62.5 Wyman.....c.1. ss oe es 1215 11 1218 1211 81,9 BnOW..sccceeees WIR WIZ. 1. 7.1118 73.3 Littlefield,.......1318 1118 8,,., 811 68.5 This - OP Keyes.,,.... & 8189......11 ¥ 8 6 60 Likeye eee fi 1167) Be ee ee oe Beste 8: 5253 TH bby assesses Llure peel 12 wa ne, os Le dyeO (Cae ery, SUG ay dee op Pe RUE ee ES iret Whitmore..,,.,, 11 ..18....,, 14., 10 8 74,6 SSOSSYD orceteess 10 po sewer des oe 10 011 7856 SIS Thoth pheeeyeg eG CLE ore ote, artes UI Came sh AB diy Vs) Giod hi Meee r re Pee a eS riche fork ele Oe OU. BETA hea eta rosie pee peutae PS ca 8 55.5 BISA er eee cee epee AO Tin, 5878 Barker erst sees nas en Eevee ey ate BalOscey (4656 Gebarkersestiet! | pore Oe ere pelt ee ge: Rastmati...sese 140, Tos oe ne ake, 2 ESV IGOR est n ee eon eae seis Mu ett aller Os00 Lee MeDoDD he pteato ae at A ethe ete es el, DOLLDMOL? a ieiciwe asekee nat, Telltale ace 460 Entries: 33 28 30 30 29 26 86°30 37,85 31.4 Secohd Day, Aug. 5. Dickey again led the list of thirty-seven shoot- ers who took part in to-day’s eyents, Of course entries fell off a good deal; the average entry list to-day was only 25.9 as against 31.4 for yesterday. The highest number to-day was thirty. in Nos. 5 and 8; the lowest twenty-three, in No.*. Dickey’s average was 94, the same as yesterday, while Noe Money was again tied for the next three places with two other men, with a percentage of 92, the same that he made on the first day. but those who were tied with him to-day were Van Dyke and Leroy. Hunnewell was only 1 break behind them, but he had to be content with fifth place, Wul- ford came up to-day and finished in sixth place with an average of better than 90 per cent. The table below shows the scores and the per- centages of every shooter, today’s programme being the same as yesterday’s, viz., ten 15-tarzet events, known traps and angles, $1.50 entrance: SCORES OF AUG, 5. Eyents: 123465678 910 Av. OR Dickey.,,,. 14151315 15 15 12 14 1414 94 N E Money..,... 15 14 13 138 14 15 14141313 92 F Van Dyke,,,. 1514 14131313 1315 1518 92 B Leroy.,....... 1412 14 13 141413141515 92 R Hunnewell,,, 151213 18 141414131415 91.8 ED Fulford .... 13 14 13 14 138 15 1213 1415 90.6 Puck,....se0.08. 13 18 13 18 141015 1414 15 89.3 Cobb. ........... 14 13 13 14 18 12:14 12:15 138 «88.6 UMG.....:1.55 18 14151313 8 14.18 14 14 87,3 W F Parker.,.., 18 11 12 15 15 12.18 18 15 12 87.3 Wyman,.,.,..... 1412 14 14 12 14 18 10 14 14 (87.3 Berry...sssecee. 10 13 18 14 18 14 14 13 11 14 86 S A Tucker..,.., 11 12 13 12 14 13 12 138 14 18 84,6 Herbert......... 12 715 9121513131818 981.3 Rowe.....ese00.. © 11 1412 18 12 18 12 18 12 80 HP Collins...,,, 11 71012 912 910 712 66 LC Parker.,,... 81010 7 818 911 7 8 64 BHNorton,.,.. 610 5 4 8 5 246 4 36 H Chisholm.,,,, 11 1811 1414141311 ,, .. 84.1 Honesty ...c0005 a «. 11 1212 13 |. 14 14 11 82.8 RTLONV EERE OL hr ere nivel, 10 tee eee eee ne Preble.........+. +. +» «» 181513», 131418 90 CreSUM eet T EE Untaneendes wey lesioned "80 Cain. ..c...ccce02 12141018 18., .. 1, .. «. 82,6 THOGY ts ecenrkian Uenlorleslwellees os ns caste, SO Whitmore..,,,.. 1411 111810 ., .. .. .. .. 78.6 Graverrereptieds bacee + +, 1112 8.. 69,3 O PKeys......,5+ +. 5663,, 2.. .. 19.8 GiGollings reset te te ee pede OlOe I) (6853 SWAIKESEG fescnege ee bey caprilwty stu Aen 145 888 EHV a dlctm caine: cob eee Deere dy tao fe rade Hdwards...c000: ss ey oe oe ee oe ws 1011 14 78.3 JOSS rider elo, Gkoceto bs, Siesce San en. SO,6, IE CH PR ae tne eth? GAP te pe eth naa mree oer] Gledhill, wee 2 eet te fo. 8606 CASEIMAT Aner eka ob cipaisee bemek concn efigrure —40ne Entries: 24 24 28 28 30 24 23 80 24 24 25.9 A FEW NOTES. A Parker guo and H © powder won first and second averages atthis shoot. Dickey held one of the guns, Noe! Money the other, Maine seems to be Noel Money’s State to make a record in. He never shot better last year than he did at the Portland Interstate twelve months ago. ‘Maybe it’s the sea voyage by the Maine 8. S. Line to Portland that does the trick. Mr. Doten’s figures on the first day (he shot under the name of Herbert) are worth noting; in ten events he scored 7 148 and 3 12s, W. F. Parker, a comparative scrub shot last win- ter, is fast blossoming into a crackerjack. On the first day he began rockily with 11, 13 and 12 out of the first events. He then pulled himself together Gwe can imagine how jauntily he wore his som- brero!) and broke 2 straights and 5 14s in the uext seyen évents, a total of 100 breaks out ef 105 shot at. Chisholm, a good shot from the East, broke 88 per cent on the first day, his average being irre- parably spoiled by two 11s in consecutive events, Nos 7 and 8, It cannot be said that Rich, Hunnewell was right after the topnotchers; he was up on theroof all . the time, trotting a clip thatit took Noel Money all his time to get away from him, A single break in Noel's favor was all there was between them after 300 shots had been fired. At the closé of the first day of the shoot, the shooters and their friends were the guests of the Androscoggin Gun Club, and enjoyed a trolley party to Lake Auburn. After reaching the lake the steam launch Lewiston took the entire party a trip around the lake. The eyening was & most thoroughly enjoyable one in every way. Bluerock traps and Paul North’s electric pull were used to throw the bluerock targets, ‘I'he Imagautrap was not used to throw any targets, the vast majority of the shooters being strangers to the magazine aw omatic PEW No effort was made to male a record at target throwing. The club made things move along smoothly enough, but this was a shoot for fun— not money, EDWARD BANKs. Sistersville Rod and Gun Club. SISveRSVILLE, W. Va, July 30.—The following scores were made yesterday and to-day on the grounds of the Sistersville Rod and Gun Giub. The very small attendance was undoubtedly due to the extremely hot weather. July 29; Events: 12346678 Targets: 10 15 10 15 10 15 10 15 Total, EO Bower..cesse. 7111015 914 714 87 LMGorham,.,,.... 7 9 7101012 512 72 July 30: BO Bower....+... 815 813 714 9 9 §3 DM Wallace. ...... 46141013 912 812 8&4 LMGorham,........ 5 9 5 7 48 3 5 46 SISTERSVILLE, Missoula Rod and Gun Club. Missouza, Mont,, July 28.—Below are scores Madein practice to-day by members of the Mis- soula Rod and Gun Club; No. 1, 25 targets, unknown angles: W. EH. Graham 18, R. E, Hammend 12, T. T McLeod 10, No 2, same; W. EH, Graham 17, T. T, McLeod 11. Aug. $.—The following scores were made to-day in the medal shoot; J. A. Forbes winning the gold medal and W. BH. Graham the silver medal: W E Graham,,........1111001001001111110000111—15 Dr Mills)... 22.0 eee »9010000000110100000100000— 5 T T McLeod.......:- .,0101101000111010000001001—10 J A Forbes ..,.0e.00+.+1011110111111001161011100—17 Practice, same conditions: W. E. Graham 13, J. A, Forbes 18, R. E, Hammond 7, T. T, McLeod 14, W. E. Granan, Sec’y. ' Condit. .......,+++.111001100101110110111 sash Peekskill Won the Match. PougHkeEEPsiz, N. Y., Aug. 5.—Below are the scores made to-day on the grounds of the Pough- keepsie Gun Club, in the team Trace between the home club, Peekskill, Marlboro, Glenwood of New- burgh and Hyde Park. This is the third match of the series. Peekskill won by the extremely nar- row margin of one target, Marlboro being right behind with 94 to 95. The storm that preyailed to- day let up in time to give us good weather, but the ‘light was yery puzzling. Scores: i Peekskill. DAD, 66. ey eee0ns ee 00d111111191111011111110111 —25 “Southard,,..,......01111100111411111 111101120 Halsted. ...0000050.0111111011100101111110101—18 MASON... 000000000 0110011111101111110111100—18 Horton ..,.4.4+¢+4,0111101001111101110010011 —16—95 arlboro, J Rhodes... 0.00 .:0111111111111111101111110 —22 HL Wyatt,.........+:1010011171111111111111111—22 T Rhodes... ....., TET MERE INT EET ERTIES Rate: © Frost, .......++++1100111111010111010010111—17 Covert, ...020504,, --101001111111000110110160i—15—94 Glenwood, 2 Stansbrough ,,,,,.1111111111111110111111141—24 J M Gadinez.,..., ~1011111111101010111011411—20 Briggs ......4++>,, ,001111111111010111001191017 Fall, occ e cess. ee -0110011111110100101011100—15 - Wood,......4..-+-1000010011010000011110111 1288 : Poughkeepsie Tallman,,,.....++..-01111411111111111111001101—21 TrAVEL...ccecseees ‘sHloouootantiouottt iat —18 Von Wagner..,,...101001111110010101101}911—16 Schon....,.,,,++++,1111110001010100110001110 -14—87 - Hyde Park. 5, Baker .......,....,1011011111101111111111110—21 ROdBer. .y6c000. ee. +1101111110011111111011011—20 Russell,,,.......,--0111101111011111011114001—19 Sleight. .,,..+.+«+».0110110010111111111171100—18 Hoover ,.....s1++..00010000001 10910101100000— 7—85 Rike-Raymond vs. Heikeg-Craiz. Dayton, O,, Aug. 7.—The recent championship shoot in Fairview Park has renewed interest in the Buckeye as well as in the Star Gui r 140 FOREST AND STREAM. ~ [Ave. 14, 1897, IN NEW JERSEY. AT ELKWOOD PARE. July 31.—The Country Club Handicap, 20 live birds, $20 entrance, was the main feature at Hlkwood Park this afternoon. This event Was won by the Kentuckian, Bland Ballard, with 20 straight, He was ehased to the finish by D. Bradley, who los. his 28th bird. Yale Dolan shot well, and-finishea in third place with 18 oul.of 2U, He lost his llth and 17th oirds. Tnere was a good field for this event, eleven starters being the record. Several sweeps were also shot. These were: No.1 and No. 2, $5miss- and-out; No. 3, $10 miss-and-out; No.5, 5 birds, $10, ties miss-and-out. Detailed scores of all the events 1:oilow: ' No. 1, No. 2. No. 3. Hoey (29) .cancccsnnnnnecnn ceria 20 (28)... «6 222211122211120 Ballard (27)... .cccsweeveces +2200 ZR 222222 2ade weak ee se Culbertson: (25), ii acesneeee +20 0 Hoorn stetecs se Black (46)iccvcsenssovessnes «00 0 (26)....0 Dolaw (29). cs ccevsrercecees elev 10 (80). ...% Gagnon (28). .ccassenerteses 0 0 (25)... .20 j Bradley (27), ..ctiseseccucanU 22222122 (28)... .22222222222220 TRAVIS (KT). sucecenauseucnesstelO 222120 (26), ,..2212121220 Murphy (29) wot eeld22 21.120 (30),...0 DATS (25) a senodena ce tsp aa maa 12242222 (2816), ,222122222212220 PAUETE LAO eae as coee rest nema 120 Prperemcre a tes xc W ire No. 4, Country Club Cup: No, 5. FlOCY (<9), csc. aeeseneeens Craeerenee2O (29)..,.2U Ballard (27)... pnereccscc0es RUCUeRERURREREREEROe — OO (28)... . 22222222 Black (27)... ,e0nevanenveveseelUeo- 00 (46)....20 Dolan (80)... caccavceceseesmetinsinee0222220222—18 GaAeMOn (29)...ccesarsesrey BeCURZE20Z20 Bradley (21)..ccceerseresey steel leeeese2el222022—19 'Pravis (27)... ve syy UeeUen120 Murphy (30),... eeenes C2121 1121222002210 Daly (£9) ..cevesevennsesses 410-200 Clancy (25)... ..-+e0s500051121212200) PAGLOM (20) 2 seas reedaanneies GRAND NATIONAL PRELIMINARY, Aug. 6.—The Grand National Preliminary was the feature on the card to-day. The conaltions were; 25 birds, $15, handicap; ties shot off at 5 birds, then miss-and out Dr. Gagnon (<8), Daly (29), Hoey (30) and Murphy (80) tied on 21 each ana shot-off, Gagnon winning with 5 straight; Daly and Hoey tied for second money on 4 out of 5, Daly winning se.cnd money in the second round.’ Murphy lost z out of his first 3 birds i. .te tie and withdrew. Scores were: MUrphy (80), ...c000: wunesstenscsscccncnns CQUSCUZeere02220222222232— 21 HOCY (BU) ccccccenennsenseersccnssnse enna sree eepeeeUZ202<2u22. 2028—21 Dally (29). ccs cscnsace tse pansssencsc vans s cent QUSeeesew02e2UZee2sse222— 21 GAZDOD (28). ices eweenarsnensawnnvcenanses UU 222122222222 222322002— 21 KnOwWltOd (28)... .ccceneeeennsevcessces ee se QOL121101 112021121112102—20 PAtlen (28). ccacenecsensewscevennnsce sense scree 02220102210.2212220—19 BRADLEY-GAGNON MATCH, Aug, 2.—Daniel J. Bradley, a member of the Carteret Club, and Dr, George 5. Gaguon, who hails from Chicago, shot 4 race to-day over the Elkwououd Park traps at 100 live birds per man, 3uyds. rise, Eikwood Park boundary (50yds8.); the stake was-said to be $00 a side, bub side bets probably raised the limit Whatever thé condi- tions, Bradley walked away with the match, scoring the great toial of 95 out of 100, running his last 47 straight. That he was in great form is shown oy the fact that he shot at 138 birds during the day and only lost 7 of them, scoring in all 131 out of 133. Dr. Gagnon was weak at the start, losing 7 oui of his first 44; be then braced up and ran 35 straight. Tne score at the half-way mark showed Bradley 46 to Gagnon’s 43. The way the doctor was shooting just then made Lhe match an interesting one, particularly wheo Brauley lost his 53d bird, reducing his lead toz birds, rom that point, however, Brad- ley gradually forzed ahead, running ous without another miss, while in the last 45 alone Dr. Gagnon lost / birds. Scores were: Bradley ..cserpeuvenvesscvre ses serene se eeeeUeeeZ2022 329222202222 93 RU22222e2 sede dW 22222. 222 —VB * Reo IIe Loss eA s22 422d 2e—24 RRA Veeee 82282289231 2322 —25 — 95 GALTON, ceeccecreserecccerrseseresers «Vere Um0eeU220262222220202—18 RRIRPAR22z1 ee eededeedee— 2B RerereeeeOse2eeUs212Ided9——Oy +-022102210202001121011211—18 —84 Several miss-and-outs were shot, with the followmg results: (30)... 22222212 (27), . 1, 24222220 (28)... 2220 (2i)..,.01 (30), .,.0 (2)... .12222222 wed db ern ne erore tee © Bah batonneaeee No, 1. No. 4. No, 3.* No. 4, Hoey (80)... cceeneee 40 Renn aeoreicels s aA Daly (29). cccevevecsvee PlIII1IO0 — 122222112112 (25),.10 (29)....4£0 GAOON (22) vveeveeeee 11210 1211111210 (2), .0 (2)...)11 * Bradley (23), ,.sssusecnsmeeleeee 421111222221 (45),.12 (29446). .U TAVIS (7). ccereesseee 1282110 221212222220 on. is Pacton (26). seccscveers exeneers 2110 an > * No. 3 was at sparrows. No 5. No. 6. No. 7. No, 8, No. 9. Daly. ssecsesevescveetlO 222210 (2844). .22 1z22 A122 GEBNOM.. crer eevee LARS 221111 (29)... .20 1120 22120 Bradley... ssese2esl2ld 1R222 (8046), .12 2122 0 BOILING SPRINGS GUN CLUB. Aug. 7.—There was not a large attendance at the regular monthly shoov of the Boiling Springs Gun Club at Rutherford, this afternoon, The hot weather aud vacation time had much to co with the SCAarcily of shooters. Only eight entries were made for the cup shoot, the number being raised to nine by J. H. Robvins, of the Sportsmen's Review, who shot along as the guest of the club. Colin Wise, with 3 hanuicap, won the cup with a total of 48 breaks out of 53 snot at. Capt. Money, with 2 handicap, and Banks, scratch, were next with 46 each, The'scores 10 Luis event are given below in detail: CR WiSb (3). ... canesecnceeseseeensvens AIIIOIIIIIIIIOMIIII11—23 12119171111100111311211011—22 1 — 3—4§ E Banks (0)..,¢ccceeeeenn+-+eeeeeeouee2L1010111111111111111111—23 1111111111111101111111011—23—46 Capt Money (2), 6. ence ceeweeseeee eee ee02L12101111101111111101101—22 1211111100111111111111110—22 11 : — 2—46 WEL Huck (0). .sccereeey ee ce eee owe oereeot111111111111111111111110—24 ; 0111110100110111111101111—19 —43 Paul (4) wivecewvusdecereeeeeeee ences see L011101911111101114111110—21 00110111110110110101u111—17 0111 ee — d—41 ASIOUS (12). civeveeserctesesseonceveees L101101000101101101010111—15 : 0101101110110110101111111—18 s : 111011011100 — 8-41 J H Robbins*,,....c0veveecerseee ees > o+1011110111110000111111100 —17 1110111010110110110111011—18—a5 Frank (5)..cccvevevveueuvausereen wee s¢s111111010111001001101010i—16 1001110001011111101000100—13 10.01 — 2-81 Huber (15),..0sceccresseeeeeee eserves eeL110001010100001010000000— 8 : 1101101101101010010000101—13 010100011000110 — b—27 * Guest. After the cup shoot a couple of 15-target events, unknown angles, were shot. Then, there being vuly six shooters left on the grounds, 4 series of team races, theteams beg chosen by Huck anu Bunks, respectively, were agreed upon, the losing team to pay for the tar- gets. The conditions were rabher unusual ones, and were designed as much to kill time as anything else; they were: 5 unknown angles, 5 reversed order, 5 expért rulés, and 5 pairs per man; each man shor his 6 targets by Limself, while che rest of the shooters and spectators sat by and guyed or applauded. These racés were very close indeed The first was won by Huck’s team with two breaks to spare, the cap- tain of the orher team aumping his men by losing 4 out of 5 at re- versed order, The second was a victory for Banks’s team with 3 breaks to the good. The rubber was won by Huck’s men with 58 to 56. The totais of the three raves show that Huck’s team led the otner team by just one break out of the 45) targets shotat. The scores in these races follow: No. 1, Huck’s eam: BRUCK, ccscsceerneeesesceeessOQL1I0 11111 11010 01 11 11 11 11—20 MONEY wsccnscocrecnesserey-GlIlU 11110 11111 10 11 10 11 11—20 Pale aca e nak ci pee wie cOl LL LOL LO TTT 10 01 10 01 10—16—56 Banks’s Team: RODbINS,....sccccareeveeesALIOL T1110 10111 10 11 11 11 10—20 BADKS..cccuastneccecevesssettlii Ul0GU T1111 11 11:10 01 11—19 ASIDUS .ccessersesevoveensectidil 01110 111uU0 10 U0 10 00 11—15—54 No. 2, Huck’s Team: Money ..-.....cseeeneevee+t1110 11111 11011 10 11 10 10 10—19 SELIG Kviata a)alctetarelaveleve le vaeneeddd11 11001 11001 11 U1 lv 10 11-18 Paul, .yeyceeecevenencsvewss-LI120 10100 11110 10 11 OV 11 01—16—58 Banks's Team: Banks, jeeccccccaccccccnscestilJ1 O1111 J1111 1 11 11 11 11—23 RODIIDE...cseececcceceseee GILL OL110+ 11911 40 10 10 11 10—17 ABIDUS ...cccccccecssesceee UIPIL 11111 01101 W 10 01 10 W—i6—56 No, 3, Huck’s Team: ~ MOney sacyecyeccensecseneestLO001 10110 11011 11 11 11 11 11—20 PaO a ceccseeercvecscssssnstIII0 O11UL 11101 4011 11 10 11—19 Buck... siccvecccevsssscesessI0101 11111 11110 1001 11 01 11—19—58 Banks’s Team: : . Banks. ..escercevesseesecescdt111 10110 10111 11 11 10 01 11—20 RODDING, .vcccccccvevsesrreehtl) 21211 10101 11 10 11.00 10-19 ABDIUS coerseresyonercevepe Oldll 2O1L1 = LO1LL 11 11 00 00 01—17—66 _ Styles of shooting. Several small sweeps were also shot during the afternoon at various he results were as below: Events; 1234 65,6 7 Events: 1234656 17 Targets: 10 10.15 15 iv 20 20 Targets: iV 10 16 16 10 20 20 Moneyrnatve. “8? BilI599b19 “Highers, sien.. 8 Bro. we oe cee Wise i phe ta ee ee fe Bre ween Foe Go She atl ent Banks,....... 91015131018 19 Robbins........... 1212 815 19 ASHIUG Le, AUPOM aa ees Me Pall eee saetaey lace mera pee os ETUC Peeters est Obleml ae een lon Hiratike ween Lennar mia Nos, 1,2.and 5 were at expert rules; Nos. 3,4 and 7 at unknown angles; No. 6 at reyersed oraer, In ainatch at 10 pairs Capt. Money broke 19 to Banks’s 12. : The tis on 19 in No.7 was shot off at expert rules in blocks of 5. Capt. Money dropped out in the first series of 5, losing: his fourth tar- get. In the second series Banks lost his second and Robpins his third; in the third series Banks broke straight, but Robbms lost his first target and retired. Aug_/.—Below are the scores made to-day in the regular semi- mon.inly shoot for the silver tea service donated by the Boiling Springs Gun Cluo. Frank Hall (who shoots under the name of Hyde) won & heat for the cup by scoring 5U, the highest possible, with a tar- ge6to spare, Asmus was the only other man who had a chance to vie him, but he had to break 15 straight to doit. He withdrew after los- ing 2 out of his first 5 ou the handicap, None of the others shot out tueir allowances, Scores were: Blauyelt (10), ,.11001111010001111111110101101001111111101110111101 —35 Taylor (6)... .--11111111011111111101111111111011101111010011111101] 42 Hyde (&)...... FE ee oie AIOE R READER BED CCU UUEE RIAD HIT Ag 21h Ul111W — 4— Huck (4),.....00111100011011100100011101111111111100110101111100—42 Banks (3). .....11100010111111101911111111011111111111111111111101—43 Murphy (4), ...11111111000010111111111111110110011011111111111111—4¢ Wright (6). ,, ..1111112111101111101101110{001111011111011111111111—42 G Piercy (5), ...11111111101010111111011121111310111110010111111110—41 Mack: y (17). .10011000100011100v01 100V0U1100001110010010101111 10—22 Billings (10), , .11010010111U111101001111110.00010110111111111111101—35 Asmus (15),,.. ' ee UAC EET AS Oa TO ea re * 101w or: Greiff (4), ... ,.0.011101111101014111011111111111011111011011111111 —40 Handieap in this shoot is changed eyery month, Several sweeps were shot with the following result: Events: 12346566. 7 8 Eyents: 123465667 8 Targets: 20 10 15 10 10 10 20 Iu _ Targets: 20 10 15 10 10 10 20 10 Wgnti.2. 420) cle ., stelertO) 4%) SBillnp ees. tae Oultieve Sepa a, Banks,.... 18 Pelee ee eon) MIMRCK CVs Org tte. hae ented Oars Hyde ess 1G iden ROLM Spree SOW TING Ce, tat ‘are! sere! oD uri Citas Mele Morfey.... 19 71381010 ,,19 9 Greilf...... 5. ce ee Soy ve oe oe CHP ICL Gye) cB LOim Vim nO: WO se eeer le igemELT GH seten diate Meinl Marah CO atoret coie) felet Bele FUCKS atte cekie elo od aS Lp OL ed: Hn bIOnCy ye) oe te tae aa ee tea 0 OC ES cpemee hh) Te llonvamae vateelOn haan tee yl eat tare fared Fasetiborse fe om OEete is 3 ANSILUSIG «out ec aeet erie co ated Ort meOOIITS itcaeitae tay) tliat fos ae ge eeisueLO atte No. 2 was at 5 pairs; all the rest at unkoown angles. W. H. Huck, § PIERCY DEFEATS HEFLICH, Aug. 6,—Geo. H. Piercy, of the Endeayor Gun Club, shot a 25-bird race to-day with H. M. Heflich, of Secaucus, N. J., the match result- ing in a win for Piercy by 2 birds, with a scoréof 22-20. The con-= ditions were: :5 live birds, $25 a side, 30yds. rise, A, 5S. A. rules, The Match was shot on the Secaucus Poloyrounds. Scores: PIGLCY. occ cscs een er ester tcsanerensosen gos OAL eel Ae 282 0202122022222 —23 FHOHICD (yo cic c tet ecec es sece ce rece cee ee ol20121 102211 012420101111—20 Wm HexXAMER, AT THE HOLLYWOOD TR4PS, Aug. 7.—There were only four entries m the Hollywood Grand Navicual Handicap, shot to-day on the grounds: of the Hollywood Club, The entries were: Phil. Daly, Jr. (<9), Fred. Hoey (#0), Edear Murphy (80), and Dr. Gagnon (25) Daly was the winner, with 49 kills to his credit. Murphy and Hoey tigd on 44 each, while Gagnon brought up the rear with 43, !using his Jast bird. Daly stared out badly, losmg his #d, 8th, $6n and 10th birds. He then took a strong brace and killed 33 straight before losing his 44th dead out of bounds, his last loss, as he killed ibe last 6 straight. Fred. Hoey scored 22 out of each 25, but Edgar Murphy seémed to have a cinch at the haltway mark, when he had 24 ous of 25 to hisname He then killed 9 out of the next 1U, having a score of 48 out of 35. The loss uf his 46th, 40th, 46th and 46th pub him behiod Daly, and tied him for second money with Hoey. Gagnon scored <3 out of his first 25, but could do no ber- ter than 20 out of the last 25. Knowlton won the Red Top prize, a case of champagne, haying. toscure 9s raightitodolt. There were nine entries for this race. Scoresin the Grand National were as fol- Ows: Hollywood Grand National Handicap, 50 birds, $100; P Daly, Jr (29). ccccc csc c cece ence enn n BUC ee QUUUZ AS22282 I2I22922 — 97 Keeee22ade Deneeeaeeseree—e4—A5 HW HOY (80). .cccccssscet enn veenss ceases. cUeeaeeeeel U1222221202212—228 0112112222221222222200222—22 44 Murphy (80). ccscccncccvceniensssnnns shprl llnancacepeer0e21 2222— 24 2120222212022202<222e2202—20 —44 Gagnon (25)... ccavesnevecees nn en seuss ROReIaIRZ1 RQ 2ed22 22 22022— 43 Bex2e0820 22222200 2U22<2 220 —20—43 Paid Men at Tournaments, CLEVELAND, O., Aug, 2.—Hdilor Forest and Stream: There has been quite a little discussion recently in the ForEsT AND STREAM in re- gard 10 the paid shooter, and whevher he shall be allowed to continue attending tournaments in the fu.ure, and shoot on the same footing as the rest of those who attend, as has been the case in the past. We haye heard both sidés of the question ably argued, and from the paid shooter’s position it would appear that che salvation of the sport of target shooting depended largely upoo the present method peing retained, while the rest of the shootmg Cuntingent believe than the time has come to call a halt. it looks as though being in the minority and not running the tour- naments, that. the ideas of the paid shooter would have to give way tothose of the others; aud that the coming season would see the majority of the tournaments held under tbe conditions that the paid shooter could not participate in any division of the purses. The success of the Sioux City tournament—where they were barred entirely—and that of the Chamberlin tournament —where they were taxed for the privilege of shooting are evidence of the fact that there is a demand trom the majority of shoo’ers for a more even adjustment of,affairs. ‘Thereis po question that the paid shooter has.o a large extent mereased the interest m shootung and the attendance at tournaments in the past; but i is also a quéstion that can only be answered by actual trial, if these same shuoters would not do inore for the promotion of the sport, if they were not allowed to compete for the prizes at the tournaments they attend, and were only pecmitted to shoot at the targets, payimg for them, of course: and in that way show the merits of the goous manufactured by the differ6not bouses they represent. Looking over the cashier’s books for the Chamberlin tournament we find that the highest entry in any event was seventy-three and the lowest was sixty three, and there is no question that the high average was oblained only by the pro rata division of the tax thar was levied on the paid shooter, and which amounted to $25, and which gave each of the amateurs bhat shou the programme entire a bonus of $8.75 ab tre ena of the Shoot. We also fina that in recalling the attenoance at other tournaments we cannot recall avy tourna- ment whose largest entry was so very little more than the average, in our former shoots we have had a high entry of nearly 1U0 shooters, but not so nigh an average tor the en.ire shoot. The cashier's books also disclosed the fact that in round numbers $2,700 was taken in and paid out, no charge being made for targets, all that was taken in owas paid out, and that out of thal amount fourteen of the paid shoot ers in altendance'drew out $1,300. That is, about one-fifth of the average number of shoovers drew out about oné-third of all the money, or $3uU more than they put in, including the tax; and m ad- dition to that they were paid a salary for shooung and furnished all their ammunition and expense money. ee Tn view of the above facts, if is Our present intention ab our 1898 tournament to invite all the paid shooters to attend our shoot, and we will throw for them ali the targets they care to shoot at free of charge, but we will bar them from passing any money either way ap the cashier’s office. They will be welcome to shoot thé programme through so as.to show their skill, and can run a, little shout of their own on the side, but they will not be allowed to compete for the purses 1m Lhe programms events, — 4 We have tun tour tournaments in the last four years, at two of which they were allowed to compere On an equal looting with all ovhers, and al two they were handicapped 10 One Way or another, and _ we know they can take no oitense if at Our nexc une We see fit to try toe experiment of barring them entirely. _ : As we have said above, it is our present intention torun our 1898 tournament ou these lines, but we ure open 1 conviction, and would like to hear from both sides interested vhrough the columns of your paper. THe CHAMBERLIN CARTRIDGE AND TARGET Go , fer ’auL Norra, Ass't Gen’l Pass. Agent, Broad Street Station, Pulladelphia,—ady ‘Through Buffet Parlor Car between New Yor Answers ta Garresyondents, No notice taken of anonymous communications F. W. W., New York.—For striped bass fishing go to Asbury Park, or Barnegat, New Jersey; or to Port Deposit, Md. H. D, A., Princes Bay, N. ¥.—For snipe shooting communicate with fice See a River, N.J., or C. Robinson, Lindenhurst, Long and, N.Y. O. E. 8., Stromsburg, Neb,—The model '73 Winchester ammunition is adapted to your mile, and you may apply to any of the Winchester agencies for it, 5 oh E.S. A., Clinton, N, ¥,—You will find all the changes inthe New York law in the Ganie Laws in Brief, The woodcock séason will open Aug, 16. 5. A., New York.—Fox squirrels haye been introduced on Long Island by the Wyandauch Club, of Smithtown. Can you inform me if this is the first_attempr to pub out some fox squirrels on Long plang? Ans. We haye no record of any previous enterprise of thse ind. J, V. G., Allentown, Pa,—Will you kindly inform me through the columns of HOREST AND STREAM what is the best bait to use for catch- ing German carp? Ans, A good fat wormis as good’as anything; or make some of che toughest possible bread dough and bait with that, They are shy, and hard to take, G, A. T , Whitinsville, Mass,—Please tell me how to treat a setter dog tor distemper or ‘‘dog sib’*? Ans, Keep him indoors. Allow no exercise. If appetite is not good feed turee times a day, giving little ata time. If he will not eat administer nourishment, such as raw meat juive, milk, lactated food, eggs, etc. Give S5grs. of salicylate of soda three times a day. W. H. T., Butler, Pa.—Will you kindly arlvise me the weight of the largest trout caught in United States waters, exclusive of lake trout? This is to settle a dispute that bas arisen with a friend of mine. Ans, The Forms? AND STREAM’S big fish record gives 1zlbs. as the Maximum authentica.ed weight; tois fish was netted by an employee of toe Maine Fish Commission in Rangely stream, W. EH. G., Missoula, Mont.—My setter mtch, almost four months old, has a swelling on the throatas large as an apple. Io issoft to the touch Wheéu she stands on her hind legs the lump does not show. 1g it serious, and will it disappear of its own acvora? Ans, Treat for worms. Apply uncture of iodiae to 1t daily until skin becomes sore, If ar sSwellins does not disappear after this it may be necessary to open ib. Cc, H. B., St. Paul, Minn,—To settle a controversy, please state whether trout can be caught with a hook and line during an ordinary night without artificial light or amyobing of that sor.. Itis alleged that certain trout fishers in Wisconsin UO not start out to fish for trout until after dark. Ans. Yes, trout can be taken wich bait or Hy by ett, Tne subject was discussed in our augling columns re- cently. A, B, H., Philadelphia.—Will Forest AnD STREAM kindly inform an old reader if it is necessary .0 haye a liGense LO shoov in New Bruns- wick, and also the time of che open season for trout, ete., fishing, I understand there is such a license lawin Quebec and Nova Scutia, but I have camped m Quebec for ten years, and no one ever said license, Ans. The New brunswick non-resident license fee is $.0. see full particulars on page 61 of the Game Laws in Brief. There are also license exactions in Quebec and Nova Scotia, ©. H, W., Bay Shore, N: Y,— We have here what I call a wild dove, but some of the boys call them wild pigeons, Nothing is said in the Briefs Long Island game laws about them. But on page 2 it says; “IF uo close seasun is named for a species, the law prescribes nous," and in- general provisions, “birds other than game (except of prey) are protected at all times,” Kindly inform me as .o the law for wila doves. Ans. Where no special law tor Long tsland is given in the Brief the general State law apphes; and doves are protected by Sec, 78 (page 44 of the Brief) whicn forbids the killing of all wild birds obher than those Damecd in the law. H. P., Grand Rapids, Mich.- I had a discussion with a friend the other day as to the color of the meat of prainse chicken (pinnated grouse), He claimed it was white, and that he hau shot a great many, I have néyer snot any, bubbhaye had the piéasure of eatme my share, and I claim the meatis dark, Pleaselet me know if you have ever heard of any white-meated ones? Ans. As the question is presented, youareright Your tricnd’s contention would apply to ihe ruffed grouse, woich has white meat. Young prairie chickeis have lighter-colored meat than that of tne inaturea kind, but, young or old, it would be classed as dark, W. M, Greenwood Depot, Va.—Can yon givé me any information | concerning the care, management, feeding and breeding of skunks ior their hides? I have some, and want to do something with vuem, | IT have made them quite tame, and they do not attempt to use thew objectionable pow.rs im any way. I have written .o four skunk! faims, enclosing stamps, but they have nob condescended 10 reply. . Ans. We have experienced a like difficulty im our endeavors Lo eneit | ynformMation concerning the breeding or skunks. Dr. R, W. Amidon — has undertaken to send us Some particulars which may be ot value, - and which we hope to have for publication shortly, | B. A, V., Greenville, Miss.—At this season of the year several of the | would. be sports are hayiog tun shooting “bull-bats,” 4 1ocal nanie applied to the night-hawk or whippoorwill, A friend. of mine | sloully avers that they ate nob whippoorwilis but buill-bats, and one lirely different. They have white bars on the wings and fly about in the éyening in search of iusecis, J nave never heard of any bird ex- : cept the whippoorwill so marked and with lke haois. Ans, Your description uuswers to the bull-bat. ‘Ine bull-bat or night hawk (Chordeiles virginianus) anda the whippoorwill (Antrostomus vociferus) beloug .o the same family, Capramulgiac, or goatsuckers, | pul are distinct species. You may distingul.n them, Loo, by their Note, the bull-bat’s is a peent. The bull-bat 1s net a game bird, bub for ils, Services as an Inseco Gestroyer deserves immunicy, ~ J. B, W., Haverstraw, N. ¥.—There is a lake stovked from thé State hatchery. The lake is a private one, buo lhe Assemblyman from Chis | vounty procured stock torit, Can the public fish in this lake, which is in privace property? If so, mus. there not bea public road to enter? Tt there is not already a public road to enter should a persun eiiler 10 - lish, Gan there be brought ayainst 1m & sult for trespass? Is not this | pund or lake open to pubue fishing, from the fact that was stocked © With fish from une State hatchery? Whatshould be the area of lake to bave it stocked from State? Ans. According to the law, all waters stocked by the State are open to the public for fishing. There is no resiricliou as tosize. The lake described py you ss, uceording to the law, puolic fishing water, but we are nobawaie of any provision for public access 10 une lake through the private property surrounding 1. PUBLISHERS’ DEPARTMENT. Yellowstone Park. A COMPLETE TOUR VIA THE PENNSYLVANIA R, R, Tam Yellowstone National Park is unquesionaply the most inter esting region ou Lhe globe, for within ibis displayed ihe greatest col~ lection of nature’s manifold wonders. Indeed, this mountain bound plateau, Mgh up on the suumi6 of the everlasting Hockies, is a veri- lable playground for tue world’s gianu .orces. Lo stand und gaze upon them im all toeir marvelous mavifestutions, the grea, geyser upheavals, ihe fierce steam blasts, the terrible leap or the river, and toe awful cafion, 1s 4 réyelarion—an experience to bs had at no other the earch, Tourists wili travel by special train of Pullman sinokiny, dining, sleap- ing, and observation cars in each diuection. Hight days will be spen im the Park. Svops will also be made, recirning, ad sv. Panland Car cagu., Tne rounu-trip rate—$2s5 from New York, Philadelphia, Bal- timore and Washington, $230 from Fittsburg—Coyers all uecessar, expenses. . , . . Hor detailed itineraries and full information, apply to ticket agents Tourist Agent, 1146 Broadway, New Yors, or address Geu. W. Boyd, and Cape May. Tun Pennsylvania Railroad Company announces that, beginnin Tuesday, July <7, from New York, aud Wednesday, July 25, fron Uape May, @ bhrough Pullman buffer parlor car will 06 plaved in -ser- vice bebween New York and Cape May ‘daily execpt Suuday, i ear will be attachea to train leaving New York, Wesb Twenty-thir street statiou, ab iz:a5 P. M,; Desorosses and Cortlandt sureets, 1:0 P, M., stoppimg at Newark, Elizabeuh, Ranway; New brunswick Trenton, Bordsntownand Burlington. Keturning car will be atti o train jeaving Cape May at 7,00 A. M,, making came stops,—Ady, FOREST AND STREAM. A WEEKLY JOURNAL OF THE Rop AND GUN. Terms, $4 A YeAR. 10 Crs. A at Srx Monrus, $2. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1897. { VOL. XLYIX.—No., 8. No, 346 Broapway, New Yorn One grumbler in camp will destroy the pleasure of the whole trip. The man in camp is a very different being from the man in society, as a rule, therefore, look well for genial companions, as very much of the pleasure of the trip depends upon it. It may be a delicate subject, but should be talked overt earnestly, and squarely, by parties starting out on a camping tour for the first time. It will go along way toward preventing much unpleas- antness, if you have a clear understanding that no petty quarreling, grumbling or fault-finding will be indulged in by any member of the party. This kind of an understanding will put each man on his guard; in other words, put him to thinking, and by just thinking a little, many trifling affairs could be turned to fun that might otherwise irri- tate. Col. Horace Park. SNAP SHOTS. Tae statement in the papers called forth by the recent stage robbery in the Yellowstone Park, that this is the first | hold up that ever has taken place there, is untrue. Stages haye been robbed in the Park at least twice in the past, though these occurrences took place at long intervals, and the perpetrators, in one case, we recall, were apprehended and punished. The first incident was when Handsome Charley, otherwise known as Long Red, with a companion held up the stage between Gardner and the Mammoth Hot Springs. Ifwe recollect aright, the total amount of their plunder was about $15, and for the offense Charley at least spent fifteen months in Deer Lodge. The pay he received for the year and a quarter’s work cannot be con- sidered munificent, even if we take into Consideration the fact that his board and lodging cost him nothing. Occur- rences such as these are unfortunate, because they tend to keep up in the Hast the notion that the West is still wild and woolly, while as a matter of fact it is deplorably com- monplace and tame. A man is much more likely to be held up in the streets of New York than in the Yellow~ _Btone Park. Speculation as to the outcome of the Massachusetts anti- birds’ plumage law has been set at rest by a decision just rendered by Attorney-General H. M. Knowlton. The law, which is Chapter 524 of the statutes of 1897, provides that “whoever has in his possession the body or feathers of any bird whose taking or killing is prohibited by Sec- tion 4 of Chapter 276 of the acts of the year 1886, or wears such feathers for the purpose of dress or ornament, shall be punished as proyided in said section.” The Attorney- General contends that the birds whose killing is prohib- ited by Section 4 are, and only can be, birds which are Within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and subject to the protection of her laws. The birds referred to in the anti plumage statute are the same; and hence he gays: “I am of the opinion that the Statutes uf 1897, Chapter 524 is not to be construed as prohibiting the haying in posses- sion or the wearing of the body or feathers of birds taken or killed without the Commonwealth.” Taking into consideration the spirit, text and enforce- ment of the Massachusetts game law, we are inclined to the opinion that the Attorney-General’s interpretation of the new statute would be sustained by the courts. For many years Massachusetts, while seeking to protect her own game, has thrown the doors wide open for the market re- ception of game from the rest of the country atall timesand seasons. Like the District of Columbia, New York; Mis- souri and some other States, she sordidly, brutally, shame- fally ignores the rights and interests of others. Boston is as New York, Washington and St, Louis, a dumping ground for the game of other States unlawfully taken and dishon- estly exported. The game law of Massachusetts being thus, in letter and spirit, confined strictly to prohibiting the sale of Massachusetts killed game only, we take it that the anti-plumage law must be interpreted as having a like restricted purpose. And more is the pity, since, on the testimony of Chief Wade of the State Police, the actual working of the law has been to bring practically to a stand. still the bird-feather millinery business. In other words. if properly worded the law would accomplish precisely What its promoters intended it to effect, namely, it would stop the sale of birds’ feathers. If Attorney-Genera) Knowlton’s opinion shall go unchallenged by appeal to the courts, the law, 4s it stands, will be worse than a farce: and it will remain for the honest promoters of an honest anti-plumage law to renew their efforts at the next session of the Legislature. An interesting trespass case has come up in this State which has a direct bearing upon the point of law discussed by Mr. J, 8. Van Cleef recently in our columns, respecting public fishing rights in private waters. A clause of the fish law proyides that when private waters haye been stocked by the State they shall thenceforth be free to the public for purposes of fishing. Mr. Van Cleef has pointed out that this would be an invasion of vested rights which probably would not be upheld if brought to test in the courts. The case in point, which offers an opportunity for making just such a test, isthe suit instituted by Mr. George J. Gould, as owner of Furlough Lake in the Catskill Mountains, against Hiram and Aaron Graham, of Harden- burgh, for trespass on the lake for fishing. The case came up before Judge Hill, of Pine Hill, last week, and the de- fense was a general denial and the allegation that the lake was first stocked by the State, and that therefore the right to fish in it belongs to the public, The trial was postponed. The anti-hounding deer law, which goes into force in the Adirondacks this season, has been received in various sections of the North Woods with approval and disap- proval. Antagonism to the statute is found mainly, of course, in those sections which have been resorted to by visiting sportsmen for deer hounding, and is based largely upon an apprehension that the enforcement of the law will deter many visitors from making their customary Ad- irondack excursions, and that instead they will go to Maine or Canada or elsewhere wherever the chances of killing a deer with or without hounds may be considered Superior to those of New York. There is no question that in some, measure at least this apprehension is well founded. We have knowledge of a number of deer hunters accustomed formerly to visit the Adiron- dacks who are planning to go @lsewhere and who have engaged their guides in Maine or-New Brunswick. In some parts of the Adirondacks where opposition to the new order of things is most intense the antagonism has been manifested in a general defiance of the deer law. We have received and published communications showing that deer have been killed out of season with little regard for legal restrictions, and we have conversed with those who have been inthe North Woodsand who have thesame story to tell. It is reported that all available game protectors of Major Pond’s staff have been sent to the Adirondacks to enforce the anti-hounding law, now that the open season hascome. It will doubtless require all the vigilance and circumspection and ability of the force.to execute the law ja‘ those districts where it is unpopular. If Justice of the Peace E. Biller, of Glenflora, Wiscon- sin, held forth in the classic purlieus of the Bowery, he would, we are sure, be termed a peach. Justice Biller has got his name in the papers because of his connection with a deer-hunting case in Chippewa county. The facts as dis- closed on the trial were in brief as follows: On June 9 of this year John Fintzen, of Glenflora, visited the house of a Mr. Howell, where he remained oyer night preparatory to going deer hunting the next day. He told the two boys of the household, one thirteen and the other eleyen years old, of his purpose, showed them his Winchester rifle and promised that if he got his deer he would give them half of it, On June 10, returning from his deer hunt, he told the boys that he had killed a young buck, took them to the place where he had left the deer, and skinned it and divided it up while they stood by watching him. He then gave the boys one-half of the venison and parted from them, first cautioning them against say- ing anything about what he had done. den, having been notified by Mr. Howell, the father of the boys, arrested Fintzen and brought him up before a justice of the peace at Bruce. Several continuances were secured by the defendant; and the warden, learning that Fintzen’s friends were determined to secure an acquittal, discon- tinued the action, and procuring a warrant from the court at Chippewa Falls, rearrested him for trial there. Mean- while, Justice of the Peace E. Biller and his brother, Con- stable Biller, of Glenflora, approached the two boy witnesses with bribes and threats; and fearing that by these inducements they might not be prevented from tell The game war- ing the truth on the trial, the Biller who is a justice of the peace wrote this letter to their father: | “ GLENFLORA, Wis., July 26.—Mr. Howell, Friend and Brother; AsI may not see you, for my sake as a brother in F., L. and T., do all in your power to help John Fintzen in his trouble. Post them boys up so they can have their story well learned. Tell them to say ina few chosen words, that they never saw him have in his possession or shoot a deer, Yours in I; 0. 0, F., EK. BILurr. In spite of the exertions of this unworthy public officer to induce the boys to perjure themselves in Fintzen’s behalf, all the facts of the case, including Biller’s own activity in it, were developed in the course of the trial at Chippewa Falls,and Fintzen was convicted and sentenced. to sixty days in jail. The case discloses not only a woful condition of public synapathy with respect to the violation of the game laws in Chippewa county, but a much more serious demoralization as exhibited by this man Biller, In comparison with which game laws and their observ- ance are of altogether minor importance. A community sunk so low as to have for its presiding justice an individ- ~ ual of Biller’s stamp is less in need of game wardens than of missionaries and schools and churches. For the good name of the county, the prosecuting attorney or the Grand Jury should take action in the case of Biller, J. P. The recent tour of the New York Fish Commissioners through the Thousand Islands of the St: Lawrence River, for the purpose of selecting grounds to be purchased by the State for public camping sites, has so far come to naught. The Commissioners found no difficulty in select- ing desirable sites, but they have not as yet been success- fulin coming to an agreement with the holders on the important question of price. Landowners appear to be possessed of a notion that as the State is the purchaser they may improve the. opportunity to get fancy prices for what they have to sell. Lhe Commissioners, on the con= trary, are disposed to do business for the State as they would for themselves, and on like business principles. For the time being, then, the St. Lawrence park interests are in abeyance, but in time, it is altogether likely, the State will acquire its lands on reasonable terms, The satisfaction and benefit of an outing do not depend upon long distance traveled, nor large expense incurred, If you cannot afford the time to go far, nor the money for an expensive trip, take the short one and go cheaply. Make the most of such outing opportunities as may present themselves. Many of us would get more enjoyment out of this beautiful world if we took the good things legitimately within reach. The actual trouble with many men who pro- fess themselves irrevocably chained to business is that they have not the will or theresolution to relax the confinement when they might. There is a false estimate which leads one to believe that if he steps aside from the rut and the grind, things will incontinently go to smash; and so the unhappy victim of the delusion plods along year after year and knows neither the sheen of the bass in the land- ing net nor the velvety feel of a-bird’s plumage brought from flight to hand. It isa notion foolish and cruel, be- cause it cheats one-out of so much of the good of living. He finds a larger and fuller and richer life who takes his share of the innocent pleasures of woods and streams and plains and mountains. The Chicago Fly-Casting Club’s tournament last week was notable for the character of the work done, and the promoters of the tournament are deserving of much credit for their exertions and of congratulations upon the success of the meeting. ‘The record achievement was that of Mr. W. D. Mansfield, of San Francisco, who in the long-distance fiy-casting ovyer-topped his own previous performance of 1083ft., with a noble cast of 111}ft. The work done on the Garfield Park lagoon last week sets the pace for fly-easting emulation. At the Sportsman’s Exposition in Madison Square Gar- den, last March, Mr. T. B. Mills, in single-handed fly. casting for distance, made a cast of 110ft. 93in., but the logs of his fly prevented his scoring the performance as a world- beating record. Mr. R, C. Leonard has cast 111ft. in prae- tice, and Mr. Cooper Hewitt 112ft.in practice; neither of these count as against Mr. Mansfield’s public cast of 1114 ft, which stands as the best of record, 142 FOREST AND STREAM. [Ava. 21, 1897, Che Sportsman Cauvrist. VESPERS IN THE WOODS. War, far away, toward the dawn of day, Ts a land where pine trees grow; The summer winds through their branches play, And their voices blend as they gently sway, In music sweet and low Sweet and low, soft and low, Like the ghost of a song heard long ago. In that far land is a silver strand, By a wild lake’s lonely tide; And beyond the belt of shining sand, Where the mountains rise on either hand, The grim old pines abide. Low and sweet, soft and sweet, They sing to the waves that kiss their feet, At eventide, when the mountain side Grows black in the twilight gray, When night steals over the forest wide, And moon and stars in the heavens ride, The pine trees croon and sway. Croon and sway, sough and sway, AsI restin camp a? the close of day. The moon’s pale wake, on the rippling lake, Is gilding the wayes afar; A loon’s wild calls the silence break, And a buck comes down his thirst to’slake, Where the floating lilies are. Low and soft, sweet and soft, The wind in the pine trees sighs aloft. The wavelets woo for my light canoe, And out on their pulsing breast, With noiseless paddle I guide it through The jeweled night, on a pathway true, To enchanted realms of rest. Sweet and low, soft and low, The pine trees sing, and the night winds blow. T Jisten long to the weird. sweet song, The hymn of the mountain pine, And know, the eternal hills among, I am close to the Master, far from wrong, And nearer the One divine. God is love, God is love, The pine trees murmur and chant above, * € * Far, faraway, are my thoughts astray Tn that Jand where pine trees grow; Fond memory brings to my ears to day Their vesper song, as they sough and sway, And bend to the waves below. Soft and low, sweet and low, My heart is there where the pine trees grow. Wm A. Brooks, WELLESLEY Hinus, Mass, “MUSKOKA WANDERINGS.—II. What the Wanderers Saw and Did in Lake MuskokKa. In solitude sweet in this forest tall, Thus I spend in the lonely wood, * From leafy June to leafless fall, Till verdant woods bear winter’s pall— Summer days in the lonely wood. For here I find a safe retreat In my home in the lonely wood, Away from the world, with its sham and cheat; A place where God and the heart may meet, Is my home in the lonely wood. J. W. Lire to us now took on a more conventional aspect, not that the level of ordinary life had been reached, but that a compromise had been effected between the Robinson Orusoe life of camp and the social code governing more fashionable _resorts. For the first time we came within the reach of churches, of which no less than three were near at hand to choose from. . Shall I ever forget the warm Sunday afternoon we sat within the walls of the little doll’s house—Church of the Holy Cross, at Fairmount—listening to the white surpliced ‘expounder of the apostolic claims of his church or watching the droning wasps in the windows! The quaintnoess of the tiny building pleased the eye, with its unplastered lath and unpainted woodwork, its point-device equipment of organ and pulpit, litany desk and credence table, altar and reredos ‘and all the paraphernalia of ritual; and yet nothing but husks—no word in season 1o offer to the drowsy tourist or apathetic settler: Not far away; on Keewaydin’s breezy point, stood a small marquee, and here on Sunday evening gathered a small congregation to listen to the words of a local preacher or some traveling divine, while the lambs of the finck eat outside and watched the sunset glow fade into twilight and the even- ing star shine out in the darkening sky. I have listened to the softened harmony of a hymn as I paddled slowly with noiseless blade through the quiet chan- nels of the Seven Sisters, watching the reflections of their rocks and trees decp within the bosom of the dreaming _ waters, and the utter rest and the peace of nature sunk into my heart like a divine benediction. Set a prophet of the wrath to come upon a rock over- looking the watery mirror, with the glory of dying day shin- ing on hi face and the last soft breathings of Shawondasec* still faintly stirring in the foliage, and the awful words of © everlasting damnation would choke between his tips. No place this to talk of a wrathful God and atoning sacrifices; Love alone is here enthroned. Muskoka is nci always a land of sunshine, and ‘imes come when the rainy Hyades are in the asccndan|, and cald, bleak -winds lash the Jakes into choppy, toam flecked waves. Then, with book in hand, we sat under sheltered verandah or in the opening of our tent and watched the swaying pine tops and the shifting tints runuing through the birch and maple as the strong wind turned thcir Jeaves, or else lost ‘ourselves in the printed page, listening dreamily the while 1o the rain *Tae south wind, pattering on the roof like the footsteps of departing sum- mer. On such a day, clad in waterproofs, we faced the rain and wind in our canoe, and called on friends we knew would starcely care to brave the weather and leave a fast closed door and deserted verandah to face a w ather-scorning vis- itor. Once beneath their roof, a cordial hospitality would not hear of our leaving till the hour was late; indeed, it needed small persuaion to cause us to linger later, and yet later in the hope of an abatement of the storm. At last the rain ceased, and a merry party escorted us to the water’s (dge, where lay our craft. Then regretful adieus, a waving of lanterns, and the darkness swallowed us up—a darkness that blot!ed out the earth as though it we1e not. The shadow of night lay on us like a pall, and a spirit of LOOKING FROM MY BEDROOM WINDOW. brooding mystery seemed hid in its muffling folds. Instinct alone seemed our guide, rather than sense, as we stole from point to point, the dim outlines of one vanishing long ere another disclosed itself to our straining eyes. How like we seemed to yearning souls striving to penetrate the mystery of life, seeing but one tiny arc of the vast circie of knowledge and yet seeking, with intensest effort and with agony of spirit, to construct the whole of the vast unknown from the fragments their senses have explored. Truly, the darkness of ignorance was upon us, but past experience and the quickened perception it begets won us through in safety. | - : In life-giving breezes, Muskoka has few rivals; fresh, strong and impetuous, they sweep over the land from the west, bearing color for the cheeks and health to the tired frame. In the morning, looking from my window toward the half- hidden opening of Mulford Bay, I was generally sure to see light ripples running across the water irom the southeast or south, Toward the middle of the day a dead calm fell upon the land, and trees and shrubs quivered through the heated air rising from the rocks, Then came faint sti rings of breeze from the southwest or northwest, and before long a steady pouring of wind till, the noon-tide hour well past, strong squalls were chasing changing shades across the water and singing with insistent note through the waving trees. What sailing days these were, and how the sun and wind seemed to penetrate your very tissues till a glow of life ran through the pulsing arteries, 5 ed On such a day we visited Bala Fulls, pushing through the constantly turning stretches of the lake with a boil of white under the bow and an eddying swirl astern that well be- tokened the power of the pouring wind upon the straining canvas. To me that sail was a shifting panorama of rocky points, changing isles of green, fleeti: g cloud shadows ever throw- ing magic transformations ove; the landscape, and a blazer- clad crew distributed al. ng the gunwale brimming over with avery exuberance of life-as-they watched the bubbling water flashing along.an inch*below the lee gunwale. Bala Falls are merely-pretty rather than grand and pictur- esque, yet ] love to watch the tumbling water of the main MOSKOKA LIFE, fall with its spurting jets of spray, and fierce quick rush through the water-darkened rocks at its base, and to take the dash of its cooling spray in my face. This was our first glimpse at the more rugged and stirring scenery to be found on Muskoka rivers, ana which contrasts so well with the quieter beauties of the Jakes themselves When we said good bye to Bala it was with genuine re- gret, for the ceaseless, sparkling life of rushing water has a charm that never palls. Quietly enough we slid down the bay to the narrows, the wind seeming lo have exhausted its strength, but after we bad drifted through the little strait the mighty west wird, Muojekeewis, awoke to find a fragile skiff praving his power, with butterfly wings, and in bis very home. Then, with the war club with which he slew the mighty Miske Mokwa, the great bear of the mountains, he smote us as we lay scarce moving. Like a high-strung horse stung by the spur of its rider, our good boat shivered to the blow, and then keeling over till the water trickled over the straining rail, sprang norihward with a rush. Fierce and fast then fell the blows of Musjeke-wis and fast and faster flew the boat, dashing the chop of water into spray with her nose to be hurled in showers over boat and crew. A spirit of merry madness seemed upon us, and without thought of fear the girs sat up to windward with glowing, waterwet faces, and laughing eyes iramed with blowing, tangled, spray soaked hair. Oa we dashed, past Sandy Point, with its white tents and huge ‘dinner belli look- ing so like the bell of the Inchcape Rock that one might well expect the stout craft of Ralph the Rover to be near at hand. On, still on} past Shaw’s and Bassett’s, and into the steamer channel, where the wayes bnil angrily around the Kettles, half submerged in menace to the unwary. The wind was then astern as we swung into the channel and far too strong for our narrow skiff to run dead before it without fear of dangerous rolling or unexpected j!be. “Take a zigzag course, then run down toward the Kettles on the south, then shoot across to the Isle of Skye on the porth, then, with an easy quarter run, the channel can be cleared.” ‘Done!’ and toward the Kettles we go. “Is it safe to run so near? Are there no hidden racks?’ A clatter and bang duwn beneath us and the centerboard gives answer. ‘Down with the helm! In with the mainsheet! Quick! Shove the boom to wind- No place this for slow coaches. ward! Lrt draw!” and we are off again with the wind on the other quarter On the Isle of Skyeside the pi rformance is repeated and we run clear well into the channel, running north to the Indian River before going about and heading homeward, There is no abatement in the wind, and Mortime)’s Point, Cooper’s Point, Gibraltar, Hiawatha, Crown Island, Rasp- berry, Idlewild and the Seven Sisters, are passed at such a pace as our boat had never done before, And so we reach the finish—wet-and wind-dishevelled, but happy—the girls on the gunwale like the rest and lean- ing far out to windward, proud to show their sailorly skill to watching friends ashore. No one who sailed with me that day from Bala will ever forget that experience of rushing, bret zy, gladsome life. ‘Parting is such sweet sorrow,” said Juliet to her linger- ing lover, and truly when leaving valued friends and well- loved scenes there is much truth in the words, if we can but say ‘‘Auf wiedergehn,” for memory will recall their charm "SO LIKE ONTARIO’S GRAND OLD MAN,”’ and anticipation seiz2 the future to ease the pain of parting. I said Gond-bye to Donald at Keewaydin, and the ‘Nut- brown Maiden” stood beside him on the wharf and waved me a long farewell and God-speed! Donald was hearing other voices than those of nature, for love was whispering in his ear, and yery pleasant was the sound. It se med as though the steamer knew my longing to take a parting glance at the familiar places where I had been sowing the seeds of reminiscence, for after leaving Byau- maris she circled past Gibraltar, past aspiring Crown Island, and brought again into view the distant Point of K: ewaydin with Winona beyond, and then turned south to Mortimer’s Point to meet the Bala steamer. Then whispered memory in my ears—Was it not behicd yonder rock on Raspberry Island. that looks so like Ontario's grand o/d man, that you came upon Donald and the ma'den hand in hand? How they blushed, and how the sly joke and merry |: ughtir passed around. There it was that you caught that huge pickerel, the one that g taway How she watched with parted lip and flush- ing cheek your struggle with the darting fisn, and when, with a flash of his golden belly and a sweep of his tail, he broke from you, when victory seemed a ceitainly, was not her vexation as keen as yours. It pleases you to think ot it, though other eyes have attracted you as mucn. You were just about here when the black squall struck you the day you went to Bala. How well the girls jun ped to the gunwale, aod then watched your face to gather from your set mouth and watchful eye the «xtent of the danger, while you, with sheet in hand and finger on tiller, leaned far over the water as the boat careened to the blast. It was there your tent was pitched the night you watched the spirit dance in the northern sky, the aurora that lit the heavens with trembling green and rosy light, and the whip- poorwill uttered its mournfully plaintive cry in the dark woods behind you. Do you not remember how you stood on Crown Islavd’s summit and looked around on Muskoka’s breezy panorama of lake and island stretching far and wide at your feet, and how you stroye to set in definite thought the teelings that welled up within you; how you longed to find words to express Muskoka’s charm and could not; how you longed to set on paper the words that burn and could not? Some day when reading a great poet’s work, you will come across lines that seem to you so beautiful and true that you will straightway commit them to memory. The poet has put into the words the feelings that struggled within you for utterance, ard found nove. Then you will know how true the sayiog is that the poet is the word maker, the man who finds language four that which other men have only dumbly telt All tbis and much more had memory to say to me, but ag she spoke the steamer was churning the miles astern, and Aug, 21, 1897.] FOREST AND STREAM. 143 almost before I was aware of it Muskoka wharf was in sight, and Muskoka life the memory of a dream. J. Hpw. Maysnn, LOBSTER FISHING. On the shore of Massachusetts Bay, in a little place eight or ten miles south of P., is a little settlement, the chief support of which is farming and lobster fishing, As you sit down to a lobstersalad or broiled link, do you ever think of the work, and the people who work that we may enjoy these dishes? Let us look the thing over a little. In the place of which I speak, nearly every man, young and old, is engaged in this business some part of the year. Now, what about this fellow called a lobster, and where is he? In cold weather he goes into deep water to keep warm, and in the spring, as the weather and water become warm, he crawls inshore again to breed, and also to find a : place toshed his shell. Do you know what I mean by this? Well, a lobster begins life on his own account with a shell that is one or two sizes too large for him. In the course of time he grows to fill it, and then looks about for a place to cast it off. Before he gets ready to make the shift, there is a soft skin which forms under the shell; this hardens after the old shell is cast off and becomes the new shell. When he isin this condition, he is worthless ex- cept for bait, and is called a “black skin” or “shedder.” When he sheds, the old shell cracks down the back and he manages to crawl out. He is now a soft, flabby fellow, and must hide himself somewhere out of reach of his enemies; for while he will live on them when his shell is hard, he, as a shedder, is a prey to eyery fish that swims. After his shell gets hard, he then comes out looking for food. As you will see, the best time to catch him is when his shell is full, or just before he becomes a shedder. Now let's see how he is caught. In the early spring the traps or pots must be put into condition. A potis made with an oak frame about 4ft. long and 2ft. wide, with slats nailed lengthwise, forming the bottom. Then there are four bows bent from one side over to the other, with slats nailed the same as on the bot- tom. It now looks like a chfickencoop without ends. We now take a small, wooden hoop about 5in. in diameter and knit a coarse net around it until we get to the rim of the trap, These are tied to the rim and then the hoop is fastened inside, one at each end. Now make a door in the top and you have a lobster pot ready for line and buoy, The line is about 100ft. of the common clothesline, and the buoy is a piece of wood shaped and painted to suit the fancy of the fisherman. After a man has selected certain colors for his buoys he is known by these colors; or, as they say,‘‘paint.” Should you ask one of the fishermen who owns a trap, the buoy of which you hold in your hand, he will answer: “That is Wen’s paint,” or whoever owns the trap. He knows the colors at a glance. After fastening in the hook on which the bait is placed, the pot is ready for sea. A lobster crawls up on the net in the end, goes through the hole after the bait, and drops down inside the trap. He does not know enough to go out the same way, so there he is. As everything is ready to set the traps, let’s get our bait and go out. We put six or eight potson our 15ft. dory and take a bushel of bait—but let me tell you what the bait is: Fish of any kind is good, and to be first-class it must be “stale”; and the staler it is, the better the bait. Our friend the lobster is not particular what he eats. Uncle G. says the best catch he ever made in one pot he got with a dead hen on as bait. The most common bait is herring and sculpin, while hake, skate and dogfish work very well. These they cut into pieces weighing about 2lbs., and then set them in the sun to ripen. As the fish- ermen say, this gives them a good land flavor. It is well gor us who like lobsters that they do not get the same avor. But we will get back to our dory, and should the water be rough we find that it requires all our skill to handle her. I found this out to my sorrow when I tried it at one time. After we have gotten out from the shore about half a mile we put soine bait on the pots and throw one over. We go about 30yds. further along shore and put over another, and so on until we have put out sixty or more. The next man goes outside and makes another line, or “string,” as they call them. We must now catch bait for the fishing to-morrow, and on the “low water” get the “cars” out, into which to put the lobsters which we expect to catch, These are anchored close inshore, in some sheltered spot, by a strong chain and rope, We are now fixed, and in the morning we will go out and “haul.” At about 4 o’clock in the morning Wen is on hand. Taking a seat in the dory we watch the ease and skill with which he “pushes” us out to the first buoy. I say “push,” for these fishermen stand in the boat facing the bow and push the boat along with the oars instead of row- ing her. We reach the first buoy and Wen takes it with the boat hook. Putting on his “oilers” and a pair of thick woolen mittens to keep the line from slipping through his hands, he begins to pull. You cast your eye over the side and try to see what he “has on the string.” Soon you see the pot coming out of the depths with sea- weed and kelp clinging to it, but before you have had time to look he has it at the side of the boat. With a quick pull, which takes practice to get, he has the pot.on the rail, and inside you see a variety of “game.” There may be lobsters of different sizes, crabs, sculpin, cod and per- haps other kinds of fish; and then again, it may beas bare ~ of everything as a billiard ball; but this is “tough luck,” so we will have a catch on this trip. Lobsters of various sizes, and as the fish go into the bait tub and the crabs go overboard, we will confine ourselves to the lobsters. In one corner of the pot is a large dark reen fellow trying to back out through the slats, but the oor is opened and he isseized by the back and placed care- fully inthe boat. Heis a counter. There are two and per- haps three of these; the rest are “‘snappers,”’ or “shorts,” as they are called. To explain what I mean by “counter” and “snapper.” The law in Massachusetts is that any one catching or hay- ing in his possession a lobster under 103in. in length is liable to a fine of $5 for snch lobster. They are measured from the end of their beak to the end of the tail. If they are over the required length, or even the exact length, they are called “counts”; if under, they are “shorts” or “snappers.” One trick of this trade is to get a snapper that will almost go and then stretch him. Talk about “leg palling,” it isn’t in it to what some of the lobsters get. We have an egg-bearing lobster in one pot. This must go overboard, for the law protects these as well. In my opinion, these laws are right, but of course they are hard on the fishermen, We have a measure stick in the boat, and the catch is measured—if they are long enough they go into the boat; if not, they g0 overboard. We have taken the lobsters from the pot, put new bait on the hook, and now we throw her oyer, This we repeat at each pot, and find that our catch is sixty count. Wegetin shore to the car as fast as possible, and put them in; there they stay until the smack comes for them, You may not know what I mean by this kind ofa smack. She is a small schooner, with what in other ves- sels 1s called the hold fitted watertight on the inside, and then the bottom is made full of holes to admit the sea water, and really makes a large floating car with sails. The place where the lobsters are carried is called the “well.” The smack goes along shore, picking up the lobsters from the fishermen, and pays for them at the rate agreed upon in the spring. She has a regular time and route, and often acts a8. express messenger for the boys. Tlie smack which goes to the place of which I write is the Evelyn Adams, of Boston, and I have spent some pleas- ant hours with her captain and crew. Whenshe is sighted, the lobster men get their nets, and there is a grand hustle to put the catch aboard. The dories flock out to her with their loads, and the men joke each other about their catch. The lobsters are counted as they gointo the well, and after a dory is unloaded, the man takes his money and sits down to a little smoke. To start a “jolly” he sings out: “Say, Tom, how do you like fishing my pots?” “What the blazes do you suppose I want to fish your traps for? I can get fish enough in my own.” “Well, I notice I get more when I get out earlier than you do” —but here comes a boat with an extra large lot. Then there is a lot of whispering among them, and you hear: “That’s where they go,” “I’ll move my string in the morning,” “Strange how he can catch them and we can’t.” be. p is | | A TYPICAL LOBSTER FISHERMAN, Taking their case, jug, box, or whatever it comes in, they go oyer the side into their dory and home. This is the work of these men, and it is work, I can assure you; but they become accustomed to it, and manage to keep nice farms besides. The fishing begins in March and continues until June; then the traps are taken ashore until August, to dry and be repaired. July is the month our friend takes to cast off the shell that has stood by him for a year, and the fishermen give him a chance. By Aug. 1 he has got into his new shell and got acquainted with himself, as we might say; and now the fishermen get after him and keep it up until Novem- ber, or until he goes off into deep water for the winter. Such is the lobster fishing in Massachusetts, and it is the same everywhere along our coast, with the exception of the season of fishing. In some places they go after our friend in his winter quarters, and in this way we haye them in the winter, We get the most of our lobsters in the winter from Maine and the Provinces, and the fishing there at this ene of the year must be something that you could not call fun, Our fishermen say that itis hard work to clear $600 a year lobster fishing. Not very big pay for such hard work, is it? And these are the things of which we do not think when we order one on the shell. While at the beach I have had some traps for my own use and have taken pleasure in the work of running them. One day a friend, not having seen a lobster caught, went out with me. I pulled the traps and threw the lobsters into the boat. They were crawling around her feet and, in fact, were all over the boat. She stood it fora time and then said: “Say, can’t we drive these things up into the front of the boat?” After we got them fixed she took one in her hand, and after looking at him for some time said: “What kind of an opinion do you suppose the man had of himself who first tackled a lobster?” Do you blame her? He surely looks the least like something eatable of anything I know. T learned one thing during my fishing, and that is that to be a success as alobsterman one must be able to get out early in the morning “to hear the birds sing,” as the fisher- men say. There is more or less of the “early bird,” etc., about this fishing, and in this case itis not worms but lobsters which are caught. Asa rule, the fishermen re- spect the “paint” of one another, but there is quite a temptation to pull them all, and I am sorry to say “some go down.” I think at one time I had the pleasure of taking out two of the most sleepy passengers that ever fell to any one’s lot. JI had been asked to call them early, and so at about 4 o'clock I gave their door a gentle rap. Talk about the seven sleepers, I will back these two against anyone in this line, They cameo the conclusion after awhile that some one was calling them, and I can hear the answers to my calls now. They saw lobsters caught and “heard the birds sing,” however, and I guess they saw the sun rise for the first time and I fear the last, if they depend on being called by anything short of an earthquake. I was repaid, however, when I listened to the sweet strains of Mandalay and tried to convince Miss B. that the boat would not be upset. The fisherman works every day in the week, resting Sunday, and goes out sometimes when you and I would think that we had no use for lobsters. They are a tough, hardy set, and as a rule good fellows. Uncle G. has been in the business forty years and some of the stories he tells are good ones. I may at some time tell of a fishing trip taken with him to his trawl, but enough, dol hear you say? . FE. C. Woopwarp. SHEEP AND SNOWSHOES.—IXx. A Winter Hunt on the Summit of the Rockies. WHEN it comes to reading a hunting story, most men like to hear about a little hunting now and then, so prob- ably it will not be of interest to go on telling what we talked about in camp on days when we could not hunt. Yet from the continued story telling of our lodge, one may get a very good notion of what he himself must ex- pect if he ever starts out to go hunting in the Rockies in the winter, It is very much acase of the fortune of - weather, If it storms, he cannot hunt; and it usually does storm. We lay about camp two days more, March 17 and 18, eating and telling stories. John Monroe and his woman came up from their camp below, and we had an addition to our staff of raconteurs, From John I learned some- thing about trapping otters and beavers with bait in the winter time, and one time he and I went out 10 the creek where Schultz and I had found an otter drag. Here we spent over an hour making a most cautious water set for the otter (with no result within the time we spent in that country, the otter seeming to have left the vicinity on his travels). We had a good tramp that day along the creek in search of sign, and visited a big beaver meadow, of which John knew. Here we saw the winter home of this - industrious animal, and I learned more of its habits than I had ever known before. The whole creek bottom was covered with the houses and dams of the beaver, all hid under the snow. Once in a while we saw an open place in the water, and at one such spot found the trails of sev- eral beaver which had’ come up out of the water and gone far out into the willows and aspens to cut wood for them- Selves. John said he could trap a beaver or so easily enough if he wanted to, He could also get a moose, or almost anything else, he said; but all this he was going to do “bime-by.” So long as immediate want did not stare him in the face, he was willing to postpone his operations very comfortably. Hesaid he was going to wait till we had left the valley, then he would go hunting. Madame Monroe was not consulted in these plans to any very great extent, though her spouse evidently counted her in as a - factor. “My hwoman, he strong,” said John, with much comfort in that thought. But Madame, who spoke Eng- lish even better than her husband, once told me in a swift aside, as they say in the novels, that her private opinion regarding her lord and master was, “Him heap lezzy.” But this state of affairs did notin the least detract from the interest attaching to John. No Cat Yet, but Another Sheep. Meantime McChesney was faithfully hunting at eyery opportunity, so that he and O-to-k6-mi got thoroughly acquainted with the big mountain on which I had killed my first sheep; yet try as they could, they could get no further chance at a sheep, Billy Jackson also had bad luck, for the first day he went up to the carcass of my- sheep to gather in his big cat from the snares he had set, he found that the cord of one of his snares had been cut clean off by some sort of animal, which had then departed for unknown country and had not come back. Hethought the cat, lynx, lion, or whatever it was, had been caught by the foot instead of the head, and so had had a chance to break away. “Never mind,” said Billy, “I’ve got another snare up there yet, and we'll get that cat sure. He can’t stay away from that sheep till it’s all eaten up. Give him a day more and he'll be back there.” On this day Schultz and Mrs, Monroe, who were left to keep camp, fixed up the lodge in beautiful shape; so that after that we had much less trouble with the smoke and could keep warm with less trouble. On the evening of March 19 we had quite a comfortable reunion. John and Mrs. Monroe dropped in for tea, by the merest accident, and McChesney and O-to-k6-mi get in a little late and very tired and hungry. Billy and Schultz and I all rounded up in time for supper, and the prospector, Riley, from Midvale, whom I have earlier mentioned as visiting at the lodge of John Monroe, also came in after a long day’s hunt. And ofall the men about the fire, Riley alone had killed his meat that day. Going up the mountain with McChesney for a little way, Riley then swung off to the right toward the Cut Bank Creek, and in the afternoon was lucky enough to killa ram, a beautiful four-year-old; with long, perfect, sharp-pointed horns. He brought the head and part of the meat into camp, and told us where we could get the rest of the meat, up near the top of the ridge leading down into our valley. The head of Riley’s sheep was a singular and beautiful one, being in perfect coatand in color almost snow white. I have never seen any other mountain sheep so white (I never saw a specimen of the Stone bighorn from the far North), and none of my heads were anything like so white, though very much lighter than the heads one ordinarily sees, killed at other than the winter season. Riley said he had had a long and dangerous climb for his sheep, and had first wounded it and then followed it a long way before he was able to finish it. He was justly very proud of this head, and announced his intention of having 1t mounted. March 19 broke warm and fair, and Billy Jackson seized this opportunity to break ont for the settlements. We were now nearly out of grub, and besides Billy’s rheuma- tism was growing worse, so that he had no comfort in camp. Much as we disliked losing him, he had to go. He said he would send up some grub to us by the team as” soon as it could get in. As he had to walk only about eight or ten miles to the first ranch we had no fear about his getting in all right, as indeed he did without incident. A Side Trip for Sheep. Tt had now become obvious to all of us that it was use- 144 FOREST AND STREAM, [Aua, 31, 1897, less lying at our‘big main camp and trying to make'a suc- cessful hunt from it, for the game was getting wild, and it was too far to go and get back each day. McChesney was getting tired out, though I had hardly made a day’s hunt since I got my sheep, as we all wanted Mac to get his head sure. Under the circumstances we determined to make a side trip further up into the country, lying out for a night or so and trying to get in where the sheep were without alarming them so much. Schultz, McChesney, O-to-k0-mi and I made up this party, and we had no easy task ahead of us, for camping out in the winter with only what you carry is no light job. McChesney took only a part of his _ sleeping bag, and I split my blankets, Schultz and O-to- k6-mi took no blankets at all, only their heavy overcoats. We had a small lodge made of light stuff, and this with our scanty grub and selected small belongings made up a good load for each. We pulled out early in the morning and shoed it up through the creek yalley to a place where John Monroe and I had found the creek nearly frozen across. Here we cut a little tree and went over the gap in the ice bridge. From that time on, across Sheep Creek up to the upper Two Medicine Lake, we had an awful climb, uphill all the way and most of the time on a grade like a house roof. In places it would take many moments to get over the drifted snow which lay across the easiest place of ascent on some sharp ridge, and often we had to tack up a long steep hill, where the slope was too sharp for the web shoes to hold. It was straining, breath-taking work, and we were glad when we topped the summit and saw out oyer the second lake. But what a prospect that was! The whole face of the lake as we looked became swallowed up in a shifting shield of white, which cut off all sight of the opposite shore. The wind was cutting in its cold,and the moun- tains were black and threatening. Rarely have I seen a more forbidding corner of the mountains than this about the upper Two Medicine, as it seemed to us that day. Camping in the Snow. We bent under our packs as we faced this sharp wind, and at last got to the cover of the woods on the other side of the frozen lake. Here we hunted for a long time for a place to make our little bivonac, but‘had trouble to get a suitable spot. We needed plenty of firewood close at hand, for we would be obliged to keep the fire going all night. We needed plenty of boughs, of course, and we re- quired a sheltered corner, where the wind would not strike us, and where the smoke would be carried away and not into our camp. We took nearly an hour exploring before we set upon a location, finding a likely-looking spot under a big, leaning spruce which topped a short and steep little bank. As it turned out, this was about the worst place we could have found, though we could not tell that until we had taken away the deep covering of snow. When we did get it dug away, some 5ft. deep, we discovered that we had pitched upon the bottom ofa little creek, which carried a covering of a foot or so of solid ice. It was too much labor to change, so we decided to camp on top of the creek, We cut away the ice with the axe, and so builta fire on the bottom of the creek. Back of this we made our pile cf boughs for a bed, and soon our fire was eating away at the snow bank opposite, till we could see twenty different strata of snow and ice showing in the cut face of the hole, annotating the effect of so many snowtfalls and so many different Chinooks. In the snow pit we put up our little lodge roughly, simply using itas the back for an open- faced camp, the fire being in front of us at the bottom of our den. It was well on in the afternoon before we got ready for the night, for, though we were not more than eight miles from the main camp we had left, the morning march had been a long and slow one, and the making ofa ‘camp dare not be slighted when the weather is far below the zero point. We were tired that night as we sat down to a rather dismal supper in the snow. It had snowed all the afternoon, and snowed and blew incessantly almost all night. Our Indian was glum and silent and Schultz was not very chirk himself. Yet, though he had no dishes, no spoons and no forks, Schultz went about the task of getting supper as though he has always done it under just such conditions. He dug the frozen pork and beans out of the yessels and placed them on the snow, while he was frying a slapjack or twoin the single pan. He gota pot of tea done meantime, and in a while we all felt a little better, after a meal of beans, bannocks and tea, Night fell very dark and stormy and forbidding, and we did not do much talking. Neither did we do very much sleeping, Schultz and the Indian Jeast ofall, for they had no blankets, and so had to keep close to the fire, which was constantly in need of replenishing. Before we had our supper eaten—and indeed within a short time after we got to camp—O-to-k0-mi had espied on the far-off face of Rising Wolf Mountain a pair of moun- tain sheep, which fed in view for some time. The sight of our game was the only cheerful thing we had to think about in camp that night. All around us was a cold, grand prospect. We were in the depth of the Rockies in midwinter, Our little camp was pitched within two miles of the summit of the main ridge of the Continenal Divide. That country in the winter, 1 may say, is not an inviting one, The impression is rather one that a fellow is not wanted there. All night the soft snow fell, and in the morning spits and squalls and determined storms came rushing down the front of grand old Rising Wolf, blotting cnt at times all the view of the steep and ice-covered rocks which were to be our hunting grounds. At breakfast we were silent, O-to-ké-mi only saying something to Schultz in} Piegan. I asked him what the Indian was saying, and Schultz re- plied, “He says it makes a man feel mighty poor to sit around an outfit Jike this after sleeping cold all night.” In truth, our breakfast was not very heavy; and by some rea- son it appeared that breakfast was about all we were going to get, for Schultz said our grub was nearly out, as it had been impossible to pack any more than we did. This was news to me, but it seemed very likely we would have to kill some game that day or go hungry. The Medicine Birds. As we sat at breakfast, each man covering his plate of broken bannock with his arm to keep the snow out of if, 'O-to-kO-mi suddenly smiled and talked fast in Piegan, pointing out oyer the lake. There was a whole flight of his medicine birds, the ravens, all calling and pitching and tumbling, a couple of dozen of them. This, O-to-kd-mi said, was a certain omen of good luck, and he brightened visibly. He said that these ravens were young ones, and that the old birds were teaching them to fly. At this I was surprised, but he said that the nesting time of the raven is in midwinter, the eggs being laid at about what is our Christmas time. How the young birds live thus in the middle of such a winter is a mystery to me, but this makes only further proofto the Indian mind of the wisdom of this bird. After breakfast Schultz told me that he and McChesney were going to hunt together, and that they were going to take the Rising Wolf country for their field, trying to get to. the two sheep which had been seen the day before. Therefore, O-to-ko-ni and I were to have our first day together, and we drew the opposite side of the lake for our country. When the Indian and I started out I saw him look long and carefully at the peaks which shut in the upper part of our little va ley. Just above our Jake the valley divided, and off to the left arose a series of singularly rag- ged and abrupt needle peaks. Here John Monroe and O-to-k0-mi said was a splendid place for sheep, and more especially for goats. O-to-ko-mi eyidently wanted to try this, but concluded that it was too icy, or too far, or too something; at any rate he turned away and struck out in another direction, directly up the face of the big mountain which faces Rising Wolf across the upper Two Medicine. By what signs and words I could understand, I in- ferred that he thought the sharp peaks too stormy for us, but in any event I thought it would be best to trust abso- lutely to his judgment in all matters of the hunt. So I did not say anything, but followed him as best I could up the mountain. Jt was a long, hard, snowy, icy climb, and when we got np pretty near to the rim rock on top of the peak we were obliged to cut steps in the ice, one ata time, in order to get along at all. A little slip would have meant a very long and rapid slide about then, with no- choice place for a bringing up. At the edge of the rim rock we stopped again and looked about us and below us. Never have I been moreimpressed with the wild grandeur of the mountains. The scene was startling—almost oppressive. I remember the chief impression I gathered was {hata man did not belong in there—that it was the country of the sheep and goats, and that they should have it all their own for at least a portion ofthe year. Not the first quality of invitation existed in this frozen-faced, im- passive calm, for now, for a brief moment, the storms had stopped and the glare of the sun lay over all the icy world. Searching for the Game. O-to-kO-mi stopped all my surmisings by starting on down the mountain again, telling me to come on, as it was useless trying to get over the peak at that point, since the ice was too bad on the slope of the mountain face. So we slid down the ice the best we could till we got to snow again, and then began a long tramp in the edge of the woods to skirt around the peak. Ihad no idea where we were going or what we were trying to do, but.it seems that the Indian hunter was trying to get across into the upper valley of the little creek which ran back in the mountains. I asked no questions and bent all my energies to keeping in sight of him, for he was a demon in the mountains. Finally we came out ata high ridge where the view was not broken, and I saw that we had got around our ice mountain and could see a widish valley lying on ahead of us. At this O-to-k0-mi pointed calmly, saying, “Plenty sh’ip.” By this I understood him to really mean that maybe we might see asheep after a while, not taking it as literally true that plenty of sheep were to be found so easily, Down a sharp and long bank we slid and plunged through the snow, and so reached the bottom of our valley. Then we began to climb again, the red hunter all the time searching sharply along the sides of the flat cafion as they unrolled before our progress. On ahead I could see a great, dome-shaped, bare mountain top, appar- ently not more than a mile or so away. This, I learned later, was the summit of the Rockies for that portion of the range. My red man could not tell me that, nor did he pause to tell me anything, for now he began to act asa dog does which expects soon to be upon its game. Once or twice he showed places where we had expected to see sheep feeding, and also pointed out spots where he had killed sheep in earlier hunts. O-to-ko-mi, as I have said, is one of the few men of his tribe who hunt sheep now, and I presume there are none better in the tribe than he. Sighting the Game. We had gone up our little flat cation or valley for about half a mile or so above the timber, and were tramping along up steadily, though slowly, on the noiseless snow- shoes, when all at once O-to-k0-mi, who was leading, quietly dropped back and touched me on the shoulder. I looked up. The eyes of the Indian were set and glar- ing, yet he had himself in perfect controi. I did not then know it, but it later transpired that Schultz had told him not to do any shooting, but to keep cool and give the white man the shot always. What hardship this must haye been, no one but a hunter can know. O-to-k6-mi's eyes glared as he looked on ahead and above, whispering as he touched me; “See! see! See um? see um?” Presently I ‘saw um.” On a little jagged rock, abont 150yds. above us, and high up on the side of the cafion, was the front of a bighorn, which stood motionless, direct- ly facing us, and looking steadily down at us as we toiled on up the valley. Had I beenalone I should never inthe world have seen this sheep, for in color it blended per- fectly with its surroundings, and it was half concealed by wreaths of snow, which curled and b!ew along the moun- tain side around it. had seen it, and now he stood pointing it out to me, never looking at me, but with his own eye fixed on the sheep. “Shoot! shoot!” he whispered, eagerly. “Shoot um, quick!” His English became more obvious under stress. Shooting the Game. The situation now was this. The Indian had his rifle ready to jerk from the canvas case slung over his shoulder. T had no canvas case, so kept my rifle covered in a cloth case, which was now slung across my back on a knotted thong. I at once kneeled down and pulled the case off over my head; but fearing that the sheep would move, and knowing that it would be a moment before I could get into action, I whispered to O-to-ko-mi to shoot. I saw the head was not a. large one, and was willing to give the In- Yet the infallible eye of this hunter _ dian the chance as it was. But he very calmly, by this — time having grown quiet and free from any excitement, replied: “Me no shoot.” He was remembering Schultz's injunction, I suppose. | It seemed a very long time before I could get the little rifle out of the case and get the wiping rag out of it, and get my glasses off and get a rapid estimate of the distance for the shot, all ofthese things being necessary under the con- ditions of snowshoe hunting, Really, it may have been a very small part of a minute, but all the time, whatever it was, the ram stood looking at us, never moving a muscle. In the shifting loom of the storm his head sometimes looked larger, and I thought the horns would sweep well back and half forward in their crescent. JI knew the ani- mal was not a ewe, and concluded that I wanted it. As to being excited, I had not thought. of that, and the Indian also was now absolutely quiet waiting for the shot, The target offered was not large, for the ram was directly facing me. I did not touch the sights of the .30-30, but fired quickly as soon as I caught hair on the rise, At once the sheep drew its head back and up, and gave a stiff jump around the rock, disappearing completely. I was very much annoyed at this, for though the shot was not an easy one, it was one which I should have made. It was comfort, however, to hear O-to-k6-mi say in a matter-of- fact. tone of yoice, “Mebbe hitum.” I did not urge him to give reasons for this belief, and as he did not revile my marksmanship I let it go at that, At once he led on out up the valley a little further, around the point of rock where oursheep had disappeared. Then he stopped again, and in the same perfectly calm and emotionless voice said, as he slowly dropped back and pointed up the cafion wall, “See um?” I looked and looked up the face of the mountain, trying to “see um,’ but for the life of me could not. All the side of the mountain seemed to me gray or brown or white, coyered with the shift of the flying snow. But the other was patient, and at length got me to see, far away up the side of the mountain, over 250yds. distant, not one, but four sheep standing huddled together, and looking down at us, motionless as had been the first one, “Mebbe hit um,” said O-to-ko-mi; and then he with diffi- culty made me understand that the dark-coloied sheep, the one almost hid in the middle of the bunch, the one with its head down, and with the dark stripes up its legs, was the one [had shot. “Him buck,” said O-to-ko mi, “Mebbe you hit um.” A Dilemma. But alas! though this might be a “buck,” it was clear that the others were not. Nota horn could I discover in the other three, though it was so far to where they were and the storm was driving so much snow ahead that LI could not make out much with certainty, The four sheep, lapping each other like the fingers of one’s two hands laid together, stood looking down from their far-off perch, not making a moye to split apart and give us a better look, I recall at this moment the peculiarly silent, the tragically motionless character of this drama of the winter moun- tains. It was so still that one felt uncomfortable. For one minute, two, three, really 1 think without exasvera- tion more than five minutes, the sheep stood looking at us, and we stood looking at them. JI would not shoot at the bunch, for | was almost sure I would kill aeweif I did, I asked Ot-o-k6-ni if he wanted to shoot, but in the same absolutely indifferent tone he replied, “Me no shoot,” After a time he again said, "You hit um.” Then it oc- curred tome what was the real explanation of this action of the sheep, The “buck” was really hit when [ fired, and it was standing still because it was hurt, the others not run- ning away because it did not. - What to do then I did not know. It was folly to try to split the sheep apart, fora jump or two might take them where we could not go, and so perhaps the cripple would escape alter all. We could not get any closer, and from where we were the shot at the crippled ram was a very hard one, the light bad and the distance at least 250yds. In my dilemma I once more asked O-to-k0-mi to shoot, ~ knowing he had noscruples about killing aewe. I offered him my rifle or his own, but he was dead game and de- clined like a gentleman. “Buck,” hesaid, however, point- ingup. “You bit nm.” At last, with some desperation in feeling, | contluded I would risk another shot at the crippled ram. So I took off my snowshoes aud sat down on them, carefully clean- ing up the rifle sights and taking a steady rest with my elbows against my two knees—a very good way to get a rifle rest. I did not raise the sights to 200yds., for 1 had never tried the rifle out thoroughly with any elevation to the sights, though I knew about what it would do with the sights as they were set—for 100yds. I held full and strong midway up the body of the dark-colored sheep, which I knew was my ram, and at the crack of the rifle the band of sheep fell apart as though a shell had burst among them. It was like the breaking of a spell, and now, in- stead of silence, all was action. Tomy horror I saw my “buck” start off to the right, evidently hit, but not the only one hit; for in the opposite direction, with its head held high in pain, stumbled a second sheep, without any horns, its hind leg hanging flapping. The ‘Forest and Stream” Luck. Not so O-to-ké-mi, He joyfully. ran to the edge of the slope, and then fast as he could, began to climh, I follow- ing at less speed. He gotup to my firstsheep, and pulling it from behind a tree, where it had lodged, kicked it down the mountain to me. I saw it was a very decent little ram, a three-year-old, I think, though the horns were by no means so large as they had seemed in the shifting light of the storm. Meantime O-to-ké-mi worked across to the other sheep, which was some 60yds, further to the left and a little further down. As he stopped to kick this sheep also dowii hill he paused, and then called out to me aloud, ‘Him buck!” And so, it The Forust AND Stream luck, and gota élse, had saved me from the killing of aewe! I ad killed two nigte rams, and so finished the pyramid of sheep needed to show the bigness of the monarch in the Forest AND STREAM offi Now fhad font sheep, roved! ce at home. running down from the biggest head in America to about the smallest, My last sheep was a little yearling ram, with horns only about as long as my finger. Sorely I wished he were back in the hills alive, but I was right glad it was no ewe! Now came on one of the swift changes of the mountains, and it grew cold all at once, so that we hurried on with ° our butchering, pulling the sheep down tothe bottom of the cafion,° When we skinned out the bodies we found that my first shot at the tam had apparently struck on the edge of the chest,as he faced me, but had not centered the body, and so had not proved fatal. The next shot, red at him as he stood in the bunch, had gone low uzoueD the btisket, passing through and cutting off the eg of the little sheep beyond, whosé position. see, The third shot atthe ram had hit him just back of the shoulder, atid dropped him at once. All these bul- ets, softsnosed, passed through the body, and the front of the animal was well shattered up. The fourth shot, at the little cripple, hdd been low, probably because I was then holding finer than I knew, and this had cut off a leg, in this case,*as in the other, taking it off as though it were Gut off with a cleaver, only a strip of hide remaining. One shot in the foreleg smashed the knee joint all to pieces. The last two shots were through the paunch, atid churned the interior of the body all up, though the hole on the opposite side was only about as large a8 a quarter ot less. Thus I had fired seven shots to kill two sheep, apparently not a very brilliant performance fot either rifleman or rifle. Yet of these shots not one, except the last one at the larger ram, had been placed in such position as would make it fatal. So far as ‘the accuracy was concerned, it was enough to out- dlass me as a rifle shot, for the distance was long and was iz § I figured it out that had I been shooting the .45-70 I should likely have tnissed my sheep, and that the effect of the .30-30 was just about the same where it hit as would be an expansive ball in the .45+70. Then and there I determined that for any paine up to sheep or goats I should shoot no rifle but this 30=30, Of course, in the story books I should have shot each ram through the heart with a single ball, but I notice things don’t go that way when it comes to actual shooting in the winter, or in the fall either, for that matter. I was well satisfied with the shooting and with the results. So was O-to-k6-mi, who flattered me openly about the accu- tacy. The Trail Home. We got out the heads and hides and a good bit of the meat of the two sheep, making them up into packs, which proved pretty heavy before we got to camp, and then we started home for our main camp, O-to-k6-mi saying that Schultz would not go back to the upper bivouac, but would surely go home that night. As we had a down-hill course, we soon made it down to Two Medicine Creek, crossing at our fallen tree, and thence we had a good, stiff plugging time through the level woods. It grew very cold and began to snow heavily. O-to-ké-mi was tired, and so I broke trail for a good slice of the time, and as the snow- shoe trail we had made coming up was now entirely oblit- erated, I often lost my way, much to the Indian’s disgust. “White man, all time he get lost,’ said O-to-k6-mi, in supe- rior fashion. “Meno get lost. Igocamp. Night, day, I gocamp.” He showed me how to distinguish the hidden trail by the look of the snow on ahead and by the feel of the snow under foot. We were nearly frozen about the face, and were tired and staggering when late in the after- noon we got to the door of our blessed lodge and threw off our burdens of meat. Inside the lodge-was cheerless and empty enough. Billy’s blankets were rolled and strapped, but Billy himself was gone. No fire and no food awaited us. ©-to-ké-mi and I were very tired, but we were hun- grier than we were tired, so we paused not till we had a pot of coffee and a steak of sheep meat ready, and then we ate and visited with each other, O-to-ko-mi being now very: friendly and talkative with me,and recounting as best he could the incidents of the day. He was willing to admit that the little rifle was notso bad as he had thought, Fortune of the Chase. After O-to-k6-mi and I had eaten a sort of breakfast and lunch combined we thought things over for a while and then ate dinner. Then we were content to rest a while, and went out and got up wood for the night. Dusk came, and still no sound to announce the arrival of the others of our party, whom we had left eight miles away on the savage front of Rising Wolf. It was dark and very cold when, as we lay on our blankets by the lodge fire, we heard a shuffle on the snow outside. ‘The flap of the door opened, and through it stepped, or rather fell, Schultz, his face white with hanging ice and snow, and his yoice faint and weak, He fell forward upon the blankets, with bis pack still on his back, too weak to move or get out of his pack. “For God’s sake, get me something hot!” he said, ‘I’m nearly dead.” “‘Where’s Mac?’ I asked, not seeing anything of the atter. ; “T don’t know,” said Schultz, “he’s hack somewhere on could not FOREST AND STREAM. the trail, about half a mile, I guess. One of you go out and get hiny in.” ' This I started fo do, but as I was putting on my things we heard McChesney outside, calling out that no one need g0 out after him, as he was there all right. Then we got some hot chocolate réady for them as soon as we could. T was almost ashamed of myself for having such good luck again, on what was practically the second day of my hunt- ing, for McChesney was still unfortunate. Heand Schultz had gone clean to the cap rock of Rising Wolf, and they had seen the trail of a band of sheep, one of them a very big ram track. They had got almost in range, when in the storm the sheep winded them and went off away over the mountain out of any sort of reach. Then they had gone back to our camp on the upper lake. Nothing was left to eat there, so they had to face the long trail home, Thinking that we would not want to go to that camp again, Schultz had concluded to bring my pack out with him, and to leave the little lodge standing where it was, as he and McChesney would have enough to carry without it. Sothe lodge was left there, keeping silent camp on the storm-swept bank of the upper lake of the Two Medi- cine. And there I doubt not it is to-day, for certain it is that we never went back there after it. EH. Hover, 1206 Boyce BurLpina, Chicago. - Olatyal History. MORAL SENSE IN BRUTES. Editor Forest and Stream: In Mr. Adams’s notice of my communication he defines morality as ‘‘obedience to the laws of society,” So far, very good, Natural laws pertain to all things, and certain Jaws govern the conduct of brutesociety. But that the actions of the lower animals are ever prompted by a sense of duty is not only extremely hypothetical, but altogether doubtful. The hen has strong maternal affection, but that she has the least idea of the virtue of that affection any more than of the virtue of doing good for evil is in the extreme conjectural. If Mr. Adams’s account of the storks be true, it is manifest that antipathy existed toward the mother stork, but its ex- istence does not necessarily imply a knowledge like that with which man regards moral good and evil, It is often hard and even impossible to account for the likes and dis- likes of animals. The hen will sometimes destroy certain of her brood, and the sow devour her own offspring. Much of the crueity is practiced upon the brutes for the lack of thought that they are not morally responsible. They are treated as if they are conscious of wickedly, selfish acts. I Once saw some men Jooking ata drowning mouse in a pail of water. I rebuked them, and one of them—a mau, per- haps forty years old—turned io me and said: ‘““The mouse deserves it.” Why deserved it? Pray tell us. Shall we say it was conscious of the sin of thieving? Others may try to view it in that way—I do not. I knew another man who would hold rats witha tongs and roast them alive in the fire. If he could not prove that they deserved their torture, he certainly wished to believe they did. If we recognize a Greator is it not most rational to suppose that he has created the brutes morally irresponsible, and would have us thus re- gard them, that our inclination to torture them would be held in restraint? “N. D. Evrre. CENTRAL City, W. Va. Rooster Acephalous. Ir was once thought impossible that a human being could live and walk with a broken neck, and perhaps. still more doubted that a rooster could live, stand, and be fed after the hatchet had severed its head from the body. But such are the real hard facts The phenomenal rooster was exhibited some years ago in Huntington, W. Va. The ex- hibitors said they got the fowl from a farmer who had de- capitated it, after which it got upon its feet. However this may be, the headless, living rooster was not a deception. It was fed through a tube inserted in its throat. Jt is obvious that the farmer’s stroke was a little too high, and that a por- tion of fhe back brain still remained, and partially perform- ed its functions. How long the fowl lived 1 did not hear. One thing is certain—he died ‘‘game.” A negro, seeing ‘millions in it,” then experimented on the gallinacious tribe, and succeeded in turning out a fair dupli- cate of the aforesaid acephalous curiosity (for whom I made a picture of the rooster with which to advertise), and he started on a tour of exhibition, He returned not long after and told me he was doing well, and could have made some money at decapitating roosters for other parties who wanted them for exaibition, but that he was prevented by the authorities, upon the accusation of cruelty. N. D. Eurine. Coyote and Dog. Missouna, Mont,, Aug. 24.—Hditor Horest and Stream: Yesterday, while out driving with my wife and another lady, we had quite an experience, as follows: While driving along the road my dog (a female) was running along inside a field, when all at once a coyote jumped up, and | set the dog after it; but she soon tired and came back, and the coyote after her. It followed the dog at about a distancejof 15ft., and within 25ft. of the carriage, for fully a quarter of a mile. Once I got out and threw a stone at it, but it came back at once, and followed along for quite a distance until we came to some thick timber, when we lost sight of it for good. The bitch was not in season. W. H, GRAHAM. WHERE TO GO. OnE important, useful and considerable part of the Forest anp StReam’s service to the sportsmen’s community is the information given ingtiters for shooting‘’and fishing resorts, We make it our business to know where to send the sportsmen for large or small game, or in quest of his favorite fish, and this knowledge is freely im- parted on request. , On the other hand, we are constantly seeking information of this character for the benefit of our patrons, and we invite sportsmen, hotel proprietors and others to communicate to us whatever may be of advantage to the sportsman tourist. The Forges? AND STREAM is put to press each week on Tuesday, Correspondence intended for publication should reach us at the latest Fy Monday, and as much earlier as practicable, Game Bay and Gun. The “Briefs” Pictures. THERE are twenty-nine illustrations in the current edilion of Game Lows in Brief, most of them full-page half-tones, and all admirably printed. The book isa beauty, and well worth haying for the illus- trations which. Mr, Charles Hallock says, so well represent America’s” . wilderness sports. The Brief gives all the laws of the Uniled States and Canada for the practical guidance of anglers and shooters As an authority, it has a loug record of unassailed and unassailable ac- curacy. Forest and Stream Pub. Co. sends it postpaid for 25 cents, or your dealer will supply you, GIVEN AWAY. ONE day in September, many years ago, I was hunting “with very poor success along the border of one of the few tracts of original forest that then remained in our township. The glassy channel of the Slang, a sluggish watercourse that crept along the edge of the woods, was not wrinkled by the wake of a solitary duck, nor did the further curyes and reaches of Little Otter show more sign of life. Tt seemed as if the widesnread bounty of the rice marshes offered no at- traction to the waterfowl, for Isaw another hunter, a marsh hawk, commanding a far wider range than I, beating the broad Jevels with as little success. : The skirt of the old woods frayed outinto a fringe of brish and berry briers, which was ordinarily the haunt of rufted grouse, was to-day as deserted as fhe marsh. Now and then a noisy jay or a silent cedar bird flitted out of the thicket before me, and from the marsh on my left arose at eyery sudden sound the outcry of uuseen rail, but neither thicket or fen offered anything that I was in quest of. Upon coming to the landing where John Cherbineau’s log canoe Jay with her nose upon the bank, I took the path which Jed through the woods to the clearing and home of the owner of the craft, Beyond these, 2 wood road, much used in winter by lumbermen and woodsmen, offered a sure and easy thoroughfare to Louis Creek, where I hoped to find the ducks that must be somewhere With an eye to a pos- sible partridge, I cautiously followed the path, deep worn in the mould by the frequent feet of John and his fat old wife, till the sunlit clearing shone before me between the dark hemlocks. Stumps, young saplings, raspberry and blackberry briars held a far larger part of the deforested acres than did John’s potato patch and cornfield, in the midst of which stood the little log cabin that, with its whitewashed walls and notched eaves, looked as little native to the soil as its tenants. I bad not gone far toward it when a wide-brimmed straw hat ap- peared above the blackberry bushes, and as it moved slowly toward me in a halting, devious course, I discovered beneath it the broad, unctuous visage of John’s ‘‘femme.” Intent upon securing the last blackberries of the season, she was not aware of me till I called out to her, ‘‘Good morning, Marie. Where is John?” My unexpected salutation did not startle her from giving chief attention to the heavily-laden bush before her, and her eyes and hands were busy with the berries while she an- — swered: ‘Good mawny! Mah man? Ah do’ know ’f ’e an’t peek hees onion. Ab do’ know ’f ’e an’t po’n’ baskeet, prob’ly. Yas, Ah hear it,” and listening, my ear caught the regular, resonant strokes of splint pounding at the further edge of the clearing. , Gathering and vending the various kinds of wild berries in their seasons, fishing and fish peddling, making baskets and braiding straw hats for the neighbors and store keepers were the chief industries of this old couple, except when they once set forth on a grand begging tour, outfitted with horse and cart and a dolorous fiction of sickness and losses by fire. But they lacked one essential, a numerous, helpless progeny, through which to appeal to the benevolent public, for their own children were all grown up and scattered, and they could borrow but two of forty grandchildren, so the enterprise failed and they retired to private life. “Tots of berries, aren’t there?” I remarked, with a view to the old woman’s encouragement, “Oh, sang rouge; dey a’n’t ’mos’ any,” sbe declared, in face of the evidence of laden bushes and a basket almost full of plump, dead ripe blackberries. ‘‘Dey a’n’t honly few for beegin, an’ dey all dry up ‘cep’ dees lee’l place!” 1 found old John, the lean and agile opposite of his pon- derous spouse, engaged in the primary process of basket making, pounding an ash log and stripping off the thin splints. After an exchange of salutations, he asked: ‘A ’n’t youfan’ davk on Slang?” and when | acknowledged my failure, he continued. ‘‘Wal, sab, Ab got mah hol’ fusee feex over for cap lock, an’ you a’n’t never see for beat it for keel dauk, Ah tol’ you. Hol’ Seaver on Vau’genn’ he feex him, an’ las’ week mah sonny-law come see me, an’ he say he shoot him on board forsee how heshoot. Ah sav, ‘Bah gosh, no! we go shoot on dauk.’ Wal, sah, we fan’ fav’ black dauk roos’ on de water. Ah shoot on it, t’ree come dead, two go safe, Bah gosh! It better for shoot on black dauk he was for shoot on board, a’n’t he? You go on Louis Oreek, hein? Wal, prob’ly you fan’ some, prob’ly you a’n't, Ah do’ know me.” With such doubtful encouragement, I left him grinding a — grist of greenish-black, home-grown tobacco for his blacker pipe, and as | entered the shady aisle of the wood road 1 heard the click of flint and steel, the imperative smack of draft-compelling lips, and then the resonant clangor of the splint pounding, resumed with renewed vigor. é When this sound ceased my way was in silence but for my own footsteps on the dry leaves of last year and the naked tree roots uncovered and wounded by the lumber sleds. ‘hese had left more living signs of their passage in the rank tufts of herdsgrass, sprung from seed scattered out of the teams’ noon fodder, and looking odd!y out of place in the shade of the ancient forest, with orchids, sphagnum and hobblebush for nearest neighbors. The soft mold and the edges of the long mudholes recorded the recent use of the road by some natives of the greenwood —Jineal descendants of original proprietors whose title ante- dated royal charters and grants of colonial governors. Here was set down in plainest print the passage of a family pro- cession of raccoons; there, in finer type, the nightly wander- ing of a fox, and the mincing morning walk of a partridge, whom, perhaps, I saw a little later, The clumsy, bear-like tracks of the raccoons held right on through thick and thin, never turning aside fcr puddles that the dainty-footed fox had skirted, though he utilized for some distance the con- venience of the road, while the partridge only picked ber way across this bar of nakedness that chanced to lie in the (146 FOREST AND STREAM. [Ave. 21, 1897. course of her meandering, So each had recorded not merely a fragment of its life's history, but something of its traits, With thoughts which were but a boy’s thoughts, not dwelling much on either, but more on the duck prospects of Louis Creek, I entered the deepest shade of the hemlocks where the raccoon family had turned aside to their homé, and the fox had gone his pathless way into the forest depths, when a large bird flew noiselessiy downward, alighted in the road not 20yds, before me, and at once began rapidly pick- ing the leaves of some low sround plants Tbe bird bore the crest, the ruff, the broad tail, and the eolors of a ruffed grouse, yet I could scarcely believe my eyes when these proofs of its identity were forced upon me, against the one fact of noiseless flight which was quite at variance with my previous experience. Af any rate it was enough like a par- tridge to be worth shooting, and to that purpose I sacrificed the rare opportunity of observing a srouse feeding undis- turbed by the presence of anenemy. Butat my first motion, slow and cautious as it was, the alert bird became aware of me, and burst away with a roar of pinions that dispelled the Jast doubt of his personality, while with flurried aim my shot went wide of the vanishing mark and I was served as I deserved, though I did not then recognize the justice of it, No more grouse came to be looked at as 1 followed the road which led me, in a long, irrepular curve, among trees apparently as old as the earth they grew upon, to an old clearing, now reclothed with a flourishing growth of gray birches and an undergrowth of ferns, save on the smooth circular sites of former coal pits. In one of these scenes of a past generation’s Jabor, further memorialized by a level sward of Hnglish grass and clover, a fox had made a bur- row, and the yellow earth thrown outat the several entrances . was mixed with fragments of charcoal—all bestrewn with the litter of Madame Vixen’s kitchen middens. Wings and boues of wild and tame fowl, the shanks of a lamb and pads of a hare, showed that the provision for her young family had been abundant and various, Here I left the road and attempted a short cut to my pros- pectiye hunting ground. Stooping to avoid the numerous dead lower branches of the birches as I waded hip-deep through the ferns, 1 deviated from my intended course, but did not become aware of it until I saw the sheen of water close before me beneath a patch of open sky. lt was not the creek, but a narrower bit of water quite new to me, inclosed on one side by a dense thicket of button bushes, on the other by a sloping bank bearitig an under- growth of alders and some higher wood, most conspicuous of which were an oak and a lofty pepperidge. It was the deadwater of an old channel, but its surface was stirred by something which I could not see moving upon it, and I crept cautiously toa point that gave me a view of almost its whole length. Then what I beheld nearly took my breath away. The little lagoon swarmed with woodducks, some in rows on the many mossy old logs that lay athwart and along it, some comfortably asleep, with head indrawn or tucked under a wing, some preening their gay plumage, some standing up- tight to stretch their wings, while the water was alive with others, indolently swimming to and fro, seaming the duck- weed with innumerable aqueous paths, or nibbling the water, ot thrusting their heads beneath it, and: all in aban- donment to a perfect sense of security that it was cruel to disturb. Rut no emotion of pity softened the youthful savagery of my heart. It beat only with the joy of great discovery—the chance of a lifetime that lay before me. It beat so vehe- mently that it is a wonder I so much as hit the pool, to say nothing of hitting one of the uncounted dozen of ducks ranged on the nearest log, for whom my aim was intended— yet [ saw three tumble helplessly from their perch, and when with a roar of wings that was like a prolongation of the re- port of my gun, innumerable ducks arose and filled the air before me, I fired wildly into it, two more chance-stricken victims of the aimless shot. plunged back into the troubled water, ‘The ducks seemed unable to realize that this safe re- treat had been discovered and invaded by a cruel, relentless foe, for they continued to circle and hover over it till with trembling hands, in more haste than speed, I reloaded m gun, and grown cool enough to select single birds, brought dewn one with each barrel. Then the last and boldest lingerer reluctantly departed, and the silence of desertion fell upon the place, except as I splashed and poked about it to secure my game; and with a view to future onslaughts, made a path for a stealthy ap- proach, clearing away every sprout and dry twig that might swish or snap a signal of alarm. There was not asign to show that the place was ever visited by any one else, and I congratulated myseif on possessing sole knowledge of its ex- Istence. Many a day thereafter I went to it alone, guided from afar by the oak and pepperidge, which, towering above the sec- ond growth, were unmistakable landmarks, whether in leaf- age of green or scarlet and brown, or in gray nakedness; and while I kept my secret seldom was a visit unrewarded by at least one shot at wood ducks, or later in the season at the larger and warier dusky ducks, which haunted the seques- tered slough until it was frozen. But in an evil hour I disclosed it, under promise of secrecy, to a faithless friend after an unsuccessful day with him on the two creeks. It was not long before the path was worn by the frequent tread of other feet than mine, and ducks began to be shy of a retreat that no longer promised rest and safety. In two years it was common to every gunner in the neighborhood, and worth no one’s while to visit. As one still searches tor something lost past all hope of finding, so was I now and then drawn thither, but never to fiad more than a solitary heron standing like a gray statue in the desolate slough, or a lone sandpiper skirting the low shore, or perchancea muskrat channeling the duckweed with his silent wake, I had given away my discovery only to have it made worthless. Rowxanp HE, Rosrnson. A Stupid Blunder. HARRISVILLE, N. Y., Aug. 10.—Hditor Horest and Stream: I notice an error on page 48 of Game Laws in Brief, just re- ceived. Sec. 40 says the open season for deer is Aug, 15 to Noy. 15. Sec. 41 says possession only from Aug. 16 to Oct. 31. How are we allowed to killand not possess? Please ex- plain and correct. G, W. H. [The Brief gives the law precisely as it is in the original. The last Legislature amended the dates in See. 40 relative to hunting season, but neglected to amend Sec, 41 relative to possession. If the Brigf had the original drafting of the game and fish laws they would be free from many other ae quite as stupid as this one in the New York deer Jaw. LAYING IN WINTER’S BEAR GREASE. Hditor Forest and Stream: I HAVE read in your paper many bear, moose and other hunts, where tracks in particular have been plentiful; but the writers have never been in the bears’ paradise, which is be- tween the month of the Smoking River and the Rocky Moun- tains on the Peace River. The banks of the river run from 800 to 1,500ft. high, and are formed of small blufts of poplar, jack pine, and prairies covered with the saskatoon berry. Along the banks of the river is any quantity of the red wil- low, the berries of which the bears are very fond of. In places the river is full of islands covered with raspberry and red willow. To show what can be got there, I will sive a short account of a hunt I made there in 1869, my object being a supply of bear’s grease for the winter, as the fur was worth little or nothing, Iremained from the 12th to the 27th of August, and during that time killed sixteen black and brown, and seven grizzly bears. I took a Beaver Indian woman and her daugh- ter with me to make the grease and cook. I camped on a small island at the mouth of the Pine River, a few miles be- low Fort St. John, and hunted early in the morning and late in the afternoon. Most of these bears were killed in the usual way without any excitement, I would approach them and shoot them with one ortwoshots, Two, however, gave me a little more fun. ; The first one was a large, white-maned grizzly, which is always plucky and on the fight. One evening the Benner woman and her daughter had gone across the river to pick berries. Shortly after I left and landed a little below them, intending to cross the poimt and hunt below. The point was very narrow across, and I had only gone a short dis- tance in the woods when I heard a bear, so J approached him within about ten steps and then I saw a large, white mane, AsIwas between him and the hills and the two women, J thought I would not open the quarrel in case of an accident, so I stood up and left it to the bear to decide what would be done. He got on his hind legs and for a short time was undecided about it, finally he thought berries were better than bullets, so he very quietly walked off, go- ing rather in the middle of the point and I felt surehe would get. around me and take up the hills, so I ran across and cut him off. Isoon heard him coming along, so I-waited for him and he found me in his way again. He got up on his hind legs and gave a snarlor two and then came a little closer and got up for another look. He was then about 6 or yds. away, which isa little further than] like, At Jast he thought he would decide on peace, little thinking that I had gone out on the war path and would not agree to any- thing like peace, but was only choosing my ground. I knew he would now cross the Peace River, so 1 ran to my canoe and threw in a few stones and then saw the bear take the water, I got up to him in a minute and began pelting him with stones, so he put after me and forgot all about going ashore, at last, having spent the stones, | shot off first one ear and then the other, You may imagine what arage he was in. I then gave him a few grains of small shot by way of a finish, and by this time we had got quite a way down the river, as the current is pretty strong, and I had to cut him up and paddle up stream again before dark to the camp, so I decided to end up the fun. IL took good care to see the powder well up in the nipples and put on a good cap, and then landed a little below, hauled up my birch bark and waited for him. IT could see the very look of pleasure in his face when he saw me ashore—he was determined I would never eet him on the water again. As soon as he landed he rushed straight on, and as he rose to jump the canoe my bullet was inside of his brain, and he remained on one side of the canoe and I on the other. The other one was in a different way. I had been shoot- ing beayer in the afternoon and had got water splashed on my gun and had not properly dried it, Late in the evening IT went among some of the islands where the channels were dry, the water being low at this season I heard a bear com- ing my way, so 1 got up the bank and lay down until he was almost on me. I was expecting nothing but a black bear, but when I got up here was a large grizzly at just the right ‘distance; so I pulled the right trigger. It hung fire a little, and down he went only stunned. Iran on him with the left barrel, and it snapped. Just then he began to rise. In two steps [| was down the bank, and ran three or four steps down wind and up the bank again, Just as 1 got up, down he came as mad as could be; but he took my back track across the channel, which gaye me time to get the gun in order before he found his mistake. When he did I was ready, and as a natural consequence J had more bear grease for winter. I only use a doublebarrel muzzleloading cun, 28-bore. LM, BAITING DUCK GROUNDS. Mempuis, Tenn., Aug. 5.—Hditor Forest and Stream: 1 send you two letters I have received in reply to inquiries about the profit of baiting duck grounds. The first comes from Wide Water, Va., ex-President Cleveland’s favorite duck shooting grounds, and the second from your contribu- tor, Mr, James Norris, of Maryland. GurIDO, Winer Water, Va, May 26.—Mr. W. A. Wheatley, Dear Sir: Your letter received in regard to baiting duck. I think from your description of your property it best to feed with sheaf oats and wheat. Have the sheaves tied with wire to a small stake, also pour out a good large quantity of shelled corn. Liberal baiting will insure good results. We use corn mostly poured out in about 4 to Sft. of water. Ducks feeding here are whittle wings, blackheads and mal- lards. Mallards can be taught to dive as well as any other ducks, We feed upon an average 300 to 400 per day, and kill, when we shoot, from twenty to fifty in a half day. We shoot only three times a week and then only about half the ay. Will be glad to give you any information in my power. WitHEers WALLER. _ Maenonra, Md., July 24.—Mr, W. A. Wheatly.—Dezr Sir: Yours duly received. Iam unable to give you any additional information to what you havein Mr. Waller's letter from Wide Water, in reference to feed for the purpose of attracting waterfowl. The only grain I know of being used in this vicinity (near the mouth of the Gunpowder River) is wheat and corn, and not very extensively, Some of the deep-water divers—hblackheads, redheads, and per- haps some other classes—feed on the grain as. an auxiliary, when their natural food becomes scarce, and whén that is exhausted, I do not think any substitute will prevent them from leaving the locality. 1t appears'to be an inherent attri- bute in them, particularly those which invariably feed in deep water—canvasbacks, redheads and blackheads—to migrate annually further south abnut the same time (the middle of December), without regard to the quantity of food remain- ing or the condition of the weather, and then to return to their previous locality in the early spring, preparatory to their northern flight and breeding place. J The marsh ducks do not appear to be governed by such an imperative instinct in their migrations. They feed in the shallow creeks and lagoons, and remain until the ice compels them to leave, and return when it thaws. It is in those haunts where the grain is distributed, oyer which the decoys are placed, which are in gunshot of a well-constructed blind, composed of a substantial, watertight box sunken in the mud at the margin of the water about 3ft., with about the same projecting above, which is coyered with the tall marsh erass indigenous to the vicinily. It has a capacity sufficient for three or four sportsmen, who deliver their fire as the ducks are in the act of alighting among the decoys. Chesapeake Bay Ducks. Twenty years ago this locality, from the mouth of the Gunpowder seven or eight miles up, was one of the finest feeding resorts on the Chesapeake Bay for canvasbacks and redheads, and during October and November acres in extent could frequently be seen feeding, with flock after flock winging their way in different directions. This im- mense feeding ground is intersected by a peninsula extending a mile out in the river and terminating with Maxvwell’s Point, which at that time was considered one of the most celebrated shooting points on the Chesapeake. The shores of this penin- sula and also the margin of the river along the mainland afforded an abundance of food suitable for swans and geese, to which they resorted in great numbers, and still continue to come, as their food is abundant. This is not the case with the canvasback and redhead; the species of marine p!ant which furnished their food is nearly obliterated from some cause, supposed to be the great amount of sediment uncongenial to its growth, working down from the cultivated lands above. Therefore, this once beautiful and extremely animated and exciting scene is now, com- pletely silent and gloomy. Apparently with the view of tantalizing the old sportsmen of the past, au itinerant Hock of redheads may o€casionally be seen flitting over the surface of their deserted haunts and vanishing in the distance. Swans and geese are nearly as numerous, but not sought after by sportsmen to any extent. They are extremely wary, and feed invariably at night, They leave the shores at early. dawn, swim out in the river about a half mile, and remain during the day. They are not considered an edible Inxury, therefore not a great many are killed; yet their presence adds beauty and animation to the scene, which would be exceed- ingly monotonous without them, since the departure of the canvasvacks and redheads. Maxwell's Point, when in the acme of prosperity as shoot- ing grounds, was also the home and breeding place of the Chesapeake Bay dogs. The kennels of Edward Lynch (now dead), the manager of the property, bred and preserved the purity of those dogs up to the highest standard. Bunco, the dog you mention, was bred here, Here he made his initial plunge in the surf; and here he gained his unsurpassed repu- tation as a retriever of water fowl, and also of wonderful sagacity. JAMES NORRIS, Game Protection and Sensational Journalism, I pEEM it only proper to call the attention of the board to malicious and frequently willful misrepresentations made in certain newspapers concerning the work of the Wardens and deputies. Although the press genetally ig in fa¥or of the proper protection of fish and game; there are in- stances in which unscrupulous persons in the employ of newspapers seize upon prosecutions for the purpose of villifying the wardens and bringing their work into dis- repute. The most glaring instance of this kind took place during the last week of July. Mr, Orrin Vanderhoven, a deputy fish and game warden, ascertained that two Italians living in Passaic were in the habit of robbing birds’ nests for the purpose of securing the young, either for the table or for the market in New York. These Italians were in the habit of robbing nests, principally of robins; the young birds were either boiled and eaten or they were kept a few weeks and then disposed of to dealers, Mr, Vanderhoven reported the state of affairs to me, and I ad- vised him strongly to proseCute at once. Mr. Vanderhoven did so, and the result was that two Italian men were ar- rested and each fined $20 and costs, certainly a light enough punishment for their misdeeds, On the following day the New York World and Journal came out with sensational articles, declaring that the persons arrested were two young school girls, who had run across a nest of robins and had appropriated two of them as pets. Mr. Vanderhoven was denounced in bitter language for his alleged heartlessness in arresting two little girls, the Journal going so far as to produce the alleged pictures of two weeping little misses mourning over empty cages, declaring the pictures to be those of the persons arrested. Myr. VYanderhoven at once communicated with these two publications, and the World sent an emissary to Passaic to work up the story. The emissary apparently pursued the matter no further than to see the original liar, and then dished up another article, worse than the preceding. The Herald, which apparently did not have the story until a few days later, then came out with a bitter denunciation of Mr, Vanderhoven and game wardens in general, making up for its neglect to obtain the story the first day by increasing the number of *‘oolden-haired” tots from two to four, The Herald had the decency to publish a contradiction of its untruthful statements, but the World declined to pay any attention to letters of protest sent to it, This is not by any means — the only instance of this kind where sensationmongers have willfully distorted facts for the purpose of creating a sensation and to the injury of the good work in which the officers. of the State are engaged, A great many of the deputies are men of means and of high standing in the com- munities in which they reside, and they have secured their appointments only for the purpose of decently protecting fish and game. ‘The work they dois a labor of love; they are actuated only by noble impulses, and few ever receive any pecuniary reward; the share of the fines to which the are entitled ig more than expended-by cash outlays, for there is no way in which their expenses even can be paid, These are the men in many instances who are selected as victims by the vampires who have attached themselyes to the hyp. orable occupation of journalism, on .i Aug. 21, 1897, FOREST AND STREAM. 147 PARK STAGE ROBBERY. (Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.) Mammorn Hor Sprines, Wyoming, Aug. 1o.—Five stage coaches were held up and robbed yesterday morning near the Grand Cafion Hotel, in Yellowstone Park, by two masked highwaymen. When the news first reached here it was not credited, -but a telegram to the stage office removed all doubts. Intense excitement prevailed, as such an occurrence has never happened before. The arrival of the stages were awaited with the utmostanxiety. They rolled up at Mam- moth Hot Springs Hotel about 4 o’clock in the afternoon, and the passengers, as they alighted, were besieged by im- patient inquiries. . Thére were about sixty passengers in the five coaches, of whom more than half were guests. The robbers had sacks over their heads, with holes for eyes, and sacks also over their feet. The first coach was stopped by the high- Wwaymen with bullets from six-shooters, and the male pas- sengers ordered to get out and hold their hands up. The ladies were quieted with promises that they would not be disturbed. There was nothing for the gentlemen to do but comply. They were totally unarmed, as the carrying of arms within the park limits is prohibited. One by one the unfortunates were compelled to disgorge. As the stages which were in the rear came up the same road in turn they were all put through the same experi- ence and drivers ordered to remain still until told to move on. The ladies in the last coach did not fare as well as those in the first, as they were also roughly ordered to de- liver up their valuables, The robbers were after money and did not care much for Watches and jewelry. The watch of one man was taken and then thrown back to him. When the highwaymen stopped the first coach the pas- sengers thought ita joke, but were not long in realizing how serious it was. The ladies all behaved beautifully while under cover of the weaponsof the robbers, but when out of harm their strained nerves gave way and some of them became hysterical, and when they reached the hotel here they had to be put tobed. , An army ambulance, with two officers, was just behind the stages. The officers were also without means of de- fense and had to hand out their money the same as the coach passengers. ' The robbers did not realize more than $700, as it is not customary to carry much money through the Park, and many of the passengers found an opportunity to secrete their purses. A gentleman threw unobseryed into a bunker a fat pocketbook, which he recovered after the robbers walked off. “A lady in a bicycle suit secreted in its recesses a big roll of notes handed her by her hus- band as he was getting out, The highwaymen were scarcely out of sight before sol- diers and scouts were on their trail, but as these were on foot the chances of catching up with the robbers are not promising. Colonel Young, in command at Fort-Yellow- stone, ordered out every man possible. He also telegraphed ithe Interior Department at Washington asking permission ito offer a reward for the capture of the robbers, but was informed that the department had no authority to do so. Naturally, the affair has put in a flutter of apprehension ‘tourists preparing for the trip through the Park. This -alarm is doubtless without reason, as a repetition is as one chance in ten thousand. Camp-Sive Hlickerings. “That reminds me,” Twice-Told Tales. ¥iditor Forest and Stream: Formst Anp SrrEamM of August 7, under ‘‘Camp Fire Flickerings,” has a practical illustration of the variations through which a fishing legend may run, In this case, as it happens, the variation is in FoREST AND STRHAM itself. J. 8S. Van C.’s ‘‘What Are We Here For?” is the same story which, [ think, was better told of the bishop in Forrst AND SrrEAM of March 31, 1894, and there credited to Harper's - Magazine. HH. 8. D. Forest and Stream, August 7, 1897. “What Are We Here For?” Some two or three years ago a party of anglers, including a minister as one of their number, were fishing in the North woods, and when Sunday came the question arose whether the party other than the minister should not refrain from fishing, out of respect to his feelings. One of the party, however, made bold to ask him whether he thought that 1t was wicked to fish on Sunday, and he declined to express any opinion, on the ground that he was there as an angler and not by virtue of his calling, and thai every person must act according to the dictates of his own conscience. He referred, however, to the following incident which had occurred not long before within his personal knowledge. A man and woman called at the house of a minister for the purpose of being married. After going through the pre- liminary part of the service, the minister asked the usual question, ‘‘Do you, John, take this woman to be your law- ful, wedded wite?” This was met by the rejoinder, *‘What -in thunder do you suppose I came here for?” The party other than the minister went fishing, while he remained at home with ample opportunity for rest and med- itation. J. 8, Van C, Forest and Stream, March 81, 1894. Sunday Fishing. ‘Some years ago a number of gentlemen visited the moun- tains of Colorado for the purpose of fishing. Among the party was a bishop of an Hastern diocese of the Episcopal eburch. Fishing was the sole occupation and amusement of the visitors; so when Sunday came, as there was nothing else to do, the laymen of the party got out their rods, pre- paratory to casting a line. But they were in a quandary as to the bishop. They did not want to hurt his feelings by leaving him behind, nor did they want to offend his ‘religious principles by inviting him to go fishing on Sunday. Finally one of them plucked up courage and told him of their dilemma, whereupon the good man gaid that he would tel] them of a happening in his earlier life which he thought yather apropos, *‘Some years ago,” he said, ‘‘when I had charge of the affairs of a parish, I was awakened about 2 o’clock one morning, snd upon inquiring who was there, heard a4 man’s yoice reply that he was there with Miss Blank, and that they wanted to get married. I reasoned with him about the untimely hour, but to no avail; he meant to get married right then and there. So I put on my clothes and gown, and went down stairs and began the marriage service, Hyverything went along as dictated in the service till I asked the man, ‘Wilt thou take this woman to be thy wedded wife?’ to which he replied, ‘What ’m I here fur?’ ” They waited for the bishop. ' H. 8. D. A Dead Bear and a Dude. Ix one of my spring hunts for bear in York county, New Brunswick, I had for a short time as visilor in camp 4 city young map, whose highest ambition was to shoot a bear, one fast in «trap even, His desire had been gratified, and one day only remained of his stay, which was spent on a line where I had set up a deadfall. As the deadfall came into view a huge bear was seen fast under the fall, The young man was delighted, and offered his assistance to set up the prop, when | raised the fall-log, There had been twenty- four hours of very warm, humid weather, so that the car- cass was greatly swollen with gas. The front of the deadfall being on the height of a knoll, the carcass, when released, at once rolled away, the pent un gas at the same time finding vent through nose and mouth, made a hissing, guttural noise, startline to a novice. At the movement and the alarming noise the youth sprang away, shouting: ‘‘Great Oxsar! the bear’s alive. Run for your life.” And acting up to his words, he sprinted to camp, MADAWASKA. Sea and River SHishing. Proprietors of fishing resorts will find it profitable to advertise them in FOREST AND STREAM. The “Game Laws in Brief.” Tum current edition of the Game Laws in Brief (index page dated Aug. 1) contains the fish and game laws for 1897, with a few excep- tions, as they will continue in force during the year. As about forty States and Provinces haye amended their laws this year, the Brief has been practically done over new. Sent postpaid by the Forest and Stream Pub, Oo, on receipt of price, 25 cents. All dealers sell it AN AFTERNOON IN JULY. ‘Say, Bob, what do you say about giving the bass a little whirl this afternoon?” “All right. Where?” “Out on the creek. It’s too late to go anywhere else, and by the'time we get there we will just about catch them coming up from the lake to feed.” “Well, Vil go you. You go and get into your clothes, and I will dig some worms to catch minnows; and, by the way, you can hitch up the mare.” In short order everything was in readiness, and we were on our way to one of the best bass stream for its size in the State of Michigan. It is an inlet to a Jake that was in the past noted for its great bass fishing, but for some unaccountable reason has been abandoned for years and left to the frogs and turtles. T have often heard my father tell of the great bass and pickerel he had taken out of it indays gone by. Yet I never remember seeing any one, with the exception of some boys, fishing on it, The lake at one time was very large, but it is now well overgrown with bog land, and the water space wouldn’t cover an area of four acres at the most, yet it is yery deep and clear. The stream is from 10 to 12ft. wide, very crooked, and running very deep at each bend. ‘The nearer you go to the lake the deeper it gets. The banks are hard and clear in places, and there is no timber io bother one when casting. As you approach the lake, it gets very mucky, and is full of muskrat and mink holes, some of which are very Jarge and covered with tall marsh hay and weeds, consequently one must keep his eyes open or out of sight he goes. It was while hunting mink on this stream that my brother and [ discovered that bass were running up here and using it for a feeding ground. Bob and I arrived at the small bridge about 4:30 P. M., and in short order had about fifteen good minnows of a medium size. We started down stream. Iwas to fish to the first bend, Bob to the second, and so on. Before going any further, I must tell you of our different opinions in regard to tackle. Bob believes in the old-fash- ioned outfit. A good strong cane pole (not rod), with a line as heavy as possible and about 3{t. longer than the pole; and as to the hook—well, on a pinch it could be used for a gaff. On the contrary, I use a light outfit—a 10oz. rod, leader and reel to correspond. Mind you, I believed as he did, until 1 was laughed out of it while on a fishing trip in the northern part of the State last year. Well, after this brother of mine had relieved his mind of some remarks about the dude fisherman and his fine tackle, and had promised to show me how to hook and land bass, we each hooked on a minnow and started for our different parts of the stream, Swash goes the bait, and I draw it slowly toward me without a strike. Again and again I send it down stream, each time walking toward it and fishing very slowly. J had gone probably 30ft. without getting a ripple, but on the next cast the minnow barely touched the water when a two-pounder jumped clear a foot for it. He hooked himself well and away he went, making the line sing as it cut through the water. I held him up as short as possible, wishing to land him as soonasI could. After throwing himself out clear of the water a couple of times, he turned on his side. Getting a net under him was but little bother, and he was landed in notime. My fishing friend asked to see him, so | held him up, and got for my trouble the remark that he thought it was a ten-pounder by the fuss I made in landing him. I said nothing, as 1 knew my time would come; and putting on a fresh minnow was just about to cast, when I heard a whoop, and turned in time to see Bob throw- ing a poor\bass almost out of sight, by giving him one of his famous jerks. lH ortunately, the fish was well hooked, other- wise he would surely haye torn his head off. I had an op- portunity then to make a few remarks about butchers slaugh- tering fish, ete., which I did in the finest way possible. Feeling that I had, in a measure, repaid him for a few of his past remarks, I sent my bait well down stream and got a atrike at once; foolishly I pulled too quickly and lost minnow and all. Quickly putting on another bait I sent it after him, and found that he was still in the same spot and open for business, as he struck it the minute it touched the water, Thinking that now I would square accounts, I tried to set the hook, but failed, and again lost my minnow. I returned to the bucket, and while fishing around in it for another bait saw a small srass frog and took him instead, hooked him on, and walking carefully to one of the deep holes in the bend of the creek dropped him lightly over the edge of the bank, He gave just one kick and the water boiled around and under him. ‘The result was another bass of about the same size as the first one. Upon returning to the minnow pail [ found that Rob had exhausted our supply and had a dogfish, pickerel and bass to show forit. I told him of my experience with the frog, so we both set about it, and in a few minutes had a dozen or fifteen good ones with one of unusual size, For the rest of the afternoon the fish- ing was good. In all we had a dozen fine bass, ayeraging about 2lbs. One of them was what we call a ‘‘whale.” J must tell you about him, We were well down toward the lake and just about to return, when looking ahead a few yards I saw a particularly fine piece of water which looked very fishy. (Have you ever seen water like that?) “Wishing to try it I made a long back cast, for the purpose of reaching the spot, and just as 1 was about to cast forward there was a swirl and swash behind. My Jine went out' of the reel and set up an unusual buzzing. For a moment I was dumfounded, and just as I was about to return to earth the villain, on my hook, made straight for me, trying to get into the lake, By some unknown power I managed to keep the line taut, and away he went headed for the lake, taking out 100ft. of line before I knew it. I had to stop that, so 1 made the old fellow fight for every inch after that, and it was a fight, I tell you, Backward and forward he went, first on one side of the stream and then on the other, then again he would turn and run directly toward me, then, as quick as a flash, for the lake he would go. Bob looked oyer and asked if I wanted any help. I said no, but if I landed this one I would show him a corker. This remark and my struggles tather excited his curiosity, and he began to run toward me. He plunged on, regardless of danger, and just as I was about to caution him about the bog holes, he made a whoop and disappeared under the grass and muck. He reappeared as quick as he went under, covered with lily roots and mud. By this time I had to look after my own troubles, as the bass was just churning things. I knew he was a good one, as he wouldn’t start my way at all. Zigzag he went across the stream, and then again he made a terrible plunge for the lake, as the old beggar knew if he got there the friendly shelter of pond-lily roots would save him. My only way of meeting these rushes was to run him into the bank. I was fishing with asingle 6ft. leader and did not want to tax it too much, , Bob arrived at this moment, and, grabbing the net, made in the direction of the bass. He worked up carefully so as not to frighten him, and, looking over the bank, fell back and hollowed that it was the largest one he had ever seen. He cautioned me about losing him, and suggested that I should allow him to goin and get him. All this time the struggle was going on in earnest. Bob was dancing like an Indian, his eyes standing out like two onions and his hair full of muck and weeds. Inch by inch and foot by foot the old warhorse was disputing the ground with me, but finally I felt him turn, and then, for the first time, he was coming my way. Very slowly I worked him in and felt that, bar- Ting accident, the battle was mine; yet now and then he would show a little fight. After I got him well up he turned over on his side, and, for the first time, I saw him, Well, I must confess, my heart stopped for a mo ment, as he looked like the side of a dried codfish and Was a monster, to be sure. Bob got the net well out into the stream while I worked him up toward it, and just as Bol) was about to raise it over him the old fellow caught sight of it and make one more break for the lake. It was a grand effort, as he had out a bunch of line and was pulling like a mule before I knew it. Suddenly there was a slack, my rod straightened, and my heart went into my shoes. I said: ‘‘Bob, 1 have Jost bim.” For a minute he said nothing, then turning, with a look of pity, said: ‘‘It serves you right for fishing with such an out- fit. IfIhad had him hooked as you did, he would have been out and we on our way home by this time. Don’t eyer talk to me again about fishing tackle.” I couldn’t say a word, as my grounds for argument were very-small, so | began to reel in my line, which, by the way, felt rather heavy. Thinking I had a bunch of weeds on, I began to walk toward my hook, reeling asI went. After almost reaching the spot where it was caught, I gave the line a slight upward jerk to free the hook, and to my sur- prise, received a jerk in return, With renewed hopes I tightened upon it and called to Bob, who had started for the road in disgust. He turned, and in afew jumps (this time looking out for the holes) was on the spot, net in hand. Running to where I directed, he let out a shout of joy as he saw the old veteran lying on his side, with just a spark of life left in him, but still fighting. His last eitort had nearly killed him. The net was slipped under himand he was hauled to the bank and out. : Well, Bob and I shook hands—I don’t know why—and stood and admired the old fellow, for he had given usa noble fight. He was an old veteran, to be sure, as he had two buckshot in his back, and a long scar on one side, caused by a spear, no doubt. His tail was cut, and part of it was missing. As he lay on the grass, gasping now and then, I must say I felt sorry to see him die, and to, think that he was at last landed. We put him into the pail and started back. Bob took the last frog—the big one—hooked him, and threw into the stream to drag as we returned to the road. We had almost reached it, when there was a commotion about the bait, and away went his line. Bob straightened for the task, of course expecting to lft him right out, but he found that his poll wouldn’t stand it. The bass ran up streani to the end of the line, then he started back Again my friend tried to raise him out, but had to give it up, and away the bass went for the lake. It was but ashort run to the end of the line, and we never knew when he came io it, agit parted so easily. Bob fell on his back and the bass is running yet. My time had come at last, and maybe I didn’t say a few things about his fishing-tackle and ability. He made no reply, I therefore knew that I had struck home. ‘The next day he sent out an order to one of the best{tackle houses in the country for a complete outit, The bass 1 took weighed, after being out of the water nearly two hours, 52lbs, I expected him to weigh more, and he would have done so had I lost him, as my friends would have heard a 10lbs. bass story. BHAR CREEK, 148 FOREST AND STREAM, [Aua. 21, 1807. ANGLING NOTES. Bullheads. As a food fish the bullhead occupies an important position in the State of New York. In 1895 nearly 200,000!bs. of bullheads were caught in State waters, dressed and sold there, and four times as many pounds as of any other of the fishes from the interior waters, As an economic food supply the bullhead is not to be de- spised, and in some waters its propagation should be en- couraged by laws to protect it during its breeding season, and tliere are other waters from which it should be extermi- nated—cleaned out, root and branch, as in those waters it Serves no useful purpose, but, on the contrary, destroys the food of other fishes and the fishes themselves, J refer to trout waters in the Adirondacks as waters from which the bullhead should be removed, as a deleterious fish, This may not apply to all Adirondack waters in which the bullhead is found, but it undoubtedly applies to many of the trout ponds and lakes in that region, It is not a hasty judg- ment when I say that I believe that the bullheads have prac- tically destroyed the trout fishing In & number of the lakes in the Adirondacks. One Jake that I visited tast spring con- tains a few very large trout, but a small trout is unknown init, and for years not one trout bas been caught from it weighing under 3lbs. In this lake the bullheads fairly swarm, and at times when they swim near the surface they present the appearance of a solid mass of moving fish. They have apparently eaten everything that will serve as food, and are themselves so dwarfed in size that they will not pay for dressing, In fact, when they are skinned there is scarcely. anything left to eat, for they are only from 3 to 5in. long, Bullheads ate notorious spawni-eaters, and not only do they eat the spawn, but they eat the food of the trout. In the lake to which I refer, about 2,000 of these little bullheads were caught in part of one day by my companions, who visited the pond with me. We went there to find out, if possible, what the reason could be that no small trout were ever taken. Wehad not far to look. With a piece of meat tied to a string, a8 many as: seyen bullheads could be taken at one time. Three, four and five at once was not unusual, and with two men in a boat, each armed with a string and piece of meat, it was not a question of how many bullheads could be lifted mto the boat, but it was a question of how long one could keep his arm in motion, first dipping the meat into the water and then lifting into the boat as many fish as could get hold of the meat during the two seconds or such a matter of time that the meat was left in the water, When the fish were brought to the shore we found a boy that consented to take a few, comparatively, of them home, picking out the largest of them, and the balance could not be disposed of among the people living near the pond, for they were reully too small to pay for dressing, and there is no prospect of their being any larger, for they seemed to have cleaned the pand of all manner of food, and must in great measure live hereafter upon one another. Under such circumstances we had no compunctions of conscience when we took from the pond all the fish po-sible during the day, This pond is not a solitary example of too many bull- heads for the welfare of the trout, and I am quite positive that the increase in the bullhead tribe is largely accountable for the dearth of trout in many Adirondack wate1s, and IT would suggest that the Fisheries, Game and Forest Commission be applied to for permission to destroy the bullheads in such waters as I have decribed. It will be worse than useless to attempt to culti- vate trout in such lakes until the bullheads are routed out. Under the law the Commission has power to remove deleteri- ous fish when they interfere with the growth of trout, and there can be no more deleterious fish than the bullhead when he destroys the spawn of the trout and its food as well, and then becomes a dwarfed fish unfit forfood. Fish Com- missioner Hughes, of New Hampshire, told me last spring that he examined the spawning beds of lake trout in his State last fall, and found on the beds bullheads so stuffed with trout spawn as to be utterly helpless and lying at the bottom on their sides. In fact, the appearance of some of the bullbeads imdieated that they would not survive their feast—or gorging—of trout spawn. Commissioner Hughes _ ‘was of the opinion that the bullhead was far more destruct- ive of trout spawn on the beds he examined than the eel or sucker, and both are bad enough. Bullheads watch their nests after spawning and the young after they are hatched, and the young can be netted out of a pond when the brood rises by using 4 shallow net of mos- quito netting, if consent is obtained from the Commission to do so under the direction of a game protector. In many Jakes the trout are sought persistently (trout do not guard their spawning beds or young and are naturally less prolific than the bullhead, as the trout is a fal] spawner, taking from 90 to 150 days to hatch their egos, while the bullhead is a spring spawner and hatch their eggs in a few days), and fished for constantly. The bullhead is not sought for food to the extent the trout is, and has little to do but thrive and maultiply until it overruns the pond, destroying the young trout and its food and remains in sole possession of the water. In another bullhead-infested pond in the Adirondacks I found ihat the trout had been feeding (this was a pond re- stocked with yearling trout) on the larve of the May fly; but when the time came for a, rise of the fly there were few on the water. The swarming bullheads had been devouring the larvee which should have gone to feed the trout, As in the first-mentioned pond, the bullheads were small, too small for food; and as they were never or rarely fished for, they had simply increased at the expense of the trout. I yenture to predict that, if the New York Commission or its agents should net one of these ponds and remoye as many bull- heads as possible, it would be a comparatively easy matter to once more repopulate it with trout; and I believe something of this kind will have to be done with the smaller lakes be- fore trout fishing in them -isas it once was. There is an- other thing to be considered in thisconpection. When bull- heads swarm in a pond with insufficient food to sustain them, they are more than likely to be infested with internal parasites, which unfits them for human food, A correspondent wrote me a few weeks avo from western New York, saying that the bullheads in a pond that he had stocked were dying, and he had picked up dead or dying fish with their fins gone. He wishes to know what caused the ‘‘epidemic.” I told him that his fish were starved, as evidently the pond contained no food for them, and they were preying upon one another; for once a hungry bullhead gets hold of the fin of another fish he does not let goof it until be has eaten that fin. This was the first case that had come to my knowledge in a wild pond, but it is character- istic of bullbeads in an aquarium. I suggested to the corre- spondent that if he could get a dead fish that was reasonably fresh, he should send it to Prof. Surface, of Cornel] Uni- versity, as he was near at hand, for a microscopical exam- ination, Returning home after an absence of a week, 1 found a letter from Prof, Surface in which he said he had received a bullhead and had written to the sender as follows: ‘‘A care- ful examination has revealed the undoubted fact that the bullbead died of a superabundance of tapeworms and an insufficient supply of proper food. From the condition of this specimen, which is an adult female, I feel sure that there are but very few mollusks, small crustaceans or insects in your pond.’”’ Prof. Surface adds to me: ‘‘Of course you know how unsafe it is to judge general conditions from an examination of one specimen, but in the first place this fish was starved. What the pond needs just now is fewer fish and more fish food.” | Prof. Surface did not know what I had told my corre- spondent or the conclusion I had arrived at, in fact, knew nothing about the matter in any way except that a fish had been sent to him for examination and cause of death, but he confirmed in every particular my opinion, Just thirty years ago I caught in the Adirondacks the finest lot of trout Lever caught in one day in that region. They were taken with the fly from a small lake, and afterward the lake came into possession of the bullheads, and it was a rare thing to get a trout, so rare that it was scarcely fished. Means were taken to destroy the bullheads so far as possible —mieans that would not be tolerated under the law, and with which I have no sympathy—and trout were planted from an adjoining Jake, and the first lake again became famous for its trout fishing, We live and learn, and one thing we are learning is that the bullheads must be kept down if the trout in the same water are to thrive and increase. Sunapee Trout In Lake George. FoORESt AND STREAM has told of how the Sunapee trout were transplanted -last autumn from Sunapee Lake, N. H , to Lake George, N, Y. The State fish car brought forty- two adult trout, half male and half female, and planted them in the last-mamed lake. When the car reached the end of the railroad, at Lake George, I employed the steam yacht Olive, Capt. Raphael Patten, to take the fish down to a shoal near Diamond Island, where they were released in gocd order, so far as we could see. There were left in the car four of the Sunapee trout for the New York aquarium and ten for the State hatchery at Caledonia. The fish that were left developed fungus, as they had rather severe handling when they were spawned just before starting for New York. Salt water baths saved some of them, but most of them died from the fungus, and it has been a matter of speculation how those in Lake George have fared. A few weeks ago Capt. Patten was trolling for lake trout in Lake George and caught a golden or Sunapee trout. He recognized the fith before he got it to his boat and released it uninjured. This is good news, for if one fish survived it is reasonable to sup- pose that more of them are alive and well and that they will spawn in the lake next fall. Capt. Patten’s fish looked to weigh about 24lbs. and was in excellent condition. It is the only one of theserfish known to have been caught. They have been so well described, and the fishermen are so much interested in them, that I fee] that they will be returned to the water if more should be hooked. Landlocked Salmon in Lake Champlain. Lake George has always seemed to me an ideal water for the propagation of landlocked salmon, or, as I believe, they should be called ouananiche, as the water is pure, cold and deep, and it abounds in ‘‘frost fish” (the round whitefish) for food, but it lacks in one particalar, large tributary streams for fish to run into for spawning purposes. The late Col. McDonald, then U. 5. Kish Commissioner, told me if 1 would recommend the stocking of Lake George with sal@on he would furnish the fish. It was some time before I would take the responsibility of making the recommenda- tion, and then not until I had visited Sunapee Lake, and found similar conditions as to spawning streams existing there where salmon do well. In the spring of 1894 I did make the recommendation, and the U.S. Fish Commissioner sent me two car loads of fingerling salmon in October of that year. Twelve thousand were planted in Lake George streams and 10,000 in streams flowing into Lake Champlain between Port Henry and Blutt Point. The next year two additional car loads were plante one in the stream of each lake. So far as known the first salmon to be killed as the result of these plantings was killed in Lake Champlain near Port Henry on July 29 of this year. Commodore W. C. Witherbee, who has taken an active ‘interest in planting fish in and about the lake for many years, and who rendered material aid in planting all the salmon, wrote me of the capture of the fish in question and said that it weighed 3iJbs. The salmon must have been _ three years old Jast spring, as the first plant was of fish Latched in the spring of 1894. It is believed that a salmon was caught in Lake George early in the summer, but nothing positive is known, except that it was not a lake trout. The men who caught. the fish had never seen its like, and from some of the things said about it Iwas inclined fo think it possible that it was a salmon. Lake George, as I haye said, furnishes whitefish food for the salmon, and Lake Champlain furnishes smelt food, and it will be interesting t) watch developments and discover in which lake the saimon do the best. Probably other fish may be taken in one or both lakis before the sea- son closes. Anyway, the prospect for salmon fishing next year is promising. Yearling Brook Trout, About a year ago I had something tosay about the growth of trout fry at a private hatchery of a Long Island club, at one of the State hatching stations, and at a hatchery in Mas- sachusetis, where trout are reared for sale. All the trout showed rapid growth, but none were equal to some trout that have been reared at the Cold Spring Harbor station of the Fisheries, Game and Forest Commission of New York this year. In the fry ponds I saw last week (Aug. 5) fry that were 54in. long from eggs hatched this year, and there were plenty of fry in the same pond that measured Hin, In the yearling ponds I measured trout that were 10 and 10fin. long, from eggs hatched a year ago last spring. if any one is curious about these fish, let him take a foot rule and mark on it 5tin. for fry of this year’s hatching, and 10jin for yearlings of last year’s hatch- ing, and they will get an idea of what size trout grow to on long Island. The trout were deep, well conditioned fish, and not specially grown for record of length, in other words, they were simply such fish as are -taised there for distribution in State waters. In one of the yearling ponds containing 6 000 fish I noticed a trout much too big fora yearling. I caught a glimpse of him in the mob of trout as they circled around the pond, but was sure my eyes had not deceived me, although the men said there were nothing but yearlings in the pond, and they had been ‘recently sorted. J insisted that a search should be made for _ the trout, and finally he was discovered and netted—a two- year-old trout. As he was beirg removed a fish dropped from his mouth, partly digested. Jt was one of lhe yearlings, -and hew many he had eaten no One could tell. Fortunately he had been there but a few days, for the yearlings had been ‘counted into the pond when they were sorted a short time before. How he got there was a mystery, for the screens were nailed fast and the raceway boarded over, and there were no two-year-old anywhere near the yearling pond. Probably some bird of prey had captured the fish from the two-year-old ponds and in flying away with him lost him in the yearling pond, where he was found, Sponge for Balt. * In writing of bullieads Lintended to say that their yorac- ity has a limit, although it may not be suspected where they are found, as I have narrated, in some of the small Adiron- dack lakes. A friend whom I was visiting at his camp on the shore cf one of the Jakes that contain more bullheads than are needed, proposed one evening to go out and reduce their number. His henchman, forester, fisherman and educated story-teller (:ducated im part, I suspect, by my friend for the enter- lainment of his suests), I haye already introduced in my notes by his name Hank, Hank was told to get ready a big flat bottomed boat and my friend, his two sons, Hank and myself went out at dark to wage asmall war on the bullheads, Hank had a rod, but no opportunity to use it, for nO sooner were we anchored than there was a fringe of bullheads dangling about his head to be taken from the hooks and the hooks rebaited. The bullheads came so fast that sometimes they got in Hank’s face or down his back, for one could not see very well in the dark Hank never uttered a protest, for he had bern well trained, and simply waited to geteven. My friend passed over a bullhead and Hank took it off by the light of a lantern, but did not rebait the hook. In a moment my friend caught another bullhead without a bait; possibly a small piece of worm adhered to the hook. When the fish was remoyed Hank baited the hook witha piece of sponge and my friend continued fishing, with no bites. He thought it strangeand passed over Bie houk for an examination, but Hank told him he had a geod, full bait on his hook, and the fishing continued, until 1 was obliged to Jaugh, and caused suspicion and an examination of the hook. Hank gtoutly maintained that as we had been trying all sorts of experiments he wished to try a piece of sponge, but as he had no chance to fish he had been forced to put the sponge on hisemployer’s hook, but he was satisfied that bull- heads drew the line at a pirce of boat sponge, although they would take a bare hook that had recently had a worm on it, The only thing which surprised me was that Hank did not contend that he had often caught bullheads with a piece of sponge: perhaps he did not think of it, A, N, Gumneay. NEWFOUNDLAND ATTRACTIONS. Tu railroad in Newfoundland is going across to new game and fish resorts. Dr. Wilfrid Grenfell, Superintendent of the Royal Deep Sea Mission to Labrador Fishesmen, writes in the Toronto Globe: ‘*T have cruised the coast now five years in succession, navigating my own hoat, and am by no means inclined to consider it as dangerous as is generally supposed - for yachtsmen. True, the cliffs in many place took forbidding, but there are such an enormous number of islands and excel- lent natural harbors to run for, in some of ‘which the fleets of the world could lie in safety, that though my voyages haye beev in an 8 ton and then in a 34-ton steam launch, we have never found apy difficulty in getting trom har- bor to harbor. There are hundreds of rivers, nota single one of which is private property, and also i#tmmerable lakes, well stocked with trout and salmon. Many of these are still inuocent of an artificial fy. The shooting to be obtained is excellent, The wild geese, ducks and sea birds are naturally abundant. The willow grouse afford excellent sport also: They are plentiful and strong flyers. Snipe are abundant in places, and plover also. Reindeer, larger than I haye met in Norway or Labrador, or indeed anywhere—for I believe them to be the largest of their species—are simply ionumer- able. But the stranger must purchase a $100 license before he can shoot them, Bear, wolves, otters and beavers are also to be found. The large Arctic hare and ‘rabbit are in plenty. The country should offer the archeologist also an excellent field for work. The aboriginal tribes of the island have only recently disappeared, and next to nothing has been done to obtain traces or records of them: The ornithologist, botanist and entomologist have alsoa gréat field open whence ~ to gather knowledge and fresh laurels. Very little has ever — been done with the entomology of the island. The agricul- tural prospects of the country seem limited to the western part of the island, but there appears to be there good grazing land, and in places good agricultural land. The fogs so associated with the country I have not failed to experience, and that more than once, but they are limited to the sea al- most entirely. Many times, making the land in foggy weather, we have found a glorious day with lovely sunshine on the land. Asa matter of fact, the climate of the interior is a dry one, is extremely healthy and bracing, and if only good hotels existed on some of the large inland lakes, such as Deer Lake and Grand Lake, from the stand- point of a physician I should say that persons with weak lungs and tendencies to tuberculosis could do far worse than spend the summer months in Newfoundland. Until now it has almost been impossible to get into the country at all. Very few persons had ever been across it, and even its own inhabitants knew nexf to nothing about it. But the new railway is solving the problem. By next June it will be open in its entire length, and a fine steamer now being specially constructed for the seryice will transfer mails and passengers in six hours from Sydney on the Intercolonial Railway to Port au Basque. Whether the current of pas- sengers to the mother country will be diverged to run through this channel is still to be seen. Certuinly the time on passage will be very considerably reduced, and fast steamers from St. Johns, Newfoundland, to Liverpool, which is the shortest trans-Atlantic course, should accomplish the journey in little, if anything, over three days. Thus bad sailors should all eventually go this way. Let us hope that this will not be a stigma attaching to everyone choosing Ave. 21, 1897,] his route. The Newfoundland Government are certainly to be congratulated on their pluck in this matter, and it is sin- cerely to be hoped that success may attend their policy. the wearied and worried brain of a city man to spend a few weeks among these delightful people.” MEN I HAVE FISHED WITH. LIl.—Dr. Spencer M. Nash. Tsar storm had begun before sundown and raged through- out the long wiuter night. It was still raging as we looked out on the great snowdrifts on Christmas morning, 1866, and as we gathered at breakfast each remarked, ‘It was a fear- ful night,” and father rejoiced that no cattle trains were due that day, for he had charge of the live stock department, at the eastern end of the New York Central Railroad, and would not have enjoyed having several stock trains stuck in the snow, His men had shoveled a path from the office to the house, and as we finished breakfast one announced that ‘& passenger train had been stuck in the suow half a mile above and the passengers had neither fire nor food, Every- thing eatable in the house was put in baskets, pails of milk and of coffee were prepared, and half a dezen men were sent wallowing through the drifts to the relief of the passengers, Many of the men on the train came down to the West Albany Hotel, and left the provisions. for the women and children, Two of them were acquainted with one of our family and slopped with us fortwo days until the roads were opened, We improvised a cribbage board, and putin the time as well as we could; for there was no stock coming through, and, therefore, nothing to keep us clerks and bookkeepers busy. Seventeen years later, in 1883, at Blackford’s annual trout opening in Fulton Market, New York, I was introduced to many gentlemen by the late Frank Endicott, whothen knew every angler worthy of the name. in the city. Among them was Dr. Nash, who, after some conversation, remarked : “I know some people of your name in Albany. Have you relatives there?” “Yes, that was my boyhood home,” “Ts Capt, Juseph Mather, of West Albany, a relative of ours?” “Yes, we are slightly related; he’s my father.” “You don’t say so!” “T_ do say so.’ “Well,” said the Doctor, “I have a pleasant memory of a couple of days in your father’s hospitable home years ago, when | was snowbound on the Central road, coming Bast; we played cribbage, and after the old folks went to bed we went down in the office, where we sat by a roating fire and told: stories. A brother of yours had a banjo in the office and played all fhe old time songs and jigs, that 1 thought ' had long since been forgotten. What has become of him? Is he living?” “What was his front name?” “| forget just now, but Ud know it if I heard it,” “Was it Fred? He was there then.” “Yea, yes; Fred; that’s it. Vdlike to meet him again. Is he living?” ; “Wait a moment, till I feel my pulse—yes, I’m alive.” “Vou don’t mean it!” “Ido mean it. I made a cribbage board, played the banjo and sang: ‘ Ole Mister Coon’s & eunnin’ ting, He ramble in dé dark; Noifin seam to *sturb he’s min’ Till he hear ole Ringo bark. “Does that sound familiar? If it doesn’t, I'll give you a dozen or more yerses of it until your memory gets wide awake,” I wish I had a photo of the genial Doctor with the sur- prised look he wore when he put out his hand and said: “Well, Pll be durned!” As I took the protfered digits [ merely replied: ‘‘And so will L;” and we have never forgotten cach other since, He has several times basely deceived me by saying: ‘Hold still, now, it won’t hurt,” while he was preparing to run some abominable device up a hollow tooth and drag a quivering nerye from away up behind my eyeball. The vengeance which J then yowed could now be repaid (for is not tue pen mightier than the forcepr?), but when I look back from a more pleasant chair in my den and try to borrow some of the enchantment which distance is said to lend—without collat- eral gecurity—I relent. Perhaps he meant that his instru- ments of torture would not hurt—him. _That’s a dentist’s view of the case. As an item of interest concerning the feeding of the goft- finned pickerel on the spiny black bass, I will quote from a letter from Dr, Nash, written May 20, 1883: “I caught several pickerel (#. retiewlatus) on the artificial fly and one had a Jittle black bass in its throat, still alive. I placed forty bass, small and big-mouth, in the lake two years ago, and thisis the first evidence 1 have had that they have bred. The size puzzles me, The young bass seems too small for a yearling and too large for fry of this year, for the fish was nearly 2in, long.” Once he wrote me a critique on my monograph, entitled “Adirondack Fishes,” and among other things said: ‘‘I was surprised at your saying that you preferred bullheads to brook trout for the table, but on reflection must agree with you. Every summer | have tired of trout but have never had a sufficiency of bullheads. To be sure ] have never tried 10 Gat s0 many ot the catties as I haye of trout, and have never been confined to them asa steady diet as we are to trout in the woods. And this reminds me of a story. While making a (rip through the Adirondacks with a friend and two guides we stopped at Ike Kenwell’s, on Raquctte Lake, for dinner. My guide, Ike Stone, and I were standing on the wharf anxious to get away when a boat came to the landing. A gentleman s¢ated in the stern, said to be a clergyman, remarked to one standing near us: ‘Come, brother, get your tackle ready, I have found where we can get splendid fishing, for my guide thinks we can get some FOREST AND- STREAM. bullheads to-day.’ My guide never got over it, and he speaks of the ‘splendid fishing’ at Raquette Lake every year when we meet.” There may be no moral to this story, but it points to the fact that the flesh of all fishes of the salmon tribe, nut family, for 1 only mean the salmon and the different troute, is yery cloying after a short time, A man will tire of salmon after a few meals, yet an occasional dinner of it is an ichthyophagian treat, and the same is true of trout in a lesser degree, for its flesh is not so rich in oils as that of the salmon. Asoneof Kish Committee of the Blooming Grove Park Asso- ciation, Dr. Nash arranged with me for professional advice in localing and arranging a trout hatchery for the Association, and I visited that famous park in 1883 and afterward had their ' hatching troughs made on Long Island, sent by rail to New York, where they went to their journey’s end by canal and wagon over the mountains, and | was surprised to learn that they were watertight on arrival. I saw quite a little of the park then and was impressed with its wild, rugeed char- acter, which fitted it for a grand game preserve, and for Iit- tle else. Its 17,000 acres, with 4,000 more leased, contains eight mountain lakes and over twenty-five miles of trout streams, This, and asquare mile fenced in for a breeding park for deer and other game, made it a sportsman’s para- dise, surrounded as it is by a wild, mountainous country in Pike county, Pa., only 140 miles from New York City. A year or two after this first visit Dr. Nash invited me to fish in the park with him, ‘The trout season was poor just then, because the streams were swollen, and the only fishing at the time was for black bass. We left the handsome club house in the morning in a two-seated carryall drawn by two sturdy and stubborn little mules, named Or and Tor, When Bob, the driver, took up the lines and started his team he lighted his pipe and polluted the air bebind him. Nash did not seem to mind it, and J, being a guest, pretended not to notice it. Inno other country that I know of would such a thing be tolerated, even if a-driver should so far forget him- self as to attempt if, but it is an everyday occurrence among our free-born American drivers of stages and other vehicles in the rural districts. We were bound for Lake Laura, which is about six miles in a direct line fromthe club house, but fully nine by the mountain roads. The trees were gor- geously tinted with all the varied greens of early summer, for the leaves of the hard woods were still quite young, and when Bob’s pipe was replaced in his pocket the air was glorious. There was a little house and stable at Lake Laura, and T was glad to get from the wagon into a boat. The lake is nearly square and is almost a mile across in both directions, with a shelving, rocky shore, which was washed clean of mud or vegetation as far out as one could see the bottom. It was now nearly 9 A. M., and an occasional bass was break- ing here and there. Their nests were plentiful and plain to be seen, and many schools of baby bass that had just risen, but had not scattered to seek their individual fortunes, were also to be seen. “What Hies do you propose to use?” asked the Doctor, “Just what I was about to ask you, because this is strange water to me and you've fished it before. Tell me what you think best to start in with?” The Doctor cast his weather eye aloft, sniffed at the wind and said: “The morning is fairly bright and there is suffi- cient breeze to make a ripple and hide the fa)l of the line and leader. 1 think that rather sober-colored flies should take, don’t you?” ““That’s the theory, a dull fly fora bright day and bright colors ior an overcast sky, but I’ve often found exceptions to the rule.” “Naturally,” said the Doctor, “the exceptions prove the rule; if there was no rule there could be no exception,” “Well, here’s a ginger-hackle and a March-brown,” I re- plied, “and if they don’t suit I'll give ’em something else, and reserye any tilt at your philosophy until we adjourn io take a rise out of the luncheon,” and I was son casting. Nash selected a stone-fly and a brown-palmer, and then he put the boat to the western side of the lake and let it drift back as we fished. We had a rise or two, but no strike, and contrary to all expectation the bass were rising about the lake more freely than when we started to fish, for we gener- ally look for them to stop feeding as midday approaches. I said something to this effect, to which the Doctor replied: ‘All black bass rules are violated by the bass in Bloom- ingrove Park. ‘Tbere’s that fine Jake just in front of the club house, Lake Giles; it’s about the size of this lake and contains thousands of large bass, but they refuse to rise to fly or bite at bait, durn ‘em, and we don’t know what to think of them. We can see dozens of them swimming by, great fellows, of four, six, and nobody knows how many pounds, but they decline all offers. What do you think of that?” “The bass are a recent importation, for they are not natives of the eastarn parts of New York and Pennsylvania, and they are ab present finding ali the food they want in the native suckers, shiners and olher fish, but when they clean this food up they will then have appetites for what you have to offer. Now, when we start again from the western shore I’m going to try brighter flies, Here’s a red-ibis and a queen-of-the-water all ready. Let me take the oars while you change your cast.” A coachman and a yellow sally was the Doctor’s choice, and we did quite well with these, even if the day was bright We had eleven fish in the next drift across the lake, most of them taken on the yellow-sally and the red-ibis. The bass were small, none going above 1lb , but they were lively and strong fighters. Nash said that they did not grow larger in Lake Laura. That was another strange thing, One more drift with a like result and it was time to go ashore, We had appetites befitting anglers on a mountain lake. We had a wealth of appetite that would have been of rare value to men who are chained to business, but we had ac- quired it easily, and wesquandered it so thoroughly that none of our wealth was available to take home, : * * * A voice said: ‘Come, wake up if you want to do some fishing this affernoon,”’ and as the ‘“‘dull dense senga- tion of recurling sense” rolled Lack, I gradually got a grip on life and became conscious that Lake Laura was the place on this planet where I was ‘‘at,’ and fish once more seemed worth the fishing. ' The same flies served for the afternoon fishing, although the sky was not so bright and nothing unusual occurred ex- cept that a bass took one of my flies below and the other fly became entangled in something that was stronger than my leader. The bass was lost and my other hook broke; on reeling in I found that the broken hook was one of those side-bent “‘sneck” hooks which are my abomination, and 149 ————* bow I ever came into possession of a queen of-the-water tied on a sneck hook is more than I can say. I don’t know of any ily-maker or dealer who sends outor sells flies tied on these hooks, and I was surprised to find that I had such a Before we quit fishing I told the Doctor that I would like to take a hundred or two of the baby bass to Lone Island, for by the way, all the bass in Lake Laura were of the small- — mouth persuasion, and we got a quart fruit jar from the © house and put some baby bass in it, They were less than half an inch long and blacker than they would ever be again. Westarted, Bob lighted his pipe and a hind wheel col- lapsed and he went over the dasliboard among an indis- tinguishable mess of mule’s heels, while his young life was saddened by the logs of his pipe, which suffered a compound fracture. J was sitting over the wheel whose spokes, with- out a request from one of its felloes, Jet the hub fall on the pround, to the great surprise of the men and mules. As Nash sailed over me, after the manner of a flying squirrel, there was a Momentary glimpse of a fruit jar following him, and then we arose and saw hundreds of baby bass struggling for life in the road, ‘‘And forty miles from a wagon maker,” each other that we were unhurt. ‘Il don’t mind the walk back,” said I, ‘‘but I am so’sorry about the driver’s pipe.” That driver crawled out from under the mules and looked at the wreck of wagon and of pipe. est calamity, from his point of view, he did not say; but he looked dazed, until Nash said to him: ‘‘Come, wake-up; go to the house and get an axe, and we'll fix the wagon and go on.” He went, brought an axe, and the Doctor cut a long pole, put it under the hind axle and lashed it fast to an iron on the front of the wagon body; and so, trailing on the ground like the lodge poles of a Sioux, that pole sustained the axle, and we put our rods and fish in the wagon and Which was the great- — > said the Doctor, as we shook hands and assured ~ started over the mountain on foot, while Bob, seated over the front wheels, drove on without his pipe. As we started ahead of the team, Nash advised that we cut some good strong gads in case of meeting rattlesnakes, and we did. They were chestnut sprouts, tough, and about 15ft. long and perhaps 14in, at the butt—most formidable things for a snake to meet while enjoying life in a sun-bath on an unfrequented road, ‘‘Now bring on your snakes,” said my companion, and ‘‘There’s one,” said -I, as we made a short turn and a rattler came into view while taking his siesta in the middleof the road. There was a rush, a yell, and the gads went whack, whack, on the vertebrie of that snake just as he threw himself into a hollow coil to resist the charge. It was no use, our artillery was too heavy for him. Some one said that Providence was always on the side of the heaviest artillery, thereby either paraphrasing or antedating a similar remark ascribed to Napoleon regarding the best disciplined troops, Be that as it may, we had the heaviest artillery and were the best disciplined troops, because we acted In concert, and our whacks reduced the enemy to such an extremity that’ he was quiescent, merely wiggling his tail to show how glad he was to see us. ‘Seven rattles and a button,” remarked my companion snake-killer, ‘‘and this fellow is eight years old, at least, No one can say that some rattles have not been lost, and that he may be a hundred years old. What do you think of that?” **] think that I don’t know the first thing about it. There are men who deny that the snake produces only one rattle a year, and others who assert that the rings on a cow’s horn may indicate age, but not necessarily her exact age; and other men claim that in favorable years a tree will make several tings in a season, if the growth is checked and proceeds again, according as the months may be alternately dry or wet,” “You don’t believe in these things, I take it,” said my friend, in a manner that denoted a question. “They may be so; I don’t deny them,” I answered, ‘‘but ihe question seems to be an open one, one in which the evi- | dence is not all in, and as either a judge or a juryman I be- lieve nothing until it has been proved. I have counted over a dozen wrinkles on the horn of a cow that I once bred and knew to be only four years old, and I’ve seen rings of erowth on clam and oyster shells that would make them appear to be octogenarians when their size belied the wrinkles. I once hatched oysters from the egg, and under the microscope saw them fasten on shells, and then gus- pended them where there was plenty of food in tide. water. In the fall those oysters were as large as a quarter of a dollar, and showed sharp rings of growth, I can’t say how many, perhaps twenty. That is as far as my positive knowl- edge goes. What are you carrying that snake on your gad for?” ‘For no reason that I can give,” said the Doctor, ‘‘but you must know that aman does many things for which he can give no good reason—I mean asound commercial reason; this thing is a trophy; only this and nothing more. It may serve to scare the mules into greater activity if they ever catch up with us, or it will serve to feed the ants if we ever find a hill of pismires.” We soon found what had been a hill, but which had been leveled by a bear, who provoked the inhabitants to attack him and then devoured them as they swarmed on his tongue. The trouble had occurred so long before that the pismires had partly rebuilt the mound, and when Nash dropped the snake across it with a thud, it was fun to see the hordes swarm up from below to resent any attack upon their out- works, They came by battalions, brigades and divisions of army corps, and they emitted a peculiar odor, which cannot be described. They covered the snake iin. deep, and any man who has ever aroused the ire of a colony of this kind by disturbing their mounds, and has had the experience of only one of these wingless insects up his trouser’s leg, will know just how they nipped that dead snake. ‘‘If you come alovg here to-morrow,” said the Doctor, ‘‘you will find the skeleton of that rattler picked clean enough to set up in a museum; there will no& be a bit of flesh or skin left; the few scales and the skeleton will remain becanse the ants can’t eat them,” The mules came up while we were watching the legions alttackive the dead snake, and the driver said that since the pole had replaced a wheel the mules had refused to go faster than a walk, and showed his whip worn to a stump, in evi- dence that he had used all his powers of persuasion. Then we tried our arguments, one to each mule, but those gads which had made a rattlesnake look as though he had been run through a threshing machine were shed from the backs of those mules as a duck’s back sheds water, They squirmed as we yelled and whaled, but our arguments had no effect. It was not fear of Mr. Berzh that made us desist, but that muscular incapacity which accompanies severe laughter. The mules were the best disciplined troops in this engage- 150 ment, and they tired us out; they carried their point, and walked the whole way home. ; “T tell you,” said the Doctor, ‘‘a mule knows a heap. That team knew that if they should trot another wheel might break down, and it is their duty to get the wagon and Bob home safely. Yes, amule knows more than some men.” “Present company not excepted.” ‘ “Correct; the more you study a mule—whoop! There’s another snake!’ The gads were playing on a rattler 1 ke flails on a barn floor a second later and the dissertation on mules was never completed, and thus much knowledge which might benefit mankind—or mules—was irretrievably lost, all on account of a miserable little rattlesnake which was valueless as food, of no account as a motive power, whose oil is of doubtful yalue for rheumatism, and whose sole mission seems to. be confined to scaring huckleberry pickers, causing some sports- men to carry ‘remedy for snake-bites,” and {urnishing in- spiration to Hd. Mott to write ‘Old Settler” stories for the New York Sun. Perhaps this is reason enough for its exist- ence. Who will deny it? It was in 1888—I like to be exact—that the B. G. Park Association, through Dr, Nash, invited me to be the judge in its fly-casting tournament in October, and Nash and I[ fished Lake Giles with fly, minnow, dobson and fiddler crab —which I brought from salt-water—for two days and never took a bass, although we saw them in sreat numbers and of large size nosing around our baits. It was anew experience to me, but Nash talked as though it was the usual thing on Lake Giles. 7 I have no record of the fly-casting at hand. Memory has ouly recorded the fact that the distances and accuracy com- pared favorably with such amateur casts as had been made at Harlem Mere, but the measuring line was unique, and the device of Dr. Nash is worthy of record, for it is the best thing of the kind Lever saw. It was made of wooden strips 3 or 4in, wide and 12ft. Jong; the ends dovetailed together and secured by a bolt, which allowed them vertical motion. On these strips were the distance marks. When we consider ihat our cotton lines would shrink when wet, and that the wood only shrinks or swells across the grain, to any appre- ciable extent, we get the value of this measuring line and of its record in tournaments, Some seven years ago Dr, Nash organized “Tlfe Presh Air Club,” of a dozen or more members, and they would go by _ rail to some place twenty or thirty miles away and then start for the city on foot and across lots, over hill and through meadow on a straight line, and each season they visited me on Long Island, shook hands and were off, with the motto: “The hind wagon pays the toll,” This and an annual vaca- tion of three months in the Adirondacks, where he is at the present writing, keeps the doctor in rugged health and strength, and he is naturally a strong man. As we sat in the boat on Lake Giles, trying to induce the bass to take flies and various baits without getting them to notice our lures, he said: “I took my first fishing lessons from Reub. Wood, when a boy in Syracuse, N. Y., but even Reub. couldn’t catch a bass in Lake Giles, and those boy- hood days with ‘Uncle Reub.’ are so long ago that I begin to think I’m as old as the hills or as the valleys between them, for I think they are twins, but, anyhow, I’m geiting old.” “Yes, you are old. Old enough to be called in. When did you fish with Uncle Reub, ?” yu “In 1861, when I was sixteen years old, and that’s a long time ago.” “Well, yes,” I answered, ‘‘it’s long fora boy like you to remember, but I fished with him in 1840, when I was seven years old, and that’s only ashort time ago, Please never speak’about your getting old in my presence. Hyen the fish refuse to bite when you talk in that way,” . The Doctor thought 4 moment and replied: ‘‘Old is a comparative term which changes its meaning as we advance in life. When I was thirty-eight and just a trifle gray I re- visited the village of Cazonoyia, where I lived between the ages of eight and sixteen, and chanced to see two boys fish- ing at a spot. where I fished when about their ages and caught the grandest suckers and bullheads that ever made a little boy’s heart glad, J mentioned the fact to the boys that T used to fish at that spot when a boy and passed on, but be- fore 1 was out of hearing I heard the question: ‘Say, John- nie, who is that old duffer?’ I did not get the reply, but never regretted it. If I was an old duffer five years ago I must be an older one now.” Thinking this over after writing it, I can only hope that if I organize a party to go to the gold fields of Alaska and the Klondike next spring, that one of the party will be Dr. Nash. Not that I fear a need of his professional services, for my wisdom teeth havenot only been cut, but shed some weeks ago, but for the sake of his genial companionship, his knowledge of camp life, and his unfailing eood nature ih the presence of misfortune or incident. Our acquaintance began in storm, ripened into a warm friendship in later years, and - at the rare intervals when we meet we are boys again. Freep MATHER, AN IOWA OUTING CENTER. Eprror ©, H. Loomis, of the Bellevue, Iowa, Herald, sends us his illustrated souvenir, ‘‘Where Proudly Flows the Mississippi,” devoted to setting forth the commercial, residential, and ovting characteristics of Belleyue. The town is on the Mississippi River, in northeastern Iowa, and is reached bythe Belleyue-Cascade branch of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R.R., and by the Chicago, Bar- lington & Northern Railway. Of the fishing and shooting, Mr. Loomis writes: “Tt has been said—and truly—that there are no better fishing grounds along the Mississippi than at Bellevue. Here is caught every species of fish known to the river— and in abundance; a fisherman with an empty string being of rare occurrence. Nearly every variety of bass is caught here, the best season for them being from June to September inclusive. Some of the best spots for bass fishing are in the sloughs and small lakes opposite the city—especially at the mouths of Lilly and Yonkers lakes; excellent bass fishing can also be had at the new government dams below town. The spoon and live minnows are preferable as bait, and as the bass is a capricious fellow, his prospective captor will do well to provide himself with each. A species of the bass family locally known as ‘croppies’ will take worms. “Another of our best game fish is the pickerel, frequent: ~ ing about the same localities as the bass, and taking the same bait. Jack-salmon and pike are caught in greatest abundance in ihe fall of the year; they take the minnow readily, and some of ihe best places for catching them are the rock bars north and south of the city, and on the Illinois FOREST AND STREAM. shore a short distance south. The several varieties of cat- fish, perch, sturgeon and eels are also caught here in num-_ bers. Bellevue and vicinity certainly affords plenty of sport for the piscatorially inclined outer, whether he be of indo- lent or ambitious disposition. “From 1842 to 1869 this region was the resort of wild game of all sorts and varieties indigenous to the country and climate. Our veteran sportsman, M. G, Hyler, has to his credit over 500 deer, hundreds of wild turkeys, and num- berless ducks, geese and prairie wolves killed during that period and later; and Mr. Hyler, as may be imagined, is not the only one who killed game. This country, however— like all other sections of the United States where primitive nature has fallen back before the advance of the woodsman’s axe and the plow of the husbandman—is in the wate of its glory a8’ a game country. Yet good shooting can still be had here, as in their proper seasons the sloughs and lakes are the home of thousands of wildfowl, such as ducks, geese and snipe, while quail, pheasant and woodcock are found in the Iowa bluffs and on the Illinois side of the river. The recently enacted Iowa game laws place some restrictions, however, upon the killing of the last, mentioned class of game, In furred pame—rabbits, squirrels, coons, foxes, prairie wolves aud wildcats are yet to be found in abundance by the sportsman who will learn their haunts. “The Mississippi River has been termed the home of the camper, and anyone who has taken a journey of any length upon it, or upon one of the lines of railroad which follow its curves, will fully appreciate the truth of the saying. During the camping season its shores and islands are dotted with the white tents of campers, and the pleasant odor of fried eggs and ‘sow-belly’ is wafted upon the breeze to the nostril of the passer-by. And, while generally speaking, the Mississipi is the camper’s home, it is peculiarly so in this immediate vicinity; scenery, climate, the excellent facilities for boating, fishing and hunting, the nearness of the camper to supplies—all combine to make this one of the most pleasant and conyenient of Jocalities for the spending of a few days, weeks or months amid the scenes of nature, Suitable spots for locating a summer camp ure so numerous in this vicinity that a detailed description of them would oecupy pages of this pamphlet; suffice it to say that anyone coming here for that purpose can readily secure any and all necessary information on the subject. In closing, we say: Cou to Bellevue, the ideal summer resort of the Mississippi Iver,’ A DAY ON BEAR BROOK, CHARLESTOWN, N. H., Aug. 10.—Hdior Forest and Stream: Looking over my last epistle as to bait fishing, size of hooks, etc., ete , and recalling the question as to closing waters en- lirely fora period, and then opening them on a fixed day to be raided by every angler for miles around, has brought back to my memory a day on Bear Brook many years ago, when a couple of hours changed the score of the day. I had often heard of Bear Brook more than fifty years ago, when living in Lowell, Mass., as a young man, and where some of my piscatorial friends from the Hoglish colony which first settled in Lowell, went up to Hooksett, N. H , quite near the brook, for a week, and sent home some beauti- ful trout; but I had never seen the brook myself until the first year of the late Civil War, when, in the general stagnation of all business which followed the outbreak of the war, the works in which I was engaged were partially stopped for a short time, and one of the employees, who was an ardent angler, proposed to me to go up to the brook and try for some trout. Another of the engravers joined him, and, piloted by a friend of ours, the market-man, who supplied us all with beet and mutton, and who knew the brook well, we started one bright morning in May for our drive up the Merrimac, and then up the Simcook River, some fifteen miles to the mouth of the brook. We arrived at the old Ely Place (a huge farmhouse with numerous and enormous outbuildings, which had once been the headquarters of a great lumber dustry) somewhere be- tween 8 and 9 o'clock in the morning, and putting up our horses, started for the brook, By the advice of our guide, we did not begin in the mea- dow near the house and the road, which he thought had been too much fished ‘‘by the boys,” but bore up a pasture road, reaching the water about a quarter of a mile above. Here we began, and scattering, worked up the brook. As I al- ways fish new waters rather deliberately, I got behind the rest of the party for some time, and had very poor luck, until L overtook them at the head of the meadow, where the brook made a number of short turns under the shadow of a piece of old woods, along whose edye it ran and made a number of deep holes, filled with old logs, where they were having a preat time and had got some fair fish. They had ‘“‘skimmed the cream” of it though before I reached them, and soon we all worked on up the brook. It came out bright and hot ‘with no air stirring, and by noon, when we reached a saw- mill far up the brook, we were very willing to sit down on the logs and rest. The men at the mill told us that the meadow above was good fishing, but there was not a sign of a tree or bush, and the sun was blazing down with full power, so we concluded not to goany further, but ate our lunches at our leisure, and smoked our pipes, and then set out homeward down the stream, which is the way I always prefer to fish with bait, and in so doing added a few more fish to our creels. “When we reached the deep holes under the shadow of the woods—but not in’ the shadow then, for the sun had ‘‘swung half round the circle’—my companions all ‘‘slacked speed,” to work them over again. Now, I never like to fish the same waters over again the same day, unless the weather changes, and do not believe in waiting for trout. I have always found that if they were at home, and ‘‘on the feed,” they would respond as soon as you “‘dropped them a line.”’ I accordingly worked slowly on down stream until, just as the sun was setting, I reached the bridge where we had. begun in the morning. Now, asI said in my Jast, I was ‘Joaded for bear.” I had on a 1.0 hook, with plenty of bait, and the firat cast I made in 4 bend of the brook, a few yards below the bridge, where it swirled under a hollow bank, was answered by such atug as I had not felt all day, and resulted in placing 4 4-pounder in my basket. Then my fun began. livery fresh bend in the brook gave me a fine fish from 6 to 8in. long, and when my companions overtook me in the meadow just below the house, when it was so dark TI could scarcely see my line, I was trying vainly to get an- — other rise from a big fellow which I had once lifted just out of water, and probably pricked, from striking too quick. We all concluded that it was too dark to fish longer, and. went up to the house, where, to the surprise of my compan~_ [Ave, 21,1897. Tong, the contents of my basket overbalanced their three. So much for an hour after sunset on a bright, clear day. Suffice it to say that we had a pleasant drive home by moon- light, and that two of my neighbors enjoyed a bountiful trout breakfast the next (Sunday) morning, as well as my own family. I shall never forget that last hour's Spo on W. BASS IN THE- VIRGINIAS. The Potomac River. THERE is a fact which seems to have escaped the notice of amajority of the fishermen coming here from a distance which I would call your attention to, for the benefit of a very few. The Potomac is touched by the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. at Harper's Ferry, W. Va., and Hancock, Md. , where it is fished by city anglers. Between these two points there is, I should judge, about thirty-five or forty miles of water thatis seldom ished by any except local fishermen, and a very few who come from Hagerstown, Md. There are some p!aces on this river one could safely call virgin waters, between the two places mentioned. Numer- ous dams make deep waters. The principal one being dam No, 4, about five or six miles west of Shepherdstown, W. Va. in. thick, while the Columbia cedar of Glencairn is but 5-liin,, Her l.w.l,, after all practicable lightening while at the Ogdensburg shops, proved to be 18ft. 2in., and that with her lighter board, of 130)bs., so that the heavier board could not be carried. " The two boats, when lying one just ahead of the other on their trucks, showed a most surprising resemblance below the deck. When seen separately and at different times, there are many differences to distract the eye, Gleucairn is 3ft. Tin, longer over all, with about Zin. more freeboard all] around, and at least 4in. more crown to deck at the mast, Momo haying 4a4in. crown amidships for the 8ft. beam. The rigs and the deck arrangements are very different, and while Glencairn shows an unbroken surface of dead black graphite below the heading at deck, Momo’s topsides as well as her deck are of bright Spanish cedar,the bottom below the L. W.L. being of white enamel. With the two boats as they were, however, it was possible to compose the true forms of the hulls, detail by detail, apart from all distractions of fittings and color. The rocker of keel is yery Much the same in both, save that Momo’s STATUTE M ME} = * 2 = os keel turns up very abruptly at the fore end. The side lines of the deck are not unlike, except for the same quick snub- bing in at the fore end on Momo, Momo’s sternpiece has a moderate rake while that of Glencairn is vertical, but there is no material difference here. The midship sections are to all practical purposes identical, both very closely resembling Glencairn I. Of the two Momo flares a little morein the topsides and is alittle narrower on the L.W.L. This peculiar- ity is carried out in all the sections of the afterbody, and is even seen in the sternpiece, the curve of the bilge, even here, is a little lighter than in Glencairn, and the sides above flares a little more. If the forebody of Momo were carried out about 2ft. fur- ther, to the end of her bowsprit, avoiding the very abrupt: snubbing of the fore ends of all herfore and aft lines, the bow would be practically identical with that of Glencairn; from a point just forward of the mast on each boat out to the stern piece they are almost the same. Momo looks to be. a little more extreme than Glencairn in the elliptical charac- ter of her L.W.1L. and level lines, and to gain more length in proportion when heeled. orking entirely apart, itis not a little remarkable that though both started mainly from Glencairn I., that Mr. Crane in his second boat and Mr. Duggan in his seventh should have come so closely together. The deck arrangements, fittings, sail plan and rig, already described, show more and greater differences by far than the actual forms of the hulls. The sail plans are radically dif- ferent; while Momo’s boom is 22ft., that of Glencairn is 25ft., and on the other hand the former has 3ft. more gaff, with a higher ante of peak. Quite a lengthy discnssion took place last fall over the best method of measuring the head triangle, and it was finally decided to take the line of the forestay instead of, as also suggested, the line of the foremast headsail. In Glencairn the real forestay runs up to the masthead, opposite the peak halyard block, much higher than the head of the jib, For purposes of measurement, however, a second “forestay” of light wire ropé is run directly over the luff of the jib. The fore triangle is about the same in both, but Glencairn’s ex- cess of sail is in the form of 40sq. ft. more in the mainsail. The second week of August brought very variable and unsettled weather to the lake, and Glencairn was out but little; her sails were overhauled and a new silk jib was made and she was fitted with a new rudder, of the same rectangu- lar shape as the old, but carried forward into a point similar to that of Momo, and with much more area forward of the center than in apy gf Mr, Duggan’s previous rudders. Momo and Al Anka were out as much as possible, sailing off Pointe Claire and alone, no attempts being made by the home boats to “get a line’’ on them. On Friday, Aug. 13,) there was a strong N.W. wind and a sea, both Glencairn and Momo going for a time, but keeping apart. Al Anka was stripped and sailed down to Lachine under a jurymast and centerboard loaned by Mr. Duggan, with a spinaker as mainsail. She was shipped on a flat car to be taken to Bos- ton, where she will race in the 17ft, class. On Friday evening a meeting was held at the club house, the sailing committee being present, with Mr. Crane. Messrs. Sherman, Keas and Dresser, who had arrived during the day, were invited to be present. The final details were discussed, and an agreement drawn up, as is usual. In the New York races Momo had been steered by Mr. Crane and Mr. Stackpole, one relieving the other from time to time. Article X. of the Declaration of Trust reads as fol- lows: The helmsmen, sailing the representative yachts in the match must be amateurs, and must be residents of the countries of their respective clubs. The challenging and challenged club must name in writing, each to the other or to their respective representatives, at least twenty-four hours before the day appointed for the first race, the helmsmen who willisail their representative yachts;?and such helmsmen shall sail such yachts in all the races of the match, unless prevented by illness or other subtantial cause, in which event substitutes shall be allowed. In naming helmsmen under this clause, Mr, Crane was desirous of naming both himself and Mr, Stackpole, either to handle the tiller at will; but this was objected to by the other side as contrary to the precedent in the previous matches for the cup, and to general usage. After quite a lengthy discussion the following memorandum was drawn up: It was agreed that one helmsman be named by each club for the coming races, such helmsman not to be unnecessarily restricted, the intention being that the conditions as to helms- man governing the two previous competitions for the chal- lenge cup be maintained during the coming races. : The agreement was then signed, reading as follows; Agreement covering certain conditions of the match for the Seawanhaka International Challenge Cup for small yachts, to be sailed between Glencairo II., representing the Royal St. Lawrence Y. C., of Montreal, Can,, and Momo representing the Seawanhaka Corinthian Y, C., of New York, beginning on Saturday, Aug. 14, 1897, 156 FOREST AND STREAM. [Aue, 31, 1897, Tn pursuance of the provisions of Article XI of the deed of trust, executed by the Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., dated June 1, 1896, covering the terms and conditions governing the tenure of the Seawanhaka International Challenge Cup for small yachts, and the competition therefor, itis hereby mutually agreed between the Royal St. Lawrence Y. C., of Montreal and Dorval, Can., and the Seawauhaka Corinthian Y. C., of New York, that the following additional regula- tions shall apply to the match to be sailed, beginning Aug. 14, 1897, namely: : 1. The courses shall be as follows: COURSE TO WINDWARD OR LEEWARD AND RETURN. From aline between a buoy with black and white ball capped with bright tin cone, and a stakebont, flying the Royal St. Lawrence Y. C, Buigee in tange with the foremast on the committee boat, to and around a mark, bearing 4 black and white ball or disc capped with a bright tin cone, leaving it on starboard hand; distance 2 miles. if possible, if not, 1!y miles, and return; contse to be sailed over three or four, times, ds Case may eall for, making 4 total Wistance of 12, nautical miles. t the end of the fitst d second rounds the black and white, ball or dise is to be ott on the starboard hand. , The direction will, be an- ponnged from the committee steamer before the preliminary signal. We it ie i a TRIANGULAR COURSE: r Ja hi From.a line between red and, white buoy with dise, capped with, bright tin cone, and a stakeboat anchored to the south- ward in range, with foremast on committee, boat. W. byS. 12g miles, to and; around a mark bearing A yed. and white disc or ball, leaving it on starboard. hand, N. % H. 114 miles, to and around a mark, bearing ared and white dise or,ball, leaying if, on starboard hand. S S.H.‘1}4 miles, to the finish between red and white disc or ball buoy, and the stakeboat, anchored to the windward, rere , j eA _ Course tq be sailed over three times; total distance, 12 nautical miles. :; de i é 4 On the first and second rounds yachts will leave the red and white buoy on thestarboard hand. _ Wote.—The sailing committee may in its discretion direct the course to be sailed in the reverse direction, leaving buoys and marks on the port hand; and the signal forsuch reversal of the course will be the anchoring of, the stakeboat at the Start to the northward of the buoy. In this case the stake- oat, will be Anchoted to the southward of the buoy at the nish, The committee steamer will be anchored beyond the 3takeboat, so a8 to bring the signal staff of the steamer as - hear as practicable in a line with the mast of the stakeboat ahd the buoy; and for the purpose of determining when a yacht has crossed the line, the committ&ée will be guided by - e range between the signal staff and the mast of the stake- oat. ee. Re ' ' START AND SIGNALS. 3 The start will be aone-gun flying start, with prelimi- hary and preparatory signals, and will be made as nearly as practicable at 10:30 o’clock A, M. First Signal, Preliminary: Whistle fifteen seconds long. The blue peter will be hoisted on the upper deck signa] staff of the committee steamer. Thete will be an interval of ten mintites between the first and second signals. Second Signal, Preparatory: Whistle fifteen seconds long. The blue peter on the committee steamer will be lowered and a red ball hoisted. ‘There will be an interval of five minutes between the second and third signal. Third Signal, Start: Whistle fifteen seconds long, and the red ball will be lowered. ; , RECALL SIGNALS. Im case it should be necessary to recall the contestants, a blue ensign shall be displayed from the committee steamer and two sharp whistles given for the recall of Glencairn IL, and an American ensign shall be displayed and four sharp whistles for the recall of Momo. ’ 3. Ifany triangular race isnot concluded within four hours after the starting signal has been given, it shall be postponed to the next succeeding day, excluding Sunday. 4. If any windward or leeward and return race is not con- cluded within five hours after the starting signal has been given, it shall be postponed to the next succeeding day, ex- cluding Sunday. ; 5 In the event of heavy weather occurring or any day, the sailing committee shall, at the request of both contestants, postpone the race fixed for that day to the next succeeding day, excluding Sunday; but, if in the opinion of the com- mittee and either one of the contestants, the weather is not too heavy, the race shall be started. In the event of a fog or calm, the committee shall have power to postpone the start, provided, however, that no race shall be started later than 3 o’clock in the afternoon. -§. In the event of its becoming necessary to postpone or re- sail any race, such race shall be set for the next succeeding day, excluding Sunday, provided, however, that in case either of the contesting yachts is injured or disabled, a snt- ficient time to complete repairs shall be allowed. The judg- ment of the sailing committee as to what constitutes suf- ficient time shall be final. . The racing rule of the Royal St. Lawrence Y. C , requiring the carrying of life preservers, shall not apply to this match. Anchors may or may not be carried, at the option of the coutestants.’ The Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club, of New York, by (Signed) CHAS, A. SHERMAN, : Its Representative. The Royal St. Lawrence Yacht Club, of Montreal and Dorval, by (Signed) J. C, C. ALMON, Tits Representative, Assented to (Signed) CLINTON H. CRANE, For Momo. Assented to (Signed) G. H. DUGGAN, For Glencairn II. The marks for the turns were wooden discs, each about 2ft. in diameter, two being fastened at right angles on a mast. The lower half of each disc was painted white, the upper either black or red, Hach pair of discs was capped bya cone of polished tin about 1ft. high, this reflecting the sun and heing visible at a distance, On Wriday afternoon Messrs. Almon and Wickstead went out in a launch and set the three marks for the triangle, carefully logging each side. It was decided, as in the agreement, to shorten the triangle to 114 instead of 2-mile sides. The starting line was in nearly the same position as in the trialraces. Mr. Duggan was formally named as helmsman of Glencairn and Mr. Stack- pole of Momo, Mr. Crane working forward. . " Both yachts were launched early on Saturday morning, and the steam yacht Dama, kindly offered to the committee for the races by Mr. W. Barelay Stevens, took them in tow about 9:45 Onthe Dama were the sailing commi'tee, with Mr. Riddell as chairman, Mr. Almon as officer of the day, Messrs. Fitz Gibbon and Riley as timekeepers, and Mr, Wicksteed as signal officer. With them as guests were sey- eral members of the SeawanhakaC. Y. C. - he steamer Duchess of York took on a large party of “members and guests at Lachine, and was off Pointe Claire before the Dama cameup. The steamer was in charge of Bear-Com, Abbott. On board were representatives of the leading New York and Boston papers, the hurricane deck being specially reserved for them by the club. Every pre- paration was made by the Montreal papers for reporting the vace; two canal barges were auchored about the vicinity of ihe course, and cables were laid to the shore, After a stormy day and a threatening night, with a hard tain toward morning, Saturday was clear and bright, much warmer than Friday, but by no means mncomfortably hot. The wind was from the east and but light. Mr. Crane was desirous of a start to windward, and to obtain this the com- mittee ran up a couple of miles beyond Pointe Claire. Voi- lina, steam yacht, had come down from Ogdensburgh for the races, and her owner, Mr. W. H. Post, very kindly offered her as buoy tender, With the markboats in tow, she ran up and dropped two boats some 50yds. apart for the starting line; and then started and logged off two miles E. by S. for the second mark. i 4 ‘ _ The scene at the line was a lively one, and well worth a longer description, but that is another stoty: the fleet of small yaéhts; skiffs and ¢anoes was most unique, thany of the yachts were quit# old, long oiit of rating 4nd forgotten, btit they ttirned up now froii all sérts of out-of-the-way places. One had the Ftenth tricolor at het peak and a large merican ensign lashed to a shrotid dn each side. At Lach- ine; on a high flagpole, the Canadjan and Ameriéan ensigns were flown side by side shpienned, in banter fashion, a very a sight. ‘ or a : ‘ q e preliminary signal was given at 11:31, with the prepar; atory at ital. Both yachts Fprauleue to the line, with full sail; the. wind beiug light, with occasional putts, and the water, smooth. The Dati was north of the starting line and Momo lay about the markboat at thesouthend. Mr. Stackpole had a hand on one leg of a big ‘‘wishbone” tiller, triangular, framework about 5ft. long and 3ft. 6in, across he hase, a very, neat piece of woodwork made by Mr. Young; of the Spalding-St. Lawrence Boat Co., who built the yacht, Mr.;, Duggan, ,as.usual, had a “dog-leg” tiller, the main tiller about 38ft. 6in. long, with a piece about 2ft long joined; to it by a bolt through both, When sitting inde, this upper piece was swung in flat.on top of the main ti ler,, the helmsman’s hand: on the end of the latter, When, hiking ont, the extension piece was swung out at right angles to the main piece and held in the hand, the helmsman being thus enabled to put the helm amidships or eyen down while hiking out to wind- ward. Just before the start, the extension piece, lying on top of the main tiller, slipped, off and caught on the deck. In freeing it, an unusual strain was put on the bolt, a piece of 3-16 brass rod, and it broke, the main tiller slipping to lee- ward out of reach fora moment. While Momo, beautifully timed, went over just after the gun. Mr, Duggan was thus in trouble with his tiller; while the new rudder, with an ex- cess of balance forward, was acting very differently from the old, Glencairn was headed for the line, but as she trossed she swung in and struck the markboat, smashing a hole in her starboard wale just forward of the chain plate. While she went off in chase of Momo her crew was busy trying to patch the hole with a piece of thin wood, and after this proved impossible, in Stopping it with a jersey. _ Momo also met with a4 slight mishap on the line; her throat halyard block, with a wooden shell, split and went to pieces, leaving het wire halyard with a short nip across the edge of the shéave. The throat was down and could not possibly be meéated up, but the peak halyard was set taut and the tack was hoye down, thanks to the spring gooseneck, so that the sail was made to sit very well. ‘ Though hopelessly out of it through the foul, Mr. Duggan took the wisest course under the circumstances, and con- tinued the race. Momo from the start was evidently doing the best of work to windward; with her sails drawing beau- tifully, she was pointing very high, and at the same time footing fast. The beat out was made without special inci- dent, save that Glencairn was dropping steadily astern of Momo. They were timed at the first mark: Time Blapsed, Gain, AVECIENI (fre, e,ssaracacatsceaverssaseietery ssonsevsesarde do 40 0 29. 40 0 02 02 Gleneairns.,...ccseses nee tee. oieraet 12.17 42 0 80 42 Momo’s spinaker was broken out to starboard just 1m. 15s. after she turned, and Glencairn’s in Im, 8s. Both set bal- loon jibs, Glencairn spilling her spinaker into hers. They ran down wind with a light breeze and smooth water, but against the Ottawa current, the first round being timed? FIRST ROUND. Elapsed. Gain. iv™ YS =>: Ce a, = aT Time. Leg. Round. Leg. Reund. Lead. Momo....., veveaee 22 40 CO 0217 20 04500 000538 00255 0 02 55 Glevcairn, prececees IPR PE rate Thecte EERE) etree 6 Ar eern eer The two were so far apart now that there was nothing but straight sailing, with no possible maneuvering. Momo tacked whenever it was necessury to keep Glencairn under her lee, but she was too far away to hurt heropponent. The breeze freshened a little and the boats moyed as though they had some life, but still it was but moderate, The outer mark was timed for the second time: Time. Elapsed. Gain. Lead. WINDOW Oo cseiyisee dirt haven vansel 1045 0 30 45 0 00 10 0 03 05 Glencairn..... Py rukusies et eolos 0) 0 30 55 Pot aster The times show that Glencairn had made the windward leg in but 10s, more than Momo. She had made a little water, but not enough-to hinder her much, and her crew had evidently had time to recover from the demoralizing effects of a very bad start. ; They ran home much as before, the times being: SECOND ROUND. Gain. Time. Dlansed. Leg. Round. Lead. Momo: .ccasccecessaevereld 06 30 O85 45 061045 00055 £40 08 50 Gleticairn,....:ce.s00..1 4040 0 26 30 Seah ee ous oh ke As on the first run, under conditions in which the known differences in the boatsand all of Glencairn’s ill-luck were most minimized, Momo was beating Glencairn badly off the wind. They started again, and beat out to the weather mark with more wind, being timed: Time, Hlapsed. Gaig, Lead . Momo...... aecotertslataeneee 2 04 08 0 27 26 03 14 CEN GAIT yb at cnet enes 2 OT 40 0 27 00 0.00 26 It is impossible to discern any difference in the work of the two, but the timing showed that while Momo had made bet- ter time by 3m, to windward with the stronger breeze, Glen- cairn had covered the course in 46s. less time. Running down, however, Momo showed a substantial and important gain, making a full minute on Glencairo in but two miles of running. The race had long since ceased to be exciting, but the fin- ish of Momo was greeted by an enthusiastic outburst of cheers and whistles that could not have been more discordant and ear-splitting if Glencairn had been the winner. She, too, was greeted noisily when she finally finished. The times were: Hilapsad. Gain. Start 11:46; = Finish, Leg. Round. Course, Leg round. Lead. Momo,,.,.246 25 02219 O4954 24025 10125 00415 Glencairn..2 3040 02520 05920 ¥? 44 40 Voilina passed aline to Momo, and Dama took Glencairo in tow, the procession of larger boats moving down for Dorval and Lachine, while the small craft scattered in all directions. As soon as Glencairn reached the club house her rudder was unshipped and taken into the shop, and she was hauled ont, Mr, Duggan and Mr. Poe went to work on therndder, which had made trouble all day, and a good sized triangle was cut off the fore side, the new edge being drilled, riveted and filed up before dark, Meanwhile the hole in her side had been turned over to her builder, who cut out a couple of feet of the ppper strake and setin a new piece of planking, though there was all next day for repairs, but practically all of the wore was done before she was covered over and left for the night. . Momo was quite as carefully looked after, bemg hauled up astern of Glencairn. Sunday was hot and sultry, with an overcast sky and threats of rain. During the day there were many visitors to the club house. Mr. and Mrs. J, H. Crane were on the Duchess of York during the race, but stopped in town, and on Sunday morning both the Messrs. Crane went into the city. Glencairn was launched in the afternoan, her rudder shipped, and she went out in 4moderate breeze to try it, _ The seéond race wiis sailed Monday in 4 reefing wind, the leneairh crossing the linea winner by 4m. 24s., the sutimary eingi : OS. Start. Fisish, Elapsed, Glencaitn T.........6, Peters {i 85 00 1 31 35 156 45 AUNGTELO peste seca eee ae 11 35.00 135 59 200.9 The,third race, sailed on Tuesday, resulted in anothet vité tory ae -Glencairn If. Therun wasin a dtiving wind and rainstorm. A New Measurement Formula Editor Forest and Stream: ; , The following is in response to the invitation to yachts- men, in your issue of July 31, to discuss the proposed meas- ‘1 i BP 1 urement formula: L.+7\7aitie contenta) (entice BRtAnTR I: The validity of all the propositions stated by the author of the rule is here con- eee SS those which are hereinafter specifically chal- enged; eit _ ; a Suggestion Third. ‘The subject of Classification is entirely distinct from the subject of measuring.”’ . : | This is stated rather broadly. These subjects are ordinarily distinct; but they may have.some relation. A measure- ment rule that would york, very well under the ordinary classification might work badly if, for,example, there were nly two, classes, say 15ft. to. 40ft. and 40ft. to ost, Thus ib 18 possible to essen some of the difficulties incident to meas- urement by proper classification. Ces Roe _ First nae A sarge ete: rule is intended to en- courage the development of a safe, roomy, speedy &@: i handled poste? ‘a Tay ran Of the importance of the development of all thése features there is no question; but safety, accommodation and ease of Handling are not necessarily to be sought through the means of a rule that is also to be used for measuring speed. 6re- tofore the influence of stich rules upon design, in respett to these desirable qualities, has been, uniformly bad, actually encouraging the opposite qualities, Tn view ot this experienc, and of certain strong @ priori objections to the plan of using a single formula for purposes so ldzically different a8 meds- uring speed, and developing a “safe, 1ooriy an wasity handled” yacht, the expedienty of sucha stheme is not to be assumed; and he who proposes it should give reasons therefor. If these were entitely new problems to be solved in the first instance, it is inconceivable that any engineer would think of solving both by the application of the same formula. , : (b) ““To equalize the chances of winning prizes between boats of different types and characteristics,” By a system of empirical handicapping, all the boats of & fleet, old and new, may beraced together for a prize, and afford good sport. The handicaps in such cases are pre- sumably so imposed as to put all the boats on an equal foot- ing, the winning of the prize depending upon the &kill with which the boats are sailed. Thesole question here is a day’s sport, no regard being had for the development of the yacht | through the testing of different models for the best speed, and the interests of yacht racing in general belng ignored. Clause (b) may be interpreted to refer to such contests only, | There is an entirely different kind of racing, viz.: speed contests between yachts of different designs and unknowi | merits of form, to determine which is the speedier form, the | competing boats being all relatively fast and usually similar - in size. The main purpose here is entirely different from | that in the first case, though they have much in common—- the day’s sport, contests of personal skill, ete, Handicapping in the ordinary sense would defeat the prims purpose of such races. Here speed obtained by meritoriois form of hull is rewarded and not handi¢apped as before. is uncertain whether the author of the new rule intended to: coyer this case by (b). If he did the statement is not suf+| ficiently explicit, and it may be said here that one measure-: ment rule will not suit both cases. In the last case there’ should be no handicaps.except for the utilization by one boat: more than another of certain speed factors that are inde- pendent of the lines of the design, and for which the de- signer or the boat should not be credited, such as horse-: powerin a steam vessel and sail area in a sailing yacht. It is: undoubtedly difficult to determine the speed factors that do, not depend upon the form of the hull, which being taken in. excess should he taxed, and to decide how much they should | be penalized, But this difficulty should not be ignored in a, discussion of measurement rules nor assumed not to exist, Probably all would agree that any excess of sail on one. yacht over another should be taxed in order to make a fair: race. There is a relation between length and resistance, but. it cannot be definitely stated in terms of speed; and, further-. more, in the speed that comes from length, sail area is an. important and inseparable factor. The difficulty of assess-, ing an appropriate tax on the element of speed that depends upon length, after sail has been duly taxed, may be avoided: without substantial inconvenience by making numerous. classes, and requiring all the boatsin a class to be built to’ same length is as unphilosophical as giving the Marathon race toacripple. Displacement being a hindrance to speed, enough only should be required or encouraged to insure safety and accommodation. This precise minimum amount) cannot be secured by means of aformula in which the co efficient of any factor may be changed at will. It can be secured by taking D out of the formula; and by making s supplementary regulation stating in plain terms how muck breadth, draft, cubic contents, displacement of hull, ete. are deemed inseparable for a given Li. W.L, (d) ‘To leave owner and designer absolutely free to pro’ duce anything they please.’’ pt 4 This section is repugnant to the terms of (a), and both cannot stand; (@) should be insisted upon, and (d@) should be modified so as to read: “l'o leave owner and designer free ti produce anything they please, provided it be a safe, roomy and easily handled boat.?’ : Fourth ateceamned specific objections to the formula 7 T io (cubie contents)’ BEES _() The inclusion in the formula of terms to influence de sign, because the ‘‘development of a safe, roomy. speedy ani easily haridled boat’? can better be reached by a rule supp! mentary to the measurenient formula, (2) On a given L.W.L. eubic size of hull is detrimental tr speed, and only enough should be taken to insure safety and - “Ave. 21, 1897,] internal aceéommodation. The formula credits Superfiuols Size as equivalent to speed. ; r2 ; m J (3) The formula gives to pipeoe and deck house equal credit with immersed body. In the matters of safety and general desirability they are of very unequal worth. + (4) Under this type of rule, in which all of the functions are inGluded ina formula which permits any dimension to be tinduly enlarged by reducing others, the elements of safety and accommodation cannot be controlled with cer- tainty, and a ‘tracing machine” is sure to result. ; (5) The formula is not suitable for measuring speed, for its factors (save one) have no numerical relation to speed that ean be definitely aud accurately stated. 1 (6) Under this kind of rule the cleverest interpreter of the formula wins, not the designer of lines to give the least resistance. . . (7) The inclusion of Li. in a formula that contains 5. is ob- jectionable for the reasons heretofore stated. ’ (8) There seems to be nothing in the formula to discourage the building of light-displacement fin-keels with monstrous topsidés and unlimited draft. . Finally, it is suggested that the merit of any measurement formula may depend largely upon the scheme of time allow- ances to be used with it, and that to properly criticise the roposed formula the time allowance scheme should be now. If, for example, yachts are measured by L.W_L. alone, allowances based upon theoretical speed proportionate to yj, may be satisfactory, Ifsail alone were measured, such allowances would not be suitable. = tee When yachts are rated by a racing length which is a com- pound of L. W.1L., sail area and cubic contents of hull and deck house, it may be found to be a nice matter to logically and fairly apportion time allowances between boats of differ- ent racing lengths. Take a concrete case; T£ two yachts 40ft. l.w.]. have 2,000ft. of sail each, and one has 10 per cent. more cubic contents of hull and deck house than the other, how many seconds per mile ought the smaller boat to allow the Jarger, and why? SEXTANT. The New York Y. C. Cruise, AFTER reaching Bar Harbor on Sunday night, the fleet lay at anchor over Monday, and on Tuesday the last race was sailed, the course being from off Egg Rock Light to Schoodic Point, thence to the whistling buoy off Baker’s Island, and home, 21 miles. The race was a sealed handicap, the allow- ances being: Queen Mab allows Wasp 5m, 153,, Gloriana 8m. 54s., Sayonara 8m. 55s.; Colonia allows Emerald 493., Sachem im. 25s., Marguerite 5m, 5ls., Amorita 9m. 2s., Alert ' 1im. 39s,, Fenella 29m. 45s. The early morning was very foggy, with a S.W. wind which shifted to $.H., the fog lifting. The start was made at 11:55, with Wasp first away. The first lex was to wind- ward, but after a short time the dense fog rolled in, and the boats lost sight of each other; they were not timed at the _Schoodic mark, but it was passed at about 12:50. feel ran to the secoud mark, still in the fog, and were timed; Wasp...,. etwas seve? G4 50 Marguerite... cecsseceeeeseee 82 00 PRU GHIGR vein ieisisnidamsesnasn eLDAGT EP ALSEIS, wick up ipialsisebseeics valte-* 2.29 60 Queen Mab....... dei svdesee 2.1415. Sacheny, .......:5:05 peepensee 43 00 MCCA oa. cau scloe kine nseat 21720 Wenella.......... fee arbarrr ess 3 02 30 GHOVIANA. veeeecisieseeseeseee 19 30 Queen Mab was compelled to lower her mainsail for a time near the mark. fe ee fleet was not visible on the last leg, but the finish was imed:; SCHOONERS, Start Finish Elspsed, Corrected. Colonia ....., Pe veesell 53 GB 219 45 3 21 a7 § 21 37 Emerald,,,.... Bate eit aid a A 22 05 3 23: 08 3 £2 19 Sachem ....sa0eeserenell [8 37 Not timed. Marguerite. ......e.eeeLl £7 OF 3 49 2) 3 5213 8 4b 22 ~Amorita, ....a0% ee yl faced 217138 321 44 3 12 37 2A 11 57 51 4 01 14 4 03 23 8 51 44 Fenella,..i..ccceseee will 52 2 Not timed, CUTTERS Queen Mab saeeell 59 40 3 di 20 3 48 40 3 43 40) MPD) oh see ee eee 11 50 44 4 20.18 3 29 44 3 24 29 Gloriana.... ...11 Al 56 339 87 347 41 3.33 47 Sayonara... 11 52 33 Disabled. Amorita beat Colonia 9m., Emerald 9m, 42s. Marguerite 33m. 44s , Ae hie 3dm, 7s. Wasp bea: Gloriana 18m, 18s, and Queen Mab m, 115. = On Wednesday a very heavy rainstorm kept all below decks, and the rowing races were postponed, Pewaukee Lake Y. C. PEWAUEKEE, WIS Saturday, Aug. 7. THE regatta held on July 31 was a failure, as the yachts were unable to complete the course within the time limit, Nine yachts entered, but the wind failed entirely on the sec- ond leg of course, Idle Hour had a lead of half a mile, and would haye won the race had the wind held out. At the annual fall meeting of the Pewaukee Y. C. it was decided to challenge the Pine Lake Y.C. tosail a regatta for the Pabst challenge cup, now held by the Pine Lake Y. C. This cup, one of the most beautiful and expensive trophies éyer offered to Wisconsin yachtsmen, was presented by Capt, Fred Pabst of Milwaukee, on Aug, 81, 1895, to the Pine Lake _Y. C., in trust, for friencly competition between the yachts- men of the inland lakes of this county. The executive com- -Mittee of the Pine Lake Y. C, have set Aug. 21 as the date on which the regatta will be held, and the event, when it takes place, will be second in importance to the Interstate Tegatta, ssiled on Pewaukee Lake, July 17. The Pewaukee Y, C. has picked out the five yachtsthat are generally admitted to be the swiftest of the fleet to represent it at Pine Lake. They are as follows: Class A—Sirrocco, Wallber Bros.; Idle Hour, R. E. Giljo- ham; Lorraine, Schiller and Bauch. Class B—Kite, Geo, Poppert and Robt. Rowe; Sophia, W. H. Meyers. Twelve yachts entered in to-day’s race. The wind was brisk from the southeast;.start was west. Yachts of both classes got away at 4o’clock, Lorraine, Sirrocco and Tem- pest led the Class A yachts, and Martha and Hualpa the. B class boats, Sirrocco fouled Lottie on the second leg of the course and was disqualified. Kite overtook and passed all B class boats on the second leg of course, but Jost her lead to Aida on the last leg. , The race as a whole was a very close and exciting affair, and was one of the prettiest of the weekly Saturday series of this season. CLASS A. Lorraine, Schiller’& Bauchiiy.cccspeecvesscseseeacrsssssvyvs rs 0 5850 Sirrocco. Wallber Bros.,......... SI Aeros se A Ae co 0 5) 50 (UTSTAGESERS Prat CAS PILES es OOP rer er nee veer ieee ae Wales sites sO 8) 58 BHOMIGA Oatley! WASAebscsco Risen as eelete ence ane Poth sored 1-01 40, Ree EE OULU op hice Met CrTly DINRITY «as saa dae eteetsin cn See ul tye Uva 1 02: 26 Carmela, 8, P. Fachutar.,,,.eccs.05 hades el CeID Gretchen, Wo. Gerlachyuwsis: crete stscususvanses iieredh stetNietnty Lireed bee CLASS B, Aida, A, @. Zinn.,... ETER TERS Crete et afte ieee HEL PabAsews yd eb BLS EO NEL Go BLU Wb doin avons m ayahestiact mand aie wep Ek ake ete dew 1 06 45 Hualpa, Silverman & Kipp,...,.....5 ttetammena end Cae ptteiviete oe 107 51 Sophia, W H. Meyers ,.,........ Se pA 5 AKA Ate a terete nl Obs Ue Martha, A H. Slemman...,...... et Pe OED Om ssmerteve tet 118 11 Winners: Class A, Lorraine; Olass B, Aida, Time-keepers, Geo M. Conway, A.G. Miller, John C. Sp =ncer, Judges! ete eel ee a G. on Conway, A, G. Miller. Course sailed, four mile triangls, once around. Race under th direction of Com. W. C, Clark, 3 4 #8 ‘art in the bow of the FOREST AND STREAM. Canoeing. The A. C. A. Meet. GRINDSTONE IsLanp, A, C. A. Camp.—The early arrivals on the opaning day of the annual meet found the grounds well studded with tents, the official fags flying and the caterer ready with a satisfying breakfast. Hven at that there were some who claimed to be the oldest inhabitants of the point, ©. C. Hodgman and his party were settled in July, as was Wm. M. Carpenter, of Sing Sing. Friday there were a few scattered arrivals during theday. At9 P. M, a large contingent underthe command of Vice-Com. Harry M. Stewart with many canoes, including that most sociable ‘of war canoes the Huff, reached the camp, and at 9:30 P. M. nine weary men were stretched on cots in the “Home for the friendless,”’ a 20x 40 tent stretched at headquarters. At 7:30 Saturday morning the New York contingent came in with the schooner Glad Tidings, loaded down the Plimsol line with canoes and duffle and ct ceteras. . Camp site committee Morse had matters so well in hand that at 10 A. M, there were no “anxious inquirers” at head- quarters. Sunday at noon the camp was besieged by two war Canoes containing twenty-six men, from the Brockville C. ©. The pickets reported the enemy in sight, Thealarm was sounded on the bugle, the cannon ieaded, and preparations made ta give them a warm reception. Caterer McHlveney’s face was a study as he saw the twenty-six hungry Canadians besiegs his caravansary. He succeeded in satisfying them in good time, and the freedom of the catnp was extended to them. A crew of warriors, under command of the Commodore, manned the Huff, and a sight that has not been seen in Blk Bay for centuries was much admired by those on shore, Three full-manned war canoes in line, with, the signal, can- non and official bugler, under command of Vice-Com. Stew- Hoff. A parting salute was given the visitors, who promised to return before the Gamp breaks up: In the evening a crew of singers on the Huff floated about in Hront of htadquarters, and gave a most leasing satred concert. . Monday the camp was deserted—Gananodque was the des- tination, It was “Gananiquity” when they returned, The sailing men are already feeling the winds of Hel Bay, and many new menu with new boats are already on the course, The changé in the arrangement of the camp has gained general approval. eadquarters being next to the mess tent, An official swim was ordered forS P. M. Monday, and under command of ex-Com. Htmtington the reed Bed in front of headquarters has disappeared. _ The Buffalo contingent are beginning to arrive. Their war canoe and several others arehere. The club fours are being formed and considerabie rivalry is already shown, each club represented by four men having decided to enter. At present writing everything promises for the Jargest and most active camp we have had for years, Many letters have been written to friends at honie to in- duce wandering members to come, and come quickly, The W. C. A, Meet. FIVE boats and a half dozen men would cover the tonnage and personnel of the W. 0. A. meet of 1697, Themost of the rest either had no money or a good excuse, The experiment of another meet on an inland lake proved unsuccessful. It would probably haye been unsuccessful to practically the same extent in any other locality that could have been chosen, The sport of canoeing, at least in the West, is at low ebb, and itis useless to attempt to deny it. Other sorts of sport have broken into its ranks. Some of the first active niem- bers of the W, C. A, have outgrown their interest or have been weaned away to other interests. [n addition to this, the long stretch of hard times, in which many men, young and old, have been too anxious to enjoy fundamentally any form of sport, has put members out of the habit of taking the rather cumbersome and expensive trip to the summer meet, which, above all things, is the business of a man care free and unfettered of finances. Whether time will bring about again the older and stronger meets of the W. C. A. is at this writing purely a matter of idle speculation. Those present are, with exception of Mr. N. B. Cook, of Chicago, all from Milwaukee and all members of Mahn-a- wauk C. ©. Com. E. H. Holmes, canoe Milwaukee: Dick Merrill, canoe Bluehill; F. W. Diekens, canoe Avis; F. B, Huntington, canoe Norma, are all from Milwaukee. Mem- bers from other cities have sent the customary large prom- ises, and brought the customary small performances. While it will be impossible to elect officers or to sail more than one event of the regular regatta, the meet of these friends and fellow members is a most enjoyable one, and has in miniature all the attributes of a rattling good canoe camp, The ar- rangements are good, the site is at least fair, the mess (atthe tables of the Highland Hotel) is the best the W G. A. has ever had, at least in an experience dating back to 1892, The water is pleasant for bathing, aud the winds, while at times baffling and yariable, as they always are on a high-shored inland lake, have been quite good enough forall sailing pur- poses. Weconuld have a good camp and a good regattaif we had but the one additional qualification of more boats and en, Lake Delavan is a deepish body of water, shaped some- thing like a boomerang, perhaps six mileslong and a mile or soin width. Thecamp is located on the inner angle of the elbow, in a heavy grove of young forest trees, and about half a mile from the pleasant grounds of the Highland Hotel, The lake is lined with cottuges and hotel, and is a summer resort of the most virulent type. As a place for a meet, it is fully as good or better than Madison, and as pleasant as Oshkosh, though the sailing is better on Winne- bago. Itisnotas good a place as Mnilet Lake for a canoe camp, and is indeed in many attributes merely Ballast Island moved west, without all the sailing advantages of Ballast, though with rather a higher type of summer girl, and, if possible, more of her. This exoticis not often to be found in greater profusion or of greater excellence than at Lake Delavan. All members present expressed great sur- prise and delight at this discovery. Those who remained away have cause for regret, The tents of the camp are but a few yards back from the beaten path which follows the whole shore line of this lake, and along this path, hourly, and almost momentarily, day and night, pass Jarge schools of summer girls fit for the pages of literature or the calen- dars of art. Hvery prospect for a meet here pleases, and only man, man in short togs and sunburn, is wanting. Alas! for the absent ones. Messrs. Holmes and Huntiugton located this camp, and Messrs Holmes and Dickens established it. On Monday, Messrs A. W. Friese and Dick Merrill came on from Mil waukee (the former staying only one day in camp and then ‘returning home), and that afternoon the boats and dunnage were brought out. Thenext day the dock was built at the foot of the bluff, and by Friday the buoys got put out. Lite at a canoe carp is not strictly a struggle in hustling for the most Mahu-a-wauk part. We have one large tent, the pri- vate tents of Mr. Merrill and Mr. N. B Cook, and the sniall tent of the ForEsT AND STREAM: The latter is the only one having a cooking outfit; but with the primitive appliances there afforded we have cooked a uumber of meals, at wich all have had a turn, and a few of us have thus messed about . #8 auch in camp as at the hotel, 157 Mr. Cook, the much respected father of the W. C. A. in this immediate vicinity, showed up in camp with his well Known Carrier Pigeon late Monday evening. It was very good of him not to miss the W.C. A, meet this year, and the boys all appreciated his attendance. He at once went to work in his methodical way, and was the first man to have a boat in the water, and the first to havea sail. Solong as Mr. Cook comes to a W. C. A. meet, it cannot be written down as a failure in all that pertains to high class standards of canoeing, of canoe ethics, and of canoeing skill. The younger men of course do not say much about it to his face, but they are very proud and very fond of Mr. Cook, who is now, I believe, past seyenty five years of age. The summer people about the lake took great interest in the canoe meet, and repeated inquiries weré made as to the date of the races. These were postponed for 4 variety of rea- sous, The Gardnercup and the Longworth eupcould not be sailed under conditions, and though the W. C. A. trophy might have been squeezed in had all fiveof the boats present started, there was no time when this was possible. The wait brought in no reinforcements of boats Or meh, htit only added clamor from the lake dwellers, so a special sctateh race was got up for Friday afternoon, free for all clas-és, fof the Mahn-a-watik loving cup. This brought only three entries, canoes Milwankée, Avis and Norma. The wind wis too high for Carrier Pigeon to enter as it was, aud Mr, Mer, rill, skipper of Bluebill, had no,adequate ballast for a wind whiéh kept & boat butied under seas more than half the time. 7 : - . : { i This year a novel and tasteful innovation was made in canoe rig which added very much to the spectaculat effect o the spectacular sport. Each man had His sails dyed a dis- tinctive color. Avissported orange-colored canvas, and Mil; waukee heliotrope and Norma cerise red, while Bluebill hoisted a vast spread of robin’s egg,blue.- When the boats Were out on the lake in some of the little cruises made from tiie to time, or more especially when they were racing With all canvas drawing and the foam flying from the cutting bows, the picture was the prettiest that has ever been seen among the many lovely pictures afforded about the camps o these pike little craft. . ee Thesailing as it was offered considerableinterest, although but three boats took part. The wind continued strong and steady all day Friday, and at3 P. M., the hdur at which the skippers finally got away from the dock, there was a stiff sea rolling. Norma was first out, and it was seen at once that Huntington would have his work cut out to tarry all the sail he had up, While he Was making a short trial reach just off the dock a good puff laid her over flat, though hé pulled her up and went off flying again with every inch drawing, much to amazenient of the spectators, who were not accustomed to canoe racing, and who greeted Grandpa with long cheers of applause, Skipper Holmes got Mil waukee spinning soon, and Dickens methodically and calmly raced back and forth across the front of the beach, his weight - and gels sail area keeping Avis steadier, than either of | her rivals The men all had much to doto keep their craft in hana in the half-gale wind, but at the Starting gun got o élose packed together and shaving the buoy, in the prettiest start ever seen in a canoe regatta, Such a grand stand spet- tacle as this again brotght dut excited applause from the tiers of spectators dn ths bluff above. The run on the first leg was sharp to windward, and arma could not make the buoy with her sail, but heeled over twice, and finally fairly tired out her skipper, who let her drift in and apparently got fouled among the rowboats atthe Highland pier. Avis and Milwaukee had a close bout at the bnoy, and made a fast second leg of it. Atthesecond buoy Dickens did not attempt to jibe, although evidently that meant a long lead into the home leg. Milwaukee was jibed sharply, and at first it appeared that the plucky maneuver would he successful, but Holmes could not keep herup. He lost his seat on the board, and in the mixup of getting aboard again hurt his leg badly. This second acci- dent gave Avis a cinch for the heat, for she came about handsomely and reached for the home with her canvas stiff in the quartering wind, leaving Milwaukee still for the moment in irons after her mishap. Halfway down the home leg, however, accident No. 8 occurred, A big cat called Ariel, and manned by a large crew and cargo of persons apparently little acquainted with the courtesy of sailing, came directly across the course and nearly cut Avis down, the captain of the catboat apparently making not the slight- est effort to keep off and let the racing boats have a chance, The point of collision was all but reached when Avis was brought sharply up, barely clearing the cat as she swept by. The act of thé catboat’s captain was severely condemned by all who saw it, for though he, strictly speaking, had the right of way, he knew perfectly well the race was in pro- gress, and had been beating back and forth across the last leg for the purpose of seeing the finish. When Dickens pulled up so sharply he fouled his mizzen sheet with his steering gear and for the moment drifted crippled, though he got in with his dandy useless just after Milwaukee, who made a grand spurt as soon asshe wasrighted. Both boats then pulled up at the dock and declined the second lap, Dickens, a little wroth at the treatment the Delavan cat had given him, and Holmes suffering «a bit with his leg. Mean- time Norma was still visible down amoung the bank of row- boats, and gradually it became apparent that she was not crippled, but was going under reef. + All the men were now very tired, and were not anxious to continue the work, but as so much interest had been shown in the sailing by the large crowd of spectators, all agreed ta start again. As only one lap had been sailed in the first heat, no time was taken, but all were notified that two laps would constitute the next heat. The three got off at 4;07;Ua, again bow and bow, in a most spectacular style, Milwau- kee, at the gun, racing down back of the buoy and coming up into the wind on her heel apparently nota fathom’s dis- tance from the stake and just in time to take the windward of Avis and Norma, who crosséd the line as if lashed to- gether. Milwaukee held her windward position clear to the first buoy, which she made handsomely Avis stood too far on and dropped back, Norma still to leeward. Vhey held this order, making an exciting and pleasant picture as they dashed through the combing sea at the second buoy. Here Milwaukee did not again attempt to jibe, but both she and Avis wore, Milwaukee actually turning the buoy twice. Norma is an exceedingly hard oue to bring up, and at this juncture, reefed well down as she was, proved extremely broncho for her light skipper. She hung for an instant and finally drifted, fonling her bow with the buoy. By this time Avis was reaching home, but far inside the course, it seem- ing later that the steering vear had once more been fouled. Apparently Avis was headed back to thé buoy where Norma hung fouled, but soou the latter swung free, aud Milwau- kee and Avis, the two fin-keels which have often created argument in the Mahn-a-wauk Club, joined issue in a pretty finish. Avis holding her advantage and finishing first very handsomely. Norma had by this time gone drifting far inside the triangle and did not finish. Again all the men pulled up and declined to go on for the second lap, saying that the work in such wind and sea wastoo hard. There was, therefore, no race and not even a heat, and no time was recorded; but a very pretty exhibition of canoe sailing in stiff weather had been given, much to the edification of many who previouslyhad noidea of the capabilities of the little craft, The W. C. A. has held no races in the last five yearsin weather 8) rough as it was this day at Delavan, except that on Lake Winnebago meet some squalls were sailed out in 4 sea as nasty, if not so steady. Many of the yachts reefed down pretty well, and the wise men of the lake, old sailors raised here, laughed shrewdly at the idea of those little boats going out. In short, there was a little popular education done in 158 FOREST AND STREAM. [Ave. 21, 1897. a a ee ee ee ee eee oe the pretty sport of canoeing, by all odds the prettiest of all amateur sports. After the first experience of it, there was much clamoring among the cottagers and hotel guests for more of it, and they would haye been willing to Keep the boys out afloat all the time. On Friday, the skipper of canoe Carrier Pigeon, the vener- able Mr. N. B. Cook, who divides with Grandpa Gates the honor of being the oldest sailor of the Association, was taken with an indisposition which forbade the thought of his sailing, and he hardly felt able to sit up and watch the sailing from the bluff. During the evening he felt still worse, and on Saturday morning was not well enough to get up for breakfast. There is very little hope that he will be able to sail again during this meet, as he feels weak and not inciined to effort, This removes the last hope that any of the regular regatta events can be sailed off, as not enough other boats can qualify. It is likely that Monday may see the practical end of the meet, though a few more members May come up for Sunday in camp. Word has been received from Mr. W. H. Crawford, of Dayton, O., that he cannot come, and that skipper O. A. Woodrufi, of canoe Wood, will also rank among the absentees. With such standbys as theses away, with Nat Cook and W. H. Yardley away, and a lot more of the regulars, the W. C, A. meet for 1897 has some- thing of a void, which one can only hope may not be again experienced in 1898. The very character of the sport shown, even in the half-completed scratch races of Friday, proclaim loudly enough that so good a sport as this should not be allowed to languish in the West. ~ A fuller story of the meet and its surroundings will follow in the next issue of FOREST AND STREAM, EK. HouGH. Rifle Aange and Gallery. Columbia Pistol and Rifle Club. San Francisco, Aug. 9—The members of the Columbia Pistol and Rifle Club found yesterday at Shell Mound a day of sunshine and shadow, as this is ourseason of fog, All the club’s matehes were open. eMen: interest is manifest in the Glindemann military medal match, Several scores above the average were shot—Bushnell, Jacobsen and Young making 48, Creedmoor count. Thescores on the class medals, for members only, and the re-entry matches were as follows: Rifle—Class medals for members only. One 10-shot score. Champion Class—A. H. Pape 65, Ff. O. Young 66, F. KH. Mason 69. First Class—O. A, Bremer 71, HE. Jacobson 83, A. B, Dorrell 90, C, M. Daiss 101, G. Schultz 109. Second Class—J. E. Gorman 89, F. H, Bushnell $7, G, M. Barley 109, M. Js White 187. Third Class—A. Hintermann 8). G. Mannel 118, EB. Woenne 158, Mrs. M. J. White 159, C. F. Waltham 164, B. Jonas 196 Rifle, re-entry matches, open to all, F. H Bushnell rifle medal and cash prizes, 3-shot scores: A. H Pape, 13, 13; F. O. Young, 11,12; D. W. McLaughlin, 12, 17; E.. Woenne, 38. Wilham Glindeman military medal and cash prizes, 10 shots, Creed- moor count: F, O. Young, 48; KE, Jacobson, 48, 47; F. H. Bushnell, 48, 47; 0. F. Waltham 44. : ¥. O. Young rifle record medal and cash prizes, 10-shot scores: F, H, Mason 61, D. W. McLaughlin 104 Pistol, 50yds,, class medals for members only, one 10-shot score. Chsmpionship class: J. H, Gorman 42, F. O. Young 49, C.M Daiss 51, Hid Hovey 44. First class: M. J. White 37. 1 aro ate class; F, H. Bushnell 73, Mrs. M J. White 77, G. M. Bar- ey 94. Third class: C. Hinteman 70, Mre. EH, L. Crane 102, L. W. Forrest 109, QO. M. Pratt 121, Mrs. C, F. Waltham 211. Pistol, re-entry matches, open to ajl comers, 10-shot scores, dia- mond pistol record medal; P.O. Young 41, H. C. Friday 100. Gordon Blanding pistol medal and cash prizes, 8-shot scores: F. O. Young 8, J E Gorman 9, 10; C. M. Daiss 10. Howard Carr any reyolver medal and cash prizes, 6-shot scores: A. B. Dorrell 35, 40. Achille Roos, .2?cal. rifle medal, ladies’ medals and cash prizes: Mrs. B. L. Crane 15, Mrs, M, J. White 16, Mrs. ©. F. eae OEEL, Grap- Shooting. Leading dealers in sporismen’s supplies have advertised in our columns continuously for almost a quarter century. - If you want your shoot to be announced here send In notice INke the following: FIXTURES. Aug. 24-25—Burrano, N. ¥.—Tournament of the Bison Gun Club, Targets ©. H. Werlin, Sec’y, 1634 Broadway, Buffalo. Aug, 25-26.—MonTPELIER, Vt.—Tournament of the Interstate Asso- ciation, under the auspices of the Montpelier Gun Club. $200 added money. Ne 26-"Y.—_W ATERLGO, Ont.—Tournament of the Ontario Rod and Gun Club League. W J. Marshall, Sec’y-Treas. Aug, 28-27.—Many, La.—Tournament of the Many and Robeline Gun Clubs: Aug. 28 —Hau Ciarru, Wis.—Elliott-Budd match for the Du Pont trophy. ae 31-Sept. 2.—Surron, Neb.—Tournament of the Sutton Gun Club. $150 added money, as well as merchandise prizes, HE. E. Hair- grove, Sec’y. f@ Sept. 1.— Haveruivy, Mass.—Third shoot of the Massachusetts State Shooting Association, under the auspices of the Haverhill Gun Club, Sept 6.—Mpripen, Conn.—Third snnual Labor Day tournament of the Parker Gun Club. Sept. 6 —Marton, N, J —Annual Labor Day tournament of the Endeayor Gun Club, A. R Strader, See’y, Sept. 7-10.—DriRoir, Mich.—_Jack Parker’s annual tournament. Sept. 8-9.—Trrre Haute. Ind.—Tournament of the Trap-Shooters’ League of Indiana, under the auspices of the Terre Haute Gun Ciub, Sept. 11-12.—_————_,, La.—Tournament of the Many and Robeline Gun Clubs. - Sept, 14-16 —EKansas Ciry, Mo,—Tournament of the Schmelzer Arms Go. Merchandise and amateurs. Sept. 14-16 —Des Moines, la,—Tournament of the Capital Gun Club, 8. ©. Quimby. Sec’y. Sept. 15-16.—PorrsmoutrH, N. H.—Tournament of the Interstate Association, under the auspices of the Portsmouth Gua Club, Sept. 15-16 —PARKERSBURG, W. Va.—Tournament of the Mountain State Gun Club. State and open events. Chas, H Morrison, Sec’y- Sept. 21-23 —MircHeny, S. D.—Tournament of the W. J. Healey Hardware Co. : Sept. 22-24.-Watson’s PARE, Chicago, [l—Tournament at live hirds and targets Programmes ready about Sept.1. Write to John Watson, Station R, Chicago. Sept, 28-29.—InpranaPouis, Ind.—Tournament of the Trap-Shooters’ League of Indisna, under the auspices of the Limited Gun Club. Royal Rabinson, Sec’y. faSepb, 25-Oct. 1.—Passarc, N, J.—Aunual tournament of the New Jerséy State Sportsmen’s Association at Clifton racetrack, First two days. targets; last two days, live birds. Main event on last day is at 25 live birds, $25 birds extra. handicap; $500 guaranteed to three high guns. W, &. Huck, Secs, Rutherford, N, J. Oct 4-5. Warwick, N. ¥—First annual tournament of the War- wick Gun Club Opentoall, Targets. $50average money to four high guns in all programme events, John M Servin,Sec’y. | Oct. 6-S.--NEWEURGH, N. ¥Y.—Anonual fall tournament of the West Newburgh Gunand Rifie Association. First two days, targets; third day, live birds, $50 average money to three high guns in all pro- pramme target events. Open to all, Oct, 18-14,— GREENSBURG, Ind.—Shooting tournamentof the Greens- burg Gun Club. Web. Woodfill, Sec’y. : Oct, 22-28.—Honrineron, Ind.—-Tournament of the Trap Shooters’ Laague of Indians, under_the auspices of the Erie Gun Club. § sug DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. Club secretaries are invited to send their scores jor publication in these columns, also any news notes they may care to have printed. Ties in all events ore considered as divided wniess otherwise reported. Mail all such matter to Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 3/6 Broadway, New York. On July 8 last Jim Elliott apparently sat down in an office in Kan- sag City and made out a list of challenges “to a number of the shoot- ibg princes of America,”’ as he put it in the letter of that date, which appeared in, the issue of Forest AnD STREAM for July 17. He chal- lenged Glover for the Star cup, Charlie Budd for the Du Pont trophy, Charlie Grimm for the castiron medal, and Peter Murphy to a one- barrel match such as Peter loves to shoot. Gloverand Budd promptly accepted, and Glover’s match came off on Saturday last, the result of which is now known to all readers of Forest awp STREAM who take interest in such things, Budd’s match is set for Aug, 28 at Hau Claire, Wis. Murphy has, we understand, refused to aecept Elliott's terms, so that match will go by the board, But what we want to know is, What's the matter with the cast iron hadge? Kormst anp STREAM received Hiliott’s forfeit of $50, but so far it has heard nothing from Mr. Grimm. It is true that since that challenge to Grimm was made public in our issue of July 17, Hlliott has had other designs on Grimm’s pocketbook, and has left the medal out in the cold. On July 22 he took hold of Mr Rice's offer, which was author- ized by Grimm, but twisted the terms around and altered them materially; and Hiliott’s terms do not suit Mr Rice. Nothing, how- ever, has been done by either party beyond the posting of a $100 for- teit by Rice and the posting of another forfeit of $:0 by Hlliott. Tt seems hard to get these two men, Elliott and Grimm, together, Ac- cording to what we can gather, here has Elliott posted two $50 for- feits and Rice a $100 forfeit, all three forfeits for ostensibly the same purpose, viz ,a match or a series of matches between two of the best jive-bird shots in the country; but nothing has come of them yet.. Possibly the sporting press may receive a few more circular letters before long. In a letter to us, dated Aug. 13, Mr. George B. Walton, secretary of the Montpelier, Vt., Gun Club, says, among other things: ‘“'T also in- close clippings from different Vermont papers in regard to our com- ing tournament, which may be of interest. is here, and Dr. Wiske reports several cases of shells as having arrived. We notice an article in one of the local papers which refers to our coming tournament as the ‘first Interstate tournament ever held in the State,’ and would like to have it corrected through Forrest AND Srream, for the first tournament given by the Interstate Association in Vermont was held under the auspices of the Lakeside Rod and Gun Club at Burlington last season, and was by far too pleasant and: successful a shoot to be ignored in that way. The mistake was not ours, but we shall feel like making an apology to the Burlington boys just the same,”” The clippings referred to run as follows: “This touur- nament will be held on the grounds of the Montpelier Gun Club, about ten minutes’ ride from Montpelier on the suburban line of the Mont- pelier & Wells River Railroad, The club has there spacious quarters and ample room to accommodate all who may come. The house and platform are in the shade of five large elms except in the early morn- ing, and are comfortable for shooting in warm weather. . The targets are toward the northeast, which gives the sportsmen strong light on the targets and not on their faces. The grounds will be open for op- tional shooting on the afternoon of Tuesday, Aug. 24°’ Another reads; “A neat little station has been erected ou the line of the Barre Railroad at the entrance of the preserves of the Montpelier Gun Club for the conyenience of its members and guests, and is designated by a sign bearing on its face the words, ‘The Shoot.’”’ Jack Parker has written us at lengthin regard to Ben O, Bush’s let. ter to us which appeared in our issue of July 31. In that latter Mr. Bush stated that Mr. Parker’s claim for King’s Smokeless and Peters's eartridges of first and second averages at the Detroit shoot of the Michigan Trap-Shooters’ League, June 29-80, was not based on fact. Mr, Parker now writes us contradicting Mr. Bush, and backs up his statement with a certificate from Mr. W. H Brady, secretary of the League, that proves beyond question that Mr. Parker’s claims were eorrect. In regardto Mr. Graham’s use of King’s Smokeless at that tournament, Mr. Parker says: ‘‘l know Mr. Graham thoroughly, and know, as all his intimate friends do, that he shot King’s Smokeless at that tournament; and that he also pays for all of that powder that he uses,’ The following extractfrom Mr. Brady's letter is to the point: “The witners of the three highest averages at this tournament (the one referred to above) were: Thomas Graham first, John Parker sec- ond, Henry Waruf third.” A reference to the scores shows us that Messrs. Spross and Snow, being non-residents of the State, did not shoot through the programme events on either day of the shoot, being barred from certain events. Mr. Snow's shooting was excel- lent, however. On the first day he broke 112 out of 120. or 93.8 per cent. On the second he broke 138 out of 150 shot at, another average of 93.8 per cent . making his average for the two days, a total of 270 targets shot at, just 93.3. If the Chamberlin Cartridge and Target Co. adheres to the present plans forits tournament next June, namely, not to allow any paid men to compete for the amateurs’ money, the scene of the tourna- ment might be very aptly termed: ‘‘An Amateurs’ Alaska.’* The ex- pert amateur would have a Klondike cinch on the bulk of the money; the semi-expert might be able to get over the Chilcoot Pass, but the poor novice would be stranded at Dyea. He always gets left and must always expect to, until he can shoot as well as the-semi-expert or the professional. The only option forhim at present is to either stay away or buy his amusement at a rather high price. The matter of handicapping shootersis rather a hard oneto tackle. The experts and semi-experis of the present day have paid—and paid dearly— for their experience, and many of them say that ib would be unjust to change the conditions now-.they are beginning to be able to enjoy their sport without cost to themselves, just as they themselyes paid for their more expert brethren’s fun in the past. Of course, this does not apply to the pro- fessional; the money he expended in learning how to shoot live birds or targets may be Jikened to just so much capital invested in his bus- iness; he is earning a living at very little trouble to himself; he is paid to do what thousands of other trap-shooters pay big money for. We should like to hear what some of our trap-shooting readers think of Paul North's scheme for tbe next Cleyeland shoot, The Brooklyn Gun Club, of Brooklyn, N. Y..is one of the most en- ergetic clubs in this section of the country. It holds monthly target sboots for a club cup, and also has a practice shoot every afternoon during the year. It will make a new departure this fall, and will hold a, monthly live-bird shoot during the fall, winter and spring months, Unlike most Long Island clubs, this organization will not hold its live bird shoots at Dexter Park, bub will go over mto Jersey, and for, liye- bird shooting, use the grounds lately occupied by the Carteret Gun Club at Bayonve (Bergen Point), N. J. As stated in “Drivers and Twisters’ of our last issue, Phil Lumbreyer, late manager of the grounds for the Carteret Club, has secured the grounds for his own use, and has both target and live-bird traps, with plenty of targets and good live birds always on hand. The grounds can easily be reached from Cortlandt street ferry in thirty-five minutes, taking the Bayonne trolley to within two blocks of the grounds, Nineteenth street, Bayonne. By water and rail from the Liberty street ferry to West Kighth street, Bayonne, Central Railroad of New Jersey, is rather shorter, but hardly as convenient, and nothing like as cheap as the trolley from the Jersey City side of the P. R. R. ferry. The Lake Charles, La., Rod and Gun Club announces a *‘State shoot? on its grounds on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week, Aug. 18-20, The tournament is announred as open only ta residents of the State, professionals being barred. So far as we can see, the club adds $245 to the purses, but ouly charges 2 cents for targets and 25 cents for live birds. There is only one live-bird event each day, an’8-bird affair, $5 entrance, nothing added to the purses. The target programme for each day callsfor 185 targets, and as we figure it out, allowing 1 cent as the prebable cost of each target when trapped, the club will have to throw 24,500 targets to come out even on the cost of the targets and the added money—not to mention other incidental expenses, which generally cut quite a figure. This means that there will have to be an average entry list of forty-four shooters in every eveut on the three days. The fact is the programme is a very generous and sporting one, and wé don’t suppose the elnb or its members care whether they come out even or not; they are in if for the sport. W. H. Wolstencroft is just now shooting in grand form. At the shoot on the grounds of the Florist Gun Club, Philadelphia, Pa , hela Aug. 7, be made quite a record, losing only 11 targets out of 195 shot at, as follows: Team race, 21 ont of 25; programme events, 140 out of 145; extra eveut, 15 singles and 5 pairs, 23 out of 25, Again, on the first day of the Keystone Shooting League’s tournament, Ang. 13— id, he broke 154 out of 16) shot at, an average of 96.2 percent, On this same day Capt. Money and John J. Hallowell were tied for second aud third places with 139 out of 169 shot at. or 86.8 per cent., while H. D. Miller (who has not been before the traps for a year or more) and Hood Waters, of Baltimore, were tied for fourth and fifth places with 137 breaks each, an average of 85.6. Thesefigures show just how well Billy was shooting. His work on the second day can be seen by re- ferring to the scores giyen elsewhere in these columns. A Rochester (N. ¥ ) paper of the 15th inst, is authority for the state- ment that Fulford will challenge Hiliott for the cast iron medal, if the latter succeeds in wresting it from Grimm,, Manager Shaner’s outfit . Paul North’s letter ii our last issue, which appeared under tha head of “Paid Men at Tournaments,” informs us that at the Oleveland shoot last June, “‘about one-fifth of the average number of shooters drew out about one-third of all the money, or $300 more than they put in, including the tax; aud in addition to that they were paid a Salary for shooting and furnished all their ammunition and expsuse money.’ In other words, fourteen paid men, actording to Mr. North's statement. divided up $300 as a result of three days’ shooting —an average of a little over $7 per day for each day. The figures sound large at first, but when analyzed, if our conception of his Meaning is correct, they are by no means formidable. It must be remembered, too, that atithis tournament all bluerocks were thrown free. Hadit been ‘‘all targets out of the purses,’ the proportion would probably have remained the same, bub the figures would have been materially lessened. Jim Elliott has won the first of his ‘free-for-all’ series of matches, On Saturday last, Aug, 14, he defeated Simon Glover, of Rochester, N, ¥., by the score of 92 10-84. The contest was for the Kansas City Star cup, which Glover won at the Missouri State shoot held at Kan- sas City, Mo,, May 17-22, 1897. The Star trophy was shot for on May 21, sixty-three entries being made forthe great mateh, Glover, 0. GC. Herrman, Lamb and Crabill tied for the cup with 25 straight, On the shoot-off at 5 birds, Glover won by scoring his 5. Crabill dropped his third tie bird, Lamb his fourth and Herrman his fifth. Among the entries were Charlie Budd, Fred Gilbert, Rolla Heikes, Harvey MeMurehy. Jim Elliott, the previous holder of the cup, Frank Parme- lee, Chris Gottlieb, and many other rattling good ones. Tilliott’s score 1m that race was 23, losing his 6th and 24th birds, the latter falling dead out of bounds. Jim’s next important match is with Charlie Budd for the Du Pont trophy; this match will take place at Hau Claire, Wis,, Aug. 28, at 2 P, M. The last week of September and the first week of October are going to be busy ones in this section of the country. Sept. 28-Oct. 1 are the dates forthe New Jersey State shoot; Oct. 6-8 have long been claimed as the dates for the annual open-to-all fall tournament of the West Newburgh Gun and Rifle Association of Newburgh, N. Y., a popular fixture in this part of the State. From the following letter, written us by Mr. John M. Servin, secretary of the Warwick, N. Y, Gun Club, a new organization, we gather that the dates of Oct. 4-5 are poing to be filled up, too: ‘‘Ata meeting of the Warwick Gun Club, eld Aug. 12, it was decided to hold an open-to-all bluerock tourna- ment ou Oct. 4-5; $50 will be divided as average money between the four high guns who take part in all the programme eyents.’? The past two weeks haye indeed been dull ones in the trap-shooting world. There is always a dead season for a few weeks during the extreme hot weather and vacation time, but this year the dead sea- son is somewhat deader than usual. Wor the next few weeks —that is, until the game season sets in in earnest—matters will be livelier. Jack Parker’s shoot at Detroit will brisken up things in the beginning of September. The New Jersey State shoot at the end of September will be about the last important shoot until the Grand American Handicap next March. The Interstate Association closes its tourna- ment season witha target shoot. at Portsmouth, N. H., Sept. 15-16, and the prospects are that this shoot will get a large share of the patronage of the shooters of the New England States. The Parker Gun Club, of Meriden, Conn., has gotten out its pro- gramme for the annual shoot of the club on Labor Day, Sept. 6, Eight 16s, two 20s, and one 30-targeb event are on the programme The 80-target event will have $10 added to the purse if twenty or more shooters enter “for all day’’; if twenty-five or more enter for all day the elub will add $20 to this purse. There will be four moneys, Rose system, in all events exceptin No 9; if twenty-five or more enter in this event there will be five moneys. Ths programme will be started at 9:30 prompt. Shooters can enter ‘‘for targets only” in any 6yent. In a recent issue of one of our contemporaries some remarks were made relative to the close and hard shooting qualities of a new gun built by Parker Bros., for GeorgeS. McAlpin, the well-known live bird shot of thiscity. While the patterns made by this gun, together with the penetrating qualities of the shot at long ranges, are enrrectly treated of, a mistake was made im referring to the barrels as made of **Whitworth fluid steel.” We learn from the best authority that the barrels are of ‘Bernard steel, browned black.” This sounds rather like a bull, butit's the way an expert put it to us. The Haverhill, Mass., Gun Club expects to hayea large number of shooters in attendance at the third shoot of the Massachusetts State Shooting Association, which will be held on the Hayerhill Gun Club's grounds, Wednesday, Sept. 1. The officers of the Association are: President, Capt. EH. B. Wadsworth; Secretary, ©. R. Dickey. The programme is a lengthy one and calls for 240 targets, including the three-men team race and the ‘individual match.’ Mr, George H. Stevens, secretary vf the Haverhill Gun Club, will be pleased to fur- nish any further information that may be desired, The Lewiston, Me., papers gave the Interstate shoot on Aug, 4-5 quite a send-off each day. One of the papers had a special artist on the ground, sketching some of the prominent shooters present, the portraits appearing in the evening edition, They also wrote up the shoot quite intelligently, judging from the specimens we have seen; and it is no easy matter for a lay reporter to gel sporting mathers down on paper in such a shape that it is hard to pick flaws in it Rich Hunnewell has sent us a copy of two of the local papers, and in sending them, says; **We had a fine time, good attendance and lots of shooting.” Montpelier, Vt., is the scene of the last target tournament but one on the 1897 circuit of the Interstate Association. The Vermont tour- pament will be held on Wednesday and Thursday of next week, Aug. 25-26, under the auspices of the Moutpelier Gun Chib. The local elub has gona to work in earnest to make things pleasant for its fuests during the tournament, and we are sure that the pleasant shoot at Burlington, Vt., last August will be satisfactorily duplicated. New York city will be well represented, a goodly party leaying that city on the evening of Aug. 23 by way of the Albany night boat, making fae trip to Montpelier, via Lake George, Lake Champlain and Bur- ington. The junior partuer of the firm of Von Lengerke & Detmoald, Mr. EB. Detmold, made his frst appearance in the firm’s néw store, 318 Broad- way, the uptown corner of ‘Sporting Goods Row,” on Monday of this week, Aug, 16. Mr. Detmold has just recovered from an attack of appendicitis, having successfully undergone the operation neces- sary to remove the cause of the trouble, He looked well, and was kept busy receiying the congratulations of his friends, who compli- mented him both upon bis general appearance and upon that of the new store, which is a yast improyemient on the firm’s late location, 8 Murray street. Major J. M. Taylor, who has been identified with the trap-shootine and kennel columns of the American Field for some years, has severed his connection with that paper, and has accepted an offer from the Sportsmen’s Review. The mauy friends of the Major will be glad to learn that, now that heis relieved from the handicap under which he has been laboring for some time, he will be seén more fre- quently at trap-shooting tournaments, The Lake City Gun Club, of Warsaw, Ind _, is booked to hold a shoot on Wednesday and Thursday of this week, Aug, 18-19. The main event on the programme is No, 6 on the second day, a 25-tareet event, for the medal which is emblematic of the target ee eS of northern Indiana and southern Michigan. The sweepstake is open to all, but the medal can only be wou by a resident of either of those sections of Indiana or Michigan, The Keystone Shooting League of Philadelphia, Pa., held a *ourna- ment on Friday aud Saturday last, Aug 13-14. Philadelphia is enjoy- ing quite a boom in target-shooling just now, mainly owing to the efforts of Mr. J. K. Starr, the promoter and the euergetic secretary of the Philadelphia Trap-Shooters’ League, but the first day of this tournament was nob a success in point of attendance, the shoot hay- ing been poorly advertised. We learn from Secretary Waltou, of Montpelier, Vt., in a letter written Aug, 14, informing us that he had engaged rooms for the en- tire New York delegation to the Interstate shooF, Aug, 25-26, that: “A letter from Sherbrooke, P_ Q., to-night, tells mé to expect siz: from there. If straws are any indication of the direction of the wind, we are going to have a great shoob; and] assure you that we up here feel that FoRES? AND STREAM is to blame for a part of it,” Jim Elliott isa great hand to lose his first bird in an important match. He followed his usual custom, and lost his first bird in the match with Gloyer on Aug. 14, After thathe departed from ‘prece- dents and lost his second bird also, thus giving Glover a big lead at the yery start. He finished strongly, however, aud soon had the yie~ tory clinched. _ . We have received 4 postal card, printed in red ink, thaf conveys the following ambiguous information: “There willbe a hot time in Grand Rapids, Itasca county, Minn., Oct. 29 and 30, and Nov. 1 to 10. Write to Dr W. P. Brown, seerétary of the gun club, for informa- tion.” Whatdoes it all mean? A twelve days’ shoot? Perhaps Dr. Brown will enlighten us im a few days. The Cleveland Target Co.s advertisement in our issue of Aug, 14, gives a list of thirteen clubs in New York and onein New Jersey, to whom it refers intending lessees of niagautraps for information as to the working of the traps. Wenote that the Oneida County Sports- men’s Association is lessee of maganutrap No. 100, Watson's Park, Chicago, is to be the scene of a three days’ tourna- ment Sept. 22-24. Live birds and targets will be trapped. Pro- grammes will be ready for distribution about Sept. 1, and may be had on application to John Watson, Station R, Chicago, Ill, 4 Ava. 2i, 1897.] “Paid men and the amateurs’ money” isa subject that ie at last attracting the attention it deserves ath the hands of the sportsmen’s press. For more than two years ForgstT AND STREAM has been dig- ping 2way atthe shooting public in rezard to this matter, aod bas been doing it single-banded, Ic is with pleasure, ther-fore, that we listen, even at this late date, to the intermittent chirps that come ( 1) It took our brothers some time to realize he iirué merits of the Rose system. but ther have come toit finally, We don’t claim for the Rose system the approval of all shooters; there are Fome who don’b approve of it, but we think we know the reason why; again, there are others who don’t approve of it. and who don’t really know the reasou why For our part we are of the opinion that it is the fairest and most «quitable way of dividing purses that hus: been devised to date, and under it a few experts do not run off with all the money. A fairly strong team representing the Roiling Springs Gun Club, of Rutherford, N J., will try: coneclusiens on Thursday next, Ang. 19: with the Peeksiill-Newbureh combination at Orange Like near New- bureh N Y¥. The pre'ext fur the team rave and target shoot isa ‘lam bake at the Pine Pine (lub Hotel, Orange Lake, where Neaf Ap- par is installed as proprietor. Team races and clambakes are a great c mbination, Whichever side loses can always lay the blame oa the clams, - The Fairbank (ta.) Gvn Club announces that it will hold a target I], “10-gaugze guns and cannons handicapped,” on A tournament will be held at Algona, Ia,, Aug. 24-95, under the aus- pices of the local club The Algona Gun Olub looks for a good at- tendance of shooters, and is certain to give everybody who goes to the toulnament an exceedingly pleasant time, as the Algona boys iknow how to entertain their guests, Single-trigeer guns are getting to be all the rage, and most of the promipvent gun firms in this country are working on them. The Lefever Arms Compauy. of Syracuse N. Y.. will shortly have one of’ these single-trigser guns en the marker. The Martinsburg, W Va, Shooting Association will hold an Inter- state trap shooting tournament at Inwood Park, W. Va., on Aug. 18- 19, Wednesday and Thursday of this week, Ava. 17. EpwArRD Bangs. Keystone Shooting League. PHILADELPHIA. Pa., Aug. 14.- The first day of the invitation farget tournament, announced by the Keys'one Shooting League for yester- ‘day and to-day. was poorly attended, owing to lack of due notice, To day’s shoot, however. was fairly well patronized, among those ‘from a distance being Vapt A. W. Money. of the American B,C and Schulize Powder Company (L’t’d); Hoad Waters. of Baltimore, etc. To-day’s scores are given below. It will he noticed that. Bi‘ly Wolsten- croft was in wonderful form, losing only 10 targets out 175 shot at; 4 of the 10 lost in one 20-target event. Scores: Events: 123 4656 6% 8 910 Targets: 15 10 20 15 25 15 15 25 20 W EH Wolstencroft,...cccysceeves 14.10 16 14 24 14 14 24 20 Capt Money,...... 6 16 138 £38 12 11 28 18 EUTALAScoarnciaplatapictuie a 'eeesialers in alpie eters 8 vi q RVEIETS sen iene eenek be ieemtess leuk od tS SHOTS ITY eee eipcy ce aietwalstes nieeele al UM Ec un | 1: MELORE UGE nioNe ciel ewe dield deW'nerylr 6 “J Wolcteneroft.,..iiiscsessecees 5 A Sean Eten rnin sien eervialeicta satate TH Wolsten¢roft,..csvsesensess ve RECA WAV, s seaieatals mmm ccee elelie sleae low BPG SOM A ywerelpetaretn eens cicesebglenvetvicrvesvbs CTT Yerascerecseneeeeerneseeennes = =) i nw i ra oF a co 0 oo Ms = ee eos 5 ee Sees see se 8 See . Montpelier Gun Club. Montrsiinr, Vt., Aug. 13.- Below are the scores made to-day by Mmemb-rs ot the Montpelier-Gub Club. The high wind made the blue- rocks jump right out of the spot where most of us thought they were, Our scores suffered in consequence. : Events: 123 46 6 7 8 910111213 Targets: 16 15 20 20 10 15 20 15 10 15 16 15 25 CREME Oar escinee it SLD RLS, akc al pe be aye aiuw see pee nals Brown... manent 5 Re lyelot eSila eee ole Eble....... Nataleldistalc etate wise Bgeve Lilt O ters ee neue dp, SAT CBCG ey dekncbwerser Pe rietstes LL cn Ou neon donee a dese, atl JO SESSA HAAS UITTATI Malariatciulalnsielelatelaletersli tet Les lcbuelvice lel srs ecsreresy) MCCA sergio W HB Hastman....scssseeeneres 18 9 ,, 18 ., 181413 ., 1313 ., ., RVFV Lhieoratt es Perctetenenriittietrweert ree SLO) el Mo) aiicjemay) vukees eh Ad ifr BWV SAIE OT Ree relate wtwte's a beialeielelelclaletdi ts Wahi LO be “ USE Gi Soncevesushiesdsinavermeyeren ig JSR aR eR CEN Can Fs (ea ROEVTHOMS. cadetseveessscesreves ey nd Griffia ee ee et ee ae BELOSSIDE TONS ta eivsiicw eels cldtiule nc 55.6 PPCAN.TAEes esse antaalers tis minsietiie estas sale IGISARON prise vuthouribeeyiesisinlalvccies vale vee ielhiess Nos. 3, 4 and 6 known; No. 9, reversed order: Nos. 1, 2, 5. 7, 8 10,11, 12 and 18, unknown. Gro, B. Watton, Sec’y. es ee ue see Haverhill Gun Club. HAVeARHILL, Mass , Aug. 14—An iceal shooting day, but only the old guard sppeared to day at the grounds of the Haverhill Gun Club, for the regular Saturday afternoon practice shoot. Below are the events, and the scores made: Eventa: 123k 5 6 ¥ 8 9 70 11 12 13 1h 15 16 17 Targets: 10 10 10 10 10 20 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 Angles: KEUURKUUKUUDTUUUUE BHOrbsskccesaceepiccrs. ub we Go fe Sie Oran og Bie verises.suascsasesso 0B Oe Bo B20. RE we ii Haas Brya.ecssecscesceee,s 8 810 8 715599 TY 67 899 8 PMN Gis ee cecececnscens) Oe) 4) bo ee RSs 8 Bed) 9 Okla POOLE Oa icsehoabeshisess Ceese eco L in dele od et OM BO SO. iid Tipip tomes Bist hat ie ih lan aad ral eee oe ak teblteacky sae ine Sigh 2) Events 11, 12, 18 and 14 were shot gun below the elbow till bird was in the air, Gzo. F. STEVENS, Sec’y-Treas. Glenwood Gun Club, of Newburgh, Newevures, N. Y., Aug 12. In addition to the practice events shot to-day vy members of the Glenwood Gun Club, of this city, A K. Dickscn and W. M Stansbr vgh had a 50-tarzer match, as a result of Dickson’s challenge for the Schul z? B.C cup, now held by Stans- brough. The conditions were 50 turge!s, unknown argles, Bothmen broke 88 and tied. On the shoo! off at ‘5 targets Stansbrough won with a straight score to Dickson's 21 Scores follow: Diekson........+..111010111011110000141111111 1011101111111110110011 38 ate sepvoug yee e1000111011010111110111001110110111111111111111011—38 oot off: DICKSON ave sanevenesavedes este eeeeeeeees 2111111111111010111101011—21 Stansbrough, ...,...-5.-teeenee eee eee ee £119711191111911111111111 —25 The absve event was followed by the Lewis prize shoot, in which Dr, Stansbrough broke anotber 25 straight, making a continuous run of 60 straight, The scores in the priz+ shoot were: Stansbrough 25, Henderson 24, J Rbodes <3, Dickson 18, Carr 18, Hobbs 17, Moores 16, Hoppenstedt 12, Hoffman 10, GQLENWoopD. Sandwich Gun Club. SAnpDwicH Mass., Aug. 7.--The following scores wera made at the Jast shoot of our club. We hope to continue our weekly shoots when the weather gets a little cooler The scores below were madein a scorching sup, wi h no wind. but we erjoyed he sport neyerthele-s, Two of our Members shot a match to see which » as the fest man. Both were so apxious to win that the score suffered terribly, and would not Jook well on paper Conditions of club shoot: 25 bluerocks per man, unknown angles: GO APNOID, ., 06. c pees cece eye see eees ence es L0N010N00111100010001100— 9 JD MCAIGIC. ccc ceceeccecceescecevsrcessss sQUl0! 0 10011010010 ON1100— 8 EES BOCK... ciane gs ctee ste vege eye eye eee 1010101001100) 0001001010—10 Ww R Proctor...... Seek eee ee Hee eee Pees nerL OL 1011000000000000001— vi GH Haines yi cceyyenee--seeeeeveseeeeees e-101110111100111111101010i—18 Guo, H. Hainus, Sec’y. FOREST AND STREAM. In Chicago. EUREKA GUN OLUB, Aug. 7.—The regular weekly shoor of the Kureka Gun Club was held ihis afternoon on theclub’s grounds Sevebry-ninth and Vincen- nes road. Twelve members and two visitors faced that trap, nosh of the av‘tive members being over at the Garfi ld Gun Glub’s grounds, takiug part in the ten-mén team race between these two clnbs. The new marautrap worked yery well and as spon as the members be- com6 better acquainted with it the scores will improye In addnion to the medal shoot, 25-target events were also shot, the scores in these events being as follows: ‘ No 1: Pel.on 9, Morgan 11, Neta 11, Porter, Stanley 17, Spreyne 17, RK, B. Carson 12 No. 2: Morgan 15, Porter 16. Neta 14, St@nley 13, R. B Carson 9, Spreyne:4i, Melon 14, Hess 18, Walters 14 Dixon 9 Dr, Carson 10, No: 8: Dixon 10, Stone 2), Stanley 12, Porier 11, Hombree 12, Levint 9, Morgan !6, Hess 15. Spreyne 14, Dr. Liddy 12, No 4: Hess 16, Dixon 11, Stone 14, Morgan 12, Dr. Liddy 10 out of 19, The detailed scoresin the trophy shoot fellow: ‘Lrophy shoot: SPPAGue ss, cacnceesceccrensesavesesercsrees cell 1141110011 1011101 100011—18 FOSS. ccaccenecewentseas wepensenaneves eae s 00101111001001010'1111000—18 Stamley .cscasccecnseecenssueneensncecsess + t1100111110100010)0001111—15 PAMtiS. ccc ceccececserensesenvreneeneny yey see tL01110 00000'01101N0G0j0— 9 DixGn enna venveecuceneeareceeeve ees G10101 01'1101001001100111—12 RK B Carson, ,0110111000:00011000100000— 9 Morgan vs... .1010110001100101110001000 11 WAT) iiewgescess WEIPGIST, sensor titewetielene SEONG, cssvescyscassaevesasactevevcewccane O10190)1)C01111011)0100111—17 EXMDTEC. accesses sueeesccece seesaw eens oa OOLL0N010!10000'011011110 11 LGVilt cvsneneueseaseeenseceeessene: wee ee L000000010011101000000!00— 6 G HPeON,. op pesceececceeeeressesssevers e110 11100011001L0000110010—10 GARDEN CITY GUN CLUB, Aug. 7.—The regular weekly shoot of the Garden City Gun Club was beld to-dzy. The main events on the programme were the Don- nelly prize event, the Du Pont and Hezard har dicap priz- event for two 4ib. kegs of Du Pont and Hazara 1 ae donated by H, 8. Riee, geieral agent, and the “gun below the elbow” I4-iarget event, Tuo the first of these, the Donnelly prize shoot, Ruble broke 22 but bis average was not inereased, so others have yet a ce tance to win out In the Du Pont and Hazard handicap event, Levi, with a handicap of 12, scored 1 more than a highest possible (41), and took first prize; Ruble, with a bandicap of 1, broke 38 and thus scored 29, wibuing second prize. Ruble was also bigh man in the 15-target race, gun be- low thé elbow, seormg 14 out of 15, . Scores in these three evenis were: Donuelly prize shoot. Ruble \....69 0000000 221071111011011 1111111111 — 22 Hutchinson,,,...- «11111001U0111111110/11111—19 Goldsmith, ...,..«.««1111011010010110011011111—18 LEVi . ee eeeee---, 1100010100110100001010101—11 Kimball........s000. BiNyOD,, osecaessnses LUGIOW eta sees sas PANS ite savas esse TL MaM eee heres ees 100110111111110—11 WED aedeedssaade caveats pesitsssaupess pees 010001000000000— 2 Du Pont and Hazard handicap, 20 known and 20 unknown; Levi ()2) ccceceeveed1119211U71011111011 01041101100001111011—29+-12—41 Kuble (1). ..¢e00e00L20107921101191101111 «1101001110111 1110111 art 1-89 Goldsmith (5),.,..111011121110110L0111 = 111011:0111111101001—3)-- 5—36 Hutchinson ($)....111121111101111)1111 ~=0101110101400)111010 -30+ 3 —38 Finsted (12) .......00171111011111000000 9100'0100110011001C0 --19--12—81, Kimball (s)......-1010 000 00010100'00 00107000111100011111—197-++ s- 25 Binyon (12)... ...-.1001000.001000001110 1000;000000000100000 — Gey —21 SEQ’Y, Gun below elbow. TLIIDONIII1I11- 14 001100111710110— 9 10101001111 1001— 9 101.00) 001110100 — 6 0921000U11101111— & 0001000030'0111 — 5 1110,0111!10011—11 11110)10/0 0010— 8 See wees eee a ween eee Se nr) SRN e eens ee eee sean Phe eames ayes eenenne ae Skee e ecco e es eeetneoeeeae THE GARFIELDS WIN BY ONE TARGET. Aug, 7.—The second 10-men team race between the Garfield and Eureka Gun Clubs, both of Chicago, was a close and exciting affair. At the finish the svores were, Garfield 203, Hureka 204, Tae match was shot on the grounds cf tbe Garfi‘lad Gun (lub, the conditions being: 10 men 10 a team, 25 targets per man, 250totheteam, Scores: Garfield Gun Club, Dr SHAW... .ccceeveveovercrececscevase 2111011111111101111111111—23 REKUSS. oc cceseeseeesensecseeseanveys ol d10211911919111111110011—23 T P Hicks) oc. cceccccnececcuecnns ean ee tL01190111111111901111911—22 BO WOrS..ccnccunuveccenvanaveccneawensoht11111910111101111011011 21 Hist e Ged ivedtdnneectinewitaeercien slo nCOh I tit FEATMAD cnc weenessesneuvennes coos etl 011191111 h1(011111101—21 HL BENGAL cade cen ene cee eeeeee eee es eed 11011110111911071110110! 20 TG aha... ....cc0 sewer cvenen eee ee GL1011911110101(0!1011111—18 - O Von Lengerke, ..cccecuveeeeueysys2-1LJ10111U1 00001111111001—17 OP Richards....:ccseesceveeeeees +229711100001U111110101101—17—2038 Hureka Gun Club W DStannard,.,.cccvsseeesereesyse+ 2017211111101911111111111- 23 WS Gck... cee eeceeeeeus ceesvoeeessy 2011311119191111311101111—23 J GIOVET, .uveveveccuceeseessvevseeses 2111191111111110110111111 22 ANLOIDC. cece yevewcceeesceevacvess eve dd400)1019111111191110111—22 HONMIStCr., cee veeneeeveceervsseeveess- 11) 1120111 01111111110101—21 GOOdrICH.. .. 50sec ee cece ee eves ee ee ee ee tL11011011111111011110111—21 Milier. wee eeeeeuseeecucvsasesegs+ 5 21I0117101110111001101111 19 WP Stannard... .ccevsceveceeeeece--> 1017111001111111011 0 4) 111—18 Cunningham... scccessessevccvevveesetlIQUOIOIOL 1101130 111111—17 FOUStOD. acc envavsvewvueavecverseeeses y 2101111110101111001100100—16 —202 The Target Championship. Wer have been asked so ma: y questions in regard to the target championship of the United States; how it originated; who won it first, and whar his score was, and what were the scores of the others who comprted for i’; that we have decided to answer all these ques- tions in a bunch and in type, as it is evident that many people are much intevested in this eontest. OF course the reeent match between Gilbert and Heikes is answerable for much of this show of interest. WHERE 7HE IDEA CAME FROM, In Forust AnD StRKAmM of Oct. 19, 1495, we gave in full just what our ideas of a championship shculd be, and particularly laid down the conditions ora target championship . Wesuggzest d thar some large tournament should be hela at which, on the four days. a series of races for championship honors Our ords were as follows: ‘Tt is a remyrkable fact that, although target shooting is more than a decade old, we have no legitimate champion at that branch of the sport. There has never been areal championship contest at inani- mate 'arve 5 that we can fine a trace of. The Schme zer Arms Com- pany’s trophy, now beld by Jack Parker, represents only the cnam- pion: hip at inar imate targets thrown from iraps pulled in reverse order, called for the sake of brevity the championsiip at rey+rsed order, There is no legal champion sho: of America. alrhough there may bea moralone Wereit put to the popular vote, we think there” would be littl doubt about Heikes getting the majorily of the vores cart, Do withstanding the claims of such men as MeMurely, Van Lyke, Dickey, Bartlett, Noel Money, Upson, Glover. Fulford,ete. We could add a dozen more names to the above hst, each one of which would denote a man who has bona side claimsto a try for the cham- jonship. * “To obtain the right to the title of champion targetshot of America, it would ber ecessar) for ashoover \o prove that he excelled generally at the four branches of the sport now commonly in use: unknown angles expert rules, reversev order and pairs ¥ iha view to ascer- ta ning whu is the champion target shot, ve would like to see some prominent gun lb, or some firm interested in the manufacture. of gpording goods, adop! some such plan as the following: “Getupa tournament and offer a valuable cup that shall be em- blematic of the champiouship at turgets Let the conditions be as follows: 100 targets, unknown angles; 00 targets, reversed order; 100 targets, expert system, and £0 pairs. The way to shoot the 400 targets off might be thus: divides each of the three first systems into four 25- target events, and the 50 pairs into four events of 16,15, 10 and 10 pairs, respectively. Make each ©5 or each set of pairs a separate event with 8 solid entrance fee; deduct Sor 10 per cent. from each purse bo form @ fund to be divided be.ween the four hig: est averages inade out of the4:0 targets. Let tha man m+kinge the highest a- erage take the cup, titie and 4 percent. of the furd created as above; the three next highest would take 80, 20 and 1U per cent of the sumefund, respecrively. Ina four days’ tournament, a >5 at exch s'yleo* shoot- ing and one of the sets of pairs might be sho off without interferin? with adi-tinct programme, as the contestants in the ehampionship éyents would be formed into squads, and could shoot right along in allevents sitbous disturbing t.e routine of the tournament. The idea of dividing up the 400 targeis into sixteen separate events would we toink, serye -o keep the enirics from fa'ling off ‘ “Our claim is that the man who maé the best peneral average on the string of 410 targets at the four affer-nt styles of shooring would be fairl) entitied to championship honors, The conditions governing futnre ch Jlenges could b> easily f-rinulated, “A tournament that included in its programme any such champion- ship event would surely draw a large‘ rowd of shooters, and we think the entry list in the championship sweeps would be highly satisfac- tory. There, why wouldn't such a scheme asthe above work? What ara its weak points, and where doesit fall short? tu3tu3 have an all- rolind champion at targets ” CLAIMED BY TH HL, 0. POWDER COMPANY. The first contest for the Du Pour trophy was held at Baltimore, Ma’, the following week, commencing on Oet 22. It will ba remem- bered that this was Fred Gilhert’s débit in the Hast, aod it was a re- markahle one. fe won highest honors by carrying off the trophy, but w6 always beld that bis haniicap wasalightone Our confreres on the handicap committees will béar us out in this, He shot splen- flidly all through the tournameot and made very nearly as high an SUAKARE ag the veteran Brewer, even when placed on the same mark, Captain A, W, Money, of the B C Powder Company, was present at the shoot, and vas busy making plans for his ec mpany’s bie tour- nament that was to come off in the followme May. H2had read our ideas on he snoj-ct of a target championship, and asked us en Oct. 23 fo make a oo'e that his enmpany would run a tarcet champiou-hip eyenl, upon the lines ou lined in FoREST AND STREAM Of the preceding week, atits tournamenbin 1896 To how the popularity of the scheme, and to prove that we had bib the right nailon the head we tay say that on our return to New York, we received a letrer from the reprasentative of another large powder company asking us to makea similar claim for a tourmaament purposed ta be given by Liscompany, Oa our writing him of Capt. Money’s priority of claim, as we took it to be, the gentleman promptly and courteously withdrew all ¢lains, stating that he would not wish to mix up target champiouships REVERSED ORDER LEMt OUT, After much discussion ic was agreed to leave out the 100 targets at reversed order, that style of shooting being so little recognized out We t and io the South. Otherwise the conditions were precisely ag we bad outlined them, There can bb no qu stion as to the success of the shoot, The entry lists were @iormous (119 shooters taking parr on the first day), aljhough surpassed litar by those of the Hazurd Powder Company at Cincinnati two weeks later, Twenty-seven shooters took part in the eniire series of championship event- on the four days of the tourna- Then; fully 4s many more hao started, but had dropped out as the contest prugresséd Th: finish was close and excining enough, This is what we wrote aboutitia Porusr 4np Stamam of May 16, Ide: “Naturally the list of entries f:))off very much to-day. Aspirants for championship bonors tad falien oy thé wayside, and ihe number Jeft in the nace this morning’ had dwindled to below thirby, Still there was & lot of interest in tre final result, the pairs being excep- tidnally rxciting Gilbert went i to shoot his 10 pairs with @ bird to the good cf Hulfora; when he had broken 17 ont of his 20 there was a possibility of Fulford’s beating him oub—18 would tie and 19 would wit. Fulford, boveyer, conla dono better than score 13, finally tie- ing with J.m Hiliott, the real surprise party of the crowd. As will be s‘en from the scores given below, Rolla Heikes, although not the winner shot well up, landing in fourth place, GILBERT, THE WINNER, “Fred Gilbert, whom Charlie Grimm has now brought twice from Sp rit Lake, Ta , to take back vups cto that lintls home of his, should have a long career before him, as o¢ is quite young yeb, bemz only about thirty years of age. Fred is quive a shot a3 may be judged from bis work duripg the past twelyé months, In returoiuns chaoks for the cup, he attributed his position to ‘luck and the rabbit foot.? We are stanvch believers Ourselves in the farget-sm ishing capaollities of a ravbit’s fvot, burin this instance we fancy Gubect’s skill as an all-round sho stood him in more stead, “The championship events were shot asfollows: The 100 targets, unkpbown angles, were divided into four events of 25 each, one 25- targetevent being decided cach day on No, 1 setof traps, The 100 turgets, expert rule, and the 5) pairs were shot on No. 4 set of traps. The 110 expert rule were divided like the 100 uokno vn angles, but the 50 pairs were tplit up into \wo ¢venis of 1) pairs and two of 10 pairs, The table below gives the result of each event that was inciwded under the head of “championship events’ The table also shows the grand aggregate anu the position of each Man atthe finish, It will be noted that twenty-six men shot in all the championship events,” The table referred to ran as follows, the pairs being divided into two events of 5 pairs each sho ou the first two days, and two of 10 pairs each stot on the last two days: Grand total, 66 GL 261 28 - 26 258 RAT) 254 253 252 250 249 249 249 248 Eve 247 247 Unknown angles. Expert rule. Pred Giloert,,,,21 23 <8 24 Yl 24 24 98 24-91 A RK Hiliott.,..28 24 25 44-96 Qu 2i 2118 80 D Fultord,,,..23 23 21 24—91 21 22 25 u0—b58 . Heikes ...,21 28 45 28 92 #3 21 24 21—89 ay O Pairs. 25 27 16 17—84 zp 24 18 18 85 &B 25 it 13 -B2 23°23 17 13 77 23:23 17 16-79 24 21 16 17—78 Merrill,,,... 23 23 24 <0 —90 Barrett,...,2+ 28 24 ¢1—92 19 2u <2-24 85 D Mullec,,....19 20 2) 25—84 2O 20 28 zo 438 vepee nko) 4 24 22—93 19 21 kB SL BL weger et 22 23 21—90 £1 20 21 42 83 25 28 14 15—k8U Wheeler,,..24 22 4518 89 16 24 22 23-55 JW Budd ...,.25 21 238 20 +9 24 <2 24 24 9} 19 29 16 17—67 OR Ditkey .,,.i2 <3 21 21—87 19 20 23 28 8A FS Parwalee ,.26 22 22 28-92 2219 24 20 84 Ralph irimble,.23 24 24 24—vd 23 2U xB x4 9) 28 22 14 BA Bartleto,...23 23 20 21-87 16 42 20 21—79 £8 <6 15 1s—82 Sim Glover.,...,22 x8 24 24-93 20 24 2019-82 2226 9 15-72 Redwiog.. .....c0 2144 21 8&9 Be 2220 28 87 1 C Wagner ,,..,.22 <0 <5 25-92 22 48 22 21—+8 2221 11 13—67 Hooi Waters....20 22 43 22—87 18 25 28 21-87 24 20 15 14—72 DA Upson,,.., *4 #3 «3 22-92 21 19 2u 20-80 x6 18 1215 71 J Parker .,...,.20720 <3 40-83 21 18 21 2u—80 24 21 18 16—79 CM Grimm.,,,..23 21 +2 20 &6 19 19 21 41-8) 19 23 15 17 74 N Apgar. ......,20 23 22 19—84 19 241 18 22-80 22 2210 14 69 C Lane .,,.. wl 23 <2 #1 5% 20 4416 17-16 2217 14 14-67 Col J TAnthony.2z2 .9 19 1 81 21 18 2115 70 Yu 22 12 15 -69 CaprAWMoney.i9 21 #1 23 -8$4 17 201715 69 17 22 16 12 67 Gco W Loumis,.#2 24 20 18-84 11 20 2018 G4 #5 221110 65 216 “Tne conditions of the champt uship events called for $3.50 entrance in each of .he twelve events, $65 added to tach purse. From tne purses im these events lu per cent. was to be deducted to torm a championship fund, and this fund was to be oivided thus, Cup, value $ 0U, donated by the EH, 0, Powder Company, und 25 per cent. of the fund tothe winner;50 percent of balance to goe qually among the nex! four high guns; he reniaimiag 50 per cent, among tne next six high guns Under these conuiions, Gilvertarew out $38 and the cap; Hlhott, Fulford, Heines and Merrill $.8 each; and Barrett, Miller Leroy, Byer, Wheeler and Budd #12 eaca ” . e BOnRE Sy ak as wm g Standard Gun Ciub of Baltimore. BaLtimorm, Md., Aug. 10.—The upen tournament given by the Standard Gun Club ac Point Breeze yesisrday was a success ‘here were twenuy-one entries for the cnlef event, woiea was at 100 birds,’ enti adce (latge,s Inclused), $5; handicap, 1 to -5 birds; purse to be divided <5, <0, 1.46, lo, 216 aud .0 per cent. to the six nign guns, and Merchanuise prizes NUMucered from 7 Lo 15, The best work of the day was done by Hood, of the Bal imore Shouting Association, He brok> 97 mtof 100. Ais vandicap was 5 and be broke them all tno course of the day Hood shut at 145 targets and broke 14. of them. Storr, of the Standard Gun VUlub, was next ian man in the handicap, He had 114 to snoot ab and broke 104 of em ‘ihe targets, including the handicaps, ran from 100 to 125, and no one cvuld score above 1U0, though he brokeall héshotat, There were no seratcd mien, Lhesmaliest handicap being o birds. Hood was the ous man who gotsofew. Hawkins, witha handicap of out 9, scored The scores were as follows, the figures in parenthesis showing the handicap a & me a Doin Urls the number oroken: Hood (4) 10), S.ori (1c) 1u0, Hawkins (u) 94, Judge (13) 99, Gent (15 ee uae (2u) ‘ ee (iu) ee. yd, Matone eer aae: 14) 94, Vance (20) 0 Ranger (2u) 88, Cross (16) 87, dobbs (16) § (20) 7, N. Offutt(.:)4 , Offute (25) 46 = Serer Sieh Hra, Klin (17), Jamison (45), Vanuler (14) and Johnson (25) did not shoot their scores out, Oneida County Sportsmen’s Association. Unica N Y., Aug, 14.—The syores given below were made to-day by members of the Oneida County Sportsmén’s Association in the reguiar club shoot. Haircnilds was the winner to-day. Cluo shoot, 15 singles aud 5 pairs: Wairchilds (2).......11111 11141 = 10111 »3= 10 11: 10 14 1097-199 G Dexter (3) ....6..10101 11111 11101 42 00 11 O1 eee C Bruoner (8),.....-10111 10ii1 O1111 10 10 01 10 10-17-1320 J W Wulfora (0).....11101 11100 11110 11 17 10 114 10 —19 Hayes (0). ..s,-n00: 1101112001. 01101 ~~) 00:00 11 iN 14-45 19 P A Wiiceler (3)..... O100L = Oi10L—1TH0O 10 10 0} Ti 11, 5-13 —18 J G@ Judson (1) ....- OO11t 11101 O10 1L 10 00 14 10 e117 Prottier 4) ..sc..<..11011 11100 10010 10 GO _10 00 10—1z-+-4—16 Kiaeves (2)... ween 10001 = OU0I0 = 0.400110 OU U1 01 00— F-H3—15 wR Mzoer(2),...,,00100 010i 11000 11 00 10 11 10194-2744 Marks (.).2 cvseeees OUWOD O1011 1100100 10. 00-11 11-11-4218 H Coupe (7)..11051,,00001 00010 OU0L 01 10 01 w C. R, Migyar, See’y, 166 IN NEW JERSEY. CUP SHOOT AT HACKMNSACE, Aug. 11,—The fitth contest for the Recreation cup was decided this afternoon on the grounds of the Bergen County Gun Club. of Hackensack, Previous to this contest J. S. 5. Remsen, of Brooklyn, N Y.,a member of the Bergen County Gun Club. and PF. Sinnock, a member of the Forester Gun Club, of Newark, N. J., had each scored two wins. To-day’s shoot went to Banks, thus increasing phe interest in the two competitions yet to be shot before the final owner- ship of the cup is decided. The conditions of the cup are: 50 targets, known traps and angles, and 50 targets, unknown angles; seven com- petitions, one to take place every two months, the shooter winning it the greatest number of times in tha seven competitions toe become the final Owner of the cup. Professionals are barred from shooting for the cup, but are welcomed and can shoot along for the optional sweepstakes of $! on each 25 targets, and also for the cash prizes of $5 to the second high gun, and $2 to the third high gun, Hnbtrance for the cup is the price of the targets. In case a professional leads the shooters, he perforce takes the $5 prize; the highest amaieur tak— ing the cup. _ To day's race was shot under favorable conditions as regards wind and weather; occasionally there would come up a little breeze and at times the passing clouas would make the light on the reeds « f the meadows rather bad. Targets from No. 4 trap were extremely hard tc locate, owing to the poor background for lowthrown targets. All the traps threw rather low the greater part of the race, with the ex- ception of No, 3, which was inclined to give towerers, The race was close and exciting enough to satisfy everybody up to the conclusion of the third seriesof 25targets. Atthe end of the first 25 there were four ¢4s—Sinnock, Dudley, Banksand Noel Money- and three 248s— Van Dyke, Capt. Money and Fogarty, When the 50 known angles had been disposed of, four men were tied with 47 each, viz.: Sinnock, Van Dyke, Noel Money and Banks. Fogarty was next to them with 45, Dudley having dropped down to 19 in his second 85. The end of the first 25 at unknown angles found fiye mén tied on 70 out of 75, viz.: Sinnock, Van Dyke, Noel Money, Fogarty and Banks, Fogarty’s 25 straight having brought him up inio first place. Dudley was next with 66, having broken 23 in his third 25. The break came in the Jast 25, Van Dyke broke 24 and finished with 94. Fogarty and Sinnock, who both shot in the first squad with Van Dyke, Remsen, Hyde and Capt, Money, unexpectedly took big tumbles, Sinnock going out with only 19, Fogarty breaking 20 ‘This left the cup practically to either Noel Money or Banks, if they could’ hold up at all. strangely enough, Noel Money, who had been shoot- jug very well,and who had broken hard and easy targets without any apparent difficulty, scored only 18 ont of his 25. Banks ran 25 straight and finished with 95,1 more than Van Dyke’s total, Dud- ley also ran #5 straight, his 48 out of £0 at unknown angles just land- ing him in second place for the cup, but only in third place for money. Remsen’s shooting was a source of both regret and sur- prise. He had come all the way from Bluff Point on Lake Champlain, to see that Sinnock didn’t get another win on the cup in his absence, and also to try to get a winon his own behalf. His failure to score more than 30 out of 59 at known angies, and 40 out of 50 at unknown angles, is a remarkable falling off. He was shooting slower than usual, and was nobswinging as he sbould have done; stopping his gun when he puiled the trigger or before he pulled it. Heran the last 12 straight in his third 25 in something like his old style, pulveriz- ing the targets thoroughly, clouds of black dust alone showing where they had been. Capt. Money did not shoot anything like as well as he can shoot, his shoulder being still a little sore from the shooting he did at Riverton one week ago, viz , 565 targets in one day! There were nine contestants forthe cup, Mr, Combs, a Long Is- lander, shooting along as guest of the club. One often hears it said by shooters: “Il can break more at unknown angles than J can at known angies."" With 5) at each style of shooting, a fair comparison can be made in to-day’s race, Sinnock, Captain Money and Noel Money each broke more at known than at unknown angles; Remsen, Banks, Dudley and Combs broke more at unknown than at known angles; Van Dyke, Fogarty and Hyde broke the same \otals out of each at viz.: 47,45 and 44, respectively. Thescores tell the rest of the tale. Cup race, 100 targets per man, no handicap, half at known angles and nalf at unknown angl s, entrance $2 Optional sweepstake of 1 on each 25. Crypto winner of race: the cluo giving $5 to the second high gun and $2 to the th rd high gun: E Banks, ,....12921111111111101111110111111101111131101111111111—47 : ¥11111190.11171011111100114111111111111111111111111— 48 —95 F Van Dyke, ,.0111111111111111111011111111111171101111111111111 1—47 : 110110111211111111111111011111111111101111111111 11 —47—94 © F Dudley. ...11011110111111111111111111111111111110110110111000—43 110111117111112110113111111119111011 1191111111111 —4g8—9i B B Pogarty.,.111711101111101111111112141111111111101111111001111 45 : 11121111291191191111111111101111011110011011111111 — 45 —90 F Sinnock.,...12171111110112111111111111111101111111110111111111—47 11011111110111211111111111110111111010111001111110—42_ 89 W E Money, , .1201111111111119111111111111111111111101111 (101111—47 11011111011112111121291111101111010100111110111110—41—83 F Hyde. ...,.-10101711111011111110111012111111111111111111111110 — 44 11011111110011111111110111111111011111111111110111— 4488 Capt Money. .11111011101111111111111111001111111111111110101111—44 : 01110111011101111111101010100111111111101101111101—328—82 J SS Remsen,.01101101000110101160111100010110111011 101111007101—H) 0111017910110011111111111110111111101010101111111114—40—70 Combs, ....» --10000101101010000101001110100011111111100111001111—28 0111101111111110001101011101101001111010101101010—82—60 When nearly all the shooters had pone away the two Moneys shot a couple of team races at expert rules, 45 targets per man, against Fogarty and Banks. The first was a tie, but the shoot-off and a sec- ond race were both won by the Fogarty-Banks combination. Below are the results in this series of matenes: No. 1, team race, 25 targets per man, expert rules: BATRA eee ee rcietieniebe nf LLL. OMIT 0 Dl eT G Meee th tt ey PORArtyesccessvenveeee OUI 11111 10117-11110 110 1— 20-41, IN Money.siccecscses,-s11101 11101 «= 11212 = 1001_S~Ss 011-21 Capt Monéy........-.,.01011 11111 11101 9911130 =): 10111 —20—41 Shoot-off of tie; same conditions: Banks... ;seceacseesecsstl111 11201 11110 11100 1111121 FOgarty..cccceyeeecesss11000 i111 11201 11100 11141—19—40 N Money... eseccecsneee- 10110 11111 10111 11111 00111 —£0 Gapt Money........6..,01111 11010 1011 00111 10111—18 — 33 No, 2, same thing: - BANKS pieteratacemceetslalia | PHOT COTTE Sieh 11711—23 HOZBY Yucesveerercveves 10101 11111 11111 11111 10111 —22—45 Capt Money.......:+.+--110(1 © 11111 911000 =11111 10111—20 N MOney....cceveeeree-L00U1 10101 11001. «11111 Ss 00111-1636 SWREPS AT SECAUOUS, Aug. 6.—Both before and after the match between Geo H. Pierey, of the Endeavor Gun Club, and H, M. Heflich. of the North Hudson Rod and Gun Club, shot to-day on the Secaucus polo grounds, several sweeps were also decided. No.1 was at 5 birds, $3, one money; all the rest were $1 miss-and-ours. Seores follow: No. 1. No.2, No, 3. No 4.° No.5. BICUCY ey jdacme cts fhaveelnce cee cere 220 222 20 220 HEMICH, .ccceeernctecs sees ee OU20 10 210. r an Hvydefe tes wtestciverteeeter soll 2 112, ae er EUSAU, wnseescacuerrenecysssenns ppue 11z 20 22 eee HAYMISe ie ceeressee beret el sme 210 0 a ee Outwater......-.05 scene ’ 120 at Li Piercy... cs... thes 220 H. F, ScHILLINGER, See’y. [Phe score in the Pierey-Heflich match appeared in our issue of Aug. 14—F. & 5.) HAMDEN GUN CLUB, Aug 6.—Members of the Hamden Gun Club spent a few hours to- day very pieasanUy at the club’s traps. Andrews and Rose shot at 100 texgets, Davidson and Launt at 50, and Peckham ap 25; all at un- xpown angles, In addition to this a 10 target practice race was shot, with the following results: Davidson and Andrews 8, Peckham 6 Scores in the other events wére as below: : Andrews...., -11111111111011110111111111111101111111111071011011—44 01001111111111101111101001111111100100011111110101—+6—80 ROS@. cece eee e L111011110111110111101111110110110101000111010001—34 11111111111011105011311111111111110111111110011110—42—76 Davidson ..,,.11110111100010011111101011100101100110011110191100 —a31 Launt — ..,...011010000001100101 1000101010000110100UUU1010_01011 —19 Peckham, ,....00000J401101 1010011010110 —10 J. Rosz, Sec’y, AT ELEWOOD PARK. Aug. 10,—The 100-bird match between W. R, Patten, of Pleasure Bay, N J,and Dr. G. 8. Gagnon, of Chicago, for $300 a side, was shot to day on the Blkwood Park grounds, Dr. Gagnon standing at 3lyds. and Patten at 20yds, As was generally expecied, Patten was an easy winner, the scores standing: Patten 67, Gagnon 69, Scores follow: , . W R Patten (80).....2.00¢ cee e anon eens ne 1020022122120102202222210 - 20 20 622: 22226222222 2233292 — OF 8122022 12232 2223222223892 23 2220201022222222120121122—2] —87 ve cenreeeeceensss so0ee221002120022112022112—19 2020200020222202222222220—17 2022202202020220200020220—14 fropmree Oe L000 RRR 2 2020221 and Ba BO Dr GS Gagnon (31) , Sweeps were shot as below: No. 1. No. 2. No, 3. No, 4. Daly (29)... ,ese00, 22122112221 (300), 1122222110 20122 (29), ,22112 Hoey (80) .. 2005-4 +2112222210 (29), 2202212111 12211 (80), 2120 Morfey (29)... ,+...22222210 (29)...22020 sated berrene et Gagnon (25).. .. 22222922210 (25), 2222292222 22920 (26), .0122 N+. 5 was at 5 birds $20) then miss-and-out. Daly and Hoey killed Straight, but Gagnon missed his 5th bird. Hoey killed § more Sey and won with a total of 13 straight, Daly dropping his 13th ird. No.1 was a $5 miss-and-out; No. 2, 10 birds, $10; No. 8, 5 birds, $10; No 4,5 birds. $15. ; ' Is 2 Aug. 11. -Arthur Sussman aud A, M, Fielder shot a 50 bird race to~ day at Elkwood Park, Fielder retiring inthe 42d round, hopelessly out of the race. The match was for $50 aside, Scores were: Wielder (30)... cccscssvesecauseeeee, 011210100010120201%0000001—12 10000022210002220w. a SUSSMAN (80)... 0 secevevesurece sneer ee 22222921220102200202122202—19 2221122022001121 —18—82 The Elliott-Glover Match. THE CUP GOES BACK TO KANSAS CITY. RocHestir, N. Y , Aug, 14 —As a result of the Elliott-Gloyer mateh to-day for the Kansas Oty Star cup, Jas, A. R. Eliott, of Kansas City, Mo., will be able to carry back the trophy with him when he goes South. His victory over Gloyer by 8 birds in a 100-bird match was by no means expected, and Glover’s 84 out of 100 shows that be was clean outofform. His friends here attrixuce his poor score to stale - ness, which was caused by shooting too much and at too many tar- gets asTrecently as yesterday, when the Rochester Rod and Guo Club held a shoot, Elliott was in fine form and kil'ed his birds in good, quick time. The pigeons, too, were an excellent lot of strong flyers, tar better than the usual lot of ‘match birds’? in the month of August. EH. D. Fulford, who was a spectator, stated that he had ‘never seen better birds at this time of year.” A good crowd assembled to see the match. which took place at the Driving Park, Among those present were: Harvey McMurechy, svra- cuse; ©. L Frantz, Seneca Falls; Charles Wagner, Syracuse; H D. Fulford, Utica; D, Lefever, Syracuse; Dict Swiveiler, Batavia; Dr. Benham, Honeoye Falls; Col. A. G. Courtney, Syracuse; W. C. Had- ley, E.C Myers, Dr. Weller, L W. Davis, John J, Quirk, John Norton, George Borst, C. Lane, Theodore Lane, J, Lowder, W. Foley, J. Cook, W. J. Mann, HE. D. Hicks, T. R, Griffith, C. A, Compton, L. V. Byer and Frank E MeCord, of this city. W. C. Hadley, of this city, was chosen final stakeholder, and he also ‘‘rattled the bones” to show the trap puller, who was none other than Harvey McMurchy, which trap to pull, Jack Fanning, of San Francisco, was referee, and L, V. Byer and F. E. McCord, official scorers. Elliott shot a Winchester repeating shotgun, Elliott model. 50grs. of E, C. in.a Leader shell. Glover shot a Parker gun, with 344 and 334drs of Schultze in Trap shells. ‘rhe couditions were 100 live birds, 30yds, rise, 50yds. boundary, A. 5S. A, rules, Below are the scores; rap score type-—Copyright, 1897, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 43381855334313511435412433 TA RMSE GOO Be OSE) TO Nae Geo eT 42331122118415534314833853 ee Saree Cut n iD EAA (eme 42121334444412145215321538 iat eue er aan lee, 2552445435224441111381115 EAA APS OO CAMARA AEE 42118138528581221515242111 § Glover Gi)., BSE EE ZOO LES E Rae Be OD BTaEy Soe 441422243125211423529535151 Eee rey Es het ALL nae 21111545142152245193438544 TTT ASRARRTARRAACKYAAT NACA 222022222222291222122 2 20 0 0-21 24114122513232145218154428 foe 1 aS S01 9 2228 eOUS See bof at BE, C. Meyer and Dr. Weller shot a mateh at 25 live birds per man, 30yds. rise, ¢lyds. boundary. Meyer won by 2 birds, with v2 to 20: had they used the 50yds. bounvary the scores would have stood: Meyer 24, Weller 21. The scores at the 2lyds. boundary were: EC Meyer... cccsscenessesneceenenesescs ys -@OL0122211202122211219119 69 Dr Weller... ...+06+ «2120 1111111202221 @ 222020—29 eS eee e eee eee ee Holland Defeats Grand Rapids. Hotianp, Mich., Aug. 7 —The Holland Gun Club accepted, on short notire, a challenge from the Valley City Gun Clun, of Grand Rapids, Mich , to contest for the custody of the Shuotingand Fishing silver trophy, representing the 5-men tsam champion:hip of the State of Michigan, The match took place to day, and resulted in the cup re- maining with the Holland (Mich.) Gun Club. The latter club won it from the Grand Rapids club about a year ago. The Valley City club was represented by Messrs, Bush, Beeson, Davidson, Walton, Calkins, with Mr. Coleman as substitute. The Holland club was represented by Messrs Karston, Van Kyck, Ferzu. son, Thomas and Ve Koo, with Mr. Arleth as substitute. As shown by seore below, the Holland club were only 3 ahead at the end of the match. These two clubs have run each other very close in contesting for this cup, The first match, which took place last year, resulted in a bie. the second one gaye Holland a lead of 6 and gave them the cup; ihe third match is again in their favor, but by 3 only, , The scores are given below. Conditions: 5 men teams, 50 targets per man, 30 at expert rules, and 10 pairs: Holland, seve ee10111 11011 11111 10111 12010 01110—23 10 10 10 10 10 10 i1 11 11 10 —13—36 Thomas. ,....+1.++e+e+--11001 01101 11111 01000 10111 11141» 11 11 11 10 00 11 10 10 it 01 —14—36 Werguson ..1. seeaeeeees11110 01101 11001 11101 01110 110112) 10 10 10 10 11 11 ii 10 10 12 —14—35 De R00... .cceeeeeeeeeeee10110°00001 10110 11111 41111 1111129 11 11 00 10 10 00 11 00 11 10 —i1—33 Karsten, ,..escecesocsseeJ0111 16001 01011 01110 11011 11101—20 ; 10 10 10 11 01 10 10 10 11 10 —12—32—171 Grand Rapids. Van Hyck., sssces Bush... ..ceceeeeeeveees 11001 11110 11101 1191 12101 1000122 11 11 10 10 11 10 11 11 10 10 1537 DAvVidSOU .evereeres eee 11111 10111 11000 11111 01011 4121124 Ot O1 11 Ol 01 11 10 10 01 10 —12—35 Beeson, ..ccccceeeeesees OLIM1 00011 11001 11110 01110 1111020 10 10 10 11 01 01 O1 11 11 11 —14—34 Calkins, .c.ccseee eeseee 10111 11101 11111 00111 11001 1011032 01 O1 00 10 01 10 11 0) 11 17 —11—33 ... 01000 00000 11010 00001 01101 01110—17 11 10 11 11 11 11 O1 11 11-10 1728163 ©. J. Dp Roo, WaAILGU. .ceewseavsyee Rhode Island Trap-Shooting Association. Provipence, R..1, Aug 10,—The Rhode Island Trap-Shooting Asso- ¢iation and tne Pawtuxet Gun Club recently méetin a team race fol the State championship pennant. Last year the R. I T.S. A. won the pennant from the Pawtuxets on & narrow Margin, and on this ocea- gion they ably defended their title to itones more. Phe second vic- tory was won by 26 breaks, each team ot Six men shooting at 250 tar- gets, half known and half unknown angles. The Rhode Islands broke 18] to the Pawtuxets 165, Detailed scores follow: Rhode eae cae reener., 141111111010111110101011 10111191 0101010111111—39 5 H Wilson ,,.21111111101 11411101111011110111111111011011 113141144 BE Whitaker . 01101110100111101110110111110001111011111111110111—37 3 Brownell, ..11101001100010111000101011011111011101111100001100—29 RC Root,,...1111111110011111 1411111110111 10001111111010111111 42191 . TIMPSTOTERURLOTTFEUELORTETERTEERTE W H Sheldon111011111111100111011 141—43 W Crandali01110100110111100110000101101011111010001101001110—28 A Hawkins, ,010111011111111101110111 11001101101001001113111001—35 F Corey....: 11110101111110000100001100100011110111110110001110—29 § D Green, Jr 000100101 1011100110111110120111111101100011 1100011 — 30—16£ J, F. RUSSEL, Sec’y, ’ Danforth,., Rochester Rod and Gun Club. Rocrrsrer, N. Y., Aug. 18.—The Rochester Rod and Gun Club held a target tournament to-day asa kind of introduction for the Mliott- Glover match of to morrow Glover shota ereat race to-day. and was easily first. Among the shooters were: Harvey McMurehy, FE. D. Fulford, Jack Pauning, Dan Lefeyer, A. G. Courtner, ©. Wagner, CG, W. Tuttle, J. J, Carr, ete. The scores were as below: 3 9101112 Byents; 1283466 % Targets: 10 15 20 16 15 20 16 15 16 20 25 16 GIOVE... sere eevves vevacersteeese 9 15-20 14:14 17 18 15 15 20 23 1, MCMurechy..cssscaveserecees eeevs & 1419 15 1316 14 12 15 18 28 ., THAME reed vec bedpessordercrd oo ‘Geld Wife leis 1940 r0Mselsniiers Panning .2.,...:eneeees eeeaevesse 9 14 16 12 13 18 14 14 13 16 20 7, COUTINEY vevecseaceserecestorseesse 7 15 19.13 18-18 14 12 12 18 22 .. McCord... 5 Baie at a 2 Aree ae ae Waegner.,... veeeee 10:14 17 12-15 19 12 14 18 18 21 18 Pulford,..svrves . 8141718 11 19 15 12 14.17 28 12 CATT iv. eveeriveveverssaerecetecess 7% 12 1912-13 15 14-15 12:17 22°12. & FPITT EES NulularalelenaieccteGialeleictealgtale tiatleiglewe UEC TOLL Cine of Auccuna ollumimnn es ow TLefOVEr, cc ieceeecasecseceuverreses 9 16-16 10 13°16-14 14.4 2, a. 10 WiSIYALG) y ieeetaiail ers eleven ool aoe) Blin Mell) ORS i laelaolon coer. Herman........ DNS eh ai tlie ao aL Dr 1) bd eevee dod Cio eemrere temas TB Y-Olicd dee ieee td Ce lbcins cakes anise tee OL Et Me anil we 2oo cma ea mcomes Dito ee cere eee wee need Ul hoes SS leon bye ZU oae Weller sili. ecclesvcwanancyerears 9: 15.14 141698 1713.13 25 2, 38 RETO WS Ep tae whAsabonebdtls ode. tenho abe Li eeeeerecrah lusiory aasolodes TEC NSF, A AEN eI Ea Airing ay Ea eae lk D eee TOE eee a ite BEE eh einer cute cary een) rem tela be ete SEP ICR Aye eter eeet ae Naser ther eer bep aan haben thi tata mab entna ele le Hazelwood Gun Club. Pittssure, Pa, Aug. 7.—The Hazelwood Gun Club held a shoot at its grounds to-day, among the attractions being several sparrow sweeps and a 50-target race for the W-A trophy, In the latter event Wessner came out ahead with the score of 39; Detailed scores fol- ow: W-A trophy, 50 targets: Messner... +4+++-21001011101111111111211111101111001100111111110101 - 39 Pills seeveees sy 01011201111111100101111011010110111010101010110001—32 Parsons ....e++++-0100100100101100110111 1000000110111111111111101100—29 Mack. ..e.eeeees, -10111101011001010111011001110010010011100001111101—29. Stelley . ......,,..00101100100111011010101711101001100011101001111110—29 Crossland....... 01112111010100011101010100100110010011001011101101—28 Four sweeps at 15 sparrows and one at 10 sparrows were decided, Messner making the best total with only 2 lost oub of 70 shot at, Danforth was closé up to bim with 66 out of 70. John Crossland’s total of bf out of 70 being lower than his usual mark. Below are the scores: Hyents: 123465 Hyents; 123 4 6 Sparrows; — $5 1015 1615 Sparrows: 15 10 16 15 15 CrosslalGitiecseact Loe’ 14: tomo PAIS) Sosaeseasnecss CLoaeean eo) -Messner..,... ,, 15 1013 18.15 Stilley...... Prey toed eS 1410 18 15 14 Joe. .. 10 cr et Peewee eee ee ee ne MIOHSON peeeacnscess LOr¢. cy glnswerg ta Correspondents, No notice taken of anonymous communications J. M. A, Trenton, N. J.—The Pennsylyania law makes no provision respecting doves. J. E. H., Patterson._Does your Game Laws in Brief have the late game law of Pennsylvania init? If so willsend foritat once, Ans. Past editions contain old Ixws; last edition has present law, F., New York.—According to the Game Luws in Brief (which no one doubts being correct), under the laws of New Brunswick, page 61, “No person shall * * * kill more than two moose, three earibou, or three deer, etc.’ I no doubt am very stupid, but would like to know if that means that the limit is two heads of one *kimd, or three heads of either of the other two kinds, making a total of not possibly more than three heads of game, orif it means that one is allowed to kill eight assorted heads of game proportioned as above. No doubt itis the latter. and 1am simply stupid, but I would be much obliged for your opinion. Ans. It means twoat.a person may killin a season two moose, and also three caribou and also three deer. J. ©. B,, Nevada, lowa.—I havs been informed by certain parties that 4 company or corporation, licensed by the U. 8, Government, has complete control of all trayel in the Yellowstone National Park, and that no person is now allowed the privilege of hiring a private conyeyance or camping outfit and making atour of the park, camp- ing where he pleases. Is this true? In making a tour of the park, is” it necessary inat the traveler must employ the conveyances vf a cor- poration, or board attheir hotels? Ans. You haye been misinformed, A tvansportation company, licensed by the Government, riins stages, but does not have exclusive control of trausportalion. You can hive a private conveyance, or a saddle-horse or apack rain, and go where you please. But along the roads there are cer.ain specified camping places, If there were not, the roads, from one end to the other, would ne sirewn with tin cans, broken bottles, old paper, and the debris of a deserted camp, To auswer your last question, we may say that it is NOt necessary that the traveler in the Park should employ “the con- veyanes of a corporation, or board at their hotels.” A. CG. H., Harrison, Me.—Is there such a fish as asea trout? Isit a trout that lives in streams near salt water and at. times goes to the sea? Has it a square tail, and is it marked same as phe brook trout (Salmo fontinalis) or more like the salmon twout? Ans. Yes,a local variecy of the speckled or brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) is the sea Lrout or Canadian salmon trout (S. c¢mmaculatus), woich runs up from the sea in Canadian waters. Says Oharles Hallock, m the “Sportsman's Gazetteer’: “The sea trout, known as such, are con- fined to Canadian waters exciusively, They are caught only in mid- summer, and seldom under a quarterof a poundin weight. Their average of all localities may be said to reach 2ibs., while in the Kiver Nouvelle (Gaspe), which empties into the Bay Chaleur, they reach tlbs., an extraordinary!weight for Salmo fontinalis; though by no méanstmaryelous, The ‘strawberry ruo’ OL sea woul, as itis called, occurs about the ist of July on thesouth western coast of Nova Scotia, the fish moving east as the season advances, Uatil they reach the north shore of the 8t. Lawrence about the 5th of August. Evidently An immeénse school strikes in from tne sea, detachments dropping off as it progresses, into the nvers along the coast, The fishing season lasts abour six weeks, the fish meanwhile ascending to the head= waters of the streams, and oftet surmounting falls of steep ascent.” TLe speckled trout of Long Island streams and other waters flowing into salt water go down into the sali waler after breeding, and re- main there until the water gets warm again. PUBLISHERS’ DEPARTMENT. Yellowstone Park. A COMPLETE TOUR VIA THE PENNSYLVANIA R. R. THe Yellowstone National Park is unquestionably the most inter. esting region on the globe, for within ibis displayed the greatest col- lection of hature’s manifold wonders. Indeed, this mountain bound plateau, high up on the suuimit of the eyerlasting Kockies, is a yeri- table playgrouud for the world’s giant forces. To stand and gaze upou them in all their marvelous manifestations, the great geyser upheavals, the fierce steam blasts, the terrible leap of the river, and the awful cation, is a réevelauion—an experience to be had atno other point on the earth. ’ The porsonally-conducted tour of the Pennsylvania R. R. Co., which leaves New York on Sept. 2, aifords the most satisfactory means of visiting this wonderland and viewing 1ts marvelous features. Tourists will travel by special train of Pullman smoking, dining, sleep~ ing, and observation cars in each direction, Hight days will be spent in the Park. Stops will also be made, reourning, af St. Paul and Uhi- cazo. Tne round-trip rate $245 from New York, Philadelpnia, Bal- timore and Washington, $230 from Pittbsburg—coyers ali necessary expenses. Wor detailed itineraries and full information, apply to ticket agents, Tourist Agent, 1196 Broadway, New York, or aduréss Geo. W. Boyd, Ass’t Gen’! Pass. Agent, Broad Street Station, Philadelphia,—Ady, “Long Island” and “Summer Homes” are two books published by the Lone Island Railread Co., which con- lain much information about the shouting 4nd fishing resorts on the sland They are handsomely illustrated and are well worth the trouble of sending the 6 cents In stamps, which will bring them py re- turn mau trom A. M. Smith, Trafic Mauager, L, I. R. R.; Long isiand City, f . Yad, FOREST AND STREAM. A WEEKLY JOURNAL OF THE Rop AND GUN. Terms, $4 4 YeAR. 10 Crs. A ae: Srx Monrus, $2. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1897. { VOL. XLVIX.—No. 9. No, 346 Broapway, New Yor. But for the practical part, it is that that makes an angler; it is diligence, and observation, and practice, and an ambition to be the best in the art, that must do it. I will tell you, scholar, I once heard one say, “I envy not him that eats better meat than I do, nor him that is richer, or that wears better clothes than I do, I envy nobody but him, and him only, that catches more fish than I do.” And such a man is like to prove an angler; and this noble emulation I wish to you and all young anglers. Izaak Walton. Readers are invited to send us the names of friends who might be interested in a current copy of the Forest and Stream. We shall be glad to forward a specimen number to any address which may be furnished us for that purpose. SNAP SHOTS. This is the time of the year when rudely civilized cities and towns rid themselves of surplus stray dogs by mayors’ proclamations authorizing the promiscuous shooting by the public of unlicensed dogs running at large. In Jersey City, for example, numerous squads of small boys have been holding dog lynching bees. The demoralizing, bru- talizing and disgusting character of these methods should render recourse to them impossible in a self-respecting com- munity. TheS. F, P, C. A. of this city has shown how the dog, wheth2r with or without an owner and guardian, can be taken care of without outraging decency, So much depends upon the point of view. While United States Senators, State Legislatures, Audubon socie- ties, sportsmen and others are seeking to discourage the destruction of song birds, the fashion makers and the fashion journals are doing all they can to promote the use of bird feathers for dress. The September number of a widely circulated fashion paper published in this city shows bird adornment of hats as the vogue, and treats its readers to a paper on “home taxidermy for women.” “Numbers of our common American birds,” the article tells us, “yield wings, tails and feathers, which will serve admirably for the decoration of hats”; and there are named specifically for the various colors, the bluebird, the indigo fineh, purple grackle, yellow warbler, goldfinch, and breast of the meadow lark. “Dwellers near the sea or the Great Lakes will hardly require to be told that the smaller gulls and terns afford beautiful material for deco- rating hats.” “Numerous browns and buffs are supplied by upland game birds and shore birds,” which “may be purchased cheaply at almost any market.” The directions which follow, telling how with a carving knife to “chop off the wings close to the body, and cut off the tail,” are so explicit that every woman of economical bent may be her own song-bird skinner, and deck her hat with home- butchered products “in lieu’of the costly articles handled by the milliner.” It is instructive sometimes to get the point of view frora which other people see things, We hear much about the extraordinary perils of the Klondike trip; but that there are prosaic hazards for Klon- dikers far this side of Alaska was illustrated the other day by the tragic death of Robert Jarvis Gilbert,in the wilderness of the Algoma district of Canada. Gilbert was a well-known journalist and author, and was numbered among Forest AND StREAM’s contributors, He was bound fur the Klondike country, as a correspondent of the Lon- don Graphic, and was engaged in preparing sketches of western Canada on his wey. On Friday, Aug, 13, when he was on a search for game, his revolver failed to work, and while he was examining it,a cartridge in one of the cham- bers exploded with fatal effect, Paragraph 549 of the tariff law may originally have been intended to put birds’ eggs on the free list; butas a matter of fact it absolutely forbids the importation of any birds’ eggs, since it prohibits those of game birds and of birds not used for food. It is a curious jumble; the para- ‘graph placing on the free list: “Eggs of birds, fish and in- sects; Provided, however, that this shall not be held io include the eggs of game birds or eggs of birds not used for food, the importation of which is prohibited except specimens for scientific collections, nor fish roe preseryed . for food purposes.” a : This puts a quietus upon the enterprise of introducing Sh] a! party, he is told, will drive the game, pheasant eggs, capercailzie eggs, or the eggs of any other game species, for the purpose of adding to the stock ofa game preserve. For this we are indebted to the well- meaning efforts of Senator Hoar, promipted by evident misinformation, as shown by his statement of the neces- sity for such a prohibition. “It is a well-known fact,” he told the Senate, “that the destruction of the song birds of this continent by the sale of their eggs for mere fanciful - ‘purposes is going on at a wholesale rate, and it is so in Kurope. It is said that even the nightingales are being totally destroyed in Italy. Of course these birds fly across the Canada line and across the Mexican line,” A This is an explanation which does not explain. Thede- struction of the song birds of this continent by “the sale of their eggs for mere fanciful purposes” is quite as fanciful as are the purposes. The entire proposition is fanciful, fantas- tic and fallacious. bird eggs, the true way to protect American-laid eggs would be toadmit foreign eggs free, and so lower the price and discourage the native industry. To shut out foreign eggs, on the contrary, would mean a lessened supply, with consequently higher prices and a stronger stimulus to nest- robbing activities. A pleasant and cheerful form of sport, not indigenous to this country, but extensively practiced in cultured rural communities, is the hunting of snipe with a bag at night. The roughs and toughs, practical jokers and professors of horse play organize the hunt in honor of the new school teacher, a visiting drummer, or some other fresh and inno- cent subject. The victim is led toa dismally dark, and if prac- ticable, miry spot in the brush or on the marsh, and sta- tioned there to hold open a bag, into which the rest of the Then all the others go home or back to the hotel to await the coming-of the bagman when panic, exhaustion, mosquitoes or the real- ization that he is a fool, shall have driven him from his post. The meeting of the returned simpleton and his in- ‘structors is usually considered the most hilarious and ex- citing incident of the night. Among the variations of the snipe-hunt they have in Maryland a bee-hunt, participated in by the local humorists and the innocent from abroad. The Port De- posit correspondence of the Baltimore Sun one day last week reported the probably fatal ending of such an esca- pade. The bee-hunts, it is explained, are frequently planned, ostensibly for the purpose of cutting down a bee tree and securing the wild honey, while the true object is to frighten some stranger who has been inyited to join the party. This is accomplished by feigning an attack from the owner of the property upon which they may be at the time, running and firing promiscuously, while the stranger who has been invited to assist in gathering the honey ig usually glad to get away from the place as rapidly as pos- sible. In the Port Deposit hunt, when the alarm was sounded the party. entered into the sport of the occasion with such gusto that one of them inadvertently fired a bullet into the head of the visitor for whose benefit the hunt had been organized. To allege that a person has been made a victim of the snipe- bagging trick is to say that he has been sold com- pletely and foolishly. No more faithful and effective pre- sentation was ever giyen of the merits of the Alaskan seal fishery dispute than that contained in a cartoon by Professor Henry W. Elliott, who once published a picture representing Uncle Sam holding the snipe bag while John Bull was making off with the last ofthe game. Several years have elapsed since then, but every subsequent de- velopment in the seal controversy and the regular pro- gressive diminution of the seal remnant by pelagic hunt- ing has demonstrated that Professor Elliott’s character- ization of the situation was precisely true. Uncle Sam has been holding the bag ont there in the dark quite long enough. When will he realize that he is being sold, and refuse longer to submit to the trickery? Dr. Dayid Starr Jordanand Messrs. Macoun and Thomp- son, of the fur seal investigating commission, haye re- turned from the Pribilof Islands. Dr. Jordan brings back an encouraging report of the success of seal branding, Ag is well known, the primary cause of the diminution of the fur seals is to be found in pelagic hunting in Bering Sea, by which great numbers of females have been destroyed If there were any such traficin song | and their pups left tostarve. Last year Dr. Jordan pro- posed that when the seals were hauled up on the breeding ground, the cows should be branded in such a way as to disfigure the fur and so render the skin unsalable, when of course there would no longer be any inducement to pelagic fishing. This was done with a number of cows laat year, and their reappearance on the islands this year with the brand showing demonstrates that the disfigurement is permanent. The work has already been prosecuted suc- cessfully this season with the mature cows, and the brand- ing of the young females will be undertaken next month. An electric branding device is employed, which is painless and entails no injury upon the seal beyond rendering the skin worthless in market. Thus there is promise that branding will render pelagic sealing so profitless that the brand may yet accomplish what diplomacy has failed to secure. A change has come over that vale of many delights known in prosaic speech as “down by the creek.” The day life, from early morn to dewy eve, is as full and rich and joyous as everin all the seventy years the owner of the ancestral acres has dwelt here on the old farm. Still may one hear Bob White’s whistle from the hillside, the liquid note of the thistle bird as it dips from one purple tuft to another and the merry rattle ofthe kingfisher. The August noon is drowsy with the drone of the locust, the soothing gurgle of the water softly flowing through the dismantled eel weir, and the distant cooing of the mourn- ing dove. All day long the creek is filled with the motions and sights and sounds of pulsing, joyous life, until with the fading light the swallows give way to the pat, him of the fiendish flight and uncanny click, and the full night chorus sets in of crickets, katydids, night-hawks, whip- poorwills and owls. Allis familiar and grateful to-day as it has been for the seventy years of the present holder of the domain, and as it was for the years uncounted before him, But one note is missing, one instrument is stilled. No more is heard the bellow of the bullfrog, that pro- digious basso profundo, which of all nocturnal sounds is most in keeping with the gloom of the night, and of all most mellow and melodious. The bullfrog is unheard, be- cause there is no bullfrog to hear. He has been cut off. Not untimely, perhaps, for his legs were large and meaty, and for the tid-bit of frogs’ legs on toast he was. in his prime. He, the monarch of the pool, and all the other monarchs of all other pools, for miles around, have been potted, dismembered, skinned and incontinently devoured. It was surely an evil day that brought to the yale of ‘many delights the city-bred frog hunters whose god is their belly. May a kindlier fortune watch over this sea- son’s polly wogs, that they may attain full stature and in the years to come keep up the traditions of the bullfrog race, whose immemorial boast has been that music runsin the family. Then, when of a midsummer night nature shall pull the diapason stop, not a note shall be missed, not a harmony wanting. The regulations which have just been promulgated for the government of the national forest preserves do not forbid hunting on them. An important rule is that camp fires must be extinguished thoroughly before camp is abandoned. That is a good rule to follow every where. We are not inclined to share the gloomy view as to game protective officials expressed by the correspondent to-day who comments on the story of the double-faced sportsman, as related in our issue of Aug. 14, The tale was of a game association member who talked vehemently for protection while at home, and then when free from observation joined the ranks of the “sooners,” who kill birds before the law is off. The story was known to be true. But that it truthfully represents the average game association mem- ber we do not fora moment believe. Profession and prac- tice do not always go together in the field any more than in some other walks of life, but the fact that there are hypocrites here as elsewhere is not good ground for dis- couraged views of game protection. The story referred to had its occasion in the early 80s. That was nearly twenty years ago. Those of us who have been watching the de- velopment of right thinking and right acting in regard to sportsmen’s practice during this period know that there has been a marked and highly encouraging development of public opinion and individual conviction and conduct on the game grounds, 162 Che Sportsman Caurist. A TURKEY OF THE WILDERNESS. Mew seek their pleasures variously after their kind, but he who has lived the active life of the hunter in uninhabited lands knows well that in (hose remct> regions there may be found enjoyment that civilization cannot yield him, Wan- derers such as he will recall the sharp crack of the rifle on wind-swept mountain sides; in their ears the reverberations yet Ting as they sounded in echoing cafions; and clearly do they remember the fainter, hollower reports on those open plains the prong-buck Joves so well. With these sounds there come back memories of a hundred scenes in woodland and on prairie, cach one, perhaps, marking a red-letter day in the hunter's life afield. ‘The pleasures of the sportsman need no champion, even though other fields of effort offer inviting opportunities for recreation. But it is not alone the enjoyment of the chase that attracts men to the wilderness, The wild, free life, untrammeled by the conventions of society; the charm of wandering in regions uutouched by hand of man; the open, hearty ccm- radeship about the camp-fire—all these combine todraw men to the far-off mountains and the plains, You who are wont to ride sitaight and hard behind the hounds and to be in at the death when the run is over, know the sharp zest of a AN INDIAN TERRITORY CABIN. ‘place in the “first flight,” and the satisfaction of a stiff fence cleverly negotiated; you of the “‘brassie’’ and the ‘‘driver” are, perhaps, the holder of a score on the links that has won you the envy of enthusiastic golfers, and that gladdens your heart even when snows lie deep; and you, yachtsman, fresh - from a battle with the gale, beyond all doubt you felt a thrill of contentment as your staunch craft, storm-racked and ice- sheathed from deck to main-truck, at last swung clear to her anchor in the landlocked harbor, Grant, if you please, that pleasure at least as great may come to him who e rifle brings to earth the gigantic moose, the lordly elk, the agile big-born or the fierce grizzly of western ranges. These are the keen- est delights that are known to him who hunts in the United ‘States, but there are lesser triumphs which the big game hunter need noi sneer at The killing of the game, as every hunter knows, is but a part of the pleasure of the chase; there are many other factors in the sport. The obstacles overcome, the wariness circumvented, the hardships en- dured—such are other compcnents that go to make the hunt - worth while, and whether the bag be great or small, the satisfaction is, as it should be, a thing apart. When the cool winds of autumn and the crisp frosts of -early winter have worked their changes in the summer land- “scape; when the football player appears upon his battlefields in the pink of condition; when the coming of the open sea- son hag aroused the sportsman to a realization of possible hags to be made in forest land or on the plains, then if is that the wild turkey gobbler, the monarch of American game birds, roams his native heaths in his most kingly manner. lt was a fortunate selection that named the turkey as the dish sacred to the day when all the nation renders thanks for divine favors granted; yet the ordinary turkey of the market is by no means the best of hisrace. Far above the finest of the tame species must the wild variety be ranked as a table delicacy, and as Thanksgiving Day approaches, the mind of him whose chief pleasure is found afield may well hark back to those happy hunting grounds where nature works her will with her own and the turkey of the wilderness thrives upon the food that suits it best. Therein some favored regions where the telegraph does not reach and mail sacks do not penetrate, may be found the largest and the wariest of our American feathered game. Many are the ways in which the wild turkey is brought to bag, but he who would shoot one that has been lured to the “blind” in which he hides by a bait of dropped corn,-or he who would attempt to kill more than one at a shot, is a man without the conscience of the true sporisman. An honorable spirit of fair play will permit neither of these methods—the pot-hunter is bred of such as employ them, and of such are the game butchers who here and there in the north wait in their boats to slaughter the deer their hounds have driven -into the water. And yet, perhaps, a partial «xcuse may be offered in their behalf, for vain indeed is the confidence of the tyro who unaided goes after the vigilant Meleagris americana. Inevitable disappointment will follow on his trail, and the ‘‘phut! phut!” of the frightened birds will tell him, when his hopes are highest, that his efforts are of no avail. Nevertheless, it is well worth the candle; for of all the game that goes, feathered or furred, on wing or afoot, the wild turkey is the most toothsome, Sing,if you will, the gastronomic virtues of the celery-fed canvasback, the well- cooked woodcock, the fragrant venison steak, or any other FOREST AND STREAM. dish that may tempt your palate; but of them all there should be granted the highest praise to the wild turkey, tbat has told off its days in the wooded country if loves so well. Nor is it less beautiful in life than it is delicious 16 thé taste, when the scattered sunrays of its native haunts gleam on its plumage of bronze and green and gold. Gamy itis, too, in the field as well as on the table, and he who hunts it must go with a light tread and a quick eye} for, be it understood, it is no easy task to “‘call” the turkey within range, and still- hunting if is more difficult than slill-hunting deer. Wary and keen-sighted is it, and quick of ear, with a spced on foot that makes fast running for a dog, and a swiftness on the wing, once it is under way, that will astonish him who knows only the domestic variety. oreover, he who hunts it need be steady of hand and should hold true, since it car- ries shot well and mu:t be hard hit before it will give up the geht. All this I learned before a turkey fell to my gun, for on previous hunts I had buroed powde: vainly in their pursuit. Butit was my luck that the first should come to bag on a day when it was least expected. It was a bleak gray morn- ing in late November, and our camp lay at the foot of the Kiamichi Moun ains, in Indian Territory. Before us the long line of the first range led to the west; behind us, be- yond the wide level of bottom land, the Kiamichi River flowed between its fringes of coftonwood trees. From the crest of the *“Kimish” to the river that washed the further extensions of its foothills, a deep stillness was on the land; [Aua. 28, 1997. to sheer off to the right or left. The turkey appeared to prow larger as it approached, until when it came within rifle range it looked to my excited eyes a 40 nounder at Jeast. It was then probably a mile from the point where it had been flushed, and seemed to think it had reached a place of safety. My first intention had been to let it come within easy range, and then try a shot ot two on the wing as it went by, but its purpose to light at the edge of the thicket soon became eyi- dent. Lower and lower it dropped in its flight as it neared me. [knew that if a moment were given it after I had made my presence known, it would secrete itself in the heavy undergrowth and I should loseit Quickness was necessary; I waited until it had thrown back its wings and stretched its legs to alight, and then tossed up my rifle and fired. Jt was an easy shot, 70yds. in the open, and the shot went true. The big bird fell over on its back, and for a few moments thrashed about vigorously with its strong wings. I threw another cartridge into the chamber of my rifl3, butit was not needed; the first had done the work. The last struggle ended as I stood above it, and with a feeling of such keen pleasure as I think does not often fall to the hunter’s lot, I picked up my first wild turkey. It wasa very little triumph, perhaps, and Juck alone gave me the chance; but luck is a factor that plays a great part in every province of human endeavor, and men cometimes take credit for what is granted them by chance alone. I have known other Thanksgiving Days since then, but when each passing year rolls on, bringing November with its unbroken quiet brooded over the pine-clad mountainside and the oak-covered outlying ridges, and overhung the sun- burned prairie. No breath of wind stirred the trees or moved the vapory clouds that were poised in the sky over- head. The gently rolling country in which our tents were pitched was wooded with stunted oak trees and the ground was fairly well strewn with ‘‘mast.”’ It was a morning when our Indian guides urged us to take out the hounds and hunt the country to the west on the chance of getting a deer ortwo, The region was not the most promising for a suc- cessful deer hunt, and moreover our Indians were no ex- ception to the general rule that the so-called noble red men are but indifferent hunters. Had they not shown unusual persistence we should, perhaps, have done otherwise, but be that as it may, our party filed out across the little prairie sbortly after sunrise, to follow where the head guide might lead, Past the clay-splashed wagon standing empty in the dried grass, past the picketed ponies muuching their early meal, over rocks and through thickets, we tramped after our Indian leader. He took us to the timbered country below our camp, and posted us here and/there at runways along which it seemed likely the deer would pass, until] be had put every man in position. .- My ‘'stard” was at the end of a little stretch of open ground, on a low ridge. On either side the slopes were clothed all about with a rather thick growth of oak and cedar tres, while across the open and to the left lay a jungle of heavy undergrowth that reached off to the northwest, its end just touching the bare ridge down which | faced, It was not primeval) forest that surrounded me, for here and there could be seen evidences that lumbermen had penetrated to the place in search of cedar, and it was upon a cedar stump that I took my seat to wait for what the morning might bring forth. I was almost tre last man the g1id2 placed, which put me near the end of the line of guns that crossed the territcry in which we expected the deer to run. 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Parker........ bone oe seebeees 7a 8.5, HOLDERS OF MEDALS, Long Distance Bait, F. B. Davidson, Roll Casting Fly, W. N. Babcock, Long Distance Fly, W. A Mansfield. Distance and Accuracy, H. A. Newkirk, Accuracy and Delicacy, W. A. Mansfield, Bait Casting Accuraey, F. N. Peet. / Special prize for highest general average in all was won by F. N Peet with 581%,,5 per cent. The weather during the first day of the tournament was marked with steady wind, which became puffier later dur- ing the day. On Friday night heavy rain fell, but Satur- day was pleasant. The long-distance fly-casting event, which turned out in such surprising manner, was the last event of the tournament, and was begun late in the even-~ ing, it being 6:45 when Mr. Mansfield went to the plat- form. The conditions were then good for casting, and with the last man of the last contest the record went down. Mr. Mansfield received hearty applause as his success became known, and acknowledged it with becom- ing modesty. In his work, the San Francisco crack is beautifully easy, keeping a perfect control ofthe vital back and understanding his tools as though they were part of his own nervous system, In long-distance work he usesthe dropped loop below the guides, and starts the slack for- ward with admirable time. His work is with full arm, and his delivery carries nothing of physical exertion with it, though it goes without saying that there must be edu- cated muscle back of the rod which pitches a line to the distance of a gun shot. Mr. Mansfield’s rod is a tourna- ment tool, 11ft. long, and weighing 10$0z. With this rod he gave us the prettiest spectacle of casting the fly with which the anglers of this vicinity have ever been favored, and with which no other country, by the way, has ever been authentically favored. He may take his record back to Frisco with him, but let him remember that he had to come to Chicago to make it, and let him not hope to beat the Chicago record when he unrolls his line next October at the tournament of his home club, E. Houes. FOREST AND STREAM. CHICAGO AND THE WEST. The Season’s Big Fish. Cuicaco, Il., Aug, 21—Mr. C0. J, Schweilzer, of Kansas City, caught on Aug. 11, in the Wisconsin River, near Kil- bourn, Wis.,a black bass weighing 10lbs. This is thought to be the largest bass ever taken in Wisconsin. The Traverse City Herald reports a rainbow trout weigh- ing 5lbs. 130z, (weight fifteen hours after taken from the water), taken in the Boardman River by Washington Round, of the G. R. & I. Ry. With him were Messrs. W. J. Hobbs, Sam Iles and O. P. Carver. A small brown trout, weighing 12lbs., was caught by the same party. The Boardman was last year a good trout stream. and it cer- tainly holds the record for the lower peninsula of Michi- gan this year. By the draining of a recervoir at Denver, Col., large numbers of fish, more especially carp, were left stranded and were taken. One carp is said to have weighed 26lbs. Yet a still larger carp is reported from Hagerstown, Md., one described as weighing 35lbs,, measuring 3ft. lin. in length, and 22in. in girth. Some Catches. Dr. Gonzales, of Crawfordsville, Ind., caught in Cedar Lake, Ind., seventeen bass, all over 1lb., among them five which weighed over 5lbs. each. At Tomahawk Lake, Wisconsin, and in adjacent waters, some good sport has been had this month with muscallonge and bass, as I learn from a friend justreturned. At White Sand Lake, Mr, Hugh McDonald, of Covington, Ky., got one ‘lunge weighing 24lbs, At Tomahawk, a Mr. Slack, of Ft. Worth, Tex., in one day took twenty-two bass, running from 2} to 431bs. At Trout Lake, two ladies were out fish- ing one day last week and both got strikes at the same time, one fish proying to be a pike and the other a “lunge. The pike was landed, but the ‘lunge broke away after get- ting under the boat. On Tomahawk Lake, week before last, Chas. Fliegel took one ‘lunge weighing 8lbs., W. S. Kibby one weighing 12lbs., R. C. McPherson one weighing 13lbs., Chas. Johnson one of 5lbs. and one of 12lbs. In Gilmore Lake, J. Erickson got one weighing 14lbs. In Tomahawk Lake, Mrs. B. W. Sherman, a cottager spending the summer there, got two weighing 18lbs. each and one weighing 22lbs. C. La Salle got one of 22lbs. in Toma- hawk Lake, and Tom Curran, of Rhinelander, got four ‘lunge which together scaled 41lbs. A. ©. Paterson, of Chicago, took one of 12lbs. and one of 7lbs. J. Chadwick, also of Chicago, landed one of 26lbs. In High Lake, E. L. Caldwell and Mr. Dyer got several “lunge running from 9 to 16lbs. In Jute Lake, W. E. Kelly and M. J. Smiley, of Chicago, in one day caught 100 bass, sixty-eight of which weighed over 2llbs. each, and one of which weighed 5zlbs. Peter the Guide, fishing in Star Lake, killed a good ‘lunge weighing 23lbs. In Clear Lake, Mrs. Henry Payne, of Humboldt, was fortunate enough to kill a fine “lunge—34lbs. in weight and 4ft. 7in. long. In the same waters, Rey, F. B. Jolly and others, ofa La Grange, Ill., party, took sixteen ‘lunge of various weights. A.C. Allen got twenty-two bass one day, each of more than 2lbs. weight. Mrs, A. BE. Williams, wife of a lumber dealer who isin business at Star Lake, probably holds the muscallonge record for the season, for she has done little but fish all summer, her husband pro- viding hera guide and boat as she likes. Since May 1 Mrs. Williams has caught, in Star, Partridge and Ballard lakes, seventy-five muscallonge. She has had eight over 20lbs. each, and her biggest fish weighed 23lbs. Her guide, a man named Rouleau, has in the same time caucht ninety-seven muscullonge in all. The heaviest fish taken in these waters seems to have been 36lbs., two of that size being recorded, one taken by Chas. T. Kuhn, of Chicago, in Squaw Lake, on Aug, 14, and one taken in Tomahawk Lake by Mrs. B. W. Sherman. Other weights of fish taken by Mrs. Sherman during the summer run 20lbs., 141bs., 16lbs., 101bs., 12lbs., 15lbs, 341bs., 22lbs., with very many more running from 5lbs. up; certainly a yery good showing for the two ladies, Mrs. Williams and Mrs. Sher- man, and one which J do no'think has been surpassed by any rod of the vicinity. Ambrose Risden, of Chicago, got one ‘lunge weighing 12lbs. Chas. Jenks, of the North- western Road, Evanston, got one of 7lbs.; and John Branch, his companion and fellow townsman, got one of lilbs., these two gent.emen also taking one day twenty- two bass averaging 1lbs.,some going as heavy as 34lbs. In Rock Lake and Clear Lake, the Street Brothers, of Chicago, caught 100 bass, of weights from 14lbs. to 2lbs. In Squaw Lake, Wm. Walker, of Indianapolis, got one ‘lupge weighing 12lbs. All the above récords are exclu- sively printed in Forrest AnD STREAM. Where Is It? Mr. J. Schaffer, of Chicago, tells a friend that he can take him, within two hours’ run of Chicago, to a lake in Indiana where he can catch bass, pike and muscallonge. He asserts he is not mistaken about the muscallonge part ‘of it, but declines to give the secret of his locality. It is not an impossible thing that any water tributary to the Mississippi River may haye muscallonge in it, I have known this fish taken in central Iowa, in the Skunk River, and have recorded an instance of large “lunge being taken by Mr. Dupuy in Taggart Creek, Ky. I donot know of any Indiana lake, however, in which I should expect to find a muscallonge. Lake Trout from the Whaleback. The big whaleback excursion steamer Christopher Co- lumbus plies between Milwaukee and Chicago, for the most part depending for its traffic upon young persons who want to go up to Milwaukee to get married, the laws of Wisconsin being very encouraging to this industry. It would not occurto any one that the whaleback would be a good boat for trolling purposes, or that the waters thus traversed would be very good for the man who wanted to get a fine fat lake trout. Yet this month, soa friend of mine tells me, aman by name of Penney, of Chicago, took a notion to do some trolling while on his way up to Mil- waukee, and he caught a 5lbs. Jake trout in Lake Michi- gan. He had out about 100ft. of line, and says that the speed of the boat made the fish feel as though it weighed at least 20]bs. I have never heard of a lake trout being taken for yearsin this part of the lake by any means, let alone trolling from a whaleback, The item is exclusively printed in Forrst AND STREAM. JAue, 28, 1897. Iowa Streams for Fishing. Mr. W. F. Paul, of Charles City, Ia., writes some inter- esting notes regarding the fishing in some of the streams of eastern lowa, All these Iowa rivers emptying into the Mississippi were once splendid fishing streams, but sheer neglect, combined with illegal and destructive fishing, ruined them almost utterly. The day of modern methods is just beginning to dawn in Iowa. In his letter Mr. Paul says: “Fishing has been great sport in the Cedar and Shell Rock rivers this season, fine specimens and good numbers have been caught, mostly bass and wall-eyed pike, In most instances live bait is used, such as minnows and soft- shell crawfish, and also small frogs, though crawfish seem the most favored at present. “A few of our local fishermen are having fine success at the Shell Rock River. Three of them went there and caught over 100lbs. of fish in one day, and two others caught in the same length of time 72lbs., and they were beauties, averaging about 34]bs. each for the bass and about 7 to 73lbs. for pike. “In the Cedar we are catching more fine specimens of wall-eyed pike and pickerel, as commonly called here. Several 101b. pike have been taken from this stream this season and many good strings of bass. Considering all these fine catches we pride ourselves as having fine fishing _ streams in our vicinity. “The Charles City Game and Fish Club, of Charles City, 1a., offer a reward of $10 for the arrest of each person who can can be shown on reasonable proof to haye killed ree protected game before the legal season, or taken any fis from its streams by any other means than hook and line, as allowed by the Iowa fish laws.” Closed Streams in the Yellowstone Park. The National Park has long been known and exploited as one of the most wonderful fishing grounds in the world, but it seems that even its swarming streams can be and have been over-fished. On Aug. 12 Col. Young, the new superintendent at the Park, issued a circular prohibiting fishing in the Gardiner River from its mouth up to the junc- tion of the east and middle forks; also in Glenn Creek, Indian Oreek, Willow Creek, Obsidian Creek and Beaver Lake. All these streams are close to the main roads be- tween the entrance of the Park and the upper geyser basin, and tourists have fished them so much, on account of their accessibility, that it appears the supply of trout is well on the way to exhaustion. J opine that the protec- tion will be the sort that protects, as it has been in the past in all the accessible portions of the Park. E. Hover. 1206 Boyce BuripinG, Chicago. ON MINNESOTA WATERS. Sroux City, la,—Huditor Forest and Stream: Our object in this letter is to give the plain, unyarnished truth, anil to guide and direct amateur sportsmen to fields of unlimited sport. POn June 6, eight disciples of Izaak Walton left behind them the many worries and cares of city life, and bent their course for the fishing waters of the smiling lakes of northern Minnesota. For some time we had all been reading up on the beauties of Minnesota lakes as set forth in railroad and booming town literature, in which the writers expaviated on the health-giving qualities of the boundJess pine forests, or the bracing air on the crystal waters of the silvery lakes. The resinous pme trees, the sweet perfume of the blossom- ing plants and shrubs, and the cool and refreshing draughts of the gentle zephyrs over rolling waves of the lakes, it was therein set forth, would inject the elixir of life into our fag- ging souls and stir up the weakest to better activity. The woods, we were told, abounded in elk and deer, the lakes were fairly black with wild ducks and geese, and the waters teemed with fish of all kinds—you could see them on top of the water, not by the thousands, but in myriads, so that in a very short time you would fairly tire of fishing, These fairy tales of the forest and lake concerning the fowl and fish so worked on the minds of some of our mexperienced sportsmen that our first night at Park Rapids will ever be a memorable one to us all. Allen, a big, auburn, whole-souled fellow, one of our party, struck the bed as soon as we reached the hotel. Our landlord, being a little crowded for space, had put six of us into one room. Allen was soon in the Jand of nod, and the rest were on the eve of retiring when the sleeper made a sud- den movement and startled us all by crying out in his sleep: “Got a bite—hold him, Bill, hold him—don’t give him slack line—pull him in—there! see, he has swallowed hook and all ” We first tried Park Rapids, in Hubbard county. The fishing in this vicinity was good, where we could get out to the lakes, but it was difficult to get there. For the way Park Rapids advertised, the accommodations are very poor. The lakes are all some distance from town, and there is but one place in town where boats can be gotten, and that is at a hotel, and the landlord will not let you have those unless you stop at his house and pay his price. The liverymen want a fortune to take you to the jakes, and more if you are fortunate enough to find a boat to be taken out. We folded our tents and stole away from the hungry sharks among the dead pine trees and tamarac brush, and left them to feed upon a new school of “‘shiners.” We next pitched tent at Detroit City, about fifty miles southwest of Park Rapids, on the Northern Pacific Railroad. Here the genial landlord of the Fair Haven House met us With two teams and took us lo his place, six miles south of Detroit, on the eastern shore of Lake Sallie. We were all happy once more,as we got settled into a house all by our- selves. It was but a few moments and we were in full pos- session of the coveted resting place. We were at home, in- deed, and a father could not have made things pleasanter for his children than did E, McNeil, the accommodating and obliging proprietor. We were all happy. The weather was fine, the scenery grand, the fishing excellent. Here beautiful bodies of crystal pure water are held in nature’s calm em: brace by the emerald foliage of the oak, elm, lime, balm of Gilead, poplar and birch. The hillsides and yalleys were smiling in their new dresses of sweetest spring flowers, and the birds were twittering their vows of love to each other, or carrying sticks and straws to distant treetops, where in- stinct combined with art taught them to build their nests and raise their young. Day after day we rose early in the morning and left in the best of rowboats for distant parts of the lakes, only to return for supper in the evening loaded down with the finest pick- erel, pike, black and rock bass. Ava. 28, 1897.] FOREST AND STREAM. 171 The Lady of the Lakes, a small steamer, makes two trips - daily on lakes Detroit, Muskrat, Sallie, Melissa, and down to Buek’s Mill, near the Little Pelican. This is a chain of lakes connected by small rivers from a quarter toa half mile in length. All these streams and lakes are fairly alive with fish of all the kinds found here, You can see them basking in the sun on the gravel bottoms of the streams. Oceasionally we would all take the steamer for Buck’s Mill and stay all day, when we were rewarded with the best sport during our outing, Ducks and geese are said to be very plentiful in the spring and fall. A finer place for rane them cannot be found than along these streams. Deer and bears are occasionally seen, but not in abundance. Often when the weather was fair and the lakes were calm we would fish till after 9o’clock in theevening. But taking fish was by no means all the sport we had. Tn the evening when our day’s work was done, we would return to our cottage on the verdant, hillside, not to go to bed, but to sit and smoke and tell tales of our day’s adven- tures For some of us this was our first trip to the Northern Jakes, but we all agreed that it shall not be our last. To those who havé never been there, we would say if you wish one of the finest outings of your Jives go to Detroit, Minn., and on the lakes of the Pelican Valley. We would advise you to take a tent with you, to use when away from the hotel, and you wish to stay out for a few days at a ae IMEX, ONTARIO FISHING WATERS. BELLEVILLE, Ont., Aug. 16 —Since my last the bass fish- ing has continued exceptionally good, many good catches, neatly all fish of upward of 2)bs. and up to 441bs. Thomas McDonald, of Point Ann, of whose bass pond I made mention in a previous note, has liberated in the Bay of Quinte all the fry in it, many of which measured 2t+in, in length. He says that next year he will put 500 bass into his pond, and that he calculates they will produce 8,000,000,- 000,000 of fry, all of which he will put into the bay. With such a source of supply the Bay of Quinte can be made one of the finest bass fishing grounds in the world. The Goy- ernment ougat to take the matter in hand, as no private in- dividual can be expected to work long for the public good, as Mr. McDonald has done and purposes doing next year. Maskinonge are rather shy in their usual resorts near Belle- ville, but at Marina Lake, near Modoc village, twenty seven miles distant, Hsoa: nobiléos has been affording raresport. The lacal newspaper gives the following details: “Fishing at Moira Lake has been unusually good for the past week, large catches of fine bass, pickerel, etc., being made, In addition, the following catches of maskinonge have rewarded hours of patient ‘trolling’: Lester Morrice led off with a 224 pounder on Thursday last. W. H O’F lynn lost one, as well as his hooks, but next evening caught a fine lurge one weighing nearly 20lbs. Mrs. B. O’Hara was lucky enough to hook a nice 12 pounder, and the same evening, while Mr, O Hara was crowing over the other campers, they ran across that old fishing veteran, M. Maybee, with two of about the same size in his canoe, Mr, Maybee caught another still larger one. Monday evening, J. O. Dale successfully landed his first lunge, a fine one, weighing over 20ibs. The same evening A. H. Watson ‘played’ a Jarge fish for ten or fifteen minutes, but finally lost it. On Tuesday, Mr. Crawford, visiting at Mr. Dale’s cottage, caught a 12-pounder, and Master Roy Dale, the same evening, caught a large one, but it got away from him before he could land it in his boat. Wednesday morning, Master John Dale took an early spin, and in less than ten minutes had captured a beauty, weighing about 17lbs. He got it in his boat but it flopped out, and after a few minutes’ tugging he Janded it to the boat again, and sat on it until assistance reached him. Other fishermen haye hooked their fish all right, but owiag 1o breaking lines have lost fish, bait, hooks and all, The interest in the sport is increasing every day, and even the lady campers are not exempt from the excitement.” : COLD RIVER TROUT. Conp River rises near the base of Killington Mountain, in Vermont, flows through the town of Mendon and empties into Otter Creek two or three miles south of Rutland. The stream is appropriately named, and its temperature is like that of spring water, eyen in the hottest of weather. Leay- ing Rutland by way of the Mendon road, which extends through the Notch, inthe mountain range east of Rutland, you arrive at ihe river after a journey of about five miles. From this point to where theC. V. R. R crosses the stream, two and half miles south of Rutland, the fly-fisher finds an ideal strip of water. This stretch of fishing is about four miles long and runs through a dense forest most of the way, acu a fall of about 100ft., which makes the water quite _ rapid, : Having arrived at the stream, put on your waders (for you must wade most of the way), and with your favorite fly-rod, flies tied on No, 8 or 10 Sproat hooks and a 6 or 9ft. leader, step into the stream and enjoy life. Do you see that rock projecting from the water in 1mid- stream, With the current rushing against and around it, forming an eddy at the lower side? Cast your flies beyond it, draw them gently across the current toward the eddy. Ahal See that rise) See how he breaks the water six or eight inches away from your fly, exposes his entire length to your admiring gaze, descends in a graceful curve and takes the fly ashe goes down. Now, with a quick but gentle motion of the wrist press the hook into his lip, and as he realizes that he is duped, he gives you such an exhibition of trout athletics as only trout living in cold, rapid waters are qualified to give Long stretches of tapids, alternating with deep pools shaded by huge rocks, occur in unbroken succession, and in each propitious place lurks a fierce insect-destroying trout. Extremely wary as they are, owing to the transparency of the water and the many lessons they have learned from numerous fishermen, the finest exercise of the art is required to bring to basket the denizens of this beautiful stream; and although many care- less and indifferent anglers assert that the trout are nearly all caught out, 1 know to the contrary. Tiey are ‘‘at home,” but only to the careful and well-equipped caller. The trout of thisstream are justly celebrated for their game and table qualities; slender, rather than thick, yet beautifully proportioned: color light and tints delicate, yet distinct, with a silvery sheen of extreme brightness over all. The Rutland Association for the Protection of Fish and Game is doing good work in stocking and protecting these waters, and in consequence the fishing is expected to improve each season. New Hampshire Trout, CuArEMonT, N. H.—It has been my observation, that trout as a general thing are yery regular in their spawning, pome streams may be earlier and some later than others, and I think that in our streams here more spawn is deposited between Oct. 16 and Nov. 1 than at any other time. Yet I have in mind two streams in this vicinity, Bible Hill Brook and Grannis Brook, that I feel assured that the spawn is de- posited before Oct. 16. Now if they continue to spawn six months that would bring it into the last of March or first of April, and whoever found trout in spawn at that season in this vicinity except in yery rare cases? You will find a trout at any season of year occasionally with spawn. Yet this has not changed my mind in regard to late August fish- ing; for when I kill trout that will average eighteen out of twenty that are well started with spawn, I somehow fell as if I had killed a mighty lot «f trout for next season’s fishing, and what I kill are but a very small item: to what are killed by the hundreds of fishermen who fish for them, and it seems to mé that any man ought to be satisfied with what trout he can kill between May 1 and Aug. 15. I know that the Fish Commission are doing a grand work, yet many things are overlooked that would be a great help to perpetuate and increase our trout fishing. One of the ereatest curses is the polluting of our streams with saw- dust and chemicals from mills. There are many other minor causes which, if they could be stopped, would give us an abundance of trout without so much restocking, COLUMBIA. A Boston Sportsman’s Exhibition, WE have received an announcement of the first exhibition under the auspices of the New England Sportsman’s Associ- tion, in the Mechanics’ Fair Building, Boston, March 14 to 26 inclusive. ‘This is to be, essentially. a sportsman’s exhi- bition, with numerous delightful gleanings from forest and stream, and with actual, practical demonstrations of life in the woods, controlled and managed by true sportsmen, and will by no means be the conventional ‘‘trade show.” Here the visitor will find all the latest and most improved paraphernalia pertaining to life in the woods, with the newest inventions. But, perhaps, the most fascinating of all will be the demonstratious of life in the woods, from the pictur- esque Indian camp and the log cabin of the trapper to the temporary lean-to of the amateur sportsman, all equipped with practical utensils and paraphernalia, and each presided over by guides—Indians, Canadians, and hunters and trap- pers from all partsof the country. Inquiries, applications for space, etc, may be addressed to uhe New Hngland Sportsman’s Association, Boston, Mass. Black Bass in New Engiand, Boston, Aug. 21.—Bass fishing is still attracting a good deal of attention in both Maine and New Hampshire waters, Winthrop Ponds, in Maine, are daily fished for bass, when the weather permits, and some good catches are the result, Winnipisaukee Lake and the adjacent ponds are fished con- stantly, and big catehes of bass are being reported. The other day a_very remarkable string was taken by a party stopping at Bay View Cottage, Centre Harbor. The string was a surprise to both natives and sportsmen, and was taken chiefly with helgramite for bait. The largest bass weighed 74lbs.; while in the string were eleven fish weighing over 40lbs. Long Pond, in the vicinity of Centre Harbor, was one of the points most successfully fished. Mr, Frank P. Dodge, with Mrs. Dodge, is off for Lake Bario, Nova Scotia, for the fall fishing. Mr. Dodge’s two boys have been at his camp there for several weeks, in charge of a trusty guide, They write home glowing accounts of the trout they have caught. Trout are abundant, from 1lb. to 3lbs. weight, and sometimes larger. They take the fly readily nearly all summer, though bait is the surest at all seasons, SPECIAL, New Jersey Coast Fishing. Aspury Park N. J.. Aug. 21,—Perhaps never before was the outlook for jall fishing better either in the surf or bays and rivers. Already the run of bait fish is on such as mul- let, sand eel and spearing. ‘The catches of weakfish in Bar- negat has been something phenomenal the past two weeks, while northward in the Shrewsbury and adjacent points the fishing has been all that could be desired. The movements of the kingfish have been very erratic the entire season, they have apparently not been governed by tidal conditions, as is their custom, neither have they taken the hook freely at night. The severe storms have no doubt been the cause of their movements from point to point, but why they should refuse the bait at night 1s one of the many inexplicable things for which fish life is justly renowned. Striped bass are now in the background and will undoubtedly be but little heard from the next few weeks, which is always their custom at this period. LzonarD Hurt. Lake Bomaseen. Laxn Bomasnen, not far from Rutland, Vt., and near Casselton, is a beautiful lake about nine miles long by three wide at the widest part, with some islands, and the water is very clear. We caught, with two small-sized spoon hooks, in about two hours’ fishing, 105 rock bass that would weigh from # to 1lb, apiece. Smaller ones can be taken with worm and hook and line, but we caught no large ones until we took to trolling with small spoon hooks. There is quite a variety of fish in the lake—yellow perch and pickerel, rock bass and large-mouth, or black bass. J have seen one pickerel taken there through the ice that weighed 1141bs. Take the Delaware & Hudson road to Hydeyille, which is at the outlet of the lake; there is good hotel accommodation there, and you can get teams to drive you to the other end of the lake, where the best fishing 1s. OLD Way Back, Spawning of Fish in Pacific Water. THAT the spawning seasons of families of fish similar to those of the Atlantic should be different on the Pacific is easily accounted for by the warmer temperature of the water. lt would seem that the laws of heat and cold have the same effect on fish that they do on vegetation, ordering the seasons according!y; and the spawning of fish, like the budding of trees, may be advanced or retarded by mild or inclement weather. Stated visitations of pelagic or anadro- mous fish may be postponed or even prevented by cold weather, but the Pacific is less subject to these vicissitudes than the Atlantic.— Chas. Hallock, in Our New Alaska, Bluefish in Long Island Waters. Isuip, N. Y., Aug, 24,—Bluefishing is excellent in the Great South Bay, and large catches are reported. E. R. W Cany-Sire Mlickerings. “That reminds me.” A Shot in the Dark. ONE of our neighbors, Uncle Nate as we all called him, was greatly bothered by a whippoorwill that came nearly every night and sat on a rock in his back yard and sang his love song, or whatever it is, until Uncle Nate was nearly wild. One night he lay awake and, as he said, stood it just as long as he could, when he got up, and taking down the old gun that was loaded with a fox charge he went to the back door, and drawing a bead on the rock, which he could dimly see in the faint starlight, blazed away. ‘Then, in the pleasing | consciousness of a good deed well done, again sought his couch. In the morning his first care was to reload the old gun, as there was no telling when it would be needed, After this task was finished, he started for the back yard to gloat over the mangled remains of his tormentor; but what was his hor- ror and disgust to find that, instead of holding on the rock, he had completely riddled his wife’s best washtub, which was turned bottom up about 4ft. from the rock. The disappointment was bad enough, but when Aunt Hannah came out and saw the ruin, Uncle Nate afterward declared, it was worse than the whippoorwill, and he made a break for the barn, his usual haven of refuge in such cases. Uncle Nate was one of the softest-hearted, best-tempered fellows in the world, and, as was always the case when he and Aunt Hannah had a falling out, he was soon begging her pardon, ‘Then he went to whittling out spiles, and it was afternoon before he had the shot holes all plugged. Che Fennel, FIXTURES. FIELD TRIALS. Aug. 30.—Western Canada Kennel Club’s trials. Sept. 1,—Continental Field Trials Club’s chicken trials, Morris, Man. Sept. 6,— Manitoba Field Trials Club, Morris, Man. Sept. 7.—Northwestern Field Trial Club’s Champion Stake, Morris, an. : Oct. 25,—Brunswick Fur Clnb's ninth annual trials. Noy, 1,—Dixie Red Fox Club’s third annual meet, Waverly, Miss. Nov. 1,—New England Beagle Club’s trials, Oxford, Mass. Nov. 2.—Monongahele Valley Game and Fish Protective Associ- ation’s trials, Greene county. Pa. Nov, 8.— Union Field Trials Club’s trials, Carlisle, Ind. Noy, 9.—Central Beagle Club’s trials, Sharpsburg, Pa. Nov. 9.—Peninsular Field Trial Club’s trials, Leamington, Ont. Nov. 15.—E F. T. Club’s trials, Newton, N.C, Nov. 16.—International Field Trials Club’s eighth annual, trials; Chatham, Ont. Noy, 22.—U. §, F. T. Club’s autumn trials. 1898, ; Jan. 10.—U, 8. F. T. Club’s winter trials, West Point, Miss. Jan, 17,—Continental F. T. Club’s trials, New Albany, Miss. FIELD TRIALS AND FIELD TRIAL JUDGES.—III. THE man who knows all about a field trial and its compe- tition, because, though he has never seen either, he has shot over pointers and setters in actual field work, is the most helpless and inefficient man imaginable when he ig present in person at a field trial, if he haye any responsible connec- tion with it, whether it be as judge, steward or handler. Nor is his friend and admirer, who has perhaps bred some very good setters and pointers, as measured by the local standard of canine values, and whois inflated with some field trial wisdom at second-hand, to be rated any higher if he be great only from his own inner consciousness. No inexperienced man is competent to be of real ability and use as 4 field trial judge; a sportsman must have had. both experience in the field and at field trials to the end that he have a thorough kncwledge of practical. field work, and. of the principles of a competition, and also of the manner of conducting it. By far the greater part of the adverse criticism on field trials and field-trial judges is offered by men who have seen little of field tnals. or nothing at all. Their writings are mostly founded on hearsay. I once knew a man who read Darwin’s ‘‘Origin of Species” for the first time, it also being the first work on the subject he had ever read, and though he could not spell words vor- rectly nor intentionally write a grammatical sentence at that time, bis education being such as was gained by a few boy- hood summers at a common school, he made most voluminous marginal notes on every page of the “‘Origin of Species, correcting, amending and amplifying Darwin, and this from the knowledge he gained from page to page by reading the book, and from the supplementary inner egotism which im- pelled him to believe that all things should be as he saw them and as he thought was fittest. It is hardly necessary to add that the valuable marginal contributions never appeared elsewhere than in the pages of that one book. If the field trial critic, whose theories are advanced as facts would first learn whether or not his theories were true or false, there would not be so many slushy columns of rub- bish contributed to the sporting press of America. I in no- wise dispute the right of a man to his opinions, or to the publication of his opinions, so long as he presents them as such, but I do dispute his right to assert that his emotional Opinions and crude conjectures are facts, and this the more when he asserts his facts from hearsay, personal prejudices, all colored with the mental idiosyncrasies which may unfit his informers from rendering any impartial or sound judg- ment, As there is always a small percentage of Srumblers at field trials, and men so selfish that to lose is to kick, there are also grumblers and kickers who stay at home, men who like to talk and write even if the matter is one with which they have no concern, The kind of man whose knowledge is second-handed, bearing the imprint of the vagaries of the men who communicated it, with such new ones of his own added as are at command, rushes into print either over a nom de plume to conceal a timorous heart or over his own name, oue which is not of those who work and pay for the conducting of field trials. Such men are irresponsible, who haye nothing to lose and nuthing to offer, except what they Can distil ftom such garbage as they seek and take, This in no wise relates to wholesome discussion. I think that I may safely say that no ‘‘kicker” of late years eyer did anything of great material importance for the support of trials, and I think nothing of any importance at all which did not have a direct bearing on his own personal interests. If there isany kieker who is hereby unjustly treated, the public no doubt ‘would be glad to know of it. Having thus mildly presentcd the therits of the kicker, his claims to public recognition how may be dropped till such times as they have again a particular sipnificance, . The qualifications of a good field trial judge cover a great ileal more than the home theorist could possibly know. As the data of his opinions are most times from the work of dogs which he has observed in field shooting, jodging atrial. appears to him to be the quintessence of simplicity. What. {s easier than to walk along leisurely and observe and note what a dog does? That is easy—but let us inveslicate What he really has to assume in the way of work and re- sponsibility when judging a corpetition, F As said before, the field trial judge must first have a good knowledge of field work, and by this we do not mean that every man who has shot many years over setters and pointers has such knowledge, Some men will have a better under- standing of the dog’s work in one season than some other men will havein a lifetime, and again, some other men will never iearn. The reason is that the matter of brains governs “this branch of intelligent effort as it does all others in the world in which man is a factor. Without proceeding further into this feature, we may assume that the field trial judge should have a generous degree of common sense, which is uncommon sense when we consider it and the many men who do not possess it. The average man who is unused to mental] labor finds great difficulty in concentrating his thoughts on one subject for a prolonged period of time. It frequently happens that with- out the mental training and discipline, he is unable to do so. This may be noted also in many ways in everyday life when men unaccustomed to mental labor attempt to solve mathe- matical problems, or make abstracts of titles, or lsten to a sermon, or read columns of statistics, and some men read whole pages in an absent-minded way without knowing a word of what they haye read. Some men will hear the first few words of a friend’s discourse, and although their faces may express the greatest. of interest, they do not hear a word, They are mentally indolent or incapable of concentration. The field trial judge must keep his eyes on the dogs’ coings incessantly, for unless he sees every detail of a piece of work done, he doesn’t know anything about it. For instance, he takes his eyes off the dogs for a moment while they are ranging; he looks again; one dog appears to be pointing nicely and the other one, a few yards behind, is backing, apparently, The circumstances would seem to justify giving u point to the one and a back to the other. The new judge would so rule toacertainty. Now the evidence is in this case ajl circumstantial. The dog which was apparently backing might have pointed first, and his competitor might have crossed in ahead a moment afterward and made an independent point closer to the birds, so that the dog which pointed first would thus appear to be backing. This hap- pens every now and then at field trials, and it happened at Grand Junction in 1887, and decided first place erroneously in an important stake. Sometimes one dog points and his competitor instantly steals it; sometimes both dogs point in- dependenily at the same instant, and the judge must see it all, else he doesn’t know. As for the errors, if the judge’s eye is off the dog when a flush or other error is made, he may never know it hap- pened, _ He consiantly must be mentally comparing the diligence, range, bird sense, beating out the ground, one with the oth r, and the same with the precision, quickness and good judgment in roading and jointing; also whether either dog is self-hunting in whole or in part, or whether he is working honestly to the gun, Also, it is necessary to note whether the work is done independently, the dog’s own per- ception and execution producing the results, or whether it is from crafty coaching given by his handler, or from jealous rivalry of his competitor. It is easily perceived, when the matter is explained, that the most incessant watchfulness is indispensable The judge’s mind must be concentrated always on the work, With this he must note the general course so that the dogs may be able to work on consecutively without such inter- Tuptions as are made by sudden changes of course to and fro, throwing the dogs and handlers in among the spectators, or balking them so that they lose all idea of continued work: or becoming separated they are working on independent, separ- ate courses. When this happens there is more or less loud whistling and calling to the dogs to shape their efforts to a new, common course, and when one handler has then his dog ging right, the other handler may still be frantically striy- jog to get his dog in hand and impress on him the new direc: tion in which he is to work. A field trial is a much more ponderous affair to handle than is one or two dogs in field work, quite as much so as is a regiment more difficult to handle than a file of men, When the green judge has dogs and handlers working at cross purnoses, he 1s wasting a great deal of time, and when the heat is ended the work has been so irregular and inde- cisive that he does not know much more about the dog’s merits than he did before. He soon perceives that handling one or two dogs to shoot over, and handling two handlers who are handling the dogg in a competition, at the same lime observing the need of economizing time and ground go as to give the dogs the greatest possible opportunities which time and grounds afford, are quite distinct affairs, and one experi- ence depreciates his own conceit very much, National Beagle Club of America. Ar the field trial committee meeting of the National Beagle Club. of America, held at the rooms of the American Kennel Club, the following members were present: Jas W. Appleton (chairman), Hermann F’. Schellhass, John Bateman, Geo. B. Post, Jr., G. Mifflin Wharton, A. Wright Post, Jas. h. Kernochan, A. D. Lewis, N. A. Buldwin and George W. Rogers. The report on the new Produce Stake proved very encour- aging; the entries are seventeen bitches and thirty-eight pup- pies, If was voted that the eighth annual field trials bé held at Hempstead, L. I. Mr. Bradford 8. Turpin, of Roxbury, Mass., and W.8, Clark, of Linden, Mass., will officiate as judges. ; The following resolutions were passed: Whereas, Death bas removed from our rolls the name of Mr. George Laick, for sixi years treasurer of the National Beagle Club of Amer- FOREST AND STREAM, ica, one of the oldest members of the organization, and a breeder of national reputation, Resolved, That we testify to our deep regret at the loss of one who was held in the highest esteem, not only by the members of the club, but by ail sportsmen and lovers of the dog; and who, as executive member of the club from its beginning, and as a member of the former American Beagle Club, labored earnestly and vigorously to promote its welfare and the objects of the Association; and be it further Resolved, ‘That these resolutions be incorporated as a part of our minutes, and a copy sent to the bereaved family with an expression of our sympathy. THE OAKLAND SHOW JUDGING. HEMPSTEAD, L T,, Aug. 20.—Hditor Forest and Stream: I mailed to Mr. Payne areply to theirresponsible accusations which he made against me on the ground that my judging of the Oakland, Cal., show was dishonest, and dishonest only because Mr. Payne said thabit was so. He seemed to have different opinions from me on the judging, and the ex- planation of this difference heseeks to find in my dishonesty, He, however, seems to have some trade reasons also for this difference of opinion, as will be touched on more fully here- inafter. My reply be refuses to publish, and for his refusal he publishes the following reasons: “‘As a copy of this pecu- liar literary effort has been mailed to his paper, it would pub- lish it in full were it not that our space is too valuable to waste on such long-drawn-out vaporings,” ete. And then by way of showing how valuable is his space, he uses three columns—a full page—in a labored, irreleyant reply, totally foreign to the issue; and all this reply is made to my article, which he refuses to publish, Healsogarbles my letter some- what to give it a turn to fit his own purposes, and to illus- trate probably his idea of the “liberty of the press.” Notwithstanding his affectation of the value of space in his paper, the Veapot, he has devoted several columns to the subject in different issues since charges were lodged against him with the A, K. C.,and in his paper of July 31 he had a long article on “press censorship.”” No such sophistry as the ‘liberty of the press’ will serve to cover up Mr. Payne’s maliceand malignings. The press has done a grand work in which he has had neither part nor lot. Mr. Payne refrains, however, from informing the public that libels and other unlawfulness are abhorred by public sentiment and the laws of society, even though the unlawfulness appears in his paper; that some sheets published in the past were so libelous and contrary to public morals and public good that they were by law suppressed; that while there is a most commendable sentiment in favor of the “liberty of the press’ and the freedom of speech, there is also a Strong sentiment against its abuse. And yet, it seems somewhat inconsistent for Mr. Payne to prate of the freedom of speech, as it applies to himself, and then deny me the use of his columns to answer accusations which he madein them. He permits his ‘readers to hear his sidé of the case only. It is palpable that he fears to have the case fully presented, and yet he is the man who boasts, in season and out of season, of the fearlessness of and of its high standards, its accomplished editor, its unselfish efforts in the cause of the dog, and—free advertising. As a matter of principle such refusal of a hearing is grievously unfair and wantonly wrong. Asa matter of fact it is not of the slightest import- ance, for the weakling, his paper, with its handful of readers, bears about the same proportion to the sporting world that a drop of water does to the water in all the oceans. Fortunately there are journals which will give a fair hearing to the man whose character is subjected to wan- ton and malicious attack. Every word and phrase of Mr. Payne’s latest attack shows, not a struggle for a principle, but a bitter personal enmity and an unscrupulous use of any means to gratify it. All the broad ground of public zeal has gone; the personal anger and the personal enmity stand forth, visible to him who reads, Heis malignant and unscrupulous. However, it was but common fairness and common de- cency that the case (after it had been taken up officially, as shown by thecharges of the St. Bernard Club, of California, against him, and in due form presented before the A. K.C.), should not be prejudged or prejudiced by him, but this he deliberately attempted to do in his issue of July 31, in an article headed ‘‘Turned Down Again,’’ in which he first en- deavors to belittle and cast odium on the members of the St. Bernard Club, of California, and then discloses his real pur- pose, as follows: “Now, in their desperation, as a last dying convulsion, they haye preferred charges against H T, Paynes for some strictures appearing in —— —— about some individual, which was not just to their liking, and now the ‘marble heari’ has met them again, for the A. K. G. has yery sensibly refused to proceed in the matter and has advised the secretary of the so called club to present his charges to the Pacific Advisory Board. This simply means that if the Advisory Board wauts to lis.en to them it may, but that the A, &. C doesn’t propose Bor There never was a more brazen, insolent and unscrupu— lous attempt to influence the action ofa judicial body of men by misrepresentation than this, and there is not in it even the attempt to observe law or fact. As is well known, any matter concerning canine affairs on the Pacific Coast must first come before the Pacific Advisory Board, and its action is then subject to the approval or disapproval of the central body, the American Kennel Club. The charge was at the outset sent tothe A. K.C, It was sent back to the Pacific Advisory Board, because there was no other course to pursue under A K. C. procedure, and “‘advising” the secretary of the return of the charge was the term used in all such cases, Tt in no wise implied that the Pacific Advisory Board could. do as it pleased in the matter. It must take cognizance of all such cases which come beforeitin proper form. It has no such arbitrary powers as Mr. Payne seeks to clothe it with. It will be observed, also, that what Mr. Payne fran- tically called charges a few weeks ago are now merely strictures,” ; a And now afew words by way of rejoinder to Mr. Payne’s answer to my article, which Mr. Payne refused to publish, and which he thereby also deprived his little band of mar- tyrs, his readers, of the privilege of reading. In his full page of alleged reply I note that Mr, Payne’s name appears twenty-seven times and that the name of his paper appears twelve times; and as Mr. Payne and the paper are one and the same, as will shortly be shown herein, he refers directly to himself no less than thirty-nine times, and I presume that that was what he referred to when he said that ‘our space is too valuable to waste,” etc. He needs it all for himself. An editorial with Mr. Payne’s name in it thirty-nine times could not be otherwise than gratifyine to himself and instructive to his readers. It is modest, tactful, erudite, pertinent and conyincing. He mentions himself; his dogs, himself; his dogs, hisself; dog trainer, hisself; ex- hibitor, hisself; his criticisms, experience; connection with dog shows; his judgment, in repetition ad nauseam. But this is as one might expect it to be, for Mr. H. IT. Payne isthe owner and editor of the Teapot, and therefore he has aright to require his readers to read his name thirty-nine times on one page if he thinks that it would be a benefit to them to doso, He is the whole editorial and business staff, One man is quite sufficient to edit the paper and to attend to its business affairs, with ample time also to breed dogs, sell them, purchase them on commission, and cultivate brawls so as to have something for his readers to read abont. Two compositors are force enough toset up the type of his paper, in which are the thoughts of the editor on such mat~ [Ava, 28, 1897 ters as he deems to be worthy of his attention. There- fore, when his paper belauds Mr. Payne’s worth and good- ness—his virtue, modesty, disinterestedness, expert knowl- edge, truthfulness, abhorrence of roguery, high standards of action, etc.—it merely sets forth what Mr. Payne wrote of himself and what the two tompositors set up in type, and what the bantling bore forth in its pages toacraving world. When his paper fearlessly proclaims that Mr. Payne is a great and good man, Mr. Payne should know that it is so, for he wroteit himself. When Mr. Payne quotes the Teapot as authority to establish a point, he surely should know the value of his own writings: when he pro- duces its sayings as a matter of evidence to prove the truth of what he says himself, no doubt is left as to his correctness; and when he praises the Teapot with generous beslavering, there can be no doubt but that he feels that it fully deserves it. But, thoughit is pleasing toread his name thirty-nine times on one page, I am constrained to belieye that he has forgotten the subject-matter in contemplation of his own greatnesr, It would beidle to attempt to follow Mr. Payne’s three columns of irrelevant matter, Theissue as he raised it abt first is entirely abandoned by him. Of the three columns, about a half column is devoted to s eulogy of other judges whose doings are in no way related to the case, yet they are exalted that I may appear little; about a full column re- counts Mr. Payne’s canine and journalistic experience, enumerates the offices he has held in different bench show clubs, touches on the merits of his dogs (though he had the tact’ to refrain from quoting prices), and thereisa general effort to give himself a genuine importance outside of mere pretence. The rest is mostly a personal attack upon myself on new lines, It does not seek to cloak the personal enmity and vindictive purpose of the Teapot, or of Mr. Payne. If the Teapot were really a big teapot it would be a most dan- gerous cauldron, but being a little teapot with very little in it, it can do no harm. JI challenged the proof of his accusa- tions aud dared him to do his worst—all of which he avoids auswering with studious care; this is the matter he should answer; he should dogo, but he cannot. He has overshot his mark and stumbled into a pitfall that he blindly over- looked. Still a man who is engaged in the multifarious business of dog-breeder, dog-broker, secretary, exhibitor, editor of the Teapot, and bravwler-in-chief to the Pacific Coast, cannot be expected to be precise in all things, nor to be fair to a nicety in any. . My exposure of his incompetency and imposition on the kennel world in his assumption of expert knowledge and his arrogant attitude toward everyone and everything, in his self-constituted position of expert critic, evidently went home to a weak spot, for he particularizes his educational experience as follows: “The Teapot (Mr, Payne) has a pretty clear knowledge of Mr. Payne’s connection with dogs and dog shows, and knows that his first experience with dog shows began at Philadel- phia in 1876, and that during the years of 1876, ‘77 and "78 he attended the St. Louis and Baltimore shows of ’%6 (sic), the first Westminster show at Gilmore’s Garden, 777, and the St. Louis shows in ’77 and ’78,”’ ete. Who can remember Mr. Payne on that straggling cireuit? He was simply a spectator, as were all the other spectators who attended those shows, and who would scarcely claim that they acquired expert knowledge and high critical ability from attending them. But we have Mr. Payne’s word, backed up by the indorsement of the Teapot, that he really did see those shows. If the mere attendance at shows makes one an expert, then we have thousands of experts here inthe Hast who have seen many more shows that Mr, Payne ever saw. Let the thousands of experts now feel that they are duly qualified; for has not Mr. Payne said so? He claims that he had journalistic experience on the daily _press before he recently plunged into the kennel world of journalism. Then all the other editors, reporters and writers of the daily press are likewise qualified to write on dogs, There are expert critics and kennel writers by the thousands, for if Mr, Payne can qualify as a kennel editor by experience on the daily press, why cannot all other writers do the sama? “Mr. Payne was breeding, breaking and handling thoroush- bred dogs from imported stock more than a Har eE of a cen-. tury before Mr. Mortimer was ever heard of in the judges’ ring, and this under the tutorage of one of the most thor- oughly posted dog men in America at that time.’’ Again nothing but assertion. Name the imported stock and the posted dogman of that remote period. _ The fact is that he is a cheap pretender, and only by the accident of his surround- ings has he been possible. In the Hast he never would have passed the mushroom stage. As an expert in canine matters he is an impostor, At no time can there be found any of his writings in the Teapot which show iutrinsic knowledge of canine subjects. Let the reader of the Teapot look back and consider how much was knowledge and how much was brawling over personal matters, and he will find that the knowledge was littleand the brawling much. = The life of the Teapot is its little sizzle. Ib is its policy. It brings it intonotoriety. Asa matter of unwritten history, though well-known history for all that, Mr. Payne promotes the dissension on the coast. While many of the fanciers of the Pacific Coast are unfortunately more or less identified with factions, | found that they were nearly all generous, pbroad-minded gentlemen, and I firmly believe that if there were @ kennel journalist among them who had the good of the fancy at heart, instead of an ulterior purpose to foster ' dissension and make every wrangle a factor in furthering his own personal interests, there would soon be no bitterness. Instead, there would be peace and common effort for the public good. A peacemaker could doit, but that isardle which Mr. Payne is unable or unwilling to assume. : After refusing to publish my letter, and then garbling it to suit himself, he asserts that my testimony is impeached. Testimony to what? He has not even presented my case, [ ask him again to make his specification. After he has done that it will be in order to talk of testimony—not before, He asserts that at the Oakland show I “turned down” Mr. Hark- er’s fine bitch, and on looking in his advertising columns of that time, I find that Mr, Harker was an advertiser in the Teapot. He recently rebuked me for not placing Pittsburgh Tommy higher than reserve, and on looking in the adyertis- ing columns ofthe Teapot I find that Pittsburgh Tommy is duly advertised therein. The Irish setter Chief, Jr., was placed third, and this was another award which did not meet. Mr. Payne’s approval, and the Veapot’s comment was as fol- lows: “In Irish setters by far the best dog in the class was given third, and absolutely the worst one put to the front,”’ and again on consulting the Tempot’s advertising columns I find that Chief, Jr.’s, stud card occupied a prominent posi- tion therein. ‘ J mentioned in my last letter that one element of his mod- erate success was the absence of any serious journalistic com- petition on the coast. He immediately seizes this as a good thing to publish as a thrust at his contemporary, perverting it to suit his own inference. The Breeder and Sportsman, against which he aimed it, devotes most of its space to horse interests; and when I said that the Tewpot had no serious journalistic competition, I meant a competition that was specially devoted to canine interests. There wasno intention to reflect on any one-personally. The effort to prove that there was something wrong by associating a lot of circumstances together—that such and such a man took such and such a dog into thering, and that then such and such a dog lost or won—is too despicable to treat seriously. Someone must lead the dogs into the ring; and as to who does so is beyond the judge’s control, and is none of his business anyway. Mr. Payne’s “criticisms” seem to be based largely on what other’s have told him, as Ave, 28, 1897.] in Mr, Harker’s case and others; and the fury of his criti- cisms seems to depend on whether the losing party is or is not one of the Teapot’s advertisers, Tosum up, Mr, Payne was a competitor at the late Oak land show, and therefore he was not competent to make an impartial criticism on the awards, even if he had the techni- cal knowledge necessary todoso. As a disappointed exhi- bitor, he was qualified to be scurrilous, as many others have been before under the same circumstances. His charges of dishonesty are mere assertions. It is impossible to draw a definite specification from him. A libel suit would bring no redress. It would be impossible for him to give a true technical report of any show, but his reports such as they are, are founded on the sayings of the disap- pointed exhibitor and the profitable advertiser—there were exhibitors other than these at the show, but Mr. Payne is silent concerning them. His charges, as he was pleased to consider them, were largely a matter of hearsay; as he affects a smattering of law, he should know that hearsay is no evi- dence. On his own declaration we know that he has had a yast experience: on what we know without his declaration he has been a common brawlerin the canine world on the Pacific Coast. He is a notoriety seeker on his own admis- sion, unscrupulous in the use of means to attain it. The charges against me, which he was so hotly anxious to prosecute when there was no opposition ih sight, are now mildly termed by him ‘‘strictures,” and it is very likely that by the time heis done with it all he will be pleased to call them mistakes, As Mr. Payne’s purpose is to advertise his paper, I have re- ferred to it as the Teapot; not in any spirit of levity, but to avoid being made a catspaw of to subserve his purpose. To such advertising as I have contributed he is welcome, JAMES MORTIMER. SCHOOLING THE DOG.—xXI., THE first attempts of the dog at roading and pointing are necessarily very crude and unsuccessful. Although he has all the instinctive desire to pursue and capture his prey, he has not learned the practical methods necessary to success, Experience is the only means by which to learn the best methods, Nearly all dogs of dash and courage pursue the same method at first; that is to say, they trust to their speed alone, whether they are in pursuit of fur or feather. Obsery- ing, after a few failures, that his speed alone, with a large dependence on his eyesight, is entirely inefficient as a means to capture game birds, he begins to modify and readjust his efforts after a manner which promises better success. Instead of noisily dashing up on his birds at full speed, he sneaks up on them, but still entirely too noisily and too fast. He thus gives them warning before he can draw close enough to have any chance of capture, and he makes the further mistake of making his attempt before he has the birds accurately located, Thus, when he makes his dash on the birds, he may not make it with sufficient precision to succeed, or éyen to have a chance to capture. Some men shoot at a bird on the wing after much the same principle. They know where the bird is, they point the gun in the general direction, fire and—miss. Every detail is all right excepting the final effort, The dog learns that he must still further modify his manner of ap- proaching the birds, so he, after a time, draws on them with the greatest stealthiness, trusts almost entirely to his Dose, and carefully placing each foot so that it will give forth no sound; if need be, he crouches as he steals along, so that his Lage may be concealed from the view of the birds, though jin this respect dogs vary greatly. He grows more careful in making his final effort. He must be within a short distance of the birds before he makes his spring to capture, otherwise all his careful effort is a failure. There is certain limited area within which he can spring with greater rapidity than the birds can rise, but if he makes any mistake in judging this area, they can soon attain greater swiftness of flight than the dog can of pursuit, even if they flew close to the ground; and the slowest birds can risé in & moment to a height beyond the dog’s highest bound, Any effort which is thus not timed to a nicety ends in failure. T Repeated disappointments from fiushing the birds in drawing on them, or in faulty attempts at springing to cap- ture, are a recurring check to his impatience and impetuous purpose, He learns to combine strategy with force. The tense muscles, glowing eyes and quivering jaws testify to his suppressed excitement and bloody intention as he draws on the birds, but they are under the guidance of a mind which is becoming better disciplined from experience. All these things the dog must learn for himself and from experience. Jt is useless for the trainer to attempt to force a dog to point in the interest of the gun before he has Iearned to point more or less in his own interest. This in a general way, for the instinct to point varies greatly, though generally speaking, it has its development as described in the foregoing. Some dogs have very little pointing instinct, and they profit but little by experience in improving their methods. ‘This is not always from deficient intelligence or from any absence of good intent. Sometimes ~ it appears to be from functional dullness of the scenting owers. A dog with a poor nose is as badly handicapped in is attempts to point birds as is a man of poor eyesight who attempts to shoot them. : Some dogs have the pointing instinct in such an excessive degree that they are entirely worthless, They will point on every scent, or on every bright-colored or strangely-shaped object, I remember one dog, a pointer, which when east off on the prairie would point so continuously that she never would be more than afew yards from the shooter, and she pointed so stanchly that I believe she would have pointed during a whole day if she was permitted todo so, Every bright flower, pile of hay, or other conspicuous object, served to gratify her desire to point, and many times she pointed when there was no accounting for it. She would ‘Point either by sight or scent, and as she did little else but \point, she was entirely worthless as a field dog. This is -an instance of an excessive development which is rare in- deed, but all degrees of the instinct will be met with by the itrainer who schools many dogs. Nor is there any uniformity ‘as to the age at which the instinct is naturally developed. Jt May appear in the puppy when he is but little more than weaned, or it may not appear till the dog is quite matured. it is therefore a mistake to condemn a promising dog other- wise, if known to be of good stock, )" Finish, Leg. Roun. Race. Leg. HKound. Race. Glencairn,,1 2900 008 55 0 389 48 ° 04 10 002 22 0 02 26 Momo,.....1 31 26 00819 04205 2 06 26 000 36 While Glencairn was better handled than Momo through- out the race, the great feature of the day was the magnifi- cent work of Mr. Duggan in the last two rounds. For more than two-thirds of the race there was a certainty of the mainsail tearing, with every possibility of the boat being fatally disabled. With this possibility hanging over him, Mr. Duggan still managed to keep the boat going, and when the disaster finally came he never lost heart, or at least his handling did not showit. The chances in the’ Jast round, the two boats starting even, were overwhelmingly in favor of Momo; apart from the actual damage to Glencairn’s sail. and its demoralizing effect, there was no telling at what moment the whole sail might be ruined. In spite of all this, Glencairo was taken out to windward carefully but boldly, beating Momo as badly as when her sail was intact in the previous races. The tear, by actual measurement, was 3ft. din. long, extending from the second reef cringle down and across to the front reef board, thus Jeaving two large pieces that flapped until they fairly shook the boat. The weather in the last three races was pot exceptional or unduly heavy, nor in any way more than these boats or even the 15-footers should be capable of standing, but it was un- usual in summer. and very different from what Mr. Crane had anticipated. He had expected quite light weather, and had planned accordingly, with alow freeboard, a lofty and narrow rig, and a very light centerboard. Whatever virtue these features may possess in light weather, they were cer- tainly ata discount in a reefing breeze and sea beside Glen: cairn’s deeper and larger hull, higher side, lower rig and weighted-centerboard. That Momo was beaten in such weather is nothing surprising; but, further than this, we have serious doubts whether she could have beaten Glen- cairn under whole sail in alight but steady breeze. She had an advantage in light weather in a better mainsail than Glencairn, but as far as the differences in design go, there is Do good reason to believe that those features which made Glencairn so much superior in heavy weather would have told against her in light weather. As was the case last year, everything passed off without protests or disputes, the only break in the good feeling which prevailed on every hand being over the substitution of Mr. Dresser for Mr. Crane on Tuesday: It was perfectly well understood hy the Canadians that Mr, Crane was not unable to sail, and that Mr. Dresser, who was not a member of the Momo and Al Anka party, but solely present as a spectator, was in n0 way superior to Mr. Crane as captain of the boat and in setting sails. The one thing which made him eligible was his extra weight of 70lbs, in a strong wind, and against this was his size and weight for sail setting, and his unfamiliarity with the lead of gear. While there is thus far nothing in the letter of rules to prohibit such a change of crew during the races, the feeling was very strong on the part of the Canadians that such a change of live ballast solely to suit the weather was a violation of that spirit of the rules which they have observed rigorously in both contests, and if passed unnoticed it could not fail to establish a very bad precedent. As the rules now are, men of medium size and weight are practically barred from the 20ft. class; it is purely a question of live ballast, and the heaviest men who are not actual lub- bers ina boat are chosen for the crews. Bad as this is, the case will be still worse if the right be recognized to shift crews according to the weather. In this case the man who would win must have at hand two heavy men and two light men, to be shipped according to the weather at the start, Quite a number of members of the Seawanhaka C. Y. C. were present during the races: Vice-Com. S. V. R. Cruger and Mrs, Cruger, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Kerr, Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Sturdee, Mr. and Mrs. J, Adams, Mr. and Mrs, Dresser, Messrs. C, A. Sherman, Sherman Hoyt, A. W. Rutherford, C. W. Wetmore, and others. Mr. H, C. McLeod, of Halifax, formerly of Lake Minnetonka, was also present. Hyery pos- sible courtesy was extended by the Royal St, Lawrence Y. C, and by the people of Dorval to the visitors. On Wednesday night the Forest and Stream Club gaye an outdoor festival—a féfe de nuit—in honor of the guests, which was very largely attended. On Thursday night Com. James Ross gave a dinner at the St. James Hotel, in Mon- treal, to Mr. Duggan and the visitors. Momo has been shipped to a small lake in the Adiron- dacks, where Mr. Durkee, one of her owners, will use her. . Western Yachts. AT MINNETONKA. Cuicago, Ill., Aug. 20.—Times have been lively as usual in yachting circles this seasou on Minnetonka waters, and the Minnesota yachtsmen have treated each other to a number of surprises. The crack sloop of last year, Tartar of the double stern, appears this season rigged as a cat, and was so sailed in the competitions for the Interlake regatta, Minne- tonka against White Bear. Kossak, a Clapham model, originally designed for a sloop, was found to perform better as a cat, and has been so sailed, though under that rig she is not without sundry vagaries of her own. Supremacy seems to lie between Tartar and Katrina, In sloops, Wizard is chosen over Breeze to sailin the Interlake regatta. There has been some talk of fitting Breeze as a cat, but nothing ap- pears to give color to the rumor. Tn the first test races Tartar and Akela exchanged cour- tesies the first two days. Theactual time for the first day was 9s follows, over a course of 613 knots: Akela 1;13:45, Tar- tar 1:11:56, Aurelia 1:11:30. Tartar and Aurelia get 19 sec- onds from Akela, and Tartar beat Akela 2m. 8s., Aurelia peat Tartar 26s., and Aurelia beat Akela 2m 34s. It was a surprising result. On the second day the time was: é Corrected Start, Finish. Time. T,A C ‘Time. PALA icsnsersc0e aeee0 Jd 20 5 10 12 114 52 0 OF 1 14°45 AUTO ee waranty ya # F6 50 5 (9 30 1 13°25 0 00 1 13 265 Aurelia.,.... ie a SO LL 5 li 20 11409 0 07 1 14 02 On Aug. 1° Tartar won everything in the threeraces sailed, the time being as follows: FIRST RACE, Start. Finish, Hlapsed, Corrected. Tartar ,.ccererpeeee---- 8 20 14 4 U0 3L O dU 17 0 40 10 WAtrIB aN cinevs spree -s- 3 20 18 4 02 32 0 42 14 O 41 41 Koss rvrvrerereererer % Bo” pe 4 00 00 7 wPLPe s #0 ¢¢ Fu SECOND RACE. Tartar, .ecevssyracesesss LOS 17 4 48 36 0 40 19 0 40 12 Ratrina ....ce sever eeese £08 10 4 51 57 0 43 17 0743 14 ROSSA olncelesunwerne as GS and 4 50 37 0 41 39 0:41 39 THIRD RAGE, Marta py tae mae beets oe D9 oL4 5 28 04 0 39 50 0 39 42 Ka@trind .,scscceeevseess 4 98 15 5 40 09 04154 £0 41 21 Kossak ....,.-sseseess. 4 58 30 oe AS a Ie Sait eet On Aug. 14 the entire Minnetonka mixed fleet turned out, some fourteen boats being entered. A heavy squall came up and put an end to the sport, the judges’ boat being obliged to put in for shelter, and only two of the fourteen boats fin- ishing—Pyxie, 2:15:55, and Katrina, untimed. Several of the boats were knocked down, and the crews of more than one were rescued only after-perilous experiences. Pyxie was Inagnificently handled. On White Bear Lake, the same day, the cup and pennant races were also interfered with by the heavy wind. Witch was capsized, and there was much dam- age done to rigging in other boats, The winners were: Akela in the 23-footers, Aurelia in the cats, and Siren in the sloops of 21ft. Summary as below: SECOND GLASS SLOOPS. j Start. Finish. Elapsed. Corrected. Siren, Smith ..........3 15 00 4 59 38 1 44 38 1 29 61. Falcon, Van Vieck.....,.3 15 "0 Did not finish, SPECIAL CLASS. Majove, Sanders....,,..5 20 00 Did not finish. Croppie, Lyon,,,..,.+...3 20 00 Did not finish. Crappie, LYON... ++55+.-38 20.00 5 00 56 1 40 56 1 23-15 CATBOATS, Pastime, Smith....,....3 25 00 Did not finish. Alfrida, Ordway,....,..3 25 00 Did not finish. Aurelia, Welch ..,,,...5 25 00 4 43 {1 118 11 My Girl, Ramaley.,,....3 25 09 5 04 24 1 a9 22 FIRST CLASS SLOOPS, Akele, Griggs,.......,-- 3 30 00 4 44 32 1 14 42 Tartar, Mead,.,.......,.8 80 00 4 51 15 1 GREEN LAKE, WIS. An interesting interlake trial of boats was sailed’at Green Lake, Wis , Aug. 7. yachts being entered from Lakes Win- nebago, Delavan. Oconomowoc and Green Lake. The course was 12 miles, and the regatta was won by HIlk, of Oshkosh, which will take the cup to Winnebago, where it will be sailed for again next August. In the race for the Commodore’s cup, Green Lake, Aug. 14, Tzin, sloop, won after a closely contested race with Hypatia and B, & F., the actual time 219,04. Tzin needs but one more win to own this cup permanently. She lost to B. & F. in the race of Aug. 9. DELAVAN LAKE, WISCONSIN, Week after week passed at Delavan Lake this summer with a succession of calm Saturdays. On Aug. 14it was possible to get a start, and fonr boats entered, all of Delavan Lake ownership, Euliana, Mary Gladys, Circe and Hstelle. Interest centered between Ei] Capitan, sailed by Com. Jones (the same boat which sailed fifth in Green Lake regatta), and Mary Gladys, sailed by the boy Ingersoll, a skipper youthful but full of nerve. Two races were sailed during thé same day, Mary Gladys winning the first and Hl Capitan the second. Time in the morning race; Mary Gladys 1:21:50, Euliana 1:21:40, Circe 1:24:10. In the afternoon race: El Capitan 1:21;00, Mary Gladys 1:28:50, Circe 1:28:55. ¥OX LAKE, ILLINOIS. At Fox Lake, Iil,, Aug. 14, the fifth regatta of the Fox Lake Y. C. was sailed, fourteen entries, four classes, with the following results over a course of 7.2 miles: CLASS A ee RR 3S &F = Start, Finish. Elapsed Babe Janes pig csscencsssacssns wae snes 3 06 50 4 30 18 1 23 28 ATOR hohe Petree pakpeeeeeesin weg UO ae 4 25 AB 119 16 Vencedors, Ji: atsseedenenccccennedurescuUaecd 4 25 25 1 20 05 WOoUViCyyasteesd ere bsieee ene seoR COG 4 4 40 1 29 40 VE0CEDE. pc seesenessesscenerzensesesed Oo 45 4 32 25 1 26 40 CLASS B BEHEVUOT.. sem ales cpllirbans Gemeente as55) 0870 4 45 80 129 10 War-AWAY.csccccrenevsvsetnecsenesssed 0 30 44420 . 18 50 LARUE Hg dirs auto b ener teslsimmtatyiees shee loa LU) 4 46 17 1 31 07 JAarriette, .ceciascarsseevenseeees + «8 10°20 4 48 25 1 33 05 CLASS ¢C. Slespy ALO wi Hresasshe Ck vele ele eomancleeh 3 20 50 4 46 02 125 12 [EOPOTS WILE AM GAeae, Mrvite babies Os 3 20 42 4 51.00 1 30 18 CLASS D Lorna DOOnC,..scceesseceeereessesseed 29 20 4 57 49 1 32°20 Nelle Gena cennerttcdaniwnls siniseieaeee sacar Ue 5 02 00 1 35 25 Never Know Me Now,.sssee eeu e sd 20 42 412 40 1 26 57 Three additional races will be sailed on three successive Saturdays—commencing next Saturday—for three pennants, open to all sloops whose owners are members of the F. L. Y. In Class B the tie between Bellevue and Far Away will be sailed off at 11 A. M. next Saturday from the Hast Side Hotel. This closes the regatta season as far as Class D is concerned. Never Know Me Now claims the cup until next year. HE. HouGyH. 1206 Boyce Buimpine, Chicago. Beverly Y. C. Boston, Aug. 17.—The 253d regatta of the Beverly Y. C., the fourth Corinthian, was sailed off club house Aug. 14, Course for cruising and second classes, 1114 miles; fourth class 814, fifth class 5l¢. Judges: HF. Elliot Cabot and David Rice. reef sou’wester. = | Pees Hood won in cruising class; Hdith second by only 3. Thordis won in second class, as usual. Elsa and Howard in fourth class cats sailed a close race, Hlsa scoring one for the pennant, and Howard winning first prize by 1m. 5s. on allowance. Tn fourth sloops, Mr. Eustis at last got Capelin to the line in good racing shape, and won handsomely. Imp beat Hebe as usual in the small class. CRUISING CLASS. Wind, a single Length. BlJapsed. Oorrected, Robin Hood, A. H. Hardy.....sess0000- 21.4 2 U9 40 210 10 Bdith, C. M, Baker...... nisletelelsiecal Sian coeds Ot) 2 10 a2 2 10 82 Mariposa, RB. W Downer .s..+5,-,+---- 21.00 218 32 213 32 Kantaka, A Winsor....... BBE ae 2 21.00. 215 #8 215 38 Koyal Blue, C. S, Dennison...... .2.- 21,00 2.17 02 217% 02 Micaboo, J. R and C. L Harding .. .21,00 Broke down. SECOND GLASS. Thordis, T..B Wales,» 2 peek 26.00 2 (9 06 1 6 55 Anonyma, Vice-Com Dabney.,....... 24.09 216 18 2 02 36 May King, D. L, Whittemore,....,,,. #5.09 210 25 1 57 56 Kalama, David Rice.....-.. ++. tans Wi hdrew. FOURTH CLASS—CATS. Bisa, 0. 8. Sargent..,...cccereeevenees 19.00 201 19 1 41 3L Howard, H O, Miller.,...ceveers+eere- 18-00 2 01 33 1 43 26 Gineb, H, Parker ......cres: eeseeeess-18,01 2 05 55 1 47 51 Hope, J. H. Bilis ...... fotos Sita tecieeanlals aid 18,00 Broke down. Playmate, H, Sargent..... ....- .-- . Broke down, FOURTH CLASS—SLOOPS. Capelin, W. H. C. Hustis...........--- 19.03 1 47 17 1 30 47 Opossum, R W. Emmons .,,,........-19.00 1 49 55 1 43 07 Heiress, G. G. Amory.. ..,.-.--..+...-19.00 1 52 57 1 35 09 Blue Fish, J. Crane and A. 8. Hardy..19.09 2 02 07 1 45 19 Grilse, W. E C. Eustis... YT ESFISECOL. Withdrew. FIFTH CLASS—OATS Imp, G. B Dabney....05...0se-4es rma oh 205 1 23 13 1 00 36 Hebe, J. Parkinson,...,...:.-.-- veceeeld, 00 1 25 47 11051 TIMES OF THIRD CLASS BOATS, AUG, 3. I recently discovered that I had made two stupid mistakes in figuring time of third class boats, Aug. 8. Arab won the Tace; she went over course in 1.25.41 actual, and 1.13.29 cor- rected time. Ben My Chree made actual time 1 31.43; corrected 1.17.20, Arab won first, Perhaps second, Ben My Chree third. : : W. LLoyd, JEFFRIES, 176 FOREST AND STREAM. [Ave. 28, 1897, American Y. C. Special Regatta. MILTON POINT- LONG ISLAND SOUND, Wednesday, Aug. 17 THE American Y, O. sailed a special regatta on Aug. 17 in a light and variable S.E. wind accompanied by « heavy rain squall, & The times were: SLOOPS —43FT, GLASS, neth Hlapsed. Corrected. Hurybia, Chas. Pryer..,.... secneaeae ee 40,02 2 45 17 2 45 17 Coys, FLT. Grace. cp esyeesentece hectare 36.00 Did not finish. ROO noes Satie, | oascad Acushla, H.W. Hanan,..i..yeyseep sect : Vorant 11.8. G. TYSOW,,..cceseeeenes: 34,00 2 26 58 2 26 58 Surprise, J, D. Baird,..... nets bess 209008 Did not finish, OPEN SLOOPS—258T, GLASS. Houri, E B. Hart, Jr.,..... HOM Pe 21.99 231 16 231 16 Keneu, M, Claris,......0+0-+-s0esceeeees 19.46 2 27 00 3 21 52 CABIN CATS ioe aad pace Onaway. 8, C. Pirie...... watane Aneel P Kaiti Wis Dunne yes lesce sot ot cece sane 2).18° 2 25 21 2 25 21 CABIN GATS—25FT CLASS. Presto, M,E Hatfield ....... tina be sy core Oa 3 20 35 B27 35 Harrietta, Robert Jacobs, ..........- 21,90 Did not finish, OPEN CATS—‘5FT, CLASS. P. K. Pigeon, Deady & Harrington,,,.20,92 3 82 03 3 30 52 Punch, H, B, Clark....cccevesyeesssees 20,5) Disabled. Zelica, H. A. SHErMAN. .cceevereryeces 20,09 3 38 OR _ 3 55 36 Adele, W, Goetschius...rcensveersvecse ses Did not finish. Anglesea, L. N. Spence..... ...-se een: 21.53 Did not finish, OPEN CATS—20FT. CLASS, ‘ Gosbird, R. H. NevVivsS,.....cceseesnves 18.20 40358 40018 irvin H ,Hd Cromwell, ,..,ccscscseees 17.00 Did not finish. Minnetonka, A, B, Allee,.,,..005 earaisien’ 19.85 3 41 17 3 41 17 LORE MKONBIFG Pianist eta.) cement cies aoe 19.68 3 45 05 3 46 53 OPEN SLOOPS—15¥FT, CLASS, Glance, A. W. W. Marshall,.,, » 15.00 4 00 40 4 00 40 Misr, Dr, Wolf ....... Honan 115,00 8.53 12 8 53 12 Yola, GC. H. Mallory... scccce secs cer eee 15.00 3 30 21 3 30 21 VAWLS—20¥T oes: Rae orHnh Mahrer, W. H. Downing, ..esssscceears 66 id not finish. __ Alice, George ey NE efaictirseadtr sires 19.66 3 43 12 3 43°12 OPEN CATS—15FrT, CLASS ‘ Skip, Oliver Adams........seceeseens » 14.00 Did not finish, Cora, T. J S. Flint...... er APACER 12,50 Did not finish. The winners were; Hurybia, Acushla, Keneu, Kit, Presto. Minne- topka, Yola and Alice, In the 25ft. open cat class P, K Pidgeon is protested by Zelica, Decision reserved, f . The regatta committee included Stuyvesant Wainwright, H. de B. Parsons and Thomas Dimond. Interlake Regatta. DARTFORD, Wis.. Aug. 10.—I take pleasure in inclosing herewith reports of our Interlake Challenge Cup races, and_ Commodore’s Cup race. : Five clubs were entered for the Interlake, which was won easily by the Elk, Oshkosh Y.C.,in two straight races. The cup will be sailed for next year at Oshkosh, on Lake Winne- bago. INTERLAKE CHALLENGE CUP —FIRST RACE, Start 3:15: inis Elspsed. Correc‘ed. Elk, Oshkosh Y. C.,......,ese0e000% 2 2 OB 2 10 58 210 le Hypatia. Green Lake Y Cy.seeceees 5 20 15 215 15 218 40 Corana, Nodaway Y. C...,.scsr0ee--. 9 30 28 220-2 217 55 Watson, Oconomowoc Y.C.....,... 5 37 14 2 22 14 2 22 14 El Capitan, Lake Delavan Y,C..... 5 47 17 2 32 17 2 26 14 First of a series of two out of threeraces for the Green Lake Yacht Club challenge cup. Judges: Com. Ferd W. Peck, Com. L. Frank Gates, Capt. J.J. Rardau, John R, Davis, Com. Geo, C. Eldredge. SECOND RACE, Start, 9:45: Finish. Elapsed. Corrected. Wik, Oshkosh Y. C..,....-:.. saaeeele 16 30 2 5L 30 2 30 59 Hypatia, Green Lake Y. C,.,.......12 25 42 2 40 42 2.49 59 Corona, Nodaway Y.C . .vessevere 12 22 17 287 17 2 34 44 Watson, Oconomowoc Y.C... .... 12 28 07 2 43 07 2 43 07 Ej Capitan, Lake Delavan Y.C,.... 12 32 02 2 47 02 2 40 59 Winning of this second successive race entitled Hk to the Interlake challenge cup offered by the Green Lake Y. C. Judges: J. J. Rardau, Com, F, W. Peck, Com, L. F. Gates, J.R. Davis, Com. G. C. Eldredge. Start, 4:55: ‘inish Elapsed. Corrected. Hypatia, Gwynn Garnett. ....c20.0.-6 03 32 2:08 32 2 08 32 B. & F., H.R. McCullough,,... vane 6 G5 28 2 10 28 2 07 27 Tzin, W. BE. Haseltine .....s0005 Peast Lie 2 16 50 212 29 Pleasant Point, J. W. Ross......s00. . ee os Perret) shen All boats except B. & F. carried reefed mainsails, but shook out before finish, Green Lake Y. C.—Oakwood Cup Race, DARTFORD, WIS,— GREEN LAKE, WIS. Saturday, Aug. 1h. CouRsEs: Triangular; two laps. Distance: 103g miles. Weather: Cloudy and warm, Wind: Stiff, freshening into a gale. Start, 10:40: Length, Finish. Elapsed Corrected, 3.00 AYypatia. sr essenaeee 11 46 25 1 01 028 2 20. 038 2 20 03 IT ZAny ceca cahites cae ee Ue OU 114820 125945 21945 #16 24 Pleasant Point,.... sss. ay A 3 oe cig Ge eet eft) edt ts SDTXUMOUL Aiea tere biatw eave ssa ls 11 46 17 34 nt de 3 8s Saasgaped x 11 49 45 Ado GE 23 Gilbert’s Bar Y. C. WAVELAND, Fla., Aug. 14.—The Gilbert’s Bar Y. C. held_ their usual monthly regatta Saturday, July 31, in a light wind, In the first class only one boat sailed over the course; times as follows: FIRST CLASS, IG EToted oye tie emaaite Lee eaumigemeectsitr tes mitten teas Peevevectsresensss 0 a 40 SECOND CLASS. . Actual, Corrected, SWALLOW: 6 r-arsuGuaviicgetasdenntSapslatee as yy ete cel MD SUGO 0 52 00 Iderin..... vevsceeccccecs vip ecewrns Soivivvors berkg Sooo eer 0 54 21 SEBLPICC. weyeses 0 54 09 B DOE SOU ETI HeiselsaitsEeeieveresies) 00 po Men 260 See el eee Pewaukee. PEWAUEEE, Wis., Aug. 14.—To-day’s regatta was sailed in a heayy southwest wind. The starting signal was given at 4:00:25 P. M. and the yachtsmen were instructed to sail twice around the 4-mile triangular course. The start was made almost in the teeth of the gale, and the yachts in both classes were sent on their way by the same starting gun. The Martha, owned by A, H. Steinman, of Milwaukee, ran aground off Lakeside and bent her rudder, and although she entered the race she was unable to hold up tothe wind and had to drop out. The yachts all went into the race with eefed canvas. The Kite lost several minutes at the start in hanging her jib and was the last to get away, _ The A boats started with the Sirrocco, Lottie and Tempest in the lead; the Sirrocco had her peak halyards blown out and had to retire soon after she got away. The B boats were led all the way around by the Aida, which made most of her gains by a series of tacks, along the south shore of the lakein the long beat to windward on each timearound. The Lorraine was the last in her class to start, but she overhauled all the rest of the fleet before they reached the first stake, and from this point she steatlily drew away ae the rest of her class and finished 6m, ahead of the empest, The first time around, the yachts finished as follows: CLABS A. Lorraine, Mua: & Bauch. ...s.aeses Lottie, L, D, Markwell.........e. Tempest, © F Hase........ceuca, Idle Hour, R. B, Giljohaun..........0. Christine, Gouis AMEL.....c.eyecaseecese Si CLASS B. y LD) Kite, Poppert & Peekler. ......,.... Feccnanaaeis __On the second time around, Lottie, Idle Hour, Sophia and Christine were unable to continue, and dropped out. The rest of the fleet continued around the course with little change in their positions, and finished as follows: (CLASS A, c Corrected, Vioraine,.......5 He a ert yf at ioe tear oni epee Annerscreierwtate ealecti ats) TeMpeSt.n.ssecacaven Yate caret teens MiiMabmasaaset ohsegewlode eo CLASS B, IIA he mene heeesrewAse ata indi aeetelnion Masia hedge ts s84 fret ocelot GHC LDH Talento hebeeceenen srr oe Ue Ree soseaeaaasesasenan eis Winners; Class A, Lorraine; Olass B, Aida, mt Judges and time-keepers, Geo. M, Conway, A. G. Miller; John © Spencer. Eryest £, Wire, BELLEVILLE, Aug. 16.—The new 20-footer built by Mr. A. Tisdale, of this city, had her trial trip on Saturday afternoon. She proved herself a fast boat in light Weather and good on all points of sailing, She carries about 65yds. of canvas and stands up well tinder it. Mr. Wm. Carter made her sails and they fit nicely. Mr. Tisdale has never before attempted to build so large a boat, and his success in this one may lead to his building others, R. S. B. Canosing, AMERICAN CANOE ASSOCIATION. Elghteenth Annual Meet. GRINDSTONE ISiAND, ST, LAWRENCE RIVER, Aug. 6-20, 1897. THE big A. C. A. burgee never floated as high before as it does this season, for Com. MacKendrick has planted a big . fagpole on the top of the hill, from which the red and white flag is visible for miles around. Thestrong and steady west- erly winds of the whole two weeks haye worked: hayoe with the flag, but it has been a pleasant sight to old A. C. A. men, The island and the bay change little from year to year, but the camp itself is located a little differently. As of old, many prefer the shade of the north side, though the main camp on the level at the foot of the hill facing Hel Bay, Squaw Point, too, is in its original location. The old wharf is still stand- ing, but it has been deserted, and a new one has been built further along the shore, near where the Brockville camp was in 1884-5-6, and the mess shed last year and at present, In connection with this change, headquarters has been moved from its old location on Capitol Hill, and is now at the head of the new wharf. Here the officers’ tents are arranged in a semicircle, the Commodore in the center, with the A. C. A. burgee flanked by the Canadian and American ensigns on tall polesin front. The camp store, mess tent and kitchen are close to headquarters. This arrangement is an improye- ment, in that the wharf and the public buildings—if tents may be called such—are no longer in the center of the men’s camp, but between it and the ladies’ camp, and thus accessi- ble at all times from the latter, The regular arrangements are practically the same as last year. The transportation has been excellent, with steamers to Clayton and Gananoque. The mess is again in the hands of Mr. McHlveny, and has given general satisfaction; and Mr. H, C. Morse, who has been the camp site committee, has roved an able successor to Mr. Robertson. The work of the atter for several previous years is so well known to all who have attended the meets, that itis only necessary to say that Mr. Morse has filled his place. { The attendance at camp has been comparatively small, the register showing only 165 names of members; to what this is attributable it is difficult to say. Quite a number of the older men, like Edwards, haye been in camp, and at one time during the meet there were five ex-commodores present— Edwards, Huntington, Dorland, Wilkin and Winne, For the first time in many years, if we remember, since 1884, the Vesper B. C., headed by Paul Butler, has been absent, and the racing has suffered accordingly. Of racing men there were, as the entry list shows, yery few, in factin the sailing Mr. Archbald had no dangerous competitor in a thoroughly modern canoe. In the paddling there was no new-comer such as Mr. Noack last year, and only four men started for the trophy. In the way of boats, the paddling brought out nothing new, the trophy being won in an old canoe; in the sailing division there was Mab of last year and three new canoes. One of these, Toreador, designed and built by L. E. Fry, of Clayton, for F. OC, Moore, was similar in general appearance to Agawam and the curious Dimples, built on the Connecticut River some eight years ago, with a very full deck and much dead rise, a V section. She was rather heayy in construction and did nothing in the races, Another, We're Here, was designed by her owner, H, H. Smythe, and built by John McGowan, at Bay Ridge. A third, designed and built by J. H. Rushton, was owned by C. W. Lansing, None of these were in any way, model, construction, rig orfittings, worthy of a place beside Mab, and they did nothing in the racing. What races were not won by Mr. Archbald in Mab, went mostly to Mr. Douglas in Cricket, a six-year-old Ruggles canoe, or to Mr. Stewart in Az Iz, another Ruggles canoe some three or four yearsold, The new canoes were fitted with particularly large and clumsy attachments for the deck tillers and very high long sliding seats. This year there were, strange to say, four war canoes at the meet, and two very good races were paddled in them. The old “Huff” of Rochester, with her “hand-painted” sails, was on hand, and also a very handsome new war canoe of Spanish cedar, designed and built by the Spalding-St. Layw- rence Boat Co, for the Wawbewawa C. A, The racing was decidedly inferior to that of last year, there were many events, but few starters and no really good competition; some of the minor races occasioned a good deal of amusement, but the sailmg trophy race had six starters, three finishing; the paddling trophy brought out but four men, and the Dolphin trophy was merely thrown in as a part of the trophy race. There were a number of complaints on the part of the racing men against the management of the races, and on one occasion a general strike occurred. As Mr, Archbald was desirous of Jeaving for home on Aug, 19, the trophy race was posted, with little warning on the afternoon of Aug. 18, ab which time a strong and puffy west wind was blowing, hitting hard across the top of the hill an down on Hel Bay. Mr, Archbald was ready at the appointed time, but theotherracing men could not befound. After a seare the committee discovered them all sitting in a group on top of the hill, langhing at the chase. They declared that th wind was too high and the conditions unfit for racing. ae feftised to start. r. Archbald got under way and sailed a short distance when his mainniast broke at the deck, in full Fiebt of the strikers on the hilltop. Some one, went dawn to the signal officer’s tent and stole some code flags, anf soon the warning ‘Dangerous winds expected, canoes should keep hear shore,”’ was fying from the big pole, Therace was not Sailed until the following day. ‘The first war canoe race rought ont a scratch crew of the old fellows, Edwards, Huntington and others. The final war canoe race was an international one, arranged by Capt. Eouis L. Drake, of the Wawbewawa C. A. ‘He picked a crew from the States, while Vice-Com, R. E. Burns picked a erew of Canadians. The Americans got away first and led by half a length at the half-mile flag, when the Canadians took the lead. Within 100ft. of the finish a hot spurt put the Americans over with a lead of hardly 10ft. The old plan of a course with a turn was revived for most of the paddling races, with some disqualifications in conse- quence. The results of the races were very poorly recorded on odd seraps of paper; no proper blanks or record books were provided, and the records are less complete than usual, The races began on Aug. 14, Saturday, and continued up to Thursday night. During the whole meet the winds were very strong, mostly froiii the west. There was io ee te FpcHic of, but the weather was unusually cool. Neatly all o the taces were sailed in stiong breezes, and there were some days when none cared to set afloat nuder ie Mr. MéVean, of the regatta committees, who proved so offitient last year, was absent in Florida, so the management of ithe races devolved on Messrs. Sparrow and Schuyler, with Mr. unnell as clerk of the course. — * j p Very good order was preserved in camp, and it was quite possible to sleep for a reasonable number of hours at night. There was none of the over-dressing that has been com- plained of at times at the meets; on the contrary, this year the fashion ran to sleeveless Jerseys and undershirts, with sunburned arms, While this was all right in the canoes and about camp, it was carried too far at meals and in the presence of ladies. Itis not specially appetizing even for a man who isnot squeamish to sit at table opposite to a pair of shoulders ornamented with raw red sores as the result of sunburn and chafing. ’ The principal business of the camp is the election of the cotimodore and secretary-treasurer; and this was done at thé ineeting o the executive committee on the evening of Aug. 18, Com. MacKendrick presiding, with Purser L. C. Wood- Worth, of the Central Division, acting as secretary. Sec’y- Treas. Blake was unable to he present during the meet through pressure of business, Forsome reason not apparent an attempt was made to induce the Atlantic Division to waive its turn to the officers and meet in favor of the Central Division, but this proposal met with no favor. Vice-Com, Murray was the first choice of the Atlantic Division, but he positively refused to accept the nomination. Mr. F. li, Dun- nell was finally elected commodore for 1898, with Mr. C. VY. Schuyler as secretary-treasurer. A recommendation was read from the Atlantic Division in favor of a camp next year about Hel Bay. A proposal was then considered from the monthly magazine Recreation, published in New York, to print the A. C. A. Year Book, furnishing one copy to each * member and 300 copies to the Association, free of cost, and to send a free copy of the magazine to each member. After the meeting adjourned, the result of the election was announced to the members at a so-called “general meeting” about the camp fire. As usual, this “meeting,” which exists merely as a matter of custom and not of law, afforded an occasion for much pent-up eloquence, apropos of nothing in particular, . A letter was tread from the Chamber of Commerce of Port Tampa, Fla., suggesting a winter camp ofthe Association. A letter was read from the paper Shooting and Fishing, request- ing thatit be named asan official organ of the Association. On motion of E. B, Edwards, seconded by W. U. Lawson, it was recommended to make a contract with Recreation on the above terms, with the option of renewal, A motion was made by RK J. Wilkin, seconded by P. F. Hogan, that Recreation be named as the only official organ of the Association; it was not carried. A motion by R. J. Wilkin to renumber the members, after a long discussion was laid on the table, A recommendation was adopted to the effect that the Executive Committees provide special personal prizes each year to the winners of the two Association trophies. The usual formal votes of thanks to everybody were passed in the usual manner. The division meet of the Eastern Division was held at Law- rence, Mass., on May 30, the following officers being elected: Vice-Com,, L. 5. Drake; Rear-Com., R, H. Hammond; Pur- ser, H. J. Burrage; Hx-Com., Parry C. Wiggins, Butler Ames A. W. Dodd. The meetings of the other divisions were held incamp. ‘The Northern Division elected Vice-Com., DiAteh Scott; Rear-Com., G. KR. Howell; Purser, ; Hx-Com. McD, Mowat. Com, J. N. MacKendrick was elected as suc cessor to EK. B. Edwards, the retiring member of the Board of Governors. ~ The Central Division elected Vice-Com., J. R. Stewart; Rear-Com., A, H, McNabb; Purser, L. C. Woodworth (re- eleetet)s Ex-Com., H. C. Morse, F, G. Mather and T. H. tryker. The Atlantic Division elected Vice-Com., Thomas Hale, Jr,; Rear-Com., F. M. Pinkney; Purser, W.M. Carpenter; Eix-Com., F. C. Moore and Geo. P. Douglas. The Northern Division at its annual meeting appointed a special committee for the consideration of the question of the amendment of the measurement rules, especially as they concern paddling canoes. The committee included Vice- Com. D’Arey Scott, Rear-Com. D. H. McDougall, Vice-Com, R. EK. Burns, HE B. Edwards and W. T. Lawless, é, The committee agreed on the following suggestions: Paddling Regulations.—A canoe to compéte in any pad- dling race of the A. C. A. must be sharp at both ends, with no counterstern or transom; and, except as hereinafter men- tioned, must come within the prescribed limits, as follows: Maximum length, 16ft., not less than 30in. beam, not less than 12in. deep, and not less than 45lbs. weight. Slight dis- crepancies in weight may be made up temporarily to the extent of 3lbs, only. Measurements.—The length shall be taken between per- pendiculars at the fore side of stem and the aft side of stern. The beam shall be taken at the widest part, not including the heading. ‘The depth shall be taken from the level of the gunwales amidships to the bottom of the canoe inside. Canoes for Four Men.—Maximum length, 20ft.: minimum beam, 30in.; minimum depth, 12in.; minimum weight, 70lbs. War Canoes.—Maximum jength, soft.; Maximum crew, fifteen men. ' One important addition to the Association this year was the Buffalo C. C,, a club heretofore unknown at the meets, but represented by ten members and displaying much enthu- slasm, A. C. A. Regatta Programme, f SATLING. Event No, 1. Paddling and sailing combined, 14 mile al- ternately; total, 3 miles; time limit, 144 hours. Start to ta made under paddle. : P. S.—fhe same seat shall be used as in Event No, 3, Event No, 2, Paddling, +g mile, with turn. : Event No, 8. Sailing, 417 miles; time limit, 2 hours, 1897. Aue. 28, 1897] FOREST AND STREAM. 177 Note.—Events Nos. 1, 2 and 3 are record races, under Rule 5 of Racing Regulations. ‘ Hyent No. 4. Unlimited sailing, under Rule 1 of Sailing Regulations, 6 miles; time limit, 2% hours. Starters in the trophy sailing race to be selected from this race under Rule 5 of Racing Regulations, Event No. 5. Trophy sailing, 9 miles; time limit, 314 hours. See Rule 5 of Racing Regulations. Eyent No. 6. Dolphin sailing trophy, 7}4 miles; time limit, 8 hours, The canoe winning first place in Hyent No. 5 will not be allowed to compete in this event, - Event No. 7. Club sailing, 4144 miles; time limit, 2 hours. First three members of any club to count; a club to be rep- resented must enter at least three men. All men contesting must have become members of the club they represent prior to the first day of the 1897 meet EKyent No. 8. Divisions sailing, the same as No. 7, except read divisions in place of club. The sliding seat or statinary deck seat shall not exceed in length the width of the canoe, Event No. 9. Novice sailing, 3 miles; time limit, 1/4 hours. Open only to members who have not sailed a canoe prior to Sept. 1, 1896. ‘ : A Event No. 10. Limited sailing, 3 miles; time limit, 1/¢ hours. Sail area limited to 100sq. ft., and any seat which projects beyond the gunwales prohibited. . Event No. 11. Unclassified sailing, 44¢ miles; time limit, 2 hours. Open only to canoes without selfbaling cockpits. No race unless three or more starters. Canoes must be out- side the A, C. A. limit to compete in this event. DIVISION RACES. Hyent No, 12. Atlantic Division Cup. Hvent No. 13. Central Division Cup. Hvent No. 14, Hastern Division Cup. Hvent No. 15. Northern Division Cup. Note.—These events will only be h Id if not sailed at Di- yision meets. These races will be sailed under therules pro- vided by each Division, which will be posted on the bulletin board, and will be called in the order published during the first week of camp. . Event No. 16. Open canoes, paddle 1g mile to windward with single blades, and return under sail ; Eyent No. 17. Open canoes, sailing, 114 miles. » PADDLING, Event No. 18. Trophy paddling, 1 mile straightaway. Event No. 19. Novice paddling, 1g mile with turn; open - canoes, single blade, Open only to members who have never paddled a race outside their own club races. Eyent No. 20. Paddling, 14 mile with turn; open canoes, single blades. Event No. 21. Tandem elub paddling, 4 mile with turn; open canoes, single blades, ; Event No, 22. Deck canoes, single paddling, 14 mile with turn; double blades. Event No. 28. Decked canoes, tandem paddling, 1g mile with turn; double blades. . A Hvent No. 24. Four paddling, 144 mile with turn; single blades, open canoes, Event No. 25. Upset paddling. Hyvyent No. 26. ail-end race, open canoes, single blades. Paddler to kneel in bow and paddle bow first with the wind. | Event No. 27. Ladies’ single paddling, 144 mile straighta- way; open canoes. A ; vent No, 28. Ladies’ tandem paddling, 14 mile straight- away, open canoes, single blades. Event No. 29. Mixed tandem paddling, 4% mile straighta- way, open canoes, single blades. HKyvent No. 380. Hurry-scurry, run, swim and paddle. Bvent No, 31. Swimming, 100yds, Event No. 82. Tournament. ; All paddling races, except the trophy paddling, shall be ee to canoes not less than 30in. beam, and not less than S. NOTES. The committee reserve the right to call any of the less Bean OEHADE races any time during the meet, when they may see fit. All events in which less than two entries present them- selves at the line will be canceled. In events where less than three start, only one prize will be awarded. The regatta committees have provided prizes for each and every race on the programme. In case the committee are pressed for time, two or more Taces will be started at the same time whenever possible, The committee reserve the right to add to the programme at the meet on twenty-four hours’ notice, said notice to be posted on the bulletin board. A. C. A. Races, 1897—List of Entries. _ Canoe. Crew. Club, Place. Mab,.......,.0, H. Archbald,,,,,,Roy. Can, Y. C,,Toronto, eee t ,, Thos. Hale, Jr,,,,,, Youkers,.,,...., .onkers. Az Iz...,.,.,.J0, R. Stewart ,,,,,,.lJrondequoit,..,,, Rochester, Toreador.,.,.F. C, Moore..,......New York,,,.,.,New York, Pioneer.,..,,.J. C. Mobray .,,,,,.New York.,,.,..New York. We're Here,.H,H.Smythe..,.....New York,....,,New York, Beell.,,...,, L.C May...........New York,..,..,.New York, Brooklyn.,,,,, Woolsey Carmalt,..New York,,,....New York. ELS ,,.0+00..-0. W. Adams, Wish,........,D!Arey Scott,..,...Ottawa........,.Ottawa, sevessese W. T. Lawless,,,..,Ottawa,........,Ottawa, Weins..,....,R. J. Stewart..... , Ottawa,.........Ottawa. Reba ,,,,..,,.Hdgar OC. Woolsey,.Ottawa,....,...,Oltawa, Madge..... ..F. L Dunnell,,,..,.Brooklyn...,..,. Brooklyn. Enid,,,.,...,.M D, Wilt....,....,Red Dragon,,,,,Philadelphia. Bagheera,,,,.A. A. Conger ...,.,Gouverneur ,,,,.Gouverneur, N. Y. serseres GC. W, Lansing.,..,, Bulwagga.....,.Pors Henry, N. Y. 9 vereeeeees hk. Easton Burns,,,.Toronto,,.......Kingston, Can. ee’: | ,D. H. MacDougall, .,Toronto .,.,...., Toronto. Bldorado,,.,,.H, MeNichol,,,,..,.Toronto ....,: .. Toronto. Oualinda,,.,..J. W. Ely....,...,,,.Rocbester..,.,.. Rochester. Weda.........C. G. Rothwell,.,,. Kingston ...,.... Kingston, Can, Ithanel,,,..,.L. Leroy,..........-lanthe,.......... Newark, Cricket,,,.,...Geo, P. Duuglas.,,,.Ianthe. ......... Newark, Hyent No. 1, combined race. Start, 10:59:10; istround, 2d round. MricketsG- EP; DOuslas) hs eccresbcccsreeessensdl 20040 11 46 35 Aziz, J.L Stewart....... bbe creer pod peep ely 12 03 05 »W: G. McTapgart...csscccesscnessereeeess WithGrew. October, Thos. Hale, Jr,,...sseeeeeecees-ereesss Withdrew. Tthanel,!L. Leroy......eessees-rseeveeeseeeeeeess WitUdrew, Event No, 2, record paddling, Start, 2:50:00: Crickel, G. P. DOUZIAS,..cscryeveesesssvensveesnsse £6 OL 0 06 O1 NA1z, J Ey DLOWANU,) bres ashietervesbtascucsrduasio0 15 0 06 18 October, Thos, Hale, Jr... .scssceeessuveneecereenye 00 25 0 06 25 Tthanel, L. Leroy, ...ccsasseveers) sessevesetvevess2 OO Gd 0 06 35 Hivent No. 3, record sailing, Aug. 18, wind strong from W. Start, 10:45:15: istround. 2dround. 8d round, Az Iz, J, L. Stewart,... sisereeese21 05 41 11 16 £0 11 30 22 Cricket, G. P, Douglas.,......+...11 00 16 11 16 43 11 39 25 _ October, Thos. Hale, Jr..........-11 02 20 11 18 03 11 33 20 Event No. 4, unlimited sailing, Aug. 17, wind N.W. strong. Start, 10:16:52: ; 1st 2d 3d th round. round. round. round. Hlapsed. 111355 0 56 33 lilo ketinuey ples, 112052 . 00. 11 45 35 Mab, C E. Archbald,,.10 30 22 10 44 31 10 58 41 Az Iz, J. R. Stewart...10 31 30 10 46 58 11 02 53 Pioneer. J.C. Mowbray10 31 335 104911 11 04 05 We're Here H Smythe 10 39 50 110000 11 21 56 Toreador. F. GC. Moore.,Withdrew. October, T. Hale, Jr,,.10 86 £5 Withdrew, MSO IT Truel Mayes pel Si elo SLO Dsl O Mins yells aby sek be a) ai ae Event No. 4, unlimited sailing, Aug, 18, strong N.W, wind; . : = 7 | beee Gy Mab, GC. H. Archbald,,,..ccssseeersseseeeess--ecord of times missing. AZ iz, J. R. Stewart. ...ccccecececceeenersasss-hecord of times missing, Toreador, F. ©. MOore...cscccceeeeeeereeesss. Record Of times missing. Pioneer. J. ©. MOWbray.....eeceeeessessses:, RECOTA Of times Missing. Were Here H H. Smythe,,...........:....,-Record of times missing. Beell.. L. H May .. Record of times missing, Cricket, G@ P. Douglass ....sssss+eeee0+e0+++ RECOrd Of times missing. October, Thos. Hale, Jr.. «+... Record of times missing. , HH. Dansing,...ceeseeeeseeareeee, lvecord of times missing, Ithanel, L. Leroy. ..ces, sence . Record of times missing. Hyent No. 5, trophy sailing, Aug, 19, strong N.W. wind. Start 10:05:06: Ist. 2d. 3d 4th. 5th. 6th. Mab, C. E. Archbald. 10 22 32 1038 35 1054 45 1110 35 11 2828 11 45 45 Az, Iz, J R Stewart. 10 25 05 10 41 40 1057 39 J1 J4 23 11 3215 11 49:05 10 26 00 10 43 40 10 23 55 10 40 58 Cricket, G. P. Douglas. 10 25 42 10 42 47 We're Here, H. H. Smythe. eereceeare deasten Elapsed, 140 45 1 44 05 1 56 45 = 11 ¢c0 CO 1118 19 11 36 39 120) 45 #0 59 13 Withdrew. 10 25 28 10 45 00 Withdrew. Pioneer, J. C. Mowbray. 11 00 03 11137 3) Withdrew. Toreador. F. C. Moore. Event No, 6, dolphin trophy, Aug, 19; not sailed for, given as second prize in trophy race, Az Iz, J. R. Stewart. Event No. 7, club sailing, Aug. 14 Start, 11:55;00: 1st 2d 3d Club. Round. Round. Round, Score. Pioneer, J. Mowbray.,,New York 1] 20 (0 11 8859 115637 6 Toreador. F C. Moore,,New York 11 20 85 114036 115819 46 Cricket, G_L. Douglas, ,Ianthe 11 22 40 114226 120105 4 Bee I., L. H May.......,New York 11 21 40 11 4355 1204 a7 38 Ithanel, L. Leroy,.....,..lanthe 11 27 45 11 5225 122100 2 Brooklyn, W. Cormalt..New York ., .. 2. es es «+ 1229 00-1 New York 13, Ianthe 6. Event No. 8, no starters. Event No, 9, novice sailing: Start. Istround, 2dround Has; Wa Ei AUS EI see sanh .aeenies eset 2lloL 4 43 45 5 10 20 Diaz, G W McTaggart ........0.8..4 21 £0 4 48 15 5 17 50 A IUOLOVe ceive y ieee. ft cb we bee ted ON 4 48 55 5 20 00 Peratiy, He OMHOy EG cues ees se tere yeei 4 21 51 445 35 5 21 00 Hvent No, 10, no starters. Event No, 11, no starters. Hyvent No. 12, no record, won by J. C. Mowbray. Event No. 13, no record, won by J. R. Stewart. Hvent No. 14, no starters. Hyent No. 15, no starters. Event No. 16, open, paddle and sail, Aug. 14, Start, 3:40:25: TST ALAINECE DL Wh price ttnitan caves bs cierCeuvonctisteene alcO 0 14 55 ADA L CONFI a yas sce ete baaht tant riee Pepe eantes JaroG. 00 0 15 35 DITIMITAR a eae ils pale ree e eee era Teo oa seein le eeccsitsataiey ot DO! 40 0 16 15 aM piv afitalen cians ecb deeracereate tia dian hcaiie baie ey aval StD0. Bo 0 16 34 Event No. 17, open, canvas sailing, Start, 10;12:30: Madge, FL. Dummell,. eve ceesccesceccsscees selene aay ssereresl0 43 00 +*Modoc.T Haley drei iviccverssecsesnncess Diarra edeasCr een UL 700 Hotiti, P. F. Hogan....... AIC ce Nine iewaielslnle sis siisiunjeeisl alsin DGC e We Wattawab, L, B. Palmer,,...........+ At BAPE OME secednnionc NaTaki aks plea * Disqualified. Event No. 18, trophy paddling, Aug. 19, water smooth. Start, 3:47:09: Wishes? Arcy Srobhescess se. coviensevsenesseureseatacrascoemmeneCk0TeO9 ELV sD aMEDOUP Allene cnn taswinenicaeaAdan avec eneesnetene non Otacd HidOradOs Hee NICHOL ya Setanta qeacanecuetemtaneree edi nay te OLO mal sew MUBWIESS Hite tases saammaeceeieee cheese ceed tees Ol0tedo: Event No. 19, novice paddling. Start, 11:36:30: PID SIAC arcs tsleiestare talsaerslerstete etghvaieats sie’ svstevetelet LLL 44500 0 07 80 OyUaceras setealsine nts aah eitaisteeeinelarenistiest sled peasy tl 44. a0) 0 68 00 Harmer....... MEHASodorcponcononeth ohadhourracte ils jeaiy 0 08 10 Event No. 20, paddling, open canoes. Start, 10:33:25; PLS YA SE) AMC DOM Al ie sivisibp vie sphs(vie oly sia idisisialalejerslersiere anne eierwais Oui ties CUD shee ULUS ssh event evdae Hehe Cea he tT a Tee aL ese nro ieeite LOLOL OS Hidorado, EB. MCNICOl.,..ccseccceceeseeveces vavereseesresness10 40 C8 PREAH eC ANVOOISE Veeialgiem rete smenenetion eae nie eeveceevereseeess lO 40 82 *Reba fouled a buoy and was disqualified. tren No. 21, tandem club paddling, Aug. 18. Start, Toronto, McDougall & MeENichol.........0se0es00.5 20,55 0 04 45 Kingston, Burns & Rathwell.....cssssscessseeeac.D 21 05 0 04 55 Atlana, Stewart & Woolsey....sssssesesevseesss.D al 1B 0 05 03 : Event No. 22, paddling, decked canoes, Aug, 14. Start, 44:25; Cricket, G. L, Douglas.... teeeeess 0 50 53 Enid, M. D. Wilt.........- seseseserd 51 00 *Wahsesee, D. McDougall senstees, 9 50 45 Ithanel. L. LeRoy........-..... Prcetafieldes ssuwescccsssopeseyd Ol 10 *McDougall was disqualified, Hyent No, 23, decked canoes tandem, Aug. 18, Start, 4:16:58: . { Geo. P. Douglas. , | P Cricket,...., imetoy ieee: Ane. « siensenstecnnst oe OD: ) Thos Hale, Jr..... | t~eeneeecenstevetbsirrennnsannt Se DO ENG .sse FMD Wiltsvecscss Event 24, four paddling, Start, 3:01:55: ee eo aoe Toronto crew..... Bidlensinaiaie stentle se sianitincsansen ite tinener ya paniciae seer hia: FEOLONLOzO LL WA LCLO Wi lsilen te miame ciuviere sisjeree an deunicteciaslstiae anaee ered Event No. 25, upset paddling, Aug. 18. Start, 5:45:46: ——, W. T. Lawless.,.... reddcoécncs ud amcor ten a Le cree: (1) 0 02 00 Ithanel, Ta. Leroy... ciessnvcescctaesccceesrescsscs sD 48 00 0 U2 20 Enid, M. D, Wilt..... Sisaeeshorascass WIthdrew, Event No. 26, tail-end race, Aug. 16. Start, 4:34:00: yee GCaeeortsanas Bagheera, A. A. CONBEr. ccc .cceeseseesneeeesseeees4 9 OO 0 05 55 Hidorado, EH. MCNICOL.,.....50.ecerssseerseccesssess4 40 13 0 06 18 Wabhsesee, D. McDougall. ....csseucscceveesveseesest4 43 45 0 G9 45 ARID; Bebe BDULNS wemiasiiaqdvasetseedeeees tsae etits neorVVILROTOM. Event No. 27, ladies’ paddling, Aug. 16. Start, 5:38:50; MHES POarsali, i cesescscaqeqsssescustcunssesessarsgnot 4h Jo 0 02 25 MASSIDIAKG)soeavarassesasenes 5 41 18 0 02 ¥8 Event No. 28, ladies’ tandem, Aug. 19. Start, 4:23:10; Seer eee ees eet eee Mie eeenetittieniterierieveiustaxtens Cosnesre ne GUNS ORDERS Sr Peal adgccuern iss tarsovedeesreseasersi Siem | \DWgaGe Event No. 29, mixed tandem, Start, 10:18:10: = {Bega ands es revs eeerpeeerl0 2048 0:02 38 Eririigns heifies Pearsall,,,,... BEIMED eis ceracnss Equator, a Miss Marshall,,,.. ” RE Burns,....,.- Zerd..s 00+») Wiss Hara.,....... RERRH ere eee eee Fe ee ee * oF «8 * (J. R, Stewart.,.... Spee (viss Wattles.,.... ( Seceeeeeeeeeeees ee ee G. P. Douglas.,,... | Wahtatab.. } tise wilkinson (eeteeeeweneneres ee ne an * Disqualified, Event No. 30, hurry-scurry, Aug. 18. Start, 12:40:19: AWS UE TLS ane serie GGH SEADDAARAIONIOEE ED OEECOO Goo Ape onsdce’ ye bead (25: 8) CIF STOLE ed SOR Aone Bee coh OUE Mbp odboboutmnentone mr nelle Bs) 1 Da itil a ar Son oe Red wnneOGn UGE UDP emotion. pty tsar ae Bitsts) ARCA CONEEE Re ee tine cet lieete ners le iececataeronacebeueal 1 VWaENOnE Wis Event No. 31, swimming, Aug. 17. Start. 12:14:10: WT. LA WIesSircccscesccssesessssensersevessesezdle 1D 20 A A. Conger... SORE Sb eee GE ren a gate by ff W., B, Skinner sovveegey s- WILRCTAW. A HEE ER Re ra elit ease Event No, 82, tournament, First round-J, W. Sparrow and E. McNicol (winners), J. W. Ely and D. McDougall, : l j { } f l 0 01 13° 0 01 20 Second round—Burns ard Rothwell (winners), Shaw and Mc- Taggart. Final round—Sparrow and MeNicol winners. Special event, war canoe race, Aug. 17, Start, 6;02:58: CaiAda, 5 fas dele ers beisened eee eis tre Ruffalo........ a Nay tc POURS CEES 6 07 AT Wa&WbOWRWAiscescuncencssscsseevess «6 07 4: Special event, war canoe race, Aug. 19. Start, 6 P. M.: American crew, L. 8. Drake, Captain, winner. Canadian crew, R. E. Burns, Captain. A, G. A. REGORD, 189”, eee eee Combined. Paddling. Sailing. Total, Geo; BP Douglass, cacsvevecsssveneee 4 3 11 J, RK, Stewart... .ccssssseeeues 3 3 4 10 Thos Hale, Jr..... 0 2 2 4 L, Leroy....ss00s 0 1 1 2 Proposed Change of Rules. KINGSTON, Ont., Aug. 20.—Hditor Forest and Stream: The inclosed report was handed to the regatta committee in camp at Grindstone Island, and will doubtless be considered by them and acted upon before the meeting of the executive committee in the fall. Kindly publish it, sothat the mem: bers who were not in camp may be advised of the changes which the Northern Division has seen cause to ask for. R. HASTON BURNS, Vice-Com. N. D. A. C. A, At a’meeting of the special committee appointed at the annual meeting of the Northern Division, the following sug- gestions as to amendments to the racing regulations, so far as they affect paddling canoes, were offered for the consider- ation of the regatta and executive committees, PADDLING REGULATIONS, A canoe to compete in any paddling race of the A. C. A, must be sharp at both ends, with no counterstern or tran- some end except as hereinafter mentioned, must come with- in the prescribed limits, as follows: Maximum length 16ft ; not less than 30in. beam; not less than 12in. deep, and not less than 45lbs. weight. Slight discrepancies in weight may be made up temporarily to the extent of 3lbs. only, MEASUREMENTS. The length shall be taken between perpendiculars at the fore side of stem and the aft side of stern, The beam shal] be taken at the widest part, not including the heading. The depth shall be taken from the level of the gunwales amid- ships to the bottom of the canoe inside, i CANOES FOR FOUR MEN, Maximum length shall be 20ft.; minimum beam shall be 30in.; minimum depth shall be 12in,; minimum weight shall] be 70lbs. WAR CANOES. Maximum length, 35ft.; maximum crew, fifteen men. Note.-—-These regulations shall apply to the trophy as well as all other paddling races with the exception of the record paddling event, which shall be governed by the regulations governing the classification of sailing canoes. Signed, EK. B. EDWARDS, W. T. LAWLESS, D’ARcyY Scott. D. H. McDOUGALL, R. HASTON BURNS. Rifle Range and Gallery. Coatesville Defeats Lancaster. LANCASTER, Pa., Aug. 19.—The last of a series of three matches be- tween the Lancaster and Coatesville Rifle clubs was held at the Tell Hain rifle range, in this city, on Thursday. Bothteamsshot well and the Coatesville marksmen won by 39 points, the score being 1,800 to 1,761. The best individual score of the match was made by Kendig, of the Coatesville Club, who scored 195 points out of a possible 200. Obreiter, of Lancaster, and Gilbert, of Coatesville, were tied for sec- ond place, with 193 points each. In Obreiter’s score were seven suc- cessive 10s. i The yictory of Thursday made the Coatesville Club the winner of the series, they having won the first match by 47 points, while Lan- caster took the second by 11 points. é In the individual totals of the three matches Obreiter stands first with 552 points out of a possible 600. Kendig comes second with 55 ; Gordon third, 518; Ilyusfourth, 534; Carpenter fifth, 531; Weber sixth, 526; Darlington seventh, 525, and G'lbert eighth, 511. The best record of tens was made by Dr. E. B, Ilyus, of Lancaster, who shot ten in succession in the first match. COATESVILLE, LANCASTER, : J H Thorne. Dr E B Ilyus. 099999 7 8 8 8 8 8130 9 9 81010 710 10 910 9 7 8 7 810 9-173 10 9 9 8 910 910 8 9—180 T G Rodegebaugh. O E Weber, captain, 97810 91099 9 8 8 91010 910 91010 9 8 9 9101010 910 8 10—181 10 9 9101010 810 9 9—1§8 Jobn M Entrekin, W M Carpenter. 96769 7 8 6 910 8 8 9 81010 81010 8 6 8 8 710 9 8 § 10 10—161 910101010101010 9 9-186 S T Fairlamb. L M Weist. \ 9 81010 710 9 7 9 9 8 910 8 § 8 648 8 88 9 8 9 8 9 9 8 10—174 poh the UY OGY sre fe) TN hn eta lias: W A P Thompson. C H Obreiter. 101010101010 810 9 8 910 8101010 9 9 910 10101010 910 910 910-192 101010101010 9 10 10 10-193 W T Gordon. W K Romig. 1010 910 8101010 910 1099 7 § 91010 910 9 91010 8 9 9 910—187 1010 9 9 8 81010 9 10—185 M BR Darlingten. H P Martin. 10 8101010 810 8 9 10 10:10:10 9 7 710 9 9 9 9 9 9101010 8 9 8 8—183 8 7 8 8 6 8 810 6 10-169 C J Fulmer. 1H Landis. § 67910 910 6 9 8 668989899 9 98 910 7 9 8 7 6 6—IE1 8 8 9 9 9 9 71010 9—169 GJ Gilbert. ES Gleim 91010 91010 9 10 10 10 10 91010 9 910 8 910 10101010 9 9 8101010-193 10 9 910 4 910 8 9 %=179 Jobn Kendig. J J Bowman, 910 910 91010 10 10 10 9 7 810 8 9 910-8 9 101010 91010 9 1010 10-185 $6546 8 67 7 5-149 1800 176] Grap=-Shoating. Leading dealers in sportsmen’s supplies have advertised in our columns continuously for almost a quarter century. If you want your shoot to be announced here send in notice like the following: FIXTURES. Aug. 28—HaAv CLAire, Wis.—Elliott-Budd match for the Du Pont trophy. ee 31-Sepb. 2._Surron, Neb.—Tournament of the Sutton Guo Club. $150 added money, as well as merchandise prizes. EH, EK. Hair- grove, Ssc’y. Sept. 1.—Haverariy, Mass.—Third shoot of the Massachusetts State Shooting Association, under the auspices of the Haverhill Gun Club, Sept 6,—Mrrtpen, Conn.—Third annual Labor Day tournament of ths Parker Gun Club, Sept. 6 —Marton, N. J —Annual Labor Day tournament cf the Endeavor Gun Club. cared for and protected. The volume is especially remarkable for the engravings which it contains, which literally illuminate its pages. These are beyond question the best bird pictures that have ever appeared in any book of moderate price—one might perhaps say even more than this. They are from sketches of Mr. Louis Agassiz Fuertes, the new bird artist who very recently began to astonish ornithologists by sketches which, while technically accurate, were as different as possible from the-conventional bird sketches which have hitherto been regarded as satisfactory. Mr. Fuertes’s birds have somethins about them which is remarkable in its approach to life. We get from them an idea of arrested motion which is startling. The sketches are not all equally good as repre- sentations of the different species, but they all have this quality of lifelikeness—which is after all the essential thing in the drawing of a living creature. It is probable that this life likeness is due to the exquisite faithfulness to nature with which the attitudes of the birds are caught. Many of the best bird pictures that we are accustomed to see in popular books look as if they had been drawn from stuffed specimens—not always too well stuffed, Mr, Fuertes’s. sketches, however, make one feel sure that the sketches were made from life. There are 108 of these drawings representing different species, besides some dia- grams of bills and feet of birds, in all 111 illustrations. The plan of the book is delightful in its simplicity. A naturalist living on a country farm is visited by a small nephew and niece. To them and to another small boy he tells the story of the birds that they see from spring to later summer, taking up the species in their natural order, giving some brief account of their habits, and finally describing them in simple yet unmistakable language. Almost every bird is further described by its picture. ' : The volume opens with a chapter giving an imagined con- versation among the Bird People of the farm about the House People who have just come there, ihe birds express- ing their anxiety on the subject of cats, guns and small boys. Thenceforth, until the closing chapter of the book 1s reached, the Bird People collectively do not appear. In the two or three following chapters the naturalist tells the children some general facts about birds, the plan on which they are built, the class to which they belong, and many of the characters of the class, all given forth simply, naturally and interest- ingly. Feathers and flight are described, and migration and protective coloring touched on, A chart of the classes of ver- tebrates is given; the plan of a bird’s body with the names of the different parts, and sketches of bills and feet of different birds are shown in line drawing. “4 The Doctor lends an adventitious interest to his birds by an artiticial classification, by which he divides them into guilds, including those which make their living in the same way. These guilds he names Ground Gleaners, Tree Trap- pers, Sky Sweepers, Wise Watchers, Seed Sowers, Weed Warriors and Sea Sweepers; titles whose attractiveness will be acknowledged. In the course of his talk he takes the = MacMillan Oompany. Price $1,50.. ‘ground that each bird is a citizen of this country, anda good cifizen, too; that he is industrious, a useful member of bird society, patriotic, and that to the human community he pays taxes by rendering services which entitle him to protection. Hence the title of the volume. i : In their gearch for the birds of forest, meadow, swamp and seashore, the children visit these different localities, and besides what thev are told about the birds, acquire many other useful bits of knowledge concerning nature and her wavs, i Besides their ouldcor excursions with the field classes, by which they Jeara much concerning the living hirds, the chil- dren are admitted now and then to their unele’s work room, and have an opportunity to see and even to handle—rare ptivilese—the sking of some of the birds about which they are being taught, but which thev may not be able to see or nearly to approach in life. They thus gain a practical acquaintance with all the common birds of the locality. . The whole scheme is worked out in an entirely plain and practical way. and shows how yery easily an: ornithologist might teach all hig small friends the more salient points about the familiar birds, and thus become a very home mis- sionary for bird protection. ; é If the plan of the hook is simple and pleasing, its execu- tion is not less so. There is nothing about it that is techni- cal, and the long words in it are few. The talk of the children is natural, and that of the older people is just such as intelligent adults would use to children. ery early in the book oné ofthe little people, already interested in the birds, asks her uncle if he cannot write a little book for the children, “just a common little book, all in plain words?” And behold the book has been written, and is here before us, Pinnated Grouse Habits. Curcaco, Aus. 27.—Hditor Forest and Stream: This week T note editorial comment on the sharp tailed srouse, and I note it is ssid that the vinnated grouse has not been observed to take to the timter during the cold weather. In central Towa in my time we did not have the sharp-tailed srouse, but had many prairie chickens. It was very common dur- ing cold weather in the winter, and more especially in case of snow, to sée the prairie chickens roosting on trees in the timber aloug the river bottoms, or in the groyes of timber on the uplands. Sometimes many dozens would be on a single tree, and my father and I have often killed a number of chickens from the same tree, shooting them with the rifle and killing the Jower chickens first. large flocks of chickens would of a cold day sometimes sit in the trees until nearly noon, At times they would alight on fence rails. At the first approach of cold in the fall it was quite a common sight to see numbers of them in the morn- ings perched on top of wheat stacks or straw piles. BE. Houaes, “The Osprey.” RECENT numbers of the Osprey are remarkable for the interesting illustrations found in them. Those of the hum- mingbird and of the great horned owl in the May number are especially good. The June number contains several notes of interest upon the bird from which the publication takes its name, together with a number of phofographs bearing on the species. Gane Bag and Gun. The “Briefs” Pictures. THRE are twenty-nine illustrations iu the current edition of Game Laws in Brief, most of them full page half-tones, and all admirably printed. The book is a beauty, and well worth haying for the illus- trations which. Mr. Charles Hallock says, so well represent America’s wilderness sports. The Brief vives all the laws of the United States and Canadu tor the practical guidance of anglersand shooters As an authority, it has a long record of unassailed and unassailable ac- curacy. Forest aud Stream Pub. Co. sends it postpaid for 25 cents, or your dealer will supply you. THE MAN BEHIND THE GUN. Haier Forest and Stream: : One of your correspondents, in an article under the above title, says that a good shot should hit the width of the body of a running deer at any distance at which the rifle is aceu- rate, and gives two instances of remarkable shots made by himself. The question of caliber of rifle for big game is almost en= tirely one of convenience, that I think as well played ont as the old question between muzzleloader and breechloader, which rests upon much the same ground, But what can be done with the rifle on movivg game is a question tolerably fresh. For years we have heard much of ‘‘wing-shooting with the rifie,’ “champion wing-shot with the rifle,” and similar things, nearly all of which seemed to consist of hit- ting so many glass balls at a few paces, always at the same distance aud in the same position. In ‘‘The Still-Hunter” I devoted some space to this, but we have had little or no dis- cussion of it the columns of this paper. In the hope that I may stir up a debate of the old-time sort and call out infor- mation from many of the crack shots who are able to give it, T will tell what [ know about it. I have had far more practice with the rifle than most of the crack game shots of the world. I killed with the shot- pun nineteen quail handrunning in the thickest of catbriar swamps before I was twenty, and would have been backed against the world with the pistol about the same time by the students of Princeton College. I have since that had far more practice with the rifle on moving game than I have had all told with the pistol and gun combined, though I have never shot a match atatrap. I have had as big a local repu- tation as any one was ever given by ignorant or unwise friends, and you cau find plenty in southern California to- day who will tell you that I can kill as many quail flying with a rifle as any One can with the gun. I have shot with it on the wing almost every bird that flies, from the great condor down to the little wren tit, one of which I once shot crossing and dipping at 38yds,, the body being of about the game size as that of the hummingbird. Ihave shot hundreds of flying quail with the rifle; running jack rabbits and cotton- tails by the hundred; have made many. doubles. on them, and I once. made a double on a single quail, cutting a bunch If not disturbed, these ~ Szupr. 4, 1897.) of feathers at the first shot from a Winchester .22 and kill- ing it with the second. And this was done left-handed, a way I sometimes shoot on account of neuralgiain the right eye, but not the natural way for me. I have also hunted and shot with many crack shots in various places and com- pared notes with many more. My experience, and that of all others whom I have had a chance to pin down to cross-examination, has taught me that the hitting of running, flying, jumping, sailing, or even swimming game at the distances at which shots at it generally occur is more a matter,of good Juck than of good management. I don’t believe the man lives who can hit forty running deer or antelope out of a hundred, taking all fairly good chances as they come and under the yarying con- ditions of the field, AndI don’t believe anyone can kill half that many of any kind of birds, unless they be young pinnated grouse—which I have never tried—or something of that sort. It does not take yery long to put ten out of fif- veen shots from a repeater into a 3in. circle at 15yds. as fast as one can work the lever without lowering from the shoul- der. And the other five will not be far out of the way. This becomes, with practice, almost pure snap-shooting, the sights being barely seen, and often not at all that one is con- scious of, Sometimes you will get a whole magazineful into the ring, buf you cannot rely on it. By shooting in this way T haye no doubt a fair score could be made on pigeons from a trap, at loyds. I never tried it on pigeons, but haye tried. enough of that Kind of shooting to say with certainty that it is of no use for game-shooting, as game is generally found, but will injure Tather than improve your chances of making a clean shot at anything moving beyond 15 or 20yds. Itis also almost cer- tain ruin to that fineness of sight—that careful discrimina- tion between a fine view of the front sight and a coarse one —together with that perfect cooloess, steadiness and delicate touch of the trigger finger so absolutely essential to center. shots on game at rest over the average distance, or when in bad lights, bad positions, or when only a small spot of it is seen and the shot must be very fine. Never practice that kind of shooting if you want to do first-rate work on game unless you accompany it with a great deal of very careful off-hand work at fine targets with open sights. Even then you had better do little of it. I have met my share of the big talkers with the rifle, and have never yet failed to make the best of them back down on the following proposition: I will give you a dollar every time you hit the crown of your hat up to 150yds or the whole hat up to 200yds. if you will give me a dollar every time you miss it, Shooting to be with open sights, but no adjustment before shooting as there would be no time for it, with running game.” Ito haye the privilege of changing distance and position of hat at every shot if I wish, and the match to be shot on ground where it can be through brush or timber or over it, across ravines and in different lights; that is rough and tumble country work such as you have in shooting game, When they consider the changes that may be made they always back out, Yet the hat is larger than the spot that should 3 hit by the man who talks of “‘placing the ball in the right ace.” a s This can be done up to 160yds,. with the old-fashioned sugar loaf bullet or cone loaded from the muzzle with the weight of the powder at least half the weight of theball. It can also be done with a rifle of .16 shotgun caliber and round ball loaded from the muzzle up to 140yds. if 200grs. of powder be used. But with smal] round balls or long bullets and light charges of powder, that is such loads as ordinary hunting rifies are reasonably accurate under, it can not be safely attempted by the best judges of distance and light. Nothing but a trajectory that requires no change of sighling combined with a degree of accuracy which can not be had from rifles heavily loaded with the ball in the shell, will suftice. Here is another proposition. Suppose you can group any number of bullets off hand in the 4in. ring at 100yds. Now, take the finest of globe and peep sights if you wish and make me.a decent group that shall be 5ft. to the right or left of the bullseye. Or make one at 50yds., 24ft. on either side, And remember that you must do this in the field with no shifting of sights and with a blank to aim at that is practi- cally the same as a pure white wall. How much of a group will you guarantee to make at those distances off the center? Or try it even at 25yds. and see if you can make a group 1din. or ift. on one side that would hit the size of a quail half the time, or the body of a sparrow once in five times. Be careful of course not to shoot at vour first bullet hole but have the place blank as it would be in shooting at game. Now what proportion do we have of straight-away shots in the field? A long experience on all kinds of moving marks with close observation on this point convinces me that they are very rare. There is not one shot in twenty in the long run that you can make by holding the sights on the game. You must not only guess at the distance necessary to hold off of it, but also guess whether you are holding that distance—a double guess where either one is bad enough, Add the guessing on the trajectory of the rifle, which is almost certain to carry the ball a little too high or too low un- less you have the distance measured and the sights adjusted to it. as in target shooting, and we have an ever-changing problem that must be solved in very short.time. In addition to the above trouble all running game is rising -and falling enough to make great uncertainty about reaching vital parts. The mule deer bounds high enough at almost every jump, especially in the brush where he is usually found, to leave a ball below or above him. Many of his jumps are certain to do this at the distance at which he is likely to be shot at. The Virginia deer, though apparently not as high a jumper as the mule deer, is still a good one, aud as a rule his up and down motion cannot be ignored pyneee it is possible to consider it. Even the antelope, that glides along with a Brace 80 spirituelle that you cannot con- sider his rise and fall, has stil] enough of it to make you miss his vitals often, and the whole body occasionally, eyen when you have held the sights upon exactly the right point to catch the center if it were moving on a straight line. If you doubt this, fire a few hundred shots at jack rabbits skimming the plain or hillside im the dry countries, where the dust will show you where every ball strikes. When he is under such full speed that he pulls himself out like a telescope and seems to skim the ground like a fish duck flying close to the water, ou will be amazed at the balls that strike just over or under, ie after you haye mastered as well as you ever will master it, the secret of holding far enough ahead. Next comes the shifting play of light upon the sights. Take your rifle out in the sun, hold it at arm’s length, run your eye along the sights, and turn slowly around in a circle, Or put four targets in the sun at the four points of ] ’ FOREST AND STREAM. the compass and make four snap shots at them as rapidly as you would shoot at same that was fast getting away. You will find it quite different from shooting at a target where you pick the light, or soon get used to it, or have time to find the center of light on the sights. The change in the center of light is largely obviated by taking the notch en- tirely out of the back sight, rusting it with iodine or blood, and blacking with ink or powder. Also by moving it much further up the barrel than it is usually placed. Don’t worry about the center, for if you knock the back sight entirely off you can hit a telegraph pole at 100yds. as well as ever, and just as quickly, And don’t worry about the range of sights being too short, for 15in, between them is enough, and even a foot does fine work. What is lost in range by the shorter distance between them is more than made up by the greater clearness of the back sight, and for running shooting by the greater quickness with which the eye takes the proper amount of front sight over it. Ivory for the front sight is indispensable to avoid the shifting of the cen- ter of brightness upon it. Jiyman’s sights are specially de- signed fo ayoid this trouble, and do it wonderfully well. The only difference is that the back sight being so near, the eye is not as quick for a very quick shot as the straight bar set far up the barrel, while the latter is also quicker in the eray of morning or late in the evening. The principle is the same in each, and is correct, for about nine pecple out of ten—that the eye will find the center all rightif you will just be kind enough to let it alone. For all-around work a rifle should have both these sights, If one is not a fine shot or is much out of practice, he should use Lyman’s sights ex- clusively and let notches in the back sight entirely alone, especially if his eyes are so old that he has to wear glasses to read. Still neither of these entirely obviate the effect of changing light. All these difficulties are bad enough in the open country. They are increased in the woods by trees that stop the ball, by twigs that will set if wobbling or turn it at once, and by. the change from light to heavy shade which i: almost con: ' stant. The difficulty of judging distance is also much in- creased, and when you have tried it long enough you are sure to quit if and hold the same sight on about everything in motion, I know how the fine shooting is done. It is so natural to forget how you unloaded the whole magazine of the repeater at some deer plunging along a brusby hillside. How awfully that one day would reduce your average for the whole hunt if you should be weak enough to include it in your figures! It seems now, by memory’s eye, that you saw the whole body of the game at each shot. But you saw nothing of the sort. Here it was a shoulder, there a rump, now shining above the brush for a second, then lost, but small enough to take the best of shooting to hit it had it been at rest. What your memory now sees is a composite of several motions and appearances that look so easy to hit. If the gentleman who thinks it easy to hit when in motion the thickness of the body of a deer at any distance at which the rifle is accurate, will pick up his empty shells and count them against the game after firing 500 or 1,000 shots he may think otherwise. For my part, the principal pleasure I have found in the rifle is the fact that you may play with it so much on almost any kind of small game in motion, yet keep your conscience comfortably clear of the charge of murder. T. 8. Van Dyxer. @ A DAY WITH THE PARTRIDGE AT WHITE LAKE. Ir was with a feeling of sadness that I boarded the Mon- day morning train on the Hrie for White Lake, New York, having received intelligence of my cousin's serious illness there, but I found him much improved, and in reply to his first question as to where Dixie and my gun were (Dixie being my English setter), it was with much regret I had to announce that I had left them behind, as I did not expect to do any shooting on this trip. . ‘Well, never mind, old boy,” said he, ‘I can fix you out. There is my Francotte rusting for want of use, and my coat and shells in my trunk, so to-morrow morning you can have a good day’s sport. The law is up to-day, and Tacey will go with you. Do you know Tacey? No! well, let me in- troduce you to the proprietor of Sportsmen’s Home. In'the first place, he loves his dogs and guns; that should be enough to recommend him to any one. But he has other qualities, good-natured to a fault, willing, obliging and not a game hog. He knows when he has enough, and believes in leay- ing a bird or two for seed, and is a capital dog handler.” - | had an interview with Tacey and he said he would ovo with me in the afternoon, if I could amuse myself until then. I could not restrain myself that long, but I started to look through a swale just below the house, thinking I might Tun across 4 bird or two before dinner. I had hardly gone a rod when Tacey’s old dog Dash was upon me; he smelt trouble and was going to have some of it, Now, Dash has his own ideas of right and-wrong, only laying claim to one master and refusing to mind any one but him. I attribute it to the fact that one eye is blue and theother brown. But he is a good one, as I learned later intheday, I took himalong and ran the chances, but after we got in the cover all that I saw of him was an inquiring look once in a while to see if T had gone home yet; then he would go off and amuse himself, Nota bird did I find. I returned to the house and told Tacey [ did not believe there were any birds in Sullivan county. “Well,” said he, “if I don’t show you birds this afternoon I will leave the county to-morrow.” It was along about 3:30 when we were on our way across the fields. There might be woodcock in that cover yonder, the ground was quite soft. ‘Hey! Dash! this way; careful now.” But it drew blank, so we crossed to a swale just below. “You take along that side and keep your eyes peeled, and I will go through and see if I can put some out. Mark them well, dnd watch the trees, for this time of year par- tridge are apt to do most anything,” and in he started, Tacey evidently thought I was a novice at the business, and wantedjhim to put them out over my head, so that I could shoot them without getting my feet wet; but I think I wag not long proying the contrary to him, Whoa, Dash! Bang! Mark! and I had just time to sée a fine partridge cross over ahead into a piece of cover beyond. “One down, Careful, Dash! Dead bird! Look out there, Walt!” About eight birds flushed wild ahead. “Stay where you are until I come out.” Ina few minutes out he came with a fine bird, the first of the season. ‘Where did that one go you saw come out?” ‘*A cross there!” ‘Well, we will look him up, and turn those others back before they get in that swamp beyond!” Los ANGELES, Cal, =< yas nO move. 185 “Now, look here, Tacey,” said I, ‘‘this is all very nice; but I want some of this fun myself, and am going right in there with you to follow the dog!” “That is the kind of a man I like. will see what we can do.” After a brief search for the one I had seen cross, but with- out: result, we started around to turn the others. It was very thick cover; the laurels were hard to get through, to say nothing of the high grass and water; but my blood was up, and in we sailed. Wark! the bell had stopped, and Dash was on point just to Tacey’s left. ‘Look sharp now, Walt; here they are,’ Bur-r-r, bang! Whoa, Dash! Dead bird. Two for Tacey, and I had empty pockets, This won't do. Tacey never moved, neither did Dash, when there was a bur-r-r to my left; around I swung, bang! and down I slid off the log I had been standing on. ‘Guess I missed!” “Well, you got feathers all right,” answered Tacey; ‘“‘wait until I get my bird and we will see.” IT looked while he got his bird, but could not locate the bird until Dash came along, stopped in the high grass, and there it was sure enough, my first of the season, and a fine one, which I proudly deposited in my pocket. “Now, look sharp; there are more here.” Hardly had he spoken when a fast one crossed me, which I tried for, but neatly missed, and I heard Tacey say, “There are others, Whoa! Look sharp!” Up got another to Tacey’s right and placed a big chestnut tree between him and Tacey, I waited for him to swing around, then brought him down. ‘‘Good shot, Walt, old boy; the chest- nut saved his life a few seconds only, Now we are even; one dollar on the next bird ” “Done,” said 1; and we swung around to the right. “Careful, Dash! Steady point! Rabbit,” remarked Tacey. ~ But Dash thought otherwise, as he stood with his nose close to the root of a big tree. ‘‘Comeon, Dash.” But there “Send him on, Tacey.” ‘‘Go on, Dash.” ysurr-r through the top hole he came and circled to my Pitch right in, and we left, I thought he was gone, but stepped back a pace, let go and down he came. ‘“‘One dollar or one day,” sang I to Tacey. “Right, my boy; you earned it on that shot fair enough, and you lead me one bird. Now we will take a look at an- other piece, where we are sure to find woodcock. I guess you haye handled a scatter gun before from the way you walked into those birds; five out of six not so bad, eh?” We crossed tothe opposite, picking blackberries as we went, and deciding that one woodcock apiece would about fill the bill. ‘Now we are here,” said Tacey, “‘keep a careful watch on the dog, for among these pine trees they are apt to fool ou.” ; c , Along we walked. I was thinking more of my three birds than of those to come, when Tacey shouted, ‘‘linok out!” and as I turned I saw a woodcock taking his leave around the top of a pine tree. I made a quick shift and fired, but was too late. . ‘‘What’s the matter, Walt?” “Not ready,” said I. ; There was a report from another gun above us, and an- other from Tacey’s. “‘If 1 had only been quicker,” said he. “Well, you take along this lower edge and I will send that fellow that I missed back to you. He did not go far.” So off I started, kicking throngh the fern and huckleberry bushes, when a bird rose right from under my nose, I shot twice and missed, A shot from Tacey corraled him. “One more, and then for supper. Here, Dash, take a lool in there. Whoa!” And Tacey had him. Ourscorewasfull. Tt was half-past 6, and this wound up.one of the most pleasant of afternoon sports. We returned home much pleased with our seven birds. I had been convinced; had turned a disagreeable start into a pleasant finish, and went home next day with a bag full of birds. We were late for supper, to be sure, but that good little wife of his had it nice and warm for us; and after - indulging in plenty of good things, we wound up with the pipe of peace, Icannot speak too highly of the treatment given me at the Sportsmen’s Home, and should any of my brother sportsmen want a few days’ good sport within five hours of New York, they cannot do better than try this place. A. H, M. MORE MARYLAND PH EASANTS POISONED. Arrmr spending thousands of dollars in securing the con- viction of James Butler, who was sentenced to the peniten- tiary for three years on the charge of poisoning 3,000 pheas- autsin August and September of last year, the Bowley’s Quarter Ducking Club members are disheartened to find that some one is poisoning the birds again this year. The crime of Jast year undid the work of four years’ patient toil in a pioneer effort in this country to breed the Hngtish pheasant, This second attempt to destroy the birds may re- sult in the club’s abandoning further efforts to raise these birds. About a month ago Mr, Joseph Davison, keeper of the recently -installed breeding pens of Mr. Henry A. Brehm, located in Back River Neck, on Middle River, opposite Bowley’s Quarter, noticed that many of the birds were dying mysteriously, He took several carcasses of the pheasants to Prof. Wilson, of Baltimore, and had the contents of their crops analyzed. The professor found a quantity of new wheat so heavily coated with arsenic that his experienced eye told him without a microscopic examination what poison had been used. ; rf . : In spite of Mr. Davison’s vigilant night watching, the birds continued: to die and the poisoners, in some mysterious way, managed to continue their foul work until this entire flock was destroyed. Davison took Mr. McVicar, keeper of Bowley’s Quarter game preserves, into his confidence, and the latter took precautions to guard his big flock, numbering upward of 1,500 pheasants, in the Fox Den pen, on Briar Point, just. across the river from Davison’s Quarters. Mr. MeVicar’s vigilance, however, was of no avail, and a week later his birds, too, began to die, and the same dreaded argen- ical wheat was found to be the cause. All of the club members were away from their home, in Philadelphia, at the seashore or abroad, except Dr, Georse W . Massamore, the assistant State game warden, who lives in this city, Mr. Davison and Dr. Massamore resolved to remove the birds remaining in the Fox Den pen and take them to Seneea farm, where they could be guarded better. Before this could be done, however, the pheasants died so fast that the attempt was abandoned, and now nota single bird of the 1,500 that were in Fox Den pen survive, The president of the club, Mr, Nathaniel HK. Janney, and Mr, Horace Magee, a member who has taken special interest 186 FOREST AND STREAM. [Suer, 4, 1897. aS a SE nn in the propagation of the pheasants, were summoned to Bal- timore aud a consultation was held. A determined effort will be made to save the birds in the Seneca farm pens, and prowlers around these pens at night or at any time will have a warm welcome prepared for them. The members of the cluli are ata loss to find a motive for the crime, It is believed the poisoning is done by some one who has a personal spite against the club or some member of it, When Butler was arrested last year this absence of mo- tive was also noted. The value of the pheasant-hreedins industry to the farmers in the vicinity of the Bowley’s Quarter Clubis acknowledged by all of the latter. The cnerations of the club are said to haye given a Jarge number of men employment all the year round in improving the premises of the club. Hundreds of birds have escaped to the neighboring farms, and prior to the poisoning the pheasants were believed to be as numerous as partridges in the vicivity, and many pheasants have been furnished free by the club for others to use in breeding. Mr. Brehm's flock was started by a few birds obtained early this year from Mr. McVicar’s stock There were 400 fine birds in the pen when the poisoner began his work. A number of turkeys and chickens belonging to Mr, Davi-on were also poisoned, and Messrs. McVicar and Day- ison fear that members of their families may get the dreaded arsenic through the fowls and suffer death. They fear that the poisoher may directly try to make persons instead of fowls his victims. The loss will exceed $8,000.—5aliimore Sun, THOSE JACKSON HOLE ELK. Evanston, Wyo.. Aug, 18 —Hditor Forest and Stream: Some time early in July, last, you published an article rela- tive to a certain lot of elk then—and now—in the possession of J. A. Adams, a reident of Jackson Hole, in this county,/ i which article was largely commented upon by the press of our State and adjoining States. As County Attorney, I took the matter up wilh a view of prosecuting any person violat- ing our game Jaws. To this end 1 asked the game warden ot the said Hole to furnish me the facts; I also requested Mr. J. A Adams to do likewise. Adams forwarded such facts to the press for publication, while Mr. Manning sent in an affidavit, both of which I herewith inclose, and, as you have taken this question up, I trust you will publish such state- ments, that the facts may be known by the readers of your valuable journal. You wi!l greatly oblige me and all friends of the game by giving space to the mclosures, J, W. SAMMON. Statement of Game Warden Manning. Jacnson, Wyo., July 16.—J/, W Sammon, Esq , County Attorney, Hvanston, Wyo.—Dmar Sir: Herewith the affi- davit, as suggested in your recent letter, I trust it covers all the points desired. Itis to be hoped that, should this game question ever come before the court, it may develop enoueh to get our legislative body to see it in its proper light. T have been a close student of this question, and am gatis- fied the proper way is only to grant permits for the capture of elk in the manner in which Mr. Adams has captured those he now holds. Heretofore those captured under permits have been taken when it was necessary to run them down either with horses or on suowshves, and one way was as bad as is the other, as more would be killed thas were caught. In this way—the way Adams caught his—it was a posilive benefit to the elk, to the country, and to the individual, as it was like making something out of nothing, as undonbledly pine out of ten would have died if they had not been taken. A property right should accrue to the individual i game taken in this way, aud such taking could not be abused, as it would always be a matter of notoriety when such conditions : existed. Jihink taking game under any other circumstances should be absolutely prohibited, , The elk did much damage here during the past winter, as slarvation made them fearless, and many people had to both night and day herd their haystacks and drive them away to certain death, when had they felt certain of acquiring own- ership, perhaps hundreds might have been taken up by our Citizens, WUanderstand, that all haypen frames here are from 6 to 8ft, high and strong, but against the combined attack of a herd of elk, stich fences, even, are as nothing, Wma. F. MAnniye. Affidavit of Game Warden Manning, STATE OF WYOMING, } couNTY OF cooK, 5” Wiiwam BF. Mannine, beip2 duly sworn, deposes and says that during the winter of 1895-7 he was Deputy Game Warden for thé Jackson Hole region; that he is well ac- quainted with Mr, J. A, Adams, and with the circumstances under which the said J, A Adams captured or -took posses- sion of the elk now in his possession. That the facts are: that the said Adams mentioned the fact to affiant about Feb, 1, 1897, that he should like to take up some elk for do- mestication and asked affiaut’s opinion upon the point of a violation of the game Jaws of Wyoming; that, considering the fact that elk were then dying in great numbers, it was attiant’s opinion that it would not only be no violation of the game laws, but a positive benefit fo the elk and the country if they should be taken up and cared for, and that he then expressed such opinion to said Adams; that. thereafter, prob- - bly between Feb. 1 and 15 following, said Adams did take up anumber of said elk, many of which were too far re- duced by starvation to be saved, but by careful feeding on the part of Adams, the greater portion of those taken were saved. Affiant further says that there is np ranch in this region known or having a reputation as the “Moose Head Ranch,” though affiant has understood that it was the inten- tion of B. BR, Adams, deceased, to so name his ranch, but such name had never been nsed here, and the ranch of said B. RB. Adams, deceased, adjoins the ranch of J. A Adams. That all of the elk taken by the said J. A. Adams, that lived, are still held and kept by him. Further, affiant says that the game laws wre being well observed io this region, and bu! one violation has come to affiant’s knowledge for the present, season; that the instruction of county attorney and State game wardén io punish violators is being strictly followed Wu FF. Manntne. Suvseribed and sworn to. before : me this 15th day of July, A D. Moses W. Perticrew, United States Commissioner. Published Statement of Mr. Adams. Tn view of the fart that the Swn-Leader in an article of ’ date July 8, 1897, relating to elk says many things which unjust end untrue, not only im ils own version, but in publishing the copy of the Formst AND STREAM article, which is in every respect false. | shall express my own opin- jon asa layman of the rights involved in the controyersy now going on between the State authorities upon one side aud County Attorney Sammon and others on the other, and of which | am thé main issue inyolyed. If, therefore, as I intend to make myself understond, 1 am guilty of a crime against the State laws, 1 should be prosecuted: otherwise I should be entitled to consideration in the premises Being a resident of the State, who upholds the intent and spirit of the law, and wh) refuses tc recognize, either by attempted persuasion or threats of prosecution the opinion of any per- con except that given by a judge of one of the honorable courfs of Wyoming, I reply to the article mentioned as fol- lows: That during the winter season of 1896-97 the yearling elk died in large numbers in this valley and in the immediate yicinity of my home. AJl of the yearling elk died except those expressly provided for. Hundreds of elk of all classes forced into my hay corrals for sufficient substance to keep them from starvation, and in a spirit of sorrow and pity that those animals should die, when by an act of kindness their lives could be saved, I took advice from my neighbors and a deputy game warden, and with a full belief and with an un- derstanding from my neighbors that I was doing what was right and just and what they would do were tbey situated as I was, I allowed many hundreds of the animals to come into my corrals and inclosures. When spring came I retained twenty-seven head of yearling elk for the express and only purpose of domestication after the winter was over. After the spring was on, I was confronted with a demand to turn the ell out or sufter the consequences of my alleged unlaw- ful capture of the elk in question. Investigation disclosed the fact that the depuly game warden, Mr, White, had _represented to the State officials that T bad unlawfully in- ciosed 177 head of elk. ‘the mere demand of the game warden. lL refused to turn the elk out upon Then followed the -opinions of Altorney- General Fowler, the replies of County Attorney Sammon. Then followed a second demand of ceputy game warden for the release of the elk. I told him to take them, as I would not resist any lawful process of a court for the els’ release. So far the deputy has not turned out the elk, These ave in main the facts up to the present time, and it too plainly shows that the article in the Sun- Leader, having as it does the ear-marks of the powers that be, is maliciously false, uncalled fcr; and to the mind of any one versed in the ins and outs of this question, was for the purpose of ‘‘jumping on” the county attorney of Uinta county. Whether or not this is good politics, 1 am not will- ing to admit. So far as lam concerned, I have at no time shipped or in- tended to ship any of the elk now in my possession. 1 have neyer applied for a permit for such purpose nor do I intend to. I have no interest in the Moosehead ranch, and the game in question is not retained in gross violation and con- tempt of law, as is broadly asserted in the article mentioned. There is not now nor has there heen any collusion between the Hon, County Attorney of Uinta county and myself with reference to these elk, and this bold subterfuge indi- cates the depths 10 which. the correspondent would go to gratify the ambition of his Wyoming employers. I do claim for myself ihat the elk in question were saved from the sure and certain fate of starvation; that at no time did I violate any Jaw in retaining them, and tbat, outside of the Attorney Gexeral’s opinion (and he is not the court), there is no opinion in Wyoming courts establishing a prece- dent as to whether I am the worst game poacher or destroyer in the State, J stand ready now as I have in the past to obey the law. When it way be decided by the courts I have no rights, ‘hen it sccms to me will he the time for the irre- sponsible FoRHST AND STREAM correspondent and his con- temporaries to make their kick, J have read many articles upon the capture of these elk, and this is the only one authorized by me, and in all deference to those who have gone before I can only request a careful perusal of the same. And it may be stated here that when it may be necessary to live and enjoy property rights without first recognizing and obeying demands arising oul of the smokes of other bat- tles, then 1 am willing to sacrifice what interests | may have in combating these inferences of a speculative nature engrafted into the controversy of the elk, JosHuA A, ADAMS. ‘SHOOTING CANADA GEESE. Own bright October afterncon, as 1 was siting outside my little tent in North Dakota, gazing over the great plains, my eye was suddenly attracted by a black line moving along the western horizon. It took but a minute to distinguish what I was looking at to be a flock of Canada geese, and after following them along for a short time, I discovered they were heading toward 4 little sheet of water which lay not a great way from where I sat eS | . Although I did not count on killing: any of this flock, I thought I would try my luck at it anyhow; so picking up my gun and a few BBs I started with my dog down a rayine which led to aslough 100yds. or so away. As this was the only water within several miles around, J] thought it was very likely that the birds would swing up to it, and if I was within gun range at the time I might happen to drop one or two, as their big white breasts offer a splendid target, Makio g my way rapidly through the dry grass, I managed io reach the water before the birds wére very near, and placed myself amid the thick rushes, which formed a good blind; then cautiously gazing in the direction of the birds, 1 saw that they were then coming toward me. Whether they saw me at that minute I do not know, but they swung oif to the side, and when I saw their big breasts turn up and their wings tip to the side, 1 thought, greatly to my sorrow, that they were surely gone; bul quickly thinking of the callin my pocket, which had atiracted these birds before, I lost no time jn ringing it to my livs, and soon had their familiar call— Honk! Fwonk! Honk! kwonk!—ringing through the air to perfection. T continued blowing the call for several minutes until [ finally heard the echo of it from the birds, which the whole flock seemed to be answering, Then quickly locking my gun I pecped over the reeds, ant saw once more to my great delight that they again were heading toward me, and I watched them grow largerand larger, nearer and nearer, until J finally had the pleasure of seeing the whole flock hovering above my head. “Ti’s a magnificent shot,” I thought to myself, as I singled one of the birds out and traced it along over my gun rib, and game by any method, and still hunting has its full share A when at last the report rang out I saw a few feathers drop out, but the loads did not seem to hit square enough to bring it down. As the flight of these birds is not so swift as some we have to deal with, I managed to get another shell in my barrel before they got out of range, and as the tail-ender of the flock sailed very saucily away, I drew a lineon tt. When the shell exvloded I heard the shot beat on the bird’s side, and in two or three seconds it lost its position in the ‘*V” with its mates, soon hitting the ground with a loud bounce, which brought the expression of ‘‘Gee whizz!” which any shooter seeing one of these big birds fall will utter, or its equivalent, for it seemed as if it shook the earth. After locating my bird I looked at the remainder, and saw to my delight that the bird I had picked the feathers out of was lowering from the rest, and watching it with anxious eyes I finally had the satisfaction of sceing it safely in the grass, upon a little hill a few rods away. My dog and I were soon busy hunt- ing up the bird 1 had first seen fall, and in a short time were in opposite directions tracing for the stain of blood on the clear yellow reeds. We spent a long time eagerly searching, until finally I heard a whine from my dog, aud looking toward him, I saw he was work- ing lively in the grass, with his tail waving as fast as it could go. I knew what this meant, and following him up a few paces he at last led me to my bird, which 1 found to be an extra large one, and gazing upon it I came to the conclusion that my long search was amply rewarded. Itis not such a light thing as one might imagine to haye one of these mon- archs of the Canada prairies.on your back, and after I had shouldered the big bird I thought I would go back to my tent, and leaving it there, resume search for the other one, which I had marked down upon the hill; but thinking that, the second one might only be winged, I decided to hunt it up then, and if Icould find it] would return to the camp better satisfied with the two, My dog, knowing what I was after, was oft before I knew it to find the second one, and all the whistling 1 could produce had no effect on him; so I started back for the place where I had seen it fall, I made a thorough search upon the summit of the hill where I had marked it down, and after tracing the same ground over a number of times without seeing a spot of blood ora sign, I got disgusted and took a seat upon the grass to await my dog’s return, As 1 suddenly looked to my right I spied three mallards coming directly for me, and quickly slipping a pair of No. 4 shells into my gun, | buried myself in the grass to wait for them to swing over. They were fly- ing down wind, and soon came whizzing by in single file and offering me an excellent shot, Throwing my gun a few feet ahead of them, I followed them along a second, and opened up with both barrels in quick succession; at the moment the gun cracked two doubled up as if they had a sudden cramp, and fellin a Jump upon the ground. 1 kept my eye upon the lone bird left, which, after flying some distance off, gradually swung around and started back in search of its mates, which so suddenly had disappeared. Keeping well under cover, and letting outa few squacks similar to its call, I managed to draw the bird within good gunshot; and when the report of my gun rang out, the shot seemed to strike it in the right place, for it sud- denly changed from-its quick flight and came down through the air heels over head, until it finally struck the ground, At the report of the gun my dog appeared, and after spend- ing a few minutes working in the grass, he delivered up the three birds I had so successfully brought to bag. My dog ~ and I spent a long time after this in searching for the second goose where I had seen it fall, and when I was making up | my mind to give up the chase, I noticed that the dog was — following up a trail toward the rushes of the slough, where | we had found the first bird. At first sight I thought be was | only going over the tracks of the bird which I had over my shoulder; but after watching him a minute or so, I saw he . was really in earnest on the trail, so 1 burried over to him and backed him up in the tracks he pursued, As we grew nearer the water, I heard a rustling of the weeds ahead, which I at once started for, and after I had taken a few lively steps through the soft mud near the water’s edge, I at last laid hands upon the bird I had so long been hunting for. When I had my string tied together, I found I had quite a | load, and as the sun was now sinking behind the western | hills, I threw gun over shoulder and started for my tent, which I reached before dark, tired and hungry, but well | satisfied with the contents of my string. P. C. Heap. UPS AND DOWNS OF HUNTING. A TETTER recently received from A. J, Spearen, who has camps at and near Spider Lake, Me., may be of some interest to sportsmen planning a trip to Maine the coming | season. Spearen writes that his camps are well fitted, and that | sportsmen will find plenty of room, and that he is in the best moose region of Maine. Caribou are quite plenty, and — a great many deer, ‘Trout fishing is first class. I inclose a photograph he sent, which shows the result of five succes- sive casts, the total catch, eleven in number, averaging over | 1lb. each. Much larger trout are easily caught, but the photo represents what he says, He proposes taking parties in by way of Moosehead Lake, giving them a fine trip through a chain of lakes, and to go out via Oxbow. A pumber of g 90d heads of both moose and caribou were killed last season on his grounds. : Personally, 1 have known Spearen for a number of years, and he is a first-class guide. His camps are quite a distance back io the wilderness, and it takes some time to reach them. ‘ On my hunting trips after such game as moose, caribou, bears and déer I have been quite successful. On eight trips T shot eighteen head of game—three moose, five caribou, four bears and four deer. One trip of the eight after caribou wus a failure, owing to a very noisy crusty snow during the whole time, which spoiled all chances of still-hunting. Nearly all my game, except some of the caribou, was killed on grounds hard to reach, and I haye always preferred such places to hunt in, as giving better chances than more acces- sible grounds. Many of my trips were made late in the sea- gon, as 1 always preferred still-hunting on the early snow, also for the reason that any large game killed then can be gayed. Of course, to get to out-of-the-way hunting grounds after the lakes and streams freez, entails long and hard tramps. . ; There are a great many disappointments in hunting large party may arrive at camp just as the first snow of the season is falling and everything indicates,a successful trip. A slight thaw or a few moments of rain will be followed by a nois crust, entirely spoiling what otherwise would be first-rate Sper, 4, 1897. tracking snow. Snow sometimes falls in the Maine woods very early in the season. My first still-hunting of deer was early in October, when a snowfall of some 2in. made good still hunting for a couple of days, I killed a deer on each day, getting both very easily; followed one fifteen minutes and one ten. Of course there will be many failures, even when making long trips to camps far back in the woods. During the past year L read in Forpst AND STREAM the account of such a irip The writer complained of the time spent in reaching the grounds where he had been, and from seeing some large game being shipped at some of the stations he passed on his way home, he concluded that the hunting was as good, if not better, on grounds much nearer the railroad. Any one coming out during the hunting season on the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad will very likely see some moose and cari- bou and a number of deer being put on the train at various stations, and is very likely, to be told that it was killed *‘just pack here a little way.” This ‘just back here” is rather in- definite. It may mean two or three days’ journey. Also, could the number who go to these easily-reached grcunds and who return empty-handed, be compared with those who were successful, it would show but a very small percentage of lucky hunters. Of course, a good many deer can be found in these easily-reached grounds, but 1 am speaking of moose and caribou In Nova Scotia, moose are frequently killed quite close to the settlements and highways. In the lower part of the pro- vince where I have hunted, the moose country is in the back portions of Yarmouth, Shelburne, Halifax, Queens, Anna- polis and Digby counties. Large sections of these counties consist of bogs, barrens, lakes, streams and scrub timber, and the moose are practically surrounded on three sides by salt water, and on the fourth by settlements, highways and railroads. Parties go in hunting from all sides, and the moose are driven back and forth, and are often found in rather unexpected places. The first moose I ever saw was on grounds where our Indians said we were not likely to see eyen signs; and I had no idea, nor was I prepared when a moose walked out on to a small bog one morning, and stood looking at me not 40yds. away. We were just getting ready 10 Move on, as we were over a day’s journey from where we expected to find our game, and my rifle was in its case in camp. “Again, when in Queen’s county, we had just passed Indian Gardens at the outlet of Lake Rossignol, when we met a party of native hunters who had been in a week. They had not killed anything, and were on their way out to get « sup- ply of provisions, intending to come back immediately. They camped for the night at Indian Gardens, and heard a cow moose call not far away during the night; in the morn- ing they crept toward’ the place, and killed the cow, a calf and a bull. They were so near the highway and some houses, that they got an ox-team and hauled the three moose out whole; the:same party were back in less than a week and killed two more moose almost on the same ground. In Maine, however, it is rather different; the game has a much larger range and when moose are started they are more likely to travel a long distance back in the wilderness tather than toward the outskirts. Had I never killed a moose or caribou aud wanted to I certainly should try - Spearen’s camps. I am confident I could get both there the coming season. I should, however, go prepared to stay some time if necessary, also to work to get shots. As it is, [ ~ do not want to shoot another moose or caribou enough to spend the time required to go where I would expect to tind them. I get pretty good shooting on small game where I live— partridges and woodcock—and during the winter months a good many foxes in our New Hngland way of hunting them; should snow fall before the season closes I can in a few hours get to a pretty good deer country. In advising any one to try Spearen’s camps, I do so simply for the reason that I think it is as good if not better than any other region in Maine. For particulars relating to making such a trip Spearen will furnish full details, his address is A, J. Spearen, Massardis, Me., Box 13. C, M. Svar. DuxBarton, N. H., Aug. 21. A POTTER POTTED. Socrpty at Narragansett Pier was considerably disturbed when the fact became known yesterday that one of the most prominent and popular of the summer residents had been atrested and taken to court for prosecution on warrants, charging him with pursuing game with intent to kill, in violation of the State game laws. The details of the affair make a very interesting story. Itis alleged that Mr P.S, P. Randolph, with a local hunter named Potter, whom he employs as head farmer on his Pier estate, has been enjoying the pursuit of game for a week or more, covering their moyements by a clever and yet simple ruse. ‘The two men, dressed as for a drive, left the Pier in a covered trap, with a footman, Mr. Randolph driving. When they reached the hunting ground they drove into the woods, where Randolph and Potter divested themselves of society garb and donned hunting rigs. Under a seat in the trap they had a dog and guns concealed, These were brought forth, and while Randolph and Potter scoured the woods for game the footman awaited their return. The State Game Protective Association has been trying for a long while to put a stop to hunting and trapping in the closed season in that section. This spring the local hunters there undertook to form an independent association. But on promises that the State Association would endeavor to do something there, the gunnersat Wakefield and in the vicinity joined the State Association. Others were told that they must stop hunting in the closed season. They protested that the New Yorkers at the Pier would be permitted to shoot. They were assured it would not be permitted, and that if they did they would be prosecuted. ore than a week ago State Game Warden Thomas W. Penney was notified {hat the law was being violated. He sent W. L. Plaisted, of Olneyville, to the Pier to shadow the parties complained of, Plaisted placed himself where he could shadow Randolph and his man, and when they started out, ostensibly for a drive, in the early part of last week, Plaisted followed them on a bicycle. He saw them turn into the woods, He shadowed them and saw the two men leave the Carriage, change their clothing, take dog and guns and go into the woods, leaving the trap with the footman, He followed them through the woods, heard them shoot and saw them return to the carriage. Plaisted was alone and decided to take no action then, but to await until he could have witnesses to corroborate his testimony. On Thursday Game Warden Rodman, of Wake- field, was informed of what had been seen, and officer FOREST AND STREAM. Plaisted started out w'th a local shooter and a farai bind as witnesses to shadow KRaudolph and his tnanugain. They followed as Plaisted bad done before, They saw the chanve from driving dress to the hunting garb, and then thy folllowed into the woods a little way and remained whee they could see the men when they returned to the carriage. When Randolph and Potler return: d, they were convers- ing. The men in hiding heard one of them say to the other. “Tbat bird came right at me or I would not have missed him.” Potter had a game bag, and it looked as though it was not empty. The men in hidi-g arose and started for Randolph and Potter. Both ran. Randolph was seen to hand some- thing to Potter. Plaisted pursued Randolph and overtook him, Randolph took the matter coolly and asked if the matter could not be settled quietly. Plaisted said he guessed it could. Randolpb asked him to return to the carriage and they did. Arriving there, it is alleged, Randolph drew from under a seat in the trap a bottle of choice whiskey and another bottle containing Apollinaris. The other did not appreciate the courtesy of the proffered treat from his prisoner. When Randolph again asked if the matter could not be settled without difficulty Plaisted said he thought it could, but not with him. Plaisted told Randolph that he did not care to make it unnecessarily dissgreeable; that he knew Mr. Randolph well enough to accent bis word, and offered to accept his pledge to appear before Judge Lewis in the District Court at 1 o’clock the next day to be arraigned. This agreement was made. , While discussing it, Potter returned and was placed under arrest, and the same arrange- was made for him to appear in court with his employer. Randolph and Potter returned to the carriage and drove out of the woods. Officer Plaisted was satisfied that Potter had secreted the birds in the woods, and that he would make an effort to recover them, so that they could not be used as evidence in the cases. He shadowed the team after it was driven from the woods, and, as he expected, he saw it turned into the woods again at a, point some distance away. Hy ran to that point, headed the team off and ordered Randolph and Potter to stay out of the woods, telling them he had men searching for the birds that had been secreted, and that he proposed to find them. The rest of the afternoon was spent in the search for the birds. Sut darkness came on and they were not found. Bright and early Friday morning Plaisted was out in the woods again with two men hunting for the birds. They heard a noise on the other side of a wall they were passing. On investigating, they found Potter crawling along on all fours. He, too, was out bright and early after the birds. He was ordered to arise, and the party of searchers kept track of him until they found what they were after, three chicken partridges, which were concealed in the brush. RandoJph and Potter appeared in the District Court at Wakefield as they agreed and were arraigned. Both were charged with having pursued game with intent to kill in violation of the game law. They pleaded not guilty. Then Polter was charged with having had three birds in bis possession. He pleaded not guilty. The cases were contin- ued to Monday, Aug. 30, The prosecution was conducted by Game Warden Penney, of the Association, and Attorney FF. W. Tillinghast. Mr. Randolph told the officials that if he believed the game Jaws would be enforced he would be pleased to join the Association, and would contribute to its funds as liber- ally as anyone now in the organization. The Associalion’s officials will endeavor to satisfy him that they mean fo en- force the laws.— Providence, R L., Jowrnal, Aug. 22 CHICAGO AND THE WEST. Celebrated Case of Illegal Chickens. Curcaco, Ill., Aug. 28.—We have had something of a cause celevréin illegal prairie chickens here this weck, in which one or more sportsmen and club members, a well- known restaurant keeper and our new warden, Harry Love- day, all figured in conjunction. ‘The facts of the case are these: On Aug. 7 Mr. C. 8. Wilcox, of Chicago, 4 member of the Diana Shooting Club, the Audubon Club, ete , and well known in Chicago sporting circles, went to Kinsley’s restaurant with a friend and ordered what is during the months of July and August technically known as ‘‘owl.” This “owl” was served in the G2rman department of the res- taurant, which is under the charge of William Werner. The latter afterward stated that the “‘owl’’ was served without his knowledge. Soon after eating this bird, Mr. Wilcox re- pa‘red to the billiard hall of Mr. WP. Mussey at 106 Mad- ison street. Here he met Mr. Bob Clark, manager of Kins- ley’s restaurant, and to him remarked, in the presence of others, that he had just been to Kinsley’s, and had eaten the toughest prairie chicken he had ever eaten in his life. In gome way word of this came to the ears of Warden Love- day, who caused the arrest of the steward of the restaurant. The case came up for trial before Justice Prindiville on Wednesday morning of this week, in spite of Mr. Wilcox’s repeated later assertions that he would not appear as a wit- ness in this case. He was, however, brought into court by subpo:na, and came represented by an attorney. When asked if on such and such a date he had been served with prairie chicken at Kinsley’s, he refused to answer, on the ground that he might thus incrimmate himself. The jus- tice explained to him that he would not be incriminating himself at all, but Mr, Wilcox still declined to answer, whereupon the justice fined him $5 for contempt of court. Asked if his companion, Mr. B. Dicks, was at the same time served prairie chicken, Mr, Wilcox again declined to answer and was again fined $5 for contempt of court. It was not, howeyer, necessary to collect these fines, for at this juncture Mr. Werner, representing the restaurant, stated that he was tired of the whole business, and was willing to plead guilty. He was thereupon fined $10 and costs. Mr, Werner after- ward in some wrath remarked that it is the sportsmen who eat most of the illegal game, This case has attracted much comment so much that perhaps further comment than a mere statement of the facts would be unnecessary here, This Sheriff Shot Illegal Chickens. Mr. Charles E. Johnson, Sheriff of Peoria county, Ill., is an officer of the law, and he is fully acquainted with the pro- visions of the Jaw, Yet early in the month of August this man, unworthy to be called an officer of the law or represen- tative of the people, was unable to restrain his impulse to go cnicken hunting, He did so, and was successful in killing a few birds, Word of this came to Warden Loveday, who at once caused the arrest of Sheriff Johnson. He was tried on Aug, 17, in his own county, and fined $15 andcosts. This is one of the most singular cases of game law violations yet to be record¢d The illegal work was done right in the neighbothocd where lives President Fahnestock, of the Illi- pois Slate Sportsmen’s Association. We have yet to hear of a single conviction obtained®™this season through the efforts of this body, although we are told that protective work is soon to be taken up by the Association. It would seem that there are some conspicuous heathen very near at home in Peoria, Warden Loveday cannot be complimented too highly upon his determination in giing after and bringing to justice this unworthy sheriff, this executive of the law, this officer who is himself a criminal, Peoria county cannot too quickly rid ilsrlf of the slur whick will remain upon its tepu- tition so long as such a man remains in cflice, Caught by the Law. _ At Eau Claire, Wis., Aug. 23, a prominent cilizen by the name of Asigal Wyman was tried and convicied of killing three prairie chickens on Aug. 8, He was fined $10. Seizure of Game, Members of the Neligh Gun Club, of Nebraska, last week boarded a pacser ger train and took from the express car something like 300 prairie chickens, which were billed through to Chicago, Txe birds were shipped from Clear- water, Neb. Legal proceedings will be at once instituted against the express company, and eiforts will be made to locate the market shooters. ‘Three-fourths of the birds were not half-srown. If this action of the Neligh Gun Club be treason, Jet us have the more of it, Mixed Bag, A hunting party of Helena, Mont. composed of Judge Henderson Smih, H. 8. French. R. P. Barden and F'red. Naegle, last week went out hunting and made the mixed bag of two prairie chickens, two tame chickens, four rattlesnakes and a mule, There is no pent-up Utica in Moatana, Awakening Sentiment. There is a curious awakening going all through the West in game law matters, as | have earlier mentioned, and news- papers all over the West continue to publish statements of arrests of game law violators, of encouragement for the war- dens, and of condenmation of those who break the game laws, So far asl amiable to determine from euch reports received at this office; I am inclined to think that no State is more advanced than Minnesota in matters of game protec- tion. A great deal of news comes in concerning the work of Agent Fullerton, of Minnesota The latter reports that he has 100 deputy wardens in the field this month, and he claims that there is no wholesale violation of the chicken law going on. He says that in Detroit and Anoka counties, once the scenes of continued illegal shooting, there is now next to nothing done in violation of the chickea Jaw, so active have been the local deputies. Agent Fullerton says that if is a shame that the State of North Dakota opens 1ts chicken sea- son so early. He thinks the date should be Sept. 15. This also is the belief of every conservative shooter who knows anything about chicken shooting. If all our Western States stuck to Sept. 15 as opening day, and if all our wardens could enforce that law, there would be abundance of mag- nificent sport, and we should have a magnificent game bird assured to us forever. Act of a Would-be Warden. A rather odd case in game law matters came up at Minne- apolis this week. Agent Fullerfom had been asked to ap- point Dr. Hedderly, of Minneapolis, as a deputy game war- den, the latter coming highly recommended liy many friends asthe right man for the place. Mr, Fullerton made out a deputy's commission for Dr, Hedderly, and was about to mil it to him, when he received word froin Deputy Warden Coffin, of Hennepin county, stating that he had just ar- rested Dr, Hedderly for shooting illegal chickens in Anoka county! Warden Hedderly, let me introduce to you Sheriff John- son, of Peoria county, lll. It gives me pleasure to see gen- tiemen like you acquainted with each other.. An Indiana Protest. Complaint is made in the Review, of Elkhart, Ind., that quail and ducks are already being killed near Goshen, in tpat State, On the editorial page of the paper there is the following statement, not an ignoble one to be seen on the editorial page of any paper: “‘Were there no law, humanity should come to the rescue of these young birds, scarcely half-srown and totally unfit for use, and without apology we say no one but a vandal will indulge in their destruc: tion.” Arkansas Warning. Many shooters of the State of Arkansas haye announced their intention of going prairie chicken hunting on Sept. 1. This was the old opening date, but as the local press of the State is now announcing, there is a close seagon of five years on prairie chickens in the State of Arkansas, dating from 1893, so that it will be illegal to shoot this bird until Sept. 1, 1898, Where to go for Chickens. As has been earlier stated, the general tone of reporls from Minnesota, North and South Dakota is to the effect that chickens will be more abundant this fall than they have been before for years. I am still inclined to think that the upper part of North Dakota will be as safe a country to go to as any, but am reluctant to give specific answer to many in- quiries which have come in here, because no one can tell until after the seasun opens what the shooting will actually prove at any given point, The following letter, received from Carrington, N. D., is specific in its nature and may be of interest to readers of Forest AND STREAM: “IE you or any party from your section are contemplating a hunt into the Northwest this fall, will state I haye had considerable experience hunting in the Northwest, and am acquainted with some of the best goose, duck and chicken fields to be found, and will render any assistance desired in locating parties thereon, Any information as to hotels, livery, game, ete., will be freely given on application. “J, H. GaLpaouse, JR, “Deputy State Game Warden.” News From the Shooting Flelds. The season opened in North Dakota, Aug. 20 Oo Aug. 21 the following dispatch was sent to the 7/mes, of Minne- apolis: ‘Dryil’s Lake, N_D, Aug 21.—The game season opened here to-day, and before daylight the noise caused by shooting resembled the Fourth of July. It was not necessary to go 188 FOREST AND STREAM, (Sumer. 4, 1897. outside of the city, aga number of sloughs in the outskirts were literally covered with ducks. The market to-day is flooded with ducks and prairie chickens.” The Jamestown, N. D,, Capital prints the following local chicken news in its issue of Aup, 21. It may be of service to many Hastern men who think they should be able to get off the cars anywhere in North Dakota, and at once fall to work shooting at innumerable coveys of chickens “Tf all the hunters who left Jamestown Thursday night and yesterday morning: had met with good luck there would probably be few chickens left in Stutsman county, but the majority of those who left so full of hope, promising untold quantities of birds to less fortunate friends compelled to re- main at home, returned last nigbt weary and dejected, with few chickens to show for their day’s hunt. Chickens they unanimously report scarce and very wild, showing they had been hunted before the season opened. Ducks are plentiful, hut the ponds are so full of water and the grass so high that it is next to impossible to get then. after they are shot. ‘Only two of what might really be called good bags were reported last night The list was headed by Ald Kuhn, Frank Taylor and Frank Dallair, who got sixty-one chickens, eleven ducks and about a bushel of snipe. They secured most of their game southeast of Wimbledon. John Clarke and D, HE, Hughes follow next with forty-one birds secured near the city, at no time more than seven miles distant. “Superintendent Wilson and Pierce Blewett hunted about three hours in the vicinity of Hobart, in Barnes county, and brought in a nice bunch of chickens. “‘Mayor Fuller and Chief Mahony went out about 5o’clock last evening and got seven chickens and one duck before darkness came on. “WM. Li, Parker and Alex Gilffillan got eleven birds before dinner, and Chas. Klaus and Lou Niemeyer report a killing of sixteen birds. “Geo. Game, H, B. Wood and HE S, Rose managed to get a good early start, and by attending strictly to business got eleven birds. ‘County Treasurer Halstead and Night Patrolman Cadieux hunted in the vicinity of Pingree and bagged eleven. They only run across two coyeys, and were following up one of these in a tree claim when stopped by the owner, “ 110 bile Bile 75!5 B.D. Letterman....secrcere vee 8214 Ti b4l5 G. A. Lippincott ........ee ee 78 84 84. 91 C.G. LUGIOW 0. cep e ye vce enn &0 91 91"). 783, A ASRITEE Eh oie, nee eae eon 75 &5 8:34 914, HOE Pol sasaeesislestenes tapes 95 D014 931, J. EH. Strong,.....+ BE ee 79 86 875). 89 IVES AV Vat ELL UEL ute bsbte'elviel cereale aly BK 85°, 95 AG. Hascall cv enivecceuee cy Age Ton Yy3l, 7 f48% Holders of medals: Long distance fly, Guodsel!; distance and accu- racy, Ludlow; accuracy and delicacy, Peet; bait casting, M D, Smith, r : Cayuga Lake Fishing. ImHaca, N. Y., Aug, 28.—VFishing at this end of Cayuga Lake has been decidedly ‘‘fat, stale and unprofitable’ of late., At Union Springs, however, where all good anglers © go, perch fishing has been phenomenal, large catches being almost daily reported. Pickerel have lately been running, and some especially fine ones have been taken. Probably Union Springs has furnished more satisfactory angling thus far this season than any other point along the lake. M. Crim, nee STREAM, CHICAGO AND THE WEST. Kentucky Anglers. Curcado, Aug. 28.—Advices from Frankfort, Ky., state that the local Kingfishers, Messrs. Chas. Furr, §. R. Smith, Frank Stagg and Hdmond Rodman, have returned froma month’s trip in the North. Messrs. George L,, Payne and Frank Cannon will return this week. They report good suc- cess and a fine time, The Cuvier Oiub, of Covington, Ky., met last Thursday for the purpose of incorporating as a working body, with powers to break up illegal fishing in the Licking River. Indiana Streams. State Fish Commissioner Sweeney, of Indiana, has this week started a campaign against the strawboard and paper mills, which have been polluting Indiana streams. He will proceed first against the Hiton and Albany Strawboard com- panies on the Mississinewa Riyer, and if he can obtain proper evidence will then go after divers other companies. ~~ The upper Kankakee River, of Indiana, has this summer been offering exceptionally fine fishing, Mr, R. B. Organ, of this city, has been Gown a number of times and had fine sport with the small-mouth bass. On different days he took twenty-two, sixteen, seventeen, etc,, to say nothing of a lot of pickerel, This was at Maksawba Club. At the same grounds Harry Booth took twenty-five small-mouth bass in one day. Wisconsin Waters. There are three camps of fishermen from Dayton, O,, located on the Manitowish chain of Wisconsin, and all re- port fine success. Julius Wehner, fishing on Presque Isle lake, on one day took twenty-one bass, one of 441bs. The next day he caught three, weighing 44]bs. each. Ina Mus- callonge Lake he took five bass weighing 18]bs, Mr, J, C. Hahbné, also of Dayton, O. is in camp on Pike Lake, west of Fifield, Wis. He reports the finest fishing - that could be asked, a number of muscallonge weighing from § to 15|bs., and one weighing 25lbs, Messrs. Porter and Shepard, of Dayton, O., who are. also fishing at Pike Lake, Wis., on Thursday last shipped home to Dayton 100)bs. of muscallonge, I hope that these gentle- men carefully looked up the Wisconsin. law, which I find forbids the shipping of any fish whatever, and only allows 20lbs., or two fish to be taken out of the State in personal charge. Other Dayton men in camp at ‘Pike Lake, Wis., are i. §. Reynolds, Harry Loy and B. E. Mead. I trust each of these gentlemen will at least carefully read a copy of the Game Laws in Brief before rushing into print with the story of his illegal shipments of fish. Colorado Fish. . There isa great circus out in Colorado over the fish law, which cuts off the supplies of the hotels and restaurants that profess to receive fish from private: ponds, Commissioner Swan has arranged a plan by which all crowers of trout may ship to market, Hach merchant must send to the Commis- sioner a duplicate of the shipping bill, showing the amount of fish shipped and the names of the consignees, All such fish are to be shipped in uniform packages, and each package to be registered. In this way it is thought there will be no covert breaking of the law. © Utah Trout. At Deseret, Utah, on Aug. 28, Deputy Warden F. H. Rudy arrested J. Burton, J. J. Acomb, Wm, Leader and J, M. Wood for seining troutin the Jordan River. It would appear, indeed, that Jordan is a hard road to travel. Washington Warden. Mr, Little, of Aberdeen, Wash., has been appointed by Goy. Rogers as State Fish Commi:sioner, succeeding Mr, James “Crawford. Minnesota Muscallonge. Mr. R. B. Organ, of this city, will next week join Mr. Martin Whitcomb, of Minneapolis, for a trip to Park Rapids, Minn, They will goto Sand Lake, famous as the home of the ‘'gray-spotted” muscallonge. They will, with- out doubt, reach magnificent fishing and should also find some wildfow] shooting before their return. EK. Hovas. 1206 Bovcr Buripine, Chicago. ; The Potomac Bass. Dr GzrorckE W. MAssaMonre, assistant game warden, has just made an inspection of the base-fishine grounds in the Potomac River. Before the passage of the tri-State protective law the pot- fishermen were doing all they could to exterminate the game fish in their efforts 1o make profitable catches. Dr. Massa- more finds 4 great change in the conditions. On Wednes- day, Aug. 4, he started in a boat on the Potomac, twenty miles above Hancock, Md., and came slowly down the river to Harper’s Ferry, reachiug that point late Thursday after- noon of this week. On the trip he interviewed fifteen deputy wardens, all of whom said that the stringent law passed in the three States bordering on the river had proved effective. The people along the route had obeyed the law and, no seining had been done or trot-lines used. Many fishing parties from Pennsylvania have visited the banks of the Potomac, but they were invariably met by dep- uty wardens, who adyised them of the new Jaws, and nets and trot-lines were discarded by the visitors, who found plenty of sport in fishing with rod and reel while the water was clear. - Dr, Massamore and Dr. W. 8, Harban, of the Blue Ridge and Woedmont clubs, took a day’s trial at the fish in the river below Shepherdstown, They caught thirty bass. The largest, weighing 441bs., was caught by Dr. Harban. The largest Dr. Massamore caught was 23lbs. The general run of the fish was from 2 to 3lbs. The largest fish caught so far weighed dibs. All along the route the information was that the bass were more Dumerous than in previous years. An atiendant of a fishing club said he caught from 400 to 500 small bass in the canal while fishing for bait minnows, The bass were put promptly back into the water. In netting minnows many large-mouth bass were caught. Dr, Masgsa- more interpreted this to mean that this species of bass, as well as the small-mouth game bass, are increasing under the protective laws, | The:canal waters also taught another lesson. In it were . numbers of small bass. These, running up to 6in. in length, were of this year’s spawn. Warden- Massamore concludes that the bass find the canal waters suited for spawning, and (Sept, 4, 189%, that this adds another argumeht for the protection of these fish in the canal, Some of the old attendants, and the oldest fishermen, ad- vised the Maryland representative of the Game and Fish Protective Association that the fish were multiplying rapidly under the new law, and they predicted that the Potomac River would in a few years, be the river of rivers for fisher- men, “MAINE TRIPS. Boston, Aug. 28.—Fishing trips are the popular thing in Maine, and growing more and more so. If a merchant from Boston goes to Maine to see his trade, his clients, his friends or his relatives, he is pretty sure to be taken on a fishing trip somewhere, and fortunate is the visitor to that State who meets with the right sort; heis pretty sure of good fishing anda good time. Indeed, the boys are now laughing ata fellow drummer, who went down into Maine last week to see his sweetheart, and went on a fishing trip with her brothers. He got a good ducking and no fish. But somewhere at a taxidermist’s he beughta stuffed trout of gigantic proportions, with the impression conyeyed that he caught the fish, But the boys want to know how the hide had time to become so dry. , j Mr. Alfred Kimball has just returned from a trip to Maine, ostensibly to look after his lumber trade. His shippers, Ff. M, Totmanand H. E Totman, of Fairfield, took him on a fishing trip. They went toa pond in Albion} and had great sport with white perch, and doubtiess a bass or two. To Mr, Kimball the sport was new, but all the more: pleasing. Their guide, McIntire, proyed to be a jewel that had not been contam- inated by extra fees. He worked for their interests uatir- ingly, first, last and all the time. : Mr. W. 5. Bennett has recently returned from a bass fish- ing trip to the pondsin Winthrop, Monmouth and Readfield, Me. He is pleased with most of these ponds, and remarks that the bats, pickerel or perch fisherman can find many most desirable points for fishing at nearly all of the above waters, The September fly-fishermen, for trout, are getting ready for the Maine waters. Perhaps the first movement in that direction will not be as great as usual, many outings being put off till the last week in Ssptember and first week in October, when a taste of trout fishing and deer hunting can both be enjoyed legally. SPECIAL, New Jersey Coast Fishing. Aspury Park, N. J., Aug, 28.—Never within the past. nineteen years has weakfishing on the beach direct, as well asin the bays and rivers, been excelled, While we usually getarun during September and October along the beach, thus early are they in, and taking the hook freely from the piers and the beach. Sixty-five fine fish were taken last night from the Asbury Park pier in little more than two hours, running large in size and in fine condition, I caught several of 4lts. During the next two months the fishing should be all that the angler could wish for, as there is but one pound net with single pocket fishing in the vicinity, whereas in former years the ocean has been strung full of three and four-pocket nets. Bluefish are also abundant, taking bait and squid freely; every day now some are taken from each pier. In consequence, the market line men are happy, as they are reaping a rich harvest in consequence of the ab- sence of the pound nets, Barnegat is alive with fish. Capt. Sears, an old-timer on the bay, told ‘me last night he took during the past week several 7 and 9lb. weakfish in the bay; this is encouragement of a high degree and something rather unusual. JI have arranged for an extended trip down the coast the coming month and hope to meet with some of the big fellows. As mentioned in Jast week’s Formsr AND S£RHAM, the movements of the kingfish have been most pe- culiar, owing to the numerous storms doubtless, I find .through correspondence that the bays to the north are alive with them and taking the hook readily. There is a matter 1 have spent considerable time and taken great pains investi- gating in relation to the kingfish, namely, their period of spawning, The past three years [have taken them from early June to late in September heavy with spawn. When and where is their period and place of spawning? Who of FoRust AND STREAM’S readers can answer? It would be a gratification to know. LEonarD HULIt. The Arkansas Pearl’ Industry. Litrun Rock, Ark., Aug. 23.—Hditor Horest and Stream: A new industry is developing. in this country. It promises to rival Ceylon as a pearl fishery. The pearls are taken from the ordinary fresh-water mussels. At Bald Knob a company has been formed, and has leased the Jakes and is using a dredge boat. They wash the mud as well as open the mus- sels, the theory being that the dead mussels shed their pearls in the Jake. They have found some very fine pearls, An inmate of the Confederate Soldiers’ Home at this place went to some stream near here, which he prudently keeps secret, and got pearls which yielded him $600. He has got his dis- charge and gone into the business. While on Cache River fishing, some ten days ago, with Judge Stebbins, we found the negroes all working the bars, They had a number of small pearls, but no valuable ones. The Judge found quite a large one, but it was defective on one side. Still, when get in a ring it made a very pretty piece of jewelry. The president of one of the banks here has a beautiful pink pearl as large as a large buckshot, that came out of a lake on — his place. The craze is not equal to the Klondike, but it will be pushed till it isseen what there is in it. From present indications, unless the Legislature estab- lishes a close season on mussels they will soon be extinct in this State. J Rosse, Fell into a Yellowstone Geyser. Laxr Horet, Yellowstone Park, Aug. 25.—George Ern- shaw, of Philadelphia, while walking into one of the pools in the rear of the Fountain Hotel yesterday, trippel on a stick and fell backward into one of the bottomless boiling geysers. He struck a ledge under 5ft. of water, and was | slipping off its cone when he grasped a pole overhanging the edge of the pool, and with the assistance of those nearby was rescued. He was badly burned, ' Dolly Vardens. San Francisco, Aug, 23.—Some friends of mine have: just returned from a fishing excursion up near the Oregon line, and report great sport. One of the party landed 2° Dolly Varden weighing 142Ibs,; another was caught weigh- ing 12lbs,, and several from 6 to 10Ibs, Good potas Mbat, eh? % ‘ i in Seer. 4, 1897.) Fishing in Princess Bay. Princess Bay, Staten Island, N. Y., Aug. 26.—The fish- ing here is excellent—the best it has: been for five or six “yeats. Anybody can go out and pring in thirty to one hun- “dred weakfish, besides lots of sea porgies, snappers (young bluefish), and oftentimes bluefish weighing from 2 to 4lbs. which will give a mana good tussle and sometimes carry away his tackle. A, L. H. Che Bennel. FIXTURES. FIELD TRIALS, Sept. &, Manitoba Field Triais Club. Morris, Man, Sept. 7.—Northwestern Wield Trial Cinb’s Champion Stake, Morris, an, : Oct, 25.—Brunsyick Fur Clnb’s ninth annual trials, Nov, 1.—Dixie Red Fox Olub’s third annual meet, Waverly, Miss. Nov. 1.—New England Beagle Olub's trials, Oxford, Mass, Nov. 2.—Monongahele Valley Game and Fish Protective Associ- ation’s trials, Greene county. Pa, - _ Nov, 8.—Union Fieid Trials Club’s-trials, Carlisle, Ind. Noy. 9.—Centra] Beagle Club’s trials, Sharpsburg, Pa. Noy, 9.—Peningular Wield Trial Club's trials, Leamington, Ont. Nov, 15,.—E Ff. T. Club's trials, Newton, N. C. Nov, 16,—International Wield Trials Club’s eighth annual, trials, Chatham, Ont. Noy. 22,—U. 8. F, T. Club’s autumn trials. ‘ 1898. Jan. 10.—U, 8. FT Club’s winter trials, West Point, Miss. Jan. 17.—Continental F, T. Club's trials, New-Albany, Miss. SCHOOLING THE DOG.—XII. THE remarks on pointing in previous papers should make clear that any attempt to train a dog to stanchuees before he has had some expcrience on birds is wasted effort.- There is no arbitrary juncture at which to begin the training to stanchness. ‘Lhe circumstances and judgment of the trainer must be the sole guides in the mutter. Towever, it may be suid that in a general way, when the dog has learned to readily distinguish, the scent of birds, and can locate them more or less readily, the trainer may begin to teach proper -Stanchness. Tt isa mistake to permit the dog to become habitually riotous. While such may add to his enthusiasm and indus- try, it makes a great deal of unnecessary, extta labor in schooling him. Again, the dog’s disposition should be taken into consid- eration. Ii he is timorous and shows indecision, he should be permitted to have much more freedom than if headstrong and riotous. ; - As remarked before, the dog, in time, learns methods of capture by drawing and pointing which admirably serve his own purpose. The trainer purposes to so control the dog’s efforts that they will serve ihe purpose of the shooter, His first efforts to establish stanchness will have no perceptible effects on the dog’s manner of work. He will be quite as riotous, and likely will recognise the trainer as a disturbing, obstructive element and will seek to evade him accordingly, although still working out his own plans, But perseverance on the part of the trainer will gradually bring the dog to submission. A- timid dog, or even one of an ordinary, mild disposition, may reqilire gentle schooling, gradually inducting him into what. is required. By experience and the ob ervation of the application of means to ends, dogs of a deferential disposi- tion may readily accept working to the: gun, instead of working independently for their own pleasure and profit. However the case may be, the trainer should note it and govern the schooling accordingly. His judgment should de- termine whether mildness or severity are required. This juncture will try his patience, persistence and art, une The headstrong, riotous dog, which never ceases so long a there is a hope of flushing or chasing, generally needs pun- ishment to make him properly stanch. Kindness should be observed at all other times He is, perhaps, so desperately intent on the pursuit that a few whippings do not serve to check him in the least, though they may make him wary of his trainer, He may be quite aS riolous when punished, and also he may refuse to come near his trainer when ordered to comein. In such case, put a check cord on him, and also if need bea spike collar, When he rushes on the birds the trainer then has a means to hold him directly in check. This part should not be done two violently, nor overdone. Remember that a dog can be broken from pursuing any- thing, The same method employed to break him from pur- suing sheep, rabbits, chickens, etc., will break him from pursuing birds, ‘The purpose is to maintain his interest in the pursuit of birds, but at the same time have a heedful consideration of the purposes of his trainer, With the eniebmer properly applied as to time and quantity e will draw on the birds, but will be fearful of flushing them. If he is punished so much that the pursuit either ceases to be a pleasure to him or seems to him to be a for- bidden act, he refuses to draw to the birds and avoids them. He is then what is technieally termed a blinker. If the irainer has been so unfortunate as to bring this about, he has much more to overcome than before he began the training at first. He is absolutely powerless to teach anything further till the dog voluntarily resumes hunting, which may be a matter of days or weeks, even if the most liberal opportuni- ties are offered When a dog has acquired the habit of blink- ing it is better to put him in other hands. His teacher is so associated with birds and painfulness, that it requires a long time for his memory and confidence to properly readjust to the desired conditions, all of which goes to show the need of careful judgment in teaching. When the dog will show a hesitancy as he draws near the birds, the trainer should impress on him thé need of preat caution. He affects the greatest caution in his own manner, and every motion forward, deliberately taken, expresses the greatest concern to avoid flushing. He keeps his eye con- stantly on the dog, and his slightest movement forward is instantly checked, either by raising the hand and looking sternly at him, or by giving him a word of caution; if he break in‘in spite of all this effort on the part of tHe trainer, the whip should be applied accordingly as he needs it. always keeping in mind that more than is needed may pring on disaster—that is, blinking, Tf the birds flush and fly awav, the irainer should give no thought tn them. The tog sdcnld ve taken to the place where he shuuld nave remained, and there kept till his pur- pose tu yuisae Is entirely given up. Ine great obstruction to correct training at this juncture, is that the ayerage amateur trainer is far keener to shoot and 4 kill than the dog is to pursue. The traineris excited, shoots, breaks shot, and then riotously attempts to control the dog— the last act of all, instead of it Weing his first act, and giving it, Moreover, undivided attention, He is then really teach- ing the dog bad tricks. He adds to the dog’s excitement, sets a bad example which the dog is naturally ready to copy, and adds greatly to the task of training. The dog is readily sympathetic in such matters, If the _ trainer will start out quickly and excitedly in an open field when there is no game birds near, the dog will charge eagerly and excitedly about, looking keenly for the object heimagincs is to be pursued. If the trainer, when on game, cannot control himself, he cannot expect to control his dog; nor should the dog be given a beating for what the trainer led him into, ; Some dogs may take to pointing quite readily, If the in- Stinct is strongly developed and the dog is of a deferential disposition, stanchness may -be established with very little effort. With such dogs the trainer should avoid insisting on more stanchness tlian is necessary. If they are rigidly re- quired to stand stanchly they may point too far away from their birds, or may stand stanchly after the birds have run away from the point, or may acquirea general oyer-cautious- ness which is more harmful and annoying than would be more decision and accuracy, eyen if some errors resulted therefrom, Taking pointers as a class, they point much more readily than setters, and have the instinct more uniformly present one dog with another, They are also much easier taught to back, and indeed they sometimes will back’ in preference to pointing if running with a confident, resolute competitor, It is a very faulty trait in competition, since the resolute dog is making all the showing as a finder, though his competitor if working alone, might show equal or greater ability. : The matter of teaching a dog stanchness on point is gen- erally a work of weeks before it is properly completed: He not only must learn that he is not to flush the bird , but he © must have the experience necessary to learn the shooter's purpose, and how to so direct his effort as best to subserve . the interests of the gun. If the dog is rattle-headed, or naturally idiotic, or entirely deficient in any love for his trainer, he may neyer get past the perfunctory stage. The matter of brains and good intention are quite as important factors on his part as they are on the part of his teacher. BERNARD WATERS. FIELD TRIALS AND FIELD TRIAL JUDGES.—IV. Tw our last paper on this subject the need of keeping the dogs and handlers on a consecutive course was touched upon, In laying out a course for a certain heat, it must not only be Jaid out with reference to giving the two dogs im- mediataly concerned a good consecutive course, but it must be with a view to giving such course and at the same time giving it with reference to other courses fur other ogs, Field trial clubs rent their grounds, and have a certain de- fined territory in which they haye all the needed rights. Generally, the grounds are ample for the needed purpose; but it does not require much thought to perceive that if they were worked irregularly back and forth, or the choice parts worked out first, that either the dogs which run later would have to cross courses already worked. out and where the birds conscquently were disturbed or scattered or driven out, or they would haye to work on the poorest remaining ground. The judge, therefore, must ap- proximately apportion his ground to be used for the day’s competition so that each brace will haye a trial on unworked ground, and the choice and bad parts of the ground be equitably divided so that the brace will have chances as néar alike as intelligent effort will make possible. With all this effort there will be many features of the competition which the judge must take into account and which will need to be adjusted by himself. For instance, one dog in one heat might point three bevies within 100yds.; he receives the en- comiums of the spectators. Another dog might work intel- ligently and industriously throughout his heat and not find a bird; in one case the fine showing was due to the accidental advantage that there were three bevies to point, and in the other that there were no birds at all. All these things the green judge has fo learn, - The trained judge has them at his fingers’ ends. Besides thus laying out the courses for each beat, he must keep the handlers and dogs going to take the best working advantage of the course without any sudden turnings here and there, or any indecision which results in a general let- ting down of effort, The next greatest affliction in the way of a judge who is intent on being everywhere at the same time, right or wrong, is the one who has no idea of going anywhere. He doesn’t know where to go; he is weak and indecisive, and the competition lags and drags in conse- quence. A man who is judging, yet who doesn’t qnite know what is to be judged or how it is to be done, would best stay elsewhere than in the judge’s saddle. By keeping his course planned out a half mile or mile ahead, or still further if need be, the competent judge will avoid pocketing the trials in big fields surrounded with wire fences, or between swamps, or on the banks of a river, or wherever there is a possibility of doing so. He takes bridges, fords, gateways, so that they all come in proper sequence in the course, if he plans aright; if he doesn’t, he may use half the time riding back over ground to adjust his thoughtless- ness, his oversight and his incompetency. He, if he is skillful, directs the wagons containing the waiting dogs to be sent to a designated place, where he fore- casts that the heat will end, there to awuitits ending; and he makes his estimates so accurately that the course, the time and the opportunities, as he,has combined and planned them, make a successful trial between the two dogs in the heat, He Enows that to attain like or better results he will have to use more ground with less opportunities from working it in the late morning’ and midday hours than he will either in morning or evening, owing to the difference in temperature, scenting conditions and habits of the birds. He makes his estimates so skillfully as to time, opportunities and area of ground as he has planned them, that he generally makes a successful trial of each brace of dogs, and has some definite data on which to form his conclusions. He keeps in mind what each individual dog does from heat to heat, so that he may accurately Know which dogs to reject and which to re- tain, He has also a fairly accurate knowledge of the relative merits of the good ones kept in the competition. If he is alert, competent, and attentive to his duties, there isno ques- tion in his mind as to the direction to be taken, the place to await the ending of a heat, the time approximately at which certain dogs will be called to compete; nor is there any rul 1914 ing on any part of the competition but what he can answer promptly and accurately. Every few minutes there will be something or other sub- mitted to him to rule upon, and if he is incompetent he can- not conceal it. His indecision makes itself manifest, and if he rules wrong his error makes it still more manifest. If he rules so as to mar the equity of the competition—which he can easily do—he provokes dissatisfaction. The more in- competent he is the more ruling he will be called on to do, for bis own errors beget troubles and disarrangements. The would-be judge may be bravely impartial and promptly energetic when talking imformally over imaginary trials in his circle of friends around the fireside, buf when confronted with men who are sternly in earnest and each party thinks he or they are right, the matter has an entirely different aspect, Many a man isa moral coward under such circumstances, and shows piliful weakness and indecision, He. is then in a constant state of unpleasant apprehension, and feels not only that he doesn’t know just what should be done, but that fhere are many eyes on him keenly observing that he doesn’t know what to do and that they know he knows that he doesn’t know. After a judge’s first trial is oyer he confesses. that he knew very little about it in a useful, practical way when he began. The ready judgment, which as a spectator who saw but little but ventured on great conclusions, is from him gone forever. He knows that a manat the rear never can form any just conclusions excepting as between the very best and the worst dogs; ones whose general class qualities aire so widely distinct that a close watching of details is un- necessary, A man who is but a few vards behind the judges will lose much of the work; for a horseman passing in front of him will obscure and hide a large field, and in cover, 2 or dyds, to the rear makeg a great difference in what one can see of the dogs’ work and what one cannot see, The green judge, with his furious riding out of place; his entire ignor- ance of planning a course; his change of mind “Wilh eyery passing circumstance; his close atten- tion to irrelevant details or incidents of the heat; his unskillfulness: in bringing out the best effort of the dogs and the ganeral hitching and lack of codérdination, mark the green judge before he is well started. When he has run a series through, he doesn’t know which dogs are the best; for, as -he has run them in a broken, fussy way, they haye all run much alike. He has managed to keep the dogs broken up in their work, and managed to keep himself largely out of place by galloping more or less furiously after such dog asdisappeared fora moment from sight, this act being much to the alarm of the dog’s handler, who knows that a dog trained to range to a man on horseback will cast still further away under such circumstances, and generally much wider than he will range to a man afoot, Brunawick Fur Club, Roxgury, Mass.—It has been deemed advisable to change the date of the coming foxhound field trials of the Brunswiek Fur Club from the week of Ozt. 24 to that of Oct. 17. The Derby will be run on Tuesday, Uct. 19, and the All-Age Stake on the three following days. Interest in these trials, ig widespread and the outlook for a week of splendid sport was never better. Further particulars will be given in the FOREST AND STREAM at an early date, and the secretary will be glad to answer inquiries at any time, ; BrapFrorD 8. Turrrn, Sec’y,. POINTS AND FLUSHES. Under date of Aug. 21 Mr. Thomas Johneon writes us ag follows: ‘‘{ enclose a clipping from to day’s Winnipeg Firee Press, from which you will note the Western Canada Ken- nel Club intend holding trials again this year. ‘The entries for the field trials of the Western Canada Kennel Club are coming in rapidly, and that the trials will be a success now only depends on the will of the clerk of the weather. Some donbt is held as to whether birds are sufficiently plentiful at the Glenlea grounds, where the trials were at first. to have been held, and it may be found necessary to change to La Salle, where good accommodation can be had and always plenty of birds. The committee are now investigating the different grounds, and will be in a position to announce their selection definitely early in the week. Mr. Frank Richards, the well known American handler, has kinaly consented to act as judge. Dogs winning a first or second place are eligi- ble to compete for the valuable champion cup of the North- west Hield Trials’ Club to be run for at Morris in the week commencing Sept. 6. A capital chance for the Irish setter men to show the capabilities of their dogs is in the fact that in these trials the Irish Setter Club of America offer a special priz of $25 for the Irish setter first winning first or second place in any club’s stakes. Ag the Western Canada’s trials come first this season, the Irish setter men should make a good try for the coveted prize. A meeting of all interested will be held at the Clarendon Hotel on Monday next at 8:30 P, M. Entries close Thursday, Aug, 25, and may be made on application to W. H. Thompson, Hon, Secretary, Cus- toms House, Winnipeg.’ Although this club is amateur in the best sense of the term, its membership is composed of the most influential men we have here, and sterling sports- men. It was thought that the Northwestern Club should not recognize them in its champion eyent, but we decided We were vut for the encouragement and development of field dogs, and we should offer all the encouragement in our power to such organizations, as we feel that to such clubs—. who are the primary of semi-professional clubs—and where: we shall eventually draw members who will supersede those, who are always willing for new blood to take a hand in, keeping up the strength of more matured field trial organiza- tions.” A meeting of the American Spaniel Club was held on Fri- day, Aug. 20, at No, 13 West Eighteenth street, New York. Upon motion the action of the executive committee of July 16, 1897, in suspending absolutely Messrs, R. Toon and OC, Thomas from membership in the club, was approved; and, further, the executive committee was directed to call the attention of the secretary of the American Kennel Club to certain violations of the rules by the suid Toon and Thomas, and lo request him to proceed in the matter. The executive committee was authorized, in the event of the American Ken- nel Club changing the terms of the various classes, to alter the terms of the Spaniel Club’s classifications so as to con- form to the A, K, O. requirements. The question of the definition of the term “‘parti-colored spamiels” was dis- cussed, end the executive committee was requested to define this term, With his letter advising us of the changed date of the no medical treatment which is a cure for it. 199 FOREST AND STREAM. [Smpr. 4, 1897, Brunswick Fur Club’s trials (to week of Oct. 17), Mr. Turpin says: ‘‘Your readers who attended the early beagle trials of the A. B, C. will be interested to hear of the death of my Belle Ross, winner of first prizes in 90 and ’91. She wasa charming companion both at home and in the field, and her sweet voice will be sadly missed in the fall hunting,” — Aheeling. © Communications for this department are requested, Anything on the bicycle in its relation to the sportsman is particularly desirable THE BOON OF THE WHEEL, BicycLE riding is considered mostly as being a pleasure, exhilarating and-wholesome, it is true, buf nevertheless a pleasure which serves only to while away the present mo- ment, Not afew people look upon it as a capricious fad, one which holds its devotees by the force of novelty or spectactlar display or ill-regulated taste for the uncon- ventional. Those who ride the wheel know that, besides the immedi- ate pleasure of the moment, it imparts beneficent healthful effects which are permanent. The office man, whose brain isa-weary from mental toiling with words and figures, finds an immediate relief in the wholesome change which the wheel affords in new and fresh scenes of changing land- scapes; and pure air is an added benefit. The man whose sedentary life in office or home brings on a thousand Jittle bod- ily ills, and a few great ones, the commonest of which is that degeneration of the organism politely termed “getting stout,” but in reality a fatty degeneration of the organism—though many people believe that the accumulation of fat is a sign of vigorous health—owes a lifelong gratitude to the bicycle. The fat person is always thick of wind, easily fatigued, dis- inclined to exertion and lacking in stamina. All the symp- toms indicate that physical exercise is necessary. There is Anti-fat nos- irums are a delusion and afraud, A special diet may afford partial relief, but, the cause still remaining, the fatty habit continues, | _ . ; To fat people the bicycle 1s a friend whose loyalty never falters. By regular riding the fat is quickly worked off, all the muscles of the body are hardened and strengthened, all the organs are made healthy and yigorous, the appetite be- ~ comes regular and keen, and sweet, wholesome sleep takes “the place of the wearisome restlessness of.the night, or of the ‘Insomnia which is so laden with disaster if permitted long to hold sway. The fat man, short of wind and heavy of foot, finds after a short period of regular riding that he has recovered his elasticity and lightness of movement; his wind is equal to any reasonably active exertion, and with the absence of fat many bodily discomforts disappear. With a sound and ac- tive body come a clear, normal mind. A sedentary life may not produce fatty degeneration in all men, but it is certain to have its ill effects nevertheless. There may be a general constitutional degeneration, though nothing maybe distinctly specific. Irritableness, peevish- ness, pessimistic standards or unhappy- apprehensiveness are common traits of the man who has an active brain in an idle body. He cannot ride a wheel and have dyspepsia or blues if he lead an otherwise sensible life. Setting forth on his wheel, he is independent of all other forms of transportation, whether it be of horse, steam or electricity. He can, in a ‘short time, shift the scene from brick walls and city streets to the most secluded scenes of hill and valley bedecked with nature’s yerdure. “ weariness. to its practice, But to gain the benefits of bicycling, it must be conducted with reasonable regularity as to time, and good judgment as To ride once a week, or every day of one week and none of the next two or three weeks, cannot be of much physical benefit. It may give some pleasure, but. the bodily training and invigoration are not thereby attained. Women, in particular, ride with bad judgment until such times as they have had several unpleasant experiences from over-exertion. Onan all-day ride, they rush in the begin- ning and become greatly wearied lang before the end of the rub, orfihey rush a long hill and arrive at its top blown and tired where, if they had taken it with sensible deliberation and steadiness, they would reach its top without distress or The wheel is one of the greatest benefactors if used aright; its abuse may resull Im harm, as may the abuse of every other good thing in life. , Care of a Wheel, On returning from a ride the wheel should always be cleaned. - If mud has collected on the frame or wheels, it should be wiped off with a moist sponge and thoroughly dried with a soft piece of cloth. It is well to keep a woolen cloth or a partly worn soft towel for this purpose only, «The bright parts should be frequently rubbed off with a piece of chamois skin, and occasionally, when needed, with putz-pomade, - The sprocket wheels and chain should be - kept free from dirt and grit by frequent cleaning with a stiff brush and then wiped off with a dry cloth. Oil the chain with any good lubricant—‘“‘3-in-1” is excellent—and see that it works into all the joints of the chain; revolve the rear wheel rapidly for a few seconds, and wipe all the superfluous oil from the surface of the chain, and finally apply stick graphite lightly to inside of chain, spreading it by revolving the rear wheel. B . The bearings and hubs should be oiled once a week, or at the end of every 100 miles of riding, The oiling should be thoroughly done, and the wheels revolved in order to prop- erly spread the oil, and all the superfiuous oil should be rubbed of the exposed parts. After oiling, the oil caps on wheel hubs should be carefully closed, to preyent dust from forcing its way into the bearing. If, when lubricating your wheel, any oil should bappen to drop on your rubber tires, Wipe it off at-once to prevent their being injured by its action, Keep your tires properly inflated. The most satisfactory results will be secured from tires that when pinched with . thumb and fingers yields just enough to give the idea of - slight elasticity. After inflating tires do not screw on caps ut valves too tight; turn them to the full extent of thethread, but-no further; extreme tightening will wear the rubber and cause a leak, As to punctures of the tires, they can be best cared for by the professional repair man, by whom, when it - is possible, they should be treated. Before starting out for a ride, carefully examine the nuts on the axles, seat post, saddle and handlebars, to see that ihey are all in place and tight. Ii through carelessness you r . un into a stone wall or fence, or tumble into a ditch, and do damage to your wheel, do not blame the manufacturer or make cursory remarks about the mechanism of your cycle. Don’t lend your wheel. Hachting. The racing and measurement rules of the Yach Racing Union of Long Island Sound (the Seawanhaka rule, with allowance tables) can be had of Thompson & Co , 55 Dey street, New York; price 10 cents per copy, ; The handbook of “Yacht Flag Htiquette” can be had of Rehm & Co., 157 Fulton street, New York; price 10 cents per copy, YACHT RACING FIXTURES 1897. Tux following list of fixtures has been compiled from miany different sources, Some of them not official, andit may contain some errors. We shall be glad to have notice of corrections and additions. Races of the Sound Y. R. U. are marked with the letter 8; those of the Massachusetts ¥, R. A. with the letter M: SEPTEMBER, 1. Royal Nova Scotia, open, handicap, Halifax. M 2-3-4. Duxbury, Davenport cup, special races for second class, Plymouth Bay. 4-5-6, Buffalo, cruise, Lake Erie. s4, Cee eu naag Cor., fall race. schooners and 438, 36, 25, 20 and 15ft,. classes. - M 4. Savin Hill, Savin Hill, Boston Harbor. . Burgess, club, Marblehead, Massachusetts Bay, 4, Roy. Canadian, ist and d7ft, classes, Toronto, Lake Ontario, 4, American, 3d club, Newburyport. 4, Beverly, 4th open sweeps, Wenaumet, Buzzard’s Bay. 4. Cohasset, club, 15-footers, 14th cham., Cohasset. "4-5, Cor. San Francisco, outside cruise, Drake’s Bay, San Francisco 4, Parent, 51ft. and smaller classes, Larchmont, Long Island ound. : . Royal Nova Scotia, knoekabout class, Halifax. : Rarer ans fall regatta, all classes, Larchmont, Long Island Sound. New York, Y. R, A. annual, New York Bay. . Fall River, club, Mount Hope Bay. . Cor. Marblehead, cruise, Massachusetis Bay. . Gravesend Bay, special, NewYork Bay. Pacific, annual, San Francisco Bay, 6, Lynn, Lynn Bay, = 6. Norwalk, annual, all classes of catboats. . Cohasset, club, 15-footers, 15th cham., Cohasset. . Taunton, 2d cham,, Taunton, Mass. . Beverly, 3d open, Wenaumet, Buzzard’s Bay. American, Sweepstakes, skiffs, Newburyport. ae Canadian, Prince of Wales’ cup, all classes, Toronto, Lake mtario, 7. Absequan, Cricket and 15ft, classes, Atlantic City, Absecon Bay. 9. Miramichi, Watt cup, Newcastle, N. B. . 9, Cor. San Francisco, interclab regatta, San Francisco, 10, Taunton, ladies’ day, Taunton, Mass. M 11. Chelsea, Boston Harbor. M11. Y. R. A, rendezvous, Hull, Boston Harbor, § 11. Riverside. fall race, 43, 36, 30 and 25ft, classes, and 30 and 25ft. classes of cabin catboats. 11, Winthrop, club, Winthrop, Boston Harbor. 11. Roy. Canadian, skiff class, Toronto, Lake Ontario. 11. Beverly, 5th cham., Wenaumet, Bozzard’s Bay. 11, Burgoss, cham., sail-off, Marblehead. Mass. Bay, 11, Columbia, annual, open, Chicago, Lake Michigan. 11. Larchmont, schooners (Larchmont cup) and smaller classes, Larehmont, Long Island Sound. 11-12, Cor, San Francisco, cruise, Mari Islands, San Francisco. $18. American, fall regatta for all classes, 18 Queen City, 22ft. class, Toronto, Lake Ontario, #1. Absequan, open, At)antic City. 25-26. Cor, San Francisco, cruise, Dillon’s Point, San Francisco. 25. Buffalo, closing cruise, Lake Erie. 25. American, closing race, Newburyport, OCTOBER, 9, Miramichi, Gould cup, Chatham, N. B. 9-10. Cor. San Francisco, cruise, Corinthian Cove, San Francisco. 16. Cor, San Francisco, closing day, San Francisca, 17, Cor. San Francisco squadron, cruise, San Frane sco, i=] nasa aPtaaaaag i—e AS THE conditions now stand, all yacht clubs, in the United States or abroad, are at liberty to file challenges with the Royal St. Lawrence Y. C. up to Sept.18. On that date the club may select any one of the challenges which may best suit its wishes, If no challenges are received by that time, the first one received later takes priority of all others. There is little doubt that the Seawanhaka C. Y. C, will challenge again, but we should prefer to see some new club in the fight next year, in order to make the contest more interest- ing, A challenge from a British elub would, in this respect, be preferable to one from this sideof the St. Lawrence. Itis reported this week that C. F. Adams, 2d, who has just sold his fast Rooster to Melbourne McDowell, will build next year, and that a challenge will be sent from the Quincey Y.C. Mr. Adams, now Mayor of Quincy, Mass.,is a member of _the Quincy Y, C. The International Races. AS matters now are in yachting, the up-to-date racing machine, whether of 90ft l.w.l. or 20ft. racing length must be accepted for just what she is, and judged accordingly. If she serves the one definite end of providing sport for the moment under existing conditions and of keeping alive toa certain extent the interest in yacht racing; it matters little what else she is or is not; whether she demonstrates a new and useful principle in naval architecture, or whether she only proves over again the familiar fact that extreme speed alone under “plain and simple rules” always produces an extreme type of craft of limited usefulness. To the great body of intelligent and progressive yachtsmen it would be gratifying in the extreme to feel that the construction of a new and successful yacht, such as Vigilant, Defender, Meteor IL, Niagara, and downward to the little fellows, Ethelwyun, Hl Heirie and the two Glencairns, meant a sub- stantial gain to the whole sport of yachting, and beyond that to the noble science of naval architecture; that a material step had been made in naval science. That this is far from being the case is only too plain; speaking generally, the in- crease of speed that has undeniably been attained within the past five years is due in pait to the discovery of a new method of evading the measurement of the loadwaterline and in partto the mechanical tricks of hanging a bigger lump of lead lower down than ever before, or of carrying a bigger ballast crew further out to windward. The improvement of form in this time has been very slight, and accompanied by serious drawbacks in the lessening of internal room; the im- provements in construction may in the main be classed as quite as small, the very great reduction of weight operating to seriously shorten the life of the vessel. Tt is too late now for vain regrets that timely steps were not taken six years ago to protect the comparatively good and “useful yachts of the day from the invasion of the fin-keel, and for the present, at least, there is nothing but to recog- nize that the racing of machines, even in limited numbers, is better than no racing at all,in keeping alive a general and popular interest in yachting as a national sport, Thatmuch should, and might be, done for the correction of existing evils, is becoming more and more apparent every year, and we hope that some positive step may be jmade this season, For the present, however, we have but the racing machine, and that in the yery smallest class but one; and it may be worth while to look at the latest and fastest examples of the type, the competitors in the late series of international races. _Now that the destiny of the cup for the present yeay is de- cided, the excitement over, and the yachts practically set aside on the shelves of yachting history, most yachtsmen are ready to forget them and to turn to some nuéw sensation; but it would be a great pity ifthe infinite Jabor of the de- signers and the liberal expenditure of money on both sides served no better purpose than the mere four days of racing, However distant the results may be from the abstract standard of an ideal yacht, itis not to be supposed that so much skill and intelligence as the designers of Glencairn and Momo have displayed are to be entirly lost to yachting, Before considering the present challenger and defender, it will be interesting to look back at their predecessors of 1895 and 1896. The first challenger, Spruce IIII., was an excellent representative of a type long established in Hingland. While, perhaps, not the fastest of the home class in that year, she was fully qualified as a fair representative, an up to-date craft, built for the American challenge by one of the success- ful designers and builders of the class, and for a yachtsman who had grown up in the half-rater class, and who had sailed in it persistently year after year with considerable success. The first defender, Hthelwynn, was produced in a& hurry to meet the exigencies of the case, an experiment in that the class was entirely unknown here, and she was sailed by a crew unused to the size and type. In length and sail area the two were close together, both being of low power, the ratio of the square root of the sail area to the L.W.L. being about 1,00, Spruce was of greater displacement, and con- siderably heavier in construction; but Hibhe iy yae. was very strongly and heavily built as compared with the winner of this year, though somuch smaller She had a strong Keel, her planking was thicker and her frames larger than those of Glencairn II , and her hollow mast was of the same diam- eter, though intended for less than one-half of the sail area Though light as compared with existing small boats, her rig and fittings were nearly as heavy as those of Glencairn IT. Spruce [II. was of heavy construction, with an outside oak keel, heayy oak tabernacle, and an abundance of wood throughout; her rig also, in spite of the bamboo spars, was heavy. The two had somewhat similar sail plans, both jib- headers; but while Spruce had the so-called English Ing rig, with a long yard, Hthelwynn had the simple leg-o’-mutton rig, with pole mast. Spruce had a reefing batten and hand gear, while Hthelwyun had not. Neither boat was designed for a ballast crew, Mr. Brand, though a very tall man, was not particularly heavy, and his paid hand was stoutly built, but ot moderate weight. One of Ethelwynn’s crew, the helmsman, was well under the asssumed weight. Her best work was done in strong breezes with a crew of two very. light men, if we remember, under 1401bs. each; and from this performance in the last two races, we have no hesitation in saying that with the same handling in the whole series, she was capable of winning three straight races, Both of the contestants in 1895, in spite of some difference in"beam, were of much the same type, with moderately full lines forward, but still with -V-sections and a V-waterline forward. Thetwo competitors of 1896 were of a very difter- ent type. Though they differed materially from each other, they both showed plainly their relationship and common origin in the scow type as deyeloped in the general racing of the class in the previous season. Thecommon point of resem- blance lay In the use of a very full waterline and level lines, especially forward, thus materially increasing the length of useful waterline when the boat was heeled to an extreme angle; this degree of heel being reached deliberately by plac- ing the crew to leeward in light winds. Apart from this basic principle, the starting point of Ma. Crane in Wl Heirie and Mr. Duggan in Glencairn I,, and marking the two as distinct from all previous boats of the class, there were material points of difference, In Hl] Heirie, Mr. Crane, with but the one boat to experiment with, wisely enough adhered to the accepted elements of the preceding year—about equal L.W.L. and square root of sail area, In. Glencairn I., however, Mr. Duggan was able to profit by a series of experiments begun early in the fall and pushed) as soon as the boats could be launched in the spring, the result being that he abandoned the V-section of the old hoats, con- densing his l.w.1. to 12ft: Gin,; and at thesame time he proved ‘that he could successfully carry the extra area of sail, a total of nearly 300sq. ft., to which he was entitled. As compared with El Heirié, Glencairn I, was about 1ft, 9in, shorter on the measured lw.1., with 9in. more extreme beam, and some 50sq. ft. more of sail. While both were of good construction and quite strong, Glencairn, though much larger in body, was the lighter, with a single skin and no keel; she was also lighter in Spars and rigging. The displacements were nob widely apart, neither carried any ballast other than a mod- erately heavy plate board. Next to the disparity in L.W.l. and sail area, the great point of difference lay in the depth and contents of the hulls. Bl Heirie showed her relationship to the scow type im her low freeboard and absolutely straight sheer line, with par- allel deck lines, square transom and shoyelnose. Glencairn T., on the other hand, disgiised her scow features by a good freeboard and lively sheer, a conventional deck line sweep- ing in from the point of greatest breadth to the stem and transom, the latter being fairly near to the usual shape; her bow was very full, but the appearance when afloat was not materially different from other modern small craft. Neither yacht had a bowsprit, and each had a shoal watertight cock- pit draining into the well. El Heirie had the ordinary gaff mainsail and a jib set on a club; Gleneairn I. had a gunter ~ mainsail, jib headed and set on along yard, the samerig as Spruce MIL, but with different details. While each was _ heeled to her working angle by the crew to leeward in light weather, and each carried sail in a breeze by the hard hiking of the crew, neither was designed specially to profit by a heavy crew. Mr. Crane and his brother, who together sailed El Heirie, are both of no more than the average weight, and Mr. Duggan and Mr, Shearwood, of Glencairn I., are also about the average; each crew came about to the assumed limit of 3001bs. ; - This time there were three straight races, Glencairn I. winning each day and taking the cup to Canada. This con- test was very interesting from the fact that Mr, Crane and Mr. Duggan was each working independently on the same idea, and that a new one in designing; the success of Hl Heirie in the trial races, out of a fleet of twenty-nine yachts, showed how cleverly her designer had handled the question; but he had not attempted at the same time to experiment in the direction ef greatly increased power. Mr. Duggun, on the other hand, instead of designing but one yacht, began practically with the form and power of Ethelwynn early in the winter, and after studying the whole subject in the - course of 4 number of designs, came to the conclusion quite early in the season, that with a certain new form of hull the, “measured L.W.L. might be materially shortened with no’ loss of power or fine lines; and also that this nominally shorter hull might be made to carry the larger sail area to which its decrease of L, W.L. entitled 16. - The very carly date at which Mr. Duggan began his de- ' signing, the completion of the boats during the winter and their readiness by the time the weather was fit for racing, and the thorough preliminary trials, beginning on May id and continuing through a series of sixteen races, in which he was represented by no less than seven yachts fi hting: against those of other designers, altogether resulted in a! course of evolution probably unprecedented in yachting; it not only left Spruce III, and Ethelwynn very far behind, but in the important factor of power, at least, placed 7 we ; at Sper, 4, 1897.) FOREST AND STREAM, 195 challenging yacht very far ahead of the best of the new de- fending fleet, large as it was. r It was this superiority in power, more than anything else, the big rig of Glencairn I., and her designer’s ability to handle it perfectly, that took the cup to Canada, but it brought about another result, in that Mr. Duggan himself was one of the first to recognize the extreme to which sail as compared to length had been forced in the course of his ex- periments, and to suggest the placing of a limit to a competi- tion which, already unwholesome, must become worse rather better if left unrestricted. The carrying out of this suggestion by the limitation of the sail area to 500sq, ft. in the new 20ft. class, in which the challenge of the Seawanbaka C. Y, C. was finally made, to- pether with the remarkable success of the later Duggan 15- ooters Sothis, Anita and Glencairn I, against the best American boats, Hl Heirie, Riverside and Vesper, materially simplified the problem for 1897. The eevee of power, the controlling factor in 1896, was entirely eliminated; in spite of much silly nonsense that has been written about the extreme limits of variation of L.W.L. and sail in this class and under the Seawanhaka rule, it was - practi- cally settled that all designers would work as closly as ey. possibly dared to the maximum sail limit, 500sq. ft.’ with its corresponding l|.w.l. of 17ft, 6in, Wurther than this while a wide diversity of types have been seen in the class this year, from the extreme scow Skate-to the conyentional waterlines of Asthore, and the full-bodied Duggan boats, it has happened that both Glencairn II. and Momo have the Same midship section, practically identical with Glencairn I. ‘The two, Momo and Glencairn IL, are remarkable alike for their close resemblance in some important points and their wide divergence in others. In length and sail area there is a small difference, some 9in. more length for Momo gud an excess of 38sq. ft, of sail for Glencairn; this is prob- ably due to causes beyond the control of the designers, There is always a possibility, one might almost say a cer- tainty, that these lightly-built boats will change their keel contour in the course of some weeks of sailing, and this may result in a material lengthening of the measured L..W.L., pwns to the very flat angle between the water and the line of eel at each end, Then, too, there is a certain variation to be looked for between the calculated weight and the actual weight after some period of immersion; and the best trim is only to be found by steady trial, possibly calling for a little longer or shorter L W.L, than that in the design. There is also the weight of centerboard, several different ones being usually tried. While Glencairn IJ. came out just within the allowed 17ft, 6in, 1.w.J., with the heavy board for which she was designed, Momo, in final racing trim in fresh water, prowed to be so much longer and so near the limit that her eavy, bronze board could not be used, and she was obliged to carry a much lighter one of steel plate. With all the final difference, however, it is prabable that the two de- signers started out with the same L,W.L., sail area and dis- placement. The midship séctions, as already stated, are also practi- cally the same, both closely resembling that of Glencairn I, In the case of Glencairn Il., Mr, Duggan had already experi- mented with various modifications of an enlarged section of Glencairn I,, with a variation in beam from 7 to 9ft., with ac- companying variations in the round of the bilge, flare of the topsides, etc. The final result in Glencairn II. was a section of 8ft, beam, very similar to the original one. In the two boats designed by him, Al Anka and Momo, Mr. Crane kept quite close to the section of Glencairn I,; so that the resem- blance between the challenger and defender as finally selected was remarkably close. In Momo the turn of the bilge was a little longer and easier and the topsides flared a little more, these characteristics not being confined to the middle body alone, but extending throughout the boat. Though so similar in many respects, there were some material points of difference; in the first place, Glencairn II, had a full 2in. more freeboard from end to end than Momo, with a little more sheer, and while the bow of Momo was abruptly snubbed in, that of Glencairn was carried out fair until the two deck lines met at the stemhead. This made* some difference in the over all lengths of hull which alto- gether amounted to over 2ft. 6in., and with the added free- oard and the extra crown to the deck made the hull of Gleneairn very much larger and mors buoyant in a sea than that of Momo. In their arrangement both were open below, without bulkheads, but Glencairn’s cockpit, about 6x 4ft., was also open, the only floor being of slats laid on the tim- bers and cross floors a few inches above the garboards. There were ab the mast several plank floors about 10in, deep and without limber holes, which acted as bulkheads in con- fining to the bow any water which once found its way there, as through the hole made in the first race, Momo, like Hl Heirie and Glencairn I,, had a watertight — cockpit—a mere depression of the deck to hold sails, the boat being practically flush-decked, like the extreme scows, and with no place for the erew except in a reclining position that is very fatiguing when long continued. It is almost absurd to speak at all of ease and comfort on these small Tacing machines, but there are degrees of discomfort, and the man on Momo, with a wide crowned deck at some little distance above the water, is better off than the man on Skate, with a fiat, flush deck that is practically awash when - ot standing on edge. Similarly, with added depth of hull and 4 deep cockpit, as in Glencairn II,, there is an occasional Boportunsty, to bend the knees by taking the ordinary sitting position. : The sail plans of the two boats. presented an interesting contrast, the differences in nominal rig that appeared in the two former races no longer existed, both yachts had the eon- ventional gaff mainsail, with throat and peak h-lyards. The proportions of the two sail plans were, however, radically different. That of Glencairn was of about the nor- mal proportions for the sloop rig, rather long on the base and of moderate height; Momo, on the other hand, had a very short base and much greater height, the gaft being longer by 3ft. and peaked higher, This cut of rig is dis- tinctly of advantage in light weather, where a little air may be caught aloft; and alsoin racing on narrow waters sur- rounded by trees and high ground, where the wind is broken by banks and trees. It was well known to American canoe- ists fifteen years ago, haying been imported from the Thames, where it was developed by Mr. H Tredwen, one of the most successful racing canoeists of the day. In the heavil ballasted Pear! canoes, sailing on the narrow Thames with trees on each side, the rig proved very successful; but it was speedily abandoned after trial on New York Bay and the St, Lawrence River, being replaced by a much lower and longer rig. Within the past two years the same shape of rig has been developed on the Boston knockabouts, and it has proved superior to the ordinary rig. The reasons for this are so plain that the experience in the knocksbouts does notof ne- cessity offer reliable grounds for the general adoption of the Tig. Inthe modern Knockabout, a purely racing craft, the original cruising restriction of no bowsprit is still retained, the C. E. being thus thrown very far aft in a sail plan of the ordinary proportions. At the same time the deadwoods fore: and aft have been ruthlessly cut away until thelateral plane is really that of a fin-keel. With this short lateral plane and a sail plan whose C. H, is abnormally far aft, the boats are unmanageable; asa matter of necessity, the after sail has been cut off to make the boats steer, and in order to make up the allowed area, the height of the sail plan has been materially increased. In this way the ©. H. of the nar- row and lofty sail triangle is brought into a reasonable rela- tion to the C.L.R, of theshort deep fin. At the same time, ihe Knockabouts, with 3,5001bs, of lead in the bulb, 21ft, lw.l. and 7 to 8ft. beam, have only the same sail area, 500sq. ft., as the 20-footers, thus haying ample power to counterbalance any elevation of the weight of rig. We cannot say how strongly Mr, Crane, with all of his Boston experience, has been influenced by this evidence from the knockabouts, which as far as it goes has been allone way, the narrow and high rigs on several other Herreshoff boats Have placed them all ahead of his new Fly with a broad and low rig this season; it would seem, however, that he has ac- cepted this result on itsface. It is still a matter of opinion whether one rig, and if so which, has any advantage over the other when not specially fayored by unusual conditions, as just instanced, but for the 20ft, class in the present races we believe that the rig of Glencairn II. is decidedly superior to that of Momo. These races were to be sailed on quite open waters; the surrounding shores were low, and the winds, especially the prevailing W.and S.W., had a clear sweep. ‘he great over All length which was optional if not absolutely desirable for other reasons, and which might be supplemented with a bowsprit, made it pcssible to distribute the sail so as to obtain a proper balance of centers without excessive height; and on the other hand, with the large sail plans carried and the absence of depth and fixed ballast, it was most desirable to reduce the height of the top weights. Uniil it is proven that there is an advantage per se in the narrow and lofty as compared with the broad and low rig, in open waters and free from arbitrary restrictions, it would _ seem that the moderate proportions of Glencairn’s sail plan were better than the extreme of Momo’s. Against the de- cided lowering of weights in the one, there was only the possibility of catching a current aloft in a drifting match for the other, In the first two contests, as already shown, thereswas no attempt to design for a ballast crew, the most that was done was to endeavor to fit the displacement and dimensions to the two men who were decided on for the crew. In the case of Spruce IIII., Mr. Brand had the young sailor man who had already been in his employ for several seasons; Hithelwynn’s owner invited a friend, a skillful helmsman, but a light- weight, to sail with him; the Crane brothers, both of only average weights, sailed togetherin Hl] Heirie as a matter of course, and similarly Mr. Duggan took with him in Glen- cairn I. his old companion in seores of paddling and sailing races, Mr. Shearwood. Tn the new 20-footers, however, the crew was from the first considered in a new light, as so much shifting ballast; this consideration- having much influence on the design. Mr, Duggan, of course, sailed his own boat and kept his old mate, Mr, Shearwood, with him, but in selecting the third man, for mainsheet, he chose a heavy-weight, Mr. Paton, of 240lbs.; at the same.time an old yachtsman and good all- round sportsman, who worked his passage well in all the races of the season. Mr. Crane, while also starting out to sail himself in the boat of his design, started by picking out two of the heaviest of his friends, old football men, who were also good sailors. Both Al Anka and Momo were designed to carry the weight of Messrs. Stackpole and Shaw to wind- ward. Under the letter ofthe rule and its previous con- struction, this was perfectly proper and permissible; but the picking of men for weight above all other qualifications in- troduced a new and certainly a most undesirable principle in the 15 and 20ft. classes. : A great deal has been said about the unusual weather in which the races were sailed and its effect upon the result, and some haye gone so far as to attribute the defeat of Momo solely to the accident of abnormal weather. This is very far indeed from being the case, as a closer examination of the races will disclose. The weather was unusual and very dif- ferent from the light weather which has prevailed in most of the races of the 15ft. class in two seasons at Oyster Bay, as well as on Lake St. Louis, At the same time, it was not so much that three out of the four races were sailed ina chance storm as that the whole season, on the coast and on the St. Lawrence, has been marked by much rain, cool weather, and generally strong breezes. It very often happens that after a blow of several days there follows a prolonged calm; but on the Saturday and Sunday after the last race there was still plenty of wind about Lake St. Louis. From the general tenor of the criticisms on the weather, it might be inferred that Mr, Crane had designed a light weather boat for the ayerage racing conditions, and that Mr. Duggan had de- signed a heavy weather boat for exceptional conditions which he was lucky enough to realize, This is by no means the true state of the case. No one knows better than Mr, Dug- gan the average light weather conditions which prevail on Lake St, Louis. He last year won both there and at Oyster Bay in a boat of exceptionally high power. There was noth- ing to induce him to goin for aheavy weather boat this year, and, as a matter of fact, Glencairn IJ. was designed to have much Jess power than Avoca, the latter, after several races in exceptionally heayy weather, showing more power than her designer considered necessary. The trial races of the class were sailed in very light weather, and showed Glencairn to be the fastest of a fleet that had sailed through the season in all sorts of weather. Glencairn is in every sense a high-powered light weather boat, intended for the average conditions of Long Island Sound and Lake St. Louis, as shown in many seasons of racing. The difference between her and Momo, as nearly as we can estimate it from such sources of information as have been available, is this. Both designers started ont with the same intention, of producing first of all a light weather boat, but Mr. Crane, while under-estimating the value of heayy weather qualities in case of an exceptional day or two, over-estimated the value of certain light weather features, such as low freeboard, short overhangs, and lofty rig. The value of low freeboard in racing has been an open ques- tion for the past three years,and many have believed thatthere was 2 material gain in speed from the total absence of free- board and sheer in such craft as Question and Skate. That this was largely Mr. Crane’s belief last year was shown in El Heirie, with a comparatively low freeboard and no sheer. While being by no means positive in the matter, in the ab- sence of direct proof, we have still believed and hoped that the advantages, even in extreme racing, were on the side of the conyentional yacht form, with moderate freeboard, ship- shape and sightly sheer, and good ends, as opposed to the “Barndoor” type of rectangular flat slab. In the 15ft. class last year the scows were represented by Willada and Hope, the yacht form by Glencairn I,, and the compromise by Hl Heirie. Im the new 20ft. class, the scows are represented by Skate and Keneu, the yacht form by Glencairn IL. and her six sisters, and the intermediate type by Momo. Momo is decidedly further from the scow and nearer to the yacht than El Heirie, but so far as the hull goes, it is through, the predominance of the scow features, the lower freeboard aud blunt fore end, that she is termed a light weather boat in comparison with Glencairn II, ye Whether or no Mr, Crane was right in his estimates of the necessity of certain heavy weather features and of their dis- advantages in such weather as might confidently be ex- pected, it must be admitted that he has dealt successfully with the problem of design from a purely light weather standpoint, and that he has been in very hard luck in strik- ing a succession of reefing breezes. Momo has proved her- self a very fast boat in light weather, and might, under different conditions, have made a much better show- ing. At the same time, after watching the trial races of both fieets, at Oyster Bay and later on Lake St. Louis, and all of the final cup races, we doubt very much whether Momo would have taken more than two out of five races in any wind heayy and steady enough to carry the boats over the course at a speed of five knots. In the first race, in Which the course was sailed in less than this speed, we are of the opinion that if Glencairn had crossed the line even with Momo without accident, it would haye been seconds either way ab the finish. The work of Glencairn in strong breezes has distracted attention from her performances in light weather; but taking her work in the trial races, and at times in the cup races, and giving due weight to the splen- did handling which turned a defeat into victory in the last race, we doubt whether the real result of the races, the pos- session of the Sea~anhaka international cup for the coming year, has been seriously affected by the presence of heavy rather than light weather. There is one lesson of the races which should not be over- looked or buried under any plea of exceptional weather; even in this racing class, the majority of the races both on the Sound and the St, Lawrence being in light weather, the boat with moderate freeboard, sheer and bulk of body has beaten the extreme slab, and the former in turn has been beaten by a boat of still more wholesome design. The present races have brought to the surface one point which has thus far been passed over by all pares by com- mon consent, though its importance has been recognized from the first by many, The possibilities of a purely ballast crew under the existing method of measuring with a nom inal weight of 1501bs. for each member of the crew have been discussed since the first arrangements were begun for the races of 1895, but thus far no action has been taken, The matter is a difficult one to deal with, and the general feel- ing has been that in the 15ft, class it would not pay to carry a very heavy man, as he would almost of necessity be un fitted for the work of handling light sails; this work requir- ing an exceptionally active man, and one whose weight when forward would disturb the trim as little as possible. This was all very wellin the 15ft. class, no very heavy men appeared in the crews; but in going to a larger size the fac- tors of the problem were someywhat changed, The value of the whole crew as mere shifting ballast became greater, there was more room for the big man to work than on the 15-footer, and there was allowed an extra man, presumably aheavy-weight, who, while tending main sheet, could shift fore and aft and thus balance the weight of the man who was working about the deck. It was just as true as ever that the work of setting light canvas. to say nothing about the matter of walking in safety on a 5-16in. deck, required a light and active man; but some skippers at least considered the weight to windward as of greater value than the extra dexterity about the deck. | The matter was brought to an issue by the withdrawal of Mr, Crane from his own boat in order to make way fora stranger of greater weight in a heavy weather race. While this is in itself no violation of the letter of the rule, it is at the same time in that doubtful category of things which, while not directly prohibited, may be done just once before they are made the subject of restrictive legislation, as was the case with Vigilant’s ballast crew in 1893. There is no question of Mr. Crane’s legal right to make this substitu- tion, but we regard it as most unfortunate that the final de- cision of the question should have been forced in this way, and really to no good purpose. This is one of those open questions which may and always should be discussed and decided in the abstract and out ot theracing season, and which, if forced to the front by one side or the other in con- ite form during the races, is almost certain to provoke ill- eeling. The members of the Royal St. Lawrence Y. C. since they first challenged in 1895, have shown a spirit that is con- spicuous even among the highest class of sportsmen for a Tigid observance of the spirit of the rules, without referring to the letter. In the course of two seasons of hot racing, and of long discussions between the two clubs over details, they have shown every desire to keep these contests on the highest possible plane. ‘There is no denying that the substi- tution of an outside man for mere purposes of ballast has awakened a great deal of feeling on their part against the Seawanhaka C. Y. C, Another question of a somewhat similar nature, but not so serious, had already arisen over the claim by Mr. Crane of the right to name two helmsmen for Momo, ‘his, too, is more a matter of usage than of law, and it is not necessary to argue itnow from its strictly legal aspect. he main points are that it was contrary to the general usage of yacht racing, that it had not been done before in the races tor the Seawanhaka cup, and that to recognize it now would be to establish a precedent that might giye trouble in the future. Though this point, we believe, was not advanced by the Canadians, it is plain that in races as hard and tedious as these sometimes have proyed, the boat equipped with two good helmsmen to relieve one another would be at a decided advantage over one in which only one man was accustomed to the steering, Perhaps the fairest way to consider these two allied ques- tions is to look first at the ordinary customs of yacht racing and then at the possibilities which would be opened by the full recognition of Momo’s two claims. The ordinary usage in yacht racing, and especially in the previous races for this cup, is that oné man shall steer a yacht through a race, and that the crew shall be made up of the same persons as nearly as possible in each race; as a rule it is in every way desirable that one good man perfectly familiar with the boat shall have the helm, and that he shall have under him men whom he knows well and who ara familiar with their seyeral duties. There is usually nothing to prevent another from taking the helm for a short time, or in the event of injury to the helmsmian, aud it isof course often necessary to take a substitute for an absent member of the crew. In the 20[t. racing, however, the conditions are somewhat different from those which maintain through theracing fleet at large, or even in the ordinary small classes. There is a very strong temptation to pick men tor their weight above all other considerations; in tact, as the case now is, a man of under 150)bs., even though a good helmsman or hand, might as well make up his mind that there is no berth for him in the winning boats of the class, and that he must be content perforce to sit on the stringpiece and watch the racing. Of course, such a personality 4g that of Mr. Duggan must al- ways be worth more than any weight of mere beef in a boat; but it is plain to see that, unless some restriction is placed, next year’s boats will be manned, like Skate, by men who are big and heayy, as well as good yachtsmen, ‘I‘here are none too many now who are capable of doing such work as Mr. Crane or Mr. Duggan haye done this year, of designing, superintending, working up aud finally sailing a racing 2U- footer, and the number of these who are also heavy snough to qualify as valuable ballast is very much smaller. The man of average weight cannot be left ashore entirely after he has designed and worked up the boat; he musp be carried, but his deficiency as ballast must be made up if possible. Jf it be conceded that two helmsmen may be named and the crew changed at will, thé resulv under the strain of international competition is perfectly evident. In the first place, the owner or designer woo desires to sail in his boat will find a pair of heavy men, oné of whom is a good helmsman, and who will be formally named as such, with the owner, The two will change places ab the stick at will, the lighter one doing the deck work and sail handling. Jf one happens to be specially good at a start and the other more skilled in taking a boat to windward, s0 much the better. With this crew the boat is fitted for heavy weather, but she has, we will suppose, the additional option of changing her crew at will, 804 couple of skillful lightweights are picked out, tG be’carried in light weather, the heavy Mien taking a Test ashore. This may be considered an extreme yiew of the case, but such action would be quite legitimate under the two claims made by Momo, and in the present type of boat it would probably pay in nearly all cases. If one side were thus provided with two helmsmen and # double crew, the other: would be compelled to goto the same extreme. It is almost certain that the two questions will be brought up by the present holders of the cup with a view to a definite un- derstanding of the existing rules, and, if necessary, to fur- ther restrictive iegislation. Looking at the matter in the abstract, and with due regard to the best interests of the ‘sport, most yachtsmen will agree with us that it is in every ‘way desirable that each yacht shall be steered by one man ‘and manned by one regular crew, and that the present pre- Imium on mere weight of crew be removed. The first race, of Aug, 14, offered a most conspicuous in- Stance of the hasty and superficial judgment of even old and @xigert yachtsmen. When looked at carefully in all its aspects, the victory of Momo was a yery simple matter, meaning little at all. On her part she had shown up excel- lently in light weather, her mainsail was in perfect shape and there was no question, though she had nothing close beside her, that she was pointing and footing and working out well to windward; off the wind her speed was still more percepuitle. That Glencairn was in trouble was no fault of ers, it was but the chance-.of war, and by all yachting usage Momo had scored one of the necessary three races, though it is most probable that Mr. Crane would have declined to take it. The work of the whole day, as faras she was con- cerned, was such as to encourage her crew and to send them off in Monday’s race in the best possible spirits. Beyond this the race showed nothing as to the relative ‘merits of the two boats. On the side of Glencairn, it was known after the race, though not in detail during its prog- ress, that her tiller had fouled and finally broken; that she had run wild and fouled a markboat; that she had a hole in her side, below the water on one tack, and that her new rud- derfailed tosteerher. Added toall this, Mr, Duggan crosssd the line with the certainty that his boat was disqualified, and that the best he could do would be to make a show at racing for the benefit of the many interested spectators. That Glencairn was beaten two minutes in two miles under such conditions meant nothing at all. What was of far more importance in the eyes of those who really cared to see; was that in the last leg over the same distance a couple of hours later, after her helmsman and crew had recovered from. the confusion of the breakdown and foul, she made better time than Momo by 36s, Of course the two were far apart, Momo was in no way pushed, and the conditions varied a little; but still there was plenty to show that the boats were not materially different in such weather. : ’ Whe one fact that seemed to strike everyone wasthat Momo had beaten Glencairn nearly four minutes in the first round; no one seemed to attach any importance at all to the really important fact that Momo had made but 25 seconds in the entire third round. Subsequent events corroborated the fact that Momo is faster off the wind than Glencairn, though not to the extent indicated in this first raceof 30 seconds to the mile; but all we have seen of the two, first and last, goes to show that to windward, in any sort of a working breeze, Glencairn will make up a part of this gain, and that the rest will be lost in superior handling on Glencairn. The effect of this race on the experts of the press was very amusing. The cup was already safely back at Oyster Bay, Mr. Duggan was on the verge of neryous prostration as the result of his defeat, and w uld probably break down before Monday’s start, and all was over but the shouting, Hven among the yachtsmen of both sides this same hasty judg- ment was visible; some of the St. Lawrence men were ready to bid a long farewell to the cup without waiting for Mon- day, and some of the visitors were correspondingly.elated. A look at the hole in Glencairn’s side, at the two parts of her tiller with half of a broken bolt in each, and at Mr. Duggan, zoolly and unconcernedly at work as soon as the boat was hauled out cutting off the fore part of the rudder and rivet- jng up the edge, showed just how much the whole business ponte to as a reliable measure of the merits of the two oats, The published comments since the race are quite as wide of the mark; one journal proclaims editorially that Glen- cairn Il. is only a copy of Momo, designed from the descrip- tions of the latter prematurely published during the early ‘Traces; another authority denounces Momo as a mere en- largement of El] Heirie, and accuses Mr. Crane of ignoring the lessons learned last year. Very few of the accounts which we have read do equal justice to the two clever ama- teurs who haye pitted their wits against each other for the _ Second time. A New Knockabout Class. THE Seawanhaka Cor, Y. C. has just issued the following circular: NEW ONE-DESIGN RACING GLASS. During the past few years there has been developed in Bos- ton and its yicinity a very large class of boats known as knockabouts, which combine highly satisfactory cruising qualities with high speed and absolute safety. While sev- eral designers are represented, the restrictions governing their design and construction are Such that the boats are : very even in speed and the racing has consequently been very keen and exciting. The Herreshoff one-design 30ft. special class has also been conspicuously successful for two years and the interest in racing in this class is keener this year than last, which tends to proye that the “‘one-design” ideais well calculated to arouse interest inthe sport. [m- pressed with the experience in these classes, several members have decided to construct knockabout boats for next season’s racing, all from one design and by one builder, and they are anxious that the number constructed shall be as large as possible, both for the effect upon racing and to reduce the cost. Several builders have been invited to submit designs, and the purpose of this circular is to invite all who may beinter- ested in the matter to meet at the Oyster Bay club house on Saturday, Sept. 4 (the day of the autumn race), at 8 o’clock in the evening, when designs will be submitted and the de- tails fully discussed, with the view of placing an early order for as many boats as practicable, It is hoped that from ten to fifteen will be ordered, and in that event the cost should be very moderate. The boats will be 21ft. on the waterline, will have a cabin and cockpit, each about 8ft. in length, and will be well adapted for cruising as well as for racing. Believing that the establishment of this class will espe- cially contribute to the success of racing in our own waters at Oyster Bay, the race committee will encourage it by the giving of frequent races, and desire to aid in the movement in every practicable way, and will be glad to furnish any ad- ditional information in their possession to any who may he interested. Western Yachting. MINNESOTA INTERLAKE CONTESTS. CHICAGO, Ill., Aug. 28.—The annual interlake contests be-. tween the Minnetonka and White Bear fleets offer interesting features this week. Asa result of the trial races on Minne- tonka, the three boats chosen to send to White Bear for the championship races were: Wizard, sloop; Gladrene, one- rater; and Tartar, cat. After the departure of these boats for White Bear, interest in the races hetween remaining boats at Minnetonka fell off. On Aug. 26 the interlake regatta sailed on White Bear ake was a frolic for the yachtsmen of the White Bear club, who won everything in sight excepting the cat race, where the redoubtable Tartar carried off the only victory for the Minnetonka Y, C, The boats and crews were as follows; FOREST AND STREAM. First Class Sloops—Wizard, Minnetonka, Capt. Alf. Pills- bury; W. D. Morse, Dan Raymond, R. P. Woodworth, John Pillsbury, Frank Morse. Akela, White Bear, Capt. Milton Griggs) P.C Gotzain, Hugene Ramaley, F. M. Douglas, Don Bunn, C. H. McGill. Both of these boats were designed by Peterson, of Minnetonka, and built in his shop at Excel- sior, Catboats—Tartar, Minnetonka, Capt. Wm. Peet; Canip- bell, Sweeney, C. L. Mendel, D. W. Knowiton, David Ten- ney, Willie Rolph. Aurelia, White Bear. Capt. J. M. Welch; Archie McLaren, Sidney Dean, W. H. Yardley, Sam Bunn, Lance Bement. One-raters—Gladrene, Minnetonka, Capt. F. J. Hopkins; W.-G. Gale, Gale Meriick, Sidney Wolcott. Witch. White Bear, Capt. Fred R, Bigelow; H. Van Vleck, T. L. Wann. The regatta committee in charge is composed of Tracy Lyons and L. P. Ordway for White Bear, and C. B. Eustis for Minnetonka, These gentlemen have full charge of the Rares, and in all matters their decisions will be absolutely nal. The dimensions of the six competing boats are-as follows- Sail area, Length tq. ft LW.L over all. Beam. Alas cad geht pesetae sOore 22ft, 1liv. S6ft, din. Ofc. 4in, Wizard, .severs vey f OF 22fb. Gin. rSft. Tin. 8fc. 7in. AUPE], cee eee eee AT 07 22ft, Din. alge. 9tt tin, TArlar..sceees Sennen ts 585 22ft, 10in. B2f:, 8ft. Gin, BVVILUCSH ys ec rate ssn sense 347 44 17ft. The following was the sailing time: FIRST CLASS SLODBS. PACT Bay Oatarstgst site tcksmstertstees ORNS Wika soa sca e cn eress viveleir'y 2 C6 34 FIRST GLASS CATS, Turtar ees Lbs riertcasesfstente EU AU SNIA) acts cccebb ee ee oe vee 15-25 ONE RATERS, SYV Te Tite epsktrealsingste antes apart ona orsear? DBD GB AGA GT ens a ears syateeaes wales 1 56 42 On the following day, Aug. 25, the White Bear men clinched their victory by decisively heating the Minnetonka boats in each one of the events, sloop, cat and one-rater, the following being the time: SLOOPS Start. finish, Hiapsed, Corrected, Akela ....0. Veceornreres 2 25 00 4 06 39 1 41 39 1 32.23 WiZaitds. ewes seeseaeey 2 25 00 414 07 1 49 07 1 39.39 CATS. AUTE]IA, sc ccccessscnens ene 20 00 4 16 42 1 56 42 1 45 47 Ab yA ee Snore +e 20 00 4 20 56 2 00 66 1 43 57 ONE RATERS WITCH Arye cree Ane aa pelt 4 U1 16 1 31 16 1 31 16 Gladrene.........5 vera -% 30°00 4 03 20 1 33 29 1 23 29 A big banquet was given the defeated yachtsmen by their victors, and the White Bear men showed themselves as well able to entertain their guests as to sail their yachts. Some sixty-odd gentlemen sat at table. THE FELKER CHALLENGE CUP. In 1885 Mr. C, W. Felker, of Oshkosh, Wis., made dona- tion of a challenge cup to be sailed for annually by Lake Winnebago yachts as a perpetual challenge cup. This year the deed of gift was amended by Mr. Felker in sich way that hereafter the competition’shall be open to all yachts of the United States, Minerva, of Fond Du Lac, has won the cup three different years. During the last_twelve years winners of this cup in the annual regatta have been as follows: Aug. 29, 1885—Cutter yacht Hattie. July 17, 1886—Sloop Pinafore July 30, 1887—Sloop Carrie Morgan. July 25, 1888—Sloop Minerva Aug. 9. 1889—Sloop Minerva. | July 25, 1890 —Sloop Marguerite; July 25, 1891—Sloop Carrie Morgan. Jnly 16 and 29, 1892—Sloop Carrie Morgan. Aug. 29, 1893—Sloop Marguerite. July 28, 1894—Sloop Minerva, Ang. 10, 1895—Sleop Nirvana. Sept. 12, 1846—Sloop Corona. Aug. 21, 1897—Sloop Corona. “ MATCH BETWEEN FOX LAKE AND DELAVAN, Early iu September there will be a match race sailed for a cup trophy, between the winning boats of the season re- spectively for Fox Lake, Illinois and Delavan Lake, Wiscon- repertyen eo) 2 06 50 1 29 51 Privateer, A. H, Schaaf. si. .eeees scene tl C9 2 23 28 1 47 29 Magnolia,........ Meidelsteitetenecatcite .... Disabled Bai geSShsSouy.te siieteeshe, ae oe, .asuree Disqualified. THIRD CLASS Vamoose, Benner & Patten,,,,...,,...19.11 1 31 10 1 04 12 Arab, W. F Scott-.......ceeren fieteorkne tag sd 1 04 28 Alison. Fowle & Hutchins.,,,.,......-.19 03 1 4 52 1 14 11 Luna, 8. D Hildreth. occ. eecessaces el? 05 1 49 39 1 19 50 Leuton, H B Knowles....secceee vee 19.08 1 50 14 1 *2 49 Hector, SHAttuCK. ....cce eee eee ee 18.08 1 58 50° 1 3911 Vamoose..... Urivatesierssitcine pie ae Diag Hahiiede ; . FOURTH CLASS CECE BIGFOOT as Secvac cuss peel oelcbee 16.06 1 36 09 1 05 10 Fantasy, AMerton.......ceseecnseeeseee 16,11 1 36 51 1 06 25 Brownie, H. Wheeler..... Ae obo Rags aheits) 1 45 36 111 35 Demon...., Sho Peity re: aetiesrroehs ths o+..16,11 1 43 27 1 13 01 Ruth, B. Griffin -.........05 ah ne 15.02 1 49 O1 1-16 12 Izcop, ILASIElIE Puen wre seein ecy 14208 2 01 47 - 1 27 44 Alpine, C. J. Blethen, ......2:-..0000-- 16.10 1 59 30 1.23 57 DORY CLASS a Tobasco, H Wiggin... ......c cee e eee 15,04 1 54 15 1 21 38 Naoma, Sargent........ Sicera eee SitticlO 1 53 02 1 23 44 ceanus, W O. Adam 17.07 1.54 14, . 1 26 38 H B., HS, SEROMA Se ste er tif als sais astlee sate 17,00 2 06 39 1 26 13 Anita, C. Cunningham..., 16,02 2 08 44 1 37 17 Gertrude, J. Whittemore Veed¢enasonld 2 09 41 } #7 43 Folly, Woodbury....... Areata) Sees 16.00 2 OW 54 1 35 13 SIXTH CLASS. Little Comrade, L, Taskell......, ye22. 12.06 2 09 45 1 32 29 Hrendy DUCUGsy ccs eay sociees ere ++2..12.08 2 09 42 1 32 40 Midget, Coles, J. )--.<.-cseses ey + .12.08 2 10 52 1 33 33 Shamrock, J. O. Reilly... cc... speeeee 2 13.08 2 18 25 1 43 £9 Corinthian Y. €,—Championship Race. MARBLEHEAD —MASSACHUSETTS BAY, Saturday, Aug. 1h. : The Corinthian Y. C., of Marblehead, sailed its second championship race on Aug. 14 in a fresh S.H. breeze, the times being: Tiength. Elapsed. Corrected. IEE VTE DM eal ta UU EARN coco eo woh 5 1 42 21 1 42 21 SECOND CLASS. Nettie, Walter Burgess...........-- +, 227,06 1 52 38 1 51 21 (Gara Wile Ue Wels ies a nm: este cist Siem = £8.09 1 £6 05 1 56 05 THIRD GLASS. Hoodlum, Higginson & Boardman... ... . 1 42 38 1 42 38 FOURTH CLASS. Koorali, R. C. Robbins...... ....-.. sire 1 13 00 1 13 00 KNOCKABOUTS. Hazard, H. M. Sears,.......... earn, weaiesoke 21,00 2 16 45 poe Sally ILL, D. C. Percival, Jr........... 21.00 2 19 00 Aa Mongoose, J Ervilg,..eys-seeeeseeees 21.00 219 45 Yen Wy. W. O. Gay...... AMO OuHEROEAA pee lecO 2 20.00 ieee Goeckatoo. ©.S Waton,...........- ..-. 21,00 2 20.10 io at Gosling, F O. North ...-.....:...; saeetl 00 2 21 12 par Jenny Wrenn, F. EH. Peabody.......... 21.00 2 25 35 fine CLASS A Rowenia, W, H. Rothwell,.... ..,.2++ ses 1 55 80 1 52 39 Bugenia, 1.5, Palmer .,.,.yyeseeseeees oe 43 1 56 04 J 54 04 Lillian, H E, Whitney..........+. vaee 2 02 40 1 58 40 Elmira. M. Bartlett,.,..., “% 2 02 18 2 00 18 Susie, J F. Cole.,,....,. 7 : 2 02 48 2 02 48 Vagrant, W. A. Harvey,.,....+. or 209 0 2 03 2 Geisha. C. W. Jaynes...issecesers 4 2 10 35 2 06 C5 Indra, 2) RP. Shanpers.....seceireves ; 209 (0 2 07 00 Delphine, ©.M Barker. ......-- . see: vere Witkdrew. OLASS GC. - Mayona.C O. Stearns.,..... ance eS mere 1 14 45 1 14 45 IGS Bd Died Berna ley aes Arte oars ode 1 15 37 1 15 37 Dorothy, & Brewster,........-055 ads 115 4 1 15 38 Gomet, A. AJLAWrenCe...e.ssscestevss were 1 17 00 1 16 30 Verona, ©, BoTucer ioe icsvcteccecr eee 1 19 30 119 00 a Forty-Six Foot Olass, Svecial Race. MARBLEHEAD—MASSACHUSE T- Bi¥ Monday, Aug. 23. On her way home from the New York Y. C. cruise, Wasp put in at Marblehead, now the home of three of her old mates in the former 46ft. l.w.]1 class, Gloriana, Barbara and Mili- cete. A special match was made and sailed on Aug. 23, the course being 16 miles to windward and return, from off Mar- blehead around the can buoy off the Londoners. There was a fresh N.H. wind and plenty of sea allthe way. The four were started in the old way, crossing the line: WaEDersaisncecss en naneatacell do tO GlOTIANA,. toa scecwse/pesesadllorcd, Barbara.......ssese.ee2-+-ll 15 66 Milicete,,.... peveee sesosetl 16.21 Wasp housed ber topmast, butsentit aloftagain aftera time when off Hastern Point. The windward mark was turned: WASD ceccecscssctreaccsncsee d0 49. GLlOTiana;.,, ce wena nro vcay om) Ooi) BALDALaysseeeevsyerererecese 40-40) MIliCELC, sveceees vaveeseer 0 08 10 The run in was made under spinakers, the final times being: Start. Finish, Elapsed. -Corrected. WASP An wersiects vessestl ilo, 40 5 18 11 6 03 11 6 03 11 Barbara,.. yl 15 55 5 35 00 6 20 00 6 16 40 Gloriana........ceeees.11 16 26 5 4 06 6 29 06 6 AT 36 Milicete, yy yeseyseeegqy stl 16 21 6 05 19 § 51 49 6 48 37 196 The 30ft. Class. THROUGHOUT the month the racing of the 30ft. class has kept up steadily at Newport, and with results varying suffi- ciently to keep alive the interest in the class. On Aug. 10a sweepstakes race was sailed in a S.H. wind over an 8-mile triangular cour e, the times being; Finish; Hlapsed, Wa Wa, J. A. Stillman... ,.-cccpreetvevesreverseerd 19 15 2 04 15 Carolina, P Jones..... Ration aent ata ates Ravoveseha acum. 2 05 32 Veda, ©: Vanderbilt, Tr... ccccevseyeveevensevseei0 21 45 2 06 45 Mai, O. G. Jennings,...,-.-... Fe chee Beene open seGech ney 2 06 49 Esperanza, A. S, Van Winkle. ....cccceeeeceees 2.) 20 98 2 08 58 Vaquero W1., H. B. Duryea... si ccccseneeeeeeenssd 2 10 217 10 WVedanCe VANGeFbh Try, jo sesscee dua ere ilnaaics Uo 2 18 09 Wa Wa. J A, Stillman ...., 5 28 48 2 18 48 Mai, O G. Jennings.,... - .5 33 37 2 23 37 Esperanza. A.S) Van W: ang eee 3D 45 2 25 45 Carolina, P: JOnGS, sss -dss seas sideceuctveseease cued OT 10 2 27 10 The Jamestown course was sailed on Aug. 12, the wind being from N.W.toS.W. ‘The times were: Finish. Elapsed. Waquerogil., EB. DULyea. csi csessratevenennsnet da4d 1 46 45 Esperanza, A.S. Van Winkle... .escesnenesenaeesd 43 59 1 46 59 Wa, Wa, J. A. Stillman... ccccsvsecreeceeensnrenet 44 12 1 47 12 Carolina, B. JONES. aks cnensneent- sss niatate re 44 58 1 47 58 Dorothy: 11., H P Wihitney 2s. cl este nae net 40 14 1 48 14 MBL ONG) VenningS.) a a4seiaia wes kitkeceaom reine rs 447 15 1 50 15 The Dyers Island course was sailed on Aug. 13, in a fresh S.W. wind. The times being: : Finish. Elapsed, Vaguero JIL, H. B Duryea... ccsiscerserescen veed 34 24 2 18 24 Wie a. J. AN CULM ocak celnastvslunea salen veeeeD BO OB 2 20 02 Puck, EH D. Morgan ...-..... oe aatte ieee cn enka becees 2 22 36 Hsperanza, A.S, Van Winkle. ...esesresnrcenvnrd 42 24 2 26 24 Dorothy IL., H. BP. Whitney... .eceencseerecesess) 43 30 2 27 30 Veda, GC: Vanderbilt, Jr..... -. cee ceeeeueereeeesd 44-18 2 28 18 Mai, ONG. Jennies. .sssaagaaessg siveavninnvyene 40: Le 2 29 12 The Dyers Island course was again selected on Aug. 14, the wind being south, for the race for the Belmont cups offered at the time of the New York Y, C. cruise. Before the start Veda fouled Hera and put her bowsprit through the latter’s side, disabling her. The times were: . Limit. Corrected. Esperanza, A, S. Van Winkle. ...-..seerereesens.D 32 10 2 32 10! Vaquero III, H. B Duryea...... volte taceeahiase te 5 38 11 2 33 11 DODOL ys Hel EA WATILTIOY. dsiera Givialeiereteleluinlovt-lviely tela) pit)!” 5 AG 32 2 36 32 Wa Wa, J. A. Stillman, .....cceveerecerrerrcrrsee dD OO 19 2 38 19 Warolina,; P] JONES hisae csetevcvevsssssvecelevaenso 59 10 2 39 10 Puck, B.D Morgan... .cccsecsseccnerscenrevareee® 40 20 2 40 20 Veda, G. Vanderbilt, Jr... .censseuvncereetversres 2 41 17 2 41 17 Mai, O. G. Jennings, 6... cecasenesccceceencerseer ed 45 Al 2 45 21 On Aug. 17, a race over a triangular course was sailed in a strong west wind, the times being: ’ Finish, Elapsed. Q@arolina, PB: JOMCS cece cceunnceuevecernsssesss 5 03 20 1 48 20 Dorothy, 10., He Pe WHiDCys aes cce ner vette ene 5 03 52 1 43 52 Wa Wa, J. A. Stillman... ccneeccecernsrs=ternsees 5 04 12 1 44 12 Hera, R. N. Bilis........, in Fisistuatwlotstah dees 4 5 04 32 1 44 32 Veda, GC. Vanderbilt, Jiri. ccs scnessnereterec secede 5 10 30 1 50 30 The race of Aug. 18 was for a cup oftered by Mr. R.N. Ellis, of Hera. The triangular course was sailed, starting in a S.W. wind, which shifted to the east. Hera lost a little at the finish through the presence of asteam yacht in the course, and Carolina again won, the times being; Elapsed. @arolina, Pi JONES yc case vecerarersesc Fewer alceareain epniasfane ieee Pel Hera, Rh. Ne BINS) 12h) cls eenrettet tedenennemmar peeeeerad ot a2 Dorothy IL, H. BR. Whitney.........+++» qe eerie oun riianecamaeitle Puck. E. D. Morgan.....,....5 ertetaiae As ea Sclninast este svsnree 30 08 Wa. Wa, J. A, Stillman,,....-...0y ees My kiditelsuitn stone aera ..2 36 20 Mai. O. G. Jennings... . sehen ah 5t fonppencee nese aii Oe recess Veda, ©. Vanderbilt, Jr... .vcussrerenaaee Bret een ochsmiccdaatnb aa hs) Vaquero IIL. H. B. Duryea wh deeceveeneenansccsssene SO HO Esperanza, A.S. Van Winkle.,.,.. seceteceeaeeeee-Did not finish, The race of Aug. 19 was sailed.in a light S. wind and fog. The triangular course was sailed. Hera was well up at the finish, but missed the line in the fog. The times were; Finish. Elapsed. Dorothy IL, H. P. Whitney .,.....ecsseescennesss6 13 07 3 03 01 Hera, RaN. MVS: 2s cccaeuwecuiess scecs fi iriawaereena 13/14 3 03 14 Carolina. Pi Jones: 2. vi pecc cee syeeete ree seanen 0 1658 3 06 58 Musme, J. M. MGDonough,,....ye0, sesece vaeeee, 6 18 07 3 08 07 Wa Wa, J. A. Stillman ......,,., mnie eine ren ened oh20 3 09 20 Msperanza, A S Van Winkle.....sceseesceeesenrs 0 19 30 3 09 30 Mai, ©. Gi JenMings. cc yesnwy eres ee tsnaiende ne sO 20 41 _3 10 41 Vaquero Ill, H. B. Duryea ....,s..sseesse+eees-Did not finish. Puck, E. D, Morgan........+- Weer Dnsessaaen te. Didiaounnish: The race of Aug. 20 was for acup offered by Mr. C. Vander- bilt, Jr., who chose the Brig Ledge course, 25 miles, the wind being strong N.W. Vaquero finished first, but was disquali- fied for fouling Wa Wa and Esperanza; the times were: Finish. Hlapsed. Wa Wa. J. A Stillman -.,.., iterate: stevenae dD a9 42 2 42 42 Dorothy IL, H. P Whitney. .sscsseyeye ees Pinanpsa2tbe 2 45 52 Carolina, P, JONES. . © no BUaGppapeeerees awa wAH w » 9 ow YN wha HOW OVER BRE OS sow Noo RA Hv oOm Ww Nvo ie Ko PNw WY woe HNe were Soe whe who wlea MLrn w BNE who Wow OY — : str win Ufa we wyYe Po wAH 1 1 T 2 5 + 2 3 1 2 to OF Hor 2 = NV HL 09 ete wir re IN NEW JERSEY. SHOOTING AT ELKWOOD PARE, Aug. 27.—The shoot for the Monmouth cup was held at Elkwood Park Long Branch, to-day. Phil Daly, Jr., won the cup. his being the only straight score. Four men tied for Second place with 14 each, and Fred Hoey withdrew on the sixth round, after missing 2 birds. The conditions were: 15 birds, 50yds. ‘boundary, $15 entry, three maoneys: A number of sweeps were also shot, the scores of which ollow: Event No. 1, Monmouth cup race: Daly (29) 15, Gagnon (26) 14, Templeton (30) 14, Welch (20) 14, Dolan (29) 14. : Shoot-off for second: Ballard 10, Templeton 10, Gagnon 10, Dolan 9, Murphy 9. ‘ ‘. No. 2, miss-and-out; Hoey 3, Dolan 3, Daly 2, Welch 1. No 3,same: Dolan 9, Welch 9, Daly 8. Templeton 8, Hoey 5. No 4, match, 6 birds $10 aside: Dr. Gagnon 5, Fred Hoey 4. dug 28 —The principal event, to-day was the shoot for the Penn- sylvania Club cup, which was won by Fred Hoey with a straight score, afler an exciting race with Ballard, Murphy and Welch. Do- land and Toland withdrew; the former on bis 16th round, after killing 18 birds, and the latter on his 15th round, with 11 kills. After the cup Tace, some sweepstake shooting was indulged in as follows: No, 2." 10 birds, $10 entry; No. 3, miss-and-out, $5; No, 4, 10 birds, $25; Nos. 5 aie 6, 10 birds, $5; Nos. 7, 8 and 9, miss.and-out, one barrel only, $10. e scores: No. 1, Pennsylvania Club cup shoot. No.2. - F Hoey (28)...-- 12222222221 22979222092202 95 222211222210 B Ballard (22)... .2222222112222222202122221 24 211212222210 E G@ Murphy (82)1211122221220222122212222 24 2122112022— 9 R Welch (30) . ..22212222221222220 21112222 —24 922110w — 5 P Daly, Jr (29) ..12022200212221222222 2222 22 222222222210 1110 —2 GS Gagnon (26) 11121121110110110112°1101 —21 111122221210 111212—6 Capt Money (28) 1270101121112110122112012—21 0211110122— 8 10 —1 Y Dolan (29), .. 212222122220 2200 w —13 2202222200— 7 212222—6 E Toland (27). . 22001221022 2210 w —il 022021122w— 7 222222—6 No. 4, ca soe 042212222222 10 pan ee ge Bee 20202W No. 3. 1210 —3 211212—6 122111—6 112121—6 No. 5, 2212121202— 9 EG Murphy (35). .ss00s-ss0s0e- Snare etn Y Dolan (85). iv civvecseccess IS GASTON (80) es tafe sm oe yer eads shane 112111122210 221011120 — 8 HSIAO Giyis (20) peas eal nla’ a nferullale'eiaiy ae alms ries 2112227 Naetanaiesra ' No. 6. No 7.. No. 8 No.9. # G Murphy (35).........+- 01421111429 1111-5 O-0 11-2 Y Dolan (45) .....:.. coeds ROUZ22IT2I— 9 11110-4 10-1 10-1 JS Gagnon (35)..........-.+ 2121211122- 10 110 —2 11-2 10-1 P Daly, Jr (85), ....:000.0e. 12 2212022W 0 -0 11-2 10-1 A Great Match at Long Branch. Aug.25.—What was probably the most exciting live-bird match ever held in this vicinity, was shot to-day on the grounds of the Holly- wood Gun Club at Long Branch. [hs match was at 50 birds, $2 en- try; $5 to first, $2 tosecond. Three of the four shooters, Dr Gaguon, Edgar Murphy and Fred Hoey tied with 45 kills each, while Phil Daly, Jr., the other contestant, finished but two birds in the rear. Dr Gag- non led at the 25 mark, and at the 49th round he had 45 kills to his credit, Murphy had finisbed his score with 45, Hoey had 44 and an- other bird, and Daly had 43 and another bird. It looked, therefore, at this stage of the game, like a Gagnon victory; but the doctor’s 50th bird, an incomer, escaped, Hoey then killed his 5)th bird, making the match a three-cornered tie. Asno agreement relative to ties had been made, the match was not shotoff Murphy’s best run was 21, Dr, Gagnon’s, 27; Hoey’s, 23: and Daiy’s. 24. Dr, Gagnon and Phil Daly had large handicaps: the former standing at 25yds., and the latter at 20yds. Murphy and Hoey shot from the 30yds, mark. The score- E G Murphy (30). 22122211e221 222 20 22209222222 222222222 2222229222222 —45 Dr G Gagnon (25) 228 40220 222222 2120222221222 1221222232222 9222222020 —45 F Hoey (89) ......2222222 222022 22702 2230222202 2222 22222 3922 129222723 —45 P Daly, Jr (20) .. 2222022222 2222122 10 20 2022 22222122122 222228222 2943 rr) Cook County League. CuicAco, Tll., Aug. £9,—Cook County League shotto-day. Four clubs qnalified. Scores: Garfieid—A Class 139, B Class 1x7 Hureka— A Class 129, B Glass 119. Calumet Heights—B Class 131, C Class 26, Garden City—B Class 119, Weather windy. air hizy. Next League shoot Garfield grounds, Sept. 11. Garfield A Class team leads season average at date. E, Hove, The FOREST AND STREAM is put to press each week on Tuesday. Correspondence imtende? for publication should reach ws at the latest hy Mondey, an2 as m7 ¢h earlie? as prai ticable.- 198 CALUMET HEIGHTS GUN CLUB. Cxurcago, Ill., Aug. 29.—The fire in the ~oads near Calumet Heights club on Aug 15, as mentioned in last week's FoREST AND STREAM, broke up the sport of shooting for the day. though small actual damage was done to the club property. On Aug. 22 the weather was food, and there was good attendance. sixty-six persons being present, a number of members riding out from the city on their bicycles over the hard sandy beach. The following are thé scores of the last two shootivg days: No, 1. club shoot: Class A. Lamphere. EOC Recciats nara bene Lehane Ree Metealfey. ccceres>ss Aierelas Mebowe tess SMLOWIGSs epeseaddacnaatenentesn ct cee ee <1011101000110111111110100—16 eee ee LO11111110191111101119111— 22 sa eee -0070911100010100011101100—11 vs ess »1011101011001101111010011—16 Class B. INDECOMM erase iiaisantet ate 7 i eeeeeceeseee+o0110111101001101111011011—17 IRE BLE VIN a heuto siertrert a teat doere Sat meee wis .1191010110101101010110111—17 Class C, VENA isp bseieninaceiete We daa.ad CArsOn aan shape cree dass May 22. Events: 123465 6 Targete: 25 15 10 10 10 25 Paterson ....,,.. 24138 6 8 7 2 Lamphere,....., 2313 6 5. ,. BOOTHS. Wore NaCl: IR e e WOUNE: i senens 24 10 7 Oy 1, 22 Houston ....,,,. 1918 4 7 619 Metcalfe.......+. 1711 6 9 4 21 Morgan..:....... 1812 8 .. 3. Noreom......... 2012 10 19 6 23 Greeley..... ... POLS HSS WD Beier Bet y No. 7, 10live birds: Knowles (32). .......,1212121212—10 Paterson (82)........1122el1111— 9 Lamphere (32), ...,..2@l1122:02— § Houston (32),..,¢0+.-11 2112101— 9 Norcom (32), 12+... -0221111221— 9 Ferguson (82),,,,..--01101e1120— 6 Booth (32) ........-- 111111121210 Morgan (32). ...0<..-.2122001202— 7 DISET, .0000110110110100111100101—18 yevee--4111911011110101011020111—18 Events: Targets: 2% 15 10 10 10 £5 Carson. Myeeces 15 4, Schmidt... ...545 : Harlan eccseeus. 15°1490 6 25]; Chamberlain.... 16 . Davis ..-/.s-a1e. 10... 4 ESC Kona nyee ence he INDETIN?, linellcoe eanoet toate Bates Pergusod......05 «. 10 5 22 ee ee Marshall (30)....,,..,112111J111—10 Metcalfe (30).......,.-1122022111— 9 Carson (80), ...++.+.,U0221120ei — 6 Carlisie (30),..,....,.1211222102— 9 Harlan (27)...... sas 1111212221—10 Dougherty (27).,,,..0112112000— 6 Schmidt (27), ........J@@1212112— 8 No. 8. 10 live birds: Knowles 7, Paterson 9, Lamphere 8, Houston 9, Noreom 8, Ferguson 7, Booth 9, Morgan 6, Marshall, Metcalfe 8, Carson 9, No. 9, 4 live birds: Marshall 4, Booth 5, Htuston 3, Norcom 4, Met- calfe 5, Paterson 5, Morgan 3. AT KANSAS CITY, At Kansas City, Aug, 24, the Pastime Gun Club held its August medal shoot at live birds, with the following results: Reno..... FOREST AND STREAM, _ | ann er a, ee ee eee ee Western Traps. Schli'z diamand badge, 25, unknown angles? : BifftOn. oes veces BUSI eve kees EXMSI2N, .,.,----¢u 400s Mrs Sh BUETILLG Kersansy es sien teietaee ast syeawsesenes s¢4100111110110010100100100—13 seeeceneeeaess L11J111911111011111091111_23 seen eevee ayse ene t111111111100010010111111— 19 seen eeses eee 4110110100111111001111111—19 Parker, .csee veerperyerryeeeseeeeenees; eee OL10111110111111110101010—18 McQueen ,,,, i A Richter... Whitcomb,.,.,..-... aie gine cesses eeseon tees seas aa e2110111111101111111111111—28 secprereeemveyensuenae scenes L111111111111101011110111—22 epee eeeeeee eee ees 2111011101101010111011111 —19 weyepegeeeeses ene ees eees 241 1111111011111101111111—23 coeeceureusenenesess yee e1110113111110011010111110—19 Johnston ..,...++++ pee eenereewengeens eee es L110101001111160111111001—17 Mrs JOMDStOD ...ccceuvesvenseuns ssen8 ». ee es 4111010001001011111111011—17 NESE) Ie wartime ra eee be peweveetueess eee ese LOLTOQ0011111111101111111—19 SHO er eeeetrs leiei= nici teeeee ees + 0101100001111111110100001—14 DEGKESIa yy 2 all eck pete pesevesseneeeeeesee 2£111101100111111111111111—22 LE Parker.,....... eevresereween one eee 0 00101111111100111100101001—16 BiNi6, veenecveeeererenpeveveserensenver cee esO111101101110100C0C011100—18 Nelson,..... Rigitelneatsiiatete Miss Bader...,..+5 Noslen,....+ O’Brien,.... SHACHICE Do sewers Marshall,... Fitzgerald,,.... ecnewewnnne a eaeeeeeee peek eee ee eee eee eee eas Pere ee eee eee eee eee eee o010111111111110' 01301110 —21 ee eeeetveeerecasases eee; 00000010111010011010C0011 —10 se seeeeeeseepees eee s 0000100101 101700111010110 —12 cen etereyeeeesereeneenneeseans 0001100111010000101000101—10 ee eeeeeeeee eee e-d111111010111111111110111—22 vere ee O111101001110111111111111—20 «+ ++,.-.U000000000000010C00111000— 4 HOR sila sisice clas eunecleasislty vals silvestre Old III TO1I LI OOO] 18 Hall,.... E@StMan,sevoraes PArsODB,...se Paegel..,.... ' ISR ahold stars sissies Wat ase eo) ile sion ate lols tee: shoot was finished. soneecteetesneeereeeess averse oes ee 0101010010101010111000010—11 ; rats exe eeee 1001000010110101000011110—11 , > +, 1110101110010101000111110—15 ..1111111111011101101010011—19 - 9000000111101100100011111—12 -1110001111010110011111101—17 <»-1101101111011111101010110 —18 Ghposind 0110011111010100111111100—16 Bush and McQueen tied for badge, Bush had to leave before the Val Blatz diamond badge, 15, known angles: . -101000100100011— 6 Bert... ..eees++,-110101111011100—10 Parker ,,,..,..--010011100010110— 7 Baker ,.,.00.++,1100100110,0111— 9 Reed ....,,.++,,1130)1011111111 - 13 Novotny ,,.,...1411110011100111—11 Paegel..... yee e)1101110011011—11 F A Richter,...111100100101110 - 9 Whitcomb ,.,..101010110101111—10 L BE Parker,..,. .01111000)010111— 9 Parsons.,..,...011110101001111—10 Mrs Shattuck , ,111111111111111 —-15 Hastman ..e. FOX .. 040, e00e0111111011101011—12 Nelson ,,...... .0011000010111¢60— 6 O’Brien ....,,..00010°011009000— 3 Jobnston....,..110000100001001— 5 Mrs Jobnston,. .011111100111110—11 Shattuck, ,.,,,.111111110010011 —11 Stoakes .,,.,.,.101101101111111—12 Sully............010110100010C00— 5. Vite acealiieye 111100111111111—18 Mrs Tarbell,,,.111000010109100— 6 Billie ...,......110011000011000— 6 Nelson .....,...100001110000101— 6 A Lincoln....,,211111211210122—14 nee e © O1222221921 222 14 ' Livingston......120011011010012— 9 MaJlory ........10122122¢211122—14 J L Beiderman,012121121221112—14 Busign .........010011111011101—10 Marshall.,,..,.-111111001111101—12 McQueen.,...... 011101110111110—11 Mrs, Shattuck won badge. AT SEDALIA, Sedalia Gun Club. of Missouri, held a little shoot Aug. 21. Miss Bader.,.,.101111000000000— 5 Burton ... ....000010100100100— 4 Miss Gray..,.,,110101111001111—11 Scores, - 15 birds: John Linabary 6, McClure 10. Roberts 9, Kerr 9,C Linabary — 12, C. O'Connell 2, Letts 14, Lucy 12, Kinzie 6 and Raymond 5 ‘Ten birds: Linabary 5, McClure 7, Roberts 6, Kerr 2, C. Linabary 9, Joe The Metropolitan Gun Club held City, Kan. Higdon.,.......001162220;0;010— 7 1 ite regular target shoot in Kansas - The following scores were made out of a possible 25: Bryant 24, Rooney 22, Bruce 21, Wing 19, Smock 16, Gregory 14, Lar- son 14, Laidlaw 14, Estep 13. The Kansas City Gun Club made the following scores at its weekly shoot, Ang. 15: Halliwell...,... 212221121121112—15 Fleteher....... 1211¥1112121211—15 Glasner .,...,.,122112202121211— 14 QUrbice. oo. uu. P28228232202222—14 Longfellow., ...221111211710020—12 Hubbard,.,,,,.121222201(01212 12 AT ST, F J Smith,,,,,.100001%21221212 11 R Jarrett..,,..,011000011€10212— 8 Beeman,...,,,,121010011112121—12 Von Quast .,,,.21112€020110211—11 Walden ,,,.....112101101100201—10 PAUL. The St Paul Rod and Gun Club drew a good attendance at its tour- nament Aug. 23. Many were present from adjoining States, and the entries ran as high as forty.six. Tweuty-five men sbot out the pro- High average men for the day were in the following Roe 9, Letts 7, Lucy 5, Kinzie 8. A special shoot between Letts and C. Linabary, 15 birds, resulted in a victory for the latter by a scor8 of 12 to 11. A second 10-bird match resulted: Allspaugh 4, Raymond 0, C. Lina- bary 9, Lucy 7, McClure 5, Letts 9, Roberts 4, Kinzie 4. AT LINCOLN. Lineoln Gun Club, of Nebraska, held its club shoot Aug. 19. Scores, 20 targets: Dr. Haton 18, Randall 18, Dales 12, Clyde 18, Hagan 15, Troyer 14, Simpkins 16, Bain 12, Carmony 10, Latshaw 18. AT PEORIA, Peoria Gun Club, of Peoria, IiL, held its annual meeting Aug, 24 for the purpose of electing ofacers and transacting other business. Arrangements were also made for the Herald trophy shoot, Sept. 10. A Jarge entry list is expected and fully 1,000 live birds will be used in the matches. The officers elected were as follows: G. N, Portman, president; A. N. Keith, vice-president; W. E. Weber, secretary and treasurer; Board of Directors, J. J. Campbell, J. M. Brown, W. Bor- deaux, M. B, Wilson, E Giles; BH, Giles, captain of the range, CLUB SCORES IN DIFFERENT STATES. [Szrp. 4, 1897. be remembered, won the trophy in open competition at the recent State tournament at Pine Bluff, and under the conditions governing it is subject to challenge every sixty days. Clemenis was the first to avail himself of the opportunity, and to-day’s mateh was the out- come. ° ; ; The race was close and interesting from start to finish, and eyentu- ally resulted in & win for the Pine Bluff man by 1 bird, the final score being 44 to 43. Conner was the first to miss, as ha lost his 7th—by no means 4 hard one. Clements followed suit on his 10th. a similar one, and a little - later Jost his i6th. Conner eyened up matters when he lost his 2ist, but Clements lost his 22d ang 24th in rapid succession. These were extremely acute and difficult lefiquarterers that dropped with a per- plexing rapidity. At the end of tne first string of 25 the score stood: Conner 23, Clements 21. Conuer started his last string of 25 rather poorly, missing his 1st, almost a straightaway, and then his 5th, which on¢e more made the raceatie, From then up to the 40th round they kepr along neck and neck, Conner now lost bis 41st and 44th. and of course, virtually the race. Clements broke the first 20 straight in his fital string, but lost his 46th and 49th. ‘This, however, landed him a winner by 1 bird, as Conner also Icst his 4§th. The conditions of the match were 50 targets, unknown angles, chal- lenger to put up $10 against the 1rophy, winner to take money and trophy, loser to pay for the targets. ClOMENES, 6.00. seep ae ee eceseunenen eee es eDL1411110111110111110101—21 4212211111111111111101101—28 44 veveceveanyeneevew eee vtl11110111111 11111110113 1—23 . 0141011111111110110111101—20 —43 Thibault and Pletcher also stot 50 targets each, their score to count against that of Corner and Clements. The price of the targets. being inyolyed inthis. This resulted inatie,as Fletcher scored 44 aud Thibault 43. The tie was shot off in the next 15-bird sweep, Con- ner and Clements then winning by 29 to 27. * Ail the trophies belonging to the Association are at present in the possession of the Pine Bluff club, 1110191111111010101111111— 21 HAIDER oe pee een eee le eminent wae Smead . .-1011011100111101111111111—20 Wigsscvstasseucee typ ronersene sl PDT PLOT Tt t101— 25 SQuirrel..cccacvecsvencerecreventeenes -1L11211111000110101011111—19 At Aitkin, Minn., Doe Spalding, the County Treasurer, won the last elubv shoot with 22 out of %5 targets. Pontiac Gun Club, of Mlinois, held its weekly shoot last Thursday. Scores, 25 targets. unknown angles: M. Lommatsch 19, H. Lommatsch 18. Priestman 18, Brinkman 17, Gleason 17, Talbott 16, Stroud 15, Dr. Daly 13, Opperman 12, Kayanaugh 12 , At Lexington, Ky , the U. 8. Gun Club, composed of post office em- ployes, held its weekly shoot Aug 21 at Lendon Park. krank Rey- nolds won the annual club ¢hampionship trophy, this being his third win in the competition. In asweep at25 birds the following scores were made: PATMElee, cc ccececcuneeseceseeneuse ec L011999111111I1111111111—25—108 Council Bluffs. peeeveceweess 2410141119111111111111101—23 eauueeesees e#LL11111111011101110116110—20 isi 111191119 1111111101111111 —24 .-2111111111101001111111110—21 1110111111110) 1111113111- £3—111 AT DULUTH. Centra! Gun Club, of Duluth, Minn., held its third medal contest Aug 20. The twoseratch men, Wojeck and Nelson, complain that the handicaps are entirely too liberal, Wojeck failing to win with the fine score of 24 out of 25. The following was the record: CDEUNY ce eeerevevsessceel9~0—2o Field... Crabell, ....ssaesvsreses West... Randlett.,.. eebeeere Ov, 19: At Watertown, Wis , a live-bird following scores: Johu Bullock.....:...,...1010001111 _ Adolf Scheck,,,,......--0000001101 William Will, ..c...-..05 0101000010 Hubert Springer........110110°010 August Hein........... 0110011000 Frank Reynolds 22, Joe Coyle 20, Irving Forbing, of Mt. Vernon, 19 shoot was held Aug, 22, with the C H Gardner.,...,......1111010011 H Krahmer,,..,......++:1110111100 R Woelffer,,,.........-.0110110010 W Biltner,.....ee0ssss,-2010011111 At Calumet Lake, Aug. 22, A. B. Schlavek defeated J. Devorak 22 to 19 at 25 targets, unknown angles, unknown traps. COMING EVENTS. OFSCKs aay web sissieiie latte = 2k Greener.......0s peewee zl +2—23 BOWStTiINg.....0+eceeesessli6—23 OU s ratacsuesedcsnenacastlane—ed At the conclusion of the medal ceepee vas sC0+3—23 ws > —22 Nelson. Duchess.........c.0es40s,J84+4—92 WAITED ..cecevveeervavees20t+1—8?1 Bet casccenvesvevecues+--1e-b—18 shoot seyéral special events were shot off. The first, at 75 birds, was won by Lengthy with a score of 22- Warren was second with 21. Event No.2, at 10 birds. was a tie between Wojeck and Greener wifh 9 each, Finn won the next eyent, 10 straight. he final event, at 10 birds, was a tie between Wojeck and Nelson, with 9 birds each, AT MINNEAPOLIS, At Minneapolis, Minn , Aug. 19, the Mioneapolis Guo Club hed a fine attendance of shooters and spectators, scores in regular events peing as follows: ; : Club badges, 10singles and 5pairs: . 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Sept. 8-9. Teams are expected from Todianapolis, Ft. Wayne. Logansport, Brazil, Crawfordsville, In- diana Mineral Springs, Kokomo, Lafayette, Petersburg, Peru and New Albany. : The Capital Gun Club, of Des Moines, Ia, will hold an amateur tournament at Des Moines during State fair week. Sept. 14, 15 and 16. There are ten target evenis onthe programme daily at 15 targets, and special high average prizes are offered daily. W. E. Kessler is the manager of the shoot. A personal letter from Mr. Eliott states that he has no word from Mr. Grimm in regard to the challengs for the Cast Iron badge, although forty-nine days have elapsed since issuance of the chal- lengé, HouGs, 1206 Boyce Bournpine, Chicago. Arkansas Championship. Lirrce Rock, Ark., Aug. 2/.—Shooting matters are rather quiet in Hot Springs; in fact there has been no trap-shooting done there since the 1ournament last February This is why Jobu J. Sumpter, Jr., has been virtually off the shooting map, though the other day he blossomed forth in another role. At the present time, a very important and close series of ball games are being played between teams represent- ing Little Rock and Hot Springs. The Hot Springs club had the mis- fortune to have some of its players crippled by accident, and was compelled to fill their position with some local amateurs, Sumpter, who at one time was a crack college player, was prevailed on to fill the gap. The game was closely contested, but Sumpter did nothing to distinguish himself except to fan outevery time he came to the bat and to make an error on one of the two chances he had in the field. In the ninth inving he had another turn at the bat, The score at, that time being a tie and twoout, John had already made two in- effectual attempts to locate the ball, and looked in u fair way to duplicate his past performance, when the opposing pitcher evidenily became over confident and handed him an easy one, This he met squarely on the trade mark, and sent it sailing far out into the deer pen where it was lost in the shrubbery, while John made the circuit of the bases with what proyed to be the winningTun, The final score of the game beivug Hot Spring 5, Little Reck 4. ‘That night, of course, John owned the town, as he did when he killed 25 straight in the Eastman Hotel handicap last winter, and won fi-st all ones heis the pride of all the sport-loying people of the Vapor City, ; The race for the individual championship of the State occurred on th» local club grounds to day, the contestants being George W. Olem- énts, of Pine Bluff, and H. OC, Conner, of this city. 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H., Sept. 15 and 16, By way of preface, we aretold thal Portsmouth, the only seaport, is a busy little city of 10,000 inhabitants, situated midway between Bos- ton and Porijand on the main line of the Boston & Maine Railroad, Eastern Division, and is also connected with the Southern and West- ern Divislon of the railroad. Situated on the banks of the beautiful Piscataqua, opposite the Navy Yard, it has a harbor worivyaled along the coast, cent. Colonial jn style, it charms all newcomers with its quaint old mansions and quiet streets, while elegant modern residences are also plenty, and the people hospitable, genial, and fond of sports. The gun club organized a few years ago is composed of genuine lovers of trap-sbooting, and the welcome extended to all visiting sportsmen is cordial and sincere, Tne bicycle park will be used for the tournament in preference to the regular shooting ground, as heing more convenient and easier of access. The club is desirous of doing everything in its power to make certain the success of the tour- nament, and feel no doubt that a visit to the quaint old city itself will alone repay the visitors. Headquarters for sportsmen during the tournament will be the Langdon House, Vaughn street; $2 per day. All matches at bluerocks. On each day seyen matches at 15 birds, $1 entrance, and three at 20 birds, $1 50 entrance, All purses will be divided by the Rose system into four moneys at the ratio of 5, 4, 3, 2. Price of targets included in all events, Shooters . may enter for price of targets (2. cenuts)in any of the eyents. Guns and ammunition forwarded to Hoyt & Dow, Congress street, will be cared for and delivered at the shooting grounds free of charge. Shooting will commence at 9:30 A, M,sbarp, each day. Further information relative to the tournament will bs cheerfully furnished by W. I. Philbrick, See’y, Portsmouth, N. H, St. Paul Gun Club. ‘Sr, Paun, Minn,, Aug. 22.—We take pleasure in extending to the | shooting fraternity throughout the Northwest a cordial inyitation to shoot with us on Sépt. 7,8 and 9, at the State Fair Grounds during fair week. It has been demonstrated that an amateur shoot will — bring together a larger aggregatien of sportsmen than could be ob- tained otherwise. Wehave adopted the 2 and 4yds handicap system which we hope will meet with approval, Bluerocks will be used in allevents, Wirstand second days matches at 10, 15and 20 targets with $1, $1.50 and $2 entrances. ‘Third day three-men team shoot and State diamond badge event, 50 bluerocks, $6 40 entrance, with a | valuable list of merchandise average prizes added. ‘ Ten and 12-bore guns ifyds. rise in first event each day. Winner of first money handicapped 2yds. in next event, 20yds, limit, Price of targets included in entrance money. High guns take choice in average prizes. éngles except pair shooting, with above exceptions, ) All events at unknown American Association revised rules H. C. Lawrence, Sec’y.- The location is admirable; the scenery and drives magnifi- — Sarr. 4, 1997.] In the Land of Maple Sugar. THE INTERSTATE AT MONTPELIER, VT. For some reason or other, either because it is the last tournament that we have attended, or because everything has turned out just as we expected, the Interstate Association’s tournament at Montpelier, ‘Vt., Avg. 25-26, seems to us to bave been a most extraordinarily pleasant and successful shoot The home club (the Montpelier Gun Club) is more than satisfied with the result of its efforts; Manager Shaner, on behalf of the Interstate Association, assures us that he ueyer had a pleasanter task upon his bands than the running of this ‘shoot; the visitors, without a single exception, were most favorably ‘impressed with everything that went to make this one of the best tournaments of the season of 1897. In our columns of “Drivers and Twisters’’ during the past few weeks, we have claimed many things for the Vermont Interstate: it is, therefore, naturally somewhat of a pleasure (o note tha* the shoot itself more than justified every claim we made. Had the weather for the thirty-six hours priorto the opening of the tournament been a little more fayorable, the number of entries would have been mate- rially increased. As it was, however, the entries were sufficiently numerous to make the cashier do some lively hustling to keep even with the game, THD STEAMBOAT SQUAD, The “steamboat squad”’ that came froni New York as a solid dele- gation. The crowa consisted of nine men from New York and vicin- ity, an addition of one being made when the boat train from Alhany on Tuesday morning, Aug, 24, reached Sandy Hill, N Y¥. The party thatleft New York on the steamer Adirondack, Aug. 23. was as fol- lows: Capt A. W. Money of the American E ©, & Schultze Pow- der Co., Lim’d: Ed. Taylor, of the Laflin & Rand W-A Po vder Co ; H. P. Collins. of the Du Pont Powder Co.; U. M. C. Thomas, of the U. M C Co.; Ferd Yan Dyke and J H-. Cameron, of the Winchester Re- peating Arms Co.; John J Hallowell, late of Tucson, Ariz , but now a resident of the State of Pennsylvania at Bethayres, near Philadelpbia; M A. Beers, one of the crack shots of the Bridgeport (Conn.) Gun Club and the trap editor of FoREST AND STREAM. When this party left New York rain had just commenced to fall; it fell all night, and kept on falling with a delightful persistency all day on the 24th. When the boat train for Lake George arrived at Sandy Hill it was just about as gloomy and wet as one could imagine, but Guy BR. Clark was on hand and joined the party, making No. 10 in the squad. The mountains that surround Lake George, and which help to make it one of the most beautiful lakes in the world. were wrapped in clouds that gaye no hope of better things for that day. It was a case of stay upder cover or pet wet, and consequently the trip, which should haye been most delightful, became rather tedious. Burlington, Vt., the sceue of the Interstate Association’s tourna- ment in Vermont one year ago, was reached about 5 P. M , the crowd being met on its arrival by Jim Denning, secretary of the Lake Side Rod and Gun Club, and by two other members of the samé club— 4 . Messrs, W. L, Stone and EH. E. Morgan, The party put up for the -Digh' at the Hotel Burlingion, where it was the guest of Mr. Stone, thé vice-president, we believe, of the Lake Side Rod and Gun Club. Several of the party had made the hotel their headquarters during the shoot of 1696, and Mr. Delaney, the proprietor of the hotel, had evidently nop forgotten them, judging from the warmth of his greet- ing. Leaving Burlington at 7:30 A. M, on Wednesday, Aug 25, the party reached Montpelier and the shooting grounds in time to com- mence the programme atl0 A, M. prompt. It may be of interest to mention that on this trip to Montpelier from New York three steamers and five trains were required to cover the 350 miles or so between New York and Montpelier! THE MONTPELIER GUN GLUB, The Montpelier Gun Club is composed of a set of live members who, when they undertake anything, apparently don’t do things by halves. It has grounds about two and a half miles from the city, with alittle depot called The Shoot, located on the suburban line of steam cars that run between Montpelier and Barre. A path leads to the grounds from this depot, a litile backwater of the Winooski Biver being crossed by means of a Sus pewion bridge, light, but strong, and of novel construction, The total distance between the depot and the grouncs may be about 200yds.,notmore A small, but conveniently constructed clun house, accommodates the members at their club shoots, but on this occasion the tent of the Interstate Association was erected to furnish additional accommodation for the members and their guests. The grounds and the traps face about northeast. but the back- epoud is A poor one, resembling in some degree that at Oil City, ‘a. As Fred Gilbert said about that one, so it may be said about the one at Montpelier; ~There’s none of that nasty blue sky to bother one.” Still the grass grown hills in front, and the woods to the right, were DOt quite so destructive to averages as they threatened to be at first sight. Of course, so many events being at known traps and Seles had much to do with the good totals rolled up by some of the shooters. When it came to unknown angles, there was nothing soft about them, Under the charge of Stillman Lawrence, the chief trapper, and a dandy at the business, the targets were Jined up and down the streens, straightaways being so rare as to almost scare one when they did show up. The targets were thrown fully 50yds., so it can easily be imagined that 1b was not easy shooting. In speaking about the unknown augies after the shoot was over, Manager Shaner ex- pressed himself as follows: ‘1 never saw a harder lot of unknown angles thrown from any set of traps during my career as manager of the Associatiun,”’ The poor background, witha few isolated trees in the middle dis- tance, made the work of the referes uncommonly seyere, as the closest attention was necessary in order to accura'ely decide losses and breaks. Yet Henry Kelton managed to stand up and give his decisiohs during the whole of the two days of the shoot without a really :olid kick beimg registered against him curing that time, So good was his work, and so readily did the shooters appreciate this fact, that Mr Kelton was warmly congratulated by several of the visitors at the close of the snout. Referees like Mr Kelton are MInighty scarce, and the Montpelier Gun Club should look to it that ‘Mr, Kelton does not jump the game when next it holds a shoot. THE OFFICIALS, We have mentioned Messrs, Kelton and Lawrence as having con- tributed largely to the success of the shoot. But there were others, of course, who also did their share to make thingsO K. Among the umber were Messrs. G. B. Walton, secretary of the club; J. G. Brown, Dr. H A Fiske, etc, All these gentlemen were untiring io their efforts .o make things run smoo,hly and to entertain the club’s ¥isitors, In he cashier’s office, Mr, A. @. Eaton, cashier of one of Monipelier’s banks, ran things by himself and covered everything in his d+ partment in a manner thal surprised us, as we know wha itis ea panic enuries and make payments in a crowd of forty or more ooters On the blackboard the scores were chalked up by Harry M. Graves, the manifold scores being in charge of J. G. Walton, a member of the Sherbrooke (Can.) Gun Club and a cousin of Secretary Walton of the ome club. Ned Wheatley was the puller, and he caught on to the . FOREST AND STREAM. work he had todo with ease. Pulling, blackboard work and manifold scoring were satisfac orily provided for by the homeclib. | Another official, also a member of the club, must not be forgotten; this was W. E. Stoddard, the caterer, who provided lunch and trim- mings of a temperance nature in a tent that was well patronized dur- ing the shoot. ; LOCAL MEN SHOT WELL. Tt is always a source of pleasure to note that local men shot well to the frontin any tournament On this occasion bo h F. A. Standish and C O. Barrett, both members of the local gun club did very well: Standish was one of the kingpins on the first day, while Barrett. barring a break in eyent No 9, was away up on the serond day. Standish’s work was remarkable on the first day, but the strain was too much for him, and_he fell down on the second; two days’ con- tinued shooting, with the practice work on the afternoon of Aug 24, which was done in heavy rain, putting a beayy strain on a man who shoots at the most but one day a week, and then only 100 shots or so. Barrett is an old campaigner and shot far better on the second day than on the first He lost 5 targets in event No. 9, and those 5 targets would haye landed him in third place. THOSE WHO WERE PRESENT. Among the yisitors besides those referred to above as the ‘‘steam- boat squaa.*’ were: Ben, H Norton, of the Hazard Powder Company; Col. A G. Courtney and EB D. Fulford, of the Remington Arms Com- pany; O.R. Dickey, of the Parker Gun Company; B Leroy Wood- ward, of Campello. Mass.; EF B. Wadsworth (Puck), of Boston, Mass,: EH A, Worthen, 0 E. Worthen, W.S. Phelps, J. 5S. Denniug and E EB} Morgan, members of the Lake Side Rod and Gun Club, of Burlington Vt.; J. G Walton, C D. White, T. M. Craig and J. F Markell. of Sherbrooke, Can.; A. W Westover, Sutton Junction, Can; C. Bils- worth, of Cambridge, Vt., a gentleman whose initials w uld hardly lead one to snppose thal he was the representative at this tourna- ment of the Gold Dust Powder Company; R Ward, St Albans: B A, Hastman, W. H Eastman, Houghton, Griffin and Reynolds, all o the Barre, Vt., Guo Club; Hawkins, of Calais; Pudsey, of Shelburne ete, The home club was out iu forre: G. B. Walton (Stub), Barrett Standish, Brown, W. A Briggs, C. H Ferrin and hisson, W G@ Fer_ Tin, a good shot for a sixteen-year-old; Stoddard, D. M Shepard, C oH Towne, A, A. Stratton, Dr, Fiske; a total of eleven shooters in all. We must tow leave it to the separate reports for each day, together with the tables of scores and general averages, to tell the balance of the story, outside of a few notes that will bring this article to a close, GENERAL AVERAGES. The general average table shows a hot fight for first place, Dickey coming ouf on top, as usual, but by a very narrow margin, 2 targets out of 3:0 shot at separating him from Leroy and Banks, who tied for the next two positions, Puck, who shot steadily on both days of THE CROWD AT MONTPELIER. the shoot. was just 3 targets short of an average of §0 percent , but won fourth place. Fulford and Barrett tied for fifthand sixth places, Van Dyke pulling up into seventh place by dint of his good shooting on the second day. Standish felt the strain of the pace on the first day and dropped down on the second, but landed in eighth place. Hal- lowell just beat out U. M. C. for ninth place, 1 target separating them. C. E Worthen and Beers were the others who broke better thant0 percent Twenty shooters shot through the entire two days’ pro- gramme, their records being as follows: First day. Secondday. Total. Shot at. Av. DICKEYs capieeticiieatioe LOO 147 313 330 94.8 LCLOVermireeenteee isl CO 145 811 330 $4.2 BARKS metencdue tech tale luo 148 311 3:0 94.2 PUCK Weds Va sreeese eee doe 138 294 330 89 HDF OLGR Et. sisting ieee leat 131 293 330 83.7 IBATLEL aia rriveneer LOS 141 293 330 88.7 Van Dyke. ....secvesee, 151 141) 292 330 88.4 Standish...,, HA pociloencsolten 125 269 430 87,5 Hajlowell. i..cseeeceeee e149 135. 284 330. 86 DEM Ft Jaqneimageaccte 126 288 380 85.7 Mrorbhens..;ussledemeclag 13: 268 330 61,2 BTEC CE ie oe aes sebecaeee |) 121 266 a00 80.6 MOneY.. seh she veuhentr ela] 122 268 33) 16.6 Brown....... pnntin dotnet kt 126 262 330 * 79,3 GOUrtDEY, ,,. eevverserreI08 128 261 3a0 59 MOTE ANIET fy cues aie cl alee 116 243 330 73.6 Slay lanaes ope 119 236 330 G15 Collinge lee een eweelel 109 280 330 69.6 PL OIPSimicgs estesels a snlaetee dl Ot! 115 222 330 67.2 BYIZE Sheet coleyueeon 99 194 330 58.7 First Day, Aug. 25. After the unpropitious weather of the previous thirty-six hours, everybody expected that to-day would be all right. The weather bureau guessed so, and managed to save its reputation by the skin of its teeth. WHarly, very early, in the morning the sun came out, but not liking the looks of things, turned back again. While the “‘steam- boat: quad’? wason its way to Monipelier, the sun came out again and cheered usallup. From that time until night closed, it was al- ternately cloudy and bright, with an occasional sprinkle that fell from clouds heavily charged with water. The evening closed with a sunset that augurs well for the morrow. The feature of the day was therecord made by F. A. Standish, a member of the local gun club, and a resident of Montpelier. We remember Mr, Standish very well from his shooting at the Burlington Interstate just one year ago At ihat tournament he shot well at times, but at others he dropped; back again into a novice’s gait, But this year and to-day, he astonished everybudy by his showing at the trops. Starting off with a straight in the first -vent, he lost three out of 20 in the next eyent. Hetben struck a streak that looked certain to carry him away up to the top, breaking 102 out of the next 105, giving him a total of 134 outof140sho at. Inthe ninth event he lost 3, but picked up again with a 19 out of :Q in the last e6yent. He thus finished with an average of 93.7 for 175 targets shot a1, and held third place in the daily averages. ; Dickey and Leroy both shot too well for any of the others to cateh up to them, although both had a stern chase during the greater part of the day with Standish in the lead. They tied for first average with 166 breaks out of 175, au average of 948. Banks jand-d fourth, one target behind Standish, Fulford taking fifth place with a single break les than Banks’s total. Their averages were 93.1 and 92/5, respect- ively. Fuifora's comparati-ely poor start of 44 out of the first 60 pendicapned him rather heavily, but he made his usual strong ois O the others, Puck was a fraction less than two breaks below 90 per cent,, while Barrett and Van Dyke tied wi b 86.8 per cent. Neither of these t .o men shop anywhere near up to their form, Van Dyke’s average being dus entirely to bis ijl heaith and the fatigue cansed by the trip from New York in damp and chiily weather. The average entry list for the ten events was 32 4, a most satisfac- tory showing, Had if not been for the late start in the morning (which, by the way, was dus to the courtesy of the home club, who 199 wished to accommodate the New York contingent) this number of entries would have been increased by additional shooters in Nos, 9 and 10. Itis, however, rather hard to get away from ths grounds, trainsruoning only every hour, so seyeral shooters draw out their en- trances and left so asta get back home in time for supper During the day a total of 5,940 bluarocks were trapped in the ten events on the programme. The traps, Elmer Shaner'’s pets, worked a li'tle rough at first, owing to their haviag bsen out all the day previous in the heavy rain, when 2,300 targets were thrown in practice shooting. A broken arm on one of the traps, too, delayed the game while 4 new trap was being placed in position. The life of a bluerock expert trap, when careil for as Manager Shaner cares for his, may be judged by the fact that this is only the second broken arm that has happened to his trapsin four years of service! Once the traps got well started to-day, everything went on smoothly and without a hitch, ’ The table below shows the angles’ and thea number of targets in each event, and also gives the relative positions of tha shooters in order of merit: SCORES OF AUG, 25. Hyents: 123466%7 8 910 Angles: KKUKUEKUKUE Targets: 15 20 15 20 15 29 15 20 15 20 Shotat. Broke. Ave. Dickey, ....ssees00-, 10 20 14 17 13 19 15 18 15 20 175 166 94.8 LOVrOy.,.csseeees+s 14 20 14 20 15 16 14 20 13 20 175 166 94,8 Standish .....c..0-- 15 17 15 20 14 20 14 19 11 19 173 164 93.7 Banks ...1+s:eca.-s5 1¢ 20 14 20 12 17 14 18 14 20 175 1638 93,1 Fulford .......c0¢ » 14 17 13 20 15 17 14 20 14 18 175 162 92.5 PUG ects rdaeads<7 109 13 ds 13 18 ero eat? 175 156 = 89.1 Barrett 1... ....se:. 1219 18 19 14 18 14 15 11 17 175 152 86,8 Van Dyke ....,...,. 12 15 12 14 11 18 i4 18 14 19 Wie > Tt 86.2 Hallowell.........,.. 11 16 13 18 14 18 13 19 12 15 175 149 85.2 bese sioe-vceey 13°18 1014) 11 17 15-19) 12) 18 173 147 84 BYOrSel te titan a ot 8 14 14 16 14 19 15 17 12 16 175 145 82.8 Moneyrni tsa: 14 17 12:15 13 16 13:17 10 14 175 141 80.5 Worthen,,.......... 1219 11 15 10 14 12 19 10 14 175 136 Vif Brown ,...,......... 12 16 11 18 11 16 1413 9 16 175 135 77.7 Shepard. s.l. ae: 914 1217 1416 15 14 1013 ~° 175 134 76.5 Courtney... act. 1217 “F177 ds 121098 18 14 Gs 638 76- Breit Foy eee nes es 1117 815 8161018 1416 175 133 76 Morgan. veeee 14 1511 13 11 11 13°12: 10:18 175 1248 73.1 HS ee ere torches 12:13 915 715 10 17 12°17 175 127 12.5 Collins ......-....,.. 11 14 12 14 11 11 13 14 10 12 175 121 69.1 MULORepeekeeereeones 91:10 14 814 6161215 175 117 65.6 Phelps...,.. », 1010 915 516 9 14 9°10 175 107 61,1 Briggs.....c.e00.-.5. 917 8 Bil 2138 612 175 95 54.2 Griffin,.... eter ate .. 1018 13 18 14 19 10 16 ., . 140 486118 #86&4,2 WiC estate mentee Ack pe oe) Gn ube laa 140 86 61.4 IN iio) EL 81412 .. 11 14101112, 135 92 68.1 Craig...... deve (Ue SiG gui DEST an 125 90 vp Westover ........... 1116 6101015 ,,-10.,.. 125 78 8662.4 W H Eastman .,....°12 17 131913 1510 ,.. .. . 120 99 82.5 BA Hastman,,,,... 141413 .. 11 1512 16 ,. 120 9 79.1 Towne,..,. : P 1113181711 ., 120 93 «77.5 Ells orth.,,. 120 85 70.8 Markell... .cceegees 105 73 69.5 Ward... 95 72 95.7 Clark .,.... 85 §5 ©6299 JG Walton........ 60 48 80 Cameron.,,....502: 5D 25 45.5 Horsington....... +: 50 a1 42 Houghton.,,,....... 35 26 74.2 Stoddard.,......,.., 2 26 74.2 Sablon wvewneues ene 35 19 54,2. LG Wer eleeeenenthes 35 13 ots W G@ Herrin. .../.0,. 3) Mh Abe Hib Oe hiictelendeverray 35 li cous Taylors Te 30 15 12 80. EA Worthen. pas 15 8 53.38 Smivh...... fhe! 15 7 46.6 THOMAS, ...,00ss00 BL Cte aE ot fn cite Se) 15 6 4) Hairies........ -. 48 40 36 29 34 37 32 34 24 24 333. Average 33.8, Second Day, Aug. 26. A lovely day was dealt ont tousto day. The sun was warm, and as soon as the heavy dew that fell during the night had been dried up by the rays of the sun everything was perfe-t, both overhead and underfoot. An early starb was made with the programme. The previous even- ing we had smiled when Mr Shaner’said he would'start at 9) prompt, but start he did, right on the dot. This gaveshooters who wanted to pet away early a chance to shoot out the programme and catch an early train, The first six events were disposed of before a stop of half'an hourforlunch was made The next three events were soon disposed of, and the handicap, with thirty two entries did not take long. Four extras were shot: 20 targets, known angles, $2; 25 targets, export rule, $2.50; 10 pairs, $2;15 targets, reversed order, $2. In the expert rule event Dickey took first money with 24; Van Dyke and Tiallowell divided second with 22; Money and Banks split third money with 21, Barrett and Standish taking fourth on 21. Six other entries didn’t get a place. In the pairs, Banks and Barrett divided first on 15 each; the targets from Nos, 2 and 3in this event were puz- zlers; if you took No. 2 first, you couldn’t see No. 8 easily; if you took No. 3 first, it wasa case of **Where’s No, 2? The reversed order event with seven entries was a good example of the beauties of the “old system,” all extras, except the 20 known angles, being divided on thatplan. Barrett took fivss alone with 14; Money, Dickey, Hallo- well and Standish, divided second with 13; Banks scooped third alone on 12, and drew out more than his entrance, while the 18s got back about 80 cents each out of the $2 they put in. ; First ayerage for the day was hotly contested. Banks won it finally by one target, breaking 15 straight 1u No.9 to Dickey’s 14. Leroy was third, yery closeup, Van Dyke and Barret tied for fourth and fifth places with an ayerage of 90.9each. Puck again showed up well with 89 per cent. to his credit. Tne entries for the day held upremarkably well The total number of entries for the nine programme events, outside of the handicap race. was 254, an average of <82 This number brought the average number of entries for tee two days, nineteen events altogether, to a fraction over thirty-one for each event. Without having any data to hand, we would say that this total compares more than fayorably with any Interstate shoot held this season. A total of 6,302 targets were thrown during the day, making the total forthe two days and the practice afternoon just 14,512 targets, an excellent showing. The traps worked as well as ever, and an en- joyable day’s shooting was brought to a close by a ride back to Mont- pret in a Carryall, furnished free of charge by the Montpelier Gun Club. The story of to-day’s shoot will be found in the following table: SCORES OF AUG. 26. Events: 12346566789 Angles: KKEUKUKUKU Targets: 16 20 15 20 15 20 15 20 15 Shot at. Broke, Ave. Banks. ..ccceeesseeceses 1419 15 18 14 19 15 19 15 155 148 95.4 Dickey, cicccacsassecees 10 2) 12 19 14 20 15 18 14 155 147 94.8 Leroy: vicccaencsesseces 18:18 15 19 14.18 15 19 14 155 145 93.5 Van DYKG, 44 44:4 3000020 13 2014161419141714 155 141 90.9 BHEcette, gesataat (uses? 15 19 16 17 12 19 15 19 10 155 141 90.9 ELT LE fe oe i ee ee 11 17 15 20 12 +8 35 -0 10 155 158 &9 OU Ce ae ronrnyrsat pel LOT 4s Selsey tb 155 At 87.7 Hallowell, ,....... s... 1319 12 19 12 17 13 18 12 185 135 87 MIODRHENTI nck cactotanietoe , 1116 19 17 13:17 11 18 15 185 132 85.1 W H Pastman,. 14 16 14 16 14 18 18 16 IL 1.5 Wi 84.5 Hi rorcdinee eee PLS WTA sa? Zab dba AST) Rd Courtney,.....:.4..... 14161818 1416127438 155 128° 82.5 BLOW iit py esas 14 16 12 16 14 16 11 15 12 155 126 81.2 Standish,...,........ », 12 15 14 17 12 15 14 14 12 165 125 8.6 UE SO GGada kt ects WMiy S201 Iti t2 185 123 786 SSETAtsadtageassiass 12 16 1. 16 11 19 11 13.11 155 121 % SUD a dabaasse Gaagdiee 916 18 19 12 14 11 14 11 155 119 76.7 GET veep e's Sout 13 18 13 15 10 16 1210 10 155 117 73.4 Leleict) a), ee es ee Seb eals. ew Ely (ery pu RS ir | 155 115 74,1 Moreaeinen oe eau eth de s05t9 9s G holo 13 155 115 V4.1 Collins... cscssesseees. » 101761073 417 817 14 155. 104 TU.3 ELIE alesis eaaie stolugvials|s we 1ll15 7 94118 lui6 7 155 94 63,8 EW OTIGMS para tp pisetteoet grat dol G12) Ble bs) 8 7 10 155 83 53.5 7 .. ld Ik 14) 89 63.5 rs 1U5, 16 72.3 : 95 yl 74.7 TAY ION eadavetagta tease i a. be 80 64 80 IREyNOIGAS oh aah sau bs hoe nD B44 S3kch 55 4) 74.5 MMS worries ccpetasitel lols OP ws bint 50 ay 74 BiOUC Are hep awnn rsp iss Goer l Tas rae ee, 3) 26 «674.2 HOPrinis saieetecapstaee LUIS) 2 oN imeritehts & 30 23 ~=Ss«6=. 7 (ery ratio aA Gs: Oo. eee an 35 23 65.7 SiG adl SSeS aSoeic eee ne, ae dae ae eee hl 35 21 60 ATT ye SS a A Be ey ee 35 WW 48.5 BLEND Is, oa des siuldeds.ece eapuantes (ey eee, a0 16 06 «457 BOTY Ree cieerine enc Gao Eee nclice. AUiuse wag! wal ak 30 il 36.6 DOW eelwsecsiivemesaies speGMina les, lslehisich el we eeLL 15 11 73.3 WEA ATES ey git Eh A ae rae ei 7 15 fi 46,6 Wary RAR esas eee aha 6. < 15 6 40 EBUri€S..sscseseeeeess 30 30 28 27 30 28 24 27 30-54. Average 28,2 200 THH HANDICAP EVENT, This 6yent, the last on the progcamnis, had thirty-two entries, The conditions were: ¥5 tareéts, handicap 25 to 33, $2.50 entrance, known angles, $30 added by the club, five mousys, Rose system. Fulford ran 25 straight, but had lots of company ih first place when all the ‘handicaps were shot out. Below are the totals, the score furnished us no: showing each man’s handicap allowance. Fulford had 1 extra target allowed him, but be didn’t need it. First place, with a highest possible of 25, was held by Fulford 25, Money 28+2=25, Beers 22--3=25, Courtney 23+2=%5, Collins and Brown (each) 20-+-5=25, Ward 22-++-3=25, B A. Hastman 20+-5=%5, Towne 22-+-8=25, Pudsey 21--4=25, W..G. Ferrin 19+6=%5, The 24s were; Van Dyke (seratch) Hallowell 22-2, Leroy (seratch), Tees eB ts C. E. Worthen 20-44, W. H Hastman 20--4, W. KE, Stoddard i =P, r The 23s: Banks (scratch), Barrett 224-1, Sbandish 20-42, Morgan 18--5, Fiske 204-3 The 22s: Dickey (seratch). Clark 18-4. The 21s: U. M. C, 194-2, Stub 154-6, Cameron 17-4. Those who got out of fhe money, just three out of thirty-two, were: Briggs 15+5=20, Norton 13+5=18, and Stratton 1444=18. NOTES, Hd Taylor was taken sick on the trip to Montpelier, the damp weather haying a baa effect on him, He managed to shoot in the first évent on the first day, butafter that had to retire to the hotel, where he tried to get himself in trim for the second day. On that day, ill as he was, he wouldn't givein, but put his gun together and rolled up a straight 15 in the first event, )\ On the first day’s programme U M, ©. beat out Captain Money by Glargets, and he didn’t let the Captain forget that fact during the evening, The result was the wager of a hat on the next day’sscores, U. M. GC, won again, and this time by 136 to 122. He will get a hat a size or two larger than usual, Dickey with his Parker and Leroy with his L C. Smith, both of them using E ©, powder, managed as usual to get to the top of the heap and carry off first honors forthe Bay State, Dickey won first general average, breaking 948 per cent. each day. Leroy broke 91.8 on the first day md 935 on the second day. Neither of them lost many targets either! Dickey lost 17 in two days cut of 330, Leroy losing just 2 more Ferd Van Dyke’s work on the firsh day was most disappointing to all. He was far from well, the wet weather having given him some trouble; On the second day he shotat times in his old brilliant style, pounding out 20 straightin No. 2. . F, A. Standish’s work has been meénlioned elsewhere Heshota most remarkable gait on the first day, and made the visiting experts hold their breath many a time, while they rooted for a straight for him. A total of 134 out of 140 shot at, shows that he got more than one straight in the eight events. He lost three targets ip No, 2 event, but made two 20s, one 19, two 15s and two 14s in the o her seven events. In No. 9 he dropped to 11 out of 15, but pulled himself to- gether in No. 10, and ran 19 out of 20, He thus finished with 164 out of 175, an average of 93.7. C QO. Barrett is Montpelier’s most reliable shot. Barrett has been shooting for many years, and has always held well up to the front. He shoots quick and in good time, but does not snap his birds by any means. He centers them though, aud that’s what tells after all, EB. A, Worthen, who was last year the president of the Lake Side Rod and Gun Club, and who probably holds the same posilion this year, was accompanied by his son, ©. E Worthen, who shot along through the programme and madésome good scores. We believe the Messrs. Worthen are related to our friend, Barney Worthen, of the Palmetto Gun Club, Charleston, §. C. If so, thereis no wonder they ean shoot, for that giftrunsin the bluod frequently, and Barney's about as warm as they make them anywhere ia this country, Jim Denning, of Burlington, came along as a rooter for the men< f his club. Herooted also for us in a way that helped materially when we needed that last target occasionally. Yet that‘ last target” got away once.or twice, notwithstanding Jim’s best efforts. Ben Norton and Guy Clark shot a series of matches in the sweeps on the second day, just to give them a little amusement Clark did not come out second best, but Norton laid the blame of the whole matter on a certain prominent hoodoo, yclept rabbit foot, Ben is popular in Vermont and made lots of friends for Blue Ribbon. A A. &tratton, a member of the home club, is an expert amateur photographer. On the first day he photographed a group of the shooters, making one of the clearest and best negatives of the kind we have ever had rhe pleasure of looking at, Referee Harry Kelton can look back upon his ,woik at the Mont- pelier Interstate with pleasure and satisfaction He was earnest and paiustaking, using good judgment in his decisions, and fayoring no one. . R, Ward, of St, Albans, Vt., joined the party frcm Burlington on the morning of Aug. 25. He was picked out of the crowd by a couple of euchre sharps, who tried to catch him on the “poker bet” game. Mr. Ward reads the papers and knows better than to be caugh’, but he played euchre all the same, Hence the sharps lost much yaluable time and some little temper. It may be some satisfaction to him to know that those gentlemen did not waste the whole week, as we saw them make what we believe was rather more than a fair share of ex- pense money on four sevens against a couple of ace high straights on the morning of Aug, 28. f Stillman Lawrence, the head trapper of the Montpelier Gun Club, ig a man over seventy years old, ata guess. He and two of his sons took charge of three traps during the shoot. When theinteryal for lunch was announced on the second day, father and two sons set cff across lots at a fast trot, and kept trotting until out of sight up the hil]. Not one man in ten of those who wi essed the spurt could have equalled the gait of ‘the father of nineteen children.” Mr, Law- rence is in a class by himself in more ways than one. The Sherbrooke (P. Q.) Gun Club sent a delegation of four men to this Shoot—Me:srs J. G. Walton, White, Craig and Majkrell. Sher- brooke can, and does, give good shoots on her own accoun", and gets lenty of support from Canadian and the frontier gun clubs on the United States side of the border. The day after the shoot we asked Secretary Walton how he and the club felt in regard to the Rosesystem. He replied somewhat in these words: ‘‘We are more than satisfied with it, and feel sure that had we used the old system for dividing purses, our entries would not haye kept up to the figure they did. The bulk of ihe money wceuld have gone into the hands of too few shooters The cashier’s book shows that the money was distributed around.” : \ While on thé trip from Caldwell, N. Y , to Burlington, Vt., the eyes of the bachelors of the “‘steamboat :quad’’ were gladdened by the presence of a blue-eyed member of the geniler sex. She was promptly christened ‘The Lady of the Lake,” and was popularly supposed to be a mascot of the highest quality. The suspension bridge which spanned & body of water that lay be- tween the railroad track and the sbooting grounds was remarkably light in appearance, but was strong enough to support the weight of Col Courtney without danger of collapse, We caught the Colonel with our camera while he posed in the middle of the bridge, standing in the attitude of Liberty Enlightening the World, In his upstretched hand he held a Remiogton sign, the insignia of his office. After the capacity of the bridge for weight carrying had been tested in this severe manuer, it was named the ' Bridge of Size “ H. P. Du Pont Collins was a8 much at home in Vermont as in the land of terrapin and canvasbacks, His good nature was unvarying, and if he didn’t break every target, it was always his fault, nov that of the gun or powder, His example might well re followed by others we woo of, - M. A, Beers, of Bridgeport, Conn., was uot in form, and was both- ered somewhat by bis gun, which refused to cock occasionally, At times he shot in form food encugh to please anybody, but as a rule he was clean off, and his work at Montpelier cannot hold a candle to wha he can do at hime ; W. L, Stone, of Burlington, Vt., was one of the delegation from the Lake §.de Rod and Gun Club that met the ‘ steamboat squad” on its arrival in Burlington, He conducted the squad to the Hotel Burling- ton, and took upon himself the role of host wilhout giving us a moment’s warpipg. Members of both the Lake Side Rod and Gun Club and the Mont- pelier Gun Club assured us that they would support well an Loterstate Lournament iu their State in 1£97, if the Association thought fit to hold onein Vermont next season. ‘The Associalion has done much to help on 1rap shooting im Vermont, and the members of the above élubs are disposed to feel very kindly toward the organization. Ap- plications for tournaments are in order at any time, but they will nov be acted upon until the Association’s annual meeting earniy next December. i . ; Forest AND STREAM has many friends up in Vermont and in the Province of Quebec. So many kind words were spoken to us by resi- dents of tho:é portions of the continent of North Ameri:a that wea are bound to be on hand in 1698 if there 1s a tourbament up there, and if we are still in harness. EpWwarb BANKS Waterville Tournament. Watervitte, Me., Aug. 24.—1 enclose complete scores of the shoorers ho took part in the annval tournament of the pun elubs of Maine, held under the auspices of the Wateiville Gun Club im this city Aug, 18 and 19, also an account of the organization of the Maine State Shooling Association, which may be of interest to your readers, The largest number of shotgun experis eyer assembled in Maine began breaking targeteon the grounds of the Watervilla Gun Olub FOREST AND STREAM. Wednesday. Teams were present from Portland, Bath, Richmond, Gardiner, Lewiston and Waterville, there being over fifty entries in several of the different events, The only out of the State crack who syels there was Leroy, of Massachusetts, who shot in his usual good orm. The wind was high all through the shooting and cut down the scores badly. The greatest interest for the day of course centered in the team match in which seven teams competed. Portland entered twoteams, The result of the téam mateh follows: Waterville, Gardiner, WY DIED (eveerdesacsennnrende IGS aan ad aadden weber tiatee FLONESLY . j cceesesraanvusnesde LibbY ssanceans eee ne een nane iFetGhBlleyysisee wares > eran ta FarriDgtOD,.:erenereee se ssOl Gerben cpitadaanan the botur at WHItMOFE. ccannenernnene 44 Prenleny ee, tel aeeses cevessss41—216 Douglass; .iccsceeeceaveves sG4—183 Portland. Bath. Adams ,, Peete RLU ThOMpSOD, ss+0s taeee 00 Randall, Be ee aah} BateSi.csstecseces ay Ad INGORE Ss maven eb tawasie enieianee i Merrie OisAsecataanheniaente ATDUD. erpassaceseavnes 48 JONES: canaevseees erevseenes HO WUKOGS. cree wee seees ween ee40—208 Tord. .cis sy ceanennner anes send d— 193 Lewiston. Portland No. 2. Huinnewell Jy) .cccaesaneer 4D Dennisisci, wettevitivreta ta (iolel arenes ae Mayberry. ccssevenens sanacnt ELD Viae st aisinen bien alied soca eae Wiame, a WilliasS, 0:00. censaseenn e100 METTOW eras ctutiie seer eee Le PATTON, soc nacsinanoemes wane’ HELberb as iscesnecas vueencasO9— 20D GTAYssssceseaaevessens c1an04-—200 Richmond. Hen Vieja emcintene hide dees tO Webber... yservevstetenssee tl BW Cobb. viaceeetverseees Bl The club was fayored Again Thursday by beautiful weather, and the crowd of shooters was as large as on Wednesday ‘There were over fifty men facing the traps in many of tke events on bo bh days— a record never made before at a shootin Maine. The yisitors professed themselves delighted with their treatment at the hands of the home clun, and declared they were coming to the State tournament to be held here another year. The big event of the day of course, was the match for the indivi- dual championship of, Maine, held lastyear by Major W. EH. Reid. of this city. This was ab 50 birds per man, and occupied several hours to work ib off. ; There were four members of the -Waterville team in the first squad to face the trays in this event, and on the first string of 25 birds the broke 24api‘ce, Dr. Rowe, of Richmond, broke 25 straight, while G. R. Hunnewell of Lewiston, missed but one bird in his first +5, and that because his “safety”? was not shoved mto position, Arthur Ran- dall, of Portland. pulled cut 23 out of his first 25, and followed it up in. his second siring by breaking %5 straight, winning the champion- ship. Itis a well deserved honor, as Mr. Rendall is one of the best ROW, cc csaeeananeceneenayxod HAV spew ctatenstiaseectilissuy demote ‘shots in Maine, having already won several cups offered for high gun at various shoots throughout the State. popular one Major Reid broke 46 ont of 50, the same number that won him the championship last year He was suffering from indisposition, and showed good pluck in doing s ) well as he did. fcores were made in the individual championship event, showing the number each man broke out of a possible 50: Wyman 44, Honesty 46, Preble 45, Libby 44, Green 44, Davison 37, Adams 40, Arthur 48, Neal 44, Wilkes 44, Thompson 42, Dar.on 46, G. W. Cobb 40, Herbert 39, Rowe 43, Ray 44, Hunnewell 46, Greepwood 24, Mayberry 40, Den- nis 43, Williams 44, Bates 42, Jones 38, Harrington 86, Lord 8, Gold Dust 44, W. Getchell 34, Parsons 31, Merrill 32, Corson 32, Blake 8, Connor 31, Howes 34, Webber 38 Honey £6. Coombs 34, P. F. Cobb 39, Stobie 42, C, Getchell 37, Thayer +3. Barton 33, Soule 25, Shaw 87, The shooters didn’t bother to retaway on theearly train on Thurs- day, the most of them staying to shoot the programme ou. The shoo'ing was fully as fast and of as good quality as it was on Wednesday, and a larger crowd of people fromthe city were up on the hill 'o see the fun. One of the most interesting events of the afternoon was the special contest for five prizes not included in the programme list of mer- cbhardise prizes The firet of these was a Winchester .#8-£5 rifle, offered by Hanson, Weber & Dunham, and that stayed at home, being woo by Chester Getcbell with 24 outof a possible 25 Arthur Randall carried off the shell case offered by the same firm as a sec- ond prize. Leroy, of Massachusetts.got the lamp: Wesley Getchell, of this city, won a czn of B. ©. powder, and the clock went to Wil- liams, of Portland. ; 4 The visitors were yery much pleased with Waterville, and many of them took occasion to say to members of the local club that they would surely be on haud for next summer's tournament. , The shooters who remained in the city after the close of the seccnd @ay's programme of the State tournament met at Preble’s stndio in tbe eyening to take steps looking toward the organization of an assc- ciation to have a general oversight over trap shooting matters in gen- eralin Maine and for such incidental purposes as will tend to furnish better sport for the shotgun lovers of the State. The plan of forming such an association was first broached in & letter written to the secretary of the local club by Mr 8. B Adamis, of the Portland Club, some time ago, in which he suggested some of the adyantages of such an association, and that a move be made toward forming it while the shooters were here at the tournament. The meeting was organized by the choice of Mr Adams as chair- man and E. 1’. Wyman 4s secretary. Phe chairman briefly outlined the purposes of the proposed organization, and on motion of Mr. Weal, of Portland, it was voted te form an association of Maine gun clubs, It wasalso voted that the offfeers of the Association should consist of a president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer and an executive committee consisting of the above officers, ex officio, and a member each irom the clubs not represented by any oneto the three offices named before Major W. E. Reid placed in nomination for president the name of George E. Thompson, of Bath, characterizing Mr, Thompson as one of the leading sportsmen of Maine, interested in the hear jest manner in trap-shooting and kindred sport. Mr. Thompson was elected by acclamation and accepted the office m aneat speech, pledging bis best efforts to the success of the Association, and coucselmg the members to each take a particular interrstin the organization, H. T, Wyman was chosen secretary and treasurer, and G, R. Hunnewell, of So. Danville, vice-president. §. W Whitmore, of Gardiner, was ‘made a member of the executiye committee f.om the Gardiner club, and B. P. Neal from the Portland club. It was voted to name the organization The Maine State Shooting Association. Following are the full scores of all the saooters: 123% 6 6 % 8 § 10 11 I2 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 His victory was a decidedly Events: Targets: 10 15 50 10 15 10 25 15 15 25 10 15 50 10 15 10 25 15 15 25 Wyman,.... 91543 810,. 20141415 81344 9 14 9 Re 12 13 17 W Getchell, @1048°5.. 317..,.. .. 81334 ,. .. 0. ue 5. 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S te eOaitrede i aa el we ce Oye Reet er le ie or cGedt fre Le PREP E ae Ae 4 Gap DOnDOT, “The very fact that they are without the protection of the criminal laws shows that: property in dogs is of an imperfect or qualified nature, and that they stand, as it were, between animals ferw nature, in which, until killed or subdued, there is no property, and domestic animals, in which the right of property is perfect and complete, They are not con- sidered as being upon the same plane with horses, cattle, sheep, and other domesticated animals, but rather in the category of cats, monkeys, parrots, singing birds, and simi- lar animals kept for pleasure, curiosity or caprice. They have no intrinsic value, by which we understand a value common to all dogs as such, and independent of the particu- lar breed or individual. Unlike other domestic animals, they are useful neither as beasts of burden, for draft (except to a limited extent), nor for food. They are peculiar in the fact that they differ among themselves more widely than any other class of animals, and can hardly be said to have a characteristic common to the entire race. While the higher breeds rank among the noblest representatives of the animal Kingdom, and are justly esteemed for their intelligence, sa- gacity, fidelity, watchtulness, affection, and aboye all, for their natural companionship with man, others are afilicted with such serious infirmities of temper as to be little better than a public nuisance. All are more or less subject to at- tacks ot hydrophobic madness. As itis practically impossible by statute to distinguish be- tween the different breeds, or between the valuable and the worthless, such legislation as has been enacted upon the subject, though nominally ineluding the whole canine race, is really directed against the latter class and is based upon the theory that the owner of a really Valuable dog will feel sufficient interest in him te comply with any reasonable reg- ulation designed to distinguish him from the common herd, Acting ppen the principle that there is but a qualified pro- perty in them, and that, while private interests require that FOREST AND STREAM. the valuable ones shall be protected, public interests demand that the worthless shall be exterminated, they have, from time immemorial, been considered as holding their lives at the will of the Legislature and properly falling within the police powers of the several States. See cases cited in opin- jon, * * * Hyen if it were assumed that dogs are propert in the fullest sense of the word, they would still be subject to the police power of the State, and might be destroyed or otherwise dealt with, as in the judgment of the Legislature is necessary for the protection of its citizens, That a State, in a bona fide exercise of its police power, may interfere with private prop- earty, and even order its destruction, is as well settled as any legislative power can be which has for its objects the welfare and comfort of the citizen. See cases cited in opin- ion. * * * Although dogs are ordinarily harmless, the preserve some of their hereditary wolfish instincts, whic occasionally break forth in the destruction of sheep and other helpless animals, Others, too small to attack these animals, are simply vicious, noisy and pestilent. As their depredations are often committed at night, it is usually im- possible to identify the dog orto fix the liability upon the owner, who, moreover, is likely to be pecuniarily irrespon- sible. In short, the damages are usually such as are beyond the reach of judicial process, and legislation of a drastic nature is necessary to protect persons and property from de- struction and annoyance. Such legislation is clearly within the police power of the State. It ordinarily takes the form of a license tax, and the identification of the dog by a collar and tag upon which the name of the owner is sometimes re- quired to be engraved, but other remedies are not uncom- mon, no - we As early as 1789 the Legislature of this State passed an act taxing dogs and providing that any person might kill a dog when found chasing sheep. From 1789 down to this time statutes have been passed from time to time relating to dogs and providing that dogs shonld be taxed, and also providing that dogs should be killed without notice to the owner when found chasing sheep, and at other times as pro- vided in different acts See Chapter 22, Laws of 1789, and various other laws, from time to time, including the present “county law.” These statutes have been generally acquiesced in as a proper exercise of the police power of the State, and such exercise of power for more than 100 years is strong argument in favor of the right of the Legislature to exercise such power without violating the constitution. If the first con- tention of the plaintiffs is right, it would require the courts to hold that the Legislature referred to, and which has been acquiesced in during our entire history as a State, is uncon- stitutional and void. I cannot so hold. The right of the State in the interest of public safety and welfare to destroy property of trifling or little value, has been frequently recognized by our courts. The person whose property is de- stroyed is, in the theory of the law, compensated by sharing in the general benefits’ which the destruction is calculated to secure. Health Department v. Reetory, etc., 145 N Y. 32; Lowton v. Steele, 119 id. 226; People vy. West, 106 id. 293; People v, Haynor, 149 id. 195. IJ.—DOG LICENSE NOT A TAX, The purpose of the act is not to secure a reyenue, but to prevent the running at large of ownerless dogs which have no provision made for their support, and which may become dangerous to the public by reason of their not having proper care and attention. The evidence shows that there area large number of dogs on the public streets of the cities of this State that are or may become dangerous to human life, Payment of a license fee and the purchase of a tag as pro- vided by the act is a condition precedent to the right to own or harbor a dog. In the absence of the compliance with this condition the dog is liable to be seized and, after a certain interval of time, destroyed as provided by the act, No pro- vision whatever is madein the act for the collection of the license fee, Where the general purpose of the act is not the raising of @ revenue, but the regulation of a business or the restriction of the right to keep an animal that may become dangerous to the public and no provision is made for the enforcement of the collection of the license fee, but simply prohibiting the conduct of such business or the keeping of such animals un- less the license fee is paid, the amount so to be paid is not a tax and is not governed by the provisions of the Constitution of the State relating to the imposition of taxes. Trustees of Exempt Wiremen’s Hund». Roome, 93 N. Y. 313: People ex rel, Hinsfield v, Murray, 149 id. 367; People v. Fire Associ- ation of Philadelphia, 92 id. 811. IIJ.—SO0CIETIES FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANT- MAIS AS AGENTS OF THE POLICE POWER OF THE STATR, Societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals or children are recognized in the general statutes of this State, They exercise certain public duties, and the service they per- form is in part a public service. The officers and agents of all duly imcorporated societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals or children are de- clared to be peace officers within the provisions of Section 154 of the Code of Civil Procedure. Penal Code, Section 668, Any agent or officer of any such society may arrest with- out warrant and bring before the court or magistrate having jurisdiction any person offending against any of the pro- visions of title 16 of the Penal Code. Any person who shall interfere with or obstruct any such officer or agent in the discharge of his duties is guilty of a misdemeanor. Penal Code, Section 668, The right of the Legislature to devote license fees to the benefit of a society having public duties, and which can be properly described as a subordinate governmental agency, has been recently upheld by our Court of Appeals. of Exempt Firemen’s Fund v, Roome, 93 N. Y. 313. See Board of Underwriters v. Whipple & Co., 2 App. Div. 361. THE ACT IS GENERAL: NOT LOCAL OR PRIVATE. Section 2 of Article 12 of the Constitution provides: “All cities are classified according to the latest State enumera- tion, as from time to time made, as follows: The first class includes all cities having a population of 250,000 or more; the second class, all cities having a population of 50,000 and less than 250,000; the third class all other cities. Laws relating to the property, affairs of government of cities and the sev- eral departments thereof are divided into general and special city laws; general city laws are those which relate to all cities of one or more classes; special city laws are those which re- late to a single city or to less than all the cities of a class. Special city laws shall not be passed except in conformity with the provisions of this section. * * *? The act under consideration embraces all cities of the second class and part of the cities of the first and third classes. It does not relate to a single city or to less than all the cities of a class. It is neither a general or special city law, for the reason that it does not relate to the property, affairs of government of cities, or of the several departments thereof. People ex rel. Hobach v. Sheriff, 18 Mise, Rep, 587; People ex rel. Hinsfield ». Murray, 149 N. Y. 367; People v. Havnor, 149 id, 195. Article 3, Section 16, of the State Constitution, provides: ‘No private or local bill which may be passed by the Legis- jature shall embrace more than one subject, and that shall be expressed in the title.” The Court of Appeals, in construing Chapter 554 of the Laws of 1881, relating to all incorporated cities containing 100,000 inhabitants or upward, uses this language: ““A law relating to particular persons or things as a class was said to be general; while one relating to particular persone or things of a class was deemed local and private. The act of Trustees - (Sepr. 11, 189%. . 1881 relates to a class, and applies to it as such, and not to the selected or particular elements of which it is composed. The class consists of every county in the State having within its boundaries a city of 100,000 inhabitants, and territory be- yond the city limits mapped into streets and avenues, How many such counties there are now, or may be in future, we do not know, and it is not material that we should. Whether many or few, the law operates upon them all alike and reaches them, not by a separate selection of one or more but through the general class of which they are individua elements. The force of the law of 1881 is not localized in Kings county and confined to its territory, By its terms it applies equally to every other county which may prove to be within the constituted class,” . In the matter of Church, 92 N, Y. 1, again the Court of Appeals, construing Chapter 449 of the laws of 1885, relating to all cities containing more than 500,000 inhabitants, uses this Janguage: “Neither is the act alocal or private one — within the meaning of the section referred to. Such was the decision of this court in the matter of the N. Y, Hl. R, R, Co., 70 N. Y. 327, and in the matter of Church, 92 id. 1.° - This act is general in its terms, applying to all cities in the State, of a certain class, and to every corporation carrying on 4, business requiring the use of electrical wires or conductors in such cities,. That the number of such cities is limited or restricted does not make the bill a private or local one, within the constitutional meaning and intent of these words, was expressly decided in the cases referred to.’? People ex rel. N. Y. Hlee. Lines Co. v, Squire, 107 N. Y. 593. The act under consideration is general initsnature. It relates to particular cities asa class. Itdoes not relatealone to people residing in cities having a population of more than 20,000 and less than 800,000, except in the city of Buffalo. ‘Tt relates to all people generally owning or harboring dogs in specified cities asa class, The exception of the city of Buf- falo does not affect the character of the act. People v. Hay- nor, 149 N, Y. 195; People ex rel. Hobach v. Sheriff, 13 Misc. ED. 587; People ex rel, Clauson v. Plank Koad Co., 86 N. _ All the objections raised to the act by the eS have, in my judgment, been substantially passed upon by the courts in this State adversely to the claim of the pigin- ies ous complaint of the plaintiff in each caseis dismissed, with costs. Complaint dismissed, with costs. Dogs of the Day.—I. THE barking of ‘‘Chief,” the pet dog of Hook and Ladder Company No, 14, in East 125th street, angered and aston- ished the sleeping firemen about 4 o'clock this morning The man on house duty tried to quiet him, but could not. Capt. Terpery called down the chute in pretty strong lan- — guage to silence the animal, but nothing could be done, The dog whined and barked till the man onduty went to the stall of Paddy, the old fire-horse of fifteen years’ service, with whom Chief slept. Then the cause of the dog’s unusual clamor wus clear. The horse was covered with sweat and was trembling. Dr, Myers, the superintendent of horses at the training stable, was summoned, and he treated Paddy for colic, while Chief licked the horse. Paddy was too old to recover. He died at 7 o’clock, and the dog howled over his body, follow- ing it to the street when it was removed. As the children came out, they gathered around, too, for they liked the old horse because he ate sugar out of their hands. The firemen let the dog howl; they understood. —Wew York Hvening Post. POINTS AND FLUSHES, Mr. Norvin T, Harris, of St. Mathews. Ky.; has returned from his wanderings in Kurope and Africa, - The mosquitoes in parts of Manitoba haye been s0 numer- ous, that they fairly swarm about men, horses and dogs, and probably other animals which have blood to let, Mr. Frank Richards said that sometimes his dogs, when on point, would have a blond color from the mosquitoes which covered their surfaces. They were very active even in the midday hours. Horses. were sometimes driven to degperation from the torture inflicted by these hungry pests, Tam a pretty regular reader of Worms, Anp STREAM, aud there is no paper with the same ‘‘tone”’ in the field. May it continue to be a source of pleasure and guidance to sportsmen for years to come, AVheeling. Communications for thia department are requested. Anything on the bicycle in its relation to the sportaman is particularly desirable GOOD WHEELS AND LUCKY RIDERS. Tue life of a good wheel is long or short, accordingly as the rider may make it; either the one or the other, by care: ful treatment or otherwise. Careful treatment does not necessarily imply that the rider is to pick out only smooth and easy routes on days of sun shine; it does require that he ride his wheel with watchful care and good judgment, Two riders with equally good wheels may ride together over the same routes and one will harm his wheel more or less, while the other will go through without complaint or mishap, The one rides thoughtlessly, passing over stones, regardless of whether they are loose or firm, sharp or smooth, and on lumpy or seamy ground he goes straight ahead, regardless of the jolts and strains to which he subjects his wheel. He sits heavily, pownding it with his weight asif he were an inert mass instead of riding lightly and with becoming skill, and relieving the shocks thereby. Geeetae force is necessary to pedal in careless riding, as in overcoming the obstructions or going over the rougher ground, the effort must be much greater than in riding when one avoids them. Sometimes the nimost power of the rider is necessary to force the wheel out of places which could easily have been avoided. There are thus constantly recur- — ring heavy strains, and the intense straining and rough usage are all against the long life of the wheel. From such rough treatment wheels will become waiped, or spokes bent or broken, the chain and sprocket will be worn out long before their time, and the repair shop will become prosperous from the careless rider’s inefficiency. In heedless riding, accidents will happen which result in broken wheels outright when the rider uses his feet alone, The best rider uses both head and feet, He scans the road carefully ahead, picks out the smoothest going, deftly passes a - Serb, 11, 1897.]° tocks, broken glass and other harmful things; and when oh $3 pati which has its little side hills and miniature hills and valleys, he rides so as to take every advantage, and avoid unnecessary shocks and strain. And yet the careless rider seeks causes outside of himself. The careful rider is considered lucky; the mapy little acci- dents of himself are attributed to his ill-lnck, The many visits to the repair shop are credited to the inferiority of the wheel. No wheel, be it ever so well built, if badly ridden and subjected to collisions with one thing or another, will remain sound. Though a wonderfully perfect mechanism, it will succumb quickly to ill-usage. It becomes old when it pans be new, in the hands of the rider who rides only with his feet. cy Although so airy and fragile in appearance, so delicately beautiful in its lines, and so powerful within proper limits, yet it quickly yields to the mastery of stupidity or careless- ness. 1t is truly wonderful that it carries such great weights at all, yet there are riders who give no more thought to its considerate use than they would to the use of a hand-car, Besides careless riding, there may be all the ills of neglect. Bearings are not oiled. and there results all the evils of rapid wear and laborious effort in riding; loose or broken spokes are left unmended, and the wheel twists out of true and be- comes weaker: nuts are allowed to become loose, straining the mechanism and jeopardizing the rider’s neck; and rust, sand and mud are permitted to contribute a supplementary harm to the owner’s own carelessness or indolence. And yet the care- less and indolent rder is prone to think that his vigilavt brethren have better luck or better wheels. Let him use his wheel with care and intelligence, and he will find that luck is generally associated with those qualities. Russia, by the way, has only recently developed into a cycling country. Up to February of the present year ladies were not allowed to ride on the streets of St. Petersburg, and without riders of the fairsex we can well imagine the sport would never reach its full bloom and development. What would the Boulevard or the.Coney Island Cycle Path be without the preity girls! Russia, too, is behind the times in requiring a license from riders, When applying for this license the cyclist must at- {ach a photograph of himself, so that in caseof an infraction of the bicycle ordinance he may the more easily be appre- hended One of the seventeen regulations each rider is forced to obey expressly forbids riding “‘without a coat or such a cos- tume as would attract special attention.”” Bloomers are no- where mentioned in the regulations, from which we are in doubt whether to infer that they are still unknown in Russia or that the latter part of the shirt s‘eeves section covers the aa The number of registered wheels in St. Petersburg is ,000. Permanently Humped.—“Our Jandlady had to lower the dining-tables three inches.” ‘‘Why did she do that?’ ‘Nearly all the boarders are scorchers.”’—The Indianapolis Journal. Hachting. The racing and measurement rules of the Yach Racing Union of Long Island Sound (the Seawanhaka rule, with allowance tables) can be had of Thompson & Co, 55 Dey street, New York; price 10 cents per copy. o The hantibook of “Yacht Flag Etiquette” can be had of Rehm & Co., 157 Fulton street, New York; price 10 cents per copy. YACHT RACING FIXTURES 1897. Tu following list of fixtures has been compiled from many different sources, some of them not official, and it may contain some errors. We shall be glad to have notice of corrections and additions. Races of the Sound Y. R. U. are marked with the letter §; those of the Massachusetts ¥. R. A, with the letter M: SEPTEMBER, M 11. Chelsea, Boston Harbor. Mii. Y,R A. rendezvous, Hull, Boston Harbor, § il. Riverside, fall racs, 43, 36, 30 and 26ft. classes, and 30 and 25ft, classes of cabin catboats. 11 Winthrop, club, Winthrop, Boston Harbor. 11. Roy. Canadian, skiff class, Toronto, Lake Ontaria. 1]. Beverly, 5th cham., Wenaumet, Buzzard’s Bay. 11. Burgoss, cham., sail-off, Marblehead, Mass, Bay. Ji, Columbia, annual, open, Chicago, Lake Michigan. 7 1i. Larchmont, schooners (Larcbmont cup) and smaller classes, Larchmont, Long Island Sound. 11-12, Cor. San Francisco, cruise, Marin Islands, San Francisco. § 18. American, fall regatta for all classes, 18 Queen City, 2?ft. class, Toronto, Lake Ontario. 21, Absequan, open, Atlantic City. 2-26, Cor, San Francisco, cruise, Dillon’s Point, San Francisco, £5, Buffalo, closing cruise, Lake Prie. 25. American, closing race, Newburyport. OCTOBER. 9, Miramichi, Gould cup, Chatham, NB. ‘ 9-10, Gor. San Francisco, cruise, Corinthian Cove, San Francisco. 16. Cor. San Francisco, closing day, San Francisco. 17. Cor. San Francisco squadron, cruise, San Franc sco. Mr. CHARLES F. ApAMs 2d has declared that he will not challenge for the Seawanhaka cup next year, nor build forthe trial races should an American club challenge, his business preventing him from giving the necessary time to the work. THE annual regatta of the New York Y. R, A. on Monday was a failure, there being no wind in the Lower Bay. Only a few yachts had finished at a late hour, and no official re- turns were ready at the time of going to press. MAYFLOWER, steam yacht, sailed from Southampton on Sept. 4, bearing the body of her late owner, Ogden Goelet. The family came to New York by one of the liners. By order of Com. J. Pierpont Morgan, N. Y. Y. C., the following has been issued by Fleet Capt. J, Beavor- Webb: “On the day of the funeral of the late Capt. Ogden Goelet, of which notice will be given by the daily press, the club burgée will be displayed at half-mast from colors until sun- set at the club house, at all stations and by ail yachts in commission. ~ ; Ir is with deep regret that we learn of the death of a valued correspondent and old friend, CARY: Henry E: Bayly, which took place at his home in Exmonth, Eng., on Aug. 25. No particulars have reached us, but Capt. Bayly, who was well advanced in years, had been ill for a long time. Axgout thirt yachtsmen were present on Saturday evening at the Parone C, Y. C, house at Oyster Bay, to discuss FOREST AND STREAM. 218 GOSLING.—Desiegnep By Gro LawLry ror Mussrs, F. A. NortH Anp Ll, M. CLARE, 1897. the proposed new knockabout class. Mr. D. LeRoy Dresser, of the race committee, who has been busy for some time in perfecting the scheme, acted as chairman, and explained the details. Preliminary sketches and estimates had been re- quested of several designers and builders, and W. B. Stearns, of Marblehead, was represented by a very complete design, the lines, construction and accommodation, and sail plan, accompanied by a handsome model. Messrs. Gardner & Cox sent in a sketch of a sheer and sail plan, with an esti- mate by the Spalding St. Lawrence Boat Co. Mr. Stearns’s design was very similar to that published in the FOREST AND STREAM of Jan, 23-30, 1897, but with less draft and a small metal centerboard below the floor; the dimensions being: Over all, 33ft.: l.w.l., 21ft ; beam, 7ft. 8in.; draft, 4ft., with board, 7ft,. The sail area, mainsil and jib, about 550sq ft., with 3,300lbs. in keel. The estimates showed that the yacht could be built for about $800, finished in excellent shape, and it was voted to accept Mr. Stearns’s bid. Some small changes will be necessary; the house will be enlarged to give at least 8ft. length and 5ft, headroom, EHleyen members put down their names on the list at once, and it is expected that at least fifteen yachts will be ordered. Regular races will be sailed by the class next season. Gosling. THE knockabout Gosling is thus far the most successful yacht of the class, the official record being as follows: Cock Rovin . cc. cceesveyeeecspeees BO 4 2 pe 1 BRTy GOSHODES. ij sdectdeacsceetssiererces00Q, 22. 6 6 4 456), CocKALGOfie struts tiantaedar snag. OO ule, 3 5 2 40 Wy ae eas RA Roane aOR unos occt peels 24 7 1 4 o6e4 MONPOOSC. ...ccceeceevereesssesess OID 18 2 ii 3 3117 1s Epsilon ae Magee ee ont noes ae 21 2 4 a Fly Rel UU es nee we we ohelsinlery s'slelvielsn'e 300 22 2 oe 4 13744 UACODM Pec ietetectoriescrvty rcs, © OUe US ag 1 3 Big When the victorious Cock Robin was winning everything last vear, Messrs. F. A. North and L. M. Clark went to Law- ley & Son for a boat to race against her, the resulé being” Bopeep, designed by George Lawley. While not good enough to beat Cock Robin, Bopeep proved herself easily the next best boat of the class last year. This season the same gentlemen placed another order with the Lawleys for a new boat, finally nanied Gosling, also designed by George Lay- ley. As the photo shows, she is a very handsome craft, with nothing of the freak about her. She hasat least proved that Cock Robin is not invincible, and she has defeated the four new Herreshoft knockabouts of this season. The New Measurement Formula. Editor Forest and Stream: Answering Sextant, in your issueof Aug.21. Third: ‘The subject of classification is entirely distinct from the subject of measurement.”? An absolutely perfect measurement for- mula would equalize all yachts and so make classification an optional matter of convenience; because the measure- ment rules are imperfect, we classify in order to avoid gross differences. Our difficulties are decreased by a subdivision. First Head. (a) ‘‘A measurement rule is intended to en- courage the development of a safe, roomy, speedy and easily handled boat.’?? Sextant admits that this has been the ob- ject of many of the rules heretofore made by various yacht clubs, from which yachts have been built. The writer, in conversation with many yachtsmen, has repeatedly heard this opinion expressed. The yachting press, almost without exception, in discussing past, present and future rules, takes the ground as above stated as of the first importance. The reason for the unfortunate experience of all rules heretofore made has been that they have followed Sextant’s advice, as given under the discussion of paragraph ()), in which he says that certain things can be secured “by mak- ing a supplementary regulation stating in plain terms how much breadth, draught, cubic contents, displacement of hull, ete , are deemed inseparable for a given L W.L.” Sex- tant says there are certain strong objections to the plan of using & single formula, but gives none of them, Sextant says that “if these were entirely new problems to be solved, it is inconceivable that any engineer would solve them by the application of the same formula,’’ The pri- mary purpose of all yacht designing is supposed to be to de- velop forms from which lessons having a commercial value can be drawn. This purposeis directly served by a strict application of (a); Since the larger the hull and the smaller the sail plan, the greater can be the carrying capacity ofa merchant vessel, and the smaller her crew. The very ele- ments which ina yacht tend to produce room and ease of handling tend in a merchant vessel to produce large carry- ing capacity and small crew. Sextaat must produce cogent reasons to overcome so universal an experience and establish what appears to be his contention that the only purpose of measurement rule is to produce sp2ed. we (b) “To equalize the chances of winning prizes between boats of different types and characteristics.’”’ The writer does not clearly understand what Sextant intends to convey, each sentence being so long and so involved, and so contra- dictory apparently, that itis difficult to ascertain what is meant. The assumption of the writer is that every boat possesses, either absolutely or-in the miud of its owner or designer, some meritorious feature; and since speed is not the only element to be considered, the endeavor should be made to consider all of the meritorious features possessed by yachts. This cannot be done without equalizing the oppor- tunities of the boats for winning prizes. It is by no means apparent why the utilization of speed factors should be taxed, because it is absolutely certain that none of them are inde- pendent of the Jines of thedesign. If the purpose of a mea- surement rule is simply to develop a hull with the greatest possible speed, then the only rule which is defensible, is one which takes cognizance simply of the propelling power, i. ¢., the sail area; and yachts should be classified simply hy a sail area, an arbitrary amount of sail being fixed for each class, and no time allowance being given. Sail area is notin the least a factor in the speed that comes from length. The writer would like to see arguments produced to show that itis, Taking the contrary view, the only limitation upon sail area is the righting moment of the hull in connection with its ballast. (a) “To leave owner and designer absolutely free to pro- duce anything they please.”’? It is not considered that this is repugnant to (a) atall. The designer may produce a very undesirable boat, and if he does everybody will soon know it, and nobody will repeat that form of experiment, which is precisely the thing to be desired, to know what we cannot do, as well as what we can. There is no objection to the modification of (d) suggested by Sextant, provided it be not subsequently amplified so as to produce bad results. Fourth Head. Taking up the specific objections made by Sextant to the formula, it might be well first of all to ex- plain to Sextant what the formula actually does, since it is very evident from some of his objections that he does not know. The formula assumes the L. W.L, as a basis, which is increased by a certain percentage according as certain factors are greater or less, and the extreme of variation is such as to make less than a 15 per cent. variation in the cor- rection. See (4), : (1) The universal experience heretofore of rules supple- mental to the measurement formula giving arbitrary limits to certain factors has been bad. 4 (2) The writer has already emphasized the fact that speed alone is not the prime object. It is admitted that cubic size of hull is detrimental to speed. It is also admitted that ir gives additional room. The amount of room necessary to insure safety and internal accommodation is one that must be fixed, at least in the second element, by the owner. The formula expressly does not credit excessive size as equiva- st fo speed, but credits it as being a desirable quality in a yacht. : f ; (3) Tt is true that the formula does give topsides and deck house equal credit with immersed body. It isa mis- taken assumption to say that they are not desirable. See jast week's FOREST AND STREAM, where the editor comments on the fact that those of thesmall raters with good freeboard and large above water bodies are still In use as desirable . 216 FOREST AND STREAM. (Smpr. 11, 1897. pleasure boats, while the boats with small freeboard and light displacement are of no present value. The writer’s own experience in heavy weather in boats of light displace- ment with good freeboard goes to prove the great additional seaworthiness given thereby. In the smaller yachts there would be undoubtedly a tendency to run to large huils, and this is a good thing as above explained. In the larger yachts there would be absolutely no object in excessive top- sides because of the resistance they would offer to the wind, and their uselessness as affording additional internal accom- modation which is not needed. (4) The type of rule expressly prohibits the building of a racing machine. Take for example two of the boats given in the list published on July 31, Canopus and Akista; both with sbout the same sail area, and one with double the cube and more than double theaccommodations of the other; one far more seaworthy than the other and much more easily handled, though a very much larger boat, The effect of the rule is to bear more heavily on the very small boat with big sail area than on the big boat with small sail area. In the case of Canopus, the increase of the racing length due to the large sail area and very smal] hull amounts to 5 6ft, or about 19 per cent. In the other case the increase amounts to 10 per cent, These two are used simply on account of the great difference in hull size and the small difference in sail area, and they represent probably the extreme that could be done in the way of beating the rule. (5) This objection falls to the ground in view of (a). (6) This is distinctly wrong. That designer wins who pro- duces the best lines on the biggest hull with the smallest sail area; that is, who produces the best all around boat, and this is inevitable. (7) This objection falls to the ground on account of(q@). . (8) As already explained, there is in the smaller classes of boats a decided advantage to be gained by increasing the size of the hull above water in the way of a more serviceable boat. The building of a light displacement fin-keel with monstrous topsides and unlimited draft would, from the points of view of the writer, be very interesting, because the ratio of surface in the topsides to sail area would be such as to offer a serious retarding influence to the hull; the discom- fort attendant upon excessive draft would soon limit that, and a few such boats would prove a desirable lesson to those men who think that designing consists in beating the rule by an exaggeration of untaxed elements instead of by an ad- herence to principles that are or should be well established and known to every designer of reputation. Finally, since the rule is based upon a modification of L. W.L., the scheme of time allowance heretofore used could be used with the new rule. We know that it is not correct either theoretically or practically; but it is a sufficiently close approximation to serve the purpose until the elements of a measurement formula haye been so well determined that its form will not probably be subject to change. Then the question of the exact relation between L. W.L, and its co- efficients and absolute speeds can be taken up and finally de- termined, Taking into account the experience of the past few years in racing, where first special classes were produced and then completely wiped out because boats were produced simply for speed, which killed the racing except in particular classes, thus causing the abandonment of special classes, the acknowledgment that their establishment was a mis- take, and finally the creation of special classes again in order to secure entries hecause no boats would enter against those boats built solely for speed; and on the other hand, taking into account the experience in Massachusetts Bay, and in the racing for the Seawanhaka international cup, where it was found necessary to place restrictions on the sail area of yachts of certain classesin order to get racing of any kind, or in order to produce boats which would have some value other than as racing machines, and we have the resent measurement rule thoroughly discredited. We also ave; by reference to this experience, already discredited all rules which arbitrarily limit any one dimension of a boat. The only logical way to get a roomy boat is by putting a premium on room. The only logical way to keep down ex- cessive rigs is by taxing the rig; and so the only logical rule is one which takes into account the cube of a hull and sail area. Custom and convenience indicate the desirabil- ity of using in addition the L.W.L. The writer is much pleased that Sextant apparently acquiesces in the desirabil- ity of using plans to determine elements from, and of de- termining the L.W.L. from the plans: measured when the yacht is heeled to her sailing angle, The concrete casestated has been answered in the foregoing, and the influence of the tule has been stated in the table already published, the two together making a complete answer to the question. * Vigilant and’ Navahoe. . TuE special match of the Newport Yacht Racing Associa- tion between Vigilant and Navahoe for a $250 cup was sailed on Saturday, Sept. 4, off Newport, the course being a tri- angle of 1284 nautical miles, from off Rose Island, around a mark off Brenton’s Reef lightship,and a mark off Beaver Tail. The steam yacht Sultana, J. R. Drexel, carried the eommittee, Messrs. H. B. Duryea, Woodbury Kane and R. N. Ellis. Navahoe was sailed by Capt. Aubrey Crocker, with Mr. and Mrs. Carroll, Mr. and Mrs. A. Cass Canfield, Miss Helen Benedict, W. B. Duncan, H. D. Morgan and H. P. Whitney. Vigilant was sailed by Capt. Miskell; Mr. H. FE. Tigpevt being on board with Mr, and Mrs. Chubb. - Both yac ws carried club topsails, and Vigilant allowed Navahoe 2m. 58s, The start was made from the gun at 12:10, the wind being N.B. and very light. Vigilant led over the line by about a quarter of a minute, with spinaker boom to starboard; she gained a little at the start, but both were moving very slowly. They jibed over when off Castle Hill, and a little later they lost the wind. Before the first mark was reached the wind camein light from S.E., finding Navahoe in the better berth; then it shifted to S.W. and freshened, holding in that quarter to the finish. The first mark was timed: Navahoe.....e-.eseees badane 159 04 Vigilant... .cceuvesrevvser, 2 OO 49 On the second leg, a reach to Beaver Tail mark, Vigilant gained, the times being: Navahoe,..cccccasvevervsee. 2 lt Of Vigilant, .ccscceweecssences 7 19 80 They started home with spinakers to starboard, and in the middle of the leg Vigilant passed Navahoe, the first round being timed: Time. Elapsed. Lead, Wags laritien cesere tte « POO A TOODO cs Spore eld ee te 251 48 0 02 52 NAVADOC ss iiss nereeeres-s 200s seesessd OF BD 2 52 40 They now had a beat out over the first leg, Vigilant still im- proving her position, the Brenton’s Reef mark being timed: Wigilant,..scecseversesvvenc® 89 DS NAVANOC ..ceciesecer essed 41 20 On the-three mile run across to the second mark Vigilant added 1m. 34s., the turn being timed: Vigilant. ..cececesetssenness8 OF 10) Na@vahoe ...cspeseesvennere 4 00 12 . Vigilant set spinaker to port, while Navahoe tried hers to starboardon therunin. he finish of the second round was timed: j Gain. Lead, WARSI Ria Ga oneremonmoneanunrcere ceidaa teens, 0 03 30 0 04 22 DY VELHOGniy\a0sm i pienso cee Luksewislncloroe nae 40 42 In jibing at the mark Vigilant fouled it with her boom end, By this time there was a moderate breeze and some seq, Vigilant made very little on the windward leg, the times at the first mark being: Vigilant... cicsseceecegeresssD 19 22 NAVANGC...ccccccecsssseseni0 20 40 Vigilant picked up once more on the reach, the second mark being timed: Vigilant....cccqnrsvenreenes? 05 0% Na@VahO®.. ccncscsacenveneesd 44 14 Nayahoe handled her spinaker more smartly than in the previous round, and set it to port, gaining 2m, 19s. in the 5- mile leg. The final times were: Start 12;10: Finish, Elapsed, Corrected. VAP TANG rate deter cree Lda antes nar eel De 6 11 52 6 11 52 WNaVGhOGsciameascmenitatenan ase eeu Oreo 40 6 15 40 6 12 42 After the race Mr. Chubb notified the committee that Vigilant had fouled a, mark and Mr. Carroll put in a protest, Vigilant being disqualified by the committee. A number of steam yachts and many small craft were out to follow the Tace and much interest was excited over it, Larchmont Y. C. LARCHMONT —LONG ISLAND SOUND. Saturday, Sept, kk. SPECIAL REGATTA. THERE was very little wind on the Sound last Saturday, and the races of the Larchmont Y, C. were sailed in slow time. Only one round was sailed, the times being: CUTTERS —51PT, CLASS, Length. A eee Corrected. Syce, HW. M. Hoyt... cccsseneseeen ene ess00, 06 53 10 4 53 10 VWencedor, H. M. Gillig......csevees0s..47.64 455 51 4 54 00 CATS —30FT. CLASS. Kin Dine Sih ae ssasiness tase sak COULS 4 19 12 419 12 WQOKOLH Yanan asgedoeuauaraiatine uanamanp ee sOd Did not start. Ay OATS—25FT, GLASS. CQUTVLV On Seules naseree thane eee apmens A Te. 5 O01 54 5 01 54 Win or Lose, J. 8S. Appleby......1.....23.75 4 27 18 4 22 24 PEGStO Deeside eh ote atheus trpis scanners con tO, 5 01 05 4 55 51 ANBIOSEA, ci eeecsereeeseseseunensaanes tl .OD 4 34 18 4 25 26 Naiday..sisa...ss00 Seas tits Of Fam oniaind ath eres: Did not start. Harrietta IIl.............. De en toe 30, Did not start. The winners were: Syce, Kit (a walkover) and Win or Lose, Monday, Sept. 6. The annual fall regatta was sailed on Labor Day, and also in very poor weather; the start was made at 11:30in a sailing breeze from S8.W., but it fell light within the first hour; toward the end it camein N.W. Two rounds were sailed. Colonia had no competitor. The 30ft. class had a new starter, the Herreshoff fin-keel Anoatok, recently purchased by Oswald Sanderson, former owner of Pype. She is an im- proved Handsel, a boat designed for cruising and racing, wider and abler than the special 30-footers. She defeated Acushla and Surprise very easily. Only two 20-footers started—Shark and Keneu, Shark hada long lead in the light breeze of the first round, and Keneu withdrew. The rounds were timed. First round: Vaquero L .. HIOMAre Spesdavessemensemuesse Lo-08 Houri . IPTERLON aasevienvasivees) sipecOeee oe Shark Acushla, .B 24 42 WCeaarae 3 155 32 Sora.......-. persease 29 41 Onuaway... 228 385 Harrietta IT,, vad 80 09 Dosoris. ..2 40 59 Qui Vive...... ,a2 30 41 Win or Lose.. 24125 Starling: .cc.00. «8 80 59 Skimmaug.. .2 54 42 Minnetonka,.,.. 8 31 18 Syce..... 3 01 42 Dorothy..... 13 33 47 Vencedo 304 03 Tone...... .8 8b 52 Priscilla. mae 31208 VorantIl, 12.87 29 Anoatok.......s0s 3813 02 Pawnee... +». 43 20 Colonia... .,..s..06 31408 Amos.... .8 43 56 Norota... : 31744 Goblin..; +. 48 07 MUSHUG Ses saesamsefe 818 81 SUrprise .ivceeseseneesnensst O28 32 Second round: KAU calfeee hy eds sehtsiainpas eens Ulm SV OSes oe hatemnite nse rnr sme vannoO Vaquero Di sii ei csctaneeeee 4 D138 TONG... i veeeseeersessntens BD 20 Shark .....cceccsesveneaneec4 13:12 Minnetonka. secs saeeees0 89 30 HOUFD seb eet ers nanietsniersteto 175 WENCECOR gaunt tareretim D400 QNAWAY..ccccecanerensravss? 20.43 NOLPOtA ..ccvegereeveennanes sO 02 5D Dosoris Tl.e.eccaceweees wes4 04 57 AMOS. ..cccvcceccrevcecreeasd 54 16 Win or L086... .c.ceevecoress? 45 OB ANOS OK. eeeeeseeenssseee td 59 09 PERO see tes ce te ae ae ne ODL olde PLA OLANS a5 sivasenieiens selenite TAU Sora.,.-..-+-s SERGE saerees 19 27 ACUSDIA, vevssseersssssnes.0 OF 39 Harriette TIL... cc eseeseeeed 22 25 MUSMC cee seeees veeenc sO 14 46 DOrOthy? ccceccancsscsensect 24 19 OGlOMIA weesiscsessessusesnG 2a 54 Starling ...csccseecseesnseesD 28 04 The final times were: SOHOONERS—95FT CLASS. : Length. Hlapsed, Corrected. Colonia, C. A. Postley........+.-++- +++. 93,13 6 48 54 6 48 54 CUTTERS—SIFT. CLASS. Syce, F. M. Hoyt......cccevervensenes 0,86 6 51 30 5 51 30 Vencedor, H. M. Gillig ....., 47.64 6 01 00 5 57 18 : CUTTERS AND YAWLS—42P7, CLASS. Pawnee, F. Alexandre.....cseee 42,50 Did not finish. Norota, D. B. Burnham,......... »--.-41.64 6 O07 55 6 07 55 SLOOPS—d6FT, CLASS. Acushla, A. G Haman....ccevesereees 34.06 617 39 6 16 28 Surprise, J. Baird ..... Laas eae eee ae eO Did not finish. Anoatok, O Sanderson,., 6 09 09 6 07 45 Vorant Il ,G. G. Tyson........ pega Did not finish. SLOOPS—30FT. CLASS, Goblin, @ M. Whitman,..ccsseesses5-- 20-11 Did not finish. Kite, G. M. Barretto........ . 28.45 Did not finish. SLOOPS—s0PT, CLASS—SPECIAL. Hera, R. N Ellis.......... staan antes oU UU 6 09 00. 6 09 00 Musme, J. M. Macdonough............ 30.00 6 19 46 6 19 46 SLOOPS—25ED, CLASS: i Did not finish, 41317 4 09 36 Did not finish. — Vaquerol, W,G 4 11 33 4.07 61 SLOOPS—20FT. CLASS. Keneu, M. M. Clark... .....csves eevee ee 2O.U Did not finish, Shark, C.S. Hoyt.vcesscveeeevevserres 280,00 408 12 4 (8 12 Fiddler, N. Kulte.......5s0s0 -20,00 Dfd not finish, CABIN GATS —20FT. GLASS. Onaway, ©. S Pirie..cccseeceeeererene tO 416 43 4 12 42 Kit, F.G. Dunne... nea 3 53 05 3 52 43 Dosoris 11 , G. P. Vail — 4 24 59 4 24 59 CABIN GATS—ZEFT. CLASS Harrietta II1.. Robert Jacob.,..,... 5 07 25 5 07 25 Qui Vive, G, H. Freeth,....00, Did not finish. Win or Lose, J 8. Appleby...... 4 30 U3 4 Q7 55 Presto, M.H Hatfield.......... 5 00 45 4 59 46 ~ OPEN cATS— Starling, E. D. Levamte.. Dorothy, J E. Sanborn,, Tone, C. W. Bird......005 Sora, W. Hoey, Jr....... Amos, C. E Silkworth.,, Minnetonka, A B. Alley.......0-3 6 19 20 The wivners are: Colonia (sail over), Syce, Norota, Anoatok, Hera, Vaquero I,, Shark, Kit, Win or Lose and Sora. oo. . On Sept. 11 the race for the Larchmont schooner atip of ae will be sailed, also special races of the 5lft. and 20ft. classes. = ea ser Beverly Y. Cc. » THIRD CORINTHIAN RACE. ; Saturday, Aug. 7. — FS THE first report of this race was mailed but failed to reach us, we print it now for the sake of the complete record. a This was the 252d race, third Corinthian, off the club ouse. Cruising and second class sailed 114¢ miles, third and fourth sailed 834, and fifth class 5}4. fries. Wind N.H. at start, then acalm,then a good 5.1 . breeze. Edith won in the cruising, for the first time they did n Judge, W, Lloyd J f- tie her up. Opossum, Melro, Daisy and Imp won firsts in other classes. Royal Blue, Thordis, Howard and Heiress won second prizes. Hdith, Daisy, Opossum, Thordis and Imp score one for pennant. Royal Blue, Thordis, Howard and Heiress score one-half. ; CRUISING CLASS, , Lesugth. Hlapsed, rected . Edith, C. M. Bakers..ccssscsesveeeeesss31,00 2 8 20 Soe Royal Blue, C. 8. Dennison...,,.......21.00 229 25 sae Robin Hood, ©, H. JOneSs...cneee eee 3l, 03 2 51 58 2 31 28 Kantaka, A Winsor........-+.. PApebE 721.00 2 34 48 oe be ’ SECOND CLASS—CATS, Thordis, T. B, Wales. ....00++.+reeesay + 26.00 2 32 30 220 19 Kalama, David Rice..,.,..cc,eensers ++26,00 235 15 2 23 04 Melro, D. L, Whittemore..... eeeeures 20.03 2 35 40 215 38 May King. D- L, Whittemore .....,...25.09 2 36 45 2 24 16 Bernice, J.S, Young, Jr. .......-.. weeps 05 aor 20 2 24 27 Anonyma, Vice-Com. Dabney.......,.24,09 2 438 03 2 20: 34 . FOURTH CLASS—CATS, Daisy, Howard Stockton.,.,.....+.+.+-18,03 2 44 05 2 26.14 Howard, H. O. Miller,,.,.,,,..,.+0.++-15,01 244 22 2 26 18 Cinch, H. Parker............55 oc, ven 18,01 2 45 04 2) 27 00 Hope, J. He Bis... .ccccsessnvereteesesl%11 2 4958 230.6 FOURTH CLASS—SLOOPS. : Opossum, R. W. Hmmons,..,.,........19,00 2 27 5S 2 11 10 Heiress, George G. AMOPY...,.+1+++04.19.00 2 85 35 218 47 Capelin, W. EB, C. Mustis,......02.0000+19,02 2 36 48 2 19°19 Grise. W, H, C. Hustis....-........,-..19.00 2 37 40 2! 20) 52 Blue Fish, A. S. Hardy & J. Crane, Jr.19.00 2 40 15 a eB et | FINTH CLASS—CATS. Imp, G. B. Dabney... ...eceyeye eee y 1405 1 56 00 1 40 23 Hebe, J. Parkinson, JM... 0... e0eceeee1 4,09 2 00 13 1 44 59 Plymouth Y. C. Open Regatta, PLYMOUTH, MASS. Saturday, Aug. 28. MASSACHUSRITS ¥, R, A. RULES, THE Plymouth Y. C. sailed an open regatta, the last of the South Shore circuit of the Massachusetts Y. R. A., on Aug, 28, ina very variable wind. ‘The times were: HIRST CLASS. Length, Hlapsed, Corrected. Little Peter, H. Moebs....cscsuevueuee 124,05 1 ri 15 119 48 Addie, R. C. Nickerson, .....00 eevee, 220,08 1 49 08 al 20h Eclipse, H. H. Sears. .icageeseeevry eee 20.08 1 53°12 1 26 54 Beatrice, J. Cavamatgh ........c0eea+e.+24.11 1 56 11 1 27 15 City of Chicago, I. F. Crosby.,.,......25.10 SECOND CLASS, Privateer, A E Schaff...sccessevceeess3).09 159 05 1 26 42 Ishtar, A. Beale... ccc ceeeeeeeesnsss 2.00 2 03 20 1 30 03 Harolde, A. T. BSS...,.ccseveeeevenes et 10 2 06 38 1 36 25 Arawak, L..D. Bakers... ccceuseeveeeees 23.02 2072 1 36 52 Future, W. H.Whitman,...,-.,+--+-+ 21,09 2 12 32 1 40 09 THERD CLASS. Rooster, Adams Brothers ...sse.0y+1r2.19.03 156383 ~ 1 22 58 Wrinkle, S. N. Small... se ,eeceene ee 1D D1 2 00 54 1 26 13 Tacoma, Prior & Goodspeed ,.,.......19,10 2 01 57 1 26 20 Arab UL., W. BF. Scott. 1.2... 91 2 05 12 1 30 31 ‘Nancy Hanks, P..W. Maglathin,,..,...19,02 2 10 01 1 34 19 . Fanny D., M. MeDowell,...,..0-.00+7. 19.10 21450 - 1 40038 Hustler, A. HE. Turmer,... .yececeser etd. 1 219 00 1 42 56 FLATEM ESE esr eere yode ss sues as 19.00 2 22 51 1 46 55 FOURTH GLASS. Demon, G. D. Silsbee......,.0+0.2+5++- 16.11 2 04 45 1 26:87, Attila, Av O. Higging......ce espe epee eet t.02 211 45 127 5l Ideal, @.F. Bradford,.......0yy00eee,-17.09 2 13 42 1 8b 48 Winnetuxet, W. T. Porter,.........--- 1611 225 31 1 46 23 Trouble, T. Diamond.,,,...... plate fe aelds OD 2 27123 1 49 35 Fedora, H. Hunt......secsses--+--2> -10.08 2 31 48 15215 = SPRITSAILS, Maj D., Drew,..,.....- a onitile titer ee ame 2 27 10 1 46 08 EB. B. Weston, Symmes,.....505 «-++y- 16.11 2 29 30 1 50 22 Solitaire, Baker... , spencer seer yey e cee yl 1.08 2 29 00 1 51 05 WANKEG, SWAISGly eedvyrcarenenect une t= 16.04 2 31 26 1 51 18 Thelma, Blan. ye. esseeeerve cree sees 15.02 2 86 22 1 5d 07 Belle, Clark..... Seder etriaai isha tN Did nots finish. Skin Jack, RansOM,....yesserere yess ee l0.06 Did not finish, Squam Handicap Race. SQUAM, MASS, Saturday, Aug, 28. A HANDICAP race—the handicaps based on the records of the yachts for the season—was sailed at Squam on Aug 25in a variable breeze, from light to moderate, the times being: FIRST CLASS. e Coot, DuUPUG He wttereas petra watered ened spe tenia kev aoe Slee oD Huns, LANATALH Je iHerb ae apne saee weer el emis eas seen oem Lec Oad o Gireey PIP COHN AA Anand Eawadcad Wa bs tots aisle kee thet Lb ein eet at Reto} ESTA aC L ALTA ess ce assates haateiseminanseneiaes aeanareremaierstaiseseata| eisiaieam Sears ieastaaaiaiensnieo ee eae BLO WUIEs Wi Celie in wiasie aa mstsasamaissetinia’ Kb Bb ihiniParsiniPeelineA ASE DZCO pip ELASI erseirecrm ce rece na ; SECOND CLASS. abl ee LOWL Leen beceatr rrr sy ite, gaacemehaarsae weer eel OweO Oceanus, AMAMS.....,ccceryeetenees RIVET VG sok Peas dey e oeaaee Phos Anita, Cunningham ...... vyetedethSterace ei Bea iesiey ic amet vice t taeeee 5 2 11932 Gertrude. Whittenore.........sceeeees Se teeNKEE Sent K nee oce Tobasco, WigZal,,..su:2a0222 SOODCLINDE sO bhauorre pbc tbyeee ee 22, D0 Folly,“ WOGADUTY irae arse peti ee ed Mision oe eacbnehusenmvene obese Ket dev ac Seleiniy'cecls clncalvalsipla tl dealcete ie tenn acven panied enna site Fy Aft. 2 37 47 Mee TOME Lee ancdos' ve naeucsetiesvecda cts dad reslare(s sateen ster’ ae 2 37 47 ey ucntrocnes ewneetnetsene thane ie Pareet i tispaceevare séeeoeere 39 08 Brena, DUZUO. sess. seiees Midget, Norwood......-.. Liftle Comrade, Haskell,, Shamrock, O’Reilly...... Melis, GALI GI ice ele ck dra ast ararauaalalelnwyersserevetste Spruce IIII., of international fame, was entered by Paul Butler, with Miss Ames as crew. © Seawanhaka C. Y. C. Fall Race. CENTER ISLAND—LONG ISLAND SOUND. Saturday, Sept. h. SOUND Y. R. U. RULES, THE Seawahaka Corinthian Y. ©. sailed its fall race on Sept. 4in light weather. A start was made at 1:30 in a very light southerly breeze, some of the yachts from across the Sound failing to make the harbor in time. Acushla was towed in by the committee boat, and she and Surprise started at 2:07, the latter having waited for her. They sailed the Sound triangular course, while the smaller yachts sailed the Shippan course, only one round being sailed. The fleet drifted nearly across the Sound, and then the breeze fresh- ‘ened, making quite an interesting racé Over the reach of the second leg and the beat home. Paprika carried away her peak halyard block after turning the second mark and was towed in, The times were: SLOOPS—486PT. CLASS, ae: Pee -Length. Finish Hlapsed. _ Acushla, Hr W.-Haman,..5.¢.6.-5-..54,06 5° 53607 5s 329.07 Surprise, J.D. Baird. ..20:c.¢eseeeee-34.55, © 551388 ~ 344 28 SLOOPS—25FT. GLASS, > gl Se at ot oe Secret, H..TOWDSANG icc cesessec ee es 24.09 54908 ~ °4 14 03 Priscilla, FP. W. BOVer... cc ccseesee sense 20,00 6 04 47 4 29 47 _Nameless, RC. Wetmore.............28.70 . 600 25" 54 25 25 Skimmaug, C.D, Mallory....ccscssssse seen 5 46 30 411 30 a ‘. SLOOPS—20PT. CLASS, : : Skate, Irving Cox. ....eees ..-20,00 5 38 32 4 03 3: Shark, Rouse & Hoyt....... 1.20, 6 26 13 3 61 13 Vagary, Barclay Ward,.......... 20.00 ~ 65 54 10 419 10 YAWLS—Z0FT. CLASS. , Alice, G. G, Fry......, Reith tee maa a 19,66 Not timed, me FA, 7 eee 2 SLOOPS—15FT, GLASS-. _ “Wh: “Vola, C.D. Mallory;.,.,.4.sceuesae-+-.15,00 -61020 -—4 5 20 Paprika, Stevens Bros,....-.- Pele PES 00 Disabled. The winners were; Acushla, Skimmaug, Shark, Alice and Yola. Sup. 11, 180%] FOREST AND STREAM. 217 Pabst Cup. PEWAUEEE, WIS, Saturday, dug. 28. THR yacht Avers, of the Pine Lake Y. C., owned by Com, Rob. Nunnemacher, and sailed by Herman Nunnemacher, of that club, won outin the Pahst challenge cup regatta, sailed over the Pine lake Y. G.’s course this afternoon. Avers was the winner of the Pabsfi trophy last year. This will give the cup to the Pine Lake Y- C. for another year, as it is too late in the season for another regatta to take place before Sept. 15. The race as a whole was a very pretty afiair, though the loss of the wind on the second round took away a good deal of the snap that was evident early in the event. The wind was light and puffy from the south, and the start was north from Koch’s Landing. The preparatory gun was fired at 2:30, and the starting signal five minutes later. All the boats were hovering as near the starting buoy as possible, and, with the exception of Sirrocco, Friar and Kite, all got across the line within the five minutes’ interval allowed ‘after the second gun fired. Mistral, Idle Hour, Lorraine, Sophia, Avers and Kismet was the order at the start, and the run to the first huoy was yery vretty. The yachts hung together well, but after turn- ing the first buoy they were more scattered. - T+ was Avers’ wind, and from the position of sixth at the start she worked up to first before she had entered on the second lee of the course. She was neatly handled. and with her sail area, nearly twice as great as any of the others. she easily outsailed them, as she needed but a zephyr to make her forge ahead. z; The boats finished the first round in the following order; . Elansed. Avers, R. Nunnemacher. P. Lh. Y. O,,..: Mistral, J. BE. Friend, P. Lb. Y.-C. .....05 Lorraine, Schiller & Bausch. P Y.C...,..., Idle Hour. R. B Giljohann, P. Y.C.... Cn Sophia, W. H. Meyer, P. Y,©..... pereeedi cc. 0 54 31 Sirrocco. Wallher Bros,, P Y. @.-......200005 0 50 26 Kismet. A. A. ly. Smith, P. L. ¥.0.-.....055 64 02 Henrietta, Geo. Brumder, P. T:. ¥.C.....++. .0 54 40 Frances, J. G. Wersen, P_ DL. Y¥.Cs.....,45 0 .0 5A 30 Friar. B. Skidmore, Jr..P. 6. YC .....eee 0 53 28 WNaneris. Fred Rietbrock, P Tu. Y.C ..... .- F4 53 Leona. Udo Dorestan P. L. ¥. ©...,...:, + tito cots te 20 OFT HL Kite. Ponpert end Peckler, P.Y Co... cceeesenee Pee ae pe O20 9d Allida, Vogel Syndicate, PL. Y.-C. oe ceceeeee senneed 02 N2 Ducky Daddies, Winkler Bros., P.L Y.C ....., Tend acerenece bee T 04 09 The second time around was much the same as the first. Ayers continued leading, followed by Mistral, Kismet and three Pewaukee boats in a bunch, and had not the wind failed on the beat south and the run back to the finishing stake, the Pewaukee Y. C. would undoubtedly have been victorious. , Sirrocco, sailed by Fred. Wallber, finished second on cor- rected time. She was thirteenth to get away, but the good judgment of her skipper made up the time lost at_the start, and had the wind heen a trifia heavier, it would have com- pelled Avers to reef, and in that event Sirrocco would have unquestionably won out, as she is a heavy weather boat. Tiorraine also did some good work. She was sailed by A. S. Hathaway in the absence of her owners, Messrs. Schiller & Baneh. who are Hast on business. - Most of the yachts were cleverly handled, but a number of them lost several minutes hy being caught and detained in an eddy off Minnemacher Island. On the last round. Kite, Henrietta, Allida and Ducky Daddles dropped out. The rest finished as follows: Start. Finish, Elapsed. Corrected. AYVELS ccscecccccecssannree 30 Fed 406 41 1 30 23 1 41 41 SirroecO. ok essen eee £9 00 418 Fd 1 88 54 1 36 41 Mistral... ccc eens eyes 2 3 99 4 14 29 1 328 AO 1 36 49 Tale Hour.....s.0. vee 2 39 51 416 41 1 49 50 1°39 05 Kinnet..... eee sib nnenrtee Do 4 06 45 1 47 20 1 41 27 Lorraine ...ccceeeseee ree 3 49 4 22-40 1 46 52 14451 BEEGAP) © oiuemsplesmsts yes 0000 4 31 32 151 32 1 44 53 Nancris..... Sean ne een eOh 4 27 2h J 48 25 1 46 43 Opiate ere en yy hereon aoe 4 26 45 1 50 51 1 46 46 Francis ....cecsseseeeas ee 80 3) 4 31 22 1 54 53 1 52 34 Leona..... ee eit kale 4 4% 28 2 07 18 201 37 Jndges—J. H. Van Dyke, 0. li. C.: Geo. M. Conway, P. Y. G.. 0. G. Hansen. P. LL Y.C. Timekeepers—D. EH. Murphy, O. L.C.; A. G. Miller, P. Y. C.; W. H, Graw, P. L Y.-C. i ERNEST E. WHITE. Corinthiau Y. (., 116th Regatta. MARBLEHEAD—MASSACHUSEITS BAY. Saturday, Aug. 28: THE Corinthian Y. C.. of Marblehead, sailed its third cham- pionship race on Aug. 28 in a light south wind, the times being: | CLASS A, . Elapsed. Corrected. MA ATTIAAS Ace Misi rae angeciislsts sels bid watts als pees JNN wean 1 62 45 Rowena. R.H Rothwell,.....ccseesceseseeeeeveeel 57 37 1 55 07 Qlara, W. D, Turmer..,5). cassseetsevssevenvseel 87 09 1 57 00 Wugenia, T. 8. Palmer. csepsccscencceserceresesessee OF 15 1.58 15 RNS1esn CEEMCOlE Meese skin Giatslele sieteivsle slstegereledplle 0.50. 1 59 50 Lillian, H BH. Whitney .......cscerveescrseeeceres-% 15 47 211 47 Geisha. ©. W. JAYDCS. ..psiccceeereereeeereve eens se Ot Ae 2 24 32 MATA acs ook inns s beers hsasescires Vine vee ve cregee St OD 2 30 35 CLASS GC. Mayona, © O Stearns...cscscseeserseeess Sone eile a sDO 1 27 28 Ruth, RK, B. Wiggin..........0. 1 36 05 1 30 35 Comet, A. A. Lawrence.. cabal ‘ 1 36 10 1 24 10 Water Lily, F. C. Lyman...... ol teolel ef acaalstnrs sseseeel Jl 50 1 31 50 : EKNOCKABOUTS. : Mongoose. A D. Irving, Jr....es.cueee Be AR 1 52 10 Gosling, Olark & North... ..cs,cccceeeeeeersvenens © re te 1 57 05, My. W ©. GBYV. - vce ccevecncccssensnsancsecspecen = 22 os 153 25 Cockatoo, Ops Mabon Vora sent, Ader vecesl ose 2 00 00 Cock Robin, C. AH. W. Foster. ....0: caste eeneee © 201 35 Sally Ill. D.C. Percival, Itijgas sscevssvavevecnes 2 02 35 Flazard, H. M. Sears......-... Se ee Bo bdasé ce EB on 2 14 00 Jenny Wren, F. D. Peabody.......scesceereeeree = bh a 215 00 Rooster. Tan yacht Rooster has been sold. Charles F, Adams 2d, of Quincy, parted company with her Saturday at Plymouth after she had added another victory to the many that have made her the peer of the third class. Melbourne McDowell was the purchaser, and he bought her principally to defend the Davenport cup, which is to be raced for next week. Tt was just after the finish of the Plymouth race yester- day, when the little Rooster was tied up to the float, that Mr. McDowell shot Fanny D. up alongside and said to Mr. Adams: “J’ll take her at that figure.” “All right,’? replied the latter, and almost before the yachtsmen standing around realized it, Rooster was being towed behind Fanny D. across Plymouth Bay to Duxbury. As the little prize-winner pulled out from the wharf, George Adams stepped out on the piazza of the yacht club house to get one last look at her, and waving his hand, said affectionately, ““Good-by, my sweetheart.” Charley Adams will sail Rooster in the first cup race next Thursday, this being one of the stipulations in the sale. Rooster was built in 1895 from designs by J. R. Purdon and Mr. Adams. Sheis a fast boat, but many yachtsmen give as much credit to thecrew as to the boat for the record she has attained, and say that Rooster without the Adams pave wa be like a jug without a handle.—Boston Globe, ug. 29. The Thirty-footers at Newport.’ _ A NEw method of racing in heats was started “on Aug. 30, four pairs of the 30-footers starting, the first at 2:55, and the others at intervals of 5m. The wind was S.W., and the Dyers Island course was sailed, the times being: FIRST PAIR, Finish. Elapsed, Vaquero I1l., H. B Duryea ..c..cresceseeee seen eed 44 16 2 49 16 Wa Wa, J: Av Stillman sicesce. ernest. wetaweeand 4h OG" 2 52 06 SECOND PATR. ' Musme,. J M. MeDonovgh ..cacssaessseneeneerae-D 47 BF - 2 57 47 Veda, C. Vanderbilt, Jr .....:.--.... 55-05 eiaeane- Do) OD 2 59 05 : THIRD PAIR. 2 Dorothy IL, H. P Whitney .......cess.0ss, sae0.5 58 44 2 53 44 Esperanza, A,S. Van Winkle ....-.... ....:.,...Did not finish. 1 - FOURTH PAIR. : Hera, RON, Bis... ceyseeeecseaseess Steet fees 6 10 11 8 00 11 Mai, O. G. Jennings, ...-.-sensveveeeeereesseeenys Did not finish. The winners of the fonr pairs sailed off on Aug. 31, the course being to Hope [sland and return. Thea start was made ina light N. wind, shifting and finally dropping, so that the final sail-off was postponed ‘The psirs were Vaquero and Carolina and Dorothy and Musme, Hera havy- ing no competitor. The result was; FIRST PAIR. ; ’ : Finish, Hlansed. Vaquero TIT... AH. PD- Durves,..cser-seyeeverecccee> 218 10 416 10 Carolina, Pembroke Jones ..........-....+ Bete lS Gp 4 19 15 SECOND PAIR. Dorothy TL.. H. P Whitney...........5 otek patter au0R 409 08 Musme, J. M.McDonough......ccsesecsseveee-2-25 16 38 4 11 38 Wen winners of the two days were Vaquero, Dorothy and era, : The series was postponed on Sent. 1 to make way for a special race. for the cup offered hy Mrs. H. B. Duryea. The Dyers Island course was sailed in a fresb S.W,. wind. Veda was manned by professionals, Captains Harry and Clayton Haff and Capt. Barry. The times were: : Finish Elapsed. Esperanza, A. S. Van Winkle........sseeseeveves ed) 26 44 2 26 44 FU Sr a, Ne TGs ayy rn ante deca ster e'bs6 A cGeriaye-esesaietn inaenpenen ES 2.37 13 Gis Glia pes UGTIOSi erases sarees on aprraiezoenintacess mae rareias 5 33 50 2 39 50 Veda. (. Vanderbilt Jr... ..ccccccenesesnccassnet Oo 44 2 39 44 Dorothy TI. H. P. Whitney............ A sewers 40 FD 2 40 50 Musme, J. M. MeDonough.......criseecenepenecesh 41 18 241 18 Mai. O G. Jennings. 2. ccc cece c ce secee eee eens) 41 49 2 41 49 Puck. E 1D) Morzan....... Aataactee disp haalé veces A he 5 42 17 24217 Wa Wa, J: A. Stilltmam 2... cece csaeawevanssecanssd 42 52 2 4? 52 On Sept. 2 Vaqnero and Hera sailed off. Dorothy going in with the rest of the class for a sweepstakes. The wind was light S.E , and the Brig Ledge course was selected for the series sail-off, the sweepstake being over the triangular course. The times were: SERIES. : : Finish, Elapsed. Hera, R.N, Bilis -.- os eee sees Paatcterrer tapas lapels, eet oe 425 3? Vaquero ITll., H. B. Duryea. ... ..... ..., .+ess-- Did not finish, SWEEPSTAKES Rieks By eMercayey. ce teewsicede ccecrtees veveae 6 14 50 2 4f 50 Veda GC. Vanderbilt, Jr........... utulatets wlafelete thie a ttieltny OL 2 47 51 Wa Wa J. A Stillman...... adsense nesvieei te Loerte 241 40 Musme, J. MW McDonough. ........ Ste ea te Ue Del 2 52 06 Dorothy IT. H P. Whitney....cccceseeseneneeees O 20 96 2 52 36 Maine) Ga Jennings sae see oe tele en haonee. 2 54 22 Carolina, Pembroke Jones....... -.++..+% +. es.++.,Did not finish. Kingston Y. C. Open Regatta, KINGSTON. MASS. Friday, Aug. 27. - MASS. Y R, A. RULES. Ta annual open regatta of the Kingston Y. C. on Aug. 28 was a great success. The wind was light, but still strong enough to make a good race, and there was a large fleet of starters. The times were: FIRST CLASS. Length Finish. Oorrected. Little Peter, H. Moebs.........5000000-24.05 1 55 25 55 47 Addie, R C Nickerson,,......02.05.+.20.08 116 42 0 57 37 Eclipse. H. H. Sears... 2.2... . eee 2.08 1 17 42 0 59 15 City of Chicago, I. F Crosby......... 25.10 1 19 45 1 01 03 Beatrice, J, Cavanagh....,............ 2411 1 21 32 1 02 15 SECOND CLASS. Privateer, A. BH. Schaaf............ ..21.09 113 47 0 52 12 Arawak, L D, Raker,.....sececsesee- 29,0 1:19 31 059 11 Harolde. A T BIiss .........4.005645.-23.10 1 19 37 059 35 Tshtar, A Beal ......... eae es eae retl 00 J 24 04 1 01 53 Future, W, T. Whitman,.............. +. a Did not finish. THIRD Gras Fj Rooster, Adam* Bros.........05 seats euCe 1 14 54 +0 50 30 Tacoma, Prior & Goodspeed,.......,..19.10 117 52 0 54 41 ArabTIl , W. F Sedtt....-... --.c0000.19.71 119 13 0 56 00 Naney Hauks, P. W. Maglathlin..,..,.19 02 1 20 37 0 56 49 Wrinkle, S. N Small_. ..c..ccceeeeee A911 1 20 31 0 57 24 Fanny D,M McDowell........... mere load j 21 31 0.58 20 Scamper, S S, Winsor.........0000001 19,11 1 22 46 0 59 39 Hustler; A.) Turner. ,...c0. 25 ss0a0, 18.141 1 24 43 1 00 41 FOURTH GLASS Attila, A. O. Higgins ..eccvecsereeers 14,12 0 56 00 0 36 20 Tdeal. C. F. Bradford. .....-ccere cere 17.09 0 7B 16 0 38 28 Fedora. Wadsworth ........ Brent Bp 18 08 0 57 27 0 39 52 Winnetuxet. W. T. Porter.....,.,,.+--J6,11 0 59.15 0 41 51 Puzzle, M. Smith ......ccseeseeeees we. 16,04 1 03 02 0 45 12 Dolphin, N. Morton......sceere-- sense 16.07 1 40 00 0 46 22 CLASS A Yankee. Walker. ....cccsseeenaetesees 16,04 0 56 04 0 38 i4 Skipjack, Ravsom.........ceen sense 15,06 0 57 02 0 388 32 Solitaire. BAKGr.....0.cccseseueeeeeeee- 17.08 0 56 16 0 39 25 MWS. TOW. os bei ee cueca ne medaan w 15,10 0 58 08 0 39 49 Natalia, Jones. ....... Ay sores een nd eked 0 58 16 0 40 52 BE B. Weston, SyMM6S.......seeeeeee 16,11 0 58 47 0 41 23 Tom Jeff. Richards... ......2..eseese0s, 16,02 0 59 42 0 41 44 Freak, WabuUm ...,.cccsesesecerernee nett 10 1 06 18 0 48 58 Belle, Clark..,...... NEV Se eee eices 16.00 1 09 40 0 51 34 SPLASHERS A. No Name, Bailey..sssisscsesceceessces nee 1 05 09 Scie Rosey. RADSOM ....ceceeseereee sees ada tis 1 06 10 ee Ormond, OrMond.,.,.ccrevseecersec ese shyt 1 08 52 nel a SPLASHERS B, Robe Hondwererie tres deacediae 1 21 15 Sides BaD MB BUEy seis demu sas eed basin ste eee trite 1 21 17 rete Buss, Adams........s005 Atenas aceetess s6 si Mistook the mark, No Name, J. Ormond ..........-+ We eooie bes Did not finish, Gravesend Bay Y. C._Handicap Race. BATH BEACH—GRAVESEND BAY, : Saturday, Aug. 28. THE Gravesend Bay Y C. sailed a very successful handi- cap race on Aug. 28, the times being: SLOOPS. ha Start, 2:37:00: Finish Kelpie (allows) ..... Be DCE aS Vivecersccesserrernntversesss een OF 17 Carrie Van Voorhees (4M.) ..ceerepeeeceenes wit mR Risa s sinters 2 07 08 Susie COM cccevecescuse cere rseeeetewewenseerrreereeeeeazere: 517 05 Nemo (91.)... cp eye ce se tee ceeeer essen vanes eeeneennessseebenns 5 17 46 Sea Gull (12m.),.....ss0.---- ee SERPS Spee ERS S inner ees aa Gael (9m,)...... ye Oe Sepa i eee on ee vesevh sdsnseniawais Doe DD Start, 2:42:00: CABIN CATS CLASS. Louise: CAILOWS)...cceneceesscseepeecstanneerserrenens sacoaguassd 04 22 Aeron) (BOUTS cee acacaases 5th Fw eeeewenlze sosesssavara toeel) OPEN CATS. } Martha Mi (allows). ccccctocecessssusccceeecgeeseseessesasasnseta 08 10 Sis (2m.)...... la oat ae ae euncn be baiting cmmvia Cee peeanasee nt 02 31 Priscilla (200.),.cccssesunnsvsocrcesetacere vpeceestesssenscesnsad 02 55 Baby (146M.). ccecasccccaceeereestasepaencenigeaecs Weta deet ee OLDd 40 Ariel (Ir) yacesanvecese se bee eles re Gye od Latina ets a ee 4 (6 30 meg winners were Carrie Van Voorhees, Louise and Mar- a M. fiQuincyNY. C. Third Handicap Race. 5 QUINCY, MASS.—BOSTON; HARBOR. Saturday, Aug. 28. MASSACHUSETTS V. R. A. RULES, THE Quincy Y. C. sailed its third handicap race on Aug, 28 in a light and variable wind; the times were: . Elansed. Corrected. Mantruni,, ROWBINS svceueseseei¢ep eee ks anuadanemas 0 Lethe 2 46 12 Thisbe, WhitteMOre,....cccvevecescssesssasssace.e DD 24 2 49 36 Princips, Whiton....... ne SBE Lee dan aah Coa ele 2 52 02 ‘ e . Ganacing. AMERICAN CANOE ASSOCIATION, 1896-97. Commodore, John N. MacKendrick. Galt, Canada, _Sec'y-Treas.. John R. Blake. Gelt, Canada. Librarian, W. P. Stephens, Bayonne, N. J. PURSERS. : Atlantic Division, H. W, Fleischman, 1611 N. 2ist 8t., Phila., Pa. Central Division, Laurence C. Woodworth, Gouverneur, N. Y. Eastern Division, fF, J. Burrage, West Newton, Mass, - Northern Division. Francis H. Macnes, Kingston, Canada. Annual dues, $1; initiation fee, $1. WESTERN CANOE ASSOCIATION, 1895-96. Commodore, C. F. Pennewell, Detroit, Mich. Vice-Commodore, Nat. H. Cook, Chicago. Til, : Rear-Commodore. EK. H. Holmes, Milwaukee, Wis, Sec’y-Treas.. W. D Stearns, Detroit, Mich. ; Executive Committee: R. M Lamp, Madison, Wis.; C. J. Steadman Cincinnati, 0.; F. W. Dickens, Milwaukee, Wis. THE story of the W. C. A. meet, by our Western corre- spondent, gives a picture of a sort of summer vacation life that is utterly foreign to canoeing and all similar healthy and wholesome sports. It has, no doubt, attractions for any, but it is most unfortunate that a sport like canoeing, with all its possibilities for pleasant, wholesome and invig- orating outdoor life, should be made a mere sideshow to a summer hotel. There must still be afew canoeists of the old sort in the West who are capable of organizing a real camp- ing meet or a cruising meet, and if the sport is ever to be rescued from its present condition the work’ must be com- menced very soon. The W. C. A. Meet. _ CuIcAGoO, Ill., Aug, 19.—Nothing further transpired last week to give the character of an active canoe meet to the camp of the W.C. A. Two members, Messrs. S. C. Hanks (Nancy Hanks) and H. M. Curtis. both of Madison, came into camp Sunday morning, having ridden over on their. wheels from Janesville. some twenty-four miles distant. They were on a little bicycle tour, and dropped into the camp as part of that diversion. In this instance may per- haps be seen one of the influences which have so tended to cut into the sport of canoeing in the West. The insidious bicycle is so easy, so cheap and so pleasant. Bobby Lamp, of Madison, did not again appear, but Mr. J. D. Mc Worther, of Milwaukee. came out fora couple of days. On Sunday, Mr. N. B. Cook, who had for two davs been feeling ill, con- cluded to break camn and returnto hishome. Mr: Dickens, canoe Avis, also left for home, and the ForREST AND STREAM representative followed snit, there seeming no further pros- pect of a bit of news. Vice-Com. Holmes and Rear-Com. Merrill remained with the Madison men to hold the fort for yet a day or so, and grumbled loudly at the secession of the departing ones. - Of all the branches of sport in which there is occasion to do. reporting during the year, I like canoeing better than any. It is such a clean, such a beautiful, and such a purely amateur sport that it has a fascination distinctly sué generis. Yet of all the lines of sport met with during the year, none is so poorly represented as fhis.. Instead of two dozen active boats, we had here only halfa dozen. Instead of a big and lively camp, we had a very small (though very lively) one. Tt is too bad, but there is no use trying further to hope against hope. The reasons are not known, and do not'mat- ter; but the facts do not point to any large meet of the Ww. C. A, next year, if indeed there shall be any at all. We peed better times, more money, more leisure, more some- thing. But if the majority of the members choose to go to one place or auother, to camp in one hotel-yard or another, it is Teally no one’s business but their own. It was openly ad- mi'ted by the Mahn-a-wauk men who made this year’s meet, that they did not expect very many tents, and were out sim- ply for a pleasant little vacation camp, with some idleness, and not too much work attached to it. If taxed with the summer hotel or summer girl idea, they each and all, like little men, admitted the soft impeachment, and didn’t care who knew it. LIFE AT A SUMMER RESORT. For a man who really has a wish to get near to nature and not to get next to a summer hotel and its appurtenances, there can be few more miserable experiences than to he forced to go into prison for even a single week at one of the hig caravanseries which line all the larger lakes for the first 150 miles out of every great city such as Chicago. Of course, we who were encamped had not so much to dread, but could sit afar and watch the prisoners walk their daily treadmill. At times we could even, to a certain extent, join in the pro- cession of the miserable ones, who thought they were doing the correct thinjz at havinga good time. The whole business made a very nicé little study in human nature, and perhaps it may not, after all, be entirely outside the province of news matter to speak of this in some measure as it really was, so we may have a notion of what a canoe meet in a hotel yard really is. We will suppose our tents to be pitched upon the bluff a little back from the water, somewhat hidden from the public view by their sheltered position under the forest trees. A path runs along the edge of the bank, in front of the camp and in this path the jolly mariners, after the labors of theday or evening or morning are over. and after the boats are made safe at their dock, at once make plans for conquest. ‘This they call ‘setting the trap.” At the foot of the flagpole the Association cannon is planted, a long line running back to a spot near the tents, where it is not visibly connected with any given canoeist. This arranged, the trap is “baited,” for this purpose an orchestra of guitar, mandolin and banjo being employed. (No names may be used in. such descrip- tions, but it will do to say that the music is very good.) After the trap is set and baited, it may be that some one sees a boat pass by beyond the dock, the flutter of white garments visible from its thwarts. ‘Hello, girls!” sings out some graceless soul. Most undignified and improperis such an accosting without introduction, and greatly to be deplored. Yet it is not of record that in any single instance has such a salute been resented. The wave of a handkerchief and the merry answering shout is the surety in every case that the greeting is acknowledged and appreciated. It has gone abroad in the land that the camoeists are peculiar in their manners, but not at alldreadful, As the boat passes by the water front, the members of the orchestra may step to the brink with the glance of connoisseurs, If the occupants of the craft ‘fulfil expectations, they are kindly and sweetly 218 fisked eitherjto come‘ashore af once or to call at their first conventlence. .' ! é ; Perhaps before this has been concluded there is a, hurried Gall from one side, “Look out! Something comin’.’” Then all step back to the rear of the trap. ‘ It may be that careful inspection inclines the members not.to spring the trap. If the gronp of summer girls approaching-along the path offer exceptionally attractive appearante, it is concluded that the trap must be sprung. s they approach the flag staff and &tep over the line which runs back from it, a proper and de- cent interval is allowed them and then the cannon is eprung. Of course the lond report causes much screamine and con= usion. Really this would seem a most rude and distressful thing to do; but witness how the sailorman disarms all such atciisation! At once; upon the screaming and commotion taused by the rude cannon shot, there falls upon the air strains of music of so bewitching a quality that no summer irl, even though she were of the haughtiest, even though she wére of the homeliest, could by any possibility be able to tesist.its spell! The confused group again assembles, stands looking, trembling, as do a number of fawns frightened at a rifle shot, Behind them is noise and terror, ahead of theth is safety, safety announced by soft music, entrancing, allur- ing, comforting. How, under circumstances such as these, can any woman, any summer girl for an instant hesitate? “Hello, girls,”’ croons some dulcet voice from up the hill, And silently, at first slowly, then with more eager and fol- lowing footstens, they start toward. safety, start toward that point from which emanate sweet music and alluring smiles, No introductions are evernecessary, The girls who are at these summer hotels are not thete to trifle. [tis a stern ne- cessity for each to accumulate at an early date a man, a ood-looking and gentlemanly and musical and sailing and ice cream-buying man. if that be possible. Whht is it that nhe wishes? Is not the conclusion easily to be foreseen? When this group of summer girls separates the name of no one of them is known, but the hotel of each is accurately charted. Then the trap is set again. In common with all exalted souls, | have more than often been compelled to deplore the popular tendency to the use of slang words and phrases. Yet, it must be admitted with an equal candor, | have also, as must every other exalted soul, at times been compelled to feel the exceeding aptness and nicety of many phrases which are to be classified only as slang. Without these expressions, indeed, the English lan- guage were not what it nowis as an organ for the expression of human thoughts and human emotions. Of all theslang expressions I ever heard, I think the word “‘rubber neck” is the rudest and most unspeakably common and impossible of any. (This lam advised is derived from the verb “to rub- ber; to stretch, to gaze, to gawp, to stare, to evince an un- necessary and unseemly curiosity in all immediately con- tiguous events, circumstances or happenings’’). For many moons I have been hearing this expression, though in igno- rance of its real significance. Thus, an acquaintance of mine, a very vulgar fellow who hasn’t got a thing but money, met me the other day. he carrying his hand in a sling. He told me he had a broken thumb, and naturally I asked him how it happened. Hethen explained that while out riding on his wheel he had seen a vision go flittering by in the opposite direction, said vision being of such character as to evoke interest upon his part. “I turned round to rub- ber after it, and down I went,’ said he. From this I later gathered that he had turned about tostare at a passing lady, and so had fallen from his wheel. I had still further insight into the use of this expression while observing the members of our camp watching their trap upen the bank of Delavan Lake. When a lot of small boys would come along the path and stare up at the camp, very often I heard some voice or the other calling out, “Oh, rubber, would you bounce!” Again, I heard certain other parties described as ‘trubbeving around.’ At first this word was very appalling to me, but.soon I grew familiar-with its face, and s0 came to admire it, as a phrase without which life at a summer resort conld never ever be adequately described, At asummer resort you rubber, he, she or it rubbers; we, you and they rubber, and also every- body rubbers. It doesn’t mean anything. In the city you would. fall dead rather than stare ata lady. At a summer resort she would fall dead if you didn't; soyoudo. All the groups of summer girls who passed the canoe camps rub- bered and were rubbered at. All the occupants of assing boats were rubbered at and in return rubbered. ayiien we walked down toc the hotel for breakfast, luncheon or dinner, we all rubhered at the girls in the hammocks, on the porches on the lawn; and they all rub- bered in return. At the hotel tables everybody rubbered at everybody else when they came into the door or rose to go out. Thisis part of the game, It is a necessity that at a summer resort all persons rubber, else they would not know what was going on, You go to asummer resort to see what is going on. ‘ THE DUTIES OF A DAY. . Tt is perhaps due to.this acknowledged elasticity of vision (or shall one more properly say,:of neck?) that another cus- tom of summer resorting has taken itsrise. By this I refer to the constant changing of one’s apparel, which is part of the duties of the day for either man, woman or summer girl. By no means shall one see the same summer person in the same clothing from day to day, even from meal to meal. When we had arisen and made our toilets in the morning at the camp, we all went down to the hotel for breakfast, but immediately after breakfast we changed our collars, our neckties and those portions of our apparel immediately con- tiguous to the collar and tie. Wedared not, feeling as we did that much depended upon us, allow it to be said that we wore the same hose twice in succession; and as to caps, it was a disgrace to wear one over half aday. For collars we for the most part wore the high, split-ended affairs we call the “Charley boy” collar, because that is the most uncom- fortable kind of collar a man can puton, and when you go to a summer resort you want to be as uncomfortable as pos- sible, As wesat At the table we saw all the other fellows wearing this same sort of collar, and looking rather un- happy. Most ef the young men had longish hair and cher- ished sunburn, and each young man had at least one summier girl, the latter always looking perfectly cool, no matter what was the temperature, and as smooth and well laundered as though just taken out of a box. During the day the guests at a summer hotel dress up four or five or six times, and when not so occupied sit around in the hammocks or on the chairs or on the docks, each look- ing as pretty as possible, and each doing all in power to give his or her best points a chance. A few carry books, and some affect other means Of passing the time, but this is not serious, and is, indeed, only pretense. The one real and act- ual calling of each and allis to “‘rubber.”? After “rubber- ing’’ around on the greensward, on the docks, on the boats, on the verandas, on the stairways, all day long, and haying avery ,bad time, it comes to be night. Then eyerybody dresses up again all over, cap pie, and starts out for the discomforts of the evening. Someplay euchre or whist, and are very miserable, and some dance the lancers, or the gay quadrille, at the bi-weekly hop, which is one of the cruelties of a summer resort. Again, there may bea game oi tenpins, This latter, like everything else at a summer resort, is ev grand tenue, which is to say, with flounce and frill, and plenty of starch. 1 saw one such game in company with a friend, one evening at our summer resort. There weré two sides chosen up by the two lady captains (each of whom was chosen captain for her wide assortment of gowns). Hach captain chose her lady assistants in the order of her appro- bation of their gowns. All starched and ruffled and beribboned, they made a long row down either side FOREST AND STREAM. of the alley, all very correct and very wretched. ihe captain of one side, I remember very well; for her costume of stiff marseilles skirt and tight satin waist was very becoming to her stately figure, and about as bad for thé game as-anything could have been. I can not forget. the, elegant grace and solemn dignity with which she beckoned .to,each lady in. turn to come forward and go through the formalities of the game, It was like dancing a paar and I ‘felt my blood run cold, Of course, thes adies couldn't. roll ten pins for a cent, and nobody ever sai they could. This.is only a description of the customs of A summer resort. They made no attempt to roll ten pins. ach lady, some with timidity, some with self-tonsciousness, some with dignity and aplom/), took the nasty ten pin, ball in her two hands and cast it daintily forth from her, Hach sought tu do this attractively. Some smiled,afew squealed, and all felt that they were doing their duty. When by any chance the ball remained on the platform for a brief space, ér when by extreme stress or fortune it happened to hit a ten pin at the other end of the short alley, it was a treat to see the attempt to be dignified and not to blush or to look self-conscious! en you play ten pins at a summer resort it 1s not etiquette to show any emotion. The gameisasortof solemn ceremony. In the progress of this game itis had form to rubber at anything but the costumes of the ladies upon the opposite side of the alley. Yet, as I noted with some interest in my studies of the inhabitants of this institution, it is not regarded as bad form for masculine persons not ehgaged in the game, to come up behind the solemn lines of victims and rubber at them. At a summer resort nobody ever goes fishing’, because how can he if he has to-be changing his clothes all the time? Men are hired todo the fishing, and when they catch any fish the string is solemnly carried up to the photographer and photographed. This is business, We had no time to fish ourselves, because we were busy changing out clothes when we were hot watching the trap: but once we saw a string of fish, and are therefore prepared to say that at this Jake the fish are not all merely photographic ones. Indeed, through a very pleasant acquaintance afew of us formed with Catrie, the colored cook, we were able to secure some nice wall-eyed pike from an ice batrel, and ate them at ourcamp. T never heard of anybody catching any fish at a summer re- sort, but you can see plenty of photographs of fish, and this is much better, because a photograph of a fish is far cleaner than the fish itself. It is rude to go fishing, anyhow, and sunburn so obtained is apt to be too violent. The sort ac- quired in a hammock is far more becoming and more gener- ally popular. FURTHER CUSTOMS. There are cottages and hotels and campsstrung all around any good summer resort. lake, and such we found. to be the case about ours. After dinner, and afterwe had all changed our clothes again, we would get the orchestra together and start out to Visit cottages and hotels. From Woodlawn to the Log Cabin Hotel, we had the entire coast charted and sounded and buoyed, so that even in case the moon was be- ealmed behind a cloud, we could nearly always vet to the hotel or cottage we wanted to reach. If perchance one passed a recumbent figurein a hammock it was not con- sidered unseemly to sing out’ the watchword of ‘Hello, girls!’ No offense was ever taken at this, noris ever taken at a summer hotel. If it happened that one party of sum: mer people failed to keep.an appointment to meet and sing and trip the light fantastic toe over the tent ropes, it was really not far on to another party equally adorable and more accessible. All was gay and cheerful. Thesummer girl who was forsaken turned blithely to the next man and was as pleased with him. Ah! if life could always go on thus, ephemeral, gay, unheeding of the morrow! At such a spot one sees the ephemera itself, that spirit of life and death, soulless, unthinking, willing to die so that it may live one day. Folding its gauzy wings, this beautiful, tender, tran- sient, evanescent, fickle creature sits now upon this leaf, then on that, above you as you walk these shady paths. Kyen so this flitting and evading summer girl whom one sees to-day comes to-morrow to her death. Sherolls up into the form of a mere cashier, clerk, typewriter; or worse yet, perhaps, into a young woman of fashion and wealth. She rubbers no more. Her day is done. These ephemerm, who shall con- demn them, who shall smile at them. Rather let us suffer them to rubber through their brief day of light and joy. He, she or it rubbers, you rubbers, we rubber. We gather at the table of some little hotel which we have found tucked away under a corner of the shore. Hereis a very goddess of summer girl, one which should really be adopted as the totem of the W.C. A., so trim, so tall, so firm, and yet so willowy is she, of teeth and smile so dazzling, of eyeulike so laughing or demure, About this divinity gather all the younger sailor men. The sound of music arises and ‘the sailor men sing melodies calculated to melt a heart more of stone than that of the divinity. Said divinity edges away from her chaperon and grows engrossed with handsome sailor man whose shirt isa perfect dream. The chaperon grows upeasy at last and calls attention of the divinity to the fact that her “steady” is getting sulky. ‘‘Let himalone,” says the divinity, ‘I can-square him in a minute” The ‘steady’? grows morose at witnessing the wiles of the sailor man, and at last arises and goes to seek solace elsewhere. The divinity of course does not see this. Close observer ad- yises her that “one of her staff is getting away.” Divinity says that is all right, and that presently she will go after him. Only she doesn’t. He comes back by himself, and is received so sweetly that he wonders where he is or has been, anyhow. _-Da capo. Repeat softly. Do it all over again, Encore. Thus you hayean evening on the Jake. The next day (for party calls must be matle within two days at the lake) everybody calls on everybody, and the above scene is repeated. Nobody knows anybody’s real name. Wecalled on all the really nice cottagers about the lake, but we did not use cards, and thereis blissful ignorance on both sides. We were always making some call or other, and it was very pein work to be so constantly forced to change one’s attire. Let no man think that canoeing is an easy sport. Those who engage in it must possess a certain durability of constitution and a power of withstanding fatigue, The canoeist should have a hand of iron in a glove of yelvet, and a neck of rubber in a collar of severest starch. Any canoeist should, if convenient, have a canoe; but it is not imperative. He should have many bicycle hose and shirts; oh, dear! If he can sing and play he is so much the better off, That is to say, such are the qualifications for the young summer resort canoeist (not including the older and more dignified members who remain in camp). If that is all ca- noelng is to be, at Ballast or at Delavan, our members donot need any further qualifications, It is far to the pine woods, and life there is different. Canoeing is a dress parade sport anyhow, the most pictur- esque of all sports, the most beautiful. The dash and gal- lautry and daring of it go. straight to the heart of woman- kind. Against the skipper of one of these small ships let no man, even the best of “‘steadies,” attempt to compete. Who shall say that there are not temptatious at the summer re- sort places for the owners of these craft which always carry one to fortune and to smiles? For my part, I shall no longer attempt to say what is or what isnot good for the growth of the W. 0. A. I know very well that these same men who touch the light guitar at midnight.all along the shores of Delavan can sail an A class canoe in half a gale, and they are not afraid of anything that walks or floats. They could swing a meet up in the pine woods, far from the summer girl, just as well as anybody, i they wanted to. Butdothey wantto? That is a questio (Serr, 11, 189%, whith it is their right to answer for themselves. If they think they want to try one meet up in the pine country where they are alone in their own camp, w6 may or we may not have to record an interesting and somewhat different story. If they prefer to make theit annual camp a little jolly vacation near at home, where they can enjoy them- selves less sternly, where they can for the time join the cloud of the ephemerie, it is very likely that the story of their meets, if truthfully told, would read much like the aboyr.. Thus it seems (al likely that we shall see another 1 eét: at an inland lake. If the next meet goes to Ballast, it will ta gather any showing much more impressive. At Mullet ake there was no gathering, At Charlevoix wemight have had no more than we had at Delavan. Tt ismuch a \uestion what or where the next meet will be. As for the jolly fel- lows who made the meet this year, they did with their might what their hands found to do, and cultivated resort- ing and resorters because there was nothing elsato do. Had other members turned out,we could hayehad moresailing and less “resorting.” But there were several who said that they would not mind trying a meet further away from the towns and hotels. A few thought they might like to try the small tents, and not the hig ones, fora change, No one of them claimed that this meet was a typical or good canoe camp, but they turned it into a summer vacation trip, and so enjoyed it for what it was worth upon the only possible or practical basis at hand. Even if we can have no better or no dif- ferent meet from this, let us have the meet again next year. ‘These problems sometimes solve themselves, and let_us hope the problem of the W. C. A. will be solved; and find at the end a good boty of hearty and hardy fresh water sailors. This Assotiation is too good to go by the board. Thereis too much fun at a canoe camp for any one who has ever been there to tolerate for a moment the thought that there are tobe no moreofthem, Let us have afull turnout next year.no matter where the meet may go. If we can discover afew trout or bass there, or find some new sailing waters, very well. If we must put- sue the summer girl, very well. To an ithpartial view, how- ever, it would certainly seem that a series of meets at or near summer resorts has not, during the past few years, been productive of growth and development in the W. C, A in the least consonant with its merits and deserts. tt will take individual hustling now for a time, quite as much as Association activity, if weare to see success perch om the burgee of the setting sun. . Hooves. 1206 Boyce Buripine, Chicago. The British Canoe Association Meet. WE reproduce from the Field the following report of the recent meet of the British Canoe Association meet; a cruising meet on Lough Derg, Ireland. It was written by Mr, Alfred E Wale, Rear-Com., B. C. A.: Camp I. (July 10 to July 14), Athlone, was held in the beautiful grounds of the Ranelagh School, by permission of the principal, Mr Baile, a gentleman whose many kindnesses the Association will not soon forget, After the very careful preparations which had been made by our vice-commodore, Mr, Perey Nishet, it was disappointing for him to find only ten members and five craft present at the opening of the meet, They were Vestal [I., canoe yawl, Messrs. Nisbet and Prosser; Vestal I., canoe yawl, Mr. Fair; Spruce, canoe yawl Mr. Kipling;-Jub-Jub, canoe yawl, Messrs. Crawford and Huston, and one of the Mermaids with the four Messrs. Froggarty on board. From this camp some most delightful day cruises were made on Lough Ree, a mile or so up river, and at Ballyglass Regatta, a splendid silver bowl, kindly presented by the Lough Ree Yacht Club, was won by Yes- tal II, after a desperately close finish with Spruce, only 5sec. separating them. Camp II. (July 14 to July 15), Clonmacnoise.—A very pleas- ant twelve-mile sail (in which the canoes were accompanied by the usual fleet of yachts, raters, steamboats and house- boats), and tents were pitched by the ruins of the Seven Churches, by kind permission of Mr. Charlton. On the fol- lowing morning these interesting antiquities were examined, and the canoes got under way. After a dead peg of fifteen miles to windward, they arrived at Camp IIT. (July 15 to July 16), near Banagher, on the property of Major Bernard. On the following day a move was made down river on to Camp TV. (July 16 to July 19), Portumna, at the entrance to Lough Derg. Here the B. C. A. spent a most enjoyable time, and again received the greatest hospitality, not only from their many friends on other craft, but from the in- habitants of this town. By this time Messrs. Thorp had joined them with the Vita, a very pretty cruising canoe yay By request of the Lough Derg Y. C., who were hold- ng a Tegatta, two races were sailed, and some handsome prizes won by Spruce I. and Vestal II. Tents were struck on Saturday, and a)l the sailing fleet and steamers left for Camp V. (July 19 to July 27), Dromineer —The 15 miles cruise hither was made the subject of two distinct races, one for yachts and another for canoes, etc. After a lone and almost windless peg, the latter was wou by Spruce, Jub-Jub being second. Here the numbers were increased by the arrival of the two Messrs. Clayton, Oliver and Gibson, with two of the Penarth 18-footers, Watermouse and Waitangi, and Mr. Wale with thecruising canoe Solitaire. An incident which greatly tickled the natives was that on hearing of Solitaire’s arrival at Nenagh Station, 7 miles off, her skip- per, on a borrowed bicycle, rode thither, and, after putting the canoe on her wheels and the bicycle in the well, walked off with her, Three milesfrom camp she was tied on behind a friendly car, and, after a smart trot, the procession arrived at Dromineer, amidst the cheers and laughter of the crowd. The week that followed was a busy one indeed. Regattas were the order of the day; dinners and impromptu smoking concerts the order of thenight. The weather, up till now perfect, suddenly changed, and race after race was sailed in heavy wind and rain and a sea that would not have felt smal! in the English Channel. On Sunday, July 20, two of the members, representing the B. C. A., accepted the kind invitation of Mr. Lloyd Vaughan to camp near his bungalow, about seven miles up the lake, and were most hospitably entertained by him. ‘They re- turned next day with the message that he had two valuable prizes to be sailed for by them. Monday and Tuesday were spent in cruising on the lake, fishing and other amusements. On Wednesday the B.C. A. men competed in one of the Lough Derg Y. C. races, but without success, there being a smart fleet of cutters on the lake. Among the other races of this memorable week in which the B, C. A. were invited to compete were, first, the Shannon Deyelopment Cup, eighteen starters; this was very pearly won by the Watermouse, J race for prizes presented by the L. D. Y. C., Spruce won, Vestal second; a race for prizes presented by the L, D. C. ¥. C. (winners’ names mislaid); an impromptu race for cash prizes given by the L. D, Boat Club. This was very kindly arranged by them in order to give a sudden influx of visitors the chance of seeing the B. C. A. fieet under sail; Jub-Jub first. A yacht race for prizes presented by the B. C. A., and a sprit-sail race for fishermen, ditto, This was the most ex- citing one of all, and most of the open craft came back half full of water, — Saturday, the day appointed for the Lough Erne Chal- lenge Cup race, turned out so wet and stormy that the com- mittee decided to suspend the condition requiring men to take on board the whole of their camping outfit. Afters very punishing race in heayy wind and sea, the cup was won by Mr. sinha: with the Spruce, In the evening the usual sports were held, These were not improved by # ; i steady rain, and oilskins were already on when the “oily” race was called. The tug-of-war between B C. A, and Irish yachtsmen resulted in a hard-won victory for the former. Unfortunately the colored fires, etc., ordered for this occa- sion, did not arrive in time, and the day concluded with the annual dinuer at Burgess’s Hotel. GAmMP VI. (July 27 to July 29), Bushey Island, Mount Shan- non (by kind permission of Mr. George).—About midday on Tuesday the fieet left Dromineer for this camp in the face of a hard breeze and a really heayysea. The 18-footers reported taking it over gréen. and the Vita, good little craft as she is, she only carried 47sq. ft. of sail. but loaded down with stores, soon had to turn back. Soli- faire, starting an hour after the others, had a rather lonely jaunt, but took no longer over the journey. By dark the tents were pitched and all hands comfortable for the night. On the following day the Mount Shannon regatta took place, and included two races for the the B. C, A. The first one, for a really handsome silver cup, given by the L. D, Y. C., was won by Solitaire, much to her skipper’s surprise, as The second, for a prize most kindly given by Lord Dunalley, was won by Water- mouse (Messrs, Clayton), Both races were sailed in a very heavy wind and tolerable sea, and were very fast indeed, On Thursday all hands left (literally left, for we were get- ting few) for the last rendezvous of all. ee veloc weree vy 24 GMD aso. ae os ATIGGN! Reve caccte pase peer geese test tree wr! pat ine Be one EGooveT ssi tstesbea che ieceee ens ‘, 18 18 10 0 RAULIA ee eee ee nce eihe vel au Se Uleiegien iy ier cS t6~ eG omnes _ Sept. 2.—The first team shoot for the chen pone of Buffalo oc- curred on the grounds of the Bison Gun Club, Walden avenue and City Line, The Audubon, Cazenovia and Bison gun clubs were repre- sented each by five men, and each shooter had 25 targets. The teams and scores were: Audubon Gun Club, Chas S Burkhardt......00..21 E C Burkhardt.,,,,..,.....18 G@ McArthur, ...,..+e.eeeeel L Warren Sv eveebervuiesevsste—l0d B TAISMA vot ecsresssecseoerl Bison Gun Club. F Wheeler.. aenanes GoCOOPEr.. vecwqvececeraedenl G Zoeller... vel E Bauman........ te0e020—102 W Foxie.. ... eels ' Cazenovia Gun Club. Beck....-. snhawinieccuges eeeneoe | FGiMOld ...ceseuseecsnuyeeesO StOVENS. ..ecce aveneseeeees ed | Mignerney.....syceseeerees 18— 98 G WAltZ, wean ceeecesscuscces The Audubon Gun Club won by one target,a remarkably good showing. Thenext team shoot will be held.on the Audubon grounds, Sept. 11: ceter the match there was a class shoot, in which the scores were: Events: Targets: Charles By....0.5 COOPeELr,...sccene 123466 15 20 85 15 16 dp. 1017 ,. 11 14 8 13 16 21... 1. Eveuts: Targets: SINTIAD ss iasisieneae ISPOR aa aes nea da cent 128384656 15 20 25 15 1655p. rele alte 5 as Ot eerie ab hl 4 , 12.1811 11 10 4 Stevens.,,...... 18... .. 11... Shan no DO oo WUORR SA ar cceukier ty ian a 12 4421.. +. Warrenic...-s0s ss 16... 1212 ,, TA ome th ee AVC CAR Acer re yy tit peep ee , 121718 9 9 7 Bauman.,... +, 182012 9 6 Mack..,..csseess, 1017 16 .. .. .. Hager... $n Via ad 94 as _ Wheeler.,,..,... 15 17 22 13 ,, ., Heinold. be Thus ge MGAPtHUY sie... 2404 2: 104, 2. GONMOT. yy iscesen as cs ce ae L0G AISA. ..ceeyece LUI vs oy oe oe G. Zoeller won the Class A badge and Mack the Ciass B badge, The count was made in Class C. ; _ Kinner, Mack, Wheeler and Foxie shot a match,#6 birds each, and all killed straight. . 24 Shooting and Banqueting at Dayton. (Correspondence of the Formst AnD STREAM.) Davyron, Ohio, Aug. 80.—For two years, teams of twelve men each, representing the Buckeye Gun Club, of this city. and the Limited Gun Club, of Indianapolis, have been shooting friendly matches simply for the price of the birds, Conditions: 12-men team from each club, 50 targets each man, known traps, unknown angles, American Associa- tion rules. The first race was shot here in April 1896, won by the Buckeyes. Second race shot at Indianapolis, and won by the Limited Gun Club's team. The odd match was shot here to-day, and was wou by the Buckeye team by the score 483 to 465. The Indianapolis visitors arrived here at 9:18 this morning, and were met at the depot by Buckeye Club officials and reception com- mittee, with tally-ho four-in-hand for a rapid ride to the Buckeye Club range, quite near the city; a beautifully rolling piece of ground, Wid teg eee by a grove that gaye just shade enough to make steady ight, A very brief time was given to exchange of greetings, unpacking guns and shells, and otherwise preparing for the contests of the day. The cards called for three sweeps for practice before dinner. Dr, L. ©. Adams, referee; David McCutcheon, score keeper, . First mateh, 15 birds each, known traps, unknown angles, $1,50 entrance, eighteen entries, four moneys: Tripp 13, Beck 13, Cooper 14, Mumma 14, Schwind 14, Griffiths 11, McDonald 12, Protzman 12, Wildhack 15, Britton 14, Comstock 12, Wroe 13, Robinson 9, Kiefaber 10, Kimberlain 8, Hearsey 7, Marrott 7, Gentle 9. W. A, Wildhack, of Indianapolis, the only straight score, received hearty applause and first money, $7.55; second money, $.65, divided by the 14s, Cooper, Mumma, Schwind and Britton; third money, $3.80, divided by the 13s, Tripp, Beck and Wroe; fourth money, $1.90, divided by the 12s, McDonald. Protaman and Comstock. Second match, 10 birds, $1 entrance, twenty two entries, three moneys: Mumma 5. Comstock 8, Tripp 8, Protzman 5, Cooper 9, Leutzinger 8, Schwind 7, Wroe 5, Britton 9, Griffiths 6, McDonald 9, Beck 9, Robinson 8, Wildhack 9, Kiefaber 6, Miller 7, Kimberlain. 5, Hearsey 7, Marrott 7, Gentle 5, Griffith 7, Stark 10, : pire casero 10 straight, first money, $9; second and third moneys ivided, Third match, 10 birds, $1 entrance, sixteen entries, three moneys: Schwind 8, Stark 10, Britton 10, Beck 7, Cooper 9, MrDonald 8, Mumma, 9, Tripp 9, Robinson 9, Griffith 9, Protzman 6, Kiefaber 6, Goodhue 7, Miller 5, Adams 7. = Britton and Stark, each 10 straight, divided first money, $6; second and third divided. i A tally-ho ride into the city for dinner was next in order, and the teams returned to the grounds at 1:30, where a fine crowd of ladies and gentlemen were quietly enjoying the cool of the club house porches waiting for the contest of the afternoon. - First was a 10-bird match for practice, $1 entrance, eighteen entries. Leutzinger referes: McDonald 10, Raymond 8, Schwind 7, Marrott 6, Adams 7, Cooper 6, Stark 8, Wildhack 8, Griffith 7, Comstock 8, Tripp 10. Beck 9, Britton 10, Wroe 7, Heikes 7, Craig 7, Mumma &, Curphey 7, Gentle 1, Raymond 8. Marrott 5, Cooper 9, Griffiths 8, Schwind 8. THE TEAM RACE. LD, Leutzinger, of Council Bluffs, la., was agreed upon as referee; H. T. Hearsey, of Indianapolis, and O P. Eby, of Dayton, judges; John M. Curphey, scorer. Raymond, of the Buckeyes, was the first man at the scratch, and next came Britton, of the Limited, and thus the teams alternated in shooting the four squads of six men each, The first round each man snot at 15 birds, second round 15, third round 20, thus making the 50 birds for each man. BUCKEYE GUN CLUB TEAM SCORE, GCG Raymond, ,111011110101111 111111101101101 11110110111111101110—40 Z Craig..... .121211101011111 111111110111111 = 11111011111111111111—47 W # Stark,...110101101111111 111111101101111 10101111101111111110—40 A Mumma,,..011101111101111 111111111011101 01111111011111001100—40 H Protzman, .011111110111101 111110111111110 00111111101111011111—41 C BH Miller, ...100111110011119 111011011111110 10110000101111002000—30 J Makley ....111001001110100 111011011110111 11100111111111101110—36 Dr T. Adams, .111001101111001 1110127011111110 11101111101110110111— 38 Al Wroe,.....121111011111110 111011111110011 10110100011111111111—40 M Schwind .,.111111111010111 111111011011111 11111111111111111111—46 S McDonald, , .110111111101111 101111111101111 01110101111111101111—42 RO Heikes..,.111111111111100 101111111111111 11101111100)10111111—43 Buckeye team total, 483. j LIMITED Dr O F Britton111111111111011 HHA Tripp... .111111111111111 R Robinson. , .101111111111110 H A Comstock111111110010111 T Gentle ...,,-110100010000000 § C Griffiths , ,010001010101111 Kimberlain.,., ,111101110110110 G@ J Marrott. ..010000100101001 H T Hearsey. .110110111111111 J W Cooper, ..111101111111111 W Wildhack,.11111111011111 GC Beck...... 100111111111111 Limited team total 465. The Buckeye team was declared winner by 18 points. Upon an- nouncement of the result, Royal Robinson, of the visiting team, pro- CLUB TEAM SOORE. 111111111101011 = 11111111111111110111—46 111910110111111 10011110111111111011—44 100111110110001 11011111111110111010—38 111110001110011 11101111111111111111—41 000100010100001 01010011011010010010—17 Q11111140111111 10111111111111110001—37 010011101111110 01110111011011110111—26 100111011101001 10011011011111011011—28 11O111111101111 11111111011110111111—44 011011111111111 11101111111011111100 43 111112111111111 =11111111111011010111—46 111111111111101 01111110111111111111—45 posed three cheers for the Buckeyes, aud the range and surrounding . grove rang with huzzas. Dr. Adams, of the local team, called for three cheers for the Limited Gun Club and the team, and the hearty response evened up the social feeling that prevailed. The match had oceupied about two hours time, and at 5 o’clock the officials and teams boarded the tally-ho for a merry ride into the city, jollied along the streets asthe result of the shoot became known. THE BANQUET, As the Indiana team were to start for home at 8:45 P. M , the ban- quet room at the Beckel House was thrown open to the local team and the visitors shortly after 6 o’clock, thirty covers being laid. President Charles W. Raymond, of the Buckeye Gun Club, as toast-- master, occupied the seat at the head of the table, and President George J Marrott, of the Limited Gun Club, sat at the opposite end of the beautifully decorated table, and all enjoyed the feast. Those who responded to toasts were Judge UO, B. Grown, George J. Marrott, Dr. Geo, Goodline, Royal Robinson and Dr, Kimberlin. Dr. L. G. Adams recittd in darkey dialect ‘‘An Ailment from Yankee Land.’ The banquet proved a delightful wind-up for the contest! and plea- sures of the day. Good-byes were exchanged with promises for another race between the teams before many months. it is probable that the Buckeye Club en masse, will go to Indianapolis for the next match, and members will take their wives and young people to wit- ness and enjoy the sport. ‘ Pawtuzxet Hunters’ Handicap. Pawruxet, R, 1., Aug. 28.—The Pawtuxet Gun Club held its fourth shoot for the merchandise prizes, called the Hunters’ Handicap, to- day. The attendance was good, but the scores, owing to the high wind, wererather low. Conditions, Class A, 25 unknown; Class B, 25 known: Class A. 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Sheldon .pecnerecvseysoeseeseencearaenees2011911011111111101111111 —22 Bait, ccceevenceesecgoeeeepeananaeacnss ¢+001001010100110101111010110 —14 ROOb. cc cccacrercevecsesceesoenennecensees11011100110111111111100110—20 Greene .icscecsesecveceecsseenssasaeess .01001000000000101000W. COVEY. ci vscvevevveveneseeessscuenenses ere 010111110111111000010101 —16 MOOneC ys ciccenaccencgeereesteesscsesaes «-200011100000100100110111110—13 Ha WEIN, si ccevecerceceesssoeeueeees sees s110000100101111011010111011—16 APNOIG, ec cunsecueccavecessseseeeeeeees ss -010100110001111011011111111—18 Class B. MTHOONEC., cc cnerveceeerrreeeceessegye even es 2111110111111001011111101 —20 AYMBStTONE, ..ecceceserssencenceseeeeecers) O11011111110101101111111. —20 RePOAter.cicsccerseccceveveevervsvereces el 0101010100001 1100031101 —12 TUDE, ...cecececeseuccuceeseeerseeess + -011001000010001100101011011—12 BuxtOD. vceceecvccoyenessucegvecgey eee yy ¢000111011111011101111000111—18 Mathewson, ..ccsscevececessowseyyseens = 1101010011001101101110011 —15 Bla@kmers..i:ecseeeeeepereseeuseees ess -0L01000001110001001001011 —i0 MUMBCY. cc aeasecsseenseeserseerene ss +=» .0000000000000110001000000 — 3 Hallet,..cu. ay serrurer eevee eee eee yeey es -0100000111010016010019000 — q _ Sherwoo _Durham (8) . Bedford Rod and” Gun Club. BEDFORD, Ind., Aug. 31.—Event No. 1,10 targets. Conditions: Un- known angles, five traps. practice. : Thornton ...csseye0es-O101100101—5 Richard.,..,,.«.,... 1100111111—8 Doyle...coesereyeeess O111101010—6 SEATS. ice yeseceeses 1101010111 —7 Hatfield. -......++0+.1100001111—6 Palmer,.,,.,,,..+,»,-1101000011—5 Reath., boner ooneetee +, 1110111100—7 Gee cccccevees 1110111010—7 FYAncis..seccvesse0se-0100100011—4 Braxton,ssss0e00s0+-1001111111—8 Kelly... .asse00s04444/1010111001—7 Martin. ...4.000000+e-4110110011—7 SUPP. cceeceseesss+s-1011111011—8 Durham,..,.,.........1000011000—8 No, 2, 25 targets, unknown angles, 5 traps, medal shoot: Doyle ST GIDE REE N Ce aE Le a etre ms crin aanmtombt eis: Sears (11)... .cccceuncnaeueeseanneeeenees « s1011000111000110101111011—26 THOFDtON (19). cecceeaneaecaeysceeeeensen s 60111000110100110110000011—31 Hatfield (9). ..csaucuunseecee | cuwececeesseee2101111111011101111111111—31 Reath (S)evccsececccceesscacesvccsseaeaees sLOLOL000IN100001101W., —17 Richard (15).....ceccensesveenssenceceueeseet111111010100011111111111—85 Braxton (8)scsesessceenscurscacceesceseess s1121111100101101011111111—23 Kelly (11) ciccccccesees sevceeeveseeuaee ee 1141111111011101100001111—30 Palmer (9). cicaceeeseceeseeusereuesseeesestLII0100011100IM010Ww. —20 Prancis (10), ..cccevsveseeeenesssneenesss20,1100110010010000001001111—21 wees peeeeeansassasaseee senses 0001000101010100000001000—14 No 4, shoot- oft of tie, same conditions as No. 3, Hiritiield (9). .ccesasescescersesessesenesess 1) 00100110111010110010111—24 Sears (11), ..cceesseesenuvesseneceeesesees ss 1010101110110101001001101—25 Kelly (11) ... Are er ot 000111111101111001110111—28 Richard (15). arararal esters aeser a a atotite .1111010101110111110111001—33 Ties again shot off at 10 targets each man, resulting: Richard 9, Sears 7, Kelly 5, Richard won medal. : No 5,50 targets, unknown angles, flve traps; match race for ex- penses: SLPP....e0e0e .11601114110110111111111111111111101111010110011011—40 eee» 21400010111101191111191111111 111141111111111100011—42 Sherwood,,... First 25 for each man counted without allowance in the medal match, but were very much ‘‘shy.” This was the first shooting on our néw grounds, which dre fine, Traps and trappers below ground level, and shooters face the north, We shoot every Tuesday afternoon and visitors are always welcome. Semrwoop, Sec’y, St. Louis Fourth Annual. Aditor Forest and Stream: The King’s Smokeless Gun Club, of Hast St. Louis, Tll., will give their fourth annual fall tournament for amateurs either on last week of September, during Knights of Pythias encampment or first week in October, during fair week, asin both events the twenty-two rail- roads entering here will make redueed rates, We will) state exact dates within a few days. The shoot will be under management of Jack Parker, of Detroit, and all 20-target events will consist of $5 added money. In addition, Inerchandise will be given as prizes, There will be four 20 target and four 10-target events each day. All targets thrown from magautrap, and three traps, Seargent system. For programme send to me at205 Union Station, Joun M, TRENDLEY, PUBLISHERS’ DEPARTMENT. Cresson Springs. A PERSONALLY-CONDUCTED TOUR VIA PENNSYLYANIA RAIGZROAD, Tue Pennsylvania Railroad Company has arranged to run an early autumn tour from New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Harrisburg and intermediate points to Cresson Springs, Pa., on Friday, Sept, 10. Round trip tickets, zood going only ou Sept. 10 on trains indicated below, or any train arriving in Philadelphia before 10:25 A. M., and thence on special train; and good returning on regular trains until Sept, 15, including also one full day’s board at the magnificent Moun- tain House, will be sold at the following rates; Rate, Train leaves, NGWRYOT Kis icendsssastaenmaasmunstsame Hoprsmes sat oeOU) 7:56 A. M, ING WATE a Natave fees clesduseanatneepecbares te de 9 50 $25 Blizabethy ......s0.csenae .. 9 50 8:06 % New Brunswick... 00 8:31 * - Phillipsburgh, N. 9 50 8:00 ** Trenton,...... saee 6 DO R28” tt Wilmington, siveeyes 8 DO 9:33 ** Philadelphia, , SoHo oes sietens BOO 10:25 * Hagrishurpe iw veer tindeelteseen Serporcrr tor ctl 1:20 P, M, WHSHIN ETOH sine mesnlsinnis slain nemieeestaniten ke inisiareree 7:50 A, M, BSMNTORE Seder kceeerenaitanecesmrep errant tbins OTOL 8:50 Proportionate rates from other points. Passengers from Baltimore and Washington will use regular train — arriving Cresson 3:50 P, M, To persons remaining at Cresson for a longer period than one day @ special reduction in hotel rates will be given, For tickets or additional information consult ticket agents.—d4dv. Cresson, Bee is the most beautiful mountain resort in the world? Cres- — son Where is the purest water in the world? At Cresson! ‘ Where is the air so delightful that itis a pleasure to live in just in — order to breathe it? At Cresson! Where are the most romantic forest walks, charming mountain » drives and greatest yariety of mineral waters to be found? At Cres- - son! Where are there no mosquitoes? At Cresson! Where is there no malaria? At Cresson! Where are historic associations, magnificent mountain views, | eure privileges, tennis, golf and bicycling all to be found? At resson! Where is there music avery day, ‘‘and Sunday, too”? At Cresson! Where is there an artificial beach of pure white sand and a room full of swings, all under shelter, where children may play in rainy weather? At Cresson! Where can a business man spend Sunday with his family on the ee tops, and yet be at his desk on Monday morning? At resson Where is Cresson? On the Summit of the Allegheny Mountains, — just west of Altoona Horse Shoe Curye and Allegrippus, on the line of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Which is the most delightful month to spend iu the mountains? September, ‘ Where can it best be spent? At Cresson!—Aduv. Good Chicken Shooting will ba found at numerous points along the Northern Pacific Railway this fall, notwithstanding the heavy summer rains, Present advices. are to the effect that in the vicinity of Fergus Falls, Perham, Detroit, Sauk Centre and Little Falls, in Minnesota; and Wahpeton, Pembina and Valley City, North Dakota, chickens will be a good crop At Aitkin, Little Falls, Perham and Detroit, partridges will be plentiful. Ducks will be found in large numbers all along the line. Season opens Sept, 1. Chas. §. Free, Gen. Pass. Agent, St, Paul, Minn.—Adv. Shoes of Just the Right Sort. Somme time ago our contributor, John Kenusdy, mentioned inci- dentally his hunting boots, which he claimed to be pretty near per- fection. When we asked him where he got them he replied that thay came from M.A Smith & Son, of Philadelphia, who were then, as now, advertising in ForRESst AND STREAM.— Adv, a New Orleans, Mexico and California. RyAcHuHp from New York via Pennsylvania & Southam Railway, offering the most perfect service to New Orleans, Mexico and the Pacific coast. Tourist car the year round from Washington to San Francisco. New York offics, 271 Broadway.—Adv, Florida and the South, SouTHERN Ramway, the most directroute. Operating double daily service. New York to Florida and the South year round. The only line operating dining car service in the South. New York office, 271 : Broadway.—Adv, WantTep—To submit plans and specifications of an improved steam house-boat to a responsible gun club wishing to go South for hunting geagon. State what price you would be willmg to pay per day for pee of hotel accommodations, A, B. C., care of Forms1 AND STREAM, —dAdu, ] ' - aww ro Le ~) OREST AND STREAM. A WEEKLY JOURNAL OF THE ROD AND GUN. Terms, $4 A Year. 10 Cts. A Pops; t Srz Monvxs, $2. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1897. VOL. XLVIX.—No., 12. (No. 346 Broapway, New York. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. The address label on the wrapper shows the date of the close of the term for which the subscription is paid. The receipt of the paper with such dated ad- dress label constitutes the subscriber’s receipt for money sent to us. Subscribers are asked to note on the wrapper the date of expiration of subscription; and to remit promptly for renewal, that delays may be avoided. For prospectus and advertising rates see page iii. Readers wre invited to send us the names of friends who might be interested in 4 current copy of the Forest and Stream. We shall be glad to forward a specimen number to any address which may be furnished us for that purpose. I am happy to know that this unsportsmanlike habit of catching to count is now deemed more honored in the breach than in the observance, thanks to the admonitions of the public press and the better education of the present generation of angiers. George Dawson. A BHTTER WAY. WE print a suggestion coming from the Tennessee moun- tains that a certain tract of country there, which is highly desirable for game preserve purposes and can be had at a cheap figure, should be taken up by a club for private use. There is a better way. Such tracts of wild land in Tennes- see and elsewhere might well be acquired by the State and set apart as permanent possessions of the people. Why should all the good hunting country on this continent pass into private control? It is true that for the most part we haye Jet lawlessness and wanton waste run their course and work their curse, until there is, as a rule, not much game-stocked territory left to convert into public hunting preseryes, But there is vastly more remaining to-day than there will be five years hence; and the time to under- take the permanent keeping of this territory is now. The sportsmen of Tennessee will be doing the graceful thing for themselves and for the generations of sportsmen who are coming after them, if they shall persuade the Legisla- ture to set about this reservation of available wild lands for public use. There are good precedents. In 1895 the Michigan Legislature enacted: That all that part of Lake Hrie lying adjacent to the surveyed lands of Monros and Wayne counties and any submerged lands within the surveyed lines of said counties and connected with Lake Erie and Detroit River, providing such surveyed lands are owned by the State of Michigan, shall be and hereby are set apart and dedicated for a public shooting or hunting ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people of the S'ate of Michigan, for a distance extending one mileinto said Lake Hrie, the eastern line of the sub- merged lands and waters hereby reserved being one mile distant from the surveyed lines of the east side of said counties and parallel thereto: Provided, that this reservation and dedication shall not in- terfere with, or detract from, any rights or privileges as to fishing now enjoyed by any person or the public. New York has noble possessions in the Adirondacks and the Catskills, set apart by constitutional mandate, now en- joyed every year by thousands of her citizens, and destined for the perpetual enjoyment of succeeding generations. Minnesota has her public parks, Ontario hers; why not Tennessee her own as well? As a rule, in such affairs we are not much concerned for posterity; the general sentiment is as that of the man who did not see why he should do anything for posterity, since posterity had never done anything for him, The truth is, however; that in doing wisely for those who are to follow us we are doing not less wisely for ourselves. In other words, if we do something for posterity, posterity surely does something for us. As with the individual, well-planned and well-directed liberality expands and ennobles the nature of the giver, and as one in providing for the future of his family findsin that provision his own present and abiding satisfaction, so a town, a county, a State, may gain the reward of enhanced civic pride and stimulated public spirit through its consciousness of a generous policy for the future. No man, no community, no commonwealth, can live for to-day alone, not even with respect to the re- sources of the streams and the woodlands. We are bound to have regard for the rights of others in the future; to bequeath to them not wantonly and hopelessly impaired the stores of nature’s bounty which it is ours to enjoy. The whole duty of man in this matter of game and fish protection is summed up in the remark made by a father who in adyocating a law for the protection of deer in the North Woods said, referring to his infant boy: “I want him when a man to haye as good hunting asI have had myself.” If that were the governing motive with indi- viduals and communities, who can question that the prac- tical results of such a policy would prove as beneficent for the present as for the future? THE QHICKEN ON THE PUPPY’S NEOK. Onn way to cure a puppy of killing chickens is to tie about his neck the chicken he has done to death and compel him to wear it as a token of disgrace, until the ignominy, of which a dog may be acutely conscious, shall have wrought in him repentance and a change of heart. The plan works admirably with the puppy, but that is be- cause he is only a dog and lacks human sense. If he knew as much as a man he would make headlong for the nearest studio to have himself and the hen photographed. That is what the score fisherman does. When he has caught as many as he can lug alone or with the guide’s as- sistance, he poses before the camera, and then if any doubter refuses to believe his fish story, he triumpkantly produces the photograph to prove that he was as mighty a fish-killer as claimed, Next to the astonishing satisfaction some fishermen find in killing for count, is. this astonish- ing custom of having themselves photographed én flagrante deliciu, as it were. The ennobling influences of ‘field sports are much talked of and written about, and correctly so. One of the enno- bling elements in the sports of shooting and fishing is a willingness to stop when one has taken his fair share. But there is nothing elevating in the bloodthirsty gluttony of the “fish-hog” or “game-hog”—detestable names for de- testable beasts. On the contrary, the indulgence of bes- tial proclivities in this direction degrades. The brute who kills a bushel of fish to be dumped on the bank, or a midsummer deer to rot, in the woods, comes home not a nobler but a coarser man than he went out. There are anglers and there is angling. Fishing for count is not angling, nor are such fishermen anglers. Is it not high time that the distinctions were more clearly realized and the lines more sharply drawn and discrim- inatingly observed; and that the fisherman who has him- self photographed with his fish and then consigns them to the compost heap were relegated in public estimation to the limbo of the puppy with the hen about its neek? SNAP SHOTS. From Arkansas comes a tragic tale of robbery and love wild turkey hunting and fate. Will Dalton, of Hoxie, was under indictment for robbing Sam Mattox. But that Will on his part had no hard feeling against Sam was ' shown by his marrying Sam’s daughter. In keeping with all precedents, this should have adjusted family differences and disposed of the indictment, as in the “Arkansas Idyl? sung by Nessmuk, the feud of the Likenses and the Sim- monses was ended when Yancey led Martha to the altar: “The tribe of Simmons all came up —the Likenses were there, The neighbors swore they ne’er before had seen a bride so fair, Ma’am Likens, primed with applejack, went halting through a reel, While Granny Simmons in her chair kept time with toe and heel. They smoked the fragrant cab of peace, they drank their toddy hot; They swore an everlasting truce and sealed it on the spot.” There was no such happy ending of the Hoxie affair; the indictment still held, and the case was to have come up at the current term of court. But other fate was in store for Will Dalton. The other day he went into the woods hunt- ing for squirrels and wild turkeys. A small boy went with him. Thesmall boy came back, but Dalton did not return. He had been attacked by wolves and devoured, boots, clothes, gun and all. That was the story told by the boy. The dispatch adds that Dalton’s widow is wear- ing mourning. Let us trust that she may be comforted, for one of these days her husband will grow homesick and restore himself to her. In India the destruction of human life by wild ani- mals continues with little abatement, as shown by the Government statistics collected annually. The figures for 1896 have just been published; they show that 295 persons were killed by tigers, leopards, and other beasts of prey, and 1,869 died from the effects of serpent bites, Addison has a quaint fable of the lion and the man: “The man walking up with that noble animal showed him, in the ostentation of human superiority, a sign of a man killing a lion: Upon which the lion said very justly: We lions are none of us painters, else we could show a hundred men killed by lions for one lion killed by a man.” However the conflict may have fared between man and animals in other lands, there is on our own continent no creature that could make the boast of the lion in the fable, Of bear, wolves, panthers and venomous snakes, more have been killed by man than haye slain human kind. The sayage American with his crude weapons could cope with his animal foes; and equipped with perfected modern arms civilized man is as secure of life and limb in the haunts of wild beasts as in city streets and home life. We hear of the perils of hunting, but a New York physician was re- cently killed playing blind-man’s-bluff, and wives are solicitous for their sportsmen husbands, while a woman died the other day from the effects of a bargain-counter crush. Provided no indictment is hanging over him, the average wild-turkey hunter, even in a wolf country, is what insurance men would class as a good risk. Writing from Kentucky, Hayseed asks advice as to how he may stop the illegal hunting which is destroying the game supply. If Hayseed can discover one other citizen like-minded with himself, and they two a third, a begine ning will have been made. A combination of the citizens of a town or a county in an association pledged to observe the laws themselves, and to uphold the enforcement of the law as to others, will accomplish wonders, and in default of a warden system, is the only way open. An individual is practically powerless; he cannot stand out alone against his neighbors; whereas the union of few or many, banded together for the purpose of enforcing the game laws, re- lieves each member of an unwelcome share of responsi- bility and commands respect and deference. Let some attorney—if himself a sportsman so much the better—be engaged as the counsel of the association; give him the evidence of law-breaking} let him in his official capacity bring the suits and conduct the cases. By prompt and vigorous action show that there is an earnest determina- tion that the game laws shall be respected and obeyed. This is one way; it has worked well elsewhere, it will in Kentucky. We have sent Hayseed acopy of suitable con- stitution for a protection club, and will gladly supply any others who may wish them. President Gavitt, of the New York Association for the Protection of Fish and Game, has done well to call a spe- cial meeting for Oct. 14 to arrange for an earlier conyen- tion day than the usual one in January. Thereis no good reason why the annual work of the Association should not be put under way in ample season to undertake its ap+ plication to the Legislature in the beginning of the session. We publish President Gayitt’s call on another page; every sportsmen’s club in the State of New York should be re- presented at the October gathering. The Association is concerned for the good ofall; it can secure that good only by the active participation and codperation of all. The membership ought to be doubled; and it would be if sportsmen generally realized the strength of union. In this latitude, and the breeding habits of ruffed grouse being as they are,an open partridge season beginning Aug. 16 is entirely too early. The year’s birds are then immature, and not conditioned. The opening day should be set much later. The Canadian correspondent who writes of the destruc- tion of song bird eggs, evidently misunderstood the recent suggestion in these columns that the way to protect native birds’ eggs by tariff would be to admit eggs free, thus per- mitting foreign eggs to compete with the American-laid product. To state the principle of such a system was not to advocate its adoption. Moreover, the sale of eggs “for mere fanciful purposes,” the existence of which trafic we questioned, does not include the egg gathering for “scien- tific purposes,” since the tariff act particularly exempts that industry from prohibition. The remedy for song bird ege destruction by collectors is to be found in a more adequate enforcement of the laws already on the statute books. From many quarters and points widely separated come reports of an abounding stock of quail this season. The birds nested under favorable conditions and the food sup- ply has been generous. The quail shooting of 1897 prom- igses to be all that one might wish for. Heis wise who makes provision for “getting away” when the season shall come. ON THE WAY TO THE KLONDIKE, From the Forms? AnD STREAM’s Special Correspondent. On BoarpD StEAMsHrIr IsLANDHR, Skaguay Bay, Alaska, Aug. 21,—Hditor Forest and Stream: We are anchored at Skaguay Bay, on the east side of Chilcoot Inlet and five or six miles from Dyea, at the upper end of the inlet and foot of the pass of the same name. Precipitous, rocky hills and low mountains, none of them apparently over 2,500 or 3,000ft. high rise from the inlet on both sides, and on one of the tallest there is a fine glacier, In front is the infant town of Skaguay, the port of entry for the White Pass. Picture a level plain half a mile wide between enflanking hills that gradually come closer together at the north as the pass narrows behind, and on ihe beach and scattered among the trees beyond an army of tents, with here and there a frame or log house half completed. This is the town, and lots 50X100ft. already command a good price. ; The plainisformed from gravel and sand that a small glacial stream has brought down from the mountain beyond. It has a perfectly square edge at right angles with the bay, and at any stage of the tide (which has a rise here of 18ft.) boats ground long before dry land is reached and one has to jump over and wade ashore, At anchor in the bay are half a dozen steam vessels discharging freight and horses, and most of these have carried passengers also. Last night, soon after reaching this point, we went ashore and walked in two and one-half miles on the trail. We found the road in excellent condition, and things in general had-a prosperous and business-like appearance. There is plenty of food for man and beast. Wagons are being used on this end of the trail, and freights are 1 cent a pound for the first five miles—that distance the road is level and dry, the sandy soil drawing easily. After that there is an ascent of 2,600ft. in thirteen miles, and the conditions are not so good. However, there are no serious difficulties to be surmount- ed, and the only complaints we hear are from a few men who have no horses. Yesterday a man came back who had packed 175lbs. per animal across to the lakes, on mules, mak- ing the round-trip in four days. The timber in the Pass is very much like that in the Adi- rondacks—for instance, if cottonwood be substituted for poplar. Some of the cottonwoods are 3ft. in diameter, There is fine spruce timber and a great deal of balsam. I also noted beach and yellow birch. For game, there are said to be a great many goats on the mountains facing the water. They are only killed to bait traps, as their skins have no commercial value, and their meat is not cared for, There are no deer here on the main- ‘land, and no moose, caribou or sheep on this side the range. Bears are very abundant, particularly the common black “pear. Thad a talk with Mr, P, A Smith, Inspector of Customs for the District of Alaska, about the bears, Heisa good sportsman and a capable officer, In the last three years, among other game, he has killed fifteen bears. He shoots a .88-55 repeater, and in no case fired more than four shots to kill his bear. On the average it only required two shots to accomplish his purpose. Mr, Smith aims at the neck, when- ever possible, and thinks this the best shot for bear, The brown bears, he says, are pretty tough customers. He knows personally of three men who have been killed by them recently. At Burners Bay, just below this place, two pros- pectors loaned their rifle to an Indian one day, and shortly “afterward one of them passed an old ske-bear, which attacked him without any provocation, and in their defenseless con- ‘dition made short work of hervictim. His mangled remains were taken to Juneau. Still more recently an Indian was killed on Admiralty Island. His little boy was discovered alone in a canoe, ery- ing for the father, who had been gone a long time, and who at that moment was cold in death beside the dead carcass of one of these giant bears. He had shot the bear at short range with his old Hudson’s Bay musket, bul had been ‘unable to check its charge in time. Mr. Smith said that these bears are alike fearless of man and firearms. A friend of his shot at one and missed, as was discovered afterward, but the bear charged him just the same, and was only killed by a lucky shot in the brain at shortest kind of range. - The Indians get quite a number of hides, but all have the bullet mark in the top of the back, showing that they shoot them from trees when the bear comes down some favorite runway to a stream in search of salmon. Captain, or Inspector Harper, of the Canadian Mounted Police, is aboard this vessel. He has a very fine double Lee- Metford rifle. The gun is a hammerless automatic ejector, weighing 9lbs., and beautifully engraved and finished. It shoots the regular .803 Hnglish ammunition, which is a strong charge, and one that holds up remarkably well. Judging from shots fired over the water, its trajectory is su- perior to the U. 8. Army cartridge. It is certainly away ahead of the .80 80 smokeless, Tappon Adney, whose name is familiar to readers of For- HST AND STRHAM, is: here as correspondent for Huarper’s Weekly. In Juneau we each bought some strychnine for foxes, and hope to get some good furs this winter. All goes well so far; and the prospects are bright. J. B. BURNHAM. FOREST AND STREAM. Ole Sportsman Tourist. THE ANGEL OF THE GUARD, (Continued from page 292.) THE next morning the wind was again strong from the northwest, and, as our boat could make only leeway against a head wind, we decided to take advantage of the occa-’ Ae to haul her down and stop some of the abundant eaks. Before breakfast I started out to the river side of the lagoon with Pancho to get a load of oysters. We soon found the bed, and loaded the dorv with a kind of oyster quite different from the excellent Yaqui River oysters you get at Guaymas. The oysters atthe corral had an in- dented shell something like a scallop shell, and had a bit- ter, disagreeable taste when raw; but they were very good when roasted or stewed. Very large, coarse oysters are found further up the coast of Guarda Island, and at one place Pancho tells me that there is a deposit of fossil oyster shells, many of which are 2ft.long. Besides these varieties, living and extinct, you meet on the beaches frequent examples of the “concha nacre” (pronounced nacker, as in English) or pearl oyster. This species, besides giving the only valuable. kind of ol ge GULF OF CALIFORNIA, pearls, is almost the sole source of mother-of-pearl, the shells having a beautiful luster both, inside and out. The pearl fisheries are at present suspended by Government decree, but many romantic stories are told about the dis- coveries of “placeres,’ as the beds of these oysters are called, and Pancho said that twenty years ago his father found a placer on Guarda Island from which he collected 18lbs. of pearls, which were sold to a Guaymas merchant for $16,000. There were many things here new and strange to me, though no doubt familiar to naturalists. One was a star- fish with twenty-three fingers. At first I thought that some “sport” or accident might have caused this unusual number of fingers to sprout on the ordinary starfish, but as I found several more instances of the twenty-three- fingered animal, I became convinced that this was not the work of chance. On the boulder points we saw several dabs of seaweed among the rocks, which Pancho said were the nests of gulls, These birds, however, had not yet begun laying. On these spits were also relics of some old sealers’ camps. Hunting for oil, though not a very profitable trade, is sometimes extensively carried on. Oil brings at present from 50 to 60 cents a gallon (Mexican money), and is got from several sources. Young pelicans afford a large supply of oil. These are caught in great numbers on the breeding grounds when they are as large as hens, but unable to fly, and are then largely composed of oil. Then a good deal of oil is got from turtles, which are aL GUARDA—FROM COAST SURVEY CHART. - [Smrr, 18, 1897. harpooned and cut in two, when each half is tried out over the fire in its own shell, _ The liver of the shark is another source of supply, and is ree rich in oil, though the rest of the fish gives none at all. . The principal resource, however, is the seal. The hunt- STONE CIRCDES IN FLAT BETWEEN RIDGES ers invade the hauling grounds and try to shoot whatever seals they can on land. hen the animals take to the water it is necessary to shoot them in the head to get them at all, for they are very tenacious of life under these circumstances. The males alone ate sought, and princi- pally the larger males, some of which yield exceptionally, as much as forty gallons of oil, while many others will not give a gallon a piece. In the afternoon the wind changed, and we sailed over to Guarda and carried on our researches. Pancho and IJ landed in a small bay, where an ancient trail led over the foot of a boulder-covered hill. It was traced very distinctly fora few yards and then was lost in the flat that stretched up the coast. . We followed northward parallel to the beach for two miles and a half over flat country, old mussel, clam and oyster beds and cobble-strewn stretches, then the shoulder of a hill, ending a long ridge of high land, came right down to the sea, and over this the trail was again well marked, climbing perhaps 150yds. on the south side and winding down as far on the north. From the crest of this hill I took some pictures of the country north and west, and then photographed Pancho in the distance, standing amid some stone piles like those I had formerly found, and examples of which were seen oe or near the summits of the ridges fora mile back from the sea. The boys in our absence had caught two fine fish they called bacocos, which proved good to eat. We made a long trip inland next morning, scanning 3 ant v Rs Veale ahs f &S a 4 ie GR / ie [iw , STONE CIRCLES NEAR TRAIL, 144 MILES FROM COAST. every visible locality with the glass for traces of antiquity. This part of the interior had no remains of man’s work, but we saw indications of old beaches and beds of shells that seemed to show that the coast here had been some- what elevated in a time that, in a geological sense, could be called recent. We found no fresh water, nor trace of any, nor did we see any sign of four-legged thing except the iguanas, which were common. These lizards, which are said to feed solely on vegetables, must endure a tough and scanty diet in this place. When we got back to the boat about noon Pancho was visibly anxious. The wind was hauling to the northwest, with a rising sea, and we went aboard at once and made sail for our little harbor, reaching there in a heavy roll and a hard blow. In order to employ the afternoon profitably, 1 set out over the islet with the captain to visit the “‘lobera” or hauling ground of the seals. We climbed down to the beach about-a quarter of a mile away from the “lobera,” and wormed ourselves through the rocks until I got a good view of the animals, some 150yds. distant. Partly through a desire to test seal meat, and partly in hopes of getting a good skin, I fired ata small seal, and the whole herd (variously estimated by the captain at 200, and by me at fifty seals) took the water with a great noise. I could see no result to my shot, and as I had fired at the chest, while the captain now told me it was “head shot or no seal,” I supposed that I had failed to score. On getting nearer, however, we found a victim lying on thestones. I was struck by the unfitness of my disposition for a sports- man’s career, for while I feel chagrined to miss a fair shot, T am almost always filled with regret and pity when I suc- ceed, and this instance was no exception. The herd stayed bravely around in the breakers, howling their sorrow and indignation, and I quite sympathized with them. I tried to take a photograph that would show the masses of yel- low bodies lying in the wave as it heaved up, but I only got the heads and necks that were above the water. We skinned our seal and took some meat, and then — Supr, 18, 189%] FOREST AND STREAM. - Cardon or Thistle Cactus. Cabrillos. went back to the boat. It was singular to see how care- fully seals choose a rough and stony spot for a hauling ground., Just behind this beach lay a little sandy flat, fenced on three sides with steep hills, but not a track or sign of a seal was found there. They love the rough stones, and the rougher, it would seem, the more they love them. Since I am treating this subject, I will say now that the seal meat was soaked over night in salt water, boiled once a little, and a second time a good deal, and served with mustard, It was very dark, like the flesh of the porpoise, and tasted just like boiled beef. But not one of my Mexi- cans, who, with the exception of my good Pancho, were always feeding and always hungry, would consent to taste seal meat. It offended their finer sensibilities. At night the wind rose to a tempest, and the surf thun- dered on our protecting dyke. It was evident that a classic eee had set in, and that we were prisoners as long as it asted. In fact, it was not until the third day that the embargo was raised, and I had ample time meanwhile to peer into the crannies of the Corral de las Viboras. We found in one place a torpid rattlesnake, which we killed and measured. The snakes on the islet are uniformly of small size, though they are said to be very poisonous. This one, though he had nine rattles, was but 28in. long and lin. in diameter. He was of a very light café aw lait color, with a diamond pattern until within ljin. of the rattles, when the mark- ings were reduced fo alternate bands of black and white. The snakes on Guarda Island, on the contrary, are very large, and one immense fellow was skinned and stuffed for the Columbian Exposition, at Chicago. Along the shores and in the lagoons are yery plentiful — coralline, or spongy growths .called “riscos,”’ which give the Mexicans quantities of pure lime. One further observation was made which may have an interest. We found on the top of the cliffs, two ospreys’ nests. One had two eggs in it; the other had two young _ birds, one of which had already succumbed to the storm. These ospreys seem to have been hatched nearly two months earlier than our Northern birds. ; I braced myself carefully and tried to get a picture of this nest, but the gale was so strong that the camera quiy- ered like a violin string, and the photograph makes you dizzy to look at. 7 Finally we got away from our enforced seclusion at the corral, and spent the next three days in hard work on Guarda. Among the hills near the shore where I first landed I found a few examples of circles of rough stones, usually on the edge of some small flat between the ridgés. I had _ heard that there was a collection of such circles, number- ing about 150,in the neighborhood ona red mountain. The mountains were all red, but neither my somewhat worthless indian nor Pancho nor I could find this collec- tion in our limited time, and so we set out to follow up the fragments of the trail and find out whither it led, Starting west from the hill which had been the terminus of our previous expedition, we found unmistakable pieces of trail, whose age was sometimes indicated by dwarfed but ancient trees and shrubs growing in the very middle, marked distinctly on the more difficult ground and inyisi- ple in smoother places, stretching inland some four or five miles. At a point near the trail and a mile and a half from the coast were two inclosures of stone; one of which was the largest I encountered, the longer axis measuring 24ft. I maue both a plan anda photograph of these inclosures. The picture will show their general appearance, but the Jarger inclosure is foreshortened and the plate does not bring out properly the small inclosures which, in these in- stances.and in many others, are joined on to the larger structures. A quarter ofa mile beyond this place the trail dipped into a rocky arroyo, now entirely dry, but which seemed to have been roughly cleaned out for a water hole in time 223 Guarda, looking north and west from trail on top of hill. Sealions near Lobera. THE ANGEL OF THE GUARD. A mile further on lies a barren mesa, which is fairly crowded in one part with these small inclosures and the rough stone piles we have before noticed. We penetrated inland several miles beyond this and got extensive views of the country, but we lost the trail completely a mile and a half beyond the monuments on the mesa and thereafter saw no sign of human handiwork. Some digging below the stone piles showed that the sur- face had not been disturbed, and that the boulders and ““caliche,” or cement formation, were in place. This, as far it goes, tends to show that the stone piles did not mark graves. In my haste I neglected to dig into the stone in closures, and I greatly regret this oversight. In the North we frequently meet circles of stones on the prairie which had been used formerly to hold down the edges of an In- dian lodge. The inclosures here do not seem to me fitted for that; first, many of these figures are not circles, but oblong; then, most of them do not exceed 6ft. in diameter; and in any event the small adjoining circles would seem to be useless for a lodge. The entire area on the southern portion of Guarda in which we found signs of genuinely ancient work was not more than seven or eight miles long by four miles broad at the broadest part, perhaps as great a comparative area as the district called by old New Yorkers Greenwich Village was to the whole surface of Manhattan Island. The re- mains we found consisted solely in disconnected portions of an old trail and in stone heaps and rough circles, and the use or intention of the last two classes of monuments is very obscure. There is nothing to indicate that average rainfall or other climatic conditions have varied appreciably in the Gulf of California in historic times, or for many cen- turies past. In some localities year after year goes by without rain. Don José tells me that in an experience of sixteen years he has only known of two rainstorms at Santa Marta, near the Port of the Angels. To be sure, one of these storms was a heavy one, and a good part of the little mining town, which was built upon the foundation of a high barometer, was swept, tramway and all, some six miles down the mountain into the sea. A rainfall so precarious would afford no permanent sup- ply of fresh water on the southern part of Guarda Island. There is certainly no such supply there now, and the local- ities within the previously inhabited zone are absolutely dry, and, except for a few cactus and other thirsty shrubs, a desert. The population must haye been migratory and occa- sional. A few miserable families of fishing Indians might come over from either mainland in rainy years to cross the bar to the Corral de las Viboras at low tide and feast on seals or oysters, returning after each expedition to the nearest water hole, following on from pool to pool as the supplies dried up, and leaving the island when these reservoirs were exhausted. The stone heaps may have been used in some instances for wind-breaks by men on look-out, or they may have had some religious signifi- cance. They do not seem to be burial monuments over interments, and they certainly were ill-adapted and ab- surdly placed for any military use. The stone inclosures may possibly mark sites of former dwellings or fulfill some funerary or superstitious purpose. Comparative ethnologists could perhaps form a reliable opinion on these subjects, but even an amateur is justified in saying that these relics mark only transitory sojourns of a scanty and degraded race. While our boat was lying off the coast here, the boys caught a fish called a “mero,” weighing 20 or 25lbs., shaped like a jewfish, with small spots on a dark ground. We also had several of the common “cabrillas,” which weighed 6 or 7lbs. apiece, and were marked similarly to the “mero.” A large fish called a “tortoava,” said to be our sea bass, wriggled free from the harpoon, but we got a little fiend of a-fish called a ‘‘peje puerco” or sometimes a “trigger fish.” The front dorsal fin of the “peje puerco’’ has two prominent bony spines in it. The longer one, nearer the head, can hardly be depressed, eyen by the Timoleo by stone piles on hill, Looking east from north dyke of Corral de las Viboras. Hernando. use of great force, but if you put your finger on the other spine it falls at once and brings with it the obstinate spine in front, folding the entire fin like a fan. After we had gone over the portion of the island al- ready described, we took advantage of a calm night and pulled and drifted up the coast some ten miles above our first landing. This brought us a mile or two south of an arroyo called the “arroyo de las tinajas,” that is, of the water holes. Don José had found some pools far up this cafion in former years, and I wished to examine them. Setting out early in the morning with Pancho and the Indian I soon reached the narrow bed of the guily, and we went up this to the crest of the ridge which formed its water-shed. The former water holes, about three miles from the beach, were entirely dry, even when deepened a couple of feet by digging, and the doves which used to haunt this ~ valley were gone. We did, however, see some bees, which Pancho said must have been blown to the coast since his last visit five or six years ago, and, a mile or two above the dry water holes, we found a hollow in the rock which had caught some passing cloud and wrung from it about fifty gallons of delicious water. Above thisall was volcanic slide rock and jagged ridge. This arroyo gives a fine geologic section. About half way up to the top, going from the sea, you pass out of stratified rocks into the granite core of the island, which sinks again a couple of miles beyond and gives place to shales and conglomerates which are again overlaid in the highest regions by a thin coating of volcanic products. In the deep sands of the gully several plants were found which do not grow on the barren hills and mesa. There were sixteen “taco” or fan palms by count, most of them about 3ft. high, but some of more considerable dimensions, also a plant which~Pancho told me was wild tobacco. Iguanas rattled among the brush and pebbles; a large owl fluttered out of a dim nook, and a great blackish bird called an “aguilon,” said to carry off lambs and calves, was trying hard to escape the attacks of a small raven, but of mammalian life there was not a trace, and I incline to ues that there is not eyen a mouse or a ground rat on uarda. A variety of cactus called “cardon” or thistle cactus here reaches a great size. In the picture I made to show the character of these growths, the more prominent cactus is to be sure a ‘‘cardon,” but in this instance it only fills the office of the “foreground plant.” The larger cactus in the distance can be gauged by the 6ft. man who stands along- side. Another very singular cactus, called the “cirio,’ I saw later on near the San Juan mine. This plant, which grows at times 30ft, high, is found only at an elevation of several thousand feet above the sea, and in but one or two localities. It has a smooth bark, something like a birch tree, with a multitude of little feathery branches, some- what thorny, on every side, and when I saw it had tufts of yellow, flowering shoots on top. My camera was notat hand when the “‘cirio” was met, but I got a piece of an old negative which shows a group of these cactus, somewhat out of focus, and may serve to illustrate their habit. When we had finished exploring the “arroyo of the water-holes,” I found on my return to the boat that our water supply was about two-thirds gone. It was practi- cally impossible to renew the supply from the scanty pool far up the mountain. Even good men would have found the task very serious, and my men were born tired and had improved this natural aptitude by long practice. To continue north with the impending threat of another northwester would probably have sent us back in a few days waterless and with nothing gained. © With regret I was forced to order a return to the Port of the Angels by the southern route, leaving the northern part of Guarda unvisited, Iam told that on this northern part, aside from abundant traces of sealers and fishermen, there are remains of a graded road 30ft, wide, besides a 224 FOREST AND STREAM. [Surr. 18, 1897. cave and some skeletons, among which a Spanish peseta was found. Ancient roads and monuments are apt to shrink before the camera and the measuring tape, but doubtless there are traces of earlier occupation on the northern part ofthe island, though these traces would seem to be much more modern than the sizns of savage life found further south, Turning back through the calm of the night, and with the swing of the ebbing tide, we managed to get off the south point of Guarda by noon the next day, and here, sure enough, we found a northwester waiting for us; not a storm, fortunately, but a stift breeze that was able to shove along even our dull eraft at a4 or 5 knot gait. By night we had crossed the “whale channel,” which separates Guarda from the islands of the port, and, beating up the coast, we ran into the harbor and dropped anchor at sun- rise the next morning. That night was spent with my good friends at Las Flores, and [had the fortune to find atramp sailboat about to leayve—two days ldter—for the great French mines of Santa Rosalia, whence I could return by steamer to Guay- mas, and thence on to the “land of the superior dollar.” This little 5-ton sloop again found a strong northwester awaiting it outside the harbor. Little by little the wind increased and the sails diminished, until finally we took in all the regular canvas, and, hoisting a small awning for a square sail, made fine progress. There were fifteen souls, counting women, children and one dog, on this vessel, besides a good deal of freight, and sleeping room was scarce. Indeed, throughout my trip it was striking to see how, in spite ofa scanty population ina desert land, there was always a crowd at the points where sleep or travel was desired. It was the genial captain of this boat, however, who gaye me the information I wish to speak of. Don Pablo Rodriguez, during his long residence on the Gulf, had found many interesting things. On one occasion he had discovered a skeleton with a Spanish letter by it, which was deciphered in spite of its age, and proved to contain nothing of modern interest. At another time he had found a skeleton in a cave, and near it lay a small roll of rawhide, cut narrow and wound around itself like a strap. On this roll there seemed to be an inscription in strange characters, and Don Pablo tried to soften the material by soaking it five or six minutes in water. Unfortuately this treatment was inadequate, and the old rawhide broke in pieces as soon as an effort was made to unroll it. If this were in reality an aboriginal relic it would be of an almost unique description, and I am strongly in hopes that Don Pab.o may hereafter find another example of such work. This, then, is the net result of the expedition, recounted dryly and briefly, though perhaps too long even so; but it would be hard to give any idea of the charm of the early morning with the great islands Tiburon, San Esteban, San Lorezzo and Guarda, rising blue out of the bosom of the Gulf, with their more distant peaks like islets or vast ships hull down, seeming to float separate from the parent masses, while lazy whales sport in the distance; and even the barren desolation of the lofty ridges seems to offer a stern defense to the harbors they shelter, and you feel as you cast anchor in the Port of the Angels that whatever storms may breed in the northern ranges or force their way from the fickle Pacific across the mountain barrier, the harbor can rest secure from eastern tempests, fenced as it is by the towering ramparts of: the Angel of the Guard. Dr. Franceselic, a learned botanist of this place, tells me, after seeing the print, that the cirio is a rare species of Fouguiera. The ocatilloisa common species of the same genus. The Gardens at Kew still lack the cirio, and are eager to get it, etc., etc. Indeed, Franceselic intarested himself so far as to get the address of people at the San Juan mine to send for specimens. H. G. Dunoe. New York State Association. Lyons, N. Y., Sept. 8—Zo Members of the New York State Association for the Protection of Kish and Game: Agree- ably to Section 5, Article VII. of the Constitution of this Association, ther: will be a meeting of the executive com- mittee thereof, Thursday, Oct, 14, 1897, at 1 o’clock P. M,, at the Yates Hotel in the city of Syracuse. All clubs are requested to send a delegate to this meeting, as under the constitution the executive committee shall con- sist of such delegates. This meeting is called for the purpose of deciding the advisability of making the call for the annual meeting of the Association earlier than January next; also for the transac- tion of such other business as may come before the com- mittee. So many requests have been made in relation to a change in holding our annual meeting that | feel it highly important that the matter have prompt consideration. The committee on by-laws and also the joint committee on reorganization of protection and. trap shooting branches are requested to meet with us at that time. . _W. 8. Gavirt, President. The Kentucky Quail Supply. MAYFIBLD, Ky,, Sept. 10.—Quail are quite plentiful here now, and the scason promises to afford fine sport. “They are more abundant than they have been for many ears, and doubtless the number would have been far greate aad it not been for the harvesting machines, which destroy vd so many ezg8, On my farm of only 160 acres I estimate the number of birds at 200, and they seem to be just as numerous in other portions of the country. There is more or less illegal shooting here every year, and if something is not done to prevent it the only game bird we have will soon be extinct. A few years ago the wild turkey roamed our forests, but now he is rarely seen, and is so wary that it is almost impos- sible to approach him. Last year I spent three days in the woods before I secured one for my Thanksgiving dinner, The few ducks we have here in the spring are pounced upon regardless of season. Now, I wish Forrest AND STREAM would advise us the best way to stop this unlawful shooting. HAYSEED, The FOREST AND STREAM is put to press each week on Tuesday Correspondence intended for publication should reach us at the atest by Monday, and as much earlier as practicable, OLD TIMES ON THE TRINCHARA RANGE. In Two Parts—Part Two. PrerHAPs you remember how Don Gordo Jones and I went home by way of a deep cafion to what was called the Home Ranch. There were ten men there, my partner— Perley, and nine cowboys who were waiting for the round up to commence. They did not know when it would be, but as they were all under pay, and had lots of beef, bread and coffee, several old packs of cards, some month-old newspapers, and just enough interest in the Indian news that they heard occasionally to keep them amused and on the lookout all the time for something unexpected, they were quite contented. I had the pleasure of doing a good share of the cooking in some Dutch oyens and a few frying-pans in a big fire- place. 1 would rather cook than guard horses or herd them, and had chosen my job voluntarily. My stove, you will remember, was down to the outside ranch, and about a wagonload of things were hid among the rocks. I thought that even if the jacal had been burnt down, the stove might not be damaged much; and so I told Perley that one of us ought to go down and get the things. He offered to go and let me go out with the round-up if it started; but I knew he did not want to, and I had got a little sick of cooking, so 1 saddled up the only work horse there was at home, and concluded I’d slip down there in the night, get another horseand come back in the night with the load in the wagon which was down there. The boys had teased me so much about my home-run-up through the cafion that I did not want to ask any one to go with me, and so a little after dark I sneaked off alone to regain my lost reputation. After a very poky ride of twenty miles or so, during which I saw quite a number of things which didn’t look nice, but which turned ont to be cattle, stumps or great big nothings, I came near the edge of the Jim Hunt Cation; and dismounting and picketing my horse in the cedars, I sneaked down to the house, to find it unharmed, JI after- ward found that Sol Mays had come past the ranch the morning he got Lew’s horses, had stopped, but couldn’t get into the house, and so had built a fire to cook by; he hadn't put it out entirely, and after he left the wind had risen and blown some fire into my big woodpile of cedar and pinon. We had seen the smoke and thought it was the house. There was nothing else damaged; and so I went down to where the horses were in the deep little cafion, and turning old Chumbead, the work horse, down with the rest, 1 camped for the night without a fire and tried to sleep, but couldn’t. I wished then that I had not been so touchy and had got one of the boys to go with me. The night was long. I had my saddle blanket, and was cold; but at last toward morning went to sleep, and slept till late. After cooking some breakfast over a few dry sticks, the next thing was to catch Chumhead and an- other horse down in the cafion; that took some time, and by the time the wagon was got down to the house and the’ load in, it was about dark. Just asthesun set I pulled for home. That wagon made more noise than I ever heard one make before or since. The country looks different in the night, and I occasionally lost the trail. About 12 o’clock there came a heavy fog,and I stopped on the edge of a Hee cafion several miles off the road to the crossing ace. yi Unhitching the horses, and taking them down the steep bank to water, and picketing them after that to the wagon wheels, I ate some cold grub and made a bed under the wagon with lots of blankets andturned in. Aftersleeping several. hours, I was awakened by an awful yell, and be- fore I was well awake I was out from under the wagon with gun in hand. I thought the Indians had found me sure, and that all I could do was to get one or two of them before they got me. But I couldn’tsee anything; and soon I heard another blood-chilling, long-drawn howl about 200yds. down the cafion, and in about ten minutes another from the same animal further down, each time answered by its mate that was traveling a parallel course, but about a mile or so distant on a cedar ridge. It was a pair of mountain lions, or cougars, traveling. I got cold, for there was a misty rain, and I had been steaming hot in bed, so I crept in again and slept till light. When I took the horses to water, I saw the track of the great cat. If anyone tells you that a mountain lion don’t scream it’s a mistake, for I have heard them, and it isn’t nice when you are alone in the dark. Hitching up, I soon found the trail, and landed at the home ranch in an hour orso. The boys had come very near coming after me when they found out I had gone alone, and were glad to see me. and the stoye. Perley seemed more pleased that the confounded pole house hadn’t burnt down. and I wasn’t talked to any more about my home run up the canon. In a few days the Indian scare was about over, and we had word to meet the round-up the next Monday at Jones’s Ranch, on the San Francisco Creek. Perley wanted all the horses brought up to the homeranch. Jim Hunt and I started one morning to go down and get them. Jim was one of the cowboys, and some of his brother’s horses were with ours; | had been taking care of them, so off we went at daybreak. Chumhead was my mount, and we made good time. When we got down to the cafion pasture we found that four of the horses had broken out and strayed off. I told Jim to take the horses and start for home, and I would hunt the rest. Away he went, while I like a fool did not change horses, but went on hunting the strays on old Chumhead—1 hunted till almost dark and then gave up and started for home on my tired horse. WhenI had gone about ten miles from home I dis- mounted in a little valley and let old Chum stand for a few minutes. The valley was the bed of a stream when there were rains, and where J crossed the rock was bare, comparatively flat and about 20yds. wide. I wason the flat rock, with the horse just behind me, and just as I was ready to mount again, I at last saw the Indians that I had not been trying to find. They were riding single file, com- ing\|from the east parallel with|the cafion, on the ridge right in front of me, and not over 150yds. or less away. They were on thin, woolly-looking ponies, riding in single file. They were so near that I could see their profiles by the sunset glow—big noses, thin faces, long hair; ugly, murder- ous-looking men; a quiver full of arrows on every one’s back, with the feathered ends above their shoulders, and rifles crosswise before them on the saddle. They rode like ghosts, without a word, and I thought of several things. I was afraid my horse would whinny, but he was so tired he stood still, and I don’t think he heard or saw them. I had made up my mind that if he did, and the Indians came down to investigate, ’d slip off back into the cedars and let them have Chum if they wanted him. But they went on down into a pocket Straight west toward the Pnurgatoire Cafion. That is, they rode down into a bay of upland with a cation of 1,000ft. deep on each side of them and one of 3,000ft. in front. After they had passed well out of sight I started again for home and got there well into the night. Jim had come in early with all the horses, having found the strays on the road home. Two days after that the same Indians were seen on the other side of the Purgatoire on Van Bremer’s range, and were stopped by some men on a round-up, They said that they were good Indians and were oaly just going out to steal some horses from the Utes, so they were let go. IL asked Don Gordo how they bad crossed the cafion and he said he knew a trail down into the caiion in the bottom of that pocket. I found it after a long search the next win- ter when I was hunting, and have packed several deer out of the cafion by it on a horse, I think it was very for- “tunate that I did not meet them, forif I had I would not have been here writing this. We went on the round-up and had a pretty good time, especially when a skunk danced on old Jim Wilcox twice in one night when he was in bed. I'll tell all about the round-up some other time, Good night. W. J. Drxon. IN APACHE LAND. New Yor, Sept, 8.—Hditor Forest and Stream: For a long time I haye wondered what has become of the large number of wild pigeons which twenty or twenty-five years ago were so abundant that they frequently cast shadows upon the earth,and were seen like clouds passing under the rays of the sun during the spring and autumn seasons’n many of our Northern and Middle States. Iam now in receipt of anews- paper clipping, taken from an E/ Paso paper, which states that these birds have at last been found in great numbers in the northwestern part of Chihuahua, Mexico, not far from the terminus of the Rio Grande, Sierra Madre & Pacific Railroad—in the forests of the Sierra Madre Mountains, This is of particular interest to me, for last winter it was my privilege tu take a most delightful trip through this region of country, that lasted six weeks. On the morning of Jan. 13 Lleft El Paso in company with a few others, all of us mounted on good horses, for an extensive j urney ‘through this region. We were well equipped with camping outfit, and our commissary was sufficiently stured with provisions to last at least two months. Besides these necessaries, we were well armed with Winchesters, and for close work our revolvers were of such a pattern and size as to make us a pretty formidable party either for Apaches, bear or moun- tain lion, Our first few days’ experience was tedious, traveling through a sandy desert; but as we worked our way toward the southwest, in the course of a few days we had entered a new country, a new world, as it were, which became exceedingly attractive and interesting; while the further we continued our journey southward and westward the more beautiful it became, until finally we found ourselves en- tranced -by the charms of a wonderland. I shall hardly be able to describe to you, at this lime, my experiences in the cafions, getting lost in the forest, the great tree growth of pine and oak, well fitted for the abiding places of that wildwood bird, which report states has now been seen in such large numbers. I question whether there “is a better hunting ground to-day in the world for certain kinds of game than van be found in the Degollado Lands in Western Ohihuahua. It is through this section that Gen, Crook pursued the indomitable Apache Indian Chief, Gerinomo; and it has only been in the past week or ten days that reports have been made through the New York @papers of finding the body of the ‘Apache Kid,” a son of the Chief Gerinomo, which was discovered in a lonely spot in the Sierra Madre Mountains, quite near this locality—bleaching in thesun. This Kid was a terror, and his death will vir- tually wipe out any further alarm as regards the desperate Apaches. The land I have referred to was for many years the roam- ing ground for these Indians, and a place of such perfect security that only in recent years have people been found bold enough to lift the veil that has screened it from the outer world, while now it is only a question of a short time when the treasures hidden in its hills and the fruits of its rich and beautiful valleys will be advertised to the world. These things so useful and enjoyable to man, with a climate unequalled, will all add their share in making this part of the country a new Eden and a lard of great promise. Go, ROWLAND, glatmyal Tistorp. SONG BIRD EGGS. Dounnvinie, Ont,, Sept, 8.—Hditor Horest and Stream: A paragraph evidently crept unawares or unconsidered into the edilorial columns of Forrest AnD STREAM of Aug 28, for your valuable paper could not and would not knowingly advocate what that paragraph implies, It says: The destruction of the song birds of this continent by the sale of their eggs for mere fanciful purposes is quite as fancitul as are the purposes. The entire proposition is fanciful, fantastic and fallacious. Tf there were any such traffic in song bird eggs, the true way to protect American laid eggs would be to admit foreign eggs free, and so lower the price and discourage the native industry. To shut out foreign eggs, on the contrary, would mean a lessened supply, with gonse- quently higher prices and a stronger stimulus fo nest-robbing actiy- ities. Surely this is Dingleyism run mad or carried to the pettiest, meanest end. Such a course would encourage the destruction of the eggs of the very birds which spend a large part of the year in the United States to gladden the hearts of thousands of American citizens, yet because their instinct carries them north to procreate their species, they-must be punished by having their nests robbed and the eggs trafficked in by dealers who pander to the depraved tastes of boy col- lectors, who think of the eggs about as scientifically as they do of their marbles. f ; Why you Call the traffic ‘‘fanciful and fallacious” I cannot understand, for it isa well known fact that there are scores of Supr. 18, 1897 ] FOREST AND STREAM. 225 dealers in the United States who issue regularly price lists of the eggs they have to sell, and ask for exchanges and lots to purchase. These dealers, too, deal with foreign dealers, whose price lists are also being constantly sent to this coun- try, and more, many of these dealers send collectors to the breeding grounds on purpose to collect bird’s eggs for sale. In fact, there is a low, mean trade going on all the time at the expense of the poor birds, and not alone to them, but also to the farmers and fruit growers of this great agricultural con- tinent. You still doubt, then let me tell you of one little incident which occurred on the Canadian side, opposite Buf- falo, a short time ago. A so-called scientific observer, a member of the Buffalo Ornithological Society and a leader in the same, was noticed by one of the game wardens a year or two ago to be collect- ing eggs—he had no permit, so was reasoned with and asked to desist. This was done more than once, until this season when he was caught én flagrante delictu and brought before the police magistrate. He had in his possession six cigar- boxes full of small eggs of different kinds, among them fifty-four of the spotted sandpiper, a number of warbler’s eggs, bluebirds, etc. He urged that they were collected for scientific purposes and that on that account he should not be interfered with. What scientific purposes, | ask, could be served by this noble- hearted scientist in taking fifty-four eges of one common spe- cies, and that year after year? or in taking bluebirds’ egus, unless in the latter case to see if the eggs were smaller, now that the bird ig so scarce? It is evident this scientist had collected these eggs for the few cents there were in them. I am sorry to ray the magistrate let him off on suspended sen- tence, but such offenders may rest assured that in the future if they are caught they will receive the severest penalty of the law, This man had anumber of assistants; for instance, two would drag a long rope over a tield and two or three would follow and notice where a bird left its nest—noble and scientific occupation! ‘Fanciful and fallacious!” Why, itis not long since Forest anD STREAM reported that no less than $100,000 worth of birds’ eggs were collected by the lighthouse keepers and others on the Carillon Islands, and asking that the abominable practice be stopped. It is high time that the public sentiment of this great continent were cultivated by the press and otherwise, against the so-called scientific collecting of the eggs and skins of our native birds, the former chiefly for boys to play with, and the latter for millinery purposes or to fill cases of mounted birds to adorn barrooms, etc, Pro Bono Pustico. The Ways of Snakes. San Anco, Texas; Aug. 28.—Hdator Forest and Stream: I was reminded a few days since of the discussion carried on in Forest AND STREAM some time ago, as to whether or not rattlesnakes swallowed their young, by meeting with Mr, H. ©. Baumann and Mr. A.C. Honig, both thoroughly reliable ranchmen of this county, who informed me that they had on that day killed a rattler, and on cutting it open they found within it twenty-three young snakes, measuring about 8in. in length, and haying the imprint or indication of two rattles on their tails. They aver that they saw the snake before it discovered them, that it was in an open space, and they know that the young snakes were not swallowed after they discovered the old one. The young snakes appeared quite active, but did not have the appearance of having been exposed to the elements; and they were both decidedly of the Opinion that they had not yet been born, notwithstanding their extraordinarily perfect development, I remember once, when a boy, seeing seventy-two young ones taken from a rattler, all alive and active, but they were not more than 3in. in length. I do not now remem- ber which side had the best of it in the discussion referred to, but I don’t think any one reported eyer having seen any swallowed or found within the old snake as large as these I here report; therefore, I thought it worth re- porting. I was very particular in interrogating them as to the length, and they were both quite positive that they could not have been less than Sin. Mitton Mays. [There seems to be good evidence that the mother snakes do offer a refuge to their frightened young within the body. Entirely competent observers have testified to witnessing the “swallowing” of their young by the mother snakes, and their testimony-eannot be ignored or dismissed as an error ef observation. The belief that the mother in. time of danger receives the young into her throat or belly is a very ancient one among many peoples, both civilized and savage. | Pinnated Grouse in Trees, Guneseo, Ill.—EHditor Foresi and Stream: Having noted your remarks in regard to pinnated grouse not taking to trees as their cousins do, and Mr. Hough’s correction of same, lest an error creep into the records, I wish, in turn, to correct Mr. Hough. Pinnated grouse do not roost in trees, but roost in the long slough grass along the bottoms or burrow in the snow when the snow is deep enough for that purpose. They tly into the trees on still, frosty mornings, as I have o!ten seen them doin the long ago, when these birds were more abundant in this section. Now, will someone who has been acloser observer than I have been, tell us if they went to the trees after buds, as the sharp-tail and ruffed grouse do, or did they fly up there to get a better view of that celebrated artist. J. Frost? J, too, have shot (at) them with a rifle. Finding them too wild to get within range of the Belgian musket I wielded in those days, I borrowed a rifle of a neighbor and went after them. I distinctly remember standing behind a huge tree and loading and firing at grouse in the adjacent trees nearly all of one forenoon, but the grouse kept right on communing with nature. I had not yet learned the trick of firing at the Jower bird in order that the falling bird might not trighten away those beneath, but as no birds fell, I escaped the conse- quences of ignorance. E, P. Jaquzs, The Sense of Smell. Editor Forest and Stream: Assuming the good faith of Shaganoss, I must tell him that the marvelous powers of discriminating between differing. smells, showa by Juha Brace, a deaf-blind girl, educated at the American Asylum for the Deaf, in Hartford, Conn., are as well substantiated as that there was such a deaf-blind person as Laura Bridgeman; huving been carefully noted and de- scribed by the principal of that imstitution, and specially €Xamined and reported on,by the famous Dr. Samuel G. Howe, the rescuer of Laura Bridgeman, and head of the famous Perkins Institution for the Blind, in Boston, Mass. But to be critically exact, the challenge of Shaganoss, awakens in my memory a suspicion that it is not distinetly affirmed that Julia did actually assort the clothing of her fellow pupils, but the firm conviction of the staff of the institution was expressed that she could doso, I can prob- ably establish exactly what was said on this point by a long search through old papersif the exact point ig deemed of sufficent importance, but being quite certain that she could smell at a dozen or more persons, and then gel: ct their gloves from a pile, and that James Mitchell (the first deaf-blind person whose case was scientifically studied, and who died about 1880) recognized all his acquaintances by their smells, and even formed his opinions of them by that sense, seems sufficent in showing the extreme sensitiveness of this sense when properly trained. As the ‘‘soap” troubles Shaganoss not a little, I can give mny Own testimony on that point, within my own personal knowledge, for I have seen Helen Keller pick up a perfectly clean handkerchief, and otber clothing, that was in the pile from the wash, put it to her nose and drop it, finding by the smell that 1t was not her own, and Helen is less distin- guished in the matter of sense of smell than most of the deaf- blind are. I would remark, however, that if Shaganoss undertakes to investigate the sense of smell in the deaf-blind, he must remember that some of this class have no sense of smell whatever, the sense, and taste, having been destroyed, or greatly impaired, by the disease that ruined their sight and hearing. W.- WADE. What Did It? Norra CaeuMsrorp, Mass., Sept. 11 —A pair of chimney swifts occupied my neighbor's chimney as a summer reci- dence this year, the nest being located low down in one of the flues, and resting on the Gamper grate of an open fire- place, All through the summer, the loquacious twitter of the birds and their offspring was distinctly, and sometimes unpleasantly, audible. A few days since, however, it ceased entirely, Investiga- tion disclosed that the mother bird and her young ones were dead in the nest, and, strange to relate, the eyes of each had been plucked out. What visual enemy could have reached them in their secluded retreat? CORPORAL. [Might not the eyes have been eaten out by ants after the birds were dead ?] What Tidings of the Captive Caribou? Editor Forest and Stream: About three years ago there was an account of the capture of a baby caribou at Moro Corners, Me., followed by several reports during a year or so of its welfare. Some doubts were expressed of its surviving long in captivity, and I think I express the wishes of others as well as my own in hoping to hear of its later history. DutunzBak Hin, Game Bay and Gun. The “Brief’s” Pictures. THERE are twenty-nine illustrations in the current edition of Game Laws in Brief, most of them full-page half-tones, and all admirably printed, The book is a beauty, and well worth haying for the illus- trations which, Mr, Charles Hallock says, so well represent America’s wilderness sports. The Brief gives all the laws of the Uniled States and Canada for the practical guidance of anglers and shooters. As an authority, it has a long record of unassailed and unassailable ac- curacy. Forest and Stream Pub. Co. sends it postpaid for 25 cents, or your dealer will supply you. NEWFOUNDLAND CARIBOU. Ty Capt. Kennedy's interesting book, ‘‘Sports and Adyen- tures in Newfoundland,” there is.a spirited description of a conflict between two caribou stags, which the captain wit- nessed, in company with his guide, afriend, and a number of interested hinds that grouped themselves around the party, apparently to see fair play. They were in the midst of a heavy snow squall at the time, and the captain describes this wild and unusual scene as extremely exciting and p.ctur- esque. The fight was soon ended by the death of both stags by the rifles of the captain and his companion. Tn the fall of 1891, while hunting caribou in Newfound- land, accompanied by my friend, Col. Cecil Clay, and his son, we happened to have in our employ two of the guides, Richard Lebuffe and Joe Busky, who were with Capt, Ker- nedy on that occasion, and On our expressing a wish to visit the locality of the battle, they offered to pilot us to the very spot, which was on Wolf Hill, some five miles from our camp on the big marsh, so we agreed fo make the trip the following morning, and in order to make an early start con- cluded to retire early; before doing so I made the following preparations for a good breakfast, knowing we should have a long, hard day before us: I selected half a dozen fat loin venison chops which I placed in my wire gridiron, together with a few thin slices of bacon, the whole well seasoned. [ then measured out a liberal amount of coffee into our coffee- pot, and after a last pipe crept into our sleeping bags. At the first signs of day we were up and making ready for breakfast. Lebuffe, our head guide, brought a kettle of boil- ing water, Col. Clay made a big dish of Indian meal ban- nocks, while I made the coffee and broiled the chops. These important matters attended to, we left camp with our guides, Richard Lebuffe, Joe Bushy and Martin Williams. After crossing French Woman’s Creek, on the opposite side of the marsh, we separated so as to cover more ground, The colonel and his son wished to bring in a stay they had killed the day before, while Lebuffe and I intended hunting toward the summit of Wolf Hill. As we were in the midst of good caribou ground, we went slowly, carefully scanning the ground ahead of us. As we were crossing 4 small marsh I called my guide’s attention to ' a gray stone at the upper end of the marsh, telling him how much it resembled a caribou; just then the stone jumped quickly to its feet, and to our surprise the supposed stone turned out to be a handsome yearling stag. Not getting our wind, it did not seem to be the least bit afraid, but pranced about, evidently curious to make out what kind of creatures we were. First it would walk slowly up to within d0yds., or even less, then with a snort dash away 100 or more. What a chance for the colonel and his camera had he only been with us. I could have easily made venison of his pranc- ing lordship, and very good venison he would have made, too, but we did not need it, so let it go, though it was an easy and tempting shot, j After fording another rapid and difficult stream we found ourselves at the foot of Wolf Hill, which, after a short rest, we began to climb. Though the October nights in New- foundland are freezing cold, the days, when clear, are ex- ceedingly hot, and we were pretty well blown and heated before reaching the top. When near the spot where Capt. Kennedy witnessed the combat between the big stags, my guide held up bis hand warningly and dropped back into the bushes, ‘tl see deer,” he whispered. The natives of Newfoundland always speak of caribou as deer, Sure enough, less than half a mile to our right were four or five caribou freding rapidly up the hill; but before we could overtake them they disappeared in the thick brush and we resumed our climb. After half an hour’s stiff work we reached the summit tired and hot, so we stretched ourselves out on the moss and enjoyed a refreshing pipe. The wind blew a gale from the west which was strongly in our favor, as it would prevent any deer in front of us get- ting our scent. While carefully scanning the ground ahead of us with my glass, | made out a small herd of caribou some 600yds. in our front; how handsome they looked with their white necks glistening in the sun! After watching - them a while to make sure of their direction we started on a tun to head them off, ducking low down so as to keen out of sight. “But to our great disappointment, when we reached the spot where we expected to find them, they were nowhere to be seen. And to our surprise and disgust, a few minutes later we saw them feeding calmly near the spot we had just left. They had—from no fault of ours—doubled back on their tracks and given us the slip. But such are the disap- pointments the deerstalker must make up his mind to beur. We followed them sadly, and somewhat discouraged at our bad luck, Suddenly Lebutie, who was a little ahead of me, dropped behind a big rock, beckoning to me as he did so, “There are deer ahead of us,” he whispered, his face all ablaze with excitement as he pointed them out. Sure enough, about 200yds. to our front, among the straggling bushes and feeding toward us, were three hinds and a fine young stag. When within about 150yds. they became sus- picious and turned sharply off. Knowing this was my only chance, | aimed carefully at the stag and fired a quartering shot into his short ribs. At the report of the .40-65 Win- chester he dropped stone dead with his legs spread out in spread-eagle fashion, not a kick or a struggle. The other three were not a bit alarmed, but walked up tothe dead stag, smelled of him, evidently wondering why he acted so queer. Iam quite certain I could have killed them all, but 1 had no excuse for the slaughter. While Lebuffe went to work butchering and skinning our prize, I busied myself making a rough sketch of the scene. While at work a great big, innocent-looking doe, with only one antler, came up and almost walked over me. Suddenly she got our wind, and with a loud snort dashed off like a racehorse, The view we had from the crest of Wolf Hill was superb, Sheffield Pond, a bright blue gem of a lake, nestled at our feet, entirely surrounded by virgin forest; far away to the south the purple hills at the head of Hall’s Bay lay bathed in the warm sunlight toward the northwest. The queer and picturesque formations known as the ‘'Topsails” stood out in bold relief, while in every direction ponds, lakes and streams glistened in the bright sun; a perfect paradise for caribou, and all these waters swarmed with speckled trout which had, never had a fly cast overthem. By the time Lebuffe had completed his work, we had another caribou feed up to within easy shot of us. It went off badly scared but un- harmed. We did not shoot, though sorely tempted. We ate a hurried bite of lunch and then started back for camp. On our way home we saw twelve more caribou, and had we had any good excuse could have easily killed at least three of them, but 1 had killed all my license allowed and venison was plenty in camp, so we resisted temptation and returned without further incident to our comfortable tent on the marsh, where we soon consoled ourselves with a hearty sup- per of venison steak and frying-pan bread. The colonel and his son soon joined us; they reported haying seen thirty-five caribou during the day’s tramp. WAKEMAN HOLBERTON. HACKENSACK, Sept. 6. ZIGZAG EXPERIENCES.—1, Tue New England sportsman, when planning for a day out with gun and dog in the stubble for the swift. Hymg quail, or along the wooded hillsides for the peer of American game birds, the lordly grouse, or along the sluggish brook, that winds its sinuous course through alder runs, for the erratic woodcock, makes an elastic programme, haying learned in the school of experience that it is the unexpected that often happens. Au unlooked-for experience frequently overturns his plans, a difficult or peculiar shot may surprise him in its result, and when a certainty seemed inevitable a humiliating failure is often his only reward. What is planned as a pleasant adventure may end in disappointment, and that of an un- toward beginning may have a very pleasant ending. These ins-and outs, these ups-and-downs, for the want of more expressive terms, I call “igzag experiences. Under this caption I will briefly relate, from time to time, some of my personal experiences, and those of others to which I was a party. Some of these were pathetic, some maryelous, and some ludicrous. With one of the latter I begin the narration. It occurred some few years since in the town of Charlton, one of the three towns of Worcester county that Hallock, some twenty years ago, thought of sufficient importance to be pointe? out to sportsmen, in his ‘‘Sportsman’s Gazetteer,” asa goo -place for ‘‘quail, ruffed grouse, woodcock, ete.” Time, i, his zigzag flight, has marked his changes here as elsewhere. ,A growing army of shooters has made sad hayoc with the birds, many of the best covers of former times have been destroyed by the woodsmen’s axe, and to others the *‘No Trespass” signs forbid an entrance. Being invited to spend afew days in November at the Holmes Farm at Dresser Hill, of Revolutionary and subse- quent fame anda good pluce for birds, a trio sauntered torth in the clear crisp, and bracing morning air—Erford, Charley, and the writer—hold! a quintette, for Shot and Doc, two as good setters as ever pointed a bird, were also of the party. We journeyed to the north and west, and covered quite an extent of country, making some nice clean kills and some scandalous masses, We added to our game bags in the McIntyre cover, and after marking it out, started for another cover nearly a mile away. To gel there, we had to pass a very promising cover of considerable extent, which was posted with an abundanc of no trespass signs 226 The highway runs along one side of this beautiful chest- nut woods, and on the other side of the road is a sloping hillside overgrown with scrub oak and an occasional dwarf pine, Turning a bend in the highway we saw, at a, consid- erable distance, the old farmer who owned the posted land coming toward us with a yeke of oxen anda wagon. He was described to me as a cantankerous old man, who found no pleasure in life, or if qualified pleasure he found at all, it was in trying to make others as unhappy as he could, Charley said 1 had better keep along in the road, and while the hillside was rather an unpromising place for birds, that he and Erford would take the dogs and work it out, and that if they started any birds which they failed to get, I might get a shot as they crossed the road to the woods. Soon after they left me I saw the farmer, and accosted him with: ‘‘A pleasant afternoon, sir!’ “Wa-al, pleasant or not pleasant, I don’t want you huntin’ on my land. See them signs?” “Why, my dear sir, you have a most excellent piece of woods there, and I would not think of harming it by walk- ing through it,” was my reply as 1 walked along, Some little distance beyond the timber growth terminated in an open pasture, and turning round to see what had be- come of the farmer and his team, I saw them turning into the woods. As 1 turned about to pursue my way, I noticed an apple tree in the pasture not far from the woods, and instantly a partridge took flight from under it. As quick as thought I covered him and fired in the line of his flight; but seeing no bird fall, nor single feather fluttering down the wind, concluded that I had scored a clean miss. Breaking open my gun to replace the shell fired, judge of my surprise to see four more take wing and plunge into the cover before I could complete the act. Not an unusual ex- perience to be sure, but mighty exasperating. Soon the boys were at my side mquiring what 1 had shot at. Being told the story, Erford volunteered to go back and importune the farmer to let them and their guest put in a few hours in his woods. In the meantime Charley and 1 were to try and get some of the birds while negotiations were pending, even if driven off later, which it was thought we certainly should be. We had not been long in the cover before Charley’s dog pointed, and a plump bird fell to his gun, and but a short time thereafter I added another to my score, We soon encountered Erford and the farmer, who finally gave his consent, much to their surprise, as they said later, Night came, and we returned to Dresser Hill after a day of rare enjoyment and success, The tollowing Christmas, our former friend and his wife were importuned to yisit a married daughter in a city some little distance away, and the young people of the household took advantage of their absence to have a Christmas party of the young people of the town at the old homestead. After the Virginia Reel, money musk, apples, cider, and pumpkin pie, stories and goud natured banter was the order during intermission. “Well, Charley,” said -the farmer’s son, ‘‘who 1s your friend from Worcester shooting partridges for now?” “What do you mean?” said Charley. “Why, dont you remember the day that Erford got father to let you fellows shoot up in the Chestnut woods? Well, just before Erford got up to father, your friend shot a partridge, that came tumbling down through the treetops and fell at his feet. He picked it up and put it in his pocket and thought he might get another, and so he let you fellows go on and hunt!” Gro. McALEER. WoRGESTER, Mass, NEW JERSEY SEASONS. JERse¥ City, N. J., Sept. 7.—Kditor Forest and Stream: Gov.-Griggs, who is a fine shot both with rifle and scatter -gun, and a good, all-round sportsman, recently delivered a very able address before the Bar Association on Legislation and Legislators, im which he seored the bucolic law makers severely, but very, very justly, we think. What is the matter with our sportsmen of this State that’ they should allow the present game law to remain on the* The Jaws make the open sea- © statute book for two years? son for snipe March and April, when the birds are mating or traveling north; then September, when there isn’t any in all the Staite; then closed for the remainder of the year. And the sguirrel law, how abominable is that? Open September, then closed until Nov.10. In September the rodents are only half grown, and in November they are in their holes; most. of them. sportsman, a good brush shot and a believer in good game laws, thought he would try the bushy tails for one day in dersey. He started the first day of the season, Sept. 1, but he says he will never again draw agun on a squirrel in Jersey in September, or at least not until the latter part of the month. He brought to bag five grays, all females and all in milk, Upon shooting into a nest, a little fellow ‘dropped out whose eyes were not yet open; and he heard another one squealing in the nest. It was early in the day, but he shouldered his gun and came home, asad and re- pentant sportsman, This may be an exceptional year, when squirrels are so late in maturing; but, in the name of all that is rational, why make October a close month—the very month of all months of the year dear to sportsmen? “The squirrels are ripe, so are the nuts, and the nimble creatures are bounding” from limb to limb, laying in their winter stock. They are Im their prime and delicious in broil or pie. It may be ad- visable to close this glorious month of crimson and gold for quail and hare, but nothing else. ‘We don’t like (and haye often said so in your paper) the open season for woodcock in July, those hot, sultry days, when the swamps are reeking with malaria, and lively with snakes and Jersey’s billions of blood-sucking mosquitoes. But we know of one man, a resident of Monclair, who ° watches most intently the Trenton law-makers every year in order to prevent the passage of any law that will stop his few days at the longbillsin July. itis but short distance from his house to their breeding places, and he claims that unless he gets a crack at them at that time, he gets none the whole year, as they are not found near his domicile in the fall; and yet he claims to be a consistent sportsman. Why, one October woodcock is worth a half dozen of the tender, half-grown squealers of July, and it takes one of quick eye and steady nerve to stop one as with shrill whistle he towers above the scarlet maple or twists around the golden-hued oak copse. With what satisfaction a true sportsman gathers such a bird; and as he smoothes down its full-plumaged breast, and with the eve of experience weighs it in bis hand, ere he consigns it to his game pocket, he says to himself: ‘I am not ashamed of that shot or ita result.” A friend of mine, an ardent’ FOREST AND STREAM. How different in July. He goes out with his 10-gauge or 12 even, and with loz. of No..12 or mustard seed shot lets drive at the little weakling through the thick leaves in the direction he last saw it, and then lets the dog do the test. What kind of a show does the bird have? And if Mr. Sportsman stays out in the swamp all day, with the mos- quitoes and flies and the heat, what condition is be or his dog in at the end of the day? Perchance half of his young birds have spoilt in his game pockets to be thrown away. But he had great sport, Bah! I see that the State Sportsmen’s Association has opened its eyes recently from its long sleep, and it proposes not only to have a big tournament the latter part of this month, but to take some active measures in regard to the protection of game. That is supposed to be the object of the Association, at least that is part of its name; but in years back, like the same body of men in New York State, has run more to shoots at the traps and a good time than bothering with game laws. 1 hope the Sportsmen’s Association of Jersey in their conclave, will seriously consider the sad condition of the laws in this State, and give us something sensible and worthy the men of brain as well as nerye, who we know are prominent in that body. I wonder that some of your able writers have not had something long ere this to say in this matter of vital in- terest to Sportsman; and I hope this hasty note may stir them up, though I know that I tread on the corns of some of the July and spring shooters. JACOBSTAFF, THE BRANDRETH PRESERVE. NEw YORK, Sept. 2.—HMditor Forest and Stream: I have received, but only recently, a letter from you dated May 22, mentioning your proposed fourth annual report on American game preserves, and asking information concerning my pri- vate park, with special reference 1o the fish and game. _ Complying with your request, | will say that I have strictly preserved about 30,000 acres of land in Townships 5 and 6, of Totten & Crossfield’s purchase, Hamilton county, N. Y., which is situated on Lake Mohegan, Lake Sumner (now Lake Tuscarora) and Lake Shedd (now Lake Saga- more), and some fifteen to twenty miles of brook trout streams. For five or six years past I have stocked two of these lakes with brook trout and lake troul; and two or three years ago put in 4,000 or 5,000 landlocked salmon, and a few frost fish taken out of an adjacent lake. I have fine mesh, heavy wire screen nettings across the outlets of Sumner Lake and Shedd Lake, and Lake Mohegan, which preclude the egress and ingress of fish. I find that in Lake Mohegan the brook trout fishing is improved, and this summer, for the first time, landlocked salmon have been caught, one, I believe, weighing about 2lbs. I find that the brook trout fishing in Shedd Lake and the outlet has become very much better the last year, notwith- standing the fact that this lake has black bass in it. The past spring over eighty black bass, some of them weighing 21 and 3lbs., were caught in Shedd Lake one moining. I have so far failed to ascertam whether the frostfish have in- creased or not. T permit no illegal fishing in my preserve, and I limit the catch of any one person to twenty-five fish, Regarding the increase of the deer, I can speak with authority, and say that since I have preserved this property the deer have increased very materially. On one of-these Jakes as many as thirty-one deer during the early part of July have been seen at onetime; and at Shedd Lake the deer go down close to the camp and eat up the beet tops and car- rots out of the garden. Ia fact, | do not think there has been a single day this past summer that one or more deer have not been seen onthe carries between ihe lakes I men- tion, and frequently many more than that number. I do not see any difference in the partridges; there are some seasons when they seem to be more plentiful, and others when they are scarce. ‘ It is impossible to give anything like an estimate of the deer on my property about Shedd and Sumner lakes, All I can say is, that 1 do not believe there is a spot in the Adiron- dacks where there are as many to ihe acre as on my pre- serve. I have noticed a decrease in the bearsigus, and no panther track or wolf track has been seen in years in my neighbor- hood, W. West DURANT. TEXAS AND THE SOUTWEST. HERETOFORE the writer from Texas has bragged about the game, gone into ecstacies anent the fishing, and has gen- eralized about the health-giving ozone. But this year your correspondent desires to call the attention of the sports- men’s world to the market-hunter-tight game law which is now in full force and effect. T’o be sure, there is a lot of kicking going on, because the law prohibits the shipment, handling or carrying of game, not only out of, but within the State, and the man who hunts solely for big bags will find his occupation gone, for he can’t take his game with him. This will necessarily confine game-killers to the appe- tites of their party, and thus will people be gradually brought to the realization that an ouling can be enjoyed without the wholesale killing, It was intended to prohibit the shipment of ducks and geese, as well as other game, but the proprietor _of the Moody- Canvasback rice culture preserve in Galveston spent a few bones, and had the ducks and geese excepted from the law, so that the anglomaniac epicure of Boston and New York can again regale himself with the toothsome canvasback and the succulent redhead that will be shipped from Lake Surprise every week. . Mongolian Pheasants. Messrs. Albert and Hd Steyes, Gus Critzer, of San Antonio; Wagenfuehr and Simons, of New Braunfels, together haye about 100 Mongoltan or Chinese pheasants which will be turned loose in the spring. The birds are pro- tected for five years and the coming crop will add largely to the game supply of this country. Capt. Dick Woods, who, with Col. Sam Allen, owns St. Joseph Island, say that. the quail are fairly taking the island. These gentlemen are of the open hearted species, and invite sportsmen to their choice preserve. All along the line of the Aransas Pass Railway quail are more plentiful than for years. At Alice, on the Skidmore “branch of this road, deer are very plentiful, and at Mathis, on the Nueces River, turkey abound. From the car window one can see 100 jackrabbits at a glance. The country seems to be fairly alive with game of all kinds. The Beeville people also report a large crop of deer, tur- key, quail and other game. Likewise there is splendid fish- ing in the fresh-water streams of the neighborhood. on the contrary, enjoyed a kind of a riyer bank notoriety. [Surr. 18, 1897. Every trap shot of this country knows Mr. ©. Tiblier, of San Diego, Tex., not only on account of his excellent marks- manship, but also on account of that harn-door largesse of the: heart which is not common in this world. He lives in San Diego, and told the writer that game is very plentiful in his ~ bailiwick. Max Luther, of Corpus Christi, wants the shooting world | to know that the wildfowl shooting on Mustang Island will be the best ever known this winter, He knows several fresh | water ponds on the island which are the watering places of thousands of ducks and geese, A Good Shot. ~ Before the toot of the locomotive was heard in San An- tonio, there lived a man by the name of Stouts, whose people were not distinguished by reason of the presence of their names on the tax rolls of San Antonio de Bexar; but who, They were lazy, and fishermen of the long cane-pote variety, and whose members daily enjoyed a sleepy sojourn on the San Antonio River in quest of bass. One duy one of the longest, biggest-footed representatives of that angling agere-— gation hied himself to the muddy bank, and swishing a long — Japanese bamboo through the foliage of an overhanging pe-— can tree, managed to plunk his live minnow in the middle of the stream, Falling backward from the effort, this deni- © zen basked in the sunshine for hours, his legs in the water until the great toe of one foot only was visible from the op- posite bank, his body, too, being hidden from view by the flag that grew on the shore. } Tt seems that a lot of young ladies, late im the afternoon, came on the opposite side, They were armed with a small- caliber rifle and up-to date ammunition, and they were jook- — ing for turtles. ‘They saw some, fired at them, and then the great toe of our individual was seen to wiggle in the gloam- ing, and thinking it was a turtle the youthful sportswomen took a few shots at it. For a while all went well with the — sleeping hobo, save the occasional plunk of a small-caliber bullet in the water, which he mistook for the gulp of a fish, But then all things have an end. So did our hobo’s sleep, A. bullet better directed than the others perforated the great toe thereof, and then there came a commotion such as had not been heard on the banks of the placid San Antonio since Jim Bowie put a bullet in Santa Anna’s wooden leg. With a roar the owner of the perforated toe fled incontinently. A suit followed, which was promptly hushed by the lady marksman’s papa with a handful of shining shekels, Tpxas FImup. CHICAGO AND THE WEST. More Distinguished Sooners. { Curcago, Ill., Sept. 4—We are getting them on the lists, © Tn addition to the distinguished sooners last week mentioned ~ as having been brought to beok for violations of the law, L ~ have this week to add the name of Mr Lee Mitchell, of Noble, Ill.. who was on Aug. 28 fined $100 and costs for shipping quail and prairie chickens out of the State, his | shipments being made io Cincinnati, There are two very interesting features attached to this case, ‘The first is that — this arrest was the first one ever made in Richland county | that was followed by a conviction, although there have been | more than 1,000 chickens shipped out of the town of Noble | alone already this season. The second and especially notice- able fact is, that Mr. Lee Mitchell is no less a personage than — a Justice of the Peace, and therefore sworn to enforce aud uphold the Jaws of the State which is unfortunate enough to — claim him asa citizen, What his offensesin the past may — have been we may leave to the imagination of the reader. His final conviction of willful violation of the law is due to the effective work of deputy warden J. H, Slocum, who has = been at work also around Fairfield, in Wayne county. Warden Slocum has secured twenty-nine different conyic- — tions during his short season this summer, and he has about broken up the soonerism of the very soon community which } lives in Wayne and Richland counties. Justice Mitchell was. : tried before Justice Gunn, at Olney, Il,, who soaked him $10 for each bird, This is the kind of a repeating Gunn to: : haye. + | So now we have a sheriff, a justice of the peace and & © would-be warden, all within two weeks tried and convicted — for breaking the laws which they are supposed to enforce. Justice Mitchell, this is Sheriff Johnson, of Peoria. Tam — glad to make you acquainted. Gentlemen, allow me to in-— troduce to you both Dr. Hedderly, of Minneapolis, somewhat — of your sort, though he was not quite appointed game war- — den, I hope you will like the place. : | Word to the Wise. Mr. John G. Smith, many terms president of the Iowa State Sportsmen’s Association, gives the following little in- stances of the ““Word to the Wise”: “One man that I had out caught a fellow shooting prairie chickens. He paid well for his sport, and has concluded that he will let the chickens alone till after Sept.1 W. W. Titus is at Whittemore, in this county, with his dogs. He sent me word that some fellows from that town were after the chickens, but that he could not catch them, I dropped him a card to let him know that I would have two men there to look after the boys. Mr. Titus lost the card, some” one found it, as hunting ceased at once. Isaw Mr. Titus © yesterday, and he told me that he was satisfied that no more shooling would be done in August.” Work of INnols Warden. — Warden Loveday tells me that he has at date appointed 244 deputies in different parts of the State, and that during this week alone these deputies have turned in, from various sections of the State, reports of eighty-one convictions; this summary covering not over 20 per cent. of the entire force of deputies, most of whom are yet to be heard from, War- den Loveday has seized thirty dozen illegal chickens in Chi- cago and four dozen illegal woodcock, He got nineteen dozen illegal chickens this week on South Water street, and got evidence against a restaurant man who was caught sell- ing chicken out of season. This man he does not yet want mentioned, as he is going after him again a little bit harder, He has, best of all this news, secured a case against a South Water street irm—O, P. Emerson & Co.—the trial to come up Tuesday, Sept. 7, before Justice Prindiville. Mr. Love- day tells me that he finds the game dealers receive illicit game nicely done up in butter firkins and shipped as “Fresh — Country Butter,” the packages coming in with clean cheese- cloth sticking obtrusively out from under the edge of the firkin, just as though it were butter and not birds, Serr. 18, 1897.] . Minnesota Airtight. Minnesota is foremost in the spread of the doctrine of de- DIO Nob finish, Cohasset Y. C. Championship Races. COHASSE', MASS. Sept. 1-6. THE fourteenth race of the series for the 15ft. class of tre Cohasset Y. C. was sailed on Sept. 4 in a variable S.E. wind, the times being: Elapsed, T. B. Reed, Thomas Huse... ...cessesssuneceee Meter ecieisceving eaten 100 Jap, Bouve & Pegram .............--. ease as SENS One uAA On ies Ok) Swallow, Jota Richardson.....,..... Lalo aealunle tieclcewtinees une eeeed 0 BlinkRE Er Bra times Beem utes OL anil Wiel ene eRreue manny ko. ORTH) Dell awa Bs swWalliatnsne warden canerecer tei Serenee® 31 00 Mermaids Wir aSearsuerais crit mentecntae nem entre cneke BeEOrASbipclow diss mepce ace e sett tee eee een OES ad O, Two races, the fifteenth and sixteenth, were sailed on Sept. 6, the wind being still light and fluky from the west. The times were: MORNING RACE. Delta, R. B, Williams .,.,..... Mermaid, W R Sears....... Swallow, J. Richardson .,.. ABNTERNOON RACE. Swallow, J. Richardson.,., Blink. FH. Pratt..... .... ee ae i a i ay 2 2 SArobt herr ease : 22 Ree, J. Bigelow, Jr ........., PROC AOL rit Ubu CCH Nite stpitsera arr tea en) Sudonadcharidernn sseveneeessevaeyee OO 40 _The last race of the season was sailed on Sept. 11, the times being: ; : Hlapsed, Swallow deRichardson aces. seseedersennscishndee vanes ees cee ORDTL Binks Heahie Eratp. oe aaeniam tin Ranisticey pore 2h Mtn AGEL AZ Bigelow, elites) sie rier SPEEESCbononnbnors Jefe Delta, R. B. Willt@mS., .25seccus sess scare rete sGduhiaeneie ctiring ceeh Ele oi Swallow thus wins the championship cup. j New Rochelle Y. C.—Ladies’ Regatta, NEW ROCHELLE—LONG ISLAND SOUND. : Saturday, Sept. h. _ [HE New Rochelle Y. C. sailed a ladies’ regatta on Sept, 4 in a moderate S.W. wind, the times being; 45FT. CLASS. Length, Elapsed. Corrected. Banshee, H. ©, Dogscher.,...,......,....43.50 1 U5 29 1 28 58 Lola CETL Ow ers wrens seeees nnn 417 1 39 51 159 51 3tFT. CLASS. ° Olga, C, Buchanan. ........cceveseas. 34,76 1 25 51 1 22 38 Wit ne tania issedteiller ban ape nil nee ieee 40,33 1 27 11 1 27 11 i 30FT. CLASS. Twilight, Hy. Lambden,......csceses ees 29,85 1 384 06 1 34 06 Bingo, W. A. BaVior..ecsescss vecescase 25.10 1 41 08 1 36 43 GABIN CATBOATS Grace, John Lambden,,..... ......... 22.46 1 36 47 1 36 47 : OPEN CATBOATS. Marguerite, P. A Meyrowitz..,......:.22.00 1 47 07 1 47 07 Iola lost her topmast early in the race, Bunker Hill Y. C.—Annual Regatta. BOSTON—BOSTON HARBOR. Saturday. Sept 4. THE Buoker Hill Y. C. sailed its 29th annual regatta on Sept. 4, the times being: ‘ FIRST CLASS. Elapsed. F Mistral, F. M. Williams.,....... R Coreckeg stanssconessseeys 1 08 30 0 52 0 MSL vAn ELA Meni), suse de eh nscen coin annette came nhl CS bs 0 53 Clara, C_H. Bowman......,.cceccccescevacsscuysel 24 00 1 06 a” Dexter, H. H. Harrington,.....s:.asesesaesassse,) 26 30 1 09 54 Scotia. J. Mads...) ..4.. a dalel tee pts .1 2600 1 09 #38 Miad, Hogan & Harrington..,....... . 1.31 00 1 13 4814 Hiya, W. Downes, ......cecescccevees . Disabled, Glad ysis HATViG ge rmind sey teeae sate ss ..Protested. } THERD CLAS! Marion. E_ J. Hinckley,.... sevsee-L 32 30 : Sprite P J Henchey., wiley luo zea) 3 eae Sea Fox, P. Aberlay.........0seveneraccnsveveese-l 57 30 tte The judges were: S. B. Badger, J. E. Hayes, H. B, Martin, S. Heintzelman and D. Mansan. Larchmont Y. C—Schooner Cup. LARCHMONT — LONG ISLAND SOUND, Saturday, Sept 17. THE $500 schooner cup, of the Larchmont Y. C., for 1897, brought out only two starters, Emerald having gone out of commission during the week. The wind waslight and fluky- and the racing in all classes was unsatisfactory. The times were: SCHOONERS. “) Length. Elapsed. Corrected, Colonia, C. A. Postley..,,....sse00+).. 93.13 6 17 82 6 17 32 Amorita, W. G. Brokaw............... 74 67 6 &6 58 6 23 56 CUTTERS — 51FT, CLASS Syce, F. M. Hoyt.......,...., sdb scnonr 59.86 5 42 19 5 42 19 Vencedor, H M, Gillig.,....... .....- 48,37 Withdrew. SLOOPS—30FT. CLASS, Goblin, © M. Whitman,.........0..00- 28,11 4 21 45 421 45 Kite, Adee Bros,..,.....000-+.<200-: . 428,45 4 36 28 4 36 04 SLOOPS—2( FT. CLASS. Shark, Rouse & Hoyt.......ecepeses0e+ 20.00 4 05 19 4 05 19 Wave, Iu. de L. Barber, ......5.5+05+00120,00 Did not finish. Columbia Y. C. Race. CHICAGO—LAERE MICHIGAN. Saturday, Sept. h. THE Columbia Y. C. sailed the third of its series of five weekly races on Sept. 4, in a moderate S.E. breeze, The times were; CLASS B start ¥inish, Elapsed. Corrected, IBIAGE Ty es cevesetsinens ot 2OeaO 3 05 55 0 55 25 0 55 35 PAS earl G55 ae eee Peat tase 2103) 316 42 1 06 12 1 03 52 Wid pany eee atin ech le 32 16 56 1 05 51 1 C3 23 CLASS Q. Vanily inch oscceress a... 10 50 4 19 22 1 08 38 1 07 37 MYrite@...ssevecensesses.2 22 40 3 25 46 1138 to 1 13 C6 CLASS D. Microhe, pisceevessesseee Ld 45 + 20 45 1 09 00 1 04 42 Weacelccrsssevecasreve.% 12:65 3 24 40 1 32 35 1 09 16 Atom.,. NGS bn nee eb: % 26 10 1 13 25 111 51 Ee Sires eaters peteanseterstomeeecelOnl 2 24 30 1 14 20 113 05 Syndicate, ....c.sssee0..2 10 BL Disabled, Chippewa Bay Y. C. Hditor Forest and Stream: Richard Hggleston, called Dick for short, he of the Lin- coln National Bank of your city, recently returned from his vacation, spent, as usual, at his villa on oneof the Thousand Islands. He brought and placed upon his desk two valuable prizes won by him during his vacation. One a sterling sil- yer cup, offered by the proprietor of the Thousand Island House for catboats; the other a large and very handsome cup of sterling silver, called the Bell trophy, given by the Chippewa Y, C., open to all comers, sailed off thé «lub house at Chippewa. : It was won by R. Eggleston’s sloop Florence, sailed by himself, with other memhers of the clnb, in a hard blow—a two-reefed breeze. he called it—in which one boat was over- turned, one split her mainsail, and another carried away her peak halyards; but Florence came in with colors tying. He also showed a handsome pennant as a prize, won for something which we,have forgotten. J. 234 FOREST AND STREAM. [Smpr. 18, 1897. Sachem’s Head Y. C. Regatta. SACHEM’S HEAD, CONN.—LONG ISLAND SOUND. Monday, Sept. 6. THE first annual regatta of the Sachem’s Head Y. C. was sailed on Sept. 6,and proved a grand suecess. The skies were clear and wind fairly steady from the S.W. There were eighteen entries, divided into five classes. The starting guns were fired from the Viola, her owner. Mr. C. H. Way- land, -acting as judge, assisted by Mr, Harry Camp, of Brooklyn, and Mr. Robert Seward, of New York. The work on the part of the judge and his assistants was perfect, and it is safe to say that no regatta was ever conducted with less friction than this maiden sail of the 8. H. Y. C. The battle royal was between the famous Stony Creek cat- boats Libbie and Tigress, and among the sloops of Class ©, in which there were nine entries. The club course No. 1 was sailed, as follows; Course 1— From starting line at mouth of Sachem’s Head Harbor to markboat 150ft. south of Goose Rock Buoy; thence to mark- boat 34 mile north of Goose Island; thence to markboat 150ft. south of Indian Reef Buoy; thence to markboat at Goose Rock Buoy, and thence to and across starting line, which is also the finish line, 99 nautical miles, The times are as follows: CLASS A, . Start. Finish, Elapsed, Corrected. Dare Devil,.....s0.022.11 53 08 1 45 09 1 52 O1 ye ta Q CLASS B Sachemy evans sateen seld oo 2 1 56 15 1 57 F4 1 57 54 No Name,....scccszs2.11 59 24 1205.5 2 05 51 2 04 14 CLASS C. Sweetheart,........0..12 04 89 2 07 34 20255 , 200 42 WASP ...ccnsstevanenscsde 08 35 2 08 09 2 04 238 1 58 44 Oaroling.......sec0e0s -12 04 45 213 11 2 08 26 2 05 34 SAyOnora. ....2.<00102:42 05 24 216 29 2 11 05 211 05 Helene... ssceecncsess- 12 03 45 2 16 46 2 13 AL 2 07 40 Spindrift,.........000012 08 27 2 18 10 2 14 49 210 24 BVA Biisecvassevecrsescle 03 35 219 00 2 15 25 210 32 Petal ey fenidsawtodeeateie Ose 219 58 2 16 36 2 07 11 Ktitchen ...............12 04 60 Did not finish, CLASS D. MibbIGs2. eee ens eete eal solOalo 1 49 20 1 39 O1 1 39 O1 TiZTOSS...esseceesssees-12 O8 45 1 56 49 1 48 04 J 42 23 ORI .atee senders aaanhe OSs809 2 03 50 1 55 14 1 52 25 CLASS E eV Garis. ajar oe ess 12 08 12 2 06 32 1 58 20 1 58 20 Died Hexe 2... .s.eeeees 12 08 25 2 08 14 1 59 49 1 55 36 In class A Dare Devil wins, having sailed the course with no competition, It js to her credit that she added to the in- terest of the occasion by sailing the course as though she had a competitor at her heels. In class B Sachem wins. It is to be noted that the elapsed time of this fast little sloop was close to the best made over the course, 3 i In class C Wasp wins on corrected time, Sweetheart hav- ing beaten heron elapsed time. Sweetheart takes second prize in this class. In class D Lillie wins, and has the distinction of having made the best time over the course. In class E Die Hexe wins on corrected time, Kydart haying beaten her on elapsed time. Duxbury Y. C.-Open Race—Davenport Cup. DUXBURY, MASS. Sept. 2, 3, kh. THE postponed race of the Duxbury Y. C. was sailed. suc- cessfully on Sept. 2in a light breeze. The race in third class was for the Davenport cup. The times being: FIRST CLASS. Elapsed. Corrected. Length. Little Peter, H. Moebs......-+2-0-+00-- 24.0) ee bey es SECOND GLASS. Privateer, A. H. Schaat ........00002+,21.09 1/1444 0 53 09 Fanny D., M, MacDowell............--: 20,00 1 29 21 1 06 44 THIRD CLASS. Rooster, M. MacDowell +o. 19.08 1 11 23 0 47 39 Arab, W, F. Scott...... 19.11 115 43 0 52 38 Wrinkle, 8. U Small....... 19,11 11719 0 53 31 Cleopatra, H, M. Faxon,... Mos 117 34 0 53 46 Nancy Hanks, P. W. Maglathlin ' J 21 49 0 58 O1 Did not finizh, ot Did not finish. TACOMA, . 6. ceceewevsnnennes Prior,.... CO ee Goodspeed, .cssccccersass ae) Did not finish. FOURTH GLASS. Attila, A. O. Higgins. ........005 ween e el 4,02 1 25 28 0 56 12 Wankee, E. A. Walker, ....cccccenvness 16,07 1 25 19 0 58 51 Ideal, C. F. Bradford..... Seroesranestereriehe x 1 34 20 1 09 03 Dolphin, M. Morton... .s.ccciceascceee- 16.07 1 42 53 1 16 25 Medora iC MEUM bss namesieicasseggennt« +. 16,08 1 53 08 1 16 46 CLASS A. Major D., C. H. Dréw:.s..s.ss0.2...5...15.10 . 1 38 17 1 05 56 Aphrodite, J. Brewster................17.08 1 32 39 1 06 55 E. B. Weston, I, Simons.,.......,..... 16,11 1 342 1 08 2 Alice B., J. F Low..........05 peyeyee 016,00 1 40 00 1 12 51 Tom Jeit, G. Richards..... Ae eet reese 16,02 1 48 22 1 21 25 The second race for the Davenport cup was sailed on Sept. 3 in a fresh N.#&. wind, the times being: Hlapsed. Corrected. Rooster, M MacDowell,......-...serseeecceere .,-1 64 09 1 06 41 Wrinkle, 5. M. Small...,.......... Gielaierertisisuele Pleigigyita meine GG 111 55 Nancy Hanks, P. W. Maglathlin.....ceue, veeeneem 00 32 1 12 56 AUTELD yA WV sti MECOLU, seteteotd icletelaretstetaly iraetelenieiisnesmah tie 201 15 115 02 The final race was sailed on Sept. 4 in a light breeze, Koos- ter again winning. Blapsed. Corrected, Rooster, M, MacDowell... .csevecuecusvessucereesl 1¢ 38 0 538 54 Wrinkle. S. M Smith ..,........ nletwreteniatolatare hooieaas 1 22 10 0 59 04 Nancy Hanks, P. W. Magilathlin.......... fe naa ile Eat 1 05 48 Tacoma, Prior & Goodspeed,..,...:----aesceveerel 29 D2 1 06 41 As told last week, Rooster was recently purchased by Mr. MacDowell especially for this series of races. : Rochester Y. C. Handicap Race. CHARLOTTE—LAKE ONTARIO, Monday, Sept. 6. : LAKE Y, R. U. RULES. THE Rochester Y. C. sailed a race under a sealed handicap ou Sept. 6, the handicappers being Norman Compton and T. B. Pritchard. The wind was light and fluky, and fell to a calm in the second round. Irisled through the first round, with Majel second, and Veritas third; but the fourth yacht, Kelpie, finally caught a light breeze and finished well in the lead. The times were: Start. First round. inish. Corrected -.-10 0) 44 12 14 31 6 05 12 7 41 12 severe .l0 ON 42 12 05 37 6 10 44 8 10 44 12 16 43 7 51 (0 9 21 CO 12 09 48 7 56 30 9 26 30 12 15 24 8 14 40 10 14 40 NiXy6 ..seense 12 20 03 8 381 00 10 21 00 PGT OS eae cannes insiest tts 12 21 04 9 05 00 10 55 00 Veritas. .icssaseeeeeee-10 03 13 12 i8 46 Withdrew. GAVIA. cecneveceseseees 1 00 09 12 14 39 Withdrew. Althea, ....cacceeesee 10 00 18 12 16 55 Withdrew, Carita,..ccesscesese.010 O1 16 12 17 02 Withdrew. Facile .....s.0ceeeeees+ 10 01 30 12 20 53 Withdrew. Qucela...seseeersseesnsl0 OO 15 12 33 40 Withdrew. Soubrette,.......00...,10 00 59 2 43 30 Withdrew. WET .0.04. ne esennee es 10 OL 15 te Withdrew. SPECIAL GLASS. : GHC. we vets ee eee see LO 05°20 i? cttw) 12 27 19. 2 22 19 KGDSVA weve cere see ee lO O5 BL Gt tre an Withdrew. Olga cee ssusceneeseees LO 05 40 Se ey at Withdrew. Le eee Nace 7 CNL ayerats) od pr ony 12 42 30 4 oggvae SlideraiielssssscvaseesdO06 15 san 2 50 00 re ar EGG, ,...sccnccccesent0 06 25 os 8s ae Withdrew, Pewaukee Y,. C. PEWAUKEE LAKE, Sept. h-6, WITH the regatta of Sept. 11 the Pewaukee Y. C. will close a season of most. successful regattas. At a special meeting of the yacht club, held at Lakeside, Monday, Sept. 6, at 4 P..M., it was decided to again challenge the Pine Lake Y. C. to sail another regatta for the celebrated Pabst trophy. Of course the event cannot take place this year, but this will give the Pewaukee Y. GC. the first opportunity to capture that cup next season. 4 A communication from the Rev, S,S Smyth, of the St. John’s Military Academy, of Delafield, requesting the Pewaukee Y. CO. to assume charge of the proposed rowing regatta on Pewaukee Lake next spring, was referred to a committee appointed by Com. W. C. Clark. Last Saturday’s regatta was one of the prettiest of the weekly races that has taken place on Pewaukee Lake for a number of weeks. The wind was brisk from the southeast, which enabled the boats to go over the course with the least_possible number of tacks. Idle Hour, owned and sailed by R. EH. Giljohann, lowered the club’s four-mile record of 48m. 58s., made by her in the regatta of July 3, by 50s. Good sailing was the feature of the day. The times were: CLASS A. Hlapsed. TdlesHour aH McGill OMMnnees peeee eter eenenaantan anes seta 0 43 03 Sirroeco, Wallber Bros.......ccevecccesucecceesauesssneresveee0 46 12 Carmela L9 18 14 14 12 13 16 12 27 1013 6, 33 WEL Clark ih Sule ecb seal e ala TH FD TO are T ts toe ora cla HO Whitney.....ccce.s08, 1412 161417 17 1224 T14 G12... BW Claridge....c.cceeeeee 14 141517 101117 9271113 9 71413 TM Rev cies peneeteeeeres poeleekl We eae loan, hey. Re GB00ts desc pacteccuwss ee 22 1) 129701 1116 9 2110) 9) (6 tae BVA Peaneye.dssesss verses 20-20 (9.1217 11 15.1020 9... ws. HL Edgarton... got Pee Sali palienlsy ey leis ahah BE ae il HJ Merritt,, 12 11 12 16 1011 15 18 2011 18 6 61212 Coats..... +a 1011 910111210 82010., 57 8 W Du Bray ..iscsegeeeess 12 BIZ1491 7,.12.. 8... B.. Fo, JOVGON.,. sessavasessesenese 23 1112 B1BIZ13..15 F 8 8B 511. Moniinang rece scecccumike ce cla alOg. sd | Toe SRR Se ere Te hsagte oe PEE toe Pore ety er Ce (RIS PUR SRR ae Bs so apy Tabyiss Shed poten fet ran pec Ae plea cals radeneh ye eum oH, OeELORASE Seer ns ee ets has epee LORE CAT iO) ese ee NBiee) eb TS IO ee re Starry telesales Se Pee Hsee 5 SmGUN.., cseesssecwsevcesneus we er p> os a4 08 98 ce yy 810 6 6.. as E. A, Suite, See'y, Seer. 18, 1897,] IN NEW JERSEY. BOILING SPRINGS GUN CLUB, Sept, 1.—The regular bi-weekly shoot for the silver tea service do- nated by the Boiling Springs Gun Club, of Rutherford, N. J., was de- cided this afternoon on the club’s grounds, Noel Money winning a heat for the trophy. Scores were: _ Wifty targets, handicap allowance, unknown abgles: Van Dyke-,., Ce eee 1 — 5-49 Morfey*,.,....10112111011011110011011011111101191111111111111111 —42 Wright ......,.1111111011111101111111101 1110111111111011111111110—44 | ' i111 < 11111 — 6-50 Money........ EE AD a 46 111 — 4—50 James* ...... siti thst at CUS E eae ES Bh) — 1—40 ee» 11099191114110111111101019 11000191101111111111110 Hexamer* ,,,,11110100010100011101111110111411111111111111011011, Buk . yy ee 119111101111110111101111 11110119191111101111111111—46 M11 — 4-50 Matzen* ,,,,..,110041111111101001111111101111111110111011100111101 —39 * Did not shoot out their allowances, Shoot.off at 25 targets; WIGREVY liso rerntieraiewdaerivessereasset lit IdI ITT ITOLT 24: WYISHG occ cceccecenceeesee ses tee esses se eo 111111110111110111101111—22 PELAT CIE, sina actrees « oe. 01110101 W Taylor* ,.. Byents; 123 4 6 7% Events: 1234656 %7 5 Targets: 15 10 25 10 10 10 15 8 Targets: 16 10 25 10 10 10 16 VAG a ssees Lo 28). Money.. . 181017 8 RViehiwshs ps) Wl seed Morrey....... 14 916.... Hexamer..,.. 11 512 8 9 hasan HLUCK A spice lon 94 69 91015 Matzen...,...., 614... 913 Van Dyke.... ,,... a AYA Ct eigen wh ate W. H. Huck, Sec’y. FORMSTHR GUN CLUB, OF NEWARK, Sept, 6.—The Forester Gun Club, of Newark, held a holiday shoot fo-iay at targets, by way of celebrating Labor Day. Thirteen events, all at 10 targets, were decided. Tie styles of shooting were: Nos. 1, 4,7 and 10 at known angles; Nos. 2, 5, 8, 11 and 123 at unknown augles; Nos. 3, 6, 9 and 12 al reversed order. Scores: Eyents: 123465 6 7 8 91011:213 SUNIL etaiaera's ath almsaiates mielerieraseer aC ual Cle, Sprel varei parqieiha ives sea cet a4) SFI GNIE Meme en natin het TP Meio tauwse Gi ce cu bechae sabes SAINT ack Ut A Sie OCA ERIS Rtn Tole ge eee Se a ee ee MEDION Cy eis sletinldmelveeepiies Chi Ba Toit 8a ubeRG ehoede Ged 6 6 BISLOLGTNUINE Sys) lapleleleiss periipresecs sen ear ed Otel 8 97 oS 2716" 9 JDjACOMnTa eID DA AAA E ea Re ee oe erenotih 4B SE ea ae Ae BEBEE SUATIMIM EARS yeniic ccsacetceecee rire enn fk salad yedice® leases) 5. i Pra temas ies op voy EL eho eTIT OU tisha bhi tes SAPO LICE C odes, KOE ee teed SD roesvameatas ent ee se. 0, TE a eT, BB. Fo Ae Coty Heh cet AMR Sich, Piestek Es Aah ee 25, iL ivteo hie reltakerpipthiee) Febves weet RCP IEDSM CH tac re CoD Tie Keres FRE pte Khe dod oem bal dette wens, o>. Ae aay (eA er ae ; 6 H, E. Winans, Sec’y. LABOR DAY AT MARION. Sept. 6.—The-annual Labor Day shoot of the Hndeavor Gun Club was Held to-day. The main event was the race for the Austin cup, 100 targets per man, expert rule, 147 handicap system prevailing. This handicap is worked as follows: The high man’s figures set the highest possible; all those below him are allowed to shoot at as many extra targets a8 constilute the difference between their respective totals, Wor instance, Wulstencroft broke 90 and Capt. Money 82; Capt. Money’s allowance was, therefore, 8 extra targets; he broke these and thus tied in the first round. Wolstencroft won the cup atiictly on his merits, defeating sixteen competitors. The totals, to- gether with the handicaps, shoot-oifs, ete , are as below: rs Shoot o lst 2d 3d 4t Alllow- — af25 Allow- 2b. 25. 26. 26. ance targets. ance. W H Wolstencroft,.... «. wo» ». 90 ee) 23 | BNSHEMIGH ey iy Wiese cettieens Netewirs IY. 111 —40 20 110 ON aA ee EEL Ae Siete hb —90 18 10 STV Sn ST VICES wiginen sume Nc “wel al RD 11111 —90 20 110 opr MOHGY...seeveenes vs +s as 82 11111111—90 18 11110 Jd Hallowell. .,.sievy os x ov 82 11110 an Pete W M Stanbrough,..... . She, A sete aa mare GORD CA WOE bemenmsies he wel wot url Pere e ry att ISBOLEV sO ioseihceantmte ae Gea ules ook Peroaver F. ene MEMGTLCV ne rine wee Loe Oe, AUTO WVALLIAIIS eh tlesicd ass SBDE Qe lee Co Lit aS pee ae The above table shows how the shooters dropped out; some at the end of the first 25; some when 450 targets had been shotat; andsoon. The scores of the allowances are given in detail. It will be noticed that in the shoot-off, Noel Money, Van Dyke and Capt. Money each Jost their Jast target, when the breaking of that target would have tied Wolstencroft. A series of 15-target events, unknown angles, 13 in all, were decided during the day, a total of about 7,000 targets being thrown from the two sets oftraps, Scores were: Events; 1234656 6 7 8 910111213 AREY Pete ha A scabisen dataset dada Te ioeleisé sy, ye cll. ca MEWS ldeiteewetaadane 14 0eeL) 1, 13°), 1o-4,, IR 18.12: 6 |, sesaeesseseseusancs 2611 § 1212 18 13 11 14 1114 14 18 -snneusacsessancsee 15 14 14 14 14 14 1514 ,, 12:14 10 14 15 15 13:13 15 15 18 13 13 15 ID SBS Ge as aah ea on ae If 15 1413 18 14 18 14 1413 12 ,, 22 912 Wi ake he a kl EERE ers) i SOMME Vary ise e (a him aces ace Wm tee a sieges as PRR CYitcepwcnttnasetterrencsed laren Lio me oils. 00 lve welael 2 OWONGVs esd cuhasenitreenicen +4 vn elon es oe Ok Oe eT Ja MMCY. iw seseeecanevescae cs ce as 1405 13 12139 13129 9 9 12 BBIGy oo lx Saonenotherbe At ee Cs PIGS BV GTi seuss ta teamescaes fis oe ay LOSE 12514 10, 10 D Morfey.........5 pat . -- 1012 91312 15 18 Plat Adams, ihe. 45% aod ay a ce ik bt os W 7 May eth ae Ts. wy 4 Te sa nk yee aN 7 VS Aste Pie Be eS SA TIES Ii SAINUOCAT yadcceuann wap nceee tele e. pied eat scles coher cm eemedh atoll LUA TREC Sear eer ar ites Tn RE Na Oe ed a eae RVD Tt 8 nn matpame am ever case evr e Maem yee we Fees paris melanie PREEHOLD DEFEATS THE ENDEAVORS. Sept 10,—Owing ta very short notice, the Nndeayor Gun Club, of Jersey City, was unable to get together more than six men for the ‘eturn match with the Freehold (N. J.) Gun Club, The two Piercys, ather and son. and Ed Taylor were among the notable absentees. The match took place on the grounds of the Freehold Gun Club to- jay, the Hndeayor’s representatives leaving Jersey Cily om the 11:30 train. On their arrivalin Freehold they were met by Messrs. Hen Wavies and J Laird, delegates from the home clinb, who conducted hé visitors to a restaurant, where a dinner was set before them, the risitors’ money being refused at the cashier’s desk. This hospitable weatment was a fair sample of what they received at the hands of Retr hosts during their stay in Freehold; a stay that was prolonged father more than usual, owing fo the change in the time table, that ook place to-day, being overlooked. This neglect necessitated adrive by moonlight to Mattawan, where a train was boarded. ‘The teams of six men shot at 50 targets per man, 300 to the team. freehold scored 249, an average of 88 pér cent. The Endeavors’ Wwerage was 77.3, or #32 breaks oub of 200. The score for the series f three matches stands one and one, each club haying won on its wo grounds. Therubber will be shot on neutral grounds at some ear date, Scores follow: Freehold Gun Club. ) Hesse. ,..11011111111101111111111011111010110110111111111111—438 dance.......J111110110111100111111111101111110171110)111111111—43 ,111111701011111111111010110111101010101111110111 110—39 —249 Endeavor Gun Club. 147 Winston 11101011100 111011111111111111411111111101101111—46 vy Leugerkre) 1091011111119111131101111111001111011131111111101—43 ¥ Billings, ,.10110012110111101111111011100111111111011111111001—39 BH Swan, ,..11111111111100101011001110011111111111001011001011— 36 b B Pogarty.11011010101111110111010101111101011000111100111110—34 .R Strader_01110111001100101111001111110100101111111011011110—34—232 AT ELKEWOOD PARE: Aug. 28 —The Pennsylvania Club cup was the main feature on the programme to-day at Hlkwood Park This eyent was at 25 live birds, $25, handicap, cup and 40 per cent. of the purse to the winner; 30 per cent. to second and 20 per cent, to the third; ties at 5 birds. Fred Hoey won with a clean score, 1aking the cup and $90 as a re- ward for his good work. Weleh, Murphy ard Ballard a)l tied For sec- ood and third moneys with °4 0115 of 2h, €ach man losing 1 bird dead out of bounds, _ The threes agreed to divide the money, drawing down $37.50 apiece. The scores were: Daeg ayy eee eee 2182 292 190209992 85 Fred Hoey (28).ccceseesessceseess BRA WEICH (8%) vce pecce en teee sateen ds ny nye eee od 2222227 292910211129 2294 Ei G Murphy (80), pec csceccccecceuey sone ees tel1922221920272202919390 24 Be Ballartt (28)... sc vagecacceese cg eee eee as es sees 311292 291 2202 121231 — 94 Capt Money (28), ...6esscenteerey ener yey ee ted220102191112210122 112021 —21 Dr Gagnon (26)... .peseeeereerey cere eeaee setJ1211211101101 1011 221101— 21 EEDA Ys (US 5 ALES ccltnaih netic enire bead Me bree 12022 /0011222124222299992_ 9 HL V2l6 Dolan (22), .cenveneyeeneeverceces sechl 2 21222220 E Toland (27),.... rye eee se Se tLe atte! £2)012210222 410 In 4 10-bird race Hoey (29), Gagnon (26), Daly (29) and Ballard (28), all tied with 10 straight. On the shoot-off Hoey and Gagnon divided. A $5 miss-and-out was productive of a long contest. At the end of the eighth round six out of the omginal nine starters were left in. Toland (21) was the first to drop out, losing his 9th bird. Gagvon (26) was the next to fall out. but bis time did nat come until he had scored 16 straight, his 17th bird getting away from him. Then Yale Dolan (23) dropped his 18th, Edgar Murphy (80) following*suit in the nineteenth round, This left Welch (29) and Ballard (28) to divide the purse, each haying clean scores of 19. Sept, 3 —The Oakland Handicap, scheduled for to-day at Hlkwood Park, was won by Edgar Murphy, Murpby, however, did not have an easy thing of if, ashe was tied for first money and the cup by Welch and Daly. Each man had scored 19 out of 20. They shot off miss-and out, Daly losing his 4th bird and Welch his Sth. Murphy thus won the cup with a total score of 28 out of 29 from the 3byd. mark. Scores were: : Ties, Winston (30),-,........+ sane ew ees y 1220220100 2222202222—15 Welch (30), 00, ccceeee cen eee e eect ees 2211211293102211222—19 111121220 Daly Lean vcincens nara ter cht 22221292122229927902 19 2298 TELE: (29). AORN oR eicnteman ees as , 2211122111111) o2221—18 Patten (20). cp eeveveryyrvesver eg 1142023210021 121201 22e2—16 Murphy (80), ,.,,ccccevcsccesersuce 202228222093 99999 19 199991979 NCA ECT Re hse sa conedcuce ce, tan 01022222112112211160 —16 Sept. 4.—R A. Welch was the winner to day in tlie main event at Bikwood, He wonthe Labor Day handicap with 24 ous of £5 from the 30yds mark. Walter Patten (26) and Edgar Murphy (30) tied for second money, Patten winning by scoring 5 straight. scores in this event were: WEICH (80) i. .cccec sess seeetseecsseseser sey Seelelat22121222222022211—24 Patten (26), .cssee essere errs cece ye eaves + 6129122221 120112120 2021222 - 22 Hoey GQ). ies. peeryr eee es 2OX 901 1200310212202011101 —18 TDS (2D) SER EPR EP ris tyra reais 0120221220220! 222222100 22—19 MEPL YAO) prticuse nercdite ive shale veeveves 122211021222110222 2201222 —22 In a race af 10 birds, $10, Murphy won first money with a straight score. Four men tied for second money, viz., Daly (29), Patten (26), Welch (31) and Hoey (30), each having svored 9. On the shoot off, miss-and-out, Daly won in the $th round. Patten lost his 9th, Welch his 8th, and Hoey his 3d. E Sept, 6 —Two big races were scheduled for to-day (Labor Day) at Elkwood Park. The first was the Holiday Handicap, at 20 pigeons; the second, *““The Labor,” a mixed event, 8 pigeons and 12 blacktirds, The Holiday Handicap was won by Bland Ballard, after a long strug- gle with Welch and Daly. Each man scored 20 straight as a starter; they then shot off at series of 4 birds. Daly (29) lost his 11th pigeon in the ties, Welch (89) going cutin the nextround, Ballard scored his izth tie bird, making his run 32 straight, and won the cup In “Phe Labor,” Daly (#9) scored 20 straight alone. Scores in the Holi- day Handicap were: Holiday Hundicap, 20 birds, $20; three moneys, 5°, 30 and 10 per Peretere err ee cent. Ties at 4 birds: Ties. EG Murphy (85).....0.eenvee ss 2211222221021212 —15 Sei eetnetinc sty RA WICH (85). .ccenanavavenenselol202112222:2212122 20) 29139011990 W RB Patten (26). ..icc0ceenenass-19222111.2220221 —12 n.d Mafo.eieteie PHil Daly, Fr. (29) cise ccac canes eacleeee2e2 211222229 — 89 12211222120 Bland Ballard (8). ....4000 005 0021212212222222122212 20 222222211222 J EH JOneS (28)... seen eee weesee Oe 2022222202202 —12 mistatate tra Catala Fred Hoey (29)... ..02;eeeeues +.2111120122222220 —13 pause see gba In The Labor,” $8 pigeous and 12 blackbirds, scores were: Black- Black- Pigeons, birds. T’l, Pigeons. birds. Tl, P Daly, Jr (29)....8 12 20 EG Murphy (30) ..8 6 14 RA Welch (30)....8 11 19 W R Patten (26)...6 6 12 P Morris (25),....6 8 14 Fred Hoey (<9)....7 6 13 Sept 7,—The six-handed match shot to-day on the Elkwood Park grounds was sufficiently close to be entirely inceresting. Hdgar Mur- phy, the winner, and P. Daly, the runner-up, both did some excellent work. Murphy ran 42 straight before he missed, but he then Jost his 43d and 46th birds. Daly ran 39 straight, but Jost his 40th and 4)st birds, going out with 4%, tying Murphy. On the shoot-off at 10 birds, Murphy won with 9to7. Bradley also shot well, scoring 46, and tun- ning «6 oul of the last 27 shot as, The stakes were $10 per man, sec- ond to save his stake. Scores in detail follow: Edgar Murpby (20)... , ,.22222222222922 9929220792 95 992192 1292192 1222020222 } 28 4g P Dally, Jv (28). 0c ee00 -- 9222222221 2222322922229 ) 95 22222192922223003 12922222 23 48 D J Bradley (28)...++«..0221101212212121221122012—22 991 11122211222222202 1221224 46 Fred Hoey (28),,..+-++.0122222212212101102110 /12—21 21122: 2202212110 —14 -35 . B.A Welch (39)......+« 20222022201 120210200w. W R Patten (26),,.,, ..,020112022100221100w. NORTH HUDSON GUN CLUB, Sept. 6.— To-day being Labor Day, the scores given below were maae on the Secaucus Pold Grounds by members of the North Hud- son Gun Club. No. 1 was at 25 targets; No. 2 at 12 live birds. Scores follow: Ties. 22022122229, 2220222002 —7 No. 1, No. 2, H Thourot,,....e+ee+++++2111010011101011011001001—15 1000=2201000— 5 G@ DAH, ese ,- J000C0000000600 001120000111— & yy» + 111000111111) 01111101111—19 M FP Porter... .050e%%0 60, 2011100111116011011111101—18 H Engelbrecht.,.,+..,,»,.1111010006000010000101000— 8 R Apoach,,,...45.++++5,, 0101100110011011001100011 —13 L Sebillngery. cee. e+e ee 0100U110101001001 100. 0100— 9 ASEHECHIEHIS ielepipslsiuaiene: ermicenisitee ed 011101121222—10 1001010/0001— 4 102000001200— 4 011010102101— 7 120011102100— 7 Wnseheee esl 101711110111—10 Louis F. ScsiLiinaer, Séc’y. WALSRODE GUN CLUB, Sept. 6.—Below are the scores made to-day by members of the Walsrode Gun Club Among the events on the programme was a prize shoot at 50 targets per Man, known iraps and angles $1 en- Irance, There were two prizes, viz,, frst priz of 100 loaded shells, and second prize, 50 loaded shells, aonated by Henry Rheinhardt, The club also gaye each member 50 targets ard 50 shelis free of charge, The first prize was won by Robert Baar, the second by Jacob Alexander, There wasno harpierman on the grounds than our friend Jac, when he beat out owr “lit le sure shot” He is think. ing of shooting arace shortly with the said little sure shot. The club will have a big shoot on Noy. 2, and all the members intend to be right in if. The seores in to day's events were: TI Heflich,.,.. Eyents: 1234567 Tiven'st 12346566 7 Targets: 10 10 10 25501010 ‘Targets: 10 10 10 25 59 10 10 Angles: KKEKEKU Angles: KEEKKKU Baar....,.,.. 6, 8 71943 4 6. Young,....... ears of tly. Perment ,,...10 9 8..4di1 4 4 Dreher......... SS eee Wouter crsnensns 2) ee ree eGerper. ye ae Mek ee ahah Ludecke, Cebeehe te tirGunae sien CeEEGUINC. seein ctr le DGestooes mals Pidgeon...... 2 8 1 820... ,,. Kienle........ .. as Wile Ste, SORES Alexander,,.. 7 5 91942 4 5 Reinhardt,,,, .. ..,., 11... 6.. TSchilling.,,, 5 6 61620 3 3 Moueller...,..: .. .. Ab ape alte) GoV Buskirk. 8.6 ., 12!2....... Hehrsdoerfer .. .. 2. 3. 24 8 TeETH tere pe ee, Grud ao 5 6 WHITE WELT Wap, We have received a copy of the programme for the three days’ tournament to be beld at Watson’s Park, Chicago Sept. #24. The programine for each day is as follows: Live birds: 7 birds. $3.:0, three moneys; 10 birds, $5, three Moneys, or over Nine eniries. four moneys; 15 birds, $10, four moneys. To the purse io this last event will be added <0 per cent, of the neb purses in ihe first two events. The last event on the live-bird programme will be 4 miss-and-out, $2. Birds will be trapped at 20 cents each in this evens, but will becharged for at the rate of 25 cents each in the first three contests, the price of the birds being included inthe entrance fee. A full target programme will also be shot off each day m addition to the livé bird programme, The schedule of eyents calls. for 155 targets, al au average entry fee of 10 cents pertarget. Targets will be throwuit known and at un- Enown angles All lies in all events will be divided. Black powder is barred, but all guns shoot from the same mark. 237 Programme for New Jersey’s State Shoot. THu programme for the tournament to be held at Clifton racé= track, near Passaic, N. J., Sept 28-O2b. 1, under the auspices of the New Jersey State Sportsmen's Association, is now reaay for those who want-to look atit. If you have not received, one, write to the secretary of the Association, W. H. Huck, Rutherford, N. J, and gel one, or else. do the next best thing, read Forast AnD STREAM’S jeer synopsis of the good things in store for shooters on the above dates, THE STATE EVENTS. There are two distinct schedules of events for each of the first three days, State events and open eyents. For residents of the State of New Jersey, who are also members of the State Association, or maembers of clubs that are members of the Association, there are four trophy contests, yiz; No. 1. \he individual championship of the State at targels, 23 targets, unknown angles, $2.50 entrauce: the trophy for the winner is # handsome cup presented by the American H.C. & Schuitze Powder Co , Limited; No. 2, the three men teani championship of the State at targets, 25 targets per mau, 75 to the team, $750 entrance per team, inknowa angles. ‘he trophy is a cup donated by Mr, Reed, proprietor of Taylor's Hotel, Jersey City; the individual championship of the State at live birds, 15 liyé birds per man, $7.50 entrance, birds included. The medal emblematic of this championship is now held by W. Fred. Quimby, of New York, who will reap the benefit that is derived from the net purse; No 4, the three-men team championship of the State at liye birds, birds in- cluded; by @ peculiar slip the number of birds per man bas been omitted from the programme. ‘The conditions call for 10 hirds per man. ord) tothe team, Tihs wophy emblematic of this champion- ship is now held by the Jersey Vity Heights Gun Club, On the target days, Sept. 28-2), there are other ayents open only to members of the Association, Oa each day there is a 25-target event for valuable merehandise prizes. There are also two 15-target events each day, $1.50 entrance, and a 20-target event, $2 entrance, with $20 added tothe purse. - The above completes the programme for the State events, THE OPEN-TO-ALL PROGRAMME, On the first two days—the target days—there is 4 full line of events on the open set of traps. Nos. 1 and 4o0n tha programme are 15-tar- fel events, $1 40 entrance; Nos 2,5,7 and 8 are 20-target events, $2 entrance, $10 added to each purse; Nos. 3 and 6 are 25-target events, $2.50 entrance, $20 added to each purse. This makes a total of #80 a, day in added money, On the third day, Sept. 20, the State events at live birds will proba- bly occupy one set of traps for the greater part of the day. Another Set of traps willbe provided for open events, and the programme for this set is as follows; Phcenix Introductory: 1 birds, $7, birds included, 4 moneys, 40, 30, 20 anu 10, high guns, not class shooting. oe Clifton Sweepstakes: 10 birds, $10 entrance, birds included, high gus, not class shooting. The number of moneys into which the purse will be divided will be determined by the number of entries re- ceived. This is fully explained in the programme. It will be suffi. cient to state that itis high guns, not class shooting. } Passaic Sweepstakes: 10 birds, $10 entrance, birds included, high guns, notclassshooting The number of moneys,into which the purse will be divided will be determined by the number of entries, as in the Clifton sweepstakes. On the last day there is but one event for decision: The Jersey Handicap, 25 live oirds, $25, birds extra, $500 guaranteed to the three high guns, All surplus will be added, and will be divided after the manner in which the Interstate Association divides the surplus in its Grand American Handicap. Provision is made on that basis for all entries up to fifty; should there be more than fifty entries, the sur- lus derived from all entries over that number will be added to the $30) already guaranteed to the three high guns. We like this plan very much, and we think that a careful perusal of the details of such a division of moneys will recommend itself yery strongly to all who like to shoot in suci races. Houtries accompanied by $10 forfeit should be mailed to W. H. Huck, Rutherford, N. J., or may be made up to G P. M. on Sept. 30 at the cashier's office on the grounds. Post entries may be made on payment of $5 extra up to the conclusion of the second round. Two sets of traps will bs used for this event. All purses in the target events will be divided under the Rose sys- tem, in 15 target events there will be four moneys, with ratio pomts of 6, 4, and 3 to 2, In 20 and Yé-target eyents there will be five moneys, with ratio points of 8, 5, 4, and 3 to 2, The fall list of merchandise prizes could not be gotten ready for the programme, but it will be aistributed freely at the grounds, and an effort will be made to place a listin every shooter’s hands 7 Itis really impossible with the space at our disposal, to tell how to reach the grounds; but we can assure eyerybody that inis not a hard matter 10 get to Clifton race-track at all hours of the day. Shells should be shipped in care of Colin R, Wise, Passaic, N. J., who will see that they reach the grounds safely. ‘here is ample hotel accom- modation at Passaic and nearby cities, while the run to New York Gan be made in 40 minutes. For the accommodation of shooters, the Hrie R. KR. will stop several trains, specified in the programme, within afew minutes’ walk of the iraps. A conveyance will be on hand at that point lo carry jguns and snells to the grounds free of charge, Feeling the inadequacy of this notice, we strongly recommend all who intend coming ww the Jersey State shoot, to write ab ones to the secretary of the Association, Mr. W. H. Huck, for a programme. GN LONG ISLAND. NEW UTRECHT GUN CLUB, Sept. )—To-day's regular club shoot of the New Utrecht Gua Club was wellaitended. Gus Grieff scored a double win by taxing first prize in Class A in the club shoot, and winning outright the Kennett cup Dr. O’Brien won in Class Bin the club shoot Scores; Olub shoot, 25 targets, unknown angles: G B Geeiff (A)..... 0.0.08 bo teeeeeeaee cee eee 110110111111911111111111—23' FA Thompson (A),.,,,...4..5 ceteue ee ees 60111100111100111101011011 17 PVA Os (A) ee nie iseietsieeeee es Walk see ee2.0911010111100110101110111—16 W.-H Thompson (A), ..cscscessccseesceeses .1110111111111100 ed) CRALET OTE elteetetletarcat pe tment tes ene aeeeeeee-21111110101001110 D Deacon (A)... veseepaycepesryryestvece , »1111111100101110 Drs rien) onwuce stant neers babe as 1101011110111111101111100—19 Bennett cup shoot, handicap allowances: GIG SICA) nile saeiescniy enteeleleiely ctelvisie'a's eieteees 0011111110111111111111111 —22 P Adams (A)., olate eeceyeesee es -2101100111011101111111110 —19 J Gaughen(A)....«.: ~ 011100111011) 011011111011 —18 Pe ees tyde seer yee eee oe O211111001110101110001111 —17 Dr O’Brien (B),.,.... . eee» +11100011101111111011001011—19 D Dbacon (A).sseseccesseceversseeeesee ee L111111011011110110101 W H Thompson (A), .ipecsvversy eee »»»»011111111011110110 EEA BGedys(B ying was esas eveveceegeeg yey t101111110101000 G. i Poot, Sec'y. F A Thompson (A). aevevete Peewee reeset ye BROOKLYN GUN CLUB, Sept, 11.—The regular weekly shoo: of the Brooklyn Gus Club was well attended, notwilhstanding the extremely hot weather A special feature of these weekly gatherings at Union Uourse, Brooklyn, is the prize handicap event at 25 targets perman This weck the chief prize was a cartridge case tc holt 100 shells, The winner to-day was C. W. Dudley, who shot a great gait, overcoming the hoodoo that has hitherto spoiled his efforts at the magaulrap of the Brooklyn Club. Among the visitors was W. L. Gardner, of Norwalk, O., a gentleman who has had but a short career at the traps, but who bids fair to give some of the Buckeye crackerjacks a good deal of trouble in the near future when it comes to breaking bluerock targels Below are the scores made in the main event: ~ CW Dudley (2)...... cece eee es euenee so Q144411111111111111111111 01 B Banks (0),,...-.0:- veseeeveaeeeeeesstI11111111111111111111111 —25 CG von Lengerke (8)........ veces eee e211111110111111011101111111 —25 FA Thompson (4)......00cee0eeeee ees eLL110111101111101111912011111 —25 WVecr Cader, (OIE. os ais tine yenelalsieessterd 1111121111111111111011111 —24, LD Williams (8)...... vaewseenenveeees oLL11111110111101111101111001 —23 JSS Remsen (0).,..0ceneeeceeeeeeee es -L111011111111101111110311 —22 Beyeridze (8), ....0caeeceeeeeeeeees2111011110110110111101111100 —21 *De Peracnold. He susnseuesaneeeenses LLOLI10111011111111111100 —20 SHA AMEHOS......-caceeees seeeee ees see tILOIIIIII10II101I110011 —20 * Did not shoot their allowance, having no chance to win. On the shoot-off, under similar conditions, Dudley broke 21, Banks 21, Von Lengerke 17, and F, A, Thompsen 16, Thus Dudley won without any trouble. Dr. W. P. Brown, secretary of the Itasca Gun Club, Grand Rapids, Minn., writes us a8 follows: ‘‘Some time since, I mailed you a postal card stating that ‘There will bea hot tine in Grand Rapids, Itasca counly, on Oct. 29-30, 1897.’ | now wish to state that the Itasea Gun Cihab will hold its first annual tournament on the above named dates. We will try and give to the sportsmen that attend a royal good time, not only at the tournament, which has a goodly pumber of prizes offered, as wellas a large amount of added money; but after the second day’s sport is oyer, Lhoss who are anxious to kill a deer or moose will have an excellent opportunity to do so, as our new law allows the killmg of antlered moose or caribou from Nov, 5-10, 1897. Any person désiring any information relative to the shoot, or to the huntiog and fishing in Itasca county, or in any of the surrounding country, May obtain the same upon addressing the Secretary, Itasca Gun Club, Grand Rapids, Minnesota,” 2388 FOREST AND STREAM, [Sepr, 18, 1897. St.¥ Pau] Twentieth Annual. . First Day. * St, Paun, Minn., Sept. 7.—In the wide amphitheater of the basin- like valley at the fair grounds between the twin cities, lit by a blazing sun and swept by warm though energetic gusts of wind, the St. Paul Gun Club to-day began the twentieth annual tournament of its long and honorable life as one of the representative shooting bodies of the West, All around the club house, at the rim of the flat, hot valley, there surged, as each year there surges, the multifold life of the an- nual Minnesota harvest festival, the State fair, which brings so many thousands together from the yarious corners of the Northwest. This annual fair is something taken soberly by the hardy, brown men who make up the attendance, and perbaps the festival of harvest time has an import not caught by those who haye not lived through the short, blazing summer, and faced the Jong and icy winter of the Northwest. Each yearthe twin cilies, those two wonderful cities, which are the taking-off place for the jump across the plains, hold open house for the men who have stacked their wheat and want a little playtime, Hach year the earnivalis held for out dweller and inlander, And each year the gun elub holds its tournament as one of the expected features of the fair, The tournament this year had rather more than the usual flabby interest which goes with the typical trap shoot, the best of which is usuaily the least interesting, because each is like all others Theitem of “professionals barred” at least left room for discussion, which isto Bays it offered an item of news, The shoot was one, therefore, at which one saw strange faces, heard new names, If there is anything better than this kivd of a shoot, itis more of them. To-day twenty eight men out of forty who might be classed as tour- ament possibilities shot straight through the programme for the day, thus making a showing not at all bad for amateurs. With the seat- tering entries of the few who went in for one or two events, the entire list of shooters present ran over fifty, Among those who, for one reason or another, did not finish the ten events, were Messrs. MuHale, Schaefer, Kennedy, Wells, Opsal, Novotny, Brown. Barnes, Walker, Walz, Baldwin and Jewell. Some of these were assisting in the man- agement, some were late and obliged to go away early by reason of business duties. Some quit because they thought§they couldn’tshoot well enough. Among these one of the stand-pys, Mayor H. B Javyyell, of Wabasha, who csme to the shoot with a brand new gun whose curves he finally concluded he had not yet mastered sufficiently well to enable him to hazard his chance of re-election as mayor by going on record with scores below the Wabasha standard of excellence, Mayor Jewell suppressed his scores, packed his gun, and burriedly started home to square it with his constituents , High average for the three days was the honor most coveted and a pretty race for the prize, a model “97 Winchester shoteun, was wit- nessed, the top score, 136 out of 15), being made by a new man, Mar- tenson, of Britt, Ia., a boyish-looking youth from the land of coon and chickens. The secretary of the club, Mr. H. ©. Lawrence (Cata- maran), ran second; Mr. Shattuck, of Minneapolis, third; Mr. C. B. Robbins, the hot shot from Fargo, N D, fourth, A listof twenty odd average prizes was offered for the high guns. The conditions of special note were the Rose system, four moneys, 10 and 12-gauges to start at 16yds, each day, winner of first in any event to fall back 2yds. in next, and a double winner to fall back 4yds., no handicap exceeding 20yds, All events except at doubles were unknown angles. Bluerock targets were shot and two sets of traps were at hand, though the second set was not much used. The running of the shoot was on the whole good, though the records were split into three different books, the niost desired of which was always sure to be absent, so that full reference scores were unobtainable even by the secretary himself, A record book and three sheets of carbon would have made the shoot a joy forever, but as I said, we don’t want too much uniformity when we are looking for news. Among the visitors from some distance should be mentioned Mr. Royal Robinson, secretary of the Limited Gun Club, of Indianapolis, who will go a long way to attend an amateur shoot. Mr. Robinson’s name I mention with joy and pride, as he is the only man I haye ever been able to discover who thinks the way I do, to wit: that trap-shoot- ing should: bea sport and not a business. We are going to elevate her about the same time the Cherry sisters eleyate the stage, As the columns of Fornst AND STREAM haye shown, Minnesota leads the Union for its lady shooters, by which term is not meant merely dear creatures who can pose, squeal and pull atrigger, but ladies who can go into the firme line at a tournament and more than hold their own, Mrs, Day, of Duluth, was not bere, but Mrs Shattuck, of Min- neapolis, shot in a few events very creditably, Mrs. Shattuck will go in for the State medal competition on the last day, and is not without ashowforib. Inthe club competition in the Minueapolis Gun Club she won one of the season prizes and came within reaching distance of winning all three of them, The distribution of the regulars of to-day is as follows: St. Paul, Holt. Hirschy, Ramaley, Monk, Wallace, Benne’t, Daly, York, Cata- mmaran, Burk; Minneapolis, Shattuck; Duluth, Nelson and Finn; Indi- anapolis, Robinson; Park Rapids, Minn.,Vaber and Cram; Bismarck, N. D., O'Shaughnessy; Fargo, C. B, Robbins; Columbus, Wis,, Derring; Osage, Ia., Petit and Colby; Meckling, S. D., Spatz and Taylor; St. tt Clark; Britt, la, Martenson; Kingsley, la., Higgins; Crookston, owing. Following are the scores of those who shot through the day’s pro- gramme, with total for each: Events: 1234656567 8 910 Broke. Blt. cccccsveseeaevevereneseess 1018 8191216 712 15 10 122 Hirschiyechecenienonsinenaeenae nie CBulretl, 1h etintteriee Ta 122 NelSOW,, cccctcccatessseeeseseee 7 ¥ 9131314 713 14 Iz 112 BR Robinson. ...-.....seeeeeenes 810 9121316 0 10 16 12 112 713 9171115 71217 9 117 6 9 617 917 6 514 9 98 8 7 8151217 911i 13 13 113 610 6171115 8 18 13 10 109 718 81813813 § 18 15 14 122 - $11 616 915 5111313 114 814 717 917 5121711 17 ‘ 710 8161015 9 912 9 121 Robbins......,. SOpennie creceeee 9IBINIG 1314 8 14 17 12 128 eles asters ott sOanEeen oe » @¢ 8 BIZ1e12 7 811i 12 26 Dering, y.eerececeerertryereess 8121013 1317 8131613 125 Mork. penne: verpessvrereesye) 810 919 10 14 7 13 15 13 119 Catamaran,..-..scceecreeyeses 10 11 9181417 8 121914 132 (REGEDIT icte selcienees veils eee. tp lem edale da POR Role Oeil 129 (ColbysseeeeeneRene veareee 9 % 6191219 8 121512 119 SPAlZ, vpeeiversssvvsuseee vevees L010 9181014 7 10 14 11 113 DAW IOC Nuie dniciaatcielteelde\sie wy nels 612 8171816 8 12 1614 122 Clarke, J ecescssuenves wrnetenlyiay 6D) 1S eS alG ase 9 7e1 1 16 Ag 116 Martenson,..,... 9 14 10 18 11 18 10 14 18 14 186 Higgins 7 4 % 410 914 7 10 16 11 93 Foun,... 410 8151819101818 7 117 Burk,,...,. 813 7 18 13 17 10 14 13 12 125 Shatinck acne. 718 § 201217 911 1913 129 Cowme ial paces 611 9181017 471831211 113 Second Day. The weather continued hot, and the wind, coming from behind the score, whipped around the ends of the buildings in a way that made the targets dodge and dip in most erratic ways. The targets were thrown low and hard, and the shooting was by no means easy. The regulars held up remarkably well, twenty-two out of the twenty- eight finishing the programme. Martenson, thelowa boy, fell 5 biras behind his score of the day previous, though he still went out 3 birds to the good of Lawrence (Catamaran), who pounded away steadily all day and was evidently out to close the gap and win the average. Derring, the Columbus, Wis., manu, climbed up into third place, and Pettit took fourth on the bwo days’ total. Young Hirscby, the oblig- ing cashier, found tlme to shoot, and ran up into fifth place. Several new shooters took a hand at one time or another, so that, all counted, the number of guns actually engaged at the shoot is a large one. Among the spectators were three deaf mutes, whom we may sup- pose to have been the happiest individuals there. One of these, Mr. Chas. Thompson, of St. Paul, is a wealthy man and a shooter, He shot in a number of events and shot very well. ‘The puller watches his motions closely, and seemed never to balk him. A slight disten- sion of the cheeks and afaint and inarticulate sound are the only other signs by which his intention of calling ‘‘puli*” can be determined. Two lady shooters were at the score to-day, Mrs. Johnson, of Min- neapolis Gun Chib, and Mrs. Murray, of Stillwater, The latter shot in only oneevent. Mrs. Johnson received much applause when she stepped from the score with 14 ont of 15 to her credit, She shoots yery calmly, with immobile features, and apparently with nonervous- ness whatever. Her position is yery good, and her’time on the tar- gets even and prompt, few at the score breaking their birds closer in than she Mrs. Murray washandicapped by a strange gun, obviously too crooked for her, yet her performances was very good, 11 out of 15. The perils of trap shooting were shown in the instance of Mr. Royal Robinson, who, while approaching the score, was accosted by a red- headed and cross-eyed boy, who offered him a ‘lucky stone.’’ Im- mediately after this Mr Robinson’s gun got out of order, and he was obliged to lay it aside. Borrowing another, he had shotit buta few times before the fore end fell off, and refused te stay on any more while in his hands, Beware red-top boys, unless of known yintage and of ocular rectitude. Following are the scores of the regulars to-day, with total of each for the pwo days: Events; 12 {8 4567 3 910 Broke. Martenson .....<.e00s.-.25,.5., 101018 9 1220 9 14 19 10 267 CATAMAVAD.,....ccececeeees «ss 1015 18 1012 16 9 14 16 13 264 Derhinby, Vereccreeetssnistivees Mita Aileen IneeOnts 257 IRE LEN Wy sawerengatn neers ett eltinte bear 91314101019 5131815 255 Hirschy..,5sctesssecepseernecse 91517 8 1578 912 17 12 254 plat ni Cd 3 See AC eang ne ooraretren 82417 51517 9 18 15 12 253 Tole Ay es sanoodddoureoeery. Cock bslé Taek s coeiul alps: 251 Cray wsesebiseies tulinttnes at dds ites a2 15 10 249 Taylor...seccssscseecestyayevcye 9 1416 91014 9 11.18 14 246 Bork 9 9141013 16 8 13 15 11 243 913818 71216 8 10 18 12 240 91215 911 17 10 14 15 10 238 91317 91416 5 11 16 10 237 ate saa 71116 81217 §8 18 15 11 237 Baldwit. ..,csececccsecescssese (11 9 VI1I7 9121613 336 DADEL a dasweteenhe cer eer site moptaele) Bed ledpen (elo gol 231 HOltiy ii ieaseseeveteated seer Ootl a6, ff 14 70d 70 228 Kinny Wis csdtadseurvegeseryess eles, 6006) §-20d2 12 227 DOLLY Ie tovescenecaeeetPntee erin? eedileln .Telbaoro 226 WalldGe.... i ccssseccsseceeeas,. 861216 6 9113 6 6:17 10 209 WALKEY, nl teen ervarsecntesstte oo 10 18818 19 "9 Oud 50 205 Moniker eee ens thesia tare ere Sebi avelON Gil slSech. tal aed 191 Third Day. Tbe morning was hot and brizht, but at about 3in the afternoon there came one of the sudden changes in weather of which the Northwest makes a specialty. SALE WEE vrotvisarcrtelsrecie cilities eae) eer eeroe ree MUITAY peveseyecpecereeveccnull BUT KGa dis sh etpone mts Ue THE, svi seuss nace needs ci —DesURAVIDE OL cdeangperaaevebiyi, LOS oe Martenson,,,,...... Ree BABE Al ok ccves Peck rere reer syd Robbins......-.--- Soa Shot 61g Jobhnston,., seseodd FTIPETUL vlelineie cite eet certs Richter, , Catamaran... GWB..,. d Hirschy,....-.--» Benmevtl, ....sseeneeeer- Mrs Shattuck,,,......0.--.0 1 Mrs JONUSON,...ceeeesryee-s Mrs Murray.......-s000-++---LL—40 State championship diamond badge event, 50 bluerocks, entrance $6.50, 26 singles and 12 pairs. 1. Diamond badge for one year, and proceeds of same at next an- nual tournament, 1898. ; (Score unfinished, given for singles only.) weeeueuenae Saaeeteadaaes Spratley. wecceveveevceveserervse ed Mrs SHatthuck,,....cesssssveeverelD SHAattuck, ... cece penscseseeeereceeo Mandigo ,,..sssnese 19 Kennedy...scveresveevere «28 Novotny ...ssseee Upham.,. Mrs Murray,., Ramaley....essss Sal EBlOGK oh aepape kate ste EEE EEE pris THOMPSON, ..averys Peale ioilge ten OCCLIEL Br uraig aoa ve ep eelleeaeeae reer sl! EUTECH Yael see eines eecee rene CLELROTEL LEN aEoe rine EINE E SL i Walker..... Ea A eiiolititiies BAe RECT ER AES Pee ee ROE Sy Gat IPH HOD Nicer cuildcisuusias-eniasmeuertoe ULESo) OLS tin pane yee seas emraad ty LTO once erewie ca ceases eacuye eel CINE aos pega ca nee roa eae eLee Fourth Day. Rain fell in the early morning, but the weather cleared, so that shooting was resumed in the State diamond badge shoot. As was prédictea by many, trouble ensued over the arrangement of theeyen- ing before, by which the scores of the last round of 3 pairs were nul- lied, and the event proyed & hardship to the man who apparently had the badge in hand at the close of yesterday. Dr, Spratley had his lenge issued by Stipp and Thompson to any two men in this county. score of 5 out of 6, in his last round, cut off, and this Jost him the medal. This morning he could not gather, and got only 6 out of his | 12 birds, 3 out of his last 6. so that he made only 13 total in the doubles, and went out with 88. Shattuck, who was ¥ behind Spratley in thé singles, gained 3 birds on him in the doubles. and so won the badge with the score of 39, J.P. Upham, the boy shooter, made the best record in the doubles for this morning. 9 out of 12, but thislanded — him ouly 37, tied with Mandigo. Next to these was M. ¥. Kennedy, | who ran out with 36, Shattuck and Manderson, main winners, both used L. G Smith peat aug the former shot Du Pont powder. Manderson’s load not earned. E The club threw 22,000 targets, which at, 3 cents, lefta good margin over the #75 added. The officers of the club did faitbfnl and efficient ~ ‘work, and are entitled to the thanks of the shooters, although there ~ were regrets, not always concealed in the bosoms of the latter, at see- ing all that money made by the management and not divided out among the shooters, to whom the earth and the fullness thereof © would naturally seem to belong. Following are the completed scores in the diamond badge shoot for the individual State championship: At26- At 12 At#6 At 12 ; Singles, Pairs. 'T’l. Singles. Pairs. T'l. Shatiuek .......28 16 39 Walker....:.....20 id a4 Spratley. ........49 13 38 Ramaley..... pal 13 34 Mandigo,.......-19 18 a7 Thompson ....,,¥1 13 A4 Upham.,...,..- .22 1h 8? Horschy-........+ 20 13 33 Kennedy ........20 13 36 cit tS de 13 30 Novotny. 18 17 85 Burkhardt.,....,16 13 29 Taber........ aaa tl 15 a4 Peterson ..,.... 8 35 Following are the officers of the St. Paul Gun Club: M. &. Kennedy, President: Dr. L W. Lyon, Vice-President; H. ©. Lawrence, Secre- tary; W.L Perkins, Jr., Treasurer; Paul Gotzian, T, L. Wann, B. F, Schurmeier, Directors. BH. Hove. Philadelphia Trap-Shooters’ League. Tue fifth tournament of the Philadelphia Trap Shooters’ League was held on the grounds ef the Keystone Shooting League, near Holmesburg Junction, Sept.4. There was an excellent attendance, ten cluhs being represented by 6-men teams, and one club by a 4-men team, a Showivg thatit would be hard to equal in any other city in the States About 7,000 targets were thrown during the day, Lwosets of traps being iu constant use. There were several visitors from “‘outside”: Capt. A W. Money, of the American KE. C, and Schultze Powder Co., Ltd,; Ed Taylor, of the Laflin & Rand W-A Powder Co ; A. G. Courtney, of the Remington © Arms Co; J L. Winston (147), of the Austin Powder Co.; Hood Waters, of Baltimore; I. W. Budd, of Pemberton, N. J. Shaaber, of Reading, Pa.; etc. 147 (the talismanic title of J. . Winston) figured very prominently io the averages forthe.day, Wolstencrott lost oply 11 out of 175 shot at, an average Of 43.7 per cent,, while Winston shot at 180 targets, losing only 12, an average of 93.8. John J. Hallowell, Hood Waters, Harry Thurman and Capt Money each shot at 220 targets and made averages respectively as follows; 91, 90, 89 and &8. The team race was productive of some yery good scoring. This race was a handicap affair, the Keystone Shooting League and the Independent Guu Club teams being scratch, while the other teams were allowed extra targets to shootat. Points are scored according to the number of teams that compete, each club being credited with @ number of points equal to the number of teams thatit defeats. In case of a tie, aS was the case with the Keystones and the Penn Gun. | Club, which tied for seventh place, each team takes half the points, — or in the case above cited, 34g points. At present the standing of the elubs is as follows: Ist. 2d. 3d. 4th. 5th, Total. DIOMStS wanes sshese bbb ee oO 5 7 6 9 he | Wrankford hve ssecnaansss wands oe 4 8 9 10 83 Pennie eaiketineccnaeh tata teehee 7 3 7 8% 29% VY TTS 5. sah ie bsnyhs toh, bctchvock/bohis. boas bon ane 1 10 10 8 29 Independent, ..cvesereunsseeaes 10 10 2 Ca ets RIG RoOZbOrough,,,,ssceseeeeennrss FG 8 5 4 7 274% Silver Lake... ecaneessenecs-s5 */ § 6 ora 1 a7 Southwark,,, a rae) 0. § 5 0 21 University. sseas+s 1 9 4 Q 0 16 Glen willOW, varasane hg 8 0 3 2 144g | OF ES fist mie asasha a 0nhpn/niss ee aw eat, 2 1 en) 12s KGyYStONG. vsaesaenetensyressee oO 0 0 0 3% 8 | Scores in the team race were as below, the Frankford Gun Club's | total of 163 being reduced to 150, the highest possible: Frankford Gun Club (195)—Betson #9, Bourne 26, Swartz 26, Redifer 28, Butts 27, Cameron 27—163 Florists’ Gun Clb (165)—Hallowell 25, 8. P. Life 24, Cartledge 27, Smith 25, Burton 24, Anderson 23—148, Wayne Gun Club (221)—McMichael 19, McConnell 19, Green 22—146. Roxborough Gun Club (184)—Pepper 20, MeFalls 23, Giles 24, Wrea 22, Gilmour 24, Blundin 27—140, Forest Gun Club (221)—Hothersall 27, Worthington 29, Baum 17, | Bender 22, Riotte 21, Morrison 20—136. Independent Gun Club (150)—W. HW. 25, Landis 24, Ridge 22, Shaa- | ber 24, Wilson 15 Thurman 24—134. Keystone Shooting League (150)—W. Stevenson 22, Ross 20, I. Wols- tencroft 24, J. Wolstencroft 23, Henry 20, Longnecker 21—130. Penn Gun Club (161)—J. Yost 18, Higginbotham 25, T. Smith 21, Rit- ter 22, F. Gross 21, P Yost 23—120, : Glenwillow Gun Club (205)—Stumm 27, Butler 20, Weinman 24, | Whitehouse 11, Winkler 26, Cowan 20—128, - Silver Lake Gun Clnb(164) Vincent 26, Hahn 23, Numbers 17, Wood- stager 20, Smith 16, Lane 24—126, j \ University Gan Club (188)—Paul 18, Kane 17, Steel 21, Singer 21—77. | The University Gun Club had only four representatives, so shot at | 128 targets instead of the rezular allowance of 188 for six men. Where an allowance of extra targets is allowed to a team, that} number of targets is divided by 6, each man on the team shooting at) an equal number, But where, as in the case of (inter alia) the Frank-| ford team, there was a remainder of 3 targets after a division by 6 had been made, the three first men on the team shot at an extra tar- | get each. PENN. Bedford Rod and Gun Club. BrprorpD, Ind., Sept. 7.—The club’s shoot this afternoon was marked by the decision of two matches. The firsh was between Stipp and Braxtanu, 50 targets per man, expert rules, for vhe price of the targets. Stipp won by 2 targets, breaking 44 to 42, The second match was between Sherwood and Thompson, which resulted ia favor of Sherwood by 23 to 18. : Thres practice events were also decided as follows: Wo. 1, 25 targets, unknown angles: Stipp 23, Sherwood 20, Thompson 17, Thornton 15, Norton 15, Palmer 8. No 2, same conditions: Sherwood 20, Thompson 16, Palmer 11, Thornton 10, Martin 9, Norton 8. No 3, 10 pairs: Braxtan 14, Thompson 9. Scores in the individual matches follow; p Braxtan, .....00e.41101111110111111101111101110111111111111110101110—42 Stipp... eo eee e ee 11000101111111101011011111100111111111111110111111—44 Sherwood and Thompson also shota race at 25 targets, the result being in favor of Sherwood, as below: Sher woO0d... cc cccuceeceeeueuseeueeecueees ¢¢4111111111111111111110110—28 TROMPSOD ssc sesscsucececcwaseceusesesssas«L110101111010111010101111—18 Next week will see a race between Stipp and Thompson on one side’ and Braxtan and Sherwood on theotbér. OUondiiions; 100 targets per man, fiyetraps, unknown angles, for $15 per side. Stipp and Thomp- son will also shoot for same sum, same conditions against a team of three men, Sears, Richard and Hatfield, All growing out of a chal- SHERWooD, Sec’y, Rhode Island Trap-Shooters. PrRovIDENCE, R. I., Sept. 2.—The second challenge of the Pawtuxe Gun Olub for the pennant successively beld by the Ruode Islanc Trap shooting Association against all comers, was shot to-day on the grounds of the latter club, and was won by a close margin of five birds by the Rhode Island Association team. The contest was the sharpest and most interesting of all the matches yet. The contest was anybody’s until the last man shot out his string. The Pawtuxet) team are to be congralulated*tor theirjpersistent and courageous de termination to win back the much-desired pennant, They have chek) lenged the Rhode Island Club again, and if the terms of agreement can be sO construed as to allow their challengeto be accepted thik month, the Rhode Island Club will be pleased to grant it, and the maich will probably take vlace the last Thursday of this month Appended is the summary of the score: Conditions: 25 known and 25 unknown angles: Rhode Island Trap-Shooting Asso, Pawtuoxet Gun Club. Kn’ wn Unko’wn Kn'’wo Unkn’ wo . angles, angles. Total, angles. angles. Total, ¥ [ Greener.20 21 41 W Sbeidon.,20 py 43 RC Root... .-21 20 Al EFL Corey. .21 19 40 5S Winoslow..21 16 37 A Hawkins,.19 17 36 P Randell. ..16 19 35 H.W Bain,,,17 15 BEE E Whitaker 16 17 33—187 S$ Greene Jr.1t 18 29—18) J, B. Russenn, Sec’y R. 1. T.§, Ay "22, Daly 25, Soistman 29, Kane J ; Jobn © W. A, W. (the initials under which Billy Wolstencroft shoots) and — Smpr. 18, 1897,] Parker’s Seventh Annual Tournament. | Detroit, Mich., Sept. 12.—Parker’s seventh annual tournament wag not so well attended as some ofits predecessors. Itseems impossible to get together nowadays one of the old-time gatherings. In the : & Of ’91, at a shoot given here, the entries in some of the events reached 103. This shows that some of the best tournaments have been held right here in Detroit, but at that time tournaments were not nearly so numerous as they are now. While the attendance at this shoot was not large, those who were present had a very pleasant time, and were at no great expense. The programme was not such as to draw shooters from any great distance, there being no added money, However, there were some very handsome and valuable prizes, consisting principally of ammu- nition, trophies, and articles useful to the sportsmen; so that the for- tunate ones were well repaid for their trip. : The local shooters endeayored in eyery way to make it pleasant aud agreeable, On Wednesday night all the visiting shooters were given a yacht ride on Com. Scotten’s stanch and handsome little steam yacht Wanda Tbe trip lasted from 7:30 until 12, and as the yacht is cap- able of doing 14 knots an hour, some idea of the distance covered can be gained. The trip was down the Detroit River, clear into Lake Hrie. A perfectly clear atmosphere and a full moon added much to the pleasure of the trip. CONDITIONS, The shoot was held on the Pastime Gun Club’s ground, a beautiful leyel strip of ground with ample facilities for accommodating any number of shooters. The background was very good; of course, there may be some who do not agreejwith us. There were a few trees on the bank of the Detroit River that offered an excuse for some who had just missed a straightaway, though perhaps not a yery plausible one, There were two sets of traps in position arranged on the Sergeant system, These were empires and that kind of targets were used. It will be generally understood that the 2lyds. rise style of snap tine was after Jack Parker’s idea—plenty hard. Perhaps some will recall the efforts of the experts to bankrupt Jack several years ago, when he paid a fixed amount for a place, THE TALENT AND OTHERS. There were present Milt Lindsley, his wife, Wanda, and Harry King, of Cincinnati, representing the King’s Powder Co. and Peters Cartridge Co.; R. O. Heikes, of Dayton, 0 , taking care of the Win- chester interest and shooting HE ©.; Jack Fanning, formerly of San Francisco, but now of Batavia, N. Y., Gold Dust’s hustling and popu- ‘lar representative; Harvey McMurchy, of Syracuse, who so ably takes care of the Smith gun and its interest; also C. D, Hagerman, of Wymore, Neb.; Thomas Graham, of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.: Elmer Apperson, of Kokomo, Ind.; J L Head, of Peru, Ind,; W. H. Osmun, Pontiac; D, Carpenter, Battle Creek; C. H. Clark, Wyandotte, GENERAL AVERAGES. Seven men shot through the entire programme for the four days, and itfollows vaturally that Heikes, who led the procession each day, ison top in this respect also. Thereby he adds a little more jewelry to his collection, as an elegant gold button goes-with the honor. Fanning is second with the good average 91.2, but only two birds ahead of Gra- ham, who has 90.9. There wasa great strugle between this pair for second position. Renick won a button similar to that of Heikes’; this "was given to the amateur making the best average in all events, but shooting for merchandise only. Ist Day. 2d Day. 3d Day. 4th Day. Shotat. Broke. Av. Heikes.,.......168 167 172 168 720 676 93,8 Fanning......-163 164 168 162 720 657 91.2 Graham.,...,.156 165 167 167 720° 655 90.9 MeMurehy.....146 155 149. 162 720 612 85 Wood..........140 1E8 ~ 144 141 420 573 79.5 Renick...,.....142 137 143 141 720 563 8,1 King..........-121 142 122 116 720 501 69.5 : First Day, Tuesday, Sept. 7. The opening day of the tournament was really all the management | could desire, though the attendance was rather light. The principal ayent of the day was the two-men team race. The scores made by the different teams was a matter of much comment, as well as a sur- prise to the contestants. Just think of 82 out of 100 winning first, with a combination jike Heikes and McMurchy to go against. Then, too, this pair had to be content with second place, as Sailor Sharkey (Fanning) and Graham beat them out one bird. Jieikes and Fanning “scored 45 each, but their respective running mates scored 37 and 36. By Graham *eating McMurchy a bird, Fanning and Graham geta suit of clothes each. 5 The score in the team race was asfollows: Fanning 45, Graham 37 —82. Heikes 45, McMurchy 36—81. Corbett 42, Fox 37—79. Parker 48, Wood 34—’7, Osmun 43, Scollen 32—75. Head 40, Dewitt 33—73. Renick 36, King 32-68. Olark34, Milton3i—€5. Tuttle 82, Klein 31—63. Quandt 29, Fullbaum 28—57. J ' oA The high average for the day was made by Heikes, 93.8; Fanning is next with 90.5. Then comes two:amateurs, Graham 86.6 and Head Twenty-six shooters in all participating, and their respective scores and averages are shown in the table appended. No. 5is the team Tace; it is not customary to include such events in the general ayer- ape, but at this tournament one has io competein all eyents to be eligible for averuge money, and that is why we haye included this éyent in computing our averages. FIRST DAY'S SCORES, Events: 12345678 Targets; 415 15 20 20 50 16 25 20 Shotat. Broke. Ay Heikes ..cesseeeseess 15 12 20 19 45 15 23 19 180 168 93.3 Fanning, «. 13 18 18 19 45 14 28 19 180 163 90.5 Graham,, . 18 13 18 20 37 14 25 16 180 156 86.6 Head. ..+» . 1411 17 17 40 15 21 19 180 154 85, MecMurehy, 13 11 19 15 36 14 21 17 180 146 81.1 Parker.,. 10 10 17 14 43 12 21 15 180 142 3.8 Renick,,, 11 9 18 18 36 13 20 17 180 142 78.8 Wood ,...+: . 14 14 17 18 34 12 18 13 180 140 U7.7 Milton, ..ascveveseees 25 14 18 15 31 J4 18 17 180 140 V7.7 Dewitt ..cccsssceeees L414 17 15 33 13 17 16 180 139 77.2 Wleischer.,.......... 11 10 16 15 33 14 22 16 180 137 76.1 FRING ce seenseecenae Ie 11 19 932 11 17:10 180 121 67.2 Cooper, ,.sececereeee 10 10 10 10 32 14 12 10 180 108 60 MORTHUN cacccasscests, va les ce te 40.5 1618 95 79 §8.1 WOrbelli: 550505 sseey eT UAT ary ary 2 Cay 21 14 95. G7 81 ORL bsabies seth seh wisn) AN weeOG cece LO 95 76 80 CL Bete it pre ee Ce 25 19 76 Clark -icsrrevseecces 11 1) 18 1234 10'., 2. 35 96 W711 PROCUO ci ckaesevbetes sh be) yee yercdo bs doles 95 50 66,6 BCOLtGD....essevecves vy vr 1012 32 617 18 150 100 66.6 NOLSIT Nees nese aiieteeatity es level 101 7e 110 ue 65.4 HANG eee sctssecns se d0 10 Jo-eO Jaen, +2 135 88 65,1 ri(niley See ey a iatiea 0. Ge cvedcesee gc Pee oh 50 82 64 Fullbaum,.....,.... 10 914 828 .,.... 110 69 62,7 BIHTISOM a ddtaedens, on) ao tus tee ee areal 45 25 55,5 BUOLtSgebeorcthkeeer nt pee te Mods on 2ODsa 5 Sew ae Second Day, Wednesday, Sept. 8. The feature of to-day’s programme was the 50-bird race for the handsome Gillman & Barnes medal. The conditions governing this event are 50 targets, 2lyds. rise, use of both barrels. This proyed to be quite a contest, and was eventually won by Graham on the great score of 47 out of 5). This is very likely the record on this kind of shooting, and ifis safe to predict that it will be a long time before it is equaled or excelled. Graham wasin great form in this event; he an his first 24 straight and then dropped his 25th. Then again he evidence in this event, as he scored 46. Heikes again leads in the average for the day with 1 less than on he previous day, though his average for this day is more credit- able, as 50 of these targets were 2iyds. rise. Then, too, his ayerage is Somewhat greater, as he scored 19 out of 20 in two extra sweeps, one of which was a double event at 5 pair, Hehas one run to his eredit of over 70 straight, as he scored 79 out of his last 80, including ithe extras above-mentioned. Graham shot in elegant form through- out, and is second with 91.6. Fanning is third with 91.1, and Wood s fourth with 87.7. The weather was bright and clear, but unusually warm for this latitude at this season of the year. Thirty-six shooters participated, a number somewhat greater than yesterday. The following names do not appear in the table, as they shot only in one event or failed to make an average of 55 per cent.: Wanda, Anspack, Genecke, Lyman Kemp, Tuttle, Esper, Johnson, ady, Eron and Stoll. The programme for to-day was precisely like that of the previous day, with the exception that the 50-bird event wasshot under differ- ent conditions, a mention of which has been made above, SECOND DAY’S SCORES. Events: 12346566 %98 #£Shotat. Broke. Ay. HMeikes,....+,e¢+ses4 15 18 19 17 43 15 25 20 180 167 92.7 STAHAM..,,.-.+eeee5 15 13 17 18 47 14 2417 180 165 91.6 PADDING veesssecsees 14 14 20 19 41 13 24 19 150 164 OLs2 WOOK. ,ereeeeees---- 20 14 17 16 43 15 25 15 180 158 87, Jost his 50th target in his last string of 25, MeMurchy was also in MeMurchy,...+:.:,, 12 18 18 15 46 13 21 17 180 155 86.6 Head. .iiccysscsseee+ 15 12 19 15 40 11 18 14 180 144 80 Bing. .c.eeiseeceseee 12 18 16 16 34 13 20 18 180 142 78.8 Renickseer pepe es ele: Ne19- 20d 11.19.72 180 137 16.1 Pleischer.....c.e+21. 18 10 17 15 34 12 21 14 189 136 75.5 Lindsley....ese.:es. 6 11 16 13 35-11 20 14 180 126 70 APPCrSON.,,....e005 Le 11 16 18 80 10 13 12 180 117 65 Parker... sasecsceesa 10 71610 26 10 11 13 180 103 57.2 FTOUDIAG Ss sin teutndese ee, shed dow Looel 14 100 85 85 ELAM ste stihebutetetcy ie seats oo Loot 8-18 60 50 83.3 Ware icone teenebet pe thet to IS 2075 60 49 B1.2 CoLbetie aa separate abate sara de ee 14 60 49 81.2 Vallade@..ccserecesees de ae Be Oe ee 14 i9 os 40 83 81,2 KlGin ea hedvenie iti tli gers. elo odo 80 64 80 COxe as aes norma nlae ly 10m 5h 241 115 90 78,2 DeWitt....crecrreees 21 51715 w 15 17 14 12 94 72.3 CIArEN te Sruvevesa gins le: Gola 1420 bs. ye, 120 80 66,6 GoopPimnvareianh trertaie wiiny 0 ea 11 60 40 66.6 Mercier., ites, araledaeeentec tals eB Le 110 70 63.7 CiCOlLG bees tech enti eet ees UNO 1G) 14 110 69 62.7 CAVONHUEH al ysestys ceed tees te lO 14, a, 40 24 60 OV Uae wate aceitee ts Wvecote tel Rent rion rert 2-14 45 26 57.7 Third Day. Sept. 9. Heikes not only maintained the pace he has set all along, but even cut out a faster clip to-day. In the van, of course, but look at that , percentage, 96.1 for 180 shot at. Fanning is second with 93.3, while Graham is third with 92.7, Then comes Schwind with 87.2. The 50- bird event was a handicap event, with. extra allowance of birds to shoot at. First prize in this event was a diamond watch charm, do- nated by the King’s Powder Co. Here Heikes was again very much in eyidence, as was Graham, also a scratch man, Hach of these scored 48, a total greater than any one else could reach, even with their extra allowance of targets. This is one of the faw instances where a scratch man won out ina handicap. Fanning, also scratch, scored 47; Fleicher scored 46, and 1 of his 2 extra allowance, which made him 47. Schwind broke 44, and 3 extra ones, so he had a total of 47, too, The tie between Heikes and Graham was not shot off, as Heikes very generously relinquished his claims to the trophy. The weather was red hot, asthe natives here putit, Linen suits and fans were about the proper thing to-day. Quite a number of shooters other than those whose names appear in the table below participated. The following took part in but one event, or failed to Inake an average of 55 per cent.: Lorenz, Miller, Loranger, Shaw, Clark, Hayes, Bryan, Cooper, Schroeder, Apperson, Wollf, Roche, Slotts, Wanda and Doran, Events; 123456678 Targets: 16 15 20 20 60 15 25 20 Shotat. Broke." Av. Heike: ...cessee0ee0. 15 14 19 20 48 15 28 19 180 173 96.1 Fanning.,,.,ere+s..- 15 12 19 19 47 15 23 18 180 168 93.3 Graham.....eccssss+ 15 12 20 17 48 14 22 19 180 167 92.7 Sch wind,....sssse1e- 15 11 20 15 44 14 20 18 180 157 87,2 Dewitt... cseeeveeusae 11 12 18 18 42 18 19 17 180 150 83,3 MeMurchy,.,.,..... 18 14 19 17 40 15 20 11 180 149 82.7 Wood.,. 12 10 18 16 38 13 19 18 180 144 80 Renick....., 14 12 19 15 86 10 21 16 180 143 79.4 Lamerond .13 7 17 18 29 10 19 15 180 123 63.3 Pee 13 12 17 12 30 10 16 12 180 122 67.7 Pierce.... 10 8 715 381813 9 180 118 62,7 Fleischer, Wy phates dG: cael a0 95 83 87.3 Marks.;., Pees pan etdoneleds 60 52 86.6 Gay. ,,... “yy ate ce oe Gerth iy 110 93 84.5 O)sFian ciel SORA See rua gs whe chp wine infec llbme yn ake 70 59 84.2 Corbett rerewenceeveleelUdgelgnee ee 70 55 78.5 Lindsley ......0..... 18 11 15 11 36 12 17 .. 160 128 78.1 Brady.iscsssscceesss ov av a ae 87 13 16 20 110 86 78,1 DCOLLEIL sess uOrrietl bea hn ne. Die saelse cols, 110 85 47.2 MOR ttandtest ee creel.) cheece Rear els cls cle 110 84 76.3 CORN raed tere yaks. tea Salsie en: ar 50 36 72 Boyd ee peste areas irene eaten) Tales 45 32 71.1 VOHUEAN ve eKete Pes ee peater teen eee elun es 40 28 70 Wiebo ria er iveacdsuas beentehccooM sions 110 76 69 Kleinge Seve eetees le bet omen aden deed 95 57 60 Chamberlain.244 ithe bd bh ace le 290 9k ae 65 38 58.4 Fourth Day, Sept. 10. The shoot to-day was similar in many respects to that of the pre- vious days, the programme being identically thesame; while the weather was, if anything, a little more sultry, As usual, Heikes also was high average. The 50 bird event was a handicap affair, though only one of distance, the scratch man shooting from the 2lyds, mark, Therefore, Heikes’s score of 46 in this eyent, which landed him in the duck boat, is really better than it looks on paper. Graham, too, shot well in this event, but lost his last bird, when it appeared to be not a very hard one and when there was no 45. Corbett, with 44, wona half case of hair restorer, as did Marks, who scored 43. There were en prizes in this event; the principal ones are those mentioned above. é Heikes had high average, closely followed by Graham, who was Second. a bird behind Heikes. McMurchy and Fanning tied for third place, McMurechy running the last 45 straizht, though the table shows the last 60 straight, He, however, made that 15 straight in the sixth event before he shot his last string of 25 in the fifth event. The aggregate number of shooters participating to-day was twenty- nine. Bryanand T, Cavanaugh shot in but one event. The other Cavanaugh, whose name appears in the table isa thirteen-year-old boy, who handles a gun very well for a boy of his age. Kyents: 1234656678 j Targets: 15 15 20 20 50 15 25 20 §=Shot at. Broke. AY. Heikes.....eceeeeee. 13 12 20 18 46 15 25 19 180 168 93.3 Graham ....cccereeee 14 14 18 19 45 14 24 19 180 167 92.7 McMurchy ........,. 15 14 18 17 88 15 25 20 180 162 90 Fanning.,,...++.+.+. 15 14 19 18 41 15 21 19 180 162 90 Corbett...cesessverss 9 1019 18 44 12 23 15 180 145 80.5 Renick,. ......++-s.. 18 12 13 12 389 15 20 17 180 141 78.3 WO0d ,.ccseeveeveees 11 10 17 12 81 10 24 16 180 181 72.7 Lindsley ,.,....+555.. 10 7138 8 3412 19 14 180 117 65 IDS wesccnecsvesss 10 % 13 10 28:10 17 16 180 116 64,4 Fleischer. sve ue te py 40.15.20 20 110 95 86.3 Mercier. yee ss ey nen. 42-10 22 16 110 93 85.4 Marker .». 18 11 17 1h 43 15 18 ,, 160 132 82.5 Cox.., vay 181818 14 ,, 14 18 15 130 105 80 Damon yeah SLO LOr Lae A wn 70 54 [7.1 Johnson a fala wh hea a! )a ei ee 55 42 76.3 ACLS fetes staleistainieteletetel a LOmue SO Oe ep tc a, 80 61 76.2 PAVANGUIETT colon cadl onl ua ere pea staged) 19° ae 40 Pi] 70.2 SCAWINIET Nikneet ue wr ne SO lone. 14 110 G7 70 DILL La relvisl dishvlene sinemente Ln Lost 4d ooe oe ttt 165 114 69.9 BrAU va ae weee eauaniay. eee ddey teen 1 85 57 67 CIA ceaiacueiteteca tian Deleml 2.257 once) cle 120 80 66.6 Scotten ,.,...sseee1- 1211 141086 913 ., 160 105 65.6 Carpenter. ....e550, 1211... .. 80., 19 11 125 83 66,4 AWADG) oe oeateeer Aaa, Seth ae boc grb! 60 38 63,3 DVINET nppusinperer eee sip anieipec seers Lm lo 60 37 61.6 MURIST, ingcettina dy sends, oer ala Rees eee ay 90 51 56.6 UE WAR eG Gibeto lt ay On Coeen or ee Le bee 90 49 54,4 North Milwaukee Gun Club, MimwavkezE, Wis , Sept. 4 —Below find scores of a team shoot at live birds, held on our grounds, among the members of our club this after- noon, The birds were a fine lot and unusually good flyers, The con- ditions were: Six men a side, 15 birds per man, 20yds. rise. The contest was very exciting from start to finish; the winning team scored 81, while their opponents scored77. At thé conclusion of the match, there not being enough birds for another score, the losing team challenged the winning team to shoot a match at bluerocks The challenge was promptly accepted, and 10 targets per man was agreed upon, at known traps and known angles This match was also very exciting, being very close, It was finished with honors in favor te the former losing team, thus dividing honors for the afternoon's shoot: Live Birds. O Brussock 122212111221222—15 J Valeer, .,,012112022211229019 5M DuVal, ,112102221112162—138 Slaybough, ,222202222122213 44 W Hagan, ,,211002122102112 12 J Pahey ...022202110220222—11 T Barnes, , ,111111211211121—15 FB Meixner ,222222292299399__45 FW Van Blls ,111222200222122—13 J F Wulf, ..11212200022122919 A Werdner ,222022221221e21—13—81 EF J Farber. 221222111202202 1377 Targets. J Valeer.......,.0111111111— 9 O Brussock,,,,..0111111111— 9 J H Slaybough, ,1111111101— 9 SM Du Val,,..,.1111100011— 7 W Egan,,,. .1011111011— 8 J Fahey......«.«1110101110— 7 T Barnes,,,,,.,-1111111111—10 F Meixner, -1111111111-—10 ¥F Van Hils,..,.,.1111110111— 9 JF Wulf.,, ,1111111001— 8 A Weiduer.,,,.,1001111111— 851 _F J Farber. .....1111111111—10_53 5. M. DuVat, Sec'y N. M. G G Massachusetts Association. * Haverninu, Mass,, Sep’, 4.—The third shoot, series "97 and 98, of the Massachusetts State Shooting Association, was given on the grounds of the Haverhill Gun Club, in this city Wednesday, Sept. 1. The day was all that could be desired, and the attendance was a fairly good one, though not what had been anticipated. Nearly forty shooters participated in the shoot at some time during the day, although some of them were a trifle late for the whole programme, The first contingent of shooters from out of town arrived at the grounds by 9:30 A.M. and at 10 o’clock, as had been announced, shooting commenced. The programme called for 240 targets,and it was shot straight TaveuEns and two or three extra events as well, besides those on the card, At 1o’clock a bountiful lunch was served by caterer Currier be- neath the shade of a tent pitched on the club grounds, which was heartily appreciated by the hungry sportsmen, and then the work of smashing the asphalts was resumed, Here wine Thand you the events in tabulated form, and the scores made: Regular programme: Wright.. BUEN EL eS a anoAcenonoseoncneceln Git oe LOW OF preteiieiienie cin cece atric nantes = ASUISOM Man eteniecewallacaa train ae CORR ie ar ey ae LODEMOLEC....:eteseseeecees . cieene on . ae cat -22 6) ee) ace "e. . Hyents: 1283 4 6 6 % 8 910 Targets: 10 10 10 10 10 I6 15 10 10 20 Angles; KS Ky UG Ge Rey SUS BICKLONG tha wate ce Pu Gia@ ties bre civenk le Gants et Mie ee eee eee TPA INOOUGI Err een Oa udeninggeedlacden vce: ane Grmunln es Gienr Suet] Sane] SueMOi be tot uci Ned wans as CREE nee ee eaieak 9.10 4 8 8 18 11 4%. 8 46 DicKeyupuaeecspas vale eekivedeswe tt eguelUL 6: 10. J0naLs side fon 10 19 LVL RO ELT Eh cup easeerner Hi mii pliy ee Sie alte alaeentie TS 19 Henbertinnnaricneses teercdvcuene) 0m 10m10N Salmi {5S 10m ls GI} wit Ayan Oheeeineece emcee te bas Ue life Ue ole Sie aie Mrs ats PLOZION EE ter anen cele cchivitetels sialeianehi bea eS) MIM ae Diy Die a mest WIIPBIGEG Meee elutialimeeine, 2 peed “de Be gir ae ame eed) ERPIBIAKGi cies nes ahelencicesilsietaciiel ie Oe We Pe Bey ee erik 3G Hei EH One ec pice Meacsnecierie etal eee beats ei i141 12) 040 RLALLASHAYRAARS KRARCORS ‘ Dr Weller...011212201021112—12 sO De Wirt, 240 FOREST AND STREAM. [Surr."18, 1807, a aa Western Traps. ELLIOTT TAKES DOWN HIS MONEY, CHro4co, Ill., Sept 4.—J. A. R. Elliott called at this office this week, and states that he will take down at thisdate the money deposited in the hands of Forest anp Strmam—{5s0—to bind a match with C. M. Grimm for the Cast-Iron badge. He says that he has waited beyond the thirty days’ accepting time named in the conditions, and also up to the sixty days’ shootiug time specified, and that he may now claim the badge as forfeited by Grimm. Having looked up the conditions of the Cast-Iron badge contests, I find. them to-read as follows: GONDITIONS GOVERNING THE CAST-IRON BADGE. “We, the pigeon shooters of America, hereby agree to put into a purse $25 each man and shoot at 100 live birds per man for the cham- pionship of America under the following conditions: “Hirst—That the shooters who enter this contest subscribe and pay for a badge to be koown as the Cast-Iron championship badge of America, said badge to be of no great intrinsic value, but simply em- blematic of the American championship, ©Sacond—The winner of this badge shall be subject to challenge aud shall shoot, when challenged, within sixty days from date of said challenge, or forfeit the badge 1o the man so challenging. “Third—The man challenging for this badge shall forward to the American. Field, together with his challenge, as forfeit, the sum of $50, as evidence of itis sincerily, and the bolder of the badge shall either cover the forfeit and accept the challenge within thirty days or forfeit the badge to the challenger. ‘‘Wourth—The American Shooting Association's revised rules shall govern all contests for this championship, except that no gun larger than a 12-bore shall be used, and the rise shall be 30yds. for all Ds eetPifth—Bach contest for this championship shall be shot at 100 live birds per man, for $100 a side, the holder of the badge to name date and place within thirty days after being challenged, and the match to be shot between the hours of 1 o’clock P. M, and 6 o'clock M. “Sixth—This badge shall never become the personal property of any tan, but shall be subject to challenge as long as America holds together. 5 SSeventh—In casé this badge is challenged for by a resident of any other country than’ America, the stake to be shot for shall be $500 instead of $100. } “Highth—The first contest for this medal and championship shall take place at Watson’s Park, Burnside, Ill,,on Thursday 15, 1594, commencing at 10 0’clock.” J pointed out to Mr. Hiliott that he had failed to comply with one condition of the contest for this badge, namely: that requiring the money to be put up. in the hands of the American Field. He said that this was Something which had escaped his memory, as he had not seen the conditions for some time. He added, however, that since he had seen them in full, be would not submit himself tu com- pete in any such “narrow, contracted a competition.” ‘No money of mine shall ever go up in the hands of that paper,” said Mr. Biliott, ‘and if that is the ground on whicb Mr. Grim fails to answer my chal- lenge, he can keep the cast-iron badge and be cast-iron welcome to it I for oue will not recognize a contest or a so-called championship emblem which has not the first principle of aa open competition abputit. Itis necessary these days that the strings be taken off of such things, or they don’t go among the shooters. You may say for me that I will not shoot under any such conditions, and that the badge may go where it likes so far as I am concerned. I presume this is why Mr, Grim would not answer my challenge. I never could understand it before. I will go after any kind of a championship emblem in sight but that ove.” BUCKEYE-LIMITED, AT DAYTON, THe third inter urban contest between the Buckeye Gun Club, of Dayton, O., and the Limited Gun Club, of Indianapolis, Ind., was shot at Dayton, O., Aug. 31, the race resulting in a defeat for the visiting team, 483 to 465; the conditions being 50 targets per man, known traps, unknown angles, no emblem being up, and no money ex- cept the price of the birds. In Lhe first of thes» pleasant contests, the Buckeyes won on their own grounds. April, 1896. The next race was won by the Limited men at Indianspolis, New Year's Day, 1897. The third évent goes to show the Dayton men at least the stronger on their own grounds.